Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 03, 2022

Is there one in there that reads “Stupidity”?

A new disaster every week. I’m still betting on a tsunami for the West Coast.

Atomic war?

Overpopulation, or as Yogi Berra put it, “Nobody goes there anymore; it’s too crowded.”

And me thought the harbinger of the plague would be rooting for a plague.

The end of the world is more subtle: Social Media feeds

At least the meteor would be quicker.

Given the high cost of food, maybe it has already happened, but they never announced it on the news.

ending not with a bang but with a whimper…

One meteoroid wouldn’t be big enough. You’ll need an asteroid or a comet.

Technically, though, if either a meteroid or an asteroid enters the atmosphere the result would be considered a meteor. We’ve just never seen an asteroid enter our atmosphere, so nobody’s ever had to decide to call one a meteor before. That leaves the definition a bit hazy and open to interpretation and reinterpretation.

Pray to Giant Meteor-chan

Another hurricane hits Florida , everyone has electric cars due to government mandate, and no one can escape !

Direct hit of a gamma ray burst.

Not a single prediction of the end of the world has come to pass. Even thought there are very many stupid people, there are also enough who are intelligent and care so that we have a good chance to survive and thrive for a long time to come.

No one ever votes for the merman!

A Black Swan is gonna gitcha when you least expect it…

Maybe someone could nuke the locusts, or divert them with a sharpie

Is there a card that has your name on it?

Never could understand gender reveal parties, but then I also don’t get “graduations” for anything other than high school and college.

Next time I buy a new car, I’m going to have a “fender reveal” party!

Planetary holocaust resulting from the ignition of bovinary flatulence. Take the zippos away from your cows!

Ice Nine.

I’ve heard that eventually, the sun will get so big it will swallow us all. I can see that.

I had really high hopes for the “meth gators”.

I’m still going with what it says in the Book of Revelations. But, nobody knows when that will happen.

Those asteroids can outfox one.

Here’s the real cause for the end of the world: God, provided that humanity doesn’t do it first!

At the pace of todays politics, I would say nuclear disaster…scary

Watch for war, hoarding, and drought.

I would have gone with stupidity.

At least he didn’t open the box and find actual locusts in there. That would have been gross.

Self destruction.

https://futurism.com/stephen-hawking-humanity-only-has-100-years-left-on-earth-before-doomsday

https://quotefancy.com/media/wallpaper/1600×900/5396-Stephen-Hawking-Quote-I-don-t-think-the-human-race-will-survive.jpg

You nailed it, BasilBruce.

Wouldn’t it be good if all gender reveal parties were held before the kids became teenagers?

How long before politically incorrect “gender” reveal parties are protested by our betters? BTW, words have gender, people have sex.

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I’ve tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.

- “Fire and Ice” - Robert Frost.

That’ll do, Pig. That’ll do.

Maybe not. Elon “the Marvelous” Musk says the real menace is underpopulation.

republicans

how about “Greed” or “Selfishness” or “Overpopulation” or…

Gotta fight those Buggers before they wipe us out

Gender Reveal parties are passé. The next big thing will be Identify-As parties.

I’d like to examine his experimental methodology and design, please.

So Pastis was watching Jurrasic World: Dominion when he drew this? Given how far in advance he submits strips, I wonder if he’d just gone to see it in theaters.

Remind me not to go to a party thrown by Rat. Ever.

I think I have lived through at least 10 end of the world events.

Putin’s coming Nuclear War.

We’ll all vaporize together when we go….

Firestorm?

Glow Balll Warrrrming (clap, clap, clap-clap-clap!)

Any Christians with an affinity for the Gospels will come out fine.