Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 30, 2022

How about telling your friend it was a typo!

I meant “?”

I’m blaming my fork for making me gain a few pounds.

This is actually a very real problem with texting. With neither face to see nor voice to hear …………. was that a joke or a complaint? Did my best friend just betray me?

Try the word yay, but spelled yeah…easy to get confused…

The Electric Company used to do sketches in which the meaning of a sentence depended on whether it ended with a period, a question mark, or an exclamation point. How they predicted “smart” phones, I have no idea.

Not to mention that it’s very difficult to text when you have hooves.

Typing on that very small keyboard is difficult for everyone.

I do typos all the time, and the voice recognition on my often does not text what I say! With you Pig!

Poor neighbour Bob. He sad now.

I keep telling myself to read to read the message before hitting ‘send’!

Of course, you know, you COULD proofread (and correct) what you’ve entered before hitting “send” instead of blaming technology for your own mistakes.

You should see autocorrect.

I prefer phone calls. The “keys” are way to small, so I’m always hitting the wrong one and haveing to go back to correct it.

Was there a question!

General public reaction to this comic!! “AWWWWWW!!!!”. Seriously this is an issue not only Apple but Android too. Also don’t get me started on Autocorrect.

Not quite as dangerous as the reply all function……………

My wife manages a dental office where she works with many younger women! They told her that if you don’t end a sentence in a text message with an exclamation point that it means you’re mad at the person! So now she expects me to end every sentence in a text message with an exclamation point! But, I just can’t bring myself to do that!

Look BEFORE you send!

Pig has a very sensitive friend

Apple needs to make bigger phones for people with bigger thumbs.

I have lost count how many times I have made a comment that was taken in the completely way opposite what I meant. I now will spend MUCH time going over and over and editing anything before I “post”. It is to the point where I rarely “comment” at all (like I am here right now) because it takes so much time and I may still upset somebody.

Texting and emails, never really relay the spirit and emotion it was originally conveyed.

Best use of ? and ! was by Victor Hugo & his publishers. He wanted to know how his “Les Miserables” was selling. Full text of his letter: ?. Full text of the reply: !

Hey “Friend”, I know how you feel. People are still cruel.

As punishment,the Academy has fined Will Smith $100,00 and ordered him to star in a re-make ofNORMAN,IS THAT YOU?

Lost me on this one

Auto-correct is my Arch enama space space explanation point explanation point

Back in the 1950s, a sports reporter from Minneapolis was sent to Florida to cover a speedboat-racing regatta, which was won (as often happened) by the top guy in the game, Garfield “Gar” Wood. The reporter filed his story by wire and went to bed. He was awakened in the middle of the night by a bellboy with a telegram from his managing editor, who wanted one more detail for the story: the champ’s age. Western Union charged by the word, and the editor was notoriously stingy, so he kept his query short: “How old Gar Wood?”

To which the reporter, unamused at having his sleep interrupted, replied “Old Gar Wood fine. How you?”

Simple solution. Proofread your texts before hitting send. Saves a lot of misunderstanding and heartache.

They used to call me The Mushroom because I was a real fun guy.

Just to let everyone know, my name before this was DON’T SPAM, OR I’LL FLAG ALL YOUR COMMENTS. That’s as far as I can remember.

I have much more trouble with the stoopid autocorrect…

I turn off all the auto-crud I can find and apple will STILL change things up on you! My son went to Olivet College and it NEVER let me type Olivet, ALWAYS changed it to Oliver! yes I know this comic refers to the spacing, or lack of it, between characters but it’s all part of the painful experience of mobile communication…

If anyone sees my laughing as I’m texting, it’s probably because autocorrect is making my message sound silly. If I don’t want to send a silly message, I need to be careful with proofreading.

Change your Font dummkopf. Or chalk him up to just another of the thousands who passed through our lives.

Life lesson – never say anything important in a text message.

I am real slow in my old age, I now get it after looking at the gag a second time. Yes the two are too close together!

or you could have changed the phrase to say you sure are!

Don’t deal with “smart phones,” but on my desktop keyboard, they’re about as far apart as possible.

Oh, well….

We like to send ourselves texts to remind us to pick something up when we go shopping. One day, my mom was texting duck tape, to remind my dad to pick up some duct tape. As she was typing in duck, my dad and I (we were in the front seat of our car [I was driving]) her her exclaim “I didn’t type that.” Having accidentally typed in the “f” a few times when I was looking up DuckTales, I already knew what she had accidentally typed, and we picked on her for a little bit.

Now iOS 16 allows you to edit texts! It’s a lifesaver for many.