Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 23, 2011

Don’t blame you one bit, Pluto. You’re still the 9th planet to me.

Technically he is now a “dwarf” planet but don’t call him that either.

Hmmm that’s just f-n Goofy…

ummm, Naz….the original designation was arbitrary….

Golly, I did not realise that this was such a big comic strip … VERY big! Pig’s head is almost a planet as well!

I think of Pluto as an honorary planet.

I thought Pluto was a dog?

Nine planets. Pluto the ninth, Now, more beyond. More planets. A pox on all who would Deny! (Very sensitive, Pig!)

Wow. I never did like it when poor Pluto got demoted … but I gotta admit, he IS pretty small.Not much of a gravitational field, either, or when he walked into the diner, he’d be covered in stainless steel cutlery.Still, size isn’t everything, you know.I know I’ve heard that someplace.

Or maybe Otto’s right and the diner is very very very big………..in which case Pastis is as tall as Neptune, as befits a big star.

Do not blame Pluto you are still a planet to me.

A planent’s a planet, no matter how small.

No, little planet is very 1990’s. Today in our enlightenment the proper politically correct phrase is “Circumferencially challenged.”

..That Mickey Mouse planet..

Pluto is still a planet. Those few dizzy scientists’ theory has not been universally accepted.

Mike Brown, the evil scientist who “killed” Pluto, wrote a very entertaining and enlightening book about the entire event, providing the background and whole story. It’s called: How I Killed Pluto. You can probably get it at a good library or through interlibrary loan. Even if you don’t agree, you will understand the reasoning much better.

How about the subject of how to pronounce “Uranus?”

The only thing worse would have been a reference to Mickey Mouse’s dog!

Jonathan Coulton wrote a fine song about that demotion. “I’m Your Moon.” Sung by Neptune to Pluto.

Where is Pluto’s little friend Charon?

Its relationship with Charon is strictly plutonic.

Pluto discovered as a “planet” and will always be a “planet”. Is Stephen still in jail? Or another dropped story line? Where is Rat?

Let that be a lesson, Pig. You do not mess with the Ruler of the Underworld.

That should have been addressed to Goat, of course. Mea Culpa.

An un-wise crack, goat….☻

Rat was busy fomenting revolution the last few days. Pig probably never got a chance.

BRING BACK PLUTO!

Wonder if Pluto would still be considered a planet had been discovered by a European professional astronomer instead of an American amateur. I bet it would…….

Pluto is one of the world’s best known and most widely read and studied philosophers. He was the student of Socrates and the teacher of …Oops – Sorry, that was Plato.

ooo rah noos. that was easy, now wasn’t it? sort of like the mispronouncing of Caesar. kai- sahr. there are no “soft” c’s in latin.

I recall one short shaggy dog story that involved Pluto being a holiday destination for governesses and for mobsters in danger of arrest.Customs duty there involved searching every crook and nanny.

Stephan seems to make everyone in his comic drink beer.

I suppose Pluto was drinking one of those beer aliens?

I wonder if anyone slipped Pluto a mickey; that might make him goofy.

Grog — I got it.I was just going to suggest that’s what you meant.

A fourth moon was just discovered days ago. I guess size doesn’t affect your ‘planet’ entourage.

dwarf cant hit me with a beer can.

Pluto is just a rock in the kiper belt, one of hundreds that have been discovered in recent years due to better telescopes. It’s not even the biggest, it had to be downgraded from planethood or else every on of those objects would get added to the list of planets. Just imagine trying to remember three hundred names instead of 8.

You think that’s bad- I heard they’d discovered there’s a ring around Uranus.

The interesting thing is, if I remember correctly, is that Pluto’s not purple, it’s pink.

I know the guy who made Pluto a dwarf planet!

Love Pluto’s face in the last panel!!

never talk to pluto about the planets thing…. doesnt end well

VERY sensitive subject

I wouldn’t let myself go to sleep until I read a strip with 69 comments. This one had 68, so I’m commenting myself. Please don’t tell.

SusanSunshine #3

Pluto is still a planet!