Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 15, 2024

Was “Pigita” at the top of his list?

You can’t runaway from your problems without paying a divorce attorney.

Sounds good!

I’m already doing that. Now what?

Charlie Brown: “What if the whole world ran from their problems?”

Linus: “Well, at least we’d be running in the same direction!”

Did that, now I’ve got a whole new set of problems

I’d never have guessed that Pig’s problems fit on one sheet of paper.

better if you run upwind, otherwise your problems might follow you

Look out! Beware of new problems ahead.

[There are problems you will run into no matter which way you run.]

The unsolved problems have a way of never going away! Face them now or deal with a bigger ones later!

Looks happy.

If you run far enough, you will run right back into what your running away from

Somewhere there is a land where problems do not matter

Somewhere there is a land where problems do not bother

Somewhere you will find a place where pigs live without fear

Somewhere, if you keep on running, someday you’ll be free

…

Never, no never, they’ll never trouble you in

Never, no never, no never let them win

Go ahead young pig, face towards the sun

Run pig while you can

Run pig, run pig, run

…

Running like a rat, like a zeeba, like a wabbit

Troubles in the air, coming near, you can feel it

And you’re panting like rat, like a zeeba, like a wabbit

Running from your problems until fear is a habit

Hurry on and on, and on and on

Hurry on and on, hurry on and on

Run and run and run and run until you know you’re free

Run to the end of the world ’til you find a place

Where they never never never

No never, they’ll never trouble you in

Never, no never, no never let them win

Go ahead young pig, face towards the sun

Run pig run while you can

Run pig, run pig, run

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The Pig Run Down-hill

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OST : “Run Man Run” from “The Big Gundown”. Songwriters: Ennio Morricone, Audrey Stainton. Starring Lee Van Cleef, Tomas Milian.

No matter where you go, there you are.

Or blame them on Climate change or Trump.

Forget the list. Just run!

I’ve got 99 problems, but a Wise A$$ on a hill ain’t one.

It’s going to take more than that to get me off my a$$

ain’t nobody got that much paper.

I tried running away from my problems. Didn’t work. I never realized how fast the darn things could run.

Guess that donkey isn’t so wise after all.

Wise A$$ makes everything sound so easy!

Dread them, run from them, problems will arrive all the same. The only solution to problems: solve them. Don’t run, don’t hide, solve them (if possible).

Pig looks like he’s defying gravity in those first three panels.

I don’t have the energy to run that much…

I just realized all these PBS characters amazing ability to stand sideways on that hill!

It’s surprising how many problems that can actually be done. Maybe a few less if you have a conscience… ;)

They run faster than I do.

Problem #142: Have bum knee… Cannot run…

Does anyone really know the true answer to this question?

Some do better course, was it Dale Carnegie? taught to burn it.

Unfortunately, no matter how fast you run and where you end up, the list will follow you.

Has Pig invented anti gravity? Levity is the opposite of gravity?

That only addresses the symptoms, not the diseases.

Not the best advice that he’s given…….

If only……

W.A. tried running away from his problems, but Pig keeps going up the hill to ask more inane questions.

The trouble with running from your problems is that they often know a short cut.

Love the way he defies gravity