Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 23, 2023

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    BasilBruce  12 months ago

    When I was growing up, I envisioned quite a few things. Not only didn’t they happen, but I’m lucky I didn’t go blind.

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    BE THIS GUY  12 months ago

    Dream of money tree instead. That’s more likely to happen.

    To the readers in the US: HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

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    sirbadger  12 months ago

    You need to study archeology and dig it up.

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    iggyman  12 months ago

    You might have to work at it a bit, Rat!

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    Botulism Bob  12 months ago

    The is no money falling from the sky…. unless you are a Congressional budget analyst.

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    Johnny Q Premium Member 12 months ago

    If money fell from the sky, it would become worthless!

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    Bilan  12 months ago

    There is . . . if you don’t catch it coming out of the ATM.

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    Imagine  12 months ago

    It usually takes a little longer than 3 seconds for something to manifest itself. The more there is a need for instant gratification the less likely it is that something will actually manifest itself.

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    Gent  12 months ago

    Well Rat, you can still manifest and envisions and ensures that fraud wise donkey is falling from that donkey dung hill.

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    cdward  12 months ago

    Many of the things I wished for in my youth are best left in the realm of the unfulfilled.

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    juicebruce  12 months ago

    How can he be wise and not know tis Thanksgiving ? Happy Thanksgiving !

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    Ellis97  12 months ago

    Money rain would just cause more inflation.

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    Slowly, he turned...  12 months ago

    Oh! There’s one! Pennies from heaven!

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    minty_Joe  12 months ago

    All I can say is…

    “You can get anything you want, at Alice’s Restaurant.”

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    uniquename  12 months ago

    You’re just not very good at manifesting, Rat.

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    DaBump Premium Member 12 months ago

    Yeah, never cared for that positive thinking, “what you can conceive, you can achieve” mumbo-jumbo.

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    jjbarefoot  12 months ago

    “You have to manifest it.” What does that mean?

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    Count Olaf Premium Member 12 months ago

    Sounds like The Wise Asp has read “The Secret”. Speaking of frauds. :) Happy Thanksgiving (or just another Thursday) to All! ❤️

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    B UTTONS  12 months ago

    Even you Rat.

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    CaveCat87  12 months ago

    You need a different dream, Rat, one that’s more realistic and more likely to happen.

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    tiomax  12 months ago

    Can’t tell you how many times I’ve envisioned the traffic light staying green, to no avail.  And telling the officer that I “envisioned” it was green never helped!

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    MollyCat  12 months ago

    John Lennonism (Imagine)

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    ladykat  12 months ago

    I wouldn’t mind money falling from the sky, or a money tree.

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    elgrecousa Premium Member 12 months ago

    Rat will never be happy, Thanksgiving Day or any other day.

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    Goat from PBS  12 months ago

    Some people will never be thankful.

    Happy Thanksgiving!

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    Steverino Premium Member 12 months ago

    True.

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  12 months ago

    ‘There is no free lunch’; true wisdom from Milton Friedman. See also Genesis 3:19.

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    puddleglum1066  12 months ago

    Long time ago, one of our corporate managers inflicted upon us a “self improvement” course built around the idea of “affirmations.” The idea was, you wrote positive statements about the thing you wanted to change on 3×5 cards, and just before bed you were supposed to read them to yourself and think happy thoughts. In theory, this would Unleash The Power Of Your Subconscious™ and in a short time you’d have made the change you visualized.

    My boss said, after a few weeks, “Doesn’t work. I visualized myself bowling 300, did the affirmations every night, and my average didn’t go up at all.”

    I told him he should have visualized himself as a consultant, successfully selling nonsense like this for big bucks to gullible corporate executives. Pretty sure that vision could be realized.

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    Keno21  12 months ago

    ‘Envision it happening and then it happens’ is bull crap. Try, ‘Work like hell and then it happens’.

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    MihailElminar  12 months ago

    Oh, but there are, Rat just needs to go work for the Federal Reserve.

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    Sisyphos  12 months ago

    Some of us have known all along that the Wise A$$ on the Hill is a fraud. Welcome to the club, Rat….

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    zeexenon  12 months ago

    If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. ZZ

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    mindjob  12 months ago

    we envisioned peace and love, but we got the opposite

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    eladee AKA Wally  12 months ago

    Oh and one more thing—-you have to work for it!!!!!

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    bunrabbit99  12 months ago

    yeah, the secret is that there is no “secret.”

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    eddi-TBH  12 months ago

    If money starts falling from the sky, watch out for the plane’s cargo hatch.

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