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Sheldon Comics comic strip from April / 11 / 2008 [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.) (beach)]] / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / OSO: KAFF / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.) (beach)]] / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.) (beach)]] / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.) (beach)]] / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / OSO: SNIFF SNIFF SNIFF SNIFF / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / / [[Yard]] / GRAMP: What the... Where did YOU come from? You smell like fish.
Sheldon Comics comic strip from April / 12 / 2008 [[THE HOUSE]] / Lamp: / Chair: / ice cream: / GRAMP: / ARTHUR: Whoaaa... it says here that a baby blue whale gains 8 pounds every hour. / / [[THE HOUSE (Living room)]] / Lamp: / Book: / ARTHUR: 8 POUNDS! / EVERY HOUR! / / [[THE HOUSE]] / Lamp: / Chair: / ice cream: / GRAMP: C'MON man. I go to Häagen-Dazs ONCE A MONTH. Can you just let me eat it in peace?? / ARTHUR: Amazing creatures... "whales".
Sheldon Comics comic strip from April / 13 / 2008 Cowboy: Buyin' coffee beans, I see. / GRAMP: Um... yep. / / [[Grocery Store]] / Cowboy: Can't drink the stuff m'self. Bladder just can't handle it. / GRAMP: Oh. / Um. / / [[Grocery Store]] / Cowboy: Horse kicked me in the bidness when I was 16. Ain't been right since. / GRAMP: ... / / [[Grocery Store]] / Cowboy: So I ain't never drank coffee or tea. / ...or worn tight slacks. / / [[Grocery Store]] / Cowboy: Strangely enough, shouldn't be eating this broccoli, either. / ...gives me the "fire swamps" / / [[Grocery Store]] / Cowboy: But I gots to eat my veggies if I want to bounce back after my fifth marriage. / / [[Grocery Store]] / GRAMP: * / / [[Grocery Store]] / GRAMP: You're gonna tell me your social security number, aren't you? / Cowboy: Got it printed on my pre-signed checks.
Sheldon Comics comic strip from April / 14 / 2008 [[THE HOUSE (Living room)]] / Lamp: / Chair: / Book: / NARRATOR: Book-Lovers! Are you tired of printed books? Tired of using a battery-free data storage-and-retrieval system that works perfectly every time you pick it up? / GRAMP: No. / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.) (Rocks)]] / rock: / Book: / NARRATOR: Wouldn't you prefer to read books on a device that looks and feels like your first graphing calculator? / ARTHUR: No. / / [[THE HOUSE]] / Table: / Book: / Chair: / NARRATOR: And what if that same device could also surf the web? Wouldn't that be awesome? / SHELDON: Wouldn't I just use a laptop, and surf faster and easier? / / [[nonspecific (white background) (Narration Panel, no borders)]] / NARRATOR: The "Amazon Kindle" / ...The answer to the question you weren't asking
Sheldon Comics comic strip from April / 15 / 2008 [[nonspecific (white background)]] / NARRATOR: And now, a response from amazon's Jeff Bezos, to yesterday's critique of the "kindle"* eBook / NARRATOR: *""kindle"? ...setting books on fire? / / [[Amazon.com headquarter]] / Jeff Bezos: Look people, we live in a modern world. You need to get with the program on "eBooks" / / [[Amazon.com headquarter]] / Jeff Bezos: Because books are so yesterday. Last time I checked, Gutenberg was dead. / Jeff Bezos: Heloise? Fact check that for me. / / [[Amazon.com headquarter]] / Jeff Bezos: It's called "progress" people. We NEED to put unnecessary technologies into systems that already work fine. / Samsung is putting TV's into refridgerators for God's sake. / Jeff Bezos: THIS IS THE WORLD WE LIVE IN. / / [[Amazon.com headquarter]] / Jeff Bezos: So! Is the "Kindle" a winning product for Amazon? / Jeff Bezos: Let me put it to you THIS WAY: / / [[Amazon.com headquarter]] / Jeff Bezos: It's been MORE THAN VALIDATED... / Jeff Bezos: ...by the six people who bought one.
