Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 20, 2019

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    BE THIS GUY  about 5 years ago

    You have the right to your opinion. I have the right not to listen to or read it.

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 5 years ago

    oh, the wonders of duct tape

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    Robin Harwood  about 5 years ago

    If you have never studied the topic, or given it two minutes thought, and just repeat the drivel you get from the media, how do you end up “entitled” to an opinion?

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    Wilde Bill  about 5 years ago

    Opinions are like noses. Everybody has one.

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    kaffekup   about 5 years ago

    At first, I thought the guy with the duct-taped mouth was a Hannibal Lecter type enforcer.

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    Breadboard  about 5 years ago

    Rat just stay still so we may put the whole roll of Duct tape on your head ! … Croc Power !

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    jpayne4040  about 5 years ago

    LOL! “The Knicks have a chance!” That was funny!

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    jpayne4040  about 5 years ago

    One of my favorite sayings: “Better to remain silent and look stupid than to open your mouth and remove all doubt!”

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    Ksandler4570  about 5 years ago

    spoken like a true lefty – the only correct opinion is theirs lol

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    Kaputnik  about 5 years ago

    People who voice dumb opinions give you practice in thinking about why those opinions actually are dumb.

    Of course, it gets boring when you’ve heard it and answered it forty times already, but do you really trust anyone with the duct tape?

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    asrialfeeple  about 5 years ago

    Pastis made another gag.

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member about 5 years ago

    In my opinion, Gorilla tape will work better.

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    jessie d.  about 5 years ago

    Duct tape and WD-40 the solution to all things for males of any and all species. Alternately thrown in for what it’s worth, “And I got a project going somewhere else can’t help you with_____________.”

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    wrd2255  about 5 years ago

    If only the problem was just verbal opinions. They need to shoot Twitter and its imitators into the Sun.

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    Geophyzz  about 5 years ago

    Sounds like life in China. Oops, gotta go, someone’s at the door.

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    mjb515  about 5 years ago

    Where are the shackles for cartoonists who insist on putting their stupid opinions in their strips?

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    J Quest  about 5 years ago

    “Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.”

    The Dude

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    NeedaChuckle Premium Member about 5 years ago

    The most dangerous are the AntiVaxxers who are spreading the plague and proud of it.

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    Zebrastripes  about 5 years ago

    Who’d want to tape a duck? Hardy har har seeeelenciooooo

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    jessegooddog  about 5 years ago

    Opinions and facts are galaxies apart these days.

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    ekw555  about 5 years ago

    I often think of this exchange (paraphrased below, as I forget the name of the fighter, but rest assured there was a name, and it was the wrong one) that I read once in a column about boxing.

    Bar Patron 1: I think John Smith is the greatest pound-for-pound boxer who ever lived.

    Bar Patron 2: that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard!

    Bar Patron 1: I’ve got a right to my opinion!

    Bar Patron 2: Not when you’re wrong!

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    Plumbob Wilson  about 5 years ago

    Boy, do I have a list of candidates for the “Opinion-Be-Gone” treatment. And no need to remove the duct tape for feeding, either.

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    gregaw  about 5 years ago

    The worst of it comes from most people confusing their opinions as facts. Wait! get that tape away from me!

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    Snoots  about 5 years ago

    I used to think everyone was entitled to his/her own opinion until I read YouTube comments. Then I became disconcertingly aware of the number of rabid nut cases that actually walk the streets among us, and came to understand a shining Truth of the Universe: The Majority is Seldom Right.

    Once that was realized, I have been considering collecting bricks to build a tall thick wall around me, with a small door through which food can be passed to me three times a day. Well, either that or don’t read comments.

    But I do believe Rat is absolutely correct: having an opinion does not automatically entitle one to state it. Perhaps a “stupid-o-meter” app kind of like “Grammatik”… to help us understand when a comment is too goofy to publish. Hmmm… bet one could sell a million of those. Well, except that those who make such comments don’t care if they’re goofy or not.

