Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 15, 2013
Transcript:
Rat: Why do people go on spiritual searches? Goat: To find a satisfying religion, something reliable that will always be there for them in the darkest moments of their lives. Beer cannot be a religion. Rat: Please don't blaspheme in the presence of my church's relics.
Sherlock Watson about 11 years ago
Rat always likes to keep his Buds nearby.
Odd Dog Premium Member about 11 years ago
Rat would probably drink them under the table.
Ida No about 11 years ago
Rat: “I will now belch a hymn to beer.”
Linda1259 about 11 years ago
Panel 2 is the viewpoint from behind the bar, while panel 3 is a viewpoint from in front of the bar. But keep watching, it is the most common mistake made by cartoonists.
Sisyphos about 11 years ago
Rat and Homer Simpson have something in common, it seems. Except Rat’s brand is not Duff: some other offshoot denomination….
michaelyukyuk about 11 years ago
You’re right!!!!!!! The bloody beer cans shifted from one side to the other………..It’s a miracle!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kvasir42 Premium Member about 11 years ago
“I like beer!It makes me a jolly good fellow.It helps me unwind and sometimes it makes me feel mellow.Whiskey’s too rough.Champagne costs too much.Vodka puts my mouth in gear.This little refrain should help me explain as a matter of fact I like beer.” (From a great Tom T. Hall song)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG5gWk-1m10 (sorry don’t know how to make direct links)
orinoco womble about 11 years ago
Rat should be a Rastafarian…they are said to put weed in everything. Maybe he’d mellow out.
El Ctrosan about 11 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtpv0n6Nm2I
davidh48 about 11 years ago
Dough the stuff that buys me beer,Ray, the guy who pours the beer,Me, the guy who drinks the beer.Fa, a long, long way to beer,So, I think I’ll have a beer,La, la la la beer,Tea? I’d rather have a beer,And now I’m out of Dough, Dough, Dough (for beer.)
davidh48 about 11 years ago
René Descartes walks into a bar and orders a beer.Upon finishing it, the bartender asks if he’d like another, to which he replies “I think not” and disappears.
zero about 11 years ago
Despair all yeast who enter beer. . ..
JudyAz about 11 years ago
“In heaven there is no beer,That’s why we drink it here…”— forgot who sang that (too much beer?)
rshive about 11 years ago
Actually, it’s been sung by many people. Probably written by the noted Anon Y. Mous.
KEA about 11 years ago
I vote for the Church of Santa Claus – he always delivers.
Dave Thorby about 11 years ago
Silenus was the Greek God of Beer.Too much beer can lead to a great deal of silenus!
jmartin1955 about 11 years ago
I have finally found God!
puddlesplatt about 11 years ago
hail hail, the pails nereby.
Vet Premium Member about 11 years ago
A good beer is like sex.Its over too quick.But unlike sex.Its easier to open another beer than it is to get back to attention.
wcorvi about 11 years ago
I’ve been on a spiritual search for a satisfying religion for about forty years now. Same for a presidential candidate.
Carl Rennhack Premium Member about 11 years ago
@JudyAz—check out “No Beer in Heaven” in wikipedia.
Carl Rennhack Premium Member about 11 years ago
Re:Paris’s comment—No, but it CAN be an idol!!
sroamer about 11 years ago
There are actually two shifts of perspective, of course. From P1 to P2 the viewer has moved from in front of them to the left and from P2 to P3, to behind them.
Gokie5 about 11 years ago
As I’ve said before, “And malt does more than Milton can To justify God’s ways to man.” A. E. Housman
nathob about 11 years ago
Pastis is a fool!
Thirsty Badger about 11 years ago
Rat obviously remembers what Benjamin Franklin once said: “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
Number Three about 11 years ago
To Rat, Beer is EVERYTHING!
LOL xxx
Burnout70s about 11 years ago
Max’s at Fells Point Baltimore MD is Holy Ground
vwdualnomand about 11 years ago
beer is a better religion than all other religions. insane rituals, dietary restrictions. special underwear, clergy who molests kids, and their hatred of science.
vldazzle about 11 years ago
Wasn’t that a Simpson episode? I foggily remember one where Homer had his own church (and very popular it was). That COULD have involved beer.
@ Radish, how could you forget BACCHUS? I know he was known more for wine than beer but that matters little.
and the way the Christian Holidays were chosen – it is curious that St Patrick’s Day is celebrated on the same day as the former Festival of Bacchus ;-D
Aslan Balaur about 11 years ago
I cannot believe that I am AGREEING with Rat!
vldazzle about 11 years ago
And veteran, I missed the comment above but this comment caught my attention. And I disagree with BRO; the right woman makes all the difference.
AStarofDestiny about 11 years ago
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” – Ben Franklin
lmonteros about 11 years ago
Unfortunately, they can.
mimidemonge about 11 years ago
Rat is very intelligent. It is very deep in what he says. It is sarcastic and Ironic or Tongue in Check. I love it.
Dr Lou Premium Member about 11 years ago
Why not beer…..it is all made up, anyway.
Packratjohn Premium Member about 11 years ago
Beer is liquid bread…. but my wife won’t let me have it with breakfast.
Packratjohn Premium Member about 11 years ago
Immanuel Kant was a real pissantWho was very rarely stable.Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggarWho could think you under the table.David Hume could out-consumeSchopenhauer and Hegel,And Wittgenstein was a beery swineWho was just as schloshed as Schlegel.There’s nothing Nietzsche couldn’t teach ya’‘Bout the raising of the wrist.Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed…John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.Plato, they say, could stick it away;Half a crate of whiskey every day.Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,Hobbes was fond of his dram,And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart: “I drink, therefore I am”Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed;A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he’s pissed!
MONTY PYTHON – THE PHILOSOPHERS SONG LYRICS
Packratjohn Premium Member about 11 years ago
It really makes me crazy when I get up in the morning and there’s no cold beer in the fridge…