Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 11, 2016

Oh, Rat, it’s a good thing your creator is a lawyer.

Rat, he looks like the kind of guy who will pummel you senseless, if you had any to begin with that is. Do stand still so he can make it hurt three times as much and possibly, though highly unlikely, put some sense into you.

Good thing Mr. Cool didn’t say “put a sock in it”.

Strangely enough, there’s an option on the menu line below this strip that says “pin it”. I think I’ll pass.

Rat shouldn’t be eavesdropping.

I don’t get the point of this strip.

Stick a fork in him, he’s done.

I loves me some Rat-acular direct action!Stick it to ’em, Rat, my man!

Sorry, but I don’t have enough bandwidth to work on this project. I do have some spare time if that would work instead. :)

More than once I’ve wished I was a cartoon so I could stick a pin in someone and get no lasting effects for my effort.

I think the ghost of Charlie Sheen has inhabited Rat. What? Sheen’s not dead? Could have fooled me!

At least he didn’t (ab)use “hack”

i’m surprised that rat didn’t release all the hot air and the suit go flitting off into the sky! phhhhiittttttttt

Somebody run him up the flagpole, see if anyone salutes.

Going Forward. It Works For Me.

good job.

The “pin” in “put a pin in it” refers to the safety pin of a grenade. ( I read it on the Internet, so it must be true!). If the suit uses the phrase again, Rat can escalate his response. I’m sure Guard Duck could supply a grenade.

YouTube the scene from the Reno 911 Miami movie – Dwayne Johnson and the grenade. It’s hilarious.

I’ve never heard “put a pin it it” either but, to paraphrase Groucho, I’d never work for a business that would hire me.

Considering my loathe for that phrase, I applaud rat.

Somewhere, a voodoo doll in the shape of a douchebag just said, “Ow!”

From Urban Dictionary (I had to look it up, never heard it before):

Put a pin in thatA douchey/ middle management way to say “let’s come back to that later,” or, “hold that thought.” Increasingly popular in business speak.

Possibly originally from WWII, referring to putting a pin back in a hand grenade so it won’t go off.

I’m just glad he isn’t “reaching out” to me.

Thanks, Rat. He needed that.

i hate that expression

Once, I was reading about cases in he pre-Depression 1900s when women used hat pins (large pins like the one Rat has designed to hold decoration on the hat — the more decoration, the bigger the pin) as (short) swords or (long) knives in self defense. There were even guide booka on how to defend yourself using a hat pin, assuming the article was trustworthy and I’m remembering correcty. It’s been a long time since I read it.