Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 29, 2019

How does one boycott Rat? Will Rat be upset if A$$ doesn’t talk to him?

And here I thought his name was “Snowflake”…

The Bible tells us not to covet thy neighbor, nor thy neighbors ass, but it doesn’t say anything about coveting thy neighbor’s wife’s @$$…

Don’t ever change, Rat.

I call situations like this “pulling a Charlie Chaplin”. Something goes wrong and every attempt to fix it only makes things worse.;D

Back before VHS was a thing all the movies in town would have advertising in the same section of the paper. ‘Behind The Green Door’ would have an ad next to ‘The Godfather.’ Somehow we managed to survive.

Ha ha ha. Good one, Rat.

Ass, or A.S.Soul.

Broadcast censors only apply if rat were to add “hole” to that first syllable/acronym.

My opponent stood up here and made an ass of himself! Now it’s My turn!

The right answer is “You’re excused.” Accept his apology and move on :P

In grade school we used to sing “Good Christian Men Rejoice” with very loud emphasis on the third word: “Ox and ASS before Him bow”.

Is that Ben Franklin?

As an Application Software Specialist I take offense.

Is this strip getting ass-inine or is it just me?

I still remember Geometry, when we learned you had to call it “side side angle.” No fun.

DC Comics once published a series called All-Star Squadron (all of their World War II era superhero characters on one honkin’ big team). Unlike the Justice League of America (JLA) or the Justice Society of America (JSA) or the Legion of Super-Heroes (LSH), the All-Star Squadron was never referred to by an abbreviation.

As the Eagles song goes, “Get over it.”

Censors are such busybodies.

But does that make RAT a Republican Angry Trumper?

How about an overly sensitive soul. It doesn’t make an acronym, but it’s obviously true.

I believe the British have made the correct choice in this controversial matter, and “arse” really is better.

It’s getting bad when we can’t even express our opinions anymore without some one or some group protesting…Political Correctness is just giving a bunch of idiots a cause to protest what THEY PERSONALLY don’t like….too bad! Suck it up and stop acting like a bunch of sensitive babies.

that comment left a hole in his soul

reminds me of the intern who sent a funeral wreath with LOL on it because she thought it meant “Lots of Love”.

Butt nooo.

So how many words have homophones that are/were considered too risqué for on-air usage?

There’s the aforementioned donkey synonym. Also a female canine, and a large structure used to create man-made (or beaver-made) lakes. Any others?

Should have used @$$.

Don’t assume anything,Rat.You’ll make an ass out of you,and me ;)

I think pbs has a different censor from sfamhttps://www.gocomics.com/scenes-from-a-multiverse/2019/09/20

Have a cousin that was going to be named Ann Sally, quickly changed to Sally Ann when her parents realized what her monogram would look like.

a great old movie, Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), had a scene where the primary prosecution witness in the murder trial identifies himself as J. Palmer Cass. After his eyewitness testimony, defense lawyer Lincoln digs at this name, and gets the witness to give his first name as John, whereupon Lincoln replies, “I think I’ll call you Jack Cass.”

And a shout-out to the wonderful baristas of the Bad Ass Coffee Company of Hawaii!

My reply to the Sensitive Soul and the Comics Censor, “I didn’t mean to offend you. That was just a bonus.”

If you want to see ridiculous censorship, follow some YouTube Reddit storytelling podcasts. If the YouTuber uses one wrong word, YouTube will take away their income for that broadcast. So, the YouTubers blank out words on the screen or use other terms. My favorite is “passionate hugging” for “lovemaking.” One Tuber changed “asphalt” to “gravel” because it starts with “ass.”

“Moreover, sir, which indeed is not under white and black, this plaintiff here, the offender, did call me ass: I beseech you, let it be remembered in his punishment…”

Dogsberry – “Much Ado About Nothing” V,1,2380 --William Shakespeare

I LOVE acronyms!!!!!!!

Time was when there were a whole mess of cracker asses out there who would’ve been intensely offended at the suggestion they drink from the same fountain, sit in the same diner, or have their kids go to the same schools as “those colored people.” And to hear the 1st century Christian church tell it, Jesus of Nazareth — God-in-a-Box, by all accounts — offended more than a few self-righteous pricks while he lived.

Offensiveness is individual, it’s subjective — it varies from person to person. The true measure of someone’s actions is the actual objective harm they cause, not the ways in which they might ruffle someone’s delicate sensibilities. God knows, folks have done enough real harm in this world; the last thing we should fret over are mere words.

Sticks and stones, friends, let’s focus on the sticks and stones.

These comics used to be better…

Lemme see, “@##” is some kind of code. Frequency analysis says two characters are the same. Next, “e” is the most used letter in the English language….

You’re offended by something I said? Try this: Piss off.

This “ass” characters looks a lot like his real-life, equally obnoxious counterpart I recently had to deal with. My response would still be the same: so sorry you feel offended. Go make love to yourself and you’ll feel much better.

Never use the term “social intercourse” in a classroom full of Middle Schoolers!

If you’re offended by something because it affects you personally and is not an actual major social issue, go talk to your therapist. We are not here to watch out for your feelings. You are responsible for your own feelings. Either grow a thick skin over stuff you KNOW is harmless or go talk to a professional as to why it hurts you so much.

L’il Guard Duck could frag the lot and save us all a lot of grief!

Or would that not be PC?

off topic but is a place where you dump ash from like your fire place an ash hole?

Only leftists try to stop free speech.