Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 20, 2014

A clean desk is a sign of a sick mind.

That’s telling him, Rat!

A clean desk is a sign of a not-busy-enough employee.

I don’t know about resent. Perplexed would be a better term.

It’s going to be hard to appreciate this strip for a while, after yesterday’s.

A place for each pile and a pile for each place………………..and a to do list to connect all the piles together.

I had a supervisor who would put all of the mess from the top of her desk to the empty drawers just to look organized while she was gone.

I have several cats. There are no neat stacks of papers on my desk. The floor is my inbox. Maybe I should retaliate and use their litter box for my papers.

Being every bit as obsessive as Goat, I would proceed to string Rat up by his ankles, let him watch while I straightened up everything, and then get mean….

Let’s play a game called “punch the rat”

Perhaps the next thing Paris should clean is Rat’s clock!

Two kinds of desks—- high rise and urban sprawl. Rat just made the latter.

I worked for years with a guy, who would spend the whole day, putting things in a certain position on his desk, pencils arranged just so so, longest first then to the smallest, it been ten years now and every once in a while I go and check his desk…yup still the same

In the movie Man on the Flying Trapeze, W.C. Fields had what appeared to be a mess of papers on his desk, but it was actually a form of organization that worked perfectly for him.:Sometimes chaos is order.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, .Then by the rule of similarity, .What is an empty desk a sign of?

I hate Rat.

xxx

I have a very simple piling system with random excess.

Funny—my desk at work was always clean and neat, and every night before I left, I tidied up. My desk at home is a mess, with piles of papers, books, and items that I am trying to keep out of the reach of my toddler grandsons. I wonder what that means?

I’m part of the neat side.

A neat desk is a sign of a sick mind.