Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 29, 2018

A bar name picked by a lawyer.

You wouldn’t know honestyif it bit you in the rear, Rat.

I’d still call a cab.

There is, or at least used to be, a nightclub in Worcester, MA called “Rehab.”

Or call it The Office. So you can honestly say, “I spent the whole evening at The Office.”

Oh, you’re good, Rat!

I’m kind of surprised someone hasn’t already tried this!

There used to be a bar in Amarillo named “My Broker.”

I called my new car “nostalgic”. That way, when I cleaned and polished it, I could say I was waxing nostalgic.

You can take the cartoons out of the lawyer, but you can’t take the lawyer out of the cartoonist.

I know there is at least one bar called The Library near a college campus.

Up until recently there was a bar in Manassas called “The Church”. Yes, I was there on Easter Sunday.

Hagar the Horrible used the same gag about 20 years ago, only itwas a whole town called “Moderation”. Either way, it’s still funny!

How’s that honesty, Rat?

Interesting that this is one time that Rat — not to mention half the people who make comments here — chose not to beat up on Pastis for the word play.

Don’t forget Goat he’s the POTUS

I would call my cannabis bar, Just Another Joint.

Heard that a former president was hanged in Effigy. Effigy is a small town outside Middletown.

Rat knows how to do the “Twist” …………… on words that is. That kinda sounds like Yoda.

I live in a college town. I suspect like many college towns, we have a bar named “The Library.”

“Honest, Dad. I was at The Library all night!”

There used to be a bar in our town called "the Office Lounge in a strip mall and on the second floor was another bar called “Someplace Else”.(true story) When your wife called and asked where you were,you could honestly reply “At the office”. If,after discovering the rest of the story, she called the lounge and the barkeep said “he’s not here” when she asked “do you know where he might be?” he would say "Yes maam, he’s someplace else:!

Rat, you should know by now that every drunk, no matter how drunk, “only had a couple beers.”

Rat is a marketing genius!

I’ve been doing that for years.

There was a bar in San Francisco called the Mail Box.

That’s very noble of you, Rat. Also, admirably tricky. As always, you are a bit of a paradox….

Reminds me of the time that the San Francisco Chronicle’s annual readers’ poll had a category, “Best Place for Teenagers After 10 PM”, and the runaway winner was, “At Home/In Bed.” I wondered how long it would take somebody to open up a club by that name and then claim, “Voted Best Place for Teenagers After 10 PM by the Chronicle.”

There was a bar in Seattle named “Alibi”.

http://www.themodreading.com/home.html

I have a shirt that says “Moderation, not extremism”. If I WASN’T a Muslim nor under 21, I would’ve been allowed to go into bars! Then when people ask me how much I’ve drunk, I would just point to my shirt as if to tell them I drank in “Moderation, not extremism”.

This one has been done in Hagar the Horrible about 40 years ago.