Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 18, 2016

I thought Missouri loved Kansas.

Hey, wait just a Mo there!Rat can’t just state that….

Haha! Misery loves company! Geddit?

Like the wall. It’s very stately.

What? Wait! I thought we were going to hear about some dumb law that they were trying to pass.

I like it better than “The Show Me State.” It would look good on their license plates….Of course if this was really true they would have done what it takes to keep the Rams in St. Louis.

Sorry, Rat; not only do people want Stephan’s company, they are willing to pay for it [see link at right]. You, on the other hand, could probably make a good living by having people pay for you to stay away.

That’s all there is .. there is no MO

Pig is almost always in the State of Euphoria, Larry is almost always in the State of Confusion, & Rat is almost always in the State of Denial!!

BTW, “Denial” is not de river in de country of Egypt!

As a Kansas Jayhawks fan, I approve of this strip!

Rat is saying that puns make him feel ill and annoyed.

Banana fanna fo Misery,fi fie fo fisouri

the rams are leaving and moving back to la.

If Texas saw what Arkansas, then what did Tennessee?

Sorry, Steph, you didn’t create an actual pun. “Missouri Loves Company” was a real tourism ad campaign a few years ago.

Did anyone notice that one of the stones in the wall is somewhat Missouri-shaped?

Believe it or not, today’s strip is translated word for word in Spanish. “Miseria” is a word in Spanish (poverty or squalor) so the phonetics work. I don’t know how intelligible the idiom is, though.

Good one! Didn’t see that one coming. But will someone now want to put you out of Missouri?

And who in their right mind would want your company either, Rat?

xxx

But do companies love Missouri?

sorry, but this one was pretty weak compared to Stephen’s normal level of quality (or lack thereof, according to rat)

groan….

this was so bad thatt I didn’t even “get it” till the day afterwards !!!!

As someone who lives in and was born and raised in Missouri I should tell you, whatever the legislature is considering is probably a terrible idea. Seriously without going really deep into the south like Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana you could not find a more idiotic, backwards, and inbred wastes of human potential. The Missouri Legislature is a disgrace to civilized people and nations everywhere.

Missouri loves misery.

I’m from Missouri, we can only get better if the Rams leave and St. Louis sinks into the Mississippi River.

How is it possible that I have been going to random strips and after 15 strips saw this one for the second time?