Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 23, 2021

Offered the common people to visit their elected official and give the politician the bubonic plague.

And put your mask on.

Rat’s presence is never a blessing.

Rat’s an awful AWFUL critter. Bless his soul.

Got my pfizer booster the other day. I’m looking forward to the future.

Rat got that from Woodstock!!

That is probably a very short list, Rat!

Rat must be mellowing in his old age, there was a time he would have told Sicko to eat crap and die

my wife sneezed. i told her to stop spreading germs…

Shouldn’t it be “farther away”? I seem to recall father is distance domain, further is time domain as in further discussions.

The word is farther

Then I hit Stephan in the head with my Rat Bat …

Gesundheit!

It’s gonna be a pretty short list.

Blessing someone who sneezes is rewarding bad behavior. I just snap “Stop that!”

Oy! There is no end to Rats insults and wisecracks! LOL

My family says “Chuck Norris” as an inside joke. Mostly because of this: https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2009/06/26

It’s allergy season where I live. There’s lots of “¡Salud!” going around my house lately.

He came so close to actually moving towards the positive deeds column. And then came the last panel…

COVID paranoia strikes again…

And get vaccinated.

Good old Rat, the Ultimate Misanthrope! (Sorry, Molière.)