Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 11, 2024

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    BasilBruce  4 months ago

    Stephan, you made an ash of yourself.

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    hariseldon59  4 months ago

    Anyone for roast pork?

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    sirbadger  4 months ago

    It depends on how far back in time “traditional” refers to. Burial used to be cheaper.

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    Bilan  4 months ago

    Apparently the guy is good at his job.

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    carlsonbob  4 months ago

    Just stuff me full of popcorn kernels and light me up!

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    Jesy Bertz Premium Member 4 months ago

    Does anyone else smell bacon?

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    The dude from FL  Premium Member 4 months ago

    $2500 and done! They pick you up and put you in the ground in your personal jug!

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    Kiba65  4 months ago

    Sort of like a Genie in a bottle!!!!

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    FreyjaRN Premium Member 4 months ago

    Being cremated is my last hope for a smoking hot body.

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    robm  4 months ago

    I want my remains scattered over Mar-A-Lardo.

    I DON’T want to be cremated.

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    Gent  4 months ago

    Cremated? Burning? Smoke? Climate acteevists will kills ya.

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    iggyman  4 months ago

    Depends on if you want a viewing , also if you want to be interred or put into a niche!

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    iggyman  4 months ago

    I knew some folks who loved their booze, if cremated they would burn for a week!

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    Keno21  4 months ago

    ‘We can burn her, we can bury her, or we can dump her…’

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    Imagine  4 months ago

    By the way, that dust on your shelves and all over the house…

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    Frank_Lecanto  4 months ago

    After I’m cremated, put my remains (cremains?) in an urn engraved “Kiss My Ash”

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    jel354  4 months ago

    Pig expressed anger. That’s rare!

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    MacGuyver  4 months ago

    What an ash!

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    zeexenon  4 months ago

    All natural for me … on the White House lawn.

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    Go BRUINS  4 months ago

    Cremation. The secret ingredient in Al’s Bundy Burger.

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    bigger Nate  4 months ago

    Ashes to ashes dust to dust come to my door kill you i must

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    sailersteve  4 months ago

    Soylent Green anyone?

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    cdward  4 months ago

    Don’t get all hot, Rat.

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    Croc Holliday  4 months ago

    My plan is to donate any useful organs I may have left (minus the eyes) and cremate the rest. Use the ashes to fertilize a tree or coral reef or something like that. Burials are such a ridiculous waste of money, real estate and wood.

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    chris_o42  4 months ago

    Cremation is the only way to be sure you don’t come back as a zombie or a vampire. Better safe than sorry. Those darn undead can be a real nuisance.

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    smithsilverstrea  4 months ago

    ashes to ashes

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    Ellis97  4 months ago

    Pig’s kind usually meet their demise in a butcher shop, a smokehouse or in the jaws of a predator.

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    Kveldulf  4 months ago

    I want a green burial — untreated pine box, no formaldehyde, just worm food. My cemetery insists on a concrete vault to hold the coffin and pickling me to poison the soil.

    Hope I live long enough to change their minds.

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    Znox11  4 months ago

    Just kick his ash and get it over with.

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    ladykat  4 months ago

    At least have the decency to wait until he’s dead.

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    rossevrymn  4 months ago

    hm

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    Goat from PBS  4 months ago

    A little hot under the collar, eh, Pig?

    Getting scorched by puns?

    That pun was fire.

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    DaBump Premium Member 4 months ago

    I love how he always draws himself with a sort of deadpan deer-in-the-headlights look.

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    rshive  4 months ago

    There’s a pun buried in there somewhere.

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    monya_43  4 months ago

    Pig should be recording his show while he answers the door, so he won’t miss anything. Technology is great.

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    Charlie Tuba  4 months ago

    Burning Man!

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    franki_g  4 months ago

    Pastis knows how to put the fun

    in funeral

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    ElwoodP  4 months ago

    hmm… roast pork.

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    Tootsie Premium Member 4 months ago

    Raat!

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    pripley  4 months ago

    That was a stretch for a pretty lame gag…even by Pastis standards.

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    Snoots  4 months ago

    It has seemed strange to me that in some countries (like the U.S.) it is not legal to simply dig a hole, put the body in it, and cover it up. It has to be in some kind of box. And that box is often not very biodegradable. Seriously?

    Humans are strange and unreasoning creatures. Return the body to the earth, and let the planet benefit from it.

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    newsbb  4 months ago

    Stephan is on fire.

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    tony_n_jen2003  4 months ago

    Rat would call up a crematorium and ask, “What’s cooking?”

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    PoodleGroomer  4 months ago

    I don’t need cremation services. I’m not dead, yet.

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    John Lamb Premium Member 4 months ago

    At some point during a cremation, the meat is perfectly cooked.

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    oish  4 months ago

    So Pig, how do you want to be cremated? Kansas City, Carolina or Lexington style?

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    Strawberry King  4 months ago

    Come back later. MUCH later.

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    dialfred  4 months ago

    Hope this is still a joke, since I love this comic

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    DanMercer  4 months ago

    We’re in our 70’s. Once a month we get a letter from the Neptune Society. It’s like being circled by buzzards.

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    willie_mctell  4 months ago

    Composting is the wave of the future.

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    Old27F20  4 months ago

    …but cremation is pig’s last chance to have a smokin hot body!!…other than at a BBQ.

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    wildlandwaters  4 months ago

    hmm…pig isn’t in the 4th panel…so, did he really burn up then??

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    mokspr Premium Member 4 months ago

    Mr Pastis, the Wise A** has recomended a traditional Tibetan sky burial for you after you pass. The Rat however, says there is no time like the present.

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    Katje  4 months ago

    I’ll bring marshmallows… :D

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    Cathy P.  4 months ago

    Human composting, supposedly a green way to dispose of the body, is now legal in about 8 or 9 states. Just dump the body in a barrel with the dirt and composting medium, turn the barrel every few days, and in a month or so, just add the new fertilizer to the garden. Your family can eat veg that have absorbed you.

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    cracker65  4 months ago

    I think I would prefer pig smoked. Especially the bacon.

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    Ron Bauerle  4 months ago

    Or do what I’m planning: donate my body to science and let them cremate me when they’re done…

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    fourteenpeeves  4 months ago

    “My grandfather slept with the rest of our family. But he died so they made him get up”

    GRACIE ALLEN

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    unfair.de  4 months ago

    It’s traditional. Pigs pass by spit-roast.

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