Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 31, 2021

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    BE THIS GUY  almost 4 years ago

    Pastis should hope enough people get vaccinated that there’s herd immunity and he will be safe without it.

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    BasilBruce  almost 4 years ago

    As Marcel Marceau would say:

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    Templo S.U.D.  almost 4 years ago

    Reminds me of a video I saw in my Facebook feed one time of a nurse cutting in line at a coffee stand saying she’s privileged to cut in line. She storms out in a huff when told she cannot cut no matter what.

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    Wilde Bill  almost 4 years ago

    By the time I get the vaccine, there will be enough new strains that it will be pointless.

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    I do not understand where the joke is .

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    B UTTONS  almost 4 years ago

    I was promised an advanced position if I make a significant contribution to the DNC PAC.

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    DennisinSeattle  almost 4 years ago

    Your charming smile did not work, huh Steve?

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    GROG Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    I’d put bad puns before mimes but behind rapists and muderers.

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    ronaldspence  almost 4 years ago

    Makes me think of the fellow who received the award for humility. Seems that when he went up to receive it they took it away!

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    Troglodyte  almost 4 years ago

    Someone hasn’t got his priorities right.

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    Orcatime  almost 4 years ago

    So which of your characters are you most like?

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    Alexander the Good Enough  almost 4 years ago

    Got my first jab last Tuesday, so by March, one year to the day, I’ll be out of house arrest.

    I’m sufficiently of age & have the requite handful of co-morbitities, but it was 10% pluck, 90% luck. I made ‘em promise me that it wouldn’t make me (any more) autistic, and I’m really not too worried about Bill Gates tracking me. Smartphones & Facebook already do a great job of that…

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    gopher gofer  almost 4 years ago

    fortunately for me, translators are just ahead of felons…

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    blunebottle  almost 4 years ago

    He can have mine…

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    Gent  almost 4 years ago

    If only you were a convict, you’d get it first.

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    Walrus Gumbo Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    I’m in complete agreement with pig.

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    Doug K  almost 4 years ago

    Stephan, Stephan, Stephan. Tsk, tsk, tsk. When you say you do all the great puns – shouldn’t you admit that you actually do some of the worst puns? Then again the worst puns really are the greatest (I was wrong Stephan, you are essential.).

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    zerotvus  almost 4 years ago

    Sorry folks……EVERYTHING is after politicians.

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    Egrayjames  almost 4 years ago

    I’m in Aroostook County in northernmost Maine….we are very isolated and really at the “end of the line” you might say. This week some elderly man drove five hours from southern Maine to get his shot in Presque Isle. He somehow managed to get on their list. So that was 10 hours of driving and he’ll have to come back for his second shot. Personally, I think he was unthoughtful towards those of us here needing vaccines…..but I really think he’s a jerk because he bragged about it on the local news. I don’t care if he’s seventy something years old….there are plenty of people here in the county that should have been offered that shot before him. By the way, he did not break any laws or guidelines by the State of Maine….he just took advantage of them. I’m only 69 and don’t qualify for a shot at this time.

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    James Wolfenstein  almost 4 years ago

    I hate mimes, they’re useless and annoying. Yes, I know, Pastis is too… but at least he’s not being annoying in public places :D

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    Breadboard  almost 4 years ago

    Support your local Crocs ! Shots for Crocs ! Without Larry Croc how may the rest of us Shine ? …. Croc Power !

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    GlenGoodwin  almost 4 years ago

    Isn’t it hard getting close to opus near Oakland, mr.Pastis?

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    ERBEN2  almost 4 years ago

    It looks like Pastis could use a little work out on those arms of his .

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    Jeffin Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Honey, was that Pastis who just passed us?

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    wrd2255  almost 4 years ago

    But he was ahead of gypsys, tramps and thieves…

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    tripwire45  almost 4 years ago

    I’m trying to think of how many comic strip artists are so famous, their names are household words and a group of people standing in line would automatically know them.

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    Serial Pedant  almost 4 years ago

    “………”. He said it again.

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    tony57 Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    As Opus said “That’s when I whacked him with the Olive-Loaf”https://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/2021/01/25

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    Inahastation(eye nuh ha station)  almost 4 years ago

    Good thing you’re not a lawyer anymore, right?

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    eddie6192  almost 4 years ago

    Toon Boy received his comeuppance.

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    Radish the wordsmith  almost 4 years ago

    Make way, cartoonist coming!

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    babka Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Was told there were still some shots available 4 hours north in Potsdam & Plattsburgh. Imagine being that close to Canada & they wouldn’t let you in!

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    Smokie  almost 4 years ago

    If he gets it after prisoners, he should go to Massachusetts as they are getting the vaccine first.

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    Ralph Newbill  almost 4 years ago

    I agree with Pig. Mimes are a menace to sanity.

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    carlosrivers  almost 4 years ago

    Did anyone see “Shakes the Clown”? They were party clown that hated mimes. They came up on some mimes, and Adam Sandler called them “You silent mother******s”

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    Tentoes  almost 4 years ago

    I am the least essential person in the state!

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    sea Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Why aren’t they all wearing masks?

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    Cary Rodda Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    But we NEED those awesome puns! :D

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    P-B  almost 4 years ago

    Well, you’re getting close. OJ Simpson got his shot the other day. (-_-)

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    Kaputnik  almost 4 years ago

    If my state continues to follow the progression they’ve been using, I’ll be in the fourth group to have the vaccine available. They are currently giving it to the second group, so I’m not holding my breath.

    On the bright side, if there turn out to be any nasty side effects that they don’t know about yet, maybe we’ll know by the time they tell me it’s my turn.

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    Ellis97  almost 4 years ago

    When you’re famous, you can cut in front everyone.

