Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 16, 2013

Trying to keep a bunch of little girls quiet? Good luck.

Who would name an innocent,little girl Carla?

Rat just keeps giving them lessons they already would have learnt in the sandbox in pre-school.

I was born 32 after the ’52 NBA championship. Who exactly was Carla referring to? This coming from another rat (my Chinese zodiac sign is Rat).

Stand up to that rat of a coach, girls.

It strikes me as odd that Rat is wearing purple.

The Minneappolis Laker over New York Knicks 4-3. Google a wonderful inventions for answering trivia questions.

What’s 1952?

Forget 1952. How many people even remember who won the last NBA title?

But Rat! Carla is your Big Guy at 1’3"

rats hat says, drink beer, watch tv. drink even more beer.

I’m sending these advice columns to my daughter who is coaching a HS Girl’s Soccer team for the first time.

I’m waiting to see who’ll be coaching the opposing team!

Adjacent comments that look good together (from above) RipleyKGarfield said, about 1 hour ago

I’m waiting to see who’ll be coaching the opposing team!

Well, my wife’s mother, for one.. Why do you ask?

Did anybody else guess Mikan and the Lakers?

Sux to know useless trivia. But hey, did you know George had his leg run over by a car when he was a teen?

BTW Minneapolis Lakers, not LA.

I think the Minnesota Wolverines won in 9 games or something like that.

Now that’s something that finally makes sense. I always wondered why they were the lakers, instead of the reservoirs.

The only thing Rat is missing is a chalice and a pimp cane……..

Another Bobby Knight.Quote:’All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things."“Everyone wants to be on a winning team, but no one wants to come to practice.”Now Rat needs to practice chair tossing.

@jukeofurl Me too

Legend George Mikan played for the Lakers, and this was a year after Bud Grant left the team to go play pro football.

No let’s not… She got you there, Rat!

LOL xxx

Game 7 April 25 Minneapolis Lakers 82−65 (4−3) New York Knicks

That’s okay.It is how we all learn.I never knew the words in question were even in the dictionary.So I learned sum’tin. (hehe)

Rat hates it whenever someone is a hundred times smarter than him. Which is why Rat hates the majority of the world.

A more appropriate question for anyone not living in Boston, Chicago, Miami, or LA – What’s the NBA?

Whose idea was it to let rat coach?