Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 31, 2024

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    BE THIS GUY  9 months ago

    Pig can go to the Toy "Я"Us® at Mall of America®

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    BasilBruce  9 months ago

    And Baskin-Robbins only exists in certain Dunkin shops, and only has 12 flavors at most.

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    TaliesinWI  9 months ago

    And Weight Watchers is now WW and will prescribe you Ozempic instead of teaching you how to put down the fork.

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    sirbadger  9 months ago

    Did KFC change its name, because it didn’t want to pay royalties to the state of Kentucky?

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    diazch408  9 months ago

    Ignorance can be bliss for a reason, Pig!

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    Concretionist  9 months ago

    Life is change, how it differs from the rocks.

    — Jefferson Airplane (taken, however, from an SF story)

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    Picccaaaaso  9 months ago

    Dunkin’ Donuts changed its name? Huh.

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    comic4matt  9 months ago

    Pig, take a trip up north… We still have Toys R Us, in Canuck-Land

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    Cornelius Noodleman  9 months ago

    So is my brother.

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    I need a burrito  9 months ago

    Toys r us still exists in other countries other than the US

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    cracker65  9 months ago

    The only thing that stays the same is everything changes. Tracy Lawrence. This explains the conflict in society at this time period in history.

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    priyansh.jeziel  9 months ago

    And with the name changes, the quality, (with perhaps the exception of Dunkin Doughnuts) also took a serious “shortening”.But, focus groups and the advertising agencies involved, must have saw that the ‘new’ names would appeal to the same groups that have replaced the spelling of words ending in the letter “s”, with the much more ’progressive" letter “zed”.

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    NullUnit60  9 months ago

    “Star Wars” killed Toys ‘R’ Us.

    Change my mind.

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    James Wolfenstein  9 months ago

    Pig is right. Life has changed a lot! So, I went out there to become the “old me”… turns out I cannot afford “me” anymore… :D

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    blunebottle  9 months ago

    He found his old reliable haunt. His bed.

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    Gent  9 months ago

    That nothing Pig. Just waits till you sees what happen to all those beloved Hollywood franchises of yours.

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    John Smith  9 months ago

    Pig would probably feel better with some new bedding from his local Bed, Bath & Beyond store.

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    cdward  9 months ago

    We have a Dairy Queen in town, and the sign still says Dairy Queen.

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    jel354  9 months ago

    Not like Pig could get cheese at any of those places anyway.

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    bignatefantic2.0  9 months ago

    They have Toys ‘R’ Us in Macy’s though

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    Zykoic  9 months ago

    JC Pennys NOOOOOOO!

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  9 months ago

    And you’re just a few steps from being bacon, ham, pork chops, and pig knuckles.

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    KageKat  9 months ago

    Emotional eating won’t help anyway, Pig.

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    The Orange Mailman  9 months ago

    At least there is still KMart.

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    mrwiskers  9 months ago

    The only constant is change.

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    Skeptical Meg  9 months ago

    Junk food, by any other name, is still as bad for you.

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    cmerb  9 months ago

    I wonder if anyone of them are still owned by American Company’s anymore ?

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    Goat from PBS  9 months ago

    The moral of the story: People are too lazy to say names longer than two syllables or three letters.

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    Ellis97  9 months ago

    Well it just so happens that Toys R Us recently reopened as a section in Macys. Joke’s on you, Rat! Unfortunately, only two flagship Toys R Us stores are in the Mall of America in both New Jersey and Minnesota.

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    Ellis97  9 months ago

    Pig, it’s not that big of a deal. The names have been abbreviated, but they’re still the same ones that we know and love.

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    rgulyash  9 months ago

    I think it had something to do with banjos??

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    Snolep  9 months ago

    Pig is clearly not a Buddhist. Pain comes from trying to cling to stuff and not accepting impermanence..

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    JonGl Premium Member 9 months ago

    Don’t tell him about Pizza Hut…

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    Dapperdan61  Premium Member 9 months ago

    At least we still have Chuck E. Cheese

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    aerotica69  9 months ago

    I guess we just had more time to use complete names back in the 70’s.

