Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 12, 2020

Remember to take hand sanitizer.

Eerie that he wrote these 6 months ago, considering COVID-19.

Personally, I’m less worried about the virus and more worried about the aftermath. The NBA cancellation will hurt the economy, and it won’t be the last hit it’ll take. I’m predicting mid 2020-early 2021, we’ll have another 2008 (maybe worse).

very good kaladin

https://youtu.be/rEX1dYyvmig

I see that the shovel is above ground, so who did the burying?

This is what’s known as “The Ostrich Position”. It may feel good, but it won’t actually address whatever your real issue is. Unless your real issue is purely internal. When I was a kid, we would lure people into the traditional ostrich position and have them repeat the Old Indian Prayer:

I know my heart

I know my mind

I know that I

Stick up behind!

Nope no good , no windows …. Croc Power !

A preview of the real dirt nap? maybe it will prepare them for the afterlife!

Where have all the flowers gone?

Maybe they’ll come back up next month.

“And where you see clouds upon the hills

You soon will see crowds of daffodils

So keep on looking for a blue bird, And list’ning for his

song

Whenever April showers come along"

Al Jolson

Looks like Rat finally joined Pig in his variation of either going back to bed or under the covers.

The stock market is having a similar reaction. Especially after last night’s speech from the Oval Office.

We’ve heard of self-quarantine, but self-interment?

Now some banana leaves and hot coals and the rest of us can have a luau.

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin.

WHY are some so afraid to give up, temporarily, something? Are we that insensitive and or spoiled? This virus is shutting down countries….Helloooooo

Wah, wah, wah! Things are tough all over! Deal with it!

I hope they have straws so that they can breathe.

That virus is really getting out of hand. In fact, it is my theory that this alleged virus is just a common cold and a scam by the sanitizer industry.

Burying the issue will not help, Rat ‘n’ Pig!

And we call them daffy-dumb- dillies?

We should be more worried about what they are not telling us, that the virus. Panic is hurting the economy more.

I’d like to live beneath the dirt

A tiny space to move and breathe is all that I would ever need

I want to live beneath the dirt

Where I’d be free from push and shove like all those swarming up above

Beneath your heals I’ll spend my time

- song “Dirt” by Phish

Don’t leave me – please dig another hole!

Season for snow crocus and edelweiss in WI, and they need a jack hammer to get through the 3’ of permafrost.

All this will pass and eventually everything will go back to normal. People will go back to work an school. The markets will rise. The panic will die down. However, I’m near panic now. Because of all the fear that is causing out of control buying of certain products, I’m dangerously close to running out of toilet paper. That will be a problem not only for me but for those close to me.

Look, kids! It’s PIG AND RAT’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE—DOWN BELOW!

’Course, breathing is a bit tough….