Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 06, 2016

These Li’l Scouts just want to be prepared for any situation.

What, no Uzis?

Where’s the girls’ real scoutmaster?

Carol Burnett used to play a sort of “girl scout” named Alice Portnoy who would resort to blackmail and other dirty tricks to make people buy cookies or donate money to her troop. I can easily see her as these girls’ den mother.

Do-si-don’t mess with this troop.

Think of this one, instead of Guard Duck have Larry Croc with the Girl Scouts!………We are going to buy Zebra Neighbor for dinner with the money :-)

The scout speaking in the last panel is liable to get a visit from the Comic Censor.

They may be belligerent, but I doubt if the little girls can really throw grenades far enough to be safe for them. They should sell a few more cookies and get a grenade launcher.

Aaaah. Tsk tsk. I know what that little girl said in the last panel! Shame on her!

Yes, but you cannot get thin eating Fat Mints. It’s so unfair.

This ties in nicely with Calvin & Hobbes today.

scouts are always too honest. I’d support them.

I wouldn’t say that the GS stole the motto. It’s actually logical that they would have borrowed it, however, since their founder, Juliette Lowe, was inspired to organize the GS after she met the man who founded the Boy Scouts, Lord Baden-Powell, in 1912. Since she patterned the GS after the Boy Scouts, I can see why she would have considered “Be Prepared” to be just as appropriate for girls as it is for boys. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_Scouts_of_the_USA#Promise.2C_Law.2C_Motto.2C_and_Slogan (By the way, people, Google is your friend!)

The flamethrower is so they can try to force folks to buy their way overpriced cookies. The grenades are for blackmailing folks into buying their way overpriced cookies when the flamethrower doesn’t work.

Interesting coincidence that Today’s GoComics for Calvin and Hobbs is: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2016/03/06

I think she’s had enough cookies already!

Wow, I’m awful.

xxx

“Just one more”

It seems appropriate that L’il Guard Duck should volunteer to be scoutmaster to a troop of L’il Scouts. And he is certainly training them in 21st century survival skills!Way to sell those cookies! (But do watch your language, L’il Scouts!)

Too late.

Wonder if she was from around here.

The green color of the box makes them count as vegetables.

Looks like they’ve got an early start on being “the 2nd is the only amendment that counts” gun nuts.

NOBODY went for the obvious “Sally Forth” reference? Really? Nobody?………Good!

That lady won’t reach the police before she is hit by an air strike.

This is how girl scouts are when they don’t have any customers

Guard Duck even taught them to talk like soldiers lol

Loose lips sink Li’l Scouts.