Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 23, 2014
Transcript:
Santa: Well, hello little fellow. And what can I get you this year? Rat: You shorted me on gifts last year, Santa. So I'm gonna Tonya Harding your Nancy Karrigan little @##. Santa: You're gonna what n-- OWWW Knee: CRACK Rat: And they wouldn't even give me a candy cane.
Sherlock Watson almost 10 years ago
You’re gonna get something in your stocking, Rat, and it’ll be ticking.
KZ71 almost 10 years ago
Well, Nancy Kerrigan didn’t have 18000 look-alikes hanging out at every Walmart to cover her bases.
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!
Wasbluskies almost 10 years ago
Betcha google is busy tonight with young people searching those two names!
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.
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…
Sisyphos almost 10 years ago
Rat, you vicious thug! What you will get is at least five years; I hope, more….
p10knee almost 10 years ago
Tater- foreign language? English? Try history!
comiceddy almost 10 years ago
Perils from Pearls.
Joe Cooker Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Rat Gillooly
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.
grassler almost 10 years ago
Not something Burl Ives or Fred Astaire would like to have witnessed.
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.
dbmeyer99 almost 10 years ago
WWWWWHHHHYYYYYYYY, WWWWWHHHHHHYYYYY
470063 almost 10 years ago
Still have the hots for Tanya. This is cruel punishment.
GoodQuestion Premium Member almost 10 years ago
be thankful he didn’t go for Santa’s oompa loompas . . . ☮
tired-one almost 10 years ago
More like IIRC Olympics women’s skating trivia involving two Americans.
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..
luvdafuneez almost 10 years ago
Santa could USE a cane, now (not candy, tho)…
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.
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.)
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!!!!
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! :)
jnnydnti almost 10 years ago
“Rat’s War on Christmas” . . . Yes, I would watch that special!
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.
flsunlvr almost 10 years ago
English is a foreign language to you? What words did you not understand???
155088 almost 10 years ago
End Rat and bring back the CROCS!
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.
Number Three almost 10 years ago
I wonder why?
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claire de la lune. almost 10 years ago
Every kid’s fantasy (or at least mine).
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.