Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 01, 2020

Order a Pilsner next time.

It’s good for what ales you.

If you want a tall one, he’s the guy to talk to.

He’s a lumberjack and he’s okay

He’s a lumberjack and he’s okay. He sleeps all night and he works all day.

If he’d ordered a Black and Tan, would the guys from Miami Vice have come over?

What will Rat get from the barkeeper if he requested an ale? A deed to a plot of land in the middle of an ocean?

If he chops down trees in time to music, would you call him logarithmic?

This is a joke for people who can’t pronounce the letters “a” and “o”.

Eh. I can’t distinguish ‘merry’ from ‘marry’ from ‘Mary’, but in my dialect ‘lager’ is high upper ‘ah’ with the chin back and ‘logger’ is a low forward ’ah with the chin forward.

Of course, I live where there are both. In fact the best Thai food around is made at a bar and grill (owned by a Thai family, now) called The Woodsman which I visit several times a year… in good years, alas.

Oh thank goodness. Happy new year!

I bet if you are a Lumberjack you may be a little pissed off with Monty Python.

they need to give that bartender the axe…

Seriously??

“We’ve got to get some logs.” “No, we’ve got to get a new producer.” “Are you a logger?” Dialogue at the end of Spanky and Our Gang’s “Sunday Mornin’” (extended version).

Thats why I spell my name out

?

Rat is that a deadwood redwood ? …. Croc Power !

Rat “axed” him !

If he rents instead of owns, would that make him a Tennent Lager?

My Sides!

I like how in the movies, a guy will walk up to a bar and ask for a beer. The bar tender hands him a beer, without even asking what brand.

Finally, a PBS strip where Stephan isn’t bitching about 2020!

It took this Brit a while to get the joke. Lager / Lahgger/ logger. It’s all in the accent.

In some parts of town that would be a real customer draw.

Now there’s a wood joke.

Confused Brit here. What is the connection between asking for a lager and getting a lumberjack?

Is it drafty in here ?

Anyone else read that third panel in Johnny Carson’s voice?

This strip is getting lame.

I didn’t say logger, you bonehead! Are you trying to get me killed?

I see Pastis is not tapped out of puns yet!

I’m getting a weird axe murderer theme.

He loos to me like an Allagash White

Wait! I thought this was the “All Covid/All 2020/All Life Sucks” strip. When did it get…punny again?

It would appear Rat axed for the wrong beverage.

Order only if you have an axe to grind.

Will the laggard logger linger over his lager?

I’m stealing this one.

Thank you, Pastis.

8 months of quarantine and that’s all you’ve got? At least the commenters’ creativity has been released.

And, seriously, who rally wants a lager when there are all those great dark ales and stouts!

i don’t get it?

Just look out for Axe headed Dogs, they steal and eat your axe handles.

Is anyone actually seeing images here?

LOL!!!!

“I know that you are a logger and not just a common bum. I know that only a logger stirs his coffee with his thumb.”

If Rat orders a Shirley Temple or an Arnold Palmer, would either one of them show up?

try ordering a grasshopper

HAHAHAHA

“I’m a logger – up from Coos Bay Oregon…”

Does he stir his coffee with his thumb?

From the comments I gather there was some sort of Monty Python skit about loggers. I never got the humor of MP, but I’m glad Pastis is back to making puns instead of all doom and gloom.

I thought more of the Frozen Logger than Monty Python:

As I sat down one evening within a small cafe

A forty year old waitress to me these words did say:

“I see that you are a logger, and not just a common bum

’Cause nobody but a logger stirs his coffee with is thumb

My lover was a logger, there’s none like him today;

If you’d pour whiskey on it he could eat a bale of hay

Pastis could post 3 panels of a polar bear in a snow storm and get 300 likes.

Pastis, buddy, I think you deserve it this time.

I close my eyes and envision all four of them floating down the river tied to logs heading to the sawmill. But at the last second Nell saves them.

Next time Rat, just order a pilsner, no way in hell Stephen could mess that one up. Now a India Pale ale…..

Sometimes you just want someone to have a beer with.

Doesn’t work as well with an Australian accent, so it took me a second :-)

Amazing, how most of the comments above deal with the pun and its possible Python sources, while almost no one (well, very few) deal with the proper punishment of Pastis, a.k.a. Cartoon-Boy, for what he has done! Even Rat’s Retort is muted today, with no actual redwoods being harmed in the strip….

BTW, don’t offer a corviknight or corvisquire in trade or as a trading card, using a Boston accent; in Boston accent, “corvi-” becomes “covi-”, and before the “s” or “n” sound, as in those two pokemon species names, it might come out “covid-” (like “COVID”). LOL! XD!

Finally, a non-COVID strip. And a good one, too!

You pronounced it wrong

Shut it all down.

In New Zealand, “lager” and “logger” are too different in sound to make a pun. (Is that what’s going on here?)