Friday, April 5, 2019

It's all in the vocabulary


From Pearls Before Swine yesterday.  Click the image to go to a larger view at the comic's Web site.




As far as I know, Stephan Pastis is the only cartoonist who regularly incorporates puns into his comics.  He's halfway there.  Now, if we could just get him to use limericks as well . . .




Peter

7 comments:

exfarmkid said...

"He's halfway there."

This is evidence that you are trying to get company during your stay in purgatory......

Old NFO said...

Purgatory or punatory... :-)

Beans said...

Oh, God. You just challenged him... We're doooooooomed, dooooooooomed I say...

(Hope he reads your blog...)

HMS Defiant said...

I love his videos especially the one where he takes on the creator of Dilbert.

Silent Draco said...

I'll have to present the Carpe Pulti Theorem at the 2020 LibertyCon. Gives me time to finish working out the math for the probability function. This revolves around Grant's Limit, which is where the carpapult goes into automatic firing mode for pun-itive action ...

Now I have to add limericks to the puns; HATE mixing continuous and discrete variables!

:-)

Chip Anderson said...

Here in Acadiana, "th" sounds are often pronounced "d" by Cajuns and Creoles. An old joke goes like dis, "Little Boudreaux was asked by his teacher to make a sentence using the words "defeat", "defense", and "detail". After a moment, little Boudreaux proudly says, "De feet o' de cat went o'er de fence before de tail!".

urbane legend said...

Cheesy puns any 9 year old can make. My favorite book is
I Don't Care If The Rain Never Stops by An Wi.