Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 13, 2017

What’s life without a rat!!

Don’t tell Rat about the party you plan to have at the funeral.

How very inconsiderate of them! The best thing to do, Rat, is not die. Then they will have to live with you forever, or die and leave you alive. Either way would work.

Yes Rat, life goes on, even if you don’t.

Life expectancies:

Goats: 15-18 years

Pigs: 8-10 years

Rats: 2 years

Sorry, Rat. You lose.

Rat always has been a legend in his own mind…rather like Cartoon-boy himself!

Well Rat at least you will get to shine if only for a moment !

I understand Rat completely, who would want to live once Rat is gone?

There is so much you have yet to learn, Rat (especially about other people—yes other persons)! Obviously, it is too soon to die. And who has a Viking ship to spare, anyway?

Without Rat, what’s the point of living?

Don’t worry Rat, that hot shieldmaiden Val Halla, will be there.

When Rat dies he wants to everybody with him

Forget the Viking funeral rat, everyone is going to throw you a New Orleans funeral.

Par-tay!!!

Instead of a Viking Funeral, everyone will be dancing on Rat’s grave.

A proper Irish wake, with a wee dram or two…

crocs please

I’ll go to Pig’s Viking funeral – pig roast!

I had planned to spit on Rat’s grave, but realized that after getting out of the Marine Corps I would never stand in line again.

How about a mobster funeral, Rat? Your friends could take a contract out on you, and no one would ever find the body.

At his funeral they will play “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead”

Sorry, Rat. You’re going alone.

xxx

How selfish can these guys be ? Of course you want to perish in flames with Rat at his Viking Funeral

Usually rats leave a sinking ship.

Rat’s funeral music will be “celebrate” by kook and the gang

In this strip Rat reminds me of what someone once said about Theodore Roosevelt: ‘He wanted to be the corpse at every funeral and the bride at every wedding’.

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