Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 05, 2024

All those lemmings jumping into the ocean is probably causing the sea level to rise faster.

Glad to see Pastis recently bringing back characters that haven’t appeared much lately ( Guard Duck, Larry the Croc, the lemmings).

They’re probably jumping into the water to avoid the fires, and are counting on the flooding to bring them back to shore.

Disney snuff film.

Do lemmings float?

I have to….! trump voters! Sorry

My mom says, if all your friends jumped off of a cliff…..

Of course, none of those things are true.

go to and check out Natural Disasters. They’re down across the board. The world is a wonderful place to be (not the politics).

C’mon Steph; by now everyone knows, or should know, the lemmings – cliff thing was all Disney nonsense.

The earth is boiling, resulting in disasters such as Disney flops, arson in national parks and Justin Trudeau.

Which is rising faster, the sea level, OR gas prices?Remember that one is a fallacy, and the other WE can see, on a daily basis, with our own lying eyes.

The lemming-aid truck was too late!

Cliff notes?!

Oh it’s nothing a tax won’t fix.

Fake news just like lemmings jumping off a cliff eh.

Plants more trees ya steenky hoomins. Makes more green plants and all. More greenery means more oxygen and less CO2. Ain’t no rocket science. A 100% pure natural organic solution for problem.

Nothing in this comic is true. Which is part of the joke about the lemmings.

Welp! The planet’s dying, so there’s really no point in having any kind of civil society. Let’s all get together and steal yachts!

So much for lemming aid.

It’s true. Soon, the Laurentide Glacier will be history, and the Saharan Great Lakes will be nothing but sand. And sea rise is likely to wipe out every trace of civilization around the globe.

This is an example of why there should be a “do no like” option for readers! I thought Pastis was smarter than to repeat these false statements.

All that stuff is not true, lemmings, fires, storms, all of it.

Too bad we can’t get Congress to do that same reaction. Seems they just want to charge taxpayers more money.

Lemmings actually don’t jump off cliffs to their deaths. That’s a common misconception.

I miss that late 80’s early 90’s game Lemmings.

Oh but they are part of the solution. Now all that’s needed is for lots and lots of Who Mans to jump off that cliff too.

Checking the comments just to see people denying climate change (they’re wrong) and people pointing out that lemmings don’t kill themselves (they’re right).

Just a short time ago, we spent a week with the air smelling like a campfire and you could hardly see the sun. Because of a wildfire 1000 miles away. You’d think that would have gotten people’s attention. But no. NOTHING is more important than the “right” of giant corporations to pour poison into the air we breathe. Nothing.

And if climate change isn’t happening, we’d feel really foolish if we had cleaner air and water for nothing, wouldn’t we?

I was going to say something about climate alarmists talking to children, but that’s not appropriate.

Then the lemmings will be part of the precipitate.

- Mr. Nerd

Actually, all those environmental nut jobs who say the planet would be better off without humans now have role models to follow.

Just Wait a minute trump and the very knowledgeable republicans have repeatedly told the world that climate change is a hoax and we have nothing to worry about!! HaHaHa!

On the bright side, Pig, they’re no longer part of the problem.

Lemmings jumping into the ocean like that are mythical.

should have a rescue boat there that way there would be…..lemmingsAIDE. so, so sorry

Oh, sure they will. That’s the real solution that some people want — they just don’t want to set the example themselves. It’s 90% of the REST of the population we need to get rid of to save the planet.

EVs for everybody. That’s the solution, so they tell us

A Death Worst Than Fake…

I used to love playing Lemmings on the old Acer PC. And Jill of the Jungle, Cosmo, Crystal Caves…… I mean Candy Crush is nice and all, but there was something mesmeric about those little lemmings marching across the screen.

I just wish that is what lemmings actually did… political lemmings anyhow!

I suppose the problems were all solved that way in their little perspective. . . .

Have the elephants join you and splash those wildfires dry

Their somersault ability is impressive!

ALL the items spouted by Pig are media and elitist drivel. We have problems but until we actually recognize them things will keep on getting worse. Problem: Long ago I could get 6 tacos at In-A-Tub on North Oak Trafficway for $1.50…now tacos are $3.00 each almost everywhere. Or more. A candy bar was either $0.05 or $0.10. NOW: gads…$2.50 plus. I blame it all on going off the gold standard and mysterious noises off the coast of New Jersey.

Lemmings need to learn from alarmists. Their method is much less fatal.

What to do when in doubt

Run in circles, scream and shout

Can you hear Donald Trump’s voice yelling——

“Go ahead, people, I’m right behind you!”

Time for some lemming meringue pie

every time I see this trope it makes me sad and mad at Disney

Lemmings do not commit suicide. However, this particular myth is based on some actual lemming behaviors. Lemmings have large population booms every three or four years. When the concentration of lemmings becomes too high in one area, a large group will set out in search of a new home. Lemmings can swim, so if they reach a water obstacle, such as a river or lake, they may try to cross it. Inevitably, a few individuals drown. But it’s hardly suicide. But the biggest reason the myth endures? Deliberate fraud. For the 1958 Disney nature film White Wilderness, filmmakers eager for dramatic footage staged a lemming death plunge, pushing dozens of lemmings off a cliff while cameras were rolling. The images—shocking at the time for what they seemed to show about the cruelty of nature and shocking now for what they actually show about the cruelty of humans—convinced several generations of moviegoers that these little rodents do, in fact, possess a bizarre instinct to destroy themselves.

Nope, pig, they are definitely part of the precipitate…

The sad part is, the only real way to help is to die, because then you stop consuming. (And please please PLEASE opt for an eco-friendly disposal of your remains!)

Science refers to it as “Stalin population control.”

Quit pushing back there, you will get you turn soon enough!

I think those lemmings have the right idea.

(Not so) fun fact: Lemmings killing themselves is a myth caused by a Disney troupe, who pushed them off a cliff to create a documentary.

Disney has always been THE evil, and I’m not being ironic.

Well, where’s the pun in that?

The good thing is lemmings are REALLY tasty…

They panicked.

And it’ll get worse after the next eclipse. A natural disaster seems to always happen after an eclipse. 2017: Hurricane Harvey. 1992: Hurricane Andrew

Then we work on adapting faster.

Human lemmings – panic easily.

So the environmental hazard dead lemmings is ……..wait I’ve never heard of dead lemmings piles on news….so could it be short cliff and same lemmings jumping off cliff ……somewhat like having to vote for greedy power hungry idiots every year ?

Hurricanes are not getting more frequent or powerful and there are more fires because of poor forest management. The climate is always changing but it is not any more dangerous than usual. He right about one thing, the lemmings are running scared

There are also already millions of climate refugees throughout the world, subsistence farmers struggling against drought, etc etc etc. But who give a flack about them, they’re mostly black or brown and live closer to the equator. As long as Kansas is ok, who cares about the rest?

Lemmings are replaced by Democrats voting for Biden.

Yes it’s terrible that what has occurred for millions of years is happening now as well!

At this rate, our descendents will tell stories about the Lost City of Miami.