Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 16, 2018

Drink whisky. You’ll get drunk faster with fewer calories.

Ah, so yesterday’s strip was just a lengthy set up for a pun.

Did he switch to Wild Turkey Bourbon?

Makes me want Southern Comfort.

Being in Pastis’ strip would make anybody want to stay drunk!

There’s always Grey Goose

almost as good as “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.” that is a complete sentence.

Go back to the beer, Rat, and retain your senses. Pastis is too much to handle while sober!

Whenever there is an obvious pun strip, I play a game and in which I cover the penultimate panel and try to guess what the pun will be. I usually fail miserable. Today, I got it right.

Stay the course Rat, open a coffee shop, and call it Rat-Bucks.

“Cold Turkey

Has got me

On the run."

And drugs.Don’t forget the drugs.

Stephen, Stephen, Stephen…

Stephen, this was a fowl ball in any ballpark.

I once worked for a detox cen ter. They had a fundraiser where they sold cold turkey sandwiches.

You can usually tell the relative odds Pastis is setting us up for wordplay by how logically absurd his first frame is. Turkeys in the Arctic. Yeah, right.

@sleeth: Absolutely! Almost every time!

Cartoon-Boy and his far-fetched paronomasia have that same effect on many of us, Rat!

Nonsense! I don’t believe a word it. No way Rat gave up beer.