Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 12, 2013

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    margueritem  over 11 years ago

    SNERK!!

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    BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member over 11 years ago

    We always used to fight over the race car. Nobody wanted to be the cannon.

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    Odd Dog Premium Member over 11 years ago

    A wind tunnel

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    zero  over 11 years ago

    Answer: Where do you think BB’s come from?

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    BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Too many players? Borrow the pistol and the knife from the Clue game.

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    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….

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    firedome  over 11 years ago

    of course they do. it’s called sh….

    RAPNEL!

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    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….

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    Reppr Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Money for free parking USED TO BE in the rules. It is gone now?

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    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.

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    CasualObserver  over 11 years ago

    “Blond” for males.

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    lisapaloma13  over 11 years ago

    BBs??? Birdshot!

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    Arianne  over 11 years ago

    Poor iron! He completely misunderstood when he heard them say it was time to put him out to stud.

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    JetJaguar  over 11 years ago

    I believe “Do Metal Dogs Poop?” was the working title for the book “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”

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    Carl Rennhack Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Is Brudder Pastis hping that Hasbro will issue a PB4S version of Monopoly?

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    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!

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    jmartin1955  over 11 years ago

    Great stuff, love the tokens fighting.

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    hariseldon59  over 11 years ago

    The return of the inanimate talking objects. Reminds me of Pig’s fruit buddies or the Viking figurines.

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    knight1192a  over 11 years ago

    “Do metal dogs poop?”

    LOL

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    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?

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    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.

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    HankTheSock  over 11 years ago

    I don’t think so…

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    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.

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    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.

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    Gokie5  over 11 years ago

    Stgephan, really enjoyed today’s strip. It made me giggle out loud.

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    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.

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    Arianne  over 11 years ago

    Some might say that the thimble is for pricks, but I always liked it.

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    Sherlock Watson  over 11 years ago

    I’d like to see a PB4S version of “Clue.”:Goat by the wall with a frying pan!

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    neckback  over 11 years ago

    Iron is really getting steamed up.

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    Popeyesforearm  over 11 years ago

    after all these years his name is Rusty

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    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?”

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    Number Three  over 11 years ago

    Love it Love it Love it!

    xxx

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    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.

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    Rickapolis  over 11 years ago

    Where’s the top hat? I ALWAYS take the top hat.

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    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.

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    Arianne  over 11 years ago

    :ↁ

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    Badeyes  over 11 years ago

    Now dropping the iron on the cat….

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    Joey Blau  over 11 years ago

    hmm something is wrong… this was actually slightly funny… is someone else writing the strip?

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    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.:)

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    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)

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