Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 24, 2025

With one big exception: Nobody is looking forward to it ending.

The wise one has patience, because he has the only comfy chair, so guests don’t stay long.

But everyone IS here by choice, otherwise there would have been a lot more Suicides…which would be BAD!

The wise one is supposed to be a jacka$$, but he has a Pig type nose!

The horror…

I’ll be the guy at the office party who drinks too much and gets called into HR the next day for indiscretions.

I have been to some great office Christmas parties…

About the wisest thing I’ve seen the wise aƨƨ say.

Welcome to the Hotel California. “We are all just prisoners here of our own device”

No decent presents, lousy food and drink, boring company. I think Pig’s onto something.

Office Christmas party? Just say No. Nobody ever found a way to “force” me to attend anything in my own time.

stay out of the closets

Great Dumb A*s, I think…

And there’s never enough booze in the punch.

Oh great wise as$, why can Stephan Pastis use the uncensored version of the word “as$” in Pearls Before Swine, but we lowly readers cannot do the same in the comments section of GoComics? Seems a bit hypocritical to me…

One of the best episodes of Mad Men was when they had to throw a Christmas party because that’s what the client wanted.

More like a Halloween Party on some days….

Sounds like Camel Harris’s victory party.

Please don’t equate life to a large social gathering. We Asperger’s introverts don’t do that.

I’ve never been to an office Christmas party. My choice was affirmed one year when the next day (at work), one co-worker threatened to “rearrange your face” of another. Both had been to the party and while there, had gotten into some kind of altercation while they were both sauced. That person was still hot as a pistol about it, and made this threat. He was fired due to it.

Why are we here? What is our purpose?

So, the wise as on the hill is depressed just like the rest of the characters in this strip. I think we know Pastis pretty well now.

why is the pig standing sideways?

Yeah, but only some of us are getting drunk and concluding that it would be a funny idea to put ammonia in the punch bowl.

Well, the catering leaves a lot to be desired …

I don’t recall being asked whether or not I wanted to be here; however, here I am, stuck in the middle with all of you.

He knows. I had used the name of the character (W—- A—). But the program rejected it.

UH OH. We’re IN DEEP DO DO. AND ITS PROBLY A TRUMP OFFICE PARTY.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting some great battle.

People need to learn to be kind to themselves as well.

That explains why everyone I see is wearing ugly sweaters

But everybody who is THERE with you has gotten there by choice, so…

It only seems better after they set out the edibles and spike the punch.

I always tried to cut out of office parties and gatherings once I’ve had my plate of food and collected any trinkets they may have been passing out.

And the cartoonists are the guests wearing a lamp shade.