Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 16, 2017

Well, that sucked.

In American football, they have a station set up where tacklers who think they’re coming down with the flu can be given a therapeutic whirlpool bath; it’s called the sicker sacker soaker.

Punned it like Beckham.

Cartoon Boy is just asking to get smacked with a cricket bat.

yeah, Seattle Sounders (although I live kind of close to the Portland Timbers)

You’re a corrupting influence. I made a comment on Candorville using critical, critic, critiquing, critics and critically.

The more I read your strip, the more I side with Rat.

SHOCKER!

Most of the world calls it football. Only a few countries call it “soccer”. It’s the most widely played sport in the world. Cricket comes second.

A crime! Accept your punishment.

PASTIS GETS PAID FOR THIS??????????

Sever days ago SP did a self-serving strip about how hard it is to be funny with all the pain and suffering in the world; if he was really concerned with pain and suffering in the world he wouldn’t publish this crap. PBS use to be funny :(

I wonder if Pastis gets paid extra is he shows up in a strip?

I think I looked just like rat at about the same time in the strip.

Failed Footballer’s Fancy Pop®…

To quote Daffy Duck, “Ha ha, it is to laugh!”

Pastis is long overdue to freshen up. If he doesn’t change out of that stinky t-shirt and ball cap and give himself a shave, Staci is going to kick his sorry butt to the curb … again!

Red Cross disaster relief doesn’t serve corn and lime beans because that thing the victims need is to be suffering succortash.

Gotta agree with Rat on this one. I saw it coming and couldn’t stop it.

It’s a crime that Rat is a character in it!

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Sock her??? I don’t even know her!

I don’t think it’s weird that other countries call Soccer, “football.” I want to know why our football is called this, when there’s very little foot-to-ball action in the entire game.

Why don’t you make like Soupy Sales and get a pie in the face? Keep ’em coming!

Here I thought the payoff would be simpler: Giving “suckers” to the enemy.

Go ahead, Rat! Become the Sucker Killer: bash Cartoon-Boy with your trusty baseball bat and leave a trademark lollipop in his battered, misshapen mouth….

Mmmm, now I have a yen for a lollipop…

What really bothers Rat isn’t that Pastis is paid for bad puns, but that Rat isn’t.

Do all these pun strips imply that Stephan can absolutely controt all of the characters in “Pearls”?

This makes Rat rather say “soccer” than “football”..