X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,d0a1a48224725a0c,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-10 14:31:27 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!213.242.128.42!not-for-mail From: "Joaquim G�ndara" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Nerd Boy, episodes 231-237 Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:31:06 +0200 Lines: 300 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.242.128.42 X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1018474283 34152108 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:16793 Oh yeah, I do this stuff, and there are people here who want to see it for some reason or other... Here's a new way to indicate which strip is which, btw. No way in heck is anyone going to misunderstand this. Yeah, way to go me, because as everyone knows, not a single person in the universe can misunderstand HTML tags. Idiot. <231> You know what I love ,,, , most about this '.. ~== ~.. OO Easter thing? .||. .]]. .>>. .||. || || || dd Eggs? No. Not the stupid ,,, ` , eggs. Bleh. '.. ~== ~.. OO .||. .]]. .>>. .||. || || || dd Robots? What? What ,,, ` , robots? '.. ~== ~.. OO .||. .]]. .>>. .||. || || || dd That Jesus Christ Uh.. No. Superstar is `,,, , Eww. on TV all day? '.. ~== ~.. OO .||. .]]. .>>. .||. || || || dd Great, now you ,,, , made me forget '.. ~== ~.. OO completely. .||. .]]. .>>. (( jg || || || b b <232> So, what did you Cut it out. guys get me? Any , cool stuff? `OO --~ (( .<<. b b || But.. It's my It's April Fool's! I'm not birthday today! , falling for that! `OO ..~ .||. -<<- bb || OO ~.. || >> _______ bb ____________ |\ ____ OO ~.. (( >> ___________ bb ____________________ |\ ___________________ Hey! I told you about my birthday MONTHS ago! What's going on here?! `OO __ ~oo -||- _ -- ->>- jg bb --- |\ <233> What's that _ weird noise? Bjork. _ `~.. `O |_) .>>. |_(._[__] _______ || _____ | |b| | _______________ ______________ \__(_)__\ /__(_)__/ __ __ /\ / \/ \ (__) \ : : -- ___ `. .' ___ _________/___\___________ \ _ / ____ -- _- /___\ \___ ~ - \ .::...__ ~ / :::'::::::.......__ / ::. '::::::::::::::::::.... \ '::.:::::::::::::::::' ___/ ... Hey, are / you listening? Sure. _ \____ `~.. `O |_) /\__/ .>>. |_(._[__] ,,,, / _______ || _____ | |b| | ___ '' _ / / _\ / \__| / Then what Oh, you meant did I say? listen to YOU?_ `~-- `O |_) .>>. |_(._[__] jg_____________________ || _____ | |b| | ___ <234> ; So where's this thing I ,,, ; , just -had- to see? ~~' : OO .||. : )) _ || ____________:__ d d ______ \ Right here. Isn't this a ; wonderful view? And the `,,, * ; fresh air is amazing! ..' OO : -||. || : _ || _____ dd ___:__________________ \ Aren't you gonna check I'm busy. out the great view? `,,, , ..' <235> ,,, '.. O || __L:_:-)_| ____ |\ ___________ | |d| | ____ Those are LEGO dolls! FYI, this is not just any LEGO. You're playing with dolls! This is Emperor Palpatine and Are you some kind of `,,, , Darth Vader complete with girl or something? '.. O props from the final duel. .||. __L:_:-)_| ________ || __ | |d| | ____ ,,, '.. O .||. __L:_:-)_| _______________ || __ | |d| | _______________ Can I play? No. `,,, , '.. O .||. __L:_:-)_| jg________ || __ | |d| | ____ <236> Why did you fill I can win $1000's worth of O'Reilly out a boring form books. Don't know what that is, but just now? `,,, , _ $1000 is a lot of money! '.. O |_) .||. |_(._[__] || ______ | |b| | You mean you'd enter a Hey, "quantitative" means continuous, contest for $1000's worth and "qualitative" means discrete. of dog poo? Quantity `,,, , _ over quality, eh? '.. O |_) || |_(._[__] |\ | |b| | OK... Continuous stuff is a higher order And? of infinity than discrete stuff. `,,, , _ '.. O |_) .||. |_(._[__] _____________ || __ | |b| | _______________ So? I'm just saying. `,,, , _ '.. O |_) .||. |_(._[__] jg_____________________ || __ | |b| | _____________________ <237> AT THE UNIVERSITY... ______________ ____________________|We're hiring! | | __ | We're cool! || OO | _ ..' | Work for us,|| (( | _(%)__.||.__ |____you fool!_|| b b |_____ | | ________|_______| I see you have candy in that No no, we pay bowl. Does that mean you pay people money.______________ your wages in candy or what? ___________ , ___|We're hiring! | | ` __ | We're cool! || | OO _ ..' | Work for us,|| | || _(%)__.||.__ |____you fool!_|| |_ bb | | ________|_______| I have to buy the candy ______________ myself? Too much work. _____________ ? ____|We're hiring! | ` | __ | We're cool! || OO | _ ..' | Work for us,|| )) | _(%)__.||.__ |____you fool!_|| d d jg|_____ | | ________|_______| There. That's all the strips. Here are all the comments. <231> I don't know where this idea came from originally, but I'm pretty sure that it was inspired by the fact that JC Superstar was on TV two days in a row here in Sweden. Two different versions. I was probably going to make the punch line directly related to that fact, but I changed it. Btw, the correct answer is of course "the candy". <232> Birthdays make for good inspiration. As it happens, my birthday is on April Fool's day. <233> One of my birthday presents was a Bjork CD. I love it. Does it show? <234> Yes, I basically stole this joke from South Park. Bygones. <235> Now here's some good stuff. This strip marks the end of a trilogy. The trilogy of nerd attitude. Punk nerd, one might say. Distant cousin to cyberpunk, I guess. And believe it or not, but the LEGO was a birthday gift. Darth Vader comes with a light sabre, and you can take off his helmet revealing the scarred and pale shadow of a man that he's become. :) <236> I like to throw in some really nerdy stuff, just to keep the readers on their toes. Next I'm probably going to have something complicated stuff about automata theory, so watch out. Actually, I think these strips (plus the romantic stuff) is what Nerd Boy is all about. <237> This kind of happened in real life. If you remove every single bit of dialogue, that is. OK, so most of it only happened in my mind; I know, I'm a sick bastard. This strip ties in with #231. - jg - http://nerdboy.n3.net