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Sheldon Comics comic strip from December / 11 / 2007 The Living Embodiment of Wikipedia: What's your beef with Wikipedia, anyway? Lots of studies show I'm just as accurate as professionally edited encyclopedias. / SHELDON: The word count for Wikipedia's entry on George Washington? 10,431 / / SHELDON: The word count for the Wikipedia entryon Optimus Prime? 17,184! / / Chart: [Column graph showing main contributors to Wikipedia: unbelievably huge nerds (overwhelming majority), nerds (significant number), hobbyists (significant number), historians (small proportion)] / The Living Embodiment of Wikipedia: To be fair, Prime is a few millennia older than George / SHELDON: HE'S A FICTIONAL DANG TOY. / ARTHUR: Perhaps my chart can help explain things...
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/071211.html
Sheldon Comics comic strip from December / 12 / 2007 ARTHUR: Don't think I don't get it. I GET IT. Wikipedia is optimistic. It's hopeful. / The Living Embodiment of Wikipedia: / / ARTHUR: It says "Give everyone equal access to edit an encyclopedia, and they'll make it work. They'll keep it accurate." / / ARTHUR: But here's the deal: among all those well-meaning people will be a few genuine IDIOTS. And those idiots can mess things up... even if they're a tiny minority. / The Living Embodiment of Wikipedia: ...How tiny a minority? / / ARTHUR: I dunno... 1 in 100?? It's impossible to quantify... / The Living Embodiment of Wikipedia: We could look it up on Wikipedia...
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/071212.html
Sheldon Comics comic strip from December / 13 / 2007 Albert Einstein: / NARRATOR: This is Albert Einstein. He's a pretty smart dude. / / Bottle: / NARRATOR: This is Buford T. Diggins. He owns 17 bloodhounds, all named "Robert E. Lee" / redneck: Got THIS at the gettin' place! / / Laptop: / Albert Einstein: / redneck: / NARRATOR: On Wikipedia, both these guys have an EQUAL voice in editing the section on "Theoretical Physics". Even worse, they can go back and forth for years, deleting and editing one another's entries. / (SOUND FX): tac tac tac / / Laptop: / NARRATOR: "Wikipedia: It works, because everyone is equally smart" / Albert Einstein: Vot have you done?? You deleted my entire entry on relativity! Now it just says "You ain't supposed to marry your relatives." / redneck: I is also gon' start performin' open-heart surgeries next week. 'Cuz everyone is equally smart ...So I is a doctor now! Right, Robert E. Lee? / Dog: Baroooo!
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/071213.html
Sheldon Comics comic strip from December / 14 / 2007 The Living Embodiment of Wikipedia: Well fellas, I gotta go. Thanks for the cocoa, Shelton. / ARTHUR: / SHELDON: Um, it's "Sheldon". / / The Living Embodiment of Wikipedia: Jeez! Stop complaining about accuracy in Wikipedia! If you see a fact is wrong, go in and fix it! That's the whole point! ...and it only takes a second. / / SHELDON: Yeah, but I don't wanna spend my life correcting & recorrecting errors made by trolls and-- / The Living Embodiment of Wikipedia: FINE. Whatever. I'm outta here... / / ARTHUR: Don't leave mad, Wikipedia! We still love you as a casual reference! / SHELDON: ...We'll just never cite you in a term paper! / The Living Embodiment of Wikipedia: Whatever, Shelbo!
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/071214.html
Sheldon Comics comic strip from December / 15 / 2007 [[THE HOUSE]] / Chair: / ARTHUR: Can I open that big Christmas gift addressed to me? please please please please please / GRAMP: No! Of course not! It's not Christmas! / / ARTHUR: ...But in my heart, EVERY day is Christmas. / GRAMP: / / ARTHUR: / GRAMP: / / GRAMP: For the briefest of seconds, that sounded sincere. / ARTHUR: please please please please please please I'll do this 'til I pass out please please please please please
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/071215.html
 
Sheldon Comics comic strip from December / 16 / 2007 [[THE HOUSE (Living room)]] / Broom: / Broom: / ARTHUR: / SHELDON: YOU... / SHALL... / NOT... / PASS! / / [[THE HOUSE (Living room)]] / Broom: / Broom: / FLACO: / SHELDON: YOU... / SHALL... / NOT... / PASS! / / [[THE HOUSE (Living room)]] / Broom: / Broom: / OSO: / SHELDON: YOU... / SHALL... / NOT... / PASS! / / [[THE HOUSE (Living room)]] / Broom: / Broom: / Chair: / Newspaper: / OSO: / ARTHUR: / FLACO: / SHELDON: *INHAAAALE...* / GRAMP: You...shall...not...watch "Lord of the Rings" anymore...
