Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 27, 2012
July 26, 2012
July 28, 2012
Transcript:
Waiter: Hey, Goat. What do you want to drink? Goat: Break down some grain in hot water and let a bunch of fungi eat it and then give me their waste products. Rat: It's called beer, @*#@ it!! Goat: I like to be precise.
Don’t forget the hopps. I like a strong India Pale Ale (like Stone IPA or Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA). As a kid I drank that Colorado Cool Aid, but now I want more flavor in my beer. I think it was one of the Monty Python crew that correctly described American beer as “like making love in a canoe, you know, f**cking close to water”.
I just pray that Pastis doesn’t make someone order a hot dog anytime soon…
As for beer, why not bring the worlds together and pick yourself up a Monty Python’s Holy Ale at your local specialty store? The taste doesn’t measure up to a Bell’s Oberon or a Granite City Northern Lager, but it’s more fun :)
@vwdualnomandPlease don’t toss PBR in with all of the other cheap beers. It’s a very underrated beer and has a good taste. That’s why it started becoming retro hip a couple of years ago when people tried it again how swore it off as a youthful mistake.
Rat makes up his own rules and exceptions to his rules.
BTW, in Germany, beer isn’t an alcoholic drink (except to those who see the effects of the disease), it’s a food group. Given to hospital patients, available in work drink machines and it’s OK to give to children of all ages.
For those who don’t like what Goat is having, there’s always a small berry’s juice left to ferment by natural fungi.
Or you can use any of assorted grains (or even root vegetables) in warm water treated with fungi, boiled, reliquified, and then left in a wood container for upwards of several years.
“Beer is responsible for civilization . . . preserving its [grain’s] nutritive value thru to the following spring and single-handedly justified the rise of settlements and agriculture.”And of course, alcohol is ant-bacterial and anti-parasitic . . .
firedome about 12 years ago
goat turned the table on rat!
vjkjm about 12 years ago
He’s really getting rat’s goat.
Rakostump about 12 years ago
What is it with these food related jokes these last few days? I don’t know why, but I like them…
margueritem about 12 years ago
Got your goat, didn’t he, Rat?
vwdualnomand about 12 years ago
well, there are good beers, and bad beers. good is sam adams. bad ones are bud, pbr, coors, miller, fosters, and zima.
Templo S.U.D. about 12 years ago
touché, Goat, on getting Rat a taste of his own medicine
SCOTTtheBADGER about 12 years ago
YAY, GOAT!
einarbt7 about 12 years ago
Rat is right.
Sisyphos about 12 years ago
Good show, Goat! Gotcha, Rat!BTW, beer is still okay with me….
ChrissyT about 12 years ago
Rat finally gets a taste of his own medicine, with help from Goat! GO, GOAT! Incidentally, anyone feel like some yogurt?
AGED_ENGINEER Premium Member about 12 years ago
I’m wondering…do today’s and yesterday’s strips have something to do with counter culture?(Probably too subtle for a lot of folks, but try anyway.)
PdLorinel about 12 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olEVtMabfq0
knight1192a about 12 years ago
No Rat, it’s called sweet, sweet revenge.
Hillbillyman about 12 years ago
What ever it’s called..it’s still poison to me.
AlexLion about 12 years ago
Now that’s a revenge )
Larry Kroeger Premium Member about 12 years ago
Don’t forget the hopps. I like a strong India Pale Ale (like Stone IPA or Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA). As a kid I drank that Colorado Cool Aid, but now I want more flavor in my beer. I think it was one of the Monty Python crew that correctly described American beer as “like making love in a canoe, you know, f**cking close to water”.
Varnes about 12 years ago
Ok, build a still, get some corn….
Comedy Critic about 12 years ago
nice bit of pay back
the burser about 12 years ago
back at ya rat
bmonk about 12 years ago
Goat can sure be a fun guy!
Bill Chapman about 12 years ago
I always called it “yeast urine”. Really annoyed my dad.
Kydex29 about 12 years ago
Oh, YEAH! Goat scores!
jmartin1955 about 12 years ago
It’s still beer – so drink up!
peabodyboy about 12 years ago
Rat can dish it out, but he can’t take it. What a wussy.
