Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 02, 2012

They give him F- words, because he came in as the winner of the F- club.

Especially not Larry…

Actually, it’s likely of Semitic origin, unsurprisingly, when you think about Egypt.

As Calvin in his Stupendous Man costume saying the acronym of S.T.U.D.E.N.D.O.U.S, he said, “O for… wait, how do you spell this? Is it ‘I’?”

So why is this strip funny? Bad puns followed by running joke about Larry being an idiot. Mr. Pastis, get it together man!!

Why’s Larry in a spelling bee? He couldn’t even spell “zebra” right on Jeopardy!.

Hey, Junior, that’s your dad you’re watching make a fool of himself (the easiest thing Larry has ever done)!

Do not under estimate the power of the Croc!

Hey, those Greek words are HARD!

Why are Wally and Alice from Dilbert judging a spelling bee?

Larry got in the wrong line at the studio…..he was looking for The Apprentice……figuring he could work for the Trumpeter.

Bet he can spell “Beer”!

Bet he wants beer.

It would have been funnier if Junior won the spelling bee

Can me peese have de definition?

spelling bee contests are a big waste of intelligence. those really smart kids spend a lot of time learning how to spell words. their intelligence could be better applied to solving society’s ills like finding a cure for cancer, cold fusion, etc…

Speling no ees hard. All dose stoopid speling rules ees what ees hard.

Larry ees smartur den yoo think. The ‘language of origin’ for cat is very complicated. It seems many different peeples like usin’ variations of “kad”, “gat”, “katt” or “kit” to describe these common furry friends. So the word has spread over a hundred languages in many different families. (Although many East Asian languages seem to like using, as a name, the actual sound the cat makes: “meo”)But the origin of the word “cat” is (probably) either from the Nilo-Saharan Nubian, or the Afro-Asiatic Berber languages, near Nile Valley, where the kitty cat was first domesticated. Larry is justified in demanding origin.

Thank you. Keep the Crocs coming.

The ancient Greek word for “cat” is “αἴλουρος” (“ailouros”). “Cat” came into English from the Late Latin "cattus"¹ which came from the Berber “kedis”. ¹The classical Latin word for “cat” was “felis” whence “feline”. The later (and Modern) Greek word is “γατα” (“ga’ta”), also derived from Berber.

Definition of cat: “Not a dog.”(Name that reference!)

They should have asked him to spell Zeeba.

If there’s a nine-year old Vietnamese girl in this spelling bee, then Larry’s doomed…in fact, we all are. She’ll kick all of our tails!

This is frustratingly funny!

I am not a linguist, but it is my understanding that spelling bees do not exist in languages other than English.

cat-astrophic

i had a dream like this once, where i was the microphone

“i had a dream like this once, where i was the microphone”

Me hav that dreem to! Bee prowd—you deed verry gud job as mikofone!

My trusty Amer. Herit. Dict. 4th Ed. just says “cat” is from a Germanic root. But since molecular genetics has shown that domestic cats derived from a North African feral species, I’m happy to go along with the idea of a Berber origin.

Remember they used to say that Terry Bradshaw couldn’t spell ‘cat’ if you spotted him the ‘c’ and the ‘a’.?

K-A-T I’m outta here.

What do you think Croc would have said next?

LARRY WHAT DA ####

Judging by people’s texts, spelling is not a big priority