Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 04, 2022

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    BE THIS GUY  about 2 years ago

    Rat is also a Yankees’ fan.

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    Bilan  about 2 years ago

    Stephan must like the QB suite. He’s always getting hit after his delivery.

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    ronaldspence  about 2 years ago

    Looks like Rat gave the "Bomp, bomp, bomp to Pastis…

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    noahproblem  about 2 years ago

    Bad puns come to America…TODAY!!

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    WhatsTheJoke  about 2 years ago

    GROAN !!

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    GeorgeInAZ  about 2 years ago

    Stephan is truly a creatively funny guy.

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    david.bruce  about 2 years ago

    Nothing like a little Neil Diamond in the morning!

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    BasilBruce  about 2 years ago

    Everyone around the world . . . they’re coming to beat Stephan up.

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    B UTTONS  about 2 years ago

    Pastis is in need of a stay at the wellness hotel, perhaps one that help him with the D-Line Care Suites in Thyme.

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    jmarkoff2  about 2 years ago

    I was expecting something with Parsley, Sage, and Rosemary.

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    tudza Premium Member about 2 years ago

    The artist is now in the hospital. He’s twisted something terribly.

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    comic4matt  about 2 years ago

    Looks more, to me, that Rat is STICK of puns…

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    Gent  about 2 years ago

    Rat would rather loves to has the baseball suit than the football ones.

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    Gloria Fleming  about 2 years ago

    Love it!!

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    Jayalexander  about 2 years ago

    I told them to my girlfriend Cackling Rosie, to make her laugh.

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    lavender headgear  about 2 years ago

    Stephan’s puns are the equivalent of Billy running all over the neighborhood in Family Circus.

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    Neoprene Wedgie Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Have you no shame, Stephan?!

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    Packratjohn Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Puntastic!

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    franki_g  about 2 years ago

    I’ve been inclined

    ‘Coz I’m on a warped planks of wood

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    PetrGasparik  about 2 years ago

    I got the reference to Neil Diamond, but I didn’t get the last window. Anyone can guide me?

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    blunebottle  about 2 years ago

    As for me: I am, I cried!

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    iggyman  about 2 years ago

    Sweet Caroline “boom,boom,boom” heard at weddings!

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    iggyman  about 2 years ago

    Very inventive, Pastis!

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    dlkrueger33  about 2 years ago

    Didn’t see that coming until the last panel. Love these puns.

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    John Smith  about 2 years ago

    We passed being sick of puns a LONG time ago! I remember a time when Pearls was an actual comic strip. I pray every night that Pastis will find the courage to go to rehab.

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    Imagine  about 2 years ago

    Sweet suite.

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    hariseldon59  about 2 years ago

    Mr. Pastis, Neil Diamond’s lawyer is on the phone.

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    hariseldon59  about 2 years ago

    I’d never heard of steaming thyme before.

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    JoeStoppinghem Premium Member about 2 years ago

    To no one there…

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    phredturner  about 2 years ago

    Not sick of them, I come by here for the Sunday Punnies

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    JoeStoppinghem Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Checked out “Star Girl” on the WB network. This year’s premier ran Neil’s “Coming to America”. What a great song.

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    Brich027  about 2 years ago

    Great, I got that song stuck in my head, Sweet Caroline! Good times never seemed so good…

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    MS72  about 2 years ago

    Sweet what?

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    wrd2255  about 2 years ago

    He should have choreographed the bat: “Sweet Caroline”, Bop! Bop!

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    Gandalf  about 2 years ago

    Well, I’m a Believer!

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    bpscg  about 2 years ago

    My new game: See how quickly I can figure out that there’s a horrible pun coming.

    If I don’t spot it on the first panel, my life is a failure.

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    awcoffman  about 2 years ago

    Stephan Pastis, a.k.a. Atilla the Pun.

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    Ellis97  about 2 years ago

    There’s no use telling them to stop making puns.

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    b.john71  about 2 years ago

    Ahhh, nothing like the smell of Pastis bleeding in the morning.

