Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 25, 2014

Cute inquisition.

Somebody needs to Torquemada doing this!

Give him a dip in the fondue!

No one ever expects the Cheese Inquisition

I always knew Catholics were full of cheese! Hay, don’t give me crap, I used to be one, I escaped!!

Did Pig consider those who might be Lactose Intolerant? Years ago, I worked with a guy who forgot to ay “No Cheese, please!” when ordering a Burrito. Twenty minutes after lunch we had to have the Fire Department do a Haz-Mat evacuation. Some people just can’t handle their Cheddar!

The story arch is stupid.

His cheese is about to be creamed.

Yesterday, phlash said:“They don’t worship in a brick church, but rather at a roquefort”It’s a new religion, so until they can afford to build, they’ll meet in a cottage.

Will Snuffles come in to help with the cat-e-cheesm?

Pig seems to be turning into some sort of Munster.

Nobody expects the Swinish Inquisition

This is all wrong! In the last panel it should be “Didst thou…” Not “Did thou…” Pig had better let me take over the inquisition.

And change it to “indigestion”

I see Pig’s gone to the dark side. :-)

some cheeses are good. but, not those horrible french cheeses that smell like feet.

The poor blasphemer (probably ordered a plain hamburger!) has been turned over to the Cheesy Inquisition. Now, put him to the Test! Let him eat American on rye, or be grilled on toast!

Bring…the comfy cheddar!

I wasn’t expecting a sort of Spanish Inquisition…

Well, I waited for this one with baited breath.

Guard Duck will be perfect as an Inquisitor!

Ximinez: NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise…surprise and fear…fear and surprise…. Our two weapons are fear and surprise…and ruthless efficiency…. Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency…and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope…. Our four…no… Amongst our weapons…. Amongst our weaponry…are such elements as fear, surprise…. I’ll come in again.

Bring out the…..COMFY CHAIR!

I’m loving this story line! It’s doing a great job of showing how ridiculous the whole concept of religion is.

Worse than blaspheme……he cut the cheese…….

So, is Pig a Stinking Bishop?

Pig is probably the type who would use…the comfy chair!

It’s all floating down the river Rhine.

Come on, Pastis. You totally passed up an opportunity to call it the inQUESOtion.

Cheesus!

“Who am I to diss a brie”

And of course the best cheese is produced at a small dairy in the Palestinian West Bank: Cheeses of Nazareth.

Nobody expects the Spanish Quesailla!

Oh, what a friend we have in cheeses!/ Cheddar, Camembert and Brie…, And so when we’re watchin’ telly/A large tray is good to see!//What a friend we have in cheeses,/All our tastes and smells with hair!/What a privilege to carry/A big plate of cheese and pear!

I don’t normally eat cheese but when I do it’s either Dairylea which you spread or cheddar.

xxx

the" In-quesso-ision!"

This is like a cross between the Monty Python cheese sketch and the Spanish Inquisition sketch.

So, if the blasphemer dies, and it’s the church of cheese, will he be give the Last Ritz?

Do a pun thing on “Cheeses of Nazerith.” ???

Jameszee

Could future strips in this series please say “cheesequisition” on Pig’s lectern/podium/box ?

Shouldn’t the next to last line be

Long as I have my magnetic dairy ?

Almost as funny as Monty Python’s version… “NO-body expects the Sp—Oh BLEEP!”

Yay! This became a series.

Didn’t take long for this religion to end up like all the others.“Religious readers may object that the harm in all these cases is done by perversions of religion, not by religion itself. But religious wars and persecutions have been at the center of religious life throughout history. What has changed, that these now seem to some people in some parts of the world to be only perversions of true religious belief? Has there been a new supernatural revelation, or a discovery of lost sacred writings that put religious teachings in a new light? No—since the Enlightenment there has been instead a spread of rationality and humanitarianism that has in turn affected religious belief, leading to a wider spread of religious toleration. It is not that religion has improved our moral sense but that a purely secular improvement in our moral values has improved the way religion is practiced here and there.” Steven Weinberg, Facing Up

Waiting for the “I pray to cheesus” gag.

The pun-ters are in good form at the moment.

nobody expects the stilton inquisition!

NEVER BLASPHEME THE CHEESE OR FACE THE WRATH OF THE SITH EMPIRE!

This story arch is the best

Reminds me of the time my friends from camp did this exact thing. They created an entire religion based on cheese. They worshipped Cheesus Christ and Gouddah, the enlightened cheese wheel. It was strange.

I didn’t expect the Cheese Inquisition!