Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 26, 2014

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    Linda1259  almost 10 years ago

    Rat just discovered why he is never happy; it is because he is who (what) he is!

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    Sherlock Watson  almost 10 years ago

    He blew his mind? Funny, I didn’t see him take anything…

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    Proginoskes  almost 10 years ago

    Rat ripped off Buckaroo Bonzai …

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    Wasbluskies  almost 10 years ago

    Self-awareness is a double-edged blade.

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    Dave Thorby  almost 10 years ago

    If that’s the Lemmings’ cliff, I think I have a solution for Rat’s problem…

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    wiselad  almost 10 years ago

    that is the lamenting cliff, and people throw down notes :) which are called Lamenting cliff’s notes

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    naturally_easy  almost 10 years ago

    Whoo, boy! I think we’re going to see rat attending AA meetings pretty soon. He’s about ready.

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    unnormal  almost 10 years ago

    Appears the BATtering Rat received has cleared his thinking.

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    Sisyphos  almost 10 years ago

    Okay, so you’ve discovered existential angst. Big whoop. Until it means nothing to you, it means something to you.

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    AlnicoV   almost 10 years ago

    Good luck with enlightenment Rat.

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    Plumbob Wilson  almost 10 years ago

    One of the rare glimpses at his internal Rat.

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    jreckard  almost 10 years ago

    I stink, therefore I am.

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    puddlesplatt  almost 10 years ago

    they say Money won’t make you happy…but it’s a damn good incentive.

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    bphrball1 Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    Cosmo Kramer!

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    cilantro55  almost 10 years ago

    The gun is missing.

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    Plods with ...™  almost 10 years ago

    Deep

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    Charlie Fogwhistle  almost 10 years ago

    You’re not from Nantucket, are you?

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    ArtyD2 Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    Pastis just turned rat into Jaden Smith.

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    cephalapoda Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    straight out of bukaroo bonzai!

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    bornfree99  almost 10 years ago

    RAt finally saw his problem.. himself

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    Charlie Sloden Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    Once when he was very young, Snoopy climbed over the fence at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm. But when he got to the other side, he realized he was still in the world. Wherever you go, there you are.

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    John Reiher Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    “Wherever you go, there you are”— Buckaroo Banzai

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    lunatics_fringe Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    Sounding very Buckeroo Banzai, Stephan.^_^

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    Fido (aka Felix Rex)  almost 10 years ago

    I thought of Popeye – “I yam what I yam.”

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    Saddenedby Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    welcome to the ‘real’ world rat

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    Number Three  almost 10 years ago

    Oh you don’t need to change, Rat!

    We’ve grown quite familiar with your arrogant, nasty, violent, greedy ways.

    xxx

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    kd1sq Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    Rat? A follower of Buckaroo Banzai???

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    TMO1 Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    Hardly a new thought. I’m pretty sure Delta Burke said this on “Designing Women” over 25 years ago.

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    awcusick1  almost 10 years ago

    The general sentiment is derived from a classic German Romantic poem, Der Wanderer, by G. P. Schmidt von Lubeck (1766-1849). In the strip, Rat is the Byronic antihero standing on a mountain top, as painted by David Kaspar Friedrich. An erudite comic, indeed!

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    MicioGuastatore  almost 10 years ago

    “Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt”.HoRATius said

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    sdjamieson Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    Didn’t exactly need dynamite to blow that.

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    shstuart Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    Buckaroo Banzai lives! “No matter where you go…there you are!”

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    kapppazei  almost 10 years ago

    That realization is what led me to become a Christian. “Take up your cross and follow me to the crucifixion site.”

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    heatherjasper  almost 10 years ago

    I wonder what Descartes (the guy who said ‘I think; therefore I am’) would have to say about Rat’s realization.

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    claire de la lune.  almost 10 years ago

    Usually Pastis hides poor strips on the days or week after Christmas, but dang, this is a strong strip.

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    barister  almost 10 years ago

    “THE PROBLEM IS NOT YOU, IT’S ME”.

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