Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 25, 2019

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    BE THIS GUY  over 5 years ago

    Don’t ask him if he flosses. It might get him deported.

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    kwells328  over 5 years ago

    Hey, I take my shower at night, too. If you think about it, when you go to bed if you don’t shower first, everything you came in contact with during the day will be in your bed. Nasty

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    SonicFan91  over 5 years ago

    I don’t do MORNING showers. That’s just weird. STICK TO TIMMY FAILURE STEVE

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 5 years ago

    I take a bubble bath Saturday night after the day’s work is done (so I don’t have to bother Sunday morning in preparation for church.

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    GeifuKe  over 5 years ago

    I do shower at all times. Cleanliness is next to——whatever. I shower when I need to shower, and won’t let any labels stand in my way.

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    JasonBall34  over 5 years ago

    I really like how sometimes Pastis is obviously making fun of the left and sometimes making fun of the right. I admire that.

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    GeifuKe  over 5 years ago

    I remember back in college, when you were on the can, and someone was in the shower, which could have been in the afternoon, early evening, or night, you had to yell “Flushing” so the guy in the shower could avoid hot water burns.

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    DennisinSeattle  over 5 years ago

    If I shower before bed, my wife likes it. Then I may need another shower in the morning.

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    Kind&Kinder  over 5 years ago

    I shower in the morning—I like to be clean after my morning duties in the bathroom, but my son prefers night showers. And we’re both progressives! Howdya figure?

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    jackhammer165  over 5 years ago

    What’s a shower? Ha, just kidding!

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    chris_weaver  over 5 years ago

    Night showerers are evil! Sean Hannity told me so!

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    Gabryel Frost  over 5 years ago

    Showering every day ? It`s a conspiracy of the shampoon lobby !

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    Bilan  over 5 years ago

    It’s really not about night or day, it’s about where you stand in the shower.

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    Ksandler4570  over 5 years ago

    And every day, slowly but surely, my favorite strip dies…

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 5 years ago

    I take my shower at night so I can sleep longer in the morning. It also leaves me more coffee time.

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    DaBoogadie  over 5 years ago

    Walk-in tub with jets…timing is unimportant.

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    Beaker  over 5 years ago

    I’ve been around goats. I’m pretty sure they don’t shower much.

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    ralphkramden  over 5 years ago

    I heard a saying a long time ago, “Old men shower in the morning, Lovers shower at night.” Makes sense when you think about it! ;)

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    tonypezzano  over 5 years ago

    Rat is very restrained compared to a lot of post I see.

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    Andrew Sleeth  over 5 years ago

    It’s not political. This … is … personal!

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    ChristineMurphy  over 5 years ago

    So that’s why I bath at night.

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    Reader  over 5 years ago

    Not a joke how one thing anymore automatically attaches a host of attributes to one.

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    Masterskrain  over 5 years ago

    This is SO FLIPPING ACCURATE nowadays that it’s really, REALLY scary! And Sad, too!

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    GeifuKe  over 5 years ago

    I am showering goat with gratitude for providing his response to a permanent and hairy problem.

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    Cameron1988 Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Rat is just TRYING to stir up trouble

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    Darque Hellmutt  over 5 years ago

    What is this … ‘shower’ … of which you speak?

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    Brain Pudding  over 5 years ago

    How dare you point out the phenomenon of politicization of the mundane. I demand a special counsel investgation! Call the mod squad, call the CSI unit (comic strip investigation unit), I demand a recount…ban them all on twitter and fire them from thier jobs.

    Your critique of the deterioration of civil discourse will not stand!

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    Radish the wordsmith  over 5 years ago

    If you’re going to San Francisco, you’re going to meet some avocado toast there.

    If you’re going to San Francisco, no need to put it in your hair…

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    El Cobbo Grande  over 5 years ago

    And also it means you’re good to go if a moment arises….“ It’s the romantic in me “……(Casablanca)

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    Masterskrain  over 5 years ago

    And GOD FORBID someone should suggest you make a wise choice when voting in 2020…why, that’s just racist!

    https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/trump-whines-spike-lees-oscar-speech-early-morning-twitter-rant-racist-hit-president/

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    Bookworm  over 5 years ago

    And I bet Goat opens his egg from the big end instead of properly at the little end! (With thanks to Dr. Swift.)

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    jcole998  over 5 years ago

    Excellent job, Pastis! This entire commentary(save 3 to this point) missed the point of your cartoon! You’ll have to be more incendiary!

