Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 04, 2021

Que Sera, Sera

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Happy Independence Day, Americanos!

Don’t make such a big deal about it, Rat—it is what it is.

Twelvescore and five years ago, something happened . . .

Pimpiripettanusa-Pimpiripettipa.

Isn’t the phrase just redundant, not meaningless?

It is what a floot floot doing a boom boom on the jim jam is.

It depends on what the meaning of the word “is” is.

I like this comic for what it isn’t.

The phrase has a very definite meaning. It means it’s not any more than you see, and it’s not anything less.

I read this “at the end of the day.”

truly an overused saying but just a rehash que sera sera

Not quite Lewis Carroll …

Sometimes even “nonsense” can make some sense.

Frammin’ at the Jim-Jam, Frippin’ in the Krotz!

It means you wish it was different, but you have no control over changing it!

I don’t want fish cakes and rye bread

You heard what I said

Waiter, please serve mine fried

I want the frim fram sauce with the Ausen fay

With chafafa on the side.

:-) 4th !

Ying tong iddle I po!

But " it’s all good"

There’s no sense in expecting better from Rat. He’s not what he’s not.

Tautologies are tautological.

Hey, it is what it is

running for congress??

“Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit.”

It’s crackers to zip a roster dropsy in snide.

Just noticed that Goat appears to be a "tea person " in the morning. Its probably helps him stay mellow and calm anytime Rat does anything that would normally elevate one’s blood pressure which is probably more often than not. I am always amazed Goat tolerates Rat as they are diametrically opposite in most ways like NPR vs Fox News or Bernie Sanders and AOC vs Marjorie Greene and Mitch McConnell.

I use that expression all the time.

Would you mind not using that megaphone?

I prefer Mares eat oats and does eat oats but little lambs eat ivy. Besides somebody has to clean the boom boom off the jim jam.

Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey

A kiddley divey too, wouldn’t you?

Yes! Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey

A kiddley divey too, wouldn’t you?

Blame it on Que Sera, Sera

That’s what the mechanic said happened to my cars motor when it wouldn’t start.

“Fremmin on the jim jam. Frippin on the krottz”. – The Wizard of Id.

Another common one is “Is that you”.

shama lama ding dong…

Meh. It is what it is.

Isn’t it?

LMAO! HAPPY JULY 4TH EVERYONE!

Foxtrot had 7 puns and Pearls had none?

Rat statement in panel 5 makes as much sense as some politicians

My friend the witch doctor, he’ll tell you what to say.

It is what it ain’t !

♫ Ooh ee ooh ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang ♫

This is what it is

It be what it be.

It isn’t what it is; just sayin.

If you repeat any word enough, it becomes meaningless. Floot floot boom boom jim jam.

“I am what I am.I will leave no time for a cynic’s mind.”

I have always thought that phrase has significant meaning. I have understood it to mean that the situation is as it is, not as we want it to be. The implication is that we need to deal with the reality at hand, not the situation we wish we had.

I sure miss the crocodiles.

I yam what I yam, and dat’s what I yam.

Wrong! The correct phrase is, “The Floot Fleet Dad A Boom Beem An The Jam Jom”.

It is what it is means it’s not what it should be.

It’s something to say when one doesn’t know what to say, or would rather not say something more precise… another phrase like that is “good to know”

This is one of those comic strips where you crack up every time you think about it

Floot floots need TP

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

This makes me think of the word “existential”. It gets thrown into a lot of phrases, but what does it add? Ex: The existential problem is………… If it’s a problem, then it exists. Anyone follow me on this?

I found Rat’s little speech to be rather hinky.

He’s wrong, though. “It is what it is” succinctly expresses a few important concepts – what you see is what you get, res ipso oloquitor (in the broader sense, rather than the legal sense), “don’t cry over spilt milk”, “We have tried getting him to change his habits, but nothing changes”.

My boss says that all the time.

The floot floot did a boom boom on the jim jam! Sounds vile and disgusting to me. I love it.

Can’t quibble with the logic of a tautology, but rat is right to avoid this one.

Our Dino mayor, is FINALLY retiring…“It is what it is”, has been his go to answer to everything.

