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  • Pearls Before Swine: I Dream Of Jeanie

    From Lynn McGuire@3:633/10 to All on Thu Feb 12 14:42:09 2026
    Pearls Before Swine: I Dream Of Jeanie
    https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2026/02/12

    Wow, that was fairly obvious to me around 50 years ago.

    Lynn


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  • From Bobbie Sellers@3:633/10 to All on Thu Feb 12 12:49:25 2026


    On 2/12/26 12:42, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    Pearls Before Swine: I Dream Of Jeanie
    ÿÿ https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2026/02/12

    Wow, that was fairly obvious to me around 50 years ago.

    Lynn


    Rat is not as aware as you are, Lynn.

    bliss

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  • From Ignatios Souvatzis@3:633/10 to All on Fri Feb 13 09:00:43 2026
    Lynn McGuire wrote:
    Pearls Before Swine: I Dream Of Jeanie
    https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2026/02/12

    Wow, that was fairly obvious to me around 50 years ago.

    Not for me - as I had barely started to learn English by then, and
    of course we watched the dubbed to German version. I suspect the
    title song was also changed, but don't remember. (I remember the
    Brady Bunch one, though)

    A couple of years ago I stumbled upon the series on YouTube, I think,
    and then it was obvious.

    -is
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  • From Thomas Koenig@3:633/10 to All on Sat Feb 14 13:56:57 2026
    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> schrieb:
    Pearls Before Swine: I Dream Of Jeanie
    https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2026/02/12

    Wow, that was fairly obvious to me around 50 years ago.

    The pun in "The Pride of Chanur" only occured to me a few years
    ago.
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  • From Paul S Person@3:633/10 to All on Sat Feb 14 08:55:08 2026
    On Sat, 14 Feb 2026 13:56:57 -0000 (UTC), Thomas Koenig
    <tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:

    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> schrieb:
    Pearls Before Swine: I Dream Of Jeanie
    https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2026/02/12

    Wow, that was fairly obvious to me around 50 years ago.

    The pun in "The Pride of Chanur" only occured to me a few years
    ago.

    Just out of curiosity, was this a German translation effect?
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    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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  • From Christian Weisgerber@3:633/10 to All on Sat Feb 14 21:50:13 2026
    On 2026-02-14, Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:

    The pun in "The Pride of Chanur" only occured to me a few years
    ago.

    It took me decades to realize that the titles of Hal Clement's
    novels _Mission of Gravity_, _Star Light_, and _The Nitrogen Fix_
    are puns.

    --
    Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de

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  • From Thomas Koenig@3:633/10 to All on Sun Feb 15 17:08:05 2026
    Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> schrieb:
    On Sat, 14 Feb 2026 13:56:57 -0000 (UTC), Thomas Koenig
    <tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:

    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> schrieb:
    Pearls Before Swine: I Dream Of Jeanie
    https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2026/02/12

    Wow, that was fairly obvious to me around 50 years ago.

    The pun in "The Pride of Chanur" only occured to me a few years
    ago.

    Just out of curiosity, was this a German translation effect?

    No, I read them in Englisch. I simply didn't know the expression
    "a pride of lions", (although it was very obvious that the Hani
    were modeled on lions) when I read them.

    In German translation, the novel is titled "Das Schiff der Chanur"
    (the ship of the Chanur).

    Similar with "Electric Light Orchestra". The lightbulb was
    clearly displayed, but the "light orchestral music" was a term I
    didn't know.

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  • From quadi@3:633/10 to All on Sun Feb 15 19:19:30 2026
    On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:42:09 -0600, Lynn McGuire wrote:

    Pearls Before Swine: I Dream Of Jeanie
    https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2026/02/12

    Wow, that was fairly obvious to me around 50 years ago.

    I'm pretty sure it was fairly obvious to nearly everyone who watched that
    show around 50 years ago. And, in fact, they would _also_ have caught the reference to the Stephen Foster song, "I Dream of Jeannie with the Light
    Brown Hair".

    John Savard

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  • From Thomas Koenig@3:633/10 to All on Mon Feb 16 07:08:10 2026
    Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> schrieb:
    In article <10mpuv9$36nmi$1@dont-email.me>,
    Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:
    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> schrieb:
    Pearls Before Swine: I Dream Of Jeanie
    https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2026/02/12

    Wow, that was fairly obvious to me around 50 years ago.

    The pun in "The Pride of Chanur" only occured to me a few years
    ago.

    I seem to have been the only one in my family who understood the
    pun in the name of Hartlepool's most famous comic strip character...

    I don't know the comic (much less the name). Care to explain?
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  • From Your Name@3:633/10 to All on Tue Feb 17 10:29:21 2026
    On 2026-02-16 13:33:51 +0000, ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan said:

    In article <10mufoq$ln5u$1@dont-email.me>,
    Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:
    Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> schrieb:
    In article <10mpuv9$36nmi$1@dont-email.me>,
    Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:
    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> schrieb:
    Pearls Before Swine: I Dream Of Jeanie
    https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2026/02/12

    Wow, that was fairly obvious to me around 50 years ago.

    The pun in "The Pride of Chanur" only occured to me a few years
    ago.

    I seem to have been the only one in my family who understood the
    pun in the name of Hartlepool's most famous comic strip character...

    I don't know the comic (much less the name). Care to explain?

    Reg Smythe's "Andy Capp" the quintessential Northern English working-class n'er-do-well.
    <https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/andy-capp-statue>

    It was also adapted into a TV series starring James Bolan. It wasn't
    very good and only lasted one season in 1988. <https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094417/>

    All six episodes are on YouTube, although probably not legally, in this playlist (and likely others) although the episode order is mixed up: <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeEDB7h7rXLBSQ7A9IWg2M0j7VGSQFjTp>



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