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Pig: Hey, Goat. Want to go to the farmers market with us?
Goat: Yeah. I love farmers markets. What are they selling?
Pig: Farmers.
Rat: What else would they sell at a farmers market?
Goat: I hate this comic strip.
Pig: Gimme the fat one with the pitchfork.
BE THIS GUY over 8 years ago
Not the fat one, he’ll eat all the profits!
Sherlock Watson over 8 years ago
So what can I get at a sex shop?
Packratjohn Premium Member over 8 years ago
I’m the same way about garage sales…
Templo S.U.D. over 8 years ago
Imagine these zany zoo critters going to a flea market.
Kali39 over 8 years ago
Zaphod: Will you please tell us where you are?Marvin the Paranoid Android: I’m in the car park.Zaphod: What are you doing in the car park?Marvin: Parking cars. What else does one do in a car park?Zaphod: Okay! Okay! Hey, Marvin’s down in the car park!Arthur: What is he doing in the car park?Zaphod: Parking cars, what else, dumdum! .— Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 8 years ago
PackratJohn….Yeah, I was going to say they need to find a garage sale, so they can buy someplace to keep their farmers.
dadoctah over 8 years ago
Every time I pass a sign that says “Yard Sale”, I want to walk up and say “I’d like a yard of this, and a couple of yards of that”.
blunebottle over 8 years ago
By the way, speaking of movies (as we were over the last few days), I always watch the credits. Some of them are well worth it, like the end credits to Mel Brooks movie: “To Be Or Not To Be”.
Kristiaan over 8 years ago
Next up: a flea market.
Snoopy_Fan over 8 years ago
Don’t go to the Baby Sale!
Bilan over 8 years ago
I would think that a farmers market sells produce. But most of them just sell prepared food and other stuff.
Sisyphos over 8 years ago
Rat and Goat are both in full character, while Pig is On the Fringe, being Pig as only he can. And, while I sympathize with Goat (hear me roar, Cartoon-Boy!), I have to admit that Rat’s logic is impeccable….
Egrayjames over 8 years ago
I never did understand the SLOW CHILDREN sign on the street in front of my house when I was growing up.
Egrayjames over 8 years ago
Revised: I never did understand the SLOW CHILDREN sign on the street in front of my house when I was growing up…..still don’t.
Chad Cheetah over 8 years ago
It’s saying cars need to be slow, so they don’t hit children.
Chad Cheetah over 8 years ago
Don’t buy McDonald…he’s too old.
Lucid Premium Member over 8 years ago
They look like the “Stepford Farmers.”
Cameron1988 Premium Member over 8 years ago
aw, but Goat then you wouldn’t exist
StCleve72 over 8 years ago
The strip and resulting comments were really apropos today: Corny!
prunes666 over 8 years ago
May I suggest that the Pearls cast look here here, first ? http://www.gocomics.com/us-acres
Laynegg over 8 years ago
So why would pig want the one with the pitch fork…..uh oh better run Stephan!
David Rickard Premium Member over 8 years ago
I only buy Amish at the farmer’s market… they never complain about the unheated doghouse I stick them in.
(I’ll be leaving now…)
Sherlock Watson over 8 years ago
I hope Pig remembers to buy some farmers’ insurance.
Vonne Anton over 8 years ago
When we see a YARD SALE sign, we immediately start discussing where we could put that yard if we could afford it.
SLOW CHILDREN must embarrass those, poor, slow children.
ED CANTWELL over 8 years ago
I arrived at a garage sale with a crane and a flatbed semi and all they wanted to sell were old dishes and kiddy clothes. Sheesh! Ya can’t believe what ya read nowadays.
Albertaguy over 8 years ago
I do get the joke and I do find it funny, but it does illustrate urban bias and ignorance. Very few farmers wear straw hat and bib overalls. And close to half of all farmers are women.
nerdhoof over 8 years ago
Watch those apostrophes. If you want to buy fresh vegetables, go to a farmer’s market.
Alphaomega over 8 years ago
@Albertaguy. You do realize we’re dealing with a mostlyAmerican audience here don’t you?
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 8 years ago
Alpha omega… Not sure what that’s supposed to mean…But you and Alberta guy do know this is a comic strip, right? American farmers don’t all wear bib overalls… Prisoners don’t wear black and white striped pajamas.Lady animals don’t always wear bows in their hair… or towering wigs like Larry’s wife, Patty.
But all those conventions are old fashioned comic strip character identifiers, not meant to portray any sort of reality… designed to provoke a chuckle, not social analysis… In fact, Pastis lives in the same N CA city I do, in a very agricultural area… surrounded by dairies, vineyards, and small farms and ranches.You can find me standing at a farmer’s market one night a week in summer, helping sell fresh vegetables. We have tons of real, working farmers …
I suppose that’s why we can sell them off like that.
Number Three over 8 years ago
Is one of the farmers Old McDonald by any chance?xxx
Stocky One over 8 years ago
Reminds me of the time I bought a metre stick. Turns out it was about 3 inches short. I guess that’s ’cause i bought at a yard sale!
Godfrey's sugar daddy 69 over 8 years ago
Oh ma gosh terrible pun doe
Duke of Omnium over 8 years ago
If they sell shoes at a shoe store, and toys at a toy store, what exactly do they sell at a Christian store?
Alphaomega over 8 years ago
@SusanSunshine. It was a good natured jab but I stand corrected anyway.I always enjoy your comments by the way.
Ginny Premium Member over 8 years ago
I swear – this is the only strip that makes me howl out loud!
Jim Kerner over 8 years ago
Very punny. Very punny.
Solaricious Premium Member over 8 years ago
If this is a veiled criticism that Lynda Hopkins is bought and paid for by development interests, you’re much more sophisticated than I thought…
DragonNerd almost 4 years ago
Avoid flea markets
ebrooks 11 days ago
They sell pigs & goats.