Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 31, 2015

Some people prefer hardwood floors.

Yeah, Pig, two interior decorators were battling o’er carpets.

Did the carpet not match the drapes?

I guess they had too much fiber. That can really block up your system and cause explosions.

Maybe carpet bombing means bombing with carpets rather than bombing at carpets.

No Pig, folks were bombing the interior decorators for their awful taste which they insist on foisting upon us.

nominating this as the weakest PBS strip so far this month.

Well how else do you eradicate those dust mites, Pig?

Goat does it say anything about the triple A ?

Two inferior desecrators bombed?So, what’s new?

“One of the guys peed on the other guy’s rug … and that’s when the fighting started”

— Dude

Who wrote the history? Someone from the winning side or the losing side?Wait, the winners always write the history.

I always thought carpet bombing was how you got rid of a flea infestation.

Perfect punch line!

Cluster bombs are really awful. Some are made to throw out little wires and only go off when disturbed. Others bounce up in the air before exploding to insure better shrapnel pattern. All are designed to maim instead of kill, the idea being it takes three persons to care for each wounded.

Persians and Afgans fighting again?

Carpet bombing: what my dog does when I leave him alone all day for too long.

Pulled the rug right out from under Goat

They mistook “Berber” for “Bieber”…

In a way, Pig is right: many wars are about how different groups want to see their country. Call them ‘interior decorators’, with the winner getting to do the renovation.

Must have been shag carpet…

Carpet bombing is a concept more than an specific action in a specific war. But to show it capabilities here is a link. 4000 killed at Hamburg. http://new.spectator.co.uk/2015/05/the-carpet-bombing-of-hamburg-killed-40000-people-it-also-did-good/

doesn’t matter to the war profiteers

Pig will really worry when he gets to the fight between flowers, i.e. The War Of The Roses!

Alphabetically, next we bomb carports. Purpose, they are anticapitalistic property value reducers. Collateral damage will be campers, extra cars, portable basketball hoops, mail boxes, boats, school bus kid shanties, and neighbor’s dog pooping on your lawn.

Carpet bombing? Sounds like a cat was thinking outside the box!