Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 26, 2024

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    LilPeruna  4 months ago

    It IS allowed, and don’t call me Shirley!

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    BasilBruce  4 months ago

    People like Pig scare me.

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    Johnny Q Premium Member 4 months ago

    Pig no longer holds balloons…

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    The dude from FL  Premium Member 4 months ago

    Probably had ham and eggs for breakfast

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    Qiset  4 months ago

    Probably going to need a license.

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    blunebottle  4 months ago

    I’m with Pig on this one.

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    Robin Harwood  4 months ago

    You are quite right, Rat. It isn’t allowed.

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    c001  4 months ago

    Rat is German… I never knew.

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    cracker65  4 months ago

    Good attitude pig

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    tomevansphd  4 months ago

    Try convincing all the ‘Rain on Paraders’ out there! My two cents!

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    Doug K  4 months ago

    “Oh, what a glorious day!” Pig should get together with Verne (from Pearls Before Swine) and his gut bacteria today.

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    Doug K  4 months ago

    It’s not always easy, but choosing to find joy in whatever your circumstances are can help not only you, but others around you.

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    Frog-on-a-Log Premium Member 4 months ago

    This is why Pig is my favorite.

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    KC135E/R BOOMER  4 months ago

    Now I cannot tunes from Oklahoma! out of my head. You’re welcome, everyone…

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    iggyman  4 months ago

    Not allowed in Rat’s world anyway!

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    iggyman  4 months ago

    Ignorance is bliss?!

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    cdward  4 months ago

    Decades ago, a guy named Norman Cousins (I think) wrote about the restorative power of laughter in the midst of pain and sickness. I suspect that applies to all aspects of life. When one of our sons was going through a really hard time, I decided advice wasn’t what he needed, so I just randomly started texting him a dad joke every day. I felt we had turned a corner when he started texting corny jokes to me. It’s good to see him laugh.

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    win.45mag  4 months ago

    True joy comes from knowing Jesus. It stays, and is a PART of you. Worldly joy comes and goes like the tide, and you have to make a conscious effort for it.

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    jbmlaw01  4 months ago

    Pig understands Niebuhr’s “Serenity Prayer”

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    monya_43  4 months ago

    Joy is infectious, so is gloom. Attitude is important. It is up to us all to make our lives better or worse in what we choose to project to others. Laugh and the world laughs with you.

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    juicebruce  4 months ago

    Croc Power !

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    Doug K  4 months ago

    “Oh, what a glorious day!” Pig should get together with Verne (from Over the Hedge) and his gut bacteria today.

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    mrwiskers  4 months ago

    I am lucky to lunch with my favorite adult child about every 4 to 6 weeks. After, when I walk home, I feel so uplifted. We laugh, we talk, we catch up on what’s been happening. So joyful.

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    Jesquire  4 months ago

    People who think this way are dangerous.

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    [Traveler] Premium Member 4 months ago

    You can choose to be happy, or gloomy

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    Ellis97  4 months ago

    Pig is that ray of sunshine we all could use.

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    bestframeforward Premium Member 4 months ago

    Pig is my spirit animal :)

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    ajr58(1)  4 months ago

    Reminds me of the ending in the movie, Brazil.

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    wirepunchr  4 months ago

    “That boy ain’t right!”

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  4 months ago

    You have to allow it.

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    Goat from PBS  4 months ago

    Awww, Pig is such a ray of sunshine.

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    Croc Holliday  4 months ago

    Nothing is ever so bad that it can’t get worse.

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    zwilnik64  4 months ago

    Look, pig’s discovered stoicism.

    But considering the lymbic system is a an autonomic function, well, we really don’t get to choose our emotional state. Though we can control how they effect our actions.

    Also don’t pursue this line with people suffering from depression.

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    rossevrymn  4 months ago

    I don’t know if I can stay at “Joyful,” but I do a pretty good job of “Hopeful Shalom.”

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    mindjob  4 months ago

    Misery loves company

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    klapre  4 months ago

    Pastis must have a bet with someone as to how many comments will mention Shirley. Why else would he tee it up so well for us?

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    Mary Ellen  4 months ago

    Easier said than done some days, but I try.

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    oish  4 months ago

    The rose colored glasses are strong with this one.

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    Ina Tizzy  4 months ago

    “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs” you aren’t paying attention.

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    eekahler  4 months ago

    A lovely sentiment. I try this all the time.

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    [Unnamed Reader - bddb15]  4 months ago

    GBPig!

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    elgrecousa Premium Member 4 months ago

    Shrinks keep telling us that a sunny attitude helps us live better and longer. But as Wallace Stevens says in his poem “Sunday Morning”, “But when the birds are gone, and their warm fields Return no more, where, then, is paradise?”

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    KEA  4 months ago

    It is… but of course, if things are bad enough, you’ll get tossed in a looney bin.

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    pheets  4 months ago

    Depends on who you are standing next to.

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    zeexenon  4 months ago

    Isn’t his name Goat?

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    MarshaOstroff  4 months ago

    I woke up late this morning and was annoyed at myself because I had several important things to do today. Then, over a bowl of “cereal artesanal” with dried apple and “jarabe de agave”, a wild hail and rainstorm blew up, and I was so grateful that I was still inside my warm, cozy apartment.

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    Curiosity Premium Member 4 months ago

    Try it! You’ll like it! Or, well, in your case maybe not.

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    willie_mctell  4 months ago

    Sometimes people will think you’re either nuts, high, or faking.

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    wordsmeet  4 months ago

    So Goat’s secret name is Shirley?

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    smartman  4 months ago

    It’s Friday for goodness sake! If you can’t be happy about the weekend coming up, you must have a wife and a long honey-do list. I’m kidding. I’m kidding. It’s a summer weekend. Be happy and enjoy it!

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    wildlandwaters  4 months ago

    I dunno what Pig’s on, but I gotta get me sum a that!

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    Strawberry King  4 months ago

    Oh, but it is.

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    eddi-TBH  4 months ago

    The joy comes from knowing others will never understand.

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    markkahler52  4 months ago

    True freedom is freedom from the heart’s desires…true Happiness… this way lies…

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    blindavocado Premium Member 4 months ago

    People are as happy as they choose to be-Abraham Lincoln

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    wordsmeet  2 months ago

    I disagree with Pig and his nonsensical statement, that one can choose to be joyous. Like other mantras from the American positive psychology cult, it is a hollow approach to life. For example, to be joyous implies to feel joy, and who has any control on one’s feelings? They come unbidden. On the other hand, you can’t think yourself into feeling joyous anymore than you can fall in love by just thinking about it. On the other, to consider one’s feelings under any given circumstance and learn from them is, to me, a more productive approach.

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