Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 11, 2016
Transcript:
Pig: Hey, Rat, want to lay out in the sun with me? Rat: Nah. I don't like the sun here in our valley. It always gets covered by clouds. I much prefer it at the beach. Pig: Well, the beach sun might be better than the sun of our valley, but that mean lifeguard is there and I don't like him, so I'll take the sun here. Rat: But i like the sun of a beach Comic Strip Censor: STOP! Rat: What now? Pig: He probably hates the sun of a beach.
BE THIS GUY about 8 years ago
He just wants you to remember to put on your sunblock.
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.
bigcatbusiness about 8 years ago
Man, way to work on the double sense there. I don’t think the comic covers beaches.
Templo S.U.D. about 8 years ago
gee, Steph, you’re sneaky putting pseudo-vulgarity in your comics
AGED_ENGINEER Premium Member about 8 years ago
Rat should go to Florida. Lots of sunny beaches down there.
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.
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.
jaroc93 about 8 years ago
The beaches here in NC are quite arrogant
Bilan about 8 years ago
If he goes to the nude beach by Norfolk, he can see female Virginians.
juicebruce about 8 years ago
Sun of a beach bleached son……………
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.
AZPhinFan about 8 years ago
Stephen is watching old Jimmy Stewart movies again
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?”
eddie6192 about 8 years ago
Toon Boy was laying out in the sun too long.
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.
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.
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.
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.
tom about 8 years ago
The censor has you this time, Pastis. You have to admit you deserved it for THAT pun. :D
Chad Cheetah about 8 years ago
I don’t like the sun of a yard, either.
toahero about 8 years ago
These comics remind me of the 90s children’s cartoon Animaniacs.
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!
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.
Stocky One about 8 years ago
Yaaayyyy! The censor’s back!
dmostroff about 8 years ago
Clever, but running out of plot ideas?
markmoss1 about 8 years ago
In 1988, Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey starred in a film about two women. It was titled “Beaches”.
Packratjohn Premium Member about 8 years ago
The beach is nice, but I like the dam site better.
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.”
Lara Fabans Premium Member about 8 years ago
Dying laughing.
StarWarsGuy500 about 8 years ago
No Pig, I think the censor just hates Rat.
ChessPirate about 8 years ago
Never mind Pig, he’s just a bass turd…
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.
Number Three about 8 years ago
Yes. Life’s a beach!
(I couldn’t agree more with that saying)
xxx
PinkFudd about 8 years ago
No one has mentioned Tony Paroni yet.
Goliard Premium Member about 8 years ago
Ity is truly amazing how many people confuse ‘to lay’ with ‘to lie.’
Nietzsche about 8 years ago
! Laughed out loud – a rarity with the comics these days! – Thank you!!! :)
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!
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….
rgcviper about 8 years ago
Or as I like to say …
Son of a monkey!
Clever, though.