Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 21, 2015

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    Templo S.U.D.  almost 9 years ago

    Well, at least they’re note discussing the Welsh town of Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­loan­tysilio­gogo­goch

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    danfromfreddybeach  almost 9 years ago

    this one is really super … cali … fragi ..oh, never mind

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    favm  almost 9 years ago

    In case you didn’t understood it the first time, Ill repeat it twice. Hello Phi Eta Mu brothers.

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    Kaputnik  almost 9 years ago

    Next it will be classical music, and they will discuss the famous German composer Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle- dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser- kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle- gerspurten-mitz-weimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönedanker-kalbsfleisch- mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm.

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    wiselad  almost 9 years ago

    kaputnik, you spelled it wrong

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    cdgar  almost 9 years ago

    I’m pretty sure there’s a spelling error 55% of the way through that.

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    nixie224  almost 9 years ago

    ROFLMAO!At least they weren’t talking about ending the separation of church and state or antidisestablishmentarianism

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    knight1192a  almost 9 years ago

    I thought the longest word in the dictionary was supercalafragalisticexpealadoscious.

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    arye uygur  almost 9 years ago

    @Proginoskes – Which panel or panels would Pastis put that word in?

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    knight1192a  almost 9 years ago

    Is that really a word or, as I suspect, did you just type a bunch of nonsense and call it a long word?

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    Alida_L  almost 9 years ago

    I only come here for the comments!

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    cdward  almost 9 years ago

    Thanks for giving him ideas.

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    Sisyphos  almost 9 years ago

    Hey, Cartoon-Boy! Get out of the way of the dialogue-balloons! You’re barely leaving Rat and Pig enough room in panel 3 to say pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis twice, you space hog!

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    eddie6192  almost 9 years ago

    There’s plenty of space between Toon Boy’s ears.

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    DocNero  almost 9 years ago

    Sorry I didn’t quite get that. Could you repeat that again.

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    inshadowz  almost 9 years ago

    Did I just witness an infinite number of monkeys versus an infinite number of typewriters flash by?

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    felinefan55 Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    Out of curiosity how long did it take you to type that?! I copied it over to Word & it has 65,481 characters and 15 pages!!

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    Mac6622 Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693—etc, etc,etc.

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    whiteheron  almost 9 years ago

    Lack of space? Does that mean he is spaced out?

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    Carl Rennhack Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    Life was a lot easier when SMILES (a mile between the first and last letters) was the longest word in English!

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    MS72  almost 9 years ago

    did the guy that puts in the text get a raise, or a punishment?

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    BlackTie  almost 9 years ago

    James Joyce, MD.

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    rshive  almost 9 years ago

    Would have taken a big word balloon. How does one pronounce the final “g”?

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    Godfreydaniel  almost 9 years ago

    And when Larry eats Zebra he will develop…….yeah, never mind.

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    Saddenedby Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    oh poor zebra he has pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosisagain!!!!!maybe the crocs will catchpneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosisfrom zebra!!!but i suppose only if zebra can induce the crocs to breathe in volcanic microscopic dust particles will the crocs getpneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

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    kaffekup   almost 9 years ago

    But, that’s my favorite food additive!

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    kaffekup   almost 9 years ago

    You know what they ask in spelling bees: “Can you use that in a sentence, please?”

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    the lost wizard  almost 9 years ago

    They really should have a word limit (individual spelling length or total comment).

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    k1floren  almost 9 years ago

    When I was in Elementary School in the 60’s, Scholastic Books had a program to sell paperbacks in the classroom. One book on words I got his this one in it, and I can still rattle it off at a moments notice. Thanks!! Have a great day!!

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    singlefemalelaywer  almost 9 years ago

    Ditto

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    singlefemalelaywer  almost 9 years ago

    Yeah, what he said

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    junemmoffatt  almost 9 years ago

    Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious…

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    Packratjohn Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    This is nothing new. 1600 years ago, Aristophanes wrote a play in which he created “λοπαδο­τεμαχο­σελαχο­γαλεο­κρανιο­λειψανο­δριμυπο­τριμματο­σιλφιο­καραβομελιτο­κατα­κεχυμενο­κιχλεπικοσσυφοφαττο­περιστεραλεκτρυονοπτο­κεφαλλιο­κιγκλοπελειο­λαγῳοσιραιο­βαφητραγανο­πτερύγων”He was poking fun at stringing words together to create, obviously, long words.

