Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 22, 2015

Rat gets more and more Obnoxious with a capital O.

“Mow your lawn?”

How about “Pick up the &$%#$ beer cans!”

Rat, you may be a redneck.

I had an exotic Christmas vacation to Puerto Rico in 2004 and that was with my older brother and our father who was widowed three months before. We only stayed until around Christmas Eve.

Is it envy or sheer disdain that makes Rat so offended by others who have nice little personal vacations? Rat’s been on vacation for a long time. And why is he growing beer cans in his lawn grass? VERY hard to mow!

He could send a card to all of his friends, but Pig is already his roommate.

I’d rather get one of those picture cards than a brag letter.

Best staycation ever!!!!!

Family photo-cards are increasingly common, in my experience at any rate. Some, I like. But others are just what Rat says, mere braggadocio.. Offensive, if you catch my drift….

The same people who take these incredibly expensive vacations then complain about the economy.

Actually, I’m with Rat on this one. My gentleman friend calls my backyard Sugar’s Oasis and I prefer it to any other location. No beer cans though. I’m partial to gin&tonic.

Facebook is pretty much exactly this, 24/7/365.

I send out Christmas newsletters every year and people do seem to like them because they’re pretty irreverent. This year was pretty boring so I only sent a half-page, stating that neither an uneventful year nor a short Christmas letter are necessarily “bad” by definition.

Rat is so nasty and SOOOOOOOOOO believable. I know several people just like him (or worse)!

I have relatives that do those brag letters. And a couple of years ago, they DID got on a luxury safari in Africa…

beer cans make great tree ornaments, all shiney and bright.

Rat is obviously a Scrooge.

But that card is freaking hilarious though.

xxx

I’m retired, so I don’t have any vacations. I just travel a lot, but I don’t write about it.

I did my world travelling on the big gray boat.

In the early eighties, there were radio commercials that promoted the “Red White & Blue vacation”. The way it was described in the ads (for Red, White & Blue Beer), that’s the way it would have looked.

So Rat has a backyard. Braggart.

Everybody in 2020…

Another prediction come true

9 bear bottles drank by Rat