Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 03, 2016

So, when is Rat going to law school?

If I’m too old for law school, I’ll just have to win the lottery. Shoot me the winning numbers, Rat.

Try the Hurley Numbers, and don’t take any trans-Pacific flights.

So get rich by making others miserable. That’s what I partly understand. That, or ruin society’s way of life.

I question whether Rat is really playing with the train set.Every personal injury or malpractice law firm commercial should be required to play the sound of an ambulance siren in the background.

“Larry Lawyer”? I’d have thought his name was Steve Dallas.

That’s just a bit of an exaggeration, Rat. That’s not how it works in the real world of personal-injury litigation (as Stephan Pastis knows, having practiced law for many years before becoming a cartoonist). Shame on you for perpetrating an untrue stereotype!

Just in case someone’s not familiar with the quote:‘’The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers,‘’ —William Shakespeare ’’Henry VI,’’ Part II, act IV, Scene II

And just in case that’s not enough, the lawyer can run for office. Something on the order of 90% of all state and federal legislators are lawyers. I’ve always maintained that, as officers of the court, lawyers should be specifically forbidden from making the laws. Conflict of interests, interlocking directorate, fox making rules for the chickens, stuff like that…

Looks like Larry is done with the “Practice” !

I like the realistic analogy here that the lawyer gets all (or most) of the money even though the other guy was the reason for the suit.

Class action, anyone?

Let’s do a class action suit against class action lawyers ! We’ll all be rich! Rich! I tell you!

Rat speaks the truth

one of my favorite cousins recently became a lawyer. I have mixed emotions about that

This strip can only have two names, Larry and Bob.

It’s ironic that Stephan actually worked as a lawyer before becoming a successful cartoonist. Now he mocks them.

At first it looked like a setup for a rhyme strip: Track crack broke his back and got (someone) a stack of greenback.

Lucky old Larry.

xxx

Oh I was waiting for an awful pun. Instead a lawyer joke!

But, Rat, since the town has shut down and all the people are jobless, Larry Lawyer’s money is useless—nothing but colored paper, since there is no place to spend it, nothing to spend it on, no one to perform any services….Is that ironic, or karma, or both?

would not like to play Monopoly with Rat, or any other game for that matter. I bet she stacks the deck too

Rat has been stranger than usual these past strips lately.

This is what will happen if Amtrak is killed.

Pastis is/was a lawyer, so he knows whereof he speaks. Fortunately today, lawyers are also getting the shaft, which, in the end, spares no one.

I honestly expected a pun.