Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 22, 2024

Old hippie needs to take a hot shower with water heated by fossil fuels.

Eureka! You need-a to bathe! (Rat or the old guy, take your pick.)

I have several LED bulbss that, because the globe is not transparent, are indistinguishable by sight from the old incandescent bulbs. Same shape, same size, same base.

I carry a light bulb in my pocket in case I get an idea.

No wonder so many people don’t have any idea anymore.

By the way, I highly recommend the comic “DeFlocked”. Actually, GoComics recommended it to me and it is very similar in style to Pearls. Possibly, too similar?…It is funny though. And I can easily imagine Rat, Goat, and sometimes Pig saying the same things.No worries, Just a Recommendation – Cheers!

I thought Rat always had a bat handy.

in my country LEDs and incandescents are the same size & shape.

With L.E.D. bulbs, you can get the same ideas with less energy.

It was probably not such a bright idea anyway!

Eh at least he no throws some steenky soups on you Rat.

I’ve had LED bulbs for over 10 years. Just replaced a 60watt equivalent that was on continuously after 7 years in the basement. Was using only 7 watts so it took the place of a night light. Used to have to replace the three-way incandesce every 9 months since the lowest setting would blow out. Those are also 5-7 years old.

They do have LEDs that are closer to the color of natural sun light and the look great.

Along the same lines, I know somebody who removed all the water restrictors from their shower heads!

Meh, I remember the days when it was a candle. Get with the program, Sonny.

Rat should just use a candle…

I agree, Rat. Especially noticing that those guys seem to follow their intestinal gas clouds around, proudly, all day long.

Oh for pity’s sake.

The true entertainment from this piece is reading the angry ol’ people comments here.

Your idea will last a lot longer

I really wanted to hear Rat’s idea, but that stupid hippie just had to go and ruin everything.

I held off on LEDs until I had no choice. Turns out they look almost the same and have the wattage equivalent on the box. I have no idea why I was so resistant except that old-man-thing of “Ewwww! Change!”

LOL… so true. The Count has mentioned on here before how the old 3 Way bulb in a lamp burned out and a replacement that fit in the harp could not be found at the local super market or Lowe’s and one had to be ordered from Amazon. The New Improved ones were crazy town expensive, too. The Count actually bought five and is now a light bulb hoarder…

It was clearly an old idea.

It sure has! Controlling what you say is bad enough but controlling your thoughts too is just too much!

Twice the cost, half the life.

Some people need to CHILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL.

and yet, not far enough.

I have switched all my light bulbs to LEDs. Boy, those critters are expensive!

That last panel says it all.

No more “Eureka”?? Awwww

gee … I have LED bulbs all over my house that look exactly like that. Love them. We saw a huge drop in our electricity bills after installing them and they last WAY longer than the incandescents that they replaced.

I haven’t done the math, but incandescent bulbs may be the best environmental option for those months when you are heating your home with fossil fuels. The energy they “waste” goes to heat your house.

Why blame hippies for rats mistake?

Today, Gasoline Alley is also succumbing to environmentalism.

https://www.gocomics.Com/gasolinealley/2024/02/22

Can’t buy them because stores can’t sell them but we can still use our old ones up. After that an electrician to put in new lights. Ugh, my kitchen, shop…

I wouldn’t have expected an elderly hippie to be on the cutting edge of technology.

They are still Hecho en Mexico. Thank you Amazon!!!

The lack of incandecent bulbs will lead to the death of lava lamps. I will mourn the loss of the dancing blobs

You can’t make light of this, Rat.

The trouble with LED bulbs is that they’re advertised to last years and years while mine go bad in months.

Oh, for the days when sunlight was free. If you think wind-energy and solar-panels should reduce power cost, you have another think coming.

It is better to light a candle than to have a non-working television set

My ideas are those old flash cubes. Instant. Brilliant, Then burned out, forgotten…

Rat’s ideas are often ecological disasters.

If he had an LED lamp he’d get more ideas and use less energy. This is the future of philosophy.

“Watt in the world?”

My idea meme is a candle.

You’re a funny man Stephan! LOLOL

How many computer programmers does it take to change a light bulb? None! That’s a hardware problem.

I am with Rat on this one. Those guys ruin everything. H. L. Mencken said that a puritan is someone who can’t stand someone else being happy (correct me if I’m wrong on the quote). That would apply here.

Apparently, a simpleton is responsible for this shallow nonsense…

Here in Kalifornia, we have nanny hippies trying to control everything. The lightbulb issue took a decade to sort out. Now we have decent LED bulbs, naturally they cost 10X more and those promised 10 years of life is wildly optimistic.

How can old man hippie grab a symbolic bulb?

That’s no lightbulb, that’s a skeuomorph!