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    ladykat  9 months ago

    Sorry, Pig.

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    skyriderwest  9 months ago

    Depends where you live. There are 81 Toys R Us locations in Canada, and we have Tim Hortons, not Dunkin.

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    markkahler52  9 months ago

    Glad when American Baked Bald Eagles changed to ABBEs. Much easier to say and spell!

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    hoffquotes2  9 months ago

    Except for toys are us, no change?

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    WCraft Premium Member 9 months ago

    Well then, I’ll just pop over to Mr. Donut for a white cake donut with sprinkles. Then stop by Block Buster and check out a few movies!

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    Tetonbil  9 months ago

    Not to mention all the smaller stores and shops that all know longer around thanks to the great Vid 19 reset.

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    Ken Otwell  9 months ago

    Pig ain’t wrong.

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    Brilliant_Birdie   9 months ago

    What are they Dunkin’ now?

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    cfkelley  9 months ago

    KFC replaced the Colonel’s distinctive rub/batter mix with something that renders the chicken as indistinct from that of most other fried chicken joints.

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    patrickab7  9 months ago

    WE FEAR CHANGE.

    -Garth Algar

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    John Jorgensen  9 months ago

    I recently met a bartender who works in the building that once housed my original favorite watering hole when I first came to town back in 2016. Back then it was a casual dining chain restaurant, very reasonably priced even before I became a regular and they started giving me little breaks on everything. It closed for years and now it’s a fancy pants steakhouse, very expensive.

    The bartender encouraged me to come hang out one of these nights and I’m thinking how familiar and yet how simultaneously strange it will feel to sit at that bar again after all these years: the same but different.

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  9 months ago

    If you have a really strong magnifying glass,you can still find Arthur Treacher’s Fish N’Chips

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    Bilan  9 months ago

    How about they create Dunkin’ Kentucky Dairy Toys?

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    zeexenon  9 months ago

    My angst is trying to find out online if Dunkin sells a variety box in Drive Through.

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    Quentin1992  9 months ago

    When my husband was in High School some 55 years or so ago he worked at KFC. At that time it was called Colonel Sanders. To this day I still call it that and my grandkids are never sure what I’m talking about.

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    James Lindley Premium Member 9 months ago

    Dunkin doesn’t make the doughnuts at the individual stores anymore either. They’re frozen and shipped to the stores. They also don’t taste like doughnuts anymore, just fried bread.

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    pcmcdonald  9 months ago

    And long gone A & W and Bob’s Big Boy in my home town.

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    awcoffman  9 months ago

    Try Sears.

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    dlaemmerhirt999  9 months ago

    To be fair: Toys R Us is OPENING stores again! Guess their bankruptcy helped ’em out. <3

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    AndrewSihler  9 months ago

    Bringing joy wherever he goes.

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    Cameron1988 Premium Member 9 months ago

    TOYS ‘R’ US was expensive. I don’t feel the least bit bad for them going out of business

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    pamela welch Premium Member 9 months ago

    Yes Pig, it is indeed ♥♥ Here’s a hug to make it better ♥

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    miztrniceguy  9 months ago

    It was widely referred to as KFC by the gen pop long before the name change.

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    eddi-TBH  9 months ago

    All three were saving money on new signs.

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    elgrecousa Premium Member 9 months ago

    If you don’t die soon enough, you’re dead anyway since you can’t relate to the society you live in.

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    Ugly, Fat and Crabby  9 months ago

    At least you can still watch the TV shows from when you were a kid, er, I mean piglet, as long as you pay the cable bill.

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    drwaldron  9 months ago

    My grandparents just called it Kentucky Colonel. Just as Girl Scout Cookies don’t contain Girl Scouts, this didn’t contain any Colonels (that was never proven). Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy’s was a protege of the Colonel in the early days.

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    PeteBroccolo  9 months ago

    Toys R Us USA closed, but not the Canadian stores.

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    geekboy_x  9 months ago

    Huh. I was at Toys R Us to pick up some LEGO yesterday. Same amazing selection as always.

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    Swirls Before Pine  9 months ago

    I’m writing this at Chock Full Of Nuts.

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