[0799] Sandra And Woo’s Core Values
└ posted on Thursday, 30 June 2016, by Novil
The company I work at almost used the file extension .fap for one of its most important file types. (Un-)Fortunately, a colleague of mine in the software development department did a Google search about it before the release.
- Poster: OUR CORE VALUES:
Preserve our Passion
Encourage Originality
Nurture our sense of Wonder
Improve our Efficiency
Show Respect for others
P O W E R
- Poster: Chichi the Booby says:
- Chichi the Booby: Every code change needs to be reviewed!
- Richard: Your 11-year-old son must be very proud of you for getting these designs approved.
- Colleague: He worships me like a god.
![[0799] Sandra And Woo’s Core Values](/comics/2016-06-30-0799-sandra-and-woos-core-values.png "[0799] Sandra And Woo’s Core Values")
Some people.
Bilingual bonus: 乳 (ちち) in japanese—read chichi—means boob or breast. So the mascot is literally “boob the booby”
You may carry on with your day.
kazunori wrote:
Mexican slang as well, though I thought the more common Japanese word was “oppai.”
@ Gas Bandit:
Should have noted it’s not the common term, it’s commonly used in relation to “milk” and hence functionally equivalent to the English of “tits” from “teets”
@ kazunori:
Not to mention the background behind the mascot.
Been a lot of random strips lately. Feels like Novel is running out of ideas
@ Swoosh:
Hey, this one was quite a nice follow-up to the Software Development Cat.
Lucario wrote:
Both posters had a joke like that buried in them. Did you see the first one?
Novil wrote:
The company I work for uses .tps as one of its most important file types. Think Office Space. Yes, really.
Swoosh wrote:
Or he could just be doing random strips in between story arcs because that’s what they’ve always done? That’s part of the fun too. You don’t quite know what to expect.
Penis power and redundant boobs. I can value that.
@ Swoosh:
I wouldn’t call the last 798+ strips random OR consistent. Sandra And Woo has always been different, and if anything it looks to me like Novil has come up with some ideas.
I bet next week will have an interesting arc.
On today’s strip… I’m laughing a little because this has been happening at my work for awhile. 😛
Google may have saved someone some serious embarrassment.
Hm… that reminds me of our office…
My company almost released a database that was to publish bits of relevant knowledge in library form under the acronym “BS”.
I could convince my boss otherwise before it went life…
Not gonna lie, it took me a while to realize the first one is an acrostic that says PENIS.
@ Xezlec:
Ah hahaha! I just got the first poster. 😀
@ Lucario:
Yeah, that’s what caught my eye.
Lunch at Hooters, anyone?
Years of Dragonball Z made me translate the second panel as “Milk the Booby…”
@ Anon:
Once I saw that I wondered how the joke was translated to German, but he shirked it.
Well, I guess “.fap” would still have gone over better than the “.bro” file extension Google wanted to use for their Brotli compression algorithm… TEH HORROR!
@ Gas Bandit:
Castillian slang has chichi as (little kid level) slang for vagina
There’s an organization made to assist retirees from my mom’s old company. The abbreviation is A.R.S.E.
CAN’T! STOP! LAUGHIIIIING!! XD
I developed a “Test Waveform And Timing System” for some time, before my boss noticed and made me rename it.
@ kazunori:
Huh? I thought ちち meant “dad”. This confuses me (pretty much just started learning japanese, can read 4 kanjii 「父母山月」 to give an idea of my progress. Please teach me the secrets Sensei.)
Is he referring to the inner child or an actual one?
@ Hotel Papa:
Wiki-wiki means fast, so Wikipedia was suppost to mean fast encyclopedia.
Only, it translates to half-fast encyclopedia.
Took me years to get that joke.
In the first poster I think it would be improved if the last line were “Show others Respect” so that it was the last word of each line that formed the obvious acrostic.
@ kazunori:
chichi also means tits in spanish
@ PsihoKekec:
Yes.
Actually…. Chichi in English is actually the Japanese word for penis… Good try though@ kazunori:
Sorry, it’s actually ちんちん Chinchin. Chichi is father. @ Gas Bandit:
And it took me a moment to realize that neither poster was in any way accidental. 😀
Going back too many years to the days of in-house mainframes (pre AS400) my boss SWORE that IBM issued a File Utility Conversion Kit.
