Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 30, 2024

Sometimes I enjoy when this strip shatters the fourth wall. Not so much this time. Self deprecation? Okay, I guess. Self bad-mouthing? Not so much.

If you want to teach Rat about plumbing, you could flush him down the toilet.

What is in rats beverage?

Good chuckles.

Is he saying Rat is a plumber?

Plumbing easy see. First theeng you gots to does is gets a plumbing pants see. It gotta show that you plumber see.

The last panel reminds me of the time someone asked me how to make a crossword puzzle. I told him I didn’t have a clue.

…… and yet, Rat, your entire existence depends upon him and his drawing board.

If He tried plumbing he would be the proverb able “Drowned Rat”!

I always have a leak in my bathroom, where else would I take it?

Told my landlord that I gotta leak in the kitchen sink. He told me I should use the bathroom.

Well, the first step is to find a pair of pants that show your butt-crack.

Three things you must remember in plumbing: hot is on the left, cold is on the right and $h*T flows downhill.

Having (taking) a leak in the bathroom is a problem?

So it’s like.. three foot mouse or three inch Pastis. Which is it, comic guy.

You could always go back to practicing law, Steph …

Is that you Stephen???

I bet if he drinks enough beer, Rat can do plumbing. I have cousins that make a living doing that.

Everything I know about plumbing, I learned from my Dad. Unfortunately, he learned watching the 3 Stooges.

It’s 2024, everyone know if you want to know about fixing a leak you go to Youtube!

You’d be surprised, Rat. I find the strip amusing.

And, yet, the strip made me smile.

He would, too, have a clue! well, I’m assuming he reads these comments…

Maybe you could flush Rat down the drain and leave him in the sewer.

the guy should go ask Batty

A simple “No” would suffice, Rat.

Plumbing 101… Chit runs downhill and paydays every other Friday

funny as (almost) always, but a three-square joke in a four-square comic…

aren’t you supposed to have a leak in the bathroom?

Hey, Rat! Leave Stephan alone. He might erase you (or at least forget to draw your mouth! Hee hee)

This was actually a good strip. My dad used to say all you need to know to be s plumber is water runs downhill and payday is Friday. (But he didn’t say ‘water’.)

Or asking the Liberal Democrats how to run a presidential campaign for a drunken Commie who rode the short bus to school in Canada.

One of the best comic writers alive.

I often have a leak in my bathroom but usually I go outside in the yard.

Self deprecation always gets a laugh

YouTube, dude. YouTube.

Where’s Howard Hunt when you need him?

Are there really men that don’t think they know all about plumbing?

I think Stephan knows how to write a funny strip. Just look at his puns!

Works for this one!

Interesting when the analogy actually refers to the guy who writes the funniest comic strip since “Calvin & Hobbes.”

Only two things to remember about plumbing:

1) Water flows downhill.

2) Don’t stick your fingers in your mouth.

I do wish Rat wouldn’t beat about the bush.

Or asking a democrat about economics.

Man, Rat is arrogant!! : )

Doggie has leaks on tree, but you hoomins go using bathsroom.

This is pretty funny

The first step is to call an actual plumber.