Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 14, 2011

“It’s not what it looks like!”

..HA! He said Cleveland!Now,is ’Cleveland ’ considered a running gag,or a punch line?…

Never mind about the guy in Cleveland, I’m more curious about that monkey in pants………..

ring ring ring ring ring ring

The PBS Little Theatre Players are in fine fettle today-fortunately, not in Cleveland, the city where the river caught fire….

At first I thought it was my phone going off. I must have the same ringtone as the clevelander.

You know, when PeeWee got arrested, the court offered to appoint a lawyer for him, but he said he could get HIMSELF off.

Did Pig loan the monkey his purple tap pants?

Why are they eating in the house of Usher?!? . . . ☻

Do monkeys wear pants?

Maybe we’re waking up. They sold us tap water in plastic bottles…what a fraud. Now people are waking up to the electronic leash that cellphones are…and expensive, too.

At least plastic water bottles didn’t give you cancer. Oh, wait…what does that say about cellphones?“Oh, nothing. What about you?”

that’s spooky . . . Rat and Pig can see me . . . see all of you other commenters . . . right now . . . Strange how the guy from Cleveland is off to the left of me. I’m facing north, to the west of him.

Wait a minute, Rat’s not even wearing pants!!!

Great. NOW the “Guv’mint” is gonna make us stop useing our cellphones while we read the comics……….in our cars……..while driving.

In the first panel Pig is in two places at once.Does that mean this strip was prerecorded?

There’s only one Pearls reader in Cleveland (“the Cleveland man”)? Doesn’t say much for their sense of humor. ‘Course, I’ve never been there, so can’t say for sure.

If my mobile phone ever rang in a classroom I would go beetroot red since my ringtone is The Pussycat Dolls.

LOL xxx

GAH! WHY CAN’T YOU TURN OFF YOUR $@#* CELL PHONE, CLEVELAND GUY!?! WE’RE TRYING TO READ A COMIC!!! Whoop… sorry exclamation point… somebody get an ambulance.

Jeez, guy (girl?) – F Minus has over 37,000 subscribers on Go Comics, including me. He must be doing SOMETHING right with his strip.

Careful, nighthawks – jtpozenel is an old Cleveland boy…that may not be HIS phone ringing, of course.

who the hell has a cell phone that rings? Everyone has to have some clever little ditty to express themselves. Mine plays Popeye The Sailorman. (just kidding). Rats would play “One of These Days” by Pink Floyd. Pig’s would play “Mary Had A Little Lamb”. Rat would smash it with a bat.

That Cleveland guy really steams me.(Wondering how many will admit they got that…)

What??

Wow. Some people just do not listen.

I want a device that causes massive feedback in cellphones that build in a loop eventually causing catastrophic explosion.

But I’m reading this on my phone…

Pig’s actually standing in front of the first panel.

nice one but………………….i miss the crocs!

I have used 28 minutes so far this month. I’m not exactly tied to mine.

If you think you can yammer away on the phone without Rat finding out – guess again!

A comic doesn’t have to be funny all the time. I read Pearls Before Swine and other comics because I like a good story.

What would the people reading this in Cleveland with their cell phones on think?

YOU’LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE!

i think that there probably was someone in cleveland whos phone wrang while reading this and that pastis temporarily blew his mind

nice 5th wall break

How am I expected to read it then

If you’re reading this strip on your phone, please mute it.