Speaking of IBM – notorious back in the day for issuing manuals with everything they sold – and the few blank pages at the end always had “This page intentionally blank” printed in the center – wait – hang on but – oh well I’m sure you get the conundrum!
Can you do this more often im dying to read it
I’ve been re-reading old comics, as well as the comments. It seems that people like to complain when:
-When an arc lasts for more than 1 week.
-When the comic is NOT in an arc.
-When political jokes are made.
-When political jokes are not made.
-When there is too much focus on Woo, and Sandra hasn’t shown up in a while.
-When Woo hasn’t shown up in a while, and we’ve had too much Sandra.
-When Sandra and Woo are both not present.
-When Sandra and Woo are the only ones getting strips for a while.
-When the laws are not violated for more than one comic in a row.
-Whenever Larisa’s secret is teased at without being revealed.
-Whenever the fourth wall is broken.
-Whenever they go too long WITHOUT breaking the fourth wall.
-Whenever someone starts complaining about other people who are complaining. Naturally, someone will remark on THAT too. Eventually, someone will make a graph of complaints vs time, and make everything worse. Maybe Randall Monroe can do it. He seems to like weird graphs.
Oh, and of course.
-Whenever a new reader who has been able to read as many comics as they wanted up to now catches up and has to wait for comics like the rest of us.
Whoops. That one in the middle was supposed to be “when the laws OF PHYSICS blah blah blah.”
I suppose I can add one more on that note.
-Whenever someone makes a typo.
@ Hobbes:
That was seriously great! Especially that last point about catching-up to the comic.
I wonder how many times someone has complained about the strip not being funny, and then 10-15 minutes later it hits them like a sack of potatoes! It’s happened to me at least twice. 😉
VOTE VOTE VOTE! (For any comic. Any comic at all. This comic.)
http://topwebcomics.com/vote/8546/default.aspx
@ Hobbes:
Where’s Shadow and Sid? We haven’t seen them in like FOREVER! Where did they go?
Hahaha! 😀
@ Zarylo:
Kunyomi homophones. Officially speaking you need 2000 characters to be fluent in japanese. The average native has 3000. Meanwhile japanese only has about 100 sounds. A quick and dirty calculation (read, innacurate as hell) gives about 8000 (non-verb) possible readings. Looking at just kunyomi, that’s only 2-3 readings per character. With many of those readings invalid (starting with ん etc.) and a high number of readings per character you have a high collision rate of readings.
This is actually why Japanese still uses kanji, because without it, the language loses most of the decipherability in written word contained in the spoken word (using pitch accent, more important than people let on.)
If you want my advice, find a kanji study method (there are many) and stick to it. You won’t learn 2000 characters in 2 months, it’s a long haul with milestones (like where I am with 1000, being able to play video games and read short stories). Also, use SRS, and if kunyomi confuse you sometimes (they should), get a book on kunyomi homophones. Lastly, read, read, and guess what? Read! You won’t learn kanji if you don’t use them regularly.
I had worked for a while on a character based inventory management system. It had the ‘superseded maintenance’ program (SPRM) in the ‘Z Menu’ (ZMEN). Both were acronyms that would be pronounced by customers and staff… Shortened names are surprisingly dangerous
Where I work, we have two suites of dashboards – AIMS (Adult Information Management System) and CHIPS (Children’s Performance System). The Team Manager jokes that he considered calling them APES and CHIMPS before realising those acronyms might not have gone down too well with the users… 🙂
Found this comic last night, looked interesting so I decided to give it a shot. Next thing I knew I had read 799 strips and was at my desk wishing for more! Love it, and hope we keep getting even more of Sandra and Woo.
Am I the only one who thought the joke was the dissonance between the empowering core values and the need to get every code change reviewed? Maybe that’s normal in programming.
@ kazunori:
And in Spain, it’s a colloquial term for the vulva/vagina.
Sometimes though (but not often), it really is nice to stop reading a webcomic, and to go back to the start and just read it from the beginning. Eventually, you catch back up, but until then you are able to read as many as you want at a time.
What’s the other man’s name?
@ Imperator Maximajorian:
Yes! Name not (yet) mentioned in comic, leave it out of the … the… that textbox below the comic!
@ Frogalog:
Transcript! That’s it!
Ah yes
the PENIS Code
Don’t worry, I got the Big Bang Theory laughing crowd ready.