Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 12, 2021

The key to happiness is setting attainable goals — or no goals at all.

What about rolling in mud?

No beer?

“I want to do nothing, I want to be nothing!” —Kelly Bundy

The point of life for you Pig is … Eat lots of Cheese, Cure the cheese with lots wine, Take long naps to marinate, and become the best bacon ever.

Existentialism is a very comforting philosophy, if you can keep your expectations low enough.

Bucket list!

I can now ride a bike without falling off. I consider that quite an accomplishment.

That would not lead to a long life, Pig!

Pig’s got it down perfect.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. – Brother Dave Gardner.

Pay attention Pig. It’s drink beer and eat cheese. So says the Wiseass

All I needs in life is the bear necessities.

I remember an episode of ‘Cheers’ where Diane keeps pushing Norm to try and get ahead. He goes along with it for a while, then finally snaps. He’s reached his goal! Sitting at the bar 12 hours a day is exactly what he wants.

hey, don’t forget the beer…

Looks like Pig learned from Rat after visiting that wise ass on the hill.

Pig staying on the top side of the sod helps with that cheese and nap goal ;-)

Achievements or none, either way it ends in a dirt nap.

I miss the rat in this one .

“… fear God and obey his commandments, for this is the entire duty of man.” Ecclesiastes 12:13

One thing I want to achieve is breaking into animation. Make a couple of shows, work for a major studio, stuff like that.

Well I started out with nothing but I still have most of it.

the only real point to life is to reproduce… which is kinda pointless really.

Deep insight there, Pig. But somehow, I don’t think my boss will appreciate it!

I think Pig may have life figured out.

So Pig’s an over achiever.

DON’T FORGET BEER!

The one time I tried to accomplish something major, I lost years of my life and a pile of money.

You may not always have what you want, but if you want what you have, you can be happy.

As for me, I don’t find much satisfaction in material things (although again, I wouldn’t object to owning a ’69 Mustang Mach 1). Experiences are more satisfying than stuff.

At least it keeps him out of the way of those that DO wish to activate.

Some people, and er…PIG lives to eat instead of eat to live….lol

Beer, you forgot the beer! and that was just yesterday…..

Didn’t the Wise Ass on the Hill claim it’s eating cheese and drinking beer in the sun?

I thought this strip had more than 3 characters (rat, pig and goat) and the occasional guest appearance of a certain Wise Ass.

You forgot the beer, wise ass says beer and cheese

Beer?

In the South, we prefer Head cheese as it’ll get you to running so you can more easily rest your head when you get there sooner.

Sounds like quite the achievement – For a pig!

And let Rat have the beer?

Don’t leave out girls…..

Why attempt to achieve anything meaningful when you can just criticize and tear down the works of others?

Sorry pig, bacon not cheese…

Find what gives you joy, do that !! Oh. . . . you want to eat too? It’s off to the Salt Mines for you.

Seems that way in retirement.

Sometimes Pig just nails it.

Only if you’re not lactose intolerant!

works for me. . .

Pig gave an honest answer. What more does Goat want?

So, pig really does have a life goal, one he probably has achieved repeatedly already.

Pastis is getting a lot of mileage out Pig and cheese. This is becoming Garfield and lasagna esque.

Live is pointless for the lactose intolerant.

Undersell and over deliver.

No wonder Rat is giving him a hard time ever so often: Pig forgot the beer – again.

Cheese is good. but it’s even better on top of something that’s also good.

The point of life is to create multi-panel cartoons from an original single panel, so you only need to change the speech balloons.

You left off drinking beer.

Is this a rerun? I could swear this one has been done before.

Yes! I agree with your attainable goals!

And beer, don’t forget beer.

and Three Stooges marathons

Pig’s World View is limited, but satisfying as long as one has no ambition. Ambition ruins a lot of people….

I knew there was a reason I loved Pig!!

Don’t be absurd. Beer is in there too.

I feel like this comic gets me more than any other

In the years between infancy and senility, we are distracted away from the fact that the point of life is to fill diapers.