Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 06, 2011

Some folks are all about the glory. Tonight, we dine in Hell and all that. If that’s his goal, he could find a more productive way to achieve it. Like getting his by a bus while rescueing an injured cat…wait, a rat would never do that.

Perhaps a garbage truck will back over him.

I’m with Rat. God is going to have to take me kicking and screaming when my time comes! ;-)

I wil die (as my dad said) like I was born. Barefoot,broke and crying.

@ Radish the Ophiuchus: Pastis already mangled that quote, a long time ago.

Lewis: “You’re born naked, and you die naked.”Judge: “People don’t die naked.”Lewis: “You do if you plan it right.”

I almost died laughing

Obits are a revenue item for newspapers, lawyers & creditors. Unless you are famous - “loved ones” pay for an obit. They are b**ls**t – a last bid for the spotlight. Pathetic.

If your fight is with Death, Rat, why punch nurses and doctors?Or are you just an ornery S.O.B.?

Theodore Roosevelt would be proud.

Richard … Now that’s funny, I don’t care who you are …

@formally known as doc white says:“I will die (as my dad said) like I was born. Barefoot,broke and crying.”.Or as comedian James P. Connolly puts it:“I intend to die just like I was born… by accident!”

“My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has to go.” — Oscar Wilde

“I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.” — Thomas Hobbes

“No comment.” — Edward Abbey

“Tomorrow, I shall not be here.” — Nostradamus

We got a bad fire! Let’s get out – we’re burning up…" — Roger Chaffee

“I am about to – or I am going to – die. Both statements are correct.” — Dominique Bouhours

“No, you certainly can’t.” — John F. Kennedy

Did he get to the punch line?

Death will never take me alive!

I’ll bet there’s a lot of people willing to help you achieve your goal, Rat.

The people that die violently make front page news, not the obits. That’s why you never see them there.

sadly, I’ve seen this.

Rat already died twice that I know of, it just didn’t take.

Once his exploded in a failed smile.And once he went peacefully from an heart attack.

Everybody has to die, but most of us don’t have to do it more than once. Unless your a patis character, double if your reptilian.

That is truly wonderful! I’ve been laughing for 10 minutes.

“Here lies Rat, tasered to death at Grace Memorial Hospital.”

Congrats…this was going to be my post!

My first girl friend and I had our tonsils out together. “This kid’s a fighter,” said the nurse with the cone for the face… I was keeping her from gassing the friend…and then…they got me too…resisting…I’ve been a fighter since.

That’s it Rat, Think BIG.

xxx

Stan Laurel had the right idea. He died telling a joke…

An experience shared by many stand-up comedians.

I have a couple traps around here that Rat might like to try out! I wonder if he prefers cheese or peanut butter . . . perhaps one of each!

If there’s any justice at all, Rat will get compacted with the garbage in the back of the truck while searching for a tasty snack.

Patrick McGoohan (1928-2009)Reg Smythe (1917-1998)Steve Jobs (1955-2011)Stan Laurel (1890 – 1965)Oliver Hardy (1892 – 1957)George Baker (1931 – 2011)

May they All Rest in Peace.

I love it when Rat smiles.

Nothing like going down swinging! This makes #85 in the Death Cartoon Collection at The Family Plot Blog!http://thefamilyplot.wordpress.com/category/death-cartoons/

Hmm…I got that line a lot in college..from my friends…whenever I did the ‘cross opposite lane and drive’ bit…

I thought Rat was looking forward to death. He once wrote a poem for a poetry class that went “Be happy … you’re one day closer to death. Oh, sweet sweet death!”

I’d rather Rockafeller.

@finale = Funny

To “die peacefully” is a variation on being at peace with “god” and that’s why Rat just spoke my new motto.

I’d have to ask some exterminators, but I’m pretty sure there’s never been an obituary for a rat.

sounds like a good Saxon/Viking way to go. Just remember to keep your sword in your hand to make it to the Halls of Vallhalla.

When I die, I think I will go peacefully. I trust that I’ll be ready—and that I know who will be there to catch me.

this has made my day. Pastis. Thank you for creating this comic strip. Rat, Goat, the Gators and everyone just cheers me up. Thank you for your contribution to comics everywhere. we shall build massive rat monuments to you

“Braillesworth” was a rat. He went to Cal-Tech, ya’know.My great uncle died in his sleep… granted, on a bull-dozer and through a house was not what the landscaper had planned.

I love Rat’s ambition…

Judging by some of these comments, namely, @killacowinWA, some of you are taking a comic strip waaaaaaaay too seriously lol

Atta boy Rat give it to em!!!!!!!!!! hahahaha!

Be careful what you wish for, rat. Many would fulfill it in your case.

Oh my…

And he’d probably do it too.

I didn’t die on the titanic but if I did my last words would be,I KNOW I ORDERED ICE WITH MY DRINK BUT THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!!!!

I didn’t die on the titanic and was never on it,but if I did I my last words would be I KNOW I ORDERED ICE IN MY DRINK BUT THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!!!

“Go not gently into that good night…”

Swallow some popcorn kernels before you die, and your cremation will be quite interesting.

Trying out that ‘charming smile’ for the first time, eh?

I came from the random button here:

https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2017/08/18