Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 28, 2024

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    BasilBruce  4 months ago

    Sometimes I miss Al Bundy.

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    GeorgeInAZ  4 months ago

    We all do. Well, half of us do, anyway.

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    Miles VanDelay  4 months ago

    More proof Pastis takes shots at lots of different groups.

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    sirbadger  4 months ago

    Can animals bring emotional support humans?

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    diazch408  4 months ago

    John Wayne did keep his speeches short in Rio Bravo.

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    carlsonbob  4 months ago

    I agree, Rat. I miss John Wayne as well.

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    iggyman  4 months ago

    “You got that right, Pilgrim”!

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    Imagine  4 months ago

    Gender reveal party: for flashers and exhibitionists.

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    blunebottle  4 months ago

    Well said, Rat!

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    lavender headgear  4 months ago

    I thought there was no way to know gender…? Oh, never mind.

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    rasputin's horoscope  4 months ago

    It’s impressive that Mr Yellow Beard even thinks he can accommodate everyone’s dietary needs. Any group larger than 6, I give up. Vegan, gluten-free, Paleo, allergies out the ying, low sodium, Keto.

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    PaulAbbott2  4 months ago

    John Wayne, the man who had some of the greatest performances (The Searchers, The Shootist, Red River) and some of the worst (The Conqueror, Jet Pilot, The Green Berets).

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    Sanspareil  4 months ago

    I miss Richard Boone in “Have gun will travel”

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    cdward  4 months ago

    My favorite John Wayne movie was The Quiet Man.

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    Croc Holliday  4 months ago

    John Wayne couldn’t act his way out of a paper bag. Even his directors thought so.

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    Doubly Horque Premium Member 4 months ago

    John Wayne, given name Marion

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    A Common 'tator  4 months ago

    John Wayne… Oh… you mean Marion Robert Morrison…

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    carlosrivers  4 months ago

    If John Wayne had the chance, would he serve his country, if asked again? Or would he dodge the draft again?

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    juicebruce  4 months ago

    Full Metal Jacket …. Is That You John Wayne

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    mwest  4 months ago

    It’s interesting how some people use any and every opportunity to take political pot shots…

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    mholding  4 months ago

    seems since people cannot comment on the political comics they are going to bring it here…this is a comic people. don’t get your panties in a bunch

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    ComicRelief  4 months ago

    I thought Rat was an emotional support animal.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  4 months ago

    Oh just take a baseball bat.

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    Ignatz Premium Member 4 months ago

    1) Gender reveal parties are stupid.

    2) Letting pets come – emotional support or not – sounds nice if you can manage it, but probably really hard to pull off.

    3) Of COURSE people’s different dietary needs to be accommodated if they’re invited to a party. You don’t invite people to a party and make them go hungry.

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    Count Olaf Premium Member 4 months ago

    Homophobe! How can they have a gender reveal party if the fetus has yet to decide what gender it wants to be? Or even what species?

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    Ignatz Premium Member 4 months ago

    I wish people would remember that John Wayne was an ACTOR. He spoke words that someone else wrote. In adventure movies that were completely unrealistic and that were intentionally unrealistic.

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    rosenbergergeoffrey  4 months ago

    just something funny, but true

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    Killraven Premium Member 4 months ago

    We all miss The Duke.

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    Ellis97  4 months ago

    Why would Rat and Pig need emotional support animals? They’re already animals. It’s in their names for God’s sake.

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    Goat from PBS  4 months ago

    I’d love to bring a dog with me. A perfect excuse to not interact with anyone.

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    Blaidd Drwg Premium Member 4 months ago

    Without John Ford there is only Marion Robert Morrison.

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    royq27  4 months ago

    How did humanity survive?

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    cracker65  4 months ago

    The whole tough manly cowboy shtick worked well for Marion, because ignorant people actually thought the old west was the way the movies portrayed it to be. The spaghetti westerns had the same appeal, but IMO, we’re much more entertaining. I like some of the John Wayne movies, but the overstated masculinity of them has led many men in our society to falsely think that toxic masculinity is good. Like one of the other posters stated. They are movies, made for entertainment. If you think they are a depiction of real life, you might want to check your reality.

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    DaBump Premium Member 4 months ago

    LOL, great way to sum up a whole load of thoughts and emotions.