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    Nyckname  almost 4 years ago

    ’S not like you ever need to leave the house.

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    LKrueger41  almost 4 years ago

    Pastis before Guantanamo detainees?

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    Zebrastripes  almost 4 years ago

    It’s on hold! Americans before Terrorists now! Pastis did good!

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    Bookworm  almost 4 years ago

    In my state, just getting on the list to enable you to attempt to make the appointment for a possibility of getting an injection because vaccine supplies are uncertain is pretty much like filling out a lottery ticket, except the odds of success in the lottery are much better than the odds of succeeding at just getting on the list to enable you to attempt to make the appointment for a possibility of getting an injection because vaccine supplies are uncertain. Oh, but the lottery costs a dollar to play. The attempt to make the appointment for a possibility of getting an injection because vaccine supplies are uncertain is free. /s

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    Stocky One  almost 4 years ago

    Nobody would get it if anti-vaxxers had their way. They temporarily shut down a clinic in Los Angeles yesterday. Perhaps they should have the right to not take the vaccine themselves, but they certainly don’t have the right to interfere with other people who do want to take it.

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    dtaylor404  almost 4 years ago

    Given the things people argue about, it was sheer folly to presume we would be in agreement regarding order of vaccine precedence.

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    Acworthless  almost 4 years ago

    That’s OK Stephan… you can have mine. I don’t want it until this beta test is over.

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    MitmanArt  almost 4 years ago

    #StephanPastis, why are none of those people wearing masks?

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    hooglah  almost 4 years ago

    I’ll wait and see how many more fall over dead. I’m hoping Biden and the commie bitch are one of them.

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    No1ofConsequens  almost 4 years ago

    In Oregon, it is felons before the rest of the general population including mimes and cartoonists. Unreal.

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    etaub1  almost 4 years ago

    I still don’t “get” todays strip. Help please!

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    DCBakerEsq  almost 4 years ago

    Why not just mime the vaccine?

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    zeexenon  almost 4 years ago

    Hey, forcefully concentrated groups, like felons, should be first. Don Trump

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    Everett  almost 4 years ago

    I am also laughing that this has been issued closely following the bloom county rerun of the mime salami attack

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    Manitobaman  almost 4 years ago

    I don’t know if anyone else has mentioned it and I don’t have the time to go through 114 previous comments so apologies in advance. In Manitoba, prisoners, including murderers, rapists et al go to the front of the line for the covid vaccine. Figure THAT one out !!

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    johnschutt  almost 4 years ago

    Beautiful

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    dlaemmerhirt999  almost 4 years ago

    Dat sh*t-eating grin though!

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    jstlucas  almost 4 years ago

    We don’t have to wear masks when we’re in line for a covid vaccine shot?

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    WCraft Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    I’m still scratching my head at “Great Puns.” If ever there were two words which were unspeakable when together…!

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    Mentor397  almost 4 years ago

    OJ Simpson. Sheesh.

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    jtrevor99  almost 4 years ago

    Don’t worry Pastis, you’re at least in front of the Zippy guy.

    :)

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    etaub1  almost 4 years ago

    Seriously, I still don’t “get” today’s strip. I usually have no problems with puns. Maybe I am having a senior moment as an octogenarian, but I really would appreciate a simple, not-sarcastic, and not even a witty explanation.

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    bloodykate  almost 4 years ago

    LOL, SP!!

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    LaughterIsJoyMuliplied  almost 4 years ago

    Thanks Steph — another homerun.

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    asrialfeeple  almost 4 years ago

    I’m sure you’l get it, Pasts. I’m SURE you’ll get it!

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    Andylit Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    I thought all mimes were felons.

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    librarian4hire  almost 4 years ago

    “It was said that [Vetinari] would tolerate absolutely anything apart from anything that threatened the city*… [Footnote] And mime artists. It was a strange aversion, but there you are. Anyone in baggy trousers and a white face who tried to ply their art anywhere within Ankh’s crumbling walls would very quickly find themselves in a a scorpion pit, on one wall of which was painted the advice: Learn The Words.”

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    kauri44  almost 4 years ago

    A mime is a terrible thing to waste.

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    SofaKing  almost 4 years ago

    O.J. Simpson got the vaccine. O.J. freakin’ Simpson.

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    cracker65  almost 4 years ago

    Get a grip folks. This thing is going to be with us for a long time.

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    Cactus-Pete  almost 4 years ago

    None of those folks was wearing a mask and they weren’t even six feet apart. Stephan must live in a really screwed up state.

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    oakie817  almost 4 years ago

    mimes lives matter too…you just don’t hear about them so much

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    mfrasca  almost 4 years ago

    Behind the mimes and felons, but ahead of the telephone sanitizers!

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    WilliamDoerfler  almost 4 years ago

    Politicians last.

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    Sisyphos  almost 4 years ago

    Ha ha (in best Nelson Muntz voice)! Big shot Stephan Pastis, a.k.a. Cartoon-Boy, gets last shot. I kinda sorta think there’s an ethical lesson lurking somewhere in there. Right, Pig?

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    del  almost 4 years ago

    The reprise of Bloom County just (re)finished their week of mime bashing and its repercussions…

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    BobTheJanitor  over 3 years ago

    I’m below the felons on the vaccine list too… Of course I want it first but, (with a few exceptions,) felons aren’t sentenced to death, yet because they are packed into a place where they can’t easily stay 6 feet apart and get fresh air, they are kind of doomed without the vaccine. (Also, so are the guards.) Where as I can continue to live in a house and go for walks in my neighborhood and have my groceries delivered for another few months, (I’ve been doing it for 10+ months now…)

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    Swirls Before Pine  over 3 years ago

    I’d like to see Pastis try that with the recruitment line from “Blazing Saddles”. Harvey Korman would have shot him.

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