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No. 962: If You Had to Rank Setups for This Pun, this is At the Top

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If You Had to Rank Setups for This Pun, this is At the Top

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Strip by: KelpTheGreat

Franz: Greetings, Rat. Wondering if you changed your mind on music lessons.
Rat: Listen, Franz the Punning Professor of Music... you get away from my house.
Franz: What'd I do?
Rat: You want me to tell you every single thing?
Franz: Yes, give me the whole Liszt.
{Rat is threatening Pastis with a baseball bat}
Rat: Stop it now.

The author writes:

The original setup for this pun completely dropped the ball. Pretty much the first rule of basic punning is that you don't include the word you're punning off of in the setup itself. So I fixed it.

Original Pearls Before Swine strip: 2018-12-19 (can be read here).

Font used: Friday Night.