Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 17, 2017

Didn’t the GPS know the way?

Today’s strip is like a GEICO commercial; the only thing missing is the phrase “15 percent.”

Wow! It’s like he saw our time!

Sometimes there’s a good reason why people don’t take that road.

Maybe Rat would like “Mending Wall” better; that seems to be more up his alley, or country lane, or whatever.

A lot of Hollywood screen adaptations beat Rat at being unfaithful to the plot.

There are times when “Rat” logic = “Bucky” kat logic :-)

…how come they always talk behind an ant farm?…

I believe the “roads” that Frost was writing about were actually walking paths. In fact it was published in 1916 before automobiles became the primary mode of travel.

We’re all a bunch of frosted flakes.

crocs before it’s too late

Cynic is as cynic does.

Reading these comments I realize there’s not a poet in the bunch.

“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” -YB

“Rat is such a prat, I want to hit him with a bat”

xxx

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

Rat’s version does seem more plausible than Frost’s….

Then I called AAA.And that made all the difference.

If you come to a fork in the road, steer around it. Tires aren’t cheap.

Rat be like