About 6-7 years ago, i took down the scrub maple about 10’ high from the corner of my lot. I replaced it with a young apple tree from Walmart. It’s been yielding fruit for the last couple years but it’s especially gratifying to think of it as a benefit to the future, moreso than the maple.
I have only one thing to say to Mr. Stephen Pastis about this comic strip for the new day: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!! Dan aka….
NEITHER, I say! ‘Removed a prior owner’s willow due to low branch bumped heads, and ants farming aphids on its leaves for their sweet vital bodily fluid then dropping on us while taking the fast descent elevator. As to the latter, a ton of lawn smothering leaves, not to mention 10 human generations to maturity.
BasilBruce about 2 months ago
I see leaves of green; what a wonderful world.
Need coffee about 2 months ago
Mmm. Maple syrup.
On roadrunner burgers.
The dude from FL Premium Member about 2 months ago
You’ll learn to hate the willow, love the maple!
Sanspareil about 2 months ago
At least they weren’t exchanging pleasant tumble weeds or cacti!
ArcticFox Premium Member about 2 months ago
Pastis gets pasted——again.
Concretionist about 2 months ago
That pun was almost… pleasant. What’s the POINT??
hariseldon59 about 2 months ago
Hey Rat, make like a tree and leave.
Johnny Q Premium Member about 2 months ago
Seems like a sweet gift!
phobos about 2 months ago
socialism never works, pig. Just ask the countries where its been tried how that worked out for their bank accounts.
Imagine about 2 months ago
I’ve always wondered about the origins of that phrase…
tudza Premium Member about 2 months ago
It could have been so pleasant, if you hadn’t resorted to force
It could have been so pleasant, if that chap hadn’t jumped on his horse.
rasputin's horoscope about 2 months ago
My neighbor has a tree that smells funky- a unpleasant tree.
Qiset about 2 months ago
What a beautiful thought.
syzygy47 about 2 months ago
About 6-7 years ago, i took down the scrub maple about 10’ high from the corner of my lot. I replaced it with a young apple tree from Walmart. It’s been yielding fruit for the last couple years but it’s especially gratifying to think of it as a benefit to the future, moreso than the maple.
Jesy Bertz Premium Member about 2 months ago
They are arboring under a delusion.
MeanBob Premium Member about 2 months ago
As puns go, this one was at least clever and unique. At least to me.
electricshadow Premium Member about 2 months ago
Jonathan Lemon and his rabbits called. They want to put you in the “pun-intentiary.”
MichaelAxelFleming about 2 months ago
They give each other wood.
cracker65 about 2 months ago
Good one
deojaideep aka Courage about 2 months ago
No bat today??
cdward about 2 months ago
I kinda liked what they were doing.
Keno21 about 2 months ago
Be the kind of man that plants a tree that he will never be able to enjoy the shade of.
iggyman about 2 months ago
Good one!
iggyman about 2 months ago
Did Pig give Bob a “Weeping Willow”?!
iggyman about 2 months ago
“I think that I will never see a poem as lovely as a tree”!
Kurtass Premium Member about 2 months ago
Don’t plant the willow near any sewer lines.
win.45mag about 2 months ago
Willows are nice to look at, but man they suck in the Fall.
Doubly Horque Premium Member about 2 months ago
One of your most delightful puns, Stephan.
Ellis97 about 2 months ago
Rat, if you keep mouthing off to your creator, you’ll be erased from existence. Literally.
Buoy about 2 months ago
I wish he’d leaf those puns alone.
Ichabod Ferguson about 2 months ago
The willow will grow up, keel over, and die before the maple gets its boots on.
storminnorman2010 about 2 months ago
Rat, you know you would miss him if he left.
JonGl Premium Member about 2 months ago
I disagree with Rat. Pleasant Trees sounds like a great idea to share!!
WorkshopGardener Premium Member about 2 months ago
The puns may be terrible, but they are better than listening to the news. Keep them coming.
BadCreaturesBecomeDems about 2 months ago
“Here, have a willow tree whose roots will destroy your sewer line and cost you thousands in repair.”
“Thanks, here, have this maple tree that will drop samaras into your house’s gutters and cost you thousands in repair.”
cmerb about 2 months ago
It is better in theory than in practice , I have heard ?