 
Sheldon Comics comic strip from April / 16 / 2008 [[nonspecific (white background)]] / ARTHUR: In our continuing point-counterpoint on eBooks, we've invited a Douglas fir tree to argue FOR eBooks. / Tree: Fir: But...I'm against 'em. / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / ARTHUR: What? No no no...eBooks have no paper, no print, no trucks to haul 'em to stores. You love that! / Tree: Fir: Look, I enjoy reading long-form stories on a screen about as much as I like watching 'The Matrix' on my iPod Nano. ...which is to say, not at all. / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / Tree: Fir: Screens are great for reading short packets of information: email, blogs, news...but there's not an e-ink made that makes me want to curl up and read 'Anna Karenina'. / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / Tree: Fir: Heck, I'll go one step further... ...if it saves someone from having to read a novel on a screen, I'll volunteer to BECOME a book for 'em! / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / Tree: Fir: / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / Tree: Fir: ...provided it's not another dang Danielle Steel novel. / Tree: Fir: We GET it, Danielle. "...Love always finds a way."
Sheldon Comics comic strip from April / 17 / 2008 ARTHUR: Whoaaa... What happened? Where's the 'stache? / GRAMP: It's gone. / / ARTHUR: Yeah, but why, dude? You've had the 'stache for years now. You're always sayin' you love the 'stache. / GRAMP: Well, it's gone now. / / ARTHUR: Yeah, but... / / GRAMP: LOOK. This was a well-thought-out decision, and i just need you to respect it. / / [[Bathroom]] / NARRATOR: Earlier... / GRAMP: Aw CRAPOLA.
Sheldon Comics comic strip from April / 18 / 2008 [[nonspecific (white background)]] / ARTHUR: / GRAMP: It's weird. I had this mustache for so long that the skin underneath is all baby-soft. / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / GRAMP: And even though it's a nice warm day, my upper lip feels chilly. Constantly chilly. / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / GRAMP: It's like I'm skiing down a crisp mountain slope, as a brisk, icy breeze tickles my skin. / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / ARTHUR: You sound like a mint ad. / GRAMP: I feel like a mint ad.
Sheldon Comics comic strip from April / 19 / 2008 ARTHUR: / GRAMP: Without the mustache, I'm just a normal guy. WITH the mustache, I was somebody special. / / ARTHUR: / GRAMP: A guy with a mustache is part of an... ELITE... group of society / / ARTHUR: / GRAMP: / / ARTHUR: "....Dudes who still think it's 1979??" / GRAMP: ...And truckers. AND truckers.
Sheldon Comics comic strip from April / 20 / 2008 [[THE POND]] / Rope: / ARTHUR: / SHELDON: Imagine it. In 1903, a kid could've read about humanity's first powered flight at Kittyhawk. / / [[THE POND]] / Rope: / SHELDON: Then, just 66 years later... that same person could've watched humanity land on the moon! / / [[THE POND]] / Rope: / SHELDON: In one lifetime, a person could've lived through the first flight, first trans-atlantic flight, first supersonic flight, and the first trip to the moon! / What must've gone through their head?? / / [[THE POND (in pond)]] / ARTHUR: / SHELDON: ... Wish... I could live... few more years... to try out... Wii sports.!!
 
Sheldon Comics comic strip from April / 21 / 2008 [[Sheldonsoft (Exterior, Sheldonsoft Logo)]] / ARTHUR: Talk to me. / / [[Sheldonsoft (Hallway)]] / SHELDON: Buyout. / Employee: We're losing market share to new p2p companies like metapeer and dreamwad. / / [[Sheldonsoft (meeting room, Sheldonsoft Logo)]] / Table: / paper: / SHELDON: Source it. Tough customer. / Employee: Their combined worth is over $8 billion. They just got a VC injection from Europe. We did. It's deutschebank. / / [[nonspecific (white and black background)]] / SHELDON: Spin up the heli on pad three. Back in sixty, gentlemen. / Employee 2: Sir, it's your one-o'clock. We need to go. / / [[nonspecific (white and black background)]] / SHELDON: Spin up the heli on pad three. Back in sixty, gentlemen. / Employee 2: Sir, it's your one-o'clock. We need to go. / / [[THE POND]] / Rope: / SHELDON: / ARTHUR: / FLACO:
Sheldon Comics comic strip from April / 22 / 2008 [[THE HOUSE (generic room)]] / SHELDON: / ARTHUR: Flaco's gone--the scamp's vanished! And right in the midst of our new training regimen! / / [[THE HOUSE (generic room)]] / SHELDON: I wouldn't worry--he's probably hurk-- / ARTHUR: Probably what? Is he 'hurt' you say? My boy is in danger, oh no! / / [[THE HOUSE (generic room)]] / FLACO: squeeee / SHELDON: He's--he's crawling up my trouser-leg. / ARTHUR: A-ha! Our training in clambering pays off! / GRAMP: Lizard-spittle! Every-where! O this blasted menagerie! [Flaco's tongue whips about, leaving traces on all surfaces.]
