I’m so glad I’ve found this brilliant, bleak and funny comic strip. There was a time comic strips were the true social and life critiques as well as joke factories of pop-culture. Good to occasionally see that in today’s world.
Based on the original phrase, more barrels are a good thing. The phrase is scrape the bottom of the barrel. In reference to food being stored in barrels. When food supplies were low, you had to scrape the bottom of the barrel just to find something to eat.
I learned many years ago there’s no “rock bottom”. It’s like a mirage. You see it, but you never reach it. And, never ever say you’ve reach it because there are powers just waiting to mock your belief.
Every time Pastis depicts either Rat or Pig writing, they have ink on their heads. How in blazes does that happen to them? I mean, besides Pastis putting it there.
BE THIS GUY almost 3 years ago
Don’t look for the bottom because there isn’t one. Try to start working your way up.
tudza Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Can’t fool me, it’s barrels all the way down.
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Dig, dig and dig.
BasilBruce almost 3 years ago
Another question: What’s in each barrel?
Wilde Bill almost 3 years ago
There is always one more barrel.
sirbadger almost 3 years ago
Maybe the bottom barrel is in a cemetery.
B UTTONS almost 3 years ago
There is a barrel of monkeys, some Congressional pork barrels, and at the very end is a double-barrel pun gun weirded by Pastis.
TonysSon almost 3 years ago
I’m surprised Rat didn’t suggest Pig switch to kegs.
Concretionist almost 3 years ago
It’s turtles all the way down.
Bilan almost 3 years ago
Science has already given us an answer to that question … The universe is infinite.
epicatt2 almost 3 years ago
Ack-chooly it’s turtles, er… barrels all the way down!
Caldonia almost 3 years ago
I thought “hitting bottom” was the important part. Aren’t the barrels just cluttering things up? Kick the barrels away and just hit rock bottom, Pig.
ronaldspence almost 3 years ago
So profound a question…so elusive the answer, how unyielding the journey…people are really hurting!
Templo S.U.D. almost 3 years ago
I was told my patrilineal great-granddad’s family were barrel makers; Faßbinder in German.
AlnicoV almost 3 years ago
It is always your day in the barrel.
drycurt almost 3 years ago
It’s barrels all the way down.
jessie d. almost 3 years ago
….until you kick that barrel.
Cornelius Noodleman almost 3 years ago
Dregs.
blunebottle almost 3 years ago
The Universe is infinite, Pig.
Rubarbkid almost 3 years ago
It’s barrels all the way down…
Say What Now‽ Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Stop looking in the barrels!
Count Olaf Premium Member almost 3 years ago
You’re going to need a bigger boat, too.
_lounger_ almost 3 years ago
if only we could ask, as George did, that the barrels were filled with Malmsey wine…
Troglodyte almost 3 years ago
Next time you’re in a barrel, roll with it, Pig!
iggyman almost 3 years ago
There is a word for that number “Infinity!”, but there is always hope!
Comic Lad almost 3 years ago
I’m so glad I’ve found this brilliant, bleak and funny comic strip. There was a time comic strips were the true social and life critiques as well as joke factories of pop-culture. Good to occasionally see that in today’s world.
hariseldon59 almost 3 years ago
Pig’s life is no barrel of laughs.
einarbt almost 3 years ago
Is Pig drinking his way to the bottom of each barrel or what?
Major Matt Mason Premium Member almost 3 years ago
It’s barrels, all the way down.
just-ducky almost 3 years ago
Based on the original phrase, more barrels are a good thing. The phrase is scrape the bottom of the barrel. In reference to food being stored in barrels. When food supplies were low, you had to scrape the bottom of the barrel just to find something to eat.
Ellis97 almost 3 years ago
That must be a ton of barrels.
Zebrastripes almost 3 years ago
It’s like a Matryoshka doll…..so many parts and pieces…
DM2860 almost 3 years ago
Hint: if you still have a home, there is a barrel lower down.
