Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 22, 2022

The crazy ones can be fun — at least in the short run.

Today’s background music: “Mama Weer All Crazee Now” by Slade (or Quiet Riot, take your pick).

You are ab-normal.

Rat needs a megaphone to compensate for all of his other shortcomings.

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Everyone is an Idiot, except for me.

I’m definitely normally crazy, which is the new normal.

I’ve been called crazy a few times.

If an insane person says you are normal— what are you?

Read the bestseller I’m Okay, You’re a &^@* @$#^ LOONEY! by noted psychologist Hope Less.

There is one crazy person in every group. If you can’t figure out which one of your friends is the crazy one, then I have some bad news for you.

Goat, manic pixie dream girls are all the rage in romantic comedies.

as has been said,if we weren’t so crazy we would be insane

Rat is a republican?

Didn’t Norman Bates say “We’re all a little crazy sometimes”?

Been reading Rudy Park, Stephan?

Now there’s a PBS where I’m totally with Rat. We are all a little bit crazy and Rat is pretty normal.

Normal as opposed to what?

Fun with the metric system: there are 1,000,000,000,000 microphones in a megaphone.

My crazy is better than your crazy.

That’s why I always carry a little box of earplugs in my pocket. You never know if one of those normal guys turns up.

Rat, the new normal :(

out of the blue a longtime buddy once told me, oh, i’ve always thought that you were quite eccentric, and i thought to myself, is eccentric better than crazy…?

Rat Opinions are like armpits we all have them ! Croc Power !

I had a friend tell me that it was OK because he could hear the voices in my head. They told me that he was lying. ;-D

Rat’s the craziest of them all.

Some may prefer to say eccentric.

Rat looks down on everyone and sees himself as a superior and holy rodent being. A perfect example of grandiosity.

I always describe my fellow cemetery guides thus: “We’re all crazy, but in a good way”.

OMG! RAT! Get a GRIP!

It’s a wonder you still have friends….

But if everyone is crazy, then crazy is normal.

Rat lost the plot when he SHOUTED.

My dad used to say “All the world is nuts but for me and thee… and sometimes I wonder about thee.”

Rat the new normal.

LMAO!

I mean Rat isn’t wrong. We all have a bit of crazy in us. Some more than others though……….

We have to say that sanity / Isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be. / Although some say it’s very bad / If someone else is a little mad, / It doesn’t matter at all to us; I, Myself, and Me.

I am quite content to be one of three, / Though Myself doesn’t think much of Me. / And as for Me, / As you can see, / He just hangs about the periphery.

We manage fine, the three of us. / Days go by with little fuss. / We’ve come to terms, we happy three, / Of I, Myself, and even Me. / Yes, we’re all fine – it’s you who’s nuts!

Crazy is as crazy does

Maniacs are the drivers who drive faster than I. Idiots the ones who drive slower.

Rat is just a little crazy. The volume adds the proper touch.

I am not a little bit crazy. I am not mildly crazed. i am so batshit insane that if i was considered dangerous they would lock me in a padded cell with a strait jacket. I am from a different reality. i decided on a whim that this was the real world, but it is NOT the one i grew up in. Several books have had their endings changed and there are some spelling idiosyncrasies. My social conduct norms do not conform to those in this world, and I remember many historical events being different then what is recorded in your history books. Many people i knew before I switched realities look completely different here, though the names are the same. My doppleganger, originally from this world must have been my twin as i often have people walk up to me recognising me though acknowledging that they haven’t seen me in close to 40 years. In my original universe i was supposed to be a physicist studying time travel, and I previously reset and restarted the present by screwing up an experiment, an after effect of which was forcing the world to start over from a point somewhere in the past. My deja vu until that was supposed to happen was strong, but i have not had deja vu in almost 20 years as the accident previously happened around 2008.

Every man eventually comes to the conclusion that all women are crazy. Sure, men are crazy, too, but male crazy and female crazy are different. Male crazy is more like attaching balloons to a lawn chair, which at least sounds fun.

“But we’re never gonna survi-i-i-ve unless we get a little bit crazy.”

He is a sage of wisdom at times; no real problem in testing the waters of a new relationship; we are definitely in unique times; not sure about him being normal though. He could at least lose the megaphone…..

Love that! Put it on a t-shirt!

Ma-mama weer all crazee now.

“The lunatic is in the hall. The lunatics are in my hall.” . . .

Afraid of la vida loca, eh Goat?

There’s a saying among the young. “Don’t date crazy.” Actually, the real saying involves the male part and crazy, but this is a family site.

Rat’s alter-ego is Ty Pennington??

From the Donald Dumpster School of Management—just shout down your opponent with insults (i.e. Teddy Cruz).

Everyone is crazy, except you and I. And sometimes, I wonder about you.

and going on the 3rd year of the pandemic alongside sedition of the Trump variant , one would be crazily sane if not being driven to the loony bin by the GOP takeover come the next plebiscite. Please help the poor old U.S. of A., we request of the gods of good and/or ill fortune, whomever or whichever can get us out of our current and ongoing ruinations.

I’ve noticed Rat never seems to interested in females, good. I don’t want to think of Rat having sex, he might reproduce.

There can’t be just one normal person. That would defy the definition.

“Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom’s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.” —Nelson Algren, A Walk on the Wild Side (1956)

My avatar is relevant!

Well, that’s one rat’s opinion.

I think rat doth protest too much

There’s a pop tune about that.

I’ve seen “normal,” it’s not for me.

♪♫ And we’re never gonna survive unless we get a little crazy ♪♫

Disagreement is part of being normal, and everyone is normal until you get to know them.

Who wants to be normal? Normal is boring.

I half-heartedly agree with Rat .

No, sorry Rat. But you’re insane. I know this because I’m crazy. But that’s okay because everyone else is insane. So I’m the only sane one in the world.

A little bit crazy can be a really good thing.

Taking Rat as the definition of “normal” has saved a lot of people from being committed to the looney bin (or whatever the “correct” term is these days)….

I may be crazy but at least I am not insane. =D

Do goats have hearts on the right side?

Loud does not mean you’re automatically correct.

Everyone is so egotistical. Except me of course, I’m too amazing.

I’m perfectly normal sips orange juice from wine glass and pretends people care

But is she happy crazy, angry crazy, or just plain out of her mind?