Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 27, 2012
July 26, 2012
July 28, 2012
Transcript:
Waiter: Hey, Goat. What do you want to drink? Goat: Break down some grain in hot water and let a bunch of fungi eat it and then give me their waste products. Rat: It's called beer, @*#@ it!! Goat: I like to be precise.
Don’t forget the hopps. I like a strong India Pale Ale (like Stone IPA or Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA). As a kid I drank that Colorado Cool Aid, but now I want more flavor in my beer. I think it was one of the Monty Python crew that correctly described American beer as “like making love in a canoe, you know, f**cking close to water”.
I just pray that Pastis doesn’t make someone order a hot dog anytime soon…
As for beer, why not bring the worlds together and pick yourself up a Monty Python’s Holy Ale at your local specialty store? The taste doesn’t measure up to a Bell’s Oberon or a Granite City Northern Lager, but it’s more fun :)
@vwdualnomandPlease don’t toss PBR in with all of the other cheap beers. It’s a very underrated beer and has a good taste. That’s why it started becoming retro hip a couple of years ago when people tried it again how swore it off as a youthful mistake.
Rat makes up his own rules and exceptions to his rules.
BTW, in Germany, beer isn’t an alcoholic drink (except to those who see the effects of the disease), it’s a food group. Given to hospital patients, available in work drink machines and it’s OK to give to children of all ages.
For those who don’t like what Goat is having, there’s always a small berry’s juice left to ferment by natural fungi.
Or you can use any of assorted grains (or even root vegetables) in warm water treated with fungi, boiled, reliquified, and then left in a wood container for upwards of several years.
“Beer is responsible for civilization . . . preserving its [grain’s] nutritive value thru to the following spring and single-handedly justified the rise of settlements and agriculture.”And of course, alcohol is ant-bacterial and anti-parasitic . . .
firedome over 11 years ago
goat turned the table on rat!
vjkjm over 11 years ago
He’s really getting rat’s goat.
Rakostump over 11 years ago
What is it with these food related jokes these last few days? I don’t know why, but I like them…
margueritem over 11 years ago
Got your goat, didn’t he, Rat?
vwdualnomand over 11 years ago
well, there are good beers, and bad beers. good is sam adams. bad ones are bud, pbr, coors, miller, fosters, and zima.
Templo S.U.D. over 11 years ago
touché, Goat, on getting Rat a taste of his own medicine
SCOTTtheBADGER over 11 years ago
YAY, GOAT!
einarbt7 over 11 years ago
Rat is right.
Sisyphos over 11 years ago
Good show, Goat! Gotcha, Rat!BTW, beer is still okay with me….
ChrissyT over 11 years ago
Rat finally gets a taste of his own medicine, with help from Goat! GO, GOAT! Incidentally, anyone feel like some yogurt?
AGED_ENGINEER Premium Member over 11 years ago
I’m wondering…do today’s and yesterday’s strips have something to do with counter culture?(Probably too subtle for a lot of folks, but try anyway.)
PdLorinel over 11 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olEVtMabfq0
knight1192a over 11 years ago
No Rat, it’s called sweet, sweet revenge.
Hillbillyman over 11 years ago
What ever it’s called..it’s still poison to me.
AlexLion over 11 years ago
Now that’s a revenge )
Larry Kroeger Premium Member over 11 years ago
Don’t forget the hopps. I like a strong India Pale Ale (like Stone IPA or Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA). As a kid I drank that Colorado Cool Aid, but now I want more flavor in my beer. I think it was one of the Monty Python crew that correctly described American beer as “like making love in a canoe, you know, f**cking close to water”.
Varnes over 11 years ago
Ok, build a still, get some corn….
Comedy Critic over 11 years ago
nice bit of pay back
the burser over 11 years ago
back at ya rat
bmonk over 11 years ago
Goat can sure be a fun guy!
Bill Chapman over 11 years ago
I always called it “yeast urine”. Really annoyed my dad.
Kydex29 over 11 years ago
Oh, YEAH! Goat scores!
jmartin1955 over 11 years ago
It’s still beer – so drink up!
peabodyboy over 11 years ago
Rat can dish it out, but he can’t take it. What a wussy.
