Mildly obscure Simpsons reference. Nice.

Because Pat is such a FUCKING DICK, it's not 'Junior Ichthyologist' or 'Apprentice Ichthyologist' or 'Acolyte Ichthyologist' or 'Student Ichthyologist'.

It's 'probationary', implying the possibility of exclusion and failure from the get-go.

It takes a special talent to make me hate a fictional character this much.

Chubby for you. People in the computer lab are now looking at me strangely.

All I remember as a child was being bitten by a duck. :(

wait...are you Pat?

Wait, did you just ask me if I was an asshole?
It wasn't a birthday party though, it was at the lake.
I'm sure most vegans must have some sort of traumatic reason for choosing such a lifestyle however.

Real child-haters wouldn't have let your sticky-fingered, crumb-encrusted, stubby-legged child-self anywhere NEAR their laps.

he was obligated by his kindly mother

the kindly mother whose home he later stole after forcing her into a nursing home, a change which brought about her death

i'm not saying i hold a grudge i'm just laying the facts on the line

Shit got very real very fast in this post.

first person that says it gets lamed.

my wife would agree that "no system of adequiately shielding the right-thinking population from the lunacy and inconvenience of children yet exists".

and here i'm assuming 'right-thinking' to mean 'correctly-thinking' in pat's vernacular (and not 'republican-thinking').

I would agree with your wife then.

Everyone agrees with his wife.

It is very hard not to.

NO IMAGINATION GAMES
by order

If I see your eye unfocus, and if I perceive the merest hint of internal dialogue, you shall be banned with immediacy and forevermore!

Pat is such a douche.

shoot i didn't see this one below.

go me.

Does he also have an Apple IIc, polio, or a falcon?

Now Teodor feels like it may not have been the best idea to tell Philippe that Pat has an aquarium.

Pat is such a jerk, he feels the need to have kids know he doesn't want them there.

Pat thinks pendants will delight children.

i think he just wants to put something around their neck to make noise, in case they wander off whilst playing imagination games

Oh man, this comic arc ended with Pat crossing his arms and physically butting them out o his house. Pat: What A Douche.

And yet we're still waiting on the Pat creation myth...

it's oddly coincident with Ray's neutering, i imagine

IT

WAS

A

VASECTOMY.

Once again, I find myself agreeing with Pat, this time regarding children.

As someone who went to David Starr Jordan Middle School in Palo Alto and loathed it, I am thrilled to see Onstad invoking that name in the context of Pat.

Man, was Pat always such a dick? Am I right? I guess people can change but it sucks when they change outside the boundaries of acceptable behavior like an old school friend who wants to stab you every day, for example

He was nice for a while, but then he changed back.

I read the beginning of your comment and I thought 'I STILL do that, I probably have problems.' and then I read the end of your comment.

I feel less lame now.

Noooo!

word. chubbed.

I wish I could chubby you twice, ma'am. The thought bubble made this strip for me.

man Pat is the kind of person that says "CHEER UP!" to random people on the street while being a complete Dick King himself

9b... sweet.

a Child is like a pest: just like them.

I don't like to admit this, but before I met my wife, I was basically Pat.

Sorry, everyone.

...and now your child-bride has changed your mind?

Why Pat gotta be like that?

Pat is a dick.

Pat has shown me that even us Aquarists have the capacity to Dick a situation.

dicks arent born. dicks are made. at some point, he mustve been treated in such a way, that his current behavior seems the way go.......

Mind-blowing.

bang
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Pat is an asshole.