The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for September 02, 2023

To be replaced by de rabbi. Subscribers are mostly Jewish, not Catholic.

Shouldn’t have replied to every submission: Antelope can’t elope.

I’ll have to ruminate over this one.

Maybe his idea could be made into a TV series about the forest animals who live on a great English estate on the cusp of a vanishing way of life.

and the cartoonist was sentenced to 2 years in therapy.

What’s with the extra large empty box taking up so much space on the desk? If its supposed to be a box of Friar Doe’s belongings from his desk, it would make sense to show them in there (plant, photo frame, rosary beads,etc). But if Deer Abbey was cancelled so quickly (a week or two?), there wouldn’t be a box-worth of things to pack up.

He thought he was going to make the big bucks.

Good one! Thanks for the chuckle.

I get the joke…but what’s with the box?

It’s the ruminants without antlers he was hoping to reach. I guess he’ll have to chew on it for a while.

Terrible pun, but I gave it a LIKE for using the word “ungulates.”

Getting permission from the head monk to write the column can be a hard abbot to break.

Pastis wrote this one, didn’t he?

They also wanted to write a column critiquing modern prose and poultry, but the friars were too chicken and didn’t think they could pullet off.

Ungulates – note to self, add to vocabulary. Now If I could only figure out when to use it… about as helpful as “tetrapod”…

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Careful. It could he a Trappist.

Well, I sure love the Lhasa Apsos the Tibetan monks created.

You’d think there would be a need for that advice column. They get a lot of Dear John Deer letters.

boy, that’s gotta come as bad gnus…