Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 21, 2020

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    BE THIS GUY  over 4 years ago

    The government does what Pig is doing all the time.

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    DennisinSeattle  over 4 years ago

    Pig is generous to a fault.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 4 years ago

    I wonder what cute picture Pig has on his cheques.

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    B UTTONS  over 4 years ago

    It’s okay. The money is drawn from Rat’s secret Cayman Islands account.

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    Bilan  over 4 years ago

    Pig must’ve heard that old line, I can’t be out of money. I still have more checks.

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    sirbadger  over 4 years ago

    Do stores still take checks? With the Corona Virus, my landlord doesn’t want checks anymore; they want me to pay online.

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    thomas_matkey  over 4 years ago

    That’s pig. Never wears clothes yet buys clothes.

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    NursinGenius  over 4 years ago

    Eating establishments still take check?

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    rshive  over 4 years ago

    Unfortunately, Pig didn’t get the kind that came with money.

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    Gent  over 4 years ago

    Check yourself before you wreck yourself, eh, Pig?

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    if(comicStrip == "funny") {return "laughter";}  over 4 years ago

    At least jail has no living expenses.

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    The Moose Group  over 4 years ago

    What is the “writing checks” concept???

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    wesleylscott1  over 4 years ago

    A pig in the pokey.

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    some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member over 4 years ago

    For the record, you should only write checks for up to the amount you have in your account. You’re allowed to go under.

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    gopher gofer  over 4 years ago

    credit card companies also apparently get a bit peeved when you live beyond your line of credit – just something i heard, not something that i would ever have experienced directly. not often, at least…

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    A Common 'tator  over 4 years ago

    My cheque book was issued to me in 2011 and I still have twelve unused cheques in it…

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    nosirrom  over 4 years ago

    Well it is March. The perfect time for kiting.

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    Troglodyte  over 4 years ago

    Pig will need to check out of town soon!

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    Breadboard  over 4 years ago

    Pig was your brain with your body when you got the check book ? … Croc Power !

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    PoodleGroomer  over 4 years ago

    You can always get a bargain on slightly used checks at an estate sale.

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    tripwire45  over 4 years ago

    Shelter in place jail.

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    Procat Premium Member over 4 years ago

    When your in jail watch your backside when you bend over to pick up the soap!

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    Reader  over 4 years ago

    The good old days — debtor’s prison.

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    Zebrastripes  over 4 years ago

    Now they all have to pay for their own…besides, what restaurant takes checks???

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    Purple People Eater  over 4 years ago

    Why did he buy clothes?

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    David Henderson  over 4 years ago

    No joke. I have known not one but two real live people that did just as pig did. They did not understated how checks worked. Both got into a lot of trouble.

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    rasmwilber57  over 4 years ago

    That was the same mentality my ex had with checks. sad but absolutely true

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    Radish...   over 4 years ago

    Pig should get a credit card, they don’t care if you have money in the bank.

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    lv2sew  over 4 years ago

    I’m constantly amazed at young people that look at me funny when I write down my debit card transactions in a check register. Does anyone actually balance/reconcile their account anymore? We switched banks but kept one open at the other bank specifically for all those fast food and quick shop purchases so I don’t have to contend with those anymore. We farm & all other transactions go into Quickbooks. That makes tax time so much easier in the long run. But then I’m over 60. Just call me old fashioned.

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    mbohannon  over 4 years ago

    You may laugh, but this actually happened. I had to counsel a couple while in the military that just because they had a check book did not mean they could just write checks for everything. After 7 bad checks they got the message.

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    Ellis97  over 4 years ago

    Pig is so going to jail.

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    timbob2313 Premium Member over 4 years ago

    How many people under 30 know how to balance a check book? How many people use a debit card as if it was a credit card? I learned how to balance a checkbook way back in the dark ages, in a math class in the 7th grade-way way back in the 1960s. And before I graduated HS, my mother went thru everything again

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    TheBigTree14  over 4 years ago

    Oof Pig.

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    willie_mctell  over 4 years ago

    There’s a John Collier story about that except it’s a bit darker. My sister was a bank teller a long time ago. One of their customers was an elderly woman who believed that as long as there were checks…

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    Kveldulf  over 4 years ago

    When I was in grade three, I got hold of an old book of cheques and started writing them to my friends in amounts like $1000000000000000. My father was horrified — he was afraid he might be responsible for paying them. My mother just laughed. Even I knew they were worthless.

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    Cameron1988 Premium Member over 4 years ago

    I guess Pig doesn’t qualify for a credit card

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    COL Crash  over 4 years ago

    The sad part is that I’ve known several people who thought like pig that as long as you still have checks in the book you can write them out all you want.

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    KEA  over 4 years ago

    I thought checks went out with dvds

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    michael3114  over 4 years ago

    “I can’t be out of money. I still have checks.”

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    DCBakerEsq  over 4 years ago

    Three square meals and a cot. Nice.

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    The Hammer Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Six days ago Pig was left handed… Today he is right handed. He is talented!!

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    TheodorFælgen  over 4 years ago

    I think it must be more than a decade since I last saw a check. It started by personal checks going away, then company and bank ones. Next we will see cash being gone as well – it is like a year since I last used cash and that was then only for flowers at a flower stand. Some people still insist on cash, but fewer and fewer does and shops can now be allowed not to accept cash.

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    AndrewSihler  over 4 years ago

    I think there was a cartoon in the New Yorker in the 30’s showing a young woman (naturally) on the phone and saying, “Overdrawn?? But how can that be—I have plenty of checks left?”

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    NeedGodDotCom  over 4 years ago

    The writing on this strip just seems off to me.. idk why

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    JP Steve Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Then there was the lady who got a new check book, and to keep them from being stolen, signed every one…

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    Sisyphos  over 4 years ago

    Practical things that Pig doesn’t know about would fill a fat book, not to mention numerous humorous comic strips. Good show, Cartoon-Boy!

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    kaffekup   over 4 years ago

    I haven’t read all 135 comments, so I don’t know if this is original:

    Bank to Dumb Guy: “Your checking account is overdrawn.”

    DG: “It can’t be, I still have checks in the book.”

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    Mark Jeffrey Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Does America really still use checks? I’ve not seen one in Europe in a decade or so. When I first arrived in Switzerland in 2003 I tried to pay a (UK) check into my new bank account to get it started. The cashier (at UBS, a major bank) had literally never seen one before, and had to ask her manager for help. I don’t think the UK really has them anymore now. We use contactless or PIN cards, or electronic transfers.

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    Ceeg22 Premium Member over 4 years ago

    how old is this strip?

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    PBS1!  over 4 years ago

    There’s always a catch XD

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