Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 13, 2020

This is not what any of us were dreamin’ of.

BUCKWHEAT, ANYONE?!

Ow! Ow! Ow! Too PUNishing!

I’m just going to go away, make a cup of tea, and sit down quietly and forget I ever saw this.

How many read the first panel and figured out the PUNch line right away? ’D

And why would the cat be hanging with the Wong crowd?

Pastis, are you trying to propagate a racial stereotype?

That was Wong on so many levels!

I like a bad pun.

Would too many Wongs make it right?

One of my favorite character names ever: Rydra Wong.

Pig worked too hard to make a bad pun about his missing cat. It was Luv’s Labour’s Lost.

Sorry, but I’m sure you’re familiar with the code of the wild, “Love, Prey, Eat”. (We have coyote here_

I remember that song warmly.

♪ Love is a nose, and you better not pick it. ♫

Puns are the best, we LOVE you Stephan and you too rat.

There’s Sum Ting Wong here!

Pig is oinking up the Wong tree!

Racially insensitive, politically incorrect… this is wong! :D

At least he didn’t have him say “Ruv”.

Pig I hope you learned a lesson … Tis Wong to let a cat run loose and become Hawk/Eagle food … Croc Power !

Stephen’s decisions today are completely Wong.

This comic is so wong.

Mr Wong and his cousins all live east of the train tracks.

They all lived on the Wong side of the tracks.

It doesn’t surprise me Pastis would introduce a new pet into the strip solely for the purpose of getting laughs. Irresponsible! (Actually, if memory serves, he once had a cat in Pearls named Snuffles.)

boring

wookin pa nub

And THIS is why I read Pearls… Just gotta wonder about people who don’t appreciate a really bad pun.

If he just tried calling them, he was getting the Wong number.

A pun is the lowest form of humor … unless, of course, you are the one trying to be punny!

Good on this mornining, Mr. Pastis. You woke my wife with my groan.

And don’t anyone dare say “Keep your Chin up.”

You’re WONG on so many levels…..

The Urban Pun-Boy strikes again!

He’s making fun of my speaking defwect!

VOY! Eh?

How many times do I have to yell “OUCH!” when reading Pearls?

Rim Shot!

I think that this one should be just left alone. Or am I wong?

Rat: please tell me you have your bat with you!

Terrific. Now, I’m hungry for Chinese.

Right place, Wong time?

What’s the difference between right and Wong?

A little thanks to Johnny Lee and urban cowboys everywhere. https://www.youtube.com › watch

I may be white, I may be Wong,/ ya know yer gonna miss me when I’m gong..

Pastis is a doughty fellow. And he just might use this pun again. So, if he does, will two wongs make a wight?

No … it would make it “wright.”

That song was EVERYWHERE in 1980-1981. It was also my mother’s favorite song from the Urban Cowboy soundtrack so I couldn’t escape it.

Thank God for Boz Scaggs…on an 8-track you had to listen to Look what you’ve done to me to get to wookin’ pa nub (slight nod to the Buckwheat comments)…

Not true, Pig—I love Stephan’s puns!

I don’t care what the rat thinks, this is funny!

I’m with Rat.

Does Pastis lose sleep working on his puns? I LIVE for them!!

At least he found a friend and a Luv… er…

Wow, that’s old. I’m assuming Pastis meant the Johnny Lee song from Urban Cowboy I remember that still being played fairly regularly four years later on the radio.

“A pun is the noblest form of wit.” (Isaac Asimov) And I agree.

Rat! Where’s your bat?!

Will no one beat some sense into Cartoon-Boy? This is all so wong!

Just an old-fashioned Luv-Wong.

Blame this one on Trump.

Seems to me that I’m the only one thinking Leisure Suit Larry…

Yes.