Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 19, 2021

WTF

X and Y chromosome meet.

That X is really cross.

I’ve had experience with them. They do think that Z’s are worse though. They are pretty nasty.

it’s been years since we saw the Letter X on this strip.

The x-citment has turned to n-citement?

Shades of Sesame Street!

If there were two more of them, this wouldn’t be a family strip anymore.

Trouble with Pigita?

If you think “X” is bad, wait until you meet the “Irritable Vowels”!

How would the punchline work in Greek? X is called as chi whereas the Latin X is the Greek Ξ/xi.

This reminded me of an old Algebra meme.

Dear Algebra,

Stop asking us to find your X. She’s not coming back.

We don’t know Y, either.

I don’t know Y I have to have an X.

It been said that with the proper punctuation and a small bit of pronunciation license the first 11 letters of the alphabet can be spoken as a sentence.

Clue: The last word is not toe.

It can really mark it’s spot!

The X is cross because it needs to P.

If you thinks he’s difficult, you should look at his files.

How many times does he have to tell me.

“All my exes live in Texas.”

“Y? Because we like you!”

“X ellent” strip today!

I thought X was where the treasure was!

I C U!

“G”, let’s “C”, should I just let this “B”?

If I have some “T”, I may have to “P”.

Try with a little help from my friends …………….

At first, I thought Pig was having problems with Pigita again, but it’s a different contrary X.

Oh, a Ys guy, huh?

And imagine what it’s like with two Xs.

Pat, I’d like to buy a vowel.

wow, he sounds really xasperated…

Ah, a visual pun today.

What did I say about puns?

I’m going to catch some z’s while you guys figure this out.

There is no ‘solve for x’ here.

Zzzz…

Sneaky way to get your pun in Pastis…

Sneaky way to get your puns in Pastis…

I had X for breakfast today. Hard boiled.

Most difficult of all: XY.

This reminds me of the time Pig was playing with his alphabet letters. He had trouble with his X.

O O O O , and here I thought Pig was referring to Pigita as his X!

Grrrrooooaaaaannnnn! :o{

Ex it.

O, I C what U did there..

Three Xs are fun.

Today’s cartoon brought to you by the letter “X”

Arrrrrrrrrgh!!!

It’s genetic?

Sign on an empty vending machine: O I C U R M T!!

Major groaner. If they were all this bad I’d haze to Xit the strip

The X is cross? Do you know Y? She can’t fit into her Z bra.

Wonder if Pigita has trouble with his X

With all the talk of Pigita, when was the last time we saw her appear in the strip?

M K

X = FU

Heads up. William Steig. CDB

Other people have mentioned Pigita above, but while who knows what is going on in Pig’s looney mind, why would Goat (the Only Sane Man) have completely forgotten her, when Pig & Pigita have indeed broken up several times over the course of the strip? Does this mean that she has officially been retroactively deleted from the continuity of the strip?

It’s not an X. That’s just Pigita looking to multiply

XYICU

This one confuses me … just look at my name.

I think this one deserves at least three groans. :-)

Turuble, just turuble. You really went off aX the pun line with that one. Y?

Beautifully done @StevenPastis

He uses X-pletives and before anyone gets too x-cited, I’ll be heading for the X-it.

Lots of funny comments! Thanks.

She may be an X, but she’s acting like she’s quite the B…!

How do u know y ?

Boo! :D

Z answer to that is blowing in the wind. LOL!

Bumper sticker – “I Still Miss My Ex. I Really Need To Get To The Range More Often.”

Just break a leg from the x and then you know y… :P

“Do you know why?”

Because 7 8 9?

“Just ask the axis,” Jimi Hendrix said.

X is a solid female. Y is a broken X.

Such a mouth on that X! I think I’d excise it from my letters collection!

I’m starting to “C” a problem.

Oh, B-have!

“Y” is a letter calling me an idiot! I sometimes M!

This reminds me of the Sesame Street appearance by Smokey Robinson where he sang “U Really Got a Hold on Me” while being harassed by a giant letter U.

No, I don’t know Y.

Ignore his bitter “X”

Everyone please stop!