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    Goat from PBS  about 2 years ago

    Nothing like song lyrics I don’t recognize.

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    Aficionado  about 2 years ago

    I am ashamed to say, I love it.

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    YippiKiAyMofo  about 2 years ago

    Bum-bum-bum!

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    Count Olaf Premium Member about 2 years ago

    How about the one that also has some parsley sage and an escort secks worker named Mary who shows up just in thyme?

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  about 2 years ago

    lmao I did NOT see that coming.

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    beezzll  about 2 years ago

    You might think that Rat would love such a cheesy pun. It goes well with Sparking Rose. Thanks…a great start to my day.

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    P51Strega  about 2 years ago

    I’m never sick of a good (bad) pun-ch line.

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    ChristineMurphy  about 2 years ago

    And I will love puns forever, although sometimes my daughter has to point them out to me.

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    Zebrastripes  about 2 years ago

    Ha! Funny!

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    Cary Rodda Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Don’t listen to Rat…bring on the puns!

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    Lee26 Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Absolutely LOVED the last panel! It put the Cherry, Cherry on top!

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    garcoa  about 2 years ago

    I’ve never heard the Offensive and Defensive Lines referred to as the O-Line and the D-Line. But then again, any port in a storm.

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    figuratively speaking  about 2 years ago

    I read through the first panel, move onto the second, then realize something’s coming. I re-read the first two panels, hoping I can figure out the pun, but, as usual, I can’t. I always thought I didn’t like puns but I think what I didn’t like was that most were too obvious. Then I met Pearls.

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    bunrabbit99  about 2 years ago

    love it!

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    RobinHood  about 2 years ago

    After Brother Love’s Travelling Salvation Show, and a bat, I’m A Beliver.

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    LilPeruna  about 2 years ago

    This happened to be one of those 20% of times where I knew the punchline from the first panel. It then becomes a journey of how does he get from initial setup to punchline?

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    oakie817  about 2 years ago

    holey Holly Holy, Batman!

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    CaveCat87  about 2 years ago

    I think Rat needs therapy, he’s always so violent whenever these puns happen. What does he have against these puns anyway?

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    whelan_jj  about 2 years ago

    Why do I read Sunday PBS? It’s the lead up, not the pun at the end. I do like mazes and puzzles.

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    Charles & Susan  Premium Member about 2 years ago

    You got me again! Ugh!

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    Baucuva  about 2 years ago

    Excellent!

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    Bucinka  about 2 years ago

    So bad! So bad! So bad!

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    Snolep  about 2 years ago

    Thyme for the 7th inning stretch.

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    Old27F20  about 2 years ago

    Hahahahaha, love the pun strips…..you da man!!!!

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    dadlivonia  about 2 years ago

    oh, the inhumanity

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    Just So So Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Now that song will be in my head all day.

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    mtrimberger Premium Member about 2 years ago

    I used to enjoy Neil…

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    Phydeux  about 2 years ago

    Took his Suite Thyme trying for a Gem but only got a Diamond in the rough.

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    zeexenon  about 2 years ago

    Daddy, what do football players do with Caroline?

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    paullp Premium Member about 2 years ago

    I always support punning in this comic, but since I’m not at all fond of Neil Diamond, on this one occasion I’m siding with Rat.

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    eladee AKA Wally  about 2 years ago

    Not even the chair.

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    patrickab7  about 2 years ago

    Bravo, sir.

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    Carl Rennhack Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Welcome to the Hotel PASTIS-fornia! I’m surprised I’m the first to reference that great Eagles tune!

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    Joan Tinnin Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Stephan’s puns are the only ones I like. They are excellent

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    sheashea  about 2 years ago

    I thought that was hilarious. Thanks for the belly laugh Stephan.

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    dlaemmerhirt999  about 2 years ago

    I SWEAR Stephen has HUNDREDS of notebooks stacked in his room and office of HORRIFICALLY WONDERFUL puns and how to get there. Once his brain goes kaput, humanity is doomed.

