Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 15, 2022

And Goat learns a lesson.

Look in the mirror, Wise Ass.

wise ass kicked a dumb ass

Better to ask questions that make one look smart than to make statements that show one is stupid.

“Don’t be a wise ___ to a wise ___.”

I was wondering why it was Goat was going to see him.

For some reason this reminded me of the time when nearly the entire cast of of Pearls was in jail and Goat was the left to carry on the humor of the strip

https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2013/06/10

Me always knews Goat was a high headed show-off.

Well there’s only the two of you there. If, as the Wise Ass says, “in any meeting of people, there will .. be at least one …”, then by default it has to be Goat.

Mr. Wise Ass on the Hill, I run into those guys all the time!

FINALLY an new booting!

Then there is the guy who knows nothing about a subject and trys to baffle them with B.S.!

Goat will be landing fairly hard on his not-so-wise-ass.

Wise Ass definitely demonstrates that HE knows a few things about Kickboxing. He should add some cryptic wisdom for good measure too. How about‘Ein harter Tritt zur rechten Zeit schafft Ruhe und Gemütlichkeit’(yeah it’s german but no one understands what he says anyway)

The usefulness of a meeting is inversely proportional to the number of people present multiplied by the length of the meeting.

Boot hill.

Don’t be that guy…er…goat.

So who is the ass at the daily press conferences?

Why is the Great Wise Ass not a donkey?

I can attest this is true.

Guess he doesn’t want to be shown up.

Yeah, I hate that guy…and the one who just has to ask the last question when everyone else is ready to leave.

Hey thats why I went to grad school!. Or theguy who is constantly correcting people, though he is often wrong.

Yep

That made me laugh

The WA has spoken truth in frame #1, but revealed who he really is in frame #4. It’s lonely at the top.

Being the old curmudgeon that I am, when asked by anyone, “You know what I think?” My reply is always, “Yes. Very little.”

The great Wise Ass on the hill knew one day he’d encounter one of “those”! And seeing there’s only room for one wise ass at the top, he decided to implement the only move he could to protect his high position…..

I would rather have a proverb than a truism.

So I guess he is the Greatest Of All Time

It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

I need to find a new strip. Between Rat’s sports equipment and falling off hills, this is getting dangerous.

Now we know why Goat has never visited the Wise Ass on the Hill.

This feels like a return to the bad old days for Goat. He used to come off as so snooty and pretentious back in the 00s, I couldn’t stand him. Somewhere along the way he softened without my really noticing and now he’s my favorite character.

There was a student in one of my classes who was constantly asking questions. It was like he and the professor were having a private conversation. I finally had to tell the teacher about it. I don’t think he was very pleased, and the problem still remained. I finally had to tell the character to shut up, in class, while he was doing it again. It didn’t last very long. I finally dropped the class since I wasn’t learning anything because the professor wasn’t professing.

Next semester, that same character was in another class. I walked out and dropped it immediately. I still found enough courses to finish my Masters, although it did take a while longer than I liked.

Too much of Goat,rat&Pig.You’ve got a bigger cast than that.

Here endith the lesson…

As Linus van Pelt put it, “I’m never quite so stupid as when I’m being smart!”

https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1960/06/10

how many times must goat die

There are graduate courses in thesis writing?

Goat is the best!

Kicks like a Georgia mule.

But “inquiring minds” want to know…..

The comments in the Editorial side of GC are full of Goats with very few real Wise Asses.

Next we see Goat’s brother Niles going up the hill . . .

It’s rare to see Goat as the jerk in any situation. Nobody’s perfect.

Well, Wise Ass got that one right!

Goat takes a deserved tumble….

I like how the Wise Ass has actual hooves, while Goat has those stick limbs characteristic of most of the strip’s major characters (Rat, Pig, Goat, Zebra, the Crocs).

Did anyone else realize the connection between the symbolism of the overarching theme of the Great Wise Ass’ metaphor and the hidden subtext of the 4th panel of The Katzenjammer Kids strip of 15 June 1934 as published in the Slovakian translation in the AM edition of Mein Vasfenmeister’s Cultural section, page 15?