Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 01, 2011

He’s as happy as a pig in $@!&.

Hey, it works on the freeways…

I have to admit I have an inner rat. It drives me crazy when I’m upset with someone and they are carefree.

If you want your grudge to be effective, Rat, you need to let everyone know about it. One way to do that is to attract everyone’s attention by selling things in your front yard; you know, a grudge sale. =rimshot=

Ha! Fail, Rat! (Nice balloons, Pig!)

It’s more fun to hold a balloon than a grudge.

These just keep getting better. Nice message too..although I doubt he was aiming for that!

I’ve always heard that holding a grudge is like drinking poison and hoping the other guy dies…

I’m just anxious to see what happened to the croc who took a potty break with the bomb strapped to his back.

Don’t skip too near the croc’s house, Pig. Any moment now there’ll be an earth shattering KABOOM!

For some unknown reason I can hear Tiny Tim: ♪♫Tip toe thru the tulips…♪♫………☻

Holding onto a grudge can cause all kinds of stress-related physical problems, while the “grudgee” couldn’t care less. Who’s the loser here?

Grudges don’t work against me either! I’m the anti-grudge.

I just love Rat’s face in the first and last panel.

LOL xxx

How could Pig make Rat angry? lol

Never was a fan of Grudge music…. too depressing….I’ll stick wit da blues!!!!

Love the grudge sale, SherlockWatson!

And I agree: forgiving someone does not say that what they did was right or didn’t hurt—it just says that I refuse to let your behavior dictate my actions, I refuse to carry that burden.

Trust Rat to take the negative side of all that, of course.

I’m still left hanging, wondering what happened at the croc’s Frat house. Did the bomb go off on time? Did Mitch catch Bob in the fallout?

Is there enough left to identify them by? Or even to make a pair of boots?

A ‘grudge sale’?? Ohhhh, I shall never forgive you for that!

The attorney asked, “May I help you?”

The farmer said, “Yeah, My wife says I need to get one of those divorces.”

The attorney said, “Well do you have any grounds?”

The farmer said, “Yeah, I got about 320 acres.”

The attorney said, " No, you don’t understand, do you have a case?"

The farmer said, “No, I don’t have a Case, I use a John Deere.”

The attorney said, “No, you don’t understand, I mean do you have a grudge?”

The farmer said, “Yeah, I got a grudge, that’s where I park my Deere.”

The attorney said, “No, sir, I mean do you have a suit?”

The farmer said, “Yes, sir, I got a suit. I wear it to church on Sundays.”

The exasperated attorney said, “Well, sir, does your wife beat you up or anything?”

The farmer said, “No sir, we both get up about 4:30.”

Finally, the attorney says, "Okay, let me put it this way. ‘WHY DO YOU WANT A DIVORCE?’ "

And the farmer says, “Well, she says she can never have a meaningful conversation with me.”

Ha—great comments today.Sherlock: I groaned out loud (GOL-d?) at the “grudge sale”, but the rimshot was amusing.bmonk: Now THAT’S some quality conversation in the dialogue! Classic.

I used to hold grudges but as I’ve gotten older I’ve mellowed out and am now a really nice guy. Okay, okay, I would still like to hold grudges but my dang memory is failing…