Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 09, 2012

She didn’t give you a chance to explain, Pig.

WHY is Pig still dating Pigita? He can do SO much better than that abusive shrew!

What does he see in that sow?

too bad, they could have swung together

A word of warning, Pig: If either Bob or Betty likes to play on the slide, you’d better phrase it just that way. Don’t just say that they like going down.

I’m starting to wonder who Pigita ate to get that Dolly Parton wig…

I saw that coming from Panel 1. Stephen has started telegraphing his punches. Or at least his punchlines.

Quite sadly I think most folks over a certain age (what’s that, 13, 14, maybe 15) are going to think swingers in the same sense as Pigita did. Unless their actually at a playground and see them on the swings. Just another instance of Pig being an innocent.

And it doesn’t help matters that they also hang out at monkey bars.

poor pig.

I hope Pig will find true love with someone else.

perhaps they could give him some tips

I love great bad puns.

“Flung Poo”….the villian in the lastest Jackie Chan movie?

What none of you seem to realize is that the last panel is actually inside Bob’s and Betty’s bedroom..Kinky freaks!

But it is true they swing both ways, right?

She should know by now Pig doesn’t exactly live up to his name.

Pigita is pretty abusive. As often as misunderstandings happen between pig and her, you’d think she’d learn. But she doesn’t. Pig needs another pig that’s at least patient and willing to listen. But of course that isn’t funny, so will never happen. It would turn the strip into a soap opera, instead of what it is. A commentary on stupidity. Humor has nothing to do with it.

…and if you ARE looking for swingers, check out cops and grade school teachers. Maybe you didn’t know.

Nurses are good,too. Frequency but sequential, not groups…

Pig shoulda told her they belong to the Mixed Martial Arts, she’d fit right in.

I have a swing too! I get to use it once in a while.

You can’t say ANYTHING these days without it having a stupid, inappropriate double meaning. My little bro said a friend of his “got bonked”, and another person looked at him funny. Stupid vulgar- DON’T YOU HAVE ENOUGH BAD MEANINGS?!

I know lots of elderly swingers. Some have their swings on their porches, others have lawn swings.

On an unrelated note here in PA pigs are an invasive species and are open to hunting year round. :)

Swingin’ used to be a good thing – (Benny Goodman et al).

Ouch.

Hey! I don’t approve of their lifestyle either1 Just look at them… You know that Pastis left out the lines of sad little children who are just waiting for their chance to swing.Bullies, that’s what swingers are…

Good.

I have to ask, why is it okay for pigitia to beat up on pig? If it were the other way around EVERYone would be up in arms, comic or not. Between her and rat pig seriously needs the number for domestic abuse hotlines.

Pig should put that in different words

poor pig…aside from the crocs, I think he gets hurt the most in the strip

Pig never gets a chance to explain.

I have customers (for lack of a better term) who are swingers.

I sing with a big band jazz ensemble.

Wow! The timing on this was remarkable. Words have meaning. Our culture doesn’t need a new meaning for “marriage.” One man, one woman. God’s design. Who are we to mess with His design?