Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 15, 2015

Until you find yourself, go to Starbucks and have a coffee; the lines shouldn’t be too long with everybody boycotting it.

Best strip today.Why?

NO RAT!

Could Pig be at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota?

“Pig, go…”

Everybody. A decent person doesn’t need to blank out the letters of the word “find”.

This one is actually quite clever….and not a pun, per se. Kudos, Stephan!

@Rob Rex

Some Christians want customers to boycott Starbucks because they believe the the red cups Starbucks is using this Christmas Season are not Christmassy enough and are an insult to the Christian holiday. They consider this part of the so called “war on Christmas.”

Rob Rex. .. some people are boycotting Starbucks because. … honestly. .. because they didn’t put Christmas-y designs on their 2015 holiday cups. The nerve!

Apparently, in past years they’ve had holly or other designs. This year they chose plain red paper cups with a green Starbucks logo.

A Starbucks spokesman explained that they wanted people to be able to draw or write on them, as they do on the white ones. As Bubba Boo posted while i was typing this. . Some people, including a candidate for president (!) have decided this is part of the “War on Christmas” and called for a boycott.

Unbelievable.

It’s so slow, trying to post on my phone, everybody passes me in the fast lane. LOL.

Fear not, Goat. You’re not the only one.

I’m trying to found myself. I figure in a few years I’ll be able to tell people I’m a self-made man.

Jus. . No clue. Ask the Donald.

I’ve spent some time standing in front of those mall maps. “You are here” is not always very helpful, because where “here” is, is the problem. So, sympathy for Pig today (whereas more often I condemn his naive ignorance). Today, it is Goat’s turn to be confused.

With a full shopping bag it looks like Pig is trying to buy his way out :-)

What I don’t understand is how those maps know that I’m here?.Somebody had to say it!

I still haven’t found myself. Maybe I should go look at the mall! Thanks Stephan…

LOL – I boycott Starbucks because I don’t like their coffee, or their prices. I just make my own. It boggles my mind that people would pay that much for any coffee, and since I don’t care for their coffee anyway, it boggles it even more.

Actually, the only people on the boycott bandwagon are the media. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/11/10/most-christians-dont-actually-care-about-starbucks-cups-heres-what-we-do-know/

Well, some people do try to find themselves via shopping!

so, it’s a big mall!

No, I think Starbucks announced their cup as a made-up controversy. None of the Christians that I know care about this non-issue. The offense is being told we’re offended.

except the goddess has gotten less and less explicit over time. it’s just a pretty girl with hair at this point unless you actually know the origins

Good Luck in finding yourself, Pig!

xxx

Loved the last line…something Charlie Brown would’ve said in the same situation.

And count me as another Christian who couldn’t care less about anything Starbucks does. It’s only an overpriced coffee shop, although anyone who thinks a single cup of coffee is worth $4 could probably use some divine intervention since common sense obviously isn’t working.

What boycott? It was busier than ever this morning.

Dsom8… and HellCat to… if you read the news, you won’t have to make some up, or speculate. That’s how this kind of stuff gets started in the first place!

It was just grandstanding on the part of a few “War on Christmas” attention hogs, picked up by Trump to try to give himself some folksy appeal.

Someone here was so skittish that he/she/it deleted both my post and the one that responded to it. For your reading pleasure, here’s mine again::Pig, go f—— yourself.:(Be honest; how many of you thought the word was something other than “find”?)

To combine a couple of common themes here today: Some Christians seem to believe that the purpose of the Spiritual Journey is to avoid persecution—and make an outcry whenever it is perceived.

Just so it points me to the food court.