Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 08, 2011

3 dots or Ellipsis can give exclamation point a run for his money…

Guilty…

This reminds me of Terry Pratchett’s quote “Five or more exclamation marks is a sure sign of an insane mind.”This lady clearly exceeds that.

IT DOESN’T MENTION GARBANZO BEANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m a little dissappointed.

I might use @#%&*! ellipsis because I am intellectually & morally elliptical?!. . ..

Overused?! It can’t possibly be overused! We don’t need no stinkin’ overused….

EC gets helped out sometimes by his good buddy, “1”.As in

Womble, I do that too!!!1

And this…..

:) I can think of a few other things that are overused. . . :P

OVERUSED!!!!!!!!!! WHAT!!!!!!!!!!! that’s not true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sigh… I wonder what it would be like to be overused.

…Gasp!!!!…as long as you don’t make fun of my three little dots…

Let him stand on his head, it does wonders. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

My buddy “Andy Amperstand” (&) is all doubled over laughing at this one!!!!!!!!

Wait a minute———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————-

What!!!! That just !s not sl!ghtly poss!bly true!!!!!

I’m guilty of many of these . . . and I also “quote” too much, and when I want emphasize something, but not too much, I use ‘single quotes’ or maybe italics!!!

He lost his point in panel #3 … Where is Nilsson when you need him?!? … ☻

I’m a parentheses and brackets person myself (works wonders if [like me] you’ve got AAADD [Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder]). (Would give more examples, but need to get back to my on-line addiction [classic solitaire (draw one card at a time only)].)

Awwwwwwww.

LOL xxx

I have to admit….I have been over using the exclamation symbol too much….I also use the…..to much…guess it is just laziness….but I am not about to piss Rat off with any laugh out loud! One a different note, hope all had a Happy Garbanzo Day!

If we quit using Eddie, he will enter a state of depression, and may end himself. Then we would have no exclamation point!!!

What happened to all the HTML users ??????????

Overused?!? Never!!! Although, to be fair, I do . . . on occasion . . . allow Mr. Exclamation Point to get close to Miss Question. See?!

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I personally believe James Patterson to be accountable for half the exclamation points used in the western world today.Really I do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(LOL!)…

Don’t let that poor fellow read “Rex Morgan, M.D.”

You’d think that after all these years of comic strips the exclamation mark would be accustomed to the abuse!

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Charlie colon is in quarantine.

I feel the apostrophe is sorely abused as well!

Woodstock speaks only in exclamation points. Just the other day he said “!! !!!!! !!! !!!!!!”.

i thought… the most used… would be the ellipsis…

and you know what else is overused? when people do this: OMG!!!!!!!!!!!! doesnt that make you want to scream??

Emoticons can be really hard on the colon.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m going to use less exclamation points.

Poor thing.

@Chibi-robo64— Miss Grammar Nazi says to use FEWER exclamation points.

I’m pretty sure that would be the apostrophe…

OMG – Obamanation Must Go

How is it overused!?!?!?!?! I hardly ever use them!!!!!!!!And I never use more than one a sentence!!!!!!!!!

Poor Eddie!!!!!!!! That must really stink!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Time to bring back some of the less known punctuations. Like the wonderful interrobang.

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I remember I once saw a comment on a story that said “Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”