Masterskrain almost 3 years ago
NEVER ask that Question around a Qpublican, Pig, because they LOVE to dig through the bottom of as many barrels as they can!
samclemens almost 3 years ago
It’s barrels all the way down. Full of turtles.
diskus Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Rat to provide some clarity based on his journeys
pharout almost 3 years ago
It’s just barrels all the way down….
gigagrouch almost 3 years ago
It’s barrels all the way down.
Bucinka almost 3 years ago
Either nine, or 666, depending on whether you believe Dante Alighieri or Gary Gygax.
stringer831 almost 3 years ago
Roll out the barrel…we’ll have a barrel of fun….
uniquename almost 3 years ago
“When you’re in a hole, the first thing to do is to stop digging.”
- Will Rogers
Goat from PBS almost 3 years ago
I guess the number of barrels varies between people.
22Wu33/es Premium Member almost 3 years ago
It’s Barrels all the way down….
pabsfx-comics almost 3 years ago
Or, as was said in Brewster Rocket: https://www.gocomics.com/brewsterrockit/2021/09/22
kkinney almost 3 years ago
It’s barrels all the way down.
raybarb44 almost 3 years ago
Don’ worry. Death IS the last barrel……
Ermine Notyours almost 3 years ago
I want to see a Wiley Bearal.
stamps almost 3 years ago
It’s barrels (not turtles) all the way down.
198.23.5.11 almost 3 years ago
They’re pickle barrels,so at least Pig won’t starve.
David_the_CAD almost 3 years ago
The sad news, or the good news is as many barrels (bottoms) as it takes.
Sad if you don’t learn from it, good news if you do.
The question is what do you do next? Don’t worry there is a group for that, and people who will help you; if you are willing to seek out that help
WCraft Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Switch to ladders. At least you know when you’re at the bottom!
d edwin almost 3 years ago
Liquor i would imagine. Endless stack of barrels for an alcoholic like myself….
zeexenon almost 3 years ago
Like the Russians, nest the barrels and you’ll give up caring long before you get your answer.
Mentor397 almost 3 years ago
I believe the saying is, “Infinity and beyond!”
roakor almost 3 years ago
its barrels all the way down
Mel-T-Pass Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Welcome to the infinite regression of regressing. Boy, is the world regressing. Regretfully.
William Stoneham Premium Member almost 3 years ago
I learned many years ago there’s no “rock bottom”. It’s like a mirage. You see it, but you never reach it. And, never ever say you’ve reach it because there are powers just waiting to mock your belief.
willie_mctell almost 3 years ago
Barrels all the way down.
txmystic almost 3 years ago
There should be a rock at rock bottom, unless you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place…
liberalnlovinit almost 3 years ago
Ask Republicans.
Buoy almost 3 years ago
And then that barrel goes over Niagara Falls.
sperry532 almost 3 years ago
Sorry, Pig. It’s barrels all the way down.
JPuzzleWhiz almost 3 years ago
I’m just wondering:
Every time Pastis depicts either Rat or Pig writing, they have ink on their heads. How in blazes does that happen to them? I mean, besides Pastis putting it there.
Donald Heller almost 3 years ago
From the gurus, “It’s barrels all the way down”
DaBump Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Oh man, I’ve been there.
“How many…” questions often remind me of this:
“Let’s find out… one… two… (crunch!) three!”
Otis Rufus Driftwood almost 3 years ago
There’s always another barrel.
Ray almost 3 years ago
Sorry, it’s turtles all the way down.
DennisinSeattle almost 3 years ago
Does anybody read the comments before commenting? The “turtles all the way down” line has now been used about 70 times in one form or another.
Sisyphos almost 3 years ago
Infinite barrels, infinite depression. (Not an old Vulcan saying.) Sorry, Pig.
bunrabbit99 almost 3 years ago
wrong…it’s turtles all the way down.
Tempest2 almost 3 years ago
I thought it was “Turtles all the way down.”
SquishYT almost 3 years ago
About 27 or 28.
Thinkingblade almost 3 years ago
I thought it was turtles all the way down …