Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 06, 2023

Wouldn’t Rat first have to feel guilt before he can lose it?

I’m starting to think that SP is rerunning this one strip a lot, with different dialogue each time. If so, he must have stolen the idea from Garry Trudeau.

another parable told well

They say guilt weighs you down.

Rat has guilt?

Does Rat actually carry any guilt?

I heard it said one time, “You gotta put your past in your behind”.

Guilty of being harbinger of the plague eh Rat.

Used to be called having a conscience!

Catholic Alzheimer is where you forget everything but the guilt.

Rat already does not carry the weight of the opinion of others.

You would think Rat would plead the 5th

Gold is pretty heavy.

How did you shed your guilt, Pig?

Since when does Rat have a conscience?

Guilty feet have got no rhythm – Careless Whisper, Wham!

I’m guilty and you’re guilty too – Guilty, Gravity Kills

Guilty as charged, but dangit(&) it ain’t right – Ride the Lightning, Metallica

(&) not the actual word, but the censor is really sensitive rolleyes

Guilt does weigh on one’s conscience!

Well, we are in the guilt-ed age.

I feel so much guilt for liking this…lighter though.

World’s 3 greatest brainwasters: worry, guilt, and jealousy. If you can do something about the situation you’re in, go do it; if not, don’t nag your neurons about it.

“Ah, but to spend a tortured evening staring at the floor / Guilty and alive once more!” “Fie on Goodness,” from Camelot; music by Frederick Lowe, book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner – 1960.

So guilt makes you gain weight?

There is a lot of truth to this. Guilt is a nasty cycle that causes a lot of people to do unhealthy things to try and compensate for the guilt that we feel. This ends up producing more guilt, which causes us to seek out the tool that we try to use to reduce the feeling of guilt more.

Look for ways that will help you break that cycle.

I thought he was going to say he’d lost a few pounds by being the victim of a pickpocket in England.

Rat has guilt feelings? Who wudda thunk!

Nice one, thanks Stephan…

Rat never felt guilty in his life.

Go Pig! You’re on to something!

This old boy would disappear altogether.

Oh like Rat ever has guilt.

Rat feels guilt?

I thought Rat was guilt-proof.

What, Rat has gulit?

I thought Rat was all about not feeling guilty for anything he said, thought or did.

If Rat loses his guilt, there wouldn’t be much left.

Loosing guilt equals shedding pounds? Does that really work? Gives new light on “confession is good for the soul and belly”!

I don’t believe Rat has guilt