[0211] Read-Only Mode
└ posted on Monday, 25 October 2010, by Novil
The current story arc started with this strip: Bad Sign.
- Jack: Aww, how cute! You brought your daughter’s raccoon for “Show and Tell”!
- Richard: Very funny, Jack. I’m taking him back home right after my presentation. Keep an eye on him while I’m gone!
- Jack: No problemo, boss. What harm could the little rascal do anyway?
- Woo: ?
- Richard: Watch his every move! And turn off your computer!
… No, wait! First lock all the databases! Then turn off your computer!
Landbark wrote:
As fas as I know from many american cartoons (could be wrong after all): A student bring something (most time: a pet) to his school and tell the other students about it.
Woo may only be a raccoon, but even he questions the wisdom of a neckbeard.
Wise decision.
Lock all DB’s, you should do it with pet’s, children and other catastrophes.
Although even a powered-off PC will still suffer a painful death at Woo’s hands.
I like the fact that Woo is already getting familiar with his workspace.
What harm could the little rascal do?
This is the equivalent of asking “What could possibly go wrong?”
Ha!
Reminds me of H.Beam Piper’s novel “Fuzzy Sapiens”. Someone leaves an extra-terrestrial of about Woo’s size, cuteness, and intelligence briefly unwatched in a computer room.
“Computer” meant “mainframe” back when the book was first published. The Fuzzy re-arranges the blinking display lights into a beautiful symmetrical pattern — incidentally programming who-knows-what into the machine running a planetwide corporation.
If I’m allowed a plug, “The Fuzzy Papers” collects both “Little Fuzzy” and “Fuzzy Sapiens” (books were a lot thinner in the ’60s) into a single volume and is a terrific read!
Why would he bring a raccoon to work?
The people at his work seem very nonchalant about a raccoon wandering the halls, let alone one being brought in as a pet… so either the father talks about Woo a lot, or the workplace is so crazy that Woo is normal by comparison.
ekimmak wrote:
Which is, of course, the worst thing you could possibly say in a situation like this.
Yeah, we don’t want the bosses seeing raccoon porn on the computers or such 😀
@ DaB.:
Yeah, something like a presentation/speech about a project or pet. “Show and tell” is also valid for bringing parents (who currently have a job :)) in class and they explain what it is they do for a living. It’s most common in Elementary school
In before his employee underestimates Woo.
Suddenly, Pictures of Raccoon Porn! Thousands of them!
If I had to watch Woo I would personally chain him down so he couldn’t go ANYWHERE! O_O
Uh-oh! He called Woo Rascal! That’s just asking for trouble!
It’s only paranoia if he isn’t completely justified!
having been educated in the california’s educational system, “show and tell” was an integral part of the curriculum.
when referred to by adults to one another, it is meant in a sarcastic or joking manner.
there were a couple of times in my life i was the recipient of such jibes. my normal response, though, was more of a grumble.
Lock everything not bolted to the ground, ’cause Woo will mess with it. :).
Mwahahaha 😀
I love Jack’s worried look in the last pannel.
He should have said: “Lock ALL the databases, then turn off the PC, and don’t let the raccoon open ANY drawers.”, because that’s what Woo is already doing in the last panel. Nice suggestion about the computers, though. Who can tell what website Woo would be visiting otherwise (and what kind of troubles would follow).
@ DaB.:
at one time show and tell was popular in America (read when I growing up). Now days most class rooms don’t do it because of the possibility of allergies and the major desire to no be sued for what ever reason.
@ Aquinox:
And don’t forget Management!
Woo is a lean mean hacking machine. 😛
Yeah look up those databases, we don’ want any raccoon love vids from youtube again like last time. XD
BTW if Woo can open any locks can he also hack comps? 😀
Woo could be useful though! Think of the production value of a little raccoon collecting all the trash in one bin, putting all the shiny paperclips in the top drawers, washing the coffee pots, setting fire to the copier, etc. 🙂
@ DaB.:
Actually, unless there is special permission, pets are not allowed in schools. It’s really hard to get a pet into a school in the US. I guess it’s against some weird law. I tried and got a suspension. 🙂
i was right about “bring your racoon to work” day 😀
@DaB – That’s pretty much exactly what it is. It’s really only in elementary schools (or grade schools, or primary schools, whatever you want to call them). Now and then, students can bring in things to share with the class (showing) and then they talk about their thing (telling).
Oh, and Kwejeebo, pets are fine, as long as you have permission to bring them in. Show&tell pets at my elementary school included dogs, cats, birds, a snake, a hedgehog, and a piglet (which was weird because I lived in a suburban area)…
AND LOG OUT OF YOUTUBE!
@ DaB.:
You are VERY close, my friend. Schools don’t normally allow pets inside, so it is usually a toy or a picture of their pet
@ Random:
Locking it doesn’t work well on raccoons. Remember Tweety?
I just had a bad feeling we might see the human that originally “owned” Woo
I must say, Sandra’s father has surprised me in a good way. He’s genre savvy enough to know that THAT sentence is going to bring problems XD
Wait- does he know about Woo’s high intelligence/ talking? The youtube prank?
@ DaB.:
actually in rare cases its actually a pet
Locks are meaningless to Woo.