Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 29, 2019

Genes are hard to overcome.

I love that Goat is holding a picture of Rat

It’s President RAT’s fault!

“We have met the enemy and he is us.” Pogo

Rat’s cousin Art, Goat? Is that who you’re referring to? (Hint, hint, folks.)

You can blame your parents for bringing you up to be too much like them.

‘I blame God. When he created the world he didn’t make enough money’

Anonymous

Let start with a man, or a rat, in a mirror !

Actually, for the first 1/8th of your life, you think parents are great.

Then you spend the next 2/8th of your life thinking your parents are stupid.

Then you spend the rest of you life realizing how great your parents were.

“De Man in de Mirror” —M. Jackson

That’s a point for Goat.

Reflect upon it, Rat.

Yes. Blame god for everything and move on.

Hummmm … Parents of the past did not do to bad for there was way less violence then there is now :-( … Croc Power !

The fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree. Along those same lines, young men need to be aware that when young women grow old they often look like their mothers.

Y’know, they have traps for that.

Just sayin’.

Society! It is all society’s fault. Society and capitalism and video games.

Who is the common denominator in all your problems, Rat?

But it is so funny when you hear your words come out of your adult child’s mouth. But then, those same words came from your parents.

I used to think nurture over nature, but now I think the opposite.

When that happes you start blaming the kids these days. It’s how it’s always been done.

1/8 Life: Loving Mommy & Daddy; 1/8 Finding Fault; 1/4 Realizing you’re too similar; 1/2 and counting. Missing them when they are gone. Today is the 28th anniversary of my Father’s passing.

A RAT is a RAT. Is a RAT…..

In the third half of life we try to undo all the programming our parent’s installed in us in the first 5 years of our life.

Oh, that’s an easy one. Just blame Pastis!

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.” – Mark Twain

At what stage is the “my parents were right” going to kick in?

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.” — Mark Twain (maybe)

TOO REAL

Tis often the case, but too soon old and too late smart.

the youths.

I don’t know. I am older now than my father was when he passed. But I often think Shakespeare must have known my dad (or someone very much like Dad) when he wrote, "His life was gentle, and the elements / So mixed in him that Nature might stand up / And say to all the world, ‘This was a man.’ "

Put the blame on Cartoon-Boy, Rat! He’s your guilty alter ego and creator!