Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 07, 2016

Most bars in New York close at 3:47 in the morning.

OCD Rat.

One of my favorite oldies is “Quarter to Three” by Gary U.S. Bonds. “Seventeen to Three” just wouldn’t sound as good.

If Pearls dudes don’t have pants, where do they keep their phones, and other pocket stuff?

Try using Military Time. Even a common time sounds specific. (I will pick you up at 19:00:00 hours.[7:00])

Rat, if you want to revolt against the mindless conformity, have the bartender come to your house to drink.

Well that’s a reasonable excuse I always put my alarm clock in times like 6:14, 7:26 and so on. Why does it always have to be round numbers with many? Like Rat said, those numbers are just as valid… in everyday life that is.

I like to eat pie at 3:14, but I always get crumbs on the bedsheets.

I prefer to say 5 ish, 7 ish ect

I never thought of that…Rat is right!

I have to be at school at7:40

11:11 is lucky

Now, he DOES have a point there.

When I used to have to take people out to lunch on expenses (dread days), I used to say “meet me at 12.52”. We always got a table, while the “one o’clock rush” all waited together. True story.

“I was only 23 hours, 57 minutes and 11 seconds from Tulsa”“Thank you Mr Pitney. NEXT!!”

Twenty-five or -six to four…

Only in Chicago.

Goat should call an Uber to take him home at 11:03:15

Speaking of time-related oddity: I live in PST, which is obviously short for PaSTis…How did he get a whole time zone named in his honor?

“Out until 1:16”?….as in passed out?

“Time, you’re not a friend of mine”—Charley Pride.“What time is it?”—Jive Five“Time is on my side”—Rolling StonesAny others?

That’s why a broken watch is better than one that loses one second a week!

The Toronto Blue Jays have starting times that end with :07 (such as 7:07 or 1:07). There is a story, but I forget it at the moment.

I am commenting on Pearls Before Swine at 6:58pm.

xxx

Morning radio “weather and traffic on the eights” is fairly standard around here, mutatis mutandis for different stations….The answer to Rat’s technically valid point is that the hourly/half-hourly/quarter-hourly times are more easily remembered and estimated.

On “Star Trek:Voyager”, a lot of stuff got done by 8:53.

Excellent idea, Pastis. :D