Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 18, 2021

That doesn’t look like an old kit-bag.

Pig is cheating at life… in all the best ways.

Schoolwork? Bills?

One of Pig’s big troubles is still running around – best put Rat in that third box.

Pig bribes the garbageman for this.

I got 99 problems and a bad garbage man ain’t one.

Here I go, singing low . . .

I tried that. The troubles all climbed out and came back. Invigorated.

It wouldn’t work. You’re not allowed to put people in the recycling bins. Believe me, I tried.

Reminds me of the Simpsons’ parody of The Candyman. ‘The garbage man, the garbage man can …’.

“In my dream I was drowning my sorrowsBut my sorrows, they learned to swim” -U2

“Yesterday ( when he put the bin out) , all my troubles seemed so far away, but now they’re here to stay; well I believe in Yesterday!”

Not anymore! Since they are now here to stay, the garbage man left yours and threw some new troubles in the bin.

He should put ’em in an old kit bag.

I hope he didn’t put those troubles into the recycling bin!

Troubles don’t go away by ignoring them or setting them out for the garbage man to collect. Ask the British.

No wonder Pig is happy most of the time, his troubles being garbage.

I thought you needed a kit bag for that

Wouldn’t that be nice?!

Pig use a 2 wheeler hand dolly next time. Your back will like you :-)

He’s going to need a bigger box.

If it was this easy I’d be so much happier; that’s why I started therapy yesterday. Too many downward spirals…

When my daughter was going through a bad dream phase, I asked her to pour out all her nightmares into an open box, which we closed quickly and wrapped in Christmas paper. Nightmares can NOT break out of Christmas paper! Then my Mom told me to tell her I sent all the boxes to GaGa who planned to drop them into a volcano as she flew over Hawaii. It worked.

German bins are green(bio), blue(paper), black(garbage) and yellow(recycle)

You can’t get rid of troubles just like that.

My garbagemen wouldn’t take them—said it was too much trouble.

“Just wrap your troubles in dreams, and drema your troubles away. . .”

Bin there.

troubles are easily recycled…

At least Pig is trying not to dwell….

Troubles never seem to leave you.

show me your ways pig

We call that “Mixed Organics”.

Just another thing, the trash collection we have to pay for, does not pick up.

True though, read the book “Trashed, a life of a garbage man”

I have no comment.

I thought you were supposed to pack up your troubles in you old kit bag.

I thought that was supposed to be an old kit bag.

Plus guard duck, or dem crocs may lurk nearby

By the way you carried that, I infer that you had a bunch.

I thought one needed an old kit bag for that

He tossed his Old Kit Bag in there … {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqabF3TAV0Y}

If it were only that simple…..

I’m calling my waste company and asking them to bring one of those bins this week!

I don’t know if my trash pickup will take troubles , but they seem to have picked up a couple of dead branches that I didn’t get a chance to chop up & put in my bins , they were sitting in the driveway waiting for me to do it . Thanks trash guys , you made my week !

If that doesn’t work, Pig, you can always go Up on the Roof…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puM1k-S86nE

You can tell the box is heavy by the way he’s gritting his teeth…

I can’t find a kit bag big enough!

That box looks awfully heavy.

I keep mine in my old kit bag.

Better watch it Pig! I believe the proper term would be garbageperson.

Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag!

Smile, Smile, Smile!

Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag!

Smile boys that’s the style!

Pandora’s box.

I used to drive a school bus and all my troubles were behind me.

I want Pig’s garbage service!

Claudius:

O, this is the poison of deep grief; it springs

All from her father’s death. O Gertrude, Gertrude,

When sorrows come, they come not single spies

But in battalions. First, her father slain:

Next, your son gone; and he most violent author

Of his own just remove: the people muddied,

Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers,

For good Polonius’ death; and we have done but greenly,

In hugger-mugger to inter him: poor Ophelia

Divided from herself and her fair judgment,

Without the which we are pictures, or mere beasts:

Last, and as much containing as all these,

Her brother is in secret come from France;

Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,

And wants not buzzers to infect his ear

With pestilent speeches of his father’s death;

Wherein necessity, of matter beggar’d,

Will nothing stick our person to arraign

In ear and ear. O my dear Gertrude, this,

Like to a murdering-piece, in many places

Gives me superfluous death.

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet Act 4, Scene 5.

[sigh-h-h…] If only it were that easy…!

Well, it might not be an old kit bag, but … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKXi7zOtqhs what’s old is new again.

I wish it were so easy for me as it is for Pig!

Oh, if it were only that easy …

I’d put mine in my old kit bag, but I don’t even know what a kit bag is.

good pin

I got to be the 500th person toile this comic :)