I wake up with a full and complete knowledge of yesterday’s worries, and a shrewd estimate of what today’s and tomorrow’s worries are going to be. It’s unjoy all the way.
Weird, according to the Scrabble dictionary, UNJOYFUL is a word (21 pointer!) but UNJOY (15 points) isn’t. I will use UNJOY when playing Scrabble with my friends who understand the wisdom of PBS’s resident sage, Pig.
UNJOY. How we know it so well. Now it is put into letters. The human race weeps in realization. I realize there are some people who wake up in a positive mood, feeling fantastic and that lasts throughout the day. I envy them greatly. Yet they are a pox to the rest of us who suffer in abject misery. Thus we invented coffee.
In Brian Doyle’s book “Mink River” his Native People often use obsolete terms like “disremember”, for “forget”, and “fecking” for …..hmmm, who knows what?
BE THIS GUY about 5 years ago
It’s going to be in the next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.
weatherford.joe Premium Member about 5 years ago
Gonna need to remember that word.
DennisinSeattle Premium Member about 5 years ago
Hit “Snooz”
B UTTONS about 5 years ago
Turn off social media
Robin Harwood about 5 years ago
I wake up with a full and complete knowledge of yesterday’s worries, and a shrewd estimate of what today’s and tomorrow’s worries are going to be. It’s unjoy all the way.
blunebottle about 5 years ago
Shore it iz. I alus unjoy a gud laff.
some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member about 5 years ago
“Unjoyful” has a history back to at least 1847:
https://v.gd/zBaX5V
I also feel there’s an njoy joke to be made, but I can’t quite come across it.
BooksLover about 5 years ago
It’s sad, but I can’t stop laughing. Pig’s expression in the fourth panel is priceless :D
dlkrueger33 about 5 years ago
Maybe if there were a bowl of Almond Joy bite-sized candies by the bed, he would experience some morning joy.
g.p.hardy about 5 years ago
I’m sure “unjoy” is the best word to use, not “antijoy” because I have an Auntie Joy and she makes me smile any time of the day.
Breadboard about 5 years ago
Ren And Stimpy The "Happy , Happy , Joy , Joy " song ! …… Croc Power !
Owhatadoc Premium Member about 5 years ago
Weird, according to the Scrabble dictionary, UNJOYFUL is a word (21 pointer!) but UNJOY (15 points) isn’t. I will use UNJOY when playing Scrabble with my friends who understand the wisdom of PBS’s resident sage, Pig.
gammaguy about 5 years ago
Some people enjoy life. Others unjoy it.
walstib Premium Member about 5 years ago
Joy is a choice.
Troglodyte about 5 years ago
If “unfriend” can be a word, what’s to stop " unjoy"? Soldier on, Pig!
wrd2255 about 5 years ago
Ever notice how all the cartoon pigs in pork/grocery ads have that big dopey smile? (Piggly Wiggly etc.) Chin up, Pig, could be worse.
Purple People Eater about 5 years ago
He’s got it the wrong way around. Worries last the night, but joy comes in the morning.
Carl Rennhack Premium Member about 5 years ago
This is a very good cartoon for a MOANday!
YippiKiAyMofo about 5 years ago
Funny. I knew a man married to woman named Joy. Becoming UnJoyed brought him much joy.
SusieB about 5 years ago
I prefer an Almond Joy
Bookworm about 5 years ago
It worked for Orwell.
Znox11 about 5 years ago
What about “disjoy”?
Zebrastripes about 5 years ago
POOR PIG! His anxiety is getting worse….try to have a happy 4th PIG!
Packratjohn Premium Member about 5 years ago
Right outta “1984”.
JudyAz about 5 years ago
Unjoy is what you do when you have to clean up spilled dish detergent.
the lost wizard about 5 years ago
Half full quickly turned into half empty.
Cameron1988 Premium Member about 5 years ago
Well, it is Monday
Snoots about 5 years ago
UNJOY. How we know it so well. Now it is put into letters. The human race weeps in realization. I realize there are some people who wake up in a positive mood, feeling fantastic and that lasts throughout the day. I envy them greatly. Yet they are a pox to the rest of us who suffer in abject misery. Thus we invented coffee.
WCraft Premium Member about 5 years ago
What is on Pig’s face in the last panel? Ink?
Snolep about 5 years ago
In Brian Doyle’s book “Mink River” his Native People often use obsolete terms like “disremember”, for “forget”, and “fecking” for …..hmmm, who knows what?
Warhaft about 5 years ago
Doubleplusgood.
Obi-Haiv about 5 years ago
I think I’m going to start saying, “Unjoy your day!” to everyone and see if they notice or just respond with the “You, too!” phrase.
zeexenon about 5 years ago
Commonly used by Goeffry Chaucher. And in a dreary day’s poem whan that Aprille with his shoures soote.
Spoonbone about 5 years ago
It’s amazing that a cartoonist with such crude artwork can still portray an example of even cruder artwork.
wirepunchr about 5 years ago
Joy is also a ladies name. Sometimes that’s an oxymoron.
Concretionist about 5 years ago
“Unjoy yourself, it’s later than you think
Unjoy yourself, while you’re still in the pink"
(he is a pig, after all)
Ray about 5 years ago
Despair?
Sisyphos about 5 years ago
Pig has discovered the Fountain of Eternal Unjoy! Bummer….
clayface9 Premium Member about 5 years ago
I don’t know anyone who feels joy when waking up in the morning.