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1. 10 days ago on Mike Luckovich

   Incredible. People are still talking about “republicans” and “democrats?”

2. 15 days ago on Prickly City

   ALL US politicians love the poorly educated. They’re easier to fool and it’s child play to rip them off. That’s why the two factions of the republicratic party have cooperated with each other for generations to make sure the US education system is the worst in the ‘developed’ world (and some third-world countries are better).

3. 18 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   … song lyrics, contortedly set up with made-up words or names to fit the syllables thereof. I have said so many times. They are certainly not puns. Yes, on Sundays, I can usually see the gag (there’s my pun) coming and skip as well.

   Most Americans dislike puns; I figured out decades ago that that’s because Americans are so bad at punning, and-or have distorted ideas of what a pun is. People from other English-speaking places are much better at it, and the puns in, say, Ireland, are sometimes worth hearing.

4. 19 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   What are you talking about?

5. 19 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   No. They are excruciating, full stop. If a “joke” makes its audience groan, then that is a bad joke that one should not have told. Why do some jokers take a groan as a compliment?

6. 20 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   What puns? There is no pun in the strip we were talking about, and I don’t recall ever seeing a pun in a Pastis strip. Elaborately and artificially set-up syllable-play, yes. Never a pun.

7. 20 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Please trust me: I try not to. I’m normally careful when I look at the first few panels of the Sunday “Pearls,” but this time I wasn’t sufficiantly vigilant.

8. 20 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   You have a point, but thios pattern wore out its welcome for me the second time he ever did it. I understand it as an homage to Krazy Kat, which was the exact same gag every single time, the difference beiong that George Harriman could pull that off, and Pastis, as much as I admire his usual work, can’t pull it off as often as he tried it. Or maybe it’s that those elaborate pun-like gags have never seemed funny to me.

9. 20 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   What are you talkking about? “Jealous” of what?

10. 20 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

    You’re right: I didn’t say it correctly. It’s the exact same strip whenever he does one of elaborate pun-like gags.