Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 14, 2024

I see leaves of green; what a wonderful world.

Mmm. Maple syrup.

On roadrunner burgers.

You’ll learn to hate the willow, love the maple!

At least they weren’t exchanging pleasant tumble weeds or cacti!

Pastis gets pasted——again.

That pun was almost… pleasant. What’s the POINT??

Hey Rat, make like a tree and leave.

Seems like a sweet gift!

socialism never works, pig. Just ask the countries where its been tried how that worked out for their bank accounts.

I’ve always wondered about the origins of that phrase…

It could have been so pleasant, if you hadn’t resorted to force

It could have been so pleasant, if that chap hadn’t jumped on his horse.

My neighbor has a tree that smells funky- a unpleasant tree.

What a beautiful thought.

About 6-7 years ago, i took down the scrub maple about 10’ high from the corner of my lot. I replaced it with a young apple tree from Walmart. It’s been yielding fruit for the last couple years but it’s especially gratifying to think of it as a benefit to the future, moreso than the maple.

They are arboring under a delusion.

As puns go, this one was at least clever and unique. At least to me.

Jonathan Lemon and his rabbits called. They want to put you in the “pun-intentiary.”

They give each other wood.

Good one

No bat today??

I kinda liked what they were doing.

Be the kind of man that plants a tree that he will never be able to enjoy the shade of.

Good one!

Did Pig give Bob a “Weeping Willow”?!

“I think that I will never see a poem as lovely as a tree”!

Don’t plant the willow near any sewer lines.

Willows are nice to look at, but man they suck in the Fall.

One of your most delightful puns, Stephan.

Rat, if you keep mouthing off to your creator, you’ll be erased from existence. Literally.

I wish he’d leaf those puns alone.

The willow will grow up, keel over, and die before the maple gets its boots on.

Rat, you know you would miss him if he left.

I disagree with Rat. Pleasant Trees sounds like a great idea to share!!

The puns may be terrible, but they are better than listening to the news. Keep them coming.

“Here, have a willow tree whose roots will destroy your sewer line and cost you thousands in repair.”

“Thanks, here, have this maple tree that will drop samaras into your house’s gutters and cost you thousands in repair.”

It is better in theory than in practice , I have heard ?

If he were a tree, he would be a…

You keep coming to the wrong conclusions, Rat.

Loved it!

Rat, go away. For good.

That’s kinda cute. I’d like a pleasant tree.

No, Rat! That was a good one.

Au contraire, Rat. The world’s a better place having Stephan in it.

I love it!

This made me laugh and I needed it. Thanks Stephan.

Here is a nice thorn bush and some poison Ivey for ground cover…

Those trees will be pleasant trees in the future. When those gifts they were being exchanged, they were present present trees.

This world would be DULL without Steph (and his menagerie)!!

Cute!!!

I had to see a heavy-set doctor yesterday about my prostate… he was a “meaty-urologist”

I have only one thing to say to Mr. Stephen Pastis about this comic strip for the new day: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!! Dan aka….

That’s a very pleasant and a beautiful thought. Rat is just knee jerking because it’s also a pun.

GROAN

I blame myself.

Thank you. Needed that.

Stephen ALWAYS look DUMBFOUNDED !! … :)

“It would be so nice if you weren’t here.” — Charles Grodin

There is unrest in the forest, there is trouble with the trees. For the maples want more sunlight, and the oaks ignore their pleas….

I like the idea of exchanging pleasant trees. Think about it.

phobos, ??

Why did the 30º angle and the 60º angle call each other beautiful? Because they’re complementary. (spelling matters)

One of Pastis’ better pun strips.

wowser. (read a few comments above)

NEITHER, I say! ‘Removed a prior owner’s willow due to low branch bumped heads, and ants farming aphids on its leaves for their sweet vital bodily fluid then dropping on us while taking the fast descent elevator. As to the latter, a ton of lawn smothering leaves, not to mention 10 human generations to maturity.

I actually love this idea!

More people should exchange pleasant trees. It would help the planet and the people.

I hung my head in shame at that “joke”. Congrats!

I planted an elm tree in 1974 it was about a foot high.Now it is ginormous at least 60 feet high and the canopy is about 35 feet across.

I love the puns, but in the end Rat always slams Pastis. There’s got to be other possibilities. :D

Don’t make ash-es of yourselves

Stephan, I don’t know how the human mind works but I like the way yours bounces around.

G R O A N — LOLOL

actually, Rat, I thought this to be rather, um, pleasant!

Pig and Bob light candles. Rat yells ‘You Stupid Darkness’.

Wonderful, Stephan.

some days, it must just be me, the comments seem to have the wheels come off

I love pleasantries!

A maple? Gonna’ suck that baby dry.