Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 19, 2022

What do we want most from Rat? Absence.

Gloom, despair and agony on meeeee…

“When words are multiplied, sin is not absent”

Persevere

Go to the hardware store and buy some Skil tools.

And Pastis got right to the point when made Rat and Pig’s eyes.

Is Rat trying to take over Wise-Ass-on-the-Hill’s job?

Those answers would also work if you switched them between the two questions.

Should anyone ever try to get answers to life’s questions from Rat?

If it was a 2 word answer, one answer would apply to both questions

“brown nose”

“Nothing”

The answer to everything.

Go to college. Get SKILLS (and party). Get college debt. Hope Uncle Sam pays off your loans. Otherwise, DESPAIR.

Yep, sounds about right.

Rat could have done without twitter expanding the length of tweets.

“Eat” would have been a helpful answer to Pig’s second question!

Despair.com has the best posters.

Wrong answer! Get a life and learn!

Ah, the old 5 minute solution.

Leave it to Rat to cut to the chase.

Sad.

After all, life is indeed “Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”

I respect the bluntness… mainly because I myself am a very blunt person.

I would have said learn instead of despair, but that’s just me….

Occam’s razor has a sharp point, especially when applied by a sharp-tongued rat!

What prevents me from being successful is these picky people and our economy.

What do we do about Rat?

Poison.

Life is just a bowl of cherries—-until you break a tooth on a pit.

Alternate Rat answer: Surrender. Optimist’s answer: Learn.

Sure, take the easy way out … booze, antidepressants, Valium, nicotine addiction ….

Why is this comic so depressing

dont give pig suic*dal thoughts

Gloom, despaiiiiiiir, and agony on me!

Stop the world, I want to get off !

The real answer to both is: be born in wealth.

Mu.

Beer

Cheese

Pizza

Kindness

Please use liberally.

Rat does have that knack of getting right to the point, Pig.

Just do it!