Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 01, 2024

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    BasilBruce  4 months ago

    Judge not, lest others point out what a jerk you are.

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    hariseldon59  4 months ago

    This is as bad as the time when Pig bought a can of dolphin-free tuna and expected to find a free dolphin inside.

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    ronaldspence  4 months ago

    What’s that up in the road? A head?

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    tudza Premium Member 4 months ago

    I expect Lojban has a structure to make this sentence’s meaning perfectly clear.

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    Bilan  4 months ago

    Judgment is the most free commodity in the world today.

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    lavender headgear  4 months ago

    It should be “free judgement zone.” I’m blowing the grammar whistle on Stephan.

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    iggyman  4 months ago

    Look to yourself before you judge others, Rat!

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    syzygy47  4 months ago

    Yeah, I know. I tried to pick myself up a bottle of Pepsi Free but the cashier insisted I pay.

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    sbenton7684  4 months ago

    It can be more precise. Rat has just made a decision to confuse pig.

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    wesleylscott1  4 months ago

    Rat must work at Planet Fitness, the home of The Judgement Free Zone.

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    Ermine Notyours  4 months ago

    I was driving my dad through a traffic jam on the approach to a former toll bridge. He asked, “They call this a free way?” I answered, “Yes, because they don’t charge a toll any more.”

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    Purple People Eater  4 months ago

    One thing that could be more precise (or perhaps, more consistent) is spelling. It doesn’t make sense that cough, though, and bough don’t rhyme, but though, no, and sew do.

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    Chalres  4 months ago

    I once heard that French was the preferred language for international contracts “because it is possible to specify exactly who does what to whom”. Not that it isn’t possible to write ambiguously (court cases over the meaning of the placement of a comma, anyone?), but that it is possible to write *un*ambiguously.

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    cdward  4 months ago

    This is the slogan of the gym, Planet Fitness. I go to a Planet Fitness, and at least there are no Rats.

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    Gent  4 months ago

    Eh no wonders why me is never going to understandeeng Engleeessh.

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    Algolei I  4 months ago

    The other day someone was explaining to me what an outbuilding was, and how he had to go into the outbuilding to get things. “Into the outbuilding.” Well I’m sorry but that’s just wrong.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  4 months ago

    lame

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    Ellis97  4 months ago

    Well then in that case, Rat, you’re a narcissistic, selfish, horrible and despicable rodent being and we’d all be better off without you.

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    happyinvenice23  4 months ago

    Morning Step, you sent rat to trump University for a personality, didn’t you!

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    Aimless Melissa   4 months ago

    The language is not a problem. The issue is how the language is used.

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    [Traveler] Premium Member 4 months ago

    I asked if it was gluten free and they said no, I had to pay for it

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    Doug K  4 months ago

    There may be no charge for his judgment …

    … but many he judges pay a price (to how they feel about themselves)

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    Slowly, he turned...  4 months ago

    It is until it aint.

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    Tom  4 months ago

    Actually, it is more precise. If the sign meant that one won’t be judged in this area, then it would read “Judgment-Free Zone”.

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    uniquename  4 months ago

    That would take a lot of the fun out of it, Pig.

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    Steverino Premium Member 4 months ago

    With indoor plumbing, you have an inside outhouse.

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    DaBump Premium Member 4 months ago

    Saw that coming, eh?

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    Goat from PBS  4 months ago

    A nickel? Such a specific price… LUCY!

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    iggyman  4 months ago

    A foreign gentleman visited the USA for a short time to see how Americans live. He said “They are weird, they barbecue and eat outside, but do their business inside” !

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    Wilson Lumley  4 months ago

    Before you judge a man, you should walk a mile in his shoes. That way you’re a mile away, and you have his shoes.

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    mindjob  4 months ago

    Now I’m having second thoughts about those pesticide-free vegetables I buy

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    Chris Edington Premium Member 4 months ago

    Brilliant

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    FGWaiss  4 months ago

    He’s right on this. Every time I see a sign saying the (mall, hospital, clinic, etc.) is a “Smoke Free Facility,” I think that could mean cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, are being given away.

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    zwilnik64  4 months ago

    Adjective order is important, Rat. Judgement free isn’t the same as free judgement.

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    jel354  4 months ago

    I hope rat realizes that it works both ways and judgement can be thrown back.

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  4 months ago

    I agree with Pig about our language.

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    Katje  4 months ago

    Pig and Pastis have a lot in common… :D

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    wellis1947 Premium Member 4 months ago

    I think you’ve stumbled across one of the major problems with trying to express yourself using only the sounds your mouth makes or that can be expressed in 26 letters, Pig…

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    zeexenon  4 months ago

    Either a nickle or free, you get for which you pay. (Oh, hail, all those English credits.)

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    cactusbob333  4 months ago

    It is kind of fun to go up to the information desk in a building that has a sign “smoke free environment”, and ask what brands they carry.

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    Ginny Premium Member 4 months ago

    Pastis is a treasure.

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    KEA  4 months ago

    Yes. The reason I prefer Latin.

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    brick10  4 months ago

    I figured it would be, “No judgement, just a factual description.”

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    Pedmar Premium Member 4 months ago

    This is what I’ve been talking about for a while now. This is why we need hyphens “judgment free” and “judgment-free” do not mean the same thing! Use those hyphens, people! I don’t care if you’re using the on-screen keyboard on your phone. Punctuation exists for a reason.

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    Buoy  4 months ago

    Don’t even get me started on homographs; and no, that does not refer to homosexual graphic artists.

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    pamela welch Premium Member 4 months ago

    Aww, poor pig, he was so happy ♥♥

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    Knucklehead  4 months ago

    unfollowed. I tried but this guy is perpetually negative about everything.

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    unfair.de  4 months ago

    This would make a series on Fox.

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    I'm Sad  4 months ago

    Rat + Lucy = Perfect Marriage or they would be successfully rich in their respective fields.

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    aussie399 Premium Member 27 days ago

    Especially for cartoonists

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