Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 05, 2024

So what if he gets and eats the melon and later cancels his subscription?

Let’s ALL hope they give us a forty(40%) percent discount on those subscriptions!!!! Dan aka…

I miss the old days when we could buy any large fruit we like. I suffer melon-choly.

Tell him he doesn’t get his tip then!

Mmmmm…a different pizza a week might be a great idea…. Especially if it works with my wine club delivery!

If the guy at the counter worked at a car dealership, he could sell Rat a lemon.

Really goes back to Microsoft’s legal innovations to limit liability by not selling anything but permissions, and mostly selling them upstream from the real users AKA victims.

Like cable tv,, everything is bundled, you have to pay for lots of stations you will never watch!

Business model might work for pizza…

That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.

Soon we’ll all be subscribing to oxygen.

Then he will go to the computer and see an e mail notification that his melon subscription has expired and to renew click the link which links a phishing scammer directly to his credit card and bank accounts.

Next, there will be a Subscription to shirts and clothes and handkerchiefs

How about they charge 2.219 for it like gasoline?

We’re looking at you, too, Adobe!

Just had to pay a subscription service to see what condition my subscription service was in!!

Our modern rentier society a.k.a. techno-feudalism.

What if grocery stores actually try this?

Always subscribe to pizza!

Oooh - MaaS! Melon-as-a-Service. The guys in marketing are just going to eat this up! ;)

I like the open source melons that I grow in my backyard.

I think grocery stores are already subscription services. Subscribe to eating.

Another subscription, whoopy.

Has anyone tried to purchase two or three small ripe kiwis lately? So much produce can now only be purchased in prepackaged bags or clamshells of 5-10X more than you want (or could EVER use), in varying stages of unripeness. In a world of smaller families, it’s a wasteful, backwards trend.

All I can say is that my life is pretty plain

I like watching the puddles gather rain

And all I can do

Is just pour some tea for two

And speak my point of view

But it’s not sane

It’s not sane

-blind melon

Beer is going from individual containers to a piped in utility.

I would subscribe to pizza!

Now I’m melon choly.

Why not just tack onto a family member’s melon service?

Is Rat just being melondramatic?

Last month they refused to sell me one jar of peanut butter.

Doesn’t that mean we can’t elope?

I would subscribe to pizza.

They just get the latest poop…

Must buy three to get the sale price

Just subscribe, then unsubscribe; i do it all the time; good luck Rat!

I would subscribe to pizza. I’d subscribe twice if I could.

Pizza is worth subscribing to