X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,e91177ca3c9ade3a,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-19 17:21:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!213.242.128.42!not-for-mail From: "Joaquim Almgren Gandara" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Nerd Boy, episodes 67-71 Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 02:19:55 +0200 Lines: 190 Message-ID: <9qqg2h$pfqgs$1@ID-102694.news.dfncis.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.242.128.42 X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1003537298 26733084 213.242.128.42 (16 [102694]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:8689 Some assorted stuff, plus a substory in the first half of a story arc. Wow, my writing is either getting more refined and complex or just more random and insane. --- MEANWHILE, AT A BUS STOP... | | Hey! You're that guy who _ | _ trashed our computers! |_| __ | |_| ` __ | #..# OO | | #.. OO' | .)(. .||. | | .)|. .||. ________ || _____ bb _________/ | ________ || _____ dd _________/ ------------------------------' | ------------------------------' ___________________________________|___________________________________ | | I'll have you know that | Therefore, my actions clearly there was a 42.64% chance that | outweighed not destroying your _ your software was harmful to | _ computers 165 to 1! |_| __ , mankind! | |_| __ , | #.. OO | | #.. OO | .)|. .||. | | .)|. .||. ________ || _____ dd _________/ | ________ || _____ dd _________/ ------------------------------' | ------------------------------' ___________________________________|___________________________________ You're just making this stuff up as you go along, IT'S THE _ aren't you? SCIENTIFIC METHOD! |_| ` __ , | #..# \OO | .)(. ||. ________ || _____ dd _________/ ------------------------------' jg --- The two final lines are (roughly) part of a hushed conversation with my brother during Japanese class. You guessed it; I said Nerd Boy's line, word by word. I'm a lot like him, in a number of ways. --- They're all totally lame. I was there when they I'm never working there kicked you out, Nerd Boy. again, mark my words! They don't want you there. ` , OO ..~ .||. .<<. bb || Well, I'm never talking -They're- not to them again... talking to -you-. ` , OO ..~ .||. .<<. bb || Yeah, well, they'll come -You'll- go crawling crawling on their knees. on -your- knees. ` , OO ..~ .||. .<<. bb || They're total hunks. -You're- a total.. hey! ` , OO ..~ .||. .<<. bb || jg --- Although dangerously close to being a "rabbit season/duck season" joke, I like this strip. --- Hello, Hi. Mandy. , `OO ..~ .||. .<<. _______ bb ______ || ______ This is Linda, my girlfriend. | Hi. __ , `#.. OO ..~ .)|.||. .<<. ____ || bb ______ || ______ __ -*- #.. OO ..~ .)|.||. .<<. ____ || bb ______ || ______ I think you ) broke her. ( ` __ )) #.. OO ..~ .)|.||. .<<. jg ____ || bb ______ || ______ --- It doesn't make sense, and it's not supposed to. It's supposed to be funny. Failing that, it's supposed to be strange. Who said comics followed any kind of rules? Oh yeah, I did mention some kind of rule a while ago... --- OK, back up. YOU're No, Linda and I are DATING? Is this a JOKE? , really dating. `~.. OO .>>. .||. ______ || ____ dd _________________ C'mon, is it a joke? You can tell me. It's not. ` , ~.. OO .>>. .||. ______ || ____ dd _________________ ~.. OO .>>. .||. ______ || ____ dd _________________ So you're saying that this dating thing is some kind of joke? ` ~.. OO .>>. .||. ______ || ____ dd _________________ jg --- This, in turn, is a kind of Simpsons/Futurama joke. See how I steal blatantly from stuff? Well, that's this thing called "inspiration". --- v . ._, |_ ., `-._\/ . \ / |/_ \\ _\, y | \// _\_.___\\, \\/ -.\|| `7-,--.`._|| / / , /_ /' `-. `./ / |/_.' /( \ | |// \ ` | |_ / `._| |- | | =| | | ''''''''''''',,,,,,,/ ,,,. \,,,,,,,___ ' ` `--._ `. ,-. I love `. / `' \, autumn. Me too. `. ` , `. OO ~.. `. .\\. .77. `. ,/ bb \\ `-. `-. `-. ., `--._ `- \'' jg --- This is nice. No joke. Just autumn. Leaves, a tree, a hill. Serenity. -- http://www.ite.mh.se/~joaal98/ascii ___ __ _ _ _ ________ _ / \\\ I like autumn. \ \| `.| `.| `\ \ \ \ `.' \ [.[.]-\\ , \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ _, \ /_ /|/ /\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ (jg) {-} |= \__/`._|\_\_\_,_\__|\_\_\ \_\ #// (\