Here, at pearls before swine, the madness knows NO LIMITS, as NOW the characters and the writer and the audience ALL have to deal with talking, anthropomorphic, inanimate objects and those objects’s feelings!!!! Dan aka…ps holy meta, Batman!!!!
Oh, and, FINALLY, per usual, RAT completely misses the point of that social interaction!!!! Too bad for the KEY and the KEY’S transformation into sentience, because that was TOTALLY a wasted moment for RAT!!!! And, unfortunately, of course, for the KEY!!!! Maybe that did have an effect on PIG, though, so ALL would not be lost for the KEY and ALL the KEY’S hard work!!!! Dan aka…ps GOD really tries to help RAT, but RAT could, accurately, be called the “Teflon” man, for all the good it leaves on RAT, which is NOT a single molecule of good left on RAT after this comic strip’s last panel!!!!
Oh call him junk. It’s okay. He’ll likely gather others who are junk and form a coalition and then you’ll be able to more easily keep an eye on them. Donate to their cause so they can get megaphones and signs with clever-to-them sayings and their hair done.
I have an unused key to our freezer in the basement. Some smart marketing person figured out that freezers sometimes get put in garages and needed to be protected.
Did the matching up on our collection a little while ago. The unmatched ones were set aside until they’d aged sufficiently, then went into the metal recycle.
One morning last year, I woke up one day to find my driver’s side window shattered, my steering wheel broken, and my air bag missing! There was a theft ring operating in our city and I guess that night they decided to hit our street. Once we arranged for repairs, my husband remembered we had an old “Club” steering wheel lock in the basement (a gift I had given him 2 or 3 trucks ago!) He then said, “But I don’t know where the key to it went!”
I remembered that I had a strange little mystery key on my keyring and tried it — sure enough, it was the Club key! I know it’s possible for a thief to get through the Club — but it sure makes it harder and takes longer, so it’s a pretty decent deterrent. In fact, there was news story where a number of Hondas and Hyundais on one street had been hit. The one Honda Civic that had a Club on it was untouched, so I guess it works!
Six days after the theft, before I even got my car back, I would lose my darling “Wild Boar” to a sudden massive heart attack. Love and miss you so much, K! My heart still skips a beat when I see a little white truck like his. And that Club goes on my car every night. <3
Just got a memo that henceforth “hazardous waste” will be known as “unwanted materials” per some government regulation…made me wonder who felt insulted by the old term. I couldn’t decide whether to file it under “what’s that about” or “who cares”…
I remember years ago when airport security started doing body searches, and one guy says “don’t go touchin’ my junk!”… and Jay Leno ran with that and said something like “boy, times must be tough… I remember when they used to be called the family jewels!”
Actually, little key, you had a purpose in life and it has either been forgotten or become obsolete for some reason. Very unlikely you will have another purpose like the one you were created for, but you may be turned into some sort of art or collection by some talented soul. Good luck!
BasilBruce 2 months ago
Does this mean that a junkyard is a singles bar?
Gent 2 months ago
However junk is a short name for political correctness.
sirbadger 2 months ago
I have both a padlock collection and a key collection. Maybe I’ll try to see what goes to what.
Imagine 2 months ago
Hands off my junk…
MS72 2 months ago
Don’t they throw those off a bridge somewhere in Paris?
c001 2 months ago
Didn’t Biden call Republican voters that?
iggyman 2 months ago
I too have keys in a drawer I have no idea what they fit!
GeorgeInAZ 2 months ago
Well, it’s better than garbage. But that’s in the past now. Besides, one man’s garbage is another man’s democracy.
hariseldon59 2 months ago
How about scrap metal?
DanielRyanMulligan1 2 months ago
Here, at pearls before swine, the madness knows NO LIMITS, as NOW the characters and the writer and the audience ALL have to deal with talking, anthropomorphic, inanimate objects and those objects’s feelings!!!! Dan aka…ps holy meta, Batman!!!!
DanielRyanMulligan1 2 months ago
Oh, and, FINALLY, per usual, RAT completely misses the point of that social interaction!!!! Too bad for the KEY and the KEY’S transformation into sentience, because that was TOTALLY a wasted moment for RAT!!!! And, unfortunately, of course, for the KEY!!!! Maybe that did have an effect on PIG, though, so ALL would not be lost for the KEY and ALL the KEY’S hard work!!!! Dan aka…ps GOD really tries to help RAT, but RAT could, accurately, be called the “Teflon” man, for all the good it leaves on RAT, which is NOT a single molecule of good left on RAT after this comic strip’s last panel!!!!
Doug K 2 months ago
… or poor souls who have lost their purpose in life.
Ermine Notyours 2 months ago
You would think that object would have fun at key parties.
Ermine Notyours 2 months ago
The Island of Misfit Keys.
wrloftis 2 months ago
The key may be to Navin R. Johnson’s apartment. HE found his “special purpose.”
smartty cat 2 months ago
They deliberately show up as lost souls from locks unknown to haunt to us to our grave. We got a key for that?
Kurtass 2 months ago
Call the key a “sucker and a loser”.
steveh64 2 months ago
What if the key’s special purpose in life is to occupy the junk drawer?
babka Premium Member 2 months ago
today’s 11/11. where’s the key to the portal? I want out.
walstib Premium Member 2 months ago
Speaking of junk drawers, is that why my doctor tells me to drop my drawers when I’m getting a hernia check at my annual physical?
Gameguy49 Premium Member 2 months ago
If you want to know where a “junk drawer key” goes, just throw it away.
win.45mag 2 months ago
Try garbage. You’ll make the left happy. And what idiot would believe keys have souls ?
