I was a bit worried about this one, but my wife assures me it’s funny, and she has yet to steer me wrong, so here ya go. This will sail gaily over heads of those who are unfamiliar with Doctor Who, but if the comment discussions here have proven anything, it’s that sci-fi references of any sort are usually pretty safe. I guess there’s also a chance it will fall flat with people who have never set up a Windows network. Or that those who get both aspects of the joke will still think it’s stupid. Or, I suppose, that while someone is reading this, a concrete statue of Emanuel Lewis will fall through their ceiling and kill them. But these are the risks I must take in bringing you this strip every Tuesday and Friday. Well, Wednesday this week due to illness. Sorry about that.
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This is seriously the funniest thing I have seen all day. I’ve never seen Dr. Who, but still laughed audibly for ten minutes. (Still laughing.)
Knock-down, ass-slapping hysterical!! You hit the funny bone of every IT person in the unverse with this one!
Being a Doctor Who fan, and having wrestled with Windows networking on several occasions, I thought this was hilarious.
For a second there, I thought I was reading xkcd. This is, in fact, a very good thing.
And, um, better keep an eye on that statue of Emanuel Lewis. If it’s not in the same place as it was the last time you looked, well… good luck with that. O_O
I just forwarded this comic to our Windows Network Engineer. He’s been saying the same thing for years.
This made my day. Really funny. Thanks for posting these every week.
yeah, definitely my favorite partially clips of the new era (so far.)
Brilliant, just brilliant!
This would have merely been chuckleworthy, but being that the Doctor recently discovered that the iconic sound effect was him LEAVING THE BRAKES ON while he flew… it’s now hilarious in the extreme.
That thing is -absolutely- running windows.
You know, Andrew Tridgell probably knows Windows networking more intimately than anyone else in the world, including people at Microsoft (he wrote Samba with a packet sniffer), and he would probably agree with this.
Hmmm. . . you’ve made me regret placing that Webster statue in the room above my computer-room. Funny comic though!
What the fuck!? What the fucking fuck???!
Just kidding!
Love the strip since you took over. This one, not funny. And yes, I “get” it.
Yowza! That’s a lot of kind words! Thanks, guys and gals! This one’s gone over far better than I expected, and has once again proven that when my wife says something’s funny, I should damned well post it.
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Hilarious! Anyone who didnt rupture something laughing has never tried to set up a network in windows!
Loved this one — it’s totally too true and too funny. Anyone who gets this and still doesn’t find it hysterical probably just spent about 14+ hours straight chasing down a bunch of BS problems on a Windows network — sometimes the pain is just too fresh to be funny.
I totally don’t understand the punchline
I just finished a season of Doctor Who, and used to network things…so, hilarious!
Well, excuse me whilst I go change my knickers.
weeks behind (am i)
but still one of the funniest pc’s to date! Windows networking. “trying to stay out of trouble, badly.”
TARDIS, USS Enterprise, Bill & Ted’s Phonebooth; same thing.
Yes! I knew exactly what the engineer meant by his analogy even before he explained it!*laughter!*
Incidentally, 8laughter* looks like Slaughter* if you blur your eyes a little (yes, I type on QWERTY, and now I’m mentally facepalming because it took me a moment after looking down to find the E, R, T, and Y keys after typing “QW”).