Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 07, 2013
Transcript:
George: Hey, Morty, want to hang out? Morty: Can't, George. Gotta watch this egg. George: Doesn't your wife do that? Morty: No. With Emperor Penguins, it's the guy who incubates the eggs. George: So what does the wife do? Morty: Gee, George. I don't know. But evolutionarily speaking, I assume it's something critical to our species' survival. Wife: Cocktail!
Bilan about 11 years ago
The cocktail is to prepare for motherhood/
jazzmoose about 11 years ago
Better make it a double, then.
luckylouie about 11 years ago
If George is a skua gull, he’s just waiting for Morty to turn his back so he can have an egg for breakfast.
corzak about 11 years ago
The harsh natural selection operating in the Antarctic favors female Emperor Penguins who have learned to supplement their normal diet of polar cod, glacial squid and krill . . . with rum daiquiris and Piña Coladas.
orinoco womble about 11 years ago
Kind of like Horton the Elephant and Maisie.
Sisyphos about 11 years ago
George’s first speech balloon is heavily ironic if seen in the context of what’s going on in Jim Meddick’s Monty! Here, Mrs. Morty is refining her evolutionary skills, and I approve this message.
Opus Croakus about 11 years ago
That wasn’t in “March of the Penguins”.
Enoki about 11 years ago
Only to her survival…
rshive about 11 years ago
And there was the sadistic beachcomber who left no tern unstoned.
Carl Rennhack Premium Member about 11 years ago
I’d enjoy having $1 for every female human who wants our species to have a similar setup!
EddieC23 about 11 years ago
Whose tern is it, anyway?
puddlesplatt about 11 years ago
said the killer whale to the other, you passed your Tern.
lisapaloma13 about 11 years ago
He’s apparently watching “this” egg freeze… Doesn’t have it on his feet, wrapped in his “fur”, as he should. (*Not “my” egg?)
gilmccarthy about 11 years ago
What does she do? She gave birth to the egg! Her vacation is well deserved.
sarah413 Premium Member about 11 years ago
She subscribes to the fact that it’s ALWAYS 5 o’clock in the afternoon somewhere on earth.
GoodQuestion Premium Member about 11 years ago
I am happy to see that Stephan left the polar bear out of the forth panel, as everyone knows that polar bears don’t frequent tropical resort beaches, and he doesn’t like starting controversy . . . ☻
Badeyes about 11 years ago
Beginning to think that Stephen finally ran out of crocs. Time for a party at Zebra’s place.
Gokie5 about 11 years ago
Re: Mrs. Penguin’s activity: Like you wouldn’t!
hariseldon59 about 11 years ago
Of course we know that in reality, emperor penguins don’t hatch their eggs on ice floes; they travel many miles inland before laying their eggs.
Andi Asha about 11 years ago
In this marraige its opposite
catzilla23 about 11 years ago
The tern of the screw?
Number Three about 11 years ago
That is the life!
xxx
Vet Premium Member about 11 years ago
Where is Morgan Freeman when you need him?When do they start dancing????
scarlson2014 about 11 years ago
why no garbanzo bean day strip?
cooganm Premium Member about 11 years ago
Drat, got here late. Youse guys have taken all the good tern jokes…There might be one in here linking sterna vittata with hakuna matata, but then Pastis would have to bring in a lion, and he traded them for crocs 10 years ago…
Sherlock Watson about 11 years ago
I thought Wifey was eaten by the polar bear. I guess even he couldn’t stand her for long.
hariseldon59 about 11 years ago
Is that the same tropical island where Zebra was marooned?
Asharah about 11 years ago
Female Emperor penguins go to sea to feed during egg incubation so they can come back and take over once it hatches. And you think she’s earned a vacation for laying the egg, what about Mama Kiwi. She’s the size of a chicken, but her egg is 6 times the size of a chicken egg.
suendoug about 11 years ago
No, not to prepare her for MOTHERHOOD. To prepare her for having a TEENAGER.
FrostbiteFalls almost 2 years ago
I half-expected a “one good tern” pun or something to that effect.