Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 16, 2023

At least he’s not calling himself “54 years young”; I hate when people do that.

Why not make it the 29th anniversary of your 25th birthday?

Wow…54 again?

Geeze. A veritable babe.

Impkins, so sorry to learn of your loss. My condolences.

54, doncha think it’s way past time to turn that hat around?

I’ll have to use that. I have a b’day coming up this Friday, the 20th. I usually but not always reference the source.

He’s 22 in hexadecimal.

Why is the 29th Birthday the 25th anniversary?

My Grandmother always said she was 29 and 1/2, 29 and 3/4 on a bad day!

Hey, he stole my line. I’ve been celebrating anniversaries of my 21st birthday for many years.

well, happy birthday

Reminds me of Jack Benny, who was ‘forever 39’ after his 39th birthday.

Ronald Reagan told the press corps that he was celebrating the 36th anniversary of his 39th birthday. It was a funny joke then and still is now.

This March will be the 50th aniversary of my 15th birthday.

About 40 years ago (I’m the fifth kid and was in my mid 20s), my dad fell off a ladder and had to go to the hospital for X-rays. He put “29” down for his age. Apparently, they looked at him a couple of times but didn’t say anything.

29 again? are you ever going to get it right????

I tell people I’m in my 40’s. I’m now forty-twenty-six.

Pastis is just a child. I have a couple of kids older than him. It doesn’t seem possible, but that’s the way it is. My children have gotten older than me. Hahaha!

Next thing he’ll say is he’s 5’ 19".

I like that! I’ll celebrate the 40th anniversary of my 30th birthday!

I want to make my fortune in creative media before I’m thirty.

Weird. Last year was the 32nd anniversary of my fifteenth birthday.

This year is the 1st anniversary of my 39th birthday.

My Grandmother did that. She started having “anniversaries” of her 39th Bday. When she reached the 39th anniversary of her 39th Bday she said “it was time to admit it, she was old!”

Around age 45 I started cutting my age in half and celebrating two-day birthdays. So this year I’ll celebrate 31 years on Saturday and another 31 years on Sunday.

I wish it was the 25th anniversary of my 29th birthday.

I’m 68 years old. I gave up on 29th birthdays when I hit 40.

Happy Birthday‼️

Happy birthday, Stephan!

The best ten years of my life were between 29 and 30. (Thank you, Jack Benny)

Yeah, me too. After all, I’m 81 years young.

One more year and you’ll start getting some senior discounts.

I used to be like that. I would say 29 is about the right age, old enough to know better, young enough not to care.

Now I have grown to accept my age (57), even if is shocks me sometimes that I have made it this far.

Car 54 where are you ?

Stopped at a motel and the young woman at the counter gave me the senior discount WITHOUT ASKING. 12 years ago.

I started counting backwards from 50. I’m almost down to 24. Actually, though, when you’re 75 and still mentally and physically functional, it’s something to be proud of.

I’m 26921… days old,

Birthday is the most common math misconception. When you celebrate its recurring the count is always one off, because everybody omits the first birthday. The day you actually are born.

> Stephan Pastis – Wikipedia

Stephan Thomas Pastis ( / ˈstɛfən ˈpæstɪs /; 2 born January 16, 1968) is an American cartoonist and former lawyer who is the creator of the comic strip Pearls Before Swine. He also writes children’s chapter books, commencing with the release of Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made.

This is why I have switched to hexadecimal to state my age…

Stephen’s . . . IN HIS 50s?!? Holy cow that’s bad! Earth NEEDS him around for ANOTHER fifty AT LEAST!!!

Happy birthday Stephan.

Sorry,Pastis.Jack Benny cornered the market on that one.And without a pot belly

I like the way that Stephan enjoys making fun of himself. And by the way, ¡Feliz cumpleaños!

Does Pastis plan to play Las Vegas when he’s 100?

My co-workers reversed this to say it’s the 25th anniversary for 29 more years till retirement.

This year will be the 38th anniversary of my 29th birthday.

That’s weird. Pastis is 55 today, not 54.

I smell a Rat. Today’s comic makes Stephan 54, when he celebrated his 55th last August.

Pretty soon you’ll join us double-thirty-somethings.

“54”? Man you look older than that

That would make him 725 years old – Account material,…

Just 12.2 Centigrade

Happy Birthday Stephan!!!

Wait, is this for real? If so, I didn’t realize I was that close in age to Pastis.

Happy Birthday Stephan!

Pastis would hate me. When I was in my 30’s I wasn’t that far removed from him, physically. Now, at 54, I’m far more Jef.

Happy Birthday Steph! I mean, Happy Anniversary!!!!

Only my grandmother and Jack Benny could get away with gag.

You say, “25th of 29”?

I say, Lookie, everyone! Cartoon-Boy is frickin’ fifty-four years old! Geezer!

Happy birthday, I guess….

Growing older but not up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spZONbvFSLU

I just hope Stephan isn’t Pastis prime.

Twenty-nine with twenty-five years experience.

Birthdays are good for you — the more you have the longer you live.

Birthdays celebrate the fact you were born, not the years since.

It’s not Age-day.

And I came up with this BEFORE I started getting deluged with Medicare supplement junk mail.

So he and I were born in the same year. Somehow I haven’t figured out how to care about my age while he seems to be desperately holding on to his twenties. Yes, I’m sure it’s a joke but there are people like this out there. I’m not sure why they think lying or denying their age changed anything.

I just say I’m “Plenty-nine.”

my birthday as well. we share the same birthday

I’ve been celebrating my 1st birthday for 64 years straight.

I’m about to have my41st.