Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 13, 2023

You won’t be the idea guy if you get transferred to a different department.

Today’s background music: “Man in the Mirror” by Michael Jackson.

If everyone else suddenly changes, won’t it feel like YOU’RE the one who’s changed? (Sort of like when the train next to yours starts moving and it feels like it’s your train!)

It’s not like Rat had planned on participating to improve the world.

The idea guy instigates. Such as: “Let’s you and him fight.”

Sounds like Congress exempting themselves form all new laws

I have often had this thought..

Populism 101 “it’s somebody else’s fault”

Everyone should just shut up and do things my way.

It doesn’t work if the “participants” choose not to participate.

In Rat’s eyes, he is the most perfect rodent being in the whole world and everyone else is completely worthless.

I like how he keeps his pencil on his ear.

The rat doesn’t change, neither does Rat.

The goal of social media.

Rat philosophizes the perfect solution for “The problem with the world is not that people aren’t being themselves! It’s that they are being themselves.” ~ Rat 6/11/23. Rat is a Count kinda guy and visa versa.

The only constant is change.

Rat is merely adopting a common tactic of elected legislators.

A grand idea to improve the world: improve yourself.

I know most people don’t want to hear it, but I don’t care.

“Nothing needs reforming so much as other people’s bad habits.” – Mark Twain

Had a boss like that. Complete moron. I got him fired.

Change begins with you.

So Rat is a Democrat politician…

@DukeOfURL: leave it alone, this isn’t a political cartoon.

Be the change that you want to see happen.

Would Rat be happy in a world filled with Rats?

I figured out the science. Let someone else figure out the application.

Evil Rats ideas..☺️

Sine qua non of a personality disorder.

good idea but boy, would it be boring

I was thinking of changing, but then I thought, “why mess with perfection”?

To say rat is idiocentric would be a major understatement.

Trump had the same thought

Nor, procreate, if you ask me. (Mousetrap Monday, Shawn)

Bad idea people must participate in the damage suit trials

Reminds me of most of the bosses I had. And their ideas usually involved acknowledging their obvious genius at reorganizing any hope of success into guaranteed failure.

rATBERT WAS THE FIRST IDEA RAT.

Rat’s got the right idea, but the wrong exceptional guy. ’Tis I!

Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

I’m a man, but I can change, if I have to, I guess…

We’re always down on Rat, but admit it, we all have the same thoughts, we just keep them inside.