Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 30, 2023

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    BE THIS GUY  over 1 year ago

    Teach your workers what a “regular” cup of coffee is.

    (New Yorkers know what I mean.)

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    BasilBruce  over 1 year ago

    I thought it was a fear of people who use Latin words and phrases for no reason.

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    ronaldspence  over 1 year ago

    seems like there is a lot of ergophobia going around!

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    Erse IS better  over 1 year ago

    Well, it’s a GREAT week. This week I’ve learned rusticle AND ergophobia.

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    Gent  over 1 year ago

    If everyone goes home for this then it be ergonomic crisis.

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    Purple People Eater  over 1 year ago

    Somebody once said that the only phobia we should have is phobophobia (yes, that’s a thing), although he may have worded it differently.

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    monya_43  over 1 year ago

    I’m impressed that Rat was able to receive disability so quickly and easily.

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    Dogtreat Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Can you give us some five letter words?

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    iggyman  over 1 year ago

    Poor choice of words!

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    tripwire45  over 1 year ago

    When I was in Junior High, my English teacher assigned us vocabulary words to look up in the dictionary and then report on them to the class. I hated it at the time, but I eventually learned the spelling and meaning of a lot words, so much so, that I became the “family dictionary.”

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    SquidGamerGal  over 1 year ago

    Hey, may I see the dictionary? Thanks! WHAM!

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    TechInDallas  over 1 year ago

    https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2023/06/30

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  over 1 year ago

    He looked quite spiffy.

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    cornshell  over 1 year ago

    Not as bad as the guy who hired a fake priest to try to extract “confessions” of workplace malfeasance from his workers. True story.

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    Zebrastripes  over 1 year ago

    I would say he’s got it right!

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    Ellis97  over 1 year ago

    Rat isn’t afraid of working, he’s just super lazy.

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    Binky  over 1 year ago

    Rat would find a way to use a word of the day to his advantage ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯. That’s what he does!

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    kittygatos  over 1 year ago

    Normally a black coffee person, but have to try Irish butter and brown sugar one day….https://gudcoffee.com/menu/

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    Steverino Premium Member over 1 year ago

    The Health Department is going to close Joe’s Roastery because it has rats there.

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    erick.robinson  over 1 year ago

    coffee should not double as a dessert… if it has more grams of sugar then it does caffeine, Rat should pay you a visit

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    mindjob  over 1 year ago

    My word of the day: Lavazza

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    KEA  over 1 year ago

    Well that was inspiring

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    Count Olaf Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Lots of millennial liberals hanging around the coffee shop have that thus why they hang around the coffee shop and spout pseudo intellectual crap and conspiracy theories.

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    CaveCat87  over 1 year ago

    You shouldn’t have picked that word out, pal, now Rat’s gonna use it as an excuse to continuously skip working.

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    prrdh  over 1 year ago

    I thought a phobia was an irrational fear of something. But it’s perfectly rational to fear work. Therefore Rat doesn’t have ergophobia. Therefore he he has to keep working. (Apologies to Joseph Heller).

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    Cameron1988 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    LMAO!

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    Flatlander, purveyor of fine covfefe  over 1 year ago

    It got ugly in my house this morning

    1- fancy Keurig we have had for years is stuck in alarm mode.

    2- Smaller one we rescued from estate clean up won’t do anything more than flash lights

    3- One cup travel Keurig that was buried in basement came to rescue. We bought that one during travels because Motel Coffee is, well it is (Insert complaint here)

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    WCraft Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Makes me feel guilty for not working a full time job any longer. There are people out there with serious cases of ergophobia who are depending on me to pull their weight!

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    pearlyqim  over 1 year ago

    Too much of that going around!!

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    Goat from PBS  over 1 year ago

    Wow. What are the chances of choosing that word specifically.

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    christelisbetty  over 1 year ago

    *AKA- “Maynard G Krebbs’ Disease”

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    zeexenon  over 1 year ago

    New guy to old guy, “Yes sir, great work sir!”

    And, I’ll have to rethink “post hoc ergo propter hoc” logic, which few voters understand.

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    John Jorgensen  over 1 year ago

    Well you walked right into that one.

    I can’t say for certain but I suspect that if you picked a word out of the dictionary at random you’d almost certainly end up with a word everyone knows already, like “ belt” or “knock.”

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    Chris Sherlock  over 1 year ago

    Well, at least Joe didn’t require Rat to use it with the customers. That one would be rather hard to work into casual conversation.

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    eddi-TBH  over 1 year ago

    That went over better than most management ideas.

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  over 1 year ago

    Once again, Rat shows how a little knowledge in the wrong hands can be a dangerous thing.

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    Sisyphos  over 1 year ago

    Assuming he still wants Rat’s services, smarmy Manager should regret having chosen that Word of the Day….

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