<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Irresistibly Fish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://brettfish.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[brettfish]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://brettfish.wordpress.com/author/brettfish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[this is too much of truth, if only it were&nbsp;possible&#8230;]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>as you will probably know if you have followed my writings for any amount of time, my favourite cartoon strip is called <strong>&#8216;Pearls before Swine&#8217;</strong> by <strong>Stephan Pastis</strong> [who stubbornly continues to refuse to add a stuffed dolphin called <strong>&#8216;No_bob&#8217;</strong> [because he doesn&#8217;t] to his series, fearful of the unmanageable rise in book sales i imagine] and every now and then he just completely nails life on the head like in this one:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://brettfish.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/this-is-too-much-of-truth-if-only-it-were-possible/pearlsenergy/" rel="attachment wp-att-3228"><img loading="lazy" data-attachment-id="3228" data-permalink="https://brettfish.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/this-is-too-much-of-truth-if-only-it-were-possible/pearlsenergy/" data-orig-file="https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/pearlsenergy.gif" data-orig-size="600,190" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-image-title="pearlsenergy" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/pearlsenergy.gif?w=300" data-large-file="https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/pearlsenergy.gif?w=600" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3228" alt="pearlsenergy" src="https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/pearlsenergy.gif?w=600&#038;h=190" width="600" height="190" /></a><strong><a href="https://brettfish.wordpress.com/2013/06/24/pearls-before-fish">[For a great looped cycle of some of the other Pearls Before Swine strips I&#8217;ve enjoyed over the years, click here]</a></strong></p>
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