Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 30, 2016

Rat isn’t worried; he’s a good swimmer.

Today’s background music: “It’s Raining Again” by Supertramp.

Better take Mrs. Skippy too.

♪ And I wonder, still I wonder who’ll stop the rain ♪

Hard times ahead? Don’t you mean since ever?

Cause tonight for the first time, just about half-past tenFor the first time in history it’s gonna start raining men.

I hope Skippy wasn’t neutered.

Well Pig save enough seats for the whole “PBS” crew !

Looks like Noah is on to those two.

Don’t forget Skippette.But if Pig and Pigita turn out to be your pair o’pigs, maybe she’ll finally be “ready”.

yep, especially with the election rolling around the corner

it’s a good thing he’s not a spider. see yesterday’s “Bizarro”

Not even Mrs. Noah!?!

Somebody give him directions to Diogenes’ place. I would but I am a bit too cynical to think it will do any good.

My partial list of things that Noah should have left off the ark starts with mosquitoes and wasps. How about yours?

I thought Noah was going to get Pig as one of the two pigs he would bring on the ark.

Save yourself a penny for the ferrymanSave yourself and let them sufferIn hopeIn loveThis world ain’t ready for The Ark

Noah going through each promising-looking neighborhood, asking around…“You know, sometime within the next 1,000 years or so, we are going to, probably, have another Flood! I mean, the way Sea Level has been rising, lately. So. Want to come on board my Arc?”Or, words to that general effect…So. Do you want to get on board? Well, as for me, personally: I think I’ll pass.

True; why doesn’t NOAA stick with the same data sets forever? It’s not like we can ever learn anything more, or that scientific knowledge isn’t frozen in time. After all, one guy in the ’70s said we might be headed for an ice age. He must have been right. Right?

I’m not worried, I can float, naturally.

Please leave Rat behind.

Come on, I know we’re all thinking it!

xxx

Technically this is an ice age right now (see “Quaternary glaciation”), and has been for the past 2.5 million years. Currently we’re in an interglacial period which should last for another 50,000 to 200,000 years by the looks of things, unless we change the environment too much…which we may have already done.

Depressing, eh, Pig? Well, just remember, there’s a calm before the storm and a lot of rain in every big, dark cloud….

Thanks, Pastis, for a comedic revisiting of an old fairy tale! Do some Aesop’s for us. Rat would be a natural.

So, I guess that whole ‘two-by-two’ thing was just a one shot deal?