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/071216.html
Sheldon Comics comic strip from December / 17 / 2007 [[christmas tree lot]] / Christmas Tree: / Car: / NARRATOR: A guy is a guy, no matter the age: / From the rule-book of life, they have learned not a page / If there's objects to lift, then lift them we will / From a pound to a ton -- or far grander still! / It's genetic, perhaps, to try dumb, manly stuff / And lifting too much is one we do enough. / To counter this fact, Christmas lots offer aid: / Need to move a big tree? They'll come help right away! / But no! You're a guy! For "help" you won't ask: / You'll just lift by yourself...and put trees through your glass. / GRAMP: ...thought I could do it. / ARTHUR: Every guy does.
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/071217.html
Sheldon Comics comic strip from December / 18 / 2007 [[THE HOUSE (Living room)]] / Chair: / Newspaper: / ARTHUR: Hey. There's a package for me under the tree from Santa. / GRAMP: ..and? / / [[THE HOUSE (Living room)]] / Chair: / Newspaper: / ARTHUR: ...and Santa's handwriting looks just like yours. / GRAMP: Oh! Um! Sometimes Santa gets busy...and needs helpers to, um, write on the tags. / / [[THE HOUSE (Living room)]] / Chair: / Newspaper: / ARTHUR: / GRAMP: / / [[THE HOUSE]] / Christmas Tree: / Christmas ornaments: / christmas presents: / ARTHUR: Makes Sense. / Busy dude.
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/071218.html
Sheldon Comics comic strip from December / 19 / 2007 [[nonspecific (white background)]] / Pencil: / Sheet of paper: / ARTHUR: Dear Santa -- Hey! So, Gramp tells me you've hired him as a subcontractor. / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / Pencil: / ARTHUR: That's rad. I'm super on board with you hiring freelancers to help with stuff. / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / Pencil: / Sheet of paper: / ARTHUR: / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / Pencil: / Sheet of paper: / gift: / Resume: / ARTHUR: Hey, so, please find enclosed a two-pound assortment of savory cheeses. And also, totally unrelated, my resume.
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/071219.html
Sheldon Comics comic strip from December / 20 / 2007 [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / mailbox: / Letter: / ARTHUR: Hey! Santa wrote me about the job! / / [[THE HOUSE]] / Letter: / ARTHUR: Waitaminute. This is in YOUR handwriting again. / GRAMP: Oh. Yeah. He called and dictated it to me / / [[THE HOUSE]] / ARTHUR: What? REALLY?? That means you have Santa's number saved on your phone! / GRAMP: Um, no...'cause....his number came up as "unknown caller"... / / [[THE HOUSE]] / ARTHUR: MAN. Santa's got this figured out nine ways to Sunday. / GRAMP: Surprisingly, he mostly makes it up as he goes along.
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/071220.html
 
Sheldon Comics comic strip from December / 21 / 2007 [[nonspecific (white background)]] / GRAMP: / ARTHUR: This is fishy. You're telling me that Santa GOT my letter, but instead of WRITING me back, he CALLED you and DICTATED a letter? / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / ARTHUR: Is that REALLY what you're telling me? REALLY? / GRAMP: Um, YES. / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / ARTHUR: / / [[THE POND]] / ARTHUR: Santa answered my letter!
