Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 17, 2021

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    BE THIS GUY  over 3 years ago

    Pig has apparently given up his intelligence for Lent. I know, he hasn’t given up much.

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    BasilBruce  over 3 years ago

    What you give up for lent depends on how unleasonable your landlord is.

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    Kveldulf  over 3 years ago

    The owner of a laundromat I use told me that the dryers work better when they are full of lint than when he has cleaned them. He still has to clean them, of course, because they would jam up completely if he didn’t.

    He also told me that he doesn’t believe the story that lint can catch on fire and burn down your house. He had tried to set fire to lint and it will not burn.

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    sirbadger  over 3 years ago

    Be sure to donate your dryer lint to a good cause.

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    Concretionist  over 3 years ago

    I think, rather, that one should add something positive for Lent, if you’re going to do something. It’s okay with me if that is of the form “positively going to stop <something>”

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 3 years ago

    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints doesn’t really do Lent, but here’s an article how the membership can do it: https://www.ldsliving.com/6-Ways-Latter-day-Saints-Can-Enjoy-the-Spirit-of-Lent/s/78067

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    Imagine  over 3 years ago

    I enjoy the spirit of Lent. Particularly Limoncello.

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    Radish the wordsmith  over 3 years ago

    Contemplate your navel lint.

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    eromlig  over 3 years ago

    Every year for Lent I give up my New Year’s Resolutions. If I have any left by that time…

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    Caldonia  over 3 years ago

    I’m giving up washing my hair for Lent, because someone’s pipes burst in my building due to snow and ice and now no one has water.

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    ronaldspence  over 3 years ago

    Don’t make an ash of yourself Pig! I think for Lent I am going to give up turbulent and rancorous thoughts about people of different beliefs than me and value their right to think and feel contrary and maybe learn something in the process.

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    iggyman  over 3 years ago

    There was a pizza place who in years past would give discounts on cheese pizzas for the period of lent, not this year the virus put them out of business!

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    blunebottle  over 3 years ago

    Never did get into this Lent thing…I was raised Baptist, I don’t think we do Lent.

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    LookingGlass Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I was going to give up breathing for Lent but, by doctor advised against it!! So did my Deacon!!

    /SNARK/

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    Breadboard  over 3 years ago

    Goat go ask Larry Croc about lent ;-) ….. Croc Power !

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    Yontrop  over 3 years ago

    Since there was no Mardi Gras (or Carnival) this year there is no need for penance, so I officially cancel Lint.

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    zeexenon  over 3 years ago

    How about beads at Mardi Gras?

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    cracker65  over 3 years ago

    If you live long enough, you figure out that all religions are basically the same. Just the names and dates are changed.

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    MayCauseBurns  over 3 years ago

    I gave up lent for lent.

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I would give up religion for lent.

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    c001  over 3 years ago

    I could give up going to the movies, or to a restaurant, or watching a football game, or… oh, wait…

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    carlosrivers  over 3 years ago

    Don’t get me started. Don’t EVEN get me started…

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    tripwire45  over 3 years ago

    Knew a guy years ago who gave up coffee for Lent. He drank the stuff constantly, so it was really a sacrifice.

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    Zebrastripes  over 3 years ago

    Tricky alright! Wait for your ash….

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    zerotvus  over 3 years ago

    i just sweep it away with the vac…..

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    theincrediblebulk  over 3 years ago

    For Lent this year i am giving up sleeping on the floor. I am going to break down and get a bed and a chair. I’m reaching that age where the floor seems awfully low when i go to get up.

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    James Wolfenstein  over 3 years ago

    I gave up religion… was that bad? :D

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    SNVBD  over 3 years ago

    i had to look up lent…

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    YippiKiAyMofo  over 3 years ago

    I’m giving up Lent for Lent.

    It’s okay, though, I’m not even Catholic.

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    Jeffin Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I hate seeing those holy lint rollers show up.

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    1953Baby  over 3 years ago

    Smithsonian website’s lead article this morning is about pigs being able to learn to play video games. Now, I ask you: WHY would a pig want to play video games?? And WHY do humans consider it a sign of intelligence in animals that they can be taught HUMAN pasttimes instead of realizing that each animal is suited to its own environment? Humans. . .geezus. . .

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    Major Matt Mason Premium Member over 3 years ago

    We can, I think, take the usual “Well, who did you lend it to?” jokes as read.

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    Ignatz Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I think this heathen comic strip may be the only one that’s even mentioned Lent. Ok, it was for the sake of a bad joke, but still.

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    Algolei I  over 3 years ago

    I celebrate Lunt. I don’t know what it is, but apparently it involves eating pizza. I think. Well, it does when I do it, anyway.

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    walstib Premium Member over 3 years ago

    In spite of increasing secularization, Friday Fish Fries are very popular in the Upper Midwest.

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    Ellis97  over 3 years ago

    Lint can be used for lint loaf.

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    mattro65  over 3 years ago

    I think I’ll give up reason and logic for Lent.

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    rugeirn  over 3 years ago

    Giving up stuff for Lent is pure egotistical virtue-signalling that delivers no benefit to the world—and yes, I’m feeling particularly curmudgeonly today. It’s been 54 days since I last could say, “Bah! Humbug!”

