Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 24, 2022

Not only is he a philatelist, he’s also a pugilist.

Rat with the bat : 0 – Karateka philatelist : 1.

A philatelist named Phil. Makes me wonder about guys named Moe or Ray.

BTW, how come Phil’s head has shading in panel 2 but not panel 1?

He’s not even a stamp collector! His name is Phil A Tesla.

Does he engage in online philately? Does he engage in philately with people of inappropriate gender? OMG!

Gee, he sort of stamp-ed all over Rat.

The philatelists will stamp out prejudice.

While you worried about the philatelist next door, a prestidigitator moved in across the street! What’s more, his cousin is a funambulist!

He is obviously a well-practiced Philately Master, and follows the principles of the Great Teacher Stanley Gibbons.

Rat tried to stamp out philately and got stamped himself, that’s gonna leave a (post)mark

I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills — skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.

Not only is he a philatelist, but he regularly masticates with his Thespian sister.

Next, they go after the sexagenarians.

Turns out, Phil was a rugby player before he found out about stamps.

Do not feel sorry for you Rat, you had it coming!

What else did you expect, Rat? He licked you and stamped you! :D

His return to sender stamp is quite effective.

Anybody want to go in with me on a startup to print bumper stickers that say “Stamp Out Philately”?

I’ve already started lining up suppliers for my earlier series: “I’m As Solipsistic As The Next Guy”, “What Good Is Being An Executive If You Never Get To Execute Anyone?” and “My Other Car Is Nose Down In A Canal”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatulist

A gofundme should be started for rat, there seems to be one for just about everything else.

The moral of this strip: don’t ph*** around with philatelists!

Rat you wear that position well ;-)

Pig stayed out of the whole confrontation. He must have felt that Rat had it coming.

Rat was “STAMPED!!!!”

Phil should have done sanctions and letters of condemnations first (he might not have stamps, though).

“She’s holding me hostage. No. Me hostage.”

Phil has my stamp of approval.

Philatelists: Another victim of cancel culture.

I’m a numismatist. Am I next?

Philatelists are stamp collectors, not criminals.

We really have to watch “these” people, you never know what they might be licking next. #CancelPhilatelists

When you mess with a stamp collector expect to get a licking!

Rat sure wants to stamp out philatelists!

should have corked the bat

Find a stamp and mail someone who cares.

You never know who your neighbors really are

FDR was a well known philatelist

I wondered if “We ask questions later Phil” is a pun on philater but Pastis so yes.

Rat finally got a taste of his own bat, and all I can say is that it’s about bloody time!

Don’t mess with them…..

So don’t corner them, Rat. Their stamping usually goes unperforated.

“Philatelist” is code for “CRT.”

Oh, it’s so good to see Rat get beaten up for a change.

I didn’t even know they had to register.

Reminds me what was on the news many years ago. A mother was extremely upset and offended because her daughter came home from school and shared what the ‘word of the day’ the teacher had. It was ‘niggardly’. Even after being explained what the meaning of the word is, she, having no sense, was still extremely upset and offended. The teacher was forced to apologize. For doing her job.

Someone commented what the woman would do if she found that her daughter masticates in the lunch room every day.

I had to look up the word “philatelist” but when I did, I laughed out loud. Comic became even funnier then.

the rush of anger?

That went well. Rat got stamped

Before challenging Phil, Rat ought to know that Philatelists can lick anything! I also thing it is funny that the Philatelist’s name is Phil!

Never corner a philatelist ( unless it’s done neatly in the upper right hand of the evelope ).

Didn’t Samson kill all the Philatelists when he tore down the temple?

EXCELLENT!

I guess those guys are hard to stamp out

Where did the bat come from?

“You have seen that kind of people who will never let on that they don’t know the meaning of a new big word. The more ignorant they are, the more pitifully certain they are to pretend you haven’t shot over their heads.” – Mark Twain, from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.

From "stamps’ to “stomped” in one panel… nice!

Jubal Harshaw: “But you know, or should know, that I am a senior philosophunculist on active duty.”

Capt. Heinrich: “Repeat?”

Jubal Harshaw: “Haven’t you studied amphigory? Gad, what they teach in schools these days!”

Rat got beat by his own bat. Love it!

FINALLY!!!!! Needs to happen to Rat more often.

Stamp out philatelists NOW!

PHILATELISTS—take a licking and keep on sticking!

And that rat is outa here.

It’s those plate blocks.

(Do those even exist any more?)

Lucky he didn’t stamp on you!

Looks like he got phillet’ed

“vicious when cornered” Ha! Stamps are placed on the UR corner of an envelope!

Ha! A shocking turn! Rat got stamped, if I may so speak….

Rat got STAMPED!

Do we need them BOTH to act stupid?

“Who needs a hobby / Like tennis or philately? / I’ve got a hoobby: / Re-reading ‘Lady Chatterly’” – Tom Lehrer, “Smut” :-)

As the saying goes, philately will get you nowhere.

looks like rat got stamped on! (i’m here all week, tip your waitress, try the veal.)

First they came for the philatelists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a philatelist…

Rat seems to have mixed up Phil the philatelist with Pedro the pedrophile.