Sep 27 2009
Her Husband The Geek
My new t-shirt's front
Jessica bought me a small birthday present and just gave it to me. It’s a present that I honestly never would have thought she’d buy me.
It’s a t-shirt with a comic from one of my favorite comic writers, Sidney Harris.
I never would have expected her to buy it because there’s still the uneasy tension that this super-hot-super-popular-cheerleader-chic married…
Well, a geek.
When she met me, I had too other favorite t-shirts in my collection. Both were Sidney Harris comics. My favorite joke, to this day (forgiving the inability to properly time, or pronounce, a joke when telling it in writing) is this:
What do you get when you cross and elephant and an eggplant?
Elephant Eggplant Sin(?).
No, seriously. It’s still about the funniest joke I’ve ever heard. And, if that’s not proof enough, I’ve been programming for approximately 25 years. Programming computers! Yes, I still love it! In fact, if it weren’t for the simultaneous success of both Matthew Broderick and Bill Gates– both whom, each in different ways, proved to people that geeks might possibly be something other than high school boxing practice mannequins– I’d still be getting beaten up on a daily basis.
Anyway, though not as widely appreciated as some comic writers– he’s not as well known as The Far Side or Calvin & Hobbes, for instance– I regard Sidney Harris as one of, if not the best comic artist ever.
I highly suggest you take a jaunt over to his homepage and peruse the collection. No, you don’t have to be a geek to appreciate it. In fact, you don’t have to know anything about science, mathematics, or ANY of that drivel. He writes for the general population.
Oh, and apparently, he has a new gallery of comics about the economy! Wow, that’s going to be a blast.
