Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 27, 2016
Transcript:
Henry Hippo checked his texts. There were none. So he checked Facebook. And his fantasy league. And Snapchat. And Twitter. And checked his texts again. And there was one. From Elly Elephants. Are we still on a date? Elly Elephant vowed to never again date in the smartphone era.
BE THIS GUY over 8 years ago
I hope Henry has figured out why he’s sleeping alone tonight..Happy Easter(Stephan will celebrate on May 1.)
Sherlock Watson over 8 years ago
Antisocial media.
Templo S.U.D. over 8 years ago
Imagine the kids Henry & Ellen would have together.
eddie6192 over 8 years ago
Henry was not Ellie’s type.
edsfam over 8 years ago
Looks like Arial but she should have used Ellie Font.
Chad Cheetah over 8 years ago
Ellie the Easter Elephant
mail2jbl over 8 years ago
Your first problem, Elly, is that you’re dating a hippo. Aren’t there any elephants for you to date? That’s a bigger issue than social media.
nosirrom over 8 years ago
Elly was hoping for some facetime from Henry.
Packratjohn Premium Member over 8 years ago
My pet peeve is TVs in restaurants. The eye is naturally drawn to motion, and having six monitors mounted around the room is a sure way not to pay attention to the person you’re with. I catch myself looking at one or the other, when I really would rather look at my date. I don’t include sports bars in this diatribe. They serve a different purpose.
markjoseph125 over 8 years ago
Compare today’s Rudy Park.
azktryg over 8 years ago
Passover this year begins this year on Friday evening April 22, civil calendar. The reason for the gap this year are due to the individual attributes of the Gregorian and Jewish calendars.
A_NY_Outlaw over 8 years ago
what a love story. brings a tear to my eye.
zeexenon over 8 years ago
The beautiful couple ask, “Why are all those Southern Baptists staring at us.”
dre7861 over 8 years ago
That’s great. Reminds me of one day when I was riding Metro and I noticed this very good-looking young couple in the seats across from mine. Both were heavily engrossed with their smartphones. As I watched, I saw the guy chuckle to himself, obviously from reading something funny. Afterwards he he quickly typed something and hit send. Less than 5 seconds later the girl giggled, again obviously from something she had just read. Me I just wanted to go over and slap the stupid out of them but figure to be effective I would have to hit them so much I would break my hand.
Eric S over 8 years ago
and Ellie elephant died an old maid.
mattro65 over 8 years ago
I see people like that and I think, “Is that device your servant or your master?”
Number Three over 8 years ago
Glad I’m single.
xxx
Sisyphos over 8 years ago
Social media on mobile platforms, the Drug of Choice for way too many Americans (true also in some other places, too, but I’ll focus on my own lot). Henry wasn’t worth Elly’s time anyway, as he soon found out. And she never forgot, either. Unfortunately, her vow left her without much dating for a very long time….
CrayCray over 8 years ago
What about Instagram?! :(
Luffy over 3 years ago
Wow. For the first time elly didn’t kill someone