Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 24, 2023

The guy who wrote this definition must spend a lot of time on NY Mets Twitter.

We need to see twitter now

Internet: a place where every once in a while someone actually goes to learn something.

But accurate.

Intercourse: What the Internet was created to prevent.

(And it applies to both kinds.)

The internet was great from ’82 to ’92.

They used to call it “playground.”

“It’s a series of tubes.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes#Partial_text_of_Stevens’s_comments

1 percent knowledge, 99 percent giant cesspool of mindless drivel.

The Internet is a place?

The internet is, as once described about TV, a vast wasteland!

See also: “Middle Management”

QAnon

Why didn’t he simply look it up on the internet?

Was someone mean to Mr. Pastis on Twitter again?

When I was young you went to a Library for information …. Now one goes to the Internet ;-)

surprisingly unshocking… :\

I thought that was QAnon-or the Federalist Society?

I’m unhappy with all of these Internet and social media jokes.

The meaning of INTERNET is an electronic communications network that connects computer networks and organizational computer facilities …

I would say pig’s definition fits some on social media.

Internet: Where common sense goes to die.

Interesting he finds a modern definition of it… in an old book.

<https://xkcd.com/627/>

Computer trouble shooting guide.

I’d define the Internet as somewhere you can look up high resolution images and videos.

The internet provides access to art visible and invisible. Like the 3 "B"s Bach, Haydn and Beethoven.

(G# was called B in German.)

“I Find Social Media to be a Soul-Sucking Void of Meaningless Affirmation.”

Wednesday Addams

This has become the a rather negative site, just sampled my FB page, one nice post after another.

Makes sense to me.

Internet : a means of ending all human civility and civilization.

If you choose to live in the wasteland, it’s your fault you are missing the fountain of knowledge, learning, and great entertainment that the internet can provide. As with everything in life, ignore the sh*t, embrace the best, it’s on the web, in abundance

I miss when this comic wasn’t so whiney.

I call it the “Outrage Factory”

It is (for some people) where you can say what you think, without getting ounched in the mouth.

The original intention got lost in translation…

I find the internet helpful when I’m looking for information. I belong to several FB groups with people who share my interests. The only reason I know what some of my cousins are up to is through their FB posts. Same with some of my ex-coworkers. Overall I’m very grateful for the internet. The only negative thing was when I was playing Spades online and so many of the players were really poor sports. I gave up on that group but found a group of very pleasant Bridge players where I go to from time to time.

Its good for looking up how to fix things, which takes me to YouTube videos where I can watch how to fix things

I think those who are still publishing print dictionaries are probably pretty bitter toward the Internet.

Like walking down a dark alley on the wrong side of the tracks. BEWARE!

true….so true 10/10

I consider it a utility, just like the telephone (where you can make hate calls and death threats, but you can also call your friends, make appointments and do business).

Except on the comics page, where we are all happy and well adjusted.

C’mon Stephan, it can’t be that bad as a Creator…

Modern day Tower of Babel where the weight of words from fools and queens arrive with the same gravity, true or no…

I think Pigs encyclopedia is just referring to the ‘social media’ part of the internet where the “TROLLS” and bullies thrive.

Pig is consulting one of those spineless “whatever the masses say it is, it is” dictionaries. No “normative” allowed, these days….

Looks like an unhappy dictionary publisher was blowing off some frustration…

Where humanity goes to die.

There’s another subtext: Rat’s sarcastic suggestion for Pig to go look it up in a dictionary says a lot about our overdependence on pseudoauthoritative articles, blogs, news aggregators, etc. By contrast, the humble dictionary is the result of years of work by trained specialists with the financial support of publishing entities. Food for thought. Thanks, Rat!

Thank you, Mr. Pastis, for shining a bright light on dictionaries. Signed, a translator. :)

I would add certain state legislatures and Governors to that definition.