Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 13, 2019

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    BE THIS GUY  about 5 years ago

    Why are people who ride on bikes called cyclists, while those who drive motorcycles called bikers?

    Pardon me if someone has already mentioned this.

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 5 years ago

    good reconsidering, Jef

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    Queen of America  about 5 years ago

    I like all three choices.

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    Leojim  about 5 years ago

    I ride a trike, that’s what happens when you get old. So anyhow cyclist is more inclusive and of course we all know we have to be more inclusive cough cough hack hack

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    Robin Harwood  about 5 years ago

    To dehumanize cyclists requires that they be human in the first place.

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    DennisinSeattle  about 5 years ago

    This claim that “cyclist” is dehumanizing started with an academic, not with any cyclist organization.

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    B UTTONS  about 5 years ago

    Rat forgot to offer Psycho-lists

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    Nachikethass  about 5 years ago

    First world prejudices…

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    Kind&Kinder  about 5 years ago

    I’d go with “Spoke-Jokers” !

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    gopher gofer  about 5 years ago

    helmet heads…?

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    shack  about 5 years ago

    Shites on bikes…

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    Liverlips McCracken Premium Member about 5 years ago

    About time Jef showed up for this conversation.

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    blunebottle  about 5 years ago

    I’m leaning towards #2.

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    Yontrop  about 5 years ago

    I know, let’s all think of names for car drivers. To be fair though, we have to decide if we mean those who drive their car to the “fitness club” or those on their way to McDonald’s.

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    dwane.scoty1  about 5 years ago

    “Loon Psychoist” has a nice ring to it!

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    Ratbrat  about 5 years ago

    I liked Mob O’ Snobs. In fact, I like it so much I think it is the term I will use hereafter.

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    tmorris.nc  about 5 years ago

    Could have called them MAMILS — Middle Aged Males In Lycra

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    Breadboard  about 5 years ago

    With Rat on this one(Oh Boy!) … Croc Power !

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    Masterskrain  about 5 years ago

    Spurious Spoked Spandex Snobs.

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    rmercer Premium Member about 5 years ago

    Pastis needs to see a Cyclotherapist concerning this obsession of his.

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    dadoctah  about 5 years ago

    The only really accurate term is unprintable in this family forum.

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    Andrew Sleeth  about 5 years ago

    Just call us Fantastic!

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    jimkorth01  about 5 years ago

    I heard someone refer to them as MAMILS. Middle aged men wearing lycra.

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    Zebrastripes  about 5 years ago

    Idc what they’re called. Just don’t turf my lawn….LOL

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    david_42  about 5 years ago

    Ickie Bykie

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    tripwire45  about 5 years ago

    Sprocket heads?

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    cdgar  about 5 years ago

    Jef is annoying, as are all cyclists.

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    aerotica69  about 5 years ago

    “Lycra loon” is almost as good as “sac smuggler”, a term we once applied to a gentleman of the cycling persuasion who wore his lycra just a tad too tight.

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    grafdog  about 5 years ago

    Wow, it’s like yesterdays comments have been incarnated into a strip today!

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    skipper1992  about 5 years ago

    A friend of mine, a fellow runner, was hit by a car while riding her bike a couple of months ago. The driver was, one, on his phone, two, possibly under the influence (they didn’t test in a timely fashion but he was acting strangely at the scene), and three, crossed the double lines to pass someone who was going too slow for his liking, and hit her head-on. Had she not been wearing a helmet, she probably would have been killed. As it is, she’s now a paraplegic.

    Our local news station interviewed her as part of a story on the need for bicycles and cars to safely share the road. 90% of the comments on the story were in the vein of “good riddance, I have no sympathy for her because two years ago I encountered a cyclist who thought they owned the road.” It was rather disheartening.

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    rok_on  about 5 years ago

    A certain local radio host refers to them as “the spandex mafia “

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    Call me Ishmael  about 5 years ago

    Yesterday near Tampa, a bicyclist IN A MARKED bike lane was killed by a white pickup – who fled the scene. . He left 2 very young kids with his widow. I was hit ON A SIDEWALK in Jan.2017 – broke my left hip-which has never fully recovered. I have NEVER worn Lycra, and do not"preen" (I couldn’t-I’m 80 yrs old)….Steph, I love your strip – but you’re giving me a pain with this “Jef” crap. Why don’t you take on the motorcyclist who"creates" a third lane at 90 mph ?

