Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 03, 2013
Transcript:
Goat: Hey, zebra. I'd like you to meet Shlomo. He's second violinist in our symphony orchestra. Zebra: That's wonderful. Now as second violinist, what is your main focus. Shlomo: Killing the first violinists. Ivan: I heard that Shlomo. Shlomo: Want to make something of it, Ivan? Goat: Check, please.
Sherlock Watson over 11 years ago
There’s an easy way to settle this: Which one has the biggest pianist?
margueritem over 11 years ago
Feets, don’t fail me now…
Yammo Premium Member over 11 years ago
Shlomo… What a nice Jewish name for a violinist!
Phatts over 11 years ago
HAH, yer not fast enough, Shlomo!
WoodEye over 11 years ago
Cage match!
orinoco womble over 11 years ago
You should hear what goes on in the bass section…and that’s no joke.
Snoopy_Fan over 11 years ago
Such violins!
HighPeaks over 11 years ago
Why settle for second violin when you could be first percussion?
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
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.
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.
eddie6192 over 11 years ago
Shlomo is as terrible as Ivan.
sierraseven over 11 years ago
What they need is a common enemy to gang up on. Say, a viola player.
Google “viola jokes”.
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….
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.
sierraseven over 11 years ago
Is this the Klingon promotion system, applied to orchestra?
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….
Thomas R. Williams over 11 years ago
Hope he rosined up the bat.
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.
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”.
finale over 11 years ago
String him up.
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)
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.
foxsinger Premium Member over 11 years ago
Stephen could string this along for a few days…
ChessPirate over 11 years ago
I can imagine Stephan Pastis saying: “Ivan to Shlomo violins in this strip”.
Lucid Premium Member over 11 years ago
Schlomo v. Ivan has the making of a great matchup!
Me3000 over 11 years ago
so is the pbs group headed back to jail?
Michael Ritter over 11 years ago
Shlomo & Ivan huh? I smell a pun in the oven.
John W. Vinson Premium Member over 11 years ago
Somebody’s going to get in trouble.
Sectional Harassment is illegal!
Number Three over 11 years ago
I know if Rat were there he would be cheering one of them on.LOL xxx
dfowensby over 11 years ago
after all those accordion jokes, yesterday, check out dru torturing everyone (especially the troll) on today’s Pibgorn!
BandGeek121 over 11 years ago
This could get ugly… cleanup teams are standing by.
Vet Premium Member over 11 years ago
Violin bows at 10 paces. Gentlemen, turn and FIDDLE!!!!!!!!
robertiris almost 3 years ago
Now bring on the sax!