Brevity by Dan Thompson for September 20, 2011

They obviously weren’t pearls of wisdom, though.

Dogsniff, I just can’t picture you wearing a pearl necklace…..

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

I like the necklace that this person apparently chose to wear around her right leg. Wait, Amelia? Like Earhart?

I thought it was Pearl Buck

Guy & Rodd, I found this one to be in bad taste. Not a fitting tribute to a true aviatrix and aeronautical pioneer who likely perished on a desolate spit of an island. And not the sort of person who would have been enamored over pearls.

@ReyMostazaThat’s right: It’s only a comic strip, and a very funny one at that! Suppose Amelia had also found some wild pigs for food on the island . . . Yet she chose pearls before swine!

Did she eat the oysters?

Is that a pearl in her nose as well? Oh, no itsnot.

I’ll just chime in on the subject of 3 of the last 5 comments. My screen name here includes where I am — basically where Purdue University is located — and Purdue (and the community) is proud of its Amelia Earhart connections. I have no problem with the comic today and found it funny. (and if yet another person chimes in while I’m typing this, I’m not deleting this and changing the numbers for a repost like Digital Frog’s comment made me do)

pretty unlikely she found land in all that blue pacific when her engine started sputtering for lack of fuel, the specials on tv notwithstanding. It’s fun to speculate about her (and Fred Noonans’) survival and existence on a Pacific Island or their being taken prisoner by the Japanese, but it’s just that- speculating. The odds were they ditched in the ocean.

Talk about greed!

So that’s what happened to her!

If pearls were strung, would be pirate treasure, and in any case, they could easily be taken elsewhere. I use cultured and Swarski pearls for adorning my dresses (Medieval styles). I often prefer the latter because they have uniform holes which are easily sewn.