Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 27, 2024

Rat, don’t make him cross.

But Moses invests.

The real question here is, Is he a belly itcher?

I’m particularly fond of the two-panel cartoon in which someone is praying over a Thanksgiving dinner: “Thank you Jesus for this bountiful blessing”… and in the other panel is the Hispanic farmworker who’s saying “De nada.”

I also enjoyed sitting in class in the SW when a new to the area teacher read the roll for the first time: Maria… Wendy… Rodrigo… Ralph, … um… Jeezus?? … and so forth.

If he was a hockey player, this joke would be TOO derivative.

Jesus also has no mouth lol

Pronounced “Hey Zeus”

The Jesus that Pig has met never made it to the major leagues. But we all know one who did.

Rat says he struck out. I say, though it’s not a home run, he got a hit.

Jesus Saves…at Walmart®

This one is pronounced “hey-sues”!

I know, Pastis, as the song goes “Christ you know it ain’t easy” (apologies to the Beatles)!

He couldn’t be a middle reliever?

Jesus saves, at Target.

Well, I saw that coming from the first panel.

…he shoots, he scores!

Personally, Rat, I think he hit a home run here.

this is so bad it is

The good thing is he changes the water into wine when he’s hanging out in the dugout.

Just lazy.

CRUCIFY HIM!!

Jesus Saves, Green Stamps. You have to be as old as me to get that reference.

Gen. 1:1 In the big inning…

Since Jesus, in this instance, is a Spanish word, it is pronounced Hey Zeus. Besides, it is the Son of Almighty God, who name is Yeshua, that saves.

Jesus savesMoses struck out – at a rockMaybe Buddha wokked?Did Homer hit a homer?

I’m sure someone will cry foul.

Yah, sorry, that’s an old one.

I hope he locked in a good interest rate.

PS Vivat Jesus to my KC brothers.

My favorite hockey related graffiti – Jesus saves . . . and Esposito slaps it in for the score!

I had a co worker named Jesus.

Jesùs salva

Except for that one time that he got nailed. Then he had to go on the injured list for three days.

That Jesus throws a wicked curveball!

…Moses shoots the winning goal

Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the original is identified as “Jesucristo” in Spanish for, basically, this exact reason. The English equivalent of the name “Jesus” is “Joshua.”

S&H Green Stamps. Or at least He used to.

LOL!

Oh my God, this is funny (pun intended)! But, to quote David Letterman, I’m sure Stephan Pastis is “going to get letters, lots of letters”.

There’s lots of baseball in the Bible!

The Lord created the world in the Big Inning.

Eve stole first, Adam stole second.

Abraham went out for the sacrifice.

The Samaritan woman walked to the well with the pitcher.

And the Prodigal Son ran for home!

I’m betting on that.

hay zeus, leave him alone.

I’ll bet he has lots of saves.

The hockey version from the ’70s is better: Jesus saves! And Esposito scores on the rebound!

Back in the day the SF Giants had the 3 Alou brothers, Felipe, Mateo, and Jesus. When Jesus first joined the team the radio announcers called him Jay.

LOL!…(I gotta remember this one!!)

Hispanics pronounce it differently than we do in English – actually, closer to Bible ( N T biblical Greek)

Jesus Christo…

Don’t bank on it.

Back in the long-ago-before times when DOS roamed the lands (1992), I played a game called Frederick Pohl’s Gateway. In those days, games came with paperbound instructions that were required reading before playing. At the bottom of around page 7, it incongruously stated “JESUS SAVES…”

At the top of the next page, it continued, "and so do all his disciples when playing Gateway. Save early and often.

LoL

At what Bank?

Maybe Jesus can remove a pesky Angel from the MLB umpire roster…

That was a good one

Responding to drug kingpin Noreiga’s claim that while in a Florida prison he found Jesus, Dennis Miller said, “In a Florida prison, every other guy is named Jesus.”

I love this Your puns make my days brighter