Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 06, 2012

Mars sounds so much better!

“You want fries with that Mars box?”

What a great planet. The annual Mars Bar Crawl is sweet!

BTW, if that’s Saturn back there, they may be going the wrong way….

You know what? Screw the SATs. I’m off to another planet.

Today’s college grad — unemployed and $100,000 in debt. Welcome to Earth.

Sadly true. This country is so screwed.

It’s the Great Space Coaster!

… always take time out for the occasional space vacation …

A box is anything you want it to be, but always a box-load of fun! —And, sadly, the only way to Mars from the space-deprived USA….

Is a 4.6 possible? I thought 4.0 was top.

Calvin and Neighbour made the right choice. Live life to the fullest

So I said to my parents," I’ll just take the first year off to back pack around the universe and then I’ll go to college".

But if nobody works those jobs, who’s going to make the box you fly to Mars in?

On he flip side, getting a a 4.6 gpa will bar you from becoming a cartoonist.

With the state of things today, don’t expect to be able to retire at 65. Either you’ll have to keep working past the age of retirment just to have a little to live on for you’re planned last couple of years, or the company you work for will fire you before you reach retirement age so they can try to get away with not haveing to pay retirement benefits.

Two schools of thought: In theory, nothing is better than an A, because A means excellent. How can you get better than that?But, since some classes have an extra credit component, in theory, it you complete all the course work excellently and do a bang up job on the extra credit, you should get a better grade. I don’t think that is allowed at the university level, but I’ve seen 4.1’s in middle and high school……4.6 is over the top…part of the joke, I think…

Cardboard Diem! . . . . .☻

Amen, brother.

that’s pastis

Hooray for Pastis ! Home run baby !

Turn on, tune in, drop out. Nothing like the old songs, huh?

Absolutely f&^%ing true. I’m in the box.

Since the government took away funding for NASA, this might be the only way left for us to get to the ISS!

I didn’t know ship was spelled with 2 p’s.

The only thing I see that Pastis left out is paying off student loans from the Ivy League College and grad degrees.

Amen to this one.

Bill Watterson would be proud. Great Strip.

Now I felt sick

smart kid.

pig may look stupid… but he is really, really smart.

Ladies and gentlemen… Piggy Stardust

see “Non Sequitor”

I usually draw my covers with my left hand…I’ll occasionally draw the curtains with my right…bathwater, definitely left…conclusions, either or…the ire of my better half, consistently…

I love this strip. Enjoy youth while you can, don’t waste it away

That’s one way to put your life into perspective

Thanks…coming from you, that’s totally unnecessary.Gee, I haven’t been patronised for quite some time.

Did the Crocs write the sign? Surely Pig can spell better than your average Croc.

AMEN!

4.6 GPA :LOL:

Is this strip taking an inspiration from the song Price Tag by Jesse J. Cuz, it has this line

Yeah yeahWell, keep the price tagAnd take the cash backJust give me six streams and a half stackAnd you can keep the carsLeave me the garageAnd all I..Yes all I need are keys and garageAnd guess what, in 30 seconds I’m leaving to MarsYes we leaving across these undefeatable oddsIts like this man, you can’t put a price on lifeWe do this for the love so we fight and sacrifice everynightSo we aint gon stumble and fall neverWaiting to see, a sign of defeat uh uhSo we gon keep everyone moving there feetSo bring back the beat and everybody sing

Funny thing is the video shows the 2 artists flash backing to their childhood toys. THe gist of the video is that how the beatup childhood toys made them happy

I think I need a framed print of this strip on acid-neutral paper.

Mars. No contest.

Calvin and Hobbes vibes.

I am reading this may 6th 2022