Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 24, 2020

I like the one with coconut.

“Life is like one big kick in the coconuts…”

my motto is i can do anything just give me the time to do it

Life is like a jar of mixed Jelly Belly. You will get that licorice or the Bernie Bott’s “rotten egg” or “booger” when you least expect it.

Yeah, I’m not much into chocolates with coconut either, Rat.

Hey, in panels 2 and 3 the characters actually face each other!

Chocolate and coconut, like a piece of heaven!

The very last time we gave a box of chocolates to my mother, we left her with them for a few minute and came back to find that every one had been bitten in half. “Well of course I had to taste them to see what flavors they were!”  Sensible in a way, so we just took the box away for a bit and let her choose any 3 (halves) after each meal.

Enjoy the surprise then Rat.

I like: life is like a jar of jalapeños – what you do today might burn your butt tomorrow.

Coconut makes me gag, so I wouldn’t feel compelled to finish it.

The novel FORREST GUMP begins with the line, “Bein’ an idiot ain’t no box of chocolates.” (That gives you an idea of how dishonest the movie version was!)

My motto is, “I refuse to limit myself with a motto.”

Or the Brazil chocolates; you know, “Brazil, that’s where all the nust come from!” Apologies to “Charlie’s Aunt.”

I gotcha, Rat: “It looks hard, but if you give it a crack, you can get to the meat”, right? :D

Life is a bowl of scorpions and then you die!

Life is like a coconut. Sometimes life falls on your head and knocks you out.

What Forrest Gump said was, “My mom always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”

The best one for me is from Bill and Teds excellent adventure…be excellent to each other

Motto I like … “Move The Ball Forward” … Croc Power !

“Life is like a box of chocolates. Always too many buts and never enough caramels.”

Looks like the crew met Monty (today’s Monty strip).

I’m going to buy Rat a year supply of Mounds bars.

To each his own. I’ll take anything but coconut.

Life is not like the ONE of the chocolates – - take another! And who knew Rat was OCD about eating something disgusting!

You don’t have to know what all of the shapes and swirls mean, just for the ones you don’t like. Unless you are really picky. In that case, just buy ‘fun’ sized candy bars.

motto: Life Sucks Then You Die

Life is just a “bunch of cocoa- nuts” anyways…..

too long for a motto? ‘if you don’t like coconut, get a box of dark chocolate filled with cherries and liqueur, and stop whining about coconut for those who like it if you are not gonna eat it anyway’

by the way, I like dark chocolate with mint, and I can get those in bulk, luckily

I always manage to get the disgusting orange cream. Ugh.

You know Rat, you should make that the title of your newest book.

I like the ones with coconut. You can give them to me.

Nothing like chocolate and coffee together.

I love coconut.

I like coconut.

The Spring Surprise or the Crunchy Frog.

My life motto is, “Live fast. Die young. And, leave a good looking corpse.”

My sister’s favorite saying is; first time sex is like the first snowfall. You don’t know when it will happen, you don’t know how long it will last, and you don’t know how many inches you’ll, but in the end you know it will be sloppy and wet.

I’m not a coconut fan either Rat. You and I are alike,

Coconut BAD. Caramel GOOD.

The ones with the teeth marks have hard centers.

Like coconut oil, especially in coffee and coconut juice straight from a coconut, but shredded coconut makes me gag. Guess it’s the consistency?

Ooh, coconut! If I am lucky, I will get the coconut one! Coconut and maple are my favorites. I am really disappointed, it seems this past Christmas, both Russell Stover and Whitman’s stopped making the maple!

I love chocolate-covered coconut. I’ve never understood the revulsion…

I have a couple. The older of the two is “I’m crazy. But that’s okay ‘cause everyone else is insane so I’m the only sane person in the world.” That goes back to my mid to late teens in high school. It’s possible to be crazy without being insane. And the other one is “Aardvark. No matter what the answer really is, the answer is always aardvark.” That’s more just for fun.

Life IS like a box of chocolates. You never know what the H3LL you’re gonna bite into!

I have become a chocolate snob. Once one has tasted John & Kira’s, or Norman Love, or Jacques Torres or… or… one can no longer be happy with crappy supermarket chocolate unless under special circumstances, those being that it’s sitting here right in front of me…

I’ve bought a lot of chocolates in my 58 years, and I found less than half had a map

Life is like a box of coconuts, you keep; forgetting how hard they are.

Put the lime in the coconut and drink them both down.

Reminds me of the Peanuts cartoon where Linus is offered a chocolate from a box by Lucy and he goes out of his way to specifically NOT choose coconut but…

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/peanuts/images/9/99/19631208.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20131022011136

I thought Rat would be eating the chocolates from Germany, the ones filled with liquor.

Here’s mine: “Life is all about how you roll with the changes.”

I hate coconut on anything not-coconut itself. I always try to find the simple vanilla cream-filling chocolates. I like vanilla cream chocolates.

Is it me but judging by any of the comments it seems a lot of nerds read this comic

“Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends upon what you put into it.”

Am I the only one who likes coconuts and marzipans?