Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 13, 2017

There’s nothing funny about Atlanta.

Can’t stand the things myself. Them and apricots. I always imagine the fuzzy coating is mold or something.

Finding your way around in Atlanta is the pits.

I remember a Dave Barry bit where he mentioned getting lost in Berlin because he kept finding himself on “Einbahnstrasse” – which he didn’t learn until later was German for “One-Way Street”.

Finally, Goat gets back at Rat!

Rat isn’t peachy-keen about that bar any longer…

How about some cream to go with those peaches ?

Reminds me of driving around trying to find addresses in La Jolla!

It’s like Charlotte, NC and the street’s named Sharon.

Atlanta must be peachy-keen!

Yes, there are lots of roads named “Peachtree” in and around here in the ATL. Even driving on one of these roads will get you lost!

They probably serve only peach liqueur.

Peaches won’t be any good this year. Not enough cold weather.

20-30 years ago they sold a T-shirt listing the 29 (!) different streets/roads named “Peachtree”. Surely, there are more now.

Plus, it’s common in Atlanta for roads to either make a right-hand turn (i.e., you have to make one to stay on the same-named street), or just change names. You can almost never drive straight for 4 miles and find yourself on a street with the same name as you started.

If you get to Peachtree City, you’ve gone too far- turn around.

I grew up in Atlanta. Love it, traffic and all. If you live in a fairly modern city and can’t figure out why the streets don’t tend to run N-S or E-W but seem to meander all over, go watch "Gone with the Wind:. The streets they identify are real and as Atlanta grew, when they paved the old dirt buggy trail around the tree, they paved around the tree. The tree may be gone but that is why the roads wind and twist all over.

So much offered in Atlanta, sports, culture, food, events. Miss the Bar-B-Q and Varsity food.

Whatever you do, avoid Peachtree Blvd. – traffic’s a mess!

I live in Atlanta. The only addition I’d make is “turn left at the Waffle House.”

This strip is a real peach.

Elton John recorded an album called Peachtree Road a few years ago.

Georgia is ga-ga for peaches. They call it the Peach State. I’ll let you in on a little secret though. California produces over 700,000 tons of peaches, South Carolina – 95,000 tons, Georgia a weak third at 36,000 tons. We should really call Georgia the Goober state as it produces over 42% of the US crop.

crocs, now

He got that information from an unimpeachable (does that make it peachable?) source

It has been almost 20 years since I have driven through Atlanta. Have they finished Interstate 20 yet?

GPS…. Georgia Positioning System? I grew up in extreme northern Florida, almost on state line. Didn’t find much wrong with the GA roads in the South, but didn’t get to Atlanta very often either. I preferred Savannah.

It’s not that they like peaches, it’s that they lack creativity.

It’s the trees Atlanta loves. They leave the fruit to the rest lof the state.

Atlanta…isn’t that where, according to Sean Spicer, that terror attack took place?#alternatefacts

This one gave me a flashback. Mother Bell loved sending us to her Atlanta conferences before the days of GPS. Then, in the 80s, the Disaster Recovery Institute did too, for their spring conference (fall in San Diego), God the heat! Then their conference planning genius decided to do the spring in Orlando, and I wouldn’t go. Later they switched locations to the other season. Mother’s Atlanta meetings, winter OK, or no way.

Where I live, our streets are configured like this. You’d better make sure you know if where you want to be is a St., Circle, Blvd., Way, Ct., Pass, Rd., Ave., etc., because there are TONS of “on the corner of Lincoln and Lincoln,” with the next cross-street up the road being…Lincoln. The people who named our roads were insane.

But Johnston, South Carolina is the Peach capitol of the world don’t cha’ kno’…

Try Lake Jackson, TX – find the intersection of This Way and That Way. No kidding.

I’ve heard that the reason for all the “Peachtree” road names is that businesses found that a Peachtree address on a stationery letterhead was regarded as more prestigious, especially by clientele from outside the city who knew little more than that “Peachtree Street” was in the heart of the city.

Must be trying to find The Frog and The Peach

The most logical system is Salt Lake City, a pure mathematical grid. Temple Square is zero south, zero east.

Peachtree Creek was the first place Sherman cleaned Hood’s clock in the Civil War.

Son of a Peach!

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I used to live on a street that was only one block long. At one end, the sign said “ave”, at the other end it said “st”, so I never knew exactly what my address was.

Ft Lauderdale and Miami are crazy like that with their numbered streets. All with different suffixes, St, Ave, Way, Terrace, etc and different directions, SE, NW, etc. I wonder how the heck people find their way home.

In Gone With The Wind, when Scarlett was staying with Melanie & Aunt PittyPat, they lived on Peachtree Street

Kansas City, MO, is pretty logical, including the surrounding communities. Starting at the MO river, every 8 streets is one mile. (You have to include “zeroth” street).E=W streets were named, but N-S numbered. I live so far south that my exit was 359th street, 40 miles south of the starting point.

Rat is right. Atlanta is a cruel joke. But he deserves it….

This is horribly true.

Back in ‘76, i lived in a rooming house a few blocks from Margaret Mitchell’s home 979 Crescent Ave NE, the rooming house is gone, but Ms. Mitchell’s home is a tourist stop now.

As a lifelong resident of Atlanta and the suburbs of Atlanta, also known as “Atlanta” I can tell you that you just get used to the madness that driving is around here. The rush hour is literally all day and most of the night now. One of these days I’m going to move out to the country, I swear!

This is a real thing. Look up the t-shirt “Meet Me On Peachtree.” It lists like 25 streets named “Peachtree.” Peachtree Ave., Peachtree Battle Ave., Peachtree Dunwoody Ct., etc.

Just Peaches

Peachtree City and Peachtree Plaza City and Peachtree City Plaza are way better than any similar Peachtree places in the Sunshine State of Florida.