Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 17, 2011
July 16, 2011
July 18, 2011
Transcript:
Pig: Hiya, Goat! Goat: Hey, Pig...thanks for coming to my party...where's Rat? Pig: Oh, you know how he is...not exactly Mr. Social. Goat: That's true. He came to my summer barbecue last year and just sat inside reading a book. And remember my Christmas party? He went outside in the cold and just sat alone on the deck chair smoking. Well, no matter. Let's forget about him and just have a good time. Pig: You got it. Is everyone in the living room? Goat: Yup. Go join them and I'll hang up your coat. Rat: You mind? Goat: That's disturbing.
machpovii3 almost 13 years ago
A social unsocial *.
Sisyphos almost 13 years ago
How’d Rat do that? (I mean, get established in Goat’s closet without Goat noticing.) Very disturbing.
SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Goat, Rat would say it’s YOU who’s doing all the disturbing.After all, he’s just sitting there.In your house.
orinoco womble almost 13 years ago
@Sisyphos, like that woman in Japan who’d been living in this guy’s closet for months before he figured out that food was disappearing from his fridge and set up security cameras to find out how. She’d been evicted from her own place and since he was out to work all day and half the night, she just kinda moved in.
GROG Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Where do you have to go to get some peace & quiet around here, anyway?
smoore47 almost 13 years ago
Enjoy that Martini, Pig. Didn’t think that you imbibed.
DocOmics almost 13 years ago
Rat is a closet antisocialist.
Sandfan almost 13 years ago
I sincerely hope Pastis is not implying that Rat is “in the closet”. I’d have to change my avatar.
gordrogb Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Right Sandfan. If Goat thinks having Rat in the closet is bad, it pales in comparison to thinking about Rat coming out of the closet.
GalleyOar almost 13 years ago
Time to come out of the closet rat… you’ve been outed.
squirrel500 almost 13 years ago
That’s disturbing.
dutchs almost 13 years ago
Like that rainbow wardrobe in Goat’s closet.
Ermine Notyours almost 13 years ago
Talk about “smoking jackets.”
HadYourPhil almost 13 years ago
Think we’ll live long enough to see the return of the magnification feature to the Sunday strips???
A_NY_Outlaw almost 13 years ago
I guess this means Rat won’t be coming out of the closet anytime soon. I’d say that’s a good thing.
GoodQuestion Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Rats new hang-out——glad he’s not closetophobic…..☻
mac47 almost 13 years ago
That’s a fire hazard.
hariseldon59 almost 13 years ago
I like the way Goat sets his drink on the floor. Not the first time I’ve seen that in this strip.
Number Three almost 13 years ago
Sure is Goat..
Hehehehehehehehe xxx
elipso3000 almost 13 years ago
Why is Goat’s bowtie in his mouth? I guess he’s tying one on.
pocounohamster almost 13 years ago
I think this is a fair assesment of how Stephan sees himself…very anti-social, but Stephan is only fooling himself, he really is more social then he would like us to believe. Great strip today!
WaitingMan almost 13 years ago
“May I take your hat and goat, Sir?” Firesign Theatre
Sherlock Watson almost 13 years ago
I see that Rat’s just sitting on the closet floor; nobody bothered to hang him up.
Kydex29 almost 13 years ago
Beautiful, RFS! I bow in awe of your punadulterated genius. Incidentally, I’m afraid I’d be reading with Rat in the closet. My sister and I used to stay up late reading at the kitchen table, usually equipped with a heaping bowl of ice cream, sharing funny or interesting bits from our books with each other.
codedaddy almost 13 years ago
@sandfan Rat is hardly the animal incarnation of a Hindu deity, in my view. (Too bad the word avatar has been redefined). But spelled backwards I have to grant that it begins with “rat”.
bmonk almost 13 years ago
Rats! They found me again!You can make Rat come to your house, but you can’t make him party..
silentshadow almost 13 years ago
rat, I called the closet!
theromanqueen almost 13 years ago
okay thats just scary……finding rat in your closet
marquetted.18 almost 13 years ago
how come the cig dosent light the clothes on fire
dirtking239 almost 13 years ago
Looks like Rat saved one of the beer aliens for the party
FrodoLives1 almost 13 years ago
Well let me see, Rat is in the closet and there is a rainbow over his head (The coats)…Hmmmmm!
FrodoLives1 almost 13 years ago
Just a little joke , please Rat no Flaming Torches
EricAlder almost 13 years ago
He’s in the closet with a rainbow of coats… hmmm….
jackproarty almost 6 years ago
No one noticed he’s actually READING instead of looking on his phone?
Dumb Ass on The Hill over 3 years ago
This was one of the few strips that really made me feel for Rat.
CHAD OCHOCINCO JOHNSON over 2 years ago
SusanSunshine apperince #2