Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 09, 2017

Sorry, no wifi. Your Mother could only afford a discount tourist hotel.

Guess which cartoonist took a family vacation recently.

And now we know why we give them those little wheels…

Somebody should eat Rat and spit him out.

Since it’s summer time, can we please get some pearls comics set at the beach? Those are my most favorite ones!

When Hammy said they’d visit all the museums, were the kids giving her a sarcastic “Yay”?

Well, back in the 1980’s when the we took a family vacation from to Paris from my home station in Germany, the cost of a Whopper in Paris was more than the cost of two adult tickets to see a movie. And yeah, we did the tourist hotel thing to save a bit for other parts of the tour.

This must be Paris, so let’s order ‘Le Royale’!

at least IVANKA took her BABY out for a short time to meet with the smart men who talk funny, to talk about some boring business stuff, then brought the BABY back to his hotel room to whine some more.

That sure is a hostile hostel!

They had wifi in the brochure…

That explains why hamsters eat their young AND why I’m afraid to have children.

Pretty much all the hotels in Paris have wifi. I don’t know why it surprisedme that when I switched on my tablet, everything came up in French. But re-setting if for English took only a click. It was great for generating walking maps from the hotel to the Centre Pompidou (containing the Musée National d’Art Moderne) and to the Musée Picasso. Also to educate myself about some important sites that my guidebooks didn’t cover and which I hadn’t known about till encountering them on the way from point A to point B. For some reason I’d thought that the Chapel of the Miraculous Medal was in the countryside, but there it was in a commercial business neighborhood. It’s not often one gets to lay eyes on an actual saint. But there, in a crystal coffin, was Ste. Catherine Laboure. And Rat might have been interested to know that at the Pompidou, an entire floor was given over to a temporary exhibit of the work of Art Spiegelman including his every original page of his graphic novel “Maus” which recounted a true story about some survivors of the Holocaust told entirely with anthropomorphic animals… no rats, actually, but the Jews were mice and the Germans were cats.

Reply

It’s surprising that Goat actually agrees with Rat for once…

But if you want a real horror story, wait till you hear what happened to the Lemming family….

Ha! More fake stories…

In all seriousness, very few children are capable of appreciating a trip of this sort. They just don’t have the intellectual background for it. I was unusual in loving to travel as a teenager, but my memories of trips before then are very sketchy.

must be summer vacation.

When I was stationed in Germany, we traveled around when we could. My daughter remembers more than my son. He spent most of his time with his nose buried in his Nintendo Gameboy.

Sounds like a pretty accurate description of how many Americans “tour” Europe.

I went to a fried chicken place on Friday and they didn’t have Wi-Fi either.

Guess what I did? I stayed.

xxx

McDonald’s, junk food place, hamsters, junk food. Canabal.

Rat is an under-apprciated genius writer. His books and tales always have an edifying moral-to-the-story at the end.

Well, maybe not so edifying if you’re a hamster or a hamster-loving human. If you’re a hamster-lover, however, how do you like your hamster done?

Are these descendants of the original Hammy that I remember from my youth?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_Riverbank

Yet again Pig asks the important questions

Those hamster kids are just like me and my brother, asking for Wi-Fi and McDonald’s..

BUT DID THEY GET MCDONALDS???

I do hate it when a question goes unanswered too