Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 10, 2011
Transcript:
Pastis: Rat! Where are you? Today's the day for closing arguments are you're my lawyer! Rat: Sorry. Can't make it. I'm under a bit of a time constraint. Pastis: Time constraint? What time constraint? Rat: To finish the beer in my cooler before it gets warm. Pastis: I'm facing life in prison. Rat: And I'm facing warm beer. Please, man, prioritize. Stephan's federal trial.
machpovii3 about 13 years ago
Rat is gonna suffer SOOOO much when Stephan’s gets out of this.
GROG Premium Member about 13 years ago
I can almost sympathisze with Rat. Almost.
Woody157 about 13 years ago
Stephan is facing only ‘life’. Warren Jeffs got ‘life + 20 years’. My question on this is as follows. When Warren dies in prison does the prison system retain the body for the final 20 years?
Rodney99 about 13 years ago
Nah, they clone him and make the clone serve out his 20 years…
x_Tech about 13 years ago
Don’t worry Stephan, I make sure Rat doesn’t have any worrys about warm beer.Hey, Number Six, he’s got Prickly Pear Beer imported from Harmony!
Sisyphos about 13 years ago
Cartoon-Stephan’s case has expanded and exploded—speaking of which, Li’l Guard Duck may be his only remaining option for getting out. But that would leave him a fugitive. He’ll probably get a “mistrial” verdict instead!
Yontrop about 13 years ago
With rat away, there may still be hope for Stephan.
inshadowz about 13 years ago
What’s that Dan Aykroyd said in “Sneakers” again? “20 years in the electric chair!”
Hillbillyman about 13 years ago
Warm beer?…The folks in ‘The Long branch’ guttled it down.
Tennessee_Budd about 13 years ago
At least Rat knows what’s important.
jpsomebody about 13 years ago
Is it better to face life in prison or to just turn your back on it? I think that I would rather not contemplate that question.
TheSpanishInquisition about 13 years ago
Steph, really. Would you really make rat face the horrors of warm beer just for the sake of your freedom?
dirtking239 about 13 years ago
A cold beer is a terrible thing to waste
EricAlder about 13 years ago
Rat’s the one who isn’t prioritizing correctly… everybody knows you need enough ice so your last beer is as cold as the first!
nboady about 13 years ago
Given Rat’s performance yesterday, why would “comic Pastis” even care if Rat showed up or not?
dukeallen about 13 years ago
Can we tell a lawyer is writing this? This story line is NOT funny except to the yes men and fan boys. BRING BACK THE CROCS!
trisha60 about 13 years ago
When Steph gets convicted, are we going to have to go thu the prison thing, like cavity searches?
bahramthered about 13 years ago
Why does rat care if Patis goes to jail? Patis can still draw in his cell.
CitizenThom about 13 years ago
I have a feeling this is going to go badly for rat… like he’ll discover his cooler is filled with near-beer ha ha
Number Three about 13 years ago
Always someone worse off than yourself Rat (!)
LOL xxx
hariseldon59 about 13 years ago
There seems to be a fraction of ‘Pearls’ fans who like the crocs but little else about the strip. Maybe Pastis should spin the crocs off into their own strip to appease these folks.
Sherlock Watson about 13 years ago
If Rat was British, would he be trying to drink all the beer before it got cold?
Popeyesforearm about 13 years ago
And they look like a good import too. Priority, man.
Coyoty Premium Member about 13 years ago
They allow prisoners to have cell phones?
bmonk about 13 years ago
“twenty years in the electric chair” always reminds me of the Snark’s verdict: “So the Snark found the verdict, although, as it owned,It was spent with the toils of the day:When it said the word “GUILTY!” the Jury all groaned,And some of them fainted away..“Then the Snark pronounced sentence, the Judge being quiteToo nervous to utter a word:When it rose to its feet, there was silence like night,And the fall of a pin might be heard.." ‘Transportation for life’ was the sentence it gave,‘And then to be fined forty pound.’The Jury all cheered, though the Judge said he fearedThat the phrase was not legally sound.".The complete Sixth Fit (“The Barrister’s Dream”) may be perused here.
mac47 about 13 years ago
We need a miracle to win this case.
crystalwizard about 13 years ago
time to stop reading this comic for a month or two.
perceptor3 about 13 years ago
Rat, you are hereby sentenced to horrible pun strips every Sunday for the next six months. . .
flintcrow about 13 years ago
This story line sux!
xindaris2 about 13 years ago
If you insist on making meta jokes for a newspaper comic strip, they should still be few and far between. The creator should appear in, at most, one panel per month.
Why, you ask?
Because otherwise, you get stupid, pointless, humorless storylines like this one.