Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 05, 2015

Rat might make a good pirate; they spent all their time looking for booty.

I still enjoy the Charlie Brown-inspired lamp. Just thought I’d mention it. Again.

The Crown’s promise to all captured pirates: You’ll be given a fair trial; then you’ll hang.

Monkey D. “Straw Hat” Luffy.

Rat as Captain and the Crocs as the Crew………………..On the good ship HMS Pastis :-O

I love the Charlie Brown lamp.

in like flynn…member?

I love the Charlie Brown lamp.

Pirate Boys don’t take orders from victim-Goats, Paris! I’m afraid you’re out of luck. Just be glad Rat doesn’t make you walk the plank!

Cargo, Rat. Not flotsam and jetsam.

Pirate Boy from Pirate Bay?

AWESOME!!! ARRRR!!

With all of these comments, I’m getting a hankering to reread Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin novels.

¿pǝsıɹdɹns ʇou ı ɯɐ ʎɥʍ

He didn’t say “Republicans,” he said “Dick Cheney.” Now who’s doing the stretching? And you do that a lot!

“For I am a Pirate King! And it is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King!”- Gilbert and Sullivan

Rat got a pair of pirate earrings for $2…..a buck-an-ear

Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years too late.The cannons don’t thunder there’s nothin’ to plunderI’m an wirey-haired victim of fateArriving too late, arriving too late.

Some trivia, Germany’s most (in)famous pirate was called Störtebecker.

Is it just me or does this strip look older in the art (i.e it was delayed)?

Charlie Brown vase.