Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 06, 2020

He can group them together to save time and energy. For example, he can worry about the virus and the planet simultaneously because they are interconnected.

I heard about this new anxiety on Dateline Gatilsday.

Whatever happened to the killer hornets, anyway?

a daily planner for various worries… wow

Everybody has a worry box. Everybody’s worry box is whatever size it is, and it’s always full. So when you add a new worry, something falls out of the box. And when you get rid of one, something that you hadn’t been worrying about immediately takes up residence. I believe I got this from Patrick McManus… and it has informed my life ever since.

My week must be fourteen days long.

“What…me worry?” Miss that whole “usual gang of idiots!”

Pig’s got a job?Depressed writer is depressed episode #1006

Solomon Grundy, born on a Monday.

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“Peanuts” 2/23/60

LUCY: “Do you ever worry about the world getting blown up, Charlie Brown?”

CHARLIE BROWN: “It all depends…What day is today?”

LUCY: “Tuesday.”

CHARLIE BROWN: “Well, on Tuesdays I worry about personality problems…”

(cont.) “THURSDAY is my day for worrying about the world getting blown up!”

how’s he going to fit in worries about paying his credit card bills…?

No Biggie, Pig! Just don’t let your Worry Box overflow into your Bucket List!

“Gloom, despair, and agony on me, Deep dark depression excessive misery” Song from old Hee Haw program!

So, you never worry about becoming bacon, eh, Pig?

Paranoia has PIG crazed! Rational thinking have left the building last Saturday….

My father was a wise man. He always advised me, “Son, worry’s the price you pay for what doesn’t happen!” Great. But he never got to the First Corollary of that dictum, which is “Therefore worry!”

In life there are little worries and big worries. The little worries are usually things you can fix, like worrying about passing that exam. You know if you focus and study you can pass so you don’t need to worry about things like that because you can deal with them. The big worries, like the virus, global warming, etc. are huge problems, but there is little that you personally can do to solve as ultimately you know the solutions are beyond your personal ability to fix. Those worries waste your time worrying about them. So they aren’t worth worrying about. If you set aside your worries and fears you can accomplish anything. So stop worrying and get on with living the best life you can.

Why would you worry about losing your healthcare? Oh, right… USA… :-/

I remember back in the ’70s when the killer bees were coming to kill us all.

Alfred E. Newman ……. Croc Power !

Every day I worry about Trump being in office forever

Ok, what is the whole murder hornets thing? I’ve seen it in like 3 different strips, but don’t know what it really is.

This is a new thing for Stephan. He has changed Pig’s personality a bit. In his own words, Pig needs to be the happy, positive one to balance out the darkness. This, once again, is very unlike Pig’s character.

Pig is so organized! I really admire an organized worrier.

Yo, Pig! Can I delegate some of my worries to you?

I worry that Pastis has forgotten to be funny. We have too many worries. We need one of his convoluted puns instead.

According to George Carlin, pig could open Wed. The planet will be just fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c

Pig needs Alfred E. Newman, or at least his attitude-works for me.

Most days I just worry about what I’m going to worry about….

“The rule is jam tomorrow, and jam yesterday, but never jam today.”

Everybody forgets about the old school diseases. It is time to go to CVS and see what vaccines they have. I’m looking for flu, cholera, and ebola.

Bobby says:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU

“There are only two things to worry about:Either you are well or you are sick.

If you are sick,Then there are only two things to worry about:Either you will get well or you will die.

If you get well,Then there are only two things to worry about:Either you will go to heaven or hell.

If you go to heaven, there is nothing to worry about.

But if you go to hell,You’ll be so damn busy shaking hands with friendsYou won’t have time to worry!"

~ Author Unknown ~

Stop watching CNN pig.

Not funny

Anyone else unhappy about Pig becoming a downer?

The Merry Minuet, 2020 verse (original by the Kingston Trio in the 1960s). . .

Maybe a little therapy can help you get these worries better organized and you’ll also have a nice bill to pay.

Sometime in October 1962, I was eight years old and having my tonsils removed in a hospital. Mom was with me, but what I didn’t know is that Dad was with another Air Force airman in a bunker waiting for the President of the United States to issue an order to launch the nuclear missile in its silo at the Soviet Union. Look up “Cuban Missile Crisis” on Google if you lack a sense of history. While I was drinking apple juice and soothing my sore throat with ice cream in a hospital bed, my parents were worried that civilization was about to be buried in the ashes of an atomic war and that their only child, me, would have to live with the consequences. This too shall pass but only if we stop taking the news media and politicians seriously.

What, me worry?

He should just quit watching Fox News

Pig used to be Snoopy (more or less). Now he’s Charlie Brown (more or less). And where are the crocs of yesteryear?

exactly. spread out your schedule.

I’m kind of baffled that the climate change didn’t make Pig’s list. Because in the grand scale that one does the most damage: slower, but orders of magnitude more in the coming decades. In the end it will cost it will cost even more lives than Trumps criminal negligence of SARS-CoV-2.

I do not worry about what I can not control. I do not worry about what I can control, I control it. Worry, like jealousy, envy, hate, and so many other emotions is just toxic to the soul.

Why is this so true for me

I worry about the liquor stores closing. That would be very,very bad. For me.

Pig just summed up my life’s daily fears.

I remember the old days when this comic was actually funny. Now? Feels like I am reading propaganda from the NYT.

Pigs back to spiraling!

Now, Pig, you can cram in one more: War in Ukraine.