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Tag / Pearls Before Swine

March 27, 2021March 25, 2021 by Winter Wallaby

Saturday Morning Oys – March 27th, 2021

  • (Not a Cidu), Oy
  • Cornered, Dan Piraro, Mike Baldwin, Pearls Before Swine, Stephan Pastis, Sunday Bizarro
  • 15 Comments
From chemgal, who asks “Can we declare Stephan Pastis ‘King of the Oy?’ He certainly loves the puns. . . . Love that he got two extra ones in the final panel. Does that make this an Aussie ‘Oy!Oy!Oy!’? 

From Andréa.

January 23, 2021January 20, 2021 by EditorM

Saturday Morning Oys – January 23rd, 2021

  • (Not a Cidu), Oy
  • Arlo-Oy, J.C. Duffy, Lug Nuts, Pearls Before Swine, Stephan Pastis, Tom Falco, Tomversations
  • 16 Comments

Tom Falco says on his blog that two of the most popular of his cartoons last year were on the cavemen/cavewomen motif.

An Arlo-Oy?

Hmm, this feels familiar, but only the horse-drawn carriage shows up on a pun search.

December 8, 2020December 9, 2020 by Winter Wallaby

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia, and other Geezers

  • (Not a Cidu)
  • Adam at Home, Brady Bunch, Pearls Before Swine, Rob Harrell, Stephan Pastis
  • 56 Comments

Question 1: Is panel 5 a Geezer or a known fixture of American culture?

Question 2: Is “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia” a Geezer, or perhaps an anti-Geezer? A cultural meme more likely to be known by the young?

From Andréa and chemgal.

And another one from chemgal. This one has to be a Geezer, right?

July 13, 2020July 13, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Bonus LOL: “Breaking All Sorts of Walls

  • LOL
  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Family Circus, Fourth Wall, humor, Pearls Before Swine, Stephan Pastis
  • 19 Comments

pig

Submitted by Wreck-It Ralph

March 19, 2020March 18, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Holy Synchronicity!

  • Synchronicity
  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Drabble, humor, Kevin Fagan, Pearls Before Swine, Stephan Pastis
  • 10 Comments

Submitted by Mitch:

holes drabblehole pearls

January 11, 2020January 11, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Saturday Morning Oy – January 11, 2020

  • Oy
  • Argyle Sweater, Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Dark Side of the Horse, Dave Coverly, humor, John Deering, Pearls Before Swine, Scott Hilburn, Speed Bump, Stephan Pastis, Strange Brew
  • 20 Comments

Jan 11 oy argyle graze

Jan 11 Oy Dark Side Andréa

Submitted by Andréa

jan 11 oy patriot

jan 11 oy speed bump impossible

January 5, 2020December 9, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Sunday Funnies – LOL, January 5, 2020

  • Hey Geezers! Comics!, LOL
  • Bill Bickel, Brady Bunch, comic strips, comics, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, humor, Leigh Rubin, Pardon My Planet, Pearls Before Swine, Ruben Bolling, Rubes, Stephan Pastis, Super-Fun-Pak Comix, Vic Lee
  • 14 Comments

pardon my lobster

rubes death andrea

Submitted by Andréa

sfpc191213

submitted with both the LoL and Geezer tags

Submitted with both the LOL and Geezer tags

September 11, 2019September 11, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Synchronousness in bestest Englishness

  • Synchronicity
  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Ink Pen, Pearls Before Swine, Phil Dunlap, Stephan Pastis
  • 2 Comments

Submitted by a most anonymest reader:

English pearls

English ink pen

July 6, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Pearls Before Rocks

  • Image
  • CIDU
  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Pearls Before Swine, Stephan Pastis
  • 14 Comments

rocks.JPG

June 1, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Saturday Afternoon Synchroynicity

  • Oy, Synchronicity
  • Argyle Sweater, Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Pearls Before Swine, Scott Hilburn
  • 5 Comments

Pearls Before Datesjune 22 oy argyle date

Andréa sent these for the Synchronicity tag; I’d already had the Argyle Sweater saved under Oy, and of course the Pearls Before Swine strip applies there as well.

Well, actually most of them do…

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