Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 04, 2021

He can call himself a mixologist if he can make a decent Manhattan.

A mixologist is a glorified bartender.

A "mixologist* is a “bartender” that gets better tips. ’D

“Barista” was invented by people who were ashamed of having to work at Starbucks.

is Rat going to rub it in every time he’ll frequent to Nick’s bar… pub… tavern… whatever you call it?

There is a plethora of times I’ve used that term.

Can he mixolydian? (I dunno, hum a few bars)

https://musictales.club/article/7-songs-featuring-mixolydian-mode

Do real estate agents have a plethora of lots…?

El Guapo : Would you say I have a plethora of pinatas?

Jefe : A what?

El Guapo : A plethora.

Jefe : Oh yes, you have a plethora.

El Guapo : Jefe, what is a plethora?

Jefe : Why, El Guapo?

El Guapo : Well, you told me I have a plethora. And I just would like to know if you know what a plethora is. I would not like to think that a person would tell someone he has a plethora, and then find out that that person has no idea what it means to have a plethora.

It’s like callling yourself a sanitation engineer rather than a janitor.

Days like today are why I’m an aficionado of this strip.

I had a mixologist license for a couple years. Means I passed a state test on when to cut people off and had nothing to do with making a decent Manhattan.

People can use any description they want for themselves but the proof is in. the product…

Oh, don’t be such cranks. Neither of you even have jobs. These characters are pretty elitist sometimes.

“Escape artist? I don’t paint with the stuff! I’m an escapologist!”

When I worked as a programmer they gave us fancy titles like:

PA – Programmer Analyst

SA – System Analyst

SPA – Senior Programmer Analyst

Personally I always thought of myself as an Application Software Specialist.

After he uses the word "Plethora’he delves into the word “Dearth”

He could also add ‘psychologist’, ‘therapist’ and ‘professional poison murderer’.

Just like a sewer worker is called a “Sanitary Engineer”!

Cute strip today. It gave me a laugh. Will have to make some room on the refrigerator for a new addition.

Like an exotic dancer = stripper, domestic engineer = housewife or house husband, custodial engineer = janitor, adjunct professor = part time instructor without benefits and $h!t wages (I work with some of these good people and many colleges and universities really bone these people and a lot of them were the first ones who got cut when class enrolments dropped during the pandemic) and sewage plant worker= biological waste management engineer…..

And they only wait on hotties that use made up words like, “ginormous”.

I guess Jef the cylicst calls himself as fitness freakologist these days. Well, he a freak anyways.

Apparently, pig is the type who says “plethora.”

Words. I have the best words.

Don’t get me started on the “baristas”…

I want to draw the line at “musicologist”, but I find I cannot.

Now there’s a job for a robot.

I’m a bartender who just got a raise.

I’m a mixologist who didn’t get a raise.

Alternative compensation sucks.

Dermatologist who drives a taxi?? Taxi-Dermist

We have a few things like that in Icelandic. There was a group of people who used to be called “cleaning ladies”, but now their called “cleaning technicians”. I think the main reason for the change was money. Technicians get paid more than cleaning ladies.

Employers seem to want to give their employees important sounding titles. I guess factory worker, or bartender doesn’t sound glamorous enough.

He is a bartender who is also a pretentious git.

Soldier instead of cannon fodder.

Polysyllabic verbosity provides the mixologist a rationalization to bluster.

He and Jef the Cyclist should team up.

Plethora pants look just like leather from a distance, on a cloudy day.

You just made that up to make you sound smart.

Pretty much.

Used to be a secretary now an executive assistant. Same paycheck for the fancy title.

Open season on a good vocabulary.

I don’t do mixed drinks much. Give me a bartender who can put a pint of beer in a 16 oz glass.

Plethora is a better substitute for lots than is tons. I hate when, on an HGTV show where they say the windows let in TONS of light. That’s as absurd as gallons of apples or miles of pudding.

I’m a ‘myriad’ man myself.

There was a super market chain around here that called their butchers “meat preparation specialists”. They actually had that spelled out on their hats. Cracked me up every time I shopped there.

He’s the one who says utilize in place of use. Don’t waste my time, Squirrel-bait!

A “mixologist” is a bartender who:

1) Wears a huge beard & ironic hat

2) Only knows how to make the various “martini” drinks the hipsters so seem to dig (and that have nothing to do with a martini except the glass they’re served in), and

3) Neither tells jokes nor laughs at yours.

