Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 31, 2018

I didn’t know the The Simpsons house was on the market.

No, no, no. The livingroom is where you put the giant TV.

Taking from Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary

living room noun (1857)

1 : a room in a residence used for the common social activities of the occupants

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Ok, so Rat’s sports bar idea would still be considered a living room according to that definition.

Was the great room named by Donald Trump?

My understanding of the distinction between a living room and a parlor is that parlors were also used for “sitting up with the dead” in the days before funeral homes.

Yes, Rat, guests. You know, people who bring things over to eat and drink while they entertain you.

Rat doesn’t have a living room in his own house?

Of course if you wanna live like pigs in a sty….Pig wants a sty room for when the bores/boars come to call.

Happy Hour at Rat’s….

I believe they are referencing ‘The Parlour.’

My friend’s mother had all the furniture covered in plastic and you couldn’t go near it, ever.

It’s a room sometimes adjacent to a place referred to as a dining room where an obscene amount of useless china and cutlery is stored.

My parents had the living room and the parlor. The parlor was called the No-No Room because children weren’t allowed in it.

It’s the room where everyone sits and watches TV while eating microwave meals.

There are times when I think THE only house Rat belongs in is THE BIG HOUSE!!

I don’t like guests. In my house it was called the “front room”.

I hated the “living” room. Most beautiful room in the house, shiny wood floor, big table, comfy chairs, best couchs ever!!!! and we were not allowed to live there…

That’s a brilliant idea! I wonder if I can convince my Husband to do this :)

When I was a kid, I was confused about it being called a “living room,” since you live in all the rooms.

Therefore, just like on TV, Rat & Pig need to look at two more houses before they can make an informed, well thought out decision. Which house says Sport’s bar to you?

Everyone knows the living room is the room you don’t live in. Just like the dining room is the room you don’t eat in. You always eat in the kitchen.

My living room is the home theater… complete with movie posters.

What timing… I’m heading out tomorrow to sell an old family home, built in 1927. Been in the family since it was built. And yes, it has a living room!

Rat can’t afford it anyway. He’s on welfare

The living room is the one room that you keep clean and tidy so guests will think you keep the entire house that way. No one can go into that room unless you are dusting/cleaning or accompanied by a guest. That way you do not have to worry about how the rest of the house looks. It is also useful to keep any boy in while waiting for the daughters to finish getting ready for a date. Also where the Father can size up the young man and be sure that he sees the shotgun hanging over the fireplace, Since few modern houses have living rooms and the boys now honk the horn rather than going to the door to pick up their dates the country is falling apart. We need to bring back the living rooms with the shotgun over the fireplace. The problem with that is to many girls (and boys) are being raised without a father to size up their boyfriends or a father that cares about the girl or the boy. In fact too many do not even know that they have a son or daughter or care that they do.

I shudder every time I read about some athlete (or any other man, just they don’t make the news) bragging about haw many women they have had sex eith and how many children they have fathered but in most cases never seen or at least spent time with. I have had men tell me that it was the fault of the woman that she got pregnant and the child was her problem, not his. He didn’t care about the child or what she did with it. Sometimes they sounded more like it was a litter of puppies he was talking about rather than a child.

Can you say “Man Cave”

I’m always amazed at those home search reality shows where, almost to a fault, each couple expresses the need for a bigger deck, yard, or kitchen for “when we entertain.” Right – how many people still do that?

“Next up, the dying room. This can double as the killing floor.”

So, do people not use the term “living room” anymore? Or am I just behind the times.

You could put beer in it regardless.

Couple of young guys in my neighborhood put the pool table in the large living room of the place they were renting, I imagine the room got used a lot more often that way.

In my house the formal living room acts as a noise buffer between the bedrooms and the den. The formal dining room has a large table I inherited upon which we stack stuff.

The living rooms and parlors are rooms in which all the upholstered furniture is covered with antimacassars. Look it up!

My friend’s parents had a “living” room with one of those velvet ropes across the doorway. New Year’s Eve was the only day she was allowed into the room, until her boyfriend spilled his red wine on the carpet, which was of course white. After that, she was never allowed in.

Grandma had front parlor (Think “living room”.) and back parlor (Think “den”.).

Your idea is fine, Rat if that’s how you live.

When I was young, and Mom and Dad were between houses, we lived for a time with my grandparents. Their two-storey house had on the first floor an entry hall plus stairway; a living room (a.k.a. front room); a dining room (rarely used, except that it was where the landline phone was); a kitchen ( the real “living room”!); and an enclosed back porch that could serve as a spare bedroom if needed (at one time it had been an open porch). The second floor had three bedrooms and the one and only bathroom….

Holy crap a comic about city planning

“I’m looking at this house in the middle of a residential neighborhood. Can I turn it into a bar / gentleman’s club / toxic waste dump? No? Can I get a variance? Rezoning?”

Every. Day.

Victorian houses have parlours or drawing rooms. Or is that sitting rooms? IDK! Victorians have lots of names for rooms you sit in! Just not “livingroom”. Too vague, I suppose.