Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 07, 2024

I mean given Rat’s personality, it wouldn’t be out of character for him to shout “DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE!” to Pig in a more literal sense.

Maybe Rat can get him one he can wear around his neck; a tie-die.

(You may now start booing)

The one eyed one horned flying purple people eater throws a die with one dot.

Rat is sounding like Gemini.

Christmas Shopping IS stressful!

Just roll with it, Pig…

I got everybody the same thing I gave them last year – nothing.

Gotta love the grammar nerds that show up in this strip!

They are available on Amazon, starting at $7.49, Pig.

It’s German.

Pig was die cast for this role.

I guess the plural of dice is not dices?!

If Rat had dice you know they would be loaded ones!

As a child I was confused by the fact that casting a die was completely unrelated to die-casting.

Whom care? :D

Give him a few die cast toys to make him happy.

He could eat poo and die

My girlfriend shops online and has everything delivered. She has it down to a science. There’s no stress.

So can D&D.

In 5th Grade, Mrs. Montfort insisted we all answer role call with a famous quote. She said hers was by Julius Caesar before he crossed the Rubicon: “The die is cast!” Next day, we all used the same quote. This is also when we learned that “die” was the singular of “dice.” I’m now 75, but still remember that from childhood.

Stephan, we need some crocs to inject a little humor and goodwill into this strip!

If he had another one, it’d be paradise!

In my language “Dice” is “Thoklay” and “Die” is “Thoklaa”!

Dotted hexahedron. Go with that.

Rat really wants to change the color of his shirt.

Pig should look for it under the seat of his car tonight. Maybe he’ll find two of them. Then he’d have a pair of dice by the dashboard light.

Rat isn’t telling you to die, Pig. He’s saying that the singular term for dice is die.

Good one today.

a short explanation would’ve been much nicer!

I had a friend who had an extensive collection of dice … loaded dice! He was a professional dice & card mechanic.

Is he telling pig to die or is he correcting his speech on dice

… my darling. Just shut your pretty eyes

As a non native speaker, I never understood why you call them “die” instead of “dice”.

The singular of dice is MURDER

I guess that’s the roll of the dice Pig

Life is always stressful for those who insist on proper language.

I can imaging a collection of multi-colored die on my shelf, and having to dust them off every once in a while.

Flashing back to my RPG days of playing MERP. That’s Middle-Earth-Role-Playing to you kids. Back in mah day…!

This sounds like a D&D joke.

Two die or not two die, that is not in question.

Die, die die, die-dee-die-dee-die.

If Rat took a normal one and colored it purple, it would be a

Dye Die Lie.

I’m collecting bacon, so pig- die die die!

But is it a d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20? A d100?!? We need to know, Pig!

Especially when your best friend doesn’t grasp the subtleties of the English language.

“Die” is the singular. “Datum” is the singular of data too.

Rat should be colored purple in the last panel. Died by grammar rage. Dyed.

We briefly review probability in my class, which involves calculating the odds of various coin flips and die rolls. I don’t worry about sloppy usage of die vs dice, but the one that caused some confusion (including me, the first time) was the textbook asking for the probability of rolling N aces with N dice.

I guess I didn’t spend enough time shooting craps in the alley, because that was the first time I’d heard a die with one dot up being called an “ace”. In board games, we called dice coming up ones “snake eyes” for obvious reasons.

Students don’t seem to spend much time playing with dice these days, other than the D&D nerds…

The maker of Fox Trot has merch for sale…2 years ago, I bought a 20 sided die with all 20’s on it. Gave it to my son for Christmas since he’s a D&D fan.

Said Bruce Willis to Hans Gruber