Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 04, 2023

How many problems does Pig have and how bad are they?

Are there fewer problems in China?

He decided to give up the hole thing!

Goat is still steeping his tea too long. Pull the tea bag out already!

Well at least he whittled his problems down to just one; how does he get out of the hole he just dug.

Running away from your problems is indeed digging your own grave.

Ten to one, he still has the same problems, and a big hospital bill coming, to boot.

robocalls. what an old-fashioned answering machine was made for.

A pig in a poke?

Running: redefined.

Everyone has problems. Some are just greedy.

The good Pig would do will lie buried with him…

Oh, how I wish that would work.

That’s an old saying. No matter where you go there you are sitting in a hole.

If only it was that easy.

Problem is, when you run from your problems they are still there!

Did Pig see an Ostrich cartoon?!

You’re heading the wrong way, Pig. Somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly, or so I’ve heard.

You can’t run away forever, but the good news is that you don’t have to.

is it deep enough though, that is the question. :J

When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

I’m pretty sure problems will still find him.

If nothing else, the tax man sure will.

This reminds me of a website that lets you see where you’d be if you dug a hole all the way through the world from wherever you are. (I would end up in the Indian Ocean west of Australia.) The site is called Antipodesmap dot com.

I’m looking at one of Pig’s problems right now.

The Realities of Bidenomics strikes again.

mud, the fence, um, humans, not real…. i figure 99 problems. oh and the …..

Looks more like he’s falling away from his problems, not running away.

Keeping one’s head in the dirt is a way to hide from problems.

Pig needs a nice dandelion patch

As long as no one fills in the hole.

I’ve tried this more than once.

It never works.

Years ago I studied my globe, and determined that if I dug straight down I would not end up in China, like so many people say, but rather somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean; near where they print information about Mercator Projections and stuff like that. Useful information at that, but I sure there is an easier way to get to it.

It’s a metaphor for Pete’s.

Well, it smells better here, and he left the dirt pile conveniently close.

My problems run faster than Usain Bolt

“You can’t run away forever, but there’s nothing wrong with getting a good head start.” – Jim Steinmen, Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through

Pig is buried in his neuroses.

“I’m gonna dig myself a hole, deep down in the ground.”—Early ’50s blues hit record covered by many.

No matter how far or how fast you run from them, they’re always right there with you.

Russians have a ton of problems! They’ve been digging holes non-stop for the past year!

One of his problems is not knowing the difference between “hiding” and “running”.

STOP DOING THIS JOKE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.

I didn’t think this was what “pig in a poke” meant, but I could be persuaded. Or is that just a hole lot of Pig paranoia?

Looks more like hiding. Whatever. Let me know how it works out; I might give it a try.

Pig would have even worse problems if he doesn’t get out of the hole before someone fills it in.

How can you run in a hole that size? You’ll just be running around in circles!