Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 29, 2012

Pig, ever caring about others’ feelings.

Pig, the quick change artist!

“Inured”? May be spelled small, but it sounds like a big word.

Had a teacher once tell a classmate that it was always a good thing to look something up when you wanted to know the meaning rather than asking and expecting to get a correct meaning in response. Good advice, something they should have been pushing on us before 10th grade (yeah they did teach what a dictionary was but most of the time you asked a teacher what a word meant and they just gave a definition, he was even more about us using dictionaries on a regular basis than any of our others had been so we weren’t too lazy about such things) . Didn’t know what inured was much less how it’s pronounced. Looked it up, can see why Pig thinks Zebra called himself a nerd. And Zebra’s right, he has become accostumed to accepting something undesirable for him.

Which is why I’ve seen a sign in one shop window in London that says American spoken here.

Piggie makes such a good Nerd! Glasses, buttoned-up shirt, and what may be a pocket-protector! Maybe Pig should become active in community theatre, in “character” rôles. He certainly is a character….

Takes one to know one.

Very funny

if you use the word……..

A yellow pocket protector? With a yellow shirt?

sorry most nerds (I speak from being one) are undetectble until you says something totally wrong about computers, then they choke and correct you (sometimes)

Usually I’m inured by some of the comments but Pig just has pens in a pocket on a yellow shirt, not a yellow pocket protector… geez

Our fighting has less to do with religion and more to do with blowing sh!* up!!

“I come in peace, I didn’t bring artillery. But I am pleading with you with tears in my eyes: If you f@#* with me, I’ll kill you all.” USMC Gen James Mattis.

one of the best insults I ever heard was, “My eyes are inured to ugliness but you offend them.”

From what I hear, Otterbox cases are pretty good.

I think Zebra lives next door to crocs… being a nerd might be a valuable skill.

Excellent!

xxx

Pig, Dilbert wants his look back . . . . . ☻

I wonder if, when we’re not looking, any of the characters take the time to correct some of Pig’s misunderstandings. It would probably be a lot of work.

In the “old” days (yes, I’m dating myself) he’d have a slide rule hooked to his belt.

This is funny!

There’s even tape on his glasses.

One does not need to look like a nerd to be a nerd. I know from personal experience. Most people who look at me either think I’m average or that I play sports (it doesn’t help that I’m a few inches over 6".) Yet, when the subject turns to literature, I go crazy. And I’m on my computer about 7-8 hours a day.

Hey Pig, there’s a call for you on the homophone.(Or is that ham-o-phone?)

Very funny. Of course with the weight of some of those missals, they could be deadly weapons.

is it just me, or does pig look a lot like Dilbert?

Why should Goat dumb down his vocabulary for Pig?Like math, vocabulary is ’use it or lose it.

Pigdexter

Not the misunderstanding I was expecting Pig to have, so, a little extra giggle there.

all i know is that i want the duck back in the comics havnt seen him in for ever and probably becasue he blows shit up but thats what makes the duck the DUCK so please if the writer of the comic ever gets to read this please please bring the duck back into the comic thak you so very much for ur time

You have a smartphone with a pocket?

nerds rule.

What exactly does inured mean?

Missal instead of missile; Carmel instead of caramel; Calvary instead of cavalry. The pattern seems to be religious references trump normal meanings.

Americans pronounce cavalry as calvary? I had no knowledge of this…I’m American, and I don’t say it that way. Though I also give caramel three syllables, say inNOVative instead of innoVATive, and occasionally add a ‘u’ to the word color/colour. (My word processor doesn’t like it.) I don’t say the word missile all that often, so I don’t know how I say that one..In any case, I’m a strange American.

Nice glasses