Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 30, 2011

Karma is a beautiful thing.

looking at how most of there plans go larrys right dis not gud sign

No bother worry, Melvin.

Yoo internal organs soon be external.

In Hebbin all crosswords eesy.

Daef ears don’t hear so good either…

This is so unrealistic. A croc, reading the Sunday New York Times? And Melvin the croc, at that? This could never happen in real life. (BTW, to quote Andre, from Cul de Sac: KABOOM!)

Sunday’s is harder than Monday’s? Is he doing them backwards? How many papers does he have? Best to leave the area all you crocs…………..

Larry, da “Boy’Ƨ Room” sign look OK. What problem?

Pastis knows his stuff: Monday’s puzzle is always ridiculously easy, then they get progressively harder until Saturday’s is painful to figure out and Sunday’s (which is 4 times the size of a daily puzzle) is almost impossible to finish.

Maybe it would help if one of the other crocs tells Melvin he’s got to go really bad…

Yawn!

Soon he’ll be “smokin’ in the boys room”.

Mebbe shud have been, “LEETUL Boy’s Room” ?

c’mon a little anticipation is gud for sole.

@sisyphosIf this strip had anything to do with real life, it would’ve been canceled by now.

I think we’re about to see 3 Down and maybe 1 across…

I’ve always thought that Saturday was the brutal one.

Why you pick on me?

Saturday is hardest; Sunday, while larger, is at about Thursday-level. Saith Will Shortz, who ought to know.

Yeah, if you can solve Saturday’s, you can certainly do Sunday’s puzzle. Come on Mel, you’re just not trying.

Haha, LOL.

xxx

Four letters, starts with S.

Clue: The crocs will soon be in deep ____.

Regarding the difficulty of puzzles: the Sunday Times puzzle is actually at the level of difficulty of the Thursday puzzle. See the book: “Cruciverbalism,” which is all about crossword puzzles. The Friday puzzle is a beast and the Saturday is impossible.

He’s a croc… he can’t read or spell!! ANY crossword is painfully difficult for him!

Will Melvin finish his potty break in time? Or will the Zeba Zeba Eata frat house wind up as a pile of debris with Larry and Bob going to that great swampland in the sky? Whatever happens, knowing the weird sense of humor of Meester Pasties, it be funny.

Oh, Ye of excessive faith!

You all really think da crocs have it together enough to actually make a working timed bomb? Their “dynamite” is more than likely a paper towel roll tube painted red. Of course, I wouldn’t bet on anything with that crew. Melvin may well be trying to ignite his flatulence and THAT will detonate the place…

Why do I think this is the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time? Is it cuz I’ve got the flu? It shouldn’t be this funny when my own internal organs no work right!!!

Well, I was hoping on 31 August we would have an answer to whether Bob took the bomb and blew up..guess I will have to wait till Sunday when Melvin figures out he is still working on last weeks Sunday crossword.

Melvin is about to give new meaning to the term “HOT S**T”.

New York Times crosswords are hard for a croc that speaks Cajun. The words never quite work out right. But then, when Zeeba is the answer to every question, it really wouldn’t take most that long to do….

71 crocs…

Why does it say boy’s room? Shouldn’t it be gender neutral? Or do they have a urnel, in which case they’d be weirder then I thought? So many questions.

We ded