Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 22, 2025

Not going to work Rat. Go Stephan more bad puns please.

Didn’t they turn the key into Buffy’s little sister?

Those are their keys to salvation, right?

I expected Rat to say that the monks have asked for Stephan to take a vow of silence.

In their off time I guess they “Monkey around”?

They go to a burger place and order “One with everything”!

Walked right into that one, Rat.

Give a thousand monk keys a thousand key machines, and in a thousand years, they’re BOUND to make you a good doop licate.

It always starts off so innocently! That should have given me a clue. Rat never makes innocuous reasonable statements…

I remember the Monastery on the Corner. Great beer, pool tables and ESPN!!

What did I tell you about puns?

Reminds me — years ago, make that decades ago, I was bicycling through Belgium and Netherlands and stopped at a pub for lunch. To wash down whatever I was eating, I innocently ordered a Trappist beer, wanting to try something new. Holy cow, and I do mean holy. Still to this day, it was the thickest, strongest, and darkest beer I have ever had. Two things happened: I couldn’t ride in a straight line for a couple of hours and second, I seriously considered the benefits of becoming a monk. None of those things ever occurred again.