Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 02, 2017

Rat is a drunk, not an alcoholic. Alcoholics attend meetings.

If everybody only did what they love to do, most careers would be unfilled.

Unfortunately, you can love to do something without having the ability to do it even moderately well. Of course, that doesn’t apply to Rat and getting drunk.

For some reason, I’m now picturing Rat with orange hair…

Find out what you love but if it’s not lucrative then find something else you love. Making lots of money and enjoying your career are equally important. Money makes a lot of things possible, for example buying groceries and living in a nice house.

Mr. Rat, you don’t need to get drunk because marijuana is legal now in many states.

Rat should cross over to “Wizard of Id” and meet the drinking master.

And thus goes Rat’s Career Day presentation.

So I found something I love to do but my boss doesn’t like the fact that I do so he makes it painful.

Go for it Rat ! Remember the can must be empty in order to recycle it !

No, you’re just an angry, belligerent drunk, Rat

Choose two:1. Enjoy the work2. Make lots of money3. Stay within the law

There are a few exceptions, of course.

Rats a member of Don Lemon’s family apparently.

As my daddy used to tell me : " If everyone wanted to be a beer truck driver, who would make the beer?

Find what you love, figure out how to make a living at it, go bankrupt.

I don’t know about a blanket kibosh, Al. I’ve actually seen several pantsuits where I would ‘go there’…exploration was on my mind.

My cosmopolitan extended-barrio has only one Playboy-class person who wears such. She has nearly started riots…old RW ranchers, slobbering on themselves and gabbling under their breaths…a couple of the local atv cowboys needed first aid, but she’s stingy with mouth-to-mouth with strangers. I took the old guy’s nine-gallon hat and fanned him with it.

Well, as long as you keep your standards high, Rat

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This reminds me of the experiment where they put a rat in a cage with morphine, and the rat overdoses until he dies. Our Rat doesn’t need the cage.

Success is all in the measuring.By the measure of what I could be, I’m an abject failure. By the measure of what everyone thought I’d be, I’m a resounding success. The truth is always somewhere in the middle.

Pig’s success would be managing to eat too much without being sick.

xxx

The epitome of American Exceptionalism! …except, of course, he needs to put on 100lbs or so.

My, my, my! Rat knows what he’s doing, whether you approve or not, Goat!

On the other hand, I’m not so sure I’d say Rat has “a successful career.”

Weird

Mm