Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 18, 2018

Break a leg, Rat. I mean literally break a leg.

Ah, so Rat believes in of Murphy’s Law.

The smile of joy is like a bullseye on your face!

Pig always draws the right message from these discussions.

Pig found that not being joyful made him happy.

Therefore children, you can circumvent fate by not smiling, but if you do smile, the whole world smiles with you……………………… I’m so confused?

He’s right, of course. And never get excited or hopeful about future plans.

Pig does not need to show Joy. She does a nice job of showing herself. (And she does have a lovely face.)

“Says it feels right this time

Turned it ’round and found the right line

Good day to be alive, Sir

Good day to be alive he says.

Then it comes to be

that the soothing light

at the end of your tunnel

was just a freight train coming your way, yeah."

It is acceptable to feel joy, but one must never show it. Fate doesn’t like that.

Whenever my father heard someone laughing, he would ask, “What’s the matter?” My father was a miserable human being who loved talking about illness, pain and suffering. Particularly if it was mine.

Animal smiles look like snarls anyway.

If you smile all the time you look insane! I smile when I am happy!

“Call no man happy until he is dead; he is at best but fortunate.” – Solon

Pig has lost Hope. No Faith to jump for Joy. Must be his Destiny not to be Merry.

You are always in fate’s crosshairs anyway, so you might as well be joyful. . . .

That’s why pessimists are so rarely disappointed.

Nobody smiles because Cartoon Boy is too lazy to draw smiles on his characters.

If you want to hear god laugh, tell her your plans.

It’s like the soap operas from the 60s. Whenever things start going good for someone, you know they’re going to die or end up in the hospital.

I know that I have made this comment before, but it is so fitting here….someone said smile things could be worse, so I smiled and sure enough things definitely got worse! :o{

You are SO out of it, Stephan.

Everyone jumped for Joy, but she jumped out of the window!

Pig does seem a bit compulsive about leaping to conclusions. Of course, maybe he’s right….

I have returned.

I seem to remember Rat smiling once. The effort made him explode. Literally. He later undied.