Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 14, 2024

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    BE THIS GUY  8 months ago

    With every penalty, we must surely be losing…

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    BasilBruce  8 months ago

    It’s all too much . . .

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    PaulAbbott2  8 months ago

    No one alerted me

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    carlsonbob  8 months ago

    Rat forgot his baseball bat?

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    Heres Waldo  8 months ago

    George would have been proud of this strip. ;-)

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    Concretionist  8 months ago

    Qatar is not the ONLY one who’s weeping here.

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    Bilan  8 months ago

    They really thought they had a chance with their star goalie, Saad Al Sheeb. When the game started, they sang out Here’s comes the Sheeb!

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    pschearer Premium Member 8 months ago

    ANOTHER Beatles song I never heard of. (Thanks, Mr. Google.)

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    syzygy47  8 months ago

    His team will be back for a rematch. They did so well in the first Qatar.

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    Botulism Bob  8 months ago

    Pastis should be drawn and Qatared…..

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    oldpine52  8 months ago

    So, it took Pastis four days to work this Beetles song into a strip.

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    paulscon  8 months ago

    is that supposed to refer to song: while my guitar gently weeps?

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    MichaelAxelFleming  8 months ago

    Most of the people in the United Arab Emirates do not know who the Flintstones are, but the people in Abu Dhabi do.

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member 8 months ago

    Ahmen, Ahmed. It’s only a game.

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    iggyman  8 months ago

    John Lennon is doing a 180 in his grave over that!

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    danketaz Premium Member 8 months ago

    Here’s a Qatar, call someone who cares.

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    deojaideep aka Courage  8 months ago

    Is it only me or did anyone else read Ahmed’s lines in a Middle-Eastern accent? I blame it on Stephan, as he makes the gators in the comic sound differently, I have been made to read all the characters in a different tone

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    markkahler52  8 months ago

    Cry Baby Cry

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    blunebottle  8 months ago

    Thank you, Rat.

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    DangerBunny  8 months ago

    The song is just about SIXTY YEARS OLD. Some of us are very familiar with the music, but quite a few readers barely know they existed. If anyone had asked me then about the great music of the 19oughts, I wouldn’t have had the first clue. For that matter, I still don’t.

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    cdward  8 months ago

    But we get by with a little help from our friends.

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    GROG Premium Member 8 months ago

    How low can you go?

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    Imagine  8 months ago

    All the players on the team are Qatar players.

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    phritzg Premium Member 8 months ago

    I don’t know about you, but I Saudi pun coming after reading the first panel.

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    Cactus-Pete  8 months ago

    But Qatar (KAH-ter) doesn’t rhyme with guitar at all, so I don’t get it.

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    hariseldon59  8 months ago

    I’ve read that Eric Clapton played the guitar solo on the recording, although he isn’t credited on the album.

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    Mugens Premium Member 8 months ago

    I have to give Pastis credit, he can always come up with a cringe-worthy, but humerous one.

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    KageKat  8 months ago

    Is that how Qatar is actually pronounced? I hear it a couple different ways.

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    scote1379 Premium Member 8 months ago

    That’s Football Lad !

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    Goat from PBS  8 months ago

    Thanks to the featured comment for explaining the joke to me.

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    SquidGamerGal  8 months ago

    Umm… Since when Muslim countries have a football team?

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    Count Olaf Premium Member 8 months ago

    Timely Ramadan humor? I’m sure one nut case fringe group will have their thongs in a bunch over this one.

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    asmbeers  8 months ago

    That pun took a long and winding road.

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    bigger Nate  8 months ago

    Keep it up and he’ll be hearing Day after day alone on a hill and wondering Is there anybody going to listen to my stories

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    Ellis97  8 months ago

    This strip will never stop doing puns. It’s one of their signature aspects, so I’m gonna stop telling them, “No more puns".

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    admwrlk Premium Member 8 months ago

    Too bad they all pronounce it “cutter” now.

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    wsr1961 Premium Member 8 months ago

    Why did I subscribe to these comics?

    I don’t know why you say good buy, I say hell no!

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    uniquename  8 months ago

    Interesting. There’s quite a bit of controversy around the world over Arab involvement in football.

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    Skeptical Meg  8 months ago

    I learned something new today: the correct pronunciation of “guitar” must be “gutter”.

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    Stocky One  8 months ago

    I am weeping, too – with laughter!

