Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 16, 2016

Try using that excuse for not paying your taxes.

That, and it make it a lot easier to hide bear traps.

The big question — why are other people doing it?

With a mentality like that, you either just go and do the things you love before judgement day, or go to a corner and wither away.

And after that, Rat, in some unfathomably distant future, comes proton decay, the final radioactive rotting of matter per se. Have a nice day.

Rat’s correct. Yet, it’s really up to each of us to paint the canvas of our lives with meaning. It is, after all, whether by dint of a god or the random collision of particles in a Moebius strip existence, our lives to live. Start the music, and let’s dance!

The story goes that astronomy professor was giving a lecture about the fate of the Sun. “In a billion years” the professor says “our star, the Sun, will run out of fuel and die”. A guy raises his hand and says, “How long did you say we had?” The professor repeats his billion-year prediction. “Whew,” says the guy, “I was getting worried. I thought you said a million years!”

When the world does explode his grass will still be there.

And people call this strip dark.

Like to keep the grass cut so the creepy crawly things stay back………………but Rat is a creepy crawly thing :-)

Rat, you’d just better hope Bob isn’t on the board of the Homeowners’ Association.

Actually, we have another about four billion years until the sun runs out of fuel, then another billion before it engulfs us.

He does have a point. Everything’s pointless.

When it is hot, cutting the grass stresses it out. And it stresses you out. So I let it sit. My grass is green, neighbors have dust.

“At this point, what difference does it make?” FIFY

Uncut grass gives a niche for wildlife to utilize. even the (humanly) unwanted bugs which the birds eat. I do and I don’t understand the “perfect” lawn fetish. But all I care is that the dirt is covered, and new trees don’t sprout too close to the house.BTW: I wonder if someone will figure out a way to blame man for the sun burning out.

I think it would be wise to wait and see if maybe the giant meteor comes today. Or tomorrow… Or the next day…

You can’t argue with logic!

I knew there was a good reason for me to put off mowing the lawn. I thought I was just lazy, but it seems there is a solid scientific basis for my sloth.

I like a rodent who is capable of taking the Long View, Rat. It really does put things into perspective, and that’s so liberating!Go home now, Neighbor Bob….

First of all, why does Bob care if Rat doesn’t mow his lawn?Second of all, Rat’s not entirely correct. The sun will become a red giant and engulf the Earth, in about seven billion years.

If you say so Rat.

Yes, just wants to prove to the world her superiority.

Proof that global warming is inevitable whether we do anything now or not. You might say that Earth’s future destruction is written in the stars. So why bother?

i use a grass catcher, dry them out a bit, then feed to the critters. its a nice supplement & better & cheaper than corn

nihilism taken to it’s absurd conclusion..

I wanted to compromise. Let the grass, trees, and shrubs, even the weeds, grow as much as they could. I would keep a few tidy paths cut through the “lawn”. Make’s more of private jungle.Plus, it’s my version of “Lawn Order”….

I tried that when my term paper was due – didn’t work.

By that time, whatever the human race transforms into, will be exploring every part of the multiverse. They might even heal the sun to last a few more billions of years.

Rat’s Jungle.

xxx

Me I love Kierkeraat

Where I live I’m require by law to have a lawn, its the middle of the desert too…so when a drought kicks in and there isn’t enough water they fine us if we water our lawns but when its over if we have a patch of dead dirt left they fine us for not having a lawn. I know, once I just turned the sprinklers back on and didn’t plant new grass and a bunch of weeds grew and I got in trouble for not having a lawn that died due to a city well water pump going off line for 2 weeks. Try keeping any lawn a live for 2 weeks in a 100 degree temps.

Hard to argue that logic…

I finally mowed my lawn today for the first time in over a month. Why wait so long? Well after I last mowed it towards the end of June we entered drought conditions. Over the last week we finally got enough rain to actually cause the grass to grow high enough that I’m less concerned mowing will kill it.

Watering the lawn, yes, I can remember doing that. Back when we had water to use for that. Back when we had a lawn, I believe.

Now my new excuse for everything.

If the sun’s going to explode I wish it would just do it and get it over with.

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Your lawn isn’t bad if you can get to the front door without a machete. If you need a chainsaw you might have left it a little TOO long.