Nerds Like Us 2015-10-09

[AmriloJim]

Bimbo used to mean a tough guy.

It's also a baked goods brand.

Yup, available as far north as Amarillo. Distributed here by the Mrs. Bairds folks.

[Gyrrakavian]

Bimbo used to mean a tough guy.

It's also a baked goods brand.

No idea if that's the same. Being that that is Spanish (beem-boh) and the “bimbo" I'm referring to is from American 1920s and 30s slang.

Hell, Betty Boop's anthropomorphic pug boyfriend was named Bimbo

[AnotherFairportfan]

Also Betty Boop's boy friend



{Definitely from a pre-Hays Office cartoon)

[Gyrrakavian]

Bimbo used to mean a tough guy.

It's also a baked goods brand.

Yup, available as far north as Amarillo. Distributed here by the Mrs. Bairds folks.

Actually, as far north as Emporia*, Kansas. And possibly Topeka or K.C.

*there's this great little restaurant called El Marmol there that railroaders I pick up in Emporia always want me to take them to before we head to their drop off. You can get a burrito the size of your fist for $6, or one the size of both for $7.50. And the hot sauce is actually spicy (like ghost peppers are boring spicy). The purple building at the corner of South Avenue and West street (no, I'm not making that up), you can't miss it.

[Opus the Poet]

Sorry about that. Totally know the feeling, too (108 by my last count).

Only 108?

[lake_wrangler]

Sorry about that. Totally know the feeling, too (108 by my last count).

It's OK. I only have myself to blame... I particularly enjoy story-driven comics, and I probably have several hundreds bookmarked (not counting gag-a-day comics as well). I organize the bookmarks by type (sci-fi, Anthro-Furry-Animals, Computer-tech, Fantasy, etc). giving you an accurate count is both too complicated and time-consuming to bother with... Some, I check regularly, some I check weekly, some I check when I'm bored. Some take so long for me to go back to, that I forget what the story was about and have to go back through the archives...

I obviously have a problem, so you did not put me up to bookmarking it: I did it all on my own...

Let me guess, roughly half are ones you've found when the others you read go on hiatus for one reason or another.

I don't know about "half"... But I do have a tendency to follow links from ads on comic pages (like Project Wonderful), as well as suggestions from forums... Also, when I am bored and I make it through a comic's archives to their front page, sometimes I will check out their "links" page, to see what comics the author recommends... In either case, I will first open the comic in an anonymous browser window, in case I decide I not only don't want to read the comic, but don't even want it in my history (I don't want any indecent stuff in my history, for instance, or stuff that is too involved in realistic magic or witchcraft)... I will begin reading it for a while, and if I like it enough, I'll bookmark it. If not, I merely close the window.

[lake_wrangler]

Sorry about that. Totally know the feeling, too (108 by my last count).

Only 108?

I remember, a few years ago, I had bookmarks for over 800 or so comics. I tried to prune back those I hardly ever read, but I still had a lot leftover... Every year or two, I try to see if I can prune some, because I always end up adding some back, over time...

[lake_wrangler]

Actually, as far north as Emporia*, Kansas. And possibly Topeka or K.C.

*there's this great little restaurant called El Marmol there that railroaders I pick up in Emporia always want me to take them to before we head to their drop off. You can get a burrito the size of your fist for $6, or one the size of both for $7.50. And the hot sauce is actually spicy (like ghost peppers are boring spicy). The purple building at the corner of South Avenue and West street (no, I'm not making that up), you can't miss it.

Do they actually go by a client's fist size? I have pretty big hands...

[AnotherFairportfan]

It's also a baked goods brand.

Yup, available as far north as Amarillo. Distributed here by the Mrs. Bairds folks.

Actually, as far north as Emporia*, Kansas. And possibly Topeka or K.C..

I can get Bimbo products in Kroger or Publix (and presumably Food Lion and Ingles) here in Gainesville GA.

[GlytchMeister]

Yup, available as far north as Amarillo. Distributed here by the Mrs. Bairds folks.

Actually, as far north as Emporia*, Kansas. And possibly Topeka or K.C..

I can get Bimbo products in Kroger or Publix (and presumably Food Lion and Ingles) here in Gainesville GA.

I got y'all beat: I've seen Bimbo products in non-ethnic grocery stores in Chicago, IL.

[AmriloJim]

I got y'all beat: I've seen Bimbo products in non-ethnic grocery stores in Chicago, IL.

Nice to see someone in your area who knows the proper usage of "y'all".

[GlytchMeister]

I got y'all beat: I've seen Bimbo products in non-ethnic grocery stores in Chicago, IL.

Nice to see someone in your area who knows the proper usage of "y'all".

Heh... I spent one of my formative years in Tenessee, and I had family in Florida and Georgia. I also spent a lot of my formative years here in Central Illinois. It can get pretty... country 'round here.

[scantrontb]

I got y'all beat: I've seen Bimbo products in non-ethnic grocery stores in Chicago, IL.

