Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 11, 2011

Pig, try offering her some ice cream instead; the phrase for that is “rip, strip, grip, and dip.”÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷Save the oompa-loompas!

Goat definitely has the right idea! Less wear and tear on the Oompa Loompas.

This has nothing to do with the comic, so I ask for tolerance. I also realize that many of you are not from the United States, so I ask extra tolerance. Feel free to use the scroll key!

Ten years ago today we wept As enemies attacked.It felt as though our own blood poured: Our hearts and minds, pain-wracked.

The day was one of blood and tears Of smoke, of fire, of painOf heroes giving their own lives As ashes fell like rain.

That day all prejudice was gone As we stood side by side;Our foolish fights, our differences, Forgotten with our pride.

Can’t we leave off our rotten feuds To honor all those men?And take our neighbor by the hand, United once again?

The only we that we’ll stay strong And stand against the odds,Is mend the rifts, be once again- One nation under God!

We Shall Never Forget

Check out Randy Travis “America Will Always Stand”

Don’t think I’ll be signing up for “Doc” Rat’s linguistics class…. BTW, if Pig had some gumption, he could probably sue The Kind Person for assault and get big-time damages (note: NOT with “Lawyer” Rat as his attorney).

Hmmm… ‘Schloop schloop ping-a-bang bong’… For some reason, I feel oddly offended…

…and then the Rat doctor..

He told me what to do

He said that

"Schloop ♪ schloop ♪

ping-a-bang ♫♫ a bong ♪ bong…."

Rat’s linguistic theory: If they don’t capisce…KAPISHHH!

Did he get that pick up line from Bill Cosby?

A great 9/11 comic today is Over the Hedge, check it out.

Interesting that the sound effect is phonetically similar to the Italian for “Understand”

I’m with goat on this.

I’m for “gongbong humma humma”, but “schloop-schloop ping-a-pang bong” works really well for me too…

@waycyber Scusi, non capisco

On a day of rembrance, a strip that doesn’t, is exactly why with all our human flaws, the USA is still the model for individuality. AND why even the one dimensional creeps & monsters come here, to see what it’s all about. I’m sure every once in awhile, one of them has a change of heart & mind.

I think the lack of service in this diner is what angers her. Cups of something plus empty plates are all I ever see. She didn’t even get the empty place setting or a cup. Check please?

It’s a shame that you, Stephan, could not join the almost 100 other syndicated cartoonists in somehow marking this significant day in American (and world) history. That sucks.

As a Capricorn, I’ll go 100% with Goat.mgh

Wasn’t ‘Bong tiddle-tiddle Bang’ a Europolice Song contest winner? (or was that Monty Python…)

One of these days, Rat is going to get walla walla bing banged by Goat.

Go directly to jail, Pig. Do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars.

Never forget.

P.S. Why didn’t you do a tribute strip like everyone else did?!!!!!

Shame on you rat, making pig get hurt on 9/11. enough people have already been hurt that day.

Pig’s poor oompa-loompas…

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/capisce

Oh my God… So funny!

LOL xxx

I believe that Rat’s terminology for what happened to poor Pig is “Oompa Loompa Doopity Doo”.

And Rat didn’t evven offer to kiss Pig’s Oompa Loompas to make them feel better !

I’m about to do some ping-a-pang bongs!

I’m disappointed that Mr. Pastis didn’t commemorate 09/11 like some of the other strips did. Oh well, I guess you can’t have everything from the best strip in comics..

Thank you, I wasn’t trying to detract from the comic at all. It just was on my mind.@otto- no insult meant. I just didn’t want to take for granted that it mattered to everyone as much as to us. Thanks for your support. We still need it!

Amen. If we keep dwelling on the past or making up stories about the future, we lose this very moment. We scream at ‘their’ hatred of us, but what about our own hatred, prejudice and intolerence? We are all one and we are all connected.

“Whomps” was the word invented by “T. J.” on “Recess” to avoid Real swear words (S2/E19, 1999).

don’t worry Pig, I don’t like monopoly either.

perhaps if you don’t want to see a “silly comic”…..then don’t come here

Ignoring 9/11? That wasn’t something I expected of this comic. Hmmmmm.

When in doubt, always kick the oompa loompas

Justrightturnips, that poem was amazing

Arianne! I’m so sorry to hear about your daughter.

Congratulations to you on still being able to enjoy the person she was, alongside your grief, and not turn her memory into only a memorial to sadness.

Her humor was part of her legacy, a gift to the world, so forgetting it would be wasteful. I’m glad you choose to remember it.

And I completely agree with your last line.

Cutiepie and Susan, thank-you so much for your kind and sympathetic words. That last line was the real point I wanted to make. I’m ambivalent about using my loss to illustrate the point – it rather feels like taking the Lord’s name in vain: Thou Shalt Not! Hopefully, it wasn’t entirely in vain. It’s just that I’ve been so frustrated today by a few posters’ insistence that every comic must follow lock-step, goose-step, in a mandatory display, or else they prove themselves to be heartless and unpatriotic. That’s some odd notion of freedom!

I said that word to a couple of my friends, they just said WTF

Right in the oompa loompas.