Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 20, 2023

Whom is Nora playing against?

Something you shouldn’t say to someone who has a fatal condition: “Go! Go! Go!”

I believe I do the same thing, but WITHOUT the outfit PIG wore in this strip ALL THE TIME, just, as my mom says, “naturally!” Dan aka…ps without the “fake” bits!

Wish Pig could cheer me on today.

Life can be joyous and great and thrilling. But it seldom is.

Please don’t stop Pig! we could all use it and we should all share it! Maybe visit Maui first tho!

Anything will pass if you sit on the toilet long enough.

It would be less bad and scary if he wasn’t wearing a skirt and jumping up and down.

Pig has a good heart.

What is the “R” for?!

Good job, Pig!

I love these strips that show how kind and supportive Pig is, he’s so wholesome!

You too can be a Pig … or a Cheerleader/Reassurer … for someone else today!

Over here, over here!!!!

I’m trying to read Pig’s expression in the last panel.

I can’t tell if he’s happy about his good work, or saddened by the necessity for it.

Perhaps that is, essentially, his “resting reassurer face.”

Thank you. I needed this today.

Great strip!

Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue and the dreams that you dare to dream, really do come true. —First version I heard was by The Demensions, 1960.

Everybody needs a Pig in their life.

Hmmmm…..I think I’ll have bacon for breakfast.

All Things Must Pass…that’s why we have toilets.

Yay. Pig is back to cheerful and optimistic!

Pig is positive for a change!

That’s pig, but my opinion is that he should be a superhero and it should be his superpower. And I know Pastis already thought of that…;)

I love Pig. He’s such a great friend.

This, too, shall pass. It may pass like a kidney stone, but it WILL pass.

A-h-h-h-h!!! Cross-dressing, porcine drag queen!

I miss a smile on Noras face in her last panel – I’m sure I had one were I in her place.

Except “cheerleaders” no longer lead cheers. They’re basically just practicing for the pole; they all go to the same “cheer” camps and learn the same Junior Stripper routines.

My life has been mostly struggles with moments of happiness dispersed throughout. Moments of actual joy have been few.

This was a very good one. Pastis needs to give us more of these where Pig is being decent.

I need pig :-D

If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane – Jimmy Buffett

Hey Pig: Governor Newsom on line 1 for you…

GO PIG!!

We all need you, Pig!

If all his fat body were placed in a watertight bag, would it sink? Just thinking….

This is the anti-Calvin-and-Hobbes from today. I hope you make some money Pig!!!

I hate affirmation.

Neighbor Nora: “Thanks, Pig! Now will you help me unstop my clogged sink?”

Good job Stephan

I just love Pig. Thanks for being The Reassurer.

only 8 billion more to visit…

Is Pig in cheerleader drag?

Yeah, that’s right, Pig — they GREATly DEMAND that you go away! d;o)

That’s quite a nice commentary on the silliness of daily affirmations that carpet-bomb social media.

At last Pig has found his career.

Just for inspiration or a cheer up, go on YouTube and search for spoken word artist “Prince Ea”. Amazing stuff he’s posting.

IT’S POM POM PIG!!!

I’d still like to know whether Job’s and Joseph’s happy endings were worth the cr@pfest they went through to get there :^(

Who ya gonna call on those “down in the dumps” days? The Reassurer!

Go, Pig!

I would hate for someone to be following me around shouting “gonorrra! gonorra!” I’d never get a date.

Nora is playing against life, i take it