Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 06, 2023

Good thing for sloths that crocodiles can’t climb trees.

Somebody should tell Wile E. Coyote about that principle.

Rule #1 for Zeeba…… “I don’t have to outrun the crocodile, I just have to outrun you.”

No sleeping on Croc Beach!

Run Zeeba, run.

The crocsare back, the crocs are back…yay!

Wait did the croc say something smart

Zeebas are quick, kick croc in head then run!

Well, it works for him.

He’s not wrong. A little misguided, perhaps.

Larry’s not that dumb after all.

Although incomplete, Zebra’s guiding principle is biblical:

Matthew 22:3, Mark 12:31, Luke 10:27, Romans 13:9, and Leviticus 19:18

“Love your neighbor as yourself”

Zebra, do not accept Larry’s invitation to lunch, as you may be the main course!

Croc-wisdom. Very effective.

Good to see the crocs again.

That’s a great guiding principle, keeps their species surviving

Love the strip when Pastis comes down from his pulpit gives us the real PBS!

Croc Power !

A flawed principle. Mass shooters and such unfortunately love others to the degree they love themselves. I’d prefer the Buddhist principle of compassion for all.

Larry is just following his natural instincts, Zebra.

I mean, it is easier to catch something if one can outrun it.

Fast food no worth it.

Very practical.

Come on, Larry, get Zebra now while you have the chance!

ZEEBA! ❤️❤️❤️

Yay, croc and Zeeba Neighba!

But one gets hungrier trying to catch the fast ones.

Larry is so cool :)

fast food = indigestion

A sound principle.

or… as Miss Piggy advised, “Never eat more than you can lift”

Want to go for a relaxing swim in my river?

CROCS!!!!!!

I would love this strip even more if they featured more Zebra vs. Crocs cartoons instead of griping about social media and promoting journalists as paragons of virtue and protectors of “democracy”.

YAY!!! CROCS!!! YAY!!!

And how do you make slow food? With a Croc pot, of course.

Probably looks great on a t-shirt…

But where’s the challenge?

Well, that pretty much sums up life on Earth. And capitalism.

So glad with Croc & Zeeba neighbor interactions

Larry lives!

The best prey is small animals with poor coordination.

So-called Christians, whose belief set tells them to love their neighbors, are mostly unfamiliar with that idea. Seems they’re largely unfamiliar with most things Jesus taught.

Know your audience, Zebra. (I believe someone said we haven’t heard from Zebra in awhile.)

Croc is smarter than I thought.

The golden rule is all you need. We all live in glass houses but still love to throw stones. Why is it so fun to try and break the glass? Maybe that’s a principle we ought to think more about. Nah, why bother, sounds like a waste of time. Better to eat the slow.

Hey, I resemble that comment.

Hey, it works for Larry Croc.

(That may not be saying much, granted….)

So why do we find fast food on every corner?

I love Larry, he is a hoot! We need more Larry and more Guard Duck!

Crocs have point there, me says.

I don’t remember that one from ITIL