Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 25, 2024

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    BE THIS GUY  7 months ago

    Next time, bring female companionship.

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    Robin Harwood  7 months ago

    Rat is right. But then, he always is.

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    BasilBruce  7 months ago

    The right questions include “Where’s the bathroom” and “What’s the floor doing up here.”

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    hariseldon59  7 months ago

    Rat’s bringing ‘boos’ in addition to booze.

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    Bilan  7 months ago

    Rat didn’t say anything about providing answers. He’s just going to lift the spirits off the table.

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    oldpine52  7 months ago

    Having Rat as a friend would be enough to get anyone down.

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    Johnny Q Premium Member 7 months ago

    The answer is BACON!

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    David_the_CAD  7 months ago

    Technically speaking, alcohol is a solution; but not the type of solution that most people are looking for.

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    ArcticFox Premium Member 7 months ago

    To booze or not to booze. THAT is the question.

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    enigmamz  7 months ago

    Alcohol: the source of and the answer to all of life’s problems.

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    orinoco womble  7 months ago

    Should have brought chocolate, Rat.

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    Liverlips McCracken Premium Member 7 months ago

    “Lifting your spirits” indeed.

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    Gent  7 months ago

    Well ya see Goat. There ain’t no solutions to every problems. Which is why one is takes one of these solutions.

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    Keno21  7 months ago

    Technically, alcohol IS a solution.

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    scote1379 Premium Member 7 months ago

    Make it Sangria and your on !

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    iggyman  7 months ago

    Only a temporary respite, problems will still be there!

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    Nuke Road Warrior  7 months ago

    If drinking isn’t the answer, I don’t want to know the question.

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    Troglodyte  7 months ago

    Chemically speaking, alcohol is a solution…

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    jel354  7 months ago

    Rat is trying for Goat? This is certainly rare.

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    Count Olaf Premium Member 7 months ago

    At least Rat didn’t bring him a steaming pot of Uncle Finnegan New Guinea stew. Nomnomnom.

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    steveh64  7 months ago

    Rat as a cheer-up squad? Calling Dr. Kevorkian…

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    Goat from PBS  7 months ago

    Yeah, quality time with a friend. I think I’ll hang out with a friend instead, like Pig. He’s a sweet and gentle soul.

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    Ellis97  7 months ago

    Goat, not to be nosy, but since when is Rat your friend?

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    ajr58(1)  7 months ago

    Booze is the answer. …. (2 hours later) …. what was the question, again?

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    bikamper  7 months ago

    Since I’ve retired, I haven’t felt the need for booze.

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    MS72  7 months ago

    Where’s the pompoms?

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    VICTOR PROULX  7 months ago

    I’m not advocating that everybody should drink. It just worked for me. – Jackie Gleason

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    Croc Holliday  7 months ago

    Quality over quantity. One nice chocolate stout beats four Buds or Natural Lites. And one Makers Mark or Crown Royal over any number of Jim Beams.

    As for gin I don’t think it matters; it’s all awful.

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    SusieB  7 months ago

    Since retiring in January 2023 I have very little desire or need to drink. Not a conscience decision, it just happened naturally

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    ladykat  7 months ago

    Drinking doesn’t help problems, but it makes them vanish for a while before they reappear in a hangover.

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    opus1001  7 months ago

    “Beer – the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems” – HS

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    Linguist  7 months ago

    If Rat were here to lift my spirits, I’d ensure my liquor cabinet was securely locked!

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    royq27  7 months ago

    This is what happens when Pastis is living in the drinks cabinet.

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    Steverino Premium Member 7 months ago

    I’m so old I need a walker. Johnnie Walker.

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    DaBump Premium Member 7 months ago

    Face. Palm.

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    JoshHere  7 months ago

    If beer, fame and himself didn’t exist, Rat would hate everything. Rat is cynical, selfish, vain, quick to anger and prone to bouts of violence. Without Pig, the world would have given up on him long ago. He sometimes writes children’s books. That is how his creator defines Rat

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    LaughterIsJoyMuliplied  7 months ago

    Rat has a point and some days more than others.

