Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 21, 2013
Transcript:
"The Center for Inspirational Ideas held its first annual Inspirational Ideas symposium. 'I would like to improve living conditions in Africa through sustainable green energy.' Yaaaaaaay. 'I would like to teach people to meditate in a way that raises our collective consciousness.' Yaaaaaaaay. 'I would like to teach disadvantaged children to express themselves through art.' Yaaaaaaay. 'And I would like to sit around in my underwear and drink beer.'" Goat: 'And the center banned the drunk donkey for life.' Rat: Poor Danny. He's so ahead of his time. Pig: I'd look soooo good in tighty whities.
Sherlock Watson over 11 years ago
I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony…
Don Winchester Premium Member over 11 years ago
Yet….only Danny Donkey will ever achieve what was set out to do.
Bilan over 11 years ago
If we all drink…Africa can use green energy to grow hops for our beer,We will meditate on our belly button,andKids can create art with our empty beer cans.
Sherlock Watson over 11 years ago
Don’t forget to check out today’s Non Sequitur, folks!
hariseldon59 over 11 years ago
I guess Pig’s going to drink soda pop in his underwear.
Sisyphos over 11 years ago
Danny Donkey is the most realistic and scorned speaker at the IIS. How did he even get an invitation?And, Pig: no no, NO, NO!
joeshmo30 over 11 years ago
hahaha! gotta love danny donkey XD
jmartin1955 over 11 years ago
Hurrah for Danny Donkey
finale over 11 years ago
Was the symposium at a bar?
puddlesplatt over 11 years ago
I’ll drink to that!
marshalljpeters Premium Member over 11 years ago
It’s not a spam posting. It’s a crossover, as Sherlock could have told us. Pastis and a couple Pearls characters appear there today.
Dirk_Gently over 11 years ago
Agreed. My fiancee’s family is all against nuclear (they are German where the Green party is in power) but I think it’s a good thing. I’m just reading an ebook at the moment called “Nuclear 2.0: Why A Green Future Needs Nuclear Power” which says amongst other things that most of the nuclear power plants that have either been shutdown or cancelled in Africa have been replaced with coal burning plants.
I’m all for clean eco power but the only solution for carbon-neutral power has nuclear as part of it.
davidh48 over 11 years ago
Why “enormous investments”? Because you require to live a life of ease? Go to kiva.com and help somebody else who doesn’t have your mental problems. Sorry, but this is just stupid. Too many other options, and what do you do with a “dead” nuclear reactor? We’ve got a couple in WA, wanna buy them?
DGWillie over 11 years ago
Should I stand and salute for “I’d like to teach the world to sing”? Our King Barack I wants to make that the national anthem.
OldestandWisest over 11 years ago
These animals go around completely naked all the time anyway, so why would they want to wear underwear?
A_NY_Outlaw over 11 years ago
But isn’t what Danny Donkey proposes happened?
turdd over 11 years ago
Finally Danny Donkey is back! My favorite character.
Tim Gaffney over 11 years ago
Pearls was mentioned in today’s Non Sequitur comic.
Number Three over 11 years ago
Yep, I knew Rat would have wrote that certain sentence.
LOL xxx
H P Hundt Premium Member over 11 years ago
Without electricity most of the farm land would be semi-arid brush; except in the rare year when it would be flooded.
corzak over 11 years ago
lol. Nope.1. California leading agricultural state, both in quantity and diversity of crops. Iowa grows a lot, but it’s mostly corn, and in overall volume still less than CA.2. California is not broke. Budget is near balanced – for now. Of course, in CA, as in all states, increasing number of retiree pensions will grow over time, challenging every state’s budget.Re ‘socialism’ . . . you realize of course, that all of these are ‘socialism’: Social Security, Medicare, VA and military pensions, air travel safety, highway and road repair, disaster relief, courts & judges, disease-free drinking water, disease-free food, police and fire protection, etc etc. ‘Socialism’.
lmonteros over 11 years ago
It’s so nice to be a mom to adult sons. They achieve Danny’s goal nearly every day. The only realist at the table.
corzak over 11 years ago
lol . . . oh, and by-the-way, all those states in the Midwest, growing all the corn and soybeans . . . enjoy massive agricultural subsidies from both state and federal taxpayers. Socialism.
keokuk over 11 years ago
I can’t help but feel like there was a really bad pun in this strip today, but I missed it. Drunk-ass centrists?
The one and only Eldest Arc (now at peace) over 2 years ago
Is it weird that pig DOES look kinda good in tighty whiteies