Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 23, 2021

Breaking out of the house with a sledgehammer feels more rewarding.

Reminds me of an old joke:

Q. Why did the doctor visit the prison?

A. He’d heard that someone had broken out.

to quote a Steve Aoki song “Get Me Outta Here”.

And now they have another door . . . to Pig’s bedroom.

He has something in common with Superman.

lol u cud hv used zoom to go outside, silly rat

Well, I forgot about the words: Fun, Live, Face-to-Face, Door, Outside, Restaurants, Party, Friends!!!

There are times when OUT NOW supersedes rational thought. I once crawled through an 8 inch by 16 inch vent hole to get out of a crawlspace…

Nice lathe and plaster though…and it speaks to the frustration of many…

Using the door is definitely the more sensible option, but sledgehammering out of your house is way cooler.

Jumping out the window after breaking the glass also works.

Keith Moon did this in real life at one point. He locked himself in a hotel room and then couldn’t get out, so he knocked a hole in the wall. No version of the story that I have ever seen has ever said just why he had the tools in the hotel room in the first place.

Fresh air is always better than stale air.

That sheer everlasting pandemic let us feel like we were ghosts – but trying to go through walls without leaving holes brings us back to reality…

Good thing they store their sledgehammers in the living room (probably for soap operas and the like).

One way to cope with frustration!

Rat give yourself an NCIS Gibbs bang check !

Obviously, a rat is not a dormouse. What would one expect?

I think rat has been watching too many home renovation shows on HGTV.

Pastis is loosing it. There’s pig drawings on his living room walls.

Pastis is A-Door-Able today.

He’s got cabin fever.

That’s because common sense walked out the door on its own long ago.

Id rather just tear down my whole damn place

Sledgehammer yourself out of your head, Rat.

TOWANDA!

RATS GONE OVER THE EDGE!

Crow T Robot tried that once…

He of course was on a space station at the time.

I got both of my COVID shots in February. My problem is that I don’t hang out in bars so apart from the grocery store there’s still no place open that I want to go to, concerts & such. A sledgehammer won’t help. Friends & family live at considerable distance and the squirrels in the park down the street stopped being cute a long time ago.

The pandemic hasn’t been that bad, at least where I live.

“Andy Dufresne … a man who crawled through a river of (xxxx) and came out clean on the other side.”

Everybody knows the homewrecker deals extra damage to buildings

According to the news from the last week, it appears that the U.S. is reverting back to the old normal. You are going to miss the new normal from the last year.

Lathe runs horizontally.

Wish Goat would have told me sooner.

Rat’s crazy face is the stuff of nightmares.

outside? what’s outside?

Rat usually finds it much easier to break the fourth wall.

It is easy to get used to a constraint if it has been in place long enough …

…there’s people still staying home????? What are they, millionaires?

Pandemic again? Can’t we get past this, Pastis?

For a laugh, though, try https://www.gocomics.com/theflyingmccoys/2021/03/23 :)

Reminds me, crap’s getting in through my firewall.

Where has he been having the beer delivered?

What is this “door” you speak of?

Ruh-roh. Looks like Rat’s got the Brain Rot, a known COVID symptom!

At least he didn’t have to use it on Mr. Pastis today for another pun…