Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 17, 2021

Pig has apparently given up his intelligence for Lent. I know, he hasn’t given up much.

What you give up for lent depends on how unleasonable your landlord is.

The owner of a laundromat I use told me that the dryers work better when they are full of lint than when he has cleaned them. He still has to clean them, of course, because they would jam up completely if he didn’t.

He also told me that he doesn’t believe the story that lint can catch on fire and burn down your house. He had tried to set fire to lint and it will not burn.

Be sure to donate your dryer lint to a good cause.

I think, rather, that one should add something positive for Lent, if you’re going to do something. It’s okay with me if that is of the form “positively going to stop <something>”

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints doesn’t really do Lent, but here’s an article how the membership can do it: https://www.ldsliving.com/6-Ways-Latter-day-Saints-Can-Enjoy-the-Spirit-of-Lent/s/78067

I enjoy the spirit of Lent. Particularly Limoncello.

Contemplate your navel lint.

Every year for Lent I give up my New Year’s Resolutions. If I have any left by that time…

I’m giving up washing my hair for Lent, because someone’s pipes burst in my building due to snow and ice and now no one has water.

Don’t make an ash of yourself Pig! I think for Lent I am going to give up turbulent and rancorous thoughts about people of different beliefs than me and value their right to think and feel contrary and maybe learn something in the process.

There was a pizza place who in years past would give discounts on cheese pizzas for the period of lent, not this year the virus put them out of business!

Never did get into this Lent thing…I was raised Baptist, I don’t think we do Lent.

I was going to give up breathing for Lent but, by doctor advised against it!! So did my Deacon!!

/SNARK/

Goat go ask Larry Croc about lent ;-) ….. Croc Power !

Since there was no Mardi Gras (or Carnival) this year there is no need for penance, so I officially cancel Lint.

How about beads at Mardi Gras?

If you live long enough, you figure out that all religions are basically the same. Just the names and dates are changed.

I gave up lent for lent.

I would give up religion for lent.

I could give up going to the movies, or to a restaurant, or watching a football game, or… oh, wait…

Don’t get me started. Don’t EVEN get me started…

Knew a guy years ago who gave up coffee for Lent. He drank the stuff constantly, so it was really a sacrifice.

Tricky alright! Wait for your ash….

i just sweep it away with the vac…..

For Lent this year i am giving up sleeping on the floor. I am going to break down and get a bed and a chair. I’m reaching that age where the floor seems awfully low when i go to get up.

I gave up religion… was that bad? :D

i had to look up lent…

I’m giving up Lent for Lent.

It’s okay, though, I’m not even Catholic.

I hate seeing those holy lint rollers show up.

Smithsonian website’s lead article this morning is about pigs being able to learn to play video games. Now, I ask you: WHY would a pig want to play video games?? And WHY do humans consider it a sign of intelligence in animals that they can be taught HUMAN pasttimes instead of realizing that each animal is suited to its own environment? Humans. . .geezus. . .

We can, I think, take the usual “Well, who did you lend it to?” jokes as read.

I think this heathen comic strip may be the only one that’s even mentioned Lent. Ok, it was for the sake of a bad joke, but still.

I celebrate Lunt. I don’t know what it is, but apparently it involves eating pizza. I think. Well, it does when I do it, anyway.

In spite of increasing secularization, Friday Fish Fries are very popular in the Upper Midwest.

Lint can be used for lint loaf.

I think I’ll give up reason and logic for Lent.

Giving up stuff for Lent is pure egotistical virtue-signalling that delivers no benefit to the world—and yes, I’m feeling particularly curmudgeonly today. It’s been 54 days since I last could say, “Bah! Humbug!”

“Did you hear about the moth that gave up wool for lint?”

Unless Goat spells it out, how does Pig realize they are talking about two different things? These set-ups were the basis for many Abbott and Costello routines.

“and no religion too”

Fat Tuesday is gone! (Yes, it’s an actual polish holiday, look it up)

Pig could use some religion for real, like a lot of single males do right now.

Pig tackles the tough questions!

I’m giving up religion for lent.

Never really “got” lent – if there is something in your life that you should be giving up, isn’t it a bit of a cop-out to just give it up for lent instead of making a permanent change in your life?

I’m abstaining from meat today; think I’ll eat at Arby’s.

My Catholic SIL told me that before she decides what she’s giving up for Lent, she has to check the long list of all the things she’s had to sacrifice for the Covid-19 pandemic.

She called me back and told me she figured out she’d already given up everything!

Thanks for remembering and reminding……

happy ash wednesday

You say “either”, I say “either”.

I remember the moment when I realized clothes dryer lint was, well, my damn clothes!

I decided to give up chocolate for Lent.

So, of course, my sibling bought fudge brownie mix and is going to make them.

Kudos to Pig for somehow being able to eventually differentiate such similar sounding words.

I’m giving up Octopus

Pastis gave up funny. Years ago.

Snackrifice: giving up your favorite junk food for Lent.

I’m trying to give up arguing with trolls (having a really hard time, though)

I posted a comment on Non Sequitor that is equally appropriate here.I really enjoy the comments and usually more-so than the comics. There are some very bright people commenting and I have learned a lot. I’m humbled in their presence. I probably spend more time with comments than most because I digress by going to a new tab to use the dictionary or Google to find out what the smart ones are talking about. I love it. Like an educational adventure. I’m 88, it keeps me young.

Steph, as an older couple (my eldest is near your age), we see things differently than today’s kids do. Partly that is just the culture we grew up in, and partly it is perspective, and partly it is paying attention to what goes on around us for a longish time. BTW, my dear wife is the ‘Flower Girl’. We cooperate on these posts.

There can be benefits to Lent. I was raised Catholic, as you were, until I realized it was logically impossible for God to be omniscient while men had free will.

As a Catholic teen, I chose to give up ‘television’ for Lent one year. This was an eye-opener. I had tons more time to learn and do, and it made me aware of the powerful influence of the immersive experience of audio-visual story-telling. I gradually realized that the media programs were programming me, and learned to analyze their content and so came to ‘think for myself’, to the extent that humans can.

In reading an elder sibling’s university philosophy textbook, I encountered the problem of knowledge as well as the contradiction between omniscience (a subset of determinism) and free will (a subset of indeterminism).

Realizing I had been taught falsehoods in my religious training, I was forced to re-think everything. I realized that I could neither prove the existence of any particular god, nor could I prove the non-existence of all conceivable gods, so I became an agnostic, rather than an atheist or theist.

We do not declare that theists or atheists are categorically wrong in their faith, but do recognize that neither faith can prove they are right. By not denying either faith, we cheerfully get along with members of both the theist and the atheist faiths.

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The whole point of Jesus’ sacrifice was so that we DON’T have to follow stupid traditions, manmade rites and rituals, as it does NOT bring us closer to God.

They say too much navel gazing is detrimental, but sometimes it’s good to clean out the lint.

Too complicated for me. I prefer triple integrals or a nice recursive descent parser.

The lint here is about 97% dog and cat hair, so I’ve been knitting it into a new pet. Not sure what to call it, but it’s about the size of a Clydesdale so far.

I lent my lint to Lenin but he left it on the lintel in a bowl of lentils.

I am giving up Lent for Lent.

154 comments about lint.

I see I’m not the only one without a life.

Pig needs to clean out his ears. Mis-hearing things can get one into serious trouble!

But, I’ll tell you, I’m not giving up anything for lint….

as a Catholic, you’re forgiven