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At its heart, Pearls Before Swine is the comic strip tale of two friends: an arrogant Rat who thinks he knows it all and a slow-witted Pig who doesn't know any better. Together, this pair offers caustic commentary on humanity's quest for the unattainable. Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams says that Pearls is "one of the few comics that make me laugh out loud." The strip has twice won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben division award for Best Newspaper Comic Strip – in 2003 and in 2006.
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Adam Nedens(Snoopster) said, 8 months ago
Brick through the window onto pig’s head
thatnicecollegeguy said, 8 months ago
Education by experience…that’s a great and terrible thing. In the hands (paws?) of someone like Rat, mostly just a terrible thing.
daBomb619 said, 8 months ago
Except the glass is on the inside…
firedome said, 8 months ago
looks like pig got defenestrated..
margueritem
said, 8 months ago
@daBomb619
Good detective work.
jukeofurl said, 8 months ago
@daBomb619
He came in through the bathroom window…
agedengineer
said, 8 months ago
No pane, no gain!
rf_eq said, 8 months ago
@agedengineer
that’s pretty good. I think rat is using the de-constructivist teaching method.
Sisyphos said, 8 months ago
The Defenestration of Pig: wasn’t that a big deal in the Thirty Years War?
Montaholic said, 8 months ago
May 23, 1618, a famous historic incident occurs in Bohemia, the Denestration of Prague. From Wikipedia:
The Lord Count von Thurn turned to both Martiniz and Slavata and said "you are enemies of us and of our religion,… have horribly plagued your Protestant subjects… and have tried to force them to adopt your religion against their wills… Soon after, the Regents were thrown out of the third floor window along with the Regents’ secretary, Philipus Fabricius but survived after falling 70 feet.
Later Protestant pamphleteers asserted that they survived due to falling onto a dung heap, a story unknown to contemporaries and probably coined in response to the Imperial officials attributing their survival to the intercession of the Virgin Mary.
Alexikakos said, 8 months ago
Where did the window go in the first and third panels?
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Look at Rat’s ear in relation to the corner, and his tail in relation to the glass. (Which, as daBomb619 said, is on the wrong side anyway.)
Hillbillyman said, 8 months ago
Happens all the time on old TV westerns. LOL
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 8 months ago
re: montaholic
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That takes me back. “Culture and history of Central Europe.” Taught by a Slovak who came over just before the Iron Curtain fell.
SusanSunshine
said, 8 months ago
I have a vocabulary word for Rat:
Warfarin.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 8 months ago
Jan Hus, whose death kicked off the Hussite wars and the 30 years war, had the “radical” notion of the Bible as written, vs. church tradition. Later on in Europe’s history, the Huguenots and later yet, the Puritans, tried to do the same.