Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 03, 2020

Thanks, Pig. A little sanity would also be good.

Nope. You need tape and glue.

Sing along with Sherlock: “What the world needs now is love, sweet love…”

I’d like to build the world a home

And furnish it with love

Grow apple trees and honey bees

And snow white turtle doves

I’d like to teach the world to sing

In perfect harmony

I’d like to buy the world a coke

And keep it company

That’s the real thing.

Comment inspired by Sherlock Watson

I feel like I’m back in ’66 and the Beatles are singing “All We Need Is Love.”

Love!

Love? That’s even wackier than stupid optimism.

I see skies of blue / And clouds of white / The bright blessed day / The dark sacred night / And I think to myself / What a wonderful world /

The colors of the rainbow /So pretty in the sky /Are also on the masks covering faces /Of people going by /I see friends waving hands /Saying, “How do you do?” /They’re really saying /“I love you”

This gets my vote for best comic strip this week. Thank you. Stephan Pastis.

This is a refreshing strip, considering the stuff that’s happen ing now

Beatles song “All You Need is Love” comes to mind!

Yes, it’s true. All you need is love. Do you hear that, Antifa? Do you hear that, BLM? Do you hear that Democrats and Republicans?

Do you think it can’t work? Think back, those of you who are old enough…ask your elders, those of you who are too young…1969…Woodstock…500,000 people celebrating together in peace and harmony, even in the face of ridiculously poor conditions.

Amen, Pig . . .

Sorry Pig, this one is gonna take more than a lot of love. Not sure just what else it’s gonna need, reason, compassion, empathy, science, the needless end of a lot more lives, or something else to horrible to imagine than none of us have thought of, but something more.

Cue The Beatles “All You Need Is Love”……

I got the message, Pig.

But one pig’s surfeit of Love is not going to solve this world’s problems—it won’t even come close. Sorry to be your Debbie Downer, but it is what it is….

Yes, the Beatles was the first thing that came to my mind too, but other posters remembered the other music from the era

I always liked the baritone horn solo in “What The World Needs Now”

Gotta love Pig for his naive simplicity!

It’s worth a try isn’t it, Everyone?

4th of July Picnic and Fireworks to spread the “Love” ! For those on this side of the pond have fun and be Loveable tomorrow ! Happy 4th of July ! … Croc Power !

Just remember, in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.

Oh Pig, you’re such a sweetheart.

where’s Red Green and his duct tape?

That has a quiet dignity to it.

“A new commandment I give you, love one another.” Jn 13:34. Jesus knew what he was doing. Legislating morality never works- the world is changed one person at a time. Pig got it.

The greatest commandment in The Bible is to love your neighbor as yourself. So, Pig has it right

Oh this is nice! Thank you.

All you need is love, love….Love is all you need. (If only).

This strip has become much too pessimistic.

John Lennon told us it was all we need. Burt Bacharach told us the world needs it now. Sammy Fain said it was “a many splendored thing.” Another commodity in short supply these days, but so very, very welcome when, and if, you can find it.

Seems some don’t LOVE America ENOUGH TO GET IT WELL AGAIN!

Great one, Stephan. If everyone showed a bit more love and compassion to those around them, we wouldn’t be in the spot we are right now.

Some decades ago there was a naughty slapstick “eponymous” (look it up) bbc series BennyHill. Once, dressed as a dame, our leering host threw off the immortal line:“what’s this thing called, love?”

back to back to back silly stuff like that, till he died.

Thanks Pig (Stephan)-

will probably work just as well as thoughts and prayers

That beautiful song, immediately popped in my head while reading this.

Today would have been my sister’s 63rd birthday. We lost her to cancer in March of 2017. I miss her so much. Now, we have thousands of people dead from a virus that we fumbled early on. But I am confident that we’ll ultimately defeat this thing. And by early 2021 or so, we’ll have vaccines and/or treatments available for the general public (after first responders and people in high risk groups getting first dibs). In the 2012 Democratic Convention, Joe Biden said, “It has never been a smart idea to bet against America!” I believe that still. We’ll get through this. In the meantime, let’s start concentrating on what unites us rather than divides us. We’ll sink or swim together.

“…and when you stop and think about it, you won’t believe it’s true that all the love you’ve been giving has all been meant for you.”

Perhaps the world LOVES to fall apart. . . .

All you need is love. (And pizza.)

A nebula, concretion, a big chunk of schmutz in third place from a star, more crashing schmutz, everything molten, suddenly another gigantic stone out of left field and a moon appears, all mixed thoroughly, crusty surface welcomes ice balls out of nowhere, five or so billion years later we and our large cerebrums have come to destroy it all. Does make Mars look better and better.

“Make me a lullaby so sweet and fine

That I can sing my weary world to sleep."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3wsSEueTs8

This needs to be show to everyone!

Enough of this ridiculousness. The world is not falling apart. We’ll set things right. Stop being a prophet of doom and gloom.

Cute, but utterly impractical.

Only if it was that simple….

Every voice can shout love from the rooftops, but until we deal with our own darkness, we ain’t getting anywhere.

To the extent that love plays a role in human reproductive behavior, at 7.8 billion and rapidly rising toward 10 billion, we are loving ourselves out of existence.

Duct tape… Enough duct tape will hold anything together.

“Love” Trump ? “Love” McConnell?"“Love” Barr ? Graham ? Etc., etc., etc., ad nauseam…dream on.

♪ ♫ All you need is love and understanding … ♪ ♫

I’m afraid it is going to take more Coca Cola than is currently being produced…

“All You Need is Love”

Re: Lots of comments above about the song “All You Need Is Love”. Similarly, today is my wife’s birthday, so as she opened her card and present over breakfast, I played “When I’m 64” on CD. She liked it. We call it the Beatle birthday in our extended family. Yep, OK Boomers.

The second greatest commandment.

457 likes, including me. I haven’t seen so many likes. Deservedly so.

“All you need is love. John Lennon. Smart man. Shot in the back, very sad.”

I love Pig…

aww… pig you’re so sweet

We’re going to need some duck tape and more peanut butter. If you don’t get that, you didn’t have a childhood.

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