Posted to Facebook group “Unappreciated Puns” by user Kerriann O’Sullivan with message “Happy Monday from the Southern Hemisphere “, so I was sort of expecting to have to work out a joke based on Australian accent or usage. But no, as it turns out; this seems to work out okay in General American.
An Argyle twofer!
And do notice where the diploma is from!
Comics I Don't Understand 
OK. pig sell late = pixellate!
These look like perfectly nice dogs. Isn’t cur an insulting term for a bad sort of dog?
Mitch4: It’s an insult to a person, but it’s one of a number of dog breeds, e.g.
https://www.google.com/search?q=catahoula+cur
Nice touch Hilburn!
I thought cur meant a dog that hadn’t been selectively bred?
Hunh, I did not know that.
So it can be an insult to a human because it’s like saying “You dog!”?
cur
mongrel
a mongrel or inferior dog.
a medium-sized hunting and working dog with a short coat that was developed in the southern U.S. and is sometimes considered to comprise one or more breeds.
a surly or cowardly fellow.
Hmm. Some of these things are not like the others. Another page:
cur
noun
noun: cur; plural noun: curs
an aggressive dog or one that is in poor condition, especially a mongrel.
“a mangy-looking cur”
derogatory•informal
a contemptible man.
That’s always kind of what I thought: never knew there was a breed of dog that was actually called a cur.
It’s always interesting to me what sticks in my mind. Many years ago, I got a book collecting a number of Matt Groening’s “Life In Hell” comics. One featured an evolutionary tree. That included “snarling curs”. Why did I remember that? I dunno. I always think of it when someone mentions “curs”. I was able to locate an image.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9FAYjZXsAk6RcR?format=jpg
This is interesting. We adopted what I had always considered a hound mix. When I took him to the vets this last week, I noticed that they considered him a Catahoula-cur. Reading some of the links from the above Google search, I came across the statement that a cur is not a hound, which doesn’t make sense unless they are referring to the pure bred hounds. Anyway, he doesn’t look anything like the pictures in the above links, either. Although the build is similar, he has brown eyes, and coloration much more like a blue tick coon hound, but without the big floppy ears. He is definitely a hound; follows his nose everywhere. Unlike a hound, he shows absolutely no interest in the ever present chickens, nenes, or lizards, and little interest in other dogs, once they’ve “greeted”, if you get my drift. He does desperately want to play with cats, but they will have nothing to do with him. He was a year old when we got him, and while he didn’t know any of the standard commands, (at least, in English), he was socialized, house broken, leash and kennel trained, and VERY tolerant of young children, so some of this could be from previous training.
Welp, my comment may have gotten sent to detention, but I’m not sure, because some other strange things have been happening. When I used psiiicidu’s link to Google, a form entirely in French popped up wanting my approval to accept cookies, etc. before it would continue to the Google screen, that appeared to be in French, also. This was in my iPad’s Safari. When I went out to Google using Chrome, still on my iPad, everything was back to normal. If that is not curious enough, over the past week, using Brave on my desktop, Google maps has gone from remembering my last location, to opening up at some random point on the island, to opening up at the U.S in general, to opening up in France, including French labels, but not consistently. WTH?
I’m old enough to remember when “pixillated” meant “drunk.” That apparently derived from people who are whimsical, or who seem dazed or lost in thought. Now, it just means that you misspelled and misunderstood “pixellated.” Of course, both mean that you’re a bit dotty.
Uh-oh, I thought I spotted a duplication. But it was between “Republicans” and “Young Republicans” and they weren’t near each other.
Yes, apparently young republicans don’t grow up to become republicans. They appear to be two separate species, like birds and bats. Maybe they are like the idea that caterpillars and butterflies are two separate species who somehow fused together into one single organism, expressing themselves as separate life cycles.
Part of the problem with the word “cur” is that the term has been used for a number of different breeds, and the one to which it originally referred does not exist anymore. See this Wikipedia link for more information.
P.S. @ Brian in StL – In addition to that “Life in Hell”, the phrase was also used in a very early “Calvin & Hobbes” strip:
Pixilated with two i’s and one l refers to a movie made with stop-action technique, like Ray Harryhausen’s work or the Wallace and Gromit movies.
Wow, the things I learn here! Previously, I had only heard “cur” to mean a disreputable dog, or a human insult relating to same.
Pixilation animation mostly involves actual humans, IIRC. One famous example is the classic Canadian film “Neighbours” (1952).
@ Grawlix – There is a truly marvellous postcredits sequence the the end of the movie “The Boxtrolls“, in which two of the animated characters continue their discussion, but the camera zooms out to reveal translucent (and time-lapsed) images of the animators, as they adjust the positions of the animated characters.