• The Scientist

    Life and Times of a permanently bemused British postdoc in exile.

    • Human Firmware upgrade

      Saturday, 05 Apr 2008 - 06:31 UTC

      This patch must be applied to all H. sapiens version 1.0 immediately.

      Last updated: Saturday, 05 Apr 2008 - 06:31 UTC

      • Comments

        • Date:
          Saturday, 05 Apr 2008 - 07:22 UTC
          Bob O'Hara said:

          I feel sorry for Comic Sans MS. It’s a nice friendly font that is being exploited by people who should know better. We should get to the source of the problem and shoot all comic writers.

        • Date:
          Saturday, 05 Apr 2008 - 07:48 UTC
          Richard Grant said:

          Hence the true meaning of “Comic sans”?

        • Date:
          Saturday, 05 Apr 2008 - 08:28 UTC
          Henry Gee said:

          I have said elsewhere that anyone other than a nursery-school teacher, or who is otherwise working with children, should be forbidden from using Comic Sans, on pain of death, or at least being forced to sit through my tapes of kittens being impaled on red-hot skewers. I have spoken. Harumph.

        • Date:
          Saturday, 05 Apr 2008 - 08:29 UTC
          Henry Gee said:

          Comic sans – sans eyes, sans hair, sans taste (especially sans taste), sans teeth, sans almost everything. Yeah. Absolutely.

        • Date:
          Saturday, 05 Apr 2008 - 08:33 UTC
          Richard Grant said:

          being forced to sit through my tapes of kittens being impaled on red-hot skewers

          Some of us would pay to see that.

        • Date:
          Saturday, 05 Apr 2008 - 08:36 UTC
          Henry Gee said:

          Well, Richard, for you it would have to be death. Or, at the very least, the Comfy Chair.

        • Date:
          Saturday, 05 Apr 2008 - 19:41 UTC
          Viktor Poór said:

          Bob, should I start to worry now?

        • Date:
          Monday, 07 Apr 2008 - 17:38 UTC
          Cath Ennis said:

          PZ Myers uses Comic Sans to great effect when quoting creationist and other kooky websites. Does that count as fair use?

        • Date:
          Monday, 07 Apr 2008 - 18:33 UTC
          Bob O'Hara said:

          Well, Victor, I guess that depends on how you write your text for your next strip…

        • Date:
          Monday, 07 Apr 2008 - 19:02 UTC
          Henry Gee said:

          Yes – the kittens will want a kill fee.


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