    It is disconcerting though. Seriously so. Explains a lot about the world condition though… ; )

    My own comments are of course totally excluded from this concept.

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    KEA  about 5 years ago

    one can have an opinion about matters of taste and personal preference, but not on matters of fact unless one can refute the fact with overwhelming evidence

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    Ellis97  about 5 years ago

    That is a product that we could use for nerds on social media and blogs.

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    Alexander the Good Enough  about 5 years ago

    “You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.” ~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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    DCBakerEsq  about 5 years ago

    Well, in MY opinion …

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    YippiKiAyMofo  about 5 years ago

    I think every opinion IS important – how else will you weed out the imbeciles?

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    Cerabooge  about 5 years ago

    The best part of this one is “I sold five billion in the first hour”.

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    jel354  about 5 years ago

    A handy response and nice combination with Pig’s “Hole” invention from yesterday.

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    TMMILLER Premium Member about 5 years ago

    We always called in 100 mile an hour tape. Stays on up to 100 mph. Aluminized tape was 1000 mile an hour tape.

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    Patlet  about 5 years ago

    We’d run out of duct tape. We could not possibly keep up with the demand….especially if it also worked on keyboard, apparel, signs, flags…..

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    JohnHarry Premium Member about 5 years ago

    The real issue started when Opinions became: “Alternate Set of Facts”.

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    Leojim  about 5 years ago

    We silence would be deafening! But ever so sweet.

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    zeexenon  about 5 years ago

    HEY! Is that silver duct tape? I have a wart to remove.

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    knight1192a  about 5 years ago

    It used to be everyone was entitled to their own opinion. But in recent years it’s become everyone’s entitled to their own opinion as long as that opinion is the same as what only a particular group wants. Otherwise your told your not entitled to an opinion.

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    foxsinger Premium Member about 5 years ago

    Especially POTUS

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    Bucinka  about 5 years ago

    I don’t care about the political stuff, but the Knicks comment made me laugh out loud. (And I’ve been a Knicks fan since 1969. Dave DeBusschere is no doubt spinning in his grave.)

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    Ermine Notyours  about 5 years ago

    I glanced ahead at “* Gag removed for meals,” and I thought they were talking about the comic strip.

    You don’t have to remove the gag. A feeding tube through the nose works wonders.

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    MartinPerry1  about 5 years ago

    Pig is right of course. But my definition of opinion is a point of view that’s based on reality and currently known facts. Without those, all those people are spouting are bizarro fantasies for most of those opinions, and wishful thinking for the rest.

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    Gerard:D  about 5 years ago

    Like keisters everyone have opinions, few have facts.

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    STACEY MARSHALL Premium Member about 5 years ago

    I once threatened to invent a blow-hard seeking missile and release it at work. I was advised, however, that in such a target rich environment, that it would just circle around in confusion until it ran out of fuel.

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    Sisyphos  about 5 years ago

    But you can’t gag Pig! He’s one of the stars of the strip, Rat’s foil!

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    WCraft Premium Member about 5 years ago

    Pastis really likes to yank our chains!

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    InuYugiHakusho  about 5 years ago

    The individual who invented it is the one most in need of it.

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    blindavocado Premium Member about 5 years ago

    Now we know Rat is a leftist.

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    lv2sew  about 5 years ago

    Opinion Be Gone and the Portable Hole rather put me in mind of Bill Engvall and “Here’s Your Sign”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBjelRDKHUk

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    MCProfessor  about 5 years ago

    Civil debate is dead!

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    Orcatime  almost 5 years ago

    The Knicks have a chance, huh?

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    Boxo croco says happy derby  almost 4 years ago

    Ah yes, the opressive apro- AAAHH! mphh mmph mpph

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    LOAFY  almost 4 years ago

    “Gag removed for meals” was the dealbreaker for me.

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    Mumbo Jumbo  over 3 years ago

    I WANT ONE

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