Interestingly, almost all the data on “junk food” being “bad for you” is correlative, not causative. Most people who try to lose weight gain it right back, as if there’s a “natural weight” people have that has nothing to do with what doctors tell us is the “correct” weight. Pig’s comment may be deeper than it seems: not only do we not know how long we’ll live, it may even be that “eating healthy” doesn’t really extend our life at all.
I rise at dawn because that’s what my does naturally. And I love that time of day most of all. Drinking kale would not add joy. That’s what coffee is for.
Just another thought. 45 years ago, a band by the name of ACE had a hit called “How Long (Has This Been Going On)”, written and sung by Paul Carrack. With that in mind, I was thinking of calling this new song, “How Long They’re Gonna Live Jef” and singing it to the same beat as the ACE song with the lyrics being all of the lines in this strip. And then some.
Six hours later, Jeff was killed when the driver of the bus beside him sneezed. With his last breath, he whispered, “chhh eee sss eee f f f r r r i i i e e e ss s s”
U.S. Olympic cyclist Kelly Catlin found dead in her Stanford residence at age 23.https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-olympic-cyclist-kelly-catlin-found-dead-her-home-n981591
I don’t know any keen cyclists who are diet fanatics. Just the other way around – they tend to inhale anything that isn’t nailed down after a long ride.
Living life, enjoying the simple and complex, in moderation is the most sensible approach – many fitness gurus who stuck to a rigid regiment died early in life.
The way some of the cyclist ride on the roads makes me feel that they don’t care about long life, or believe that kale makes them invincible. The cyclists will make turns (left and right) without giving any signal, slow down randomly, or just sail through red light. And groups of cyclists are even worse. They are quite rude and obnoxious to other vehicles & pedestrians on the road.
Jim Fixx, one of the earliest big names in jogging, died of a heart attack in early middle age. Adelle Davis, health food superstar, said “I never knew anyone who drank a quart of milk a day to die of cancer.” Enter dramatic irony.
I’m with Pig on this one. Once Mark Twain was convinced to give up his beloved cigars after being told he would shorten his life ten years by smoking. He later remarked, “at the end of two hours, I was convinced that the decade wouldn’t be worth living without any smoking in it. So I gave thanks and resumed these delicacies yet again.” On another occasion, he added, “If there’s no smoking in Heaven, I shall not stay there.”
I am not advocating smoking. But the sentiment is the same for all those people out there who would deprive you of any happiness and replace it with dreariness. “Rising at dawn to drink kale,” indeed!
Dawn? Pfft! I got up at 3 AM every day, ran 5-miles, cleaned up, had breakfast made the 40-minute commute to get to work before my subordinates in time to kick ass and take names. And my routes were uphill both ways.
I am with you Pig. Life is uncertain, grab as much joy out of it as you can for as long as you can. There are too many “Jefs” out there whose only joy is denigrating others.
BE THIS GUY over 5 years ago
Kale at dawn — isn’t that a punishment in Hell?
gocomics over 5 years ago
Interestingly, almost all the data on “junk food” being “bad for you” is correlative, not causative. Most people who try to lose weight gain it right back, as if there’s a “natural weight” people have that has nothing to do with what doctors tell us is the “correct” weight. Pig’s comment may be deeper than it seems: not only do we not know how long we’ll live, it may even be that “eating healthy” doesn’t really extend our life at all.
juncarlo over 5 years ago
Why have a long life if one can not enjoy certain pleasures? And among those pleasures are food and drink.
ChristineFoxdale over 5 years ago
I’m not sure which is worse — drinking kale, or rising at dawn. You got it right, Pig.
DennisinSeattle over 5 years ago
Jef, I wish you a long deprived life. But you may go out and get killed in an accident after drinking your kale. What a last meal.
oldpine52 over 5 years ago
It doesn’t make any difference what you eat, you’re going to die in the end.
wldhrsy2luv over 5 years ago
Eat right, exercise, die anyway.
Bilan over 5 years ago
Exercise is great … as long as it occurs after you wake up at noon.
GROG Premium Member over 5 years ago
No, it isn’t.
dadoctah over 5 years ago
Drinking kale will extend your life by six years. The question now is how much do you want six more years of drinking kale.
over 5 years ago
Don’t listen to him, Pig, you’re living the good life.
