Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 03, 2018

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    BE THIS GUY  about 6 years ago

    Sometimes when nobody younger than me is around, I take the atlas off the bookshelf and look at the maps.

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    Bilan  about 6 years ago

    Lesson #2, lose the bow tie.

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    enigmamz  about 6 years ago

    I like the bowtie.

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    rbmumsie  about 6 years ago

    I still have a Thomas Guide behind the driver’s seat of my truck.

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 6 years ago

    well, I’m a few years over 30 and I don’t own a physical map

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    oldpine52  about 6 years ago

    Owning a map wouldn’t help them, they wouldn’t know how to turn it on nor where to put the batteries.

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    knight1192a  about 6 years ago

    And most of them can’t read a map anyway. Why bother when they can just plug in origin and destination on their GPS. But I do admire the ones who CAN READ MAPS and don’t rely entirely on GPS. At least their likely to be able to find where their going when their GPS is down.

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    Strawberry Hellcat: Gair I gall, ffon I’r anghall  about 6 years ago

    And the secret to keeping those pesky kids from asking to borrow your vehicle is to drive a stick shift.

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    B UTTONS  about 6 years ago

    My physical map always works without batteries and amongst all of the skyscrapers that are blocking GPS satellites.

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    daijoboo Premium Member about 6 years ago

    They love vinyl LPs and turntables. They’re now obsessed with typewriters. Globes, atlases, and road maps are next.

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    gbars70  about 6 years ago

    I have grown grandchildren that are confused by an analog clock. No lie.

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    gbars70  about 6 years ago

    At least Goat gets dressed up for a date, whereas his date shows up naked.

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    Packratjohn Premium Member about 6 years ago

    I enjoy maps.. period

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    Alexander the Good Enough  about 6 years ago

    Come the next Carrington Event and they won’t be able to find their way out the front door of their house…

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    sirbadger  about 6 years ago

    I remember when gas stations gave maps away for free and you could use them as place mats in the car.

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    WilliamRichmond  about 6 years ago

    Maps will come in handy if a solar flare knocks out the satellites that help with GPS.

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    Troglodyte  about 6 years ago

    Just when you think Pastis is beginning to lose direction, along comes this! :D

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member about 6 years ago
    Who needs maps? The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
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    gary  about 6 years ago

    Used to have the bound metro maps for the area I lived, in addition the large Ran McNally book of the US. Was fun as a kid, or teaching my kids, how to read, measure distance, and follow along when traveling. The only physical maps I use anymore is when visiting a foreign country – will get the walking maps for the cities we’re visiting.

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    Tue Elung-Jensen  about 6 years ago

    Quite certain my parents don´t own a physical map anymore.

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    Defective Premium Member about 6 years ago

    I love my gps and phone, but I use a physical map as well. Recently I heard map sales are up, and the reason is that they’re actually useful to get an overview of the entire area. My job entails going to a LOT of places I’ve never been over a state wide area.

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    josballard  about 6 years ago

    Not too many people using a map drive over the edge of a pier, which GPS users apparently do from time to time.

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    dwane.scoty1  about 6 years ago
    My acronym for GPS is TLW; The Long Way!
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    AtariDragon  about 6 years ago

    Uh huh. And last Friday I trusted Skynet Maps, which told me I could drive from Huntington, WV to Toledo, OH in 5 hours and routed me through Columbus during rush hour. Don’t trust Skynet. Stay on the interstate.

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    nosirrom  about 6 years ago

    Real men don’t use maps. That would be like asking for directions. ;-)

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    ralphkramden  about 6 years ago

    We’ll see who’s lauhing when the grid goes down and their phones are useless!! We didn’t get this old by accident!!

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    Breadboard  about 6 years ago

    Always get out the real map to make sure the electronic one makes $cents. The electronic maps have a way of taking you on tour when you do not want to go on tour :-)

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    Andrew Sleeth  about 6 years ago

    Goat can keep his maps and still be hip: put them on a mobile device. When I’m traveling anywhere, I render all my maps as PDF docs and load them on a Kindle. Works great.

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    F-Flash  about 6 years ago

    The green bowtie reminds me of money.

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    ktrabbit33  about 6 years ago

    Obsolete in our smarty-pants phone age; maps (maybe), film developing, payphones, phonebooths (where would Superman change now?)…

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    Ermine Notyours  about 6 years ago

    I can’t even read paper maps without glasses now, so I feel older than Goat.

    I thought Stephen said he can’t draw cars.

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    InuYugiHakusho  about 6 years ago

    Oh, sure if you’d rather do it the “easy” way…

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    david_42  about 6 years ago

    Maps are very good for planning trips and they know the difference between a logging road and a freeway. Can’t tell you where you are or optimize travel time.

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    Fontessa  about 6 years ago

    I used to be a map-maker, so I always use a paper map first. And I keep a compass in my car, too.

