Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 23, 2012

Never trust a rat bearing a trouble box.

♬Drop all your troubles by ther river side.♬ (“Spinning Wheel” by Blood, Sweat and Tears)

I’d like to know: Where on the keyboard is the musical note symbol?

Prof — Try World War 1.

@Arye Urgur:It’s here: ♫

(Hold Alt, type 14 on the numeric keypad and let go of Alt)

Rat was telling the truth. Pig’s troubles are now gone from the Trouble Box.

Poor Pig! Rat’s a rat for ratting out Pig’s secret confession!

Time to peel off the bogus label and learn it’s really “Rat’s Chance to Gain Information Hew was to Lazy to get Any Other Way with Which to Pick on Others Box.”

Ayer and Rodney, ALT 14 for ♫ and ALT 13 for ♪…Here’s another handy one….It was 80º today! ALT 167…Google ALT characters, there are many many many…

Um, this is going to sound freaky, even to me, but Rat is absolutely right here! We should all laugh at our troubles….That’s one of the most profound things I’ve ever heard..Rat’s got better mental health than all of us…..

♫♂◙☼►◄↕‼¶§▬↨↑↓→←∟↔▲▼ ╚╔Wow! I learned something today…this is fun!

Rat should be in the box! He is all about trouble.

You got to love Pig’s confession – “I’m dumb and need affection”.Don’t we all?

Big bags come from full grown cats.

I give that dumb Pig a lot of credit. At least he admits that he’s dumb.

Too bad the box is too small to put Rat in it.

Why do you trust Rat, Pig?

LOL LOL. Funny strip.

xxx

Rat’s a genius therapist. Definitely laugh at your troubles, and if you can’t, pay a therapist to laugh at them for you.

It’s like a metaphor for reality television.

We now know Rat’s real name…Pandora!

If only we could put politicians in there. :-D

if he only put Rat in the box it’d be the end of his troubles and the end of Pearls.

I need to get one of these at work.

♪Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen; Nobody knows my sorrow.♪

++++ or +++++

“Who knows what trouble lurks in the heart of pigs?”

“The Rat knows!”

“ALT 14” and stuff like that never work for me. I go to Google, put the words music symbols in the search bar, and carefully copy the little music symbols that appear in the list of url’s, and paste them, like so: ♫ ♪ ♬ Those came from the3rd and 8th url’s, I believe. This always works and I don’t have to memorize keypad combo’s. which have never worked for me.

I can’t work out how to import photos, however, I can’t figure out how to do

< a href=”URL” > < img src=”URL” > < /a >

First, pull all the brackets in one space, including the middle ones

(like so, ><). Then just plug the image URL inside the quotes of

both URL spots, and Hey Presto!, there’s your image.

It’s useless to me. Anyone have any other ideas?

I got enough affectioni, I guess, but I’m dumb.

I am disappointed in Rat. He forgot to charge Pig money for the humiliation. I think he is losing his touch.

WW 1

Rat is messed up.

Poor pig…I feel bad for him sometimes :(

ha…i love how rat says “hee hee hee hee”

I have one: I got a “C” once in forth grade… Sigh (Cold wind blows)