Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 16, 2024

Since when did Rat jokes become Dad jokes?

I have bigger fans than that, including one that fits in a window.

That blows.

Rat, that was a pun, you should be ashamed of yourself.

The stuff is about to hit the fan.

The pun was in the air.

Doesn’t Stephan even know about Rat?

You might want to take it to a baseball game, Rat, they are always looking for more fans!

FANtastic, not!

At least SteFan did not take a baseball bat to Rat.

Well, that blows ….

Don’t believe him, Stephan. Your biggest fan is about six feet tall.

Rat is honoring May 15, National Pun Day, see yesterday’s Dave By Dave.

Hey Steph … you can plug it into a USB port.

Wait until he receives the fan mail

There are much bigger fans out there. Also fancier ones like the bladeless versions.

Geez, Rat, you can do better than ripping off the Yellow M&M.

I’m a big fan of big fans.

I’m surprised Pastis didn’t get wind of this earlier.

Not wealthy enough from the comic strip for air conditioning?

Dredging up the ancient jokes, eh Steph.

HA! Not so funny when it’s the other way around, is it?

Technically, wind turbines are ‘fans.’

Those who live by the pun, shall die by the pun.

No more puns!

Why does Pearls before Swine use so many puns?

I was expecting a wind tunnel, but got a little draft.

I figured there would at least be a box fan cause they are big fans!

huh, I thought it would be bigger then that…

Pun revenge is a dish served with a stiff breeze…

He only comes around on hot days

That really blows, Steph.

I had a colleague who requested an ovulating fan.

If it’s really hot, Pastis should appreciate the fan.

Rat should’ve went to Lowe’s for a bigger fan….

I clicked over here for puns, but got Only Fans…

Saw it coming a mile off, but SO appropriate!

Don’t feel too bad, Steph. Rat gave you an extension cord too.

Rat, you need to take a baseball bat to yourself.

Must be a slow day.

That’s because he wasn’t trying to be helpful.

taste of his own bitter medicine. haha

I have more and bigger fans, they’re box fans.

That’s a little fan

Stephan Pastis and Charles Shultz both lived in Santa Rosa, CA (about 50 miles north of San Francisco) as did Raymond Burr, Natalie Wood, and Guy Fieri. Check out his restaurant, Johnny Garlic’s. Tom Smother’s winery, Remick Ridge Vineyards, is just outside of Santa Rosa. The home of famed botanist, Luther Burbank sits just off the middle of downtown and of course the yard is full of a huge variety of plants (open to the public). A few blocks away is The Church of One Tree (made from a single redwood tree) which Robert Ripley purchased and stocked with “Believe It or Not” artifacts, curios and oddities (call ahead for admittance.) Famed author, Jack London’s home is just down the road from Santa Rosa (open to the public.) I thought you’d want to stop on your way to your drive of the glorious Redwood Highway, a must-see bucket list item.

I thought I was his biggest fan! Sigh…

Hey Rat, come to Walmart, we have even smaller fans to emotionaly emascutlate Pastis

Don’t worry, Stephan. You have LOTS of human fans!

The dad jokes are strong with this one.

♪ Bertha, don’t you come around here anymore ♫

Sigh … My 2 least favorite characters, Rat & Steph

We are all “w̶i̶t̶n̶e̶s̶s̶e̶s̶” his biggest fans!!! ☺️

I’ve an uninvited guest, Steph L. Coccus.

Rat’s walking left to right across the desk in the first two panels, is nowhere to be seen in the third, and in the fourth has returned to his starting point on the left edge of the desk. It’s disorienting.

That’s not a big fan.

He just isn’t putting the right spin on it.

Don´t throw bovine byproducts at it.

Does the fan work?

On the bright side Steph, it isn’t Kathy Bates.

Saw that coming a mile away.

I think it’s a good thing he doesn’t have an Only Fans page.

.. and not even a very big fan at that…

Might as well make the best of it. Turn it on and talk into it so you sound like Darth Vader. Rat, I am your Father! That’ll really cheese Rat off.

Wow! Finally you have a fan! :D

Amazing how often words can have a double meaning. Does it make the language richer or poorer?

It isn’t even very big.

G R O A N — LOLOL

I was expecting a Big A$$ fan

I maintain that if talking to the audience is the 4th wall, showing the cartoonist is the 5th. And no one does that better than Pastis.

Not a very big fan.

If that was a Floor fan, we’d be at a Nightwish concert.

That’s his biggest fan? I hope he has air conditioning.