# Pearls before Swine **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 15, 2006, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine/340039 "2006-01-15T02:57:04Z")\ **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:** [January 15, 2006, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine/340039/1 "2006-01-15T02:57:04Z")
My favorite strip, and today [I don’t get it.](http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/pearls/) ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine/340039/2 "2006-01-15T02:59:05Z")
What’s to get? Pig is just having “one of those mornings.” You never had “one of those mornings?” ---
**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:** [January 15, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine/340039/3 "2006-01-15T03:03:47Z")
I expect it is an atrocious pun for which, in civilized countries, Pastis would be tarred and feathered. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine/340039/4 "2006-01-15T03:05:50Z")
Man, if you’ve never had “one of those mornings” then you are a very lucky person. Somedays your goal is to just survive. 😃 ---
**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:** [January 15, 2006, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine/340039/5 "2006-01-15T03:27:07Z")
It usually makes such perfect [sense](http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/pearls/archive/pearls-20060104.html) ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine/340039/6 "2006-01-15T03:53:15Z")
**Pearls before Swine** is one of my top 3 strips currently being published. I know Pastis throws in some labored puns, some real groaners, but in this case I think you are trying to read too much into it. Poor Pig has somehow gotten himself into this ridiculously bad situation and well, being Pig he is pretty much clueless and just has to take it with a sigh. That’s just par for the course for Pig. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2006, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine/340039/7 "2006-01-15T04:06:38Z")
\ Oh well. Thanks. This sort of thing never happens in _The Family Circus_. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine/340039/8 "2006-01-15T04:07:40Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > \ > Oh well. > Thanks. > This sort of thing never happens in _The Family Circus_. > > 🙂 NO sort of thing ever happens in Family Circus. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine/340039/9 "2006-01-15T04:08:20Z")
I wish it would. Billy…meet Crocodiles. 😃 ---
**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:** [January 15, 2006, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine/340039/10 "2006-01-15T04:11:32Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > NO sort of thing ever happens in Family Circus. Ha Ha Ha. I wish I could find the link where Pastis sent them all to Gitmo… 🙂 ---
**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:** [January 15, 2006, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine/340039/11 "2006-01-15T04:15:16Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I wish it would. Billy…meet Crocodiles. 😃 Crocodiles attack a Volksvagen in which Billy and Co. attempted to flee: “Me love deeses dings. Crunchy on outside, chewey on inside.” ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine/340039/12 "2006-01-15T04:20:47Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Crocodiles attack a Volksvagen in which Billy and Co. attempted to flee: > > “Me love deeses dings. Crunchy on outside, chewey on inside.” Jar-Jar’s a crocodile??? ---
**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:** [January 15, 2006, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine/340039/13 "2006-01-15T04:29:34Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Jar-Jar’s a crocodile??? Dat decent [croc accent.](http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/pearls/archive/pearls-20060111.html) I bet Rat knows how to deal with fan boys… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine/340039/14 "2006-01-15T04:32:28Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > It usually makes such perfect [sense](http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/pearls/archive/pearls-20060104.html) Not familiar with the strip I take it? 😃 (no offense to the fans - but I find fresher humor in 20 year old Ann Landers articles) ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine/340039/15 "2006-01-15T05:37:58Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > It usually makes such perfect [sense](http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/pearls/archive/pearls-20060104.html) But it does make perfect sense! Pig got out of bed, looked in the mirror to find a zit the size of Delaware on his(?) nose, ran outside screaming, tripped over the hose, it wrapped around his short little leg, he fell, rolling down a hill, causing the hose to bind him up. He hopped back home and asked his mom to put a bag on his head to hide the zit. And she did. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine/340039/16 "2006-01-15T07:37:50Z")
I love that strip. And I have nothing to contribute. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine/340039/17 "2006-01-15T16:17:15Z")
How do you make a good red wine? Take away his propaganda pamphlets and tweak him on the nose. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine/340039/18 "2006-01-15T17:05:57Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > It usually makes such perfect [sense](http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/pearls/archive/pearls-20060104.html) There were a few previous stripswith the seal coming to the neighborhood and a killer whale moving in. It’s sort of the whole zerba-crocodile thing played out with the seal and killer whale. Makes perfect sense. Anyhow, PBS is the only comic I bother to read in the paper these days. Pastis puts out some real groaners out there, but I love him for it. My favorite recent ones include [This](http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/pearls/archive/pearls-20060105.html) and [this](http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/pearls/archive/pearls-20060102.html) from the gingerbread strips. [and this](http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/pearls/archive/pearls-20060109.html) awful pun. Pastis’s drawings maybe somewhat simple, but I love the amount of expression he can get in his characters from a simple tilt of the head, furrow of the brow, etc. I especially love how adorable pig can look, especially in the second frame of my second link. One that nearly breaks my heart every time I look at it is where pig misinterprets something rat said and thinks the world is about to end. In the last frame, he’s sitting solemnly alone by a tree, wearing a football helmet, and holding a sign that says “Goodbye world. I loved you all.” (Or something to that effect.) I’m such a softie. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine/340039/19 "2006-01-15T18:02:23Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > My favorite strip, and today [I don’t get it.](http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/pearls/) Y’know, dates would help – I read the 1/15/06 Sunday strip about “whine country” and was wondering what was so perplexing about it… ---
**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:** [January 15, 2006, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine/340039/20 "2006-01-15T19:42:53Z")
> [@rjung](#): > > Y’know, dates would help Sorry, 14 January.