Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 15, 2017

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    BE THIS GUY  about 7 years ago

    He probably has some mixed tapes he wants to play on that boombox.

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 7 years ago

    Oh, won’t the police like to see this one when citing Eighties Man for disturbing the peace due to that boom box.

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    Bilan  about 7 years ago

    Was he keeping the maps, boom box, video camera and dimes under the rock with him?

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    Robert Pratt  about 7 years ago

    Quarters for the payphone in the 80’s.

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    wiatr  about 7 years ago

    I’d trust a map before any GPS.

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    jmarkoff2  about 7 years ago

    This storyline would make more sense if he and his tools were magically frozen/time travelled which would explain why he’s so young and they’re in working order.

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    Egrayjames  about 7 years ago

    Don’t bother bringing your pennies if you go to Canada.

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    Lyons Group, Inc.  about 7 years ago

    Oh, man those now dated instant-action video cameras TV reporters used to use!

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    RobertLawton  about 7 years ago

    You have reached the 1980’s. Please stand by to be thoroughly corrected:

    Preppies wore Sony Walkmans; they didn’t carry boom boxes.Preppies wore Izod shirts and short hair (not mullets). Audio/visual equipment was for nerds. Payphone calls cost a quarter. We used a road atlas not “a trunk full of maps”.

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    chris_weaver  about 7 years ago

    Stone knives and bear skins!

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    Cameron1988 Premium Member about 7 years ago

    Good luck finding a payphone

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    William Thorneloe Premium Member about 7 years ago

    Not to be a bummer, but folks getting out of prison (especially those convicted in error) coming out 30 years later find these things to be a constant problem.

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    Thomas Scott Roberts creator about 7 years ago

    Before he crawled under the rock, and it was still the 80s for everyone, was he called 80s Man- or has he forgotten his name?

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    AdamHewett  about 7 years ago

    Wait…. you can call people on the cell phone? What wondrous technology we have made

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    cooganm Premium Member about 7 years ago

    Check out Ted Rall’s cartoon today

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    Seed_drill  about 7 years ago

    Pretty sure 80’s cars had cassette decks in them. No need for a boom box. I even knew a few people that had aftermarket CD players in their car. I had a CD player in my dorm by ‘86, but didn’t get a car unit until ’95.

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    Sherlock Watson  about 7 years ago

    Road maps don’t cause people to drive into the ocean. The music on boom boxes sounds much better than MP3 files. A video camera isn’t nearly as obnoxious as a “selfie device.” Give him a flip phone, and he’ll be greatly superior to all the Millennials.

    80s Man, I salute you.

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    hablano  about 7 years ago

    Drive? You didn’t tell him about the flying cars?

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    Stocky One  about 7 years ago

    I think this is an amusing direction for the strip, but it will be interesting to see how much mileage Pastis can get out of it.

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    Sisyphos  about 7 years ago

    It would seem that 80’s Man was already old-fashioned and behind the times back in his own day!

    Just take him “for a ride” Pig, and don’t tell anyone what you did with the body (indeed, being a pig, maybe you’d consume it)….

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    dadoctah  about 7 years ago

    Would be interesting to see a reboot of “Back to the Future” just to see what would replace the full-size VHS camcorder that Marty used to prove to Doc that he was from the future. He could take a cellphone back thirty years from today but he wouldn’t be able to demonstrate how it works because the cell towers wouldn’t be there.

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    ND Cool Z  almost 6 years ago

    That’s what smartphones are for..

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