Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 08, 2015

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    Sherlock Watson  almost 9 years ago

    Mork once had a time machine, which he tested by setting it for “one second ago… one second ago… one second ago…”

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    knight1192a  almost 9 years ago

    Never think bigger when talking time travel, Goat. Time traveling to change the past is a very dangerous game to play, one which most folks don’t tend to consider the consequences of. I’ve often seen folks ask if you could go back in time and kill Hitler before he came to power would you do it? So many say yes, I say no. Not because I admire that monster, but because I don’t know what effects killing him would have on history. Maybe millions of people would have lived, or maybe there was a worst monster held in check by his presence who would have caused twice as many deaths as Hitler did. What if one of those to die because of Hitler was that worst monster? What about the BILLIONS of folks who I’d be consigning to never being born in the first place by removing Hitler so early? Hundreds of millions were born during the baby boom that followed the war. I’m talking world wide here, in the U.S. alone the baby boom period saw about 78.1 million kids born in this period. And then you’ve got their children and grand children (and even great grand children in some instances).

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    Alexander the Good Enough  almost 9 years ago

    Ahem. Pig is a pig. They are reliably monomaniacal about some things.

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    phylum  almost 9 years ago

    last night I got up to go to the bathroom..i stubbed my little toe…it really really realllly hurt…I would go back in time and move that chair over just three inches…

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    juicebruce  almost 9 years ago

    Well Pig you may have the Nachos……I would like Lasagna,garlic toast and a salad !

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    zellman  almost 9 years ago

    There is really no way of knowing…maybe if Hitler was killed before taking power World War 2 was only delayed and happened in 1955 instead of 1939, it could have been a massive thermonuclear war with billions killed, rather than a conventional one that ended with 2 nuclear bombs.

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    Ethan the new guy  almost 9 years ago

    I agree with Pig! Nachos forever!

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    whiteheron  almost 9 years ago

    Nacho place to tell Pig what to think, Goat.

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    Defective Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    I find it interesting that Pigs are the smartest of domesticated animals (smarter than dogs), but Pig is a moron here.

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    Liverlips McCracken Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    Pig has managed to simultaneously think small and think big.

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    chris_o42  almost 9 years ago

    A great book about time travel and it’s consequences, “The Man Who Folded Himself”.

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    YatInExile  almost 9 years ago

    I would take $20,000 and travel back to March 13, 1986. That was the date of Microsoft’s IPO.

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    puddlesplatt  almost 9 years ago

    I like Nuts, lots of them…num num num!

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    puddlesplatt  almost 9 years ago

    I like Nuts, lots of them…num num num!

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    Homer J  almost 9 years ago

    What would I change? Hmmmmmm. Probably my underwear.

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    celeryonthelapel  almost 9 years ago

    Wouldn’t that result in infinite Pigs 5 minutes ago? That doesn’t look like enough nachos for infinite pigs to me, but the bowl could always be bigger on the inside.

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    flyfisher  almost 9 years ago

    Just go back in time and kill Hitler, then come back and see if things or better or worse. If better good job, if worse go back in time again and prevent yourself from killing Hitler. There now doesn’t that make perfect sense. :)

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    Radical_Knight  almost 9 years ago

    You’re right, ’Prof’s hubbie’, but then if Hitler had died before the 2nd war, you would most likely not have been born who and what you are today and I wouldn’t be replying to your comment. Many things that are wouldn’t be and neither would we. .

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    Godfreydaniel  almost 9 years ago

    Rat would always want to go back five minutes ago to keep drinking the same beer forever…….

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    Godfreydaniel  almost 9 years ago

    If the “butterfly effect” is true for the present, just think how much would change by killing one seemingly unimportant person in the past? Let’s say you killed one random Roman, then went back to the future—would you recognize your present?

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    mahnster  almost 9 years ago

    “and of the 20 million innocent artists, musicians, authors etc. the world has lost, and fathers, mothers, children etc., that were tortured and massacred because of one evil monster…”

    Good point. I just wish people could see that the we have now been desensitized to care not for the babies in the womb, our next generation, and promote the choice of murder of all the people who deserve to live. Praying for us to see this…

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    russellc64  almost 9 years ago

    Prof’s hubbie – You don’t know that. The point Hellcat was making is there could have been a worse monster. Hitler was evil and psychotic, but he was also lacking in tactical skills. In his absence, the conditions that led to his rise to power remain and perhaps someone worse takes his place. Someone capable of winning WW II. If Hitler had been sane enough to follow his own rules (never fight a two front war) and waited to attack Russia until the Allies were used up, things could have gone much worse. Our fight against Nazi Germany was roughly 1/3 of the troops Hitler could put in the field. The Russian contribution to victory in WW II is largely overlooked.

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    drdougsteward  almost 9 years ago

    What the world would be like today if Hitler were killed before he came to power is completely unknown … might as well discuss how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

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    Carl Rennhack Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    I would return to any day in September 1970. I have a very good reason…she was 5’ 5", short brown hair, blue eyes, Irish heart (and sometimes temper!), introduced me to vegetarianism & the music of Gordon Lightfoot…

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    Number Three  almost 9 years ago

    I would go back in time to 7th August, 1957 because that’s when the first ever Andy Capp strip was published.

    And also the year when The Beatles topped the charts.

    xxx

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    finnygirl Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    For an interesting take on this subject, see the original Star Trek’s episode “City on the Edge of Forever.”

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    Sisyphos  almost 9 years ago

    A time-traveller should be a fully-restricted observer only; but even that protocol has failed in countless cautionary sci-fi tales. So, on the whole, I’d prefer fresh popcorn to nachos, in the here-and-now….

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    kaffekup   almost 9 years ago

    Actually, I’d go to Sarajevo and tell Francis Ferdinand to take a different route, not get killed, and avoid WW I, the first part of WW II. Many people feel it was one war with a 19 year break. We would have avoided many unintended consequences.

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    knight1192a  almost 9 years ago

    You’re working off the typical failed logic. You have no clue what would have happened if Hitler had died early, neither do I. You need to ask yourself would it really have made things better or would it have made things worse.

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    Davel2468  about 3 years ago

    It’s impossible to change the past. If you went back in time and killed Hitler or even just stopped in he Nazis coming to power, you, in the present, would have no reason to go back in and time in the first place.

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    alantain  8 months ago

    I wouldn’t mind observing a moment in history, but changing anything might just create another universe and have no effect on ours anyway.

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