Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 18, 2015

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    Bilan  almost 10 years ago

    Why does Rat keep coming up with scruples every now and then?

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    Hey. c’mon… we’re mostly pretty laid back in Santa Rosa….

    That cafe owner shouldn’t complain..after all, down at Flying Goat they’re lucky to sell a cup of coffee every FIVE hours.

    You must be over on the la-di-da East side of town.

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    oldschool434  almost 10 years ago

    not only does he not buy enough…he stands on the seats and ruins them

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    cdward  almost 10 years ago

    There’s a cafe somewhere that charges by the hour to use a table. You don’t have to buy food or drink, but it’s something like $5 an hour to stay.

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    Reppr Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    Mort Walker used to draw Beetle Bailey at a place called The Shack in Columbia, MO. He even carved a likeness into a wooden table top, which wound up in a frame on the wall after Beetle Bailey became a national hit. Something of a local attraction for many years. I wonder how that would be received today, or if Steph has a pen knife.

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    jreckard  almost 10 years ago

    I think he brings his own coffee.(Or what he says is coffee.)

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    jbmlaw01  almost 10 years ago

    I am impressed – I could not make a single cup of coffee last for 3 hours.

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    Pocosdad  almost 10 years ago

    And don’t get me started about the leeches who sit in book stores for hours reading, never buying anything other than a cup of coffee, and leaving the books sitting on the floor by the chair.

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    Cameron1988 Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    Nooooooo. Without Pastis, there wouldn’t be no “Pearls Before Swine”

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    Sisyphos  almost 10 years ago

    Methinks Cartoon Boy doth protest too much!Whatsamatta, did a mean waiter tell you to order something or move on?Still, I think Rat’s sotto voce final line makes this a bit of bitter comic genius….

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    papabear  almost 10 years ago

    Yeah, Pastis, and Cap’n Ahab was a world famous “HARPOONIST”, but the fact remains that you shouldn’t be in a coffee shop drawing on a pad, you should be in an insane asylum drawing on padded walls. (just kidding, LOVE ya, man!)

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    NWdryad  almost 10 years ago

    Hi, this is not a witty observation or anything. But I was wondering, don’t cartoonists generally work on a large board or drafting table? How can Pastis do that at a cafe?

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    junemmoffatt  almost 10 years ago

    Are you sure you’re not archy? Definite resemblance!

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    lap0918  almost 10 years ago

    If they really didn’t want people to take up a table for 3 hours on a 2$ cup o’ joe, the shouldn’t offer free refills.

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    fontenelle  almost 10 years ago

    Doubt that I could tolerate half a day in a Santa Rosa Starbucks. Pastis must know of a real cafe.

    BTW Fairfax, CA is 41 miles south of Santa Rosa. Even San Francisco is only 55 miles away.

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    Sailor46 USN 65-95  almost 10 years ago

    With a coffee to water ratio of two level measuring tablespoons per five ounces of water, you can make approximately forty cups of coffee per pound. A $10.00, 2 lbs can of Coffee will net about $160.00. @ $2.00 a cup…Wow thats just…

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    Sherlock Watson  almost 10 years ago

    In the 1930 movie Soup to Nuts, a man goes into a restaurant and brings his own food and a teabag, and asks the waiter to bring him some hot water. The waiter asks if he’d like anything else, and he says, “Yes — have the orchestra play ‘The Best Things in Life Are Free!’”

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    Number Three  almost 10 years ago

    Love it!

    xxx

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    Rick Smith Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    What? You are lumping Pastis in with those that produce something of value? :-)

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    Rick Smith Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    $2? Probably not a Starbucks…

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    Paul from MO  almost 10 years ago

    I miss the crocs too. Next time I’ll aim better!

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    claire de la lune.  almost 10 years ago

    We all do.

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