Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 28, 2015

Rat is right!(I get the irony.)

Shakespeare did quite well without so much as a typewriter. Maybe we should go all the way back to quills.

I agree with Rat. I wonder if something’s wrong with me.

I wonder if we’d have more Shakespeare if he’d have have a way to produce his work faster. If we assume for the sake of argument that there would be a ready market for more of the plays, poems, sonnets, that is. All of his output is worth reading, some is workman-like, but much is great, even sublime. Would more have been more of all those types of output? Or would the overall quality have suffered? I want to visit the alternate world where he created twice as much as here. Also the alternate world where Lucille Ball and Groucho Marx played Scarlett and Rhett.

Technological advances have led to a higher density of transistors in cpus, that have led to capabilities like this.Meanwhile, the density of neurons in the brain have gone in the opposite direction.

Love the stupidity of DerekTCA161. These days sausage ain’t just made from animals, you’ve also got that fake sausage junk for vegatarians and vegans. Stuff that never should be called sausage in the first place but is called that. Rat just said sausage links, not the type. For all anyone would really know he’s eating vegan sausage links.

Yes please, let’s. Why do they think I care what they are about to eat?

What passes for communication today (let alone art) seems a reflection of the frenetic character of modern life. When Shakespeare wrote “King Lear” and then “The Tempest” that many call the sixth act of Lear, the pace of life allowed for such profound themes as horrific betrayal and moral disintegration bridging to expiation and forgiveness to occur over time in successive plays. These days, many people can hardly sit through an hour of thoughtful complex drama on television or the movies. Life is trivialized by our insistence on speed-living and packing as much in as we can. Shakespeare could not have tweeted, and that’s why he is still worth something to some of us.

Well, that’s as much hot air as I can muster at the moment.

Sausage links? Uh… where’s Pig? :-/

Rat is technophobic! Or maybe he just can’t stand criticism when the critics are out of clobbering range….

Rat, you said an important idea…Like “Without Pastis I would be a sausage ingredient.”Thank goodness for Pastis

Interesting. I see a lot of agreement with Rat’s sentiment. But how many of you would write a letter to the editor to support a newspaper comic?

I never sausage nonsense in all my life.

This strip is a good one.

I hate this strip!

These comments are stupid.

Nothing wrong with the old ways. Which is why I don’t own a cell phone, digital camera, Kindle, clothes dryer, programable thermostat, etc. and I’m doing just fine!

I’m with DerekTCA161.

Don’t forget that now you will get cancer from that sausage…

People that wrote free hand all the time became quite proficient at it. I used to be very fast. Now, because we all type all the time, our ability to write in cursive has diminished, and I know that personally I’m much, much slower than I used to be. I’m not saying that Shakespeare couldn’t have gotten more done with a typewriter, I’m saying that the difference is not as great as we imagine.

Dear Mr Pastis, it is with a heavy heart that i write you today but….

lol, that is so the way people are, offended by everything.

The last words must be Goat’s!!!

Dear Mr. Pastis,

In accordance with Rat’s wishes, could you kindly provide your mailing address (not email address).I would be honored to take pen in hand to critique your comic strip, and utilize the services of the United States Postal Service to deliver said critiques for your review.

Sincerely,

An Old Ways Are Best Fan.

Pig has a fondness for bacon as I recall.

Pearls Before Swine% Mr. Pastis%GoComics (somewhere in cyberworld)-October 28--Dear RatIt is very exciting to hear that you are eating sausage. It means that you have something to fill your stomach with and something for which to be thankful.I would suggest however that you round out your breakfast, if you are eating the sausage for breakfast, with some eggs and hash browns/breakfast potatoes and possibly some pancakes or waffles. A well rounded, complete breakfast to begin a day is of utmost importance and can help you maintain a high level of thoughtful functioning throughout the day as well as increase your creativity output.I personally have a cup of java and usually a protein drink of some type to be sure I get the proper nutrients I need for my body as it ages.Well it has been great to hear from you. Hope all is well in the sarcastic pun filled world you live in. Write back soon.Sincerelyan avid reader--or something to that effect

I would bet that most of those plays were handed down from memory, and then, generations later, someone wrote them down. A few centuries before Shakespear, the only way to learn to read would be to join the church.

Or you just wrote a letter to the newspaper.

My comment would be: “Who cares?”

xxx

yet another riff on there’s always a catch.something’s lost but something’s gained in living everyday—sorry joni

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read this strip 3-4 times and i never noticed that “sausage” is spelled wrong in the second comment. “sausige”

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