Sheldon Comics comic strip from April / 23 / 2008 GRAMP: What in blazes are you up to?! / / FLACO: / ARTHUR: Spelunking the sewer! / / FLACO: / ARTHUR: We're looking for baby alligators. / / ARTHUR: / FLACO: / GRAMP: Well stop! You'll clog the toilet! / / GRAMP: / / GRAMP: / ARTHUR: Where's the plunger?
Sheldon Comics comic strip from April / 24 / 2008 [[sidewalk]] / SHELDON: Step aside guys! I gotta catch that UFO documentary coming on TV! / / [[sidewalk]] / SHELDON: / FLACO: / OSO: / ARTHUR: Seriously? Aliens? You actually think there are strange little otherworldly beings running around here among us just causing random mischief? / / [[sidewalk]] / FLACO: / OSO: / ARTHUR: / / [[sidewalk]] / SHELDON: / FLACO: / OSO: / ARTHUR: Why are you looking at us like that? Go watch your stupid show.
Sheldon Comics comic strip from April / 25 / 2008 [[Dave Kellett's house]] / ARTHUR: How's the new baby doin'? / Dave Kellett: It's bizarre... / / [[Dave Kellett's house]] / Dave Kellett: ...one night she sleeps for six hours, the next nights she's up every fifteen minutes. / / [[Dave Kellett's house]] / Dave Kellett: / ARTHUR: You know what they say: "A baby takes the sleep it needs." / / [[Dave Kellett's house]] / ARTHUR: / Dave Kellett: Yeah! But she's taking the sleep I need, too! / / [[Dave Kellett's house]] / ARTHUR: / FLACO: Squee squee squee! / Dave Kellett: That's part of the umbilical cord that's still attached to the baby's belly button. / / [[Dave Kellett's house]] / FLACO: / ARTHUR: / Dave Kellett: We'll douse it with alcohol until it dries up and falls off. / / [[Dave Kellett's house]] / FLACO: Squee squee squee squee squee squee squee! / ARTHUR: Yeah! I always thought that was an old wives' tale, too! / / [[Dave Kellett's house]] / FLACO: / Dave Kellett: Good point... Lindsay Lohan still has her tongue, right? / ARTHUR: According to several reliable sources, yes.
 
Sheldon Comics comic strip from April / 26 / 2008 [[Inside (non-specific)]] / Book: / Chair: / ARTHUR: You're smart. Nerdy, rich, and smart. REALLY nerdy-- / SHELDON: Your point? / / [[Inside (non-specific)]] / ARTHUR: Well... you could have done anything. ANYTHING. And you uploaded an ENCYCLOPEDIA into a DUCK'S BRAIN. Do you... / SHELDON: What? / / [[Inside (non-specific)]] / Book: / Chair: / SHELDON: / ARTHUR: Do you ever regret it? / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.) (sunshine, tree, water)]] / Rope: / OSO: / ARTHUR: / SHELDON:
Sheldon Comics comic strip from April / 27 / 2008 [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / baseball: / SHELDON: There it is! I've been looking all over for that! / ARTHUR: Hey! / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / baseball: / SHELDON: / ARTHUR: What's the big idea? Keep your hands off my son! / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / baseball: / SHELDON: Your "son?" / ARTHUR: Sure thing! Once this baby hatches, hello fatherhood! / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / baseball: / SHELDON: It's a baseball! / ARTHUR: Think of it... my son... the athlete!
Sheldon Comics comic strip from April / 28 / 2008 [[nonspecific (black background)]] / NARRATOR: Star Wars Episode IV According to Flaco / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / FLACO: squee... / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / FLACO: squee... / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / FLACO: squee squee. / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / FLACO: squee squee squee squee squee squee... / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / FLACO: squee squee squeee? squee squee... / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / FLACO: / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / FLACO: squee squee squee squee squee squee! / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / FLACO: / ARTHUR: That was absolutely adorable.
