Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 22, 2011

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    rayannina  over 12 years ago

    Anyone reminded of the old folk song “What Did You Learn In School Today?”

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    BugDad  over 12 years ago

    Good work citizen cartoonist

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    zentuin  over 12 years ago

    Do Rat and Pig read their own comic in the paper?

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    zero  over 12 years ago

    I’m spending the rest of the day examining why I prefer Rat & Pig over Jiffy & Spiffy.

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    artybee  over 12 years ago

    Rat lives! Viva la Revolution!

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    GypsyWoman  over 12 years ago

    Meet Jiffy & Spiffy – they make “1984” look like a fun-fun time at the petting zoo! You can’t even see their lobotomy scars. Way to go Jiffy & Spiffy! You would fit right in with those “educational” films from 1954 – “How to Get Rid of those Pesky Red Commies!” and “Zinc – the Misunderstood Element”.

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    GypsyWoman  over 12 years ago

    Btw, the third panel “I praise it for its goodness” had me laughing so hard because its corny, bad and Ned-Flanders all rolled into one line.

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    GROG Premium Member over 12 years ago

    I think I’m going to hurl.

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    Sisyphos  over 12 years ago

    Remember, as you write, Commentators, Eric Holder is watching. I’m with Pig! Citizen Spiffy is right! I praise it for its goodness! Oh, yes!

    [Meanwhile, sotto voce, in a secret underground lair of Rat’s Partisans: VIVA LA REVOLUTION!]

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    tarzanjungle2  over 12 years ago

    Good news Pastis: All world governments will be D shortly, see Daniel 2:44.

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    3hourtour Premium Member over 12 years ago

    ..my country right or left…

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    Kat4547  over 12 years ago

    I think somewhere in the background there should be a roll of toilet paper for nose wiping. And maybe a large gavel hanging over their heads? I’m just sayin’.

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    vwdualnomand  over 12 years ago

    praise it for its goodness and doing its best? have you seen the news lately? less than 12 days, the us will default on it debts unless congress raises the debt ceiling. GOP says so what? DEMS says GOP are crazy idiots. Rating agencies will downgrade US credit rating to b+ tied with zambia.

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    lattewoman  over 12 years ago

    Take a vacation. Please.

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    Jean_1960  over 12 years ago

    Blech.

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    hariseldon59  over 12 years ago

    Disappointing that Stephan put the kibosh on this week’s storyline. Will we at least find out how he got out of jail?

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    gordrogb Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Rayannina: I learned that governments never tell a lie.….And so we elect them again and again.

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    Minfidel Premium Member over 12 years ago

    The Jiffy and Spiffy strip will soon debut in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Until now Jiffy and Spiffy had merely been in charge of the Editorial department.

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    foxlover43  over 12 years ago

    Where in the heck do Rat and Pig get a daily comics section that is both a: in color and b: at least 4 pages long? My local paper downsized to one page long ago and, though it’s still in color, it is so tiny you need a large magnifying glass to read it!

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    Nielabear  over 12 years ago

    Seriously? Whatever happened to freedom of speech? I hope that first block is a joke.

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    Malcolm Hall  over 12 years ago

    If you don’t like Jiffy and Spiffy, you must not be an American.

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    Justb0bbygookin  over 12 years ago

    SEAMLESS re-entry by Pig!

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    squirrel500  over 12 years ago

    Wonder if deep down, Spiffy and Jiffy are really BAD citizens?

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    Nighthawks Premium Member over 12 years ago

    ‘the creatures outside looked from pig to man, from man to pig. and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which’

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    BurritoBandito  over 12 years ago

    Spiffy is a rather compelling character.

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    Poncede  over 12 years ago

    @ tarzanjungle2

    Do you put on a robe when you carry your "The End Is Near "

    sign?

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    tegm  over 12 years ago

    remind me a it of Terrance and Philip.

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    OilCanHarry  over 12 years ago

    So many political comments, so much igorance I begin to understand Einstein’s model of gravity’s distortion of space. No wonder hair, teeth, and churchgoing have replaced policies in American politics.

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    Potrzebie  over 12 years ago

    No one in the US can rebel without the military. People can be locked up for conspiracy. It would be hard to communicate off-grid. So how do you overthrow the system? You get elected.

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    CitizenRaven  over 12 years ago

    So Rat’s anti-government rants were just a clever ploy to get Pearls Before Swine off the comics page and replaced with this fascinating new feature? Brilliant!

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    ariesvirgo47  over 12 years ago

    too much drama for comics!! if I want intrique, I’ll read the front page!!

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    bigpearls  over 12 years ago

    Does this remind anyone of Flagee and Ribbon from the Boondocks?

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    bmonk  over 12 years ago

    Rats! Pastis went whole hog on this strip, and now he’s in the pokey. I guess he found out that free speech is a croc, unless you toe the government lion. We’d better duck and wait to be goosed.

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    milady1  over 12 years ago

    Is Pastis for real or just creatively copping out of finishing the storyline? It’s so hard to tell with sarcastic artists.

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    Donald Ingram  over 12 years ago

    This comic is REALLY SUCKS! What a cop-out for an ending!

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    maxjaja  over 12 years ago

    i am leaking this news, which is to be published in wiki leaks next week(leak from wiki leak :D).US Justice Department threatened to release Pastis today unless rat and pig praise jiffy and spiffy

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    codedaddy  over 12 years ago

    Now I wonder if I can ever comb my hair and tie my half windsor without feeling guilt by association.

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    Bucinka  over 12 years ago

    They love the government and are wearing white shirts with ties in 100-plus heat. Must be Mormons.

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    Popeyesforearm  over 12 years ago

    Viva! la Revolution!The revolution will not be televized. It will be in the funny papers!

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    Mr Jones  over 12 years ago

    I love political cartoons. If they go the right way…

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    mac47  over 12 years ago

    CENSORSHIP!!!!!

    The government is censoring the genius that is Stephan Pastis!

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    ajr1814  over 12 years ago

    superliminal messaging?

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    CitizenThom  over 12 years ago

    There won’t be a default, unless Timmy Geitner wants one. There’s enough money to pay for interest, social security and medicare. Look at the numbers. Or continue to listen to Rat the news anchor’s fear mongering if you choose. :)

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    Sherlock Watson  over 12 years ago

    Am I the only one who sees that Spiffy is really Freddy from the “Scooby-Doo” cartoons?

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    silentshadow  over 12 years ago

    lets go shoot jiffy and spiffy

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    will408914  about 11 years ago

    I wonder if they know Nurse Ratched…

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    KZ71  almost 10 years ago

    Double plus good.

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    PBS1!  about 4 years ago

    Why does government always squish every rebellion? Can’t it just be more open to change?

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    Srover  about 3 years ago

    I am not entertained.

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