Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 25, 2022

I know Goat tries to be positive but I didn’t expect him to be this hokey.

Maybe he can get store credit for it, or “karma.”

Someone should regift Rat’s present.

Sorry Rat. EPA has declared your life toxic.

I find it hard to believe that anybody has ever given Rat a gift.

Once again, on behalf of the Campaign for the Return of Guard Duck and Mr Snuffles (GRGDMS) I call for your support and positive action.

Explains a lot about Rat then.

In German the word for poison is “Gift”.

Sorry, Rat. You have to play the hand you’re dealt in life.

And just like that, the present is gone in a snap of a finger. It’s no wonder we can’t enjoy it.

Good advice, Goat!

Rat’s “present” explains why he’s so “pleasant”.

Save it for the Christmas party, Rat!Even an ugly sweater has it’s moments.

The present is the current which is why it’s so shocking.

Oh no…. That’s actually could explain a lot.

Describes my life perfectly

Rat is always itching for a fight.

I got a sweater, it wasn’t ugly, but it kept picking up static electricity. So I decided to return it to the store. They gave me a new one, free of charge.

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.”

-Master Oogway, Kung Fu Panda

I don’t like sweaters very much. They’re kinda itchy.

Stop hanging out with Rat, Goat

Look for the positive. Ugly sweaters still make good cat beds.

Ugly sweaters were all the rage a short time ago.

Rats rational thoughts knows no bounds!

Good Morning Steph, that is very funny but sadly this is true for millions of people in the world today thanks to idiots like Putin, our only hope is that some very brave person will gladly give him what he deserves!!!!

There should be a story arc explaining how Rat became the cynical jerk that he is today.

It’s not often that I literally laugh out loud at a strip. Nailed it.

I luv Rat.

But Rat always wins on “Ugly Sweater Day”…

i think they swapped gifts about 20 years ago

Continuum or series of discrete infinitesimals?

And sadly someone made ugly sweatewrs the in thing to wear at Christmas time. WHY!!!!!! There’s a reason they are buried in drawers the rest of the year (and used to be gotten rid of so they were never worn at Christmas, though now most of us seem too embarassed to donate them least we be caught with something so ugly as to be labeled because of it).

Don’t you just love our multiple meanings of English words?

My life is like an ugly christmas sweater. It’s pathetic and itchy, but it gives people a good laugh.

“The past is history; the future is a mystery. Today is a gift of God. That’s why it’s called the ‘present’. Credit Eleanor Roosevelt.

The whole world is a gift horse for Rat to look down the mouth of

What did you expect from Rat, Goat? Are you really so blindly optimistic?!

And it’s not Christmas yet!