Comments on: Nerd Dog

By: AmazingThor

AmazingThor — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:36:49 +0000

I think the joke is that his dog is scrawny and spazzy, much like nerds. If the artist had gone more broad in his depiction of a dog nerd it would have been easier to figure out.

By: Vicky

Vicky — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:15:17 +0000

i think paperboy might be right about this one, it seems to make the most sense, i think

By: Daniel J. Drazen

Daniel J. Drazen — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:10:26 +0000

Twelve hours later, and … sorry, I got nothing.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:05:55 +0000

you can click my name to see his mashup

By: Jesse

Jesse — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:05:30 +0000

Thought I was having Deja Vu until I realized I had seen this on Dean Booth’s site. Didn’t know what it meant then either…

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:10:49 +0000

“All i’ve got is that from where the guy is standing, the spots on his back could look like an emoticon?
nup i didn’t think so either….”

Actually, you might have something there. It looks like :-0

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:58:46 +0000

Paperboy, there is that whole “I <3 Nerds” thing going around where popular girls think saying they like nerds makes them not shallow.

I hang out at the “Nerd Corner” at school. It’s the section of the market place with the most plugs, so we go there to have power for our laptops. The CS nerds got there first and the anime nerds followed. Some comic book nerds joined in as well, but not many. There were a couple card game nerds, and they brought all their friends even though YOU DON’T NEED PLUGS TO PLAY MAGIC, YOU NEED THEM TO WATCH ANIME AND READ WEBCOMICS.

Yeeeeah.

By: paperboy

paperboy — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:13:51 +0000

There’s that old bit that people will resemble their dogs (or vice-versa); the dad is trying to obliquely tell his son he’s a nerd.
(Marshal#1- Mr. Peabody was cool. Virstultus#11- I thought that it was “geek” that was less perjorative today, because geeks know computers and computers are cool. “Nerd” is still not complimentary.)

By: Elyrest

Elyrest — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:53:26 +0000

The problem with this comic is that all dogs are nerds. They get excited over the littlest things; they jump up and down when they think you are taking them for a walk; they hide food to find later; they smell dead things and enjoy it etc. Most dog behavior falls into what could be considered nerd behavior. It’s when dogs act as if they couldn’t care less that they are really weird.

By: virstultus

virstultus — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:53:02 +0000

Rough wrote:
“I’m trying to figure out what the guy means by ‘Don’t take this the wrong way’.”

Nerd used to be a more of a pejorative than it is today.
… Wait, that doesn’t help at all…