Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 21, 2015

Well, at least they’re note discussing the Welsh town of Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­loan­tysilio­gogo­goch

this one is really super … cali … fragi ..oh, never mind

In case you didn’t understood it the first time, Ill repeat it twice. Hello Phi Eta Mu brothers.

Next it will be classical music, and they will discuss the famous German composer Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle- dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser- kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle- gerspurten-mitz-weimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönedanker-kalbsfleisch- mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm.

kaputnik, you spelled it wrong

I’m pretty sure there’s a spelling error 55% of the way through that.

ROFLMAO!At least they weren’t talking about ending the separation of church and state or antidisestablishmentarianism

I thought the longest word in the dictionary was supercalafragalisticexpealadoscious.

@Proginoskes – Which panel or panels would Pastis put that word in?

Is that really a word or, as I suspect, did you just type a bunch of nonsense and call it a long word?

I only come here for the comments!

Thanks for giving him ideas.

Hey, Cartoon-Boy! Get out of the way of the dialogue-balloons! You’re barely leaving Rat and Pig enough room in panel 3 to say pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis twice, you space hog!

There’s plenty of space between Toon Boy’s ears.

Sorry I didn’t quite get that. Could you repeat that again.

Did I just witness an infinite number of monkeys versus an infinite number of typewriters flash by?

Out of curiosity how long did it take you to type that?! I copied it over to Word & it has 65,481 characters and 15 pages!!

3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693—etc, etc,etc.

Lack of space? Does that mean he is spaced out?

Life was a lot easier when SMILES (a mile between the first and last letters) was the longest word in English!

did the guy that puts in the text get a raise, or a punishment?

James Joyce, MD.

Would have taken a big word balloon. How does one pronounce the final “g”?

And when Larry eats Zebra he will develop…….yeah, never mind.

oh poor zebra he has pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosisagain!!!!!maybe the crocs will catchpneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosisfrom zebra!!!but i suppose only if zebra can induce the crocs to breathe in volcanic microscopic dust particles will the crocs getpneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

But, that’s my favorite food additive!

You know what they ask in spelling bees: “Can you use that in a sentence, please?”

They really should have a word limit (individual spelling length or total comment).

When I was in Elementary School in the 60’s, Scholastic Books had a program to sell paperbacks in the classroom. One book on words I got his this one in it, and I can still rattle it off at a moments notice. Thanks!! Have a great day!!

Ditto

Yeah, what he said

Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious…

This is nothing new. 1600 years ago, Aristophanes wrote a play in which he created “λοπαδο­τεμαχο­σελαχο­γαλεο­κρανιο­λειψανο­δριμυπο­τριμματο­σιλφιο­καραβομελιτο­κατα­κεχυμενο­κιχλεπικοσσυφοφαττο­περιστεραλεκτρυονοπτο­κεφαλλιο­κιγκλοπελειο­λαγῳοσιραιο­βαφητραγανο­πτερύγων”He was poking fun at stringing words together to create, obviously, long words.

My spell check and thesaurus just threw up

Seeing such fun words and fun comics make me feel supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

Actually, the longest word in the English language is “smiles.” Because there’s a mile between each “s.”

The longest non-technical word… Floccinaucinihilipilification: act or habit of describing or regarding something as unimportant or worthless… which is what Rat often does concerning Stephan.

At least floccinaucinihilipilification has a lot of thin letters to it.

I think it’s spelled Johann Gambolputty… de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle- dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz- ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer- spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein- nurnburger-bratwustle-gernspurten-mitz-weimache-luber-hundsfut- gumberaber-shonedanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm.

Longest word in the dictionary is:

SMILEY

adjectiveinformal1. smiling; cheerful.“he drew a smiley face”nounnoun: smiley; plural noun: smileys; noun: smily; plural noun: smilies

There is a MILE between the first and last letter. :)

poor cartoon boy. he gets no respect

We could take a drive up to Webster, Massachusetts, and go sailing on Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.

Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/20/national/20lake.html?_r=0

And if that led to bad breath, would that be known as Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconihalitosis?

No

Say it backwards, Rat; I dare you.

The copy/paste feature makes writing the captions much easier!

Steph you glorious bastard

“Pneumo…osis” is fake, though often used as an example of a long word, and it’s a mash-up of Greek, Latin, and English bits in a way that isn’t even legit. Even “antidisestablishmentarianism” isn’t genuine, though “disestablishmentarianism” is, so that “antidisestablishmentarianism” is theoretically sound.

you are crazy man. but say good nite dude.

From what I’m finding it looks like this is not a real word, but here’s a site that has a recording of how to pronounce it. I can’t seem to get it to show up as a link, though!

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

of course

Stephan, I realize politics is an important part of your profession, but I think you can win the Reuben without having to pander to the powerful Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolanoconiosis Prevention Foundation. What did you do—promise to underwrite a lifetime supply of four-angstrom facemasks for the residents around Mount St. Helen’s?

Sorry, I’d meant to reply to Proginoskes extremely long word and either my @Proginoskes was deleted when their post was deleted (though not the rest of my post) or I replied in the comment box instead. Considering I’ve seen other instances where someone has replied to a post that is missing and their response includes the link to the other user, as mine does with yours and yours with mine, I have very little doubt I screwed up and replied in the comment box instead of the reply box.

Congratulations to Stephan Pastis, the real Pastis and not his comic avatar, for being nominated for the Reubens for both for Best Newspaper Comic Strip and Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year!

Pastis needs to be institutionalized. Now. There’s a nice place in Massachusetts on the shores of Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.

Whatever happened to antidisestablishmentarianism being the longest word?

By the way, just trying to sound out some of the words in these comments is making me laugh out loud.

My favourite long word is floccinaucinihilipilification.I’ve actually used it a couple of times.The best way is to use it as a rebuttal to someone who accuses me of knowing nothing.

The comments are better than the strip.

This strip is giving me hipopotomonstrosesquipedaliofobia (the fear of long words).

This is the longest word ever. I don’t know if GoComics can even display it.

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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!(I spelled this right I double checked)