Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 29, 2013

It’s pun small step for Phan, one punny leap for PhanKind!

What, Rat wasn’t available for comment?

Rat provided the form…

I hope you have a black belt in chai tea, Goat.

Oh, com’on. Why does everyone have to insult Pastis? I think he’s doing a great job of showing humanity to be the idiots that they are. More power to him.

Dear Cartoon-Boy: you have mispronounced child in a two-syllabled way that leads me to believe you are a Southerner or perhaps even a Texan. I suppose the Greek equivalent would be that you’re a dangerous raving Maniote!

It’s called a “zarf” so the “punchline” (for want of a better word) would be ‘No zarf left behind’ hashtag lame.

Cannot insult S.Pastis. Thank You for the book tour this year. I was at Houston stop, traveled from Nederland Tx a short 100 miles away. Robert L.

I can not pass tis up. You are awsome.

I laughed at this pun. Does that make me “weird” and “unique”?

I also love Pastis! His strip is one of my two favorites.

My god, whenever a commercial starts on my local Public Broadcasting Station it’ll always come up with what it’s sponsored by, including the NCLB Program

And all the kids will say “Chai tea teach, hi.”

They pay you for this?

my favorite pun ever!

Snort!

Stohhhp that…it’s getting silleh…

Stephan, Stephan, Stephan. It’s amazing the lengths you will go to to get out of working….

Good for Stephan! Very, very good for Stephan! I always liked him as an artist; now he’s my education hero, too. Keep the word coming, all you cartoonists: this is the most important statement you can make at this time.

Pastis lives for the comments… If he didn’t, he’d take a page out of Brooke McEldowney’s book and close the comments section. (which I still miss.)

If at first you don’t succeed, chai chai again!

May goat spill his tea on your pun hand Pastis! ;)

Keep doing what you’re doing, Stephan. The puns—and this strip in general—are great.

Ahhh, one more bad pun for 2013. Can only imagine what awaits in 2014!

Yeah, instead of testing kids to make sure they’re actually learning something, just let them watch “instructional” videos all day while their “teachers” play games on their phones.

“Chai! You know what? Uh uh!” – credit to Nicole Sullivan, MadTVStephan has done much better than this and I’m sure will again.I once challenged him in this comment section to come up with a legendary set-up and pun and he did, although I’m sure not in response to my comment(although I like to think it was).

It was recently reported that Hanes is recalling some of their underpants because, due to a defect in manufacturing, a lot of customers had been complaining about their left buttock getting cold in chilly weather. Hanes is calling this program No Chilled Left Behind.

Groan!!!!!!!!!!

Way GROAN!!!

Villagers and pitchforks come to mind. lol

No thank you. I’ve always enjoyed Stephan’s puns.

xxx

2/3 of a pun – P U

You don’t need to see our papers. These aren’t the droids you want. We can go about our business.

Goat’s right btw – any time spent testing is time not learning.

A bit obscure. It took me several minutes to figure this one out, but then again I’m not in USA so the “no child left behind” thing wasn’t that familiar.

oh – shoot me now!

I loved this pun…perhaps I was a child left behind…

How about: “Bat held high I do this for the children.”

Anyone smart enough to make fun of the “no child left behind” movement is not deserving of insults. Good job Stephan.

And just when I thought the punnishment bar couldn’t be lowered any further…

“Seriously,” though, Stephan… love your puns.

Some kids wish they were wdopted….Stephen’s parents wish he was

I wonder how many people clicked on the fill out panel…

Love your puns Pastis! Even look forward to them.

“Chai Tea” is a tautology. Chai means Tea.

Drop the box and you get investigated for “chai hold abuse”.

Any pun, no matter how bad, is always better than what it makes fun of.

I guess he’d be intending to make himself sound MORE pathetic, because he couldn’t think of something insulting for RAT or GOAT to say, so he just made his own fillout.

Go back to law school.

What if pig just ran off with the box. Would he be harboring a fugiteave

He obviously got left behind