Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 06, 2022

But what kind of books? Are they revised history by Bill O’Reilly? Then you’re just making them dumber.

How long will it take them to eat all those books?

I hope Rat has also put “Maus” inside the box.

I know plenty of people who are plenty “book smart” but are still as dumb as a Republican. In fact, some of them ARE Republicans…

They can read?

Dialog from a fiction:

kid: "I’m bored!

captain: “Well, do something. How about reading a book?”

kid: “I read a book last year. I’m sooooooo bored!”

what doesn’t look smart is no air holes in The Magic Box o’ Smartness

There’s a group of people in Tennessee who would burn that box of books. They have no use for “Smartness.”

Rats. It a disguised book club. How to open book? Do it your-shelves, fellers.

Reminds me of the movie Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto by Hiroshi Inagaki. Weird.

“Aaaargh! Help! Help! There’s lotsa silverfish in this musty old box full of books. Lemme outta here!”

There’s also an entire building downtown that will make you even smarter.

I found two more who should go in the box: https://www.gocomics.com/herman/2022/02/06?ct=v&cti=164337

The Magic Box O’ Smartness reminds me of school.

Boy, they ARE dumb. Ya gotta set up a password and check the “I agree” box before the book will open. Then, second page will be “Subscribe”.

If only…

Shouldn’t it be The Magic Box of QAnon Smartness

There’s another way. Once they’re inside, ship the box overseas. On average, we’ll be smarter over here :D

Never trust a Rat ! Larry Croc your wife is calling ;-)

For once, Rat has the right idea!!

No beer? How very unratlike

I think that Box O’Smartness could use a little tune up.

I click on my books.

Good morning Steph, thank you for setting a great example for all people.

1) How can they read in the dark? 2) Are there air holes in that box?

With teachers leaving their profession “en mass”, who will teach the children?

RAT?

Drinking beer makes you smart. After all, it made Bud wiser.

I don’t think “education” is the right word. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I have heard schools are replacing analog clocks with digital clocks because students don’t know how to read analogs. Apparently teaching kids how to read analog clocks is too difficult, smh.

Toss in all the banned books

And the many postage stamps ton the top are part of the education. You’ll love Guma…er…Guam.

I don’t have much trouble OPENING the book as turning the pages. I ALWAYS lost at “Bible Races.”

A new Pearl record. Taking a sweeping social commentary and making it partisan in the very first comment. Until we get past us and them we can’t be “We The People”. Box of smartness should start with a lesson on civility!

I guess you could call it natural selection…..

How do they read books in the dark?

Yay, Stephan! Let’s celebrate books!

“Hey, all these words are upside down. Don’t you have some left-handed books or something?”

The Box of Stupid People, 2022 edition.

Pathetic Murphy & Aint Beetle Bailey are in the box….You’re going to need a BIGGER box!

Not what Schrödinger had in mind

Wait a minute. Wasn’t Rat the one who ridiculed book groups as a complete waste of time? I got the impression he’d do anything before cracking a book.

Whoopie Goldberg could use this and a few books about the Holocaust.

Tech support for reading. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ

Last panel-so sad, so true.

Hey, where’s the power switch on these things?

https://www.flixxy.com/medieval-tech-support.htm

…inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read!

They have no idea about the toxic glue, carbon dioxide buildup, and no light will put them swiftly into a near death experience. We will chant “go to the light” for a half hour.

Desperate measures make for desperate times…

hehe thinning the herd.

The way it is going in some states, kids are not going to have any books left to read

Bit of a reminder I’m gonna have to dig out a book or six for something I’m working on. Sure I can look it up online, but in this case I’d trust a few books for what I need.

Is there some light in there as well?

Don’t you just press the power on button?

To be enlightened, they might need a light.

“Outside of a box, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a box, it’s too dark to read.”

—Groucho Marx, more or less

“How do you open a book?”- there’s an app for that …

Reading is good. But isn’t it a bit dark for reading when sealed in the “Magic Box O’ Smartness”? Should we then bring our own flashlights, Rat, like when we read under the covers in bed when we were young?

Toss in GONE WITH THE WIND and DR.ZHIVAGO,then nail the lid shut.

How can they read anything in the dark?