Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 03, 2012
Transcript:
Pig: What's going on, Jeff the cyclist? Jeff: I'm training for a race. I need to be just the right weight. One extra pound means being 8% less efficient on hill climbs. Pig: But you're already so fit, and your bike is as light as can be... What else could you possibly do to drop weight? Jeff: Change the spelling of my name from 'J-E-F-F' to 'J-E-F.' Pig: One 'F' lighter! Jeff: Jef thinks of everything!
The#1BoiseStateFan about 12 years ago
One f lighter. HA!
Bilan about 12 years ago
If you put on 12 1/2 pounds, do you become 0% efficient?
margueritem about 12 years ago
JEF, somehow, it’s fitting…
Stan King about 12 years ago
Oh, the war with Frazz (creator Jef Mallett) is so DEFINITELY on!
rockngolfer about 12 years ago
While I was getting my cruiser tires replaced the bike guy had a discussion with a customer about open pedals, cadence, and carbon fiber wheels that cost a couple of grand each.
Sisyphos about 12 years ago
The degree of my dislike for Jef[f] the Cyclist is in inverse proportion to his weight reduction. —Gee; maybe he could waste away to NOTHING AT ALL; ya think?
littleannoyingdog about 12 years ago
LOSER Door prize is what I’d like to give him ie opening the drivers side door to turn him into road meat
WelshRat Premium Member about 12 years ago
Stephan Vs Jef? Mr Pastis is the victim of today’s Frazz…
Varnes about 12 years ago
Stan, it really is. Read Frazz today, it’s about Pearls…Man, these guys…..
Varnes about 12 years ago
Puns and all….
SusanSunshine Premium Member about 12 years ago
I always wondered why he spelled it like that…
Silly me, I thought it was an homage to Bil Keene.
SusanSunshine Premium Member about 12 years ago
Smart of him, BTW, to lose an F instead of one of those L’s in Mallet… that crossbar must weigh something…though those final T’s are probably heavier and even more useless.Maybe next year…
knight1192a about 12 years ago
Jef is an idiot. Let’s say that actually does eliminate weight from the brain, it’s bound to be about .0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 of a gram, so infinitesimal of a weight as to not even have any serious effect on Jeff’s preformance on the hill climb. The sunglasses add more weight than the letter F could, so loose them.
doublepaw about 12 years ago
Oh oh, a weight gain by a cyclist could indicate foreign substances in the body.
bahramthered about 12 years ago
i see he already ditched those burdensome IQ points.
Brockie about 12 years ago
Hey, Jeff don’t forget to go potty before you go, that will lighten your “load”.
the burser about 12 years ago
sticka-ka jefuh-fuh hu-hu-hu
jessegooddoggy about 12 years ago
I love Pearls, but I do save Frazz until the very last…
The Old Wolf about 12 years ago
A couple of penslingers are drawing their weapons it would seem. Love it…
Nachikethass about 12 years ago
This is going to be interesting. Pastis has the words to win, I should think?
Arianne about 12 years ago
Well, it is God, not Godd.
mamarose127 Premium Member about 12 years ago
The best fights are always between good friends. This is going to be good!
s_roberts99 about 12 years ago
Round 1 to Mallet. Pastis just missed a TKO in the first round with Pig saying that’s a F..n…L.
Sheriff Mordecai Premium Member about 12 years ago
This good natured ribbing is nothing compared to the real fun that happens when cartoonists party. That’s why it’s such an isolated profession. Too much togetherness would be a disaster of immense proportions.
finale about 12 years ago
Where the F did it it go?.I mean, where did the F go?
Stan King about 12 years ago
Dude, yes, of course I do. (Either that, or I’m so stupid I thought it was a colossal coincidence that each of their strips tweaked the other on the same day.)
CrimsonFoxx about 12 years ago
Apparently, Jef doesn’t give an f anymore
Toronto2 about 12 years ago
littleannoyingdog: Really? You want to main, cripple, or kill cyclists with your car?
You need help.
Meanwhile, stop driving.
Number Three about 12 years ago
Good Luck in the race, Jeff or Jef.
Though you won’t need it!
xxx
John Lamb Premium Member about 12 years ago
If Jef really wants to win he needs to think castration. He can lose weight and fit the seat better.
lizardlover2 about 12 years ago
I’m new to Frazz, and checked it out. Is it me or does our hero look like Calvin grown up?
js about 12 years ago
JFF would be even lighter.
Varnes about 12 years ago
lizardlover, Yeah, a lot of people say that. And conclude that Calvin would grow up to be like Frazz….
6turtle9 about 12 years ago
Round one, Pastis.
CoBass about 12 years ago
Re: “Someone explain the pun…what is the significance of Pig’s comment in Panel 3?”I can’t believe you missed it, but the name went from “Jeff The Cyclist” in panel 1 to “Jef The Cyclist” in Panel 3 – one “f” in “Jeff” was dropped.And the cartonist for Frazz is Jef (one “f”) Mallett.
underwriter about 12 years ago
These cartoon “wars” are helping me understand male bonding……
tangcameo about 12 years ago
Yknow if he cut it down to just JE he wouldn’t have that exhale on FF which is probably pushing back against his velocity just a bit.
Hoodude about 12 years ago
Thinking of Calvin as a grown up,makes my head…explode.And Hobbes? What of him?
Miserichord about 12 years ago
Relax.littleannoyingdog is all “Yap yap yap yap yap” and no bite.Would never really try to injure someone, just likes to make annoying comments.
Firebird67 about 12 years ago
They’re friends. I don’t know about best buds – where’d you hear that? And it certainly doesn’t mean there can’t be a ’toon war.
Toxicdave about 12 years ago
OK so after reading both comics – as I do daily, I have to wonder if each artist sent the other the drawings and had the other fill in the dialog.
sandigilbo about 12 years ago
Mallett – does that rhyme with ballet?
Mike H about 12 years ago
Oh thats so ucked up..lol
Sherlock Watson about 12 years ago
The only way I could really like “Frazz” is if they’d dump that sermonizing janitor and rename it “Caulfield and Friends.”
Ooten Aboot about 12 years ago
Some war – did Napoleon and Wellington give each other three weeks’ notice of their maneuvers (or manoeuvres if you speak English)?
el8 about 12 years ago
huzzah!
the wolf about 12 years ago
yeah but for the readers they start wars and sometimes they wright the others lines for the comics
pbuckland Premium Member about 12 years ago
There’s already a strip called F Minus.
KenyarJad about 12 years ago
And the other half of the war… sorry, Frazz wins it today.
Jeff0811 about 12 years ago
I almost flattened a cyclist once. I was coming up on a red light, no cars in front of me, one van stopped at the light in the lane to my left. Light turned green before I approached the intersection, I whzzed through, wondering why the van wasn’t moving. Then I saw the cyclist run the red light on the street perpendicular to my direction of travel. I jerked the wheel to the left, passed the cyclist who ws still in the right lane, missed him by about a foot, jerked again to the right after passing said cyclist. Saw him pull up at the other side of the street, stop, and let out a huge sigh. I had only been driving for about 6 months to a year at that time.
moridin82 about 12 years ago
Think of it like a snowball fight…
burleigh2 about 12 years ago
…or he could leave his helmet off and shave his head. He wouldn’t lose anything important in a crash, but he’s probably too vain to lose his hair. ;-)
m.l. about 12 years ago
Nebo about 11 years ago
I work with a guy like that…
Bye Bye Jeffy over 3 years ago
this is the first strip of the treasury ‘gets sacrificed’