Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 21, 2015
Transcript:
Pig: Hey, Steph, what's the hardest part about doing a comic strip? Pastis: Lack of space, especially for dialogue. Rat: Hey, guys, did you hear zebra inhaled some very fine particles from a volcano? He now has pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Pastis: Must you use the longest word in the dictionary? Pig: Oh, no.. Not pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis! Rat: Yeah... pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis!
Templo S.U.D. about 9 years ago
Well, at least they’re note discussing the Welsh town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllloantysiliogogogoch
danfromfreddybeach about 9 years ago
this one is really super … cali … fragi ..oh, never mind
favm about 9 years ago
In case you didn’t understood it the first time, Ill repeat it twice. Hello Phi Eta Mu brothers.
Kaputnik about 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.
wiselad about 9 years ago
kaputnik, you spelled it wrong
cdgar about 9 years ago
I’m pretty sure there’s a spelling error 55% of the way through that.
nixie224 about 9 years ago
ROFLMAO!At least they weren’t talking about ending the separation of church and state or antidisestablishmentarianism
knight1192a about 9 years ago
I thought the longest word in the dictionary was supercalafragalisticexpealadoscious.
arye uygur about 9 years ago
@Proginoskes – Which panel or panels would Pastis put that word in?
knight1192a about 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?
Alida_L about 9 years ago
I only come here for the comments!
cdward about 9 years ago
Thanks for giving him ideas.
Sisyphos about 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!
eddie6192 about 9 years ago
There’s plenty of space between Toon Boy’s ears.
DocNero about 9 years ago
Sorry I didn’t quite get that. Could you repeat that again.
inshadowz about 9 years ago
Did I just witness an infinite number of monkeys versus an infinite number of typewriters flash by?
felinefan55 Premium Member about 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!!
Mac6622 Premium Member about 9 years ago
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693—etc, etc,etc.
whiteheron about 9 years ago
Lack of space? Does that mean he is spaced out?
Carl Rennhack Premium Member about 9 years ago
Life was a lot easier when SMILES (a mile between the first and last letters) was the longest word in English!
MS72 about 9 years ago
did the guy that puts in the text get a raise, or a punishment?
BlackTie about 9 years ago
James Joyce, MD.
rshive about 9 years ago
Would have taken a big word balloon. How does one pronounce the final “g”?
Godfreydaniel about 9 years ago
And when Larry eats Zebra he will develop…….yeah, never mind.
Saddenedby Premium Member about 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
kaffekup about 9 years ago
But, that’s my favorite food additive!
kaffekup about 9 years ago
You know what they ask in spelling bees: “Can you use that in a sentence, please?”
the lost wizard about 9 years ago
They really should have a word limit (individual spelling length or total comment).
k1floren about 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!!
singlefemalelaywer about 9 years ago
Ditto
singlefemalelaywer about 9 years ago
Yeah, what he said
junemmoffatt about 9 years ago
Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious…
Packratjohn Premium Member about 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.
finale about 9 years ago
My spell check and thesaurus just threw up
Brick Tricks Webcomics about 9 years ago
Seeing such fun words and fun comics make me feel supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
artegal about 9 years ago
Actually, the longest word in the English language is “smiles.” Because there’s a mile between each “s.”
DeltaMikeUno about 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.
Machtyn about 9 years ago
At least floccinaucinihilipilification has a lot of thin letters to it.
David Bethke Premium Member about 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.
mike75035 about 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. :)
abbybookcase about 9 years ago
poor cartoon boy. he gets no respect
gimmickgenius about 9 years ago
We could take a drive up to Webster, Massachusetts, and go sailing on Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.
FireMedic about 9 years ago
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/20/national/20lake.html?_r=0
emjaycee about 9 years ago
And if that led to bad breath, would that be known as Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconihalitosis?
cactusjack99 Premium Member about 9 years ago
No
Sherlock Watson about 9 years ago
Say it backwards, Rat; I dare you.
Scott S about 9 years ago
The copy/paste feature makes writing the captions much easier!
Marc Schiffres about 9 years ago
Steph you glorious bastard
John W Kennedy Premium Member about 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.
johnwalk about 9 years ago
you are crazy man. but say good nite dude.
tgrfemme about 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
booyahwonie about 9 years ago
of course
Zepp Jamieson Premium Member about 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?
knight1192a about 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.
knight1192a about 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!
burbank3 about 9 years ago
Pastis needs to be institutionalized. Now. There’s a nice place in Massachusetts on the shores of Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.
milady1 about 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.
Ottodesu about 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.
deathrider75 about 8 years ago
The comments are better than the strip.
Worrywarthog over 7 years ago
This strip is giving me hipopotomonstrosesquipedaliofobia (the fear of long words).
...dfd almost 7 years ago
This is the longest word ever. I don’t know if GoComics can even display it.
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jackproarty about 5 years ago
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!(I spelled this right I double checked)