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2011-08-27
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2011-08-27

by shaenon on August 27, 2011 at 12:01 am
Chapter: If I Ran the Zoo
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  1. Sam
    October 30, 2012, 6:46 am | # | Reply

    What a gem. I hope we’ll get to see this guy again some time.

  2. Greycat
    April 16, 2013, 8:36 am | # | Reply

    So Phil’s getting attached to Dave, huh?

  3. Ben
    September 24, 2013, 4:52 pm | # | Reply

    why does the sign say – in ASCII? Is that supposed to mean something?

    • jjjdavidson
      January 2, 2018, 1:50 pm | # | Reply

      Way late to this party, but:

      Decimal 45 (hex 2D) is the EBCDIC ENQ code (Dave’s pretty up on old-school tech). “Enquiries desk” is a British expression, a sort of combination reception and information booth. (Or I could be reading way too much into a simple visual gag.)

  4. steveha
    October 16, 2013, 2:37 am | # | Reply

    Treating the sign as a binary number: 00101101 == 45 decimal == ASCII ‘-‘ (a hyphen).

  5. TheLivingNick
    July 15, 2015, 9:57 am | # | Reply

    Dave would TOTALLY have his robot secretary introduce itself as “Human-Cyborg Relations”. No matter how mad you go, the geek never goes away.

  6. Seph
    October 7, 2015, 3:53 pm | # | Reply

    How come Helen isn’t the boss?

    • Pygar
      November 22, 2015, 2:09 am | # | Reply

      She bosses life, he bosses machines?

    • Malicron
      April 4, 2016, 5:53 pm | # | Reply

      Helen’s a geneticist, while Dave’s an engineer; odds are Dave built the robots, so they see him as “the boss.” odds are any bio-engineered minions on the island would likely see Helen as the boss.

    • luciferlordofpride
      May 4, 2016, 11:08 pm | # | Reply

      She still is in charge of Narbonics Labs, I think, but the robotics are Dave’s domain.

  7. Z
    January 14, 2016, 5:43 pm | # | Reply

    Isn’t that an “Elephant Man” reference?

    • OneUniverse
      April 28, 2019, 12:05 pm | # | Reply

      I was thinking more of a “Planet of the Apes” quote, but you might be correct.

    • Stu
      September 19, 2020, 10:16 am | # | Reply

      Definitely Elephant Man.
      Also, having Phil on the baseball team would be a NIGHTMARE for the opposing pitcher trying to hit his strike zone – the MLB actually banned people under X height after one team hired a dwarf who was only 3’7″ – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Gaedel

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