Comic Transcripts

Woman: … if you study and work hard, you can be anything you want to be!
Girl: Let’s say that’s true.

Girl: Take a survey. Ask everyone what they want to be.
Girl: In my class you’ll find three astronauts, a couple firefighters, a bunch of baseball players and rock stars, and one cow minder.
Girl: Kid just loves him some cows.

Girl: But is that enough to build a functioning civilization?
Girl: If everybody gets to turn their poetry into a lucrative career, hadn’t we better hope someone decides to take up sewage treatment as a hobby?

Girl: For the good of society as a whole, someone will have to spend a life doing something they don’t want to do.
Girl: It’s an absolute requisite.
Woman: So you’re volunteering?
Girl: Heck no dude. I’m’ma teach folk music to bees.

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{{alt-text: ‘Come along Chadwick,’ said Father, pulling the boy roughly by the hand. ‘But Papa!’ came the plaintive wail — ‘the cows, the cows, the cows, the cows!’}}

#609; In which Natalie finds the Fallacy transcribed by in

Woman: … if you study and work hard, you can be anything you want to be!
Girl: Let’s say that’s true.

Girl: Take a survey. Ask everyone what they want to be.
Girl: In my class you’ll find three astronauts, a couple firefighters, a bunch of baseball players and rock stars, and one cow minder.
Girl: Kid just loves him some cows.

Girl: But is that enough to build a functioning civilization?
Girl: If everybody gets to turn their poetry into a lucrative career, hadn’t we better hope someone decides to take up sewage treatment as a hobby?

Girl: For the good of society as a whole, someone will have to spend a life doing something they don’t want to do.
Girl: It’s an absolute requisite.
Woman: So you’re volunteering?
Girl: Heck no dude. I’m’ma teach folk music to bees.

{{header: toil away at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: ‘Come along Chadwick,’ said Father, pulling the boy roughly by the hand. ‘But Papa!’ came the plaintive wail — ‘the cows, the cows, the cows, the cows!’}}

#609; In which Natalie finds the Fallacy transcribed by in

Woman: ... if you study and work hard, you can be anything you want to be!
Girl: Let's say that's true.

Girl: Take a survey. Ask everyone what they want to be.
Girl: In my class you'll find three astronauts, a couple firefighters, a bunch of baseball players and rock stars, and one cow minder.
Girl: Kid just loves him some cows.

Girl: But is that enough to build a functioning civilization?
Girl: If everybody gets to turn their poetry into a lucrative career, hadn't we better hope someone decides to take up sewage treatment as a hobby?

Girl: For the good of society as a whole, someone will have to spend a life doing something they don't want to do.
Girl: It's an absolute requisite.
Woman: So you're volunteering?
Girl: Heck no dude. I'm'ma teach folk music to bees.

{{header: toil away at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: 'Come along Chadwick,' said Father, pulling the boy roughly by the hand. 'But Papa!' came the plaintive wail -- 'the cows, the cows, the cows, the cows!'}}

'Come along, Chadwick,' said Father, pulling the boy roughly by the hand. 'But Papa!' came the plaintive wail--'the cows, the cows, the cows, the cows!'

#609; In which Natalie finds the Fallacy

  — March 30th, 2010

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Applications open for Genius Northwest – an IRL gaming competition

May 8, 2026 by David Malki !

Last year, I participated in Genius Northwest, a gaming competition inspired by the Korean gameshow The Genius and its ilk.

It’s a reality show without the cameras — a 3-day, all-inclusive weekend retreat structured around a series of challenges and puzzles, in which personalities and dealmaking matter as much as playing games.

It’s truly a remarkable thing. I came in dead last in the competition, but I still had a great time participating.

The event is held annually in the Pacific Northwest (hence the name) and applications are now open to participate in the 2026 competition!

Learn more — and apply — at GeniusNW.com.


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