Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 14, 2023

Just what we need: A world covered with beer foam.

I don’t know if it is possible, but wouldn’t it be great to at least try?

Reminds me of the CLASSIC beer (and soda) “rule:” punch a “hole” in the lower bottom side of the “can,” then “pop” the top, and, then, hope you can chug it FAST!!!! Dan aka…

Do you then get three wishes?

Don’t try this at home if your dad has anger issues.

Fortunately for me, I never go to a bar. Well, HARDLY ever… and certainly not just to drink (I think we’ll have dinner next week at The Saloon. ) So I’ll very likely never have this happen to me. Or from me. At least not on purpose.

Will you help him change the world?Can you dig it? (yes, I can).

There is going to be a lot of spilled beer by the end of the day. And probably the one or the other fight. More than usual, that is.

Mr Pastis’ idea of using his “celebrity” for the good of all mankind.

If someone is holding a beer bottle and you strike the top with yours just right, it will blow out the bottom.

Alcohol Abuse ! Thou Shall Not Waste Good Booze ! …. Croc Power !

It all makes a difference to somebody. Time and tide. Ask the starfish!

Spilling the beer is more dangerous than spilling the tea around rat.

If you asked Sparky, he would probably say “no,” but he proved that it could.

I was a therapist during my career, and at one job I took, all of the therapists were given a little gold starfish along with a card telling the story when we started. It was to remind us that our work made a difference to each patient. It was a wonderful idea. I still have that little pin somewhere.

Everything is connected. Everything we do changes the whole world a little bit. Due to “the butterfly effect,” everything we do can have consequences far beyond immediate results (it doesn’t require time travel). I’m convinced that things I have done since a child have contributed to the end of the world as we know it. You’re welcome.

Animation can change the world. Too bad Hollywood can’t see that.

Milk used to be bottled in glass, gallon containers. Clank 2 of them together and see what happens.

Cider in the back of a station wagon does the same thing.

Don’t ask how I know.

I’d like to think Peanuts, Calvin and Hobbes, and The Far Side have done that in spades.

This trick works great with Bud Light…

…too soon?

Another little-known beer fact: beer bottles spark.

Too late.

Don’t do that with the beer bottles. They could break and the glass could go all over the place. Not to mention the waste of beer.

Anyway, back to the cartoon, some beers are only worth wasting. What was Goat drinking?

The “whole world”? Now, that’s syndication.

Don’t look for too many more of these strips. A consortium of barkeepers is raising money to hie a hitman.

When I was in college some, er, 4x yrs ago, we did this all the time. Occasionally a bottle would break, but mainly because the person hitting top moved too quickly before the person getting tapped could move his bottle out of the way.

Just what the world needs — more useless information.

The trick is to tap the other beer without breaking the top……so I heard.

The ones that change my world steer clear of politics and social issues and make me momentarily forget about the troubled world in which I live. A good laugh is much appreciated!

It could lead to a productive discussion of the properties of dissolved gasses, but mostly you’re wasting beer.

I knew this about beer 20+ years ago. I should’ve taken it to the world instead of keeping it to myself….

Thus why Andy Capp drinks his pints out of a glass rather than a bottle. Dilly! Dilly!

Doesn’t work at all with my 20 pound sledge hammer. ’Tis more like a Gallagher result.

Too many Rats in this world,want to change the world, but not by making it better.

Wait was Goat drinking that beer??? O_O

Don’t try this at home? If you try it at the bar, you’ll be thrown out.

A friend did this to a bottle of beer I was holding once. The bottom of the bottle fell out in a perfect circle. Needless to say, there was no foaming action. I wish now I had kept the bottle.

Thomas Nast was a high achiever in comics.

Rat considers Goat a “friend?”

Not gonna lie, I didn’t know about that trick until the Miller Lite “Man Law” commercials a number of years back.

I won’t try it here at home. It would be a waste of beer.

Especially if you want to keep your friends. Unlike Rat.

Fortunately, Cartoon-Boy warns us of the dangers of trying to play Rat’s game at home! Thank goodness. Also, thank you, Cartoon-Boy….

You also don’t want to drop your beer on your grandmother’s dining room table when she has her nice tablecloth on it, even if you DON’T spill it.

WHY WOULD YOU DO THATTTTT

Huh. I did not know that. World changed!

Or you set your beer down when it’s your turn to shoot, & while your back is turned some drunk a**hole staggering by uses it for a spittoon.