Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 20, 2015

I can do that diet!

Today’s background music: “99 Red Balloons” by Nena.

Oh! A really good chuckle, Pig. Got my goat, too.

I thought Pig was going to inhale the helium.

Eat less string cheese, Goat – that may help…

In order to qualify as a diet, I think you actually have to consume it.

Good to see Goat’s not holding it against Pig for the baseball bat yesterday.

Helium is enormously abundant in the universe – but it’s rare on earth. Finite supply and quickly leaks into space. Hold on to those balloons Pig.

Guaranteed weight loss plan; The Amputation Diet!

never a balloon around when you need it most though

I got rid of over a hundred pounds of ugly fat…….I divorced her.

It’s all gravity’s fault! If there wasn’t so much gravity, we wouldn’t all weigh so much!

The term “losing weight” is really a misnomer. It’s mass that you need to lose, not weight. Weight is a function of gravity; mass is not.

The Hydrogen diet would help him lose even more weight!It’s risky though. Everyone who has been on it has burned and crashed.

I’ll believe in the Helium Diet when pigs fly. That’ll take a few more balloons.

Pig could go to the moon. Because of lower gravity, 83% weight loss right off the bat.

Bravo to all of you, this strip always has the wittiest comments!

I’m gonna try that. Thanks, Pig!

Sounds the perfect diet to me! But let’s hope something doesn’t come along and burst all those balloons.

xxx

Pig’s pose is ballet-like. But his diet is brain-lite….

Once you hit a certain weight you have to start using weather balloons for this diet.