Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 23, 2025

It’s a game of give and take, and Rat is doing the giving.

If Stephan claims he made a Supreme pun, Rat will have to bash him again.

It’s a game of give and take…Rat gave and Pastis took!

I’m 71 and I’ll continue to wait. Maybe I should have hurried love.

42?

The only thing that keeps me hangin’ on…

Love these music ones.

If Pig’s going to be in the water until he can return home on public transportation, he could say he’s “been wadin’ for the bus all day”.

A Supreme strip.

That should have been a Sledgehammer in the final panel, not a croquet mallet. [Since Phil Collins of Genesis covered that song, bandmate of Peter Gabriel]

I hope Stephan lives another day to deliver yet another deadly pun.

Mike Love’s in his 80s now. I wouldn’t expect him to move very fast.

Wait, I forgot what happened in yesterday’s comic, but now…

Interesting problem with AIs is that they have no now. Sort of like the “now” of when a book was published for their training data… Humans have too many nows, such as the fake now of reading fiction (including comics) overlaid on our human notion of continuous now.

You can Feel It The Air Tonight, that winning would be Against All Odds

Diana Ross might sue! (Good one anyway)!

Rat finally hit the Mark, I mean Stephan Pastis.

Somebody is not feeling good vibrations.

Wouldn’t it be nice if they all just got along.

Good pun. But now I have Phil Collins in my head.

Nope, didn’t come close to gittin’ me.

He probably took more vocals than the others, but everybody sang some lead. And he probably took more because he was the only one who didn’t learn how to play an instrument. Carl Wilson was their best singer.

I can’t wait for love. I’ve only got so much time to live.

Is Love slowed because of girls from California.

‘Sea Of Love’?

Rats in striking position…..

Oh No! I actually laughed at this one. Rat, hand me that bat.

Mike was busted for assault. The headlines read, “Love Hurts”.

When he was an infant, was he Baby ❤️, Baby ❤️, OoooOooo My Baby ❤️?

I am going to have to go to the hospital. I have apundicidis.

Dennis and Carl are spinning at hearing Mike called the “lead singer”.

I suspected a pun setup in the first frame. Knew for sure in the second. Paraphrasing Pig, Pastis ‘takes forever to get ready for a’ pun. A pun that does not take me by surprise is not a good pun.

Pig, why did you leave to go to Stephan’s studio? Love is here and now you’re gone!

LOL! Good job on this one!

Another song lyric I’ve never heard of.

I know next to nothing about pop culture.

The strip today was punny

It ain’t easy, Rat.

A lot of them, Rat.

And that wasn’t even a Beach Boys song.

blessed to be married 53 years to my high school sweetheart

As bad as these are, I have to admit you are getting better and hitting me in the gut in the last panel. 5 stars!

I rode up to the 12th floor with Mike. It was “Love in an Elevator”.

Mixing the Beach Boys and the Supremes for the weekly pun. Not bad…lol

Personally, I think it should have been Diana Ross making a guest appearance to club Pastis like a baby seal for that pun….

I tried stopping all these bad puns, but now I don’t care anymore!

You are either a happy person or an unhappy person. Married or single will not change it.

I love the Sunday Punnies.

I was expecting something along the lines of “Mike love, not war.”

Mine passed after only a short and quick 58 years, but I’m staying clean till we meet again. “No you just have to waitShe said love don’t come easyIt’s a game of give and takeYou can’t hurry loveNo, you just have to waitYou gotta trust, give it timeNo matter how long it takesBut how many heartaches must I standBefore I find a love to let me live againRight now the only thing that keeps me hanging onWhen I feel my strength, yeah, it’s almost goneI remember mama said”

On rainy days I have to wade for the postman. I wade patiently

♫ ‘GOD only knows what I’d be without you…’ ♪

I was once crushed by love that almost cost me everything. Then I was blessed. I don’t know what I did to deserve it, I’d like to do it again just as a ‘Thank you’. But I absolutely believe it is a blessing. 31 years now and counting.

:-) :-) :-)

A croquet mallet? Where’s the cartoon violence we have come to expect?

74 here and I’ve had a few.

I’m with Rat.

I always dig these pun strips…but I DESPISE “Mike Love.”

I didn’t know Pig was spiritual,,,

Wade in the water,

Wade in the water, children.

Wade in the water…

youtube[dot]com/watch?v=ovoBi3pXD_A

That bass line is great to keep the spirits high to fight against the fascist tide.

Dance, love, organize, resist, repeat.

It is what can be done for now.

It’s a game of give and take, Rat.

Ooh, ow… give ’im one for me, Rat. Nah, wait… I kinda like having that song from my childhood in my head.

" “You Can’t Hurry Love” is a song originally recorded by the Supremes on the Motown label. It was released on July 25, 1966."

The Beach Boys were fun till they started taking themselves seriously.

Silly me, I thought that song was “you can’t curry love”, about ordering food in an Indian restaurant.

Mike Love and the rest, those were the days. Great music, leaving you feeling good about life. Saw the original group several times and always left walking on air.

Either Phil Collins or Diana Ross is in your head right now. Which one indicates your age.

OMGoodness, I need the puns LOL Thank you

Very cool working an old “The Supremes” in there! Nuff said.

G R O A N — LOLOL

I got the pun since panel four for once. I’m getting good at this.

Bring back crocs, and zeeba neighba, and Guard Duck

One of the supreme songs.

Every time I hear that march from LOHENGRIN

I’m glad I’m on the outside always looking in…..

this lyric worked out very well here lol

ouch, Rat finally followed through clobbered pastis? and it was such a good pun … the build up, themiddle game and then the denouement