Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 11, 2022

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    BE THIS GUY  over 2 years ago

    How about a contest to see who can stay the quiet the longest?

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    sirbadger  over 2 years ago

    I am planning to wait until the pandemic is over before getting my second booster.

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 2 years ago

    That recall me a story about the meeting of two italian partizans during IIWW: they competed to see who had the most guns by placing them on the table.

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    willispate  over 2 years ago

    as Mr. Plotz from the original version of the Animaniacs said: “WHEN WILL THIS INSANITY END?!?!”

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    BasilBruce  over 2 years ago

    Ironically, this “contest” is pointless.

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    Ninette  over 2 years ago

    I hope there are no long term, ill consequences for anyone, regardless of camp.

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    Concretionist  over 2 years ago

    Reminds me of my one-uppy friend who heard that another friend had pneumonia. I mentioned that I’d had double pneumonia. Of course One Uppy had triple pneumonia. Must have been uniquely difficult for him!

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    hariseldon59  over 2 years ago

    Stop needling each other.

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    ronaldspence  over 2 years ago

    So tired, so very tired…

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    SirKrunk  over 2 years ago

    i got an even bigger needle

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    DanielRyanMulligan1  over 2 years ago

    Double Dare, anyone? (Oh, wait, let me get in my time machine to-wait, when should i go to? 1982? A christmas story? Triple dog dare? Or how about the 1990s? For the Nickelodeon game show with marc summers? Which one?)

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    jmarkoff2  over 2 years ago

    I have had my covid shots thrice and I feel fine.

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    AtariDragon  over 2 years ago

    It’s not the first time Rat has taken shots until he was so “boosted” he couldn’t get off the floor. Maybe not even the first time that night.

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    socalvillaguy Premium Member over 2 years ago

    “This is not a competition.” Darwin would posit otherwise.

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    Courage the Cowardly Dog!  over 2 years ago

    What the hell????

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    nicka93  over 2 years ago

    Needle envy.

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    Algolei I  over 2 years ago

    Yeah but was it Pfizer or Moderna?

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    Troglodyte  over 2 years ago

    All this needless needling over needles!

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    unfair.de  over 2 years ago

    I drink it straight from the bottle. Now top that!

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    Chithing Premium Member over 2 years ago

    I think we have a new Olympic sport: Extreme Vaccinating.

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    F-Flash  over 2 years ago

    Who was that mask man? Lone Range would have been soooo envious. Tonto got shot!

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    Procat Premium Member over 2 years ago

    When I was in the service they used to talk about a square needle.

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    treutvid  over 2 years ago

    Fortunately i have gotten my boaster shot. I believe that one-ups the others.

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    Brass Orchid Premium Member over 2 years ago

    I’ve had covid twice, so I’m loaded with antibodies that will only be useful until a sufficiently varied mutation comes around.

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    EmmettWayne  over 2 years ago

    I think he is just poking fun at vaccinations.

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    Carl Fink Premium Member over 2 years ago

    I get a much bigger needle jammed into me every two weeks! I beat Rat and Pig both!

    Because donate platelets. The needle for the apheresis machine is bigger than anything attached to a syringe.

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    tripwire45  over 2 years ago

    Exactly. Now draw one about the competition to put up more “I support the Ukraine” bling on my social media accounts or “I’m willing to pay $5.00 to $15.00 a gallon for gas because George Takei says so and Stephen Colbert drives a Tesla.”

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    Znox11  over 2 years ago

    I can’t decide if you humans are interesting or should we just reveal ourselves and take over now and put you out of your misery.

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    Cameron1988 Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Stephan has done way too many jokes about the pandemic

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    DM2860  over 2 years ago

    Wrong, Goat. Just because it should not be a competition, does not mean that people are not making it one.

    Though my friends treated it like a competition until the second one who had a booster shot got sick. Then they stopped caring.

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    B UTTONS  over 2 years ago

    Rat will raise Pig’s big needle with a used syringe from the Tenderloin.

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    Ellis97  over 2 years ago

    I don’t think you’re supposed to get shots more than the required amount.

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    natureboyfig4 Premium Member over 2 years ago

    I used to take 5 shots a day, plus prick my finger 5 or 6 times. Now I just leave a couple of cannulas under my skin 24/7. :-P :-/

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    HOTLOTUS1  over 2 years ago

    mine is infinity x yours

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    DamSkippy  over 2 years ago

    Watch out or you’ll do a Heather McDonald (comedian). THAT was scary.

