Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 17, 2011

A social unsocial *.

How’d Rat do that? (I mean, get established in Goat’s closet without Goat noticing.) Very disturbing.

Goat, Rat would say it’s YOU who’s doing all the disturbing.After all, he’s just sitting there.In your house.

@Sisyphos, like that woman in Japan who’d been living in this guy’s closet for months before he figured out that food was disappearing from his fridge and set up security cameras to find out how. She’d been evicted from her own place and since he was out to work all day and half the night, she just kinda moved in.

Where do you have to go to get some peace & quiet around here, anyway?

Enjoy that Martini, Pig. Didn’t think that you imbibed.

Rat is a closet antisocialist.

I sincerely hope Pastis is not implying that Rat is “in the closet”. I’d have to change my avatar.

Right Sandfan. If Goat thinks having Rat in the closet is bad, it pales in comparison to thinking about Rat coming out of the closet.

Time to come out of the closet rat… you’ve been outed.

That’s disturbing.

Like that rainbow wardrobe in Goat’s closet.

Talk about “smoking jackets.”

Think we’ll live long enough to see the return of the magnification feature to the Sunday strips???

I guess this means Rat won’t be coming out of the closet anytime soon. I’d say that’s a good thing.

Rats new hang-out——glad he’s not closetophobic…..☻

That’s a fire hazard.

I like the way Goat sets his drink on the floor. Not the first time I’ve seen that in this strip.

Sure is Goat..

Hehehehehehehehe xxx

Why is Goat’s bowtie in his mouth? I guess he’s tying one on.

I think this is a fair assesment of how Stephan sees himself…very anti-social, but Stephan is only fooling himself, he really is more social then he would like us to believe. Great strip today!

“May I take your hat and goat, Sir?” Firesign Theatre

I see that Rat’s just sitting on the closet floor; nobody bothered to hang him up.

Beautiful, RFS! I bow in awe of your punadulterated genius. Incidentally, I’m afraid I’d be reading with Rat in the closet. My sister and I used to stay up late reading at the kitchen table, usually equipped with a heaping bowl of ice cream, sharing funny or interesting bits from our books with each other.

@sandfan Rat is hardly the animal incarnation of a Hindu deity, in my view. (Too bad the word avatar has been redefined). But spelled backwards I have to grant that it begins with “rat”.

Rats! They found me again!You can make Rat come to your house, but you can’t make him party..

rat, I called the closet!

okay thats just scary……finding rat in your closet

how come the cig dosent light the clothes on fire

Looks like Rat saved one of the beer aliens for the party

Well let me see, Rat is in the closet and there is a rainbow over his head (The coats)…Hmmmmm!

Just a little joke , please Rat no Flaming Torches

He’s in the closet with a rainbow of coats… hmmm….

No one noticed he’s actually READING instead of looking on his phone?

This was one of the few strips that really made me feel for Rat.

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