Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 17, 2021

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    BE THIS GUY  about 3 years ago

    Goat is in the penalty box and Rat is on a power play.

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    BasilBruce  about 3 years ago

    For Rat’s time to be wasted, it has to be worth something in the first place.

    Go ahead and climb right out, Goat.

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member about 3 years ago

    On my wedding day I arrived late, but my (ex) wife didn’t put me in the “Penalty Box”. On the contrary. But she reminded me of it until we separated.

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    B UTTONS  about 3 years ago

    Looks life Goat is the ultimate winner. Don’t need to deal with Rat for at least another 20 minutes.

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    ImDaRealAni  about 3 years ago

    No penalty kicks for Rat?

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 3 years ago

    What to do when a lot of Rat’s tardy acquaintances are put into that box? Like the Jaws boat, he’s gonna need a bigger box, but where to obtain such a box?

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    Meme Dee Dee (king of the comic reviewers)  about 3 years ago

    What was Goat late for anyways?

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    TonysSon  about 3 years ago

    If this becomes a reality, I’m in trouble.

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    Concretionist  about 3 years ago

    Justice leaves everyone equally annoyed, just like compromise.

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    ronaldspence  about 3 years ago

    Punctuality is common courtesy but I also get disappointed when everyone else is not in my hurry!

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    Caldonia  about 3 years ago

    I would’ve pegged Goat as the perpetually early type.

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    Cornelius Noodleman  about 3 years ago

    I like sitting in boxes!

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    juicebruce  about 3 years ago

    Rat if we do this box thing we will have " NO " Doctors !

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    35&45  about 3 years ago

    goat eat box

    Patrick Bouvier Kennedy

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    jessie d.  about 3 years ago

    it’ll be invigorating if you be the judge.LOL..not so if you be the accused.

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    AndreasMartin  about 3 years ago

    Goat is an intellectual. They tend to live in other time spheres.

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    Troglodyte  about 3 years ago

    Rat delivers, wait for wait!

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    iggyman  about 3 years ago

    Best to tell the perpetually late to be a half hour or so before the actual time!

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    dadoctah  about 3 years ago

    I wonder if Rat would be interested in going in with me on a little project I’ve been working on. At the “10 items or less” checkout, train the cashier to ring up ten items and then stop and ask for the total; send everything else back or tell the customer to pay and then get back in line for the next ten.

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    franki_g  about 3 years ago

    20 minutes later, you’d have to wake me from my penalty box nap, and I don’t wake friendly. Bring hockey stick.

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    James Wolfenstein  about 3 years ago

    You can’t be “perpetually late”! Lateness is not a never-changing state. Death is a never-changing state. When you’re dead, you’re dead forever. Then, you can be “perpetually dead”… unless you’re Jesus… :D

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    Kayak_Brian  about 3 years ago

    I used to always be late until we found out our friends started saying the event started half an hour before it actually did, just so we would be there on time. Now that I’m single, I’m usually 15-20 minutes early places. Went in for an MRI on day and made it out of there before my scheduled appointment was to start.

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    Queen of America  about 3 years ago

    Time and tide wait for no man. Nor do I. Back in the 1960s’, my mother had a friend who was late for everything.One holiday, my mother told her if she was late to our house, she was going to drive over and drop spoonfuls of potato salad on her front yard. The friend showed up with her hair in curlers and in her housecoat but she was on time.

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    Justanolddude Premium Member about 3 years ago

    I’m not late. Did you start without me? Well just call the office and reschedule, I’ll be early for my next meeting. Okay, at least we’ll finish on time. I love being the boss.

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    einarbt  about 3 years ago

    Justice, Rat’s way.

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    landyk  about 3 years ago

    I’ve always been a touch early to any event, and twice in my life I’ve arrived as the host’s were still dressing. Don’t tell me that whatever, will be at ‘around two’ and not expect me at two.

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    lunapeachie  about 3 years ago

    I like Rat’s thinking.

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    monya_43  about 3 years ago

    When you arrive early for events, you can get a good parking place.

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    SusieB  about 3 years ago

    I am with.Rat on this one. People who are constantly late are rude, inconsiderate and self centered.

