Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 19, 2021

Does AA have Zoom™ meetings?

Surprised the glass didn’t break.

So how much clapping should we do during “The Hangover Song”?

If you’re drinking and you know it, you need to drink more.

Hard to clap your hands with a beer in one hand.

I’ll pass.

Ok! Now that song is stuck in my head, AND I CAN’T GET IT OUT!!!

If you’re sick and about to vomit, put your head to the head. If you’re sick and about to vomit, put your head to the head.

Just make sure you flush the head before you put your nose to those floating logs.

Out of millions of songs you pick a Christian children’s song to glorify beer. Hmmmm.

♪♫ This is the song that does-n’t end…

Yes it goes on and on my friend…

Some people… star-ted spreading it not knowing what it was,

And they’ll con-tin-ue spreading it for-ev-er just because….

this darned pan-dem-ic will not end….

Yes it goes on and on my friend…….. ♪♫

Where was this song when I was young?

99 bottles of beer in my belly, 99 bottles of beer….

Get up, get your man a bottle of red wine

Get up, get your man a bottle of red wine

I can’t get up out of bed

With this crazy feeling in my head

Get up, get your man a bottle of red wine

Eric Clapton “Bottle Of Red Wine”

Glad to see Stephan is starting to see the positive side of the ’demic.

Too soon asks Pastis? If we will laugh about it someday may as well laugh today, though it feels like whistling past the graveyard…

Instead of “Clap Clap” it should be “Glug Glug”.

What do you do if you’re drinking and you don’t know it? Pass out?

About showing on your face, when I used to drink my face got beet red!

If he use those as beer glasses, it’s time to do the dishes.

What if you’re drinking and don’t know it?!

Not for me. I quits dreenking. No money, no dreenks.

Good job Rat ! You found the ground floor .

Sing then swig.

RATS GONE OVER THE EDGE…

There’s always an up side to everything

I like that Stephen is a “glass is half full” kind of guy

My liver is getting old and I have a physical coming up, so I’m on the wagon for a couple of months. What a pain!

I imagine there are folks who have been imbibing more frequently this past year but my clapping rate hasn’t changed at all.

Rat got the clap.

I don’t drink.

I’ve been drinking less, because we aren’t socializing or going to brewpubs for dinner.

♪♫ "Bottle of wine, fruit of the vine,

When you gonna let me get sober…" ♪♫

Mr. Gilbey and I have an understanding. After all, I’m their second largest customer (after the UK).

Get help, Rat.

RAT ! Do not drink and clap. You spill too much that way.

I believe this is the first time I’ve seen Rat crack a smile…

This isn’t funny when it’s reality. The virus isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Let’s be safe, be smart, and get on with our lives.

Best song about drinking? “Ten Little Bottles” by Johnny Bond. It’s on YouTube!

Rat has many kindred spirits. Now if that noise would just tone down a bit …

I KNOW THIS SONG!

Not just your face, but your stagger will surely show it.

Great song.

Just think! If all these PBS commenters join in Rat’s song of the pandemic, liquor stores will flourish!

Does Cartoon-Boy own stock in some big chain, like Binny’s?

Pastis must be having cartoonist block today.

Suppose you don’t know it?

Sounds more like Rat’s excuse. For Goat sounds like a pandemic song. For Rat, who was already drinking heavily before the pandemic, it’s just an excuse.

Clap, clap

Rat, you could’a had a V-8.

FLASHBACK, we sung something like this at Church Camp. That’s were I met the pretty blue eyed blond girl.

You’ll have to listen to the sound of one hand clapping (I’m not putting my drink down).

If I’m drinking I’ll be happy and pain-free.

Considering the NCAA tournament started today, I’d say this is a perfectly-timed cartoon.

Ya know, my alcohol consumption has actually declined significantly during the pandemic…

I’m interested in other’s opinion on this: when the PBS 2022 calendar comes out at the end of this year, how many here will purchase it? The reason I’m asking is, the 2022 calendar is going to be reruns of 2020 strips and therefore heavily coronavirus related. Will readers here be interested in reliving that time? There’s no wrong answer, I’m just truly curious!

Come on, Mr. Pastis. You can do better than this.

I’d clap, but I might spill my beer.

One is good, two’s the most, three under the table and four under the host

I thought it was a ploy to get people to put down their drinks so he could steal them.

This happens to literally everyone who is over 16 left the house and have no kids