Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 07, 2023

And “redress” is what you have to do afterward.

Pastis knows engineering students.

You bar, and then you rebar.

You rebar in order to rebeer so that you can regin that happy filling.

Better bar Rat from engineering.

Two guys walk into a bar. The third guy ducks.

Old Man Rebar, dat Old Man Rebar

I’ve done that a time or two!

Rebar: Take away his license to practice law, again.

The dudes at the end know how to respond Bar none!

Hit one bar, then another

RBAR – “Row By Agonising Row”. It’s a poor way to write SQL, and it’s pronounced “rebar”.

Rebar keeps structures standing. And makes bar goers fall down. And is not a possibility for disbarred lawyers.

Rebar- set the bar, then lower it

Stop teaching Bob and start teaching Rat.

He is so gonna flunk.

What, rebar means something else?

NYC has some really well named drinking establishments, including ‘Bar Fly’ and the late, lamented ‘Mars Bar.’

Rat, you dumbaśś. Rebar is obviously the opposite of disbar.

I know several people who used to be tired. Now they are retired.

Two men walk into a bar & one of them requires stitches. BaDumPassssss

It’s been at least 50 years since I saw someone who smoked a tobacco pipe in public.

Had to go and look that up.

As a teacher, you’re performing a valuable service by preventing students like Rat from qualifying as structural engineers.

In an 8th grade science test, one thing was to define physical properties. My answer was a house owned by a guy that works out.

The teacher didn’t mark that as incorrect…

largest rebar I ever worked with was #18

Great cartoon – love the “think I’ll quit teaching” comment in the last panel.

Aah yes that Mohr’s Circle stuff that rusts, expands and causes concrete failure.

I wanted to study engineering, but my liver couldn’t handle it.

As a pipe smoker, I heartily approve of this comic.

Tribar is even better… :)

Another question on the quiz:What’s the difference between a joist and a girder?Easy: Joyce wrote Ulysses and Goethe wrote Faust.

Rat is weeding out the weak.

I thought Rat would define rebar as hitting Neighbor Bob with a bar a second time.

A structural engineer like Rat could be the death of us all!

Where did you say that bar is? Rebar, rebar, rebar!