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    Popcorn   over 5 years ago

    Guy’s,not sure wet goat can “ever” smell good! eewwww!

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    Fido (aka Felix Rex)  over 5 years ago

    We now have proof that Pastis reads the commentaries. And that he’s not pleased with recent trends…

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    Blot  over 5 years ago

    CROCS PLEASE!

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    garysmigs  over 5 years ago

    I worked the graveyard shift, so I showered in the morning but before I went to bed, making me a bi I guess, or a libertarian?

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    Al Nala  over 5 years ago

    I discount advice from cartoon characters.

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    Cerabooge  over 5 years ago

    Just don’t ask him how he cracks eggs.

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    TheChief Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Wow! 77 comments and counting.

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    SukieCrandall Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Hmmmm, what are the terms for us when we choose to exercise heavily in the morning (albeit at home to be considerate of others) and shower in the afternoon? Oh, yeah. Retired.

    https://scienceblog.com/506252/morning-exercise-with-short-walking-breaks-helps-control-blood-pressure/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+scienceblogrssfeed+%28ScienceBlog.com%29

    And, yes, I am dancing in place while reading the comics right now to “I wish it were me”by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs.

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    WCraft Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Shudder – how did they ever get the “Avacado Toast Eater” comment past the censors?!

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    rshive  over 5 years ago

    The worst part of it is probably liking avocado toast.

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    eladee AKA Wally  over 5 years ago

    Can’t we all just get along??Wait…guess not!!!! It Matters not when you shower just as long as you do. All you Right wingers and Left wingers have a nice day now. And be sure to shower.

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    gigagrouch  over 5 years ago

    The difference between blue-collar workers and white-collar workers is when they take their showers.

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    gooddavid  over 5 years ago

    People who work days shower at night because they get dirty working. So the left-wing, commies, socialists, avocado toast eating liberal traitors would be the ones that bathe in the morning because they are the ones not working. ;) (it’s a joke….I think)

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    falcon_370f  over 5 years ago

    I do neither, I usually take my shower midday, but my shift is 1 to 10 PM and I fit all my recreation in the time before I go to work.

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    wellis1947 Premium Member over 5 years ago

    There is a “logic” here that needs to be addressed.

    “White collar” workers shower before work because they need to present the world with a ‘fresh face’.“Blue collar” workers shower after work because their jobs get them dirty.

    Simplistic, but broadly true.

    “Bathing” is only for the wealthy, the indolent and the “differently-abled” – who else has the time to waste in the tub?

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    Masterskrain  over 5 years ago

    O.K. just to be clear here…exactly WHAT is “Avocado Toast”? Is it toast with Guac on it, or toasted slices of Avocados or WHAT???

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    jonnytest  over 5 years ago

    Avocado toast… yum! Half an avocado a day, helps make my HDL okay!

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    STACEY MARSHALL Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Why, you hippie-yippie, pinko-commie, imperialist running dog of war!

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    Concretionist  over 5 years ago

    Actual working blue collar folk tend to shower after work: Keeps the house cleaner and your honey likes it.

    Folks who pay to exercise tend to shower at the gym.

    Folks whose exercise is (wishfully?) mostly in bed tend to shower in the morning.

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    einarbt  over 5 years ago

    Okay. So, Rat, what about people who take baths or don’t wash at all, can we have their political spectrum?

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    Sisyphos  over 5 years ago

    Rat, you are so wrong, you left-wing pinko cartoon fake!

    I am well right of Louis XIV and would not dream of showering in the morning, when still in truth half-asleep. A nice, warm shower before going to bed is perfect in so many ways….

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    8ec23d5228da33aa2115003c92d0fe83  over 5 years ago

    I change my pillowcases a lot during allergy season, gets pollen off. I used to have a cat that slept on my head, she shed a lot of black fur, changed pillowcase almost daily then.

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    HS1  over 5 years ago

    is this also the time Bernie Sanders said he would look out for people who took their showers at the end of the day not the beginning?

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    SuperCharged5-  over 2 years ago

    i never understand people who shower in the morning. you’re taking everything that was on you to bed the night, you have to wake up early, and the only good thing about it is you’re clean for the day, which can be achieved by showering at night

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    The one and only Eldest Arc (now at peace)  about 2 years ago

    Toast eating?

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    Snuffles [Previously Helikitty]   about 2 years ago

    I do mine at night.

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