Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 16, 2012

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    Vonne Anton  about 12 years ago

    Now try the square one! Now the triangle one! Now, the curlicued guy that looks so….so…..French!

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    margueritem  about 12 years ago

    Love it.

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    skinny_tim  about 12 years ago

    I’m sure he’ll get ’round to the other shapes eventually.

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    Bilan  about 12 years ago

    Wait until he gets his hands on this:http://www.crayola.com/products/marker-airbrush-product/

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    rf_eq  about 12 years ago

    I’ve seen this before. Guy are more confident in their drawings when they use stencils. It’s called male pattern boldness.

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    Proginoskes  about 12 years ago

    I for one was expecting a pun from today’s comic.

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    juicebruce  about 12 years ago

    Rat Logic = Beer in Hand(but rats do not have hands?)

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member about 12 years ago

    Uh oh! Pastis didn’t read the instructions.

    Stephan! It says to keep it away from your eyes!Now look what you’ve done.

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    mikemel  about 12 years ago

    Back in drafting school we called it a hole-o-meter.

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    dkoch59  about 12 years ago

    Being an architect of a certain age, I can relate to the excitement of acquiring a new template, although I do not recall allowing one to influence my design to quite that degree. Now that just about everything is done by computer, there is not much use for them in my job.

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    Sisyphos  about 12 years ago

    Fascinating. The circle is the most nearly perfect two-dimensional shape, and I could follow Cartoon-Boy’s adventure in cyclical art for several rotations! Round, and round, and round we go! Where we stop, nobody knows!

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    einarbt7  about 12 years ago

    Pastis looks like he is on something. High on stencil?

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    the burser  about 12 years ago

    Wow Pastis!

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    scarbro  about 12 years ago

    Pastis is into post-modern self-reflexive hole theory.

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    brine Premium Member about 12 years ago

    HA!!! I do love those stencils!!!

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    eddie6192  about 12 years ago

    Toon Boy forgot to stencil the hole in his own head.

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    finale  about 12 years ago

    What was the name of the kids toy that had stencils as well as rotating patterns? What a great way to waste a few reams of paper and several pencils! (Technical Engineer coming out in me…..once indoctrinated….never really leaves).

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    761st  about 12 years ago

    … and not one mention of eric the circle?

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    cartoon critic 2544  about 12 years ago

    This strip wasn’t bad until the narcissist started including himself. Ohhh, if I hurry, I can hire Stephan to speak at my “event”. LOL

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    bornfree99  about 12 years ago

    wait.. did he stenciled his eyes as well?

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    hariseldon59  about 12 years ago

    Porthole window? Where are they, in a submarine?

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    Number Three  about 12 years ago

    Love it!

    xxx

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    Arianne  about 12 years ago

    Finale – I loved playing with Spirograph!

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    Deoxor  about 12 years ago

    Yeah, epidemic is the right word for it…except, this is a lot more fun!! xD

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    Kwolfe99  about 12 years ago

    Steve… I love ya! And I share your passion for new drawing templates. I know… I’m sad.

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    Hoodude  about 12 years ago

    ..needs more compass..

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    Coyoty Premium Member about 12 years ago

    No one wanted to be the first to say Pastis was having a ball?

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    BlackScorpion1910  about 12 years ago

    I know the feeling, they are fun.

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    Sherlock Watson  about 12 years ago

    I thought there was going to be a pun involving “balls” or “mooning”; did SP chicken out at the last minute?

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    Rickapolis  about 12 years ago

    By he light of the stencil-y moon…

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    kathleenhammett  about 12 years ago

    Way to go, Stephan-glad to see you had the balls to write this strip..

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    Gokie5  about 12 years ago

    The Spigograph was fun, back in the day. Now we have things like http://www.zefrank.com/dtoy_vs_byokal/ to make your own kaleidoscope patterns online, but somehow it’s not the same!

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    kathleenhammett  about 12 years ago

    Stephan needs stencils to draw legs and feet next

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    Linda Solomon  about 12 years ago

    Tell ThataBaby to send the Pun Police to Pearls…

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member about 12 years ago

    BornFree … that’s what I meant, but I was too subtle.

    Imagine…. me … subtle!

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    Popeyesforearm  about 12 years ago

    at least it’s not Dude and Dude stencil

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    codedaddy  about 12 years ago

    Still have my blue flow charting template acquired at IBM I believe nearly 50 years ago. For me they are not exciting.

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    danno12345  about 12 years ago

    You mean an Epundemic!

    Sorry.

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