Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 16, 2018

Who’s going to scrape that up?

Somebody should flatten Rat like a pancake.

Poodle Meets Elliezilla…

The second panel should have had YIPE!

Yes, that’s about right.

Sort of like a large country with a small population and economy having a free trade deal with another large country with ten times the population and economy. Not that I can think of any real-life examples.

There is no escape from reality.

Somebody contact Metallica – I have a idea for a new heavy metal song “We’re All Just Pancake Poodles In The Game Of Life”

Life will leave you flat if you don’t watch out

In the ultimate end, we are all just random atoms scattered through the cosmos, just as we were when time began. Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust.

Well now that Poodle can slide right under a door….

Mortal existence, explained.

They say when life hands you lemons you should make lemonade. But what if life says it’s handing you lemons and hands you onions instead?

A line by John Lennon that proved ironic in the most heartbreaking way… from his song about his little boy, Sean…

“Life is whatt happens to you while you”re busy making other plans."

All in all we’re just Pancaked Poodles or bricks in the wall.

Those of us who have been stomped on by life are left to comment on comics.

Pancaked Poodles….

Sounds like a name for a fantasy sports team.

Life is what happens to you while you’re awaiting the sweet, sweet release of death.

Better a pancaked poodle than a poodle pancake!

And everyone else is the jerk who watches the video on Youtube and makes fun of the poodle.

Pancaked Poodle, Pavement Pelt, Pulverized Puppy…

Dog gone.

My plans are working out okay. Trusting to luck is the insanity.

Life is like that sometimes, lt’s a Mac truck, No, it’s an Train, bump, bump.

Not funny – and I like the usual pun stuff.

Glad I am not the only one with days like this.

Yep.

Get thin instantly. Ask me how.

Accurate.

Life’s a b***h and the you die. Get over it.

My wife retired on August 1. We had big plans for a trip to Napa in September. She broke her wrist falling while mowing the lawn on August 12.

She has just a week ago gotten the cast off and is now back ready to do things. One of our celebrations was to buy a new bed. In taking the old one down to the basement, I slipped and fell down the basement steps (ALL the way down from the top), causing multiple injuries the worst of which is a blown-out knee. I can now barely walk.

Life has a way of stepping on you and your plans with big elephant feet.

My one neighbor has 3 of those little windup dogs. When I walk my dog down to the park to frisbee, they’re bouncing and yipping their fool heads off at her. Piper just looks at them and continues on, she’s a dog on a frisbee mission.

Yuppie!

Poor Dusty. Probably did this on purpose due to severe Chapstick withdrawal (Big Top comic)…

Sad, but true.

Must be raining. Ellie just stepped in a poodle.

A fitting end to a drop-kick dog. My neighbor has two little (I hate to call them dogs) yappie things. All they ever do is their pathetic version of barking, mostly at me and my dogs. If my dogs weren’t so nice, they could have both of these things for a snack.

Pancaked Poodles would be a good name for a rock band. —-Dave Barry

It’s sad when your French poodle becomes pâté!

“….the symbol that best reflects the west, was none but the miniature poodle. J.Edgar didn’t care, he said " the Poodle’s a queer. America is going to the dogs."

Oh sure, it seems out of context, but it fits right out of Mason Williams song book. J. Edgar Swoop.

Rat’s cartoons make way too much sense for GoComics to run them….

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” Allen Saunders

Indeed, the world is just the International House of Pancaked Poodles!

I love pancakes! Somebody pass the maple syrup.

Oh my god, they predicted 2020.