Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 01, 2011

Rat, such an impetuous lad!

Pig should remember to vote early and often!

Do I smell barbeque?

Does anyone else have the song ‘Burning down the house’ by the Talking Heads, stuck in their head.

Excitable boy, they all said…

Rat, you impetuous boy, you! Pig, rescue your personal treasures—hurry!

ha, FKA doc!

Bah, our dear Mr. Pastis is just too lazy to draw Rat with real feet and shoes on them :-)

Finish pouring gasoline before igniting it!

Mmm … bacon!

perhaps a metaphor for what the politicians and investment bankers are doing to the world’s economy???

Uh oh- it looks like Rat is one of those OWSers . . .

ajnotales, Zippy007 — When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And when all you have is a single issue to obsess about, everything looks like a metaphor for it. Yes?

Rat reminds me so much of a buddy of mine. I gotta stay on the other coast to stay out of trouble…OWS is ‘way too naive and tame, especially since they’re being set up by the TP puppets and GOP politicians…

It’s OK, though: OWS will wise up. They gave Wall St, the banks, and the GOTP a chance to do the right thing…

This is why every vote counts…

This is a hot strip!

When have the pearls characters ever worn shoes?

You want change, Rat?

Why not try not showing off and swearing for once?

LOL xxx

Eh, the rent was too high anyway.

Mmm, rat-kabob…

Pig needs to go to Home Depot, get the biggest rat trap they sell and put a beer in it for bait. End of the rodent problems!

Rat’s been listening to Talking Heads.

Would be funnier if in the last panel Rat said something like “Democracy is for sissies.”

“Smoke On The Water” by Deep Purple came to mind.

“Vote early, vote often”

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If Pig waits, he’ll get the second option:

“Just because someone is dead doesn’t keep them from voting.”

I grew up in Chicago. My uncle always voted Republican while he was alive—and Democrat once he died.

Curse you, Oddball! Curse you!!AAUUGGHHHH!!!!

Which one will we see wearing shoes?

poor pig and mouse. good thing zeebas wont get hurt by flame.

if i could have 1 thing for my birthday id have Stephen Pastis draw me a comic strip with McJagger…

Is it arson if it’s his house and his property?

Anyone else smell bacon cooking?

oops…sorry hariseldon…didn’t read before I typed….

@BqggzS. Pastis will probably draw Rat with proper feet and shoes the day Donald Duck wears pants.

Does anyone have “I’ve got a feeling” by the Black Eyed Peas stuck in their head?"Let’s burn the roof!And then we’ll do it aga-a-a-in.

“I’m hung like planet Pluto, hard to see with the naked eye, but if I crashed into Uranus I would stick it where the sun don’t shine, cause I’m kind of like Han Solo always stroking my own Wookie, I’m the root of all that’s evil, yea, but you can call me cookie. The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire, the roof, the roof, the roof is on fire, we don’t need no water let the motherf***er burn, burn motherf***er, burn.”