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    alanoodle  about 2 years ago

    Baaa, baaa, baaaaaaah!

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    Rose Madder Premium Member about 2 years ago

    I like that Stephen stuck another of Neil’s songs in the last frame – - no pun intended.

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    Linguist  about 2 years ago

    Full Marks, Mr. Pastis! A triple header at that!

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    onespiceybbw  about 2 years ago

    That took quite the set-up.

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    John Jorgensen  about 2 years ago

    Steamed thyme? Is that really a thing?

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    Buckeye67  about 2 years ago

    Well played rat. Puns are the lowest form of expression.

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    Another Take  about 2 years ago

    I smelled a pun coming after reading the first panel. The last panel should’ve been the first.

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    gldoutt Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Well-developed pun, and for the record, I like Neil Diamond. How many of you trolls made it as big as he has?

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    hitek1st  about 2 years ago

    HAH!

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    JLChi  about 2 years ago

    This is probably the first time I’ve agreed with Rat. I find puns tiresome and strained. Oh, my gosh, did I really write that I agreed with Rat!

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    schaefer jim  about 2 years ago

    I am so stunned I am at a lost for words!

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    magdala666  about 2 years ago

    I love a good, laugh-out-loud pun, especially one I can sing! Thank you, Stephan, for a wonderful morning chuckle.

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    NGregory1  about 2 years ago

    Extra groan from my side of the pond. That song has become the theme of the football world (the soccer definition), so I got momentarily confused as well as having to empty the earworm.

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    Tallguy  about 2 years ago

    And no one heard at all, not even the chair!

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    Eric S   about 2 years ago

    You’re not being punny enough

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    cdgar  about 2 years ago

    I’d like to give Stephan an extra whack with the bat.

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    MRBLUESKY529  about 2 years ago

    it is a September morn.

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    hmofo813 Premium Member about 2 years ago

    What pun? There is no pun in this strip. I wish he would lay off this idiotic type of gag and give us good strips like he usually does the rest of the time.

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    knight1192a  about 2 years ago

    They were good many years ago…. when you weren’t punning on a regular basis and actually worked to create a good pun.

    And personally I prefer Caroline to Sweet Caroline.

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    Rosabell  about 2 years ago

    Love the set up! And I wouldn’t have seen it coming… except out of the corner of my eye I can see the baseball bat. :-)

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    Publius10608218  about 2 years ago

    Go Rat! I hate that song for personal reasons

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    pamela welch Premium Member about 2 years ago

    G R O A N — LOLOL

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    jth4510  about 2 years ago

    to no one there. and no heard at all, not even the chair.

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    dwkiser28603  about 2 years ago

    Well, Rat isn’t the only one here on that matter!

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    Nobody_Important  about 2 years ago

    If Rat didn’t like this one, tell him to stay away from Frank and Ernest today!

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    Sisyphos  about 2 years ago

    Rat steps up to the plate O’ Pastis! And it’s a hit, a palpable hit! Well stroked, Rat!

    (Never did care all that much for Neil Diamond’s sound, anyway.)

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    DaBump Premium Member about 2 years ago

    [sings] Aaaaah I’ve been inclined, to believe they never could!

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    Soo5002  about 2 years ago

    Yup. It’s official. This one caused to spew my morning coffee! (Tears in eyes)

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    Grover St. Clair  about 2 years ago

    I did meet Ted before he filmed this scene…. https://youtu.be/4Uk94_crZn0

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    sisterea  about 2 years ago

    May Neil Diamond not sue you

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    198.23.5.11  about 2 years ago

    Out at Fenway Park,“Sweet Caroline” elbowed out “Tessie”,which had been the Red Sox theme song since the early 1900’s!!

    Oh,Tessie,I love you madly.My heart weighs about a pound".

    During 1903 World Series—"Oh Honus Wagner,at b at you look so sadly…

    Hey,why don’t you get out of town".

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    thomas.overmyer Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Well thank you for putting that tune in my head for the rest of the day!

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