Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 15, 2017

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

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Real bad luck on timing of this strip.

A puntuação é muito importante.

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.

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

It’s a killer

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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

♫♫♪

There lies Uncle Joe,

He’s moving kinda slow,

At the junction,

Punctuation Junction….

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

Adventures In Punctuation

She has pimples on her, but I love her.

Or

She has pimples on her butt. I love her!

I love to cook Grandma and my dog!

Who’s going to tell poor Aunt Sarah?

Yay! From 9th grade Endlish teacher.

Let’s eat grandma!

But Pig is speaking to Uncle Joe, not Rat.

No argument. The vocative comma saves lives.

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

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.

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

Eats shoots & leaves. An exercise…

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

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!”

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

I’m giving up…. Alcohol for a month!

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

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

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

Woman, without her man, is nothing.

vs.

Woman: without her, man is nothing.

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

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