Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 16, 2014

I’m guessing he didn’t invent a scientific cure for baldness.

I was expecting a pun based on the tortured phrasing in the first panel.

I hope he was calling Sheldon Cooper.

Physic, i had that when I was a kid, and boy did I go…all over the house.

I wonder what Newton-John would mean if she was doing an education PDA when she sings ‘Lets get physic-al, Physic-al. I want to get Physic-al…’

:-D Good one, Dave.

To paraphrase Douglas Adams:He was even more startled when just after he was awarded the Nobel he was lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had realized that one thing they couldn’t stand was a smart-ass.

Yeah, Goat, just tell that, toLeonard and Sheldon, from the Big Bang Theory

Well why not? I would do the same!

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I have a physicist-friend whom I’d describe more as “innocent” or “naive.” But I’ll accept Goat’s view as another possibility….

I don’t think I can get tired of a strip with the opening line"Hey Physicist Phil!" Automatic funny for some reason.

One of my colleagues was co-winner of the 2004 Ig Nobel prize in Biology “for showing that herrings apparently communicate by farting.” (Wikipedia)

Is this trying to say something?

Why not? O’Bama got his Nobel Prize with much less worthy jibber-jabber. An extreme insult to all the more deserving prize-winneing induviduals of the past. Simply sad.