Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 15, 2024

I didn’t think Pig was business-minded enough to care about a falling prophet. [rimshot]

How did he walk sideways up the hill? Is Pig wearing a special pair of shoes that allows him to walk up walls without bending forward to grip the ground as he climbs?

Pig succeeded in climbing that hill So he doesn’t fail at everything.

OH NO, Wise A$$e$ are so rare, what shall we do?

If you try to fail, is failing that task succeeding?

I seem to learn, right enough…learn how many ways there are to fail at doing things!

I don’t think a butt lift will help the wise one get back on his hill!

Wise Azz failed.

I can’t remember the fellow’s name, but he got rich by building a series of failed malls across Florida.

He knew that big stores like Macy’s would commit money if certain goalposts were reached. He’d get enough funding to get an anchor store interested, then split.

We learn from our mistakes. Pig is in the advanced class!

Pig has succeeded in defying gravity!

Why is Wizeass sitting on a pile of poop?

“I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps.” Edison

Liberals live in the cave of denial and delusion. Dilly! Dilly! God Bless America

Pig actually broke the Wise Donkey’s sanity.

Looks like someone missed the point entirely.

“There is no try.”

Everyone’s good at something.

At least you won’t be disappointed.

He can get better at failing.

Reality and the laws of physics are absent in comics. That’s the reason we’re here!

What cliff? It’s a hill.

One wonders whether WA is really the fool on the hill.

And he never gives an answer (that has any substance)

The Marketing soldier-recruiter who came up with, “Failure is no option,” was whacked by a low flying military drone.

The 10,000 hour principle is the amount of time needed to truly master something, therefore I am a master failure. Success at last!

I wonder how tall that hill is… is the Wise Donkey just out of sight in the last frame or does the hill go way way up? :)I feel like it’s funnier if it’s about twice as tall as Pig.

That wasn’t despair, it was paradoxical overload. I know how Pig feels, but we need to tell ourselves, it’s not really EVERY time. Seems like every time I try to do something that gets away from drudgery, duty, and the mundane and gets closer to what I’d do on my home planet, though, it just doesn’t work out, one way or another.

In the fights of wisdom against ignorance, guess which one usually wins.

Success teaches better than failure. There are an infinite number of ways to fail – success is far more limited. No matter how much you learn from failure, you are still at 0%.

Pig needs to watch The Producers (1967) for insight into success and failure.

As for Wise A, I’m sure his limo was waiting at the bottom of the hill to whisk him off to his mansion for a cool drink and a warm jenny.

Failing is not the problem, unless you fail to learn.

I knew that would happen eventually.

This is why I have said, How can you be famous teaching what everyone else does?