Pearls Before Swine: Putting With Anne

[Lynn McGuire]

Pearls Before Swine: Putting With Anne
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2021/03/21

Oh my goodness, that is horrible.

For reference,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T1c7GkzRQQ

Lynn

[Michael Trew]

That's funny! I got it right away... sent to my 53 year old mother and
she didn't get it... Guess she wasn't a Police fan; haha

[Ted Nolan <tednolan>]

In article <s3dd1q$onu$2...@dont-email.me>,

Enh. I like the pun strips OK, but I miss the character riffs and
extended arcs he used to do. Things like the little dog on the chain
and rat's cross-country drive.
--
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What's not in Columbia anymore..

[Dorothy J Heydt]

In article <s3dd1q$onu$2...@dont-email.me>,
Michael Trew <mt99...@ymail.com> wrote:

I don't get it either. I'm not a fan of any rock group except
Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem. Care to explain?

--
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
Www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/

[Dorothy J Heydt]

In article <s3d9om$qas$1...@dont-email.me>,

Sorry, both of those went over (or possibly under) my head,
whoosh.

[Titus G]

On 24/03/21 4:51 pm, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> In article <s3dd1q$onu$2...@dont-email.me>,
> Michael Trew <mt99...@ymail.com> wrote:
>> On 3/23/2021 1:50 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>> Pearls Before Swine: Putting With Anne
>>> https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2021/03/21
>>>
>>> Oh my goodness, that is horrible.
>>>
>>> For reference,
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T1c7GkzRQQ
>>>
>>> Lynn
>>
>> That's funny! I got it right away... sent to my 53 year old mother and
>> she didn't get it... Guess she wasn't a Police fan; haha
>
> I don't get it either. I'm not a fan of any rock group except
> Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem. Care to explain?
>

It is a pun on the line of an extremely popular and famous song by a
musical group called "The Police" whose lead singer, Sting, featured in
the movie, "Dune" sang about 'his' prostitute partner, "Roxanne". That
should be enough for you to re-read the cartoon.

[Dorothy J Heydt]

Oh.

There are puns that are funny, and there are puns that are lame.

Do the rocks have anything to do with the red light?

[Gary R. Schmidt]

No - Roxanne is a prostitute, in many western societies prostitution and
allied trades are plied in the re-light district.

Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light
Those days are over
You don't have to sell your body to the night
Roxanne
You don't have to wear that dress tonight
Walk the streets for money
You don't care if it's wrong or if it's right
Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne (Put on the red light)
Roxanne (Put on the red light)
Roxanne (Put on the red light)
Roxanne (Put on the red light)
Roxanne (Put on the red light)
I loved you since I knew you
I wouldn't talk down to you
I have to tell you just how I feel
I won't share you with another boy
I know my mind is made up
So put away your make up
Told you once I won't tell you again
It's a bad way
Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne
You...

Cheers,
Gary B-)

--
Waiting for a new signature to suggest itself...

[Michael Trew]

On 3/23/2021 11:50 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> In article<s3d9om$qas$1...@dont-email.me>,
> Lynn McGuire<lynnmc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Pearls Before Swine: Putting With Anne
>> https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2021/03/21
>>
>> Oh my goodness, that is horrible.
>>
>> For reference,
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T1c7GkzRQQ
>>
>
> Sorry, both of those went over (or possibly under) my head,
> whoosh.
>

It made me laugh, because I know the song well. With these types of
puns, it's not funny unless you get it right away. Once explained
later, it's not as fun.

[Lynn McGuire]

On 3/23/2021 10:50 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> In article <s3d9om$qas$1...@dont-email.me>,
> Lynn McGuire <lynnmc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Pearls Before Swine: Putting With Anne
>> https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2021/03/21
>>
>> Oh my goodness, that is horrible.
>>
>> For reference,
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T1c7GkzRQQ
>>
>
> Sorry, both of those went over (or possibly under) my head,
> whoosh.

First verse of "Roxanne" by Sting and The Police:

"Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light
Those days are over
You don't have to sell your body to the night
Roxanne
You don't have to wear that dress tonight
Walk the streets for money
You don't care if it's wrong or if it's right"

https://www.songfacts.com/lyrics/the-police/roxanne

"This song is about a man who falls in love with a prostitute and gets
all Pretty Woman on her, telling her she deserves better and should find
a more decent profession. Sting got the idea after walking through the
red-light district of Paris when the band was in town to play a club
called The Nashville, where he saw prostitutes for the first time. He
imagined what it would be like to fall in love with one of them,
figuring some of them must have boyfriends."
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/the-police/roxanne

The final frame of the comic is Rat saying "... Sting" and the artist
saying "Don't Stand So Close To Me" which is another Sting and The
Police song.

Lynn

[Dorothy J Heydt]

In article <s3fvp0$ne6$1...@dont-email.me>,

That is true of all subtle humor or humor lacking references,
IMO.

[Ed Rush]

On Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 11:46:19 AM UTC-7, Michael Trew wrote:
> Guess she wasn't a Police fan; haha

So the whole lengthy strip relies on knowledge of an old rock song's lyrics?

[Ted Nolan <tednolan>]

In article <671d1587-e980-4a5e...@googlegroups.com>,

And the conceit that the wind blows rocks around.

[Joy Beeson]

On 27 Mar 2021 19:26:06 GMT, t...@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan

<tednolan>) wrote:

> And the conceit that the wind blows rocks around.

Whenever I walk past a rock-mulched flower bed, I find pebbles all
over the walkway.

I usually kick one or two back where they belong.

--
Joy Beeson
joy beeson at centurylink dot net
http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/

[Timothy Chow]

On 3/23/2021 3:09 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> Enh. I like the pun strips OK, but I miss the character riffs and
> extended arcs he used to do. Things like the little dog on the chain
> and rat's cross-country drive.

Pastis seems to have figured out that some people (like myself)
don't like the pun strips and would prefer to skip them, so he
makes them easy to detect. If the first panel seems "weird,"
then I will quickly glance over to see if Pastis (the character)
appears in the final panel. If he does then I skip the strip
and don't bother reading any further.

---
Tim Chow

[Quinn C]

* Ed Rush:

> On Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 11:46:19 AM UTC-7, Michael Trew wrote:
>> Guess she wasn't a Police fan; haha
>
> So the whole lengthy strip relies on knowledge of an old rock song's lyrics?

I haven't read the strip regularly in years, but I remember that the
whole conceit of these pun strips (a regular feature) is that they are
extremely contrived, and finally, rat will threaten to punish the author
in all the readers' place for creating such an abomination.

So they have to be bad.

I didn't know the song well enough, but I'll send a link to my friend
Roxanne, who will know it willy-nilly.

--
It was frequently the fastest way to find what he was looking
for, provided that he was looking for trouble.
-- L. McMaster Bujold, Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen

[magicsnd1]

My favorite was the strip on 10/19/14
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2014/10/19

Its a permanent part of my Studio Wall of Shame, along with the classic fax art "Problem Solving Flow Chart"
http://weredraggor.deviantart.com/art/Problem-Solving-Flowchart-75323237