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    DannyDonkeyHatesPeople  over 2 years ago

    Pig got the vaccine so late.

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    DO_WHAT_DA_DOG_SEZ (NOT THE REAL ONE)  over 2 years ago

    If you use a needle for no reason, that’s no good.

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    Goat from PBS  over 2 years ago

    A needle of unknown origin? How does he know it doesn’t have potassium chloride in it?

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    John Jorgensen  over 2 years ago

    I double-checked my card and yesterday marked one year since I got the second round. Today marks one year since I spent the whole afternoon shivering in bed having bizarre fever dreams, including one where I witnessed the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. I became dehydrated despite having two full water bottles right next to me, because I felt so weak I didn’t trust myself to make it from bedroom to bathroom when nature called.

    Tomorrow will mark one year since I felt fine.

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    Cozmik Cowboy  over 2 years ago

    Goat’s right – it’s not a competition; it’s just what people with a lick of intelligence and enough decency to care about their fellow humans do to protect themselves and everyone else.

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    mail2jbl  over 2 years ago

    None of the shots and boosters worked; they just created a false sense of security. COVID is going away on its own without any help from the vaccines.

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    rodeohead  over 2 years ago

    since when is it a contest, I cant even get my booster as im 15 living in red necked alberta, where a darned calgarian is in power. almost wish i lived in the states, (almost canada is still great, our gov’t may not be as good with covid but our prime minister is handling the Ukraine situation better then the states)

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    Lana M.  over 2 years ago

    Needle envy? OMG, Pastis wrote a LOL strip? Had to see it to believe it… :)

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    198.23.5.11  over 2 years ago

    This one’s going to light up t he comment board.

    And it’s written so new readers won’t have the slightest idea which side he’s on.

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    marilynnbyerly  over 2 years ago

    I’ve seen horse needles. You don’t want to go there.

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    smorbie the great and beautiful  over 2 years ago

    It really has become that stupid.

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    sisterea  over 2 years ago

    People, I guess because they are people are so odd about this on both sides. It doesn’t bother me in the slightest for someone to ask if I am vaccinated. I will ask friends or anyone that I have to spend time with like a hair dresser or doctor. Since medical professionals always wear masks and insist you do as well, I guess it does not matter. One way or the other if I am indoors with other people not part of my family I wear a mask, and will for the foreseeable future.

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    raybarb44  over 2 years ago

    And so it begins again….

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    Cerabooge  over 2 years ago

    With the rapid decline in effectiveness, we need a new motto: a needle a day keeps the COVID away.

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    Ceeg22 Premium Member over 2 years ago

    But did you get the flu shot?

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    Saint Dogbert  over 2 years ago

    Why are they using needles? I thought that you got shots from a glass.

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    Ammo hates the comment policy  Premium Member over 2 years ago

    I called a repairman for my Fridge today, I had to disclose health info to them before they would pick up the phone. HIPPA Who?

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    AndrewSihler  over 2 years ago

    Goat of course has it right. But the premise of the strip is a case of projection: pro-vaccination people don’t think of it as a competition, but anti-vaxxers sure do, and are happy to send whole populations over a cliff rather than admit to being wrong-headed.

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    Bilan  over 2 years ago

    Pastis is needling the people that get needled.

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    pchemcat  over 2 years ago

    Does two shots of Fireball in an Angry Orchard count?

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    ChrisTrey  over 2 years ago

    I got both shots. Got boosted – got sick. Got the second Booster shot – got even sicker. Doc said that showed they were working.

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    Sisyphos  over 2 years ago

    Calling Dr. Fauci! Calling Dr. Fauci! Fauci, where are you these days?

    My syringe is bigger than your syringe. Nah nah!

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    Warhaft  over 2 years ago

    “Needle of Unknown Origin.” I loved that album.

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    AndreasMartin  over 2 years ago

    See, this is why I love this comic. You expect another lame pun, instad you get Covid in a nutshell. So to speak :-)

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    Swirls Before Pine  over 2 years ago

    “Indiana Jones and the Needle of Unknown Origin”, in theaters this Fall!

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    missyhyattfan  over 2 years ago

    Shoulda seen the one ER put into my knee to drain the infection!

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