Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 01, 2011
November 30, 2011
December 02, 2011
Transcript:
Goat: You spend too much time on that iPhone. It's not healthy. Noise: Beep boop bepp. Noise: CRUSH. Rat: The 'Monty Python' app. Pig; What happened to me?
Very enterprising…. but…. um….. you might find it faster to just use alt codes.
Hold down the alt key and type 168 on the numeric keypad only , not the numbers above the letters, release the alt key, and you get ¿
Alt and 173 is ¡.
¿¿¿¡¡¡!!!
I happen to have those and a dozen or so more memorized from years of use — ♪ ♥ £ etc — but there are tons of online charts you can bookmark if you google “alt characters”.
You can also use Character Map in Accessories on a Windows computer to copy and paste - but be aware that not every character will work here -- websites vary.
And some alt codes do tricks — alt 14 should make a barred music note but instead it loses your comment. After a while you learn some of that.
I once attended an outdoor Fourth of July concert in which the Philadelphia Orchestra played Sousa’s Liberty Bell March. At the appropriate moment, several hundred audience members made that rude noise I’m never sure how to spell. Stupid programming on someone’s part, but hey, there’s a lot of ways to celebrate freedom.
I don’t want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
C: Well, I was, uh, sitting quietly, reading all these comments, and I suddenly came over all peckish.
O: Peckish, sir?
C: Esuriant.
O: Eh?
C: ’Ee I were all ’ungry-like!
O: Ah, hungry!
C: In a nutshell. And I thought to myself, ‘a little fermented curd will do the trick’, so, I curtailed my Walpoling activites, sallied forth, and infiltrated your place of purveyance to negotiate the vending of some cheesy comestibles!
Okay if we can put the MP quotes aside for a second…
I don’t know if Pastis or any of you folks are aware of this, but there is a kink out there for something called “crush videos” that are exactly what it sounds like – close-ups of a shoe (I think a woman’s shoe, never seen one of these myself – honest!) squishing a small animal. If you’re really curious Wikipedia can enlighten you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush_videos
I’m sure (I hope) this strip isn’t a subterranean reference to that sort of stuff!
Is that a reference to Egyptian mythology with the man- headed bird? The Egyptians believed in the ba, one of the major pieces of the soul, which took the form of a man headed bird. I believe it represented the departed soul.
StrummerFan over 12 years ago
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
killacowinWA over 12 years ago
Always look on the bright side of life…
legaleagle48 over 12 years ago
And now for something completely different!
rf_eq over 12 years ago
more like a “splat” than a “crush”
phuhknees over 12 years ago
“My brain hurts!”
chireef over 12 years ago
spam, spam, spam, …spam, spam, spam, spam
jpsomebody over 12 years ago
@PopeyesforearmFrom yesterday.
By changing the language of my keyboard to spanish and then hold the ctrl key while pressing the symbol
jpsomebody over 12 years ago
Where is the guy at the piano?
jozzeke over 12 years ago
Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more.
Hugh B. Hayve over 12 years ago
Where can I download the “16 Ton Weight” app? If I get attacked by someone with a bunch of loganberries I want to be prepared.
Completekneebiter over 12 years ago
ITS………..
clivia grana over 12 years ago
we’re all individuals……
goalgo over 12 years ago
why is this in my in box? its Spam
Sisyphos over 12 years ago
Smashing! Spilled coffee trope! A tribute to the brilliance of Terry Gilliam and Monty Python’s Flying Circus!
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 12 years ago
ananomoose and Popeye —
Very enterprising…. but…. um….. you might find it faster to just use alt codes.
Hold down the alt key and type 168 on the numeric keypad only , not the numbers above the letters, release the alt key, and you get ¿
Alt and 173 is ¡.
¿¿¿¡¡¡!!!
I happen to have those and a dozen or so more memorized from years of use — ♪ ♥ £ etc — but there are tons of online charts you can bookmark if you google “alt characters”.
