Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 10, 2015

It is a superstition, but is it a superstition to be ignored? I don’t actually know. I’ve had instances where I’ve jokingly said their knock on wood instances, but didn’t do so and had bad luck follow. And I’ve had instances where I didn’t do so and had good luck follow. Instances where I did so and had good luck follow, and instances where I did so and bad luck followed. Which would suggest a superstition to be ignored. The irony is the instances where I didn’t do so and had bad luck and the instances where I did do so and had good luck follow actually out number their opposite. Coincidental and doesn’t prove a thing.

Lady Luck sure got Steph pretty badly.

Oh good, it got him before the bad pun came out.

As Isaac Asimov said, more apropos of these modern times, “Knock plastic”.

In Yiddish you must say “Kunna-horah” (spelling?) – It refers to the evil eye

Hey Steph – Break a leg! -There’s no bad luck, the toon’s just drawn that way. (@Bruno)

Ksssshhhhh!Today’s Mother’s Day Special is Pastiscakes with maple syrup and sliced bananas. Don’t slip on the peels; that would be bad luck.You have to be really unlucky to get squashed by a falling piano while seated at your own desk, ehh, Cartoon-Boy?

glad it was not rat, he would have knocked Tiger woods 3 times

Don’t blame Pig. He’s just the piano knocker.

Timing is everything.

LMAO!

So does this mean someone else will be writing/drawing this strip?

I was told that believing in superstitions is bad luck…

Steve Cropper & Eddie Floyd / Knock On Wood

Better to error on the side of caution…knock on wood !……Me thinks that this habit came from earlier times and was a way to check and see that the wood was good for building.

Forgot to say Happy Mother’s Day !

Not fast enough, Pig!

Hey Pastis, play us something off key. That should be easy.

You’re supposed to knock THREE times???? OMG no wonder….

Something tells me that Rat is responsible for the falling piano. Or possibly Wile E. Coyote.

Something tells me that Stephan is fixing to “un-die.”

can you pull wood just in case?

Pig shoulda knocked on Steph’s skull!

Just a plain KSSSSSSSH?? With 220 bones breaking and fifty odd strings snapping one would expect a philharmonic orchestra cracking and twanging. And Pig was so close in the previous panel – did the piano not hit because he did not believe in the belief?

it still counts Steph…

Could have been worse, could have been a 15-ton weight!

Why do I get the feeling Rat was at the other end of that piano?

i always knock on wood, or lacking any wood, i’ll knock on my head. i still do this even though i learned the origin of the superstition has to do with christ on the cross. did i say that i’m jewish?

PENNY!

When they pry him out from under the piano, he will have black and white keys in place of his teeth.

You made me laugh out loud :-)

Dang! – It was a perfectly good piano, too.

That’s what you get putting yourself into Toontown, Steph.

@firebrand1That’s the third time this month I’ve fallen for that!

Pastis is lucky, though, he could have had a pile of lemmings (or crocs) fall on him……

…and on that note……that really struck a chord……proving that if you don’t C#, you’ll B♭…

At least Stephan and Peter Griffin from Family Guy have something in common.

xxx

Is that piano a Steinway or an Acme?

Too little too late.

poor piano.

well he did knock on wood

Wood!?! Will MDF, plywood or particle board work? It has wood in it!