Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 03, 2011
September 02, 2011
September 04, 2011
Transcript:
Rat: I hope you don't mind, but I'm going around giving each of us clever, well-though-out nicknames that somehow reflect who each of us are. Mine is 'God's gift to the world.' Goat: What's mine? Rat: Mr. Crappo. I tried to be fair.
Richard — I dunno.
I lived in a place where almost everybody had some sort of nickname, on the order of (but these are fake) Red Truck Bob, Catfish Annie, Karen Manycats, etc.
Sometimes that made for a lengthy moniker, but it worked.
You could identify people without knowing or remembering full names — and I understood how last names came about, as the nickname was often passed to the children, ie Joe Newboat’s kids would become Josh and Mariah Newboat.
Right, Kat?