Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 14, 2023

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    BasilBruce  over 1 year ago

    Rat seems like the good guy today!

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    BE THIS GUY  over 1 year ago

    All good as long as the books aren’t written by idiots.

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    B UTTONS  over 1 year ago

    Some of the books being given away by Rat:

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Call of the Wild; To Kill a Mockingbird; The Grapes of Wrath; Ulysses; A Farewell to Arms; Slaughterhouse-Five; The Catcher in the Rye; Harry Potter; Of Mice and Men; Catch-22; Brave New World; Animal Farm;The Sun Also Rises; For Whom the Bell Tolls

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    Kveldulf  over 1 year ago

    Rat must have had life easy. The worst problems in the world are caused by people who are smart — but greedy.

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    Erse IS better  over 1 year ago

    One of my pet peeves is that FAR too many people conflate ignorance with stupidity. Ignorance is curable… unless you’re too stupid to realize you’re ignorant.

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    hitman4cookies  over 1 year ago

    Good deeds and rat go together like oil and water.

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    ronaldspence  over 1 year ago

    Anything Steinbeck…any time!

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    Sanspareil  over 1 year ago

    The art of the deal, by Cheetolini McBigmac should be avoided!

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    californiamonty  over 1 year ago

    Evidently, Rat has not read the grammar book. The correct case is whoever as that is the subject of the clause. The clause is functioning as the object of the preposition.

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    danketaz Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Rat also enjoys the thunk of a book catching a potential reader’s skull.

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    The dude from FL  Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I went to a Graham Kerr book signing in Mesa AZ once, I think I’m the only one that attempted to buy a book and have it signed but some dude wanted ro regale the past. I got tired of waiting, put the book down and walked out. I wonder if Graham was sober that day?

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    MayCauseBurns  over 1 year ago

    “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut. Apropos re current society

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron

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    juicebruce  over 1 year ago

    How To Catch A Zebra …. By Larry Croc ;-)

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    Procat Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Do they have pictures?

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    [Unnamed Reader - 8bb645]  over 1 year ago

    My father had a saying" you buy them books and buy them books and all they do is eat the covers."

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    Ellis97  over 1 year ago

    Hopefully, he’s selling banned books. People will pay millions for those.

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    jel354  over 1 year ago

    Throw the book at them.

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    akachman Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Roger that, Rat.

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    ladykat  over 1 year ago

    We all need to read more.

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    TinkerStinker  over 1 year ago

    “…WHOever wants one.”

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    Queen of America  over 1 year ago

    I was the kid who was always being asked why I had my nose stuck in a book all of the time. It’s still there. I don’t know what I would do if my books/Kindle was taken away.

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    eric_harris_76  over 1 year ago

    Been thinking of buying helpful books and leaving them in those “little libraries” you see here and there.

    Already left a few of those little books that contain the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.

    Used book stores have some choice ones, cheap. Some even under five bucks.

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    Snolep  over 1 year ago

    Book ‘em, Rat-o.

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    rugeirn  over 1 year ago

    Just to get out of the 19th and 20th centuries and out of the English language, try this list: Tale of Genji, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Don Quixote, The Decameron, Canterbury Tales, Montaigne’s Fables, The Metamorphoses, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Mahabharata, The Ramayana, The Peony Pavilion, The Divine Comedy.

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    rugeirn  over 1 year ago

    Women write too: Charlotte Brontë, Lady Murasaki, Jane Austen, Fanny Burney, Marguerite de Navarre, Sei Shōnagon, Marie de France, Arundhati Roy, Virginia Woolf, Isabel Allende, Jean-Dominique Bauby, and many others.

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    mindjob  over 1 year ago

    Ulysses is good, just don’t expect a lot of excitement

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    Goat from PBS  over 1 year ago

    Books do not cure idiocy, especially if those books were written by idiots.

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    Cameron1988 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I gotta agree with Rat

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    legaleagle48  over 1 year ago

    I hate to say this, but Rat has a point!

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    [Unnamed Reader - 587299]  over 1 year ago

    Should be “WHOever” in panel 1.

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    drivingfuriously Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Stupid people rule the world. Just look at all the warning labels on tools. “Don’t put your fingers or hands under the lawnmower, you will loose you fingers or hands.” What stupid person does this? There are too many out there.

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    prrdh  over 1 year ago

    Depends on what you mean by ‘idiot’. We’ve all suffered a lot from people with very high IQs.

