Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 19, 2020

Go to the rich neighborhoods to steal some of the real good stuff.

Today’s background music: “Money (That’s What I Want)” by The Beatles.

Rat in panel one is totally non-Rat. Panel two restores balance to the world.

I love the cliff scenes and also the ones on the seaside. It makes me crack up.

I think Goat has the better point.

What I want to make me happy doesn’t have to be better than anyone else’s. It just has to be a good vintage.

Ah, Rat is back to normal.

Rat I see you have a beer. Do you have your Beer Goggles on ? … Croc Power !

Rat unlocks life’s secrets— Volume 1.

There used to be a bumper sticker popular in the 80’s that said “He who dies with the most toys … wins.” That attitude is prevalent in that generation, and typified by what we see in DC now.

You can’t take it with you, Rat!

This looks like a good spot for a link to a Rocket Raccoon quote:

https://youtu.be/-fHPaYglCUw?t=25

“But what if I want it more than the person who has it?”

Amazing that Rat has been able to avoid jail for so long.

That’s it Rat, steal a march over the others! :D

They say “You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone”

So I gave it all away.

Then I knew what I had !

Brother Dave Gardner: “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”

Don’t steal, but if you’re going to steal…Steal Big! Don’t waste you’re time on the petty stuff.

This comic is not funny anymore, put the alligators back in for awhile.

He had me and then he lost me.

Do I have this right? The key to life according to Rat is:

1) decide what objects and monetary wealth you need to keep you content for the rest of your life

2) obtain what you can legally but with minimum effort

3) steal the rest

4) if you don’t get caught, you can be happy for life

Trouble is I don’t believe it. It reads exactly like the philosophy of a certain well-known con artist turned wannabe dictator and he looks anything but happy.

The more I get rid of the better I feel, all rubbish. Rat over the edge ya go.

Rat’s logic is old-fashioned reductio ad absurdum. Goat needs to muster a more rigorous rebuttal; he is too blase….

Play the guitar on the MTV, get your money for nothin’ and your chicks for free!

Songs in the Key of Life….

Perception as reality (ugh).

Hopelessly and missing the true meaning RAT! Be thankful for what you have and not for what you don’t have.

Rat, you just don’t know when to quit…. After the first panel would have been good-

I know Progressive music is less popular, but is no one going to mention “Happy With What You Have to be Happy With” by King Crimson?

Ah, well. I’m just a dinosaur; somebody is digging my bones.

“Rat told me to, officer.”

Yes, true. America is so Great Again, I’m looking for instructions for the perfect hangman’s knot.

You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometime, you find you get what you need.

The real trick is figuring out how to take it all with you.

S/B “Money” by Barret Strong. None of the covers were as good. “First I Look at the Purse” by the Contours is good too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETxmCCsMoD0

Trump and Rat share the same ideals.