Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 12, 2014

Isn’t that the same cliff that the lemmings jump off?

I too, am sick and tired of that expression.

Don’t worry, folks, Bob’s just fine. He landed on a mound of lemmings.

Sing along with Sherlock: “Is you is or is you ain’t my baby…”

I use that phrase all the time, is rat coming for me?

I’m losing count of how many “Neighbor Bob”’s Pastis has murdered.

RAT. IS. GOD!

Maybe people should start Saying SOCKS instead.

Other phrases that make me wish for Rat to act:It’s all good.At the end of the day…

I think he fell out of the box…..

Add inane phrase “In the day” to that list.

Rat isn’t what he isn’t.

No neighbors were harmed in the making of this strip; his fall was cushioned by a large pile of lemming carcasses.

If you don’t want a cliched, meaningless answer, don’t ask someone how it’s going. It’s worse if they actually tell you.

How about “S**t happens, and somebody cleans it up” ?

I hate—-‘Have a Nice Day’ why?

Did Rat just throw Neighbor Bob off of Lemmings Leap?

There’s a common theme to most of the phrases that people are taking exception to here. I’m vastly amused by it, too. The people’s exception. Not the phrases. They’re just words, not even meant to offend.

Yes, “like” and weatherwise, healthwise, blahblahblahwise.

But just remember, at the end of the day, no matter where you go, there you are.

“It could be worse”

Can you have Rat get rid of the overused and most times incorrectly used word “litterally,” please???!

I’d be happy if people just stopped starting sentences with “So…”

Make the cliff twice as high, and put jagged rocks on the ground. Then throw everyone who says, “just sayin’” off of it. Of course, the number of Facebook users would drop by 80%.

Totally and fer sher. Like you know. Totally tubular

so virtually what is being said is like pearls is what it is!

Nobody seems impressed by the significant upper body strength Rat displays in this strip . . .

I’ve mentioned this before: Many people born roughly in the baby-boomer era (and some born without complications) are prone to tuck “y’know” as often as possible into their utterances. It can be teeth-gritting to hear one of these folks run on.

Admittedly, I would have been thrown off that cliff numerous times because of the expressions I use. I’m kind’ve fond of some of them, like “back in the day.”

I can’t stand this comic…unfortunately it is what it is.

People who sing those annoying songs that you can’t get out of your brain can also go on the short list.

Too bad, Rat, I like saying that when I’m grumpy

My list, some covered in earlier comments.

You know what I’m saying?You feel me?Like (as opposed to “as” or “as if”)Back in the day (unless you’re over 60)At the end of the day (What about tomorrow?)You know? (Do you really need immediate validation?)I mean,It is what it is (Trite, and a tautology)No problem (in place of “You’re welcome”)Literally vs virtuallyand any word or phrase that is obviously, and painfully, an attempt to appear cool, hip, and with it, just for the sake of seeming thus.

Y’ dig?

I hate it when people use the word “seriously” the wrong way.

I hate this phrase also because it is a way to cut off conversation/thinking. Kinda like those who say ‘God is great’ or ‘God willing’at end of every declarative sentence. But now that I think about it maybe a good thing not thinking. ‘Corporate willing’

Laughed at this one as it too makes me cringe along with a couple of other phrases that are over used. And there is the problem…over use. Reading the comments I will do my best to strike “no problem” from my responses. Sometimes, strangely enough, in certain context’ “your welcome” sounds overly formal.

Get over it, Rat.

xxx

another group of people thrown off a cliff should be “i’m not an expert…”

am i the only reader amazed how rat picks up, carries uphill, and so easily chucks the fat slob? fame awaits:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf-tossing

And another Neighbor Bob bites the dust! (Or, bites a pile lemmings, if you believe that he was tossed over the same cliff.) Rat does what so many of us dream of doing….

Rat is sort of like a wayward guardian, like that creepy neighbor in the neighborhood watch with the How I Met Your Mother obsession.

back in the day hate it

Is that right? Well, to be totally honest, its all good, because at the end of the day, it totally is what it is. that’s awesome, baby! Anyway, that’s what we said back in the day. LOL people!

Bill Belichick

How about adding “I feel you” to the list

A relative of “It is what it is” is “Que sera, sera”.

What does Rat think of hashtags?

Also add “Git r done” to the list. And anyone who misuses the word “literally”.

I must have started reading PBS from the beginning a few months after you did, because your comments are always a few months before I read them, and we’re always the last one. Ever wonder if anyone ever read them for the older strips? I read them enough to do some research on who the heck Eris was and after finding out I think it’s funny that you ‘Hail’ her all the time

His week just got worse

Well neighbor bob, it is what it is…

I like that expression, but I never use it.

Well, it is what it i – crack

You go, Rat!