Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 17, 2015

It’s best not to harp on every little thing that goes wrong, Rat.

Like bringing a tuba to a flute recital.

Well, at least it wasn’t the pipe organ in the Salt Lake City Tabernacle (11,623 pipes).

A better choice might’ve been a harmonica. Or kazoo.

A bunch of boy scouts camped next to us one time – had a guitar. I was impressed – they knew EVERY STANZA of 99 bottles of beer on the wall.

And a song about a guy named Michael, who was out in a boat and couldn’t figure out how to get to land. And something called Kumbaya.

He should’ve brought a piano instead; there’s no place on a harp to rest his drink.

Look, when you fall down the mountain, you will already have a harp ready. Now, about those wings…(oh, forgot, we are talking Rat, aren’t we…)

Who honestly owns a harp?

I have one. Of course it’s a small mediaeval one…and no, I would not like to lug it up a p=mountain…

For Rat, it would be more appropriate to bring a lyre.

No harp here, but I have got my eye on a nice guzheng.

Haha, this is why I backpack alone, cross country, away from everyone else. The silence is heaven.

A harmonica or recorder or even a ukelele would have been a better choice, my exhausted little Pig! A full-sized harp is a tad unwieldy….

A harmonica would have worked better.

My phone plays music. Will that do?

Why is he just carrying it? He needs to play it so he doesn’t scare bears by surprise.

They should have invited Harpo. He could handle the harp.

Should have brought his banjo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGPPZQHDIVI&list=UU3odK_sQt915zgEXe76MvPQ

Should’ve picked a nose flute (no pun intended)…

Rat: Mouth harp, I suggested a Mouth Harp!!

After going to the trouble of bringing it, I hope Pig knows how to play it…

good grief – just bring spoons – they serve a double purpose and almost anyone can play them

Rat shouldn’t be harping on Pig.

Of course, Pig shouldn’t be harping either….

Maybe Pig should’ve brought a guitar, or maybe a harmonica.

I absolutely love harps. They look and sound amazing.

xxx

Alone with Rat & a campfire? I smell barbequed pork!

I honestly do not know what to think of Harp Twins cover AC/DC Highway to Hell I was looking for a particular harpist because of the cartoon, and found . . . something.

I just don’t know. If you carry a harp going Up, what do you carry when you’re going Down to The Other Place? Rat does need to be prepared. :-)

Pig following in Thorin’s footsteps.(Or which dwarf brought a harp?)

I’d use the harp as kindling, so you don’t have to drag it back?

Y’all can just pipe down about the size of your organs…a cajun campin’ buddy of mine could do amazing things and entertain dozens with his mouth harp (aka Harmonica, to the instrumentally uneducated).