Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 27, 2011

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    Sherlock Watson  about 13 years ago

    Buck up, Rat; maybe next year you and Peter Griffin can share one of those awards.

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    killacowinWA  about 13 years ago

    The president sure ain’t getting it. They ought to take back that Nobel Prize too, he got it only because he knew how to talk big. Buck up, Rat! You’ll get it eventually!!!(Or try blackmailing the committe. That’ll work too.)

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    Keno21  about 13 years ago

    No sympathy. I never got one for my idea of frostings for urinal cakes.

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    waycyber  about 13 years ago

    My fraternity was Mu Ha Ha. Connected with Mu Pi, but with less eating and more global domination.

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    Sisyphos  about 13 years ago

    Nobody expects the MacArthur Award! [Monty Python reference intended.] So, Rat, you have sealed your own fate through your unbridled egotism!(Could Pastis be channeling his own disappointment here?)

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    LarrBerr  about 13 years ago

    Gawd some people just have to try to make everything political. They really have to stretch too, to turn a cartoon and make it about Obama.

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    eddie6192  about 13 years ago

    Rat deserves a slap in the face every now and then.

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    AnonymousUser  about 13 years ago

    Nuclear launch detected….

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    hariseldon59  about 13 years ago

    Isn’t this how most supervillains get started? “They laughed at my idea. I’ll show ’em! Mwa ha ha!”

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    BobSpelledBackwards  about 13 years ago

    Rat,

    The MacAruthur Foundation gives its grants to people who are attempting to make the world a better place. So you see, you do not qualify — you are not a people.

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    Kvasir42 Premium Member about 13 years ago

    I really expected the last panel to show Pastis. Not that he doesn’t deserve a MacArthur Grant. PBS definitely makes the world a better place.

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    nancyroy2  about 13 years ago

    I so love Rat’s face when he gets mad!

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    x_Tech  about 13 years ago

    I’d expect Pinky to get the award way way way before Rat.

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    finale  about 13 years ago

    Is Rat being groomed as the next James Bond villan?

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    bmonk  about 13 years ago

    Rat is a genius, but not in the qualities that the MacArthur people are looking to promote..Now, if they had an award for evil genius sociopaths. . . .

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    dukeallen  about 13 years ago

    I didn’t get one either. Between Rat and I, they left out the tops in the field.

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    killacowinWA  about 13 years ago

    I think I’m entitled to say that the president is not a genius without taking criticism for it because we all know that he’s not a genius. Some people are so touchy. As for America getting the leader it deserves…fine. America has a lot of people who act like sheep, and get caught up the celebrity hype. They know more about Hollywood scandals than they do about politics. This is more irritating to me than anyone can imagine. I was too young to vote in 2008, sadly. Wouldn’t have made much difference. I just hope that after fou years people will realize what a huge mistake they made. Hell, people already know. Obama’s playing limbo with his approval ratings: “How low can you go?”

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    Number Three  about 13 years ago

    Oh get over it Rat…

    LOL xxx

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    Poncede  about 13 years ago

    Raise your hand if you can spot who wouldn’t qualify for Genius grants on this comment board!

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    bmonk  about 13 years ago

    “Now, if they had an award for evil genius sociopaths. . . .”

    I’ve been pondering who we might name such an award after.Goering? (Rat???)

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    Lyons Group, Inc.  about 13 years ago

    Obama would do his job if these off-beat radio conservative coo-coos (Rush, Hannnity, Boortz, Imus, Savage, etc ) would get off his back! These are same a-holes that didn’t give Bill Clinton a chance!

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    Lyons Group, Inc.  about 13 years ago

    Oh, scrap Hannity. His show started on the eve of 9/11/01 (Monday 9/10/01)

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    Blossoming  about 13 years ago

    I expected the last panel to be Pastis too… :) We all know Rat is way out of the running, he needs to let Goat rub off on him and, then, maybe he will be able to get a little closer to that goal…

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    Wolf in Exile  about 13 years ago

    Well said.

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    dge714  about 13 years ago

    afficionado is a moron, STAY OUT of my country!

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    squirrel500  about 13 years ago

    Rat hasn’t cussed in a while.

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    Keno21  about 13 years ago

    Hate politics, but am I the only one who wondered if Dick Cheney was a Lord of the Sith…?

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    Keno21  about 13 years ago

    And isn’t it interesting that the only two women conservatives will accept are ignorant Philistines? Laugh a minute, both of them!

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    killacowinWA  about 13 years ago

    Pokerfaced Parrot, we may grow to be good friends. As to the rest of you, do you deny that I’ve said anything accurate? The talkshow hosts don’t matter. They’re just all blowing hot air. Obama doesn’t have any reason to care bout them, so don’t blame them for the b*llsh*t that’s been going on. And for the editorials..why? They’re just another political hot air vent. I don’t align myself to any political parties becuase parties are groups that people blindly follow without understanding what they claim to support. So I align myself to a set of ideals, not an empty title. “Pearls Before Swine” is one of the few comic strips that I actually take the time to read. So don’t expect me to go away.

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    gocomics  over 10 years ago

    Goat is reading the “Seattle Times”

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