Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 13, 2022

Sorry, Rat. The making people depressed market is saturated right now.

Depression hotline is when someone watch the news on TV.

Don’t believe everything you read; no one wants to hear a hot line from a rat.

truth in advertising, eh Rat?

Lucky me. I can have pull up the latest PBS and bypass the hotline altogether.

Could be worse. Could be a suicide hotline.

“Call volumes are very high right now. Please try again later. "

Your call is very important to us . . . NOT!

And Rat is an expert.

… and often times angry too.

Where there’s demand there’s a provider.

The way things are we do not need your hotline to be depressed, Rat!

As Cagney would say “You Dirty Rat”!

Sum people don’t reed gooder.

Rat has found his calling. Depressing others makes him happy.

I’m thankful the suicide hotline is not like this.

My parents lived through the Great Depression, but it really didn’t sound so great.

Rat is a sleazy, petty little rodent, but we love him just the same.

HEY! THAT’S MY JOB!!!

We have a cadult (our child who is now an adult) who suffered from clinically diagnosed depression from about the age of 12. The one advice I would give to anyone is, before taking any antidepressants, take the screening test first. It will tell which antidepressants the body will metabolize. Then go forward. What’s the gain? Time on the right meds. I takes the body 4-6 weeks for antidepressants to start working. And a lot can happen in 4-6 weeks if on the wrong antidepressants.

Incontinence hotline. Can you hold?

Sometime there are some who are so deep in depression they can’t see a solution and or the light at the end of the tunnel…..Stay away from RATs booth!

They call, Rat listens, Rat feels better about himself …

What’s in a name? Now to know….

Drove past an adult store the other day. I was wondering if they’re used or new. Then drove past a family store. Hmm.

Is this the same Depression Hotline that was used by “Hoobert Heever”?!?

First Rat peps t hem u p with coffee.Then he makes them feel downer depressed so they’ll have to come back for more coffee.

Rat might be on to something. All those people who are feeling great all the time need somewhere to turn to in order find the solace of reality.

That’s a bad business model, Rat. There is already WAY to much competition out there already.

Want something to depress ya?

The charge nurse at the Emergency Room of the ONLY Hospital in our area had to call 911 for help from the Fire Department.

https://www.kitsapsun.com/story/news/2022/10/12/overwhelmed-st-michael-medical-center-nurse-called-911-help/10472123002/

I imagine she’ll be fired.

(But don’t worry. It’s a Catholic hospital. Two or three hundred years from now, she’ll be declared a saint.)

I’m amazed at the incompetant management’s various creative excuses for this happening . . . it reminds me of Thomas Nast’s Tweed ring cartoon:

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MbLm_80tvFA/T2glv77q4hI/AAAAAAAAq0o/4GtWKovpw14/s1600/USAnast3.jpg

I used to wonder why my grandfather left Northern Ireland . . .

Remember that strip a VERY long time ago where Pig suggested we send all the angry nutjobs in the world to an island? Rat would be first to go.

Yeah, Goat! Whatsamatta for you, you don’t read the English? Rat provides an honest, vital service.

I just noticed that for the last three days the panels have been identical except for the word balloons. Not complaining, just noting the fact. Probably not the first time…

Why not make them read Funky Winkerbean instead?

i need this