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[Hobot]

http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=05172006

I am nineteen, and I could have come up with something better. 

I love Beef's blank expression throughout the strip.  Paired with the tux, it is perfection.




Fixed your link - AD

[misterqueue]

He keeps the blank expression here as well.  Interesting, that.

Maybe this is the reason Google changes the logo for even the tiniest holiday/birthday/death/full moon/diurnal anomaly.


(I am sorry google.. it's true.  I still love you.  Please do not take away my gmail, I would die.)

[Carlos del Vaca]

People for the Classing Up of Google's Logo, please report ... to the dance floor

[idiomsavant]

Interesting that there was no Medal of Excellence awarded by the Board of Regents this time last year.  Must be a biennial event.

All the years I worked at IBM, I knew the logo was reminding me of something.  I just didn't know it was "Barney Miller."  But it all makes perfect sense now.

[AlohaDawg]

I really want to know the origin of the term 'Nimrods'. Wasn't Nimrod a king in ancient times? How did it come to mean what it means now?

[misterqueue]

I really want to know the origin of the term 'Nimrods'. Wasn't Nimrod a king in ancient times? How did it come to mean what it means now?

In the bible Nimrod was known as "Mighty Hunter".  Bugs Bunny called Elmer Fudd a "Poor Little Nimrod" in one of their various cartoons (I don't remember which one at this point and I can't be arsed to google it in a thread about google because the recursion would kill us all).

The rest is assumption and history really.

[nuero]

This is a good strip and I enjoy it. I laughed, a feeling which has been sorely missed, usually, for the last five months.

[littlefallsmets]

Interesting that there was no Medal of Excellence awarded by the Board of Regents this time last year.  Must be a biennial event.

I see it as more like the Baseball Hall of Fame.

In theory, it happens every year but if no one gets enough votes to get in, its not as though they just throw in the guy with the highest number of votes so that they can induct someone. Nobody gets in? They just stick in some umpires, some old-timers, maybe a broadcaster, make fun of Pete Rose signing autographs two blocks away, have an exhibition game and call it a day.

This helps keep the cred up for the Hall, they say, and I'd suppose the theory's the same for the Medal.

[misterqueue]

This helps keep the cred up for the Hall, they say, and I'd suppose the theory's the same for the Medal.

True but at least they didn't let the tux's go to waste last year..  What, say WHAT?!

[Drygioni]

That's the thing about Google. It's FUN. Maybe the logo's pretty crap. But it's nonthreatening to graphic designers, unobtrusive, and spartan enough to be used by MachoMen. In additon, Google is the only company I can think of that's not 'faceless', despite not knowing what any of the owners look like.

And apparently they drive around on scooters and play ping-pong and stuff, and maybe if I go on Google enough they'll ask me for a job there.

Good strip!

[Turbo Ninja]

I see it as more like the Baseball Hall of Fame.

In theory, it happens every year but if no one gets enough votes to get in, its not as though they just throw in the guy with the highest number of votes so that they can induct someone. Nobody gets in? They just stick in some umpires, some old-timers, maybe a broadcaster, make fun of Pete Rose signing autographs two blocks away, have an exhibition game and call it a day.

This helps keep the cred up for the Hall, they say, and I'd suppose the theory's the same for the Medal.

Or perhaps Onstad just balked (baseball pun!) at the idea of interrupting the Volvo of Despair storyline last year.  Can you imagine the hellstorm that would've been unleashed on these very fora had we been made to wait another day for Volvo madness so that we could instead see Chris making fun of the way teens type on AIM?

HELLSTORM, I tell you, and Onstad is afraid of that.

[Roger]

This is not the first time Onstad expressed his dislike of those colorful six letters:
http://chrisonstad.blogspot.com/2005_09_01_chrisonstad_archive.html

Personally that logo never offended me. It's just... bland. Although, now that I'm paying attention to it, that emboss effect is just awful...

I didn't google the Nimrod stuff either, following Q's sound advice. But I... wikipedia'd it? Is that a verb yet? And apparently the name started meaning "stupid" because of Bugs Bunny, actually. Can we believe that?

[misterqueue]

This is not the first time Onstad expressed his dislike of those colorful six letters:
http://chrisonstad.blogspot.com/2005_09_01_chrisonstad_archive.html

Personally that logo never offended me. It's just... bland. Although, now that I'm paying attention to it, that emboss effect is just awful...

I didn't google the Nimrod stuff either, following Q's sound advice. But I... wikipedia'd it? Is that a verb yet? And apparently the name started meaning "stupid" because of Bugs Bunny, actually. Can we believe that?

Bugs Bunny called Elmer Fudd a "Poor Little Nimrod" in one of their various cartoons

[Roger]

Relax Q, I know you'rethe one who first brought up the Bugs Bunny ref. I just thought it wasn't clear in your post that maybe Bugs called Elmer Fudd "nimrod" meaning "hunter", and after that (and because of that) the word got the derogatory meaning. I mean, it's funny to think that the cartoon writers were using a relatively sophisticated biblical reference but most people saw it and thought "hey, look at the funny word they invented to call the bald little guy stupid! HAR HAR HAR!"

But thanks for the gif, can I keep it?

[misterqueue]

Mostly I was just finding any excuse to use that gif.

You are more than welcome to it my friend.