Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 18, 2025

Did Pig and Rat switch bodies?

Me always wonder where be the Old York.

This was definitely written ahead of time. New York City is not having a pleasant time right now.

New Yorkers can solve Wordle 3 hours before Californians can. Some people get around that by changing the time zone on their computer or smart phone.

Once, when my sister was living in Hawaii and I was living in Kansas City, I called her at 12:01 AM (my time) on New Year’s Day to tell her she was living in the past.

I could have done it with friends in California, but the 4-hour difference made it so much easier.

Yes. Pig, they can and probably will.

ah yes Nude Orc City…it’s big, it’s a sickly color green, it probably wants to kill you, but you just can’t look away.

Time zones are a mystery to some people. A fact that I find… very strange.

Oh, I don’t know; I kind of enjoy Scott LoBaido.

In Italian it’s “Good day” until 11:59 AM and “good evening” as from 12:00 PM.

You must be in the Pacific time zone Pig! (I guess)!

I’ve been to New York several times and nobody was ever rude to me.

Umm, Pig… I think we need to talk about a little something called “time zone”…

So where is PBS set?

I was in a town right near Philadelphia and met some guy from the midwest in a diner.

He said, “Where are you from?”

“New York.”

“WHAT? It’s even worse there than it is here!”

I sarcastically said, “Yeah, people are rude there.”

So the PBS bunch lives in California?

Being four hours ahead will do that to a person.

I’m a native New Yorker, I try to be nice!

New York is great. They make those medicines for high cholesterol there. You know, on Statin Island.

Well, that was rude, Pig!

As they say, a pleasant good evening and give me your wallet…

Only Yankee fans. Especially the ones who pull a player’s glove and steal the baseball from it.

Phone scammers call me from everywhere. They’re never quite sure what time it is where I am.

Well, if six o’clock is “evening” than even Central time would work. However, I suspect Pacific time is what Pastis has in mind, since he lives there.

I get flustered when I say, “Good morning,” to anyone and it’s already 12:05 PM.

I just noticed that Pig has a belly button.

Time to teach Pig about time zones.

Just shows AI needs a little tweaking. I watch YouTube streaming of live African critter wilderness areas … 8-hours difference from me to the minute.

Who says “Well a pleasant good evening to you” at any time? That sounds mightly high-falutin.

Not so! We can be very polite and helpful – if you deserve it. I love NYC!!!!

I can’t recall seeing Pig angry.

I live in the Eastern time zone, and worked with people in the San Francisco area. They didn’t seem to understand that there are time zones, which was a little interesting considering most of them were from India.

what we have here is a failure to communicate

New Yorkers can be rude. But when they reject one of their own take note. That is the worst.

If someone is knowingly calling someone in a later time zone and greets him wrong it is a sign of arrogance as the called can’t be expected to magically know where the call came from.

By royal decree, the vassal province formerly known as California will henceforth be called LaLaLand. In like wise the garderobe previously hight New York City will hereafter be designated Place Where Immigrants Go To Die. Thus it has been ordained, so mote it be, all hail the GodKingEmperor!

It’s 5 o’clock somewhere…

When I was a gradual student, I was sent to work on a project north of Boston. Flew in, got a rental car, headed north. As I approached the town I was staying at, I stopped at a gas station to check my bearings and grab a snack. The attendant could tell that I wasn’t from the area, so I told him I was on a business trip from out west. I added that the drivers seemed a bit more, um, aggressive around Boston.

He looked at my car and said “You’ve got New York plates. You’re lucky to be alive.”

“Folks don’t appreciate New Yorkers around here?” I asked.

“Let’s just say the tourists have earned a bad reputation, so drive careful.”

Since then I check the plates on rental cars, but they are almost always local plates. Usually…