Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 13, 2024

If you want people to talk a certain way, don’t make it hard or awkward; that is a thing up with which people will not put.

So the Comic Strip Censor decided to outsource cases where cuss words aren’t used but the word(s) are still inappropriate?

This reminds me when the Dorms at Cal tried to rebrand themselves as “Res Halls”.

I lovingly call it my garbage can

In other words, Skip Righteous NOES a good thing when he sees it. :/

Sounds like Skip already had his junk slammed in a drawer.

If you thought making up guys to get mad at was bad on Xwitter, imagine having a nationally syndicated newspaper comic

Language mostly changes from the inside. Though I have observed some enforced gender-correctness actually catch on.

Curiously, Arlo (of Arlo & Janis fame) is also having issues with his cord thingies today.

None of this explains why weather segments have changed the names of a lot of weather phenomena. Gale force winds are now “derecho” and such as that.

I admit, calling it that instead of junk drawer is a lot funnier.

There’s only one such drawer?

So if some artist went around and drew some junk thrown in the wasteland, why should he/she be denigrated as a junk drawer?

How do you dehumanize an extension cord?

I would put it in the circular file of loving things…

Tomato tomahto, still the same thing!

Skip Righteous, must you complicate things?

Put Skip in the junk drawer. Please.

Or just dump it into the receptacle for the sanitation engineer to empty out.

I was looking for something one morning, knowing I hadn’t lost my mind. I opened a kitchen drawer looking for it and there was all the stuff I’d been missing for months. Being a mechanic you collect things in your pockets throughout the day. I’d set my keys and change and billfold down by the fish tank every evening. My wife would pick up the ‘extra’ stuff and put (hide) it in this drawer. (mad emoji) I asked her what she was thinking. Oh, that’s the drawer of things that I don’t know what they are.

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From an article on Cracked.com

The Drawer Of Misfit Stuff?

Sort of like when the newest tax comes titled as the “Tax Relief Act”?

When Meaning becomes stripped down to the defining Word….

Maybe it’s time to reclaim ‘junk’? Junk is rubbish that you can’t bring yourself to throw away; rubbish that you can’t bear to keep is trash.A positive spin for junk!

What about the comic strip called Junk Drawer then? What you gonna renames that as now?

Wasn’t it William Morris who said ‘Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful or think might come in useful some day’?

When things are too big for the junk drawer, they go in the garage. There isn’t room for the car anymore.

Come the revolution, Skip will be first against the wall.

Nope. Still calling it a junk drawer. The other one is waaaay too long.

Please, “let it go, let it go, let the wind and the ice and the snow go, let it go…” Dan aka…ps know the reference yet?

Arlo was looking for that thingie.

Pfft! Too long and complicating! I’m sticking with junk drawer. Sue me!

This is what “running a joke into the ground” looks like. I love it.

My father called it the “hell box.”

We now have two ‘junk drawers’…one for the usual collection of twist ties, batteries, etc., and a second for all the cords, chargers, etc. to electronic devices we’ve replaced or threw away. You never know. They might be useful sometime!

A hundred years or so ago, the words “imbecile”, “idiot” and “moron” were clinical terms describing degrees of cognitive disability. In describing the physically impaired, we went from lame to crippled to handicapped to … well, you name it. My point is, renaming something because the current name has become in insult in the mouths of cruel people just gives those trolls new expressions to use as insults.

Pig, shut up. You want to get cancelled?

My house doesn’t have a junk drawer. It has a junk wing.

I took a permanent and wrote in larger letters: JUNK DRAWER. Thank you Mr. Pastis.

How can it be dehumanizing when the occupants of the junk drawer aren’t human?

Tomorrow Skip Righteous topic will be about people who keep junk in the trunk of their cars.

I don’t have just one junk drawer. I sure as hell do not put loving souls into a drawer.

New term for progressives still mourning the 2024 election, “Wokists”.

I think this strip is going in my junk drawer…

Maybe I have found a home…

Some people (we know who you are) refer to them as the “Garbage” and/or “Deplorable” drawers. And that didn’t work out very well at all for them. God Bless America.

Wow, even if we governmentize it to “Dolswhnyftspil” is still a bit too much.

So when Biden referred to Trump supports as garbage, should he had said “biological or sanitation engineers” instead?

The undergraduate facility at the University of Chicago is called the College of the University of Chicago. Why isn’t the undergraduate facility at the University of North Texas referred to the same way?

Remember when Navin Johnson found his “Special Purpose” in “The Jerk”. ; )

People now have to say “merch” because merchandise is too long for them to say! Same as cubbies instead of cubby holes, and stuffies instead of stuffed animals!!

I don’t have a junk drawer. Everything has a place. Even those odd cords that come with computers we never need. I have a small bin just for those. Every now and then I empty it. I have a place for odd keys. Once a year, those get tossed. We seem to use a lot of batteries and buy them in bulk so I got a storage container that has 4 areas. AAA, AA, C & D and little ones for the truck remotes and things like that.

Thanks Steph.

My mom called it the middle drawer because it was the middle drawer. My sister’s kids were really confused when their mom called any drawer where random stuff was kept “the middle drawer” even when it wasn’t the middle drawer.

They’re not “illegal aliens”, they’re “irregular border crossers”, according to the Canadian government. See how we’ve solved the problem?

Oh for godsakes, what a strawman argument. Puleeze!

A.K.A. my work desk drawer where I put subordinate management engineer suggestions.

The Junk Drawer…

In my experience, the people who make a big fuss about using new, sensitive nomenclature tend to be people who don’t use the term “righteous” very often — they don’t like the idea (in general) that some people or actions might be more “right” than others, even though they are very concerned with using the right words and are convinced that anyone who disagrees with them must be wrong.

I’m gonna Skip that one.

Someone totally complained to the editor about one of his comics didn’t they.

I guess it is a good thing we don’t put humans in the j—- drawer. Wouldn’t want to dehumanize them.

How can one dehumanize something that wasn’t human to begin with… I mean outside of nutcake religion

These aren’t souls that haven’t found their special purpose. They’re things that have very small niche purposes, we know what they are and we have too many of them.

I think I’ll skip it

It’s ridiculous that people want to cancel the original meaning of “junk drawer” beacuse others are using it figuratively in a new, insulting way.

Give them to Arlo, he’s sorting out thingees today!

I sure hope people are putting as much time and energy into fighting things like racism, sexism and poverty as they are into complaining about PC word wars.

Random-stuff drawer works fine for me, but you can’t beat the alliteration of junk jrawer.

While you’re at it, Skip, let’s discuss the character who appears in this strip on at least a weekly basis whose name is right there on the printed page but this site won’t allow to be referred to in the comments. (Wise [donkey] on the hill).

There, I just tried it again.

In my family we’ve called it the junk drawer since I was a little kid…my wife however, insists on calling it the ‘utility drawer’. I try to cooperate but usually fail miserably!

My ex told me to keep my junk in my own drawers.

What a bunch of junk.

Noted.

I see a lot of posters here boasting about the size of their junk…