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 ).

" 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 ".

Pearls have also been crushed and used in cosmetics, medicines, and in paint formulations.

Claims that Sweeney Todd was a real person were first made in the introduction to the 1850 ( expanded ) edition of The String of Pearls and have persisted to the present day.

Pearls, both farmed and harvested in the wild, have been a staple of Benton County for years.

Save The Pearls, a novel which many critics have accused of featuring

* South Sea Pearls, which have historically been cultured in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, in the countries of Myanmar, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Northern Australia but mostly attributed to the former thalassocratic Sultanate of Sulu have a gold colored variety from the Pinctada maxima Pearl oyster.

The characteristics of the animals in the novels are fixed by their species, making them quite “ predictable ," though there have been a few books, such as in The Outcast of Redwall and Pearls of Lutra, in which vermin have acted selflessly, in one taking a spear through the chest and back meant for his old nursemaid, and in the other saving the Abbot of Redwall from lizards.

Other comic strips are often the butt of punchlines, and several cartoon characters from outside Pearls have appeared, most frequently the main cast of The Family Circus, and even in one circumstance, Stewie from Family Guy appeared in the strip on April 20th of 2008, holding a candy cane, for a reference to the saying, " It's like taking candy from a baby.

Pearls is notorious for its large amount of dark humor ; topics such as death, depression and human suffering overall are common themes, and Pastis has recalled receiving complaints, including hate mail and occasionally death threats from people who have been offended by his strips ; two strips that portrayed a llama United Nations diplomat named " Ataturk " who spits on other diplomats, prompted a letter to then-President George W. Bush from the Turkish Ambassador to the United States demanding an apology, seeing it as a mockery of former Turkish president Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

( Other real-life figures have been portrayed this way in Pearls, albeit not as directly.

His letters, long known to the Assyrians as the Book of Pearls, are lost ; his followers have left us few personal recollections.

In his 2009 treasury Pearls Blows Up, 2000s cartoonist Stephan Pastis of Pearls Before Swine, who cites Schulz as one of his many influences, suggested in relation to a series of strips paying homage to Peanuts with baseball, that Shermy as well as Violet may have died in some way after a game, commenting that " I'm fairly certain the games in Peanuts weren't played to the death ... Shermy and Violet did seem to disappear at some point.

( Author Parker has been photographed on the Spenser series dustjackets with a dog matching his description of the Pearls.

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.

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.

The city has also been taking an increasing role in China's String of Pearls.

In an interview on The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch that aired February 7, 2008, Pastis mentioned that he had been approached by producers about an animated TV series based on Pearls.

Groundskeeper Willie has been a regular character since the second season, but has only been central to one episode: season 17's " My Fair Laddy ", although he has played minor roles in several episodes, including " Treehouse of Horror V ", " Treehouse of Horror VI ", " Girly Edition ", " The President Wore Pearls ", " Love, Springfieldian Style " and " The Great Money Caper ".

Carroll's lead spot had been given to Spencer and Bailey, and he left shortly thereafter, creating a new group, Speedo and the Pearls, which recorded briefly in 1959.

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

Clarence Öfwerman, born 22 November 1957, is best known as the longtime producer of Roxette, having been with the band from their debut album Pearls of Passion in 1986 through to 2011's Charm School, Roxette's latest studio album.

In subsequent years, " A Lover's Concerto " has been recorded by numerous other artists, including Perrey and Kingsley, The Fleetwoods, Tight Fit, Cilla Black, The Pearls, The Lennon Sisters, The Delfonics, Sarah Vaughan, The Supremes, Doyle Lawson, Mrs. Miller, Audrey Hall, The Peanuts, and Kelly Chen.

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 ).

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

In February / March 1847, before the serial was even completed, The String of Pearls was adapted as a melodrama by George Dibden Pitt for the Britannia Theatre in Hoxton.

* 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.

* Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 ( formally designated D / 1993 F2, nicknamed String of Pearls for its appearance ) was a comet that broke apart and collided with Jupiter in July 1994, providing the first direct observation of an extraterrestrial collision of solar system objects ..

The album became the artist's most commercially successful since Diamonds and Pearls, partly due to a radical scheme devised which included in Billboard's sales figures those that were distributed to each customer during ticket sales for the Musicology tour, with concert figures accounting for 25 % of the total album sales.

Author Victoria Foyt was accused of using blackface in the trailer for her novel Save the Pearls: Revealing Eden as well as in the book and its artwork.

In his song " Ne me quitte pas ", for example, Brel evocatively states, " Moi, je t ' offrirai / Des perles de pluie / Venues de pays / Où il ne pleut pas " ( I, I'll offer you / Pearls of rain / That come from countries / Where it doesn't rain ).

Pearls are threaded onto silk, and a knot is tied between each one to not only space them for greater individual prominence but to also keep them from rubbing directly against each other and risking the abrasion of the nacre that gives them their luster.

** In Indra's Pearls, David Mumford and others investigated various properties of Möbius transformation and Schottky group using computer generated images of the groups which: furnished convincing evidence for many conjectures and lures to further exploration.

The Redwall series has also received praise for its “ equal-opportunity adventuring, in which female creatures can be just as courageous ( or as diabolical ) as their male counterparts .” Novels such as Mariel of Redwall, The Pearls of Lutra, High Rhulain and Triss all feature strong female leading characters.

The bridge is known for its " String of Pearls ", a row of lights mounted on the railings lining the length of the bridge.

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.

Pastis has mentioned in his treasuries that the cartoonists whom he mocks ( a trademark characteristic of Pearls ) often take the insults in good humor, even occasionally asking for an original strip.

The Pearls Before Swine strip for November 9, 2003 featured a "' Pearls ' Walk Through Alternative History.

In 2009, a line of Pearls plush dolls was released by Aurora World, Inc., featuring four characters ( Rat, Pig, Zebra and Croc ) from the comic, to which Pastis jokingly said he would use for reference when unsure how to draw the characters.

After being nominated for the National Cartoonists Society Award for Best Newspaper Comic Strip in 2002 and 2003, Pearls Before Swine won the award in 2004 and again in 2007.

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 ).

Granulated or Potato Pearls are generally reserved more for institutional or restaurant use.