Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 15, 2013

The Rats of the world are why children can’t just have fun anymore. If they tried to play Red Rover, some Rat will tell them to rush the line with dangerous force just so he himself can feel like a big man.

Quit Stalin and play basketball.

Tell the child Joseph Stalin was the omelet king.

I think Rat would make a great premier of the USSR. Or a terrible one, if you consider world domination through bombing half the world with nukes into the equation.

Joseph Stalin is an evil man who killed a lot of people.

and dead for a while too. Stalin had to work it a bit before he got all the power.

I think Rat is amped up on bennies. He should not be let anywhere near a little girls’ team of any kind. Someone call the Exterminator!

or, be like genghis khan and have as many “wives” across asia.

He didn’t mean that Russia HAD used nukes, just that if Rat was in charge he’d nuke half the world.

No one has ever used nuclear bombs on anyone. The two bombs dropped on Japan were atomic, not nuclear.

ask today of any 18 year old, who was Mickey Rooney?

I think he is referring to the “system” that Lenin created .. the system allowed a paranoid homicidal maniac to take over and kill whomever he chose.

Uncle Joe, Rat’s no. 1 hero and role model.

man, i have a sore throat today but this comic has made me feel a lot better :")

Think it was Al Capone— “you can get more with a smile, a kind word, and a gun than you can get with just a smile and a kind word.”

Isn’t Rat in violation of Megan’s Law ???Some Law ??

Rat has a very special coaching style.

Lenin, not Stalin.

Quite frankly, I’m surprised Rat is coaching a little girls basketball team. I would have sworn he’d be teaching them how to play poker instead.

Actually, Napoleon first said that, not Stalin or Lenin.

Awwwww, They’re so cute!

xxx

Teaching them to be CEO’s at an early age… How appropriate!

Somebody kick Rat in the oompa-loompa’s twenty-four-seven for a week.

It is obviously that the rat use the omelette as an illustration or example because he thought that girl ’s necessary knowledge is cooking and it would be easy to use this as an motivation to put in 100% effect which is not the case.

In fact, I rather see this maybe as an pun related to the no action against Syria ‘s alleged chemical attack where people are indifferent to the fact that 1400 lives was lost just like the girl team is not concerned about winning but who Stalin is or the moral of the story is sportsmanship don’t exist anymore!

so true. And the favorite sport of a “peaceful nation” is “football”. Ever listen to the coaches of these teams?

John Lenin wrote “Back in the USSR.”

Sadly, most coaches are like this, in my experience. Heck, even some band directors are.

Lenin killed and jailed a lot of innocents, Stalin more, so why say one was better than the other? Evil is evil. Lenin may have tried to fix his errors if he’d have lived but the dead and maimed wouldn’t care.

I think that’s a quote from a children’s hockey coach.