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/071221.html
Sheldon Comics comic strip from December / 22 / 2007 [[nonspecific (white background)]] / NARRATOR: The 3 types of Christmas cards... / / [[nonspecific (black background)]] / Letter: / pg 64 (cont'd) ...hit the home run just as th... school. But the doctor said... ended with 42 stitches. So... But he's a trooper! Meanwhile, Li'l Timmy... has been having a great ti... (and picked his nose). It was... surprise! Only the cat know... ate a whole bag of Oreos! ...bats since June, w... / NARRATOR: The photocopied family letter... which starts to read like an endless Greek epic / / [[nonspecific (black background)]] / Christmas card: Merry Christmas! -- Cletus / NARRATOR: The "shy" letter: vaguely creepy, with nothing but the signed name inside / / [[nonspecific (black background)]] / Christmas card: / Wishing You A Merry Christmas! Plus $10 off your next lube. Love, your close, personal friends at Jiffy Lube / NARRATOR: The "personal" letter
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/071222.html
Sheldon Comics comic strip from December / 23 / 2007 [[nonspecific (white background) (no borders)]] / Cards: / NARRATOR: Christmas photo cards, and what they REALLY say: / NARRATOR: Your hip friend's photo montage: "...my life is infinitely better than yours" / NARRATOR: The matching outfits: "...Mom's a little controlling" / NARRATOR: The surly photo: "...Mom and Dad vs. the angry teenage years" / NARRATOR: The photo showing only the kids: "...we're feeling old and fat. Here! Look at our kids, instead!"
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/071223.html
Sheldon Comics comic strip from December / 24 / 2007 [[THE HOUSE (Living room, night)]] / Video Camera: / Microphone: / fireplace: / TV: / Powerstrip: / headphones: / electric cord and plug: / ARTHUR: / GRAMP: / (SOUND FX): Poink!
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/071224.html
Sheldon Comics comic strip from December / 25 / 2007 [[THE HOUSE (Living room)]] / Couch: / Christmas Tree: / boxes: / Wrapping Paper: / Coffee Cup: / GRAMP: / FLACO: / SHELDON: / OSO: / ARTHUR: Again! Again!
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/071225.html
 
Sheldon Comics comic strip from December / 26 / 2007 [[nonspecific (white background) (Narration Panel)]] / NARRATOR: Christmas eating, in a nutshell / / [[THE HOUSE]] / pie: / Piece of Pie: / Plate: / fork: / GRAMP: / NARRATOR: 1. "Delicious" / / [[THE HOUSE]] / pie: / Piece of Pie: / Plate: / fork: / GRAMP: / NARRATOR: 2. "Aware you should cool your jets" / / [[THE HOUSE]] / pie: / Piece of Pie: / Plate: / fork: / GRAMP: / NARRATOR: 3. "Kinda disgusted with yourself" / / [[THE HOUSE]] / pie tin: / Plate: / fork: / GRAMP: / NARRATOR: 4. "A disturbing sense of pride"
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/071226.html
Sheldon Comics comic strip from December / 27 / 2007 [[nonspecific (white background)]] / Chair: / Newspaper: / GRAMP: / ARTHUR: So I just read this book, "Green Eggs and Ham." 61 pages of one dude tryin' to convince another dude to try this weird food. / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / ARTHUR: Man, though...the protestations! Pages 'n pages of the second dude goin' "No way I'm trying that. Not evenif I was on a boat, or a train, or a lowcost, regional air carrier." / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / Chair: / Newspaper: / ARTHUR: / GRAMP: / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / Chair: / Newspaper: / ARTHUR: But then the dude tries it. Bam! Totally loves it. / ...First dude was right. / GRAMP: Yes, I'm familiar.
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/071227.html
Sheldon Comics comic strip from December / 28 / 2007 [[Living Room]] / Newspaper: / ARTHUR: "Hey, wanna try some green eggs and ham?" / GRAMP: / ARTHUR: "Normally I wouldn't... but what the heck -- I'm trying to keep myself open to new things." / / [[Living Room]] / Newspaper: / GRAMP: / ARTHUR: "Hey! Wow! This is pretty tasty!" / / [[Living Room]] / Newspaper: / ARTHUR: And BAM. We're out in two pages. / GRAMP: / GRAMP: Yes. Great. Bravissimo.
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/071228.html
Sheldon Comics comic strip from December / 29 / 2007 [[THE HOUSE]] / Laundry basket: / GRAMP: / ARTHUR: Also! "The Cat in the Hat!" ...It don't make no sense! / / [[THE HOUSE]] / ARTHUR: The mom just up and leaves her kids at home, alone? It's just, "Sayonara, kids! Good luck! I'm off to Pizza Hut or whatever!" / / [[THE HOUSE]] / ARTHUR: What mom does that? You're ASKING for a large, be-hatted cat to walk in and start messin' up the works. / / [[THE HOUSE]] / Laundry basket: / Washing Machine: / GRAMP: ...I think you need to get outside a bit more. / ARTHUR: And what's with the SIZE of that cat?? He's, like, 800 feet tall! / ...that boy can eat.
