Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 25, 2017

These parents are the victims of poor math education.

Win some, lose some.

Maybe he should try rounding a few kids up, no?

Look on the bright side; those kids were probably the screamers, which means the world is now a little bit better.

Round up to whole numbers? I guess the bear only got part of one of the kids.

He was able to round up all 50? Great!

And he’s oh so fine, and he’s oh so good, he’s a well respected man about town.

You’re making them do math, Scotty! I suck at math! I’d be fussy too!

I’m starting to question Scotty the Scout Leader.

The parents weren’t too upset until they found out that Scotty the Scout Leader rounded up from 17.

There was only a 6% loss.

he caught them with their pants down

“Everyone who is here to pick up their kid, take one step forward.”

“Not so fast there, Smith…”

So the minimum # of kids he brought back is 45. Ooooooooh, some parents are gonna be maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.

Thanks, Pastis and the rest of you, for my morning lol.

Scoutmaster Ward would never have been so negligent.

And one of the campers was eaten by a bear!

Auggggghhhhh!

Oh, wait, the bear just ate his hat.

Oh, whew…….was it a nice hat?

Yes.

AUGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!

Sorry Scotty. You can only round up if you lose half a kid.

Some of them are too overprotective and that ends up with their kids hating them…

xxx

Bankers math. What do you suppose they do with the fractional portions? Could you, like, put them all into a separate account and end up with a couple million kids after a while?

Scotty, the Completely Innocent Scout Leader, is quite right. Parents tend these days to be way too fussy. Chances are, those three missing scouts will turn up on their own in due course. Unfortunately….

It gets pretty messy when you have to deal with fractional kids.

Oh they did. They responded, “YOU’RE FIRED!!!!”

Come on. As a former boy scout who was charged with teaching some wee snots I can absolutely agree that losing a few in the woods would only improve the species.

Make sure you lose the right ones, though.

;)