Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 12, 2013

All’s fair. I doubt that Goat will admit to knowing Rat.

Or not, Pig.

forever alone

That insensitive Rat!!! Openly discussing SPAM (Hormel’s wildly popular canned meat delicacy: pork shoulder & Ham) in front of PIG!!!

Its tantamount to glibly bantering about gill-netting with one of the Dolphins within earshot.

How can Rat & Goat be friends when they barely get along with one another?

To have a friend, you must be a friend.

Oh, that’s right. Rat isn’t looking for one.

In the “Pearls” world, this is practically an After School Special.

Goat, no. You’re chopped liver…

Pig, breaking the Fourth Wall today? Good grief! When did he become such a sophisticate?

It’s not a touching moment anyway…I see at least a foot between any two of them.

AS for Spam and Pig…. he eats BLT’s. He even offered a cobbler some bacon a week or two ago.

Don’t be touchin’ your pearls, Pig, this is a family strip.

Oh, Goat, didn’t you listen to the song? “Don’t ask me what I think of you. I might not give the answer that you want me to.” Oh well…

Goat abuse, it’s not just for farmers anymore.

Looks like the Comics people will have to change the discription of “Pearls before Swine” since Rat says that they are not friends only acquaintances !

Gotta luv rat’s honesty

Admittedly this is about as touchy feely as pearls gets…

idiot spammers are the natural herb viagra resellers, nigerian prince scammers, pacs, nra, and travel sites that you can’t afford to go.

The only ham this vegetarian enjoys are the writers Pete HAMill and Denis HAMill!

AND, I like my wallet to be filled with HAMiltons!

You DO have fiends, Rat.

Oh wait… Did you say FRIENDS?

Then you’re right.

LOL xxx

Cue the tinkling piano in the background (just like those “Lifetime” movies my wife watches).

They’re not going to hug and kiss, are they? If so, I’m outta here.

Just remove the second ‘r’ in “Dear Friend” and it’s more accurate in Rat’s case.

It is important for everyone – for health and happiness – to have a close “AIA” in their life . . . someone to vent suppressed anger at . . . someone to mock. This is a wonderful admission for Rat. It’s a moment of growth.

Rat’s rite, I jest checked his Facebook™ page . . . . . ☻

I really like the emails that begin with:

Dear FirstName,

Doesn’t get any more personal than that.

Dear friend,You likes comic today’s too, yes? Have I gotten exciting offer for betterment of well being and healthiness…

@ Mr. Ima;

My favorite pastime ! Give ‘em false SSN’s, wrong data, wrong bank routing numbers, anything to make ’em think they got a fish on the line and go with it ! Love it !!

pearls? whats that?

I hope it gets back to the dolphins soon.

It is exactly that in Hawaii. The US military shipped tons of the stuff there during WWII, and the people developed a taste for it. It’s sort of a tradition thing.

At least Rat admits to abusing those around him. But he’s wrong about that Dear Friend bit being a tip-off it’s spam. It’s going in the spam folder, that’s a tip off it’s spam. Dear Friend is a tip off it’s a scam.

I bet Rat doesn’t use Facebook.

They all have such short legs.

Can’t argue with Rat’s logic today.

(I’m not saying I agree with it, but you really can’t argue it.)

I have read that the spammers deliberately use poor grammer and spelling: it weeds out the smart people in favor of the gullible.

There was a strip, that pointed out that rat believes that goat and pig are his friends. Actually, I’m looking for this strip, I’d be grateful for any help :).It was like this: someone (I think goat) says “You can judge a man by looking at his friends”, rat looks at goat and pig, screams something like “AAAAAH!”, then (I’m not sure about this part) he says “No offense”.If only someone kind could help me find that strip…