Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 19, 2024

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    3nemesis  3 months ago

    Stephen loves making fun of people especially when they tell him not to…

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    hariseldon59  3 months ago

    Similar maps have been around for a while of course. Google, for example, ‘the world according to Reagan’.

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    carlsonbob  3 months ago

    What kind of accent does a talking rat have?

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    BasilBruce  3 months ago

    “People with funny accents” should include Texas, Georgia, Mississippi . . .

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    sirbadger  3 months ago

    I never memorized state capitals because I stick to the important stuff.

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    lavender headgear  3 months ago

    I’m proud to come from the only country where people talk normally.

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    iggyman  3 months ago

    Not very inclusive is he?! Isolationist!

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    iggyman  3 months ago

    Rat, a great deal of almost everything you eat, wear, and use comes from those other countries these days!

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    Robin Harwood  3 months ago

    Rat knows where the USA is. Many Americans don’t.

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    ImDaRealAni  3 months ago

    My takeaway is that Antarctica is the land of the funny accents, and everyone with an accent migrated from Antarctica!

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    legospiff  3 months ago

    Rat has spoken: Hawaii and Alaska are not part of the US

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    blunebottle  3 months ago

    Actually, all accents outside of Western Canada are funny.

    Hey, I’m not joking- the “flat Canadian accent” is the most sought-after speech for broadcast and has been influencing all other English speakers for so many years that all other accents are fading away. Think about it: many, many Hollywood actors are Canadian. Many news anchors and TV personalities also speak the same way. Even Queen Elizabeth’s accent was fading away, as you can hear when you compare her early speeches to the most recent.

    Flat Canadian is recognised as the most widely understood English accent.

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    Keno21  3 months ago

    Well, I know many Americans who aren’t from Minnesota who talk mighty funny then, don’cha know.

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    Tra1nman2 Premium Member 3 months ago

    I grew up in Brooklyn and still have a lot of my Brooklynese. Even my daughter jokes about the way I say some things. I like to try and guess where folks come from by their accents. I had an adjunct professor and I recognized her upper midwest accent right away. I told her by the end of the first class I’d tell her where she was from. After class I told her I thought she was from the UP (upper peninsula) of Michigan and I was right. I think our different accents are great.

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    orinoco womble  3 months ago

    An Australian friend of mine has a t-shirt with a world map showing the countries “upside down”: Oceania etc at the top, N America etc at the bottom. It says “Oh yeah?”Basically the message is that a round planet hung in space can be seen from many perspectives.

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    jshornyak  3 months ago

    At least he found his home country. There are many in the US that can’t even do that.

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    einarbt  3 months ago

    Explains a lot. Just too bad that the US empire forces seem to know geography. I mean, just imagine if they mistook Canada for Iran.

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    phritzg Premium Member 3 months ago

    If Rat’s U.S. arrow is pointing to Mississippi and Alabama, I’d have to say he’s not wrong. The people who live in that region do have an accent that some might think is funny.

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    Ellis97  3 months ago

    Rat doesn’t know anything at all.

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    Ignatz Premium Member 3 months ago

    In Noo Yawk, we don’ tawk funny.

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    NeedaChuckle Premium Member 3 months ago

    That is the extent of many Americans’ knowledge of the subject.

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    dziner88  3 months ago

    Has Rat been to the southern US? Or Boston? ;-)

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    fjc007  3 months ago

    Don’t forget that the Mercator projection makes Africa look much smaller than its actual size.

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    makarnowski Premium Member 3 months ago

    ‘Taint no one don’t have a dialect!

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    Kilrwat Premium Member 3 months ago

    Rat’s a ’Murican all right!

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    Brich027  3 months ago

    Funny accents? Rat, have you ever been to Boston, Brooklyn, New Orleans, and many places in the Deep South?

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    [Traveler] Premium Member 3 months ago

    I love seeing those “man on the street” interviews where the guy will ask some young person a really simple question like “where is the US Capitol” and they have no clue.

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    jessegooddoggy  3 months ago

    He missed a few.

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    uniquename  3 months ago

    I’m surprised it’s not “People who don’t speak English”.

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    Goat from PBS  3 months ago

    Didn’t even label Alaska as part of the U.S. Bruh.

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    minty_Joe  3 months ago

    “Nation’s of the World”, “Wakko’s America” and “Yakko’s Universe Song” come to mind. All these songs written by Randy Rogel for Animaniacs. Look them up on YouTube.

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    jmcenanly  3 months ago

    Rat has obviously never been outside of whatever part of the country this comic is set in.

