Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 26, 2014
December 25, 2014
December 27, 2014
Transcript:
Rat: I keep trying to change everything in my life. Where I travel. What I see. Where I live. But none of it makes me any happier.
Pig: Why is that?
Rat: Because wherever I go, there I still am.
Rat: I just blew my own mind.
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.
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!
Linda1259 almost 10 years ago
Rat just discovered why he is never happy; it is because he is who (what) he is!
Sherlock Watson almost 10 years ago
He blew his mind? Funny, I didn’t see him take anything…
Proginoskes almost 10 years ago
Rat ripped off Buckaroo Bonzai …
Wasbluskies almost 10 years ago
Self-awareness is a double-edged blade.
Dave Thorby almost 10 years ago
If that’s the Lemmings’ cliff, I think I have a solution for Rat’s problem…
wiselad almost 10 years ago
that is the lamenting cliff, and people throw down notes :) which are called Lamenting cliff’s notes
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.
unnormal almost 10 years ago
Appears the BATtering Rat received has cleared his thinking.
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.
AlnicoV almost 10 years ago
Good luck with enlightenment Rat.
Plumbob Wilson almost 10 years ago
One of the rare glimpses at his internal Rat.
jreckard almost 10 years ago
I stink, therefore I am.
puddlesplatt almost 10 years ago
they say Money won’t make you happy…but it’s a damn good incentive.
bphrball1 Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Cosmo Kramer!
cilantro55 almost 10 years ago
The gun is missing.
Plods with ...™ almost 10 years ago
Deep
Charlie Fogwhistle almost 10 years ago
You’re not from Nantucket, are you?
ArtyD2 Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Pastis just turned rat into Jaden Smith.
cephalapoda Premium Member almost 10 years ago
straight out of bukaroo bonzai!
bornfree99 almost 10 years ago
RAt finally saw his problem.. himself
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.
John Reiher Premium Member almost 10 years ago
“Wherever you go, there you are”— Buckaroo Banzai
lunatics_fringe Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Sounding very Buckeroo Banzai, Stephan.^_^
Fido (aka Felix Rex) almost 10 years ago
I thought of Popeye – “I yam what I yam.”
Saddenedby Premium Member almost 10 years ago
welcome to the ‘real’ world rat
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
kd1sq Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Rat? A follower of Buckaroo Banzai???
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.
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!
MicioGuastatore almost 10 years ago
“Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt”.HoRATius said
sdjamieson Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Didn’t exactly need dynamite to blow that.
shstuart Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Buckaroo Banzai lives! “No matter where you go…there you are!”
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.”
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.
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.
barister almost 10 years ago
“THE PROBLEM IS NOT YOU, IT’S ME”.