Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 22, 2020

You’re not getting those 7 months back.

Sounds like waiting at the DMV.

what would’ve made it fair? that there was no pandemic?

When they say that 50 is the new 40, I never know if I’m supposed to add or subtract 10 years.

Just imagine if this pandemic had happened 30 years ago, before the Internet!

Life isn’t fair. And it has never been fair. Fairness is a human concept.

The good thing about 2020 is that it will make 2021 seem so nice.

Assuming . . .

We all age at 60 seconds to the minute. We don’t, however, age at the same percentage of our lifespan per minute. So it’s well to fully live whatever minutes you have.

My good friend, who sadly is no longer with us, said “Life’s a bitch, then you die”!

They should really stop visiting the Smart Arse on the hill. Lucy Van Pelt has better insights. And it’s only five cents.

And the wise one nails it again!

Pig unless you have a time machine you age no matter what you think or do …. Croc Power !

Just replace 7 with X, coz this $#%* ain’t over.

Stress! unh!

Good Gawd, y’all!

What is it good for?

Absolutely nothin!

Say it again!

My father used to tell me when I was a youngster, and complained that something wasn’t fair, that “fair” was a four letter word beginning with ‘f’ which should never be used in polite society.

I do feel like I have aged more than just 7 months.

Wise ass on the hill is right! We will all be screwed if we lose this election….it’s more of downhill and faster than ever…

He’s right. I noticed I have a lot more grey hair than just a few months ago.

The “Wise Ass on the Hill” is rapidly becoming the Overused Boring Trope in This Comic.

Anyway, since when did Reality and Fair have anything to do with each other?

Feels longer every time I read a current PBS comic. I knew the strip would have plenty of new material with the pandemic, but the past seven months of this comic have been 95% “life sucks now, the world is garbage” strips, and they’re starting to get really same-y.

Is anyone else thinking Pastis has become stale?

Life isn’t fair Pig. It never was. Expecting anything else is unrealistic.

I used my 7 months to learn French. And, write two books. C’est magnifique!

or the last 4 years

As for me, my house is almost full of empty Amazon boxes.

I wish I could go 2022 right now

Fair? Who said the Electoral College was fair!?

That’s a half year I’ll never get back.

The sooner this crappy year is over the better. But I suspect 2021 will be very similar.

xxx

I maintain friendly terms with the Wise Ass on the Hill because hey I’m dating his baby sister, Pieceof Ass! Awesome!

A gentle, sweet and naïve soul, Pig is a living rebuttal to those people who say that swine are intelligent animals. As Rat’s roommate, Pig’s enthusiastic, amiable nature makes him a valuable (and in Rat’s case, only,) friend, even as his gullibility makes him an exasperating conversation partner. He likes cheese. If beer, fame and himself didn’t exist, Rat would hate everything. Rat is cynical, selfish, vain, quick to anger and prone to bouts of violence. Without Pig, the world would have given up on him long ago. He sometimes writes children’s books. Goat is a long-suffering philosopher, a thoughtful type who spends his days trying to comprehend the perplexities of existence and plumb the splendid mysteries of the world. His blog is not popular, as Rat enjoys reminding him. Zebra spends most of his waking hours helping himself and others avoid being eaten by the Crocs and other neighborhood predators. It really cuts into his TV time. The Crocs are obsessed with eating their neighbors, especially Zebra. They make Wile E. Coyote look like Moriarty. The strip’s creator deals with the shabby emptiness of his life by devising intricately fiendish puns and inflicting them upon his appalled creations. Drinking helps, too. you didnt read this and now ill get 1000 comments saying they will never read this.

How many more months will this day last?

Can I have the last 4 years back?…

He’s the wise ass on the hill he doesn’t care