Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 28, 2011

It’s early to bed and early to riseAnd your girl’ll go out with other guys!Honey, let me be your salty dog!- The New Lost City Ramblers (aka “Uncle John’s Band”) ca. 1957

idiomatic ambiguity possibly calls for the use of the historical-grammatical method

…but the second mouse gets the cheese…

Works for me.

Since you probably wouldn’t get the job anyway, Pig, you might as well sleep in….

Wasn’t this joke in your twitter RatSpeaks? I’ve used it on numerous occasions.

If I were a pig, I’d lay low till after breakfast too. Bacon and eggs anyone?

@saywhatwhat pass the french toast and syrup, please.

That’s right, Pig! Get up early – and you will get EATEN BY A BIRD!

That is actually a very good point from Rat. Still the pessimist of course, but a good point.

I guess Rat would say every silver lining has a dark cloud. There’s always an alternate perspective. This reminds me of a Peanuts strip where Linus was telling Charlie Brown about this exciting football game he saw, where one team came from behind for a last second victory. Linus described how the fans and players from the winning team were jumping up and down and hugging each other. Charlie Brown then asked, “How did the other team feel”?

Hey Stephan P., here’s some fodder for your excellent strip:

Swedish town erects giant Christmas goat:

http://www.thelocal.se/article_share.php?id=37594

The early worm gets the bird. :J

Nah—the worm never sleeps. He was still up, digging away all night.

Old joke:A teacher wants to show his students how dangerous alcohol can be. He drops a live earthworm into a glass of water, and it simply crawls back out; he then drops the same worm into a glass of alcohol, and it shrivels up and dies. “What can we learn from this?” says the teacher, and a student responds, “As long as we keep drinking, we’ll never have worms!”

Ooooh. You’re right! So the worm had better have a couple of margaritas, eat dinner, and watch some old movies. Or better yet, invite another worm over to join them!!

Or invite over their favorite mouse or smallish rat.

What’s the matter with Goat in the last panel?

LOL LOL xxx

Brilliant!

This is not funny. It actually happened to an Aunt of mine once.

this is so cool !!!!!!!!!!

The Mighty Rat striketh again.

In 1972, Robert Heinlein wrote in “Time Enough For Love” that the old saw about “The early bird gets the worm” just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.On a more recent note, I photographed a robin with a worm in it’s mouth and captioned it “I should have stayed in bed- The Worm”

That’ll keep Pig from becoming someones corndog. Always a bigger fish out there.

Shouldn’t natural selection have produced nocturnal worms?

Poor worm…

@DesultoryPhillipic…You’re being a little anal about a comic strip. Not to mention this is Pearls we’re talking about; your logic doesn’t apply.

rat is very clever… or should i say Stephan Pastis? but he does do a little to many puns.

Rat’s just thinking like a worm. Nothing shocking there!

Sometimes, I just can’t argue with Rat’s brilliance.

Nah, he was still up from the last night… probably staggering home from a party. Darned worms and their rowdy parties. ;-)

Huh. Never thought of that!

lol

Early bird gets the worm… but the second mouse gets the cheese.

No,the point is that the worm is asleep

And the early worm gets the bird. Don’t be the worm.