Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 12, 2015

So baaaad. ;-)

Stop wineing about the jokes.

Hay, don’t baather… you can even make Stephan feel sheepish.

I’m too ladylike to use “flock” in this comment, or I would tell you what he doesn’t give.

But hey, it’s a great song to have playing in my head late at night……..

I had just put my guitar down, and now I’ve got to go pick it up again. Got to play some CCR.

Sure enough, there are plenty of barbed comments.

Goat’s going to show him the grapes of wrath.

CDavies…. Copyright laws??Every so often this gets mentioned in this forum….

Consider: If mentioning published works broke copyright laws there could be no book or movie reviews.

And if purposely misspelling the titles, making bad (good) puns and even publishing outright parodies broke any copyright laws, there would be no Mad Magazine or Saturday Night Live.

And don’t worry about Stephan Pastis knowing what he can say…. he’s a media rights lawyer.

DING! DING! DING! DING!Winner, winner, mutton dinner!

“I herd it thru the grapevine” … And I’m just about to lose my mind!

This kind of pun lends a lot Creedence to Cartoon Boy’s abilities.

Suppose it could have been worse – he could take his sheep and get the flock out of there…

Satire is protected from copyright law.

If a sheep attacks “ewe”, does that make him a wooly bully?!?

I feel like this was a missed opportunity for someone to respond with “I’m about to lose my mind.” Like Rat menacing S with a baseball bat and saying it… ah well…

Love the puns, don’t care for them always complaining to Stephan in the last frame. Embrace the puns. Never apologize for the puns.

No “inspiration” from the recent court case? Now Pastis will be sued by Gaye’s estate too.

This joke was SHEAR nonsense !!!!!!!

I he(a)rd it through the grapevine, not much longer and you’ll be wine. Suffice it to say, the grapes were crushed when they heard that.

CCR?

This song was originally recorded by Smokey Robinson but made famous by Marvin Gaye. CCR was just one of several later bands which covered it later on.

Unfortunately, this one was so poor compared to his other recent endeavors, that it didn’t even elicit a smile. It’s just sad.

CCR, because I’m a guitar player. I’m aware of the song’s pedigree and history.

Gladys Knight and the Pips had a hit with it before Marvin did. CCR had a somewhat different audience. All were good versions. For some reason, I am now craving some raisins.

Next up – A sheep attacking farmer pig to the tune “I get a kick out of ewe”.

somebody already mentioned about just about losing his mind … we all know patsis has lost his long time ago and we are the better for it …

Probably just rammed them through.

I blame this all on you, Farmer Bob!

I can’t believe Cartoon Boy would rush in where Cholmondeley fears to tread; that could make ewe sick….

“How come” is not a word.

Stephan must have come up with this after giving in to Temptations and having a little Smokey.

In California we call that ‘Raisin Hell’.

anyone who doesn’t like the puns can go collect barbed wire

I don’t think Stephan is happy about this either. And the way we know that he isn’t Gladys, that you don’t hear a Pip out of him.

And yet the California Raisins get no credit!

Keep on, keeping on, Stephen. :)

Most folks liked Gaye’s version, but Gladys’ version was easier and much fun to dance to…especially the part where the horn section goes wild. Justabout, justabout, justabout to loose my mind… oh yes I am. Classic dance tune. Go Gladys. Luv u to Marvin.

Too funny!

Please don’t stop, Stephan!

xxx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcDGbaCsatQ

Oh, mercy, mercy me! Points!

If you aren’t too Thicke you don’t have to worry about Gayes.

Now that’s just not fair-el…

I know, right? Sometimes the line you mustn’t cross gets blurred…

Is it true that the ram jumped off the cliff when he heard“There’ll never be another ewe?”

I don’t think he gives a flock

I’m aware of the song’s history, but I’m a guitar player. Therefore, it’s only natural that I focus on the guitar oriented version.

What the flock?!

STOP THIEF!!!!

Rhymes With Orange used this punchline quite a while ago.

http://rhymeswithorange.com/comics/march-30-2014-2/

That set-up was spot on!

Okay, these bad pun strips are getting old…But what made it good would be the “ewe make me sick”.This time he was lucky that Rat wasn’t emptying gasoline on his desk (which happened in another “bad pun” strip a couple of years ago)