Comic for Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

Posted: 12:07 am, Wednesday, June 7th

Hopefully today's strip explains the rather odd last two panels from yesterday. Needed to have Jen get woken up by the phone, that's what I came up with. "Woken" isn't right, is it?

It’s kind of interesting to see what a German chooses as something that’s representative of an entire nation. This is an art project where someone made a soccer ball out of a different material for each of the 32 countries in the World Cup. I was really afraid of what ours might be, but it wasn’t all that bad. I’d say the Brits got it worse.

Jeff Samardzija got drafted by the Cubbies yesterday. Add that to Tom Zbikowski’s boxing debut coming up this Saturday and we’ve got some impressive two-sport athletes hangin’ with the Robot Genius these days. Except for that Quinn freeloader. All he does is play quarterback at a near-Heisman level – what a goldbricker. By the way, rumor has it Zibby’s opponent is going to wear a tOSU jersey into the ring, which lets me unleash my second-favorite line from the Rocky films: “My prediction: PAIN.” Thank you very much. (Blue-Gray Sky had a great one on this – “That's the worst jersey idea since Ty broke out the greens against BC.”)(Even better, BGS takes a shot at the real Reggie Ho - hilarious.)

2.0 and I saw a preview for the Prairie Home Companion before An Inconvenient Truth the other night. I'm not a huge Altman fan - honestly, I think M*A*S*H is the only of his flicks I've ever seen - but this looked pretty cool. Kind of like a Mighty Wind without the irony.

Double dip from the Voice today - interesting little article on the future of the bookstore. Some good points in there that kind of remind me of the chapter of the Left Hand of God that I read on the way into work yesterday about elitism on the left (which just got me a whole *other* batch of Google hits than "Laura + Bush + Mayflower" has been the past few days). Hopefully I'll wrap that book up in the next week or so and be able to condense my impressions down into a decent post for you all.

I realize making fun of a sixteen-year old on MySpace is so easy it’s just not very nice, but I’m going to go ahead and do it anyway. I question if you are actually “hardcore thuggin’” when your page has pink text, you list Dashboard Confessional, Garth Brooks and ZZ Top as some of your favorite musicians, and Phantom of the Opera as one of your favorite movies. I think the suburb of Sherman, Texas, may actually have someone who thugs more hardcorely than you. Also, this kid answered ‘Got Me’ for his heritage. Crikey. Oh, he does want to die by being shot at, though. Wait, “by being shot at”? You’re definitely not hardcore thuggin’ if you want to die by being shot *at.* Suffering a fatal heart attack because someone’s shooting at you is not very hardcore.

Goddamn shame of a Sox game last night - Pauley didn't deserve to lose that one. I can't believe they only got one run off Wang. That's just pathetic. In other baseball, it's surreal to see Pedro v. D-Lowe, with Nomar hitting a two-run shot of Pedro in the first. Honestly, I can barely process that.

Oh, hey, here's this crazy corporate logo quiz. You may've seen it over e-mail - E sent it to me yesterday. I'm rather upset with myself for twofold reasons - I only got a 43 out of 50, which means I watch too many ads, and I only got a 43 out of 50, which means I missed seven. If you get the parrot-looking guy, the blue castle, the cat or the wagon-train kinda-looking thing, let me know. I forget the other ones I missed, but those four were driving me nuts. Isn't the cat Black Cat?

bullfrog

Does the quiz link not work? Shoot, I can't get it to work right now.. Um, drop back by for that around nine, I'll have to mess with it when I get to the office.

OK, now it works. Stupid relative links.. Sorry, crowd.

Cry, cry, you little Red Sox fan. Let me introduce you to my new friend Milky Cabrera. Thanks for showing up to the Stadium this week because the team could sure use a little practice after cruising through the last road trip.

oh barf, Reggie Ho.

Also, isn't your "new friend's" name M-E-lky?

Melky. Milky. What's the difference? Manny is still O-U-T.

And Jonathon Damon still thinks he's the one that made the catch, too.

i suck... i could only get 30 of the logos

Quiz link works, I did worse than you Bullfrog which i am both proud of and depressed about. I know the blue castle is a hotel chain of some kind but i cant remember which one it is.

