Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 29, 2021

Rat is jealous of Pig’s talent.

who saw that in the second panel

also, why didn’t pastis think of this earlier

From the cartoon Compressed Hare: “Are you in, genius?”

Nice twist on the traditional punch line

So is Rat thanking him?

A termite walks into a bar and asks “Where is the bar tender?”

Well done, Pig!

A man walks into a bar…”ouch!” He exclaims!

For Rat there is no “drink to excess”.

I was a beartender in a crowded bar. Pun in tended.

Maybe he makes you drink to excess, but he makes me laugh to excess.

Brilliant!

Someone once submitted ten entries in a wordplay competition, hoping that at least one would earn him a prize. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did.

Always love a good pun. Come on Rat, lighten up.

Puns on a scale of 1 – 10. Is tended?

That’s because he’s past ’is prime, Rat.

Is there any other way to drink?

There’s no F in chips

“A pun is the highest form of literature.” — Alfred Hitchcock

What did I say about puns?

I sort of stopped trying to figure out when and if Pastis is going with a pun … I just go with the flow.

Careful Stephan. Rat may take a stick and slap you with it. If you don’t like slapstick humor you may want to try to avoid that.

Ten did

That was a good one.

There have been a lot of pun strips lately

Heard on “My Word,” an old British radio game show. Contestants were given a common phrase, and had to come up with some improbable explanation of how the expression came into common usage. One contestant gave a long story about Lord Byron and Percy Shelley taking a cruise together. At one port, Percy was getting impatient at a delay at customs caused by and tried to cut in front some sisters of holy orders having to register at the entry point. He was restrained by Byron, who told him to “Wait ’till the nun signs, Shelley.”

A good reason to keep him around.

Just love the puns. Keep ’em coming Stephan.

I actually thought the Police one wasn’t bad. The pun itself was bad, but the last-panel comments were funny.

LOL! GOTTCHA! Rat needs another martini…

Was this joke In Excess? Or just a sly nod to the musical group? Whichever, never let these Pastis puns tear you apart. I’m gonna need you tonight to keep me sane.

Hahaha! You have surpassed yourself, sir!

Devious fellow, this Stephan Pastis. I like him.

In tended or not, the tension is rising.

“What’s that?”

“A crowbar.”

“Where’d you get it?”

“From a blackbird that went on the wagon.”

~ from B.C., probably in the ’60s

There will be a pun-ishment administered next.

LOL! Made me laugh!!

(sigh.)

I’m reading this at home – for the home’s pun humor.

Do or do not, there is no intention.

The last panel made me imagine Rat swigging from a bottle labeled “XXXX” and proposing a toast in honor of its contents. He’d be drinking to Xes.

The best… it hurts so good :D

One of my squad-mates used the call sign ‘Crow Bar.’ Still surprised how many bars we stumbled across with the same name.

Oh that was a good one. Very punny.

love it!

Clearly you’re not drinking enough, Rat.

My intended said puns are fun!

“And that’s a GOOD thing!” – Martha

very much like stephan puns ina pun

Hahahahahahaha!!!

A hamburger walled into a bar and said to the barman “gimme a beer”

The barman replied

“Sorry we don’t serve food”.

I don’t know about excess, but after reading too many like this -I’m about to start!

Gotta admit, that was a pretty good one, Cartoon-Boy! Also gotta admit I now feel a need to join Rat for a refreshing adult beverage….

Just finished reading all comments to this point. That strange far-away sound you’ve been hearing is me — out standing in my field — holding my gut and a giving out a series of long, multi-purpose, pan-dimensional groans !

Ah shoot.. I can’t find the comment that told the joke ending with “there’s no stinkin chocolate!” I guess there’s a whole family of those, because this is the joke told me by a ten year old about ten years ago:A) How do you get an elephant out of a subway?B) Duh, how?A) You take the ‘s’ out of ‘sub’, and the ‘f’ out of ‘way.’B) There’s no f in way!

Of the 15 or so poor souls I’ve told this to over the years, maybe 1 or 2 ended it ‘right’ ;)

ps I think the funniest thing here is how people used today’s pun strip as a platform to tell a bunch of really horrible puns ;) No offense,I’m laughing!

Stephan Pastis: a master of the art. Don’t ever change buddy :)

what are puns?

Drinks “to excess” = “two XX’s” = Dos Equis beer

Or he’s on good relations with his ex-wife, and offers a toast of praise.

I drink to ex’s too.

That must be why you were so slow to get it

I love this. It breaks the norm on a recognizable recurring device.