Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 16, 2016

Can we send the censor guy back to the 1950’s?

Did Pig get the idea from a do-it-yourself TV show called Dam Nation?

Waist deep in the big muddy and the big fool says to push on.

Take note, C.S.C., there was no N at the end of “dam” like Rat and Pig said.

Such a great, multipurpose word:

That censor is the most irritated guy by a dam site.:I’ll stop now.

“Hmm-Hmm, Excuse me sir, but is this a GOD dam? Hehehe.”

Life getting you down? Everyday troubles seem overwhelming? Do what I do. Take Damitol™. It won’t make your problems disappear. You just won’t care anymore.

I would’ve thought there would be a beaver “floating” around here to complete the dam joke and really give the censor dude a reason to have a conniption fit.

I recently lost a credit card, and had to call to get a replacement. The customer service lady wanted to verify my last charge on the card, and she said “Sir, I don’t want to offend you, but the last charge on the card was at The Dam Liquor Store. Is that correct?” I informed her that the store was by a dam, and was indeed called The Dam Liquor Store. I found it quite sad that this would be thought of as something that would offend.

Frankly my dear, I don’t give a dam!

Frankly my dear, I don’t give a dam!

There are some Dam-Aging comments around here ! …….For a moment I did think Mr Pastis was introducing a new character ,the beaver…………..

Tomorrow, Larry will be in the strip chasing Zeba neighbor who is trying to bust the dam. However, the backyard will remain flooded, because when you are up to your zebra in crocodiles, it is hard to remember the object was to drain the backyard.

Dam – a barrier constructed to hold back water and raise its level, the resulting reservoir being used in the generation of electricity or as a water supply.

Damn – be condemned by God to suffer eternal punishment in hell: be forever damned with Lucifer.• be doomed to misfortune or failure: the enterprise was damned.

I don’t know why people think this censorship attitude comes from the ’50s. There was an Edison short in 1905 called /The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog/ which begins by introducing Mr. I. B. Dam and the various members of his family, culminating with the family dog.

And still relevant.

well, dam

I love this dam strip.

It is nice to see that Rat and Pig are eminently successful at one thing in Life; viz., angering Comic Strip Censor-man!

I wonder if Pastis actually meant “you anger me no end”. “You anger me to no end” also makes sense, but it’s not quite the same.And I remember saying “damn” being a big deal when I was a kid, but how many people care these days?

Most people don’t even know the difference in spelling it.

Oh the dam language in this strip is soooooooooooo bad

#damnit

I wondered how Spanish would deal with this. Word for word, remarkably. “Dam” in Spanish is “represa,” but it also means ‘blockage" or “repression.” Evidently it can mean something like “constipated.” The censor says “With you, my anger has no limit.” It’s not a common enough insult to show up on most lists.

I went down to the dam to get some dam water, But the dam people wouldn’t let me have any dam water,so I told the dam people to keep the dam water.

I live in the town that built Hoover Dam. I live this pun daily.

My favorite pub was near a reservoir. It was the best bar by a dam site.

I always thought it odd one could say “darn” or “dang” without affecting anybody when everyone knew it was a sand-in for the other word.

To that I say “**** it”.

Reminds me of an episode of Jeopardy years ago – one of the categories was “I don’t give a dam”. One lady kept saying "I don’t give a dam for (insert amount here) Alex. He finally commented "You are really enjoying saying that!

In the original “Planet of the Apes,” the studio censor allowed Charlton Heston’s classic final line after it was pointed out that he was saying, “God damn you all to hell!” (wishing that God would punish those who destroyed human civilization) as opposed to “Goddamn you” (taking God’s name in vain or turning it into a curse that some might find offensive).

there were times when pogo went “too far” and papers would refuse to run the comic. walt kelly had “bunny” strips to replace the censored ones on these occasions.

Ha—good one. I’m a counselor at a kids’ camp every summer, and since the zip-line goes over the dam, we in my activity area (a different one) call it—you guessed it—the dam zip-line. This has also progressed into returning to that dam place, getting a dam sandwich for lunch, and being dam straight on remarks. (I could go on, but I’ll stop here.)

Dam it, he’s a pig, not a hydrological engineer!

If it’s California, the environmental impact fees will keep pig in court for YEARS!

Damn, not another Damn, Dam joke!

Those dam dirty apes!

What did the beaver say when he stubbed his toe? …Dam!

damit!

HEY! NO PERIOD IN THE FIRST SPEECH BUBBLE! I WILL WHOOP YOUR DAM BEHIND MON

River floods Dam it!

What did the fish say when he hit a wall? Dam! (Yes, I realize it’s an old joke)