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    royq27  3 months ago

    This map was used for broadcasting the Olympics.

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    well-i-never  3 months ago

    A Jeopardy champ in the Cliff Claven mold.

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    artegal  3 months ago

    U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A!

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    prrdh  3 months ago

    Even more succinctly, “Us” and “Them”.

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    Out of the Past  3 months ago

    Where I grew up, our accents were so obvious, even we knew it.

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    johnschutt  3 months ago

    PLEASE don’t go political.

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    FRITH RA  3 months ago

    He put Alaska as having a funny accent. We don’t, y’all in Conus sound funny to us.

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    rugeirn  3 months ago

    Consider the possible interpretations of “USA” in other places. Lots of interesting possibilities!

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    KEA  3 months ago

    I was going to make a political comment… but it’s really not necessary

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    MayDay31  3 months ago

    Yay! Rat’s map includes New Zealand (often left off maps) but sadly forgets Iceland and Greenland.

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    Sir Isaac  3 months ago

    Englishburg, Germanville, etc.

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    Queen of America  3 months ago

    So many people are ignorant about geography. I don’t just mean countries all around the world, but even places in the US. Pick a state, any state and then ask someone where the capital is. We have a La-Z-Boy leather recliner that was under warranty and I needed the footrest repaired. The service rep told me I’d have to take to Salt Lake City. Why there instead of Las Vegas (both had repair centers)? She said SLC was closer to where I live. (Near St George UT) Umm – no, it’s not.

    SLC is about 5 hours north and LV is two hours south. She kept saying SLC was because it’s in Utah and LV is in Nevada. I argued with her. I told her that SLC was at the top of the state and I lived at the bottom of the state. I even faxed a map to her. She was resolute in her opinion. Finally, she asked if I would accept a check for $600 and relieve La-Z-Boy of any future warranty issues.I said yes, took the chair to a local upholstery/furniture repair place, paid them$75 and got it fixed. That was about 10 yrs ago and no other issues since then.

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    eric.franz.petras  3 months ago

    Sadly, true…most Americans.

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    zeexenon  3 months ago

    You’re not from around here are you … to New Yorkers, Texans, South of the Mason-Dixon Liners.

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    Snuffles [Previously Helikitty]   3 months ago

    He forgot Alaska. And Hawaii.

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    joannesshadow  3 months ago

    In those countries, Rat, YOU have the funny accent!

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    Buoy  3 months ago

    Them and us. Same as it ever was.

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    Bilan  3 months ago

    England is the one that invented English. So they have a right to say we’re (the US) the ones that talk funny.

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    Doctor Go  3 months ago

    There’s a metaphor for current events going on there, but for the life of me I can’t say what…

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    SuperCharged5-  3 months ago

    we have funny accents too

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    Linguist  3 months ago

    Although I read and write in the English language daily, I rarely speak it anymore. On the rare occasions when I have, I recently discovered I have developed a Spanish accent – not the phony movie stereotype, but more of the cadence and inflection of a Spanish speaker fluent in English.

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    Curiosity Premium Member 3 months ago

    There are a lot of ‘funny accents’ in the US. At one point in my career I had to translate between co-workers from California and New England, and none of them could speak proper Southern!

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    MarshaOstroff  3 months ago

    I’m from Philly, but moved away after high school. I ended up spending several years in Wisconsin. One time, on a visit to my parents, my mother remarked that the way I pronounced certain vowels sounded “funny” to her. I can’t remember which ones they were, but no doubt had been modified by the time I had lived in the Midwest.

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    Cameron1988 Premium Member 3 months ago

    Apparently Rat has never been to Boston

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    eddi-TBH  3 months ago

    Americans are like Dark Age peasants. We don’t care about elsewhere. It full of strangers and monsters.

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    unfair.de  3 months ago

    At least Rat acknowledges there are other places in the world. In the comments here on gocomics·com it seems many have a hard time remembering even there are Canadians and Mexicans.

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    Henry R Premium Member 3 months ago

    I’m pretty sure Rat knows there are 2 types of nations (for the most part) – those on the Metric System, and those that have walked on the Moon. :-)

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    Cactus-Pete  3 months ago

    Not all the other countries have names. This country (USA) doesn’t even have a name – just a description.

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    willie_mctell  3 months ago

    I learned geography by looking at the maps on the wall in grade school while the teacher explained stuff to the kids who didn’t get it the the first or second time.

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    christelisbetty  3 months ago

    In Rat’s defense, most countries (large enough) have several different accents and idioms within their own languages.

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    Swirls Before Pine  3 months ago

    Those other places have the same maps.

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