Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 18, 2022

He broke Rat’s tie!

Anyone who beats up a rat with a bat I wouldn’t call dumb.

Batting a thousand

is it me or does the font look different

The font looks different, i actually like this font better

Usually Rat’s on the other end of the bat.

iS THIS ABOUT tRANS hUMANISM AND INSTALL A CHIP TO TAKE OVER YOUR DNA?

Neighbor Bob gives a hard no!

Bob soon to receive a restraining order, I assume.

Bait them into becoming violent. Then arrest them.

Rat just wants to sell the guy drugs apparently.

In this case? Vote Bob.

I like seeing signs. It lets me know who stands on which side.

Speaking of dumb ones!!!

If you think everybody’s an idiot, look in the magic mirror for the cause.

Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while there is still a beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Matthew 7:3-5

Dear Connie Shearer,

I asked yesterday on Calvin and Hobbes whether you still read that strip as you no longer comment on it and I wanted to know whether you were all right as you once said you hoped I was all right after I was away for three days. I assured you that I was all right and had been visiting a friend and getting a covid vaccine.

I am sorry that you don’t comment on Calvin and Hobbes anymore. I know that they are reprints from thirty years ago but it is still my favourite strip.

Rat got his comeuppance this time!

About the political signs, I agree with Rat, most are morons!

Rat just got peaceful protested.

I think I must live on the other side of Bob, Sounds very familiar.

Misplaced anger? Bob obviously knows exactly where to put it.

GET OFF MY LAWN!

Rat, you had it coming. Maybe you could use an upgrade.

Well! A at least he got THAT off his chest…OY!

Rat just opened a Go- Fund- Me to replace his tie in the beating…and to cover medical expenses….

I have a neighbor like this. I just avoid him, as do most of the other neighbors. I’ve tried to be the one to be nice to I’m, but some people just want to be miserable. Maybe I should get out my old softball bat, lol.

Maybe Rat could use a new him.

Beat on the Rat

Beat on the Rat

Beat on the Rat with a baseball bat

Looks like Bob placed his anger exactly where he wanted it to be.

Sunday strips should feature the crocs, and Zeeba Neighba

And the dumber ones keep on offering the upgrade anyway.

Too many people are so entrenched in their opinions that they refuse to listen to others. Let’s face it, opinions are NOT facts! Personally, I love having my opinions challenged because it causes me to think and it gives me perspectives I have not thought of.

“The dumb ones always refuse the upgrade.” And the smart ones don’t offer it.

You deserved it, Rat. Haven’t you heard the phrase ‘you can’t improve on perfection’?

You can’t help someone who won’t help themselves. (I’m talking about Rat.)

I have one question. How far away from Neighbor Bob’s front door did Rat land?

Just give him a pod off of your truck. All will be swell, except if Bob 2.0 screams.

Yay, Neighbor Bob!

Maybe they refuse the upgrade because they can’t afford it with trying to put gas in the car and food on the table

Just like Microsoft Windows!

Needs a better sales pitch…..

“New Attitude” is nearly 40 years ago.

Not to be political… but…

Maybe Neighbor Bob should interest Rat in Rat 2.0. Rat 2.0 is just like the Rat clones from years ago. Rat 2.0 would be kind, considerate, social, not heavy drinkers, willing to accept others for who they are rather than constantly trying to change them, won’t see others as stupid for disagreeing with them. In otherwords, everything Rat is not.

Rat Bat Blues- Deep Purple

Never fear, Rat! Neighbor Bob (Old Version) may have beaten the crap out of you with his bat (how ironic, since you so often use one on Cartoon-Boy), but you Will Survive, since you are a Main Character, whereas, as we all know, Neighbor Bobs are expendable and endlessly replaceable!

he can articulate pretty clearly with a broken nose

When it comes to “stupid,rash and thickheaded”,I think today’s strip is a tie.

Wait until he tries to get an upgrade from Bob 7 to Bob 10.

Given I tell people I am operating with version 5 of me, they either think they can change me, that I am a Cylon, or that I have split personalities.

how’d he break the tie with a bat?