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    finale  almost 9 years ago

    My spell check and thesaurus just threw up

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    Brick Tricks Webcomics  almost 9 years ago

    Seeing such fun words and fun comics make me feel supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

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    artegal  almost 9 years ago

    Actually, the longest word in the English language is “smiles.” Because there’s a mile between each “s.”

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    DeltaMikeUno  almost 9 years ago

    The longest non-technical word… Floccinaucinihilipilification: act or habit of describing or regarding something as unimportant or worthless… which is what Rat often does concerning Stephan.

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    Machtyn  almost 9 years ago

    At least floccinaucinihilipilification has a lot of thin letters to it.

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    David Bethke Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    I think it’s spelled Johann Gambolputty… de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle- dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz- ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer- spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein- nurnburger-bratwustle-gernspurten-mitz-weimache-luber-hundsfut- gumberaber-shonedanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm.

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    mike75035  almost 9 years ago

    Longest word in the dictionary is:

    SMILEY

    adjectiveinformal1. smiling; cheerful.“he drew a smiley face”nounnoun: smiley; plural noun: smileys; noun: smily; plural noun: smilies

    There is a MILE between the first and last letter. :)

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    abbybookcase  almost 9 years ago

    poor cartoon boy. he gets no respect

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    gimmickgenius  almost 9 years ago

    We could take a drive up to Webster, Massachusetts, and go sailing on Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.

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    FireMedic  almost 9 years ago

    Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/20/national/20lake.html?_r=0

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    emjaycee  almost 9 years ago

    And if that led to bad breath, would that be known as Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconihalitosis?

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    cactusjack99 Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    No

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    Sherlock Watson  almost 9 years ago

    Say it backwards, Rat; I dare you.

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    Scott S  almost 9 years ago

    The copy/paste feature makes writing the captions much easier!

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    Marc Schiffres  almost 9 years ago

    Steph you glorious bastard

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    John W Kennedy Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    “Pneumo…osis” is fake, though often used as an example of a long word, and it’s a mash-up of Greek, Latin, and English bits in a way that isn’t even legit. Even “antidisestablishmentarianism” isn’t genuine, though “disestablishmentarianism” is, so that “antidisestablishmentarianism” is theoretically sound.

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    johnwalk  almost 9 years ago

    you are crazy man. but say good nite dude.

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    tgrfemme  almost 9 years ago

    From what I’m finding it looks like this is not a real word, but here’s a site that has a recording of how to pronounce it. I can’t seem to get it to show up as a link, though!

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

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    booyahwonie  almost 9 years ago

    of course

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    Zepp Jamieson Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    Stephan, I realize politics is an important part of your profession, but I think you can win the Reuben without having to pander to the powerful Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolanoconiosis Prevention Foundation. What did you do—promise to underwrite a lifetime supply of four-angstrom facemasks for the residents around Mount St. Helen’s?

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    knight1192a  almost 9 years ago

    Sorry, I’d meant to reply to Proginoskes extremely long word and either my @Proginoskes was deleted when their post was deleted (though not the rest of my post) or I replied in the comment box instead. Considering I’ve seen other instances where someone has replied to a post that is missing and their response includes the link to the other user, as mine does with yours and yours with mine, I have very little doubt I screwed up and replied in the comment box instead of the reply box.

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    knight1192a  almost 9 years ago

    Congratulations to Stephan Pastis, the real Pastis and not his comic avatar, for being nominated for the Reubens for both for Best Newspaper Comic Strip and Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year!

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    burbank3  almost 9 years ago

    Pastis needs to be institutionalized. Now. There’s a nice place in Massachusetts on the shores of Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.

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    milady1  almost 9 years ago

    Whatever happened to antidisestablishmentarianism being the longest word?

    By the way, just trying to sound out some of the words in these comments is making me laugh out loud.

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    Ottodesu  almost 9 years ago

    My favourite long word is floccinaucinihilipilification.I’ve actually used it a couple of times.The best way is to use it as a rebuttal to someone who accuses me of knowing nothing.

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    deathrider75  almost 8 years ago

    The comments are better than the strip.

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    Worrywarthog  over 7 years ago

    This strip is giving me hipopotomonstrosesquipedaliofobia (the fear of long words).

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    ...dfd  over 6 years ago

    This is the longest word ever. I don’t know if GoComics can even display it.

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    jackproarty  almost 5 years ago

    Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!(I spelled this right I double checked)

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