Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 29, 2021

Goat had it coming.

Here’s a good one for you, Rat: If you don’t want to hear the answer, don’t ask the question.

Use your horns, Goat.

Some gift, bah. Let him have it, Rat!

I’m with Rat.

This, too, shall pass.

“Nobody knows how good it could have been, they only know how good it was!”

How sharper than a child’s tooth it is to have a thankless serpent.

Right to the face O’ pain!

The present is a gift.

The past is a headache.

The future is a menace.

By Goat’s definition, Rat’s fist was a present!

Maybe…what goes around comes around. Not a bad one for Rat to remember.

The fist o’ doom sounds a lot like Alice’s fist of death from Dilbert.

Goat time to " Rat Bat " …. Rat ! With Feeling !

Karma is a bear, Rat! And you just might be the honey!

Rat probably would have had pretty much the same response to anything that Goat said.

“It’s crackers to zip a roster dropsy in snide.” (Mad Magazine words to live by)

Fist O’Doom. I think I knew his brother, Paddy O’Doom.

I live by the words of Groucho Marx: Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

Punch Rat in the nose, Goat

Hey, you stole that fist from the bully lady in Dilbert.

Goat should knock Rat down with his horns.

Rat is out of control.

It’s only banal if you don’t understand it or live by it.

Pointless violence so hilarious.

I’m with Rat on this one. It’s worth mentioning that the first place many people saw this particular banality was in a Family Circus strip.

C’mon, Pig, you know the old saying: It’s exhausting being a lover not a fighter. . .especially when you know one good smack would end it.

I’m pretty sure I heard that from the movie Kung Fu Panda. “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present” -Master Oogway.

TANSTAAFL – There Aint No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.

At least this strip doesn’t involve Stephan having his own characters beat him up.

Rat’s snout is getting shorter

Hey, Technoblade, just wanna say thanks for saving me yesterday I was left there for almost a year in real life

I haven’t been caught yet and I still have a delusion of control.

TODAY is a gift, which is why it is called the present.

The saying I live by, is this. The best way to get on your feet, is to get off your A**.

And “ubiquitous puns are crushed under the weight of an oversized mallet”

Isn’t the fist of doom from the female engineer in Dilbert? Or am I remembering it wrong?

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Careful Rat…you are building up an entire squadron of acquaintances awaiting their own satisfaction…

Rat can’t handle the truth or anything close to it.

Naw a good punch clears up a lot of misunderstanding.

Rat always reminds me of a few people I know…..you may notice I didn’t say they are FRIENDS of mine, however!

Black Eyes Matter

Christmas is coming. Buy Rat some black and white striped PJs and send him to the Crocs.

The fist of doom will cause you to not have any friends.

Every day is a gift, Monday is a gag gift!

In this case I’ve have a say. Pound Rat to a bloody pulp.

Rat has a point

One of my favorite twisted fantasy novels is called “No Present Like Time.”

“Gift” in German is poison. Cynicism is the check on reality.

The saying is, Today is a gift, that’s why it’s called the present.

This is one of those times I’m strongly tempted to side with rat.

Leave it to Rat to cop a meme from Dilbert (Alice’s Fist of Death) and make Goat pay the price!

Of course there are times when Goat merits a slap or two….