Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 23, 2019

Sur-Lee

Mario. Seriously, Marios full name is Mario Mario

Sir Loin of Pork…

Pig Pastis. Pig is his baby, after all. Don’t know if he has a birth certificate, though.

He must have a birth certificate. How else could sign up for Social Security?

Sir Swine, oh devine.

Are you sir? Yes I’m sur(e).

Fortunately, my name isn’t John John.

And I feel for all those folks whose last name might be Pigh.

I thought Pig was related to the “father of the scientific method”.

Passport office? Let’s play Where is Pig Going?

I’ll start.

Ummm… Hamburg? Someone can surely do better than that.

How can he not know what a surname is? You learn this when you are five, if not earlier.

In Australia you can have only one name. I assume it must be a surname but I may be wrong. My work’s computer does not allow having only one name so you have to enter same name as both given and surname.

Last Train To Porksville?

Why not a hername instead of surname … Croc Power !

The last name, like Francis Bacon.

He doesn’t even have a first name, technically speaking. Only the crocs have actual first names (why is that?).

He might be related to the Li’l Abner character Moonbeam McSwine. Of course, she was human, but her pigs might have taken her family name.

Just use a patronymic, like “Pig Boarson”.

When pigs fly.

Let’s play “Where’s Stephen Going?” A few days ago, the strip was about traveling to exotic if not dangerous places and now we have a strip about passports.

No fear,he is just going to the…Piggley Wiggley!

Going to England to see “Hamlet?”

Bacon Raton?

Hack his “links” to travel sites!

He might be traveling “Dutch” with Anthony Weiner

I hear he likes to visit Battle sites, like Pork Chop Hill…….okI’m done now

Ok…..maybe one more…..”Gudday mates, Aussie Bob ,hereI’d STY fer some more BUTT, I’m done in”

Piggeth? Only if pig is a third-person, singular verb.

“I pig, thou piggest, he/she piggeth…”

Sir Pig of Bacon

Sir Loin of Pork

Vienna (Wiener)

Sir Jethro de Bodine, Head varlet to the Earl of Clampet

Pig’s going to Middletown, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, home of Habbersett Scrapple and other fine pork products !!To visit his ancestor’s resting place….

Who knew that only members of the British aristocracy could travel?

Sir Dumb Piggeth sounds about right.

Sir Piggeth Bacon Bitts

Cute. But Pig (no surname; not even a sir-name!) should know that by now. Doesn’t he have a driver’s license? Doesn’t he pay property taxes or income taxes? Hasn’t he ever filled out a census form? Or obtained a library card?

Pig’s ignorance is almost comical….

Well, there was that guy who lived at Charles de Gaulle airport for a few years. When the got him his paperwork he rejected it because he wanted it to reflect his name as “Sir, Alfred” – comma and all.

You’re Pig Pastis!