One of my favorite changes in titles was for the Graphics department where I worked to “Visual Communications.” Followed a few weeks later by the change of “Maintenance” to “Facility Operations”. I believe this all started back in the 70s when they changed the “Personnel” departments of various companies and organisations to “Human Resources”.

Meh. Just another artiste.

My father, long since retired, has decided to start working from home during the pandemic. What does he do, now? He is a bartender.

At least there’s no fourth panel. Pastis couldn’t help but trot out “Thanks, that means a lot”.

https://punstoppable.com/plethora-puns

A “mixologist” is a millennial version of a bartender

Pastis uses lots of pun plethora! ;o}

So where did garbage men calling themselves ‘sanitation engineers’?

Had a dad who frequented a bar called Don’s Tavern. It wasn’t fun having an alcoholic dad, but it made me disdainful of ever going into a bar and drinking….which was a good thing. I have a low opinion of all bars as a result.

Hey, c’mon! ‘Plethora’ is an AWESOME word!

He’ll probably be elected to Congress in New York.

The answer is indubitably in the affirmative.

It all started back when stewardesses became flight attendants.

Oui…..

I once knew an arrogant mixologist / who looked down on us barkeeps, the lot of us. / What we did with his title / Made it quite vital / That he seek the aid of a proctologist.

Back in the 1970s Dear Old Mom worked at some taverns in Glendale, NY. Most of her daytime customers were retirees whose idea of a “mixed drink” was a shot of Fleischman’s Whiskey & a Rheingold chaser. One day she got stick with a rookie who had graduated from “bartending school” & who insisted on being called a “mixologist”. The guy didn’t last more than two days!

I have a plethora of comments concerning my mixology abilities, however, sadly I feel they would not be welcomed here at this time.

I love the word ‘plethora’ and use it when I can. I guess I’m one of those people. But that’s okay ~ my friends and family put up with me.

I prefer words which are sesquipedalian.

IIRC, the practice can be traced to Napoleon, who passed out fancy titles instead of promotions.

he got the title instead of a raise

There’s a distinct dearth of humor in this strip.

Internet Influencer.

Indubitably.

I just dinged an author on a book review I wrote for repeatedly using cerulean. There are other ways to say blue. Another word in novels that bugs me is sallow. Does anyone ever use sallow in real life? I was in law enforcement for 26 years and heard complexions described often, (light, dark, pale, pasty, acned, Hispanic, etc.) but never as sallow. Would you recognize a sallow complexion if you saw one?

The difference is one charges twice as much for the same drink.

He’s mixed up.

I don’t trust mixologists. I drink straight on the rocks.

What if one has lots of pleths?

Better title is ‘pompous arse’,

“Plethora” has the connotation of “excessive” — a very large amount of something, usually more than is needed or can be used. “A lot” does not have it.

I can’t decide if Rat is the voice of reason or harsh reality.

I mean, if that was my job I would definitely prefer to wake up every morning as a mixologist!

I love the word “plethora”. Sounds so much more precise and elegant than “lots”. So, call me an elitist!

I am proud to call myself a “mixedupologist”.

I like the expressive glasses.

If you don’t want a conflagration in your edifice, you’ll shave, use deodorant, brush your teeth, put on a tuxedo, move to the other side of the bar, and get us bowls of popcorn.

OK, let’s see that diploma.

One’s accurate, one’s merely PC to make it sound more important. Surprised he didn’t claim to be a mix engineer

What kind of martini would rat drink?

What do we call him if he can FIND a decent Manhattanite?

Neighbor Nick (did Bob die again?) works in one of those trendier places the younger crowd fancies. He is a mixologist. When he is old, decrepit, and working for minimum wage and tips in a neighborhood bar, he will revert to “bartender”….

Why stick to a limited amount words when our language is so descriptive? Go for a wild, large vocabulary and keep conversation interesting!

Bulbous bouffant! Plethora! Macadamia! Bamboozle!

http://www.wepsite.de/bulbous%20bouffant.mp3

If he says plethora for “lots” he’s doubly off. Plethora means “too many” not many.

I prefer a whiskey-loving Irish gal who’s on a cocktail voyage of discovery. TRY to guess who.

As in…a plethora of puns… ;)

Is this the same guy that appeared a few strips earlier?