Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 25, 2016
Transcript:
Goat: what are you doing Rat? Rat: I've concluded that overpopulation is a serious problem. And if people won't slow down the birth rate, we're gonna need to do other things to control the population. Goat: Like what? Rat: Like hand out fried food and cigarettes. Goat: I'm leaving now. Bob: Ooh...A coupon for a motorcycle.
BE THIS GUY about 8 years ago
That’ll take care of half of Texas.
Sherlock Watson about 8 years ago
How about deep-fried cigarettes?
cdgar about 8 years ago
Trump would be proud.
blunebottle about 8 years ago
Hmm….I remember the Darwin Awards. Let’s vote Rat into it. Those who claim there’s too much population never want to lead by example.
Alexander the Good Enough about 8 years ago
It’s not for nothing that many of the staff at the nearby medical center call them “donorcycles.”
Bilan about 8 years ago
Rat’s doing his part to keep the birth rate down. Maybe not intentionally …
corgi4u about 8 years ago
Where do I go for free fried food?
Kind&Kinder about 8 years ago
Malthus is turning over in his grave! How about a Blooming Onion from Outback?
bigcatbusiness about 8 years ago
The government has been controlling the population for ages now! They even use mosquitoes so that they can spread diseases and sell their medicine!
asianwoof about 8 years ago
That’s a 2x bonus coupon if you sign up to ride w/o a helmet.
juicebruce about 8 years ago
Is the glass half empty or half full ?
scpandich about 8 years ago
Actually, the growth rate is already slowing down. It took longer to go from six billion to seven billion than it did to go from five billion to six billion. In fact, there are some demographers who believe that the population will pass nine billion sometime this century and then start declining, and within a couple of centuries the population could be below four billion.
Brass Orchid Premium Member about 8 years ago
The Birthers are back?
tripwire45 about 8 years ago
I read an article the other day that said some people are recommending young couples not have children because of climate change, so this isn’t so far fetched…at least for a certain demographic.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member about 8 years ago
Local Ambulance Chaser has an ad for motorcycle accidents. Get him because he knows how to ride!!! I think I’d get someone who knew the LAW instead!
jbmlaw01 about 8 years ago
ZPGers are big on abortion too.
davidweinstock about 8 years ago
some company sells baconnaise now.
HAWKBL8 about 8 years ago
This is already policy. Think buffet’s with the chems they add, and fluoride in your drinking water.
PICTO about 8 years ago
Rat could hand out NRA memberships…
TheTrustedMechanic about 8 years ago
I was trying to determine if they were being sarcastic or are really that whacked out.
Red Centipede about 8 years ago
I once read a story about the last biological man and last biological woman on Earth. To get them to mate the machines had to get the woman drunk and promise the man a pizza and beer. The moral is to keep the current population away from booze and pizza.
Chad Cheetah about 8 years ago
Poor Bob.
Radish the wordsmith about 8 years ago
Georgia Guidestones
StarWarsGuy500 about 8 years ago
Come now Rat, there must be a better way………maybe……………………..I don’t know.
Daniel J. about 8 years ago
It’s National Whiskey Sour Day!
zeexenon about 8 years ago
How about Road-Rage-101 from the Trucker’s School of Offensive Driving.
3pibgorn9 about 8 years ago
How about expanding Swift’s solution and having coupons for that?
wes tnt about 8 years ago
I heard that GMO’s reduce fertility. and federally not required to label as such. they’re in a majority of crops grown in the ‘US today. it’s hard to get away from them. i dont know about it being a government conspiracy, but if that truly is a side effect after generations of ingestion, the result will certainly be population reduction. face it, people, there are TOO MANY OF US!!! (i’m really NOT a whacko……)
Kirk Barnes Premium Member about 8 years ago
Wes, Wes, Wes. (smh)THERE ARE TO MANY OF THEM!!Get it straight, Bub!
halvincobbes Premium Member about 8 years ago
Six packs with six shooters are good too.
angelfiredragon about 8 years ago
Population growth in the US is slowing, so is Europe but parts of the rest of the world are booming.
In reality though, if you take the land surface, divide by number of people on the planet and give each person a piece they can all fit in the state of Texas…but just saying to put things into perspective. The real problem isn’t so much over population it is everyone wanting to live in the same tiny area in a city. Something about living in cities turns people into Democrats too, while living in small towns turns them conservative…go figure.
You want to start saving the planet, lets get rid of stupid laws that require people to have lawn and waste water on them in deserts and stuff.
angelfiredragon about 8 years ago
I’m surprised Rat didn’t suggest a good long war (started by duck), or a civil war…civil war reduced a lot of the US population…WWI and WWII really reduced it as well.
Kr38or about 8 years ago
Best euthanasia program ever.
Number Three about 8 years ago
I hate those parents who breed and breed until they get the gender they want.
That’s just selfish and it’s their own fault if they run into financial problems.
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Sisyphos about 8 years ago
First we nuke California, then we take Manhattan!Rat for Fearless Leader!
Malcolm Hall about 8 years ago
Handing out guns would be pretty effective too.
Brass Orchid Premium Member about 8 years ago
Population is not growing in Industrial Capitalist Democracies, except by immigration.Are we really suggesting, as Enlightened and Compassionate Liberals, that we need to euthanize, abort and prevent by contraception, all the little brown, black and yellow people from the non-industrialized nations?Margaret Sanger would be so proud! *sniff
schrocknik1 about 8 years ago
As good a way as any.
Thanos over 5 years ago
Thanos.. Has an impact on Rat..help..WHERE ARE U uhh PBS-VENGERS!!
kf6rro almost 5 years ago
Finally a social program that I can get behind.
Tijaro over 4 years ago
sheesh, I’m gone for the weekend and I have 12 notifications on my account
alantain about 1 year ago
That’s going to cost a fortune!