Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 25, 2015

Instagram would let you hit the jackpot, but Stephan couldn’t come up with a good Halloween pun for it (and neither could I).

Later they’ll be bobbing for apps.:BTW, Pig and Rat are in “Blondie” today.

Can neighbor Bob even recognize Lio as a ghost as seen in today’s “Lio”?

Only a birdbrain would say “Trick or Tweet.” I gather that was Rat (the smaller of the two) so….two birdbrains for the price of one.

Two things. First, Trick or Tweet sounds like baby talk (make it Twick or Tweet and it would both really sound like baby talk and it would sound like something Tweetie would say). Second, shouldn’t Rat have actually said Tweet or Treat to get the candy? Sounds more like he’s threating twice.

Hope I don’t hear ‘Trick or Tweet’ on Saturday…

Should of been the Crocs going to Zebra’s house! Thus one could do whatever one wanted to do with the words because those guys screw everything up !

Insta-Candy-Gram

It’s my considered opinion that Twitter is for the birds, not rats or pigs.

nothing like a good extortion…

And I used to own a big, black son of a bitch. No offense to anyone intended.

[Face-palm] I really should’ve seen that one coming …

Personally, I thought it was pretty clever.

Love it. Cute!

xxx

Today’s main point: not the pun (weak or not), but that “social media” are the key to extortion. Learn and prosper, grasshopper!

well they took away our outhouseand they put it right insidethey took away our bar of soapand put it in a bottlesince i can not tip the outhousenor write on windows anymorei’ll have to take a pictureof me dancing on your doorand when i instagram or tweet iti’ll be sure to have you frowncause Halloween is just big businessand the extortion gets me down

“trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat!”

Um, certainly everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but I’m puzzled by all the analysis going on about the comic today. I can’t say I gave a thought to it except to enjoy it and laugh!

I’m surprised you didn’t get censored for the B word despite the fact that you used the word in it’s proper sense rather than it’s derogatory slang for a woman usage.

Exactly. Rat’s using tweeting as a threat to get treats. Trick or Treat has often been called a form of extortion for candy, a “Give me some candy or I’ll prank you” kind of thing. Threaten with a trick played on the house while asking for a carrot (the candy) not to pull the trick. Trick or Tweet is just two threats.

I give up. Back in the day, Trick ‘er Treatin’ involved tipping of outhouses or worse property damage which resulted in word getting back to ‘treat-ees’ parents, which caused worse damage to us lil’ bastids and our behinds, thus moral lessons were learned, albeit the hard way by the light of a silvery moon, to boot. Try to get away with such antics today and 14 Jewish Lawyers would tie up the American Justice System for 18 years and the ‘Tricker’ would wind up sapping the ‘Trick-ees’ bank-account and leave him with just the ‘outhouse’ to live in after all’s said and done. Been there and survived. (barely) Rural Vermont was fun days in my pre-teens, but reality struck hard once we moved to civilization and indoor running water.

high up on the Groanability Richter scaleBrill though

One of Stephan’s better puns.

This ones clever