Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 03, 2011

Rat gonna get fired. Again.

Isn’t he on permanent probation?

Rat’s going to be on a permanent vacation if he keeps that up.

Yeah! A vacation to the unemployment line.

I agree with rayannina, margueritem, and ♥Little Sister♥ that Rat’s days with “Joe’s Roastery” are numbered (and it’s a very small number)!

Lock Rat up in the storage room. Maybe it’ll help.

What the hell is nonfat 180?

Made with nonfat milk and at 180 degrees (presumably Fahrenheit.)

Rat at the employment office?

sigh, such a pretty couple too

Eh?

A word, maybe, a latte probably not……

Some bad-a$$ biker comes in there and it’s gonna be Rat who’s “broken up” into little bits…

Hello to those from comics.com who knew me as ButItsNotACoatRack!

The guy places an order like that and it was his GIRLFRIEND who was high maintenance? I’m with Rat on this one. Too pretentious for words.

I like how he orders the vanilla latte iced and wants it at 180 degrees.

This is a very strange strip to say when you wake up in the morning.

Bad coffee lovers. They are ugly

So if it’s at 180 degrees, what’s the point of ice?

philphan25

Exactly! ;-)

@Destiny23 (re: yesterday’s comment):I don’t want to have to click each comic – that’s exactly the nature of my complaint about gocomics. I read a few comics at a time in one tab while waiting for other things to load in a different tab (like my obituary searches). I already have a personalised page, but don’t look at it precisely because of how it works.And then I read that gocomics wants me to start paying in two months for this interface that requires that I click each comic and scroll the page sideways after every new strip loads? Methinks I’ll be switching back to reading the strips in the newspaper at my local library. Gocomics will not be getting one cent of my less-than-$550-per-month permanent disability income.[I miss the good old days when writing comments on PBS was an exercise in humour rather than in frustration.]

I am sure we will hear from Rat about Pastis not winning the Reuben award,again.

It seems that the customer turned into a man somewhere between panels 1 and 3, judging by the change in the coffee order.

so exvited Pearls is on gocomics!

what, no Darby?

@OilCanHarry I just scroll down to see them. Don’t recall how I set it up but someone explained how a few days back.

this comment cracks me up…

i wish you boobs would stop writing so many #%^#%^Q#$!#%#$#%#&%$%^ comments.

At one point, the company had to keep Rat because they were aiming for diversity (company policy or something) and Rat was the only rat they had working there.

Does anyone else like the joke that the name is roastery and rat delivers out roasts