Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 27, 2015

Next on the playlist: a biographical song about Hugh Hefner titled, “Hef, Hugh.”

a favorite tshirt of mine, life is a beech, with a picture of a tree

Henny Youngman: Take my life….please. (misspelling intentional.)

Racetrack announcer commenting on a racer having engine problems, saying the driver must be from Florida because he was saying something about sunny beaches when he went past the pits.

next, Detective Tracy meets Theodore Cleaver and the censor yet again tells Pastis “I am watching you”

Life’s a beach and then you get censored

Actually, I think he’d have a problem with a certain beach – a bilingual one where the angle of the sun (or as they call it there the “sol angle”) is particularly vexing, particularly when it visits him and his wife.

I loves the beaches..

I’m working on a book based on the premise that Jason from the Friday the 13th movies isn’t such a bad guy after all. I’m going to call it Voorhees: A Jolly Good Fellow.

Toon Boy’s really stretching it.

I love Long Beach

hope he didn’t invest in tidal.

Well I’ll be a son-of-a-beach…

What is that guy beaching about?

I have a coffee mug that says “Life’s a fish . . . then you fry”.

Those sorry sunny beaches.

Cartoon-Boy may find the heavy hand of the Comic Strip Censor doing more than just pointing at him if he isn’t careful with these puns!

Today’s Barney and Clyde

I’d really like the beach especially without all that sand and humidity.

Stephan is treading in dangerous water today ……☻

Maybe because it’s Monday morning, but I’ve reread this several times and I still don’t get it!!…..can someone help??

if life is a beachwhich beach is it?sunny and warmor foggy and cool?palm trees or mangroves?coral or sand?do you really have to die?or is that just a government cover up?i guess i’ll never knowsince i left californe- i – oand what about beech-nut gum?what kind of gum is that?is a beach towel usedfor a beach ball?or – oh never mind – i can see the finger pointing right now!

I too would like to know what punch line Pastis had in his head before the censor showed up.

“Dash it, this scab itches!” :-)

Comic Strip Censor! Been a while since we’ve seen him.

xxx

Another good laugh. Thanks, Stephan.

Loved this pun. You can keep posting the corny puns as well. But, &%$#$, stop with fourth wall $%&!!

I got a big laugh out of this one.

Comic Strip Censor Guy should have his own spin-off comic strip.

I got a great laugh out of this, but if it wasn’t for the fact that he referenced this song about a year ago or so, I wouldn’t have any idea what he’s talking about!

Didn’t he already do this pun already?

frank corona asked: Maybe because it’s Monday morning, but I’ve reread this several times and I still don’t get it!!…..can someone help??:Sherlock Watson explained:Jay-Z has a song called “99 Problems” in which he says, “I got 99 problems, but a b#tch ain’t one.”

I reply: Thanks to frank for asking (as I was totally baffled, too) and thanks to Sherlock for explaining (not being a Jay-Z fan, I’d have never figured it out.) :-)

Better than having a Donkey dressed up like a Clown. Assuming you know of another term for a Donkey…..

REPEAT JOKE HAHAHAAAA

I do not get the reference

I believe, although I’m not sure, that this MAY have been the first PBS strip I read in the newspaper.