Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 16, 2024

No employer would belive that. We all know that Al Gore “took the initiative to create the internet,” as he told Wolf Blitzer.

I’d think the Pope would hate the inventor of Porn Central, a.k.a. the Internet.

We all know that Al Gore invented the internet

Way off. The Pope can’t knight anybody, he granted Rat the patent,

The whole premise of the papacy is based on a lie.

Rat seems to have forgotten that he ran for President and apparently won a few years ago.

You’re too late Rat, I believe Al. Gore took credit for that!

I’ve told you a million times to stop exaggerating!

I do! :D

That;s SIR Rat to you.

Actually, the Pope cannot possibly lie. I read it on the internet.

Sir Timothy Berners-Lee OM KBE was knighted by HM Queen Elizabeth II for, among other things, inventing the World Wide Web. He used a NeXT computer owned by his then employer, the Swiss high-energy research institute CERN, as the very first web server; he wanted to publish his papers, and plain text wasn’t cutting it, so he invented his own markup language and protocols. NeXT was the company Steve Jobs set up when he was exiled from Apple by those wanting to bring modern business management to Apple; when Steve returned to Apple in wrath and glory, the Nexties conquered Apple and modern business management ran away. TBL used the NeXT machine because it could provide the required power in a convenient, easy-to-use, package. The WWW exists as we know it today because an English physicist wanted to publish his scientific papers easily, and Steve Jobs was annoyed with Apple management.

Apparently a Google search gave me the answer that “Sir” Timothy John Berners-Lee has been knighted by the Late Queen Elizabeth II back in 2004

We ain’t calling you a truther.

I didn’t know Rat’s last name was Santos

That’s not exaggeration, that’s just lying.

No, Rat, we’re calling you a liar.

Anti-Catholicism is near the top of the list for Elon and Viyek newly formed Department of Government Efficiency. BTW, Your Be❤️ed Count has applied for a position in the organization. The Count is thinking Wielder of the Ban Hammer in the Payback is a Witch Office. God Bless America.

The Pope is selling fantasies to gullible people. Many others are doing it too, like snake oil, cars, ponzi schemes, or a great America. Yeah. Liars, all of them.

We’ll neve know for sure!

“Sir Rat the Pest”

No, we’re calling Al Gore a liar.

Also, getting knocked out by the pope is called getting “nighted”.

sorry, it was Hedy Lamarr who gave the military the internet

This is an early example of the Republican propaganda machine. They realized as early as the 1960’s that many of the people who formed the Tea Party, then the Heritage Foundation and so on were not real nice guys. They tended to be Trump types— anything that benefited them or their agenda was acceptable behavior, regardless of damage to other people. Once they had accepted the fact that sugarcoating the people they attracted wasn’t going to be possible, they turned to the alternative, which was trying to make their opponents look even worse. This was what led to the story about Hillary Clinton and other top Democrats running a child porn operation out of the basement of a pizza parlor which had no basement. Of course, this was considered nonsense by anyone who had sense or was paying the remotest iota of attention.

But, at the same time Rush Limbaugh was convincing the average American that they were getting an unfair deal and making them mad about it. This is what caused the guy standing beside his 20 foot boat to complain that he couldn’t afford groceries.

So, combining the two produced Trump. That average American who is convinced he deserves more ( he does, but that’s another topic) and all politicians are as scummy as Trump, so might as well vote for the scum that wasn’t in office when covid caused prices to rise ( also Trump’s fault, since he killed the Obama agency designed to contain it— but that’s also another story).

He stole Al Gore’s resume.

ChatGPT works wonders.

Some of the funniest things are said by liars when they are faced with being caught out.

why is Goat always so suspicious!?

Posting on the net is more powerful than a sword.

What is he resuming?

The only padding Rat needs is for his room.

This strip missed the chance to use the wonderful word “hyperbole”!

Huh, there really are still such things as papal knighthoods. I wouldn’t have thought so. You learn something new every day.

About 15 years ago my now former brother in law offered to edit my resume. When I got it back I didn’t recognize myself. It described a god.

The Vatican has lied about EVERYTHING.

The internet is one of the best, and one of the worst things to have ever been created

I hope Kennedy can make them start labeling ground meat made with pink slime labeled as such. I remember years ago the only thing rising from my meat loaf was a bit of grease, not pink slime.““Pink slime” is a type of ground beef that has been treated with ammonia to keep bacteria or other pathogens like salmonella from forming. The process starts with cuttings and trim from cattle carcasses that are sliced up into little steaks and sent away to be turned into ground beef.Ground beef can contain no more than 30% of fat, so the processing facilities have to treat them a bit to match the rules. First, the trimmings are heated to about 100° F, then put into a centrifuge to separate the fat tissue from the muscle tissue. Then the muscle tissue is treated with ammonia to keep bacteria from forming.This entire process is now called “ground beef” even though it’s still technically “lean finely textured beef.””

Popey don’t knight.

“Who’s that standing next to Bob?”…

I saw dan Quayle the other day. He messed up my quesilada at Chipotle