Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 10, 2023

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    BasilBruce  almost 2 years ago

    Mayfly, don’t bother me.

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    BE THIS GUY  almost 2 years ago

    Poor guy didn’t even get a chance to spend time with the grandkids.

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    sirbadger  almost 2 years ago

    Mayflies can live for up to a year in larval form. They don’t last long once they get their wings.

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    Alexander the Good Enough  almost 2 years ago

    The adults live, briefly, for sex, then die. We end up with bushels of them on the bridges over the river. They make the road dangerously slippery, especially for motorcycles.

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    I don’t know how long the mosquitoes live. However always too much.

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    Sanspareil  almost 2 years ago

    May he fly to the heavens above!

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    hariseldon59  almost 2 years ago

    Mayfly in June.

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    carlsonbob  almost 2 years ago

    Wow! At least a praying mantis gets to have a little fun before he dies!

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    Gent  almost 2 years ago

    MAY he rest in peace.

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    iggyman  almost 2 years ago

    Agreed, Life is too short!

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    Procat Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    How did pig know he was a male, after all there are females?

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    Athelind  almost 2 years ago

    that’s what it feels like

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    Count Olaf Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    Here at lunch, gone before dinner.

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    steveh64  almost 2 years ago

    “They give birth astride a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.” – Pozzo, in Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett. And he wasn’t talking about mayflies.

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    monya_43  almost 2 years ago

    He did not die of old age, it was the crash that killed him.

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    wirepunchr  almost 2 years ago

    Sometimes Pig is only half-fast.

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    Ellis97  almost 2 years ago

    Insects only have a few weeks or days too live. You two are lucky to have several years.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    Ack is from that lame Cathy strip. Don’t use ack.

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    Steverino Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    Well, it can’t be a Mayfly. It’s June.

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    Ishka Bibel  almost 2 years ago

    Mayflies live for 2 to 3 years. Mostly underwater.

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    Zebrastripes  almost 2 years ago

    Living with the lake at the end of the street, I know OH too well. Swarms.

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    Goat from PBS  almost 2 years ago

    Flies have midlife crises? Oof.

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    NickelAlloy  almost 2 years ago

    Just wait until you’re 70 or so- you’ll realize that in fact, WE are mayflies.

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    moonfrogger  almost 2 years ago

    For us, it’s just hours; for them, it’s a lifetime.

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    jc  almost 2 years ago

    Book recommendation— Sex Death and Fly Fishing by John Gierach

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    Sir Davecelot  almost 2 years ago

    Time flys when your having fun.

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    proclusstudent  almost 2 years ago

    “dead yesterday, unborn tomorrow” Ruby Yacht of Omar Khayam.

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    zeexenon  almost 2 years ago

    Mayfly hatch noticed on radars in La Crosse a sign of the season, and warn the populace of possible road conditions like winter’s black ice.

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    The Fly Hunter  almost 2 years ago

    It makes for quite the challenge for me.

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    _lounger_  almost 2 years ago

    thanks god pigs don’t fly

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    rick92040  almost 2 years ago

    It sure does. I blinked and I’m 70.

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    Buoy  almost 2 years ago

    Midlife crisis? I wonder what the mayfly equivalent of a sports car, hair plugs, and a bimbo is?

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    mail2jbl  almost 2 years ago

    The skull and crossbones next to the word “ACK!” has me laughing harder than it should for some reason.

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    Arghhgarrr Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    A mayfly flies

    In May or June.

    Its life is over

    Far too soon.

    A day or two

    To dance,

    To fly—

    Hello

    Hello

    Good-bye

    Good-bye

    By Douglas Florian

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    John Jorgensen  almost 2 years ago

    A mayfly’s life for him.

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    eddi-TBH  almost 2 years ago

    They make up for it with a long childhood. Not such a bad bargain.

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    wildlandwaters  almost 2 years ago

    …which leads to end of life crisis

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    Sisyphos  almost 2 years ago

    Pig’s deadpan humor. No real Mayflies died in the making of this strip; right, Cartoon-Boy?

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    WCraft  almost 2 years ago

    They don’t make miniature red corvettes for mayflies when they reach midlife?

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    larslarson  almost 2 years ago

    As a retired Entomologist, their jobs are to eat, poop, and reproduce. No glamour. Especially when you get eaten by a trout.

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    nowsijn  11 months ago

    Poor guy

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