Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 17, 2013

Now that’s funny.

Didn’t see that coming, did you, Rat?

Snerk!

Then he paid an arm and a leg to get what he wants, but he just ended up a little behind.

thanks again, mr. p.! !

I thought this is the best one in a while.

Plain and simple. And a commercial tie-in for an upcoming new TV show. Payola: that explains it!

Just when I think Stephan has run out of these ^*(&# puns he has another one. Thanks, Bruno, for putting a little alternate perspective in here. Just remember what George Carlin said about sewing: you can prick your finger but you can’t …. (from his AM FM comedy album).

Hey! Two jokes for the price of none. Awesome.

I got distracted by The Legend of Sleepy Hollow not containing an actual headless horseman in Washington Irving’s story.

Toon Boy is a headcase.

Laugh out loud

Naturally.

Must have seen the promo for the upcoming series; this could easily have revolved around a grocer and some lettuce or cabbage.

where was I?

My hero…….

Gotta go with the rodent today!

Excelsior!

I prefer to suspend all real-world belief when I read this strip. That way I don’t anticipate anything, and the PUNch line is always a pleasant treat. Good way to start the day. Thanks Pastis-Dude

Quiet, Rat…I love these strips!

My humor is hollow and I am sleepy. Now if I can just combine the two….

This is the comic genius I love.

One of his better word play strips, no doubt.

1. Often I know one is coming, but can’t figure it out. I figured this one out.2. I was ferrying the grandkids around, and we passed a sign that said, “STOP AHEAD.” The g’kids had all kinds of fun with “STOP! A HEAD!” Maybe you had to be there.

Oy, poor Rat has spent too much time around Stephan and has started using bad puns himself. (Loved it).

That one was so subtle that I almost missed it. Well played, Stephan!

“And now I’m gonna Rip your Van Winkle!”

he’s also out of his gourd

Some guys will do anything to get some head.

Sounds like Pastis is a fan of the old Disney “Sleepy Hollow” cartoon. I can just hear Bing Crosby singing

And there’s no spookLike a spook that’s spurnedThey don’t like himAnd he’s really burnedHe swears to the longest day he’s deadHe’ll show them that he canCan get a head

They say he’s tired of his flamin’ topHe’s got a yen to make a swapSo he rides one night each yearTo find a head in the Hollow here

Now he like’s ‘em littleHe like’s ’em bigPart in the middleOr a wigBlack or white or even redThe Headless Horseman needs a head

“With a hip hipAnd a clipity clopHe’s out lookin’ for a top to chopSo don’t stop to figure out a planYou can’t reason with a headless man

Loved that cartoon as a kid. Used to get my folks to rent “Disney’s Halloween Treat” just to watch it then they got me the cartoon by itself in my early teens. It was also around that time that I first started collecting “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” in book form, all because of that one cartoon. Now I have two different copies of the Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon just for the addendum material in each concerning the short story.

MR. PASTIS: I worship at your Punster altar. Please, never,never stop.

Chalk one up for Rat!

Commenters: Glad to see that STOP AHEAD has brought joy – many must have reveled in it. A friend from Chicago said that his daughters always cracked up over a sign pointing to the Grand Village of the Kickapoo.

Two puns in the same strip? What are the odds?

This man is nuts!

I suppose he was looking for a lonely head i.e. one that had nobody

I was at a Scout camp once where they had a one-holer. There were also some more-than-one holers, but they called this one “Lonesome George.” (Remember George Gobel, anyone?)

Oups, was I the only one who misunderstood and thought of “getting a head” as being the receipt-point of someone giving head?

He’s lost his head!