Johnny the Mediocre Human

Comics from Duke in the '90s

Johnny the Mediocre Human

Comics from Duke in the '90s

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Comics about nerds

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Popularity rank 1 #319. People are too computer literate

November 23, 1998

WILLIAM: Johnny, people are becoming too COMPUTER LITERATE.
JOHNNY: That's a PROBLEM?

WILLIAM: Computers were once the domain of a SELECT FEW! We were NEEDED! IN DEMAND! But, NOW... EVERYONE knows Java; everything's USER-FRIENDLY and PLUG 'N' PLAY!

WILLIAM: Computer nerds had ONE redeeming trait, but if EVERYBODY understands computers, what do WE become?
SOUND: sniff sniff

JOHNNY: Just... NERDS.
WILLIAM: People don't keep us around just because we play "MYST" well, Johnny!

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Popularity rank 2 #75. Science Drive poem

March 10, 1997

WILLIAM: Oh Science Drive, so far away, why do I praise you on this day? Your architecture often bland, Levin'e akin to "Futureland".
LABEL: William! The CPS major!

WILLIAM: Oh, home home to orgo, home to math, few of us escape your wrath. And yet I take this time to say, hurrah to Science Drive today!

WILLIAM: Some may laugh, make fun, and sneer; they have no joy for Gross or Teer. But for those who cannot dance, who can't do art that's worth a glance...
SOUND: Sneer!

WILLIAM: For those of us who want REAL jobs, who are not liberal artsy snobs, there is a place where we can thrive. In B.F.E., on Science Drive.
POLICE OFFICE: Sir, you're blocking traffic....

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Popularity rank 3 #41. Meet William

January 21, 1997

JOHNNY: This here's one of my roommates, William.

JOHNNY: Ol' William here is a computer science major. Ain't that right, Will?
WILLIAM: It's William. And yes.

JOHNNY: Yeah, William's great. He's really, I mean, you know, he's a real.... I, uh, well, socially, I mean, WOW! It's, you know, uh...

WILLIAM: I'm a @%#?/! NERD, all right, Johnny? Now can I get back to my Duke Nukem game?
JOHNNY: YOU KNOW, I was TRYING to shy away from words like that...

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Popularity rank 4 #320. How computer literacy can be stopped

November 24, 1998

JOHNNY: So, William, how can this plague of computer literacy be stopped?
WILLIAM: Well, we've already started to fight it on a large scale.

WILLIAM: The year 2000 bug is our MASTERPIECE. We estimate it needlessly scares 10,000 PEOPLE EVERY MINUTE! We're also developing a keyboard that shoots KNIVES at you while you type. VERY annoying...

WILLIAM: We need you to work on a GRASSROOTS level: accidentally erasing your TERM PAPERS, failing CPS 1, acting as though computers are run by MAGICAL ELVES.

WILLIAM: We need you to be as IGNORANT as possible!
JOHNNY: I think I've unwittingly put your plan into action YEARS ago!

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Popularity rank 5 #187. You know what’s funny?

December 3, 1997

WILLIAM: You know what's FUNNY? Since STRINGS are just ARRAYS of characters, and ARRAYS are just assigned blocks of MEMORY, you can just use POINTER arithmetic to TRAVERSE STRINGS. Even in C++!

LABEL: Big dork.
LABEL: Not big dorks.

WILLIAM: WELL, it's not "HA HA" funny, I suppose...

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