Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 29, 2022

This will give Rat something to look forward to when he gets up in the morning.

Life. It’s such a Rat race.

You think the comfy chair is a good thing, but wait until they come after you with the soft cushions.

okay then

If Rat doesn’t like Life, he should give it to Mikey.

Most of the rest of us just play the blues. Or sing along. Whiskey helps. (Not the blues, nothing but time helps that. Whiskey helps you ignore how badly you sing along.)

Rat, no one gives a rat’s @$$.

Sure, blame life. That won’t get you anywhere.

Don’t expect Rat to care when life does YOU wrong!

Life is cruel. Each it day it take you closer to death.

Goat seems pretty over Rat. Sad.

I didn’t expect that. Where’s the Spanish Inquisition?

Rat, I care. I really do. See, I brought the “World’s Tiniest Violin”, passed along from my mother.

The world is your oyster, how you shuck it is up to you!

When I come home Cold and Tired , It’s good to warm my bones beside the fire ….

Cry me a river.

No one cares only because it’s you, Rat. Don’t take it personally…hahaha

He should try Twitter.

That is OK – Rats don’t live that long

In German, Mein Kampfy Chair?

Nooooo! Not . . . the comfy chair!

Do some charity work for sick kids and you’ll realize how lucky you are.

So, Rat really IS a Republican…

Having a comfy chair to sit on your lazy Wise Ass (on the Hill) playing the victim is very popular in some segments of contemporary American society. You know who you are…

I opened the comments just to see how many Monty Python references there were, and I was not disappointed.

Rat hasn’t been the same since Pig’s sister left him.

He’s not expecting the Spanish Inquisition …..

Still recovering from a big surgery. Death seems no different from “pre conception”. Not so bad.

Unpopular opinion: depressed people are the most self-absorbed, self-obsessed people on Earth and need to learn to look outside of themselves instead of constantly asking themselves “what did I do wrong to deserve this miserable life?” But, then again, misery loves company and what they really want to do is drag everyone else down with them.

Let the scathing comments commence…

Rat has nothing to complain about, his life is actually rather cushy, especially in his chair. Others however. . .

“You load 16 tons, what do you get?

Another day older and deeper in debt

St. Peter, don’t you call me ‘cause I can’t go

I owe my soul to the company store. . ." – Sixteen Tons, Tennessee Ernie Ford

RAT is having a pity party…and Goat is right…nobody cares….

Life is awesome, full of choices… we don’t get to be/do anything if we dead..

In a way, life did everyone wrong. Some more than others.

That chair will decay and break after a while.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition

Just remember that the last laugh is on you.

It doesn’t matter, your back will still hurt.

“You don’t want to work; you want to live like a kingBut the big, bad world doesn’t owe you a thing” — Eagles

I wish that the Crocs could get their own spinoff strip. I really miss them (and am honestly very tired of All Rat All the Time…). Remember when there were full arcs about the Croc family?

And there he sat for the rest of his days.

“What’s tough?

Life.

What’s life?

A magazine.

Well how much does it cost?

It costs fifteen cents.

But I only got a nickel.

A nickel? Oh, oh well that’s tough."

A government-supplied chair.

Not when your hemorrhoids begin acting up. Would you like a doughnut? Don’t forget the true reason for the defeat at Waterloo which ended Napoleon’s rule as Emperor of the French.

He’s just waiting for pest control to come after him.

When the world ends, I want a comfortable front row seat. And popcorn.

That is so sad.

Patis is one of the laziest cartoonists around. Panels 1 & 4 are the same, as are panels 2 & 3, with one showing just a tad more than the other. Just different speech balloons.

As Bruce Shopsky liked to say, “Croc Power!”

A bit more diversity wouldn’t hurt… (:

Nobody mentioned that the alternative to what Life gives you is even worse.

“I started a joke, which started the whole world crying But I didn’t see that the joke was on me…”

Rat, the eternal optimist, sees the bright side of his predicament…

If I feel depressed about my inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred, I just listen to “Time” by Pink Floyd.