Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 04, 2017

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    Packratjohn Premium Member about 7 years ago

    On top of that, he was pretty much pro-temperance. Maybe a drink or two would have helped him…

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    Sherlock Watson  about 7 years ago

    Okay, this time Paris was asking for it. It’s like giving your girlfriend a ticket to “a Chippendale show,” and all she gets to see is old furniture.

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    wiatr  about 7 years ago

    For once I agree with Rat. I guess it could happen once every 20 years or so. I wonder which one of us will be around 20 years from now?

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    chris_weaver  about 7 years ago

    But how did it taste?

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    boydpercy Premium Member about 7 years ago

    Goat is being intentionally cruel to Rat.

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    AGED_ENGINEER Premium Member about 7 years ago

    Soooo, we’re back to the fifties with beat poetry and coffee houses?

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member about 7 years ago

    The 1st law of gift-giving…

    give what the recipient likes, not what you like.

     

    Goat broke the law…

    so Rat threw the book at him.

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    CharlesDalrymple  about 7 years ago

    How do you maintain your quality of humor? It is like hitting .500 in MLB. You are using a “corked” mind.

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    F-Flash  about 7 years ago

    Goat is very sophisticated, he’s trying to help Rat, but Ratcan’t be helped. Rat is broken and he likes it, ……… a lot.

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    Pat Murray  about 7 years ago

    It could be worse. He could have gotten a sampler of Slim Whitman music.

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    JF1  about 7 years ago

    Discovering I share my birthday with Rat is inspirational

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    Cameron1988 Premium Member about 7 years ago

    You should’ve just given him a case of beer, Goat

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    finbarrsaunders  about 7 years ago

    I didn’t get the joke because I had no idea there were “Whitman” chocolates. First thought was Walt Whitman…

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    Gent  about 7 years ago

    Don’t you like to munch on the paper, Rat?

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    YatInExile  about 7 years ago

    My brother once gave me a Christmas present packed in a box from an album of Rod McKuen reading his poetry. I wanted to beat his @$$. I don’t remember what the gift was, but I remember it being pretty cool.

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    Perkycat  about 7 years ago

    I’ve never cared for Whitman Chocolates – I have a more sophisticated chocolate palate. I certainly understand Rat’s response, though, when you are expecting chocolate…..IT BETTER BE CHOCOLATE!

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    Queen of America  about 7 years ago

    I haven’t head that name in a long time. With references to McKuen and Slim Whitman, I’m starting to get an idea of age range of this group.

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    zeexenon  about 7 years ago

    I Sing the Body Electric

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    Thomas R. Williams  about 7 years ago

    I sting the body eccentric.

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    Number Three  about 7 years ago

    Get him a rat trap next time or make him a drink with rat poison in it.

    Just a suggestion.

    xxx

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    BeniHanna6 Premium Member about 7 years ago

    I agree with Rat, I probably would have punched him myself.

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    Sisyphos  about 7 years ago

    Cartoon-Boy was sort of stretching for it today. Goat’s description in panel 1 of the gift does not really match the Reveal in panel 3, which is forced.

    But, hey, it’s Labor Day, and if ever there were a day-laborer, it’s our friendly neigborhoodlum cartoonist….

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    mortaur  about 7 years ago

    I guess it’s better than a Charles Whitman sampler.

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    Swirls Before Pine  about 7 years ago

    “And then I played the ‘Song Of The Broad-Axe’ on his head”

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    ND Cool Z  almost 6 years ago

    “Song of Myself”! Nightwish, anyone?

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