Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 24, 2012

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    The#1BoiseStateFan  about 12 years ago

    Brick through the window onto pig’s head

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    killacowinWA  about 12 years ago

    Education by experience…that’s a great and terrible thing. In the hands (paws?) of someone like Rat, mostly just a terrible thing.

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    daBomb619  about 12 years ago

    Except the glass is on the inside…

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    firedome  about 12 years ago

    looks like pig got defenestrated..

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    AGED_ENGINEER Premium Member about 12 years ago

    No pane, no gain!

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    Sisyphos  about 12 years ago

    The Defenestration of Pig: wasn’t that a big deal in the Thirty Years War?

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    Montaholic  about 12 years ago

    May 23, 1618, a famous historic incident occurs in Bohemia, the Denestration of Prague. From Wikipedia:The Lord Count von Thurn turned to both Martiniz and Slavata and said "you are enemies of us and of our religion,… have horribly plagued your Protestant subjects… and have tried to force them to adopt your religion against their wills… Soon after, the Regents were thrown out of the third floor window along with the Regents’ secretary, Philipus Fabricius but survived after falling 70 feet.Later Protestant pamphleteers asserted that they survived due to falling onto a dung heap, a story unknown to contemporaries and probably coined in response to the Imperial officials attributing their survival to the intercession of the Virgin Mary.

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    Hillbillyman  about 12 years ago

    Happens all the time on old TV westerns. LOL

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member about 12 years ago

    I have a vocabulary word for Rat: Warfarin.

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member about 12 years ago

    Did you know that in old movies, those constantly smashed windows were candy?

    They were made by dipping a metal rod sideways into molten sugar, and hanging it so the candy fell in a sheet..(Which is actually the same method used to create early windows from molten glass.)

    Eventually they painted bitter flavoring on the sugar windows cos the actors and crew thought it was funny to eat them.

    BTW when I was near a window when it shattered from a flying object, glass went in every direction, in, out and sideways.

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    arye uygur  about 12 years ago

    I thought jan Huss and the 30-year-war were in two completely different historical periods. During Huss’ lifetime the word “Protestant” was not in use.

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    runar  about 12 years ago

    Next word: “depontification”.

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    tangcameo  about 12 years ago

    If that’s DEfenestration, I’d be afraid to ask Rat what Fenestration is.

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    finale  about 12 years ago

    Trepanning

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    pschearer Premium Member about 12 years ago

    It can also refer to suicide from a window. I first saw the word in some obituary that was trying to report the facts while trying to obscure the fact of the suicide. (The Latin word also survives in the German word for window, “Fenster”. Thought you should know.)

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    gmu328  about 12 years ago

    love the “no pane, no gain” … however, it boggles the mind to know why one would one need a word like defenestration? Why not simply say, “throw [ it ] out the window”?

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    McGehee  about 12 years ago

    Incorrect. “Defenestration” is the removal of a window or winows. But not Windows — one does not say, “I defenestrated my computer and installed Linux.”

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    debdessaso  about 12 years ago

    While I’m not defending Rat’s actions, I teach writing—and I must admit, there are those days….

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    inshadowz  about 12 years ago

    With the glass on the inside, I find myself imagining Pig throwing Rat in through through the window. Afraid that’s just so much wishful thinking, though.

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    De_Faulto  about 12 years ago

    Oh man, defenestration was one of my favorite words in my old Writing Class.

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    hcr1985  about 12 years ago

    Hopefully he won’t teach him the word “Decapitate”

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    Gokie5  about 12 years ago

    “Defenestration” might be a useful word to bring into the discussion on today’s Non Sequitur.

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    Sherlock Watson  about 12 years ago

    Everyone here who practices onanism, raise your hand!

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    Potrzebie  about 12 years ago

    Next word he will teach him is de-boned, as in de-boned ham.

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    freeholder1  about 12 years ago

    Okay, everyone missed the obvious: Rat gave him a crash course. (Too many intellectuals spoil the stoned soup.)

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    kaystari Premium Member about 12 years ago

    This is aweful! So why did i laugh?

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    Rickapolis  about 12 years ago

    Some lessons are harder to learn than others.

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    fritzoid Premium Member about 12 years ago

    “Experience is the costliest teacher, but the man who tries to carry a cat by its tail learns something he can learn in no other way.” — Mark Twain

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    m.l.  about 12 years ago
    Well we can do without Pig for a while.
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    marshalljpeters Premium Member about 12 years ago

    From Merriam-Websters 11th Collegiate DictionaryDefenestration

    1 : a throwing of a person or thing out of a window2 : a usually swift dismissal or expulsion (as from a political party or office)

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    neatslob Premium Member about 12 years ago

    “Experience is the worst teacher. It gives the test first and the lesson afterwards.”

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    rgcviper  about 12 years ago

    Poor pig. This one made me smile, though … partly since, in a word game I like to play, someone used the word “fenestration” during the game.

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    Alan Rees  about 6 years ago

    The earliest recorded defenestration? Possibly Queen Jezebel (2 Kings 9:30-33).

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    PBS1!  over 4 years ago

    I know it’s just a comic, but I can’t help but notice that in panel 2, Rat did nothing to point out the broken window.

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