Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 19, 2018

Check the box.

I hate it when Pastis is intentionally not funny.

So one of his rare strips with an actual message. Does kinda remind me of the BP strip where he had Pig deliberately swear at BP for the oil spill. Think I need to go through my treasuries, find that whole arc and that strip specifically, and get the date so I can post the archive page.

It’s a funny public service message. Bravo!

Checked that box a long time ago.

Actually, I’d rather feed my body to the wolves but that ain’t allowed.

Good idea! Hammond or Wurlitzer?

Here in Denver, we had two serious and fatal fires in two different senior living communities, both on the same day. And don’t get me started on the fires in California.

Yes, checking the box is the easiest of the three to do.

But people run back into burning buildings to save pets.

Why not people, too?

Hey! Worms have got to eat, too.

They should create a negative-option system where they take your organs unless you’ve told them not to!

But there is only a 1% chance of saving a life which means that I only have a 1% chance of going to heaven. It is like playing the lottery to get into heaven.

They’ll just want you for your body. Then you can see what women have to go through.

I am seventy, but I can accept spare parts. It is the GOP Health Plan, replace and repeal!

I was going be an organ donor until I found out you could only donate your own.

Exactly how many Rats are waiting for a transplant?

I was planning on giving mine to the conservatory, but if Rat says otherwise, …

Little worms did benefit nature more than mankind. So…

I’m going to rake forests to prevent future fires. Or, I would, but I’ve got bonespurs.

I don’t know who’d want my piece o’ crap guts, but if it helps save a life when mine is done, all for the best. May as well put them to good use.

It’s too bad brains aren’t transplantable. A lot of them haven’t been used very much.

What about running unarmed into an active shooting scenario, just like You-Know-Who claims that HE would do??

What a great way to get this message across! This strip should be hung in every DMV office!

A while the defendant was carrying my client away from the fire, he dropped him. This caused grievous bodily injury of a broken ankle. That is why we are suing for 20 Million dollars.

I live in a coastal state, and you wouldn’t believe the number of news briefs I’ve read in the paper reporting two drowning deaths when it should have been only one, just because somebody tried to be a hero. I can appreciate the impulse, but face facts: fire and water rescues are the purview of trained professionals.

Who would have thought Pastis would turn out to be a wormist?

Another easy way to save a life today – donate blood or especially platelets at the Red Cross. Platelets cannot be stored and only have a 5 day “shelf life”.

Reduce, reuse, recycle body parts. And learn CPR and how to use an AED.

I haven’t seen anyone post they could be “the good guy with a gun that stops a bad guy with a gun”. Mind that’s only ever worked in NRA theory, it’s the paid people, usually in kevlar body armour that brings it to an end.

Pig didn’t have an organ so he decided to be a piano donor.

I’m not an organ donor, but I once gave a piano to the Salvation Army.

I am on social security the VA and Medicare all working just fine all you have to do is read the instructions the rest of you people can go ahead and fight it out I’m too old to care

I wouldn’t be able to walk if it were not for an organ/tissue donor. I am grateful every day.

The wife and I hold paperwork on each other for donation at time of death. I have seen ER staff not work very hard to save someone if they have a donor card. I’m willing to share just not anxious…

I’d be happy to donate organs (after I’m pronounced dead), but that would be like giving away a Yugo.

In Mich. donating after a certain age (65 or older) is discouraged. So I was informed by a Dr. It is believed that your organs are no longer viable! I suggested that he refrain from donating his brain!

Scary fact: “More than 125 million people have registered as organ donors, but only about 3 in 1,000 can actually become donors when they die.” Hence, so important to get more folks to sign up. For more information: https://www.organdonor.gov/index.html

WOW, we mention being an organ donor and wind up debating socialism and Obama Un-affordable healthcare. Being an organ donor is great but I have read of case where a person signed up to be an organ donor and the family did not want them to take the eyes and the hospital said the family has no choice. If you are a donor, they can take what they please. The family was grieved.

Donate your organs. You won’t need them anymore and you can save lives.

Thanks Mr. Pastis!

GENIAL!

My mother wouldn’t donate because she didn’t want to be cut up. She was cremated. Make sense? Not to me.

As I said earlier, donate to science. Among other things, they used my husband’s wrists to study something about their motion.

Pastis, thanks for this! It is nice to see Rat not being so self centered. Mostly, anyway.

I’ve had the “organ donor” designation on my driver’s license since my 20s. I tried to get my ex to do it too but he said, “You’re not supposed to chop up a Catholic & give the pieces away.” Sheesh.

(Yeah, same ex who chewed me out for diving into a pool & pulling out a guy who couldn’t swim.)

I always felt uncomfortable with the idea of organ donation. That is, until a classmate and very close friend needed (and luckily received) a heart transplant! He is doing well 4 years later, thank you for asking. Once organ donation became personal and I saw how much it mattered, I no longer had qualms about checking that box. I also give blood, even though I’m terrified of needles.

Being an organ donor is a good thing. But I look for comics to be entertaining, not preachy or political.

My mother has good eyesight because someone donated their corneas, otherwise she would be completely blind now. Thank you thank you thank you.

Become a blood donor!

I am a full-body donor! My body will be used for scientific and medical research! I am registered with www.BioGift.org.

I checked the box years ago. They’re welcome to anything they can salvage. Do hope they don’t transplant any part of my brain. I wouldn’t wish my brain on anyone.

And donate blood.

I once donated a piano. Is that close enough?

Funny how people who won’t give an organ will take an organ.

Not a chance, Cartoon-Boy!

That’s my choice. You’ve heard of Choice, right?

I prefer to feed the little wormies. Worms should not be subject to discrimination by Worm Haters. Total recycling!

Bravo, Stephan. Well done.

I am an organ donor, but I’d rather not donate TODAY.

We are organ donors at our house.

My now-sister-in-law actually did run into a burning building to save my brother. Which is why she’s now my sister-in-law. (Nobody else could ever possibly live up to something like that.) Organ donors saved my mom’s eyesight. Blood donors saved my life and my daughter’s. Thank you, every one of you.

GIVE ME HEART OR DIEEEEE…. Oh wait… If you give me your heart, you technically will die…

The worms would’ve had trouble getting through the casket anyway