Lisa wants to take a cruise, hubby Finnbogi schemes to make money. He buys a dilapidated bakery. They get lucky when Karolina, who bakes great cakes, offers to work for them. She's the mother of Marta, head of the area's largest bakery, and the two have quarreled. Marta can't abide mom's rebellion or the rival bakery's success, so she inveigles Finnbogi to invest in porn toys without telling Lisa. Where does he get the cash? From his son Bjartmar, who has promised Russian sailors he'll arrange the purchase of ten Landas. The Russians are coming to collect their cars, Finnbogi hasn't sold a single dildo, hard-bitten Marta plans one more nasty trick. How can Lisa get her cruise?

Pearls Before Swine is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Stephan Pastis. The series began December 31, 2001.

Tony and Linda are struggling to grow their family. When Tony is forced to face his fertility issues, he turns to a mysterious oyster dealer, Marvin, whose oysters deliver more than their promise of virility.

The prime minister's precious only son Ho-yeon has feelings for courtesan Wol-hyang. Ho-yeon's servant, Spot, who has always had unrequited love for Wol-hyang, drugs Ho-yeon. When he falls unconscious, she sells him off to a slave trader. Ho-yeon, waking from his drugged state, is frustrated because he can't prove he is not a slave. Ho-yeon soon learns the reality of the slaves who face injustice and rolls up his sleeves to try and save them from an unreasonable system.

Er ist halt ein Schwein! Er ist halt ein Schwein! Er ist halt ein Schwein! Er ist halt ein Schwein! Er ist halt ein Schwein!

A Japanese merchant drives a financier insane by sending him letters from the man he killed.

A Navy Corpsman accompanies SSGT Seros and SGT Miler on this mission due to an injury SGT Miller sustained en route to their pause. During their time waiting for, one, the Corpsman to finish patching SGT Miller up and two, the arrival of the high value target there are assigned to acquire, the team discusses different scenarios involving celebrities in which they would have to choose from involving fictional circumstances. The game is interrupted by enemy contact and there position is compromise due to an unexpected guest. The team, who is also assisted by a separate fire team, combats the enemy to a position where they can move forward. However, upon request to do so, there are instructed not to advance since a rival sniper team has already acquired the high value target.

About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for the pearls to then go missing.

As a Sikh man with a full beard and turban, AMRIT SINGH is often the target of racial profiling. But when he sees his dreams of becoming Chief of Surgery at a state-of-the-art transplant center dwindle because of his appearance, Amrit goes against a tradition he's maintained his whole life and cuts his hair. Hiding this decision from his girlfriend and family in Toronto is only the start of a series of compromises Amrit finds himself making as he deals with hospital politics and health care injustices. When his compromises result in the death of a patient, Amrit begins to reexamine the value of the religious traditions he'd turned his back on.

Based on the short story Graduation Day by Stephen King