Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 31, 2021

Pastis should hope enough people get vaccinated that there’s herd immunity and he will be safe without it.

As Marcel Marceau would say:

Reminds me of a video I saw in my Facebook feed one time of a nurse cutting in line at a coffee stand saying she’s privileged to cut in line. She storms out in a huff when told she cannot cut no matter what.

By the time I get the vaccine, there will be enough new strains that it will be pointless.

I do not understand where the joke is .

I was promised an advanced position if I make a significant contribution to the DNC PAC.

Your charming smile did not work, huh Steve?

I’d put bad puns before mimes but behind rapists and muderers.

Makes me think of the fellow who received the award for humility. Seems that when he went up to receive it they took it away!

Someone hasn’t got his priorities right.

So which of your characters are you most like?

Got my first jab last Tuesday, so by March, one year to the day, I’ll be out of house arrest.

I’m sufficiently of age & have the requite handful of co-morbitities, but it was 10% pluck, 90% luck. I made ‘em promise me that it wouldn’t make me (any more) autistic, and I’m really not too worried about Bill Gates tracking me. Smartphones & Facebook already do a great job of that…

fortunately for me, translators are just ahead of felons…

He can have mine…

If only you were a convict, you’d get it first.

I’m in complete agreement with pig.

Stephan, Stephan, Stephan. Tsk, tsk, tsk. When you say you do all the great puns – shouldn’t you admit that you actually do some of the worst puns? Then again the worst puns really are the greatest (I was wrong Stephan, you are essential.).

Sorry folks……EVERYTHING is after politicians.

I’m in Aroostook County in northernmost Maine….we are very isolated and really at the “end of the line” you might say. This week some elderly man drove five hours from southern Maine to get his shot in Presque Isle. He somehow managed to get on their list. So that was 10 hours of driving and he’ll have to come back for his second shot. Personally, I think he was unthoughtful towards those of us here needing vaccines…..but I really think he’s a jerk because he bragged about it on the local news. I don’t care if he’s seventy something years old….there are plenty of people here in the county that should have been offered that shot before him. By the way, he did not break any laws or guidelines by the State of Maine….he just took advantage of them. I’m only 69 and don’t qualify for a shot at this time.

I hate mimes, they’re useless and annoying. Yes, I know, Pastis is too… but at least he’s not being annoying in public places :D

Support your local Crocs ! Shots for Crocs ! Without Larry Croc how may the rest of us Shine ? …. Croc Power !

Isn’t it hard getting close to opus near Oakland, mr.Pastis?

It looks like Pastis could use a little work out on those arms of his .

Honey, was that Pastis who just passed us?

But he was ahead of gypsys, tramps and thieves…

I’m trying to think of how many comic strip artists are so famous, their names are household words and a group of people standing in line would automatically know them.

“………”. He said it again.

As Opus said “That’s when I whacked him with the Olive-Loaf”https://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/2021/01/25

Good thing you’re not a lawyer anymore, right?

Toon Boy received his comeuppance.

Make way, cartoonist coming!

Was told there were still some shots available 4 hours north in Potsdam & Plattsburgh. Imagine being that close to Canada & they wouldn’t let you in!

If he gets it after prisoners, he should go to Massachusetts as they are getting the vaccine first.

I agree with Pig. Mimes are a menace to sanity.

Did anyone see “Shakes the Clown”? They were party clown that hated mimes. They came up on some mimes, and Adam Sandler called them “You silent mother******s”

I am the least essential person in the state!

Why aren’t they all wearing masks?

But we NEED those awesome puns! :D

Well, you’re getting close. OJ Simpson got his shot the other day. (-_-)

If my state continues to follow the progression they’ve been using, I’ll be in the fourth group to have the vaccine available. They are currently giving it to the second group, so I’m not holding my breath.

On the bright side, if there turn out to be any nasty side effects that they don’t know about yet, maybe we’ll know by the time they tell me it’s my turn.

When you’re famous, you can cut in front everyone.

’S not like you ever need to leave the house.

