Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 24, 2015

Rat probably isn’t that good at puzzles but doesn’t wasn’t to admit it.

Rat is partly correct. Beer is actually the preferred method of passing the time until we die.

I wonder if Rat would be more interested if it were Grumpy Cat?

One of my cousins would put together the puzzles with glue and clear coat then use them as placemats on their table.

Nice quote, Nab, but I’m not seeing how it ties in?

I feel as Rat does when it comes to puzzles. Big waste of time.

..& the point is?!?!?

“The only things known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle. He reasoned like this: you can’t have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles — kingons, or possibly queons — that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed.”

Mort 1987 by Terry Pratchett.

Just as relevant to this comic as yours but a lot more enjoyable.

For our dearly beloved (or is he still with us?) Nabuqudu et. al – all I can say is: Fahrvergnügen. Say both of those 5 times real fast and I’m good to start my next fabulous day of the week. As for Rat, I think he needs to be appreciated a little more. Perhaps he needs some more love and attention – someone take his pix and make him into a bigger-than-his-life jigsaw puzzle so we can all work on putting him back together. Psych 101 here, there, over there, under the table, and the dog just ate that last piece of the puzzle. So, you know the moral of this story, folks… Uh, help me out, ok, someone get the net.

I feel the same way about making a bed.

#kitty

#kitty

Finally, Rat speaketh the truth.

Nab’s quote is relevant because it tells us what we are supposed to be doing with our lives. Using our talents to help others.

Rat finds this past time puzzling.

I think Rat has an issue with attachment.

Life is like a jigsaw puzzle with one piece missing.No matter how long you work at it, you’ll never be done.

Yes, I know all about Mrs. Slocombe’s pussy, Tiddles.

Finally Rat and I agree on something!

The Name Game, verse 1::“Shirley, Shirley, bo-birley,Banana-fana, fo-firley,Fee, fi, mo-mirley,Shirley.”

Nab is pointing out that reading his posts is an even bigger waste of time than doing jigsaw puzzles.

Belgium is on lockdown: passing the time until one day they die. They like Kitties too: Cat tweets are their response.

As usual, Goat and Pig are left to pick up the pieces.

xxx

If he likes cats, just get on youtube, there is plenty. there are other places for pussy pix.

here kitty kitty

After panel 2 I was expecting some sort of “break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar” pun-chline. Now I’m depressed.

Y’know, I realized something today:

It’s been a while since we’ve seen any references to characters’ Oompa Loompas in this strip …

Is Stephan slipping?

We do basically pass the time (however much) before we die. Use it wisely. Don’t look at kitties (I assume Pig is addicted to that social networking site, where there are far too many kitties every day)….

I’m just glad he said “kitties”.