Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 30, 2013

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    Sherlock Watson  over 11 years ago

    I don’t think you’ve quite got a hold of it, Pig.

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    Trilobyte Premium Member over 11 years ago

    The breast puns I heard all day. Somethings missing though…

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    margueritem  over 11 years ago

    Pig, Pig, Pig…

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 11 years ago

    Pig, you asked about Nancy’s health. Also, it’s rude to inter-… (Pig) c’mon, let’s go sailing!

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

    A woman was seen at a cancer treatment center wearing a T-shirt that said: “These are fake. The real ones tried to kill me.” Some people cope by using dark humor.

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    jnik23260  over 11 years ago

    She might want to go sailing.

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    Sisyphos  over 11 years ago

    Contrary to popular inference, I have it on good authority that Pig has not had a brainectomy. He’s just…(well, he himself said it recently)…dumb. And gauche.

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    edclectic  over 11 years ago

    At best, Pig’s brain is at half mast.

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    jmartin1955  over 11 years ago

    Oh I can see you getting hate mail for this one, still funny as hell.

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    doublepaw  over 11 years ago

    After having two feet of my colon removed due to cancer, my oldest daughter gave me a t-shirt with a large semi-colon on it.

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    fourwaysunshine  over 11 years ago

    beyond the pale, been reading this strip for years and I just don’t find this funny

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    ckeller  over 11 years ago

    Sure, you can go sailing with a woman after she’s had a mastectomy. You just can’t go motorboating with her.

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    SwimsWithSharks  over 11 years ago

    Stephan, Brad Pitt called and he wants to take you sailing.

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    EarlOfCork  over 11 years ago

    I used to participate in the Komen Foundations “Race For The Cure” every year. They always have prizes for things like best t-shirts, largest team, and most creative team names. My favorite was a local church team named “Bethesda Baptist Babes for Better Boobs.”

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    CartoonServices.Com  over 11 years ago

    “What not keel you make you stronger!”

    Larry

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    Carl Rennhack Premium Member over 11 years ago

    When it comes to sailing, Pig does not have both oars in the water!

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    FearlessFreep  over 11 years ago

    Pig stepped on the poop deck.

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    ChessPirate  over 11 years ago

    Pig reminds me of a lady at work, who was really very nice, but quite often would completely miss the point in conversations. Once, after I had said something really silly, she said “You’re crazy!” I said “I am not! All my doctors say I’m completely cured!” She then says, in all seriousness “Oh, I’m so glad!”

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    aprilsphere  over 11 years ago

    Ohhhhh pig…Your daughter is neat-o doublepaw!

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    Strod  over 11 years ago

    Sorry to be the grumpy literalist, but she did have a “mast” removed since the mast in mastectomy comes from mastos, the Greek word for breast.

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    Thehag  over 11 years ago

    Beezel, Doublepaw, Briatolla,

    All very funny! Thanks for the humor.
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    TLH1310 Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Reminds me of when my Father was ‘terminal’ and the nurse rationed his morphine IV. My Mother asked ‘Why ration it, are you afraid he’ll get hooked on it’

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    SkyFisher  over 11 years ago

    I remember the book “Peter and the Starcatchers” where Captain Hook had a special sail sewn that he called “The Ladies”. When hoisted, it looked like the corset of a giant, well endowed woman was attached to the mast. This “children’s” book came complete with an illustration.

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    SkyFisher  over 11 years ago

    I forget why, but Hook was forced to cut his special sail loose from the mast.I guess that was a mastectomy of a different kind.

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    Number Three  over 11 years ago

    Another example Pig’s dumbness.

    I feel sorry for any woman who has to go through that. They should turn up to every appointment.

    xxx

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    Lamberger  over 11 years ago

    If your breast offends you, cut it off.

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    Popeyesforearm  over 11 years ago

    Tread lightly Pastis. You’re dealing with a sensitive subject and just because you have some silly characters to deliver your lines it’s still not cool when so many suffer from cancer or have lost loved ones. My dad and sister in 1 year was bitch.

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    rhonda Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Cute. A good laugh for those who need one and a subtle way to start the conversation for those who may not know.

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    canusmajor  over 11 years ago

    SAD HUMOR, EVEN FOR PASTIS

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    BillWa  over 11 years ago

    Contrary to the rest, I have to go with Pig here. Until I was old enough to know what the word,, meant, which was around ten, I thought it was the removal of a ship’s mast.

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    ChristineV  over 11 years ago

    love this strip but this is in poor taste……

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    evilstepqueen  over 11 years ago

    Oh that Pig, what a boob!

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    jbmlaw01  over 11 years ago

    Edgy, smart humor. Does not demean, but it is dark humor.

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    Fontessa  over 11 years ago

    Humor is subjective. I’ve had a double mastectomy and I think it’s funny.

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    ChrisPerridas  over 11 years ago

    Many of your fans liked this and enjoyed it. That’s great. I found it distasteful, and decidedly “unfunny”, and I thought about why it seemed to clunk. I am sure it is difficult to produce this strip everyday, and I am amazed at how consistently funny and professional it is. However, “mast” is not overly funny, and the connection to sailboats does not seem natural. A funnier “pig pun” would be “masking tape” or “masking tape me”, as in Goat explaining to Pig about a friend, pig misunderstanding as usual, and then ending with a funny but shocked expression on Pig’s face in the last panel as Goat has whispered what “mastectomy” is. This would arguably be funnier, and give parents a chance to explain this to children. Just one opinion.

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    chicogrande  over 11 years ago

    Pastis! You made a sizable donation to a breast cancer charity to redeem yourself, right!?

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