Just ignore Rat and keep using “It is what it is”, no matter what he says.

I totally agree! That makes absolutely NO sense! It’s about time someone said it!

I totally sass that hoopy frood

(for non-Hitchhiker’s Guide fans, boom along as if there were no floot here, Jim Jam)

This is one of Pastis’ more brillig strips, makes me want to gyre in the most slithy way.

Just when we thought Rat couldn’t be more of a jerk . . .

can we also put a stop to “at the end of the day” ??

“Oh, the flat foot floogie with a floy, floy”

Isn’t that how jim jams become pregnant?

Hopefully if the floot floot goes boom boom on the Jim jam someone will clean it up.

NBA speak.

Well Reality IS what it IS. The problem is that it’s NOT exactly like we think it IS.

Sounds like the Wizard of Id.

“It is what It is” (An “it” is what the Clown “It” is)…

I need to write that down so I can try it on a certain coworker, and watch her head explode (kind of like today’s Dilbert).

Would you prefer “It be’s what it be”?

NO-NO, and old wizard taught me decades ago, “Frammin at the Jim-Jam, Frippin in the Krotz.”

“and so it goes”

Snickeringly funny, with no pun? What’s the world coming to?

Was rat trying to get in touch with his inner James ("Finnegan’s Wake) Joyce?!?

When it comes to phrases I’ll stay with ones such as, “A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” AND “Waltz, nymph, for quick jigs vex Bud”!

Some people have no grasp of idiom..

Wait. What’s wrong with Rat with a megaphone?

Still better than covfefe.

Like most cliches, IIWIS is true. It’s a little different from “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.” but it’s in the same vein. The unfortunate association with EST makes it a target.

That’s how the cookie crumbles.

It means “I’m not going to lift a finger to do anything about it.”

Sounds like an incantation from the Wizard of Id. Kudos to many similar comments.

I totally support Rat. I hate the phrase “ It is what it is”.

‘At the end of the day’, ‘it is what it is’, ‘for sure’. ‘Have a good one’.

I was expecting a Fourth Of July strip.

I don’t agree. It’s a way to say that’s how it is, you can’t deny reality (unless you’re a leftist).

Back when i was young & misbehaved, whamwhams & zoomzooms were the jailhouse snack treat commodities..

Isn’t that one of the Wizard of Id’s incantations?

If it is what it is, does that mean it isn’t what it isn’t?

Oh, the flat foot floogie with a floy, floy,Flat foot floogie with a floy, floy,Flat foot floogie with a floy, floy,Floy doy, floy doy, floy doy.Yeah, yeah yeah, byah, oh, baby!Yeah, byah, byah, oh, baby!Yeah, byah, byah, oh, baby!Yeah, byah, byah!Whenever your cares are chronic,Just tell the world, "go hang, "You’ll find a greater tonic,If you go on swingin’ with the gang!Flat foot floogie with a floy, floy,Flat foot floogie with a floy, floy,Floy, floy, floy, yeah!Send me on out there!Whenever your cares are chronic,Just tell the world, "go hang, "You’ll find a greater tonic,If you go on stumblin’ with the gang!Hey, hey, hey, yes, yes!Well, all right then; get those floy-floys straight!Source: MusixmatchSongwriters: Slim Gaillard / Bud Green / Slam Stewart

ROFLMAO — So stinkin’ funny!

ka-floot floot

“Don’t cry over spilt milk” has a similar meaning, or “you can’t change the past.” I like “ it is what it is” better.

I always like saying Así es which was the name of my high school Spanish textbook and what I’m sure our teacher often thought while grading. (it loosely translates to that’s how it is or is short for Así es la vida/that’s life)

Rat is a pushy little son-of-a-gun, isn’t he? Floot, floot!

It is what is is, and it’s not what it’snot!

And a Flat Foot Floogy with a Floy, Floy to you rat! ;o)

Hut sut ralston on the riddle rock ( no idea if I spelled this even close)

Please Punctuate the Following: that that is is that that is non is not is that it it is

It goes without saying that this should go without saying.

What can I say, every once in a while, Rat actually has a point.

Splunge