Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 23, 2016
Transcript:
Rat: Did you ever notice that the return Netflix envelope is addressed to the 'Nearest Netflix shipping facility'? Goat: Yeah. So? Rat: So could I address a letter to the 'nearest hot woman'? Goat: No. Rat: 'Dear hot woman...you're probably wondering how I found you...'
BE THIS GUY about 8 years ago
But can you stream the nearest hot woman?
bigcatbusiness about 8 years ago
What will be the address be? You can’t just say “Nearest Netflix Shipping Facility”.
Sherlock Watson about 8 years ago
Today’s background music: “Calling All Girls” by Rick Springfield.
Templo S.U.D. about 8 years ago
any postal service would find that idea of Rat’s a joke
Kind&Kinder about 8 years ago
“For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her”—Paul Simon
nerdhoof about 8 years ago
“Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are!”
jimmjonzz Premium Member about 8 years ago
Decades ago, when Robert Ripley was still writing “Believe It or Not” for the newspaper comics pages, he had a contest in which readers were tasked to mail him a letter with the most creative address. Of course, to be eligible to win, a reader’s entry had to actually reach Ripley. Dozens of letters with no address at all made it to him. Even more reached him that were addressed with a small torn spot on the envelope… “rip” ya know. The fact that the U. S. post offices rapidly became aware of the contest helped these essentially unaddressed missives to their destination. One letter had a single human hair taped to the envelope with, it was claimed, the comic strip syndicate’s address written on it in microscopic script. I don’t recall which was the winner. I did see the “hair letter” at the Ripley museum in Florida.
Proginoskes about 8 years ago
I hate it when Rat has a point. (I think Goat said that about something he did, a few years ago.)
asianwoof about 8 years ago
I have often fantasized about flipping envelopes and sending back discs to a different postal facility than the one that the disc came from.
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member about 8 years ago
You can address it any way you like. Doesn’t mean it will get delivered, let alone delivered to your hoped-for recipient.
badbullgator1 about 8 years ago
What this strip needs is more Crock
juicebruce about 8 years ago
Rat to find a “Hot Woman” go to Walmart and buy the “Hot Woman” App for your Phone…………………..
eddie6192 about 8 years ago
Toon Boy better hope Staci doesn’t see this toon.
phredturner about 8 years ago
Really hot women don’t do written correspondence.
SkyFisher about 8 years ago
The Name of the Addressee is not as important as the address itself.
chromosome Premium Member about 8 years ago
It would be interesting if it worked, but he reached the nearest menopausal woman.
tony57 Premium Member about 8 years ago
This would have been relevant 7 years ago.(there’s only about 5 people left (including Rat) that get Netflix by mail)
Dapperdan61 Premium Member about 8 years ago
Do people seriously still do Netflix by mail ?
angelfiredragon about 8 years ago
when Netflix first came out I did the DVD mailing thing, but one time I dropped it right in the post office big blue box and they said they never got it and charged me for the movie. I complained and they refunded but I cancelled and have never gone back. I can’t help it that I dropped it in the box and they didn’t get it.
Sisyphos about 8 years ago
Rat is ever-hopeful, but address or not, no hot woman is likely to waste her time with him….
toohana about 8 years ago
The USPS has seen darn near everything when it comes to addresses. They’ll figure it out, believe me. They may screw up Aunt Sophie’s get well card going 2 towns away, but something as outlandish as what Mr Ripley did, and just about anything you try will be a piece of cake to them. Oh, that ‘Neither snow, nor rain..bit that is supposed to be their motto? It’s not. It’s just engraved on the main facility on 8th Ave in NYC. If it snows bad enough, you aren’t getting your TV Guide that day. Those LLV trucks aren’t 4 wheel drive and get stuck just like everybody else.
toohana about 8 years ago
We want Crocs, we want crocs, we want crocs….