Goat from PBS 2 months ago
I’m still calling it junk. No matter what anyone says.
Huckleberry Hiroshima 2 months ago
Oh call him junk. It’s okay. He’ll likely gather others who are junk and form a coalition and then you’ll be able to more easily keep an eye on them. Donate to their cause so they can get megaphones and signs with clever-to-them sayings and their hair done.
Dwayne Smith 2 months ago
We decided long ago that we were to classy to have a junk drawer. We have a Gee-isn’t-it-neat drawer.
Ellis97 2 months ago
I don’t even know what we’re gonna call junkyards now.
Linguist 2 months ago
The moral of this story: Keep Your Junk In Your Drawers!
bittenbyknittin 2 months ago
I have a junk drawer condo. One drawer is keys and locks. Many of the keys are to doors I no longer have.
Richard S Russell Premium Member 2 months ago
What do you suppose these guys keep in the closet that they can open with a skeleton key?
ksu71 2 months ago
So what are the keys pronouns?
Steverino Premium Member 2 months ago
Perhaps the junk draw eats the locks like a dryer eats socks. Actually I eat locks on bagels. Yum.
distortion Premium Member 2 months ago
I got a brand new pair of roller skates…
rgulyash 2 months ago
Send it to the island of misfit toys
prrdh 2 months ago
Junk is very precious, as any man can tell you.
brianstreleckis 2 months ago
I feel we haven’t had tiny animals, bugs, or inanimate objects that talk in a while.
rshive 2 months ago
I have an unused key to our freezer in the basement. Some smart marketing person figured out that freezers sometimes get put in garages and needed to be protected.
Out of the Past 2 months ago
Funny. (Until you read the comments).
zeexenon 2 months ago
Loose it, no nookie for you.
Otis Rufus Driftwood 2 months ago
I second that emotion.
KEA 2 months ago
One never knows what that unidentified key is until one throws it away… and then finds a lock that needs it.
aerotica69 2 months ago
I still have my skate key. Anyone who understands what that is, it’s time for your midday medications.
marilynnbyerly 2 months ago
Those keys have a curse on them. Two days after you throw one away, you figure out where it belongs. That never fails.
Jeffin Premium Member 2 months ago
PC key. This has taken a turn.
Buoy 2 months ago
My junk doesn’t seem to mind; though I did give it a name also ;)
HA! 2 months ago
Did the matching up on our collection a little while ago. The unmatched ones were set aside until they’d aged sufficiently, then went into the metal recycle.
Jesy Bertz Premium Member 2 months ago
Well, I’ve got a brand-new pair of roller skates
You’ve got a brand-new key
I think that we should get together
And try them on to see
I’ve been looking around a while
You’ve got something for me
Oh, I’ve got a brand-new pair of roller skates
You’ve got a brand-new key
- Melanie
WCraft Premium Member 2 months ago
Agreed, omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal and medium-sized, long-tailed rodent
mindjob 2 months ago
Luggage keys always go in my junk drawer. They stay there for years, until I clean out my junk drawer
Omniman 2 months ago
I have the good fortune to live in a state where I can practice hobby lockpicking. Guess what I can’t find around my house.
TheWildSow 2 months ago
One morning last year, I woke up one day to find my driver’s side window shattered, my steering wheel broken, and my air bag missing! There was a theft ring operating in our city and I guess that night they decided to hit our street. Once we arranged for repairs, my husband remembered we had an old “Club” steering wheel lock in the basement (a gift I had given him 2 or 3 trucks ago!) He then said, “But I don’t know where the key to it went!”
I remembered that I had a strange little mystery key on my keyring and tried it — sure enough, it was the Club key! I know it’s possible for a thief to get through the Club — but it sure makes it harder and takes longer, so it’s a pretty decent deterrent. In fact, there was news story where a number of Hondas and Hyundais on one street had been hit. The one Honda Civic that had a Club on it was untouched, so I guess it works!
Six days after the theft, before I even got my car back, I would lose my darling “Wild Boar” to a sudden massive heart attack. Love and miss you so much, K! My heart still skips a beat when I see a little white truck like his. And that Club goes on my car every night. <3
CleverHans Premium Member 2 months ago
Just got a memo that henceforth “hazardous waste” will be known as “unwanted materials” per some government regulation…made me wonder who felt insulted by the old term. I couldn’t decide whether to file it under “what’s that about” or “who cares”…
wildlandwaters 2 months ago
I remember years ago when airport security started doing body searches, and one guy says “don’t go touchin’ my junk!”… and Jay Leno ran with that and said something like “boy, times must be tough… I remember when they used to be called the family jewels!”
NaturLvr 2 months ago
Actually, little key, you had a purpose in life and it has either been forgotten or become obsolete for some reason. Very unlikely you will have another purpose like the one you were created for, but you may be turned into some sort of art or collection by some talented soul. Good luck!
DaBump Premium Member 2 months ago
Why are you all looking at me that way? Stop it.
Kobato 2 months ago
Nice to see a talking object in Pearls again. Maybe Key would be willing to compromise and except “miscellaneous” XD
eddi-TBH 2 months ago
Give the little key a break. It may open a lost treasure.
snowedin, now known as Missy's mom 2 months ago
I call it the Hell drawer.
glowing-steak32 2 months ago
Maybe it’s the key from Coraline…but it should be at the bottom of a well.
Courage the Cowardly Dog! 2 months ago
Wait till someone pops up and “identifies as junk”!!