Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 25, 2013
September 24, 2013
September 26, 2013
Transcript:
Pig: Rat's building us a barbed wire fence. Goat: Why do you need a barbed wire fence? Pig: To provide us with a little protection. Goat: Against whom? Goldfish: This seems excessive.
Hmmm… Stephan seems to be alternating between the goldfish and the girls’ basketball team. Is he going to combine the two arcs by having the goldfish kill the girls?
If the goldfish could get out of the bowl, smack Pig, and get back in the bowl without dying, a little barbed wire is not going to do much to stop him.
Nah, Carla the PC girl is going to swallow him whole, thus discovering the joys of predation & eating animals, all at once. Soon she takes forms an anit-PETA terrorist cell attacking marine life. Oh, the huge manatees!
From today’s Word of the Day (Seems the discussion over winners and losers has been happening thro the ages)…“No battle is ever won. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. -William Faulkner, novelist (1897-1962)
No, excessive would be encircling the bowl with cast iron griddles on top of portable picnic gas grills and lighting the fire on each grill so those griddles are nice and hot, perfect for frying a vicious goldfish if it dares jump out of the bowl. It’s small enough now that it might be able to slip unscathed through the barbed wire.
Sherlock Watson about 11 years ago
Hmmm… Stephan seems to be alternating between the goldfish and the girls’ basketball team. Is he going to combine the two arcs by having the goldfish kill the girls?
margueritem about 11 years ago
Love it.
kamb8 about 11 years ago
If the goldfish could get out of the bowl, smack Pig, and get back in the bowl without dying, a little barbed wire is not going to do much to stop him.
firedome about 11 years ago
gitmo for the goldfish…
ursamaj about 11 years ago
Nah, Carla the PC girl is going to swallow him whole, thus discovering the joys of predation & eating animals, all at once. Soon she takes forms an anit-PETA terrorist cell attacking marine life. Oh, the huge manatees!
rshive about 11 years ago
Somebody did suspect the goldfish.
Destiny23 about 11 years ago
Just because there were wet fin prints leading away from the crime scene, everyone suspects the goldfish?!
Sisyphos about 11 years ago
Ain’t no walls can hold my body down, copper-Rat! I’ll be out, and I’ll be looking for you, with my Pastisville Slugger….
juicebruce about 11 years ago
No one has escaped from “Stalag Rat”
joeshmo30 about 11 years ago
that goldfish is mean, maybe growing up he had some problems?
Enoki about 11 years ago
Electrify the tank and fence just to be sure…
Carl Rennhack Premium Member about 11 years ago
Rat will try to convince Gomer that the wire is there to protect him from creatures like Garfield! (& please see my comment on THAT cartoon today!)
lady lar about 11 years ago
From today’s Word of the Day (Seems the discussion over winners and losers has been happening thro the ages)…“No battle is ever won. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. -William Faulkner, novelist (1897-1962)
Kathy Freeman about 11 years ago
patricew52 Premium Member about 11 years ago
I think Stephan is related to Stephen King.
seanyj about 11 years ago
Why don’t you just flush to goldfish down the toilet?
GoodQuestion Premium Member about 11 years ago
Just put little guard duck on patrol in the bowl . . . you know, in case the bi-polar bear shows up . . .☻
bluegirl285 about 11 years ago
“This seems excessive”
…says the goldfish who bashed Pig over the head with a baseball bat the other day!
Number Three about 11 years ago
Sorry, Gomer but I have no sympathy after what you did to poor Pig yesterday!
xxx
tbritt99 about 11 years ago
Add motion detectors
Enoki about 11 years ago
This is a job for guard duck
Vet Premium Member about 11 years ago
Rat:“No you silly goldfish….this is not excessive. The armed drone circling the area watching you is.”
knight1192a about 11 years ago
No, excessive would be encircling the bowl with cast iron griddles on top of portable picnic gas grills and lighting the fire on each grill so those griddles are nice and hot, perfect for frying a vicious goldfish if it dares jump out of the bowl. It’s small enough now that it might be able to slip unscathed through the barbed wire.
Dabattlebacca about 11 years ago
I mean 24/7
hariseldon59 about 11 years ago
Pig doesn’t seem to get along with aquatic life very well. I remember when his greatest enemy was a sea anemone.