Comments on: Employee Brain Scans: October 30 – November 4, 2000

By: eekee

eekee — Mon, 14 May 2018 19:52:22 +0000

Somewhen around ’00, I got a phone call from a patent troll company operating out of Ireland.

By: Paul LJ Catlow

Paul LJ Catlow — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 21:23:36 +0000

took a long time to grasp that when you talk about “VIZ”, you don’t mean the British humour comic… i guess it depends on where you stand, but I was trying to recall if i’d ever seen any of your stuff in “viz”.. I have come to Narbonic late, btw. Love it. Web comics written by an arts grad! i thought this was pretty much mandatory for scientists…

By: Alex B

Alex B — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 07:17:01 +0000

In reply to Shaenon Garrity (shaenongarrity). The Golden Mullet is, straight up, a super hero name. Fuzzy Dan on the other hand could easily be the name of a Wild West outlaw.

By: Felix Glynn (@BennetttheLucky)

Felix Glynn (@BennetttheLucky) — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 22:29:11 +0000

Always been plenty of Mikes, but my current social circle has sufficient Daves for them to form their own guild.

On the distaff side, in college there were a ridiculous number of girls named Catherine or a variation thereupon. We actually had so many that the distinguishing nicknames ended up including “Kate-who-is-called-Jaize” and “Kate-who-is-called-Dave” (and, for symmetry’s sake, there was also a “Dave-who-is-called-Kate”. He didn’t mind).

By: John Mead (johnbobmead)

John Mead (johnbobmead) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:32:11 +0000

John. Five of us sitting next to each other in calculus, three of us computer science majors.

Then in Chicago, five John Mead's in my apartment building, I kid you not; I moved first, the post office ignored spelling, middle initials, and apartment numbers and forwarded everything to me. Of course, that apartment building was the polling place for a one block precinct... lotta people in Chicago.

By: Chasing Darkness (chasingdarkness)

Chasing Darkness (chasingdarkness) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:32:10 +0000

Seems to be Alex around here--in sixth grade, a sort of cross between elementary and middle school (half of your classes are with your homeroom teacher, whether or not those classes are within the teacher's ability) my homeroom had three of them out of about eighteen total kids--all Alex S., rendering the elementary-school method of using first name and last initial moot.

It was immensly amusing at the time because the teacher refused to use last names in class and called each one Alex, distinguishing only with unique staring-over-the-glasses looks for each one. No one could ever tell who she meant.

By: Amy Fiori (amy82986)

Amy Fiori (amy82986) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:32:09 +0000

Thursday’s comic: Is anyone else vaguely disturbed by the fact that Linux and naked women together make up 56% of the total thoughts? Does that mean some of those thoughts are coming from Mell? Or does she just think less than Dave?

By: Kathleen Carter (katcar)

Kathleen Carter (katcar) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:32:08 +0000

Richard, were I come from. Not in the sense that a whole group of friends will be called it, but that in all the different groups of people there's generally a Richard somewhere. One girl I know was telling us about her boyfriend and before she said his name I thought "Richard" and obviously it was.

By: Geoff Heald (spyone)

Geoff Heald (spyone) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:32:07 +0000

In our group of friends, the overused name was Mike: we had at least 7 of them. It was okay when there were just 2, who were called Big Mike and Little Mike for convenience. Then came Medium Mike.

After several other Mikes were added, there came a Mike who was in ROTC who quickly became "rotsy" Mike, or just Rotsy. Then another Mike came up, and we had to flatly tell him that he could not be "Mike" as we already had far too many of them. He took just a second to think, then declared, "Alright, call me Zach. It's a name I've always admired." And from then on, we always called him Zach.

I believe the peak was 7 Mikes presnet at once, but something more like 17 in the circle of friends.

By: Sharone Horowit-Hendler (kamianya)

Sharone Horowit-Hendler (kamianya) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:32:06 +0000

Much as I have loved Narbonic ever since I started reading it, something happened recently to make it even more awesome…forensic linguistics came up in a discussion of one of my friend’s character’s for a rpg, which led me to mentioning Narbonic, which led to another friend saying, “oh, I’m in that.” So yeah, turns out I game with Pete Nuriko…And now I love Narbonic just that much more ^^