Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 03, 2011
Transcript:
Man: Hi. Gimme an iced double tall nonfat 180 vanilla latte. Rat: Okay, but let me ask a question first... ...You ever had a high-maintenance girlfriend? Man: Yeah, a while back, I guess, but we broke up... Wait... ...Why you asking me this? Rat: Because you're a high-maintenance customer. And I'm breaking up with you. Man: Gimme my @#$$%#@ Coffee. Male employee: Can I have a word with you rat? Rat: Fine, but don't serve the ugly man. We've broken up.
rayannina over 13 years ago
Rat gonna get fired. Again.
margueritem over 13 years ago
Isn’t he on permanent probation?
GROG Premium Member over 13 years ago
Rat’s going to be on a permanent vacation if he keeps that up.
LittleSister18 over 13 years ago
Yeah! A vacation to the unemployment line.
Sisyphos over 13 years ago
I agree with rayannina, margueritem, and ♥Little Sister♥ that Rat’s days with “Joe’s Roastery” are numbered (and it’s a very small number)!
anna.i.bykova over 13 years ago
Lock Rat up in the storage room. Maybe it’ll help.
Ron Dunn Premium Member over 13 years ago
What the hell is nonfat 180?
Baroofie over 13 years ago
Made with nonfat milk and at 180 degrees (presumably Fahrenheit.)
WelshRat Premium Member over 13 years ago
Rat at the employment office?
featherweight over 13 years ago
sigh, such a pretty couple too
mac47 over 13 years ago
Eh?
Varnes over 13 years ago
A word, maybe, a latte probably not……
TheSpanishInquisition over 13 years ago
Some bad-a$$ biker comes in there and it’s gonna be Rat who’s “broken up” into little bits…
Hello to those from comics.com who knew me as ButItsNotACoatRack!
foxlover43 over 13 years ago
The guy places an order like that and it was his GIRLFRIEND who was high maintenance? I’m with Rat on this one. Too pretentious for words.
dog8hw over 13 years ago
I like how he orders the vanilla latte iced and wants it at 180 degrees.
stramming over 13 years ago
This is a very strange strip to say when you wake up in the morning.
jdawsondude over 13 years ago
Bad coffee lovers. They are ugly
philphan25 over 13 years ago
So if it’s at 180 degrees, what’s the point of ice?
txmystic over 13 years ago
philphan25
Exactly! ;-)
OilCanHarry over 13 years ago
@Destiny23 (re: yesterday’s comment):I don’t want to have to click each comic – that’s exactly the nature of my complaint about gocomics. I read a few comics at a time in one tab while waiting for other things to load in a different tab (like my obituary searches). I already have a personalised page, but don’t look at it precisely because of how it works.And then I read that gocomics wants me to start paying in two months for this interface that requires that I click each comic and scroll the page sideways after every new strip loads? Methinks I’ll be switching back to reading the strips in the newspaper at my local library. Gocomics will not be getting one cent of my less-than-$550-per-month permanent disability income.[I miss the good old days when writing comments on PBS was an exercise in humour rather than in frustration.]
doc53 Premium Member over 13 years ago
I am sure we will hear from Rat about Pastis not winning the Reuben award,again.
Sherlock Watson over 13 years ago
It seems that the customer turned into a man somewhere between panels 1 and 3, judging by the change in the coffee order.
maybeinthenextworld over 13 years ago
so exvited Pearls is on gocomics!
rhonda Premium Member over 13 years ago
what, no Darby?
codedaddy over 13 years ago
@OilCanHarry I just scroll down to see them. Don’t recall how I set it up but someone explained how a few days back.
bloney over 13 years ago
this comment cracks me up…
slimbrownweed about 13 years ago
i wish you boobs would stop writing so many #%^#%^Q#$!#%#$#%#&%$%^ comments.
11256 over 12 years ago
At one point, the company had to keep Rat because they were aiming for diversity (company policy or something) and Rat was the only rat they had working there.
thatcherhaldors about 4 years ago
Does anyone else like the joke that the name is roastery and rat delivers out roasts