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Haggis_McMutton wrote:[bigimg]http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20130427.gif[/bigimg]


This is appropriate for me. I will show mrs. thegreekdog and she will say something like, "I can't believe you're such a nerd."
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While researching Dr. Doom for TGD, I also came across this comic panel from "Yankee Doodle Jones":

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I particularly liked the "Bring me the blood..." comic. I was scrolling down and the caption caught me completely off-guard.
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And now, back to our regularly scheduled Abstruse Goose.

[bigimg]http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/gagh.png[/bigimg]

[bigimg]http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/lord_of_the_flies.png[/bigimg]

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[bigimg]http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/ivory_tower.png[/bigimg]

[bigimg]http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/gracefully.png[/bigimg]

[bigimg]http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/see_monkey_do.png[/bigimg]

@ #3. I like these types of comics, but find it slightly troubling that they usually imply we, as a species, peaked around 1969
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Haggis_McMutton wrote:
[bigimg]http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/see_monkey_do.png[/big]

@ #3. I like these types of comics, but find it slightly troubling that they usually imply we, as a species, peaked around 1969



Yeah well, social institutions be damned! All that matters is technology.

ONWARD! TO TECHNOCRACY!!
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BigBallinStalin wrote:
Haggis_McMutton wrote:
[bigimg]http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/see_monkey_do.png[/big]

@ #3. I like these types of comics, but find it slightly troubling that they usually imply we, as a species, peaked around 1969



Yeah well, social institutions be damned! All that matters is technology.

ONWARD! TO TECHNOCRACY!!


I second the notion.

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BigBallinStalin wrote:
Haggis_McMutton wrote:
[bigimg]http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/see_monkey_do.png[/big]

@ #3. I like these types of comics, but find it slightly troubling that they usually imply we, as a species, peaked around 1969



Yeah well, social institutions be damned! All that matters is technology.

ONWARD! TO TECHNOCRACY!!


Yeah, but representing the third wave of democratization in a comic panel involving monkeys would have been trickier.
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Haggis_McMutton wrote:
BigBallinStalin wrote:
Haggis_McMutton wrote:
[bigimg]http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/see_monkey_do.png[/big]

@ #3. I like these types of comics, but find it slightly troubling that they usually imply we, as a species, peaked around 1969



Yeah well, social institutions be damned! All that matters is technology.

ONWARD! TO TECHNOCRACY!!


Yeah, but representing the third wave of democratization in a comic panel involving monkeys would have been trickier.


Which only underlines our poor technological advancement. ONWARD!! FULL SPEED AHEAD!!!
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QUICK! What shall be our banner?! The Banner of Technocracy--what shall it look like? Without a banner, we will be lost! LOST, I say!!
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How about:

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Also:

[bigimg]http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/long_distance_booty_call.png[/bigimg]

[bigimg]http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/skydiving.png[/bigimg]

And, in the spirit of technocracy:

[bigimg]http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/I_cyborg.png[/bigimg]
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I appreciate the Escher homage (you remember Art Appreciation from school, right?) and I am sympatico with the other 3, although the last one suggests a person who talks on a cell phone, surfs the Web for videos and background information about them, and drives a car, all at the same time.
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ender516 wrote:I appreciate the Escher homage (you remember Art Appreciation from school, right?) and I am sympatico with the other 3, although the last one suggests a person who talks on a cell phone, surfs the Web for videos and background information about them, and drives a car, all at the same time.


He's either very good at multitasking or is using a semi-autonomous car and google glasses.

Also:

[bigimg]http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/story_line.png[/bigimg]

[bigimg]http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/blip.png[/bigimg]

[bigimg]http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/s_matrix.png[/bigimg]
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:chuckles softly:
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This is what I like to see what I visit off-topics:

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I just check "View My Posts", but I look forward to that same little red icon.
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f*ck you ManB, you like seeing my posts, not this thread.
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[bigimg]http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/eye_doctor.png[/bigimg]

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last one is hilarious
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[bigimg]http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/supreme_fascist.png[/bigimg]

[bigimg]http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/Lao_Tzu_Seeecrets.png[/bigimg]

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Tee-hee for all three.
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[bigimg]http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/why_when_i_was_your_age.png[/bigimg]

[bigimg]http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/fast_times_at_retirement_high.png[/bigimg]

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I especially like the last one. The first two are just painfully true.
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Posts without comics should be banned from this thread as they show the lovely red icon without delivering lols

However this is the best I could find while I still wanted to post the above:

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