I've been a huge fan of the comic strip Pearls Before Swine ever since the first time reading it, which was on a super bowl sunday where Pig and a few others were going to get the Super Bowl cameras to broadcast them on TV by having the letters G O T E A M on their chests. Unfortunately, the M and the A got in front of the other two making G O M A T E.
Every now and then they release book collections that are a ton of fun to read. The interesting thing is, after two or so books the author, Stephen Pastis, released books that had strips that had already been published, but with comments on every few strips. Honestly I think it's a great way to make money pretty easily, especially because its quite interesting to read the comments.
I also have found Pearls Before Swine to be oddly uniting. In 6th grade the guy I sat next to was...well kind of obnoxious and not many people liked him very much. (if anyone wants to know who I am talking about, I'll give a couple of hints: his initials are Bull Shit, his last name is demasculating, and if you mispronounce his last name you almost curse--something I didn't realize until a teacher did it) One day he caught me cutting out Pearls Before Swine from the newspaper. From then on we talked about it whenever our class got newspapers and near the end of the year he drew me a Rat and Pig. Which I've obviously lost by now.
A recurring theme in Pearls Before Swine was Rat making up his own philosophys. (like cheesepuffology) After I noticed a lot of girls (at least I think) on Broadway Secrets saying Gavin Creel made them want to be gay men I thought up Creelism or Gavincreelism. You can figure the rest.
Now that I've gotten myself to Gavin Creel and Broadway Secrets. When I was telling two of my friends about Gavin I mentioned there was a specific reason that I didn't fantasize about him (as I have with SO many other guys.) One of my friends (if you know her, you can tell its her by the following quote) guessed "Because he speaks only korean, lives in persia, or is 89 years old. Any of those? All of those?" It took them forever (and a ton of hints) to figure out that I'm the type of girl who does not believe she has the ability to turn a gay guy straight. (Or do I?) The more normal of the friends asked how I knew he was gay and the other suggested I had looked it up on "wikidikipedia" accompanied by a strange face and odd typing hand gestures. (and yes, she likes to fuck up words as she turned asterik into asterdikitidikity-thingy) I responded "Actually several girls have said he makes them want to be gay men...something I think only another gay man could do"
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Haha random much? Cute stories though! I literally couldn't stop laughing at "Actually several girls have said he makes them want to be gay men...something I think only another gay man could do" Also, your friend who fucks up words...she's just like me. I can't get through a normal conversation without making a word longgeger than it should be (mmk I did that one on purpose but you get the idea)
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