You can also use Character Map in Accessories on a Windows computer to copy and paste - but be aware that not every character will work here -- websites vary.
And some alt codes do tricks — alt 14 should make a barred music note but instead it loses your comment. After a while you learn some of that.
zero over 12 years ago
Lousy Vikings!
emjaycee over 12 years ago
Albatross!
Michael Rosser Premium Member over 12 years ago
best.app.ever.
cdward over 12 years ago
And by the way, I need that App!
chris_weaver over 12 years ago
Looks like Goat is now ‘pining for the fjords’.
cork over 12 years ago
I’m a lumberjack….
57-Don over 12 years ago
crunchy frog
hariseldon59 over 12 years ago
Killer joke!
Lman over 12 years ago
It’s….
starkeyt62 over 12 years ago
I’m not dead.
Thehag over 12 years ago
Rat could do the Fish Dance bucky from Get Fuzzy.And one of the crocs Brain Hurts.
tim the wizard over 12 years ago
lets not get all worried about oo killed oo.
madmike90 over 12 years ago
brilliant! looks like pig sufferred barely a flesh wound!
pschearer Premium Member over 12 years ago
I once attended an outdoor Fourth of July concert in which the Philadelphia Orchestra played Sousa’s Liberty Bell March. At the appropriate moment, several hundred audience members made that rude noise I’m never sure how to spell. Stupid programming on someone’s part, but hey, there’s a lot of ways to celebrate freedom.
(Hi, SSS! You get more interesting all the time.)
shewith5 over 12 years ago
No march playing, but I do have “every Little Sperm is Sacred” Goin’ round and round in my noggin
ninetoes over 12 years ago
But I don’t like Spam!
Kathy Freeman over 12 years ago
And now…..for something completely different….=^..^=
catqueen over 12 years ago
Do you mean an European or an African sparrow?
Redwall22 over 12 years ago
I don’t want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
OldestandWisest over 12 years ago
I would have preferred the 16 ton weight.
finale over 12 years ago
“You nailed his little feet to the perch….”
orinoco womble over 12 years ago
That goat has ceased to be! It has shuffled off this mortal coil and joined the choir invisible! It is an EX-GOAT!!!
hariseldon59 over 12 years ago
Next time Rat should just use the ‘Star Trek’ App and have Goat “beamed” away.
tahoeh2o over 12 years ago
Now maybe Pig can fly…
Tue Elung-Jensen over 12 years ago
if that exists I want it.
OilCanHarry over 12 years ago
Nothing to see here, folks. No Cleese for alarm. Move along.
johndifool over 12 years ago
“crunchy frog”
More like Crunchy Goat…
Sherlock Watson over 12 years ago
Dinsdale…
mmm_spam over 12 years ago
Best use ever of a Bronzino Cupid’s foot.
KarlW2000 over 12 years ago
What do you think of it so far?
Snoopy_Fan over 12 years ago
And this is where Pastis introduces the killer rabbit…
Chibi-robo64 over 12 years ago
Psst… guys. Time to RUN!
tigre1 over 12 years ago
And this time Pig, meet the other white meat, you turkey.
metropolitan gnome over 12 years ago
“this was a PBS program: your computer will now explode.”
Gokie5 over 12 years ago
d’ D’ d’ dah dah dah DAH dah dah dah d’ D’ d’ dah dah dah DAH dahhh dahhh . . .
tegm over 12 years ago
Monty Python’s flying cir-cus~~~~
Number Three over 12 years ago
Wow, Pig looks amazing.
LOL xxx
Keno21 over 12 years ago
Goat needs to lob the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch at Rat, who, being naughty in my eyes, shall snuff-it.
bossyheifer over 12 years ago
And there was much rejoicing! yeeeeeeaaaa
Popeyesforearm over 12 years ago
Goat’s been turned into Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam..
bmonk over 12 years ago
Hahahah! I’m just wondering where Pig’s banner is to haul across the screen.
