2005 Comic Strips - Page 36
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Character
Saturday December 17,
2005
Tags desperate venture capitalist, math grades, first idea, mezzanine funding, cash bag, students, education
Transcript
Vijay, the World's Most Desperate Venture Capitalist "You two have good math grades." $ 8 "If you grow up and marry and produce a little engineer baby, I want to invest in its first idea." "Please don't be too late!" "Dude, we're already looking for mezzanine funding."
Sunday December 18,
2005
Tags buy insurance, whole life umbrella rider, read list, acts of god, wrong god, lighting strike
Transcript
"I'd like to buy some insurance, but I don't know much about it." "You need my special indemnity casualty whole life umbrella rider binder." "What does it cover?" "I can't answer that directly?" "Just read that list of exclusions. Anything not in there is covered." "Does it cover acts of God?" "Yes, unless you pray to the wrong one." "How do I know if it's the wrong god?" "If you buy this insurance, and lightning doesn't strike me, try another god."
Monday December 19,
2005
Tags evil director, downsizing, human way, marketing ones, giant dung beetle, ball, poor performers
Transcript
Catbert: Evil Director of Human Resources "The downsizing will be handled in the most humane way I could think of." "I hired a giant dung beetle to roll the poor performers into a ball and out the door." "I can't get the marketing ones to stick. They keep sliding off."
Tuesday December 20,
2005
Tags intermediate species, hominid, oyster, light sensitive blob, serious pearl
Transcript
"Your resume says you're some kind of intermediary species." "That's right." "I'm halfway between hominid and oyster. Someday I hope my light-sensitive blob will become an eye!" "I don't think we can use you." "Oh, man, you're giving me a serious pearl."
Wednesday December 21,
2005
Tags charging time, projects, no work, wind, existence of your wind, farting around
Transcript
"Wally, you've been charging your time to several projects, but no one has ever seen you work." "You can't see the wind, either, but surely you don't doubt that it exists." "I've also gotten complaints about the existence of your wind." "I rest my case."
Thursday December 22,
2005
Tags cable, doesn't attach, create demand, young people dancing, budget cuts
Transcript
Our new product is a cable that doesn't attach to anything. "We hope to create demand via a series of commercials showing young people dancing." "And then we'll all go straight to hell." "He didn't take the last round of budget cuts well."
Friday December 23,
2005
Tags power point slide, strategy, change the world, delsuons, effectiveness
Transcript
"This PowerPoint slide could change our entire company strategy." "The rest of the industry would have to copy us, and that could change the entire world!" "Someone has been having delusions of effectiveness."
Saturday December 24,
2005
Tags power point zone, real wolrd, bullet points, imaginary prodcutivity, eight lsides
Transcript
I am entering the PowerPoint zone. "I no longer feel the need to change the real world as long as I can change these bullet points." "How much imaginary productivity did you have today?" "Eight slides!"
Sunday December 25,
2005
Tags meeting, project acorn cancelled, attend meeting, good questions, business
Transcript
"Can you come to a meeting at three?" "Why?" "I want to tell everyone that Project Acorn is canceled." "You just told me. So I don't need to go, right?" "You might have other questions." "But I don't." "Maybe someone at the meeting will ask a question that you didn't think of." "Should I attend every meeting in the world just in case someone asks a good question?" "Save that one for the meeting."
Monday December 26,
2005
Tags less money, use bydget, flexible, approving expenses
Transcript
"I need to use up my budget before the end of the year or else I'll get less next year." "So I'll be flexible about approving expenses for a few days. Wink, wink." "Nice coffee-holding panda." "You should see the one that isn't pregnant."

