Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 11, 2021

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    BE THIS GUY  about 3 years ago

    Rat must be a serial killer when his “friends” aren’t around.

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member about 3 years ago

    They aren’t buddies but “puppets inside the brain”.

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    BasilBruce  about 3 years ago

    Have an earworm, Rat:

    → This is the song that doesn’t end,

    Yes, it goes on and on, my friend,

    Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was,

    And they’ll continue singing it forever, just because →

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    sirbadger  about 3 years ago

    Pretty soon, Facebook will sell those.

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    Concretionist  about 3 years ago

    That’s how one of my ex co-workers got laid off… By talking about what the voices were telling him. And showing up one day using his rifle for a cane…

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    oldpine52  about 3 years ago

    Never thought that Rat would admit that he’s disturbed.

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    syzygy47  about 3 years ago

    When one’s ‘imaginary friends’ become real suck ups.

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    Doug K  about 3 years ago

    That is one disturbing fact that we didn’t need to know.

    We may have suspected something like it – but it provides no comfort knowing for sure.

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    Cornelius Noodleman  about 3 years ago

    I want flower buds growing out of my ears!

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    dlkrueger33  about 3 years ago

    “We’re distoibed, we’re distoibed, we are psychologically distoibed!” – (Officer Krupke/West Side Story)

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    cdward  about 3 years ago

    That explains so much about Rat.

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    Procat Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Must be talking about politicians.

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    John Smith  about 3 years ago

    That would mean that “little buddies” aren’t females

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    monya_43  about 3 years ago

    I had a friend tell me that you’re jealous of me because I can hear the voices in your head. Needless to say, I avoided him after that.

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    John Smith  about 3 years ago

    I have voices in my head, but they’re all speaking Spanish, and I have NO idea what they’re saying.

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    Zebrastripes  about 3 years ago

    Voices in my head…told me to do it…..

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    jessie d.  about 3 years ago

    most of us have those buddies but in reverse screeching solely what a louse we be.

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    juicebruce  about 3 years ago

    Now we know what makes Rat tick ;-)

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    gopher gofer  about 3 years ago

    ♩the lunatic is in my head…

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    Bring Back "The Good Place"  about 3 years ago

    You can get the same results with a MAGA cap

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    Sir Ruddy Blighter, Jr.  about 3 years ago

    We’re reprehensible.

    We’ll steal your pen

    And pencible!

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    bignatefantic2.0  about 3 years ago

    20 years ago at this exact time, no one knew something devastating would happen

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  about 3 years ago

    I’m still glad “hear” is just “ear” with an “h.”

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    HunterIsACriminal  about 3 years ago

    My “ear buds” aren’t nice: they tell me bad things about myself and encourage me to do bad things.

    Now I must go and buy more ammo…

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    phredturner  about 3 years ago

    I do so wish the ones living in my ear were that supportive

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    diskus Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Thats called social media

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    Cminuscomics&stories Premium Member about 3 years ago

    I know lots of people who hear voices. When they see things, it is called visions.

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    Iseau  about 3 years ago

    QTips and a little Mineral Oil will solve his problem.

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    pheets  about 3 years ago

    No voices?!

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    Ellis97  about 3 years ago

    Rat just admitted that he has issues.

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    klapre  about 3 years ago

    Would it have killed Pastis to commemorate this day?

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    Radish the wordsmith  about 3 years ago

    I worked with a guy who always said: “Don’t bug me, I can’t cope!”

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    Goat from PBS  about 3 years ago

    So… it’s basically a huge sense of ego. Mine’s too big as it is…

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    KEA  about 3 years ago

    there’s too much noise from tinnitus in my ears to hear any ear buds

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    LilPeruna  about 3 years ago

    Is anybody else, besides me, surprised that Stephan didn’t do a 9/11 themed strip for the 20th anniversary? Maybe for Sunday.

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    JudyAz  about 3 years ago

    If you talk to God, it’s called praying. However if God talks to you…

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    ChukLitl Premium Member about 3 years ago

    My alien implants have been acting up. Do anyone know how to contact a repairborg?

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    ComicsDad5  about 3 years ago

    Honestly, this one didn’t make me laugh. Knowing that Rat is a self-absorbed @$$hole is one thing. Thinking that he has genuine mental illness is an entirely different matter…

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    codedaddy  about 3 years ago

    Where are the perennial empty plates? Good to see them go.

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    rm8ty  about 3 years ago

    I know the voices in my head aren’t real but man do they have some great ideas.

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    The Brooklyn Accent Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Rat’s reference to “little buddies” called forth images of Bob Denver as Gilligan sitting in the ears of Alan Hale Jr. as the Skipper. If that’s not a shipwreck, I don’t know what is…

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    NWdryad  about 3 years ago

    Or tell Alexa to say it all the time.

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    thedogesl Premium Member about 3 years ago

    This would explain a lot of the last five years or so.

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    *real* Guard Duck  about 3 years ago

    how about “disturbing”?

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    Lightpainter  about 3 years ago

    “Voices in your head”- is that really plural? I have my own voice in my head giving me grief, but no others.

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    Bilan  about 3 years ago

    Those voices are telling you you’re and so you should buy their product.

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    patrickab7  about 3 years ago

    I have the opposite kind.

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    aerotica69  about 3 years ago

    Being of a considerate nature, I occasionally ask my coworkers “Does the noise in my head bother you?” (thank you, Steven Tyler). They generally leave me alone after that.

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    Sailor46 USN 65-95  about 3 years ago

    Occasionally those voices come up with some really fun ideals….

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    Sisyphos  about 3 years ago

    Rat is both disturbed and disturbing. But he does have ears big enough (courtesy of Cartoon-Boy) to accommodate the Little Buds….

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    hawkeye-back-n-iowa  about 3 years ago

    “There’s someone in my head but it’s not me.”

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    AndreasMartin  about 3 years ago

    Is this one of those ‘The voices told me to do it’ things?

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    Swirls Before Pine  about 3 years ago

    Or horrendous hygiene. What, you wanted a Trump joke?

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    Ceeg22 Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Oh, that’s what you call them

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