Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 22, 2021

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    BE THIS GUY  about 3 years ago

    There is nothing peripatetic about Pig’s life. He sits on the same spot in front of the tv day after day.

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member about 3 years ago

    I see peripatetic people every day on the streets.

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    BasilBruce  about 3 years ago

    I thought Pig was patetic enough already.

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    Kveldulf  about 3 years ago

    Pig made this comment in the course of his peregrinations.

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member about 3 years ago

    I can’t stay, I’ll be back later.

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    Cactus-Pete  about 3 years ago

    Seems like they all would’ve known about his calendar before – like in January.

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 3 years ago

    It’s good to expand your vocabulary, but not good to overdo it.

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    blunebottle  about 3 years ago

    That’s funny, my calendar says it’s Miniature Golf Day.

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    Concretionist  about 3 years ago

    I’m personally very fond of a word I learned some little while ago. It’s abso-freacking-lutely wonderful!

    tmesis

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    C  about 3 years ago

    Sagacity

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    Major Matt Mason Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Peri-pathetic.

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    Sanspareil  about 3 years ago

    It’s good that such a word can be used in such efficacious exigencies!

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    AndreasMartin  about 3 years ago

    Looked it up. So …it seems to mean ‘walking up and down while trying to look smart’. Maybe I’m missing a bit of info…

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    iggyman  about 3 years ago

    Calendar? And here I thought Pig was reading the dictionary !

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    iggyman  about 3 years ago

    That word perhaps would describe a traveling salesman!

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    Gent  about 3 years ago

    Who says you don’t learns anything from a cartoon? Me learns a new word today.

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    Stocky One  about 3 years ago

    Who’s Perry? And what makes him so pathetic?

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    Troglodyte  about 3 years ago

    If this bugs Rat, Pig has great ammo for the next 364 days! :D

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    wongo  about 3 years ago

    I dig you babe but I gotta keep moving on !

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    SALUDADOG  about 3 years ago

    Having to use the dictionary to understand a comic strip….SAD!

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    Zebrastripes  about 3 years ago

    Oy! PIG!

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    Sakura Tomoe  about 3 years ago

    Reminds me of a Calvin and Hobbes where Calvin asks Hobbes “What if someone calls us a pair o pathetic peripatetics?” and was basically just trying to be prepared to have a comeback in case that ever happened.

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    Count Olaf Premium Member about 3 years ago

    per·i·pa·tet·ic | ˌperēpəˈtedik |adjective1 traveling from place to place, in particular working or based in various places for relatively short periods: the peripatetic nature of military life.2 (Peripatetic) Aristotelian. [with reference to Aristotle’s practice of walking to and fro while teaching.]noun1 a person who travels from place to place: peripatetics have been cut under local management of schools.2 (Peripatetic) an Aristotelian philosopher.

    to save you the time looking it up (like I did) and pretending you knew it all along. You know who you are ;) …
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    unfair.de  about 3 years ago

    Pig presented a premise that led Rat to that syllogistic statement.

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    gopher gofer  about 3 years ago

    pig is more peristaltic than peripatetic…

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    cmerb  about 3 years ago

    I apologize , but I’m not going to look that word up , I just hope that someone would do it for me . Thanks : )

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    Znox11  about 3 years ago

    Why don’t you make like a tree and be peripatetic!

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    Ellis97  about 3 years ago

    Maybe you should look up the words before using them.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  about 3 years ago

    lmao .. oh PIg, you’re a unique and prone to gasconade fellow at times.

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    Kilrwat Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Do it enough and it becomes peri-pathetic.

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    benfulton2 Premium Member about 3 years ago

    What if someone calls us a pair o’ pathetic peripatetics?

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    DM2860  about 3 years ago

    I wonder how many people look up that word today.

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    Goat from PBS  about 3 years ago

    That explains how Pig knows the word “peripatetic”.

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    Altar_Ego  about 3 years ago

    How very Aristotelian of you pork-butt

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    awcoffman  about 3 years ago

    Sign up for WordThirst. Feel illiterate multiple times a day.

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    Imagine  about 3 years ago

    Being too peripatetic can be perilous. Using the word peripatetic too much is definitely perilous.

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    donwestonmysteries  about 3 years ago

    Para-pathetic.

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    txmystic  about 3 years ago

    I ascertain that Rat and Pig need to delineate their little problem:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lStcwT_RGrQ

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    198.23.5.11  about 3 years ago

    And if there is such a thing as a tartuffle,you sir,are it!!

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    WCraft Premium Member about 3 years ago

    I prefer the term “Aristotelian”

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    Kip Williams  about 3 years ago

    He used ratiocination.

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    KEA  about 3 years ago

    my, how sesquipedalian of Pig.

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    zeexenon  about 3 years ago

    Don’t you have someplace to go?

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    willie_mctell  about 3 years ago

    Aristotelian

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    andrew.scharnhorst  about 3 years ago

    It’s a perfectly cromulent word.

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    knight1192a  about 3 years ago

    Probably because he knows a word meaning tending to walk about, constantly traveling, and one who walks about (a pedestrian or an itinerant) is simply not in your normal wheelhouse, Pig. Peripatetic is just too smart a word for you without a word of the day calendar.

    And yes, I had to look up the word myself.

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    Daeder  about 3 years ago

    I think that’s para-pathetic.

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    tee929  about 3 years ago

    Can PIG “walk the walk” or does he just “talk the walk” or even “walk and talk”?

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    Darque Hellmutt  about 3 years ago

    Boy, now I’ve gotta go find a book that will tell me what that word means…

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    PaintTheDust  about 3 years ago

    Keep moving. Nothing to say here.

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    Sisyphos  about 3 years ago

    Aristotelians would probably not approve. But I’ll think it over as I stroll about the Lykeion….

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    rogthedodge1  about 3 years ago

    I was always too lazy to haul out a dictionary and look up words, but I realized that I must have missed a lot when something prompted me to look up the word “callipygous”.

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    Squirrel Chaser  over 2 years ago

    I wonder if Pastis was reading the Calvin & Hobbes strip about a “pair o’ pathetic peripatetics”? The only other place I have encountered that word.

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