# Pearls Before Swine 3/10/06 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 10, 2006, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-3-10-06/347818 "2006-03-10T13:24:58Z")\ **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:** [March 10, 2006, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-3-10-06/347818/1 "2006-03-10T13:24:58Z")
OK. I don’t get “stay away from the light” in my [favorite comic](http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/) today. ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-3-10-06/347818/2 "2006-03-10T13:30:51Z")
It’s the opposite of the old “Walk into the light!” joke, referring to what people who claim to have near-death experiences see when they almost die. The animals are trying to revive the tomato, and telling him not to give up and walk into the light (and die). That explanation doesn’t make it funny, but I don’t think anything can make PBS funny. 😛 (I keed, I keed) ---
**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:** [March 10, 2006, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-3-10-06/347818/3 "2006-03-10T13:37:14Z")
> [@Slacker](#): > > referring to what people who claim to have near-death experiences Thanks, I just wasn’t thinknig like a crocodile. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-3-10-06/347818/4 "2006-03-10T16:48:55Z")
> [@Slacker](#): > > That explanation doesn’t make it funny, but I don’t think anything can make PBS funny. 😛 (I keed, I keed) You better be keeding; today’s strip was friggin’ hilarious. I love the crockydiles. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-3-10-06/347818/5 "2006-03-10T17:09:20Z")
Definitely a reference to _Poltergeist_. I even heard the short, old lady’s voice while reading it. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-3-10-06/347818/6 "2006-03-10T17:48:20Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Thanks, I just wasn’t thinknig like a crocodile. 🙂 That would require that you scoop out 9/10 of your current brain volume and replace it with swampwater…dem guys eez D-U-M, DUMB! ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-3-10-06/347818/7 "2006-03-10T17:52:27Z")
They DID manage to successfully grow a whole field of Baby Zebras[sup]\*[/sup], though. I am SO going to refer to tomatoes as baby zeebas from now on. For a while at least. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2006, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-3-10-06/347818/8 "2006-03-10T17:55:14Z")
I want to be Rat when I grow up. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2006, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-3-10-06/347818/9 "2006-03-10T17:55:17Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > They DID manage to successfully grow a whole field of Baby Zebras[sup]\*[/sup], though. > > I am SO going to refer to tomatoes as baby zeebas from now on. For a while at least. Heh! What’s black and white and red all over? BABY ZEEBAS! ---
**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:** [March 10, 2006, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-3-10-06/347818/10 "2006-03-10T17:56:20Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I want to be Rat when I grow up. Sadly, far too often I AM Pig _now_… ---
**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:** [March 10, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-3-10-06/347818/11 "2006-03-10T17:58:11Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Heh! What’s black and white and red all over? BABY ZEEBAS! You no geeve up da day job, Jayjay. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-3-10-06/347818/12 "2006-03-10T19:49:23Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > You better be keeding; today’s strip was friggin’ hilarious. > > I love the crockydiles. That’s what I thought. The “Stay away from the light” made me laugh out loud. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-3-10-06/347818/13 "2006-03-11T01:04:33Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > You better be keeding; today’s strip was friggin’ hilarious. Quoted for truth! “What you think, we stoopid?” Well, **duh** 😃 ---
**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:** [March 11, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-3-10-06/347818/14 "2006-03-11T01:14:15Z")
Me thinks this be good place ask: [Bun-bun](http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php) or Rat, who wins fight? ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-3-10-06/347818/15 "2006-03-11T03:06:14Z")
Follow-up question: If Rat got Nate (First Mate of the pirate ship Revenge) really angry, what would happen? ---
**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:** [March 11, 2006, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-3-10-06/347818/16 "2006-03-11T03:14:32Z")
Rat has a nuclear weapon. ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-3-10-06/347818/17 "2006-03-11T04:46:40Z")
I rember reading the strip occasionally a few years ago and just not seeing anything funny. Then one day I read it and it was freaking hilarious. So I just decided to go back and look at the archive to see if the strip was funny and i did not notice, or if the strip got better. So far I have think I must have been asleep when I thought the strip was not funny. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-3-10-06/347818/18 "2006-03-11T06:00:49Z")
I don’t know when I started reading it, but the series where the characters climbed on top of their panels and observed the other comics in progress had me hooked. That odd twitch of surreality in the comic world was refreshing. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-3-10-06/347818/19 "2006-03-11T13:35:08Z")
My favorite one: A waitress asks Pig, “Would you care for a cup of coffee?” He answers, “If it needed me and no other family member could take it in.” \ Waitress: “Is that a yes?” Pig: “YES!” The last panel is pig cradling the cup of coffee and saying, “Shhhhh…” I cut it out and have it on my fridge. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-3-10-06/347818/20 "2006-03-11T16:13:06Z")
> [@Mr. Miskatonic](#): > > I don’t know when I started reading it, but the series where the characters climbed on top of their panels and observed the other comics in progress had me hooked. > > That odd twitch of surreality in the comic world was refreshing. I loved the series where Osama Bin Laden was hiding out with the most out-of-it family in all of America–the one from Family Circus. I believe one of the panels was “Now, Osama, after the blessing we say ‘Amen’, not ‘Death to America’.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-3-10-06/347818.md?page=2)