Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 26, 2015
July 25, 2015
July 27, 2015
Transcript:
Goat: To what do you attribute your accomplishments in life? Rat: I guess that would have to be my hard work, drive and initiative. Goat: And to what do you attribute your failures? Rat: My genes. Goat: Don't you see a bit of disconnect there. Rat: I come from violent stock.
BE THIS GUY over 9 years ago
I know I blame the genes for my baldness.
Sherlock Watson over 9 years ago
I don’t possess the ability to sing or play R&B songs; I have no blue genes.
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 9 years ago
How do you tell the sex of a chromosome?Pull down its genes!
knight1192a over 9 years ago
Guess Pastis was reading about Nature vs. Nurture when he came up with this one. Not entirely sure how the nuture fits in here, but the nature would be the gene pool Rat’s from. Ironic, we’ve mat some of Rat’s family before and they aren’t violent like he is.
Bilan over 9 years ago
Just once, why doesn’t Goat give Rat a nice, swift head butt?
inshadowz over 9 years ago
… or you could praise God for your successes, and blame yourself for your failures. Seems to work for a lot of people.
eddie6192 over 9 years ago
Looks like Goat got disconnected.
mammamoonbeam over 9 years ago
If Rat had that boxing glove on in the first three panels, Goat should have known better than to ask a follow up question.
kaffekup over 9 years ago
No, he’s right; when Goat was hit, his head jerked to the left and his ears stayed to the right. Now that his head has stopped, momentum pushed them to the left, past Goat. Notice that Goat’s head is away from the point of impact now. (Pedantic enough?)
Number Three over 9 years ago
Really, Rat? We never noticed!
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painedsmile over 9 years ago
It’s been two days and STILL Pig is missing.Why isn’t anyone claiming him? Pig has amnesia.
mbzylnf2 over 9 years ago
Isn’t the most interesting thing about this that Rat is actually (implicitly) acknowledging that his violence is a failing?