Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 16, 2011

And that’s why you shouldn’t use codes for bodily functions.

Who’s on first? Not Pig; no way he’s getting to first base tonight.

So that’s what powder my nose means?! I’m going to start using that. Guys can use that, right?

Pig is pitiful, but he makes me laugh. Is this morally wrong?As for Pigita, although she is in the right today, I still don’t like her in general and would hope to see the undying of Sweet Fanny!

it is a sign of class. powder one’s nose or freshen up sounds a lot better than taking a squat.

Atta boy Pig.

Except for a couple years in the late 70s when going to the bathroom to “powder my nose” meant something entirely different.

the 70s? I thought that was the 60s…

Pig is not pitiful, Pig is careing and straightforward pigita, on the other hand is not.

Bleed the lizard, shake the dew off the lilly….

May I please be excused for a moment? I have to shake hands with a very dear friend of mine.

yes…men are so nosy… why again? you just went… why are you taking your purse? how long you gonna be?… jeez

George Carlan had it right; you don’t take a leak, you leave one …. however you might take a powder …. ☻

Wait…is THAT what that means?

Pig’s world is like that of a child. It’s black or white.

hahahahaha EPIC

And why do women need to go in packs? Is there some sort of gross physiological abnormality they are coping with? Do they need help in there? What do they got in there, a block and tackle? “OK, I got the left leg, you got the right, HOIST!”

The correct term for a guy to understand a woman is “drain my crank”. A girl used that on me 45 years ago and I never forgot it and I new EXACTLY what she meant.

Poor pig. Doesn’t even deserve a cocktail. And Pigita spills hers off the table. Hope they are going Dutch.

Had this strip gone on maybe one or two more frames, I would have guessed Pig would have asked Pigita why she couldn’t go at the table although I’m sure the waitstaff wouldn’t appreciate it.

Stop winding her up Pig.

xxx

Just say I need excuse myself to the restroom. Girls are weird.

Gotta go see a man about a dog…

“Gotta use the little girls’ room” was one expression I saw on TV once (it was in a play set in the American South).

Doesn’t matter how many of these expressions you learn, there will always be some you don’t know. That’s what happens with euphemisms.

Well, since my kid brother joined the Marines, I’ve taken to using the phrase, “Pardon me, but I need to take a head trip.”I get the weirdest look when I say that though.

Nothing wrong with a sweet stalker. That’s what my gf describes herself. And for her birthday yesterday I got her a card that reads happy birthday to my sweet stalker.

How come I keep seeing that animated Monty Python sequence where the woman goes to powder her nose at an elegant ball setting?

It’s more that Pig tends to take everything at face value, and therefore, takes everything that people say literally. He doesn’t understand the concepts of “euphemisms” or “figures of speech,” because to him, people always mean what they say, and always say what they mean, because that’s what HE does.

Ever read the Amelia Bedelia books? She’s another example of someone who takes everything literally and at face value, and like Pig, she just assumes that everyone else does, too!

Just like communicating with my husband.

Pigita has a glass of wine, Pig doesn’t. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Pig drink alcohol.

lol, this comic strip has changed so much since 2005-2008.

Stephan Pastis was here in Minneapolis today for a book signing at Wild Rumpus Book Store as he noted in yesterday’s comic. The signings started at 1pm. By 1:15pm they had run out of books to sign. Soon after, they ran out of calendars. He still stayed until about 5pm to make sure everyone in line got a chance to meet him and draw something in whatever they had brought. Most people already had books for him to sign, I did not. I bought a childs drawing book because it had drawings only on one side of the pages. I asked him to draw the duck in the helmet and make it out to Joe Minotaur as that is the name I use in online forums and comments here. Stephan says he doesn’t read the comments to keep from letting them influence his work. A lot of artists do that as well.

Rinse a kidney, drain a radiator, check the dipstick (last of which mostly used by dipsticks…)

women don’t actually say this instead of ‘I have to use the bathroom,’ you know. It’s not that mortifying a thing to say.

lol…

LOL! Pig is funnaaay.

Pig learns something from Pigita. Surprised he still takes her out.

Americans and euphemisms are sooo funny. I recall once in the middle of the 80’s when I was in Los Angeles, in a what could best be described as a type hospital basement, besides a big kitchen. A women comes and asks me where there’s a restroom, and I (being swedish and used to call a spade a spade and a toilet a toilet) do not understand what she means, so I puzzled ask her why she expects to find somewhere to rest in a basement. She rephrases her question to that of somewhere to wash her hands and I point to a nearby sink (but then I’ve understood what she wants, so I’m just pulling her leg), and she, somewhat exasperatedly says she needs a bathroom, upon which I answer, “I don’t know where there are any bathrooms, but on the floor above I know you can find some showers.” And she, “NO!!! I need a ladies room”, so I pretend to realize what she means, pointing, “Aha, you need a toilet, why don’t you say that, there’s one just around the corner there.” She looks at me with utter disgust before leaving to take care of her business.

WHY CAN’T THEY JUST CALL IT A BATHROOM??? (I know the terminology, just call it a bathroom!!!)

There’s a euphemism that really should be added to the scrap heap of history. Unless, of course, one really is going to apply powder to her nose.