Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 10, 2017

Mr. Couch met a much younger loveseat in his new home and lived happily ever after.

My alternative ending.

Myrtle had no right to complain; she knew George was a La-Z-Boy when she married him.

Blue couches are from Mars, Pink couches are from Venus.

This doesn’t actually work. Put a sign that says “free” on anything and leave it on the sidewalk and people will avoid it for months (thinking there’s something seriously wrong with it; like for a couch maybe it’s infested with fleas). Put a sign that says “$5, inquire within” and it’ll vanish in thirty seconds.

Pastis write better than Rat.

The tenant in my house put a weight bench on the side of the house. His intention was to throw it out. Something that makes it easier to climb through a window is an invitation to a break in.

I put it out front. It was gone within 2 hour so (it wasn’t garbage pickup day).

Moral of the Story: Always couch your responses carefully, Couch.

Mr. and Mrs. Couch both look like whales

Sofa the people who don’t get it, let me couch the moral of this tale in wording you can understand…George is free to lounge around all he wants.

I hope this story isn’t set in Morgantown, West Virginia. Mr. Couch will come to an inglorious end.

Sofa so good for Mrs. Couch.

I would never bring home a couch I found on the sidewalk, free or otherwise. No telling what kind of bugs I’d be bringing into the house with it. I don’t need that problem.

Us folks from Davenport, Iowa don’t get it.

I hope those guys find thousands of dollars in one of the cushions. I’m sure they would report it to the IRS. Is that a capital gain, yes, but you get to deduct the loss of the cushion divided by two. See how simple that is?Well even better, I’m going to invest what’s left in a pipeline company. Winning!

I sell on craigslist. Sometimes I list free items. I’m amazed at how many folks ask me to deliver the free items….

Joke’s on her. The remote was stuck between his cushions.

Mr. Couch went couch surfing.

Not getting the joke today. What am I missing?

I love it how, for Rat, writing is second only to coal mining as a dirty profession.

at least there was no potato involved.

We had a chesterfield like that once.

Well. He did get what he wished for.

Sort of.

xxx

I have only one question: When they fight, where does he sleep at night?

Yay Myrtle is free!

In the last panel, I can’t believe Rat didn’t say “It’s a couchionary tale…”

I know a George Couch. Our club tossed him out, but it turned out he was the only one with a strong enough personality to keep the thing running, so it folded.

Was that a folding couch joke?

A couch gag. Pastis must be a Simpsons fan.

George Couch needs to learn the difference between “lie” and “lay” if he wants to be taken seriously.

And, puns can be dangerous, especially when they are ’free"!

oh.

Couches need to be sooo careful what they wish for.

Where I live, that couch would have been picked up by university students, and subsequently burned at a street party.

Her Barca(lounger) is worse than her bite.