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/071229.html
Sheldon Comics comic strip from December / 30 / 2007 [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / bag of flour: / line of flour on the ground: / FLACO: / ARTHUR: Here it is: "The Future!" / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / ARTHUR: At midnight on New Year's, we'll jump over the line and BE in the -- / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / bag of flour: / line of flour on the ground: / ARTHUR: Awdangit. NO. Get back here. You can't go into the future yet. / FLACO: ...squee? / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / ARTHUR: Because. You can't just decide to be in the future. You gotta wait for it to come to y--.. / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / ARTHUR: / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / bag of flour: / line of flour on the ground: / ARTHUR: / FLACO:
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/071230.html
 
Sheldon Comics comic strip from December / 31 / 2007 [[THE HOUSE (Living room)]] / Chair: / Newspaper: / SHELDON: Gramp, have you seen my "Black" AMEX card? / GRAMP: ...your what with the who? / / [[THE HOUSE]] / SHELDON: My Black AMEX card. They only give 'em out to billionaires, and they have no spending limit. / / [[THE HOUSE (Living room)]] / Chair: / Newspaper: / GRAMP: / SHELDON: I have no idea where I dropped it, and I'm terrified who might find it. / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / Black Amex card: / ARTHUR: Saaaaay...
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/071231.html
Sheldon Comics comic strip from January / 01 / 2008 [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / Black Amex card: / ARTHUR: Sheldon's Black AMEX card!?! / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / ARTHUR: Why would Sheldon just leave this laying around? Is he testing me? / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / ARTHUR: He IS! He's testing whether I have the backbone to seize life's opportunities. / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / ARTHUR: He's testing to see if I have the sheer STRENGTH OF WILL to grab what I want in life. / / [[Beach (resort)]] / Pina Colada: / pool: / lounge chair: / ARTHUR: What a great test!
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080101.html
Sheldon Comics comic strip from January / 02 / 2008 [[Beach]] / Drinks: / woman (generic) 1: / ARTHUR: haHA! That's a good one, Vikki! / / [[Beach]] / Drink: / ARTHUR: (quoting)"...but the bear ate BOTH tacos." HA! You tell the best jokes! *ssssip...* / / [[Beach]] / ARTHUR: Saaay.......you know what'd be fun this afternoon? / / [[A black background]] / SHELDON: Hi, this is AMEX. Did you recently rent two hang-gliders in Cancun, Mexico? / / [[Sky (Slightly cloudy, above a rocky cliffside)]] / hang gliders: / woman (generic) 1: / ARTHUR: Ha! Oh, Vikki! What fun we're having!
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080102.html
Sheldon Comics comic strip from January / 03 / 2008 [[Inside (non-specific) (Flat white background)]] / Cell Phone: / SHELDON: I gotta get a hold of Arthur. He's spending ridiculous amounts of money with my credit card. / ...Do you know his cell phone number? / FLACO: squee. / / [[Inside (non-specific) (Flat white background)]] / Cell Phone: / SHELDON: / FLACO: squee.squee.squee, squee.squee.squee.squee / / [[Inside (non-specific) (Flat white background)]] / Cell Phone: / SHELDON: / FLACO: / / [[Inside (non-specific) (Flat white background)]] / Cell Phone: / SHELDON: ...you dial. / FLACO: squee.
