“Pencil Thin Mustache” 1974 Jimmy Buffett: “Yeah, they send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, But all you want to do is learn how to score.”
Calling a woman a “broad”, even in humor, is these days so non-PC that only Pastis could get away with it— and I’m not sure he really does. Not all that great a strip.
There is a street in Durham, NC close to the Duke University Campus called Broad Street, named after Molly Corbett Broad who is a respected former president of the American Council on Education and the University of North Carolina. I thought it was the place where male Duke students went looking to make acquaintances with women. Made me feel really bad when I found out the true source of the name. Problem is, the street should be in Chapel Hill, the home of the University of North Carolina rather than right next to the Duke campus in Durham.
Seriously, Stephan? What’s your intent here? Misogyny? Stir the 40-year old+ pubescent male keyboard warriors? Check out the comments; you succeeded. You should also be better than this.
Seriously, Stephan. What’s your intent here? Misogyny? Stir the fetishes of pubescent male keyboard warriors? Check out the comments; you succeeded. You should be better than this. Your readers deserve better too.
BE THIS GUY over 5 years ago
It’s called Women’s Studies, but nothing has been learned so far.
NErDysprosium over 5 years ago
If you went to school and learned about modern theater, would that be comsidered studing abroad(way)?
retrocool over 5 years ago
HA HA HA HA HA !
Templo S.U.D. over 5 years ago
{face palm}
Baarorso over 5 years ago
If Goat’s partner in this strip were to…“study abroad” would he then be called a……SEXIST PIG? ;-D
favm over 5 years ago
Call the sensor guy!
santa72404 over 5 years ago
What if he’d been sent to study aDAME or aFLOOSY?
Johnny Q Premium Member over 5 years ago
Is the focus abroad or a narrow one?
JasonBall over 5 years ago
Straight from Captain America: Civil War.
Tony Stark: I’m studying abroad.
Howard Stark: Oh yeah? Which broad?
electricshadow Premium Member over 5 years ago
Yeah, just let him call her a broad. All he’ll study then is how hard a fist feels.
Kind&Kinder over 5 years ago
Women used to be referred to as “frails”; try that today only if you’re Gronkowski with a good chance of survival!
dwane.scoty1 over 5 years ago
You couldn’t find this gag in the Shecky Green Museum of Yux with night vision goggles!
jessie d. over 5 years ago
Males of the human species have gotten their doctorate in same or so they think they have by age 30.
mail2jbl over 5 years ago
First of all, Goat, you should know by now that Pig is easily confused.
Second, I’m surprised the Comic Strip Censor didn’t come along.
ralphkramden over 5 years ago
OOOOOOOOO!! TRIGGER ALERT!!!!!!!
Gent over 5 years ago
Oh this abroad study we all did during our younger days.
Algolei I over 5 years ago
My nephew spent a several years abroad.
Zebrastripes over 5 years ago
How people can take things so literally….PIG!!!
Breadboard over 5 years ago
Ha ! Ha ! Ha ! Sometimes I wonder If Pig and Larry Croc are related ;-) …… Croc Power !
Ellis97 over 5 years ago
Sure glad I signed up for some good classes this semester.
gnome over 5 years ago
Today’s side note: Pastis got poked on Cul-de-sac today…..
Linguist over 5 years ago
I live in a permanent state of confusion. Perhaps because I live abroad?
Qiset over 5 years ago
Just learned the French word for “abroad” is “l’etranger”
jel354 over 5 years ago
Cone on Goat. You know you have to spell it out for Pig.
walstib Premium Member over 5 years ago
“Pencil Thin Mustache” 1974 Jimmy Buffett: “Yeah, they send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, But all you want to do is learn how to score.”
Ignatz Premium Member over 5 years ago
Old joke, Stephan.
Rotary12 Premium Member over 5 years ago
It took you long enough to do that one Stephan.
JudyAz over 5 years ago
Broadcaster: Bouncer at a ladies’ bar.
DoktorScheisskopf over 5 years ago
“And so we say ta-ta to higher education”
El Cobbo Grande over 5 years ago
That’s because they keep changing the answers
dwagner200 over 5 years ago
I thought b****** be crazy covered it.
Snoots over 5 years ago
Calling a woman a “broad”, even in humor, is these days so non-PC that only Pastis could get away with it— and I’m not sure he really does. Not all that great a strip.
BiathlonNut over 5 years ago
There is a street in Durham, NC close to the Duke University Campus called Broad Street, named after Molly Corbett Broad who is a respected former president of the American Council on Education and the University of North Carolina. I thought it was the place where male Duke students went looking to make acquaintances with women. Made me feel really bad when I found out the true source of the name. Problem is, the street should be in Chapel Hill, the home of the University of North Carolina rather than right next to the Duke campus in Durham.
gbars70 over 5 years ago
C’mon Pastis, this joke’s so oldie, its moldy. It even predates ‘take my wife, please’.
Cameron1988 Premium Member over 5 years ago
Took me a moment, but I got it
Bruce1253 over 5 years ago
Sometimes its best to realize there are somethings that will always remain a mystery.
nufalready over 5 years ago
Talk about showing your age.
BubbleTape Premium Member over 5 years ago
pulling out some Bob Eubanks classics.
WaltWenger Premium Member over 5 years ago
All right, who left off the last panel where Pastis gets pasted? Is this a case of dereliction of duty by Rat?
Hoodude over 5 years ago
Rules; don’t need no stinking rules.Think CalvinBall
Ermine Notyours over 5 years ago
When he comes back, he can say that he’s been abroad.
JP Steve Premium Member over 5 years ago
Broadly speaking…
Mentor397 over 5 years ago
“I don’t know how many times I’ve told those boys, ‘Never call chicks broads.’” – UHF.
knight1192a over 5 years ago
Pastis is going to get letters for this one. I just wonder if he’ll make a comment about it in the treasury this one appears in.
Concretionist over 5 years ago
I always wondered what “painting with a broad brush” meant.
And I still do. Sigh.
Sisyphos over 5 years ago
Pig’s imagination (= panel 2) is priceless, and so non-PC. Yay, Pig, the new Innocent Abroad….
Grover St. Clair over 5 years ago
https://youtu.be/RnEXUtNbUZ8
orient about 5 years ago
Seriously, Stephan? What’s your intent here? Misogyny? Stir the 40-year old+ pubescent male keyboard warriors? Check out the comments; you succeeded. You should also be better than this.
orient about 5 years ago
Seriously, Stephan. What’s your intent here? Misogyny? Stir the fetishes of pubescent male keyboard warriors? Check out the comments; you succeeded. You should be better than this. Your readers deserve better too.
orient about 5 years ago
You keep removing my comment.
orient about 5 years ago
But not the one about “deep studies” ???
Squirrel Chaser over 2 years ago
Broadband: musical group whose members are exclusively female. (Banarama, Indigo Girls, Wilson-Phillips, The Bangles, Spice Girls, N’Synch.)