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    chris_o42  about 3 years ago

    I like that idea. I once worked in a Physical Therapy clinic where we had chronically late patients who would mess up the schedule. My boss always made them wait while we treated the next person on the schedule who was on time. He said “if you’re late—you wait”!

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    txmystic  about 3 years ago

    They sell those on Amazon? I’ll need a gross…

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    artheaded1  about 3 years ago

    I know where I’ll be living from now on…

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    Jim2g  about 3 years ago

    I’m in Facebook penalty box

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    monya_43  about 3 years ago

    You always wait at the doctor’s or dentist’s office. That’s why they call you patients. ;-)

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    Gent  about 3 years ago

    Rats. I is 8 hours late to this comment board.

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    Flossie Mud Duck  about 3 years ago

    Actually, I like this idea. There is very seldom a good reason to be late.

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    Ellis97  about 3 years ago

    Rats hold one heck of a grudge.

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    pheets  about 3 years ago
    No penalty box here… just a door.
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    old_geek  about 3 years ago

    Strange. I find some logic to this.

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    jscarff57 Premium Member about 3 years ago

    I wish that was a real thing…

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    tiomax  about 3 years ago

    Wouldn’t work with cats.

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    Goat from PBS  about 3 years ago

    Penalty box? What is this, hockey? If it is, don’t get cross-checked.

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    royclark  about 3 years ago

    my first wife from Thailand was always an hour late for everything so I just started telling her the incorrect time of an hour more than she needed to come.

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    Purple People Eater  about 3 years ago

    Love means never having to say you’re sorry. Two different women said that to Ryan O’Neal in two different movies. His reactions were somewhat different.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gcl2JDxFrQ

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    mfrasca  about 3 years ago

    “You do that, you go to the box. Twenty minutes, by yourself, and you feel shame. And then you get free.”

    - Denis Lemieux

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    198.23.5.11  about 3 years ago

    Anybody who’s ever been plagued by a “perpetually late”friend or relative will adore this strip.

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    KEA  about 3 years ago

    The only thing worse than a lack of punctuality is a false apology for it

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    Ukko wilko  about 3 years ago

    I agree with rat on this one.

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    The Duke  about 3 years ago

    Should have called if you were going to be late. We do have cell phones now.

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    DebUSNRet  about 3 years ago

    That’s one big sized Rat!

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    kaycstamper  about 3 years ago

    I’ve never seen a rat carry a goat!

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    donwestonmysteries  about 3 years ago

    Actually, not a bad idea.

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    knight1192a  about 3 years ago

    Justice, huh. Ok, then Goayt gets to put you in a penalty box for the next twenty years for wasting twenty years of his life.

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    Papa2Dawg Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Since when can a rat manhandle a goat? Ahh, I forgot, it’s a comic.

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    old_geek  about 3 years ago

    Sorry I’m late. I got here as soon as I wanted to.

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    Lola85 Premium Member about 3 years ago

    People who are perpetually late, are selfish, and they don’t value anyone else’s time. I can’t count the number of meetings I attended in which I had to sit and wait for the leader to recap what was said before the latecomer(s) arrived. Had I been the leader, I would have told them to ask people who were on time, what they missed.

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    schaefer jim  about 3 years ago

    Hell, have’t no fury like that of a woman’s memory. After 40 years I should know.

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    Sailor46 USN 65-95  about 3 years ago

    Karma for the perpetually late. If only.

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  about 3 years ago

    More Rat snarkiness. What got Pastis’s crackles up lately?

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    PuppyPapa  about 3 years ago

    I like it.

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    Sisyphos  about 3 years ago

    Rough justice, to be sure! One can see easily why Rat like it that way. Any number of fictional “heroes,” especially in movies and TV, fit that mode, too….

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    Timothy Madigan Premium Member about 3 years ago

    My Drill Sergeant always said “Sorry is a personal statement, not an excuse for your actions”

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    Swirls Before Pine  almost 3 years ago

    What if Goat was there to stop Rat from choking? Or to put out a house fire?

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    Ultracus  about 2 years ago

    I agree with the fact that sorry is a useless word…

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