Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 20, 2015

Yea for Rat!

Rat, you’re going to get nice presents from Santa this year, because you did a very good thing.

I first heard about Selfie Sticks on the Josh Sundquist YouTube channel a month or so ago. Even my local Fred Meyer store has them!

Actually, they only have one use. And Rat just found it. Well, I suppose once the end breaks off you could use them as a spear and spear some idiot selfie takers.

I’m feeling left out… you forgot idiots.

I guess you CAN beat it with a (selfie) stick.

Selfie sticks may be a fairly new thing, but selfies aren’t- I recently came across a photo my parents took of themselves, holding my Mom’s Kodak 818 at arm’s length…..in 1938!

Lay on, MacRat!Twenty more of your best!Again, please, sir!

I’m completely with Rat here! In fact I would recommend several more swats with the selfie stick for the self-absorbed idiots.

Mmm Hmm

Hate selfies, do we? Methinks you guys doth protest too much! (With apologies to Yoda and Shakespeare.)

Tempted to give a bunch of these away and see if anyone notices the “Free Phone” label attached to the end.

@legaleagle48 they’re, they’re. Maybe it’s their, their. I forget how to properly use the worlds they’re ,their and, there.

thank you, Rat

About five years ago I took a picture of myself (hadn’t heard the term “selfie” yet) to post next to a self-profile on my blog because I didn’t have anything but an older b&w…felt like a self-conscious nimrod doing it and the picture itself sucked. Never again.

Perhaps the only appropriate use of the selfie stick.

for a split second I thought rat had made it into a fishing pole… I would not mind ‘selfie sticks’ but the word selfie bothers me. They are too lazy to say self portrait, and that is irksome.

I really don’t understand the rage against selfie sticks myself. I don’t use one (or take selfies at all), but as long as the users aren’t getting in other people’s way, what’s the big deal?

I have to be honest, I side with Rat here. I don’t understand Selfies, now if you excuse me, I have to go yell at kids on my lawn

…and Rat has stumbled upon the best use…

Between digitized slides and digital photos, I have over 100,000 images. When I die, the photo board will have lots of pictures captioned “He was behind the camera.” Not too many of me, though. I know what I look like and the fact I took the picture is proof I was there.

halfwits, nitwits, dimwits, imbeciles, morons, nincompoops, ignoramuses, simpletons, twits, and drooling dunderheads……. tsk, so many descriptive terms for Democrats………..

Uptight much? You gotta learn to adapt.

“Selfie” is in the O.E.D. I believe it was word of the year last year .

Ah yes. The best technology is the kind you can clobber people with!

xxx

autograph collecting has become passe. if a celebrity won’t pose for selfies the fans can’t be bothered to talk to him or her

This Rat character has done a few cool things lately.

Normally I wouldn’t condone with violence, but given those irritating tools…I say go for it, Rat.

The real world got out ahead of the cartoonists, this time. Google “selfie stick self defense” – there are classes in it now! (Does the TSA really allow these through security?)

Oh I have so wanted to do that