Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 03, 2021

Good thing it’s summer and Rat can wear flip-flops.

All I can say is, “Darn it!”

And it stinks too!

Rat, will you finally cede it is time to trim your toe nails?!

since when do you wear socks, Rat?

Problem is, he uses socks to store his money! The hole is in his high denomination sock!

“I’ve…got a hole in me pocket.” -Ringo

My cat ripped holes in my favorite tee shirt today. And the shirt’s too old to replace. At least my bleeding has finally stopped!

A hole in your sock? Consider yourself lucky that the entire sock didn’t disappear in the dryer.

Imagine finding two holes!

First world problem

I think all socks have at least one hole so you can get your foot into it, right?

I wonder if that cat from “Mutts” would take such news any worse? https://www.comicskingdom.com/mutts/2021-05-30

Years ago, my wife phoned a friend to chat- her friend said she was having a terrible day, so my wife thought she was in desperate straits and maybe she should offer to run right down and render assistance. What was the big emergency? She broke a nail.

Emotional attachments to things are a bummer.

If the hole is at the top, then it’s OK.

Rat wears socks???

The reason it’s such a tragedy is that finding a whole in just one sock makes two socks useless.

(For their original purpose, that is. You can still use the other sock as a dustcloth.)

Rat socks.

Einstein once said: “Why socks? They just cause holes.” Hopefully it wasn’t a black sock, because of the infamous “black hole”.

Be happy Rat, your sock got religion and became Holy!

I don’t blame Rat, I hate it when I get holes on my socks too

“Darned’ if he didn’t!

If the hole is in the lower part where no one sees it, no problem!

I just had one of the most tragic things happen to me that can happen to anyone: a “friend” found a hole in one of his favorite socks and had to tell us about it – telling us that it was one of the most tragic things that could happen to anyone.

Good grief Rat we thought you ran out of Beer !

and the hole in his head????

Well that just socks!

Thing I learned today: Rat has a favorite sock.

The hope is that it’s a favorite pair of socks. Otherwise… one sock.. er,

Since when did Rat wear socks?

Rat wears socks? :D Even I don’t do that…

Just drown your sorrows in beer, Rat.

Um, was it at the TOP, perchance?

Socks? What socks? You don’t even wear clothes.

He’s just lucky there wasn’t a frog on a bump on a log in the hole at the bottom of his sock.

All socks have holes in them, how else could you put in on.

Sock it to me.

Which one is his favorite the right or the left.

It’s especially tragic when you knit your own.

If the sock didn’t have a hole in it how did rat get his foot in?

Rat has socks?

It is when you’re a self-centered jerk.

Rat is a big heel.

Either get a magic marker and color in the hole or darn the sock … or do what I do and wear flip-flops all the time.

I was gonna loan Rat my crying towel, but it also has a hole in it!

RIP, rat?

Darn!

Should the damned sock be darned or should the darned sock be damned? That’s the eternal question.

I love pearls before swine!

Pearl before swine is the best!

If ONLY that were the most pressing problem for most Americans…

At least you found the mate to your favorite sock.

Darn it!

He should wear it to church.

I define a good year as when less than 3 people I love die. I lost 2 last year, neither to Covid, so it was an okay year. It’s all about perspective.

Rat wears socks?

Rat, there should be a hole in your sock. You put your foot in there.

I felt the same way throwing away my trusty slippers this week.

Only one favorite sock? What about the other one?

Darn it!

Tragedy is when I get a splinter. Comedy is when you fall down a manhole and die.

oh god that is tragic

If it’s a hand knit sock you spent fifteen hours creating and you had to knit it again because of this two feet phenomenon, then I’m right there with you, Rat. Darn it!

Pandemic perspective.

Jeff once complained to Mutt about this very same problem. Mutt suggested that he turn the sock inside out, telling him, “Maybe the hole is only on the outside, and the inside doesn’t have a hole.” Mutt, laughing at Jeff for being foolish enough to go along with this suggestion, was just a little nonplussed when it worked!

Darn!

And here I don’t even have a favorite sock….

that is sad but you know something more sad is having you tv broke

Darn it!

I wove my favorite sock from all the lint that collected from between my toes.

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I have holes in my favourite jeans… oh, wait, those holes are supposed to be there.