Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 23, 2012

Sorry Rat, it’s already been done. Check out “Politically Correct Bedtime Stories” or “When Jack Sued Jill – Nursery Rhymes for Modern Times”.

Pig, just sit down and be quiet.

Why is Humpty always depicted as an egg?

Because if he were a Ming vase it would be ridiculous

The funny thing is, civil trials actually change things quicker than criminal trials. Want to change somebody’s behavior? Take all their money away. That’s what got OJ….Make it too costly for a company to do something, and they’ll stop doing it….money rules….

Too many Humpties in this country ruining it for everybody.

Bless you, Pastis, for getting out of that questionable profession and into something wholesome and honest like cartooning! And to think that, up to now, I had rather liked Humpty and would from time to time sit on a wall. How reckless of me!

Check out Rhymes.org.uk for the story behind Humpty Dumpty. The “egg man” is because of Alice in Wonderland. However from about the 15th century, “dumpty” meant a very overweight person. This is still in use in rural areas of the US, though it has become “dumpy”.

In this case Goat has the wrong face and Rat actually is in the right. That’s today’s society, sue, sue, sue. And the ambulance chasers make certain to push that mentality. The way the commercials are going now I’m half expecting to soon see “If you’re great-great grandfather whom you never even would have known under normal circumstances and could care less about them died from choking on a cranberry then it’s probably causing you great emotional distress. Call us, we’ll help get the money you deserve.”

Deep down inside,….Pastis still can’t get over being a suit…..

“And all the king’s lackeys and all the king’s dregsThat night for supper had scrambled eggs.”

That dumb Pig is so happy that he’s airborne………hope he doesn’t have a great fall.

Seems clear enough, the yolk’s on us.

Funny as all get out and so true. LOL

Sadly true

Um, somehow I don’t think it’s corporations behind all this silliness. In fact, they are often the victims of a lot of it. No, it’s nervous Nellies who think we should all live in a cocoon. You know, the ones who like to tell everyone else what to do.

Did you ever notice they always make the person who’s suing the bad guy, never the company for making crappy or dangerous products? Too many companies would run over their own grandmother (they are people, aren’t they? I heard somebody running for office say that) for a nickel’s extra profit if they thought they could get away with it … I used to write news promos at a TV station; when I wrote one suggesting maybe there were 2 sides to the story the news director blew his stack because he wanted a “how are we going to stop these crazy lawsuits?” promo, period.

@bpullin:.“Torte reform”? If the cake has crumbled; eat it rather than try to put it back together! Pastry does not heal.

what the @*%$? this doesn’t make sense. (rat’s story doesn’t make sense)

I don’t get involved in lawsuits, but I wish there was a better way to put the fault where it belongs. You can’t just always blame the corporations, or the victims. Also, sometimes no one is really to blame. Some things are just accidents, or the blame is shared.

Everybody hates lawyers until they need one…

The jury system is the best system in the world. As usual, people want to second guess those who sat and heard the evidence in a lot of these cases. We don’t need tort reform, we need insurance companies that actually provide insurance rather than try and screw injured people.

I’ve got a technical question, not related to the strip, but I couldn’t find where else to post. How do you put italics in a comment? [i]This doesn’t seem to work.[/i]

Type your sentence, select the words you want, the news os5 will give you the option to underline or italicize. This is if you have iPad or iPhone.

More like a Liberal Egg-Head

It is very rare that the injured person gets more than enough money to even pay for his expenses, much less loss of earnings, or the like. What do you think happens to them? We taxpayers pay for SS disability until he is able to get SS retirement. Who do you think should pay?When someone gets a big award, he is usually not able to get around to enjoy it and the reason is partially punitive because they did something so blatantly wrong that the judge had to stick it to them.Walk a mile on my gimp sticks

He!! Yes you losers,now we’re gonna talk pain and suffering.Oh boo hoo…Cheers,Hoodude

That Humpty is a real hard-boiled character.

Not long ago people had bumper stickers that read, “Humpty Dumpty was pushed!” Anyone remember those?

LOL LOL… Excellent!

xxx

Pig is a fawner

Ah, Pastis, spoken like a true Californian!

sometimes the king’s men are negligent…see hillsborough, iraq war,bank deregulation, etc…. sometimes engineers have a defective design…see edsel, pinto, corvair, thalidomide, etc…

“Hate” speech is nothing like the fire/theater situation, at least not under U.S. law, and we should avoid that facile but erroneous analogy, since it, too, aids the arguments of those who’d like to exercise a “heckler’s veto” (look it up…very limited application to situations of immediate danger ).

“..it is NEVER then (sic) speaker who suffers..” Really? Tell that to Kurt Westergaard, Theo van Gogh, Salman Rushdie…

“…then perhaps it is an acceptable infringement. do I advocate that? NO, absolutely not…” Cognitive dissonance? If you absolutely don’t advocate it, then there’s no perhaps..acceptable about it.

Boo for the legal system that has ruined fun play equipment for this generation of kids ;-( It was SO much more fun when we had tall metal slides and monkey bars and merry-go-rounds that had no restraints.

there are far to many people that actually do this

Lets all start choking on little round magnetic balls and then sue (if we live for being so stupid) cause this comic is so true.

Sure there is certain situations that require it due to negligence but I’ve seen more examples in my life of negligent people being stupid. One example I can think of is someone sticking their arm into the moving pieces of farm equipment, he lost his arm and sued. He won the lawsuit saying it should have been labeled, company went out of business due to it so guy never got his money, lost arm worth sticking your arm into a place with many sharp moving blades, chains and gears? Its would be safer to stick your hand in the fan blade of a car motor.

Then of course you have the criminal who fell through the sky light and sued the owners for negligence saying it wasn’t strong enough. I also know a lady who purposely walks near stores on ice in the winter to see if she can fall to sue for ice being there. She goes out of her way to find ice, I do not like this lady.

I am no fan of big corporations but a lawsuit against one of them just increases prices for everyone else, when I read about Kroger losing the lawsuit for the guy who bought pop corn and ate two bags a day till he got popcorn lung, I thought how stupid he did it to himself by eating two bags a day. Why doesn’t he sue himself for eating two bags a day, that is negligence in itself.

Man,this one is popular.

The mom payed 150 bucks for her child to sit on that wall??? (Read the signs)

The kid is timmy failure