Slowly, he turned... about 2 months ago
If he were a tree, he would be a…
Huckleberry Hiroshima about 2 months ago
You keep coming to the wrong conclusions, Rat.
Charles & Susan Premium Member about 2 months ago
Loved it!
Rasslebear about 2 months ago
Rat, go away. For good.
Goat from PBS about 2 months ago
That’s kinda cute. I’d like a pleasant tree.
DaBump Premium Member about 2 months ago
No, Rat! That was a good one.
grocks about 2 months ago
Au contraire, Rat. The world’s a better place having Stephan in it.
Lula & Theo Premium Member about 2 months ago
I love it!
robertzahuta about 2 months ago
This made me laugh and I needed it. Thanks Stephan.
royq27 about 2 months ago
Here is a nice thorn bush and some poison Ivey for ground cover…
Doug K about 2 months ago
Those trees will be pleasant trees in the future. When those gifts they were being exchanged, they were present present trees.
Carl Rennhack Premium Member about 2 months ago
This world would be DULL without Steph (and his menagerie)!!
SheMc about 2 months ago
Cute!!!
awgarrett about 2 months ago
I had to see a heavy-set doctor yesterday about my prostate… he was a “meaty-urologist”
DanielRyanMulligan1 about 2 months ago
I have only one thing to say to Mr. Stephen Pastis about this comic strip for the new day: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!! Dan aka….
grange Premium Member about 2 months ago
That’s a very pleasant and a beautiful thought. Rat is just knee jerking because it’s also a pun.
Katje about 2 months ago
GROAN
rossevrymn about 2 months ago
I blame myself.
karenjean123 Premium Member about 2 months ago
Thank you. Needed that.
Code the Enforcer about 2 months ago
Stephen ALWAYS look DUMBFOUNDED !! … :)
fritzoid Premium Member about 2 months ago
“It would be so nice if you weren’t here.” — Charles Grodin
moondog42 Premium Member about 2 months ago
There is unrest in the forest, there is trouble with the trees. For the maples want more sunlight, and the oaks ignore their pleas….
newsbb about 2 months ago
I like the idea of exchanging pleasant trees. Think about it.
patrickschreiber1951 about 2 months ago
phobos, ??
KEA about 2 months ago
Why did the 30º angle and the 60º angle call each other beautiful? Because they’re complementary. (spelling matters)
elgrecousa Premium Member about 2 months ago
One of Pastis’ better pun strips.
curtlyon19 about 2 months ago
wowser. (read a few comments above)
zeexenon about 2 months ago
NEITHER, I say! ‘Removed a prior owner’s willow due to low branch bumped heads, and ants farming aphids on its leaves for their sweet vital bodily fluid then dropping on us while taking the fast descent elevator. As to the latter, a ton of lawn smothering leaves, not to mention 10 human generations to maturity.
Eric S about 2 months ago
I actually love this idea!
Lynnjav about 2 months ago
More people should exchange pleasant trees. It would help the planet and the people.
mtrimberger Premium Member about 2 months ago
I hung my head in shame at that “joke”. Congrats!
Sanspareil about 2 months ago
I planted an elm tree in 1974 it was about a foot high.Now it is ginormous at least 60 feet high and the canopy is about 35 feet across.
Snoots about 2 months ago
I love the puns, but in the end Rat always slams Pastis. There’s got to be other possibilities. :D
[Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce] about 2 months ago
Don’t make ash-es of yourselves
And So It Goes about 2 months ago
Stephan, I don’t know how the human mind works but I like the way yours bounces around.
pamela welch Premium Member about 2 months ago
G R O A N — LOLOL
wildlandwaters about 2 months ago
actually, Rat, I thought this to be rather, um, pleasant!
Otis Rufus Driftwood about 2 months ago
Pig and Bob light candles. Rat yells ‘You Stupid Darkness’.
Kev_a_Swing_Dancer Premium Member about 2 months ago
Wonderful, Stephan.
curtlyon19 about 1 month ago
some days, it must just be me, the comments seem to have the wheels come off
gmu328 about 1 month ago
I love pleasantries!
Swirls Before Pine about 1 month ago
A maple? Gonna’ suck that baby dry.