Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 01, 2011

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Always look on the bright side of life…

And now for something completely different!

more like a “splat” than a “crush”

“My brain hurts!”

spam, spam, spam, …spam, spam, spam, spam

@PopeyesforearmFrom yesterday.

By changing the language of my keyboard to spanish and then hold the ctrl key while pressing the symbol

Where is the guy at the piano?

Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more.

Where can I download the “16 Ton Weight” app? If I get attacked by someone with a bunch of loganberries I want to be prepared.

ITS………..

we’re all individuals……

why is this in my in box? its Spam

Smashing! Spilled coffee trope! A tribute to the brilliance of Terry Gilliam and Monty Python’s Flying Circus!

ananomoose and Popeye —

Very enterprising…. but…. um….. you might find it faster to just use alt codes.

Hold down the alt key and type 168 on the numeric keypad only , not the numbers above the letters, release the alt key, and you get ¿

Alt and 173 is ¡.

¿¿¿¡¡¡!!!

I happen to have those and a dozen or so more memorized from years of use — ♪ ♥ £ etc — but there are tons of online charts you can bookmark if you google “alt characters”.

You can also use Character Map in Accessories on a Windows computer to copy and paste - but be aware that not every character will work here -- websites vary.

And some alt codes do tricks — alt 14 should make a barred music note but instead it loses your comment. After a while you learn some of that.

Lousy Vikings!

Albatross!

best.app.ever.

And by the way, I need that App!

Looks like Goat is now ‘pining for the fjords’.

I’m a lumberjack….

crunchy frog

Killer joke!

It’s….

I’m not dead.

Rat could do the Fish Dance bucky from Get Fuzzy.And one of the crocs Brain Hurts.

lets not get all worried about oo killed oo.

brilliant! looks like pig sufferred barely a flesh wound!

I once attended an outdoor Fourth of July concert in which the Philadelphia Orchestra played Sousa’s Liberty Bell March. At the appropriate moment, several hundred audience members made that rude noise I’m never sure how to spell. Stupid programming on someone’s part, but hey, there’s a lot of ways to celebrate freedom.

(Hi, SSS! You get more interesting all the time.)

No march playing, but I do have “every Little Sperm is Sacred” Goin’ round and round in my noggin

But I don’t like Spam!

And now…..for something completely different….=^..^=

Do you mean an European or an African sparrow?

I don’t want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

I would have preferred the 16 ton weight.

“You nailed his little feet to the perch….”

That goat has ceased to be! It has shuffled off this mortal coil and joined the choir invisible! It is an EX-GOAT!!!

Next time Rat should just use the ‘Star Trek’ App and have Goat “beamed” away.

Now maybe Pig can fly…

if that exists I want it.

Nothing to see here, folks. No Cleese for alarm. Move along.

“crunchy frog”

More like Crunchy Goat…

Dinsdale…

Best use ever of a Bronzino Cupid’s foot.

What do you think of it so far?

And this is where Pastis introduces the killer rabbit…

Psst… guys. Time to RUN!

And this time Pig, meet the other white meat, you turkey.

“this was a PBS program: your computer will now explode.”

d’ D’ d’ dah dah dah DAH dah dah dah d’ D’ d’ dah dah dah DAH dahhh dahhh . . .

Monty Python’s flying cir-cus~~~~

Wow, Pig looks amazing.

LOL xxx

Goat needs to lob the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch at Rat, who, being naughty in my eyes, shall snuff-it.

And there was much rejoicing! yeeeeeeaaaa

Goat’s been turned into Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam..

Hahahah! I’m just wondering where Pig’s banner is to haul across the screen.

I’m a lumberjack and I’m ok, I sleep all night; I work all day.

Also known as the Bilabial fricative. Thank you George Carlin.

Hi Schearer! (If you ever get back here to see this…) Been wondering where you went.

And here I thought I was boring everybody silly :)

(If you can’t be silly ONE way, try another, I always say.)

As to the alt characters — Harry, anonamoose et all -

The VERY fastest and easiest way, if you only need a few, is still the keyboard. Alt 130 - boom! -- é, and there you go.

But sure, once you go beyond characters you know by heart, there are tons of ways and places to get them for pasting.

I have several charts bookmarked, both HTML AND alt chars, and can get some rather quickly from character map cos now I know where to look.

Mostly, in fact, I started a blank Word document called Symbols.doc and pasted in the ones I need most often.

I have quick access to it because I use Windows 7, with Word pinned to the taskbar and “Symbols” pinned to the right-click menu.

If I really need a ☠ or a ♕ I just open that.

Even faster is my unicode text version, but I can’t keep the font of an individual wordpad file (.txt) large enough for my eyesight.

Everybody will find the most comfortable way for himself.

(yeah yeah or “herself”. Grammar is grammar, folks.)

Just didn’t go into all that cos I figured I already posted too much………

…..sigh…. and this doesn’t counter that feeling……

And Night-Gaunt — funny, I’ve always liked that word too.

And “nevertheless”, which I use more often….

It’s always bloody loupins!

Stop that! It’s silly!

C: Well, I was, uh, sitting quietly, reading all these comments, and I suddenly came over all peckish.

O: Peckish, sir?

C: Esuriant.

O: Eh?

C: ’Ee I were all ’ungry-like!

O: Ah, hungry!

C: In a nutshell. And I thought to myself, ‘a little fermented curd will do the trick’, so, I curtailed my Walpoling activites, sallied forth, and infiltrated your place of purveyance to negotiate the vending of some cheesy comestibles!

O: Come again?

C: I want to buy some cheese.

“The larch.”!!!

Today’s logorrhea is more than excessive. At least 80% of the comments could have been skipped to reader advantage.

isn’t it odd that a british comedy troupe would use as their show’s theme something having to do with the liberty bell?

Nudge nudge know what I mean? SAY NO MORE!!!!!

Okay if we can put the MP quotes aside for a second…

I don’t know if Pastis or any of you folks are aware of this, but there is a kink out there for something called “crush videos” that are exactly what it sounds like – close-ups of a shoe (I think a woman’s shoe, never seen one of these myself – honest!) squishing a small animal. If you’re really curious Wikipedia can enlighten you:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush_videos

I’m sure (I hope) this strip isn’t a subterranean reference to that sort of stuff!

shouldn’t that’ve been a farting sound?

And for some reason, I’m embarrassed to know that…

Based on the number of comments, ‘Pearls’ and Monty Python must have very similar appeals.

So where’s “TheSpanishInquisition”? I was expecting him today…

Bring out your dead.

And Karl Marx said he was offside!

It’s only a model

Is that a reference to Egyptian mythology with the man- headed bird? The Egyptians believed in the ba, one of the major pieces of the soul, which took the form of a man headed bird. I believe it represented the departed soul.