Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 12, 2022

Just thinkin’ about tomorrow clears away the cobwebs and the sorrow…

When feeling all alone, depend on your Buds.

“I hope to die peacefully in my sleep before things get really bad.”

Every generation is full of people who think the world is ending. 1919, for example.

it’s 5 o’clock somewhere!

Of course there’s going to be a future. How much of a future? That’s the question.

Bob, listen to your colleague.

I dated a woman named Hope once. We had no future.

I wasn’t aware that Pig is a teenager still in education. But it fits to not yet having seen him at any kind of steady work.

that Orwell’s 1984 is pure fiction.

Each generation goes faster than the previous one, and more people are waiting for the train wreck.

Picky, picky, picky.

drinking is NOT the answer, I know!

Even without a future there is hope.

The future ain’t what it used to be.

Enjoy every day as your last, as it could be!

The future has had this bad habit of pushing itself right into my present situation.

Pig just Loves his Debbie Downer Pills …..

Oh there’s a blessed future, but it has nothing to do with this world, which doesn’t have much a future, unfortunately. Things are NOT gonna get better.

I don’t have kids or grandkids. Kind of glad, because the future is not very bright, especially for girls and young women.

terrible country, rising crime, doomed climate, global disease – things are looking up!

Unfortunately, some people want our future to look like the past.

It’s always raining somewhere.

It’s always something: global cooling, global warming, super flu, bird flu, monkey flu, cold war, atomic bombs, earthquakes, floods, fires, tornadoes…the list is endless. Sometimes you just gotta shut it all out and chill.

Evangelicals both think the world will end soon AND pooh-pooh anyone who talks about a coming devastating climate crisis. I have no explanation for this except "We disagree with anything labelled “‘liberal.’”

My hope is for peace in the world. As if that’s ever gonna happen.

Given all that’s happened in the past five years or so, is the teacher really sure he wants there to be a future? Also, the answer is always either drinking more or lower standards.

Drinking never solves any problems. It only irrigates them. :-p

No. THanks to climate change, we will all roast.

There’s always gonna be negative stuff, uncertainties abound, however isn’t it amazing how wonderful and fearfully we are made by our creator, we deal with whatever may be fall us and He, the creator helps us. Therefore, rejoice in the present.

One day, generations will make an about turn and restore family values, respect, etc.

Oh there is one. But humanity can not fix it by themselves. BTW-this strip taking on a darker tone lately?

Yes Bob, drinking is the answer.

What do you want to be when you grow up?

I just want to be alive.

- Chicago Farmer, Windy City Blown Away

https://youtu.be/X_tL0gCXtAA

Make it to retirement with something left in my 401K.

Technically speaking, alcohol is a solution.

but it is not the solution that you need.

May not be the answer but it definitely helps…..

If the world comes to an end,how do we tell people what happened?

That damn dumb fucking pig, my grandkids hate you

I don’t even drink and this sounds like a plan.

There would be hopes or would be a future? I would hope that we have hopes.

If you’d told me 30 years ago what my future would be I’m not sure I’d have believed it. Because today the guy with the martini glasses does have the right answer.

Well, when the dolphins start taking off, Ill be sure to grab my towel!

Oh, there will certainly be A future of some sort. A lot of you aren’t going to like it much, though.

yersinia pestis strikes again :D

Pig’s in school?

The bummer is not that the world is ending. We are ending and the world will continue to roll along as if we were never here. Many people find our total insignificance aggravating.

In this case you should only be asking women, in which case pig is right

Oh, ow! But of course there will be a future. I think maybe 5-10 years of it.

Every time I think I can’t be more like Pig, Stephan puts out another one.

If drinking really is the answer, Teacher Bob, I’d recommend you get seriously sloshed!

So Pig is Gen Z?

Woody Woodbury: Booze is the Only Answer.