# Pearls Before Swine 19 March 07 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 19, 2007, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550 "2007-03-19T13:02:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/1 "2007-03-19T13:02:00Z")
Stephen, say [it ain’t so.](http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/) ---
**Author:** ![milquetoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@milquetoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milquetoast)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/2 "2007-03-19T13:29:15Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Stephen, say [it ain’t so.](http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/) [/QUOTE] Why not? How else do you expect him to get rid of biohazradous waste? Dump it on the Jersey shoreline? ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/3 "2007-03-19T13:47:26Z")
What did you expect him to do? Transport them to a Klingon ship? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/4 "2007-03-19T13:50:04Z")
Don’t get me wrong, I want to be Rat when I grow up, it just seems a little…_rude,_ even for him. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/5 "2007-03-19T13:55:38Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Don’t get me wrong, I want to be Rat when I grow up, it just seems a little…_rude,_ even for him. [/QUOTE] I predict all will be well in the end. In other words, “it ain’t so.” ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/6 "2007-03-19T14:32:25Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Don’t get me wrong, I want to be Rat when I grow up, it just seems a little…_rude,_ even for him. [/QUOTE] _Really?_ Have you been reading the same comic strip that I’ve been reading? ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/7 "2007-03-19T14:33:12Z")
Oh no. It is so. C’mon. What happens to nearly every single guest character in that strip? They get killed off. (In the case of Angry Bob: twice.) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/8 "2007-03-19T14:40:01Z")
[QUOTE=Telemark] _Really?_ Have you been reading the same comic strip that I’ve been reading? [/QUOTE] He only _threatened_ his neighbor with a nuclear weapon. He didn’t _use_ it. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/9 "2007-03-19T14:43:08Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] He only _threatened_ his neighbor with a nuclear weapon. He didn’t _use_ it. [/QUOTE] But he ran down the Zits kid while babysitting the Baby Blues kids. The only reason why the Baby Blues kids are still alive is that Wren ate the Crocs that Rat left with them while he went out for more beer. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/10 "2007-03-19T14:49:53Z")
[QUOTE=Maus Magill] while he went out for more beer. [/QUOTE] One must have one’s priorities in life. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Prize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/11 "2007-03-19T14:59:40Z")
Who’s smarter, a rat clone or a crock? If this was the end of the clones it would have ran on Saturday not Monday. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/12 "2007-03-19T16:12:30Z")
I wouldn’t use the day of the week as a factor in whether this is the end of the Rat Clones. _Pearls_ has ended arcs on a weekday before. As to who’s smarter? The Clones by a long shot, but they’re _nice_. They’re lunch. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/13 "2007-03-19T16:40:12Z")
[QUOTE=Maus Magill] I wouldn’t use the day of the week as a factor in whether this is the end of the Rat Clones. _Pearls_ has ended arcs on a weekday before. As to who’s smarter? The Clones by a long shot, but they’re _nice_. They’re lunch. [/QUOTE] Unless, of course, the Croc’s son (who is also _nice_) makes friends with them. Stay tuned… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/14 "2007-03-19T17:06:40Z")
This is more edge-of-the-seat than _Battlestar Galactica._ 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/15 "2007-03-19T17:17:23Z")
We’ll see. If Pastis ever brings cylons into it, they _better_ look like appliances. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/16 "2007-03-19T17:39:26Z")
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99] they _better_ look like appliances. [/QUOTE] Well, of course, the setup with Pig and a toaster is too easy. “Rat of Borg”…hmmm… ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/17 "2007-03-20T19:29:58Z")
Since we’ve returned to the coffe shop today. I’m assuming it was so. Mmm… Rat Clones. {drool, drool, drool} ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/18 "2007-03-20T19:36:12Z")
I expected Rat to have sent a clone to work for him, and for it to receive a promotion for being so nice to the customers. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/19 "2007-03-23T12:19:07Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] I expected Rat to have sent a clone to work for him, and for it to receive a promotion for being so nice to the customers. 🙂 [/QUOTE] [The clones are all right!](http://news.yahoo.com/comics/070322/cx_pearls_umedia/20072203;_ylt=Au3NzptOVKpXObbZ1VEhvkgD_b4F) Daniel ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/20 "2007-03-23T12:22:39Z")
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