Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 12, 2013
Transcript:
Car: Alright, let's start with the tokens we know are universally loved... me, the ship, the dog. Iron: Whoa. Who says the dog is loved? Car: Please, he's so popular with fans they gave him a nickname... "Scottie." Iron: Big deal. I have a nickname. Thimble: What? Iron: Stud Boy. Scottie: No one calls you "Stud Boy." Iron: Shut up, you little poop machine. Thimble: Do metal dogs poop? The "Monopoly" tokens decide who gets eliminated.
margueritem over 11 years ago
SNERK!!
BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member over 11 years ago
We always used to fight over the race car. Nobody wanted to be the cannon.
Odd Dog Premium Member over 11 years ago
A wind tunnel
zero over 11 years ago
Answer: Where do you think BB’s come from?
BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member over 11 years ago
Too many players? Borrow the pistol and the knife from the Clue game.
Varnes over 11 years ago
Our family Monopoly game had a white wooden token from some other game and nobody knew how it got there, but it was the most popular…BTW, we did Free Parking cash, even though it’s not in the rules….
firedome over 11 years ago
of course they do. it’s called sh….
RAPNEL!
Sisyphos over 11 years ago
Talk among yourselves. Never had a Monopoly set. Did have clue, with its array of weapons….As i said yesterday, I voted for the ouster of the thimble, and I am not convinced that dropping the iron in flavor of a cat was at all wise….
Reppr Premium Member over 11 years ago
Money for free parking USED TO BE in the rules. It is gone now?
The-Mage over 11 years ago
The next token should have been a bust of J.R.R. Tolkien. Then we would have a Tolkien token.
CasualObserver over 11 years ago
“Blond” for males.
lisapaloma13 over 11 years ago
BBs??? Birdshot!
Arianne over 11 years ago
Poor iron! He completely misunderstood when he heard them say it was time to put him out to stud.
JetJaguar over 11 years ago
I believe “Do Metal Dogs Poop?” was the working title for the book “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”
Carl Rennhack Premium Member over 11 years ago
Is Brudder Pastis hping that Hasbro will issue a PB4S version of Monopoly?
Carl Rennhack Premium Member over 11 years ago
Better still, how about a PB4S version of RISK! A world dominated by Rat could be a vast improvement!
jmartin1955 over 11 years ago
Great stuff, love the tokens fighting.
hariseldon59 over 11 years ago
The return of the inanimate talking objects. Reminds me of Pig’s fruit buddies or the Viking figurines.
knight1192a over 11 years ago
“Do metal dogs poop?”
LOL
ArfArf88 over 11 years ago
My Monopoly tokens are: thimble, wheelbarrow, man on a rearing horse, top hat, car, iron, shoe and dog.The dog has one shortened foreleg and can’t stand up.I always fancied the shoe.
What tokens do you readers have?
aimlesscruzr over 11 years ago
Money under Free Parking is the reason most games last forever and never end… It’s the worst house rule ever.
HankTheSock over 11 years ago
I don’t think so…
flyfisher over 11 years ago
Etymology
Imitative.
Interjection
snerk 1.(Internet, slang) Expressing amusement; a snicker, or a snort of laughter.
Verb
snerk (third-person singular simple present snerks, present participle snerking, simple past and past participle snerked) 1.(Internet, slang) To snicker or snort with laughter to express amusement.
Gokie5 over 11 years ago
“Snerk” seems to imply a subdued, snide kind of amusement that exhibits the superior feelings of the snerker and expresses schadenfreude (deriving pleasure from the misfortune of others). “Snerk” is also onomatopoeic, attempting to mimic the snorting sound of such a laugh.
Gokie5 over 11 years ago
Stgephan, really enjoyed today’s strip. It made me giggle out loud.
Carolynfaubel over 11 years ago
Waaanh! From day one in my monopoly life I was the iron. I would iron the crease in the board whenever I stopped there. It’s a good thing I have a few irons to last me over the next years. The thimble is boring.
Arianne over 11 years ago
Some might say that the thimble is for pricks, but I always liked it.
Sherlock Watson over 11 years ago
I’d like to see a PB4S version of “Clue.”:Goat by the wall with a frying pan!
neckback over 11 years ago
Iron is really getting steamed up.
Popeyesforearm over 11 years ago
after all these years his name is Rusty
finale over 11 years ago
Thimble thighman met a pieman going to the faire.Thaid thimble thighman to the pieman.“Where’s the beer tent?”
Number Three over 11 years ago
Love it Love it Love it!
xxx
Toronto2 over 11 years ago
I grew up with a Parisian Monopoly set, and the tokens were simple wooden disks with numbers on them. I never did get the “Thimble”, etc.
We got 20,000F for passing Depart, and the most expensive property was the Champs-Elysees.
Rickapolis over 11 years ago
Where’s the top hat? I ALWAYS take the top hat.
Logical Duck over 11 years ago
Monopoly came in for a lot of criticism because irons were “under-represented”. Sure, they got an iron. But it was only a token.
Arianne over 11 years ago
:ↁ
Badeyes over 11 years ago
Now dropping the iron on the cat….
Joey Blau over 11 years ago
hmm something is wrong… this was actually slightly funny… is someone else writing the strip?
SCroix over 11 years ago
The iron was always my favorite…smoothed my way…lol. Love the idea of BB’s, and our family also had free parking cash.:)
PizzaKitty about 4 years ago
Am I the only one who feels like the last panel could be a big Nate strip if they weren’t monopoly tokens?Like if you change the words a bit it kind of goes with the theme I’ve seen sometimes where Nate: says something along the lines of “I’m such a handsome stud”Francis: “no you aren’t”Nate: “shut up geek boy”Chad: (asks innocent question)