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    Kevin Gaither-Banchoff  about 5 years ago

    MAMIL – middle age males in lyrica

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    AaronHayes  about 5 years ago

    Judging on how Jeff usually acts, I would probably go with Mob O’ Snobs.

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    DoktorScheisskopf  about 5 years ago

    Spandex schmucks?

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    Ellis97  about 5 years ago

    Just can’t change the classics.

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    joefearsnothing  about 5 years ago

    Don’t forget “Cycle Psychos”! ;o}

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    asmbeers  about 5 years ago

    Are the cyclists as depicted by Steve human?

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    Fido (aka Felix Rex)  about 5 years ago

    Just call them velocipedists and move along.

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    Display  about 5 years ago

    Car, cycle, or bike, you’re probably not wrong by figuring that most folks are either asleep at the wheel, drunk, homicidal, or D). All of the above. People are asshats pretty much across the boards when they’re on the road.

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    Cameron1988 Premium Member about 5 years ago

    Good job, Rat

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    Ermine Notyours  about 5 years ago

    Get a group of them and they’re a “chain gang.”

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    MeGoNow Premium Member about 5 years ago

    He’s just cranky.

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    PietBess  about 5 years ago

    Most cyclists are just regular joes who ride bikes. Sure, a lot of us react poorly when threatened, but it’s a waste of everybody’s time to make fun of the lycra crowd. Leave us cyclists alone.

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    johndifool  about 5 years ago

    Howzabout “Entitled Stop Sign Running Pinheads”?

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    PhilRuggiero  about 5 years ago

    “You can wait here in the sitting room, or you can sit here in the waiting room.”

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    michael.adler  about 5 years ago

    Guaranteed that Pastis uses the “N” word ironically and these comics are his ways of justifying.

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    zeexenon  about 5 years ago

    As a young man, I learned to clam up whenever someone asked either my religion or politics, but after Lance Armstrong I added “bicyclist.”

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    redback  about 5 years ago

    basically nobodies with no achievements that no body would give a damn about unless they act entitled and undignified for the most idiotic reasons; that means they have to act as sissies so people notice them. Somehow I feel this is related with Disney, who for decades used the template of the poor and helpless princess who waited for princes charming, then since they were criticized so much for that now they even deny it and can not help it but to shove down the throat of everyone who watches their movies (even the generic template of superheroes and emotional manipulation with generic stuffing and expensive cgi that has nothing to do with princesses) the SJW attitude that now the princess kicks butt. What would a superhero movie had to do with this, but since we are in millennial and emo era it means everybody has a cause because they want attention

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    gooddavid  about 5 years ago

    My 89 year old mother refers to them as “spandex moonies”

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    Rick Smith Premium Member about 5 years ago

    I like Lycra Loonies.

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    peter  about 5 years ago

    MAMIL: Middle-Aged Men in Lycra

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    WCraft Premium Member about 5 years ago

    Kudos to them for getting exercise. Shame on them for pretending that they belong in the same lane as cars.

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    hariseldon59  about 5 years ago

    I rode a bicycle to work every day for years when I was younger. Never once wore Lycra or Spandex.

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    kaffekup   about 5 years ago

    Jeff, who dehumanizes any non-cycler, doesn’t like a word because it dehumanizes him?

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    Sisyphos  about 5 years ago

    Maybe just the tiniest crack is appearing in Cyclist Jef’s HUGE ego? Or is Rat speaking truth to power?

    Where’s your bat, Rat?

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    tinstar  about 5 years ago

    If someone has already said this, I apologize… I don’t have time to go through all these to find out… a more modern term for motorcyclists, is “riders.” Bicyclists have basically remained “cyclists,” or, “annoying morons,” in some cases.

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    Ray  about 5 years ago

    I used to ride a bicycle a lot, but I can agree with “Heels on Wheels” for those lot who disobey traffic rules, etc.

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    RobertLawton  about 5 years ago

    Unlike automobiles, cyclists also emit methane.

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    Deleted Account2623  about 5 years ago

    Ah yes.

    Just because someone likes riding bicycles (no matter the reason), they’re automatically a snobbish jerk.

    We live in a garbage society

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