Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 10, 2013
Transcript:
Rat: How do you know when you're rich? Pig; I guess it's when you own all the important stuff. Rat: Like what? Pig: Car, ship, top hat, dog, wheelbarrow, iron, shoe, and thimble. Rat: You just listed all the "Monopoly" tokens. Pig: It's all I know about rich people.
The#1BoiseStateFan over 11 years ago
I get the car!Sorry, Pig, but Iron is gone.(even though it’s a strip before the removal of Iron) Make way for the Cat)
margueritem over 11 years ago
It’s all I know, too.
LingeeWhiz over 11 years ago
Because people just love to put everyone in a box.
arye uygur over 11 years ago
You’re rich when you’re happy with what you have.
corzak over 11 years ago
If you can monopolize the properties on the Free Parking corner . . . the ‘oranges’ (St James, Tennessee; New York) and the ‘reds’ (Kentucky, Indiana; Illinois) . . . and get at least three houses on each as quickly as possible . . . you’ll win the game. And then – at least in the eyes of Rat and Pig – you’ll be a millionaire.
WillardMBaker over 11 years ago
I thought the measure of wealth was not how much you love, but how much you are loved. My cat REALLY loves me a lot, when I feed her.
Sisyphos over 11 years ago
“Important stuff” sounds like an oxymoron. But I do like Pig’s honesty as to his understanding of wealth and rich people.
orinoco womble over 11 years ago
You’re rich when you don’t worry about how other people live, no matter what they have and you don’t.
juicebruce over 11 years ago
From my point of view(I work in health care) you are “RICH” when you have few health issues for this enables you to do many things that others can not do.
Alabama Al over 11 years ago
The best things in life are indeed free – however, you need to possess wealth to enjoy them.
RG_Dustbin over 11 years ago
you are in fact ‘Rich’ if your name is Richard and you are ten years old or less.
vwdualnomand over 11 years ago
the rich don’t feel rich. they always want more. envious of other people’s stuff, and many of them covets their neighbor’s wife.
McGehee over 11 years ago
@vwdualnomand
The most envious and covetous people don’t seem to be the rich. The anti-austerity riots in Europe are just one example.
Carl Rennhack Premium Member over 11 years ago
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway were having a drink, that should be more than one drink, when Scotty said to Papa, “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” “Yeah, they have more money!”
Carl Rennhack Premium Member over 11 years ago
I felt SORRY about the big RISK that I took the last time I played MONOPOLY!
Reppr Premium Member over 11 years ago
Rich is enjoying life, liking what you do every day, and greeting every new day with a smile.
SwimsWithSharks over 11 years ago
Hi I’m here because I am ready to be convinced of your political views./not
SwimsWithSharks over 11 years ago
I think it’s odd for Rat to be asking such an existential question.
gordrogb Premium Member over 11 years ago
Apparently, we are rich whenever the government SAYS we are rich – so they can take more of said riches.
Timothy Madigan Premium Member over 11 years ago
Pig forgot the cat – Parker Brothers is/has replaced the iron with a cat.
SAINT12345 over 11 years ago
Rich when you run for president like Marie Antoinette. Let them eat cake
knight1192a over 11 years ago
Pig, rich folks in Monopoly own Boardwalk and Park Place with at least one hotel on both.
AprilDiamond2001 over 11 years ago
Now we know that Stephan Pastis was listening to “Marketplace” on npr.
AprilDiamond2001 over 11 years ago
You know you’re rich when you don’t know what instant coffee is.
Rickapolis over 11 years ago
I always loved the top hat.
hariseldon59 over 11 years ago
Pig doesn’t seem to understand the game of Monopoly either. The object of the game is to own property, not tokens.
Defective Premium Member over 11 years ago
The deluxe verison has the iron, as well as all the old tokens and new ones.
Squoop over 11 years ago
Pig, you are wrong. It’s when you have hotels on Boardwalk and Park Place.
1148559 over 11 years ago
I think you are reversing Bruno’s comment. I read it as, “the less you owe, the richer you are.” You seem to be reading it as the opposite.
jintsfan over 11 years ago
Have another glass of Kool Aid.
Number Three over 11 years ago
Haha… Cute!
xxx
Sherlock Watson over 11 years ago
“A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.” (W.C. Fields)
currency1896 over 11 years ago
pig for president
agman48 over 11 years ago
are the crocs ever coming back? sorry, stupid pig and rude rat do not make me laugh like the crocs.
Popeyesforearm over 11 years ago
or merchandise a syndicated cartoon strip and make appearances at book stores and speaking engagements hawking insane characters to the masses. Yeah, rich. Not Jim Davis rich but lazy ex-laywer rich ain’t bad.
marshalljpeters Premium Member over 11 years ago
Boardwalk and Park Place don’t usually help me a lot. They’re too expensive to develop, and people don’t land there a lot. If I can get the light blue set fairly quick, I can build them up and keep other people poor. The oranges would be my next target. Pretty good chance someone coming out of jail will land on one.
HankTheSock over 11 years ago
The iron is gone now, Pig.
rugeirn over 11 years ago
You can’t have all the tokens unless you’re playing Monopoly Solitaire. It’s the properties you want, not the tokens.
wroady over 11 years ago
More than I knew!
cwizard71 over 11 years ago
If everyone is done with their political debates (when did GoComics become a site for politcal debates, anyway?), I would like to point out that Pig did forget one other token—the horse and rider token.
BOSFLASH about 6 years ago
Clever.
Themanofoor54 over 3 years ago
50th comment