Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 11, 2016

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    BE THIS GUY  about 8 years ago

    He just wants you to remember to put on your sunblock.

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    Sherlock Watson  about 8 years ago

    I like to go to that beach when women go there who have adopted hunting birds, which they bring along. I really enjoy that mother-falcon beach scene.

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    bigcatbusiness  about 8 years ago

    Man, way to work on the double sense there. I don’t think the comic covers beaches.

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 8 years ago

    gee, Steph, you’re sneaky putting pseudo-vulgarity in your comics

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    AGED_ENGINEER Premium Member about 8 years ago

    Rat should go to Florida. Lots of sunny beaches down there.

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    asianwoof  about 8 years ago

    PSA: In the winter, you can find gold jewelry with a metal detector and some digging; we call it the gold digging cold beach.

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    pearlsbs  about 8 years ago

    The Spanish version is a totally different comic today because the joke doesn’t work in Spanish.If you want to go look at the Spanish version here is the translation:Panel 1Pig – What are you doing Rat?Rat – I became a map cartographer.Panel 2 Pig – What are all of those dots?Rat – That’s where all of the stupid people are.Panel 3Pig – That’s a lot of dots.Rat – I almost ran out of pens.

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    jaroc93  about 8 years ago

    The beaches here in NC are quite arrogant

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    Bilan  about 8 years ago

    If he goes to the nude beach by Norfolk, he can see female Virginians.

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    juicebruce  about 8 years ago

    Sun of a beach bleached son……………

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    Kind&Kinder  about 8 years ago

    I met a woman who loved some sun of a beach, but when I asked her out, she told me to eat shiitakes and die.

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    AZPhinFan  about 8 years ago

    Stephen is watching old Jimmy Stewart movies again

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    Emmett Wayne  about 8 years ago

    Anybody remember the beginning of the movie Stripes, where Harold Ramis is teaching English as a second language, and all his students can say are, “Sun of Beach, Sheet?”

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    eddie6192  about 8 years ago

    Toon Boy was laying out in the sun too long.

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    NeedaChuckle Premium Member about 8 years ago

    After WWII a woman immigrated from France and asked her friends where to find Mrs. Beech. Mrs. Beech, which Mrs. Beech. The one who had so many sons during the war.

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    Partyalldatyme  about 8 years ago

    I was on a guided tour of Malaga, Spain. The guide said, “Malaga is famous for its b!tches. We have many beautiful b!tches in Malaga. Our b!tches are very popular. People come from all over to lie on our b!tches.” His English was much better than my Spanish, so I didn’t have the heart to correct him.

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    Kaputnik  about 8 years ago

    I noticed censor guy rushing in before I’d actually read the comic, and before I’d read the whole thing, thought it was going to be something about sticking it where the sun don’t shine.

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    Malcolm Hall  about 8 years ago

    I just learned that beech trees can have children. A beech can have a daughter — or for that matter, a son.

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    tom  about 8 years ago

    The censor has you this time, Pastis. You have to admit you deserved it for THAT pun. :D

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    Chad Cheetah  about 8 years ago

    I don’t like the sun of a yard, either.

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    toahero  about 8 years ago

    These comics remind me of the 90s children’s cartoon Animaniacs.

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    avmanh  about 8 years ago

    This is a very old pun. I heard it way back in the 1970’s at a rodeo when the rider cursed his bull (which could not be heard by the audience). The announcer said that the rider was mumbling something about the sun of the beach.Nothing new here. It’s actually the first time Stephan left me completely unimpressed!

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    David Rickard Premium Member about 8 years ago

    Pig: I hit a pedestrian yesterday, but I think he was a tourist.Rat: Why?Pig: As I drove away, he was muttering something about sunny beaches.

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    Stocky One  about 8 years ago

    Yaaayyyy! The censor’s back!

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    dmostroff  about 8 years ago

    Clever, but running out of plot ideas?

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    markmoss1  about 8 years ago

    In 1988, Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey starred in a film about two women. It was titled “Beaches”.

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    Packratjohn Premium Member about 8 years ago

    The beach is nice, but I like the dam site better.

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    hablano  about 8 years ago

    While recently lost in Mexico… “We must be near the ocean, dear.” “Why do you say that?” “That group of people you nearly ran over was shouting something about sunny beaches.”

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    Lara Fabans Premium Member about 8 years ago

    Dying laughing.

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    StarWarsGuy500  about 8 years ago

    No Pig, I think the censor just hates Rat.

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    ChessPirate  about 8 years ago

    Never mind Pig, he’s just a bass turd…

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    Jeff0811  about 8 years ago

    We used to have a Spanish teacher in high school, her name was Mrs. Beach. What with accents and all, we had a good time with her name. The thing of it was she laughed right along with us, she was a sweet lady, not a beach at all.

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    Number Three  about 8 years ago

    Yes. Life’s a beach!

    (I couldn’t agree more with that saying)

    xxx

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    PinkFudd  about 8 years ago

    No one has mentioned Tony Paroni yet.

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    Goliard Premium Member about 8 years ago

    Ity is truly amazing how many people confuse ‘to lay’ with ‘to lie.’

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    Nietzsche  about 8 years ago

    ! Laughed out loud – a rarity with the comics these days! – Thank you!!! :)

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    retiredenglishteacher  about 8 years ago

    Pig might be corrected to say, “want to LIE out in the sun with me?” I think there might be a whole comic strip on ‘lay, laid, laid’ and ‘lie, lay, lain.’ Good going!

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    Sisyphos  about 8 years ago

    Sorry I’m late, Comic Strip Censor-guy. I got hung up on the grammatical error in panel 1 (one lies, not “lays,” out in the sun). But maybe Cartoon-Boy was going for the colloquial effect….

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    rgcviper  about 8 years ago

    Or as I like to say …

    Son of a monkey!

    Clever, though.

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