Nice to see someone in your area who knows the proper usage of "y'all".

it can't be all that difficult... all it is is a contraction of the words "you" and "all"... I'm from Michigan, and i use it all the time... heck, when i reported for duty up here in Washington State, a friend and i went to the nearby mall... He was from Texas, but they thought that "I" had more of a "southern" accent than him!!, WTH??!, that's just one of the MANY times that people have mistaken me for a southerner... but i don't think anyone in my family* for the last three generations has ever gone south of the Mason-Dixon line except to go to Disney World... so where the heck did i pick up a "southern drawl"?

* except for one cousin that i barely know, and have seen over time, MAYBE a day or two of TOTAL time, and two sisters that are about the same nowdays... and they had both moved out of the house when i was still in Jr. high. (I'm 46 now, so you can see what i mean...)

[Julie]

I got y'all beat: I've seen Bimbo products in non-ethnic grocery stores in Chicago, IL.

Nice to see someone in your area who knows the proper usage of "y'all".

it can't be all that difficult... all it is is a contraction of the words "you" and "all"... I'm from Michigan, and i use it all the time... heck, when i reported for duty up here in Washington State, a friend and i went to the nearby mall... He was from Texas, but they thought that "I" had more of a "southern" accent than him!!, WTH??!, that's just one of the MANY times that people have mistaken me for a southerner... but i don't think anyone in my family* for the last three generations has ever gone south of the Mason-Dixon line except to go to Disney World... so where the heck did i pick up a "southern drawl"?

* except for one cousin that i barely know, and have seen over time, MAYBE a day or two of TOTAL time, and two sisters that are about the same nowdays... and they had both moved out of the house when i was still in Jr. high. (I'm 46 now, so you can see what i mean...)

Yeah...accents may be generally associated with certain areas, but it's not really reliable. Everyone tells me I sound like a Midwesterner based on my accent (except for certain phrasing and pronunciations that become more noticeable when I'm tired)...and I've lived in Texas my entire life.

[Grantwhy]

Sorry about that. Totally know the feeling, too (108 by my last count).

It's OK. I only have myself to blame... I particularly enjoy story-driven comics, and I probably have several hundreds bookmarked (not counting gag-a-day comics as well). I organize the bookmarks by type (sci-fi, Anthro-Furry-Animals, Computer-tech, Fantasy, etc). giving you an accurate count is both too complicated and time-consuming to bother with... Some, I check regularly, some I check weekly, some I check when I'm bored. Some take so long for me to go back to, that I forget what the story was about and have to go back through the archives...

I obviously have a problem, so you did not put me up to bookmarking it: I did it all on my own...

Let me guess, roughly half are ones you've found when the others you read go on hiatus for one reason or another.

What about the ones that update once every 3-6 months or so?
(heh - funny thing is, given the opportunity I'll check that comic 3+ times a week )

[Sgt. Howard]

The use of regional dialects is fast disappearing across the world wherever television is present- 'the great homogenizer' has more effect on children's speech than their own parents.
Sad... but unavoidable

[louisxiv]

The use of regional dialects is fast disappearing across the world wherever television is present- 'the great homogenizer' has more effect on children's speech than their own parents.
Sad... but unavoidable

But on the other hand the big plus is that people from different regions have a better chance of understanding each other. Communication is good.

As I live in the opposite corner of the UK from where I grew up and learned to speak the Queen’s English, I find this trend to be helpful on top of the benefit of acclimatising to the sounds here for 40+ years. I understand the loss, mind you, but feel it is outweighed by the benefit.

[Gyrrakavian]

Sorry about that. Totally know the feeling, too (108 by my last count).

Only 108?

The last count was last year and I had to replace my hardrive two years ago and lost pretty much all of my bookmarks.

[Gyrrakavian]

I got y'all beat: I've seen Bimbo products in non-ethnic grocery stores in Chicago, IL.

Nice to see someone in your area who knows the proper usage of "y'all".

it can't be all that difficult... all it is is a contraction of the words "you" and "all"... I'm from Michigan, and i use it all the time... heck, when i reported for duty up here in Washington State, a friend and i went to the nearby mall... He was from Texas, but they thought that "I" had more of a "southern" accent than him!!, WTH??!, that's just one of the MANY times that people have mistaken me for a southerner... but i don't think anyone in my family* for the last three generations has ever gone south of the Mason-Dixon line except to go to Disney World... so where the heck did i pick up a "southern drawl"?

* except for one cousin that i barely know, and have seen over time, MAYBE a day or two of TOTAL time, and two sisters that are about the same nowdays... and they had both moved out of the house when i was still in Jr. high. (I'm 46 now, so you can see what i mean...)

Ah, but are they from one of the big cities (Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth)? Those folks tend to have a much more Neapolitan sort of accent. I'm from Kansas (grew up in Park City) and that answer often surprises people in other states. I've had Okies,Nebraskans, and Texans all say that I sound like a businessman from one of the coasts.

The staff of Screw Attack, who are all from Dallas, have the same sort of accent I do.

[Gyrrakavian]

Let me guess, roughly half are ones you've found when the others you read go on hiatus for one reason or another.

What about the ones that update once every 3-6 months or so?
(heh - funny thing is, given the opportunity I'll check that comic 3+ times a week )

I've got a few of those, too. Plus a number on indefinite hiatus.