Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 28, 2021

I have no desire to have an exciting breakfast.

Then Goat is boring too.

So, Pig isn’t dating a woman named Down?

OKAY! The truth is my mattress is more supporting than you!

Then when do you use “lay” in this kind of context? English is still my first language.

Goat is a regular lay detector.

I’m just going to lay this out for you: In the present tense, “lay” takes an object: I lay down my objection to your misuse of “lay”… and I won’t lie…

Abbot and Costello would be proud!

Too late, Pig.

Don’t be such a “grammer slammer” Goat! ;/

“Lie lady lie…lie across my big brass bed…”

Reminds me of german salafists who promoted reading their pamphlets.They wrote “LIES!” (german for “READ!”) on their booth…

Pig thinking food is boring?

To misquote George Washington

I can not tell a lie from a lay

The real reason? There was bacon for breakfast… :D

As long as we’re being pedantic, where did the teabag go?

The truth is that Pig hogged on Lies chips for breakfast.

Pig was probably thinking of one of his favorite snacks “Lays Potato Chips” ! (So good)!

Don’t be a grammar nazi, goat.

Breakout the fish bone graphs….well be diagramming sentences by suppertime.

OH, GAWD. . .

Context is important.

I can see why Pig didn’t want to have breakfast with Goat

Hit the undoodoo button Pig.

In schools today, you have not been educated until you know how to hold the protest sign high and scream at the same time.

I say “lay” instead of “lie” for just that reason!

Lololol

So goat is one of the commentators that doesn’t actually have anything to add to the conversation so they attack the person because they wrote their instead of they’re?

pig needs to learn the art of when to stop talking, am I right. Anyways have a good day.

Good grammar is important. So why are there so many confusing rules in the English language?

There are two types of people, those who use English to communicate, and those that abuse English to become a grammar Nazi.

Oy!

Since when is eating bacon boring?

“This is a harp”

“Lyre!”

“Hey, I’m just doing my best.”

(I swear I independently created this joke before I saw it in Discworld.)

Sometimes the only way to fix a conversation is to start over …

That was a good bait.

Grammar Nazi Karma…

Ha, relateable

So if you really could eat just one, would they have to re-name them: Lies Potato Chips?

Does Pig sleep on a big brass bed?

Lay lady lay, lay upon my big brass bed.

So, all these years when I’ve referred to spending time with the hotties I was doing it wrong?

I want my breakfast to be boring. It should just sit there. But it should taste good.

NOTE: today’s feedback comments were amusing, to say the “least” (chuckle).Been going back in time lately on certain strips.Just started this morning with the first month of 2002 for Pearls Before Swine. Thought I was going to “bust a gut” as I laughed continuously at the days’ comics.

Can we start today’s comic over? Thanks.

Dear Pig, Avoid comment sections at all costs.

Can he lay down the lie?

Repeating conversations is pointless.

Like, who repeats conversations?

Grammar police

In the past tense, e.g. Pig lay down.

Here’s some information on the use of lay vs. lie.

https://www.quora.com/When-is-it-correct-to-use-lay-versus-lie

Say good night, Pig.

Lay is a transitive verb. One thing performs the action to another. You lay a book on the table.Lie is intransitive. It does not take a direct object. You lie (recline) on the couch.Today I lay the book on the table.Yesterday I laid the book on the table.I have laid the book on the table.(Lay can usually be replaced by put.)

Today I lie on the sofa.Yesterday I lay on the sofa.I have lain on the sofa.(Lie can be replace with a form of sit.)

People lie down, chickens lay eggs.

Too late, Pig!

Maybe, in fact, that should be the name of your autobiography, Too Late, Pig!—My Life Story

In the context of this panel, “lay” is correct. “Lie” means to tell an untruth. Right there with everyone today one using “love” when they should be using “like”. Our American language has gone to hell.

Breakfast is boring?

Well, Goat, maybe he didn’t want to go because you do that.