Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 26, 2018

Can we also have a holiday celebrating pizza?

I was thinking more along the lines of whisky. Or whiskey.

I never before realised how religious I am!

Hey Rat, I’ll drink to that.

I’d love to have a parade for a holiday celebrating parades for holidays. And a holiday for THAT parade.

Here it comes, everyone. Nobody will consider alcoholism as a religion…nobody. Except atheists.

G.K. Chesterton said we thank God for beer by not drinking too much of it!

Was it Ben Franklin who said “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy”?

Martin Luther loved his beer.

It doesn’t matter what the question is…the answer is beer. Pretty much the way most religions work. If God is your religion then God is the answer, if money is your religion then money is the answer…

WORKS FOR ME!!

Cincinnati has a beer parade every year. http://www.bockfest.com/

God is great, beer is good…& Rat is still crazy! (Apologies to Billy Currington!)

God is great, beer is good…& Rat is still crazy! (Apologies to Billy Currington!)

It’s like a religious experience.Alcohol,I mean.

Bourbon and bacon?

I have no objection to this.

Chicago used to dye the Chicago River green for St. Patrick’s Day. Don’t know if they still do, but man, that’s dedication!

There was nothing in my life bigger than beer,

‘Ceptin’ you, little darling,

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The Who – Dogs

Of course beer is religious. After a night of drinking, how many people wake up muttering, “oh god…oh god…”?

Larry Miller on the five levels of drinking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eceSHKqwUPY

Danny Donkey’s on board. http://absentelements.blogspot.com/2007/07/danny-donkey-is-genius.html

It’s already celebrated on St Patrick’s Day, and New Year’s Eve. And I’m sure there is a National Beer Day

I figured no one would believe me when I said the ancient Sumerians had a recipe for beer dedicated to a goddess so here’s a reference. A reminder also that many scholars think bread was invented to make beer. http://www.openculture.com/2015/03/the-oldest-beer-recipe-in-history.html

It may have been that sage philosopher Archie Bunker who once opined “We never buy beer — we only rent it.”

“Beer! The cause of, and the solution to, all the world’s problems” – Homer Simpson

…since there are at least 5 saints who are cod iseries to be the patron saints of beer, hops, or brewers, all Rat has to do I’d pick one (or all) find out their feast day and go to town. Voila -instant religious holiday for beer! (Though probably not a holy day of obligation :) )…

And yet, that’s not half as bad as the president’s military parade idea.

I guess Cartoon-Boy has never heard of NOLA and the Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday, before Ash Wednesday). Or of the Apokries in Greece before Sarakosti….

Still, a beer Parade might be fun (like Cincinnati’s Bockfest Parade)….

Definitely NOT a holiday for my religion (Muslim)!

to me rat looks wierd