Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 14, 2012

Love it.

I don’t if I’m in luck or if I’m sad, but I never learned the periodic table of elements in high school.

Sing along everybody!There’s Antimony Arsenic Aluminum Serenium and Hydrogen and Oxygen and Nitrogen Uranium….(Tom Lehrer’s “The Elements” song) I memorized it for 100 points of extra credit.

Maybe it’s a calendar to track Pigita’s moods?

Pig, tungsten is 3 weeks away. You have neon on Saturday . . . and you’ll be mostly inert.

“It’s just another Magnesium Monday…”

Elementary, You Old Goat!

Pig isn’t reading it right.

The weeks are longer than on a regular calendar….. and we don’t have names for so many days…. butBeryllium is quite clearly on a Monday….

And I’d say Tungsten is definitely a Wednesday…. especially as it’s a “W”…

Corzak is right…. Neon is Saturday… and Sodium is Sunday….then after Magnesium Monday this will be a surprisingly empty week!

The following Thursday is Aluminum…. such a light workday you could go to the movies afterward.

This one’s way above my learning. I road the short bus to school and to work..

What happened to Goat’s use of grammer?

“What do you got going on?”???

He should have asked, “What do you have going on?” surely.

Pig’s mistake was going to a school supply store to get his new calendar. He should have gone to a stationer’s, of course. Except that he might have misspelled it and got lost….

What, did Rat help him shop for the calendar?

For only $798.00 more dollars, he could have bought an iphone 5.

My favorite is molybdenum.

helium would have been a fun day

He’ll be doing plutonium by the end of the month…helium would be fun, but that was last week…

Remembering the old campaign poster. Vote AuH2O

“Guess my diet is over. On Thursday I’m supposed to be carb-on. "

We’re on to you now, Pastis. You bring in the crocs for one or two strips and then stick us with a week of rat, pig and goat ….

Tungsten should really be Wednesday, since its symbol is W.

I like Periodic tables for some reason.

AU describes this comic strip…

GOLD!

xxx

I like this one. Didn’t even see that joke coming.

I was expecting a terrible pun. Got a science joke instead. Was not disappointed.

Boron is the day after Beryllium.

Get the Lead out.

Notice how the weeks get longer and longer as the month wears on?

Good one.

That’s strange. I have Arsenic for Friday. My in-laws are coming over.

Remember that Rolling Stones song that talked about raining gold?“A-U, get off of my cloud…”

time for a periodic date with pigita.

“What do you got” sounds like goat needs to take some summer classes in English.

Gives new meaning to carbon dating

Pobre Pig.

LOVE IT! Can’t help laughing out loud

The real problem with using the Periodic Calendar of the Elements is that about 75% of the elements are metals. A few of them are rather soft—some are quite dangerous (Sodium or Polonium)—but in general 2/3 of the month would be quite hard.

Pure AU

Nice. I thought this was going to be another lame pun, but they pulled it out.

mwbarr — lame pun??

I have never seen the sort of thing of which you speak.

Periodic Table

This one rivals the classic “poetry slam” strip.

Wait. GOAT said “What do you got going on?”

I’m going to a music festival ytterbium.

Alas, I too have ordered things badly online. Luckily, it’s only a periodic problem. (Sorry, I’ll get my coat.)