Pastis before Guantanamo detainees?

It’s on hold! Americans before Terrorists now! Pastis did good!

In my state, just getting on the list to enable you to attempt to make the appointment for a possibility of getting an injection because vaccine supplies are uncertain is pretty much like filling out a lottery ticket, except the odds of success in the lottery are much better than the odds of succeeding at just getting on the list to enable you to attempt to make the appointment for a possibility of getting an injection because vaccine supplies are uncertain. Oh, but the lottery costs a dollar to play. The attempt to make the appointment for a possibility of getting an injection because vaccine supplies are uncertain is free. /s

Nobody would get it if anti-vaxxers had their way. They temporarily shut down a clinic in Los Angeles yesterday. Perhaps they should have the right to not take the vaccine themselves, but they certainly don’t have the right to interfere with other people who do want to take it.

Given the things people argue about, it was sheer folly to presume we would be in agreement regarding order of vaccine precedence.

That’s OK Stephan… you can have mine. I don’t want it until this beta test is over.

#StephanPastis, why are none of those people wearing masks?

I’ll wait and see how many more fall over dead. I’m hoping Biden and the commie bitch are one of them.

In Oregon, it is felons before the rest of the general population including mimes and cartoonists. Unreal.

I still don’t “get” todays strip. Help please!

Why not just mime the vaccine?

Hey, forcefully concentrated groups, like felons, should be first. Don Trump

I am also laughing that this has been issued closely following the bloom county rerun of the mime salami attack

I don’t know if anyone else has mentioned it and I don’t have the time to go through 114 previous comments so apologies in advance. In Manitoba, prisoners, including murderers, rapists et al go to the front of the line for the covid vaccine. Figure THAT one out !!

Beautiful

Dat sh*t-eating grin though!

We don’t have to wear masks when we’re in line for a covid vaccine shot?

I’m still scratching my head at “Great Puns.” If ever there were two words which were unspeakable when together…!

OJ Simpson. Sheesh.

Don’t worry Pastis, you’re at least in front of the Zippy guy.

:)

Seriously, I still don’t “get” today’s strip. I usually have no problems with puns. Maybe I am having a senior moment as an octogenarian, but I really would appreciate a simple, not-sarcastic, and not even a witty explanation.

LOL, SP!!

Thanks Steph — another homerun.

I’m sure you’l get it, Pasts. I’m SURE you’ll get it!

I thought all mimes were felons.

“It was said that [Vetinari] would tolerate absolutely anything apart from anything that threatened the city*… [Footnote] And mime artists. It was a strange aversion, but there you are. Anyone in baggy trousers and a white face who tried to ply their art anywhere within Ankh’s crumbling walls would very quickly find themselves in a a scorpion pit, on one wall of which was painted the advice: Learn The Words.”

A mime is a terrible thing to waste.

O.J. Simpson got the vaccine. O.J. freakin’ Simpson.

Get a grip folks. This thing is going to be with us for a long time.

None of those folks was wearing a mask and they weren’t even six feet apart. Stephan must live in a really screwed up state.

mimes lives matter too…you just don’t hear about them so much

Behind the mimes and felons, but ahead of the telephone sanitizers!

Politicians last.

Ha ha (in best Nelson Muntz voice)! Big shot Stephan Pastis, a.k.a. Cartoon-Boy, gets last shot. I kinda sorta think there’s an ethical lesson lurking somewhere in there. Right, Pig?

The reprise of Bloom County just (re)finished their week of mime bashing and its repercussions…

I’m below the felons on the vaccine list too… Of course I want it first but, (with a few exceptions,) felons aren’t sentenced to death, yet because they are packed into a place where they can’t easily stay 6 feet apart and get fresh air, they are kind of doomed without the vaccine. (Also, so are the guards.) Where as I can continue to live in a house and go for walks in my neighborhood and have my groceries delivered for another few months, (I’ve been doing it for 10+ months now…)

I’d like to see Pastis try that with the recruitment line from “Blazing Saddles”. Harvey Korman would have shot him.