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    Totalloser Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I’m sure that most people cannot even find their local library

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    Serial Pedant  over 1 year ago

    All banned as pornographic.

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    Serial Pedant  over 1 year ago

    Or worse, Woke.

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    David_the_CAD  over 1 year ago

    I have to believe that the main reason some people want to ban books is because they want people to remain ignorant, so that they are easier to manipulate.

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    paulscon  over 1 year ago

    “I buy you books, send you to school, and all you want to do is eat your lunch!”

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    paulscon  over 1 year ago

    I love reading. I belong to two book clubs now. I have many great memories of getting lost in sci-fi novels as a kid on long wintry days in Wyoming.

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    wordsmeet  over 1 year ago

    Interesting list, Buttons, but I don’t see any bilingual dictionaries in it. :D

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    hariseldon59  over 1 year ago

    Funny thing is, I don’t think we’ve ever seen Rat reading. That’s more of a Goat activity.

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    zeexenon  over 1 year ago

    Wait! All my comics, Playboys, and Penthouses too?

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    ggoskie  over 1 year ago

    It’s Whoever wants one; not whomever. Argh!!!

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    wildlandwaters  over 1 year ago

    What are these things Rat speaks of??

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    WCraft Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Anyone else notice that these PBS cartoons are getting edgier? I’m thinking specifically that Rat is an outlet for Mr. Pastis’s beliefs and feelings?

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    rshive  over 1 year ago

    “The World According to Rat”.

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    General Trelane (Ret.) Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Not one single mention of anything by Edward Abbey . The Brave Cowboy , Fire on The Mountain , The Monkeywrench Gang and Hayduke Lives . Read those in that order and follow the exploits of Jack Burns .

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    Calvin  over 1 year ago

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    platinumboy7  over 1 year ago

    Ironically, in his quest to get people to read, Rat has spoken grammatically incorrectly. He should have said, “to whoever wants them” because this is an infinitive phrase. “(W)hoever wants them” is the object of the infinitive and, therefore, whoever is the subject of the infinitive and must be subjective, not objective. Hopefully, Rat also gave out “Catcher in the Rye” , “A Separate Peace” and “Peace Breaks Out”.

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    Treehggr87 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Sad how many people don’t want their children to think. Thinking leads to questioning. Questioning leads to learning. Sheltered children turn into sheltered adults. Easy to see who they are.

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    Croc Holliday  over 1 year ago

    We have a governor, and a sizable portion of the citizenry, who believes books are a bigger threat to children than guns and therefore ought to be banned.

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    Croc Holliday  over 1 year ago

    Sorta related note, I just finished reading ‘what if? 2’ by Randall Munroe (I have the first what if? on hold) and I highly recommend it. The author takes the most absurd questions people, including children, come up with, and answers them with real science. It’s pretty cool stuff, and he’s really funny.

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    Sisyphos  over 1 year ago

    Unfortunately, the morons among us never get it, even if they do read a book!

    We’re all doomed!

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    bunrabbit99  over 1 year ago

    i believe this should be “to whoever wants one?” you can tell by answering the question “who wants one?” with either “him” or “he.” in this case, it would be “he wants one” which indicates it should be “who.” if the answer was “him,” that would indicate the use of “whom.” you’re all welcome.

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    DaBump Premium Member over 1 year ago

    The works of Sir Francis Bacon. Selections from Galileo (you may be surprised it was not the Church that he regarded as his enemy, but “Peripatetics” — philosophers/academicians). Shakespeare. The Bible. Darwin’s Origin of the Species by the Selection of Favored Races (again, be prepared to be surprised). A whole pile of “Intelligent Design” and “Creation Science” books that you may never find on your library’s shelves. Flatland by Edwin Abbot (also the Planiverse by AK Dewdnew and Flatterland by Ian Stewart). Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid and Metamagical Themas by Douglas R. Hofstadter. Gulliver’s Travels. The Emperor’s New Clothes and other works by Hans Christian Anderson. Beowulf. The Epic of Gilgamesh. (sigh — I haven’t got all night)

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  over 1 year ago

    I would say this matches well with his Sunday observation. At least he’s found a way for people NOT to keep being themselves.

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    198.23.5.11  over 1 year ago

    Sadly,the morons don’t know HOW to read!!

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    ElEfJay  over 1 year ago

    As a teacher, I sometimes wish I could scream that at my students.

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    Bruce 5150 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    So TRUE rat! So TRUE!

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