<?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[Pearls before Fish]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>So looks like Stephan Pastis, creator of the most excellent cartoon strip, &#8216;Pearls Before Swine&#8217; is slowly coming around to my idea and persuasion about including a  yellow-and-white stuffed dolphin character called &#8216;No_bob&#8217; into his cartoon strip. Baby steps, Stephan, baby steps. Today a fish, tomorrow the dolphin.</p>
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<p>My biggest fear is not so much that Stephan Pastis won&#8217;t ever put No_bob into the cartoon strip &#8211; I have full confidence we&#8217;ll wear him down eventually &#8211; but that when he finally relents, he will be like most of you and spell it with a hyphen and a big &#8216;B&#8217; &#8211; his name is not no-Bob.</p>
<p>If you would like to join in the positive peer pressure to see this happen in a future strip, simply email Stephan at <strong>pearlscomic@gmail.com </strong>and tell him you love his cartoon strip and would dig it even more if he included a not real yellow-and-white stuffed dolphin called No_bob [who was going to be called &#8216;Bob&#8217; but he doesn&#8217;t bob] and if he wants to learn how to draw him properly to contact brett fish at brettfish@hotmail.com</p>
<p>Join the Revolution!</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://brettfish.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/pearls-before-tongue"><strong>[For more great Pearls strips i have included on my blog, click here] </strong></a></p>
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