Sheldon Comics comic strip from April / 29 / 2008 [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / egg: / NARRATOR: What if...Arthur had found a different kind of egg? / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / pancakes: / GRAMP: / SHELDON: / ARTHUR: Don't be a fool, old man! Flaco, my son: secure the pancakes! / Alligator: SQUEE!
Sheldon Comics comic strip from April / 30 / 2008 [[Outside House]] / mailbox: / ARTHUR: HeyHEY! ...my Netflix movies are here! / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / ARTHUR: Movies...that I...put...in my queue...for some...forgotten reason. And which...I was only marginally interested in...even then. / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / ARTHUR: And which...I now...get...to watch / / [[THE HOUSE]] / Television: / ARTHUR:
 
Sheldon Comics comic strip from May / 01 / 2008 [[Kitchen (near Counter)]] / SHELDON: / GRAMP: You start with a cup of arabica coffee. And add in two dashes of demerara sugar... / / [[Kitchen]] / GRAMP: Three pumps of monin vanilla syrup... / / [[Kitchen]] / GRAMP: A splash of steamed milk...with a spoonful of foamed milk. / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / GRAMP: ...and voila! / SHELDON: ...a drink that's 3% actual coffee.
Sheldon Comics comic strip from May / 02 / 2008 [[THE HOUSE]] / GRAMP: Wow! Herman Melville died a financial failure. He couldn't make a living as a writer. / ARTHUR: Well THAT'S a whale of a problem, isn't it? / / [[THE HOUSE]] / ARTHUR: I mean, seriously! You don't get over a HUMPback like that! What can you do, as a writer? Go down to Starbucks and complain? / / [[THE HOUSE]] / ARTHUR: People would just tell you they don't give a ship about your living. And they'd say, "Get a job, hippy!" And you'd say, "but A-HAB a job!" / / [[THE HOUSE]] / GRAMP: Oh MAN. Please tell me you're done. / ARTHUR: CALL ME Just gettin' warmed up.
Sheldon Comics comic strip from May / 03 / 2008 [[THE HOUSE (Living room)]] / [[Living Room (In Gramp's chair)]] / Chair: / Lamp: / GRAMP: / ARTHUR: Seriously? Moby Dick is the greatest novel in the English language?? Seriously? / / [[THE HOUSE (Living room)]] / [[Living Room (In Gramp's chair)]] / ARTHUR: It goes on for 40 pages about how sails are tied! / I mean, jeez. I GET IT. It's symbolism and metaphor. But ain't nobody wantin' to read 40 pages of THAT. / / [[THE HOUSE]] / [[Living Room (In Gramp's chair)]] / Chair: / Lamp: / GRAMP: Lots of people want to read that! / ARTHUR: Are you joking? Six doctoral candidates at Yale want to read that!! And everyone else checks out. I bet even MELVILLE checked out. / / [[nonspecific (white background)]] / Herman Melville: "And the sail is tied ever thusly: Over, under, over, under, left, right, over, under..." / Herman Melville: Good Lord
Sheldon Comics comic strip from May / 04 / 2008 [[THE HOUSE (Living room)]] / Book: / Chair: / GRAMP: "Call me Ishmael" ...strong start / NARRATOR: Read that first line / / [[THE HOUSE (Living room)]] / Book: / Chair: / GRAMP: / NARRATOR: Enjoy the first few chapters / / [[THE HOUSE (Living room)]] / Book: / Chair: / GRAMP: / NARRATOR: Glaze over when you get to the endless pages talking about rope / / [[THE HOUSE (Living room)]] / Book: / Chair: / GRAMP: / (SOUND FX): / NARRATOR: Skip 120 to 140 pages / / [[THE HOUSE (Living room)]] / Book: / Chair: / GRAMP: It's like missing six weeks of "Days of Our Lives"! No plot has been advanced! / NARRATOR: Realize you missed nothing / / [[THE HOUSE (Living room)]] / Book: / Chair: / GRAMP: daaaaang... / NARRATOR: Get to the part where he says "if his chest had been a cannon, he would have shot his heart upon it..." / / [[THE HOUSE (Living room)]] / Book: / Chair: / GRAMP: / NARRATOR: But then you get a few more chapters on ship maintenance, causing you to fall asleep with your eyes open. / / [[THE HOUSE (Living room)]] / Book: / Chair: / GRAMP: / NARRATOR: Go back to watching "America's Next Top Model"
Sheldon Comics comic strip from May / 05 / 2008 [[Restaurant]] / GRAMP: / Waiter: No! No I will NOT tell you what dishes I recommend. / / GRAMP: / Waiter: EVERY time you come in here, you ask me what my favorite dishes are. And every time I tell you, you ignore my picks and get the Chicken. / / [[Restaurant]] / GRAMP: / Waiter: I think you only want me to recommend the Chicken Dish so you'll feel good about your choice. / / [[Restaurant]] / GRAMP: / Waiter: So you know what? From now on I'm just gonna lie. I love that chicken dish. Best dish we have. / / [[Restaurant]] / GRAMP: / Waiter: Chicken CHICKEN chicken chicken chicken / / [[Restaurant]] / GRAMP: Li'l bit. / Waiter: You happy now??