Plods with ...™ about 12 years ago
Touche`
meowgirl about 12 years ago
Go Goat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
m.l. about 12 years ago
Sayman about 12 years ago
Payback’s a b!tch, Rat.
dog545 about 12 years ago
Tastes just the same.
Dave M about 12 years ago
I just pray that Pastis doesn’t make someone order a hot dog anytime soon…
As for beer, why not bring the worlds together and pick yourself up a Monty Python’s Holy Ale at your local specialty store? The taste doesn’t measure up to a Bell’s Oberon or a Granite City Northern Lager, but it’s more fun :)
Reppr Premium Member about 12 years ago
Why is goat still stiing at the counter after this exchange? I expected him to be on the floor with stars around his head. Is rat getting soft?
Brouhard about 12 years ago
@vwdualnomandPlease don’t toss PBR in with all of the other cheap beers. It’s a very underrated beer and has a good taste. That’s why it started becoming retro hip a couple of years ago when people tried it again how swore it off as a youthful mistake.
Brouhard about 12 years ago
*who
Mstreselena about 12 years ago
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
BF (I think I got the quote right)
Casey Southards about 12 years ago
Rat got a taste of it.
Rickapolis about 12 years ago
I’ll take iced tea, thanks.
dfowensby about 12 years ago
whats with the loaf on the guys head?maybe he pinched it off an italian…heh.
SapphireFireGem about 12 years ago
They’re both hypocrites
Sherlock Watson about 12 years ago
Some days you get someone’s goat, other days the goat gets you. No butts about it.
sandigilbo about 12 years ago
Rat makes up his own rules and exceptions to his rules.
BTW, in Germany, beer isn’t an alcoholic drink (except to those who see the effects of the disease), it’s a food group. Given to hospital patients, available in work drink machines and it’s OK to give to children of all ages.
tbritt99 about 12 years ago
Ugh. After putting it that way, I’m rethinking my after work trip to the bar.
Chewiek9 about 12 years ago
I call it a miracle from heaven!
bmonk about 12 years ago
For those who don’t like what Goat is having, there’s always a small berry’s juice left to ferment by natural fungi.
Or you can use any of assorted grains (or even root vegetables) in warm water treated with fungi, boiled, reliquified, and then left in a wood container for upwards of several years.
Dillithamir about 12 years ago
I think I’ve just been “cured” of any alcoholism that I might be inclined to…..
Yammo Premium Member about 12 years ago
TOUCHE!!
folklegendredux about 12 years ago
Goat strikes back!
Fan o’ Lio. about 12 years ago
I LIKE BEER
Woody157 about 12 years ago
‘…It makes me a jolly good fellow…’
peabodyboy about 12 years ago
Rat, A.E. Housman, Tom T. Hall, and the McKenzie brothers endorse this song.
On the eighth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:
Eight comic books,
Seven packs of smokes,Six packs of two-four,Five golden touques!Four pounds of backbacon,Three French toast,Two turtlenecks,
And a beer.
corzak about 12 years ago
“Beer is responsible for civilization . . . preserving its [grain’s] nutritive value thru to the following spring and single-handedly justified the rise of settlements and agriculture.”And of course, alcohol is ant-bacterial and anti-parasitic . . .
corzak about 12 years ago
lol . . . nicely done!
Stream of conscience about 12 years ago
One for the Goat!
Lyons Group, Inc. about 12 years ago
78 (make that 79) comments?! What’s going on? Trying to outdo Dick Tracy , LuAnn , Alley Oop , or Endtown ?
dataweaver about 12 years ago
Nicely played.
Snoopy_Fan about 12 years ago
It’s best not to think about it and simply enjoy…
zero about 12 years ago
Yeast infections
Papadoodle about 12 years ago
yeast is not a fungus…
Chepi89 about 12 years ago
Now I understand why beer has always tasted like s@*! to me.
SomeOtherGocomicsGuy about 6 years ago
What a %$#^%@ comeback.
Goat from PBS over 3 years ago
I love driving Rat up the wall.