Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 08, 2011

Rat should go to Key West instead. Margaritas on the beach, the best Key Lime pie in the world, and everyone speaks english.

Will this prove to be the END of Rat??? Stay tuned.

I smell a Junket!

Or he could go hang out at Martha’s Vineyard and see if any of the current crises blow over while he’s away.

No, no — he has to taste some French wine and decide whether it could make someone trip over a hound and impale himself on a banjo.

THEN he goes to Key West and does the same test with margaritas.

Then it’s on to Wiesbaden, and the local dark beer……

and Japan…. to test the sake…..

Dedication.

Rat has the makings of an upper-echelon establishment bureaucrat! Spend other people’s money lavishly and call it important and necessary research! Junkets are SO delightful!

I like Rat. The super-adaptable, get-the-goodies guy.My model, guru, leader. I have seen the light. Use the goobers, smooth my path, make it fun with a facade of seriousness. Yesssssss….

IF you can find any Key Lime trees, after they cleared all the citrus trees in the Citrus Canker epidemic.(they finally gave up because it kept spreading no matter what they did.)

Sorry Rat, those are not the Bourbons you are looking for.

NOW we know how the Obama’s pick all of their fancy vacations!

At his conference, maybe Rat can get Stephan Pastis to speak. (See ad to the right.) >>>

Amen!

Maybe Rat will discover he is a talented chef!

Sign me up for the “Duval Crawl” with Rat as my wingman.

Oh, I remember the beatnicks. Berets, bongos, booze and banjos?…..

If you’re looking for Bourbons, come to Kentucky.

I would say this strip is great in french, but I think the English suffices.

You sure it wasn’t Vegas or Manhattan or Los Angeles?

When will he squeal like a pig?

Goat should take his cannes to Rat.

@codedaddy said, about 13 hours ago“How can you folks put a banjo and an accordion ahead of bagpipes? Remember ‘how do you know when you’ve tuned your bagpipes?’ (Stephen Wright).

“And don’t forget the definition of an oboe: ‘An ill woodwind that nobody blows good’ (Duke Ellington)”+++++And then there’s perfect pitch: Throwing your (instrument of choice) into a dumpster without hitting any of the sides.

Thank you Trusted Mechanic. But the trolls won’t go away.

I can’t wait for Rat to find out about “claw hammer.”

RAT IS COOLLLLL

I love Goat’s expression…

LOL xxx

Wrong Rat…!!!The first Banjo Fatality was on the Cahulawassee River in Georgia…. (cue dueling banjo’s)… and if you can’t convince Pig to go with ya… maybe Ned Beatty will go… he knows them folks…reeeeel gud…!

Rat, the quick-change artist.

Political comments should be ok in this case since the comic is obviously political in nature. We should all just be nice about it.

Bill the US Government, they have money to burn. Our money.No worse than studying the sexual habits of wombats or whatever.

I too will drink to that.

first bango fatality site? sounds like site of “deliverance” to me

So far. Our current Beloved Leader may catch up with him before the 2012 election.

I agree mechanic

“Chapeau means ‘hat.’ Ouef means ‘egg.’ It’s like those French have a different word for everything.” (Steve Martin)

Then again, maybe it happened in – the Bahamas!

Thats not what an invasive species is. an invasive species is a species that takes over territory, like kudzu

I now use Billy Lee Joe Bob as a name in all my for-fun creative writings