Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 29, 2015

Two questions: How does he carry his keys, and what were they doing that would cause him to almost leave them behind?

Pig’s parents and sibling, or his aunt, uncle, and cousin?

Parting is such sweet sorrow.

There are no friends like family. No friends….

maybe unwanted hellos…I’ll only be here here for a little while..you’ll hardly even know I’m here..

parting is like sweet sauerkraut…

So…who brings home the bacon?

How can we miss you if you won’t go away?

Keys for what?

Erich

Pigmobile?

When I worked at McDonald’s, a younger manager was leaving for college, so the other managers threw him a party. One of them gave him a $50 bill. Another gave him a gold watch. A week later he came back to earn more money for college. Oops.

They get avian flu shots: that is why you rarely see pigs fly.

I’ve always hated ‘long’ goodbyes….

“i love to see your cousins come, i love to see them go” tom chapin

How can I miss you if you won’t go away?

In my fathers family it seemed it was traditional that when the first goodbyes were said there had to follow at least twenty to thirty of intensely serious conversations which mainly consisted of the things we had really come to talk/discuss in the first place. I finally learned not to get up at the first sign of leaving, but to wait until someone(usually the driver) was in the driveway unlocking the cars doors. It took way to long to learn that lesson.

My father would preempt goodbyes. When he thought company had overstayed their limit, he’d bring them their coats and hats (it was back in the day), and say, “I’m sorry you have to leave.”

In my youth we had a tradition of pointing out the door jamb, the hinges, the doorknob… The visitor was supposed to taake the hint that they’d been shown the door.

That one little pig with the yellow cap is adorable!

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