Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 25, 2015

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    Sherlock Watson  over 9 years ago

    I bet they’re not doing any worse than Ray-B’s Pet Shop.

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    knight1192a  over 9 years ago

    Saw that pun coming in Pig’s first two lines in Panel 1.

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    danfromfreddybeach  over 9 years ago

    People here will buy cigarettes called Black Death with a skull and crossbones on them so I bet a place with a name like Sam and Ella’s would do a booming business.

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    Partyalldatyme  over 9 years ago

    If it were “Hey Ella! Hey Sam!” it would have disguised it a little.

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    Alexander the Good Enough  over 9 years ago

    Well, things close to that happen in the real world. I lived in a small rural town several decades ago, and living in that town was a fellow named Sam whose wife’s name was Martha. He set up a locksmith shop in a big blue van that he drove around town all the time with the name of his business painted on the side: S & M Lock and Key. It was a small town…

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    AtariDragon  over 9 years ago

    I rue that pun. It goes into the rue bin.

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    jimmjonzz Premium Member over 9 years ago

    When I first moved to Atlanta in 1979, there was a widely advertised auto service business called “S&M Clutch and Brake”. Wish I’d taken a photo of their downtown billboard.

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    Phatts  over 9 years ago

    not in league with the puns here so far, but I know of a place in Corona, Ca, where the address is 120 North Joy Street.On the building, they abbreviated “North” to “NO.”, so it reads:120 NO. JOYone of the saddest addresses I’ve ever seen.

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    blunebottle  over 9 years ago

    Then there’s this shop:https://goo.gl/maps/RnF9h

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    dadoctah  over 9 years ago

    Used to be a paint-n-wallpaper store near me called “Harry Green Wallcovering”. Disgusting name, to be sure, but not as bad as another office that still exists: “Loose Brown Attorneys”.

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    knight1192a  over 9 years ago

    Why Pastis Stopped Being a Lawyer

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    jackhs  over 9 years ago

    Where’s the baseball bat for using on Pastis

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    Jonathan Mason  over 9 years ago

    No s*** – I hadn’t worked that out, thank you so much

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    dorotheac928  over 9 years ago

    Yesterday we drove by

    Randy Church Restorations.

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    Steverino Premium Member over 9 years ago

    That’s why the vocal Team of Sammy Davis Jr. and Ella Fitzgerald never worked out….

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    Mikel V  over 9 years ago

    And to make it worse, they hired a store manager named “Mary T. Floyd”

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    Ida No  over 9 years ago

    Could have been worse. Could have been the Tuff Brakes store.

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    GalleyOar  over 9 years ago

    And the old classic used plumbing shop – Honest Carr the Used John Dealer.

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    Plods with ...™  over 9 years ago

    Now, where’s that baseball bat?

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    Sandfan  over 9 years ago

    “Sam and Ella’s – Try our antibiotic menu”.

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    Sandfan  over 9 years ago

    Regardless of your politics, please take a moment today to honor those who gave their lives in defense of our country.

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    Chief Inspector   over 9 years ago

    Congrats on the Reuben award Stephen: Long overdue on this in my opine.

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    sarah413 Premium Member over 9 years ago

    @Phatts California. What about 420? Is the “No” removed from Joy St.?

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    jbmlaw01  over 9 years ago

    Pastis: Winner of the 2015 Reuben for Newspaper Comic Strip – 3rd time

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2015/05/24/2015-reubens-roz-chasts-big-award-caps-a-winning-event-for-women-creators/

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    meillered  over 9 years ago

    Did you know that Lois Lane’s parents were named Sam and Ella?

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    Godfreydaniel  over 9 years ago

    They lived in a nice house on Lois Lane………

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    Packratjohn Premium Member over 9 years ago

    Me, too, but what’s wrong with your car?

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    dre7861  over 9 years ago

    By the first panel I knew this was going to be a pun strip but as always I didn’t get it until the last panel. Good job, Mr Pastis!

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    Ermine Notyours  over 9 years ago

    The fundraising turkeys for the marching band in Funky Winkerbean come from Sam ‘n’ Ella’s Farm.

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    abbybookcase  over 9 years ago

    i’ve recently been entertained in a twisted way by the problems of a prominent chinese place that had let themselves go, been cited a number of times, etc. but now they’re in big trouble cause of a salmonella outbreak among a large number of people attending a banquet there. the banquet was for the asian law students. law students & their teachers were the victims. if anyone had died it would not be funny, but no one did. let the trials begin!!

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    Gokie5  over 9 years ago

    Here in Pinellas County, we used to have Stuckey Plumbing, a pediatrician named Dr. Kidwell, and a proctologist named Dr. Butter. According to Google, they’re no longer here, but I remember them.

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    whiteaj  over 9 years ago

    Was Ella’s shirt painted on?

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    JP Steve Premium Member over 9 years ago

    Well, since the “Sam and Ella” pun has been done to death, I assume the “out-brake” part was the intended novel twist.

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    Number Three  over 9 years ago

    Time to brush up on some appropriate, less gross sounding business ideas.xxx

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    LNER4472 Premium Member over 9 years ago

    Then there’s this place I pass all the time on the way to and from a client:http://smautosupply.com/I went in for auto paint one time. All they had was fifty shades of gray.

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    Aslan Balaur  over 9 years ago

    Why isn’t Rat beating Pastis in panel 4?

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    knight1192a  over 9 years ago

    That’s often me. Sometimes I’ll get it in the second panel, or in the case of a Sunday strip the third or fourth panel (depending on how many panels on that Sunday), but practically never in panel one. This one was just too obvious.

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    Saddenedby Premium Member over 9 years ago

    i saw a gas station once when i was a kid that was called “gas & go” with a huge hand painted sign out front that said “eat here and gas up” i have often wondered since then if they sold rolaids and tums and if they were in business long

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    kaffekup   over 9 years ago

    Also in Atlanta, there was a “Sam and Eli’s Deli”, (the owner’s kids), commonly known as the “The Salmonella Deli”. Actually pretty good. And the Brown Tire Store. I always said “Sorry, I only use black tires.”

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    K M  over 9 years ago

    Used to be an evening paper in DC (the Star, IIRC) that ran radio spots featuring a Nick-and-Nora-Charles type of couple named Sam and Janet Evening. Every mention of their name provoked an uptempo blast from a tuba playing the first few notes of “Some Enchanted Evening.”

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    chriscc63  over 9 years ago

    Ella is so well endowed!

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    robertiris  over 2 years ago

    Just put a smiley face emoji after it

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    brembo sensify is better

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