Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 10, 2011

Oddy enough – living by 1911 sensibilities seems normal w/dial up.

wat???

Pig! Don’t look so shocked! Instead, take a few moments to learn some elementary nautical terminology. Rat was clever enough to do so and dupe cartoon-Pastis!

Rat! That was a cr@ppy trick.

Heh. Rat pulls the pun on Pastis.

You would think that upon finding out about that whole deck Pig should be as happy as a, err, pig in poop.

Poor Stephen, almost always the straightman.

Clever. But, Ugh!

Reminds me of Popeye’s Pappy!

Seems like there’s a lot of cr@p in today’s comic pages. Check out today’s Wizard of Id.

heh. pretty funny.

I wonder what readers 20 years later will say about what we’re reading now.

Wow, Pastis slipped that one through. Does that mean the censor is non compost mentis?

If true, funny it didn’t make the late George Carlin’s list. It’s more restricted now than it was in 1972??

Rat goes to the ‘head’ of the class.

Come on … Who DIDN’T know what the punch line would be when Rat was speaking in the second panel?

Hey, I remember Gary Larson used to use “ass” in a ‘The Far Side’ panel of his. A donkey thinking to himself while reading a newspaper “dumb bunny.” Then a rabbit thinking to himself while watching TV (in the same room as the donkey) “smart ass.” We all know an ass is another word for donkey, but I’m sure the vulgarity for “buttocks” is censored in other comics.

I guess it could just be called the ship deck.

if you just look at the first panel and think for a while, you can usually find out the joke.

Sticking it to the Man.

Stephan needs to get in touch with Peter from B.C. Check out today’s strip.

Yeah, and there’s a whole strip for it, too! ^^

Come on, Cartoon Boy, you should have saw that one coming. SMH

Rat, what are you doing in my head?

“Lois, it is called the ‘poop deck.’ That is why I pooped there.” (Peter Griffin, “Family Guy: Stewie Kills Lois”)

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Craps, anyone?

Ditto. :-( I wish they would give us at least thumbs-up with or without a thumbs-down button. :-(

I always wondered why it was called that. Now I know!

I always liked the sound of “futtock shrouds" myself.

Stephan is either mistaken or lying here. You can TOTALLY say “poop” in a comic strip.

And Hart said it in a big way.

Again with the rebellion! It marches on across the comics page! Or, until we run into “Blondie” and anything edgy vanishes without a trace. I have to hand it to Pastis though, he’s waging a one-man war against a system that hasn’t changed since the 1950’s. It’s his own little crusade, and I’m all for it! Onwards Stephan! Onwards Pearls!

I understood that it was Thomas Crapper, not Harold. But what does fecal matter anyway?

“Poop deck” is from the Latin “Puppis,” for the stern of a ship. There’s a constellation called Puppis, which is the stern of Jason’s ship the Argo. Along with Vela, the Sail; Carina, the Keel; and Pyxis, the Compass. Since Puppis is very close to the constellation Canis Major, the Great Dog, I used the think it represented Canis Major’s PUPPIES!

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Smort rat