<?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[Pokes before Swine [a true&nbsp;story]]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><strong>RaiSINs</strong>, in any shape or form.</p>
<p><strong>Cellphone screens emitting light in movie cinemas</strong>&#8230;</p>
<p>Actually just <strong>cellphones in general being used in places of people being together</strong> and phones meant to be being kept away.</p>
<p><strong>Litter</strong>. The guy sitting next to me at the but stop litter-ally throwing litter on the ground when the bin/trash can was litter-ally just round the corner of the bus stop.</p>
<p>These are a few of my <strong>unfavourite things</strong>.</p>
<p>But the <strong>POKE</strong> function on Facebook is up there [and I&#8217;m not sure I like the fact that #hashtags are now being stolen across to Facebook, they belong to the Twitter Mark!!!] &#8211; I have never understood it and it is a little bit creepy and a year or two ago I deleted all the<strong> POKEs</strong> i had [I am pretty sure I have never poked anyone, not even as a joke. Please tell me I&#8217;m not wrong on this memory] and they all came back somehow [now i am too scared to go and look]</p>
<p>It was time something did something, and who else but <strong>Pearls before Swine</strong> creator, <strong>Stephan Pastis</strong>, presumably with me in mind, when he created this gem [he has a similar diamond of rat beating someone up in the cinema for cellphone usage &#8211; it&#8217;s like he knows me!]</p>
<p><a href="https://brettfish.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/pokes-before-swine-a-true-story/pearlspoke/" rel="attachment wp-att-4992"><img loading="lazy" data-attachment-id="4992" data-permalink="https://brettfish.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/pokes-before-swine-a-true-story/pearlspoke/" data-orig-file="https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/pearlspoke.jpg" data-orig-size="600,295" 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="Pokes before Swine" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/pearlspoke.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/pearlspoke.jpg?w=600" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4992" alt="Pokes before Swine" src="https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/pearlspoke.jpg?w=600&#038;h=295" width="600" height="295" srcset="https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/pearlspoke.jpg 600w, https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/pearlspoke.jpg?w=150&amp;h=74 150w, https://brettfish.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/pearlspoke.jpg?w=300&amp;h=148 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a>If you agree with this cartoon, email Stephan at <strong>pearlscomic@gmail.com </strong>and politely suggest to him that he write a strip that introduces a new character called No_bob, a yellow-and-white stuffed dolphin who is not real and can&#8217;t speak. I think he will take that as you liking this strip in the best possible way.</p>
<p>If you disagree with this cartoon, email Stephan at <strong>pearlscomic@gmail.com </strong>and politely suggest to him that he write a strip that introduces a new character called No_bob, a yellow-and-white stuffed dolphin who is not real and can&#8217;t speak. I think he will take that as you disliking this strip in the best possible way. Try and make sure he gets that it is an underscore and a small &#8216;b&#8217; because more people mess that up than you might think.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://brettfish.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/its-a-goose-and-other-flavours-of-origami"><strong>[For more brilliant Pearls before Swine, follow the trail of breadcrumbs starting here]</strong></a></p>
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