Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 23, 2014

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    Sherlock Watson  almost 10 years ago

    You’re gonna get something in your stocking, Rat, and it’ll be ticking.

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    KZ71  almost 10 years ago

    Well, Nancy Kerrigan didn’t have 18000 look-alikes hanging out at every Walmart to cover her bases.

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    Ida No  almost 10 years ago

    Yes, THIS is what I want to see on TV as a Christmas special.Enough with the Charlie Brown already. Give me Charlie Rat!

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    Wasbluskies  almost 10 years ago

    Betcha google is busy tonight with young people searching those two names!

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    alviebird  almost 10 years ago

    Rat can have one of mine. I bought 4 boxes of Bob’s candy canes yesterday. In fact, I was thinking about getting one about the time I started reading this strip. I’ll take that as a sign that I should eat one.

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    Varnes  almost 10 years ago

    A friend of mine pointed out that although Nancy Kerrigan was the good girl and Tonya Harding was the bad girl…Most guys in their hearts know that Tonya would be a lot more fun to party with than Nancy…

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    Sisyphos  almost 10 years ago

    Rat, you vicious thug! What you will get is at least five years; I hope, more….

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    p10knee  almost 10 years ago

    Tater- foreign language? English? Try history!

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    comiceddy  almost 10 years ago

    Perils from Pearls.

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    Joe Cooker Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    Rat Gillooly

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    Kaputnik  almost 10 years ago

    Ah, that’s sweet, Rat still believes that Santa brings the presents.Well, it would be sweet without the baseball bat.

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    grassler  almost 10 years ago

    Not something Burl Ives or Fred Astaire would like to have witnessed.

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    drbeth  almost 10 years ago

    As both a fan and a skater, I agree that when it came to natural talent, Tonya was the better skater. However, she was also lazy, wouldn’t practice and was frequently out of shape, and blamed all her problems on everybody but herself. She was damned lucky to be offered that plea deal because the Feds had more than enough on her to put her away for a few years. She is a sad story; the biggest waste of real skating talent the US ever saw. She should have had multiple world and at least one Olympic medal, but she managed to always snatch defeat from the jaws of victory with her stupid behavior.

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    dbmeyer99  almost 10 years ago

    WWWWWHHHHYYYYYYYY, WWWWWHHHHHHYYYYY

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    470063  almost 10 years ago

    Still have the hots for Tanya. This is cruel punishment.

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    GoodQuestion Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    be thankful he didn’t go for Santa’s oompa loompas . . . ☮

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    tired-one  almost 10 years ago

    More like IIRC Olympics women’s skating trivia involving two Americans.

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    cj7ole  almost 10 years ago

    And the partying Tonya is the one that ended up with a current TV comedy gig, one of those where a panel of “comedians” comment on random videos on the internet..

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    luvdafuneez  almost 10 years ago

    Santa could USE a cane, now (not candy, tho)…

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    Kaputnik  almost 10 years ago

    “Foreign language reference”? Granted, every language is foreign somewhere in the world, but still, what do you consider the “foreign language” to be here? Just curious.

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    Fido (aka Felix Rex)  almost 10 years ago

    Isn’t the whole Harding/Kerrigan reference a bit old? That was what, 30 years ago? How about something from this century (or millennium for that matter.)

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    Saddenedby Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    i was going to comment, but no matter how i arranged the words or what words i used i figured someone would insist that is was a politically charged comment and it wasn’t, sigh! it was just about rat – freedom of comment denied!!!!

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    legaleagle48  almost 10 years ago

    It was 20 years ago, Carl42SG. Almost 21, in fact (it happened just before the 1994 Nationals). And figure skating in this millennium (or at least, this decade) sadly began declining sometime after about 2006, at least among the single American male and female skaters and the American pairs skaters. Now, American Ice Dancing — that’s another matter! :)

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    jnnydnti  almost 10 years ago

    “Rat’s War on Christmas” . . . Yes, I would watch that special!

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    George_P_Burdell  almost 10 years ago

    I misread the W in “fellow” as an N — Santa telling Rat, “Why hello, little felon” somehow works though.

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    flsunlvr  almost 10 years ago

    English is a foreign language to you? What words did you not understand???

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    155088  almost 10 years ago

    End Rat and bring back the CROCS!

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    barister  almost 10 years ago

    That rat is something else. You gotta love or hate him. I agree that some things should remain in the past. Both ladies deserve a break from the skate hauting. Bad, bad Stephan. That’s why you’re living on your front porch now.

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    Number Three  almost 10 years ago

    I wonder why?

    xxx

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    claire de la lune.  almost 10 years ago

    Every kid’s fantasy (or at least mine).

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    TIMH  almost 10 years ago

    Tonya did not hurt anyone. Her idiot boyfriend master-minded that deed and probably hurt her performance at the Olympics.

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