As the name implies, comic strips can be humorous ( for example, " gag-a-day " strips such as Blondie, Bringing Up Father, Marmaduke and Pearls Before Swine ).

Some are non-verbal ( Marmaduke, The Angriest Dog in the World ), some have verbal thoughts but are not understood by humans, ( Garfield, Snoopy in Peanuts ), and some can converse with humans ( Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, Mutts, Citizen Dog, Buckles, Get Fuzzy, Pearls Before Swine and Pooch Cafe ).

This act is commonly criticized by modern cartoonists including Watterson and Pearls Before Swines Stephan Pastis.

" Generally, comics are not allowed to include such words as " damn ", " sucks ", " screwed " and " hell ", although there have been exceptions such as the September 22, 2010 Mother Goose and Grimm in which an elderly man says, " This nursing home food sucks ," and a pair of Pearls Before Swine comics from January, 2011 with a character named Ned using the word " crappy ".

New York City produced its share of psychedelic bands, such as folk pioneers The Fugs, The Godz, and Pearls Before Swine, besides the Blues Magoos, the Blues Project, Lothar and the Hand People and the blues-influenced Vanilla Fudge.

Stephan Pastis, creator of Pearls Before Swine, credits Adams for launching his career as a cartoonist.

* Similarly, the band Pearls Before Swine had a song by the same title of the book's " The Rocket Man ".

P-Orridge also credited 1960s rock such as The Doors, Pearls Before Swine, The Fugs, Captain Beefheart, and Frank Zappa in a 1979 interview.

* Stephan Pastis, comic artist, Pearls Before Swine

In 1967 Tom Rapp and the group Pearls Before Swine recorded a musical rendition of " I Shall Not Care " on their first album One Nation Underground.

* Pearls Before Swine – Movie Soundtrack 1999-( contributed tracks, alongside NON and Death in June )

* Coroner's Pidgin ( 1945 ) ( U. S. title: Pearls Before Swine )

The strip Pearls Before Swine made fun of the fact that their cast was not invited, and decided to invite themselves.

His speech has also been cited and referenced by Stephen Patis's comic, Pearls Before Swine, by the main character, Rat, on a few occasions.

* Farina ( Pearls Before Swine ), a character in Pearls Before Swine

This concept has been parodied by other comic strips, including Pearls Before Swine, For Better or For Worse, FoxTrot, Mother Goose and Grimm, and Marvin.

For the 1997 April Fool's Day Comic strip switcheroo, Dilbert creator Scott Adams swapped cartoons with Keane ; and Stephan Pastis drew a series in which Family Circus " invaded " Pearls Before Swine in 2007.

* Casting Pearls Before the Swine, a bonus song by the neo-classical guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen, from the album Facing the Animal

* Pearls Before Swine ( band ), an American psychedelic folk band

* Pearls Before Swine ( film ), a 1999 Australian movie starring Boyd Rice

* Pearls Before Swine, a puzzle / logic game using the Nim format

*" Pearls before the Swine ", a song by Thrash Metal band Machine Head from their album Unto the Locust

*" Pearls before the Swine ", a song by metal band Corrosion of Conformity from their album Deliverance ( Corrosion of Conformity album )

The relentless and merciless riffing on classic comics ( i. e. a series where Osama bin Laden comes to live with the Family Circus, causing the parents, Billy, Jeffy, Dolly and PJ to be sent to Guantanamo Bay detention camp ) has earned Pastis the disdain of many comic artists, which Pastis referenced in a later storyline where the Pearls cast is not invited to the 75th anniversary crossover party of Blondie.

Pearls is also a meta-comic in that it often satirizes the comics medium, and allows its characters to break the fourth wall and either communicate directly with the author or with characters from other strips, which they often do.

One newspaper couldn't get the alternate strip on time and instead ran a blank space in the comics where Pearls was supposed to be.

Syndicated features include comics, such as Get Fuzzy and Pearls Before Swine.

Some comics, such as Pearls Before Swine, also use lowercase speech to mark a distinctive accent ( in this case, the male crocodiles ’ accented speech, opposed to all other characters who use standard uppercase speech ).

Get Fuzzy has been called one of three break-out comics in the 2000s, the others being The Boondocks and Pearls Before Swine.

* Rock ( Casting Pearls EP ), by Casting Pearls

" Dickens then developed this in Martin Chuzzlewit ( 1843-4 ) published two years before the appearance of Sweeney Todd in The String of Pearls ( 1846-7 ), with a character called Tom Pinch, who is grateful that his own " evil genius did not lead him into the dens of any of those preparers of cannibalic pastry, who are represented in many country legends as doing a lively retail business in the metropolis ".

* Sweeney Todd, the Barber of Fleet Street: or the String of Pearls ( c. 1865 ), a dramatic adaption written by Frederick Hazleton which premiered at the Old Bower Saloon, Stangate Street, Lambeth.

* Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls: an Audio Melodrama in Three Despicable Acts ( 2007 ), an audio play by Yuri Rasovsky, won three 2008 Audie Awards for best audio drama, best original work and for achievement in production.

It has the proper name Durre Menthor, which comes from the Arabic Al Durr ' Al-Manthūur ( الدرر المنثور ), meaning The Scattered Pearls ( of the Broken Necklace ).

When the album Vapen & ammunition ( Weapon ( s ) & Ammunition ) came out, the next two singles " Kärleken väntar " (" Love Awaits ") and " FF " ( from the double A-side FF / VinterNoll2 ), plus the album track " Pärlor " (" Pearls ") became huge radio hits, resulting in album sales over 600, 000, more than twice as many as any other Kent album to date.

* Perlička na dne ( Pearls of the Deep ), Prague: CS, 1963.

Baxter's most notable talkies are In Old Arizona ( 1929 ) 42nd Street ( 1932 ), and the 1931 20 minute short film, The Slippery Pearls.

Arnold's other principal volumes of poetry were Indian Song of Songs ( 1875 ), Pearls of the Faith ( 1883 ), The Song Celestial ( 1885 ), With Sadi in the Garden ( 1888 ), Tiphar's Wife ( 1892 ) and Adzuma or, The Japanese Wife ( 1893 ).

The collection remaining at Royal Castle in Warsaw was looted during the Great Northern War or appropriated in 1720 by Frederick Augustus I, Elector of Saxony, like two paintings by Rembrandt-Portrait of a Bearded Man in Black Beret ( 1657 also known as the Portrait of a Rabbi ) and Portrait of a Man in the Hat Decorated with Pearls ( 1667 ), today displayed in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, Germany.

This included dramatisations of the murderous careers of Burke and Hare, Sweeney Todd ( first featured in The String of Pearls ( 1847 ) by George Dibdin Pitt ), the murder of Maria Marten in the Red Barn and the bizarre exploits of Spring Heeled Jack.

Kunin is the author of the books " The New Feminist Agenda: Defining the Next Revolution for Women, Work, and Family " ( 2012 ), " Pearls, Politics, and Power: How Women Can Win and Lead " ( 2008 ) and " Living a Political Life " ( 1995 ) which chronicles her career prior to joining the U. S. Department of Education.

* Casting Pearls ( album ), the debut album by Christian rock band VOTA ( formerly named Casting Pearls ).