Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 02, 2013

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    Sherlock Watson  about 11 years ago

    Emergency! Call Dr. Scholl!:I actually like this version better than the original, where she whips the children before sending them to bed hungry.

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    margueritem  about 11 years ago

    Especially in Rat’s world…

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 11 years ago

    I remember back in Boy Scout camp a fellow trooper did Arnold Schwatzenegger parodies of Mother Goose like “little boy blue… up” or “Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Jack jumped over the dynamite stick. He wasn’t quick enough because he blew up.”

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

    So she gave them all broth without any bread,And whipped them all soundly and sent them to bed.

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    einarbt  about 11 years ago

    What rhyme will it be next?

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    Linda1259  about 11 years ago

    For a present day update on Jack, read “The Barn” strip for today!!!

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    kamb8  about 11 years ago

    I’d like to see if Cartoon Boy can do one of these with fairy tale that is darker than the original. Like Bruno Z pointed out, fairy tales are quite gruesome!

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    punmeister  about 11 years ago

    The man’s name was Ed Sullivan. He had a really big shoe.

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member about 11 years ago

    His family may be through…. but the children will always be underfoot.

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member about 11 years ago

    This is going to be part of

    “That Mother, Rat’s Big Book of Nursery Chrymes,”
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    doublepaw  about 11 years ago

    He really was a heel to his family.

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    vwdualnomand  about 11 years ago

    way some houses architecture, a shoe might be built. also, how does she pass the zoning board and the dreaded homeowner’s association.

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    JudyAz  about 11 years ago

    Aww, Rat, put a sock in it!

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    featherweight  about 11 years ago

    It’s about time they got an update

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    me  about 11 years ago

    They were gruesome because they were Christian analogies in a time when people believed in Satan and didn’t cringe from “earthiness.”

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    hariseldon59  about 11 years ago

    Old mother Hubbard went to the cupboard, to get her poor dog a bone. When she got there the cupboard was bare.So the dog ate her.

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    LuvThemPluggers  about 11 years ago

    The real question is, "Where did an OLD woman get all these kids? Somebody call CPS!

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    tengu99  about 11 years ago

    Sweet, I was hoping he would do more of these.

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    samsofe  about 11 years ago

    Yaaay!

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    Number Three  about 11 years ago

    I used to love that Nursery Rhyme!

    Until Rat ruined it.

    LOL xxx

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    dzw3030  about 11 years ago

    I’m surprised no one mentioned the Marine Corps nursery rhymes. Not quotable in a family venue but funny, mostly.

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    Sisyphos  about 11 years ago

    Harsh, Rat, harsh! But entirely fitting in the context of fairy tales as admonitory….

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    Enoki  about 11 years ago

    Next up: Rat does story book version of fairy tales as told by Andrew Dice Clay….

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member about 11 years ago

    Punmeister …

    I think that, unfortunately, their little soles have already been booted through that Heavenly Arch….

    Their earthly lives didn’t last…but they have gone to a better lace.

    At first their father, realising his misstep, was inconsolable, but as soon as Taps was played, he tied one on (there’s a special counter just for heels like him!) …5then he got his podiatrist to prescribe some uppers, And now, he’s already looking for another little woman to give him some support.

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member about 11 years ago

    Thanks, Punmeister. Yours were clever too.

    Um….Pretty please… I’m not “Susie”.

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    arcticdingo  about 11 years ago

    …and then there was Andrew Dice Clay…..I can no longer listen to nursery rhymes !!

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    orinoco womble  about 11 years ago

    Given how Spock’s kids turned out, not even him…

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    barister  about 11 years ago

    Way too C. Dickens for me.

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    glowing-steak32  over 7 years ago

    Smelly houses.

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