Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 29, 2023

And it doesn’t work in football 95% of the time.

The Pig just threw a pigskin to make his own life better. Is he evil?

Pig is always in there hurling!

It takes two to make a Hail Mary work. More than 2 if you count linemen.

Opps. Pig’s throw struck Russia’s lunar lander making it crash.

You need ten Hail Marys to make sure your wife doesn’t find out about your affair.

Shouldn’t that be accompanied by a prayer?

Sometimes an act of desperation (a Hail Mary) is (could be) a/the logical choice: like in the Star Trek episode where Spock jettisons the remaining fuel in their “doomed” shuttle craft (to be like sending up a flare).

As it turns out, Pig is going shopping for a new lamp.

Hopefully that ball didn’t hit and break a lamp.

I hope that pigskin wasn’t a relative!

Let me know, Pig.

I didn’t realize Rat was not only religious but Catholic at that. Yet another reason to ❤️ Rat. Amen.

Cue lamp-breaking sound effect!

Pig, do you even know what footballs are made from?

Hopefully, Hail Mary Prayers work more often in life. A “Hail Mary” play, which is done out of desperation, very seldom works in football.

Oh, a hail mary is coming. And it’s not gonna be about football.

Only one man can pull that off: Aaron Rodgers.

CRASH

Only chance is a Hail Mary = Dallas Cowboys

“Hurl”? As in, “to throw up”?

For an Our Father you get to sack the quarterback

I’ve gone through so many footballs in the past 3 years…

A ‘Hail Mary’ is a prayer that you say before a mobster whacks you.

Noooo. Piggy should take a knee and run out the clock!

Well this is poignant.

When I was a kid in the 50’s, 60’s we actually had a real pigskin football. It was lighter than cowhide and soft to the touch. It was great. I still mourn its passing. A Otto Graham signature ball.

Actually it can work outside football too, especially if you have no other way of dealing with some jerk.

At least the gross hurl isn’t shown.

Navy tried a “Hail Submarine” but they still lost 41 to 3

She’s pretty good at answering…….

It seems no one ever told Pig what footballs used to be made from. I can sense Rat gearing up to clue him in.

With or without the Hail Mary, I find myself hurling a lot these days.

If only we could Pig. If only we could

For anyone in north Florida or Georgia and South Carolina, stay safe with Idalia coming.

Pig throws a Hail Mary!

Mary throws it back at him….

Probably too late to post this, but any reader out there who saw the Doug Flutie pass live? Live on television counts. Audience/your reactions?

Probably going through the window.

is “hurl” a sound?