Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 22, 2020

Next time bring a letter from Governor Cuomo from NY calling liquor stores an essential service.

If Stephan ever gets his hands upon that, he’ll have the ultimate weapon against Rat next time he makes a bad pun!

i would say six more hospitals would get less boos

Looks like Danny isn’t gaining any Buds.

Seems like Pastis would have shown up to Rat’s desk, wielding a baseball bat.

Man, I expect to leave here drunk from all the anti-pun Boo-ze.

Bravo Stephan, didn’t see that one coming, quite clevah!

Dang. I would’ve start going to the city council meetings long ago if I had known they give free boos.

" don’t mess with Mr. Boos "

I was scared for a moment – until the end, I thought it was going to be another PC joke!

The President doesn’t drink, but he gets lots of boos.

Nice to see Danny again

I’ve got a great idea. Let grocery stores sell liquor. They do here.

Next Rat should bring back his Angry Bob cartoons.

Is there anybody who didn’t see the “boos”/“booze” line coming? I thought “More booze would be a good thing, right?”

Finally, a common sense comic!

Carla Bley would know how to handle this crowd.

Danny Donkey is a performance artist.

He stole that one from Jackie Gleason

After that Danny opened his own speakeasy called Easy Boos ! … Croc Power !

He needs to pay off the city council with booze…

Nice try, Pastis! I could. Tell by looking at the size of the strip and the wordiness that it was all just to set up a PUNchline. So I skipped ahead and read the last 3!

Hiss!

Most people get a curtain call after a performance. Stephan, you get a catcall!

Meanwhile, Eddie Elephant bribed the council and built a liquor Superstore nextdoor to the elementary school. Clever, sneaky Eddie Elephant!

Mr. Pastis, please ignore all the negative comments about today’s strip…

…it’s just the “boos” talking.

Danny, I know that mayor. Next meeting, just propose some “lick her” stores in his neighborhood and he’ll second the motion.

The city council only meets once a month?

Liquor stores had best be declared “essential” during this current coronavirus crisis. You think there’s a run on toilet paper – the real circus starts when they close the package stores!!!

WELCOME BACK Danny Donkey!

Oh, pig, we need every vote in November, 2020, please pig.

I live in a dry county here in Kentucky, so that wouldn’t even be an issue here… and yes, there ARE some dry counties left in the country.

Crystal Gayle singalong needed (you start) of Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Booze

Ah, son Donald Trump and Republicans are Pig’s fault.

Welcome back Danny Donkey. What happened to that railroad line that was created a while back?

So in Danny Donkey’s eyes, “Boo!” means to keep doing it.

The council usually is into community whines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E9ydw_aDMg

Pastis should have introduced a dog character for this strip. It really could use a Boos Hound.

And in closed chambers the mayor said, “Quadruple your markup, it’s a win-win situation.”

It seems like all we have left now is booze. Not me, of course, I take pills, but the effect is similar.

I love gooberment. A decade ago I rigged a freezer to an inverter to a car battery on a bicycle trailer. I would buy treats from sam’s club and sell them for double the price like a good humor man of old. It wasn’t long before I was stopped by the cops. They asked to see my peddler’s license, knowing full well I didn’t have one. I was let off with a warning. I went down to the city/county building to apply and was told that I would need the permission of the neighborhood associations where I wished to operate. I contacted our NA, and they put me on their agenda for the following month. It was discussed and a vote was schedule for the following month. The vote happened behind closed doors, and they announced their unanimous decision to deny my request the following month. I said to heck with it, and continued to ply my trade. Again I was stopped by the cops, but this time they impounded my bike and trailer, which was sold at a sheriff’s auction to cover the fines. The left over money went to the local cop shop in a quick civil forfeiture proceeding. The trailer I didn’t so much mind, but the bike was my only means of transportation.

At least Danny Donkey WALKED to the liquor store. Don’t drink and drive. ( An alcoholic I knew would drive to get his booze, and then walk when he ran out and needed more.)

Tee-hee. I saw that one coming in the next block. The basic premise is quite beguiling—someone too tired to walk to the nearest liquor store. Definitely sounds like the intro to a fairy story.

Danny Donkey, it’s been a while! I love it!

It’s been too long since I’ve seen Danny the Donkey.

Danny did it in the wrong order. He should have proposed 6 liquor stores first, then after getting flatly denied, propose the much more moderate 3 liquor stores.

That’s the way zoning variances work. The lot next to me (zoned for a max of 24 units) had 36 units proposed. Turned down. So then they proposed 28 and got accepted — and thanked for being so reasonable!

Now he can get his booze delivered, even if only temporarily.

There are times when I’d like to forcibly remove Cartoon-Boy. But I usually let Rat handle that….

Danny donkey gotta be my favorite character in this comic. My favorite is when Danny turns his neighbors into beer and Elly elephant into a pretzel bag.

Rat you’ve become the very thing you swore to destroy

“A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury…”

I once took some Boy Scouts to a city council meeting as part of the requirements for the Citizenship in the Community merit badge. Our eyes glazed over as they argued over setback lines and “fenestration”.

Danny finally gets his comeuppance