X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,d380e1835d733c2e,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-01 15:40:24 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!130.133.1.3!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 22-26 Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 00:37:46 +0200 Lines: 241 Message-ID: <9mro4m$3stuv$1@ID-102694.news.dfncis.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.242.128.42 X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 999384022 4093919 213.242.128.42 (16 [102694]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:7252 Time again for some annotated comic strips. (I love annotated strips; check out www.angryflower.com if you do too.) --- _ (_| O [__]_ ))_| | | d| | Hah hahahahahaha... _ ` (_| O [__]_ ))_| | | d| | BWAHAAAAHAHAHAAAAA- _ ` (_| O [__]_ //_| | | d ( ) *creak* pp Hi, -\\- , Mandy. *boing* OO _ (_| _/ oo~ [__]_ / \ .<<. | | || Remind me again; why did _ I buy that rubber chair? (_| ` ..~ [__]_ _| pp .<<. jg | | | | \\ || --- A rubber chair? :\ Originally, I was just going to do some kind of lame joke about on-line comics (again!), but when Nerd Boy leaned back like that, I wanted him to fall off the chair spectacularly, and what could be more spectacular than a rubber chair? Well, lots of things, probably. --- *clickety* _ *clackety* ~.. (_| O *click* .>>. ,[__]_.\\| |\ o.______________.' | |d| | Oops. *click-clack* , _ *clicke..* ~.. (_| O .>>. ,[__]_.\\| : o-//__________.' | |d| | *trip* _ *...* ~.. (_| o .>>. ,[__]_.))| : _||__________.' | |d| | *..tyclick* _ *clackety* ..~ (_| O *clack* .<<. ,[__]_.\\| /| o.______________.' | |d| | jg --- This is probably the weirdest strip yet. No dialogue at all. Why is Nerd Boy rendered unconscious when Mandy accidentally (or is it?) disconnects the computer? I'm not sure. I think it's because of his intimate relationship with the computer. He was in the middle of writing something (probably FlareSpeak code for a dynamic schema knowledge representation for a seed AI, taking us one step closer to the Technological Singularity as foretold by von Neumann, Vinge, Kurzweil et al), and since he was so "into it" he just blacked out when the screen did. That's my theory, anyway... --- _ *clickety* ~.. (_| O *click* .>>. ,[__]_.\\| |\ o.______________.' | |d| | _ *...* ~.. *yoink* (_| o ->>.o-. ,[__]_.))| \\ : `.____________.' | |d| | _ *clackety* ~.. (_| O .>>. *poit* ,[__]_.\\| || o.______________.' | |d| | Tee hee. ` _ *clack* ..~ (_| O .<<. ,[__]_.\\| /| o.______________.' | |d| | I've been having weird OOPS, it's that time when I memory lapses. have to go somewhere else! ` ` OO ~oo .||. .>>. jg bb |\ --- I kind of like this one. Mandy's punchline is so artificial; it just sounds plain weird when read out loud. :) --- Ready? Ready. ` , ~.. OO .>>. .||. || dd HAI- ` ~-- OO .>> .||. |' dd YA! Ooof! ` , ~.. oo .>>-)) / dd Ow. What's the point of this strip again? | jg couldn't think of | a joke, so he drew some \ gratuitous violence. Riight. | ` , Go to OO ..~ www.roadwaffles.com (( .<<. for more! bb || jg --- It's true, I couldn't think of a joke (read: I was lazy). Road waffles is an excellent comic strip, in part because of its gratuitous and extremely graphic violence. --- *Blah blah blah* ,--. / ,----- ~..-OO--. | \ \ |`-.____>>_||___`-. +-+-+ |__|____\\__bb___|| | | | *Blah blah...* *yawn* ,--. / ,----- ~oo\OO/-. | \ \ |`-.____>>_||___`-. +-+-+ |__|____\\__bb___|| | | | \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | / / / / / / / / \ __ ___ __ __ __ / - v / _/ / | / | / _/ /|/ / v - - >+< \_ \ | \/ | | ' | | |_ | | >+< - - ^ /__/ |_||_| |_|_| \__\ |_|\_\ ^ - / \ / / / / / / / / | | | | | | | \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ What?! I was *And now for something yawning! completely different.* , ,--. / ,-- ~..----#O--. | \ \ |`-._>>____||___`-. +-+-+ |__|_\\_____bb___|| | | | jg --- Another miscellaneous joke not part of a story arc. Personally, I view this as filler material. I didn't laugh when I made it, probably because there really isn't anything very interesting in the last panel. Well, ok, he was just yawning (if he's telling the truth), that's not -very- predictable. But still, it seems to lack a little something. And NOW... Some bonus material! Here's a little strip that was never published (ta daaah). It's from that old W4R3Z D00D story arc. --- . , \/ ,,, OO ~= /101010101\)))))))))) - _||_ ]-(1010101010/- - - ))-/ ______,'dd \_______ )\ \101010101\))))))))))_/)_ _________ . , \/ ,,, OO ~= /1010101010101010\))) o _||_ ]-(10101010101010101/- ))-/ ______,'dd \______ /) _\1010101010101010\)))_/\_ _________ . , \/ ,,, OO ~= /10\))))))))))))))))) - _||_ ]-(101/- - - - -- - ))-/ ______,'dd \______ )\ \10\)))))))))))))))))_(\_ _________ No one loves me. . , ` \/ ,,, OO ~= /101010101\)))))))))) - _||_ ]-(1010101010/- - - ))-/ ______,'dd \_______ )\ \101010101\))))))))))_/)_ _________ *sigh* OO _||_ ___,'dd \___jg --- Guess why I never used it? Millions of reasons. It's supposed to be a rendition of the robot and the W4R3Z D00D fighting using their awesome energy beams, but it looks like (according to some) they're dragging a giant maize-cob ("corn") and not getting anywhere. It doesn't have even a trace of a joke. Most importantly, it doesn't explain the context. Two people fighting, and a guy sighing because no one loves him? Huh? It just sucks. I'm glad I decided to scrap this one... Coming up next: The Return of the Robot. -- http://www.ite.mh.se/~joaal98/ascii ___ __ _ _ _ ________ _ / \\\ Singularity Now! \ \| `.| `.| `\ \ \ \ `.' \ [.[.]-\\ , Seriously! \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ _, \ /_ /|/ /\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ (jg) {o} |= \__/`._|\_\_\_,_\__|\_\_\ \_\ #// (\