EnosEugenius over 5 years ago
Now I want chili cheese fries. I hope Stephen is getting sponsorship money from Hormel and Kraft.
cdgar over 5 years ago
Life is to be enjoyed. It’s quality is so much more important than it’s quantity.
SonicFan91 over 5 years ago
My least favourite character in this strip is the guy insulting Pig. I loathe sports
Troglodyte over 5 years ago
Never knew drinking kale results in talking crap… live and learn!
Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 5 years ago
I ride my bike to get to the hamburger places.
Radish the wordsmith over 5 years ago
4:20 comes round twice a day, just saying…
Ontman over 5 years ago
To each his/her own.
Breadboard over 5 years ago
Cheese covered Zebra ! … Croc Power !
Masterskrain over 5 years ago
What is this “Dawn” of which you speak, Jef the jerk?
tripwire45 over 5 years ago
I often rise well before dawn, but it’s not by choice.
mommadillo over 5 years ago
Jef the Cyclist won’t actually live longer than other people – it will just seem a lot longer.
Brass Orchid Premium Member over 5 years ago
Inscribe that on my urn, that I wasted my life in enjoying it.
wllilly1960 over 5 years ago
…Is there a Jef action figure?
TheWildSow over 5 years ago
Jef’s getting Moobs. Steroid side-effect?
cdward over 5 years ago
I rise at dawn because that’s what my does naturally. And I love that time of day most of all. Drinking kale would not add joy. That’s what coffee is for.
GeifuKe over 5 years ago
Hey, Jef the Cyclist, Go to Kale. From Geoff the Sardonic PUNisher.
GeifuKe over 5 years ago
Actually, I am kind of surprised Pig did not make a meal of Jef the Cyclist. Pigs have been known to feed off people on occasion.
GeifuKe over 5 years ago
I want a Chili cheese fries, Serrano Onion Rings, and a Habanero Orange Drink, please….
aerotica69 over 5 years ago
When I rise to power, people like Jef the cyclist will be sterilized.
GeifuKe over 5 years ago
Just another thought. 45 years ago, a band by the name of ACE had a hit called “How Long (Has This Been Going On)”, written and sung by Paul Carrack. With that in mind, I was thinking of calling this new song, “How Long They’re Gonna Live Jef” and singing it to the same beat as the ACE song with the lyrics being all of the lines in this strip. And then some.
Emmett Wayne over 5 years ago
1 Timothy 4:8 Look it up.
MS72 over 5 years ago
Jef will likely die on the road, some SUV will mow him down.
RussHeim over 5 years ago
Waking up at the butt crack of dawn isn’t so bad. It means you can take your mid-day nap earlier.
SusieB over 5 years ago
Gotta agree with Pig on this one
Zebrastripes over 5 years ago
rmercer Premium Member over 5 years ago
I’ve always wondered whether Pastis got run over by a bicycle as a child, or something.
enigmamz over 5 years ago
10 years I DON’T have to spend in a nursing home? WIN!!!!!!!
Steverino Premium Member over 5 years ago
Guy goes to the doctor.
Doctor says “If you give up smoking, drinking, running around with women, and start eating healthy, you’ll live to be 100”.
Guy says “If I do all of those things, why would I want to live to be 100”.
JudyAz over 5 years ago
Sounds like Pig would love poutine!
Popcorn over 5 years ago
Don’t worry Pig…Jef just inhaled too much auto fumes!
Gameguy49 Premium Member over 5 years ago
Drink kale in the morning and obsess over climate change all the rest of the day. What a life!
garcoa over 5 years ago
Jef gets up at dawn so he can do his 100 mile fun bike ride before lunch.
MarkGardner1 over 5 years ago
News flash! Jef is gonna die too…
MeGoNow Premium Member over 5 years ago
Six hours later, Jeff was killed when the driver of the bus beside him sneezed. With his last breath, he whispered, “chhh eee sss eee f f f r r r i i i e e e ss s s”
El Cobbo Grande over 5 years ago
Can we get an amen……for a lot of us, it’s raining, so time to stop saving up
Dis-play name over 5 years ago
U.S. Olympic cyclist Kelly Catlin found dead in her Stanford residence at age 23.https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-olympic-cyclist-kelly-catlin-found-dead-her-home-n981591
Plods with ...™ over 5 years ago
Too bad he can’t grow a beard. Then we could make fun of his hipsterism too
Cameron1988 Premium Member over 5 years ago
Hey, Jef, go cycle off a cliff
Nuliajuk over 5 years ago
I don’t know any keen cyclists who are diet fanatics. Just the other way around – they tend to inhale anything that isn’t nailed down after a long ride.
