Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 23, 2013

I’ll go with Rat on this one. Grabby, selfish people – or so I’ve heard.

I wonder if Rat had some ancestors on the RMS “Titanic” and didn’t survive thereon.

After Julie welcomes them aboard, will Gopher lose their luggage?

Send Rat on a cruise…missile.

Goat must be desperately lonely to ask Rat to go on vacation with him.

Actually, Goat should ask a girl to go with him. If she asks what the ride will be like, he can say that she’ll get the feel of Paris.:As long as he doesn’t tell her his real name until they’re at sea, of course…

On a boat with a goat?

Don’t forget “being trapped in a confined space with obese people suffering from Norwalk’s disease” Rat.

Back in the day, I made my first overseas journey on a passenger liner. Endless food, endless hot sun (it was late summer), and endless tedium. But it was fun!

Now a sailing ship adventure on a relatively small, intimate vessel…the wind singing through the sails…that’s more my speed for sure.

Let’s not forget the fact that cruises are just so boring!

My first cruise was with about 1500 other Marines in 1964. California to Hawaii to Japan to Okinawa in three weeks. Good times. No buffet, though.

I went on a cruise once, and it was the best experience of my life. Why so negative?

I wonder what Zebra would have said if asked?

Cruises = minimum security prisons…

Oh, man!! We were on that cruise!!

He’s probably talking about Carnival and Costa, the two most incompetent cruise lines in the world (other than Norwegian).

Rat is obviously Mr-No-Fun.

xxx

Wow, way to judge a person you know nothing about other than I don’t like cruises. I have been on a cruise, but I don’t like clubs or casinos and the pools are too tiny to be of practical use. That leaves eating and lounging on the deck or watching TV. I can watch TV at home. I can swim in a bigger pool or at a beach at home, all without the expense. So, yes, cruises are boring to me. But me boring? Hardly.

My wife’s aunt has been on more than a few cruises and loved every one. But, hey, Rat, you don’t have to go on Carnival; there are other cruise lines.

I thought this was awful. Just make a generic crack about overweight people…..it was wrong, and it wasn’t even funny. Prejudice is prejudice, Steph., and bullying is bullying. Grow up!

Thank you. Yes, my unit, the first battelion, third Marines, landed at Danang, South Vietnam on March 8, 1965. We were the first of the U.S. buildup.

It would be great if this plot line was expanded.

My B I L talks about his cruise in an American ship going around and around an island nation for a month or so. That could get boring

I did the trap shooting – pretty good shot I was, but I wonder where the bullets ended up?!