Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 18, 2024

That’s when most of the broads are out and about

Has there ever been narrow daylight?

That is a very good question, Rat!

Is there a male daylight also?

Pearls may just be the location of Pastis’s many transcribed shower thoughts.

A broad statement.

Charlie Brown just used “broad daylight” in today’s strip and he wasn’t talking about a crime.

And what kinda broad are we talking about. Wide or feminine?

And feminists don’t like the word “broad”.

Not be so narrow minded now.

That’s when it lights up the broads, ya mug!

Maybe daylight is a woman

You rarely hear the term “broad nightdark” for some reason.

I once saw a broad in broad daylight.

Just another anomaly like you never see the word wreak without it being followed by havoc.

Being a sexual pig when I think of broad I think of voluptuous breasts.

My personal quibble is ‘soles of the feet’ and ‘nape of the neck.’ People don’t have soles or napes anyplace else.

That “broad daylight” phrase is like “slathering” butter on toast. No one ever uses that word, yest it is in every novel I read.

Grade-A large photons.

Broad in this context, I interpret to mean, in full view.

Is there Dude Daylight?

you could say broad darkness

I discovered photographers use broad lighting

Huh? We’re talking about a broad?

Daylight is rather broad in the summer around here: almost 16 hours.

I can’t believe I’m reading this in broad daylight.

Why do we say “crack of dawn” but not “dawn’s crack?”

Hah! Good observation!

On Broadway, in broad daylight I was beaten with a broad board by an angry br…

Well there goes my production for the day!

Actually, thinking about things such as this is one of my favorite hobbies!

however, there could be muted daylight, low daylight, …

Do you drive through the parkway in broad daylight or do you park in the driveway until dusk?

And all those crimes! … Were committed by …

BROADS !!! … :)

Broad has many meanings: Wide and open, covering a large amount of space, a term used to describe a female, and without detail.

This Broad is such a dish but scare the living daylight out of me.

they restored comments?

Most of the broads come out after daylight.

That’s a good one, Rat.

When daylight is widespread, which it always is… except at night.

Darn (edited for banned word) Pastis. Now I won’t be able to sleep tonight.

So many journalists who don’t really know how to write without using cliches

Another word obliterated by Women’s Liberation.

I saw a bat out in broad daylight once, but I didn’t know it was committing crimes.

How about squinty daylight?

Read today’s Peanuts Begins!

Not only is broad daylight often associated with crime, but if you search for the phrase in Google Books, a great many instances of it come from the records of trials.

hahaha! now you’ve got us all thinking!

Everybody is ready for criminals in broad moonlight, so they switched to broad daylight to fool everyone.

That is an odd phrase now that you mention it.

Dare we forget the French Broad. It flows from North Carolina into East Tennessee.

Time to go slap Pastis…

Rat actually has a point.

Crime is really bad in my town. I’d like to get out of it and hit the beach.