Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 17, 2021

Even if “normal” wasn’t great, it was still a whole lot better than abnormal.

1985 to 1999 were pretty good. The stock market crashed in 2000 followed by a couple wars.

I’d settle for not wearing a mask…I hate that thing, and I’m always forgetting it and having to back to get it…

“The good old days weren’t always good, and tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems.” —Billy Joel, “Keeping the Faith”

Omicron spreads like wildfire, supplanting Delta, and is incredibly mild in symptoms. Fauci looks unconsolable.

I was always annoyed when comics, including this one, were always going on about how 2020 was such a bad year, golly, it will so great when it’s over. Personally, my 2021 sucked! The deaths of two of my loved ones.

If Rat jumps off the cliff, can I go live with Pig?

Yes, Goat, that time that never existed bar now in our minds.

Man was made to suffer. It makes Yahweh happy.

There were rainbows and “corn” on the cob shared with others of the human race. The Americans that must go in for work, I fear for them.

Talking about the “Good Old Days” is like giving an eulogy. Rarely do eulogies mention all the bad things.

Yes. And no weeds on my lawn.

Look to the future is all I try to do!

I believe that Rat “enjoys” (at least) the complaining (about everything) part.

The rainbows and unicorns are in Pig’s world.

Life is what we make of it As a wise man said " Life is h—- and then we die".

The days before social media were pretty good. Back when nobody complained as such, there was good stuff to watch on TV and we could pass the time away by just doing whatever.

Well this year 2020 Won. Hopefully next year 2020 Too will be bett…er… Uh oh!

The loony radical left wing Liberal mushrooms think these are the new good ol’ days. At least that’s what they’re told by the Liberal Media and the gang at The Ministry of Truth. And since they are living and living large off working people’s tax dollars, they may have a point. Let’s Go, Brandon!

Those were the days my friend We thought they’d never endWe’d sing and dance forever and a dayWe’d live the life we chooseWe’d fight and never loseFor we were young and sure to have our way

I gotta get me a pair of them rose-tinted glasses.

I truly love my mask. It covers a lot of ills. On both sides!

Quoth Billy Joel: “The good ol’ days weren’t always good, and tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems…”

The good old days were when people weren’t offended by every single darned thing. I think I’ll go watch the movie “Blazing Saddles” (1974) now.

I miss the 90s

The 50s were great for growing up but then again I was a white child growing up in a white neighborhood I didn’t realize till the 60s what was going on in the world

Before Amtrak Brandon?

Glad to see the supply chain issues cleared up.

I don’t know about unicorns but there are certainly a lot of rainbows now…

It sure seems that way now…..

if only social media had remained in its infancy. its now a bad side of the pandemic (my opinion)

I have to get my jabs in on Rat whenever possible, like today.

No rainbows or unicorns…but plenty of butterflies, zeebas, and moonbeams…

No, no unicorns.

Ah yes, pre-pandemic. Back when the propaganda machine was focused mostly on climate change.

Amazing how we rarely hear about school and random shootings anymore.

The old Russian saying Ah, the good ole days, when we were so miserable

Even before Covid, Rat complained about everything! Misanthropes know no season.

The ‘80s and 90s were awful. Since 1946, the beginning for me, I can’t think of a decade that was any good. The first half of ’63, the year I finished high school was OK. September and October of 1954 when the Giants won the pennant and World Series were good.

I’ve been happy since I retired in 2015.

“The Good Old Days”, and it’s close relative “Make American Great Again”, are our current “dog whistles”!

As a harmless and I hope politics-free example of the concept of “the good old days”, when Pat Buchanan was running for President (1996 or 2000, I think), some pundit made the comment that Buchanan was longing for the “good old days” when he could walk down the street and and not have to hear someone playing bongo drums on the corner.

I’m going to have this tattooed onto my butt.

We talk about ‘returning to normalcy’; think very hard about what ‘normal’ was before 2020.

Am I the only one who think Pastis left out a “will” in Rat’s question?

Personally the good old days I would like to relive are the years 1983, and 1984. Grade 7 and 8… first girlfriend, top student in my class, Friends to hang out with, my immediate family were all alive, at least the ones I got to know (never met 3 of my 4 grandparents). Everything has gone steeply downhill since then.

I enjoyed most of the ’60s, no cell phones and no internet. Although that year in Viet Nam kinda sucked.

Goat has clearly being hanging around with Rat too long! He’s become all cynical, sarcastic, and ironic, too, just like Rat!

Yes. Yes, there were.

The good ‘ol days in the womb when we couldn’t ruin our days on youtube and facebook.