Plods with ...™ over 11 years ago
Touche`
meowgirl over 11 years ago
Go Goat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
m.l. over 11 years ago
Sayman over 11 years ago
Payback’s a b!tch, Rat.
dog545 over 11 years ago
Tastes just the same.
Dave M over 11 years ago
I just pray that Pastis doesn’t make someone order a hot dog anytime soon…
As for beer, why not bring the worlds together and pick yourself up a Monty Python’s Holy Ale at your local specialty store? The taste doesn’t measure up to a Bell’s Oberon or a Granite City Northern Lager, but it’s more fun :)
Reppr Premium Member over 11 years ago
Why is goat still stiing at the counter after this exchange? I expected him to be on the floor with stars around his head. Is rat getting soft?
Brouhard over 11 years ago
@vwdualnomandPlease don’t toss PBR in with all of the other cheap beers. It’s a very underrated beer and has a good taste. That’s why it started becoming retro hip a couple of years ago when people tried it again how swore it off as a youthful mistake.
Brouhard over 11 years ago
*who
Mstreselena over 11 years ago
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
BF (I think I got the quote right)
Casey Southards over 11 years ago
Rat got a taste of it.
Rickapolis over 11 years ago
I’ll take iced tea, thanks.
dfowensby over 11 years ago
whats with the loaf on the guys head?maybe he pinched it off an italian…heh.
SapphireFireGem over 11 years ago
They’re both hypocrites
Sherlock Watson over 11 years ago
Some days you get someone’s goat, other days the goat gets you. No butts about it.
sandigilbo over 11 years ago
Rat makes up his own rules and exceptions to his rules.
BTW, in Germany, beer isn’t an alcoholic drink (except to those who see the effects of the disease), it’s a food group. Given to hospital patients, available in work drink machines and it’s OK to give to children of all ages.
tbritt99 over 11 years ago
Ugh. After putting it that way, I’m rethinking my after work trip to the bar.
Chewiek9 over 11 years ago
I call it a miracle from heaven!
bmonk over 11 years ago
For those who don’t like what Goat is having, there’s always a small berry’s juice left to ferment by natural fungi.
Or you can use any of assorted grains (or even root vegetables) in warm water treated with fungi, boiled, reliquified, and then left in a wood container for upwards of several years.
Dillithamir over 11 years ago
I think I’ve just been “cured” of any alcoholism that I might be inclined to…..
Yammo Premium Member over 11 years ago
TOUCHE!!
folklegendredux over 11 years ago
Goat strikes back!
Fan o’ Lio. over 11 years ago
I LIKE BEER
Woody157 over 11 years ago
‘…It makes me a jolly good fellow…’
peabodyboy over 11 years ago
Rat, A.E. Housman, Tom T. Hall, and the McKenzie brothers endorse this song.
On the eighth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:
Eight comic books,
Seven packs of smokes,Six packs of two-four,Five golden touques!Four pounds of backbacon,Three French toast,Two turtlenecks,
And a beer.
corzak over 11 years ago
“Beer is responsible for civilization . . . preserving its [grain’s] nutritive value thru to the following spring and single-handedly justified the rise of settlements and agriculture.”And of course, alcohol is ant-bacterial and anti-parasitic . . .
corzak over 11 years ago
lol . . . nicely done!
Stream of conscience over 11 years ago
One for the Goat!
Lyons Group, Inc. over 11 years ago
78 (make that 79) comments?! What’s going on? Trying to outdo Dick Tracy , LuAnn , Alley Oop , or Endtown ?
dataweaver over 11 years ago
Nicely played.
Snoopy_Fan over 11 years ago
It’s best not to think about it and simply enjoy…
zero over 11 years ago
Yeast infections
Papadoodle over 11 years ago
yeast is not a fungus…
Chepi89 over 11 years ago
Now I understand why beer has always tasted like s@*! to me.
SomeOtherGocomicsGuy over 5 years ago
What a %$#^%@ comeback.
Goat from PBS about 3 years ago
I love driving Rat up the wall.