The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for November 29, 2023

Okay, I get that PED is performance enhancing drugs but what does a giant mushroom have to do with a giant video game character (I assume that’s what it is).

The hookah-smoking caterpillar from “Alice in Wonderland” is involved, maybe?

Some folks don’t know too much about drugs. takoing a wild a$$ guess. never heard of the acronym ped before.

This is a bad situation. It’s bound to mushroom.

Looks like a fly agaric mushroom.

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger… Oh, who am I kidding, you are going to croak this afternoon…

What’s with all the Lego things in several of today’s comic strips?

They make me feel big!

Speaking of magic mushrooms in sports, in 1970 Dock Ellis threw a no hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates apocryphally after taking LSD.

Physically enhancing drugs.

Yeah, but he’s so high, you never know which basket he’s going to put the ball in.

These mushrooms have been in the news lately. Although they’re helpful in the game, they are deadly in real life. https://www.newsweek.Com/fly-agaric-mushroom-poisonous-lake-tahoe-1835017

Now he’ll have to undergo a drug screening.

That doesn’t look like Super Mario. It has the same proportions as regular Mario. And I think even Super Mario isn’t that tall.

His poor resolution is a side effect.

’Tis a poor performance to me.

I hope he doesn’t become the next Tony the Tiger

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