Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 06, 2024

Rat still emails? That’s very 2004.

So that’s a coffee bag in Goat’s mug?

point taken Rat!

Thinking about how to phrase a response is the hard part.

Tea. Goat’s drinking tea. Please be more careful next time!

Yet Goat falls into the Rat trap.

Took me longer to read the ’toon than reply. Just saying.

Maybe Rat expected a more elaborate answer than this, which maybe will take longer than four seconds.

Coffee sip? From a mug with a tea bag?

Ha. Rat is expose you is a feelthy liar Goat.

It is likely tea, but a quick search found several brands of instant coffee bags that look and are used exactly like tea, so it might be coffee look up Folgers Coffee Singles Classic Roast Coffee Bags.

Goat should’ve sent a “Thumbs Up” emoji, at the very least… :D

Setting up an autoreply takes a little longer, but you can amortise it over many emails/.

Why don’t Goat and Rat just TALK?! They’re sitting right there!

Its coffeftea.

Rat, if you keep up the pedantic behavior, someone’s gonna slap you.

Time for Goat to learn auto-reply.

At least takes a few seconds to receive emails and text messages. I don’t receive voicemails for two or theee days.

He’s assuming that goat always has his phone close at hand and is attentive to it.

Tea, actually. Goat drinks tea.

An acknowledgement isn’t really a response. A response takes much longer. If Rat just wants to know if Goat got the email, he should set the notify when read option if his email has that.

A short reply to Rat is “Buzz off!”

Not everyone has their phone in hand at all times. Expecting an immediate response is unreasonable

BEAN THERE DONE THAT

Let me get this straight ………… Rat is teaching Goat good manners?

What next? A room temperature winter day in Canada? Oops, just had one.

I think I’ll emigrate to the USA so I can support that fine Statesman Trump in his quest to overthrow the Biden dictatorship!

Three seconds to kick Rat’s butt out the door…

anal

Many emails, text messages, and comments don’t really need a response.

As a truck driver, I do not need to read, or respond to the emails my company sends me. It truly is a blessing to not know everyone at the trucking terminal has thoughts on everything.

If a real person that I know takes the time to write an email to me I feel it is simply a sign of respect to acknowledge receipt even if I have nothing more to say. Conversely, if I took the time to write a personal email and don’t receive a reply, I don’t send them email anymore.Which may be what they want.

Coffee? Since when do I drink coffee? I drink tea.

I’m terrible at responding to emails in a timely manner. Which is especially problematic because I’ve recently taken on the duties of corresponding secretary in an organization I belong to.

Of course, I wouldn’t actually write “Thanks. Got your email.” A response that’s got enough substance to it to be useful can justify a longer lag time.

I am Rat in that.

My Wisconsin brother visited Cook Island, and responded to my (also Wisconsin) Message in seconds. (As a long retired AT&T engineer, I had first checked to learn they have both coax and fiber cables and well networked. We old managers never die, we just smell that way.)

Is Rat understudying for King Gama in Gilbert & Sullivan’s Princess Ida?

Have a coffee maker that uses those plastic things. Got a gold screen holder that goes where the plastic things do. Use my regular coffee in it brews 8 to 12 once’s at a time. Or tea if creep thing empty and tag bag in cup.

Coffee bags been around for about 30 years. Don’t even come close to the real deal, in my humble opinion . . . my two cents!

You can buy reusable containers for Keurig-type machines.