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Posted by tgl on 2007-01-02 17:59:52 +0000
Pearls Before Swine
Posted by tgl on 2004-11-29 19:16:10 +0000
I'm liking the dual reference.
Posted by tgl on 2005-03-03 20:44:35 +0000
Another oven mitt joke.
Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-03-21 23:01:15 +0000
The play within the play AND a nod to Bloom County...
Posted by tgl on 2005-03-22 00:21:04 +0000
Nod or dig?
Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-03-22 01:20:18 +0000
Dig to the Comic industry / Nod to Breathed?
Posted by tendiamonds on 2005-03-22 02:48:25 +0000
Anyone who is nodding to Breathed has not seen Opus. I still like to think about how offended both Breathed and Tinsley would be if they knew that Natalie thought Opus and Mallard Fillmore were the same strip.
Posted by frame609 on 2005-03-22 03:02:41 +0000
Plus the Peanuts nod with the brick wall.
Posted by tgl on 2005-03-22 17:02:19 +0000
*ouch*
Posted by tendiamonds on 2005-04-01 14:22:09 +0000
Are Patsis and Darby sleeping together?
Posted by tendiamonds on 2005-04-01 17:43:54 +0000
This is reason enough to add [url=http://www.ucomics.com/foxtrot/]FoxTrot[/url] to the page...
Posted by bizquig3000 on 2005-04-01 19:50:43 +0000
Is it just me, or are all of these comic strips unbeliveably sub par?
Can somebody give me one good reason why I should bother to read any of these on a regular basis? I know I'm sounding like an asshole here, but I'm trying not to be one. I'd genuinely like to know why you guys like these strips. Enquiring minds want to know.
Posted by pamsterdam on 2005-04-03 14:57:31 +0000
It's not just you, and I don't think you sound like an asshole. I'd always assumed that I'm not bright enough to "get it" but if BQ agrees with me on this, then... Well I guess I could still not be bright enough but at least a smart person agrees with me.
Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-04-04 02:05:37 +0000
Why read any of them or all of them?
I read them because I like them. Basically you get to knew the characters and the more you have read the comic, the better it gets. Some comics play on current trends and counter culture (Zippy) and some are mostly puns (Pearls b4 Swine and Fusco). Some are fairly hard political commentary (Doonesbury and the Boondocks) and some are just good art (Get Fuzzy). Arlo an Janice have arguably the best romance ever depicted in fiction.
No, I don't read Garfield or Family Circus, but it's nice to spend all of 3 minutes and check in three or four times a week with the good ones. And sometimes I laugh out loud.
Posted by frame609 on 2005-04-04 03:55:20 +0000
I still think that Arlo and Janis hate each other.
Posted by tgl on 2005-04-04 20:21:50 +0000
People must assume that a staggering intellect like mine requires esoteric, arcane, perplexing humor. Not true; I love a good "Oooo, those alligators sure wanna eat that zebra" joke.
Posted by pamsterdam on 2005-04-04 20:24:42 +0000
Tears are rolling down my cheeks.
Right up there with the time my friend Emily told her patronising boss, "Gawsh, I don't go in much for that book-learnin'!"
Posted by bizquig3000 on 2005-04-05 23:07:28 +0000
Good answer... Thanks!
Posted by tgl on 2005-05-18 18:31:25 +0000
No fourth wall here.
Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-05-18 18:36:31 +0000
The pun and the self depriciation!
Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-05-31 18:34:19 +0000
Potty jokes...
Posted by tgl on 2005-05-31 18:35:40 +0000
Porta-potty jokes.
Posted by tgl on 2005-06-08 19:20:41 +0000
I like puns. So, sue me.
Posted by rladew on 2005-06-08 19:33:52 +0000
right there with you. (knee too!)
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Posted by tendiamonds on 2005-06-13 15:04:20 +0000
Any comment from the librarians?
Posted by tendiamonds on 2005-06-16 16:11:17 +0000
Death is funny!
Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-07-30 06:39:15 +0000
I laughed... is this a repeat?
Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-08-09 15:35:53 +0000
I've thought of this before, and I love it. Not really a pun -- rare for Pearls Before Swine...
Posted by tendiamonds on 2005-08-09 17:49:58 +0000
I recently picked up Sgt Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club Comic... it's an anthology of the first two years of PB4S. Fabulous. Has a running commentary where Patsis highlights inside jokes or personal asides to some of the comics.
Posted by tendiamonds on 2005-09-22 13:49:09 +0000
Pastis had plenty of notice to do this plotline at the same time the stupid Blondie party happened... he's really dropping the ball here.
Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-09-24 22:26:30 +0000
Awesome.
Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-10-03 15:07:17 +0000
I don't care if the this is a Monty Python rip off gone bad, the last frame's picture is priceless.
Posted by rladew on 2005-10-03 15:39:03 +0000
right there with ya
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Posted by rladew on 2005-10-11 17:20:12 +0000
a strip for all the tax playa haters out there... nice!
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Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-10-14 18:31:36 +0000
How many guard duck jokes will we let Pastis use? I think this about number 6.
Don't get me wrong, I like them, just growing old...
Posted by tgl on 2005-11-14 18:01:16 +0000
Instant Classic.
Posted by tgl on 2005-12-02 19:32:43 +0000
First ever non-landscape comic panel in PBS?
Posted by dawnbixtler on 2006-01-13 10:55:11 +0000
I found today's very funny. Johnny Mac...
Posted by Null Protocol on 2006-01-26 13:19:39 +0000
1/25/2006:
More bad English humor for the crowd that likes to discuss things such as the 'Proprietary Eponym'...
Posted by tgl on 2006-05-08 14:46:02 +0000
GO!!
PBS May 05, 2006: best strip of the year.
Posted by dawnbixtler on 2006-06-02 17:11:29 +0000
Zing! The Sally Forth dig.
Posted by tgl on 2006-06-07 18:07:33 +0000
I love Rat in glasses.
Posted by tgl on 2006-07-27 19:35:12 +0000
How many times have I said that today? So true.
Posted by MF DU on 2006-07-27 19:53:35 +0000
had to do research for this one, still feel like it didn't register with me. TGL: you talk about steroids or Mary Worth a lot today? huh?
Posted by tgl on 2006-07-27 20:22:06 +0000
"I WILL KICK MARY WORTH'S A@#"
But then I say: "Oh, you devilish Sally Forth!"
Posted by MF DU on 2006-07-27 20:24:08 +0000
A@# isn't leet, right?
uggh I guess this one is lost on me and I should just move on.
Posted by tendiamonds on 2006-07-27 23:33:31 +0000
I don't remember if it was Patsis or Darby, but one of them, in one of their books mentioned that he tried to pass of "@$$" as the alleged censor of "ass" and it didn't fly...
Posted by tgl on 2006-07-28 12:42:16 +0000
Still looking for the "jupiter" key.
Earth people!
Posted by MF DU on 2006-07-28 12:50:54 +0000
this is quite possibly one of the weirdest threads goin but I love it!
NY and California!
Posted by tgl on 2006-09-12 17:14:47 +0000
Awesome.
Posted by tgl on 2006-10-02 23:28:51 +0000
First use of perspective in a PBS strip?
Posted by tendiamonds on 2006-10-16 13:22:22 +0000
Breakfast of Champions... doughnuts and a beer helmet.
Posted by G lib on 2006-10-16 13:32:53 +0000
Any time is a good time for a beer helmet.
Posted by tgl on 2006-11-03 00:02:06 +0000
It's funny 'cuz it's true.
Posted by tgl on 2007-02-02 19:42:05 +0000
ah, dumpies
Posted by tendiamonds on 2007-02-02 20:22:50 +0000
fills up our dumpers
Posted by tendiamonds on 2007-05-30 11:17:31 +0000
I haven't had a chance to catch up on the Commies in a while. I can't believe Conor commented on Sunday's Get Fuzzy, when Sunday's Pearl's was his shtick in our high school's senior talent show:
Posted by ConorClockwise on 2007-05-30 11:50:47 +0000
I commented on Monday's Fuzzy. Never caught the Sunday funnies this week.
Posted by MF DU on 2007-05-30 13:20:25 +0000
Epoisses can do it Karaoke-style with a panache and fervor not matched by many.
Posted by tgl on 2007-05-30 13:28:51 +0000
OK, I give up: What's the song?
Posted by tendiamonds on 2007-05-30 13:38:02 +0000
I was with tgl here.
Posted by tendiamonds on 2007-05-30 13:38:45 +0000
Are you joking?
Posted by Epoisses on 2007-05-30 13:40:58 +0000
Look at the first panel again.
Posted by tgl on 2007-05-30 13:44:51 +0000
First relevant link (for this thread) is third. What kind of crappy search engine is this?
Posted by Epoisses on 2007-05-30 13:52:40 +0000
The Bernstein bit is (apparently) about a dream Stipe had where everyone had the initials LB: Breznev, Lenny Bruce, Lester Bangs.
Posted by tendiamonds on 2007-05-30 13:55:49 +0000
I hadn't noticed that, excellent.
Posted by tommy on 2007-08-31 02:06:57 +0000
Would've been funnier as a "Mary Worth" convention.
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