![[0501] Passing Notes](/comics/2013-08-05-0501-passing-notes.png "[0501] Passing Notes")
Based on a real story reported by Reddit user GreenLanternALF.
“The Book of Woo” hasn’t been deciphered yet. But our reader Satsuoni posted a comment about his important discovery on Friday, 2 August 2013 at 21:37:
By looking at the distribution of character pairs I have discovered that the alphabet can be cleanly separated into two parts, with “u” and “e” serving as separators (incidentally, they look like on and off switch) between two sets. Sets seem identical in function. For example, “z” in one subset is equivalent to “w” in other. The distribution of separators doesn’t suggest that they are spaces of any kind, so I replaced the equivalent letters, and created a “reduced” manuscript, now with only 15 letters (I ignore “&” for now). It also has a curious separation of pairs (for example, only 6 symbols may end the word).
There are several comments with interesting information based on this discovery on the bottom of the second comment page.
The winners of the Sandra and Woo and Gaia fanart contest 2013 have been posted.
- Larisa: Psst, Zoey…
- Mrs. Taylor: Passing notes in class again, are we, Larisa?
- Mrs. Taylor: Let’s see what was so important that it couldn’t wait for another 15 minutes.
- Mrs. Taylor: “Dear human being, I’m a space alien who has transformed himself into a piece of paper and I’m now having sex with your hand.”
- Class: HA HA HA HA!
- Larisa: Mrs. Taylor has kinky space sex in front of the whole class and I get in trouble for it!?
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Novil, the Space Alien is the worst character you have ever created. His personality is paper-thin.
@ Mr_Nabby:
ba-dun tss
See, this is why I stopped reading things out loud before I’d read them silently to myself first.
…’cos this sort of thing was happening a LOT.
“Based on a real story” – I’m not surprised in the slightest. Some teenagers thrive on winding up their teachers – either directly or indirectly. And that particular wind-up is just Larissa’s style.
IT classrooms tend to be popular for more indirect pranks: if a pair of computers are back-to-back, swap the keyboard and mice; if equipped with a floppy drive (or a gap in the case), shove coins / sweet wrappers in; it the teacher isn’t paying attention (particularly bottom set groups), creatively rearrange the keys on the keyboard (proving they can spell expletives); in all classes, attempt to find a proxy site that’s escaped the school filters, thus allowing you onto gaming / social networking sites…
(The wonders of having worked as a school IT tech)
Mr_Nabby wrote:
But is he even worse than Boxbot?
This reminds me of the time that Uncle Kage (AnthroCon Chairman) had this done to him.
@ Novil:
Box-who?
Or how about:
Larisa: (show of penitence) Principal, I apologise for telling all those blatant lies in that note. But I did actually intend to pass it to Zoey, who I knew wouldn’t believe them….
Mrs. Taylor: (in staff washroom) Got to scrub and scrub and scrub!! Must feel clean again!!
She wanted it just as much as the alien. There’s not even any point of hiding it, that teacher is a freaking cougar.
Novil wrote:
I wish I could upvote your comment!
@ Mr_Nabby:
He’s so predictable too, you can read him very easily.
@ Mr_Nabby:
I heard those aliens are pretty bold. I mean they actually land on Italic first! They Underline their missions quite clear and save it in their agenda. Sure the local folks call the Serif when those aliens land on their font lawn but those aliens are becoming much more savvier and land on places Sans Serif.
Luke wrote:
Uh…. no. She reminds me of Dolores Umbridge. I HATE Dolores Umbridge!
mittfh wrote:
You forget one most common thing kids use the internet in school for (other than video games that is) it’s porn.
This gives the second panel of the current-as-of-today Gaia page a whole different context. XD
Larisa, you planned that thing on accident. It worked perfectly though. XD
That’s definitely Egoraptor at that desk in panel #2
More like passing paper Bombs hehe. *Adds to notes to teach to kids.
That gives a whole new meaning to getting a paper cut.
I should TOTALLY have my friend do this when school starts again. XD I’d do it myself, but I’m not that type of guy and I’d feel guilty for hours, and I also graduated from high school last year and am now taking a long break from schooling.
I’ve known this story from the days of FidoNet, Novil. =) Funny to see it in a comic. =)
Only the intercourse mentioned is engaged with the retina of the reader’s eyes (it is an electronic message), and the additional text is: “I see you’re smiling — I think you like it! Please pass it on to the others — I’m such a maniac!”
Mrs Taylor sure had it coming, serves her right. You rock, Larissa!
Hey, it could have been worse.
Larissa could have prepared Explosive Runes this morning.
There is no way Larissa intended that note for Zoey. It started: “Dear Human Being!”
Nothing/no one is worse than Boxbot. Gunnerkrigg FTW @ Novil:
A teacher has to be pretty thoughtless to read a note out loud before reading it herself. Depending on the content of the note, she could easily have embarrassed Zoey in front of the class. Fortunately, she just embarrassed herself, which I hope will serve as a lesson.
Oh Larissa, the injustice of it all!
When will teachers learn? You have to LIE. Hold the note like you’re reading it, but actually say something incredibly embarrassing instead.
Love this comic. Only Sandra And Woo would ever think to include rape by paper.
Sir, wouldn’t that mean you also had sex with Larisa’s hand? Why don’t you have a seat?
@ AckAckAck:
I was at a tech school, if you got in to porn good luck not being suspended. the way the system was setup even if you had a proxy out side it still got cached on the proxy server. and don’t forget NET SEND.
If regards to the fan art, would Peter Chuchuligov be a pseudonym for Larisa Korolev? First a note in class, then fan art. Larisa has a future in the military. 🙂
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_deception
With regards,
Ted
@ Half-Life Zim:
You forget one thing: Kids can carry their “stash” on a separate flashdisk…. or in my time a (or a couple) floppy disk and install it there and put it as wallpaper.
@ AckAckAck:
i was there in the quick time between the floopy being treated as unreliable and flash drives not being wide spread, as a student of the CNS class i can’t tell you how many times we got called to other classes to help a student recover their homework files. gmail was 2 years away at the time and hotmail wasn’t allowed. so much
I bet it’s funnier in German/Dutch XD
You know, Larisa makes a good point.
@ Half-Life Zim:
i wouldn’t rely on a “floopy”….@ Half-Life Zim:
@ Mr_Naby:
Don’t mind this comment, just trying something out.
I’d say that, based off of the students’ general boredom displayed here, Larisa did the class a great favor!
@ Crestlinger:
No, I’m sure Larisa would figure out a way to make a REAL paper bomb if that’s what she was trying to do.
Back in my day, any teacher with a policy of reading notes aloud would promptly get one saying “class dismissed”.
This post is in fact a good one it assists new net viewers, who are
wishing in favor of blogging.
poor principal looks so fucking done
The Principal: Another day, another problem with Larisa…