Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 29, 2024

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    BE THIS GUY  9 months ago

    The universe is petty and mean.

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    BasilBruce  9 months ago

    Well, that’s the Universe’s tough luck, because there’s nowhere else for us to go.

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    Alexander the Good Enough  9 months ago

    The Universe is utterly indifferent. If there’s any justice in this life and this world, it lies in the fact that there’s none whatsoever.

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    Wilde Bill  9 months ago

    I suspect that the universe loves bacon.

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    syzygy47  9 months ago

    Or, in another sense, after having a great lifelong health record, three serious events occurred in the last five years… God’s been trying to "get me’, bump ms off..

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    The dude from FL  Premium Member 9 months ago

    I knew that! Anything else?

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    Picccaaaaso  9 months ago

    The universe probably just dislikes humanity as a whole.

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    Concretionist  9 months ago

    The universe has NO sense of obligation. Nor is it out to get you. It simply doesn’t care at all. On your own head be the blame (also random chance).

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    _lounger_  9 months ago

    I’ll take it personally then

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    Gent  9 months ago

    But the universe theenk you is deelishus, Pig. Yummyyyy!

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    Walrus Gumbo Premium Member 9 months ago

    People get upset when treated unfairly, but fairness is a fantasy word created by humans. Nowhere in nature do you see fairness. It’s synonymous with justice, which doesn’t exist either!

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    cracker65  9 months ago

    Neil peart addresses this in the free will tune. One of Rushs best.

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    iggyman  9 months ago

    Bad things happen to you so you will appreciate the good!

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    cdward  9 months ago

    Since bad things happen to everyone, it sounds like the universe doesn’t like anyone. …

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    Tigrisan Premium Member 9 months ago

    I like you, Pig.

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    figuratively speaking  9 months ago

    Doesn’t know us, doesn’t want to.

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    markkahler52  9 months ago

    With me, it appears to be a love/hate/indifference kind of thing,,,

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    jessegooddoggy  9 months ago

    Sure wish we could see the Crocs at least as often as this character.

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    iggyman  9 months ago

    My Grandfather always said “You got to take the bitter with the sweet”!

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    monya_43  9 months ago

    Some people don’t notice how blessed they are.

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    Count Olaf Premium Member 9 months ago

    Thus why so many people check their horoscopes every morning. Makes perfect sense.

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    scote1379 Premium Member 9 months ago

    The Perversity of the Universe tends towards the Maxim , The Universe is Hostile , The Universe makes no provisions for any Being, ( Nivin/ Wu laws )

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    Croc Holliday  9 months ago

    Things just happen; there’s no grand purpose and there’s no “reason” for them except where the things you do that can definitively affect events that happen next. If you don’t study and work hard, don’t blame the universe when get poor grades and a lousy job with no advancement.

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    mrwiskers  9 months ago

    Has anyone been bothered by the saying, “Everything happens for a reason?”

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    Ellis97  9 months ago

    Well he’s not wrong.

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    ajr58(1)  9 months ago

    I think I will use this as the wallpaper on my work computer

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    ajr58(1)  9 months ago

    So it’s true! I’m not paranoid. The Universe really is out to get me!

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    gluetrap  9 months ago

    To quote Bette Davis “Getting old ain’t for sissies”.

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    Goat from PBS  9 months ago

    I think so as well, but that’s not the reason why.

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    Steverino Premium Member 9 months ago

    I knew there was a reason.

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    K.Spammerich  9 months ago

    Never read a better explanation for me too

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    ladykat  9 months ago

    The universe hates all of us.

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    pripley  9 months ago

    Wise A$$ On The Hill yet again. I’m probably in the minority here, but I have felt for quite a while that Pearls has “jumped the shark”. The isn’t any more comic energy. Nothing like rat being sent to comics reeducation camp, the crocs adventures, etc. It still has a good one-off gag often enough, but it’s past its prime. That’s bound to happen with every long-running strip. Oh well.

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    timinwsac Premium Member 9 months ago

    Well….I guess that explains trumps existence.

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    Zebrastripes  9 months ago

    The Wise@$$ on the hill is being paid by a advertising physiatrist and needs you to make an appointment…to address all your insecurities…

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    KEA  9 months ago

    I’ve thought for decades that it is a perverse universe

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    Imhungry  9 months ago

    Where are the Crocs. We want more Crocs.

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    DaBump Premium Member 9 months ago

    Like when the Lions are having a spectacular season, are comfortably ahead at halftime, and that’s when I finally start watching them… or is that because the NFL is rigged?

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    Geezer  9 months ago

    https://en.wikipedia.Org/wiki/Book_of_Job

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    Brilliant_Birdie   9 months ago

    The Universe has a sick sense of humor.

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    Bilan  9 months ago

    Actually, the Universe barely knows you exist … and cares even less.

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    prrdh  9 months ago

    There’s something about you that just p**ses the Universe off.

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    zeexenon  9 months ago

    Thank goodness no one can hear you scream … it’s absolute chaos out there. ((Prof. Second Law-of Thermodynamics, esq.)

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    greenlynn Premium Member 9 months ago

    According to Thomas Hardy, that would be a relief. HapBY THOMAS HARDYIf but some vengeful god would call to meFrom up the sky, and laugh: “Thou suffering thing,Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy,That thy love’s loss is my hate’s profiting!”

    Then would I bear it, clench myself, and die,Steeled by the sense of ire unmerited;Half-eased in that a Powerfuller than IHad willed and meted me the tears I shed.

    But not so. How arrives it joy lies slain,And why unblooms the best hope ever sown?—Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain,And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan. . . .These purblind Doomsters had as readily strownBlisses about my pilgrimage as pain.

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    Buckeye67  9 months ago

    Well, pig you are well liked in China, pork is their favorite meat.

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  9 months ago

    Pastis is in a bad mood today

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    stamps  9 months ago

    Pig seems to be getting a lot of exercise recently, going up and down that hill.

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    BTO  9 months ago

    He’s “Universally Disliked!”

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    AndrewSihler  9 months ago

    Wise ∀ss is wrong. The Universe doesn’t like anybody.

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    strikklybizness  9 months ago

    Is it my imagination, or is the Wise A$$ On The Hill getting more cynical?

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