Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 23, 2013

Starve ourselves to death?Carla suddenly lost popularity with the other girls.

How about the White Flags?

I think Rat’s Rats isn’t going to work personally.

Carla realizes that her suggestion for a role model had his downside.

Carla’s overalls in the last panel got paint on them.

Chandragupta (and his aides) supposedly disguised themselves as common soldiers and infiltrated the army of Alexander the Great. They then spread rumors among the troops that the Indian king (Chandragupta) was invincible. When Alexander moved to conquer India, his army mutinied.Maybe Rat could try this . . . and get the other teams to forfeit . . .

Bench Carla. Send her down to the really, really minors (if there are any). Name your team as you see fit, Rat! Don’t let that collaborationist sabotage your team’s efforts towards victory!

If they forfeited all their games, how about the “Surrender Monkeys”?

I’m surprised Rat didn’t ask Clara “Are you planning to do that too?” in the last panel.

name just doesn’t roll of the tonque, do it?

how about ‘Armée de la France’?

Those girls look ideal for a hunger strike.

They’re already mouthless.

Isn’t “Chandra Gupta” a CNN correspondent?

Just think of all the weight she would lose.

We are the Champignons!

Don’t call me French Shirley..

Rat is more like a Roach here. Croach. These girls just wanna have fun. Croach is about winning, which certainly isn’t about fun.

That’s Rat all right. He gets them to come up with ideas only to shoot them down.

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Sort of ran out of purple ink in the last panel.

Maulers an Pillagers are terrible names, though better than Carla’s choice. Still try to find some animal name. Maybe the Lionesses.

The French!;^)Sorry couldn’t resist

Did anyone else notice Carla’s clashes being different colors in the last one?

If not for the French (Lafayette et al), we would have lost the Revolutionary War. You ignoranuses (no, that is not a misspelling) really should read your history and save yourselves the embarrassment. of making such “yuck yuck” comments about the French.

Emperor Chandragupta Maurya achieved a great deal before he abdicated in favor of his son, became an ascetic, and eventually fasted to death. Details at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandragupta_Maurya

How about the name Self Imposed Victims of Eastern New Age Mumbo Jumbo. It will be a challenge to put all that on a tee shirt, but people like Carla love it. Carla, the Karma hugging, we are the world socio-politico " I need a psychiatrist because everyone hates me" in the making. Steph has crazy friends.

or The Losers