Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 07, 2017

Try paying the bills doing that.

now who’s going to fix them something to eat if they’re both in the bed?

John and Yoko did it first!

Politics makes for strange bedfellows.

There’s also the fact that the day always goes downhill when you get out of bed.

Bernie voters in PA, MI, and OH, back in November 2016

That may be the nicest thing Rat has ever said to Pig.

Eat a whole live frog first thing in the morning, and nothing worse can happen to you the rest of the day.

No, Pigs are more comfortable in muck.

I love madeleines too, and Proust turned me on to them. But I’d still choose tangerine trees and marmalade skies over them any day. Not even to speak of marshmallow pies. And, I wrote a paper in college asserting that “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” was an intentional riff on Wordsworth’s Lucy poems, “Lucy Gray” in particular. I persuaded my professor.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t solve lack of income.

Psychologists would interpret this as a desire to be back in the womb.

Too boring for me!

That is, until you begin to starve.

Sleep late. Don’t watch the news. Do something that makes you happy. It’s only your brain, with it’s limited concepts of time and its illusion of ego that makes it seem like it matters. It doesn’t. No matter what, it will all pass away in less than the blink of a universal eye, as if it was never there at all. Have fun.

Scooch over, fellas. Do you have room for one more?

Where did that second pillow come from in the third frame?

I have a PB pig and they are clean but he loves to roll in mud to keep the flies off him and to cool down in the summer. So they can be dirty by choice.

Those pillows are amazing! Great job Pastis!

I’m with Pig. I don’t get out of bed until past noon on weekends.

Come get me.

xxx

I’m reading this in bed..

Rat FINALLY gives Pig a point! Is this unprecedented?

Being among the Retired set, I heartily concur with Pig (whose weak mind I more often denounce) and Rat (whose wily ways I often condemn). It’s a two-fer! Congrats, Cartoon-Boy!

Now, pull up the blankie and hand me my teddy bear!

But what about bathroom needs?

My brother sleeps until noon…..after he starts sleeping at about 5am.

in programming, an asterisk is commonly used as a sort of “whatever you want it to be” symbol, I’ve heard it called a wildcard. ASCII language, the original way that computers run, the most basic computer software, in it, 42 is the designation for asterisk. The GIANT COMPUTER was asked what the true meaning was. the answer is whatever you want it to be

This strip gave me an excuse to tell my mom when I don’t want to get out of bed