Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 10, 2015

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    AGED_ENGINEER Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    Not far from the truth, I’d bet.

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    Sherlock Watson  almost 9 years ago

    He seems like a real basset hounds are nice dogs.

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    knight1192a  almost 9 years ago

    And this kiddies is why there shouldn’t be an autocorrect feature. A spell check feature that asks if you got the word wrong and do you want to correct it, yes, but autocorrect, no.

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    danfromfreddybeach  almost 9 years ago

    Autocorrect gives you things like:Mom: Honey, we have you Dad tested and he is now dead.Daughter: What?Mom: I mean dead.Daughter: Oh No, what happened?Mom: Deaf. Damn autocorrect.

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    Kind&Kinder  almost 9 years ago

    It would be nice if we could be left to our own devices manipulating electronics instead of vice versa. Hear that Microsoft? And Apple? And others?

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    blunebottle  almost 9 years ago

    The programmers grammar could use correcting, too.

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    mammamoonbeam  almost 9 years ago

    Autocorrect. One more example of technology gone wild.

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    Sisyphos  almost 9 years ago

    Beware, the frustrated programmer turned hactivist!And always TURN OFF auto-correct!

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    hariseldon59  almost 9 years ago

    Does “Brian” autocorrect to “Brain”?

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    æ²  almost 9 years ago

    Ducking autocucumber!

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    whiteheron  almost 9 years ago

    He cast a spell on me.

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    tom  almost 9 years ago

    I’m a programmer. We DO get our joys. Beware: we have odd sense of humor.

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    mail2jbl  almost 9 years ago

    I like to call them Auto-co-wrecks.

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    NeedaChuckle Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    I needed Phyllo dough and it autocorrects to Phyllis on my phone’s shopping list. Didn’t notice and was confused for a bit in the store:)

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    abbybookcase  almost 9 years ago

    no matter what i do, the one thing i cannot leave lower case is the f in Facebook. case in point. that wasn’t me capitalizing. you can leave any other company without a capital letter. they may actually be taking over the world

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    Guilty Bystander  almost 9 years ago

    You believe Orwell was 100 years early? I’m thinking it was more like 25 or 30.

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    Kaputnik  almost 9 years ago

    Autocorrect has been off on my smart phone for a long time. I don’t think I ever sent anything embarrassing, but I wasted too much time going over my messages correcting autocorrect. So much easier to spend that time giving a message a second look. Of course, it helps if you can spell to begin with. :)

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    ahem Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    In the last panel, why “also” instead of “too”? The word choice strikes me as awkward. Deliberately so. Nor is there a need for a comma in that sentence…at least not as it is currently worded. So i’m thinking another word got autoccorrected to “also”. And if the original intended word is the one that i suspect it is, then the autocorrection happily makes the strip more newspaper-friendly.

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    Maizing  almost 9 years ago

    Yeah, I use spell-check, but not auto-correct.

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    Roadrunner Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    Notice that the slogan shouted so frequently now should be “too or also” not the word “to”: all lives matter; otherwise, one is actually saying that their live (autocorrect for “life”) matters more than the life of another. Just saying that maybe we should read what we rite (autocorrect for “write”) before we hit send. It is like the tail wagging he (autocorrect for “the”) dog. When one paw has a thorn in it, the whole dog hurts. Do not make it about the thorn (injustice), make it about the dog (society being diminished). Mob justice is no justice. The hate of the mob distracts from the effect of the pain on us all.

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    Scott S  almost 9 years ago

    It’s their revenge for all the wedgies & swirlies they got in high school!

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    ChessPirate  almost 9 years ago

    One way my “Programmer’s Humor” surfaced is contained in the following that I posted in “Betty” on January 12th, 2014: Back in the day when I wrote database systems for departments at my job, one of them asked me to program in a password routine. After I implemented it, they kept calling for me to come over and reset the password because they had forgotten it. Finally, I was so annoyed, I programmed in a “back-door” password, so the next time they called, I said “type this in: I A M A D O O F U S”.

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    Number Three  almost 9 years ago

    What annoys me is the American Spellcheck on Microsoft Word.

    Not all of us are American.

    Geez.

    As for autocorrect… It can easily be turned off.

    xxx

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    kattbailey  almost 9 years ago

    I try to use a site to help with crossword puzzles. Late-week ones. I’m very used to re-typing 3 times before I am able to send the correct word in order to get back possibilities…

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    prrdh  almost 9 years ago

    “Autocorrect” is “autocorrupt” autocorrected.

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    jnnydnti  almost 9 years ago

    iPhone autocorrects “lardass” to “Kardashian”.

    Try it.

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    glowing-steak32  almost 9 years ago

    Autocorrect is the sleepiest thing ever.

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    Clearstream  about 8 years ago

    Worm, tit comes I venice in vermin froggy. Get it?Wow, this comic is very funnyDid that suck?

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    leopardglily  almost 2 years ago

    Yeah, autocorrect is weird. I once texted my friend about a new sandwich and soap combo at a local restaurant, and how I had gone there and eaten a grilled chess sandwich with chips. I meant there was a new sandwich and soup, and a grilled cheese sandwich.

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