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    Nyckname  over 3 years ago

    “Did you hear about the moth that gave up wool for lint?”

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    LEOKEV  over 3 years ago

    Unless Goat spells it out, how does Pig realize they are talking about two different things? These set-ups were the basis for many Abbott and Costello routines.

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    wmchere  over 3 years ago

    “and no religion too”

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    HaVoc  over 3 years ago

    Fat Tuesday is gone! (Yes, it’s an actual polish holiday, look it up)

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  over 3 years ago

    Pig could use some religion for real, like a lot of single males do right now.

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    Pirate Mike creator over 3 years ago

    Pig tackles the tough questions!

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    Ken Otwell  over 3 years ago

    I’m giving up religion for lent.

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    iantheevil  over 3 years ago

    Never really “got” lent – if there is something in your life that you should be giving up, isn’t it a bit of a cop-out to just give it up for lent instead of making a permanent change in your life?

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    Reader  over 3 years ago

    I’m abstaining from meat today; think I’ll eat at Arby’s.

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    Linguist  over 3 years ago

    My Catholic SIL told me that before she decides what she’s giving up for Lent, she has to check the long list of all the things she’s had to sacrifice for the Covid-19 pandemic.

    She called me back and told me she figured out she’d already given up everything!

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    raybarb44  over 3 years ago

    Thanks for remembering and reminding……

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    A random Pearls Before Swine & Big Nate commenter  over 3 years ago

    happy ash wednesday

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    rstove428 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    You say “either”, I say “either”.

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    rstove428 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I remember the moment when I realized clothes dryer lint was, well, my damn clothes!

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    scpandich  over 3 years ago

    I decided to give up chocolate for Lent.

    So, of course, my sibling bought fudge brownie mix and is going to make them.

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    PC200X  over 3 years ago

    Kudos to Pig for somehow being able to eventually differentiate such similar sounding words.

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    FXP1951  over 3 years ago

    I’m giving up Octopus

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    DCBakerEsq  over 3 years ago

    Pastis gave up funny. Years ago.

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    Wizard4168  over 3 years ago

    Snackrifice: giving up your favorite junk food for Lent.

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    WCraft Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I’m trying to give up arguing with trolls (having a really hard time, though)

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    hhm7163  over 3 years ago

    I posted a comment on Non Sequitor that is equally appropriate here.I really enjoy the comments and usually more-so than the comics. There are some very bright people commenting and I have learned a lot. I’m humbled in their presence. I probably spend more time with comments than most because I digress by going to a new tab to use the dictionary or Google to find out what the smart ones are talking about. I love it. Like an educational adventure. I’m 88, it keeps me young.

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    Flower Girl  over 3 years ago

    Steph, as an older couple (my eldest is near your age), we see things differently than today’s kids do. Partly that is just the culture we grew up in, and partly it is perspective, and partly it is paying attention to what goes on around us for a longish time. BTW, my dear wife is the ‘Flower Girl’. We cooperate on these posts.

    There can be benefits to Lent. I was raised Catholic, as you were, until I realized it was logically impossible for God to be omniscient while men had free will.

    As a Catholic teen, I chose to give up ‘television’ for Lent one year. This was an eye-opener. I had tons more time to learn and do, and it made me aware of the powerful influence of the immersive experience of audio-visual story-telling. I gradually realized that the media programs were programming me, and learned to analyze their content and so came to ‘think for myself’, to the extent that humans can.

    In reading an elder sibling’s university philosophy textbook, I encountered the problem of knowledge as well as the contradiction between omniscience (a subset of determinism) and free will (a subset of indeterminism).

    Realizing I had been taught falsehoods in my religious training, I was forced to re-think everything. I realized that I could neither prove the existence of any particular god, nor could I prove the non-existence of all conceivable gods, so I became an agnostic, rather than an atheist or theist.

    We do not declare that theists or atheists are categorically wrong in their faith, but do recognize that neither faith can prove they are right. By not denying either faith, we cheerfully get along with members of both the theist and the atheist faiths.

    more…

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    Eric S   over 3 years ago

    The whole point of Jesus’ sacrifice was so that we DON’T have to follow stupid traditions, manmade rites and rituals, as it does NOT bring us closer to God.

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    Buoy  over 3 years ago

    They say too much navel gazing is detrimental, but sometimes it’s good to clean out the lint.

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    willie_mctell  over 3 years ago

    Too complicated for me. I prefer triple integrals or a nice recursive descent parser.

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    pekenpug  over 3 years ago

    The lint here is about 97% dog and cat hair, so I’ve been knitting it into a new pet. Not sure what to call it, but it’s about the size of a Clydesdale so far.

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    stamps  over 3 years ago

    I lent my lint to Lenin but he left it on the lintel in a bowl of lentils.

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    jbruins84341  over 3 years ago

    I am giving up Lent for Lent.

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    Bilan  over 3 years ago

    154 comments about lint.

    I see I’m not the only one without a life.

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    Sisyphos  over 3 years ago

    Pig needs to clean out his ears. Mis-hearing things can get one into serious trouble!

    But, I’ll tell you, I’m not giving up anything for lint….

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    oakie817  over 3 years ago

    as a Catholic, you’re forgiven

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