Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 17, 2019

That Czech bounced.

How is a mid-European laboratory like the US government?

It’s a system of Czechs and balances.

(A co-worker in a lab told me that one about forty years ago.)

If you are still out there, Jim K., David S. says hello.

Pun=death

Pastis is the George Clowny of cartoonists.

Does the waitstaff (and manager) of the restaurant ALWAYS do that to their diners who aren’t Rat and Pig?

Oh, Pastis….

Next we’re gonna find Pastis Russian to have Rat conduct the decennial census Pole

Did you know that the Czechs added the blue triangle to their flag to distinguish it from the Polish flag?

Careful, you guys!

Don’t laugh so hard European!

Actually, I heard that a reader sent a letter with the idea for this gag to Stephan Pastis. That’s right, the Czech was in the mail.

He really doesn’t need to czech. It’s just that he’s hungary, so he’s going to finnish off a danish first.

They threw the guy out for that. A bounced Czech.

The Prague-nosis is that today’s strip will elicit many groans.

A Czechoslovakian midget came to my house and said he was hiding from the police and asked if I could cache a small Czech.

Hah! I wouldn’t touch puns like this with a 10-foot Pole.

I want to leave, but I must Romania

He looks like a blank Czech.

There’s an abortion clinic in Prague called “Canceled Czechs”.

Well done to all comments ! ……. Croc Power !

He could be your Czech Mate!

Fine joke? So Rat approves? This may be a first!

Evidently Rat and Pig were russian to leave the restaurant.

Good one!

Can we look forward to pole dancing in a future strip?

Pastis better Czech the balance in his joke account…I think he’s overdrawn.

Good thing Guard Duck wasn’t their server. There’d have been problems if they asked him for the bill.

Are they only considered pure bred nationals if they have XY chromosomes? So the Czech is in the male, right? (And to make up for that horrid pun here’s a list of amazing Czechs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Czechs

AND then there’s the chess player from Prague who doesn’t like to be Czech-mated!

That guy works like a Slav.

That joke should be a cancelled Czech!

I just want him to Finnish already.

The baseball bat, please Rat!

Bad Stephan. Bad.

This reminds me of a story about a Czechoslovakian man who was attacked by bears. A hunter and a tracker were assigned to track and find the bear or bears that had killed and eaten the man’s body. When they located the bears, the hunter – without hesitation – shot the larger of the two bears, letting the smaller one go. When the tracker asked him why he did that, the hunter responded, “Don’t you know? The Czech is always in the male!”

Pastis must’ve got one heck of a pun Czechlist.

I have a Polish friend who’s a sound engineer.

I have a Czech one, too, a Czech one, too.

And all the Slovaks wonder “Why can’t we be funny, too?”

Pastis: This one is too easy, it got the huddled masses excited with a real cheap shot.

Pastis, you’re my hero.

That particular gag has been lying in the back of his (stinky) sock drawer for 17 years…

I can’t believe Pastis didn’t go for big joke here. A little person from the Czech Republic needed to go into hiding, so he asked a friend if he could cache a small Czech.

Dear Mr. Pastis : “have you NO sense of decency, Sir?”

It must be correct because it has been Czeched

I wonder if that’s the fellow my friend knows. My friend is in a band and tells me they have a couple of different people that run the soundboard when they play out. The first guy is Russian, and he says they have a Chech one, too… a Chech, one, two….

When Martina Navratilova defected, she went to the US Embassy, and asked:

“Do you cache Czechs here?”

Stephan,if you say the Czechs in the mail,I’m going track you down and open a ice cold pack of whoop ass just for the hell of it!

Pastis will be at NCSFest this weekend. Wonder if I’ll see him.

…damn it, Pastis…

What, no baseball bat for this one, Rat?

He has been waiting since the moment he had that joke in his head.duh(]

Review the hockey player from Prague’s vicious hit – Check Czech check…

What’s next for this strip? An appearance by the short-fingered Bulgarian?

Nope

Ah, Pearls, I always have to Czech it out!

I’m waving the white flag, which I will run up a Pole. And then Czech who salutes.

This sinks to a new low level of lameness (as do all of the Czech comments). So where’s your bat, rat?

Wouldn’t have touched that pun with a ten-foot Pole.

At least it’s not as bad as this one.

https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2006/10/07

Popular comment during the 1991 hockey season in Rhode Island:

“That check was dirtier than one from the credit union.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island_banking_crisis

That Czech is fake. I live in Prague and I’ve never seen anyone dressed like that.

Anyway, thank you, Stephan, for bringing our small nation up so smoothly. We do like to make ourselves look more important time to time.

Bwahahahaha….

I often pass by a check cashing place. I was tempted to go in and ask if they also cash hungarians, but it was late at night when I passed by and was afraid they would think it was a setup to put them off guard to rob them.

(Why are these places open 24 hours anyway? Is there really that many people cashing checks at 3 in the morning? )

Pastis appears to have had a czechered career as a punster.

Oh Pastis, you are the man!!

Cartoon-Boy, the Greek Geek! EU humor….

That is a good one!

One word… bravo.

Don’t forget to endorse it….

a two for one!

The Czechs have been known to toss people out of windows.