Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 20, 2023

I feel smarter already

Rat is apparently on his third volume.

And if you drink enough beer, you’ll admit you’re dumb.

Note – it only makes you feel smarter. That is why so many people do so many dumb things after drinking.

I’m with you, Goat!

Interesting insight!

I usually give non political strips a pass on political comments but…red states have consistently the lowest grades, the greatest defunding of education, so I looked up a map of per capita beer consumption.

And the paradox is that the next morning, you feel even dumber.

Better than drinking your books and reading your beer.

My uncle reads his beer bottle labels then scratches them off.

Because “In Heaven there is no Beer” not that’s where he is going!

Similar words were spoken by Cliff Clavin.

You wouldn’t have beer or literacy without agriculture.

When the world is about to end both – books or beers – won’t change a thing. Except perhaps the view on things.

ARTHUR: Three pints each? At lunchtime?

FORD: Sorry. Ah. Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so. And eat those peanuts, because you’ll need the salt.

Bring back Guard Duck and Mr Snuffles!

I had to give up beer, and now I read mostly electronic books. What a world.

I’m with you Rat…..What’ll it be?

Is Rat admitting that he’s dumb?

You can do both. Just not at the same time.

I never could acquire a taste for beer, which definitely made me odd man out when I was in the army

Plus the more you drink, the more attractive everybody becomes

Welllll…. okay.

I read my books

There are nearly 500 books on the shelves in my office, I’ve read all but 20 and I’m working on them

That’s just a fraction of the books I’ve read

Can’t remember the last time I had a beer

If you drink enuff, you become invisible.

I do both. Of course I end up re-reading a bunch of chapters, but still…

Well dumb ones reads dumb books and then thinks they is smart.

I do both, but books more often than beer.

Don’t be an idiot like Rat. The mind is a terrible thing to waste.

I don’t know, Rat. Having a lot of books (that I have, in fact, read) doesn’t make me feel any smarter at all. It just reminds me how much there is that I don’t know. 8>)

Beer makes you smarter. It made Bud wiser.

Could try reading beer labels, Goat. The small print gives your eyes good exercise.

Rat – ever the pragmatist.

Read enough books and you’ll realize you know nothing.

Ugh‼️ The smart get smarter and the dumb get dumber…LOL‼️☺️

So Rat basically admits that he prefers to be stupid than smart.

Beer really does make you smart. It made Bud wiser.

Also, compared to those who confine their reading to Milton, you have a better handle on God’s ways to man, if Housman is to be believed.

Goat is smart. He reads his books.

I is smart, two. I looks at pictures in my books.

Then there are the people who enjoy both, a great beer and great book are a great pairing. For history books, a dark beer; for a murder novel, a biting IPA; for a romance novel, a Belgian blonde; any more ideas?

I drink my beer, and I read my books. And I fights to the finish ’cause I eats me spinach.

I do both. Occasionally at the same time.

I like to read while drinking

What about a nice bourbon on the rocks WHILE reading???

Is Coors Beer still illegal East of the Mississippi?

I rest my case.

Doesn’t work that way, Rat. Just makes the folks who have had way too much beer think the dumb stuff you say sounds smart.

drink enough beer think your smart everytime

I prefer hot tea whilst reading. :-)

What about trying to do both? Then what?

My question is how can rat afford that much beer?

Sure, you feel a lot smarter. Meanwhile, you have trouble counting your legs.