Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 29, 2011
Transcript:
Goat: What are you writing, Pig? Pig: A romance novel. But I'm struggling with the main characters' names. So far all I have is the woman's name... Juliet. Goat: Well, Juliet's a great name. Hearkens back tot he most beautiful romance of all time, 'Romeo and Juliet' by William Shakespeare... what's the man's name? Pig: 'Bean Dip.' Really kills some of the intimate scenes.
Woody157 about 13 years ago
Or called Wock A. Molè.
idroppedmygum about 13 years ago
BEAN DIP: I love you Juliet JULIET: sigh
bahramthered about 13 years ago
Ugh… This one isn’t even funny. Pig please report immediately to the butcher, we’re gonna teach you where bacon, ham and pork chops come from.
SusanSunshine Premium Member about 13 years ago
Think twice, Juliet.
By the day after tomorrow he’ll already be an old fart.
AGED_ENGINEER Premium Member about 13 years ago
Oh Bean Dip, Oh Bean Dip, wherefore art thou Bean Dip? Nah, it just doesn’t work.
Sisyphos about 13 years ago
Bean Dip and Juliet, A Romance by Pig.Do I hear any publishers bidding for this manuscript?
zero about 13 years ago
I need to stop relating to Pig
OilCanHarry about 13 years ago
Bean Dip’s romantic rival will be an escaped Latin American prisoner – the Chilean con Queso.
dukeallen about 13 years ago
He’s the rude dude that tells everyone “Eat me!”
Wolf in Exile about 13 years ago
your colors are gone…youve become rather gray….your not like the dip that I knew yesterday…….Something is wrong youve become rather gray…youre not the dip that I had yesterday….
GoodQuestion Premium Member about 13 years ago
pig has a way with words…… a long way….just change Juliette’s name to Frita and raise a bunch of dip chips………☻
T_Lexi about 13 years ago
Thanks! I had never seen that; made me smile.
ChukLitl Premium Member about 13 years ago
Some think romance is dead.Classic literature tells us it’s the other way around.Dead is romance.
rroush Premium Member about 13 years ago
Bean Dip, oh Bean Dip, Wherefore art thou, Bean Dip?
hariseldon59 about 13 years ago
That Pig is a gas!
jimelek about 13 years ago
You know, I too find that naming the characters is the hardest part of fiction writing.
Digital Frog about 13 years ago
Mr. Bean by any other name would still be a dip.
Varnes about 13 years ago
Just change his first name to Chip…….that works…
TheSpanishInquisition about 13 years ago
Don’t change it…I love bean dip with all my heart.
SusanSunshine Premium Member about 13 years ago
Wow I’m embarrassed but thank YOU, Robin — and Wolf, and Mechanic…
So MANY posters here make and appreciate good… I mean bad.. um ..jokes…
I’m just happy to find one place where there are a few people don’t roll their eyes.
SusanSunshine Premium Member about 13 years ago
“who” — that fell out. Please insert.
Number Three about 13 years ago
Bean Dip?
Awwwww, LOL xxx
Sheriff Mordecai Premium Member about 13 years ago
“Bean Dip” is OK, but coulda used “Ben Dover” in a less restrictive setting.
Sherlock Watson about 13 years ago
If Juliet starts to stray, will she be a double-dipper?
finale about 13 years ago
Gives me an insight as to why my kid’s coloring book “Nancy; the little girl with Toe Fungus” never got published!
SusanSunshine Premium Member about 13 years ago
Forgot to say — “good one Harry!”
And now I can add “nice to see you, Sheriff.”
Keno21 about 13 years ago
Bean Dip and Juliet, starring Justin Bieber and Ashlee Simpson. Mock if you must, but I give it a 90% chance of happening.
bmonk about 13 years ago
How about Sean Bean as the lead actor? (He did the Sharpe episodes on Masterpiece.)
hariseldon59 about 13 years ago
I think that was a cartoon I grew up with: Beanie Dip and Cecil.
squirrel500 about 13 years ago
No dip.
rgcviper about 13 years ago
“Bean Dip”? Seriously, Pig?.Y’know what? I’m just not gonna go there.
jayjaypom almost 13 years ago
this is strip ran on my birthday :)
thecomicprune over 12 years ago
Dude, Goat. Romeo and Juliet is NOT a romance. it’s a tragedy! The word “romantic” had a very different meaning back then. Shakespeare didn’t write romances!
Goat the goat over 4 years ago
Pigs nose slowly creeps toward his snout through the years…..
Boxo croco says happy derby over 2 years ago
“Most beautiful romance” ? It’s a book about a kid who rebounds to a drama queen who thinks the only way to get attention is to fake suicide, causing the death of both of them, and Romeo’s pal