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    SusieB  4 months ago

    Never a fan of Wayne. I can remember having to go with my parents to his movies and always falling asleep curled up in the cramped theatre seat. This was his later movies, late sixties

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    dave626  4 months ago

    I don’t get it.

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    aerotica69  4 months ago

    I miss the old days when people pumped out a brat, then sent the announcement…..and friends & family had to guess the gender from the kid’s name.

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    Serial Pedant  4 months ago

    Especially their entitled animals…

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    zwilnik64  4 months ago

    How does a ‘save the date’ differ from an ‘invitation’? Is this like ‘you may be a winner’?

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    kdandre63  4 months ago

    Anyone who misses John Wayne should read his Playboy interview from 1971. Specifically the bits about how he believed in white supremacy. And please don’t yammer at me about context – it was 1971.

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    davidlwashburn  4 months ago

    I don’t miss the “rugged man” image. For starters, it was never a real thing. It was all Hollywood. Why do you think he went by John Wayne instead of Marion Morrison? Somebody thought the former sounded more “manly”. It’s all fake. Real men give a hoot about other people and do what’s necessary to be good people. There’s no such thing as an “alpha male”.

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    Buddy68  4 months ago

    “John Wayne” is a mirage. The closest he came to serving his country was on a movie set while making propaganda films like “The Green Berets”. What he did do was “out” many of his contemporaries, like screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who did serve in WW II, during the red scare McCarthy hearings. Watch the movie “Trumbo” , starring Bryan Cranston, to dispel any myths about John Wayne.

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    chriscc63  4 months ago

    I Hear J.W. was a real racist! So, I don’t miss him.

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    Aficionado  4 months ago

    Wow! Trolls to the left of me, trolls to the right . . .

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    asmbeers  4 months ago

    John is looking down at present-day humanity and saying, “Pilgrim, I am so glad I’m not there now.”

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    bbbmorrell  4 months ago

    He forgot the trigger warnings. Ban him!

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    mindjob  4 months ago

    That’s one party where the ratio of cost to fun will be very high

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    MeGoNow Premium Member 4 months ago

    These days, anyone can have a gender reveal party. Any excuse for a party.

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    JoeStoppinghem Premium Member 4 months ago

    Nope, Randolph Scott for me.

    Do like JW, but just enjoy RS a bit more. His movies the bad guy/gal never get away with it.

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    poppacapsmokeblower  4 months ago

    In an interview with Kirk Douglas, Douglas said Wayne could not understand why Douglas did roles (like Van Gogh) so out of manly character. I take from that Wayne wasn’t so much an actor playing a role, as someone who wanted to be the characters he played.

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    EXCALABUR  4 months ago

    Truly amazing how this got twisted into another political fight

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    Queen of America  4 months ago

    I don’t. Back in the 1990s, my father in law died. Good riddance to a horrible person. He loved John Wayne and my husband had given him a drawing on suede or something. It was only one of two things he wanted back. That got relegated to the garage wall behind a cabinet so I don’t have to see it unless I look for it.

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    mousefumanchu Premium Member 4 months ago

    Everybody’s up for ridicule.

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    happyinvenice23  4 months ago

    I miss John a lot these days!

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    elgrecousa Premium Member 4 months ago

    Here’s the problem: you take some sensible ideas, you let them grow like viruses, and you end up losing the election.

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    kunddog  4 months ago

    From the other end of the spectrum, MDC John Wayne was a Na@i His personal lifewasn’t that clean

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    candor1230  4 months ago

    Thank God Pastis has a sense of humor!

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    FireAnt_Hater  4 months ago

    John Wayne was quite boring. That’s my own personal opinion, I realize others would disagree.

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    mpolo11 Premium Member 4 months ago

    And we’ll give you name tags for your preferred pronoun.

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    monya_43  4 months ago

    John Wayne acted to portray a heroic man, a man of integrity, intelligence, and a man one could love and look up to. In real life, he was not a good person and an unmitigated jerk.

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    John Jorgensen  4 months ago

    Ugh, how bourgeois.

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    Larry S  4 months ago

    Sex reveal party. Words have gender; people have sex.

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    Charlie Tuba  4 months ago

    I only eat Cavalier. And will bring my Tasmanian Devil for emotional support.

