Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 15, 2013

Rat always likes to keep his Buds nearby.

Rat would probably drink them under the table.

Rat: “I will now belch a hymn to beer.”

Panel 2 is the viewpoint from behind the bar, while panel 3 is a viewpoint from in front of the bar. But keep watching, it is the most common mistake made by cartoonists.

Rat and Homer Simpson have something in common, it seems. Except Rat’s brand is not Duff: some other offshoot denomination….

You’re right!!!!!!! The bloody beer cans shifted from one side to the other………..It’s a miracle!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“I like beer!It makes me a jolly good fellow.It helps me unwind and sometimes it makes me feel mellow.Whiskey’s too rough.Champagne costs too much.Vodka puts my mouth in gear.This little refrain should help me explain as a matter of fact I like beer.” (From a great Tom T. Hall song)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG5gWk-1m10 (sorry don’t know how to make direct links)

Rat should be a Rastafarian…they are said to put weed in everything. Maybe he’d mellow out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtpv0n6Nm2I

Dough the stuff that buys me beer,Ray, the guy who pours the beer,Me, the guy who drinks the beer.Fa, a long, long way to beer,So, I think I’ll have a beer,La, la la la beer,Tea? I’d rather have a beer,And now I’m out of Dough, Dough, Dough (for beer.)

René Descartes walks into a bar and orders a beer.Upon finishing it, the bartender asks if he’d like another, to which he replies “I think not” and disappears.

Despair all yeast who enter beer. . ..

“In heaven there is no beer,That’s why we drink it here…”— forgot who sang that (too much beer?)

Actually, it’s been sung by many people. Probably written by the noted Anon Y. Mous.

I vote for the Church of Santa Claus – he always delivers.

Silenus was the Greek God of Beer.Too much beer can lead to a great deal of silenus!

I have finally found God!

hail hail, the pails nereby.

A good beer is like sex.Its over too quick.But unlike sex.Its easier to open another beer than it is to get back to attention.

I’ve been on a spiritual search for a satisfying religion for about forty years now. Same for a presidential candidate.

@JudyAz—check out “No Beer in Heaven” in wikipedia.

Re:Paris’s comment—No, but it CAN be an idol!!

There are actually two shifts of perspective, of course. From P1 to P2 the viewer has moved from in front of them to the left and from P2 to P3, to behind them.

As I’ve said before, “And malt does more than Milton can To justify God’s ways to man.” A. E. Housman

Pastis is a fool!

Rat obviously remembers what Benjamin Franklin once said: “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”

To Rat, Beer is EVERYTHING!

LOL xxx

Max’s at Fells Point Baltimore MD is Holy Ground

beer is a better religion than all other religions. insane rituals, dietary restrictions. special underwear, clergy who molests kids, and their hatred of science.

Wasn’t that a Simpson episode? I foggily remember one where Homer had his own church (and very popular it was). That COULD have involved beer.

@ Radish, how could you forget BACCHUS? I know he was known more for wine than beer but that matters little.

and the way the Christian Holidays were chosen – it is curious that St Patrick’s Day is celebrated on the same day as the former Festival of Bacchus ;-D

I cannot believe that I am AGREEING with Rat!

And veteran, I missed the comment above but this comment caught my attention. And I disagree with BRO; the right woman makes all the difference.

“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” – Ben Franklin

Unfortunately, they can.

Rat is very intelligent. It is very deep in what he says. It is sarcastic and Ironic or Tongue in Check. I love it.

Why not beer…..it is all made up, anyway.

Beer is liquid bread…. but my wife won’t let me have it with breakfast.

Immanuel Kant was a real pissantWho was very rarely stable.Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggarWho could think you under the table.David Hume could out-consumeSchopenhauer and Hegel,And Wittgenstein was a beery swineWho was just as schloshed as Schlegel.There’s nothing Nietzsche couldn’t teach ya’‘Bout the raising of the wrist.Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed…John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.Plato, they say, could stick it away;Half a crate of whiskey every day.Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,Hobbes was fond of his dram,And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart: “I drink, therefore I am”Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed;A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he’s pissed!

MONTY PYTHON – THE PHILOSOPHERS SONG LYRICS

It really makes me crazy when I get up in the morning and there’s no cold beer in the fridge…