Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 14, 2012

a man after my own heart, I would have thought it was a good line too.

I never knew that Sheldon Cooper had horns.

Goat is not skilled in the art of small talk…

… this makes the old cliché pick-up lines look a lot better …

Can someone remind me the story behind “Hey-diddle-diddle, the cat & the fiddle, the cow jumped o’er the moon, the little dog laughed to see such sport, and the dish ran away with the spoon”?

goat is left brained. she’s just left

Cute I think for you crude sexual innuendos might be a better option than obscure trivia. Try;

“That’s a lovely dress. It’s gonna look great in a ball beside my bed.”

You might get slapped but better odds of success than your material.

goat’s approach mirrors my own. perhaps that is why we are both still bachelors…

“Hey, momma, you got a burger to go with that shake?”

In the UK we say “A-tishoo” instead of “Ashes”.

It is an onomatopaeic word for sneezing, in case you were wondering.

Starbucks?

Goat! You’ve got to save your A-Material until after the preliminary greeting rituals! D’oh!

Now if she had been a super nerdette Goat’s sad attempt at a pickup line would have not only worked but quite possibly gotten him a one night stand.

“Is that a penguin on the telly?” – M. Python

For once I agree with Rat.

Ring around the Rosie: the bubos, signature red scars of the black plague.Pocket full of posie, ashes to ashes: victims of the plague were burned with posie petals in their pocket.We all fall down: everyone dies of the plague.

Well you can’t blame her, I mean how would you react to someone coming on to you that smelled like a goat?!? . . . ☻

Goat could have snagged ME with that line.

Just the absurdity of a goat trying to hit on a girl was funny enough.

Try “Frankie’s Tiki Room” on Charleston in Las Vegas next time you’re there. I always get real intellectual after a couple of their “Hurricanes”.

I heard a line on TV recently that I would try if I were single, “Hey miss, want to see something swell?” probably a good thing I’m married

He can try a line I once heard….“Do you have a mirror in your pants, because I see myself in them”

It was a great line. Goat should’ve been looking into her eyes when he said it.

Perhaps.

black death…..goat……………

I did not know that.

I suspect the billy goat smell had something to do with it.

In the same way they got a rhyme about Freddy Krueger in the movies :)

Hey, she left her martooni…dibs!….

The secret is to ask her about herself. Almost everyone loves talking about themselves.

Wouldn’t have worked on me either. Definitely not into guys who spread urban legends.Now, "Did you know William Blake’s “The Sick Rose” is about venereal disease?" is a sure-fire ticket to love! http://www.eliteskills.com/c/1723

This comments section?

I never realized that Goat was so Asperger’s-like clueless. Pig would have been more likely to hit the tone-deaf note, but he’s not academically-inclined enough to come up with the “Rosie” stuff. Zeeba, perhaps?

http://www.woot.com/blog/post/the-debunker-is-ring-around-the-rosie-about-the-plague

I would actually think that was a good pickup line. I have always been fascinated with the Black Plaque..or was it Black Flag the band?I get them mixed up.

Wow, talk about an original pick-up line….

I love how Goat is full of knowledge and facts….

But some people don’t…

Poor Poor Goat… Trust Rat to be there to correct him.

LOL xxx

Actually that song isn’t about the black death (plague) at all, that’s just a nifty-sounding urban myth, surely Goat can do better than that!

I always tried the old “If I could prove mathamatically that you are the center of the universe would you let me buy you qa drink?” If the universe is infinite and center is defined as equal dxistance to all sides then

The woman would be the center because the edge of the universe is infinity in all directions. If the woman is the center than I am at infinity minus however many feet I am from her. If I want to be at the center of the universe we need to get real close.

I think she had a vision of what the offspring of a human and goat would look like. Or she got creeped out by the talking goat.

It’s true. What isn’t known is why children were taught that song.

I learned Ring-Around-the-Rosie, Red Rover, etc on the playground many years ago. I didn’t read it in a book, or saw it on TV, just heard it on the playground. It’s interesting how we all learned about it before the Internet connected us all.

1. Why ask Rat?2. Goat’s too smart for romance.

Check out Dude and Dude today…. Pearls gets a mention….http://www.gocomics.com/comic/explore/1184441/10

New format is that the characters use more words to say what they did in the past… I think SP’s streamlining the comic for his internet cartoon… :(

It’s okay, no, no, I’m gonna CRY!!!!… ;(

@GoldenRoyaIt’s called “The Internet” :)

Why, yes, Goat, I did know that. Creepy, isn’t it? :)

What’s your number?

oh like there’s anyone who doesn’t know that.

He’s a horny old goat.

The Christmas song “Do you hear what I hear” is about a city getting nuked.

Just dress goth-style leather clothing with a rose embroidery, goat, then you would look pretty cool saying that!

Would’ve worked for me!