Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 16, 2011

But it’s pronounced ‘crah-pee’

That’s not how it appears when spelled though.What a Crappie name…

Ever heard of a Dik-Dik? Just sayin’

In south Louisiana, they’re called sac-au-lait (“bag of milk”).

There are birds called penduline tits — even when they’re young chicks.

in King Ralph (John Goodman), he had to identify the food “spotted dick” which looked like … a plate of spotted dicks, I think it’s a dessert.Steph IS from that part of the world… ask him how they pronounce Aluminum, sounds like they say “aleeoominum”I pronounce “crappie” as “croppy”

I learned something new today!

That’s two days in a row this guy has made me laugh out loud. I know better than to have a mouthful of coffee when reading this strip – those spittakes are hard on the old monitor.

He could call himself Hammy, so then we could have an Over The Hedge crossover, with the Hedge gang threatening legal action for copyright infringement.

Well, Pastis is gunna get complaints on the word ‘crap’

How about the former state fish of Hawaii : Humuhumunukunukuapuaa

Quit carping about your name Pig; you’ve given me a haddock.

Don’t forget that sad sack of the piscine world, the blobfish…

Then there’s the genus of nightjars (nocturnal insect-eating birds) called Caprimulgus….Latin for “goatsucker”.

Crappie, in this case, is pronounced “croppie”.

I’ve always heard it pronounced: Crap-ee. Pennsylvania

Feed a man a fish, and he eats for a day…teach a man to fish and he’ll sit in a boat and drink beer all day….and be late for dinner….

Websters dictionary: Crappie noun \ˈkrä-pē\A Southern accent does not make it proper English.

The strip today worked out great for me as english is not my native language and I’ve never met Mister Fish before: I’m still laughing. Excellent.

?Crappie fish” and not just “crappie”? (Just “crappie” would have been funnier … )

I think I detect the fine hand of the Syndicate Censor in the wording of today’s joke …

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/crappie

pronounced “krap-ee”, though they are also occasionally referred to as croppie (in which case they would be pronounced that way). personally ive never heard anyone use “croppie”… all indications are that this secondary word/pronunciation is somewhat obsolescent. try googling “croppie” & it automatically changes your search.

If y’all want to blather on about fish names, there is one fish that, in my humble opinion, takes the cake; at least it has done so since I learned of them in college. It is a small wrasse in the Atlantic/Caribbean basin, known as … and I am NOT making this up … the Slippery Dick. ’Nuff said.

Atlanta Braves have a 1B prospect named Terdoslavich – they call him Terdo – pig can take solace!

change your name to piggy and get a frog as a sidekick

Maybe Pig, Crappie, Jackass, and Loon could form a support group.

Nobody mentioned the crocs? This is a crock!

Porky was taken and Steph being an ex attorney knows he be sued up the curly tail by Disney if he did!

Awwwww!

xxx

Tune in tomorrow, when Larry gobbles up the talking fish and all of its relatives, and Pig is misunderstood when he says, “That’s a croc full of crappies!”

Aww, Pig! Always be proud of your name! We like you even when your witlessness frustrates us!

Why is it only the crocs have individual names? Life is not fair, I tell you.

This is one FUNNY comic! Love it.

Thanks Stephan!!!!

I don’t think being called a pig is any worse than being called a rat.

It’s lucky the new GoComics board doesn’t have a nanny-bot, or half the comments today would be bleeped! (I remember once someone typed “Dick Van Dyke”, and it came out “**** Van ****”)

Bender is my fav from futurama

the only thing “crappie” about crappie is the spelling…

HOWEVER… it’s redundant to us to say “Crappie Fish”We call it what it’s proper name is, that’s it. We would otherwise enlighten anyone as to what a “Crappie” is.With in an exception to a song by Boston, saying “we all drove a Cadillac Car” is just as redundant. Stephan may be paying respects to those who may not know what a “Crappie” is. He believed it was pronounced as it’s spelled. Saying “I am a Crappie” would have us waiting with “A crappy what?”I was first thinking that the fish could have been a “Sunny” or “Sunfish.” To one who may not know that fish name: “All we caught were Sunnies” instead of “We caught some Sun”.It’s a comic strip… we read them, they, the comic artists, create them. Would we also call them or us “Strippers”?Because, perhaps we’ve really stripped the credentials of this subject.

There’s a type of fish called the “bony-eared assfish”, which I think is even worse.

Try blue-footed boobie, monotonous lark, or common loon.