Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 22, 2021

There is nothing peripatetic about Pig’s life. He sits on the same spot in front of the tv day after day.

I see peripatetic people every day on the streets.

I thought Pig was patetic enough already.

Pig made this comment in the course of his peregrinations.

I can’t stay, I’ll be back later.

Seems like they all would’ve known about his calendar before – like in January.

It’s good to expand your vocabulary, but not good to overdo it.

That’s funny, my calendar says it’s Miniature Golf Day.

I’m personally very fond of a word I learned some little while ago. It’s abso-freacking-lutely wonderful!

tmesis

Sagacity

Peri-pathetic.

It’s good that such a word can be used in such efficacious exigencies!

Looked it up. So …it seems to mean ‘walking up and down while trying to look smart’. Maybe I’m missing a bit of info…

Calendar? And here I thought Pig was reading the dictionary !

That word perhaps would describe a traveling salesman!

Who says you don’t learns anything from a cartoon? Me learns a new word today.

Who’s Perry? And what makes him so pathetic?

If this bugs Rat, Pig has great ammo for the next 364 days! :D

I dig you babe but I gotta keep moving on !

Having to use the dictionary to understand a comic strip….SAD!

Oy! PIG!

Reminds me of a Calvin and Hobbes where Calvin asks Hobbes “What if someone calls us a pair o pathetic peripatetics?” and was basically just trying to be prepared to have a comeback in case that ever happened.

per·i·pa·tet·ic | ˌperēpəˈtedik |adjective1 traveling from place to place, in particular working or based in various places for relatively short periods: the peripatetic nature of military life.2 (Peripatetic) Aristotelian. [with reference to Aristotle’s practice of walking to and fro while teaching.]noun1 a person who travels from place to place: peripatetics have been cut under local management of schools.2 (Peripatetic) an Aristotelian philosopher.

to save you the time looking it up (like I did) and pretending you knew it all along. You know who you are ;) …

Pig presented a premise that led Rat to that syllogistic statement.

pig is more peristaltic than peripatetic…

I apologize , but I’m not going to look that word up , I just hope that someone would do it for me . Thanks : )

Why don’t you make like a tree and be peripatetic!

Maybe you should look up the words before using them.

lmao .. oh PIg, you’re a unique and prone to gasconade fellow at times.

Do it enough and it becomes peri-pathetic.

What if someone calls us a pair o’ pathetic peripatetics?

I wonder how many people look up that word today.

That explains how Pig knows the word “peripatetic”.

How very Aristotelian of you pork-butt

Sign up for WordThirst. Feel illiterate multiple times a day.

Being too peripatetic can be perilous. Using the word peripatetic too much is definitely perilous.

Para-pathetic.

I ascertain that Rat and Pig need to delineate their little problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lStcwT_RGrQ

And if there is such a thing as a tartuffle,you sir,are it!!

I prefer the term “Aristotelian”

He used ratiocination.

my, how sesquipedalian of Pig.

Don’t you have someplace to go?

Aristotelian

It’s a perfectly cromulent word.

Probably because he knows a word meaning tending to walk about, constantly traveling, and one who walks about (a pedestrian or an itinerant) is simply not in your normal wheelhouse, Pig. Peripatetic is just too smart a word for you without a word of the day calendar.

And yes, I had to look up the word myself.

I think that’s para-pathetic.

Can PIG “walk the walk” or does he just “talk the walk” or even “walk and talk”?

Boy, now I’ve gotta go find a book that will tell me what that word means…

Keep moving. Nothing to say here.

Aristotelians would probably not approve. But I’ll think it over as I stroll about the Lykeion….

I was always too lazy to haul out a dictionary and look up words, but I realized that I must have missed a lot when something prompted me to look up the word “callipygous”.

I wonder if Pastis was reading the Calvin & Hobbes strip about a “pair o’ pathetic peripatetics”? The only other place I have encountered that word.