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    Darsan54 Premium Member about 6 years ago

    Honestly, I love my Google Maps and GPS on my phone. Greatest invention ever, plus easing a totally irrational fear I have of being lost.

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    Ignatz Premium Member about 6 years ago

    A road map? Damned few over 30, too.

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    Greyhame  about 6 years ago

    GPS tells the pizza delivery to turn off of 7th street onto State Line Road and go three miles. But State Line Road ends in one mile at the sleazy biker bar.

    I taught land navigation with terrain maps that show the hills and rivers. I would make up stories about why the town was built here and why the highway bridge was there.

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    jessegooddog  about 6 years ago

    I like paper maps, keep several in my car. And no scrolling around ads.

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    shushin  about 6 years ago

    unless they are backpacking where there is no cell signal

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    Radish the wordsmith  about 6 years ago

    Old goat is dating a young kid, maybe he should work for the Trump admin.

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    KEA  about 6 years ago

    I do. Get lost once in an area without cellular data and you will too.

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    the lost wizard  about 6 years ago

    She was just trying to get his goat and it worked.

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    Guilty Bystander  about 6 years ago

    Even though I have a TomTom GPS in my car, I have a couple of road atlases under the driver’s seat and four or five maps in my glove compartment. To me, when you’re driving somewhere you’ve never been, there’s no such thing as “too much information” to get you there.

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    redback  about 6 years ago

    some people act like there are no maps in GPS apps. Plus you can zoom in and out, and have different views. Is what you do with those maps.

    By the way, I am over 30

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    posstockhoarder  about 6 years ago

    Hey Nineteen

    No we can’t dance together

    No we can’t talk at all

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    falcon_370f  about 6 years ago

    Maps have advantages, they never need a new battery, or fail when you lose the signal.

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    Banjo Gordy Premium Member about 6 years ago

    No GPS or ‘smart phone’, but using my computer Google map of place I’m going to, & print out a map. Have a huge map collection but changes in the last 40+ years make them useless.

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    pekenpug  about 6 years ago

    Don’t let it bother you, Goat.She’s just jealous because she never learned to refold a road map.

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    Scott S  about 6 years ago

    I have a road atlas AND a Garmin Nuvi.

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    dwkiser28603  about 6 years ago

    I still use maps and damn proud of it too!

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    Nobody_Important  about 6 years ago

    I love maps! I still have them! Than again, I did just turn 50 so there is that.

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    MichaelHutson1  about 6 years ago

    Who’ll be laughing after EMP knocks out GPS service and you’re desperately hunting for a back road out of town before the nukes hit?

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    STACEY MARSHALL Premium Member about 6 years ago

    My first brush with electronic directions was on a mapping site on the computer. It said turn south and go a half-mile, then turn right and go two miles, then make two left hand turns (a u-turn) and go back three miles to the four lane, then turn south and go one mile.I mentioned it to my coworkers, and one of them pointed out that it should have had me turn left on the four lane, go to Atlanta and go all the way around the beltway there, and come back one more mile than the drive north. It would have put me in the same location also.

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    Andrew Sleeth  about 6 years ago

    It merits noting, there’s a lucrative market for antique maps. In fact, map collecting has seen something of a resurgence in the last decade. Personally, the map I’d love to put my hands on was actually a prop in the 1998 movie, “The Mask of Zorro,” a wall-sized map of the historical territory of Mexico, printed on fabric.

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    MaximoMayeri  about 6 years ago

    poor goat

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    Liza Saint  about 6 years ago

    I am 26 and I own a physical map of my home state.

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    Sisyphos  about 6 years ago

    I have a bunch of (increasingly out-of-date) road maps, but they live in a desk drawer and no longer in my car. The only maps in my car are the ones that came included with the Owner’s Manual and related stuff in a folder, and I don’t use them. I check out any unfamiliar routes on computer before leaving home….

    But it doesn’t matter, anyway. I’m an Old Fart and Goat looks like a kid to me (pun intended)….

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    BruceBergman  about 6 years ago

    They stop laughing when the GPS blanks out and reboots in city traffic. Maps are always readable.

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    Alien-X  about 6 years ago

    When I started driving my first car in 1968 I always kept a state map and a city map in my glove compartment. I never got lost!

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    therealdogman7770  about 6 years ago

    that is my dad in a nutshell (He’s 50)

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    LrdSlvrhnd  about 6 years ago

    I’d’ve been laughing more because he kept the map in the trunk…

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    LOAFY  almost 4 years ago

    To everyone in the comment section complaining because young people don’t know how maps work and rely entirely on GPS: first of all, this is simply false. Most of us know how to use a map and compass. Secondly, when accurate maps and compasses were new technology, people probably complained that new generations rely too much on them and wouldn’t know how to navigate “properly”, with sticks, stones, the sun, moon stars, and wind-most of which is fairly easy to learn, and even now this knowledge is not lost. So, please stop complaining.

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