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   somebodyshort said, 2 months ago

   didn’t see that one coming !!

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   lissybear said, 2 months ago

   “the geek shall inherit the earth”

   i have that t-shirt 8-)

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   Carmy said, 2 months ago

   It’s all geek to me!

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   Fairportfan2 said, 2 months ago

   Agh Get the rail! Start heating the tar

   Pluck those chickens!

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   Joe-Allen "Joe" Doty said, 2 months ago

   Danae is rather geeky and even creepy in her own way.

   She’s definitely a social RE — TARD in the way that she used it a few days ago.

   Danae isn’t very good at socializing herself.

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   nonsequitous said, 2 months ago

   The geek shall inher– wow, deja vu.

   You don’t think Wiley is getting his material from the folks that po-

   I have *no* sympathy for so-called addicts, to puns or otherwise.

   You see how easily it gets out of control. First a bad joke, then stealing bad jokes, the next thing, world domination. You see? You see??

   They choose their so-called “incorrigible” behavior, they can quit any time they really want to. You’ll never catch *me* stooping that low, nor incorriging anyone who does.

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   converses said, 2 months ago

   Jon Sequitur - I think Wiley writes a week’s worth of strips well in advance. I really don’t think he got that joke about the geek inheriting the earth from someone’s post on the Non Sequitur page.

   We are only seeing the strips in the time frame the syndicate allows - one day at a time.

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   nonsequitous said, 2 months ago

   I really don’t think he got that joke about the geek inheriting the earth from someone’s post on the Non Sequitur page.

   Are you sure? Well … I was thinking it would depend on which geek we were talking about but … okay. If you say so.

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   madKanga said, 2 months ago

   If I were to be pun-i-shed
   For every horrid pun I shed
   I’d go and find a puny shed
   In which to hide my punnish ‘ead.

   Not sure who wrote that (Ben Johnson?) - anyway, Jeffry better start looking for a shed.

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    DGooseE said, 2 months ago

    I knew those punsters were up to no good! LOL
    
    But wait a minute, think about it, given the state of the world today, they’re welcome to it.

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    pearlandpeach said, 2 months ago

    Yes, I read F&E every day. Wiley, this one is alittle lame.

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    BC13 said, 2 months ago

    I love it. Din’t see it coming. If I could, I’d say the geeks can have the Earth - I’m moving to another planet as far away from here as I can get.

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    Lewreader said, 2 months ago

    The meek shall inhibit the earth.

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    Wiley said, 2 months ago

    I thought it was pretty common knowledge about the lead time in comics, but apparently some folks are still unaware.

    All syndicated comics are done several weeks in advance. This series was done a month ago. It would be nice if we could do the comics on a more timely basis, like everything else in a newspaper, but editors want to have the comics long before publication.

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    kfaatz925 said, 2 months ago

    Love it! :)

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    Ji2m said, 2 months ago

    Beware of geeks bearing gifts…

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    chairump said, 2 months ago

    A pun, being the lowest form of humor, is therefore the basis of all whit.

    Punsters Inc.

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    billrad said, 2 months ago

    I share Jeffry’s addiction. Twenty panels isn’t so long to set up a pun. I pretty much quit telling the one about the boy-foot bear with teaks of Chan and the one about the four-loaf cleaver and all the others because I took the reactions too personally. But seeing this strip and its reactions gives me the courage to attack our one-liner culture again. Of course I don’t get invited to parties, so I’m not sure when I’ll do it.

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    palos said, 2 months ago

    I’m venturing a guess that Danae will come to the geeks rescue and become Empress Danae. Everyone can now rise.

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    spok27 said, 2 months ago

    Billrad: Don’t forget about the marijuana loving flock of seagulls. It’s said there was no tern unstoned.

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    cleokaya said, 2 months ago

    Weak geek seeks to pique a freak who seeks to speak not cheek to cheek.

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    Grainpaw said, 2 months ago

    Then there was the henhouse haunted by a poultrygeist.

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    grazer said, 2 months ago

    haha, good stuff Wiley and fans!

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    afeeney said, 2 months ago

    Jon Sequitor.

    Your incorrigment is an example of Shock and Ow!

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    MurphyHerself said, 2 months ago

    Keep it up, guys, these are FUNNY!