Sox will figure it out. The yankees will self destruct eventually. They have no bullpen, an ace who just filed for his AARP card and have lost Matsui and Sheffield for the season basically, who were the only two reasons they made the post-season last year.

Jonathon Damon did use his powerful arm to throw out lazy-ass Manny though.

Why Manny thought *that* was the time to hustle is beyond me...

I just figured out how to get the answers from that quiz - I'll post them in the afternoon so everyone can get some peace of mind.

I also only got 30 on that quiz.

Well, Jonathon barely got his throw to second on a routine ground ball to his right to get Manny out. I have a feeling that the Sox have a strategy to run on Damon whenever they have a chance. Of course Manny didn't exactly pick the best time to execute it.

The sanctity of everyone's marriage remains in jeopardy!

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Gay-Marr iage.html?hp&ex=1149739200&en=136ac3d6b439b193&ei=5094&partn er=homepage

Oh noes!!!1!

What do you suppose the success rate on spams trying to entice people into investing in a particular stock are? You're looking for a very specific demograph there - smart enough to know how to invest and be interested in investing, dumb enough to take advice from a typo-ridden e-mail from someone you don't know. I wouldn't think those groups would ever overlap in a Venn diagram. And yet I keep getting those e-mails.

Sadly, wreslter Earthquake has left us.

.............. John "Earthquake" Tenta passes away June 7, 2006

John "Earthquake" Tenta passed away this morning at the age of 42 after a lengthy battle with bladder cancer. Tenta is survived by his wife and three kids.

(from www.wwe.com) ..............

Ugh, I got 22 on that quiz. What the heck is that all about?

It's raining out and I'm a touch behind in strippery, or else I'd go kick Dan "Daily Quickie" Shanoff in the junk tonight.

http://varsityletters.blogspot.com/

Here, if anyone feels like checking their answers... The castle one that Wood and E thought was a hotel was a dental chain, and I protest that bullshit spelling of "Corn Flakes".

1. Little Debbie 2. Six Flags 3. Cingular 4. Goodyear 5. Chef Boyardee 6. Amnesty International 7. Earthlink 8. WNBA 9. Chiquita 10. Castle Dental 11. Fiesta 12. Radio Shack 13. Tommy Hilfiger 14. Chase 15. March of Dimes 16. Infiniti 17. Prudential 18. Petsmart 19. Bluebell Ice Cream 20. Scholastic 21. Napster 22. Quiznos Quizno's 23. Lowe's 24. Chuy's 25. The WB 26. Cold Stone Creamery 27. Charmin 28. Black Cat Fireworks 29. TGIFriday's 30. Time Warner Cable 31. Harley Davidson 32. T-Mobile 33. Kellogg's Cornflakes 34. Wilson 35. Hyundai 36. NHL 37. Chick-Fil-A 38. Turner Classic Movies 39. Sesame Street 40. US Marine Corps 41. Adidas 42. Black & Decker 43. Geico 44. Starbucks 45. Subaru 46. John Deere 47. Starkist 48. Tivo 49. Fruit of the Loom 50. Sherwin-Williams

Im with you on this communist corn flakes fiasco. Guess I was way off. I must have tried 30 different spellings of Knights Inn. Oh well, someday I will be the king of the online quiz. The invisibles still gets me every time.

Go Sox

That explains why no stinkin' hotel chain ever registered. I think the average is low 30's. Everyone I sent it to was in that range (except old froggie). What is Chuy's???

I'm getting results for a SW US Tex-Mex chain, but no pictures of a fish. ad, you familiar with this thing?

How did you get the answers out of the XLS file?

By accident - I oftentimes e-mail crap that I find during the day to my gmail account to put up on tomorrow's post. Did that with this and viewed as .html instead of downloaded. That showed me the answers. I have no idea how to do it inside of Excel.

I got 33, though I am giving myself Kellogg's Cornflakes (WTF) and Time Warner cable (must have spelled it wrong). This is nothing to be proud of--though in acute image recognition is what I went to school for (we like to call it conniseurship).

I guess I just don't watch enough T.V.