Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 05, 2017

A long weekend isn’t a vacation.

Killing your boss sounds heavenly….

Sing along with Sherlock: “Take this job and shove it…”

I just took a whole month off, and it was great, didn’t get bored once. I think I shall regard it as retirement test drive.

If anyone thinks any jail is a holiday, search for “Richard Pryor penitentiary” on-line and learn.

Jail has a better health plan, too. Thanks, Obama!

Did Danny Donkey just kill Dilbert?

The son of a friend got into some trouble and did some time recently. I told him I would imagine incarceration to be pretty much the same way pilots describe their job; Long stretches of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror. He thought about it for a minute, and said that describes prison life perfectly.

Spent 18 years as an Over-the-Road Truck Driver. Average schedule was 3-4 weeks out away from home, 4 days home, and back out again for 3-4 weeks. That’s gets REALLY old after a while…trying to do 2 weeks worth of work around the house in 4 days! Had to go back out on the road to relax from my “Time off”!

Pig is tired of working for Pastis in this strip and needs a vacation.

What are the jail guards to do for a vacation…?

Donkey? That looks like Pig in cheap grey disguise..

Nothing like your own room at the Greybar Hilton.

Meanwhile, Pastis enjoys his vacation, while Goat, Rat and Pig draw new comics for his strip…

Looks like Bill Amend is trying to mimic your schtick today.

Why stress yourself like that? You have six weeks of paid vacation that your boss keeps urging you to use, you’ve also got around 13 public holidays and you can always ask for extra time off, where’s the problem? Oh wait… forgot this is an American strip…(Yes, this is a very dickish comment.)

That’s what he gets for hiring a jackass in the first place

I’m delighted to see Danny donkey again, He certainly seems to have a messed up life,while he’s incarcerated maybe he could write a “how to book” on vacationing. He might be able to get a job on the Greek Isle of Santorenni? If you get my drift?

Who has money for vacations? I sure don’t.

That’s what he gets for traveling east, not west. I got to go to Maui, Hawaii. The first day I got up early to see the sunrise at Haleakalā, but the second day I still wasn’t adjusted to the time. I couldn’t sleep in, so I sat on a sandy pre-dawn west-facing beach to hear podcasts from home. A local talk-show host had just gotten back from his vacation in Moloka’i. On the other hand, when I went east to Disney World, I was never able to get up early for a rope drop. I know, first-world problems.

No medical care for the boss, but they have two police to maintain law and order. Typical.

Hog snouts on donkeys, goats, and zebras. Is Pig’s dad responsible for all this inter-species mating?

I can completely relate to Danny Donkey.

now that’s a pile of trouble.

Try the Alcatraz Hilton, featuring 24 hour security, select clientele, bars in every room and lifetime accomodations.

My “Change your life” vacation was the first time I went to South Africa on a photo safari. I’ve been on 7 since then, the last one in 2015. Five time in South Africa, twice in Tanzania and, once in Zimbabwe. Seeing the residents in “their” home is truly life altering. One really doesn’t realize how large, and magnificent, an elephant is until it ambles right next to the open wheeled vehicle you’re in. There are also a significant number of great wineries within driving distance of Cape Town.

There are too many people in jail. And the number of people that aren’t in jail, but are still cared for by the government is also too large – they have enslaved themselves.

it also comes with free rent and food!

An excellent strip. And sleeping all day doesn’t sound too bad to me!

xxx

Well, this explains why we haven’t seen Danny Donkey is a while.

Pig is right—as long as you get a solitary cell and no cellmate named Big Richard!

Danny Donkey is a model for us all! Rise up! Batter down Oppression [cover art factoid: the Blackhawks did it]!

Anybody wanna try robbing a bank for a much better life?

no pig don’t do it

What’s not to like? Accomodations, food, an exercise program, health care, and education. And you don’t pay for any of it! You might not like your neighbours, but we all have problems.