Johnny the Mediocre Human

Comics from Duke in the '90s

Johnny the Mediocre Human

Comics from Duke in the '90s

Comics about studying for exams

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Popularity rank 6 #108. All the little humans

May 2, 1997

MO: There go all the little humans. Scurrying around. Cramming for exams. Packing up. Going home.
NICK: Mm.

MO: Soon they'll be gone and the campus will be ours again, Nick! We'll have all summer to...

MO: To, ah, to....

MO: What is it that we do again?
NICK: Sneak into the clusters and play solitaire till housekeeping chases us out. Oh, and we frolic. Lots of frolicking.
NOTE: Good luck on exams! Later....

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Popularity rank 7 #98. MCATs are tomorrow

April 18, 1997

JOHNNY: Nice day.
PREMED GUY: Yup.

JOHNNY: MCATs are tomorrow.
PREMED GUY: Yup.

JOHNNY: Heard you finished studying Wednesday so you'd have Thursday and today to "relax".
PREMED GUY: Yup.

JOHNNY: How's that "relaxin'" going?
PREMED GUY: NOT WELL

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Popularity rank 8 #369. Problems grading Ben’s exam

February 19, 1999

PROFESSOR: Ben, I had some PROBLEMS grading your last exam.
BEN: How so?

PROFESSOR: Well, take question ONE, "Explain in detail the central conflict in Hume and Locke's ideas concerning man's ability to govern." YOUR answer was: "The question is moot. We're all going to die."

BEN: WELL... we ARE, aren't we?
PROFESSOR: But you answered the other 19 questions the SAME way!

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Popularity rank 9 #338. Finals poem

December 18, 1998

NARRATOR JOHNNY: 'Tis the last day of finals, and as far as I see, not a creature is stirring 'cept for bored little me.
JOHNNY: (sigh)...

NARRATOR JOHNNY: Oh, I'm sure, back at Duke, some are still taking roll at exams in Italian, in French, Espanol.
FRENCH PROFESSOR: Comment t'appelles tu?
JAVON: Que?

NARRATOR JOHNNY: But what I, in my infinite wisdom, have done is reserved a plane ticket, and yet... never BOUGHT one.
TICKET AGENT: One word: overbooked.
JOHNNY: Eep!

NARRATOR JOHNNY: So here I am flying standby at gate twenty-two. And I just hope that Santa stops by RDU.

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Popularity rank 10 #315. Duke Gap ad: Khakis whine

November 17, 1998

JOHNNY: Aaaa! I have three tests this week! And a paper.

FRATMAN: Yeah? That's nothin'! I got 5 tests and 2 papers!
SORORITY GIRL: 20 tests! 38 papers! 750 theses! And my PC just blew up!

BEN: I have to solve the Russian economic crisis by noon! Or I fail stats!
JEN: My gross anatomy final is at 9! And I have to produce corpses for the whole class!

TITLE: DUKE - khakis whine.

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