Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 01, 2014

Every time a pun strip comes along, Rat is wantin’ violence.

Where else would an individual sit to watch Wonton Baby!?

Pun? More like tongue twister to me. (Pig sure has odd acquaintances.)

And our theme song for today is “Guantanamera”….

That’s a futon ? I thought this to be a couch…

Hit him again!

The doctors diagnosis was simply; Couch Ouch Contusion.

Like puns in general, but Juan/one’s starting to get a bit overused.

Can anyone actually PLAY wonton violins?Seems kind of pointless, almost like wonton sex.

For anyone that wants to know what Pastis is really like, and why he’s laughing at you right now, check out his interview.

Sleep well, Cartoon-Boy, and if foul nightmares beset thy rest, Let sir Rat whack you twice more over! Forsooth, lay on, good my Rat.

Twas word-play most foul brought low the wretched toonsmith!

Seems like Juan pun leads to another.

Rat the baseball player, batting 1000 ! Perhaps Rat should try Golf ,Tennis or Hockey for all those sports use some form of a hand held club !

boy… sometimes you know with the first balloon you really shouldn’t read the rest.but you do anyway :-/

And then there’s Thomas’s 2000 pound cask of wine…Tom’s ton tun!

That IS a couch. Futons don’t have legs; they sit on the floor.

Pastis! Good to have your old “puny” self back.

I love your puns.

I love that I could tell a pun was coming in Pig’s first word bubble and immediately I could feel a sense of pun anticipation set in. Once again, you did not disappoint!

For all you pun lovers out there, today’s Mother Goose & Grimm has a real groaner. You can see it at http://www.seattlepi.com/comics-and-games/fun/Mgoose/

Futons can be found with a frame, usually wooden, that allows it to be turned into to a couch for day use. I’ve even seen the frame with arms. It’s a western thing because we’re not accustomed to being on the floor, so the frame elevates it for sleeping and day use. I used one for several years and loved it.

Lots of people out there cheering Rat on.

Lots of people out there cheering Rat on.

Wack him another one for that last panel.

Glad people liked the Pastis interview. It’s featured on the GoComics facebook page.

Wanton violence? Perhaps it can be classified as that. Necessary violence? You bet. Still there’s nothing that “beats” a good pun :)

I love when Pastis makes fun of himself like this

Three Steps over Japan, thanks for the link to the Pastis interview…really informative

Of course, I can’t not put up a link to the Led Zeppelin song. Not exactly relevant, just has the word “wanton” and is quite violent. And it might not be to everyone’s taste. That disclaimer aside, I think it’s phenomenal. The Wanton Song

I smelled the wonton wordplay at the end of Pig’s first sentence, but like a train wreck, I couldn’t stop myself.

When I was a fleet mechanic, I always enjoyed working on wonton trucks, LOL

I wonton another Juan!

I cannot stop laughing….LOL<LOL<LOL…..

It needs a fifth panel just so Rat can whack him again.

Finally…Stephen got what he deserved after bad pun after bad pun.

We have been Wonton this for a long ti…..(sees Rat holding a bat near his desk)…sorry typo “….wanting this for a long time”

This is Abbott & Costello quality of wordplay. Example:“To avoid the flu, you must flee. The only way to be free from flu is to flee when flu flies.”

Actually laughed out loud on this one!

I hope rat didn’t hit him too hard else;he’ll be wanton for murder.

And this is why I read ‘Pearls’!

Why was this Pearls Before Swine strip dated 2013 instead of 2014? Was it a mistake or something and not a rerun?

Love it! Saw the pun coming a mile away, but still….love it!

Love it, love it. love it.

In Japan, futons have no “frame,” they are just a sort of heavy blanket/light mattress you take out of the closet and put on the floor at night to sleep on.

I’ve slept on a legless futon a long time ago, but all the ones I see today (Walmart, Ikea) have legs and usually arms too.

Woah.

Yes, all through the interview, I kept thinking he reminded me of someone. It finally came to me – Heather Graham – especially his eyes. I hope Stephan takes this as a compliment, if by some chance he reads it, and that he doesn’t mind too much being talked about in the third person.

To all the “futon deniers” -It’s called a “futon couch”. The mattress is a futon, and it’s just propped on top of the frame to hold it in couch shape, or you can fold the frame out to use it as a bed. It’s usually held in place with cloth ties, so you could untie the ties and put the futon down to sleep on the floor if you want. Futon couches are sold here in Japan, too.

The one-ton wonton futon that Juan won in Hong Kong was made in Taiwan.

I thought this one was good, better than some that have shown up in the past!

I love these jokes.

Don’t know how many of these horrible jokes I’ve read so far (sort of like the insatiable urge to gawk at a train wreck). This is the first one that has actually made me laugh OUT LOUD! (but only when I got to the last frame).And to add to the debate: I own a futon with legs. Mine, however, isn’t like the common western futon. There is no separate mattress that you can remove. Mine really is built more like a couch, but with a back you can lay down so the whole thing is flat. That’s really its only resemblance to a futon, even though the store called it one. Terrible for sleeping, too, because the back and the seat are built on separate frames, rather than having one big mattress lying on a flat frame, so there’s a ridge down the middle when it’s laid flat. It’s like laying a 2×4 down the middle of your bed and trying all night to avoid rolling over onto it. I only use mine as a couch.

LOL. 712014.

You know its coming like a train in a tunnel, but you can’t avoid it.