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Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 28, 2012
April 27, 2012
April 29, 2012
Transcript:
Goat: What are you doing, pig? Pig: Playing ping pong with Rat. Goat: But he's just smashing the ball into your face. Pig: Yeah. Rat says the 'ping' is when you hit it with the paddle, but the 'pong' is when you smash someone's face. Otherwise, he says it'd be called 'ping ping.' Goat: That is not how you play- Pig: May I one day be a pinger? Rat: A ponger be a pinger? Now I have to paddle you for asking.
LLABDDO almost 13 years ago
Be careful not to bruise the bacon.
Rakostump almost 13 years ago
hahaha…i love pig :D
Sherlock Watson almost 13 years ago
Usually they just play jai-alai; Pig says “Hi,” and Rat says a lie.
naturally_easy almost 13 years ago
Pig should be thankful Rat doesn’t suggest playing “doctor”.
Varnes almost 13 years ago
Now I have to paddle you because you made me paddle you,
zero almost 13 years ago
Sometimes, even I can’t like Rat’s m.o.
hariseldon59 almost 13 years ago
Why does Pig even have a paddle?
SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 13 years ago
I the U.S. we usually call it a paddle…. but I’d say Rat has quite a racquet going on.Haris — maybe he’s allowed to duck and cover.(If he’s allowed duck, though, he needs Guard Duck, not that little wooden thing.
shimoon almost 13 years ago
yeh, when is his turn?
knight1192a almost 13 years ago
Rat is the ultimate Ponger pretending to be a Pinger. As Pig’s too naive for his own good, it seems it’s time Goat takes the paddle from him and uses it on that giant ping pong ball at the end of Rat’s face. Then uses it on Rat’s head.
Varnes almost 13 years ago
F65Hellcat, you’ve named yourself well…….
PICTO almost 13 years ago
“Now I have to paddle you for asking.” Rat is starting to sound like my wife.
tigre1 almost 13 years ago
Yeah, beating up of people who can’t fairly respond…it’s almost conservative. The beginning, anyway.
Sisyphos almost 13 years ago
Rat is such a rat! He layeth the smack on Pig, who doesn’t even know he’s being jobbed. When the Ponger pings the Pinger, Justice Will Be Served!
JGordonFan24 almost 13 years ago
Sometimes I feel like the pinger.
CollettiMichael Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Pig should use his big ears as paddles. One for ping the other for pong.
The Old Wolf almost 13 years ago
But can you build a quick trick brick stack?
The Old Wolf almost 13 years ago
I say we put Rat in a room with Jean Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal and Chuck Norris and let him start insulting the three of them… I’d pay to watch.
cubswin2016 almost 13 years ago
I think it would funny if Stephen added a cat.
GoodQuestion Premium Member almost 13 years ago
It takes balls to play ping-pong with rat . . . ☻
finale almost 13 years ago
Rat’s next game: Kng Kong playning Ping Pong with his Ding Dong
Fan o’ Lio. almost 13 years ago
Pong was my first video game.
Godfreydaniel almost 13 years ago
Those “Fox in Sox” references remind me that when my nieces and nephews were little I used to read that to them BACKWARDS. (Which is a very tough challenge….)
3hourtour Premium Member almost 13 years ago
..love it…
bmonk almost 13 years ago
Trust Rat to find an evil spin to put in the game.
nels0cjn almost 13 years ago
rat needs to be in trap, if only for a short time, so he comes to his relisations that others maters
XtremePearls almost 13 years ago
RAT’S AN IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!
rgcviper almost 13 years ago
I have the sudden urge to “PONG” Rat. I get the feeling Goat, and even innocent Pig, would back me up, too.
Who’s with me?
doublepaw almost 13 years ago
Pig is asking to be a pinger, but that is what he has been. Must be the blows to the head have confused him.