Comic for Friday, January 11th, 2008

Posted: 7:10 am, Friday, January 11th

This would be a fantastic day to call in sick - I'm tired, it's raining here, and my boss is out today, to boot - if not for the jury duty on Monday and the fact that I haven't put in a full week at the office in over a month and a half. (The first week back from the honeymoon, in fact, was the last time I spent all five days in the office.) So this is going to be a short one, crowd.

Man, it sounds like hell out there. Bleh. In good news, my thumb is almost entirely healed. That's rather exciting for me.

Kettle Chips are probably my favorite brand of chip these days, and I like the various ways the Onion staffers managed to come up with to describe their new flavors.

I can't friggin' believe this. I have a surprise party to go to at eight tonight, and the Series trophy is going to be on the other side of town at that same time. Maddening. I may have to break down and get a cab.

Time for an old tried-and-true trick of the blogging trade - I found the thing that tells me what Google searches have brought people to the site through the ages, and there are some strange ones. There's, you know, "fivebuckstofriday" and "five bucks to friday", there's "i'd hit it", which is pretty funny, and I'm proud to say two people have come here looking for "turkey joints candy". Then it gets weird. How someone got here looking for "cybill shepherd in dublin", I'll never know. An Albany resident was looking for the "we didn't start the series" Fox 23 ad from '91. While I have no problem with Google bringing someone looking for an "ironic comic" here, I take issue with the site popping up in a search for "suck ass comic". Also, why would you purposefully seek out a suck-ass comic? I've had several people come looking for "Jenna loves Brianna", "screwing an angel", and "half lady fucking," and they were no doubt severely disappointed. (Try not to think about whatever that second one may mean.) And, finally, my favorite result, "nickelback unspeakably awful". I should probably rename the strip that.

Happy Friday, gang.

bullfrog

Bullfrog -- Friday, January 11 2008, 08:19 am

It's not often I draw attention to Penny-Arcade, since they don't need me stumping for them, but I love today's investigation of utter dorkiness. Even better, though, is the thing of olive oil on top of the fridge, in the background. That is awesome.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic

Wow. Lissa needs...something much stronger than a Martini. Much stronger.

It's funny, and when I wrote this strip, I meant to be sure to comment on it (there's sometimes a disconnect there), but for all the build-up I sometimes do that Lissa is not to be fucked with, this is really the closest we've ever come to seeing Lissa go totally nuclear.

And it wasn't even at Pete.

Wow, the fire-Ty movement has hit the front page of the Seattle Times.

http://bp1.blogger.com/_7OC0YbG2fek/R4dWPrpyRtI/AAAAAAAAEsw/RQgPlGZ7Kpw/s1600-h/SeattleTimes.jpg

If UW had only done due diligence and asked any Irish fan/alum their opinion on this, they could've saved millions of dollars and four seasons of their program.

Damn dude, that was quite the flipout.

People react very negatively to that hat.

The hat IS disgusting.

Well hell, she IS a redhead.

Has it been four years since Ty took the Washington gig?

He's entering his fourth year - he took it immediately after being canned by ND. Most hold that he was negotiating the job with UW while still employed at ND. We're such a bunch of friggin' racists for firing such an awesome employee. (I think he will finally, this season, no longer be the highest-paid employee of the University of Notre Dame.)

Yea turkey joints! I had my first over xmas and the only reason I even knew what they were was from reading this site. The fam was quite impressed (ok, maybe not...)

Hey, Licia, while you're around - do you remember what we did on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in Mrs. Durr's biology class? I remember Monday was a quiz, Thursday was homework, and Friday was the exam. Were both days lecture? I can't recall.

Democratic candidates as gaming consoles:

http://www.personalbee.com/215/26079064

Funny, because it breaks down just about how my preference goes. I love me that Wii, love me the PS3 but find myself using the Wii a bit more, and am not interested in the 360.

Not pictured: John "Sega Genesis" McCain, Mike "Super Nintendo" Huckabee, Mitt "Neo Geo" Romney, Rudy "Atari 2600" Giuliani, and Fred "Pinochle" Thompson.

I actually thought of explanations for the systems I named the Republicans to, if anyone's interested.

The hat is not pretty. If it didn't mean my marriage I'd probably do the same.

It doesn't smell though...it has that going for it.