Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 25, 2013

starting with rats head

yeah…about 100 percent of the folks who watch pro wrestling…

Wait until you meet his wife. . ..

Well, let’s hear it Rat!

Oh. Good. Lord! Will “James Joyce, the Wrestling Allusionist” be a Heel or a Face?(As if we didn’t know; this is Rat, after all.) James Joyce (the real one) had played so-called Gaelic football as a youth but was of what Harry Levin called “a delicate physique” and is not known for wrestling….

“Did someone mention head?”—-Joyce James

“Portrait of a Middle-Aged Cartoonist” by Stephan Pastis. In bookstores . . . soon?

This would totally make me start watching wrestling.

ulysses…they say it is a masterpiece, but it is so boring. or, is it only understood by irish and literature majors?

Nice singlet rat.

Don’t diss Pro Wrestling too much – I’ve come to view it as the western version of a Noh play. It’s not too dissimilar. It’s strictly structured, contains archetypal characters and can always be described as a morality play.

Now, NASCAR…. a Southern friend of mine loved it but even he told me it was basically “Rednecks on speed”…

as will several steel chairs

By the way, Lanny Poffo and the WWF already did “The Genius.”

What’s he talking about?

Whack fo’ the dannoDance to yer partnerSweep the floor, yer cupboards shakeWasn’t it the truth I told yeLots of fun at Pastis’s wake!…which I hope will NOT happen for a long, LOOONG time!

I could never get past the third chapter of Finnegans Wake – (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!)

poor Mr. Bloom, of Bloom County

Rat, of all characters, should know better. Most people don’t really get the meaning of the H.L. Mencken quote, “No one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” The point Menken was making was that plenty of people have lost money overestimating the intelligence of the American public.

Reminds me of the one where Rat was ripping on a neighbor and got a trophy for winning the poetry slam. Then he said “I thought this was a city council meeting.” Later he lamented “And then they took my trophy away.”

Rat needs the Iron Sheik to make him humble the old country way.

“Ulysses (f*rted)” by Rat

Three quarks for Muster Mark!

Rat’s ringaround wrostles all combers.

I have worked in a place where “Aussie Rules” was theirdaily mission statement….

If this doesn’t work out, maybe Rat could try being The Grappling Geek and intimidate his opponents with his mighty pocket protector.

I see some forging coming on.

Admittedly, as some have implied, this may go over rat’s head.

You’re right, Rat.

I like the costume though.

LOL xxx

U.P.

Oh, yeah, I was wondering whether this was Bloomsday. Nope, that, according to Google, was June 16th this year.Google it for details.

WAY over ……………………………………………..

ROTFL!

with Rat it’s an illiterate illusion

Groaner alert:

Any mention of James Joyce makes me long to write a Sci Fi novel about the earth being invaded by James Joyce clones. The sole reason for this would be to have the line ‘Inside the city, the masses rejoiced, while nearby the Joyces’ remassed.

You get why I like this strip?

It’ll go over Rat’s head. James Joyce seems far more appropriate to an intellectual like Goat than to an idiotic jerk like Rat.