Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 31, 2018

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    BE THIS GUY  almost 6 years ago

    I didn’t know the The Simpsons house was on the market.

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    Earthling Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    No, no, no. The livingroom is where you put the giant TV.

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    knight1192a  almost 6 years ago

    Taking from Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary

    living room noun (1857)

    1 : a room in a residence used for the common social activities of the occupants

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    Ok, so Rat’s sports bar idea would still be considered a living room according to that definition.

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    sirbadger  almost 6 years ago

    Was the great room named by Donald Trump?

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    AtariDragon  almost 6 years ago

    My understanding of the distinction between a living room and a parlor is that parlors were also used for “sitting up with the dead” in the days before funeral homes.

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    kaffekup   almost 6 years ago

    Yes, Rat, guests. You know, people who bring things over to eat and drink while they entertain you.

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    blunebottle  almost 6 years ago

    Rat doesn’t have a living room in his own house?

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    jessie d. Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    Of course if you wanna live like pigs in a sty….Pig wants a sty room for when the bores/boars come to call.

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    PICTO  almost 6 years ago

    Happy Hour at Rat’s….

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    wiatr  almost 6 years ago

    I believe they are referencing ‘The Parlour.’

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    NeedaChuckle Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    My friend’s mother had all the furniture covered in plastic and you couldn’t go near it, ever.

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    the lost wizard  almost 6 years ago

    It’s a room sometimes adjacent to a place referred to as a dining room where an obscene amount of useless china and cutlery is stored.

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    cdward  almost 6 years ago

    My parents had the living room and the parlor. The parlor was called the No-No Room because children weren’t allowed in it.

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    Nathan Daniels Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    It’s the room where everyone sits and watches TV while eating microwave meals.

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    Carl Rennhack Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    There are times when I think THE only house Rat belongs in is THE BIG HOUSE!!

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    vics_machine Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    I don’t like guests. In my house it was called the “front room”.

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    James Wolfenstein  almost 6 years ago

    I hated the “living” room. Most beautiful room in the house, shiny wood floor, big table, comfy chairs, best couchs ever!!!! and we were not allowed to live there…

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    Fontessa  almost 6 years ago

    That’s a brilliant idea! I wonder if I can convince my Husband to do this :)

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    Ignatz Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    When I was a kid, I was confused about it being called a “living room,” since you live in all the rooms.

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    F-Flash  almost 6 years ago

    Therefore, just like on TV, Rat & Pig need to look at two more houses before they can make an informed, well thought out decision. Which house says Sport’s bar to you?

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    uniquename  almost 6 years ago

    Everyone knows the living room is the room you don’t live in. Just like the dining room is the room you don’t eat in. You always eat in the kitchen.

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    gailystitches  almost 6 years ago

    My living room is the home theater… complete with movie posters.

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    Packratjohn Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    What timing… I’m heading out tomorrow to sell an old family home, built in 1927. Been in the family since it was built. And yes, it has a living room!

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    Cameron1988 Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    Rat can’t afford it anyway. He’s on welfare

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    tkcoker  almost 6 years ago

    The living room is the one room that you keep clean and tidy so guests will think you keep the entire house that way. No one can go into that room unless you are dusting/cleaning or accompanied by a guest. That way you do not have to worry about how the rest of the house looks. It is also useful to keep any boy in while waiting for the daughters to finish getting ready for a date. Also where the Father can size up the young man and be sure that he sees the shotgun hanging over the fireplace, Since few modern houses have living rooms and the boys now honk the horn rather than going to the door to pick up their dates the country is falling apart. We need to bring back the living rooms with the shotgun over the fireplace. The problem with that is to many girls (and boys) are being raised without a father to size up their boyfriends or a father that cares about the girl or the boy. In fact too many do not even know that they have a son or daughter or care that they do.

    I shudder every time I read about some athlete (or any other man, just they don’t make the news) bragging about haw many women they have had sex eith and how many children they have fathered but in most cases never seen or at least spent time with. I have had men tell me that it was the fault of the woman that she got pregnant and the child was her problem, not his. He didn’t care about the child or what she did with it. Sometimes they sounded more like it was a litter of puppies he was talking about rather than a child.

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    Rev Phnk Ey  almost 6 years ago

    Can you say “Man Cave”

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    WCraft Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    I’m always amazed at those home search reality shows where, almost to a fault, each couple expresses the need for a bigger deck, yard, or kitchen for “when we entertain.” Right – how many people still do that?

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    Nuliajuk  almost 6 years ago

    “Next up, the dying room. This can double as the killing floor.”

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    hariseldon59  almost 6 years ago

    So, do people not use the term “living room” anymore? Or am I just behind the times.

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    glowing-steak32  almost 6 years ago

    You could put beer in it regardless.

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    bradatwellbird  almost 6 years ago

    Couple of young guys in my neighborhood put the pool table in the large living room of the place they were renting, I imagine the room got used a lot more often that way.

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    Seed_drill  almost 6 years ago

    In my house the formal living room acts as a noise buffer between the bedrooms and the den. The formal dining room has a large table I inherited upon which we stack stuff.

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    Kind&Kinder  almost 6 years ago

    The living rooms and parlors are rooms in which all the upholstered furniture is covered with antimacassars. Look it up!

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    onespiceybbw  almost 6 years ago

    My friend’s parents had a “living” room with one of those velvet ropes across the doorway. New Year’s Eve was the only day she was allowed into the room, until her boyfriend spilled his red wine on the carpet, which was of course white. After that, she was never allowed in.

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    SukieCrandall Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    Grandma had front parlor (Think “living room”.) and back parlor (Think “den”.).

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    Sisyphos  almost 6 years ago

    Your idea is fine, Rat if that’s how you live.

    When I was young, and Mom and Dad were between houses, we lived for a time with my grandparents. Their two-storey house had on the first floor an entry hall plus stairway; a living room (a.k.a. front room); a dining room (rarely used, except that it was where the landline phone was); a kitchen ( the real “living room”!); and an enclosed back porch that could serve as a spare bedroom if needed (at one time it had been an open porch). The second floor had three bedrooms and the one and only bathroom….

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    monkshandgames  almost 6 years ago

    Holy crap a comic about city planning

    “I’m looking at this house in the middle of a residential neighborhood. Can I turn it into a bar / gentleman’s club / toxic waste dump? No? Can I get a variance? Rezoning?”

    Every. Day.

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    alantain  7 months ago

    Victorian houses have parlours or drawing rooms. Or is that sitting rooms? IDK! Victorians have lots of names for rooms you sit in! Just not “livingroom”. Too vague, I suppose.

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