Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 05, 2015

Pig, show members of the neighborhood association that trick and they will change their minds.

Is D.B. Cooper in that tree? (Or rather the remains of him)

Be careful you don’t also get hit with some kites.

You know just how many people would be tree huggers if money fell out every time you shook a tree? Course you know how little value money would end up having?

Scene one of a caper movie. Rat and pig take home piles of cash, hidden there by drug dealers who spotted a police car approaching. They come back to reclaim their hidden proceeds… and manage to follow a trail of dropped bills to the house. Their suppliers, suspicious that the cash delivery is late, go looking for them. The cops, meanwhile have figured out what has been going on and join the chase. A chases B chases C chases D. Madcap violence ensues.

a developer would cut down the big rock candy mountain if he could make a profit…

Sorry for going off topic. I know this isn’t about today’s comic. .This is a response to a comment made to me late yesterday.(please disregard this if you are not interested.).@Markmoss1- I see a few problems in your theory –.First regarding mounting horses from the left side –You suggested it is done because “that is how we have always done it and to do otherwise might panic a horse who is used to being mounted from the left” (paraphrased).It is unlikely that there is a collective conscious among horses. One horse, having learning to be mounted from the left side is not going to pass that information on to another horse, Therefore, any given horse could be initially trained to be mounted from right side..So why did men arbitrarily agree to mount from the left?You suggest that since most men are right handed, they mount from the left to pull themselves up onto a horse with their stronger right arm..While I agree, most men are right handed,a person mounts a horse by placing his left hand on the front of the saddle, stepping into the left stirrup, lifting himself up and swinging his right leg over horse. He doesn’t “pull himself up with his arm.”.Horses were first used as an aid in battle. A right handed man would want to keep his dominant hand free to wield his weapon. This probably led to the convention of mounting from the left side..As to which side of the road cars (or carriages) are driven,it was an arbitrary decision when it was first standardized.(I still think the original arbitrary choice was rooted in handedness – maybe based on which eye is used for aiming, but I won’t argue.).You are correctAmericans adopted driving on the left like the French because they wanted to be different from the English.Similar reasoning changed the spelling of many words to make them not be British English..

I’m with Rat! Yippee! A late-life hippie!

Maybe they’re living in a video game. I’ve been playing one where, when you shake a tree, sometimes a gold coin flies out.

My thought is you do not kill the goose which lays the golden egg or in this case the money tree :-)

Money: the root of all evil. Only this time it’s in the leaves.

The tree is deciduous. What happens to the money when the leaves fall in the fall?

Was it planted by the International Money-tree Fund?

I’ll get me coat.

Does the Neighborhood Association know about this little trick it can do? Or does the president of the association not so much want to CUT down the tree as uproot it and transfer it to his/her backyard?

My mother always asked me if I thought Dad had a money tree growing in the back yard. Wish he told me where it was before he passed.

@jimmjonzz — Li’l Guard Duck gets involved.

Well money does fall from trees. Have you seen the price of pecans and walnuts?

I think Stephan has been playing Animal Crossing. Which, given the nature of his strip, kinda makes sense.

where can we find this type of tree?

Doesn’t Pastis know that money doesn’t grow on trees. I know that, my father told me. Many times.

If trees gave us free wifi, we’d probably plant so many we would save the planet as well.

Its too bad they only produce the oxygen we breathe

i guess i should go talk to my lazy trees about this

If you took a graft from this tree and planted it in Canada, would loonies fall out when you shake it?

This strip makes me sad; the Rats of the world will only value nature when they can make money from its survival instead of from its destruction. I hope Pastis explores this some more.

The future will be interesting, imagine as it is checks can be cashed without actually giving them to anyone, just the numbers across the bottom.

It will be cool when I can buy something online buy just giving the serial number off a bill…heh, hey its the same concept.

It’s nice to see that Rat found a cause worth fighting for.

No bells?

oooh, twisted. motivating rat to become a tree-hugger! cool reversal of what’s normal

“It Grows on Trees”, (1952) with Irene Dunne – Dean Jagger.It really does!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HqjOfw1Mxk

Try being funny.

Not on this topic, but I’ve been bugged by “remembering” or dreaming of recently reading a Pearls comic where Rat said, in the first panel, that, in so many words, he is so politically correct that he came upon a protest and said “all lives matter” (I think, because I can’t remember the first panel exactly) and in the second panel he said he stepped into a Breast Cancer Survivors meeting and said “ALL cancer is bad!” and in the last panel he’s at a funeral and says that “everybody dies” so they don’t need to get all worked up, in so many words, I believe. NOW, to make a long story short (TOO LATE!) was I dreaming, or was it a REAL Pearls comic? I can’t picture any other character iin any comic but Rat saying those things. Please HELP. :>)

Not too surprising that Rat would be a republican. Trees (people, ideas, animals, things) valued only for how much money they bring in.

Foolish Rat, everyone knows money doesn’t grow on trees. It really grows in the money-fields of Southern California. And they need water to irrigate it.