Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 28, 2024

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    BE THIS GUY  7 months ago

    Rat, your penance is to avoid any contact with sentient creatures for the rest of your life (that includes some plants).

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    Bilan  7 months ago

    His penance is to write “Not everybody is a stupid moron”, 100 times. The Bart Simpson clause.

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    Wilde Bill  7 months ago

    There is not enough “Hail Mary”s in the world for that.

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    BasilBruce  7 months ago

    God grant me the serenity to accept those who cannot think, the patience to teach those who can, and the ability to tell them apart.

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    Firebat  7 months ago

    Boy! That bring back memories I had forgotten for a long time now.

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    carlsonbob  7 months ago

    Maybe if he offered enough money.

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    Imagine  7 months ago

    It’s hard to not let them get to you.

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    Jesy Bertz Premium Member 7 months ago

    Serenity Now!

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    lavender headgear  7 months ago

    Rat is Catholic? Who was in the confessional, Cardinal RATzinger?

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    Jml58  7 months ago

    There has to room for the idiots, otherwise we good people would have nothing to compare ourselves to.

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    Robin Harwood  7 months ago

    I’d forgive you, Rat. And give you £1 from the poor box.

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    iggyman  7 months ago

    Rat, I do not think you went there with a contrite spirit!

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    davidob  7 months ago

    Good luck with that.

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    rshive  7 months ago

    Rat is overcome with self-justification.

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    James Wolfenstein  7 months ago

    Because that’s not a sin :D

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    Count Olaf Premium Member 7 months ago

    Because it isn’t a sin. It is a way of life these days. Laugh at them, ignore them, satirize their ignorance for giggles but you don’t have to accept them at all.

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    robcarroll1213  7 months ago

    It’s the idiots that bother me more than the stupid morons. Well, on Thursdays.

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    jel354  7 months ago

    At least Rat is trying to turn over a new leaf.

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    phritzg Premium Member 7 months ago

    Then the priest told Rat to love the poorly educated and sold him a Bible.

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    Goat from PBS  7 months ago

    That doesn’t seem very Christian… the third panel, that is.

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    SquidGamerGal  7 months ago

    Sheez… Feels like people are less forgiving and understanding these days.

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    Ellis97  7 months ago

    Rat’s sins are being a narcissistic brat, freeloading, putting people down, and just being a terrible rodent being in general.

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    well-i-never  7 months ago

    I thought they gave up the confessionals years ago for some kind of sit-down with the priest? I wouldn’t know. Haven’t confessed to anything in fifty years.

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    monya_43  7 months ago

    We are supposed to pray for our enemies. YIKES!! I fail at that one, but . . . Good Lord have mercy on us all! Bless their heart!

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    uniquename  7 months ago

    “My son”?!

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    elgrecousa Premium Member 7 months ago

    I actually sympathize with how Rat feels this time.

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    DaBump Premium Member 7 months ago

    Eh, it’s a start, right?

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    Queen of America  7 months ago

    I wouldn’t be, either.

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    Out of the Past  7 months ago

    The funniest part of this is a rat going to confession. You can fill in your own joke after that.

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    hoffquotes2  7 months ago

    Isn’t that against church policy

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    John Jorgensen  7 months ago

    I could be misinterpreting but it looks like Rat is standing outside the booth. (And it looks like it is indeed a full booth, not the screen-and-kneeler open-air setup that churches built in the last 25 years or so seem to prefer.)

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    Dapperdan61  Premium Member 7 months ago

    Rat is never getting into Heaven with his attitude

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    RitaGB  7 months ago

    Go, and sin no more.

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    Major Matt Mason Premium Member 7 months ago

    “Cast in the name of God Ye not Guilty”

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    hooglah  7 months ago

    I never thought I would completely identify with a cartoon character but this one I do. I guess I will not be forgiven either, but that’s life.

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    zeexenon  7 months ago

    Father Mulcahy was mashed, smashed, insulted, and fit to be tied.

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    curtlyon19  7 months ago

    I get it. when they were testing atomic bombs in the U.S., the ‘church’ reacted by rescinding the no meat on Fridays rule

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    Tales of the Boojum Premium Member 7 months ago

    “Nolite te b*stardes carborundorum.” It’s in Latin; it must be in the Bible.

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    Packratjohn Premium Member 7 months ago

    Now go forth and pun no more…

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    Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member 7 months ago

    That Sure works for me!

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  7 months ago

    As the woman on a diet once said—“Bless me,Father,for I have thinned”.

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  7 months ago

    Alfred Hitchcock’s I CONFESS was one of his lousiest movies

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    Scott S  7 months ago

    Father O’Shaugnessy had to hear confessions while the Notre Dame vs. Army football game was going. Undaunted, he hit upon the idea of streaming the game on his phone with the ear buds.

    One of the parishoners leaving commented “I wonder what the priest was thinking today.”

    “Oh? Why is that?” asked another.

    “Instead of 10 Hail Marys he gave me a 15-yard penalty!”

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    Gordo4ever  7 months ago

    Gordo4ever less than a minute agoThis is my 16 year old grand-daughter, newly minted driver, aka “Road Rage”. : )

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    pearlyqim  7 months ago

    I forgive you, Rat!

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    drtodd12  7 months ago

    Just noticed that Pig is always watching a wooden console TV.

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    Walter Kocker Premium Member 7 months ago

    Cartoon’s simple: Rat was defenestrated because he interfered with the Church’s scam.

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    eddi-TBH  7 months ago

    I try to think well of my fellow riders on this rock. But some of them make it harder to do than it should be.

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    Wizard4168  7 months ago

    Curse you, Pastis! Stop making me agree with Rat.

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    Ralph Hapschatt  7 months ago

    So since his sins were not forgiven, the idiots have won…

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    gmu328  7 months ago

    surprise rat didn’t say, “of course, he’s an idiot, too”

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    alantain  7 months ago

    That’s because letting idiots get to you isn’t a sin. It’s a constant.

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    davemuth  7 months ago

    He will never be able to forgive himself.

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