Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 14, 2022

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    BE THIS GUY  almost 2 years ago

    I once went to pick up a train set for my nephew at model train shop in Brooklyn. It was quite a shock to find another customer who had flown from Colorado to pick up a train set.

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    willispate  almost 2 years ago

    well, at least Goat and Pig found some common ground for a second.

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    Packratjohn Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    Simple is good

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    DennisinSeattle Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    My FIL had a major interest in model trains. He made some of his own, as well as all the scenery in his layout in his attic. Don’t know where all his trains have gone now.

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    sirbadger  almost 2 years ago

    I saw one train set where somebody put a mousetrap under a building to simulate an explosion.

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    BasilBruce  almost 2 years ago

    Loco.

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    Imagine  almost 2 years ago

    Or the models in the swim suits.

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    ronaldspence  almost 2 years ago

    you are well trained Pig!

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    Cornelius Noodleman  almost 2 years ago

    I like to go to the park and climb on the old steam engine.

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    Jesy Bertz Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    And try to keep it cheap! It’s a wonderful, but expensive hobby.

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    nicka93  almost 2 years ago

    Which you drive the train around in circles.

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    L'Europeo Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    H0 is the best

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    blunebottle  almost 2 years ago

    Goat, it could have been TT or S scale. Or even #1 Garden.

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    blunebottle  almost 2 years ago

    I even had a little Z scale.

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    iggyman  almost 2 years ago

    I’m with you, Pig! When I was being “put together” instead of brains they put in trains!

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    rshive  almost 2 years ago

    In days of yore, it was almost as much fun to set up Plasticville.

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    Ricky Bennett  almost 2 years ago

    When I was a kid, I had one made of bubble gum. It went “Chew chew”…

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    dlkrueger33  almost 2 years ago

    My first husband (RIP) had his bachelor apartment decorated completely in “train” motif. Railroad lanterns as lights, paintings and huge panoramic black and white photos of special engines (Big Boy), and had made holes in the walls, laying tracks so the trains could run from room to room. Kinda cool but of course, not what every woman dreams of in home decor. He had O gauge. Cool stuff, though.

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    Procat Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    Gomez Addams had a wonderful train set.

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    Doug K  almost 2 years ago

    IC? How wide is that? (Am I off track here? Gone off the rails?)

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    Ellis97  almost 2 years ago

    Pig is a pig of simple pleasures.

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    uniquename  almost 2 years ago

    Fun for the fun of it. Nice to see it.

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    MS72  almost 2 years ago

    At least it’s modeling and not just “toy trains”.

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    TampaFanatic1  almost 2 years ago

    I thing Pig’s train might be the type that is made of wood blocks as scale tracks from Tyco or Lionel are a bit over Pig’s head.

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    Zebrastripes  almost 2 years ago

    Was it Thomas?

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    Goat from PBS  almost 2 years ago

    Simplicity, I can respect that. No need to overcomplicate things, unless one wants to.

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    2Goldfish  almost 2 years ago

    Has anyone priced model trains lately? They’re expensive!

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    SusieB  almost 2 years ago

    I’m with you Pig, I like simplicity. My refrigerator is a basic model, freezer on top, no ice and water maker. Less things to break.

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    Snolep  almost 2 years ago

    The KISS principal is always best.

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    Linguist  almost 2 years ago

    I think Pig’s train of thought has left the station a looong time ago!

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    Pgalden1 Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    Wherever possible, Pig, wherever possible

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    Fontessa  almost 2 years ago

    One that goes “Choo Choo” if you say choo choo yourself.

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    raybarb44  almost 2 years ago

    He has one for fun, which is the right reason. He has no plans on obsessing or making a life’s work out of it…

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  almost 2 years ago

    I’m with you, Pig.

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    Queen of America  almost 2 years ago

    One of my former boss’ owned a model train store in La Mesa. I’ve been in it twice since we both retired just to visit him. I couldn’t believe all of the stuff in there! He sold it a few years ago.

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    JudyAz  almost 2 years ago

    “East is east and West is west,

    and never the twain shall meet…"

    …unless they’re both on the same twack.

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    Coocalici  almost 2 years ago

    At first I thought this was gonna be one of those strips, because it started off so randomly.

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    knight1192a  almost 2 years ago

    I’ve got one that goes choo-choo. It’s O scale.

    Actually, even without sound effects there’s something very soothing about just running a model train. It’s in the sound of the wheels on the tracks.

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    oakie817  almost 2 years ago

    coo coo ka-choo

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    willie_mctell  almost 2 years ago

    Does the engine produce smoke?

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    Buoy  almost 2 years ago

    When I was a child, my mommy played choo-choo with a spoon of food-food. Choo-Choo! Here comes the train, into the tunnel, choo-choo! Choo-choo, I would say, and chew chew I would do do. I was a monster! All those poor people…

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    AndromedaMike  almost 2 years ago

    Pig got the one that sounds like a real train. The others don’t make any noise. They’re imposters.

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    WCraft Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    Hmmmm – I had one as a child and pretty sure it didn’t go “Choo Choo”…

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    DaBump Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    And it “goes ‘Choo choo’” because you make that sound while pulling it along its widdle pwastic twain twack. Ah, the memories! Maybe in my second childhood…

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    MissyTiger  almost 2 years ago

    Did he pick a Pikachu choo choo?

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    Sisyphos  almost 2 years ago

    “Simple” is appropriate for you, Pig. The simpler, the better.

    Way, way back, when I was in high school, a friend invited me over to his house to see his model train layout; I don’t recall what scale, though….

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    ElVez2  almost 2 years ago

    Simple would describe the drawings. Same ones for 4 panels

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    pontiac59  almost 2 years ago

    As someone who sells them for a living I appreciate this because those are exactly the two types of customers you get. Goat, who understands the details, and Pig, who has no idea of any of that he just wants it to make noise.

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    Mycroft holmes  almost 2 years ago

    pastis has done one like this before…

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    DannyDonkeyHatesPeople  almost 2 years ago

    Lazy Stephan ran this strip already

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