Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 14, 2015

Soon Steph will beUnder the seaIn an octopus’s gardenIn the shade.

Steph needs help. You know he needs someone.

No Rat, let it be.

He’s been you’re MATE? Two boys can’t be married!(I know, I know.)

I don’t know how Stephan gets away with this un-PUN-ished

I thought most people prefer ram or lamb, a dew, and a ding dong for desert.

He’ll be Flying Blue Jay Way

This is just A Day in the Life for Stephan, another Hard Day’s Night of trying to come up with a new pun Eight Days A Week. Every Little Thing he does is another attempt at Fixing A Hole in his Magical Mystery Tour of humour. So often it’s a Long And Winding Road from the setup to the punchline, but There’s A Place for this kind of humour. So How Come Stehpan does it? For the Money (That’s What [He] Wants). When Rat says: “I Don’t Want To See You Again”, it’s time to tell him to Run For Your Life and he’d better hope that Rat doesn’t learn that Happiness Is A Warm Gun. Sometimes, Stephan’s puns make me Glad All Over, but other time it’s All Too Much for me to take. Maybe he shoulda been a Paperback Writer instead. At this point, looks like he’ll be Free As A Bird.

Oh- and Stephan? Don’t Ever Change.

They need to get Pastis caught in a Revolvering door.

When the Beatles went to India back in the sixties to study meditation. They were accompanied by several other people, including Mia Farrow’s sister. Farrow became so committed to meditation, that she locked herself in her room for three weeks. So the Beatles stood outside of her door and sang:Dear Prudence, won’t you come out to play?

(Holding two crossed sticks….) No, Cartoon-Boy, no! Get Back! Go home!

Sorry, they can’t be pushed, earplugs are your only solution, and eventually they go away.

“I’ll always be true.So Plee-e-e-eeze.Love Me Do.”

LOL

…BRING him here. BRING him here.

And yet another British invasion ! #9 #9 #9 #9 #9

Steph did ask for it by walking Rat up to the punch-line that way, and then executing the wordplay.

Good day, punshine.

The Fool on the Hill. Why do I see Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid when looking at the last panel? “I can’t swim.”“What do you mean you can’t swim?”“He(ck), the fall alone will kill you.”“HHHHOOOOOORRRRRRRSSSSSEEEESSS…………..!”

This is great. Thanks to Pastis and the comments writers.

Pastis after he falls will be Here, There and Everywhere…

consider me fancy tickled

Bang, bang Maxwell’s silver hammer came down upon his head, bang, bang Maxwell’s silver hammer made sure that he was dead!

Next strip should be Rat getting angry because the neighbor, Thomas Morrow, does not take good care of his front lawn. He lets the grass grow and grow until it looks like a jungle. Because after all Tom Morrow never mows.

You have to hand it to Pastis. He doesn’t Beatle around the bush when he makes his puns.

Pasties probably wishes it was Yesterday.

I knew, I knew, and yet… i kept reading. GAH!

Patsis should be thankful that Rat’s punchline wasn’t “Happiness Is a Warm Gun.”

Lol!!!!!!! I didn’t see that coming!

another punny day at the office. go stefan!

It would be interesting to have a conversation wiith Pastis. I would come out with all Puns blazing!

I’m from England too (North East) and I found this strip hilarious.

And I love that song as well.

xxx

Thanks to Pastis an all the comments, I’ll have Beatles songs in my head the whole week now. Great!!

I like this one.

Don’t that beat all…

In panel two, “Pal from England” should be saying that they’d been mates since they were young kids.

i look at all the lonely peoplei look at all the lonely people-all the lonely people, where do they all come fromall the lonely people, where do they all belong?

Pun-ishment.

Horrible!Do it again!

Loved it !!

Number 9… Number 9… Number 9… Number 9…

Ironically, today is the Golden Anniversary of Yesterday being recorded at EMI Studios, London. source: Wikipedia

In the last panel Stephan became The fool of the Cliff

Last Friday, I came late to a milonga (Argentine Tango) and I heard “She’s Leaving Home” on the staircase. When I got to the third floor there was no one but the DJ in the alternative room. I went into the regular room, changed my shoes and signaled a friend follower to come with me. The song was ending (“bye, bye…”) when I got there, so I asked the D.J. if he’d play the song again. He replied but I didn’t hear him. The woman follower I’d brought in said “He asked if you want to hear the whole tanda.”. “Yes! I do; yes!” And he played “Two of Us”, “I, Me, Mine”, and “She’s Leaving Home”. I’d wanted to dance tango to the Beatles for nearly a decade, I’d have never picked those songs, and it was fantastic dancing to music I knew so intimately and for most of my life. It was the highlight of the year for me.

Mrs. Smothers always liked Pete Best.

Every time I think Patsis can’t possibly come up with a worse pun, he outdoes himself. Today’s is particularly lame. (Not that I would have it any other way)

Very good, except that in England we pronounce dew as “d’you” not “do”.