Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 29, 2024

You’re not too hard to figure out, Rat.

You first, Rat.

I wanted to see Rat with a Black Eye! I know somebody would have punched Pig if he said those things.

I have an old chair I could send them!

This Bob seems smarter than some of the ones who died in the early strips.

You can’t bait Bob, Rat.

Bob spelled backwards is…never mind.

So close….

Do you have a nice boat with a beer cooler?

Neighbor Bob knows Rat pretty well!

Nancy Drew had two chums. I thought it was a strange word when I read those books.

LOL’d until the coffee came out my nose.

We are gonna need to work on our terminology.

I used to listen to a radio station called CHUM FM in Toronto when I was a kid. There was also an AM station called CHUM (1050 CHUM).

Just checked and both stations still exist, 40 years later.

I’m guessing Bob is really good at floating.

The first meaning listed at Merriam-Webster: “a close friend : PAL”

Way to choose your words, Rat.

I love it.

Yikes, maybe Rat should move away if he hates his neighbors so much.

Might I suggest Antarctica, a place with no neighbors at all.

Bob is good at floating still in the water, Skip never stays in one place

Poor Robin! >

We’re gonna need a bigger neighborhood.

Living next to them must be like Carl Brutananadilewski and the Aqua Teens.

At least he’s not asking to be an “old chum”. (Prep the Bat Shark repellant!)

in the first panel, I think we all knew Rat was upta sumthin’!

How can you trust a bald man who doesn’t use “Robert?”

Bob’s wife Bob,Bob,Bobara Ann?! (Sorry Regents Fans)!

The feathers at a bird’s wingtip are called pinions.

Ravens have 17 of them, crows have 16 of them.

So the difference between Ravens and Crows are strictly a matter of a pinion.

I stole that one from a bridge advice column

We’re gonna need a bigger bucket

This is very funny — LOLOL

And by “never been on the best of terms,” he means, “always been on the worst of terms.”

More than one ex-boss considered me and the gang as his chums. Guess who got thrown to the sharks? (hint: the “ex” is a clue)

Bob is an appropriate name for someone tossed about by ocean waves

I’m smarter than you look.