Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 21, 2021

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    BE THIS GUY  over 3 years ago

    Rat, your problems don’t amount to a hill of beans in this world.

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    BasilBruce  over 3 years ago

    Actually, putting Rat on top of a tall, deserted hill could help to make the world a better place.

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    B UTTONS  over 3 years ago

    Rat missed his flight with Mars Perseverance.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 3 years ago

    what did you expect, Rat?

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    marilynnbyerly  over 3 years ago

    Locked doors and cutting of the electronics work, too.

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    Cheapskate0  over 3 years ago

    Is that making mountains out of molehills?

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    Concretionist  over 3 years ago

    We’re told that God loves EVERYBODY… but I’ve noticed that she does it from a considerable distance…

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    Radish the wordsmith  over 3 years ago

    Ivory towers work too.

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    Ratkin Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Why sass on a hill?

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    ronaldspence  over 3 years ago

    We are called to love one another not like one another.

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    hariseldon59  over 3 years ago

    If the Wise Ass finds people so annoying, why isn’t he on the taller hill?

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    hariseldon59  over 3 years ago

    Both hills look like big piles of doo doo.

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    Imagine  over 3 years ago

    So, what are these hills, by the way? Termite mounds? Piles of animal droppings?

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    Alexander the Good Enough  over 3 years ago

    Uh huh. Smartass donkey on a midden…

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    Sanspareil  over 3 years ago

    Rat refers to his fellow man but shouldn’t he refer to his fellow republican!

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    jimchronister2016  over 3 years ago

    Stephan you are the smartest wise ass on the hill!

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    Breadboard  over 3 years ago

    Rat time for a new Wise Ass ! This one keeps giving you the same message ;-) Try Larry Croc ! …. Croc Power !

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    Gent  over 3 years ago

    So you means I’d better becomes a hill billy bears?

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    dwane.scoty1  over 3 years ago

    Making those 2 hills look like dung heaps is part of the gag!

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    MS72  over 3 years ago

    “The Hills are Alive, …”

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    Jeffin Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Can you make mountains out of more hills?

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    rdav1248961 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    More hills and fewer asses.

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    Zebrastripes  over 3 years ago

    Climb every mountain, the hills are alive, with the sound of %$#@=§€¥~ music……

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    jbmlaw01  over 3 years ago

    Metaphysically accurate. The political solution is an amicable divorce, requiring a county-by-county vote.

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    diskus Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Hiking up a hill does seems to help actually, as long as its not a crowded one

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    1953Baby  over 3 years ago

    I was a docent at the OMA for35 years. When giving tours, our method was to ask questions that would get viewers thinking about the content/style/color/technique of every art work. Landscapes were always a huge favorite, for two main reasons: 1) everybody could tell “what they were;” 2) there were no people in them. Swear to gawd, those were the two remarks made consistently. . .so, it appears we consistently annoy each other. . .

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    Reader  over 3 years ago

    I don’t even want to like Rat. He does stupid things, and he annoys me.

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    Call me Ishmael  over 3 years ago

    “Hell is other people.”- Sartre Heaven is other people, too. At the very least, he needs someone with whom to share his kvetching.

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    Ichabod Ferguson  over 3 years ago

    It’s hills all the way down..or up, as the case may be.

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    Doug K  over 3 years ago

    This also explains why the Wise One was on his hill.

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    Kaputnik  over 3 years ago

    Even the Wise Ass on the Hill might be on somebody’s stupid and annoying list. Most of us are, whether people actually tell us or not.

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    Ellis97  over 3 years ago

    Why do you keep asking him?

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    JudyAz  over 3 years ago

    That’s one hill of an answer.

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    tripwire45  over 3 years ago

    Someday if I’m able to afford a place with lots of land and no nearby neighbors I’m going to name it “Wiseass Hill.”

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    Kveldulf  over 3 years ago

    This comic tells us, in all honesty, why the early Christian saints used to build towers in the desert and spend their lives atop them.

    Really.

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  over 3 years ago

    Why the wise donkey is on a hill my himself.

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    Here's Waldo  over 3 years ago

    What this world needs is more cell-phones.

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    COL Crash  over 3 years ago

    There’s a reason all of the Swami types are depicted as a Hermit. The best place to find peace is in seclusion.

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    DCBakerEsq  over 3 years ago

    People, huh? Can’t live with ‘em. Can’t bury ‘em in the backyard.

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    the lost wizard  over 3 years ago

    When you get to the top you will be in the company of one of the world’s biggest a**holes.

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    proclusstudent  over 3 years ago

    I like most people even some Republicans.

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    KEA  over 3 years ago

    the answer is fewer people

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    Plods with ...™  over 3 years ago

    You get a hill, and you get a hill and you get a hill…..!

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    Spider-UK  over 3 years ago

    Maybe this guy is wiser than I previously thought

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    stepzla  over 3 years ago

    I often wonder what the inspiration was behind some comics. This is one of them.

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    zeexenon  over 3 years ago

    Ironically, places of higher learning are often on a hill. Bascom Hall in Madison, WI for example.

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    christelisbetty  over 3 years ago

    Now I wish I could remember where on YouTube, some one refered to the White House as Casa Blanca. Later heard that Biden had reentered the Paris Climate Accords. I so want to tell that commnentor, “We’ll always have Paris!”.

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    donwestonmysteries  over 3 years ago

    The wise ass chose the wrong hill.

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    PuppyPapa  over 3 years ago

    You’ll say that SURELY I can’t be serious, but I would say “Airplane!” has held up very well over the decades, too.

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    gammaguy  over 3 years ago

    “The answer is more Hills.”

    Anita, Benny,….

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    walstib Premium Member over 3 years ago

    This one always reminds me of SNL Colon Blow. RIP Phil Hartman.

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    T Smith  over 3 years ago

    You can all go to hill, for all I care.

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    Sisyphos  over 3 years ago

    Don’t do it, Rat!

    If you did, then we’d have to suffer not only the sanctimonious and supercilious Wise Ass On the Hill but also the even worse Wiser Rat on the Higher Hill….

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    Uncle Kenny  over 3 years ago

    There is an Haitian saying: “Behind the montain, another mountain.”

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    PBS1!  over 3 years ago

    Plot twist: he’s actually using the hill as a metaphor for getting along with others and he was being sarcastic in panel 7.

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