Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 25, 2013

Hmmm… Stephan seems to be alternating between the goldfish and the girls’ basketball team. Is he going to combine the two arcs by having the goldfish kill the girls?

Love it.

If the goldfish could get out of the bowl, smack Pig, and get back in the bowl without dying, a little barbed wire is not going to do much to stop him.

gitmo for the goldfish…

Nah, Carla the PC girl is going to swallow him whole, thus discovering the joys of predation & eating animals, all at once. Soon she takes forms an anit-PETA terrorist cell attacking marine life. Oh, the huge manatees!

Somebody did suspect the goldfish.

Just because there were wet fin prints leading away from the crime scene, everyone suspects the goldfish?!

Ain’t no walls can hold my body down, copper-Rat! I’ll be out, and I’ll be looking for you, with my Pastisville Slugger….

No one has escaped from “Stalag Rat”

that goldfish is mean, maybe growing up he had some problems?

Electrify the tank and fence just to be sure…

Rat will try to convince Gomer that the wire is there to protect him from creatures like Garfield! (& please see my comment on THAT cartoon today!)

From today’s Word of the Day (Seems the discussion over winners and losers has been happening thro the ages)…“No battle is ever won. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. -William Faulkner, novelist (1897-1962)

I think Stephan is related to Stephen King.

Why don’t you just flush to goldfish down the toilet?

Just put little guard duck on patrol in the bowl . . . you know, in case the bi-polar bear shows up . . .☻

“This seems excessive”

…says the goldfish who bashed Pig over the head with a baseball bat the other day!

Sorry, Gomer but I have no sympathy after what you did to poor Pig yesterday!

xxx

Add motion detectors

This is a job for guard duck

Rat:“No you silly goldfish….this is not excessive. The armed drone circling the area watching you is.”

No, excessive would be encircling the bowl with cast iron griddles on top of portable picnic gas grills and lighting the fire on each grill so those griddles are nice and hot, perfect for frying a vicious goldfish if it dares jump out of the bowl. It’s small enough now that it might be able to slip unscathed through the barbed wire.

I mean 24/7

Pig doesn’t seem to get along with aquatic life very well. I remember when his greatest enemy was a sea anemone.