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    zeexenon  4 months ago

    Personally, I prefer either hot babes or gerund reveal parties.

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    Bilan  4 months ago

    And for the gender reveal … it’s … it’s a … it’s a Pilgrim!

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    crocman48  4 months ago

    More candy as$ California stuff.

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    Cactus-Pete  4 months ago

    John Wayne supported McCarthyism, the Vietnam War, and white supremacy. (See Wikipedia article for details.)

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    WCraft Premium Member 4 months ago

    Can my emotional support animal be Rat with his huge mallet?

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    DanMercer  4 months ago

    To counter the usual calumny about Wayne dodging the draft – he was 34 with a family and qualified of a deferment. And, here’s the rest of the story (from Wikipedia):

    America’s entry into World War II resulted in a deluge of support for the war effort from all sectors of society, and Hollywood was no exception. Wayne was exempted from service due to his age (34 at the time of Pearl Harbor) and family status (classified as 3-A – family deferment). Wayne repeatedly wrote to John Ford saying he wanted to enlist, on one occasion inquiring whether he could get into Ford’s military unit.39 Wayne did not attempt to prevent his reclassification as 1-A (draft eligible), but Republic Studios was emphatically resistant to losing him, since he was their only A-list actor under contract. Herbert J. Yates, president of Republic, threatened Wayne with a lawsuit if he walked away from his contract,40 and Republic Pictures intervened in the Selective Service process, requesting Wayne’s further deferment.41

    U.S. National Archives records indicate that Wayne, in fact, did make an application42 to serve in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), precursor to the modern CIA, but his bid was ultimately unsuccessful. Wayne toured U.S. bases and hospitals in the South Pacific for three months in 1943 and 1944,43 with the USO.444546 During this trip, he carried out a request from William J. Donovan, head of the OSS, to assess whether General Douglas MacArthur, commander of the South West Pacific Area, or his staff were hindering the work of the OSS.21: 88  Donovan later issued Wayne an OSS Certificate of Service to memorialize Wayne’s contribution to the OSS mission.21: 88 47

    By many accounts, his failure to serve in the military later became the most painful part of his life.39 His widow later suggested that his patriotism in later decades sprang from guilt, writing: “He would become a ‘superpatriot’ for the rest of his life trying to atone for staying home.”48

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    Jeffin Premium Member 4 months ago

    Chance of snowflakes??

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    jasperthump Premium Member 4 months ago

    Me too.

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    DarkHorseSki  4 months ago

    Rat, often the lonely voice of reason.

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  4 months ago

    Pig would make a great emotional support animal…(See last Sunday)

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  4 months ago

    In TRUE GRIT,The Duke shot a rat

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    andrew.scharnhorst  4 months ago

    That’s about a no-(kidd)er, right there.

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    ImDaRealAni  4 months ago

    As in Gacy?

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    MichaelD Premium Member 4 months ago

    John Wayne said “I never met a man I didn’t like” These days, he would meet so many types of men, he couldn’t keep track of them.

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    jmorris9999 Premium Member 4 months ago

    Sometimes? I’m going to pull up a movie right now.

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    Cathy P.  4 months ago

    It is FINE for comedians/comic strip artists to take shots at everybody. If you can’t laugh at yourself, go hibernate in a cave somewhere. I love Mel Brooks’ film, BLazing Saddles. He took shots at EVERYBODY!

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    olds_cool63  4 months ago

    John who???

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    Strawberry King  4 months ago

    RIP Duke

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  4 months ago

    What makes that guy think Rat would want to be there?

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    The Premium Member 4 months ago

    I can think those parties are stupid without ever missing John Wayne

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    bunrabbit99  4 months ago

    maybe the emotional support animals will be used to fufill someone’s special dietary needs…

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    glowing-steak32  4 months ago

    I find that gender-reveal parties are pointless and insulting to the child. What if the baby is born a girl, but feels like they need to be a boy or nonbinary later on?

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    carsc23 Premium Member 4 months ago

    John Wayne, whose birth name was Marion Morrison. But Pastis did a good job picking a two-syllable phrase for a joke that would make a point true to Rat’s personality.

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    JCLV  4 months ago

    Rat IS an emotional support animal, just not any of the positive ones.

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    Swirls Before Pine  4 months ago

    I’ll be bringing my emotional support diet. Candy bars and pizza.

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