Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 22, 2015

I think, Timmy is going to withdraw further into his shell — if that is possible.

Goat has a point.

Don’t give up hope, Timmy — maybe you can have a TV installed in there.

Where’d he get the lettuce, if he never comes out of his shell?

Probably got the internet.

We don’t know how well Timmy has got it fixed up in there. Maybe he has a point, staying in….

This arc, and some of the comments here, remind me of parts of a science fiction short story I read about 50 years ago in high school — “The Machine Stops”, by E.M. Forster.

That’s how I feel about food fads. So you live to 105 eating and drinking kale, big deal.

No comment from me today. I’m in my shell.

As the great philosophical movie “The Croods” said,

“That’s not living, that’s… not dying! There’s a difference!”

He could have some flightless birds on his back.

“it’s got to be the going, not the getting there that’s good”harry chapin, greyhound

Like the Tardis, bigger on the inside than the outside, to accommodate wide screen TV, 2,500 sq ft home, hot tub: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TARDIS. Example, “How did they get all those tomatoes in that little bitty can?”

There are times when I would love to stay in my “shell” or stick my head in the sand.

But I have to accept that I can’t and just move on with life.

xxx

Timmy needs to realize that a tortoise makes progress only by sticking its neck out!

Timmy needs to put in wifi and a full shelf of books!

i don’t think stephan can draw a tortoise, so he made this boring character as a very easy way to introduce someone

“It’s a jungle out there, confusion and destruction everywhere”