Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 12, 2015

Third child’s the charm. Wait…that was third TIME! Never mind.

I’m the third child.

I’m a second child… but when the five stepsiblings are involved, I’m fifth

It’s the rule of threes; the third is the punchline.

I know a lovely lady, fourth in her family, and she’s the only one that DID contribute to society out of the entire lot. (Also, I find it funny that I and everyone else is arguing with Rat now…logic never had any effect on him.)

Then go ahead and move to the People’s Republik of China, Rat. They’d LOVE to have you there :P :P :P

Course Rat is a ninth child but he would make an exception for himself.

What can you expect from Pastis?We all know he’s NOT the seventh son of the seventh son.

Would like to know what Croc Logic thinks about this matter :-)

I was raised as an only child… which caused a lot of animosity between myself and my siblings.

Ender. Just sayin’

Shhhhh, the Donald might pick up on this one, too…..

I’m the fourth, but the only sane one. Which is a pretty frightening thought….

Et tu, Pig?

China policy has expanded from “one child only” allowed to “two children only” allowed because of declining birth rate coupled with gender-selection. Cartoon-Boy would never have made it there; at least not legally. (Me? I’m an only-child.)Tell me, Cartoon-Boy, why do all your characters seem to hate you so much?

I was my mother’s third, but my father’s first.

Aggghhh….I’m sooooo confused.

Ender Wiggin made a contribution.

Heard somewhere that four is the magic number. Two—they fight with each other. Three—two gang up on one. Four—they form shifting alliances.

We are third of five, special attention is futile, fairness is irrelevant.

Don’t listen to them, Stephan. You are the reason I get up in the morning.

Teach the crocs to hunt, and let them take care of the over-population! (But teaching them to hunt would be the world’s hardest trick……….)

But then the population would be decreasing because you have many people who die without having children..

Koff Ender Wiggin koff

Our third was a mistake, I had a cerreer ending injury and wifey waited until after Christmas to tell me. I love all 3, even if it was a hard 15 years(until we got solvent). She is my “good” child and I am very happy that the IUD did not do it’s job. Children come when it is time, if you wait to have them, it is too late to be an active parent.

China tried that. Killing female infants became a national pastime.

Considering how many rats are born in a litter I have to wonder where that puts Rat.

so tempted to send this to my little sister. not sure she’d be amused

I agree with Rat.

2 children per couple is quite enough. I’m not having children as I don’t wish to add to the overpopulation of this earth.

It’s not to say I don’t like kids because I do. But there has to be a limit somewhere.

xxx

Cum’on guys, lighten up on da Pastis dude! He can’t help it. He was born that way!

I am complicated. I was born 2nd (out of 3). Dad remarried after my mom died…boom two older step siblings. So then I was 4th out of 5….then got a half sister

My wife and I stopped after 3 children because we read that 1 out of every 4 people born on this planet is Chinese.

Not true my younger and older siblings have both prospered, unless you mean one out of three, that means me, Nooooo.

Yeah, we can imitate China and drag women out of their homes and torcher them till they agree to abort that 3rd child! And fine them fees that exceed a years wages if they do have a 3rd! For those who refuse to follwo the law the govt. can confiscate their property, not allow them to have good jobs, or a job at all and ostracize their relatives too!!! Cause a major imbalance in the girl to boy ratio so that girls are kidnapped and sold into prostitution or forced marriages and 70% of the men have no one to marry…ever! Sounds like a wonderful idea. Its working for China! 400 million aborted since the 70s!

My littler brother would be offended at this one.

Among the Hidden reference, anyone?