Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 25, 2013
Transcript:
Pig: Check it out, Gomer Goldfish... I just got some fortune cookies at a Chinese restaurant. Mine says, "You will have fame and fortune." Goldfish: Hope it comes true. Open one for me. Pig: "You will swim in circles forever." These things are rarely accurate.
margueritem over 11 years ago
Except in this case.
Templo S.U.D. over 11 years ago
Interestingly, Pig as well as Rat and Goat are in the Chinese zodiac (expect that Rat begins it and Pig ends it).
Sherlock Watson over 11 years ago
Sing along with Sherlock: “I’m so dizzy, my head is spinning…”
Pedrocelli over 11 years ago
. . . or zebra, crocadile, neighbour Bob, duck, cat . . .
Bilan over 11 years ago
This reminds me of an old Far Side cartoon. The newscaster is saying The science of astrology gained a huge leap in credibility when every person born under the sign of Scorpio was run over by an ice cream truck today.
Ida No over 11 years ago
Cookie reverse side: “The last sound you will ever hear will be ‘flush’.”
Sisyphos over 11 years ago
What we are witnessing today, Pig, is a fifty per cent accuracy rate….
chris_weaver over 11 years ago
I personally dislike fortune cookies – the filling always tastes like paper!
YatInExile over 11 years ago
I got a fortune once that said “Ignore previous cookie.” Which was just as well b/c I couldn’t remember what the previous cookie said, anyway…
Marvelmoan1114 over 11 years ago
Then you will be flushed down the toilet.
JudyAz over 11 years ago
“Help! I am being held prisoner in a fortune-cookie factory!”
hariseldon59 over 11 years ago
I’m reminded of the time that Homer Simpson got a fortune cookie that said “You will find happiness with a new love” and took it as a sign that he was going to cheat on Marge. The we hear one of the restaurant employees say “We’re out of the ‘new love’ cookies” and his coworker replies “Well open up the ‘Stick with your wife’ barrel.”
singlefemalelaywer over 11 years ago
OW
ChessPirate over 11 years ago
Yes pig, it’s inaccurate. Gomer will not swim in circles “forever”.
Carl Rennhack Premium Member over 11 years ago
Are there people who STILL believe that their so-called lives are determined by tons of overheated gas millions of miles from this planet?!?
Sherlock Watson over 11 years ago
Ever heard Weird Al Yankovic’s “Your Horoscope for Today”?
Number Three over 11 years ago
Poor ol’ Gomer…
LOL xxx
Lamberger over 11 years ago
My wife once got a fortune that said, “Contemplate Charlton Heston.”