Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 27, 2025

I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than have to have a frontal lobotomy

Memory problems? Forget about ’em!

To be fair to Goat, Rat don’t need much encourgement.

Like our new secretary of defense? What? Me worry?

There’s good and bad in everything, I guess.

Got some good size chunks of my life I’d like to forget or do over.

Rat should quote Henny Youngman: “When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.”

It is TRULY amazing how much of a moron a smart person like GOAT can be: RAT is clearly drinking only in the first place so RAT can forget his whole life!!!! Dan aka…ps Jeez, wise up, GOAT….

That is in fact why some people try to make themselves unable to remember.

PS: It doesn’t really work until you get past the point of no return.

“Here’s to alcohol, the cause and cure to all of life’s problems!” – Homer Simpson

“I drink to forget.” “Forget what?” “I forgot.”

kinda looks like rat had 8 cans?

To quot The Waco Kid, When?

Who wants to bet the drinking rate is going to soar in coming months.

I’ll drink to that! Until I forget to drink because my memory is shot. I drink to forget.

Is that his leg sticking up in the last panel?

He’s forgotten yesterday’s corny gag already!

Now for the previous 6,000…

Rat must have a lot of memories he wants to remove.

It’s not the memories It’s the pain that goes along with the memories !

Rat you need to invite Larry Croc over for a Beer ….

Surely not everything was bad :(

Good thing I don’t drink.

yep, saw that coming… :J

From the book "The Little Prince.

The story of his meeting a drunk who said that he “drinks to forget.” The Prince asked “forget what.” Forget that I drink" was the drunks reply

Holy Sh#t, the world is coming to an end….!!!!

Drink to forget the stupid things you did when you were drunk.

Today I walked down the street I use to wanderYeah, shook my head, and I made myself a betThere was all these things that I don’t think I rememberHey, how lucky can one man get? – John Prine

In Rat’s case, it’s “life”.

“You only remember the losses.” – John madden. “You only remember the regrets.” – Breeze LaBonte. Of course one drinks.

Yeah, isn’t that why a lot of people drink like that? I’m glad I’ve never had the temptation.

I’d like to forget the results of last night’s football game … not to mention similar results by the same teams 4 out of the last 5 playoff seasons.

Aren’t there chunks of Rat’s life you want to forget, Goat?

My mother is developing memory issues. My mom and I had lunch with my brother a few days ago, we’ll call him “Thaddeus”, (Bonus points for identifying which tv show that name came from), and the next day mom asked me, “Have you heard from Thaddeus lately?”

It’s a Catch 22. Drinking to forget makes you pass out in a public place and you wake up in the drunk tank, cause you to drink to forget

It actually might be the time to start drinking.

The first thing Rat forgets, is to pay his tab.

To start, that’s the whole idea. Most Beer Depots are out of stock since the Inauguration.

to quote Willie “there’s more old drunks than there are old doctorsSo I guess we’d better have another round”

I guess this is a good life lesson for the kids that read this strip.

Fun with brain damage.

Goat says that like it’s a bad thing.

Right now, I’m with you Rat.

I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than have to have a frontal lobotomy.

Depression can do the same.

When did Schiff become a rat? Oh, forget it. It’s only Joe Biden.