Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 23, 2011
July 22, 2011
July 24, 2011
Transcript:
Pig: Hey, Goat, I'd like you to meet someone I met on my journey through space... it's Pluto! Goat: Pluto? The Pluto that used to be one of our nine planets? Noise: CRACK Pig: Sensitive subject.
Wow. I never did like it when poor Pluto got demoted … but I gotta admit, he IS pretty small.Not much of a gravitational field, either, or when he walked into the diner, he’d be covered in stainless steel cutlery.Still, size isn’t everything, you know.I know I’ve heard that someplace.
Or maybe Otto’s right and the diner is very very very big………..in which case Pastis is as tall as Neptune, as befits a big star.
Mike Brown, the evil scientist who “killed” Pluto, wrote a very entertaining and enlightening book about the entire event, providing the background and whole story. It’s called: How I Killed Pluto. You can probably get it at a good library or through interlibrary loan. Even if you don’t agree, you will understand the reasoning much better.
Wonder if Pluto would still be considered a planet had been discovered by a European professional astronomer instead of an American amateur. I bet it would…….
Pluto is one of the world’s best known and most widely read and studied philosophers. He was the student of Socrates and the teacher of …Oops – Sorry, that was Plato.
I recall one short shaggy dog story that involved Pluto being a holiday destination for governesses and for mobsters in danger of arrest.Customs duty there involved searching every crook and nanny.
Pluto is just a rock in the kiper belt, one of hundreds that have been discovered in recent years due to better telescopes. It’s not even the biggest, it had to be downgraded from planethood or else every on of those objects would get added to the list of planets. Just imagine trying to remember three hundred names instead of 8.
margueritem about 13 years ago
Don’t blame you one bit, Pluto. You’re still the 9th planet to me.
GypsyWoman about 13 years ago
Technically he is now a “dwarf” planet but don’t call him that either.
zero about 13 years ago
Hmmm that’s just f-n Goofy…
kcjones about 13 years ago
ummm, Naz….the original designation was arbitrary….
Ottodesu about 13 years ago
Golly, I did not realise that this was such a big comic strip … VERY big! Pig’s head is almost a planet as well!
Jmarkoff about 13 years ago
I think of Pluto as an honorary planet.
Hillbillyman about 13 years ago
I thought Pluto was a dog?
Sisyphos about 13 years ago
Nine planets. Pluto the ninth, Now, more beyond. More planets. A pox on all who would Deny! (Very sensitive, Pig!)
SusanSunshine Premium Member about 13 years ago
Wow. I never did like it when poor Pluto got demoted … but I gotta admit, he IS pretty small.Not much of a gravitational field, either, or when he walked into the diner, he’d be covered in stainless steel cutlery.Still, size isn’t everything, you know.I know I’ve heard that someplace.
Or maybe Otto’s right and the diner is very very very big………..in which case Pastis is as tall as Neptune, as befits a big star.
Joe1962 Premium Member about 13 years ago
Do not blame Pluto you are still a planet to me.
GROG Premium Member about 13 years ago
A planent’s a planet, no matter how small.
4shadow about 13 years ago
No, little planet is very 1990’s. Today in our enlightenment the proper politically correct phrase is “Circumferencially challenged.”
3hourtour Premium Member about 13 years ago
..That Mickey Mouse planet..
tonyd1942 about 13 years ago
Pluto is still a planet. Those few dizzy scientists’ theory has not been universally accepted.
Kvasir42 Premium Member about 13 years ago
Mike Brown, the evil scientist who “killed” Pluto, wrote a very entertaining and enlightening book about the entire event, providing the background and whole story. It’s called: How I Killed Pluto. You can probably get it at a good library or through interlibrary loan. Even if you don’t agree, you will understand the reasoning much better.
rockngolfer about 13 years ago
How about the subject of how to pronounce “Uranus?”
OldestandWisest about 13 years ago
The only thing worse would have been a reference to Mickey Mouse’s dog!
bdaverin about 13 years ago
Jonathan Coulton wrote a fine song about that demotion. “I’m Your Moon.” Sung by Neptune to Pluto.
corzak about 13 years ago
Where is Pluto’s little friend Charon?
McGehee about 13 years ago
Its relationship with Charon is strictly plutonic.
mckinney54 about 13 years ago
Pluto discovered as a “planet” and will always be a “planet”. Is Stephen still in jail? Or another dropped story line? Where is Rat?
Sandfan about 13 years ago
Let that be a lesson, Pig. You do not mess with the Ruler of the Underworld.
Sandfan about 13 years ago
That should have been addressed to Goat, of course. Mea Culpa.
GoodQuestion Premium Member about 13 years ago
An un-wise crack, goat….☻
hariseldon59 about 13 years ago
Rat was busy fomenting revolution the last few days. Pig probably never got a chance.
mac47 about 13 years ago
BRING BACK PLUTO!
lmubill about 13 years ago
Wonder if Pluto would still be considered a planet had been discovered by a European professional astronomer instead of an American amateur. I bet it would…….
Fan o’ Lio. about 13 years ago
Pluto is one of the world’s best known and most widely read and studied philosophers. He was the student of Socrates and the teacher of …Oops – Sorry, that was Plato.
dfowensby about 13 years ago
ooo rah noos. that was easy, now wasn’t it? sort of like the mispronouncing of Caesar. kai- sahr. there are no “soft” c’s in latin.
bmonk about 13 years ago
I recall one short shaggy dog story that involved Pluto being a holiday destination for governesses and for mobsters in danger of arrest.Customs duty there involved searching every crook and nanny.
squirrel500 about 13 years ago
Stephan seems to make everyone in his comic drink beer.
anthb about 13 years ago
I suppose Pluto was drinking one of those beer aliens?
Sherlock Watson about 13 years ago
I wonder if anyone slipped Pluto a mickey; that might make him goofy.
SusanSunshine Premium Member about 13 years ago
Grog — I got it.I was just going to suggest that’s what you meant.
philphan25 about 13 years ago
A fourth moon was just discovered days ago. I guess size doesn’t affect your ‘planet’ entourage.
silentshadow about 13 years ago
dwarf cant hit me with a beer can.
bahramthered about 13 years ago
Pluto is just a rock in the kiper belt, one of hundreds that have been discovered in recent years due to better telescopes. It’s not even the biggest, it had to be downgraded from planethood or else every on of those objects would get added to the list of planets. Just imagine trying to remember three hundred names instead of 8.
Rodney99 about 13 years ago
You think that’s bad- I heard they’d discovered there’s a ring around Uranus.
hossblacksilver about 13 years ago
The interesting thing is, if I remember correctly, is that Pluto’s not purple, it’s pink.
ericlericl about 13 years ago
I know the guy who made Pluto a dwarf planet!
Skarlett Premium Member about 13 years ago
Love Pluto’s face in the last panel!!
Mr. Marzs' Saucer about 13 years ago
Caitlin71.6 about 13 years ago
never talk to pluto about the planets thing…. doesnt end well
Caitlin71.6 about 13 years ago
VERY sensitive subject
dwakkhawk over 12 years ago
I wouldn’t let myself go to sleep until I read a strip with 69 comments. This one had 68, so I’m commenting myself. Please don’t tell.
CHAD OCHOCINCO JOHNSON almost 3 years ago
SusanSunshine #3
Chloe.Isaiah5410 almost 3 years ago
Pluto is still a planet!