Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 14, 2015

We admire your effort to be not obnoxious.

One actually exists?!

It’s hard to act superior when you have man boobs.

There are two kinds of persons, those sinners who think themselves as righteous and the righteous who think themselves as sinners. Which one are you, Jim?

It’s Jef’s not-so-evil twin!

Rat will have better luck finding the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus than a cyclist who even realizes that there are other people on the planet..BTW, if you want to see the actual seven wonders, you’re out of luck. Five of them have completely vanished, and a sixth one is basically just the ruins of where it used to be. The only one still standing, oddly enough, is the oldest of the seven.

ive seen a dragon fly…a peanut stand….a rubber band…a railroad tie…horse fly….yeah but a humble cyclist …nah…that could be a walt disney movie…

Heh heh! One of John Kass’s (Greek, like Cartoon-Boy) Little Bike People who affects to be not smug! But we all know it isn’t so! Just wait until Jim rolls merrily through a red light!

Rat hit Jimbo with your bat now so that we may see the stars…………and there would be your seven stars er I mean wonders

I’m better at not feeling superior than you are…

If you’re 82 years old and can still ride a bike (slowly) is it OK to feel superior?

I never get this anti-bicyclist thing (and no, I’m not a bike rider). I never hear them talking about their hobby, never see them being obnoxious on the road (which they have a right to share), and generally never see them violating the rules unlike a lot of car drivers I know. Pastis just hates Spandex?

Up next: a person who doesn’t yak on a cellphone in a restaurant!

It’s hard not to feel superior when you pass even one on the bike trail at will.

I used to feel Superior, but she was always afraid the other nuns would catch us.

I knew it couldn’t be Jef.

In expectation of doing the same thing, I see a lot of pots here calling the kettle black.

I am a cyclist, with 3 bicycles and no car. I’m also a vegetarian. I do understand the antipathy which is why I don’t preach. It’s not my avocation to change the world. It’s hard enough to change myself.

Oh, yeah. Right. And I suppose his riding partner is a leprechaun on a unicorn.

I’m pretty sure all the jokes about jef the cyclist are actually poking fun at Jef Mallet, the creator of Frazz, though I’m not certain of this…

You should see the plans the City of LA has for cycling lanes! To encourage people to get out of their cars by removing one entire lane on each side of major boulevards, in a city with poor public transportation where folks travel several miles just to get to a supermarket or work. Sure, Jef & Jim, have fun.

Shouldn’t he be Ji – you know ditched the “M” for the additional speed.

One of the Seven Wonders of the World would be seeing Rat’s gravestone.

Just kidding. Or maybe I’m not…

xxx

some years back, the paper wrote an article about the husband of a friend of mine because he was that rarest of species, a lawyer who’s a nice guy. guess what? they were wrong. really really wrong

Taking a big risk by taking the mickey of that group, but surely those particular cyclists always refer to themselves as “bicyclists” in the US?

You can’t fool me—these wonders don’t actually exist! ;)

How about an atheist who doesn’t feel superior to everyone else?

If you don’t get the anti-cyclist thing, try serving on a jury with one for a case involving a cyclist and a truck driver. The cyclist on your panel will insist that even if the cyclist did everything wrong (riding in the driving lane of the highway before dawn with no lights or reflectors) and the trucker did everything right, the cyclist is still entitled to everything the truck driver owns and the entire revenue of the trucking company he works for. And punitive damages. And a guaranteed income for the rest of his life. And probably the closure of the highway and the immediate ouster of the entire state transportation department.

I’m sorry, I was looking for PBS, not Ripley’s Believe it or Not.

He’s there with the contractor who shows up at the right time.