Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 14, 2021

He won’t know what’s happening to him unless he’s wearing a magic hat.

Stephan needs a better prescription for anti-depressants.

Furthermore, deer must come along and eat all our noses.

Give Rat credit, he’s not exaggerating.

And Rat wonders why the snow-folks give him the cold shoulder.

Give him a Foghat and watch him play 70’s rock!

But since the sun doesn’t actually rise, . . . Hmmm

Of course it doesn’t get a mouth, either.

Inanimate objects have no expectations. Or are you just projecting?

… Soon all your thoughts and aspirations () will melt away.

() = (and you)

After a while in the sun Frosty will be a “No-man” !

Ya Rat and the Christmas Ham looks soooo Good and then we eat it ! The End ;-)

We is all just like that snowman. One day we is there, another day we is gone. But what we is made of is not gone. That just turns into something else, it keeps changing forms. For it can neither be created nor destroyed, but only changes from one form to another. We never dies for we is never born. We is just a form that it takes. This mysterious thing that we know not what it is or why. Was it a sheer chance that us conscious beings called creatures was formed and it’s just some random thing that came into existence? Or is this mysterious consciousnessless thing that we is made of is trying to achieve something by evolving into conscious beings? We may never knows.

Not so sure Rat manages his own expectations so well but hey this is a start.

I think I saw that snowman in the produce section of my local supermarket.

He was picking his nose.

Yeah, that’s how I’m managing Tuesdays, too.

So Mr. Pastis apparently decided that the first two panels don’t need background?

“And yesterday I saw you kissing tiny flowers

But all that lives is born to die

And so I say to you that nothing really matters

And all you do is stand and cry"

Awww how cute! Love their winter hats and scarfs!

“I’m melting!”

Shouldn’t you put a magic hat on that snowman first?

Who gets the carrot?

I assure you, they’ve already been adequately lowered after the past 2 years.

Jimi: ♪ “And so castles made of sand slips into the sea eventually” ♪

Snowman is going to get mad when the sun comes out and have a total meltdown.

Here comes the sun, do de doo doo, here comes the sun.

3 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.Ecclesiastes 3

Snow in Pearls? That does not happen very often. Keep it up!

… and then we live eternally.

Thanks. We all need that reminder every now and then…..

Rat, you are a rat.

“I’ll never get out of this world alive.”—Hank Williams

No more ashes, no more sackcloth / And an armband made of black cloth / Will some day never more adorn a sleeve

For if the bomb that drops on you / Gets your friends and neighbors too / There’ll be nobody left behind to grieve

And we will all go together when we go / Oh, what a comforting fact that is to know / Universal bereavement, an inspiring achievement / Yes, we all will go together when we go

Could be worse. Could be a certain snowy Disney character.

“Frosty” there seems rather unimpressed by this wisdom. Carpe diem!

Wow. Awfully dark humor today. You okay, Cartoon-Boy?

This isn’t a dark strip . . .

we come and we go…like we’re made of snow!

Rat looks cute in that hat.