Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 12, 2017

Lenny, just eat him.

I liked the art from this comic better in 2012. What do you think?

Yeah, that’s reaching just a bit, Stephan, since the verse is actually “Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.” Prov. 16:18

I thought lions lived at the MGM studios all year round.

What KAPUTNIK said describes me to a “T.” That may make me one of the great unwashed, but I’ll live with it. I liked the joke and the strip.

Lenny got Lippy… and Hardy Har Har!

I be Lyon and said it wasn’t.

this strip is not funny. Pastis, good bye.

A pride of lions? I’d rather have Pride of Charley!

Puns are the mane reason I read this strip.

Ah, lion puns.

Hey, Toon Boy – did you know there actually was a ventriloqiual act from the late 50’s onwards in the UK featuring a character named “Lenny the Lion”? I watched it as a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRslhdudAsU for one link to it.

(Given Stephan’s original profession, he can think about Lenny and his buddy, Copyright… )

The comic was funny, punny, and very cute! Lenny wasn’t necessarily ‘quoting’ the bible – that’s just how some took it.

The short version is recognized as a common idiom. One of the four on-line dictionaries I checked didn’t bother to reference the original, two others just said it was adapted from Proverbs.

double groan

Twice the pun, double the pain.

Say, “Praise Jesus” if you think all churches should pay all taxes.

But Lenny be a lion.

Final, I promise, and I know some are happy to hear that, comment on this from me. I think it’s ironic that there’s some annoyance here about the like/dislike attitude about puns… and about attention to original sources… and about whether something has the faintest whiff of connection to, HORRORS!, the Bible. Because the Bible is loaded with “pun like” plays on the sounds of various words. Positively loaded. One Hebrew Bible, aka “Old Testament” example… the name “Adam.” One New Testament occurrence, Jesus’s reference to Herod as a “fox.” No, I’m not going to go into a detailed explication of those. If you care, look them up yourself.

I think Pastis was lion down when he wrote this one. :-)

Lenny would also be Lion if he didn’t say that was funny.

One of the lamest, most forced puns I’ve seen here, and I ain’t lion!

Too Punny

By now, Lenny realizes there ain’t no way to hide those lion eyes.

I wouldn’t!

the lion is funnier

I like it when the pus don’t need a big, convoluted build-up.