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080103.html
Sheldon Comics comic strip from January / 04 / 2008 [[nonspecific (white background)]] / Cell Phone: / SHELDON: Arthur's not picking up his cell phone. / ...something must be wrong. / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / Cell Phone: / SHELDON: That moron's probably been flashing that credit card around...and...and...somebody mugged him. / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / Cell Phone: / SHELDON: Oh, my duck! My sweet, baby duck! / ...he's probably half-dead in a ditch somewhere! / / [[Mexico]] / [[Beach (resort)]] / Cell Phone: / limbo pole: / NARRATOR: Meanwhile... / ARTHUR: Evvabody limmmbo! / (SOUND FX): ring ring ring
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080104.html
 
Sheldon Comics comic strip from January / 05 / 2008 [[THE HOUSE (Living room)]] / Chair: / Newspaper: / SHELDON: Gramp! Gramp! I need to go to Mexico -- I gotta go get Arthur! / GRAMP: No way, Jose. / / [[THE HOUSE (Living room)]] / Chair: / Newspaper: / SHELDON: Well, will YOU go for me? / GRAMP: Me?? Right now? Heck no. / / [[THE HOUSE (Living room)]] / SHELDON: Well, I can't just send the dog. SOMEONE'S gotta go down and -- / / [[THE HOUSE]] / SHELDON: / / [[THE HOUSE]] / Book: / SHELDON: How many hours would it take you to get to the border? / FLACO: squee.
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080105.html
Sheldon Comics comic strip from January / 06 / 2008 [[nonspecific (white background)]] / map: / Pencil: / Sheet of paper: / FLACO: / NARRATOR: HIS MISSION: Travel 2500 miles to retrieve one duck in Cancun, Mexico / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / FLACO: / NARRATOR: HIS MIND: Razor sharp / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / FLACO: / NARRATOR: HIS RESOLVE: Firm / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / Remote-control plane: / remote control: / Wrench: / FLACO: / NARRATOR: HIS VEHICLE: A T-28 remote-control plane capable of flying 45 M.P.H. / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / Remote-control plane: / remote control: / Coffee Cup: / straw: / FLACO: Phoo! / NARRATOR: HIS ONE PIT-STOP: 7-Eleven, for six fresh "D" batteries...and one "Bladder Buster"-size coffee
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080106.html
Sheldon Comics comic strip from January / 07 / 2008 [[Sky]] / Remote-control plane: / FLACO: / NARRATOR: At 3.000 feet, tragedy strikes! Flaco's plane suddenly loses power, and begins to nosedive! / (SOUND FX): putt putt puhhhht / / FLACO: BUT YEARS OF TRAINING INSTANTLY KICK IN... *DING!* / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / FLACO: / NARRATOR: In a flash, he's popped out his batteries, swapped 'em around a little, and wacked 'em two or three times. / ... and BAM! he's back in business! / / [[Sky]] / Remote-control plane: / FLACO: / NARRATOR: T.V. remote controls: they continue to teach us so much. / (SOUND FX): vrrrr!
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080107.html
Sheldon Comics comic strip from January / 08 / 2008 [[Cancun]] / Airplane: / NARRATOR: 65 MILES OUT OF CANCUN, AGENT X LANDS HIS PLANE. / / [[Cancun]] / Phone Booth: / NARRATOR: HE FINDS THE PRE-DETERMINED CHECK-IN POINT... / / [[Cancun]] / Phone Booth: / NARRATOR: ...AND CALLS MISSION CONTROL FOR THE GREEN LIGHT TO PROCEED. / FLACO: Squee. Squeesquee squee. / / [[THE HOUSE (generic room)]] / Phone: / NARRATOR: MISSION CONTROL RECEIVES THE SIGNAL, AND GIVES THE GREEN LIGHT INSTANTLY! / GRAMP: WHAT? HELLO? WHO IS THIS??
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080108.html
Sheldon Comics comic strip from January / 09 / 2008 [[Cancun]] / Airplane: / NARRATOR: AGENT X STASHES HIS PLANE IN THE BRUSH, AND BEGINS HIS SEARCH FOR THE TARGET. / / [[Cancun]] / Binoculars: / NARRATOR: CANCUN IS A SPRAWLING RESORT TOWN OF 500,000 ...SO THIS SEARCH WILL NOT BE AN EASY ONE. / / [[Cancun]] / Binoculars: / NARRATOR: IT'S A PROCESS WHICH COULD DRAG ON FOR DAYS, ESPECIALLY IF THE TARGET IS LAYING LOW. / / [[Cancun]] / [[Outside a cantina]] / NARRATOR: LUCKILY, HE IS NOT. / Voice from inside cantina: BARTENDER! 16 MORE "SHIRLEY TEMPLES" FOR MIS AMIGOS, HERE!
http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/080109.html
 

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