Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 06, 2024

One of my favorite jokes:

Q. What do you get when you play a country song backwards?

A. You get your wife back, your truck back, your house back, your dog back . . .

At least it’s better than your pickup truck cheating on you.

With the self-driving feature, the pickup truck could run away with his wife’s car.

Thank you, Stephan Pastis!!!! Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!! to quote from who framed Roger rabbit, “thanks, I needed that!!!!” Dan aka…ps again a very sincere thank you from my heart!!!!

The best title I heard was “If I would have done it when I wanted to, I’d be out of jail now”!

You forgot trains!

Work is the curse of the drinking class.

From You Never Even Call Me By My Name by David Allan C​oe

Well, I was dr​unk the day my mom got out of pri​son

And I went to pick her up in the rain

But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck

She got runned over by a da​mned old train

“I’ll never forget good ol’ what’s her name.”

Only nine million?

Greatest country music song? No such thing. Best you can do is least horrible.

I got friends in low places.

“She’s actin’ single, I’m drinkin’ doubles”… “Dropkick me, Jesus, through the goalposts of life”… “You’re the hangnail in my life, and I can’t cut you off”….

And pop music is all about hooking up or breaking up. Is that better?

Well this proves people can not get enough of stupid!!!

Maybe it’s the ultimate Blues song: “I didn’t even have a girlfriend who could have run away from me…”

Good morning Steph, this is truly one of your classics!

“Three Chords and the Truth”, an oft-quoted phrase coined by Harlan Howard in the 1950s which he used to describe country music.

Was it “I Don’t Know How To Say Goodbye (Bang Bang Boom Boom)” by Dwight Yoakum and Post Malone?

I’m surprised that Pig was at a country bar, what with their love of BBQ

I listen to country and I don’t believe I’ve ever heard a song like that. If there is, I have yet to hear it.

Try including they got drunk and shot 6 holes in their freezer. That might help.

Oh, wait. That’s Jimmy Buffet.

The problem with Country is that Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, George Jones, and Willie Nelson were all GREAT. But they’re imitated by people without that talent, and it’s turned into soft rock about trucks and beer, sung with a southern accent.

I like the ones about her blowing up your new girl’s pickup truck and burning your house down. Real toe tappers, those.

Sounds like a David Allan Coe song…the “perfect country song”.

They’re all the same! It’s a conspiracy…

Oh, and their dog gets run over by their best friend’s truck.