Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 29, 2012
Transcript:
Goat: Where are you, Rat? You promised to help Pig and me clean out my garage. Rat: I'm lying on my @#@ with a beer on my belly. Goat (on the phone): Why?? Rat (on the phone): NASA. Goat: NASA? Rat: NASA issued a report saying there are currently 47,000 asteroids that are big enough and close enough to pose a threat to Earth. Goat (on the phone): So?! So everything's pointless. Goodbye. Goat (on the phone): So you're gonna leave the entire job to me and - Pig: He's clearly lost all perspective.
Templo S.U.D. over 12 years ago
What fast worker Pig was!
Sisyphos over 12 years ago
Strike up the Beer-on-Belly Polka, band-guys! —Followed by a Dirge for Terra. It may be pointless, but it might as well be fun!
AGED_ENGINEER Premium Member over 12 years ago
OK, another reason NOT to use speaker phone, beyond it’s just plain annoying.
Varnes over 12 years ago
I come from the future. The first BIG one hit ten days after all the nations of the world united and declared peace, and 2 days after the terrorists of the world said Hey, blowin’ people up is boring…Just your luck…sorry….
ChrissyT over 12 years ago
Funny, I thought clocking someone after they ask you to help with their garage is a clear enough refusal. (July 23, 2012) Apparently, Goat just won’t give up on getting Rat to help.
knight1192a over 12 years ago
Typical. Find any lame excuse not to do something he promised. Yet if someone promised Rat they’d help him with something and then had to back out because they were in the hospital after getting seriously injured in an accident he’d go there and beat them up for breaking their promise to him.
Kvasir42 Premium Member over 12 years ago
I wonder where they would have gone if it hadn’t been a nice day?
rockngolfer over 12 years ago
Scattering all of that dust in the air may help offset man made global warming.
codedaddy over 12 years ago
This inspires a whole new image for the phrase “beer belly”.
Mostly Water Premium Member over 12 years ago
Put the beer on the belly and drink it all up,Put the beer on the belly and drink it all up,Put the beer on the belly and drink it all up And call me in the moooooorning, yes call me in the morning.
finale over 12 years ago
Beertime excuse #32; “The futility of it all”.
SwimsWithSharks over 12 years ago
If it was important, Goat would have kept the garage tidy first off.
nyoha over 12 years ago
Are there really 47,000 asteroid that could decimate our planet, or is Rat pulling facts out of his gluts again?
jmartin1955 over 12 years ago
Need to get a beer, catch up with you on the hill.
Number Three over 12 years ago
Oh Pig…. Don’t you start too.
Poor Goat.
LOL xxx
A_NY_Outlaw over 12 years ago
Pig has his priorities straight. I for one will be joining him this afternoon with a nice cold one, although not sure I will balance it on my stomach.
A_NY_Outlaw over 12 years ago
@doctor toon: what a travesty (and I don’t mean the part about cleaning the garage)! There’s a sweet little beer that needs a home and you’re not going to adopt one (or six)?
Ermine Notyours over 12 years ago
“I’m lying on my #@#”Why did they bleep “back”?
brine Premium Member over 12 years ago
Rat knows all!!!
Perkycat over 12 years ago
Clean the garage!! (yes, I’m a nanny goat)
Sherlock Watson over 12 years ago
Let me take you down, ‘cause I’m going toBeer Belly FieldsNothing is realAnd nothing to get hung about…Beer Belly Fields forever!
Armitage72 over 12 years ago
@Bliss:False Dichotomy Fallacy. There are more options available than “Do nothing” and “Live like a caveman.”
@denis1112:Strawman Fallacy. Rockngolfer did not advocate nuclear winter.Antarctica has been losing approximately 24 cubic miles (50 gigatons) of ice a year since 2002.Natural temperature variations occur over thousands of years, not the decades we’ve been observing.
But we’re here to discuss comics…
lecrenb over 12 years ago
Nyoha, there really are… and those are just the ones we’ve discovered so far…I think I’ll go explore the futility of it all on my deck…
Squoop over 12 years ago
The number of potentially hazardous asteroids NASA found was 4700 not 47,000. Not that that is reassuring either, but still..
Casey Southards over 12 years ago
The life of Tao.
Gokie5 over 12 years ago
One good thing about rat: In the second panel, he says “lying” instead of “laying.” I intended to put this before seeing an example of alternate usage. My primary-care physician says, “Lay down.” Whatcha gonna do?Sisyphus is losing.
imbaldeagle over 12 years ago
Doesn’t look to me like goat needs to clean his garage – you can still see patches of floor & hardly any dirt. It should look like Luann’s bedroom or Fibber McGee’s closet before I’d even think about cleaning it.
xall2h1 over 12 years ago
if a comet was gonna destroy earth, i would DO something with my life that i havnt done before. like paragliding.
m.l. over 12 years ago
pam Miner over 12 years ago
THings are so bad in the environment that sometimes it seems we all better just lie in the grass and drink beer.The ones who could make a real difference in whether the earth makes it or flames out in hellish heat, they don’t care as long as they get filthy rich doing it in.
Rakostump over 12 years ago
um…are there really that many asteroids coming at us?!!?!!
Comicmaaan over 8 years ago
He used to do it like this: @##.