Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 22, 2015
Transcript:
Goat: So, Timmy the tortoise. What's the real reason you don't come out of your shell? Timmy: The world's a dangerous place, and if I don't come out of my shell, I can live a long life. Timmy: The world's dangerous place, and if I don't com rout of my shell, I can live a long life. Goat: But what's the point of living a long life if the life itself is spent in a shell? Timmy: Pardon me while I eat some lettuce and cry.
BE THIS GUY over 9 years ago
I think, Timmy is going to withdraw further into his shell — if that is possible.
knight1192a over 9 years ago
Goat has a point.
Sherlock Watson over 9 years ago
Don’t give up hope, Timmy — maybe you can have a TV installed in there.
blunebottle over 9 years ago
Where’d he get the lettuce, if he never comes out of his shell?
Hu.e Premium Member over 9 years ago
Probably got the internet.
Sisyphos over 9 years ago
We don’t know how well Timmy has got it fixed up in there. Maybe he has a point, staying in….
Alan Rees over 9 years ago
This arc, and some of the comments here, remind me of parts of a science fiction short story I read about 50 years ago in high school — “The Machine Stops”, by E.M. Forster.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 9 years ago
That’s how I feel about food fads. So you live to 105 eating and drinking kale, big deal.
mammamoonbeam over 9 years ago
No comment from me today. I’m in my shell.
nossmf over 9 years ago
As the great philosophical movie “The Croods” said,
“That’s not living, that’s… not dying! There’s a difference!”
route66paul over 9 years ago
He could have some flightless birds on his back.
abbybookcase about 9 years ago
“it’s got to be the going, not the getting there that’s good”harry chapin, greyhound
zeexenon about 9 years ago
Like the Tardis, bigger on the inside than the outside, to accommodate wide screen TV, 2,500 sq ft home, hot tub: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TARDIS. Example, “How did they get all those tomatoes in that little bitty can?”
Number Three about 9 years ago
There are times when I would love to stay in my “shell” or stick my head in the sand.
But I have to accept that I can’t and just move on with life.
xxx
Carl Rennhack Premium Member about 9 years ago
Timmy needs to realize that a tortoise makes progress only by sticking its neck out!
Piksea Premium Member about 9 years ago
Timmy needs to put in wifi and a full shelf of books!
Buizel over 4 years ago
i don’t think stephan can draw a tortoise, so he made this boring character as a very easy way to introduce someone
whoo about 1 month ago
“It’s a jungle out there, confusion and destruction everywhere”