Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 17, 2011

You can also tell the most pretentious, because they only use one name. To the relief of their non-spotlight whore relatives.

Cartoon-Pastis clearly has too much time on his hands. Churning out seven-days-a-week of PBS must be way too easy for him….

Well, Pastis says he doesn’t read the comments here.

He says…..

Richard S R — so…. you know what very famous person I mean when I say “John”?

LOL (ducking) … (from Rat, not you.)

I had a boss who would search his name just to see how many hits he would get. Ego surfing, we called it. He judged our performance by how many (or, preferably, few) hits he got on OUR names. It was easier than actually understanding what we did at work. I was actually doing quite well until he discovered that some sex-offender in Florida has my exact same name. Then his plan fell all to pieces.

Now I’m going to Google my name…

Yeah, those aren’t me.

Anybody mention my brother?

then there are people who google themselves out of paranoia, just to make sure no one said stuff about them.

Come on, Pastis. No hard feelings about that visit…2544.

Good to know. One of these days, I’m going to go to one of those things.

You hate to say he was a nice guy? You’d rather he act more like Rat? Or do you hate to say that you went to see him? Maybe you’re having problems admitting to being in Minneapolis.

…i love this strip!… I would like to meet him but I doubt he’d ever make his way to my neck of the woods :(

That doesn’t really surprise me since he can laugh at himself. Comic strip Pastis always comes across as a loser. No ego there.

It’s not paranoia when everyone is out to get you. Now, if I can just hack into their secret communications channels…

Then Pastis must be rock-star famous, because my kids refer to him by his first name only, as in “Stephan was really funny today.”

I’m just glad I’m safely anonymous…

I blame it all on the rat. That rat is a rat.Al Dubinsky

it’s sad – I can google my name and get nothing – but if I google my dead ex-husband, there I am.

Stephan Pastis rips on himself WAAAAY more than cartooncriic2544 ever could. But it’s that self depracating humour that make this comic so enjoyable for lots of people. So to Hell with cartooncritic2544.

I’ve said this before, but I emailed him a few times about the little dog that is tied up all the time, and he emailed me back, not once, but twice! He was a very,very nice person:)

That’s okay, Pastis- just throw the critic into the Box O’ Morons!

What about MY ego? Pig’s on Google, but I’m not!

OK, I’m wrong….

I’ve always suspected that Pastis was among us. Susan Sunshine is awfully good at puns. Could it be …

Ooooooh! What they said? What they said?

LOL xxx

Sing along with Sherlock: “You should hear how she talks about you, you should hear what she said…”

To quote Oscar Wilde, “The only thing worse than being talked about – is not being talked about.”

Yo Stephan, hope you get to LA soon!

hmm… this is oddly similar to todays cow and boy strip..

It’s easy for me to Google myself because I am the only person in the entire United States with my last name. I have two relatives in Canada, and all the rest are in Europe.

I Google my name every day … just to make sure I’m not dead yet. Local obits are 2 weeks + old, Google is fresher. I’d hate to wake up being dead, y’know. TOTALLY different wardrobe.

We want gators !