Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 18, 2019

Do I have to pay the property owner to repair the hole?

… and that’s just at the US Capitol and White House.

After the hole does its job, those folks will known as the Hole-in-the-Floor Gang

Pig will keep falling in his product.

Can I get a couple of hundred to shove under other people when they say something dumb? That should be enough for a week, at least.

Beam me down, Scotty.

As “Ringo” says in Yellow Submarine, “I’ve got a hole in me pocket.”

You know Pastis is old because he calls it Junior High

This reminds me of the Looney Tunes cartoon where the professor invented the portable hole to get rid of his nagging wife.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hole_Idea

Where would he sell them? Probably not Hole Foods but maybe Home Deep-O.

What a great gift to a certain high placed golfer….a hole in one and he’s gone!

I thought this would be Rat’s idea.

Do they come in Trump-size?

It’s a hole new world down there!

I would buy one, or maybe a bunch.

The next product will be “Hole Be Gone” ! … Croc Power !

This has been a special message from Pig.

Pig better do a Patten search……Pink Panther has a portable version already in production….

Does it activate automatically?

It was in Ringo’s Pocket

https://vimeo.com/21509708

the coyote and roadrunner had an episode with a “Portable Acme Hole” too.

I thought the hole was in the bucket Dear Liza, Dear Liza.

Not to be confused with Looney Tunes “portable hole”, which was useful for robbing banks.

This doesn’t make a hole lot of sense, but I bet many will fall for it.

But where do you keep it? In your pocket? Warning: not for use on submarines. ;)

Reminds me of the art museum video from Japan. The stairwell didn’t have a rail for some (I’m certain artistic) reason. Guy wanders into it and falls two stories.

Thought he was going to say “try alcohol!” but I suppose that would have been rat’s story.

I have a friend who made a decent living selling portable holes.

Hey. it’s an Acme product being renamed. Wil E. Coyote bought a box of those under their old name.

Pig looks good wearing a tie!

In Pastis’s strips, the characters’ “crude” artwork looks about the same as the regular artwork.

I listen to lots of podcasts from Reddit content where the young post experiences. One in five of these kids announce proudly that they suffer from some form of social anxiety disorder like it’s a victim badge of honor. A big hint from a Boomer. EVERYONE gets anxious at some things. Everyone. But most of us power through it instead of curling into a little ball of happy victimhood because that’s what adults do.

I never say anything dumb.

We know it’s Pig who wrote this message, because if it were Pastis, he would’ve called it the “Hole O’ Splendid Anonymity.”

I need this.

That looks like something Rat would have come up with.

The Aardvark used a bottle of Instant Hole against the Ant. Didn’t work out too well.

I need something more like a trap door. I don’t want anyone following me down there.

…and this helps how?

For the unsocials and introverts, this would be a great gift.

But is it the origin of Whack-a-Mole?

I’ll take a dozen.

Never mind Junior High; where was this last weekend?!

Wasn’t that the gadget on the wristwatches in “They Live” movie from the 80s?