Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 22, 2021

Glad Pig appreciates the humor.

Doesn’t Pig know that no good deed goes unpunished?

The world is crying in acknowledgement of Pig’s attempts.

Life is like a box of… No, scratch that! Life is sitting on a park bench on a clear day and getting drenched by rain.

“Just an acknowledgement Is my best…” Cue the Monty Python animated foot coming down.

Raindrops keep falling on my head ..

Rain helps food crops grow which nourishes life. You gotta look on the bright side.

I wouldn’t call that “keen” so much as “nasty”.

Remember the 50s or so when “keen” meant what “cool” came to mean for the hippies?

That might not have been rain in panel 3. Ever see the movie High Anxiety?

Panel 3 is the ink washing off with Steph’s tears.

Do. Or do not. There is no try.

Pig’s the same color as the coffee cup.

And the band played on! Pig has an underwater pen/pencil ;-)

And just a wee bit sarcastic, Pig.

“Life double-crosses with style…

Forcing you into a smile —

So it can kick you in the teeth"

Even Life doesn’t care. You’re on your own.

If Pig lived in the western US, he would recognize this shower as a blessing.

We were having a campfire cookout once when I was in cubs when it started to sprinkle. The leader started singing the song: “It ain’t gonna rain no more, no more…”

When he got to the line: “So how the heck can I wash my neck…” Deluge.

“Life’s a bitch and then you die!”

It could have been worse. At least it wasn’t a flock of birds. This time.

Ah, Pig…Life gave you mud puddles

Life, Don’t talk to me about life!

Life!, loathe it or ignore it , you can’t like it!!

…..Marvin!

I can think of a few places that could use that rain, Pig!

The truth of life is that it always wants to kills you. And that you has to fights to live.

It’s a washout.

Keen as in keening?

“Man plans, and God laughs.”

Hey, no clouds no rain. No rain no rainbows. No rainbows no hope. No hope no anxiety. No anxiety no clouds. The cycle of life.

I feel really bad for Pig.

Some Wall St talking head said “Investing has no points for difficulty, and no returns for how hard you work on it.” Life is kind of like that.

No rain means no food, Pig.

It does.

It rained on his parade….as usual!

like i keep saying… the universe is perverse

“Into every life, a little rain must fall.” (Not available in all areas. Certain exceptions or exclusions may apply. No guarantees, warranties, or promises are expressed or implied. Void where prohibited by law.) /s

Bad life! Go to the time out corner now!

Pig reminds me of Wade from the ’80s comic “U.S. Acres”. Nothing good happens for both characters despite their nice personalities.

Is his last name “Btfsplk”?

Indeed life does not care about “doing your best” that is a personal growth thing. Life only cares about “good enough or not good enough”.

It is always raining too much somewhere, and not enough elsewhere.

Now you know why I have the bench in my garden!

God is in the rain.

Don’t worry. It all works out in the end……

Life’s participation trophy…

Here’s hoping Pig wasn’t using water-based ink.

Can I get Pig to come do his moping at my house? We really need the rain.

I am so happy that Pig picks up that as being humor.

“Someone left the cake out in the rain…I don’t think that I can take it…”

He’s a pig, pigs like mud, rain creates mud, so it appears he got his positive acknowledgement.

Keen=sharp=cuts like a knife

Any Depeche Mode fans here? “I don’t want to start any blasphemous rumours but I think that God’s got a sick sense of humour, and when I die, I expect to find him laughing.”

Darn you Mother Nature!

Matthew 5:45 (KJV)!!

Life is giving you life-sustaining water, Pig. That means life wants you to live!

“It rains upon the just, and also on the unjust fellas;

But more upon the just, because the unjust stole the just’s umbrellas."

—attributed to Baron Charles Bowen

Tell me about it!

It counts for nothing. It doesn’t matter. Life rains on you regardless….

If you lived here, rain would be just what you were hoping for.

Or a SICK sense of humor!!-lol