Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 23, 2012
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December 24, 2012
Transcript:
Pig: Whatcha reading, goat? Goat: This book on the Amish. It's a very interesting religion. Pig: How so? Goat: We, for example, they have this rite of passage called 'Rumspringa'. Pig: What is it? Goat: Its this period of adolescence where young people can go out and sow their wild oats. Pig: What does that mean? Goat: Some of them go out into the world and experience drinking and hooking up and driving fast cars and flouting authority. Do you understand what that means? Rat: THAT I'M AMISH!!! Goat: No. Pig: He's the holiest man ever! Rat: Now then...can this 'rite of passage' last my whole life?
suevanv Premium Member over 11 years ago
Ratspringa
Templo S.U.D. over 11 years ago
My great-grandfather was Amish; ’twas his grandson (my father) who joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Bilan over 11 years ago
When the rest of the teens in Rumspringa meet Rat, they’ll go running back to the Amish religion.
finale over 11 years ago
Is it Bacardirumspringa or SailorJerryrumspringa? Gotta know; one is better neat.
zero over 11 years ago
Got any of them whoopie pies Rat?
alviebird over 11 years ago
Passage, rat, passage. As in, “All things must pass.”
Sisyphos over 11 years ago
Rat gets Religion! Amish denounce Rat as impious fraud!
Soroxas over 11 years ago
What does flouting mean?
eddie6192 over 11 years ago
Hey Rat, you need to flout that beard.
guitarmutt over 11 years ago
It’s time to Rumspringa into action. Yeah!
knight1192a over 11 years ago
Typical Rat.
popadave over 11 years ago
From my experience here in Lancaster County PA and personal contact with some Amish, this is really a clever take. Somehow I never thought of Rat as Amish, and pigs comment about Holiness is great!
Vonne Anton over 11 years ago
Picture it: Dalai Lama in a red Lamborghini, girls dancing with the top down (car and others), throwing beer cans out on the road, smoking pot, being chased by police…-Just doesn’t work….the Pope maybe, but….
Carl Rennhack Premium Member over 11 years ago
Only if he could morph into a block of Swiss cheese could Rat be holy!
KEA over 11 years ago
You have to get older, you don’t have to mature.
xmudman over 11 years ago
:Thumbsup:
littleannoyingdog over 11 years ago
Sailor Jerry is good stuff finale
vwdualnomand over 11 years ago
there are a lot of shows about the amish. it isn’t a lifestyle for everyone.
155088 over 11 years ago
MORE CROCS!!!!!
A_NY_Outlaw over 11 years ago
Oddly, this explains ALOT. Rat does in fact have a point…
Snoopy_Fan over 11 years ago
Can I become Amish for a month?
Number Three over 11 years ago
Excellent strip!
I’ve often wondered how old Rat and the other characters are.
xxx
imbaldeagle over 11 years ago
So… Rat – Are you “Aim-ish” or “Ah-mish”?
Sherlock Watson over 11 years ago
Ever heard “Amish Paradise” by Weird Al Yankovic?
Reppr Premium Member over 11 years ago
Seems top me that Rat is starting to resemble Snoopy. If I ever see him sleeping atop a doghouse…..
finale over 11 years ago
Ron Zacapa….Sistema Solera 23….almost not there but with a profound flavor….to be sipped and enjoyed..It will change your drinking life.
SuperSayian about 11 years ago
I was expecting a pun
toahero about 7 years ago
Party like it’s 1639!