Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 05, 2020

I could audition for the part of Doc Brown from Back to the Future if I dyed my hair white.

It felt good to get my hair cut today. I was able to wear my mask through the whole deal. For safety sake, I went home and stripped off my clothes, took a shower and put on clean ones.

Cousin it, cool.

Seems that Rat is in a Cousin Itt mode .

Pig probably misses the lady who curls his tail.

Rat there reminds of the Addams’ cousin Itt.

I normally wear a boy cut. I was behind on my haircut when the shops closed, and it’s now past my shoulders. It makes me crazy.

Pig, offer to put Rat’s hair in a ponytail – then tie it off with a nice big pink bow.

Shaved my head last week, but then I do that 3 or 4 times a year anyway. Haven’t been to a barber in years.

Boy oh boy I hope that’s Cousin It’s nose. We wouldn’t want trouble with the Comic Censor!

Rat is being nice, out of character!

I got laid off, decided to let my hair & beard grow. It’s almost as long as it was in the ’70’s. Except it’s gray.

I used to have a hairstylist who was really good. When she decided to leave the barbershop to work at a salonI followed her there. She was so popular that when I called to get an appointment I’d have to wait several weeks. It got to be a pain to have to wait weeks, so I stopped going to her, or anyone else for that matter. I haven’t sat in a barber’s chair in over 30 years.

Show me your papers hippie! Wheat straw? These are no good…

Hair today but NOT gone tomorrow, is a terrible plight to be head.

So glad I started cutting my own hair 25 years ago. My looks haven’t changed a bit through all this. How depressing.

Everyone should shave their head once in their life.

Rat, for goodness sakes, just cut your own hair!

Oh. No opposable thumbs. Right.

Come on, a Wahl clipper is the price of a single haircut at the barber.

My barber was a kind man who rarely found cause to strike me.

Rat had no hair yesterday and today hair. What gives ? … Croc Power !

A woman has cut my hair for years. At home. Whenever I want. For free. And, she sleeps with me.

Cousin Ratt?

Rat, you need to lay off the Rogaine.

Our local barber began making house calls last week. I was his 2 nd. customer 1 st. cut since February.

You’re not supposed to get haircuts.

I’m loving my long hair. hasn’t been this long since 1998.

His hair was fine yesterday.

Barber shops in my little part of the country opened up almost 3 weeks ago. I got mine cut on the first day. Still not sick.

Mostly bald, so it’s a five minute job with a #5 blade. My mom bought the trimmer in 1948, back when Sears meant quality.

So the characters who sometimes wear clothes and sometimes don’t, also mysteriously have hair.

I understand the lag with comic strips; but most barbers and salons are now open. They probably could have remained open, since by nature they have to sanitize anyway. Just restrict the number of customers or something.

Now he can audition for he role of cousin It in the next Addams Family movie.

Over 100,000 dead people in the US. Over 360,000 worldwide. Not one of them died because they couldn’t get a haircut. Focus, people. Focus. On important stuff.

My wife took a haircut crash course on You Tube academy. As the subject, It went pretty good l must say….

I got my nearly six months haircut a couple days ago. Felt good in this warm weather. I posted a before and after in my Facebook using a pirate wig with attached headband I got in the last post halloween sales as the before.

I’m an Army brat. My whole life I’ve worn a high and tight cut, with the exception of about a year and a half after I had surgery on my neck, when I wore my hair slightly long in the back to cover the scar while it healed. The past two months have been crazy-making for me. I look like a refugee from the 70s.

Skip the hug and tip extravagantly.

I’ve had longer hair before… it won’t kill me.

The barber shops in my town just re-opened this week.

Our barbers just opened up, I’ll wait a while longer. Pretty sure the new rules in place don’t allow me to hug him though :)

I need a haircut before someone calls me Shaggy and offers me a Scooby Snack!

Rat’s hair sure has grown since yesterday.

He looks like Cousin It with a pointy nose…LOL

Those healthy young people who believe that the Trump plague is no match for their immune system need to remember several things.

1. You are infecting people when you have no symptoms at all. This includes your family and people who actually matter to other people even if they don’t to you.

2. When you overestimate your immune system, or underestimate the plague, you wind up competing for a respirator and other materials needed by those who developed the disease because they were essential workers.

3. You are endangering the medical workers who have to care for you and the people that you infect. They are already risking their lives. What right have you to add to their jeopardy because you need a haircut?

4. Many viruses remain within the cells of your body. We don’t know that this is one of them, but it’s not unlikely. They wait there until your body’s immune system is no longer strong enough to keep them in check. That could happen when you are older, or in the car wreck you have next week. Then, with their new assistance, they come back in full force.

My son is an RN. He treats Trump plague patients, and has watched them suffer greatly, then often die. He has assured me that there is no possibility of taking this thing too seriously. If you think a mask is a problem, you are not thinking this thing through clearly.

I Sia rat.

Am I the only one who thinks Rat looks BETTER this way?

Barbers and hairstylists are going to be raking it in once this is all over.

That’s okay, Rat. As long as you don’t hug him like you never hugged a woman!

15 Cousin Itt references. Good reading of comments people.

I used to cut it when it got into my eyes. Got past that 2 months ago. It won’t annoy me again til i sit on it…

I’m boycotting haircuts. And shaving.

Cousin It!

does rat even have hair? or is that ear hair?

Just had a horrible image in my mind – Rat with a manbun.

Cousin It

Tip Them Well.

Itt old man!. Oh wait, you’re Cousin Itt’s brother Bitt.

It’s been awhile since I’ve had my hair this long. I’m actually kind of digging it.

Mine’s falling out about as fast as it grows in. (Un?)fortunately, that’s only a recent phenomenon, so it’s pretty long now.

i use to cut my husband’s hair for 23 years and i have been cutting my own hair for 40 years; all you need is a comb, scissors, a pair of clippers and a hand held mirror to do the back.

When my Barber increased the price of a haircut to $20. I bought some hair cutters and now my wife cuts it. Turned out she does a better job in half the time.

Cut my own few weeks ago. Not great not too terrible except for the bare-is patch in back where I got a little too close with the electric ‘shave your neck’ tool. .

Today, I am Rat!

What is it with human hair? You don’t see other animals going around with this never ceasing hair growth. Man, you guys have it lucky as I swear women’s hair grows a foot a day. The more you cut the faster it grows. The more it grows the more you pay to be cut; yada, yada, yada.

That’s either Cousin It or Rat has had remarkable overnight hair growth!

Let me fix that for your, Rat. I know my machete is somewhere around here….

So that’s what Grog is.

If rat dyed his hair brown, he’d be chewbacca