# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/21 "2007-03-23T12:41:41Z")
[QUOTE=Left Hand of Dorkness] [The clones are all right!](http://news.yahoo.com/comics/070322/cx_pearls_umedia/20072203;_ylt=Au3NzptOVKpXObbZ1VEhvkgD_b4F) Daniel [/QUOTE] Ahem. [As predicted.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8371710&postcount=5) (I have an inside scoop.) ---
**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, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/22 "2007-03-23T12:43:28Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] Ahem. [As predicted.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8371710&postcount=5) (I have an inside scoop.) [/QUOTE] Woo! Move over Nostradamus–a new guy’s in town! 😃 ---
**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, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/23 "2007-03-23T12:46:49Z")
So, you play the ponies? ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/24 "2007-03-23T12:55:26Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] So, you play the ponies? [/QUOTE] A local weekly publishes a week of “Pearls” at a time. For some reason, they seem to be a week or so ahead. ---
**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 23, 2007, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/25 "2007-03-23T13:31:54Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] A local weekly publishes a week of “Pearls” at a time. For some reason, they seem to be a week or so ahead. [/QUOTE] No! It didn’t happen! I cannot be wrong! Actually, I hope the Rat Clones do stick around. Imagine a foil for Rat as smart as he is. ---
**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, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/26 "2007-03-23T13:41:18Z")
Perhaps they will drive customers away being _too_ nice, and “Mr. Gary” will come to Rat on his knees, begging him to come back…Perhaps Rat will get a new job, perhaps as a Public Relations Consultant. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/27 "2007-03-23T17:14:46Z")
[QUOTE=Left Hand of Dorkness] [The clones are all right!](http://news.yahoo.com/comics/070322/cx_pearls_umedia/20072203;_ylt=Au3NzptOVKpXObbZ1VEhvkgD_b4F) [/QUOTE] _Brangggg…_ I don’t mind Other rats dancin’ with my girl… ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/28 "2007-03-23T18:25:13Z")
I can’t believe Pastis wussed out on the clones being croc-food. What a cop out! ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/29 "2007-03-23T18:43:54Z")
[QUOTE=robby] I can’t believe Pastis wussed out on the clones being croc-food. What a cop out! [/QUOTE] Maybe you’d prefer [this](http://www.comics.com/comics/brevity/archive/brevity-20070323.html) item from today’s comics page. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/30 "2007-03-23T19:13:52Z")
[QUOTE=robby] I can’t believe Pastis wussed out on the clones being croc-food. What a cop out! [/QUOTE] Nah, the crocs actually eating live animals, even feeder mice, would set a precedent in the comic that they _may_ not be as hopelessly, utterly incompetent as they’ve always been portrayed to be, and that would be a bad thing. I honestly wonder sometimes how they survive. I doubt any of them could catch a PB sandwich. ---
**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, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550/31 "2007-03-23T19:19:59Z")
[QUOTE=BayleDomon] I doubt any of them could catch a PB sandwich. [/QUOTE] It squirt jam in eye! Can’t see! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pearls-before-swine-19-march-07/396550.md?page=1)