Btw: don’t cut parts of yourself off to eat if you’re ever stranded. It might seem like a good idea (nutrition, less cells to feed), but the shock to your body will take more energy than you’ll gain. Also, don’t drink urine or seawater if you’re stuck without drinking water: it will only make you thirstier.
Remember the one about the traveler who saw a pig with a peg-leg? He stopped to ask the farmer how that happened.
“Waaall, that pig’s somethin’ special. When he was just young, he chased down my youngest and kept him from drowning in the crick. Then when I got trapped under the hay pile when it slid, he ran and got m’ wife to get me out. An’ that’s not all, no-sir. Just a last year he followed me out into the woods and sniffed out a $600 truffle. Quite some pig!”
“Wow. That is some pig. But how’d he come to have a peg leg?”
“Well, a pig that valuable, you don’t eat him all at once!”
Pig might have watched the same documentary about the Donner Party that I did a few nights ago. on NetFlix though I saw it on PBS way back in the ’90s. The historical author, David McCullough narrated it.
That would be truly impressive. I’m familiar with the story of the guy who got himself pinned between rocks while hiking in the desert southwest and cut his own arm off in order to extricate himself. But this would be taking survival to a whole new level.
I think Stephen King wrote a short story using this premise. I think it’s called ‘Survivor Type’ and is in one of his short story collections. “Skeleton Crew” I think. I know I should look it up, but I’m too busy reading comics.
“Lady fingers. They taste just like lady fingers.”
BE THIS GUY about 4 years ago
At least the hiker didn’t gain any weight.
DennisinSeattle Premium Member about 4 years ago
This is giving me some recipe ideas. Breasts of chicken, stuffed with dark meat? I will have to try that.
The Moose Group about 4 years ago
He tried to sue himself but he didn’t have a leg to stand on.
Notaspy about 4 years ago
Btw: don’t cut parts of yourself off to eat if you’re ever stranded. It might seem like a good idea (nutrition, less cells to feed), but the shock to your body will take more energy than you’ll gain. Also, don’t drink urine or seawater if you’re stuck without drinking water: it will only make you thirstier.
Sherlock Watson about 4 years ago
You are what you eat.
B UTTONS about 4 years ago
Pig’s next book:
The unofficial biography of “Rat – Full of Himself”
Concretionist about 4 years ago
Remember the one about the traveler who saw a pig with a peg-leg? He stopped to ask the farmer how that happened.
“Waaall, that pig’s somethin’ special. When he was just young, he chased down my youngest and kept him from drowning in the crick. Then when I got trapped under the hay pile when it slid, he ran and got m’ wife to get me out. An’ that’s not all, no-sir. Just a last year he followed me out into the woods and sniffed out a $600 truffle. Quite some pig!”
“Wow. That is some pig. But how’d he come to have a peg leg?”
“Well, a pig that valuable, you don’t eat him all at once!”
feverjr Premium Member about 4 years ago
Reminds me of my favorite “Other Space” episode, where the “AT&T Girl” eats her shipmate’s leg….
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/episode-5-troubles-brewing-070100427.html
stillfickled Premium Member about 4 years ago
The pig’s smudge marks are back.
dwane.scoty1 about 4 years ago
Fresh bottle o’ Ink!
Sanspareil about 4 years ago
Yeah, just yesterday he had too much marjoram on his hands.
iggyman about 4 years ago
The hiker was known as Stubby from then on!
TampaFanatic1 about 4 years ago
Pig might have watched the same documentary about the Donner Party that I did a few nights ago. on NetFlix though I saw it on PBS way back in the ’90s. The historical author, David McCullough narrated it.
Plumbob Wilson about 4 years ago
Sounds like an Orson Scott Card short story.
Kaputnik about 4 years ago
He’s a living leg end.
Breadboard about 4 years ago
Pig is he still a hiker with only one leg ? … Croc Power !
Reader about 4 years ago
So - he came prepared -- in a way.
ajr58(1) about 4 years ago
Read Stephen King’s “Survivor Type.” “ “lady fingers they taste just like lady fingers”
smorbie the great and beautiful about 4 years ago
I love more than I should that Pig always has that splotch of ink on his head when he writes.
Kilrwat Premium Member about 4 years ago
Better to eat an arm then. Tough to walk out on 1 leg.
Ellis97 about 4 years ago
That’s painful.
Mighty Phavahg about 4 years ago
I guess that makes him ham-handed.
Constantinepaleologos about 4 years ago
Sounds like he was down to his last leg.
Zebrastripes about 4 years ago
Dear lord! Pig needs help…..someone? Can somebody help PIG?
Ermine Notyours about 4 years ago
Soundtrack for this strip: Gino Vannelli: “Living Inside Myself.”
Cameron1988 Premium Member about 4 years ago
That sounds as gruesome as that one scene from the first Saw movie
Herb L 1954 about 4 years ago
He’ll grow many more inches,but won’t grow another foot ;)
circleM about 4 years ago
Pig obviously uses a fountain pen.
ChessPirate about 4 years ago
Earlier, he was probably thinking “I’d give my right leg for a good meal…”
Librarylady about 4 years ago
Stephen King’s short story, Survivor Type.
Yontrop about 4 years ago
Reminds me of a chapter in “Candide”, but I can’t remember exactly.
RaZaP about 4 years ago
Does that make him a cannibal or not?
theotherther1 about 4 years ago
He must be a big fan of “Alive.”
Andrew Sleeth about 4 years ago
That would be truly impressive. I’m familiar with the story of the guy who got himself pinned between rocks while hiking in the desert southwest and cut his own arm off in order to extricate himself. But this would be taking survival to a whole new level.
ComicsBinger Premium Member about 4 years ago
That actually made my scalp crawl.
Bilan about 4 years ago
The hiker probably hated the trail mix that he brought along.
Mostroatomico about 4 years ago
I didn’t know Pig was a Cannibal Corpse fan!!
knight1192a about 4 years ago
Look at your housemate, Pig, and use what little brain power you have. Rat is extremely full of himself.
asrialfeeple about 4 years ago
Wouldn’t it be more logical if he ate his arm? That way he could still walk.
tee929 about 4 years ago
What a hack job!
Otis Rufus Driftwood about 4 years ago
I would think ‘Full of Himself’ would be a biography of Rat. In that case, Pig better use a pseudonym.
Sisyphos about 4 years ago
It’s “long pig,” Pig. Consider it a cautionary tale….
all.flesh.is.temporary about 4 years ago
Not a particularly bad title
Squirrel Chaser about 2 years ago
I think Stephen King wrote a short story using this premise. I think it’s called ‘Survivor Type’ and is in one of his short story collections. “Skeleton Crew” I think. I know I should look it up, but I’m too busy reading comics.
“Lady fingers. They taste just like lady fingers.”
milokraegel Premium Member over 1 year ago
Mabye that’s how Bear Grills does it