DCBakerEsq over 5 years ago
The Devil’s greatest trick was convincing Mankind to eat kale.
B UTTONS over 5 years ago
Living life, enjoying the simple and complex, in moderation is the most sensible approach – many fitness gurus who stuck to a rigid regiment died early in life.
KEA over 5 years ago
what a dweeb – glad they wear costumes to give us fair warning
tinner2000 over 5 years ago
Give me the fries,the kale wold make me puke for 2 hours!
NobodyAwesome Premium Member over 5 years ago
The way some of the cyclist ride on the roads makes me feel that they don’t care about long life, or believe that kale makes them invincible. The cyclists will make turns (left and right) without giving any signal, slow down randomly, or just sail through red light. And groups of cyclists are even worse. They are quite rude and obnoxious to other vehicles & pedestrians on the road.
willie_mctell over 5 years ago
Jim Fixx, one of the earliest big names in jogging, died of a heart attack in early middle age. Adelle Davis, health food superstar, said “I never knew anyone who drank a quart of milk a day to die of cancer.” Enter dramatic irony.
Nick Danger over 5 years ago
Sheriff Bart: “If you keep drinking like that, you’re gonna die!”
Waco Kid: “When?”
JohnE.Jablonski over 5 years ago
LOL. I totally get why Scott Adams like this strip.
Bookworm over 5 years ago
“Rising at dawn to drink kale,” indeed!
I’m with Pig on this one. Once Mark Twain was convinced to give up his beloved cigars after being told he would shorten his life ten years by smoking. He later remarked, “at the end of two hours, I was convinced that the decade wouldn’t be worth living without any smoking in it. So I gave thanks and resumed these delicacies yet again.” On another occasion, he added, “If there’s no smoking in Heaven, I shall not stay there.”
I am not advocating smoking. But the sentiment is the same for all those people out there who would deprive you of any happiness and replace it with dreariness. “Rising at dawn to drink kale,” indeed!
zeexenon over 5 years ago
Dawn? Pfft! I got up at 3 AM every day, ran 5-miles, cleaned up, had breakfast made the 40-minute commute to get to work before my subordinates in time to kick ass and take names. And my routes were uphill both ways.
Concretionist over 5 years ago
Bicycle Guy’s stripe makes him look like a cardboard cutout.
Dippy over 5 years ago
Mmmmm. Kale juice.
katzenbooks45 over 5 years ago
Eat right, exercise, die anyway.
edbos1_1 over 5 years ago
If you rise at dawn and drink kale, you might not live longer, but it will seem like it!
The Brooklyn Accent Premium Member over 5 years ago
I’ve found kale to be edible, if cooked to within an inch of its life and covered with chili and cheese.
pchemcat over 5 years ago
I am with you Pig. Life is uncertain, grab as much joy out of it as you can for as long as you can. There are too many “Jefs” out there whose only joy is denigrating others.
whelan_jj over 5 years ago
I’d rather enjoy a short life than be miserable in a long one.
Sisyphos over 5 years ago
Let me put this gently (since we know Jef the Cyclist is in RL a friend of Cartoon-Boy). Jef the Cyclist, you are crazy….
neatslob Premium Member over 5 years ago
Rising at dawn to drink kale means you’re actually still asleep and having a nightmare.
jonesbeltone over 5 years ago
Kale helps me clear my tubes.
litchick32 over 5 years ago
I agree with Pig
chromosome Premium Member over 5 years ago
I think the Buddhists have it right… moderation. I find a life with some exercise, some goofing off, some kale and some chocolate quite satisfying.
James Lindley Premium Member over 5 years ago
I prefer eating a real breakfast. Drinking kale is not a reason to get out of bed.
TheRock over 1 year ago
pig is livin the life tho
alantain 10 months ago
Jef should be careful. Out there is an 18 wheeler with his name on it!