Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 31, 2012

Sweeney Croc

He also looks deranged.

Well, at least it’s not Mr. Smee in the Disney version of “Peter Pan”: he thought he decapitated Captain Hook when about to shave him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKWy_bwygJ0

How can you trust a hairless barber?

He isn’t going to sing the Lumberjack Song next ishe?

“Dat sounds logical!”

A haircut from a guy without thumbs? That’s problematic. I’m a little disappointed that someone made the Sweeney Todd joke before me.

i got the sweeny todd joke….and the monty python allusion…but katnip fom herman and katnip cartoons?

Zeeba Neighba is not in need of a haircut. Especially not from a psychotic Croc. Larry, just take your barber pole and stick it somewhere else….

He’s an Old West Barber, when he’s not cutting hair he works as a dentist and pulls teeth.

Or maybe he’s in it for the insurance money. Make him your sole beneficary and he makes he collects.

The Barber of un-Seville. . ..

That barber is barbaric.

One, probably apocryphal, tale is that barbers used to do bleeding (back when that was the cure for many an ailment) and the red symbolized blood running down a pale arm.

Woah,woah what the hey!

look! eet sweeny bob

I went to a barber like that once. Once.

It would be a close shave. One day I want to see the croc succeed, maybe against a visiting Zebra.

I read these comics everyday. I “tune in” to see stories of interesting depth and poise, then theres “Pearls”

Technically, it’s a red, blue and white thingy. (Barbers used to also perform surgery, perhaps because they had the sharpest cutting tools, and the red represents blood.)

The Demon Croc of Fleet Street?

LOL LOL!

I think Rat would get on well with the barber.

xxx

The first croc looks like he’s trying to impress Zeeba with the size of his pole. The second one looks like he hates chairs.÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷Sing along with Sherlock: “Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb…”

Back in the day barbers also did surgery, and they would hang their rags outside to advertise their business. The pole developed as a less threatening symbol. Or so I’ve heard.

Ceci n’est pas une coiffeur – c’est une bûcheron.

What a treacherous image.

Ummmm….it’s a barber pole. From a time when barbers also did minor surgery.

The Barber of Crocville.

Did u know, in olden times, barbers do some blood letting as well

butchwax on a zeebra, now that’s kitchie.

If I remember correctly, the barber pole had its origins from way back when barbers would also do blood-letting. The red stripe represented the blood and the white stripe represented the bandage. Somewhere, someone got the idea that making it turn would be eye-catching as well.

LOL when I saw the demonic Sweeny Croc!

My ex-brother-in-law became a mortician. He enjoyed working with people.

The crocs have gotten really tiresome

Of course he likes people – he finds them very tasty!

Izzat a barber pole or are you just happy to see me?

And i was expecting a “Happy Birthday, Jess!” today, but alas, no. (see last Sunday strip)