Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 15, 2019

Good thing the real Stephan is married.

She’s watching the University of Hawaii Warriors?

Rat has such a punchable nose.

With a wingman like Rat, who needs enemies?

She must have spotted Stephan’s date, Narci Seesm.

Eight channels? That’s six more than I had.

The first impression is what counts and you don’t make a good impression. So Rat just tells you the obvious.

My mother told me that if I dated myself too often I would go blind…

Yes, Miss, you had better go now. Quickly, while Rat distracts him.

He’s not the only one who is dating himself.

https://dilbert.com/strip/1989-04-17

Beats carbon dating I guess?

Wrong date Rat ! ……… Croc Power !

@ least, she was polite, which is more than Steph’s deserved!

RAT just foiled Pastis…. again….

This joke was used 30 years ago, in the second Dilbert strip ever published.

https://dilbert.com/strip/1989-04-17

You had channels? Wow!!!

I think a talking rat sidekick is even more repulsive than being outdated.

We had three vhf, and a shaky uhf channel that showed the Bruins games

I know it’s only coincidence, but this morning’s NY Daily News (which carries PB4S) has a caption on page 40, “Steph nets 36 as Warriors grab Game 1 with ease”!!

If I looked all over the world

And there’s every type of girl

But your empty eyes seem to pass me by

And leave me dancin’ with myself.

We had three TV channels. If my dad wanted to hear a Wisconsin football game, he had to listen to the radio.

Dating myself. Boy, those were good times. Well except for when I rejected myself.

small screen, that would have been perfect for watching the 50th Grey Cup

He called her “Miss.” I’m surprised she didn’t explode or something.

8 channels! Wow. We had 2 1/2 (CBS was snowy)

He needs to stay away from Rat before he tries wooing ladies.

That’s 5 more for me! Poor Pastis! He creates them & they become an albatross!

I hope Staci gives him a smack for strips like this, It should have been Goat trying to pick someone up! More Crocs!

Three more than I had, and we had to crank the spring drive every few minutes…..and a remote was something you did around a castle for an upgrade

Stephen does his own thing.

SICK BURN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wonder how many folks watched a station on the old Channel 3 (being that’s what all the cable boxes and modern converters use for their output)

I was born in 1948 and when I was almost four, I had eye surgery. I recovered watching tv and remember seeing Zorro getting his boot caught in the railroad tracks with the train bearing down on him. Hurry, Hurry. Hurry……..

NBC, ABC, CBS, and if the weather was right and the outdoor antenna was properly aligned, maybe PBS. And they all went off the air after 11:00 p.m. They’d play the national anthem, follow that with a test pattern, and then static until about 5 or 6 a.m. when the local news came on. And I’m not dating myself; that would require a Carbon dating procedure, which is way too expensive and would use up too much of me as material to get an accurate reading.

Why ‘wingrats’ are not a thing.

When my wife is out of town, I’m allowed to ‘date’ myself.

It can be very romantic.

…and I think we have a new “worst. pickup. line. ever”

“In my day we didn’t have television. In my day there was only one show in town and it was called STARE AT THE SUN! That’s right! You’d sit in the middle of an open field and stare up at the sun til your eyeballs burst into flames! And that’s the way it was and we LIKED it!”. – Grumpy Old Man (Dana Carvey) from SNL

My pop started selling TVs in Madison, WI when there were no channels. We watched a very poor WTMJ channel-3. Yes channel-3 at the time.

I had six, but two of them were PBS, and one of them was unwatchable due to interference from the airport control tower, so….

Rat is a truly pesky figment of the imagination!

So which part of “I’m trying to watch a game” sounded like “please talk to me”?

As I recall when we got a tv in 1950 there was only the Dumont station.

I remember one channel on a 2 inch b&w screen.

Seven more than WE had! Well we could get two others but they were pretty fuzzy.

Chanel 2 and 7 and we had to turn the antenna to change channels.

When TV came to our town, my neighbors got a TV. There was one channel. It was so fuzzy that even my 10-year old eyes could barely make out what was showing, though the sound was good enough to understand. They bought a “color TV adapter” which was a piece of cellophane that was blue on top, green in the middle and brown on the bottom. It stuck to the screen by static and was supposed to color the sky blue, the grass and trees green and the near ground brown. My folks held out against having a TV until after I went away to college, by which time our community could get both channels, and they were a little sharper looking than that first one, too.

Yes Virginia, even then, there were scammers.

I grew up with 7 VHF stations, but that was unusual. I lived right between DC and Baltimore and had the 3 networks in duplicate plus 1 former DuMont station.

not the wingman I would choose

Cheating on Staci, Cartoon-Boy? No wonder you’re living in a basket on the front porch….

Come on, Stephan: https://dilbert.com/strip/1989-04-17