Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 02, 2012

What a catchy slogan!

If you care about our children, support campaign reform! Fight the Splorp!

Luckily my mother always buys squeeze bottles. No splort. You just have to make sure you shake the bottle since the ketchup separates sometimes. Is Rat trying to get votes from younger voters by using texting language? “Rat 4 Pres?”

Can Rat invent a ketchup that’s not a non-Newtonian fluid?

♪ Momma’s got a squeeze bottle, daddy never sleeps at night♪♬

I remember when Pat Paulsen of Laugh-In “ran” for President. His slogan was: "I’ve upped my standards. Now, up yours!:

One trick is to stick a butter knife in the bottle, then it flows right out, no problem.

Not bad for a single-issue candidate. Rat! Fight the splorp! Vote Rat!

My apologies, folks. My 64 year memory is a little faulty. Pat Paulsen was actually on the Smother Brothers Comedy Hour, not Laugh-in.

Instead of removing the whole cover from the ketchup bottle, just life up the top part of it so you won’t get more ketchup than you want in your food.

Rat’s on to exactly what we need, a splorp free environment.

That’s why you buy ketchup in squeeze bottles and use a good, clean butter knife on the glass bottle. Though with the state of resturant silverware cleaning in this area I don’t dare do that at a resturant anymore.

@Arch Stanton

It was “The Who.” I think on the album “Sultans of Squeeze.”

how about if we had a parliamentary system?

The ketchup moguls have already solved the problem with the flat-topped upside down bottles. @radish Love the Ogden Nash—a new one to me.

I like slorp on my fries.

vote rat in 2012!

A focused candidate

Oh you may laugh at him, but splorpage is one of the most intractable technological riddles facing America today.

Hmm, maybe a tub of ketchup with a wide top, and you just take out what you need with a spoon.

Okay, Rat, next issue.

@Bilan – It’s already non-Newtonian. Ketchup/Catsup is thixotropic.

Excellent strip!

That’s right, Rat… Make a big deal out of the LITTLE things in life.

LOL xxx

Ok…Rat has my vote

The album was " The Who By Numbers" , and yes, qne of the best Who songs, sadly, one of the shortest ever done by them.

Well, at least Rat is running a positive campaign

At least SPLORP is an issue we can all agree on.

Finally – an issue I can get into- fight the slorp! BTW – How can I get on the political Do Not Call list????

Rat’s “fight the splorp” campaign is a flagrant attempt at big government. To do it, taxes will be raised, the military will shrink, and freedom fries will suffer! I am strongly in favor of splorp and Rat will NOT get my vote. This message brought to you by the Pro-Splorp PAC, and is not endorsed by any candidate.

People who vote for Rat might wind up getting it in the Heinz.

Ya, I dunno how this is even an issue any more. When I buy ketchup, I see all plastic bottles of varies sorts. I don’t even remember the old fashioned glass bottle on the shelf when I got mine. Oh, I go for that upside down one, that way it’s always there waiting for me!

If he wins I see a new biography: ‘The Rat in the Hat’.

Vote for Barmitt O’Bomney in 2012

Arianne,The Who.

I hate the mustard water that comes out before you get the good stuff.

I’d vote for Rat over the other two anyday, lol.

Dr. Jill Stein (Green Party) for President. A nice Jewish lady. Who wouldn’t like that? (Don’t answer.)

Is splorp a word?

Splorp Romney?

“Fight the Splorp” is a better campaign motto than “Vote for non-non-Newtonian fluids!”

+++++

But that’s still better than his opponents: “Against all foreign substances in your precious bodily fluids!”

OK, how many people are going to write Rat in on their ballot and vote for him?

yeah. one had cheesy (bad, really bad) 2-man comedy team, the other a cheesy (bad, REALLY bad) 2-man team trying to be funny.

If Obama did this it would be his greatest achievement.

It was: “Shake and shake the catsup bottle. None will come and them a lot’ll.” Often wrongly attributed to Nash, and with the words “first” or “at first” added (which do not fit the rhythm.)

FIGHT THE SPLORP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

vs the other 20+ people on the ballot

I believe the correct phrasing is:“You shake and shake the ketchup bottle, none’ll come and then alot’ll.”:P

I would vote for him;)

He’s got my vote.