Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 28, 2011

Pig looks like he has really short hair today! Probably just the shadowing, though.

Cosmologist is to cosmetologist as made-up is to make-up, a cynical metaphysicist might allege….

Pig is into String Theory — a piece of string will keep him happy for hours. It can be a doll, a train, or a whole universe.

True, Sisyphos! And Nabuq — the arguments of which you speak remind me of the natural history museum where a friend worked. They had a fragment of dinosaur jaw, from which they were reconstructing the whole creature — and debating the relative sizes of its front and rear legs.

I think this is where I’d be repeatedly banging my head up against the wall.

I know the feeling. I’m a metrologist. A surprising number of people think that means I can tell them what the weather is going to do.

That’s Cosmologist with an ‘ET’ in it – he does makeup for aliens.

Rat has made a guest appearance in “The New Adventures of Queen Victoria”. A great cross-over.

a little predictable as to where the strip was going in the very first box…but still funny. :)

pig wanted to be a cosmetologist but couldn’t pass the make-up test…..☻

Read “Cosmology Explained” at http://telescoper.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/cosmology-explained/ for a hilarious story on the confusion between cosmology and cosmetology.

A Cosmetologist? Really? Wow! Must tough to handle the weightlessness.

Pig made a pretty basic mistake. If he doesn’t correct himself, he may soon be “Hair today, gone tomorrow.” +++++ A similar problem for Math Modelers. Maybe they get cosmologists to do their make-up?

Good ones Number 6 and Grog!

How many dead brain cells does Pig have? “Billions and billions” as Carl Sagan would say.

And here I thought a cosmologist was someone who spends all their time reading “Cosmo.” If it’s someone who studies vast, empty spaces, then Brian should take inside Pig’s head.

Knew this semi-pun was going to come up eventually.

Actually, the two words /are/ related. They both come from κοσμέω (kosmeo), a Greek word for “arrange”, “prepare”, “put in order”, etc..

LOL!

Can’t stop laughing.

xxx

Just don’t ask an entomologist what a word means or where it comes from—or an etymologist what sort of bug this little crawly thing is. . . .

I loved the skit where Carson played Sagan.

@ Frank Moss, Jr: only the weather in the city, right? @ d.r.s.: I agree… the shading on each character is a little funky today. Maybe it’s supposed to look like peach fuzz for the “cosmetologist” punchline.

Wow.

I accidentally thought like Pig did, and I’m a Nuclear Engineer student.

i remember seeing this joke in big nate