 
Sheldon Comics comic strip from May / 06 / 2008 [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.) (lawn)]] / ARTHUR: / FLACO: / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.) (lawn)]] / FLACO: / ARTHUR: ''I said a hip hop the hippie the hippie, to the hip hip hop a you don't stop the rock it to the bang bang boogie say up jumped the boogie to the rhythm of the boogie, the beeeeat.'' / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.) (lawn)]] / ARTHUR: / FLACO: / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.) (lawn)]] / ARTHUR: Sometimes, my boy, you gotta bust it nonsensically old school. / FLACO: Squee
Sheldon Comics comic strip from May / 07 / 2008 [[Grassy Hill]] / FLACO: / ARTHUR: Why do our minds see shapes in clouds, Flaco? Do you think it's our attempt to make sense of the world? / / [[Grassy Hill]] / FLACO: / ARTHUR: ...to find order in what is otherwise random? To find truth, there? To find meaning? / / [[Grassy Hill]] / FLACO: / ARTHUR: If so, what a beautiful statement of our existence! Our minds are constantly trying to make sense of the world... to find greater meaning--even in random clouds! / / [[Grassy Hill]] / ARTHUR: / FLACO: / / [[Grassy Hill]] / ARTHUR: / FLACO: / / [[Grassy Hill]] / FLACO: / ARTHUR: That one looks like a fat dude on a bike.
Sheldon Comics comic strip from May / 08 / 2008 [[Grassy Hill]] / FLACO: / ARTHUR: Lookit that one! A big wedding cake! / / [[Grassy Hill]] / ARTHUR: / FLACO: / / [[Grassy Hill]] / FLACO: / ARTHUR: An apple! An apple! / / [[Grassy Hill]] / ARTHUR: / FLACO: / / [[Grassy Hill]] / FLACO: / ARTHUR: A submarine sandwich! / / [[Grassy Hill]] / FLACO: / ARTHUR: A big, chocolate-covered--... / / [[Grassy Hill]] / ARTHUR: / FLACO: / / [[Grassy Hill]] / FLACO: / ARTHUR: Good Lord. Did I miss a meal or something?
Sheldon Comics comic strip from May / 09 / 2008 [[Meadow]] / SHELDON: Wait - the new Hulk movie is not a sequel? / ARTHUR: Nope. They're admitting the first movie was tempestuous bat guano, and starting again. / / [[Meadow]] / SHELDON: So basically, they're calling cinematic do-overs. / ARTHUR: 100 million dollar do-overs, yeah. / / [[Meadow]] / SHELDON: / ARTHUR: / / [[Meadow]] / SHELDON: "...Tempestuous bat guano" is very evocative. / ARTHUR: Word-a-day calendar.
Sheldon Comics comic strip from May / 10 / 2008 [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / SHELDON: / FLACO: / ARTHUR: Check it out! Check it out! Flack's gonna do a Hulk impersonation! / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / FLACO: / ARTHUR: First, he packs his lungs with air... / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / FLACO: / ARTHUR: Then he strikes a Hulk pose! / Ha! Awesome! / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / FLACO: / ARTHUR: Ooo... But then he... Um... Gets dizzy? I think? / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / FLACO: / ARTHUR: And then he um... Passes out? / Flaco? / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / ARTHUR: / FLACO: / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / SHELDON: / ARTHUR: / / [[OUTSIDE (Generic: forest, trees, etc.)]] / SHELDON: / ARTHUR: Then he, um, shoots back fifteen feet into a shrub. / Maybe no more Hulk stuff, Champ.
 

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