Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 30, 2014

Rat’s reproducing! RUN!

I’ve always wondered: what do you put in the swear jar if you don’t have any money?

Wonder just how well that would really work for most kids. I mean first off the parent has to be perfectly honest about it, meaning they’d have to do it without the kids around. Most folks would have the loophole of when the kids ain’t around to hear it then they wouldn’t know about the swearing. And then there are folks like my dad who were quite sneaky about swearing. A) We’re part French Canadian on his side of the family. My grandmother and her siblings and mother would get together and start speaking in French around dad and my aunt and uncles. He did pick up a few swears in French even if he didn’t pick up much of the language. And when I was little he’d be likely to use what he knew in order to swear around me without me having any clue. Wasn’t until I was a teenager that I finally asked him about it, by which time I’d already picked up a few swears myself. On top of that he had the classic swearing through acronyms. SNAFU, TMFI, PITA, etc. he could whip out to get away with it.

Stealing from Jon Stewart, who’s also been doing a swear jar thing lately.

Fiddle-dee dee. That will require a tetanus shot.

Would be lot easier to just put the whole paycheck in and only take out money when you are good !

he is VERY FAST>>>>>>>>>>>*

I’d actually like to have Rat’s kid as a character, don’t hate me.

Lessee. Over two dozen swear-jars visible in panel 3, all full. And that’s just the ones that are visible. Who knows how many more the fictive future father Rat has racked up? @#$%!

What the hell is with this website today?? Nothing is loading!!

If there are swear jars in Montreal, this morning they are probably overflowing! Go New York Rangers!!

imagine if he was a marine or a sailor. those jarheads/devil dogs/leathernecks and squids can swear up a storm.

Mine are not loading today either. Have to open each one to read it. But, comics are worth it.

I helped myself cut down on swearing by making myself say, “Thou shalt not swear” twenty-five times in my head when I’ve done it. (This is not in the Bible, my daughter pointed out, but it works.) Also, I trained myself to “buckle in” 100% of time time (after I found myself fastening my seat belt while on the Interstate) by thinking, “Fasten your seat belt before you start!” twenty-five times. That is so annoying, it worked.

I tried that and quickly ran out of jars. 55 gallon drums work better, but are harder to take to the bank to cash in. Then I realized, I’m the only one who can decide what is “impure”…. now I toss about 4 cents a month into the jar.

Love it!

xxx

what about a jar for words that don’t exist like ain’t?

Awww, that’s adorable!

No. Winnipeg Manitoba

And now, Rat is pregnant in a storyline. Nice foreshadowing.

Actually sounds like a decent idea.

I don’t know what’s worse- The amount Rat swears or that he has a kid.