Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 23, 2023

When I was growing up, I envisioned quite a few things. Not only didn’t they happen, but I’m lucky I didn’t go blind.

Dream of money tree instead. That’s more likely to happen.

To the readers in the US: HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

You need to study archeology and dig it up.

You might have to work at it a bit, Rat!

The is no money falling from the sky…. unless you are a Congressional budget analyst.

If money fell from the sky, it would become worthless!

There is . . . if you don’t catch it coming out of the ATM.

It usually takes a little longer than 3 seconds for something to manifest itself. The more there is a need for instant gratification the less likely it is that something will actually manifest itself.

Well Rat, you can still manifest and envisions and ensures that fraud wise donkey is falling from that donkey dung hill.

Many of the things I wished for in my youth are best left in the realm of the unfulfilled.

How can he be wise and not know tis Thanksgiving ? Happy Thanksgiving !

Money rain would just cause more inflation.

Oh! There’s one! Pennies from heaven!

All I can say is…

“You can get anything you want, at Alice’s Restaurant.”

You’re just not very good at manifesting, Rat.

Yeah, never cared for that positive thinking, “what you can conceive, you can achieve” mumbo-jumbo.

“You have to manifest it.” What does that mean?

Sounds like The Wise Asp has read “The Secret”. Speaking of frauds. :) Happy Thanksgiving (or just another Thursday) to All! ❤️

Even you Rat.

You need a different dream, Rat, one that’s more realistic and more likely to happen.

Can’t tell you how many times I’ve envisioned the traffic light staying green, to no avail.  And telling the officer that I “envisioned” it was green never helped!

John Lennonism (Imagine)

I wouldn’t mind money falling from the sky, or a money tree.

Rat will never be happy, Thanksgiving Day or any other day.

Some people will never be thankful.

Happy Thanksgiving!

True.

‘There is no free lunch’; true wisdom from Milton Friedman. See also Genesis 3:19.

Long time ago, one of our corporate managers inflicted upon us a “self improvement” course built around the idea of “affirmations.” The idea was, you wrote positive statements about the thing you wanted to change on 3×5 cards, and just before bed you were supposed to read them to yourself and think happy thoughts. In theory, this would Unleash The Power Of Your Subconscious™ and in a short time you’d have made the change you visualized.

My boss said, after a few weeks, “Doesn’t work. I visualized myself bowling 300, did the affirmations every night, and my average didn’t go up at all.”

I told him he should have visualized himself as a consultant, successfully selling nonsense like this for big bucks to gullible corporate executives. Pretty sure that vision could be realized.

‘Envision it happening and then it happens’ is bull crap. Try, ‘Work like hell and then it happens’.

Oh, but there are, Rat just needs to go work for the Federal Reserve.

Some of us have known all along that the Wise A$$ on the Hill is a fraud. Welcome to the club, Rat….

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. ZZ

we envisioned peace and love, but we got the opposite

Oh and one more thing—-you have to work for it!!!!!

yeah, the secret is that there is no “secret.”

If money starts falling from the sky, watch out for the plane’s cargo hatch.