# Pearls Before Swine 12/21/07 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 21, 2007, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-12-21-07/430830 "2007-12-21T13:29:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-12-21-07/430830/1 "2007-12-21T13:29:49Z")
12/21/07 Where can Pastis go from [here?](http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/) Good gad. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-12-21-07/430830/2 "2007-12-21T13:44:36Z")
Well, Zeeba will either get the leg back with no explanation, like the way Kenny from _South Park_ always comes back from death. Or he’ll hobble around on crutches for eternity. ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-12-21-07/430830/3 "2007-12-21T14:16:30Z")
[QUOTE=Knowed Out] Well, Zeeba will either get the leg back with no explanation, like the way Kenny from _South Park_ always comes back from death. Or he’ll hobble around on crutches for eternity. [/QUOTE] That isn’t Zebra - that’s Zebra’s uncle, who we thought was killed yesterday…I think… ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-12-21-07/430830/4 "2007-12-21T14:20:08Z")
Eh. _Doonesbury_ has turned longtime characters into amputees. Not that _Pearls_ is in the same league. Sailboat ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-12-21-07/430830/5 "2007-12-21T14:35:38Z")
[QUOTE=ArizonaTeach] That isn’t Zebra - that’s Zebra’s uncle, who we thought was killed yesterday…I think… [/QUOTE] Yes, he was too fat for the Croc to drag off, so he whacked off and KFCed Uncle Peter’s leg. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-12-21-07/430830/6 "2007-12-21T15:25:57Z")
I took it that he ordered KFC for everyone else after eating Zeeba Uncle’s leg himself. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-12-21-07/430830/7 "2007-12-21T15:41:40Z")
[QUOTE=Sailboat] Eh. _Doonesbury_ has turned longtime characters into amputees. Not that _Pearls_ is in the same league. Sailboat [/QUOTE] True. Pearls is so much funnier than Trudeau’s tired, embittered, former 60’s radical strips that they aren’t in the same league. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-12-21-07/430830/8 "2007-12-21T17:30:17Z")
I thought it would have been funnier if he’d killed the Uncle and ate him. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-12-21-07/430830/9 "2007-12-21T17:36:37Z")
[QUOTE=ArizonaTeach] That isn’t Zebra - that’s Zebra’s uncle, who we thought was killed yesterday…I think… [/QUOTE] zeeba all look alike to me. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-12-21-07/430830/10 "2007-12-21T18:35:41Z")
Pastis has killed off several of the crocs before, so he’s not breaking new ground with this. It’s a brutal strip, and creatures kill each other now and then. Even the guard duck has offed a few of the neighbors. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-12-21-07/430830/11 "2007-12-21T18:42:18Z")
Yeah, at least one croc got eaten by the lions in the last month or so. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-12-21-07/430830/12 "2007-12-21T18:42:49Z")
[QUOTE=RikWriter] I thought it would have been funnier if he’d killed the Uncle and ate him. [/QUOTE] True dat. It’s not like we ever met the zeeba before. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-12-21-07/430830/13 "2007-12-21T19:19:10Z")
[QUOTE=Scumpup] True. Pearls is so much funnier than Trudeau’s tired, embittered, former 60’s radical strips that they aren’t in the same league. [/QUOTE] Word. _Doonesbury_ would be much improved by some of the characters killing and/or eating other characters. So would _Family Circus_ and _Beetle Bailey_, for that matter. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-12-21-07/430830/14 "2007-12-21T19:35:33Z")
Yeah, Uncle Zebra is new, anyway. We never saw him before this week. I doubt he’ll show up much again. He’s basically a red-shirt disposable character. Now, the big question is whether he’s zebra-girl’s uncle by blood or uncle by gay marriage. I don’t think we’ve ever seen an adult female zebra in the strip…I mean, who knew Zebra was a chubby-chaser, ya know? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-12-21-07/430830/15 "2007-12-21T19:37:23Z")
[QUOTE=Thudlow Boink] Word. _Doonesbury_ would be much improved by some of the characters killing and/or eating other characters. So would _Family Circus_ and _Beetle Bailey_, for that matter. [/QUOTE] “Family Circus” is “Children of the Corn” when the giant extra-dimensional circular lens isn’t on them… ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-12-21-07/430830/16 "2007-12-21T19:41:35Z")
[QUOTE=Thudlow Boink] Word. _Doonesbury_ would be much improved by some of the characters killing and/or eating other characters. So would _Family Circus_ and _Beetle Bailey_, for that matter. [/QUOTE] From the way the Pattersons eat, I’m surprised none of the characters have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. [Today’s strip](http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2007/12/21&name=For_Better_Or_Worse): Pies supposedly baked for tomorrow’s (?) Christmas dinner. Many Foobwatchers wish the main dish at the feast would be Anthony Caine’s pasty white flesh. But we fear a holiday proposal. From “[the old days](http://www.fborfw.com/strip_fix/archives/002862.php)”… And–didn’t the crocs capture Jeffy from _Family Circus_? He survived. (Although I never thought _Doonesbury_’s creator was an embittered 60’s radical. He’s a well-off Yalie with liberal tendencies who’s just gotten richer & more successful. The Pulitzer, the 20 year plus marriage…) ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-12-21-07/430830/17 "2007-12-21T19:41:46Z")
[QUOTE=Thudlow Boink] Word. _Doonesbury_ would be much improved by some of the characters killing and/or eating other characters. So would _Family Circus_ and _Beetle Bailey_, for that matter. [/QUOTE] [Oh yes, they would!](http://sysrick.com/2005/11/30.html#a6964) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-12-21-07/430830/18 "2007-12-21T20:04:57Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] Now, the big question is whether he’s zebra-girl’s uncle by blood or uncle by gay marriage. [/QUOTE] I posted that question when I noticed they were both wearing ties. If it weren’t for the girl zebra, I’d say they don’t reproduce, but recruit. Given Pastis ability to recruit characters from other comic strips, I wonder if someone from _Doonesbury_ will show up for an amputee scene. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-12-21-07/430830/19 "2007-12-21T20:46:41Z")
Thudlow Boink: > [@](#): > > Word. Doonesbury would be much improved by some of the characters killing and/or eating other characters. So would Family Circus and Beetle Bailey, for that matter. Eh, he’ll settle down around January 21, 2009 or thereabouts. Like most liberal humorists, George W. Bush kills his sense of humor worse than any other president ever did - I have no idea why. W turns him into Mallard Fillmore, left version. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-12-21-07/430830/20 "2007-12-21T20:50:56Z")
I thought Trudeau peaked around the Nixon/Ford era. I admit that this impression may be because at that time I was still young enough to give a damn about politics and changing the world… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-12-21-07/430830.md?page=2)