Today’s Pearls Before Swine, with an absurd portmanteau:
That’s disappoint(ed) + optimist. Though (like Goat) I wonder how you could maintain optimism in the face of constant disappointment. Note that Rat says he’s optimistic Goat will get smarter — but since Rat is always disappointed, we expect that Goat will not in fact come to understand disappoptimism.
September 13, 2013 at 7:32 am |
…and that Rat knows that full well; in fact he’s probably *hoping* to be disappointed.