Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 06, 2021

…and puns. All true Americans hate puns.

That Vanderbilt whistler is hated by the entire fan base of college baseball. {:-p

The fact that Adam Sandler sucks.

And the NeverTrumpers who still can’t get him out of their heads in 3…2…1..

fortunately, I don’t know how to whistle a tune… so I’m in the clear of Rat’s list

But what about the Andy Griffith Show intro?!!!

People who do not go when the traffic light turns green because they are texting or chatting on the phone and then drive right when the light turns yellow, jamming up the people behind them. Oh and people who take too many items into the express lane at the checkout in the supermarket.

Times change. Once upon a time, whistling was acceptable and quite popular. About 80-90 years ago.

Argh, don’t remind me. My mother did this. A lot. May she rest in peace.

It’s a start.

I whistle and sung all the time, I don’t have any close neighbors so it does not matter !

Well, at least he got the hatred part right.

I really hate hatred.

Fingernails on the blackboard and biting foil stuck on chewing gum with your fillings!

Rat do the 7 Dwarfs count as people because they ………… " Whistle While You Work " …..

Have you ever looked up the word “whistle” in the dictionary?

I found it a bit under whelming.

My sister is the sort of girl Men whistle at…She looks like a dog.

I think he’s confusing whistling with yodeling.

hemorrhoids

Rat should be ashamed, after all Whistlers have Mothers too.

James Michener wrote puns are pornography for mathematicians. I must say I did not understand the connection or implication. Insight anyone?

If there’s too much division, maybe he could try adding some multiplication.

People who say “anyways”

How about mimes? Is there anyone left who enjoys watching mimes?

My dad was a very talented whistler. I wish I could hear him just one more time.

Whistling is fairly annoying in most settings.

If there’s too much division, maybe they should put more emphasis on multiplication in schools.

Well, hqiz. My one decent musical skill just plummeted to the bottom of the charts. :’(

Dunno, Rat. I still have a soft spot for “Colonel Bogey”, and always will.

♩you forgive us, we’ll forgive you

we’ll forgive each other ’til we both turn blue

then we’ll whistle and go fishing in heaven…

Dolly Parton. Everybody loves Dolly.

Smokers. Irresponsible dog owners.

Can’t we all just get along?

And mimes

“Roll out the barrel…” Good thing he didn’t say accordians, because he’d be mobbed!

I think a few unifying hatreds would be -People who drive slow in the fast lane, people with shopping carts who stop in the middle of a shopping lane to talk with others with shopping carts, thus clogging up the entire aisle-and look at you meanly when you ask them to please move.

What about lawyers on TV ads and politicians anywhere?

Not.

And I find myself agreeing with Rat. Ewww!

People who drive slow in the fast lane.

“Once I had a wooden whistle,

And it wooden whistle.

Then I got a steel whistle,

And it steel wooden whistle.

Then I got a tin whistle,

Now I tin whistle!"

Haven’t seen Larry and his family, Zebra, or Lil Guard Duck since forever. Same characters every day is getting stale.

All I have to say Is if all the fans of Pearls didn’t like puns they would not be here! The PUNS on you!

Is whistling like tweeting if so he’s right on.

So – did they find and lynch the guy who whistles the Andy Griffith Show theme song? Perhaps that is why the show ended despite being at the top of the ratings?

I now find myself compulsively whistling.

¡Cuidado, Stephan! The ghost of Slim Whitman will be haunting your subconscious and infecting you with whistling earworms!!

My wife is a whistler and even though she whistles on key, it still can be cringe-worthy from my perspective. I say nothing, however … the things we do for love, sigh!

Whistling’s not that bad. Check out Fred Lowery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj3Wm6g3NrM

only in public though. They can whistle all they want at home all day long….

Please keep in mind this is RAT speaking. When he says “We all can agree”, he’s actually referring to 70 million American, (give or take 10 million).

@BE THIS GUY : I think you misspelled “love”.

Does that include people who TWEET about things??!! … ;)

Once again, Rat gets right to the heart of the matter.

I think we can all agree that we miss The Muppet Show on TV.

Rufus T. Firefly: [sings] These are the laws of my administration: No one’s allowed to smoke, or tell a dirty joke, and whistling is forbidden.

Freedonians: [Firefly whistles as the chorus sings] We’re not allowed to tell a dirty joke, Hail, hail Freedonia!

— Duck Soup

What about “Whistle-Stop” (From Disney’s animated version of “Robin Hood”)?

People who cut you off when you’re driving. I think we all hate that.

Religion, politics, tribal-nationalism, the internet … what else can we invent to divide people?

I totally agree about whistling and I only speak for myself. I get horrible migraines just from that kind of sound. It’s like an ice pick into my brain. I can only remove myself so fast from the situation, and sometimes it’s not fast enough.

And the French.

I’ve seen polls that even the French don’t like the French.

Now I’ve got “I Was Kaiser Bill’s Batman” as an earworm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0HNVp-G3nE

also hatred of smokers, advertisers, telemarketers, spammers, junkmail producers

Especially whoever performed the Andy Griffith Show theme.

I like whistling

My younger brother whistles incessantly. Whenever I see him and he does that I desire only to punch him.

People who can’t whistle are so jealous.

My husband and I are high school sweethearts. Once, when I visited his family, I whistled something and my future mother-in-law said, “A whistling woman and a cackling hen, will come to no good end.” I had never heard that before, but I thought it was funny. It never stopped me from whistling, though, and the saying turned out to be inaccurate for me at least.

I strongly dislike commercials, but I HATE drug ads on tv, with all the side effects. Those ads should just start with : WARNING! This drug might kill you.

I guess nobody likes “ Whistling Pete” fireworks?

Thank God someone finally said it!

Guess what Rat, no one cares what you say.

I can’t whistle, so I’m not going to deny there’s some jealousy going on here.

Congrats Pastis. New record every day. KACHING!

So he hates Sukiyaki, and Andy Griffith?

I admire anybody who can whistle, because no matter how hard I try I have never been able to manage it. I particularly admire those who can whistle actual tunes.

Also hatred for anything is divisive, love is the unifying force in this world.

Boy, would he hate me!

Rat misses the point again.

Nope. I don’t hate whistlers. —At least, not all of them. I agree that some whistlers are annoying, though….

Try again for a “unifying principle,” Rat….

https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2020/01/02 People who whistle, and people who drink Kale smoothies..

Americans do worship the same god: freedom. We just disagree on what it is.