Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 14, 2012

Make it no anchovies, please.

Run, Andy, Run; Rat is not calling for a pizza!

Andy is about to be ratted out.

Maybe Li’l Guard Duck will help to defend Andy.

Pig, take the collar off of him and hide him in the basement!

Pupperoni?

Rat: “Hi, Papa John, I’d like to report a pizza. Small dog, extra cheese. Deliver pick-up at…”

They don’t call him rat for nothing.

Quizzical expressions. Do you believe Rat? Do you believe, Rat? Do not sell out your friends for a mere $5000! Hold out for much more money!

Oh Rat, you fur faced liar!

rat is a rat.

Sure rat, sure…

Rat on a landline?? What next, an 8-track player and/or a black-and-white TV set?!?

Keep going, ANDY! Bob Barker’s house is not that far away!

Yeah Yeah…

Do you expect us to believe that, Rat?

LOL xxx

Yeah, right, Rat — and I’m Justin Bieber!

And knowing Pig he’ll buy that even after having already heard Rat say he was going to turn him in for the reward.

If he would have said: “Pizza AND beer” it would be believable.

The cops should be after the idiot who chained him up!

Just ordering a pizza, yeah right.

Well, it is true..there are too many beep boop beep’s to be just a 911 call.

Pig!!! Get Andy away from Rat!

A pizza the action…

Quick Andy, go hide out in the alley behind that Vietnamese restaurant…..no wait…..

I thought we had to use the whole 10-digit number nowadays; 3 boops and 7 beeps.

That reward makes all the difference.

order some jam ’cause Andy is toast.

just like in the movie, departed, everyone is a rat.

Now why are the police after him? Maybe we’ve misjudged him; he might turn out to be like Goat’s cat or Little Guard Duck.

Rat is ordering pizza but it is going to be delivered by the SWAT Team.

Landline phones run off big 48 volt batteries at the central switching office. These batteries are kept charged off the AC mains and by diesel generator when the mains fail. SO as long as the wires are not broken you will have landline phones when the power is out. Now a cordless phone plugged into a landline will not work when the power is out because there is no power to run the base station unless you have it plugged into a UPS like used with a computer.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=526988

http://wigblog.blogspot.com/wigblog-2005-phone-centraloffice-battery-backup.jpg

one of my favorites