Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 17, 2023

I’d say that, between panels 7 and 8, Goat called Pig stupid. And rightfully so.

Pig getting into some market manipulation.

Assuming Pig is in California, there is 9 hours difference between Paris and California.

PIG is NOT being stupid, and I HATE when people get annoyed at my calls at weird hours, not everybody operates on the same schedule, dudes and dudettes!!!! Dan aka…

That’s also the problem with having an area code from a different time zone. Telemarketers call you early in the morning.

I’m getting serious “Who’s on First” vibes with Paris (Goat) being in Paris.

See? Time just an illusion. No yesterday no tomorrow and no today. There is only the now.

I used to know a girl from Mexico who came here to Europe a few years back to study. She simply couldn’t understand why her family back in Jalisco called her in the middle of the night! She kept reminding them of the time difference and they kept not taking it into consideration. Then when she went back home she couldn’t understand why I objected to being called in the middle of the night. I kept reminding her of the time difference and she kept ignoring it.

Pigs stock market manipulation reminded me of the 1961 movie, Five Golden Hours, Ernie Kovas, George Sanders, Cyd Charisse.

Goat to the Future.

When we travel to the Philippines, on the trip back we have actually has occasions where landed in the USA BEFORE we took off from Japan!

Had a lawyer call me once in Maui. It was 4 AM…….

My fist trip to New Zealand I lost an entire Tuesday, but on return landed two hours before I left.

Whenever I see religious doomsayers claim the world will end on such and such date, I ask them, “Which time zone?”. That pretty much stops the conversation.

I’m on vacation, and I DON’T WANT TO BE AWAKENED AT THIS UNGODLY HOUR!

(CRASH!) “Keep it down out there! What are you thinking? It’s 3 in the morning!” “Thanks, I was wondering what time it was!”

Jules Verne did it first. “Around the World in Eighty Days.” Published in 1872.

Goat could’ve just simply put his phone on silent

You laugh, but you’d be surprised at how many new call-center employees have to be trained in the existence of time zones. Apparently a lot of people never (at least into their twenties) never leave the time zone they were born in.

Paris in Paris. But seriously, don’t call me at 2:00 AM.

Pig, I think you need to learn about the concept of time zones and an axis.

I had family living enough time zones away into the future that it was the next day. I asked for the winning lottery numbers but they had no clue.

The scam telemarketer’s clock was off and my phone rang before sunrise. I answered with a few choice words and they hung up on me.

“Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.” – not sure where the quote originated, but I’ve always liked it.

Why do you want the quotes two days late?

8 hours? I thought the Pearls gang lived in Santa Rosa ca?

My Mom did this to me once, I was working on the West Coast . I hadn’t gotten to bed until after 2:00 AM and she called me at 6:00 AM or for her 9:00 AM having not thought about the time difference. She was explaining this to an elderly neighbor who didn’t quite understand, but looked at her and said “no when it is 9:00 o’clock here it is 9 o’clock everywhere” and that was that.

2:00 A.M. in France is 5:00 P.M. in Canada

pig is kinda dumb ngl

Occasionally in the evenings I’ll see a news item about some public figure who died in Europe or Asia, and I’ll see tomorrow’s date as the date of death in an online article. It’s weird.

I’m not being so polite as harassed Goat, Pig. I am calling you Stupid! How can you be a sentient pig and not be at least somewhat aware that the Earth is a wobbly sphere and that there are what we call “Time Zones”?!

Thank you, thank you, thank you, sweet Jesus, thank you, now I’m top “comment thread starter” of the day!!!! Yay!!!! Dan aka…

When we went to Hawaii it was 5 hours behind the time at home. On the day we arrived there I wondered why I was feeling so tired at only 8 pm. Doing the time adjustments & a little math I realized we had been going for almost 24 hours straight.