Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 15, 2011

Now that’s just hitting below the belt Rat.

tee-hee. Vicious little rat!

Tom and Ray are next……

Petey and Rockn — Not much Rat could give away by reading him a column…..

but if he points out the “Find-It” in the Dinette Set before I get there, I’m lettin’ him have it.

And it’s now in 3D

We must have a different crossword here.Down:4. Got Gas? 10 letters

Attention AttentionWARNING

In a clever ploy towards engaging their audience, today the PBS Little Theatre Players spend most of their time in extreme downstage blocking, far in front of the regular set backdrops, adding to the intimacy of their declamations!

Cryptoquote is my thing.

..actually,I live in Parma…

Rat could have picked a harder crossword answer to give away. How hard could it be to get “EVE”?

Pig has lost some pounds too quickly or something else is wrong with his belly.

Next he’ll be ruining the jumble.

Is 5 across “Madam”?

Haha.. Go get ’em rat!

No! Not the sudoku!!

Sudoku?!

Don’t even get me started on that.

LOL xxx

i hate trying to ready while someone next to me is constantly on their phone.

just don’t mess with the horoscopes.

…E-V-E, right… now, what’s 12 across?

I thought if they stepped out of their frames, they’d fall to their doom.

@Number Six and Raspberry: My cell phone is the only phone I have. We haven’t had a landline since 2007, when we moved to Florida. Now, I would never use it while driving and there’s a lot of other cell phone etiquette that needs to be followed…but banning them altogether would leave some of us without any sort of phone.

i love rats face when his eyes get big like that

i love it!

I think this ‘Eve’ may be the answer to Melvin’s Crossword from so long ago. REMEMBER???

Oh please, MAKE IT STOP! HAVE MERCY!

Eve was the answer to the croc with a bomb attached to him’s crossword puzzle.

Hey, did you know that Eve was the answer to that puzzle during the bomb series?

This is a callback to the earlier strip with Melvin.

Nothing’s worse that a spoiler.

If Mr. Cleveland can’t guess that clue, he deserves to have his crossword spoiled.