Nerd Boy, episodes 129-134

I've started using bug as a week-end indicator. :) When he posts, I know the
week-end has begun, and it's time for my weekly post.
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                                        (_|  O
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                   It's 4 am! Go
                  to bed, weirdo!
                    ,                     _
                 ~..                     (_|  O
                 .>>.                    [__]_.)_|
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     Fine! Whatever! Your sleep
    deficiency is not my problem!
          ,                               _    *zzzzz*
       ..~                               (_|  O
       <<                                [__]_.)_|
 _____ /| ______________________________ |   |d| | ___________________

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Naturally inspired by real life events, although I have never fallen asleep
in front of a computer myself. It's been close though.
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                 OO -            ,-__)
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             ___ bb ______________ || ___________



       You just ate my book!      *I have an internal scanner. It was a
      That was the_collected         ,  good book. Too bad my digestive
     works of Basho! Why?! `OO     ==~    system has destroyed it.*
                           //-     [[            *meep*
                      ___ b b ____ || ____




    I'll just continue reading his     *Really?*
          ,  personal diary. The       , *meep*
        OO   only surviving copy,   ==~
         ))     actually.           [[
 ______ d d _______________________ || ____________________________




Yep! He just met this                  *Ah yes, the best
beautiful girl; it's                   , part, I thought.*
all very exciting! `OO              ~==    *meep*
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              jg___ bb _____________ |\ _____________

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Since someone else asked: Basho was a haiku poet. I like how Nerd Boy
accepts the loss of his book immediately in the third panel. He just
swallows his feelings and moves on. Kind of touching, in a way. OK, I'll
stop it with the bullshit now.
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     A-and, I'm right again.   _         ?
                          `O  |_)       ..~
                        |_(._[__]       <<
                        | |b|   |       /|



         These MysteryNet                How so?
      mysteries are getting    _          ,
       way too easy...    `O  |_)      ..~
                        |_(._[__]     .<<.
                        | |b|   |      ||




  Well, I can solve them!                Er. Weren't you complaining a
  And that obviously means    _           ,  month ago that they were
   they're not mysteries! `O  |_)      ..~  stupid and useless because
                        |_(._[__]     .<<.  you -couldn't- solve them?
                        | |b|   |      ||




    I guess that just goes
    to show that you can't     _
     please everyone...   `O  |_)        ~--
                        |_(._[__]         >>
                 jg     | |b|   |         |\

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Prompted by the fact that I managed to actually solve a www.mysterynet.com
"SolveIt!", not just guess who-dun-it, for the first time in my life. By the
way, I think both arguments in panel three are valid.
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   Mandy! Riddle me this!         No. For the last time, I don't know
 Ever wonder why "shigoto"         Japanese, and I'm not interested!
and "shimasu" are so alike?          ,
                         `OO       --~
                         ((       .<<.
               _________ b b _____ || ________


     Just trying to impress
       you with my immense             Dork.
      knowledge, is all...              ,
                         `OO         ~..
                         .||.         >>
                  _______ bb ________ |\ ___________


          _
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       .-|_`              OO
        _|_`              ||
  _____ |_| _____________ bb ________________________________________



                         Potted plant!
         _             Riddle me this!
      .-|_               ,
      .-|_`            OO
       _|_`             ))
jg____ |_| ___________ d d __________________________________

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I like this one. I came up with it just as I was going to bed, so I
scribbled it down on a piece of paper. Here's the original script:
 - N: Mandy! Riddle me this!
   M: Oh god.
 - N: Have you ever noticed how "O shigoto wa nan
      desu ka" resembles "Nani o shimasu ka"?
   M: I don't know Japanese!
 - N: I know, I was just trying to impress you.
   M: Well, I'm not impressed, bozo!
 - N: *
 - N: Potted plant! Riddle me this!

Too many panels, so then I merged some stuff:
 - N: Mandy! Riddle me this!
   M: Oh god.
 - N: Have you ever noticed how "O shigoto wa nan
      desu ka" resembles "Nani o shimasu ka"?
   M: I don't know Japanese! And stop trying to
      impress me! I'm not impressed, bozo!
 - N: *
 - N: Potted plant! Riddle me this!

Then when I made the actual strip, I didn't have the script with me, so it
turned out even better, IMHO.
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  HAAAAHAHAHAHAAAA!    _                            ,--.
                `O    |_)    ,---- ~.. -----.       | \ \
                |_\ _[__]    |`-.___>>_______`-.    +-+-+
                | |b|   |    |__|___\\________||    | | |



   Stupid. Stupid. Heh.      Why do you even read on-line comics?
    Pfft. Stupid. Not         Only 1 in a gajillion are funny!
      funny. Gross.    _              ,             ,--.
                  `O  |_)    ,---- ..~ -----.       | \ \
                |_(._[__]    |`-.__<<._______`-.    +-+-+
                | |b|   |    |__|___\\________||    | | |



Well... They're educational!       Short answer:
Just now, Hound's Home taught      You're stupid.
me how to teach rats   _              ,             ,--.
to tap dance to   `O  |_)    ,---- ~.. -----.       | \ \
Britney Spears! |_(._[__]    |`-.___>>_______`-.    +-+-+
                | |b|   |    |__|___\\________||    | | |



Maybe. If so, it's                I rest my case.
 clearly because I     _              ,             ,--.
  haven't read    `O  |_)    ,---- ~.. -----.       | \ \
 SinFest today! |_(._[__]    |`-.___>>_______`-.    +-+-+
                | |b|   |  jg|__|___\\________||    | | |

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Bit of a filler strip. I'd been reading Hound's Home all day.
(www.houndshome.com)
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      Take that, stupid orc!           Good! Maybe -I- can use -my-
       Hah! No more orcs.             computer now? I have a very
           I win!     `      _         ,  important programming
                       ~.   |_)      OO    project, you know.
                      |_>._[__]     .||.
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        Fine!                    Thaaank you.
      Whatever!              _      ,
              `~..          |_)   OO
               ->>-   |_  _[__]    ))
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Frankly, I don't understand           Yeah yeah.
why you play MUDs. They're   _         ,
so repetitive. All you  `O  |_)     ~..
 do is slay orcs...   |_(._[__]      >>
                 ____ | |b|   | ____ |\ ____



      Take that, stupid bug!
        Hah! No more bugs.   _
             I win!     `O  |_)
                      |_(._[__]
               jg____ | |b|   | ____

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Made this one in ten minutes or so twenty minutes ago. Which means it took
longer to upload the damn thing than it took making it, and that's not
supposed to happen. My stupid stupid webserver kept refusing to write to my
account, so I tried FTPing, which also didn't work. No quota error or
anything, it just wrote a zero length file. Grrrr.

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