Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 26, 2012

i love pearls :D

Rat, you’re just the best…

They’d better not let him linger near the other wedding gifts; he’d slip a few silver items into his pocket first chance he gets.

Goat actually uses the grammatically correct “What do you have there?”, instead of the less correct “What do you got there?”, which is a common expression in this strip.

Rat is the rodent version of Don Rickles.

It amazes me that Rat would spend that much money on a present.

all present and accounted for

Rat’s lying. Regular price s 125, he got it 75% off from the damage bin.

Hey…. I’m pretty sure real Macy’s price tags aren’t scrawled on yellow construction paper in blue crayon.

Rat has family?!And he’s going to a cousin’s wedding?!And he actually spent 125 bucks on a present?!C’mon, Pastis! How far are you going to push this “willing suspension of disbelief” thing?

Oops – forgot to say @Bmonk (from yesterday) Chevre olé.And @Willi Nilli — aw shucks…. (blush…)

From the apostrophe, kissing cousins I take it

Rat, Rat, Rat, how stupid can you get. Ya tell them it cost $125 and call ‘em morons their gonna think you spent $5 at best and are trying to look like you spent more. You leave the price tag on and call ’em morons and they’ll think you got something that was on sale at 75% or more off. What ya do is keep the price out and give it to ‘em. Get something that looks like you spent a few hundred on it but it only cost you maybe $20 not even on sale and they’ll think you’re very generous. But leave out the morons comment or they’ll think you didn’t spend anything at all on them.

A rat terrier is in order.

@JohnnyDiego: “What chew got there?”Or the more common “Uh cha got?” (pronounced as one word ending with an upward inflection)

@hariseldon59@JohnnyDiego@Arch Stanton.We went from “Perfect” English to noises and gestures. A complete “Guyspeak” declention. Good job, lads!

The only stupid weddings are the ones scheduled on Saturdays during football season.

Thank You Note – Then I wish you would have gotten us something we wanted.

“I had an aunt who would buy Christmas gifts at K-Mart, or Sears, and put a Macy’s or Bloomingdale’s price tag on them . . .”I had an aunt who would wear ratty underwear to the doctor’s, so that he would think she was poor, and maybe give her a discount. She must have bragged to Mom about it, or else we wouldn’t have known.

LOL LOL… I love Goat’s face.

Does Rat enjoy his family get togethers or is that a really silly question?

xxx

Wots wrong wit “whatcha got”??

Pig better check his piggy bank Rats IOU’s are made of rubber

Doesn’t Rat usually give slightly used washclothes as wedding presents?

What a fool Rat is. He shouldve bought something tAt the dollar store and replace the tag with something that cost a lot of money. That way he wont spend a lot of money but look like he did

Aw, Rat … you shouldn’t have.

Really—you SHOULDN’T have.

Made me laugh, though!

Sometimes bark, sometimes bite…that’s Rat. +What did the Rat say to the Mouseyou can unwrap my present back at my house…