Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 10, 2016

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    BE THIS GUY  over 8 years ago

    You never know when that pianist in the sky will play your tune.

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    Sherlock Watson  over 8 years ago

    Does this mean the Grim Reaper is really Billy Joel?

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    BE THIS GUY  over 8 years ago

    A man walks into a bar and orders a drink. On the bar he notices a small piano. A short time later, a man less than a foot tall climbs up on the bar and sits down in front of the piano and starts playing beautifully. After playing the most beautiful music the customer has ever heard, the small man climbs down from the bar and goes into a back room.

    The customer turn to bartender and says, “that guy is amazing, where did you find him?”The bartender answers, “I was walking along the beach when I found this old bottle. When I opened the bottle a genie came out. The genie said he would grant me a wish for freeing him. But the genie was hard of hearing and he gave me a 10 inch pianist.”

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    Oshietekun  over 8 years ago

    Today’s strip brought to you by the Acme Corporation.

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    hariseldon59  over 8 years ago

    Guess it’s better than an anvil on the head.

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    Bilan  over 8 years ago

    That anecdote struck a chord with Pig.He would not only be on his last leg, he’ll be on his last eight legs.One things for certain, he’ll B flat.

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    dadoctah  over 8 years ago

    I used to play the piano, but it’s been so long I’m not even sure I remember which end you’re supposed to blow into.

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    Enter.Name.Here  over 8 years ago

    You’re are like the guy who was busted for shooting someone with a bow and arrow. he claimed he didn’t know it was loaded.

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    alviebird  over 8 years ago

    What do you get when you drop a piano down a mineshaft?

    A♭m

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    Kind&Kinder  over 8 years ago

    Pig will be an extra downwind in a Northern Exposure revival episode in which the Fling will catapult a piano onto him.

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    imagenesis  over 8 years ago

    Can’t beat logistics!

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    Richard Howland-Bolton Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Pianos keep falling on my head.That doesn’t mean that I will soon be squashed flat, deadWith a piano on my head!Those pianos keep falling on my head, they keep fallingNothing’s worrying me’Cause I might get on TV …

    See On the Defenestration of Pianos for a scholarly dissertation on the chances of this happening in what passes for reality around here.

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    Sandfan  over 8 years ago

    Pig’s eulogy will be delivered by Wile. E. Coyote.

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    Chad Cheetah  over 8 years ago

    Aw, I wanted a continuation of the “pun intervention.” Cute strip, though.

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    PICTO  over 8 years ago

    My music teacher told me that pianos are like women…if they’re not upright then they’re grand.

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    Sisyphos  over 8 years ago

    157000 dead souls and only one really grand piano—even larger by far than a Bösendorfer Imperial (weighing in at over 1200 pounds). Pig may just be right in imagining himself the center of a coming apocalypse….

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    ksu71  over 8 years ago

    I think Laurel and Hardy did it best.

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    Wichita1.0  over 8 years ago

    Which begs the disturbing and all-absorbing question. Given it’s probably going yo be a vintage player piano, what song will it be playing on the way down?

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    infomas Premium Member over 8 years ago

    What the hell?!?! I just looked up that stat yesterday. I’m sure he hasn’t hacked my account, so I’ve got to believe SP reads Quora.

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    Saddenedby Premium Member over 8 years ago

    a megaton meteor shaped exactly like a grand piano and eerily sounding like the theme song from the movie ‘a good day to die hard’ as it streaked through space, has hit the atmosphere shattering into 157,000 pieces and causing grave consequences all around the world.

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    JP Steve Premium Member over 8 years ago

    So Pig will make it 157,001? Trust him to mess up a nice round number!

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    avenger09  over 8 years ago

    If I repeated my work as much as Stephan does I’d be living in a homeless shelter! LOL!

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    HappyDog/ᵀʳʸ ᴮᵒᶻᵒ ⁴ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘⁿ ᵒᶠ ᶦᵗ Premium Member over 8 years ago

    The question nobody asked is, why were all 157,000 people at the same place and at the same time as Pig?

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    Number Three  over 8 years ago

    Believe it or not, Today I took a quiz which would predict when I was going to die and my apparent date of death is 1st July, 2024.

    So I will be 29 when I die.

    By the way, It was just for fun. I don’t normally do quizzes like that. Or quizzes of any kind.

    xxx

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    Fan o’ Lio.  over 8 years ago

    Speaking of strange ways to die, I had an uncle who fell into a loom and was woven to death.

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    Daeder  over 8 years ago

    Haha! Good one!

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    Future Reuben Recipient  about 5 years ago

    That’s a lot of damage!

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