Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 15, 2017

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    BE THIS GUY  over 7 years ago

    This wouldn’t have happened if Uncle Joe was packing.

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    Real bad luck on timing of this strip.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 7 years ago

    A puntuação é muito importante.

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    Cheapskate0  over 7 years ago

    Similar to a common problem in Prickly City; daily comics have to be submitted something like two weeks in advance, hence the unintentional faux pas, like today.

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    AGED_ENGINEER Premium Member over 7 years ago

    Eats, shoots and leaves. The pistol-packing panda strikes again.

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    Gent  over 7 years ago

    It’s a killer

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    f.mencaraglia  over 7 years ago

    A panda walks into a restaurant, sits down and orders a sandwich. After he finishes eating the sandwich, the panda pulls out a gun and shoots the waiter, and then stands up to go. “Hey!” shouts the manager. “Where are you going? You just shot my waiter and you didn’t pay for your sandwich!”

    The panda yells back at the manager, “Hey man, I am a PANDA! Look it up!”

    The manager opens his dictionary and sees the following definition for panda: “A tree-dwelling marsupial of Asian origin, characterised by distinct black and white colouring. Eats shoots and leaves.”

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    f.mencaraglia  over 7 years ago

    see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eats,Shoots_%26Leaves

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    Simon Larcher  over 7 years ago

    It could have been worse. Pig could have said “Lets eat Uncle Joe”…

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    Masterskrain  over 7 years ago

    Pastis often comments in the treasuries that he sometimes works as much as 6 months ahead!

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    Brian Fink  over 7 years ago

    Thank heavens Pig didnt have to help Uncle Jack off a horse

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    JoanHelen  over 7 years ago

    A missing comma from a telegram caused the Jamieson raid in Cecil John Rhodes’ time.

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    Kaputnik  over 7 years ago

    Uncle Joe’s not dead yet, but he is in a comma.

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    whiteheron  over 7 years ago

    ♫♫♪

    There lies Uncle Joe,

    He’s moving kinda slow,

    At the junction,

    Punctuation Junction….

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    Retired Dude  over 7 years ago

    If Pastis could have worked their/there/they’re and to/too/two into the strip it would have been a hat trick.

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    WaitingMan  over 7 years ago

    Adventures In Punctuation

    She has pimples on her, but I love her.

    Or

    She has pimples on her butt. I love her!

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    SunflowerGirl100  over 7 years ago

    I love to cook Grandma and my dog!

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    Ceeg22 Premium Member over 7 years ago

    Who’s going to tell poor Aunt Sarah?

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    Clare Kelm Premium Member over 7 years ago

    Yay! From 9th grade Endlish teacher.

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    Nicole ♫ ⊱✿ ◕‿◕✿⊰♫ Premium Member over 7 years ago

    Let’s eat grandma!

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    Rick Smith Premium Member over 7 years ago

    But Pig is speaking to Uncle Joe, not Rat.

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    marilynnbyerly  over 7 years ago

    No argument. The vocative comma saves lives.

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    Sherlock Watson  over 7 years ago

    Did the bullet get him in the colon? If so, does he now have a semicolon?

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    Number Three  over 7 years ago

    I’m probably being unreasonable but I wish some people would use punctuation.

    Also, I can’t stand those who ends a sentence with a full stop and begins a new sentence with a lower case letter instead of a capital one.

    xxx

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    Realimaginary1 Premium Member over 7 years ago

    This reminds me of “We invited the strippers, JFK and Stalin.”

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    craigwestlake  over 7 years ago

    Eats shoots & leaves. An exercise…

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    Sisyphos  over 7 years ago

    Pig has come to the truth, but it’s a bit late for Uncle Joe. This one’s on Rat! Let’s punctuate Rat!

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    K M  over 7 years ago

    Friend of mine has a poster outside his English classroom indicating that punctuation, as evidenced here, can save lives. “Let’s eat, Grandma!” is not at all the same thing as “Let’s eat Grandma!”

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    Packratjohn Premium Member over 7 years ago

    I’m giving up alcohol for a month…. or….

    I’m giving up…. Alcohol for a month!

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    Chrystos B Minot Premium Member over 7 years ago

    “Call me butt love!” or “Call me but love!” ~ Shakespeare

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    tigre1again  over 7 years ago

    The mighty Pastis, hanging out at a table in the sunshine, soaking up the aromas, on target again, across time and distance….

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    ND Cool Z  almost 6 years ago

    And that, kids, is why punctuation is really important.

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    rgcviper  almost 4 years ago

    Woman, without her man, is nothing.

    vs.

    Woman: without her, man is nothing.

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    Darth Revan II  almost 4 years ago

    It’s like “let’s eat grandma” versus “let’s eat, grandma”.

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    Lord Pantsalot the Wise  4 months ago

    “I love to eat, people” or “I love to eat people”

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