Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 03, 2013

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    Sherlock Watson  over 11 years ago

    There’s an easy way to settle this: Which one has the biggest pianist?

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    margueritem  over 11 years ago

    Feets, don’t fail me now…

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    Yammo Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Shlomo… What a nice Jewish name for a violinist!

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    Phatts  over 11 years ago

    HAH, yer not fast enough, Shlomo!

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    WoodEye  over 11 years ago

    Cage match!

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    orinoco womble  over 11 years ago

    You should hear what goes on in the bass section…and that’s no joke.

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    Snoopy_Fan  over 11 years ago

    Such violins!

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    HighPeaks  over 11 years ago

    Why settle for second violin when you could be first percussion?

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    bignatefan  over 11 years ago

    @Yammo. Shlomo Mintz’s performance of the Paganini Caprices is breathtaking.

    http://www.amazon.com/24-Caprices-Niccolo-Paganini/dp/B000001G5O/ref=sr_1_7?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1372844322&sr=1-7&keywords=paganini+24+caprices

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    Sisyphos  over 11 years ago

    Hurry, Goat! You and Zebra (a.k.a. Zeeba Neighba) need to be far away before this gets out of hand. The rancor amongst the string section is getting rather testy! And judging from the way he’s holding that bat that materialized out of nowhere, Shlomo the Second Fiddle is a very sinister guy.

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    ursamaj  over 11 years ago

    I was told that this type of animosity is quite typical among violinists & apparently starts at an early age. Youth orchestras are especially cutthroat.

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    eddie6192  over 11 years ago

    Shlomo is as terrible as Ivan.

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    sierraseven  over 11 years ago

    What they need is a common enemy to gang up on. Say, a viola player.

    Google “viola jokes”.

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    crobinson019  over 11 years ago

    So violinists are really predatory? No surprises there…

    Schlomo must be related to the Crocs needing to kill in order to succeed, and possibly as successful….

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    sierraseven  over 11 years ago

    I have a friend who plays the accordion. She left her accordion in the back seat of her car one day, and forgot to lock the car. When she came back … yeah, you guessed it …

    … somebody had put a second accordion in there.

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    sierraseven  over 11 years ago

    Is this the Klingon promotion system, applied to orchestra?

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    bigbadpete  over 11 years ago

    Funniest PBS in a long time. I agree with Sisyphos, there is something in the way Shlomo is holding the bat that suggests a sinister plot is fast coming. He may even have done it before to reach second fiddle status….

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    Thomas R. Williams  over 11 years ago

    Hope he rosined up the bat.

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    Thomas R. Williams  over 11 years ago

    Gary Larsen had a Far Side panel concerning 2nd chair granite rock’s sudden, irrepressible jealousy for 1st chair granite rock.

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    hariseldon59  over 11 years ago

    I’m reminded of a short film by Michael J. Fox called “The Iceman Hummeth”, made for David Letterman’s 2nd Annual Holiday Film Festival in 1986. The film follows both a hockey team and a symphony orchestra (with Fox in dual roles) as they prepare to perform. It ends with the musicians breaking out into a fight while the hockey players watch, and Fox laments “Violence is tearing the heart out of the symphony”.

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    finale  over 11 years ago

    String him up.

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    susan.e.a.c  over 11 years ago

    One of my ex-students is a great violinist, Crimson String Quartet, check them out (website, youtube)

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    Pelahnar  over 11 years ago

    Hmm…I’ve always disliked the ambiguity of “first violin” and “second violin”. Technically, those are different parts and a second violinist killing a first violinist would not move the second up to first. If they’re talking about first and second chair violinist, then those are the two best players of the same part (first or second violinist) and the second chair killing the first chair would move him up.

    But the term used here can (or at least, often has been) used for both, so I can’t really say Pastis made a mistake here.

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    foxsinger Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Stephen could string this along for a few days…

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    ChessPirate  over 11 years ago

    I can imagine Stephan Pastis saying: “Ivan to Shlomo violins in this strip”.

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    Lucid Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Schlomo v. Ivan has the making of a great matchup!

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    Me3000  over 11 years ago

    so is the pbs group headed back to jail?

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    Michael Ritter  over 11 years ago

    Shlomo & Ivan huh? I smell a pun in the oven.

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    John W. Vinson Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Somebody’s going to get in trouble.

    Sectional Harassment is illegal!

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    Number Three  over 11 years ago

    I know if Rat were there he would be cheering one of them on.LOL xxx

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    dfowensby  over 11 years ago

    after all those accordion jokes, yesterday, check out dru torturing everyone (especially the troll) on today’s Pibgorn!

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    BandGeek121  over 11 years ago

    This could get ugly… cleanup teams are standing by.

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    Vet Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Violin bows at 10 paces. Gentlemen, turn and FIDDLE!!!!!!!!

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    robertiris  over 2 years ago

    Now bring on the sax!

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