Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 30, 2024

But what if you lose the remote?

That explains why I can’t control the lottery.

Write down your worries. Cross off the things beyond your control. Look at what’s left (if anything). Think about the first step you can take regarding those things. Go from there.

Rat knows the score.

At peace and in control of your own destinty?

You have no control over what others do or say just be yourself!

It’s harder to stay calm when I get this message so often here at GoComics: This website is under heavy load (queue full)We’re sorry, too many people are accessing this website at the same time. We’re working on this problem. Please try again later.

Sounds like Rat might want to take lessons in How Not to Be Seen from Monty Python.

There’s a lot that I can’t control that I can mitigate, though.

Though I’ve always been more of a stay-and-fight sort of person, I do have an escape plan.

Rat if you want to stay calm have one of your favorite drinks ……. BEER …. :-)

More curse words have been expended in futile efforts saving one’s sanity finding the blame thing. Most of the time it turns itself on when it is sat upon. Not that here is anything on worth watching,

Old world boomer solution, and you can make fun of me all you want, but Velcro keeps remotes handy-dandy.

That doesn’t seem very calm, tbh.

First, don’t watch the News. Its doesnt exist anymore. Second pay no attention to politics whatsoever. If someone starts talking politics get up and leave.

“You who must leave everything that you cannot control, it begins with your family but soon it comes round to your soul.” L. Cohen

Yesterday’s strip was brilliant.

The fact that l remember it must mean l’ve now forgotten something essential.

Rat, you may have a point.

If that’s calm, I’d hate to see what furious looks like.

Does Rat know something we don’t? A meteor the size of Nebraska is coming dead on? They found Obama’s real, original Nigerian birth certificate? 24 million uncounted 2020 Presidential Election ballots mostly from Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin for Trump were found in a wheat field in Kansas?

Better advice:

Don’t sweat the petty things,

Don’t pet the sweaty things.

You can be very calm once you’re hiding.

That’s the current plan.

Whatever you do, DON’T PANIC !

We were instructed to “subdue the earth” and “have dominion over” all living creatures, essentially telling us to “control” the earth and manage its resources; this is often interpreted as a command to care for and steward the planet responsibly. How’re we doing, so far?

I want Larry the Croc! Where’s Larry?

Keep calm and Rat on…

If can, can. If no can, no can.

His wife told him to bring home some hollandaise sauce for their dinner guests,but he didn’t know what it was.So he asked the advice of his co-workers.

One of them says—-“Go to Alaska. There’s no place like Nome for the Hollandaise”

Excellent advice! Time runs out in about three weeks.

Cats tend to follow that principle although some have unreasonabl expectations. They’re very good at hiding.

There’s still time to panic buy toilet paper to get ahead of 2025’s crises.

The state I live in is one of the biggest consumers of anti-depressants, psychics predict the use to increase in the coming 4 years.

Whoever came up with “Don’t worry about what you can’t control” was never a victim of, nor blamed for, anything beyond their control!