Alms4Thorby over 12 years ago
I’m a lumberjack and I’m ok, I sleep all night; I work all day.
pnorman1 over 12 years ago
Also known as the Bilabial fricative. Thank you George Carlin.
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 12 years ago
Hi Schearer! (If you ever get back here to see this…) Been wondering where you went.
And here I thought I was boring everybody silly :)
(If you can’t be silly ONE way, try another, I always say.)
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 12 years ago
As to the alt characters — Harry, anonamoose et all -
The VERY fastest and easiest way, if you only need a few, is still the keyboard. Alt 130 - boom! -- é, and there you go.
But sure, once you go beyond characters you know by heart, there are tons of ways and places to get them for pasting.
I have several charts bookmarked, both HTML AND alt chars, and can get some rather quickly from character map cos now I know where to look.
Mostly, in fact, I started a blank Word document called Symbols.doc and pasted in the ones I need most often.
I have quick access to it because I use Windows 7, with Word pinned to the taskbar and “Symbols” pinned to the right-click menu.
If I really need a ☠ or a ♕ I just open that.
Even faster is my unicode text version, but I can’t keep the font of an individual wordpad file (.txt) large enough for my eyesight.
Everybody will find the most comfortable way for himself.
(yeah yeah or “herself”. Grammar is grammar, folks.)
Just didn’t go into all that cos I figured I already posted too much………
…..sigh…. and this doesn’t counter that feeling……
And Night-Gaunt — funny, I’ve always liked that word too.
And “nevertheless”, which I use more often….
Ginrummy33 over 12 years ago
It’s always bloody loupins!
soupygeorge over 12 years ago
Stop that! It’s silly!
x_Tech over 12 years ago
C: Well, I was, uh, sitting quietly, reading all these comments, and I suddenly came over all peckish.
O: Peckish, sir?
C: Esuriant.
O: Eh?
C: ’Ee I were all ’ungry-like!
O: Ah, hungry!
C: In a nutshell. And I thought to myself, ‘a little fermented curd will do the trick’, so, I curtailed my Walpoling activites, sallied forth, and infiltrated your place of purveyance to negotiate the vending of some cheesy comestibles!
O: Come again?
C: I want to buy some cheese.
A.Ficionada over 12 years ago
“The larch.”!!!
codedaddy over 12 years ago
Today’s logorrhea is more than excessive. At least 80% of the comments could have been skipped to reader advantage.
firedome over 12 years ago
isn’t it odd that a british comedy troupe would use as their show’s theme something having to do with the liberty bell?
theLydMonster22 over 12 years ago
Nudge nudge know what I mean? SAY NO MORE!!!!!
JoeStrike over 12 years ago
Okay if we can put the MP quotes aside for a second…
I don’t know if Pastis or any of you folks are aware of this, but there is a kink out there for something called “crush videos” that are exactly what it sounds like – close-ups of a shoe (I think a woman’s shoe, never seen one of these myself – honest!) squishing a small animal. If you’re really curious Wikipedia can enlighten you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush_videos
I’m sure (I hope) this strip isn’t a subterranean reference to that sort of stuff!
tormie over 12 years ago
shouldn’t that’ve been a farting sound?
And for some reason, I’m embarrassed to know that…
killacowinWA over 12 years ago
Based on the number of comments, ‘Pearls’ and Monty Python must have very similar appeals.
Sherlock Watson over 12 years ago
So where’s “TheSpanishInquisition”? I was expecting him today…
texansdave about 12 years ago
Bring out your dead.
CosmoFan47 about 9 years ago
And Karl Marx said he was offside!
Boxo croco says happy derby over 3 years ago
It’s only a model
TheArtist37 about 3 years ago
Is that a reference to Egyptian mythology with the man- headed bird? The Egyptians believed in the ba, one of the major pieces of the soul, which took the form of a man headed bird. I believe it represented the departed soul.