Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 21, 2018

A rare moment of both honesty and brilliance on part of Pig.

Bad news Pig! You’re still going to wind up as bacon!

One of Woody Allen’s best quotes: I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

I want a do-over!

90% of life is showing up. But when death comes, you want it to be in the other 10%.

Three identical pictures – or are they? Tiny differences suggest that Pastis actually drew all three frames. Either that, or his rubber stamps were not perfectly aligned.

Simple, straightforward solutions – that’s our pig!

An once of prevention is worth a pound of cure?

The best part of this strip is that it’s kind of a classic type. Just the 2 talking by the water.

As Freddy Mercury said, “Who Wants To Live Forever?”

Mr. Preacher you say this heaven is such a great place, I will give you ten ponies to take my place.

And just what do you plan to do about this aging process? Do you think that it is going to miraculously stop also?

A pearl from the swine – uh, Pig.

A very common theme in this strip. I remember one where Rat asked Pig what he would do if he had six months to live. Pig replied, “I’d scream”.

Everyone wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die. —-Unknown

This is like getting 3 wishes, and the 3rd is for infinite wishes!

Someone was speaking of pig parts.

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Ask a silly question…

I actually wouldn’t mind dying to be away from this cruel, cruel world. As long as I am asleep when it happens

Hope Pig doesn’t get fired before he dies, then we’d have canned ham! Ducking now.

Do they have comic strips in Heaven? If you see Garfield, you’ll know you’ve gone to the other place.

Oh Pig! No need to worry. As a cartoon character you will live forever.

“Grant to life’s day a calm unclouded ending,.

An eve untouched by shadows of decay,.

The brightness of a holy deathbed blending.

With dawning glories of the eternal day".

Philosopher Pig on the Meaning of Life and Death. Pig is a pretty wise guy today…..

I used to own both a minivan and a motorcycle. I was the coolest boring guy around.

Conquering death is humankind’s greatest challenge. If, barring accidents, we could live forever, we would have time to learn from our mistakes and together create heaven on earth, and indeed, throughout the stars.

For once, Pig voices what most of us desire deep in our hearts: to suspend death by magic.

Clever! I’ll be stealing that line…