Johnny the Mediocre Human

Comics from Duke in the '90s

Johnny the Mediocre Human

Comics from Duke in the '90s

Semester 6 of College

Fall '98

Sep – Dec 1998

Fratman expands rush to Mars, Johnny goes to war over an orgo permission number, and the K-ville tenters go underground.

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#270. Eating outside the C.I.

September 15, 1998

JOHNNY: OK, this year I'm makin' the move to be COOL. The first step: being seen at the COOLEST lunchtime spot on campus.

JOHNNY: OUTSIDE THE C.I.! Only the bold and the beautiful hand here! Here goes nothin'...

COOL DUDE: Excuse me, some I.D. please?

JOHNNY: DRAT! They're carding!
COOL CHICK: UGH, he's eating Han's; that's SO last semester.

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#271. Hot

September 16, 1998

A pause.

A pause.

A pause.

JOHNNY: Hot enough for ya?
BEN: It's not so much the heat as it is your swelteringly good conversation.

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#272. Spring is in the air

September 17, 1998

JOHNNY: This time of year is so MAGICAL, Ben! The weather's getting WARM again; birds are SINGING; flowers are BLOOMING; the world is in LOVE! SPRING is in the air!

BEN: It's still summer, Johnny.

JOHNNY: Oh.

JOHNNY: I guess I'm just horny, then.

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#273. How many stars

September 18, 1998

MO: How many stars you make out?
NICK: I dunno. Twenty or thirty.

MO: There're zillions you know.
NICK: Well, I only SEE twenty or thirty.

MO: So what about the rest?
NICK: Who has time for what they can't see?

MO: Somebody, hopefully.

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