Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 05, 2014
Transcript:
Rat: Hey, Pig, where were you? Pig: Shopping for a warm jacket. I didn't want to buy anything with fur, 'cause that's cruel to animals like foxes and rabbits. And I didn't want to get leather. 'Cause I didn't want to hurt any cows. Rat: So what'd you get? Pig: Just a good ol' big puffy jacket. Rat: That's down. Pig: So? Goose: Screw you, fatty. Pig: Maybe I'll just knit a sweater.
Sherlock Watson about 10 years ago
The dangers of getting down.
Templo S.U.D. about 10 years ago
Goose could’ve also taken Pig’s jacket after pulverizing him.
Cameron1988 Premium Member about 10 years ago
LOL
rshive about 10 years ago
Save the baby polyesters!
blunebottle about 10 years ago
Pig skin’s pretty good jacket material……..
Sisyphos about 10 years ago
Cotton batting for stuffing, Pig. It’s the only way for a sensitive soul like you to go. It’s vegetarian clothing!
PICTO about 10 years ago
How about a silk purse to go with that jacket?
amyhre2001 about 10 years ago
Or you could make your clothes from hemp. That’s what the hippies keep telling me.
jreckard about 10 years ago
I thought you got down off an elephant.
OshkoshJohn about 10 years ago
Aaron Myhre, what you wrote about hemp is somewhat true. Hemp and corn lawn grass are relatives, and they need the same attention to grow. If hemp is not cultivated to be smoked, it can grow wild, planted in harvestable rows if you insist, and harvested much like lawnmower clippings. If suitably treated, hemp paper can last for thousands of years, just like tree-paper. The hippies are right on this one.
Sandfan about 10 years ago
PETA would probably recommend you make your coat out of the skin of hunters.
comeonbanana about 10 years ago
here comes the sheep…..
nosirrom about 10 years ago
They don’t kill the sheep and it grows back. It’s renewable and the sheep need a hair cut in the spring anyway.
puddlesplatt about 10 years ago
I like naked, and more fun to be had!
eddie6192 about 10 years ago
That duck just used the F-word.
mjb515 about 10 years ago
Don’t get on the bad side of waterfowl in the Pearls ’verse.
timtribbett about 10 years ago
A wool sweater?!
Packratjohn Premium Member about 10 years ago
How many acrylics had to die to make that sweater?
I have llamas, and their wool is great to work with. Not quite as soft and fine as alpaca, but still very usable. No oils, either, like sheep’s wool. They have to be sheared at least once a year in warmer climates, so why not put the wool to use!
A_NY_Outlaw about 10 years ago
I wonder how Guard Duck will feel about this…
susan.e.a.c about 10 years ago
Use animals and plants, or use polluting materials.
3pibgorn9 about 10 years ago
Knit a sweater and you’ll have the sheep after you.
Rush Strong Premium Member about 10 years ago
Knit a sweater, and get rammed by the donor.
FireThunder about 10 years ago
I think we’re burying the lede here… did Stephan get away with putting “screw you” in a non-ironic way in the funny pages?
Fan o’ Lio. about 10 years ago
Down, down we all go down’Round, ’round we all go ’roundDown, down we all go downWe all go down, down, down, down
water_moon about 10 years ago
At least the wool/ angora/ alpaca hair doesn’t mean killing the animal. .Though I did know a girl in college who saved her cat’s hair and had a friend of hers spin it then knited a sweater with the cat hair yarn. She said it was the ichest thing she’d ever worn.
RobinHood2013 about 10 years ago
I forget what strip it was, but this one reminds me of a comic strip where the shopper had to choose between paper and plastic, and the cashier discouraged both options. The shopper ended up having to carry her items to the car, saying, “I hate being politically correct.”
falcon_370f about 10 years ago
Over my dead “baaa”-dy
Number Three about 10 years ago
Poor Pig can’t do right for doing wrong!
xxx
Max Starman Jones about 10 years ago
Another banned word bites the dust.
mabrndt Premium Member about 10 years ago
I may be wrong; but, I think Shoe is the only Kings Features Syndicate comic currently shown by GC. You can find those here.
lmonteros about 10 years ago
Acrylic.
claire de la lune. about 10 years ago
I’m surprised Pastis was able to get the line in the sixth panel past the censors. Usually, it’d censor that word and read, “So @#$%& you, fatty.”But good strip.
Drewdove about 10 years ago
It looks like pig just got ducked up.
Boosted (Heavy main in TF2) about 7 years ago
Don’t, Pig! Think about sheep!
all.flesh.is.temporary over 4 years ago
sheep enters room
Die Barney about 4 years ago
THINK OF THE SHEEP!!!
LilPeruna over 3 years ago
Nobody noticed that, in panels 2 and 3, bacon-eating Pig is more considerate to OTHER animals than his own kind??
Snuffles [Previously Helikitty] over 2 years ago
Sweaters are made of wool.
Snuffles [Previously Helikitty] over 2 years ago
The downbeat.
alantain over 1 year ago
And leave a sheep running around naked?