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    Croc Holliday  7 months ago

    Remember the uproar over Ozzy Osbourne’s “Suicide Solution” (wine is fine, but whiskey’s quicker. Suicide is slow with liquor. Take a bottle, drown your sorrows. Then it floods away tomorrows.) Ozzy stated the song was actually anti-suicide, contrary to claims that the song promoted suicide and led directly to the death of a 19-year old in 1984.

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    AtariDragon  7 months ago

    Goat, let me introduce Rat. It’s clear you have never met before.

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    prrdh  7 months ago

    Goat is perfectly capable of lifting the spirits you’re bringing him all by himself.

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    happyinvenice23  7 months ago

    As usual like all rats this rats got all the wrong answers!

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    monya_43  7 months ago

    Drinking will never drown your sorrows. It ends up by irritating them.

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    mindjob  7 months ago

    I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy

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    elgrecousa Premium Member 7 months ago

    I thought goat is the smart one, yet he thought Rat was going to solve his problem.

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    lanainutahdesert  7 months ago

    The answer is GIN!

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    wildlandwaters  7 months ago

    I just knew there was a catch!…(but I’m still ok with Rat’s solution!)

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    John Jorgensen  7 months ago

    What’s going on with Goat? Earlier this week we had back-to-back strips where he was placed in a role that would have gone to Rat nine times out of ten; given how different their personalities are, that was by itself cause for concern (or would have been if these were real people instead of cartoon characters, anyway).

    Yesterday he comes out of nowhere and asks if Rat has anything in his liquor cabinet, and when he thinks Rat has a French liqueur, he immediately says “Oh, great”—implying he’s desperate for a drink.

    Today Rat’s offering him booze to try to alleviate Goat’s depression, and Goat says he doesn’t think that’s the answer (so I guess he came to his senses after yesterday’s moment of weakness) but he does acknowledge that he’s going through some sort of crisis.

    Now maybe reliving Farley’s death the last few weeks has me looking for hidden depths in the comics where there aren’t any to be found, but I can’t help wondering if we’re building up to some sort of watershed moment in Goat’s character.

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    zeexenon  7 months ago

    Well, then pornhub it is.

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    fourteenpeeves  7 months ago

    if you can’t find Shirley Temple, will Jane Withers do?

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    John Jorgensen  7 months ago

    Where was Rat holding the bottle in the first two panels? In the third and fourth panels you can clearly see that it’s not much smaller than his torso. But in the first two panels, we’re looking at a kind of three-quarter-profile view and there’s no indication that he’s got it behind his back or on his right side. Holding it in such a way that we wouldn’t be able to see it at all from that angle would not be easy, and it should be even harder as we see his left arm hanging freely at his side. That means he’s holding the bottle in his right hand alone, though we can see in the final two panels that he really needs both hands to hold it securely. It also means he probably isn’t holding it at shoulder height, with his right arm extended straight out. This would be the simplest way to make the bottle invisible from our angle, but would require him to use his left arm as a counterweight to maintain his balance.

    And those are just the problems with imagining how Rat could hide the bottle from us. If you want to assume that Goat can’t see it either, which would be a reasonable conclusion based on his word bubble in the second panel, it would be nearly impossible for him to hold the bottle.

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    kinich79  7 months ago

    I think the answer is 42. But it will take a special program to find out the right questions, that is if some bureaucrats don’t erase the program.

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    wildlandwaters  7 months ago

    Isn’t that why they call booze “spirits”?? Cuz it lifts up our spirits??…(lol!)

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    Ninette  7 months ago

    Don’t take drugs and stay in school, kids.

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    pokeystick  7 months ago

    Isn’t it kinda funny how we know that, whenever there’s a bottle with XXX’s on it, it’s booze? And what if it were skulls instead? Poison? Or really really strong booze? Or are those the same thing? eek.

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    Snoots  6 months ago

    Literally speaking, alcohol is a solution.

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