Well, middle-level manager in IT, with a BA in teaching, married with daughter.
Kinda generic around here, as for folks, but about 10 years older than an average local webcomicer.
Webcomic creator stereotypes...POLL!
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Redtech
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I'm looking into IT jobs anyway. Praise Allah I can touch type!legostargalactica wrote:only if you've got the PhD, the BS doesn't mean anything anymore.Redtech wrote:I'm the sterotypical "unemployed black dude with a degree in genetics and microbiology".
I mean, in this day and age, isn't there a market for people with an "idiot's guide to germ warfare?"
Sometimes the failed experiments are the ones that don't try to kill you
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Dr Legostar
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yes but is touch typing gonna get you those 72 virgins? i think not!Redtech wrote:I'm looking into IT jobs anyway. Praise Allah I can touch type!legostargalactica wrote:only if you've got the PhD, the BS doesn't mean anything anymore.Redtech wrote:I'm the sterotypical "unemployed black dude with a degree in genetics and microbiology".
I mean, in this day and age, isn't there a market for people with an "idiot's guide to germ warfare?"
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"People who don't care about anything will never understand the people who do." "yeah.. but we won't care."
"Legostar's on the first page of the guide. His opinion is worth more than both of yours."--Yeahduff
"People who don't care about anything will never understand the people who do." "yeah.. but we won't care."
"Legostar's on the first page of the guide. His opinion is worth more than both of yours."--Yeahduff
legostargalactica wrote:Redtech wrote:I'm the sterotypical "unemployed black dude with a degree in genetics and microbiology".
yes but is touch typing gonna get you those 72 virgins? i think not!
That's what majoring in science was supposed to do. I'm sure there are plenty of virgins to go around in the microbiology department.
I studied math in university- we had a pool of 144 virgins each!
High school graduate, engaged, working.
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Rkolter
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I thought it was a type of white grape that was very rare.NakedElf wrote:I read somewhere that they think the whole '72 virgins' thing was actually a mistranslation of '72 FIGS' or something like that.
There's going to be some really unhappy dude with a big pile of fruit in heaven...
In any case, I hear they're running low on virgins. I mean really... given eternity and virgins, how long will they BE virgins? If they're eternal virgins, there has to be a reason. Three eyes and vagina dentata, maybe.
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Dr Legostar
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wait what?Vorticus wrote:Also working on getting married.
-D. M. Jeftinija Pharm.D., Ph.D. -- Yes, I've got two doctorates and I'm arrogant about it, what have *you* done with *your* life?
"People who don't care about anything will never understand the people who do." "yeah.. but we won't care."
"Legostar's on the first page of the guide. His opinion is worth more than both of yours."--Yeahduff
"People who don't care about anything will never understand the people who do." "yeah.. but we won't care."
"Legostar's on the first page of the guide. His opinion is worth more than both of yours."--Yeahduff
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Dr Legostar
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ah, thought it might be something more you're not telling us about.Vorticus wrote:Translation: I have a steady girlfriend.legostargalactica wrote:wait what?Vorticus wrote:Also working on getting married.
-D. M. Jeftinija Pharm.D., Ph.D. -- Yes, I've got two doctorates and I'm arrogant about it, what have *you* done with *your* life?
"People who don't care about anything will never understand the people who do." "yeah.. but we won't care."
"Legostar's on the first page of the guide. His opinion is worth more than both of yours."--Yeahduff
"People who don't care about anything will never understand the people who do." "yeah.. but we won't care."
"Legostar's on the first page of the guide. His opinion is worth more than both of yours."--Yeahduff
glad I'm not the only highschooler... Oh yea! homework! thanks for reminding me...EvilChihuahua wrote:Highschool. I should be doing homework right now.
Though not universally, squares are widely regarded as having an even number of sides that has been conjectured by experts in the field to be approximately four.
Grapes, figs, whatever, probably won't matter to the dead dude :Prkolter wrote:I thought it was a type of white grape that was very rare.NakedElf wrote:I read somewhere that they think the whole '72 virgins' thing was actually a mistranslation of '72 FIGS' or something like that.
There's going to be some really unhappy dude with a big pile of fruit in heaven...
In any case, I hear they're running low on virgins. I mean really... given eternity and virgins, how long will they BE virgins? If they're eternal virgins, there has to be a reason. Three eyes and vagina dentata, maybe.
Maybe virgins in heaven just get re-virginified.
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Phact0rri
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healing factor. *nods*rkolter wrote:I thought it was a type of white grape that was very rare.NakedElf wrote:I read somewhere that they think the whole '72 virgins' thing was actually a mistranslation of '72 FIGS' or something like that.
There's going to be some really unhappy dude with a big pile of fruit in heaven...
In any case, I hear they're running low on virgins. I mean really... given eternity and virgins, how long will they BE virgins? If they're eternal virgins, there has to be a reason. Three eyes and vagina dentata, maybe.
<KittyKatBlack> You look deranged. But I mean that in the nicest way possible. ^_^;
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Orinocou
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Or maybe they really mean "72 Virginians"...NakedElf wrote:Grapes, figs, whatever, probably won't matter to the dead duderkolter wrote:I thought it was a type of white grape that was very rare.NakedElf wrote:I read somewhere that they think the whole '72 virgins' thing was actually a mistranslation of '72 FIGS' or something like that.
There's going to be some really unhappy dude with a big pile of fruit in heaven...
In any case, I hear they're running low on virgins. I mean really... given eternity and virgins, how long will they BE virgins? If they're eternal virgins, there has to be a reason. Three eyes and vagina dentata, maybe.
Maybe virgins in heaven just get re-virginified.
...Robin Williams, anyone?
Anyway, I'm surprised to see so many webcomickers here are married/in a steady relationship. That's called progress.