Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 26, 2015

I usually like the pun strips, but (a) I could easily see this one coming, and (b) I hate that song.:Give me that mace, Rat — I want to take a few swings myself.

BTW, check out today’s Brewster Rockit.

Don McLean would like this one.

the good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye

It’s getting worse and worse. I may need to take a long vacation.

Okay, Cartoon-Boy; you see what the consensus of commenters is so far, right?So, here’s the deal. Lay off the sauce, or some of Rat’s little friends will come looking for you. Capisch?!

And good ole boys were drinking whiskey and ryeSinging this will be the day that I dieThis will be the day that I die

Hmmm, may need to get out an MP3 player now.

I love the song, and the pun was foreshadowed pretty early.

Gopher….Heavy, man…. heavy.

Saw this one coming but I thought it would be Led Zepplin "When The Levy Breaks "

I took my nephew Kevin to consult with Lakshmi, but she was too drunk to help him…

“I drove Kevie to the Devi but the Devi was high…”

OK, g’night…. that’s as low as I will go…..

Seems like Pig only got that truck for the sole purpose of this pun.Never knew he had a truck, and there may never be mention of him having one again..

don’t need much of an excuse to bring out the whiskey and rye…do we?

Well at least I saw this one coming.

Pastis!

I didn’t buy they were friends to begin with…

Brilliant, Pastis! And how about letting Guard Duck make a house call on the snide commenters?

Toon Boy’s been drinking too much whiskey and rye.

Unfortunately, I saw that coming in panel 2. It was too obvious. No one talks about chevys any more.

Thanks for the tip about Brewster Rocket, Sherlock Watson. Much better pun in that strip today.

Love it! But now I’ve got an earworm.

Pastis is about get some happy news.Rat will just smile and walk away.

I think Rat’s gonna give Steph a starry, starry night!

Great lmao

Supposedly the levee was dry because Valens’ wife and Holly’s family were Baptists and didn’t drink.

Same here. If I didn’t love this strip, I wouldn’t read it.

My earworm is Jeramiah was a bullfrog. I have no idea why; I started humming The Day the Music Died but somehow it eased into Jeramiah. Go figure

Got the pun after “Driving my Chevrolet truck..” Too obvious. Usually I don’t get them until the 4th or 5th panel.

Of all the pronunciations of Levy, I don’t recall ever hearing it rhymed with levee.

Saw this one coming from the second panel. Try harder, Mr. Pastis.

by panel 4 you knew it was coming, but it was still funny. good one today pastis.

Wow… saw that coming for once.

LOL

I like. Peace. :)

This was a good one. I like it!

Unlike many, I love Cartoon Boy’s puns…

good one pastis! give that boy a round of whiskey and rye. p.s. that’s a valid pronuncitation of levi or levy. p.p.s. i was raised on these kind of puns. love ‘em. did you hear the one about william penn’s aunts?….

The pun is great! For the “Oldsters” who became adults in the 60’s, I believe the song causes an emotional twinge. I watched John Mayer sing it on Letterman (aired 4/17) and it still affects me. It is one of the few songs written after 1960 that even appeals to me.

Who’s laughing now?http://wgntv.com/2015/04/08/don-mcleans-american-pie-lyrics-sell-for-1-2m-include-alternate-ending/

Ugh, get me to the whiskey & rye.

Classic! Lol.

Good joke but it is not a pun.

Keep ‘em comin’ Steve!!!!

I know that this has been brought up in the past, but apparently still needs explaining. Puns are just one form of word play. Another form of wordplay would be a spoonerism, such as “shook a tower” for “take a shower”, which is not a pun. Another play on words which is not a pun is such as “A noisy noise annoys an oyster”. An alliterative play on words: “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers”. And there are other types of word play that are not puns. A pun is amusing, and often uses double meaning of a spoken word, such as “Atheism is a non-prophet institution”.

I mean “shook”, not “shake”

Ignore above correction. It was meant as “took”, not “take”

By the time I read “Levy” in the fourth panel, it was too late. The earworm was planted. Curse you, Pastis!

Father Son and Holy Ghost

AAAAAMENNNNNN

I love the puns—LOVE them! Some of them have been ingenious. Also, I enjoyed being reminded of “American Pie”. Normally, we groan at puns, but I just want to encourage you in your evil ways, Stephan.

but can he hit anything? probably not

Swing extra hard, Rat.

A song I like — except when it occasionally becomes an earworm.

(Slow clap)

Personally, since I’m a classic rock fan, I thought this one was great. Draw and pun on, Pastis!

I will let this slide…nice nod to the great song “The Day the music died”

I always hated that song. good ol boys drinking whiskey and wine are dangerous. Helter skelter in the summer swelter means what…… I hope not the Sharon Tate murders>…creepy, long and stupid song.

Patsis deserves the Rat Bat for this one. Not for doing a bad pun, but for making it so obvious. Chevrolet? Levy? Wasn’t everyone already singing American Pie halfway through the strip?

I have to say I liked this one! But I’m a glutton for punishment!

I had an inkling, but it still pulled me in.Go, Pastis!

Will this be the day that he dies?

No words…

No words…

So I was reading this strip while Weird Al Yankovic’s parody of this song was playing… Is it a sign?

Goshdarnit, now that song’s stuck in my head!

i love that song

Sing along boys! Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry. And them good ol’ boys were drinkin’ whiskey and rye. Singin’, “This’ll be the day that I die…This’ll be the day that I die…”

Oh, my, my this here Anakin guy, may be Vader someday later but now he’s just a small fry…