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    imbas5511  8 months ago

    It’s pronounced Cutter….

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    Charles & Susan  Premium Member 8 months ago

    As soon as I read the first frame I got it! I’ll be 65 April 1 please do a strip celebrating April Fool’s Birthdays!

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    [Anonymous Account]  8 months ago

    This would be a great pun if I knew how to pronounce “Qatar”

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    grocks  8 months ago

    Aside from the original, the Rock and Roll HOF tribute on Youtube – Director’s Cut: “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” – Prince, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne & Dhani Harrison

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    aerotica69  8 months ago

    These musical puns should come with an earworm alert.

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    DaBump Premium Member 8 months ago

    It’s okay, Rat, I actually got a good laugh out of it. So bizarre.

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    royq27  8 months ago

    Yes, I have tears in my eyes-from laughing!

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    GojusJoe  8 months ago

    Reminds me of Fred Flintstone at quiting time “Abu Dhabi Doo!”

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    rshive  8 months ago

    Bad puns know no national boundaries.

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    chris_o42  8 months ago

    We really need a “GROAN” icon here!

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    oakie817  8 months ago

    help!

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    Mr. Organization  8 months ago

    I think this is Pastis’ first pun that didn’t require a huge, roundabout lead-up and eight panels to execute. Bravo, sir!

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    Troglodyte  8 months ago

    Where’s Maxwell’s Silver Hammer when we really need it?! :D

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    Joan Tinnin Premium Member 8 months ago

    I usually loathe puns. Mr Pastis’s are great!

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    Bill LaRocque Premium Member 8 months ago

    Bravo!

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    sccooley  8 months ago

    Is this the 31st song?

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    Steve_The_Beard  8 months ago

    I can’t believe that nobody has pointed out that it was ERIC CLAPTON who played on the original! Here’s a 1987 performance you should see: >

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  8 months ago

    I don’t have the slightest idea how Qatar is pronounced.

    And who stole the “U”,Cossacks?

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  8 months ago

    You gotta be a football hero….to get along with a beautiful girl…..

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    tvstevie  8 months ago

    Very appropriate, with Eric Clapton’s birthday in just ten days (he played this song’s lead guitar).

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    ChukLitl Premium Member 8 months ago

    When the Arabs had freed themselves of European colonialism (never mind Mongol, Turkic, Roman…) the royal families who took power were those willing to sign oil contracts.

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    AndromedaMike  8 months ago

    George is crying in his grave because of this joke.

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    mindjob  8 months ago

    With all the money the team’s owners in Qatar have, I doubt anyone’s crying

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    christelisbetty  8 months ago

    NO RAT, do not weep for us.WE are here by choice.

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    Mark DeMist Premium Member 8 months ago

    O Man, I ran from that.

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    zeexenon  8 months ago

    George Harrison (RIP) rolling in his grave.

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    TIMH  8 months ago

    Someone get Maxwell’s silver hammer.

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    Call me Ishmael  8 months ago

    MY guitar is all Chuck Berry and BB King ! Ours was a simpler, happier time !

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    Call me Ishmael  8 months ago

    While my catarrh gently seeps,..

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    driller  8 months ago

    I always love a good Beatles reference!

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    willie_mctell  8 months ago

    Beatlemania continues unabated.

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    Charlie Tuba  8 months ago

    This brings the count from Sunday’s strip up to 32! (I accept the different spelling of guitar.)

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    mask1000  8 months ago

    Hahahahaha Steph!!! You are the Pun Master my friend!!! I rarely laugh at other strips but yours sure can get me howling!!

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    pamela welch Premium Member 8 months ago

    Oh Stephan — LOLOL

    I’m in serious sympathy with Rat!

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    Willywise52 Premium Member 8 months ago

    At least it was a short build-up this time…

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    asrialfeeple  8 months ago

    Happy Pi Day!!

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  8 months ago

    Groan

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    einarbt  8 months ago

    Please pass me the tissues.

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    lanainutahdesert  8 months ago

    Come on, Rat! Get off his case.

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    Gandalf  8 months ago

    Best. Song. Ever. RIP, George.

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    wildlandwaters  8 months ago

    You forgot to bring your bat, Rat!

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    rgcviper  8 months ago

    Go to your room, Pastis. (Or maybe just Qatar—ha.)

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    Katje  8 months ago

    Sigh

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    Archistoteles  8 months ago

    Nothing gets by you, does it?

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