Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 08, 2022

At least they weren’t in the ignition.

Rat actually has a point; Pig could have simply said, “No, I haven’t.”

I always put things where I looked for them first. It’s a surprisingly good technique.

That is in fact exactly how I find things I’ve set down without putting my attention on where I did it. I just run my path backward and look around, emphasizing my usual spots. And if that doesn’t work, I have a pretty darn good fall back…

“Honey, do you know where I put the blivit down?”

Dangerous to ask Rat logical questions.

Whenever I’m looking for something, I always keep looking for it after I’ve found it so I can argue with anyone who says things are always in the last place you look.

I’m with Rat on this, that drove me nuts when my Dad would say that to me as a kid!

I just can’t envision Rat behind the wheel – not even if he’s a dirty Rat.

years ago a little child went running and tearing around the house yelling ‘damn it, damn it’. When queried what in the world she was doing, responded ’I’m lookin looking for my car keys just like Momma does.’ Little pitchers with those big eyes and ears leave us with no shame.

I always find what I lost in the last place I look!

Road Rage Rat coming up next ! Watch out for that Rat Bat ;-)

If Rat is on the road be afraid!

I misplace everything, so I can’t say a thing!

Rat has a car? Look out!

Your coffee mug is here with me. It dropped out of the panel and landed on my laptop.

Look in the 3rd panel, Pig.

Too bad Rat is a key part of this strip.

Rat could be a bit more grateful.

Most of my time is spent looking for things I had just a moment ago.

“What do they look like?”“Keys! They look like keys!”

Yes Pig, third panel. ;-)

I’ve tried looking in the last place first, but I always tear a hole in the fabric of time.

I hate looking for things, so every item has a limited number of places where I leave them. This fails during a home move, two years in and I’m still looking.

Like the lost car keys, the lost coffee mug will be in the last place you look. Funny how that works out.

When someone asks me: “Have you seen my _____?” I always reply: “The last time I used your _____ I….wait….I never use your_____.”

I’m not a very popular person.

Rat: where did you see your cup last?

Everything is in the LAST place I look.

Pig, look for the puddle of coffee on the floor.

The last place you look will be where you found what you lost, so you stopped looking. ~ Yogi

Heck, I have a hard time finding the wrench I just had in my hand.

I guess push-button start didn’t solve the lost key issue.

Things are always in the last place you look. By definition: Once you found it, you won’t look anymore.

I always precede that with, “Have you asked yourself the Stupid Question?”

Because the Stupid Question is what helps you backtrack and figure out where you went AFTER you last saw the thing.

But knowing the last place you saw them can help restrict the search. If it was in the bedroom, check there. If it was on the end table next to the sofa where you watch TV, check the refrigerator.

My mother used to do that. She would say “Where did you have it last?” or “Where did you see it last?”. Used to make me so mad. So I started to tell her the same stupid thing when she asked me about something she lost. She did not like it then.

Rat is such an asshole

Try in the path of Rat’s invective, Pig.

I can’t stand it when people say, “They’ll be in the last place you look.” What kind of idiot finds something and then keeps looking for it?

I always check the fridge

This is a little bit like the Garfield comic where Jon told Garfield that he looked and looked but couldn’t find his keys anywhere, while a bunch of clinking and clanking sounds are heard, which prompted Jon to ask what that noise was, while Garfield asked him if he checked the dryer.

There are certain things, keys among them, which I’ve gotten in the habit of always leaving in the same place at home. I can always find them.

There are other things, with no regular spot, which I lose track of with no idea of where I saw them last. Or if I do think I remember, they aren’t there now.

Of course, unless the person I ask has actually seen them, or can see them right now, they can’t help. Generalized advice on searching won’t do me any good.

Hey, it’s a fair question, Rat. I just always answer it with some variation of “I don’t remember”.

Rat always makes fun of the obvious simple solution, until it works.

Which is why I put my key, wallet, and phone in the same place all the time.

Why is it that you always find things in the last place you look? Because after you find them, you don’t look anymore.

I never got the expression ‘it was in the last place I looked’. I always thought it meant ‘it was in the last place I would think of looking’. Right now I’m looking for a remote that my 2.5 yr old grandson made dissappear. Wish me luck.

Answer to Pig in the last panel: check the floor for a large coffee stain/spill. Your mug should be close by.

I hold my coffee mug by the handle.

I always look in the first place I was when I had them.

Have you ever noticed the uniquely human tendency to stop looking once they’ve found it.

In my experience, I check in the places I left the things, and they’re not there.

After I’ve torn the house apart looking in all the unlikely places, and given up and bought new ones of the missing things, then, an hour or a day or a week later, I happen to once again look in the places where I left the things, and they’ve mysteriously reappeared.

I think there must be an as yet unformulated principle of quantum physics that dictates that the act of searching for an object creates a wormhole through which the object falls into next week.

I keep telling my wife to quit moving my stuff and putting in back in the exact same place!

Things I lose always turn out to be where I put them.

Usually it’s a case of “How in the heck did they get there?”. The best one I ever saw was when my ex-wife lost her car keys for over a week, finally finding them in a box of breakfast cereal. Retracing one’s steps works best, except in the case of “Oh yeah, I forgot I went into the kitchen too”.

I always check the freezer…

Rat’s pathetic.

I know one or two people who disprove Rat’s comment in the third panel. Always drive me nuts having me search for their whatever and half the time it’s where they last saw it. But it couldn’t be there.

Technically, Rat is what you call “a blowhard”!

Your cup should be on the floor near where you dropped it when blasted by Rat, Pig….

One time I found my wallet in the microwave. Which is odd because I usually leave it in the Dishwasher.

I spent a half hour looking for my phone. My nose started itching and when I went to scratch it, I bopped my nose with my phone that somehow appeared in my hand.

I can HEAR the yelling

I lost my virginity long ago and never found it again. But, as an Old Fart, I’ve replaced it with my 2nd virginity. But at least I can enjoy my 2nd childhood!

If I could only remember where I saw my keys last once in a while, this would not be a problem!

I put my car keys in my pants pocket. Then I never take off my pants.

Lol on the couch

Whenever I find what I’m looking for, I keep looking. That way, it won’t be in the last place I looked.

For my 2nd attempt, I will say this. Have you ever spent several hours or even days trying to find something. You retrace your steps, sit in a chair with eyes closed and concentrate solely on trying to remember where you left that item but cannot remember anything. Then, when you do find it, you instantly remember exactly what you were doing and exactly how it ended up where you found it. Why couldn’t I dig up those memories earlier?