Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 31, 2022

Doesn’t the carrot, along with the whatever is used for eyes and buttons, belong to the person(s) that made Gonesoon?

Gonesoon wills it’s body to a place that wisely use and conserve water.

Good thing this isn’t “Dark Side of the Horse”; that carrot would have been eaten by now.

Funny, I saw that exact template on LegalZoom…

Rat should try to sell burial insurance to the snowman.

The beneficiary would be the “Puddle Jumper”!!

Perfect name for a snow person! As cold as it is I would think the coal would be of greater value!

I can’t resist:

It’s “to WHOEVER picks it up”.

A very common mistake, but at 2:30 a.m. I’m not gonna explain it.

Northern New England has no snowpeople by that name.

And here I was expecting a 14 carrot request.

Gonesoon won’t be around in monsoon.

oh, to only return to the joyous time of childhood when snowmen never melted and every day was a snow day.

I just love the RAT’s hat in this strip today . : )

I like this guy.

When I die, everything goes to the ASPCA.

Given the rising cost of heating fuel, the lumps of coal are his true Estate value.

Shouldn’t the carrot belong to whoever put in on his face first?

Gonesoon. Gotta love that name for a snowman.

Sense of humor police are we?

maybe talk him into donating his body to the poor children of the desert southwest.

The squirrels get the carrot, and Rat gets the coal eyes. Call it an early stocking stuffer.

How much a lawyer would charge for the clause in the will regarding the residual estate consisting of only “a corn cob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal”?

or a factual understanding of his reality…..

As Frosty the Snowman gets switched to from my Pandora playlist. Goos timing or what?

Not Gonesoon enough for me!

I think he has an awesome attitude.

You just can’t take anything seriously, Rat… from Gonesoon or anybody.

Frosty found the secret to reincarnation: “I’ll be back again some day”

Whoever, not whomever. Diagram it: who is subject of picks, not object of to. A punster who pays attention to words needs to pay attention to grammar, too.

He should be named “Notgonesoonenough”.

It’s “To WHOever picks it up.” Not “whomever.” “Who” is the subject of the phrase, and the whole phrase is the object of the preposition “to.”

And 5 lumps of coal to the first guy with a BBQ grill who picks them up!

Rat was clearly hoping Gonesoon would leave everything to him.

I love the snowman’s name!

He forgot the lumps of coal that make his eyes and buttons.

Dunno, Rat. Seems pretty straightforward and literal to me….

Aren’t we all of the Gonesoon family. That explains a lot.