Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 08, 2014

That’s actually a pretty good idea, what with all the screamers and brats that parents keep bringing into public places. Tie them all up outside!

Well, anybody else having visions of young Frederic Crane at Cheers?

Make him buy his own! Drinking out of a shared glass is unsanitary and he’ll probably spit up in yours now.

Oh, Bob’s going to be so pleased.

C’mon, Goat; lighten up. Sure, Rat was wrong in the first place, but the kid will be much better off now with a beer of his own! Probably sleep better, too….

Isn’t Neighbor Bob afraid of women?How did he end up with a kid?

Goat was right to bring the kid in, who wants to clean up a potty mess on the sidewalk ?

CHILD ABUSE!

In some bars it is the parents that need to be tied up not their off spring.

Yahoo News decided to do a short piece on the Watterson-Pastis link-up.

I grew up seeing kids sitting in the vehicles outside the local bar. “Responsible” parents ( or their sympathetic drinking buddies) would occasionally take pity on the kids and buy pop and chips. Of course that was back in the days when kids could run around town & play and only really had to be home by dark, and nobody worried about it.

“Shan’t that be Ye Olde Tavern?” asketh mine inner Shakespeare.

How come every kid in the strip looks like Timmy Failure?

Tell the crocs that he is an edible dessert and tell his parents he committed suicide

Don’t insult the pigs.

Timmy Failure lives with his mom. Otherwise, it could be.

At least Rat had the decency to tie him up in front of the bar…

I don’t see how this is a problem. People already put their kids on leashes. Tying them up outside is only one small step away from that.

Pretty soon the barman is going to ask Goat to get that kid of out of there. Then they’ll be back to Square 1.

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He should have left a bowl of water for the kid.

That’s quite a lovely street scene.

If the sign says “Ye”, then it’s gotta say “olde”.

It’s timmy failure!

Well, depending on the time of day, and where you live, you might actually be allowed to bring a kid into the bar.

Hey, that’s Timmy Failure!

I know

I like how Goat starts to ask what Rat did with the kid and realizes it before he can finish.

Timmy Failure!

That looks like Timmy failure

ITS TIMMY FAILURE!!!!!!

The kid looks like Timmy Failure