Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 07, 2023

Also, climbing a hill will only get you regurgitated platitudes.

Well Pig if you ask a wise donkey a question then you will gets a wise donkey answer.

The universe is mostly empty space, so don’t expect much luck finding any wisdom.

At least he didn’t tell him to not eat yellow snow!

I like and agree with the first: “Kindness is its own reward”. I know that I always feel good after being kind to someone. I know some people want a reward for doing the right thing, like in Big Nate last week when they found and returned a wallet. I’ve never really understood the second, “No good deed goes unpunished”. (The phrase “No good deed goes unpunished” is a sardonic commentary on the frequency with which acts of kindness backfire on those who offer them. In other words, those who help others are doomed to suffer as a result of their helpfulness.) Wikipedia. Would someone who does a good deed be looked down on by others as being a “do-gooder”?

WA also say…“not all who wander are lost”.

They wouldn’t let me say a word that’s in the comic!

Yeah, the universe does kind of get you coming and going.

He got what he asked for

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You never enter the same stream twice.

Guard Duck needs to visit the Wise A** On the Hill

Also A** is not allowed in comments but the strip can use it LOL

And the Wise A** should show up at the bar one day

“the rest of us” is the universe, silly.

The universe is like a Rubik’s Cube, except it’s a 1,000 × 1,000 cube.

The maxim, “No good deed goes unpunished”, has a corollary, “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

Birds of a feather flock together, yet opposites attract. It is indeed confusing out there.

I keep saying people want everything to fit in nice, neat little boxes, all tied up with ribbons and bows, but reality is messy beyond our comprehension.

Sometimes the Wiseass gives advice that is conflicting to confuse Pig. It has always worked.

Pig is always looking for answers to solve his confusion in life.

A good deed is it’s own reward, but it may pay off someday.

As my late wife liked to say, “Every silver lining has its cloud.”

Only if the universe is self-aware, Pig. If you make an aphorism in a vacuum, does it make a sound? Only the tree falling in a forest with nobody around to hear it knows for sure. 8>)

Why do fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing?

True.

“Look before you leap”

“He who hesitates is lost”

The universe is so confused, it can’t even make up its own mind whether that cat is dead or alive.

You can’t make popcorn when an ill wind blows over the plains.

Like when a masochist does unto others when following the “golden” rule

True.

Those really don’t contradict each other. If kindness is its own reward, you should not expect external factors to give you any kind of positive result.

Universally true, Pig.

as usual, the donkey guru is sitting on a mountain of crap.

It’s chaos! Or, the second law of thermodynamics, if you prefer.

Get clarification from Wise A$$’s brother, the Bad A$$ in the Basement!

And, our AT&T middle manager motto … Do unto others before they do unto you.

There are many wise@sses who have discovered no effort ways to be perfectly happy. Which they will sell to all comers for a modest fortune. It usually consists of selling copies of their system to everyone you know, keeping 10% and sending them the other 90% until you pay off.

Looks like Pig got the message correctly this time. But the Wise A$$ is still a cheap fraud and not worth visiting, IMO….

It’s just the “Ying and Yang” world we live in. ;)

The wise a$$ on the hill works for Hallmark.