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    jamodio said, 2 months ago

    That was a wonderful pun. really snuck up on me.
    Thanks!

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    JanCinVV said, 2 months ago

    My brother and my cousin are great punsters. It was like growing up in a pun competition. They were constantly trying to out-pun one another. (Still are) The rest of us learned how to react to that kind of humor - DON’T. Otherwise it just encourages them.

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    Radish said, 2 months ago

    Could be Jeffery is just putting Danae on.

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    MatureCanadian said, 2 months ago

    I love it. Best pun in years! Walked right into it too.
    
    Can’t believe Digital Frog hasn’t come up with a retort yet!

    Love the puns people. Thanks for starting this Wiley. Great setup. Spok27 haven’t heard that one since the 70’s!

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    BIG PINK MOM said, 2 months ago

    You ALL made my day.
    Wiley, you are the best.

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    Wiley said, 2 months ago

    Puns are best delivered from the blind-side. First the laugh, then the groan. Pretty hard to take life very seriously after that… at least for the moment.

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    maurovic said, 2 months ago

    Wiley, you ARE the best!
    Keep on punning!

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    lfanterickson said, 2 months ago

    I saw the geek inheriting the earth pun coming and was enjoying the setup. I usually pun instinctively, and enjoy when others beat me to them, thus I love reading the comments as much as the comics most days. We punny people are, indeed, encouraged by groans, and know some think themselves too good for them, so we try to sneak them in under the radar. That makes the victory complete!

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    shogun124 said, 2 months ago

    If geeks are addicted to puns, then that must mean the patron saint of geeks is Piers Anthony and his Xanth books are their gospels>

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    bunnyface (bmonk) said, 2 months ago

    chairump said, about 10 groans ago

    “A pun, being the lowest form of humor, is therefore the basis of all whit.

    “Punsters Inc.”

    I guess I’m halfway to being a wit, then…

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    Joe-Allen "Joe" Doty said, 2 months ago

    For me, puns aren’t very funny when they are used to make fun of what Jesus said.

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    Radish said, 2 months ago

    Tell me how that one goes…

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    Atma said, 2 months ago

    What you read as the words of Jesus in the bible is what the local language translator THOUGHT is meant in the Greek texts, which is a translation from what people remembered Jesus actually said many years before in Aramaic. If geeks could invent software to get around that cascade of corrupted meanings and give us the straight meaning, they’d deserve to inherit the earth! And pigs will fly. Until then, the jokes will start with “Once a pun a time….”

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    Catherine Moore said, 2 months ago

    It’s not a really good pun until people start throwing things at you. That said, Wiley, you got that shaggy dog in under my radar. Congratulations.

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    pbarnrob said, 2 months ago

    Right up there in punistry with Piers Anthony is Robert Asprin and his MythAdventure series… And we must not forget Spider Robinson and the Callahan’s Place stories.

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    Varnes Picard said, 2 months ago

    Jeeze, Joe, lighten up. No reason to get cross….Intelligent, well read people are the ones who use puns the most. They’re like mind candy. ….

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    firedome said, 2 months ago

    geeks inheriting the earth, eh? i don’t know…after all, we have to be wary of them when they start pulling scams on certain ursoids…in other words…
    beware of geeks grifting bears!

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    nonsequitous said, 2 months ago

    Puns are best delivered from the blind-side. First the laugh, then the groan.

    A truly horrible pun elicits a totally silent room, dropped jaws, and the victims’ faces going pale, the blood draining from them. Yessss…

    I’ve even been known to pun unintentionally, being unaware of it until people start throwing things at me. “Ow! What!!” Sort of a bizarre form of Tourettes. Now that’s the sign of a sick mind.

    If geeks are addicted to puns, then that must mean the patron saint of geeks is Piers Anthony

    Who? Spider Robinson.
    “Middle lamb, you’ve had a dizzy Bey!”
    “Very funny, but off topic.”
    “The topic was clearly Zion’s friction.”

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    lindz.coop said, 2 months ago

    Gak!! Isn’t the groan obligatory – even tho we really did find it funny?

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    TAZFAN said, 2 months ago

    Isaac Asimov wrote a short story in which the last line was:

    “A niche in time saves Stein!” Isaac probably liked

    Spider Robinson! ; - )