So close! Maybe jefbot shouldn’t have brought along the Cornfather to help him out with this particular mission, huh?
And if you’re new to the strip and wondering what exactly jefbot’s up to here, check out the past couple of comics:
• JEFBOT.340_The Name Game
• JEFBOT.341_Grounds for Anger
AHAHAHAHA! Poor, poor, Jefbot…this is so great…:D I’d so expect this to happen to me…
thanks for the laughs, ZAD-Man! glad you dug this one.
and congrats: the Shades of Firsting are yours. and coincidentally, these are custom fit for baby cheetah heads:
😎
Yee-haw! 😀 This is what happened…
1. I saw your tweet saying to hit the site at 12:06.
2. I looked at my clock. It was 12:06 (your time :P).
3. I hurried to the site, only to see that it wasn’t up yet.
4. Excited, I got ready to refresh a zillion times in a row to be first.
5. After refreshing once, it was up, and I commented. 😀
It was fun! 😀
yeah, it’s something i hope to do again (maybe with a little more notice) in the future, as it gives readers who might not normally have a chance at the Shades some better odds. of course, this requires that i get the strip done ahead of schedule – which doesn’t happen very often – so we’ll see. thanks for playing! 😀
what kind of little animal r you?
Damn….so close… Nice Strip today! Anyway, if anyone’s interested, it’s my birthday today, and my 3DS’s screen broke on monday…..
happy birthday, G-Man0091! sorry to hear about your 3DS screen, tho. ugh. what happened?
I fell on it during some extreme acting at a drama workshop…we were doing the ‘hair pull’ in stage combat…I was on the recieving end….
NOOOO! well, i seriously hope you can get it fixed or get a new one (maybe for your birthday?) soon, dude. and since some readers may have forgotten or just don’t know, i’ll post this reminder: ACTING’S DANGEROUS. be careful out there.
We’re looking to fix it, but at the moment, the 3D’s a bit wacky, and the screen is really faded in places…
Acting AND teching are dangerous, as most of my theater friends and myself can tell you.
true, true.
I think the “drag across the floor by the hair” thing is my favorite part of stage combat. My combat partner and I put together a fun “catfight” scene for our presentation in movement class. I’ll have to post the video whenever we get it…
Yeah, doing little hops onto it to drag myself across the ground probably didn’t help….
Eh, we had a whole semester to practice everything, so we were pretty smooth. And my partner and I are both dancers, so we had a certain graceful factor. 😉
Seeing if this worked, anyway, yeah, a theater company was in the area and did ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, followed by different workshops. We only had about an hour of the workshop, but I love acting, and I’m not bad behind the camera, either…
Not having it in your pocket probably would have helped more, but nothing can be done about that now.
Midsummer is one of my absolute favorite Shakespeare plays, G-Man0091! i was Peter Quince in a production a long time ago, but one day i’d love to play Puck.
Fijiman, It’s the pedometer…that’s why it’s in my pocket, even now….I’m obsessed with the coins….And jefbot, I’m playing Oberon in my classes production!
my good friend, Jake, and i did a 10 minute long, silent stage fight with wolverine claws for one of our performance art class finals in high school, T! i’m sure it was crazy boring for the rest of the class, but he and i had a blast doing it. 😀
HAPPY Birthday! How old are you today?
15.
Happy B-day. I got a used (and by used I mean lost by some moron at the school my mom works at) 3DS as a graduation present, but I’m not likely to ever actually use it because I am content with my Xbox 360 and GBA.
Really? I used to have a Limited Edition Tribal GBA SP, but that went missing…then was found again and re-gifted to me for Easter, then went missing again about two days later…
I wanted a GBA SP for a while but never had the money. Now that all GBA stuff is considered collectible (and because I don’t play my GBA that often), I don’t care. Also, there aren’t any games that I could play on the 3DS that I would want to play. Just not a fan of the touch screen.
I also like your Gravatar. 😉
Thanks, I made it on SP Studio. I think I’m meant to say that…. Yeah, but still, Thanks!
the GBA SP has to go down as one of the best handheld consoles ever, G-Man & Fijiman! i used to take that thing with me wherever i went, cuz it’s compact, clamshell design was perfect for pockets. i still have it in pristine condition, but it’s been stored in a box ever since the DS lite came along.
if you’re not a fan of the touchscreen, fear the 3DS (and DS, for that matter) not, Fiji – there are many games that don’t make use of it, or its use is optional. there’s a ton of awesome DS games and a handful of good 3DS games out (Zelda Ocarina of Time releases this week!!! woo!) i wouldn’t want you to miss out on, especially since you already have the system. 🙂
While my GBA may not be in the best shape (I’ve had it for over ten years and had to let my brothers borrow it from time to time for the first year or two), it still works perfectly. The SP probably was the best because, except for the touch screen, the SP was the first to have a built-in rechargeable battery and a backlight for playing in the dark without a bulky external light. And while I know there are many good games for the 3DS and DS, I just don’t see any that interest me.
Oh, oh the humanity! Sometimes, the world is just out to get poor ‘Bot. Scratch that…*most* of the time, the world’s out to get ‘im.
Btw, I love the name of this strip. My friend owns a coffee business in the hospital that’s also called “Brewed Awakening”. She knows all of her customers by name and coffee type…she’s cool like that.
if i’m ever in your neck of the woods, we’re going to your friend’s coffee shop, T.
Cool! Yeah, come up and visit the land of the midnight sun sometime! For your thin California blood, I would recommend mid-June/early July, when the temperatures are almost unbearable for those of us who live here. There was a week or so when I had a fan blowing on me full speed and only a sheet covering me, and I was STILL too hot to fall asleep easily.
That’s how my house is sometimes. Although, that’s probably just because our AC unit is a POS half the time.
yes, i get cold very, very easily, T, so thanks for the heads-up. i’ll see you next june/july! 😉 and i can totally relate to not being able to sleep in the heat. i’m not sure how bad it’ll be at my new apartment this summer, but i absolutely cannot sleep when it gets too hot.
heheh. yes, that seems to be the case, Tiana. every so often he’ll catch a break (like when he got to share some alone time with cel in the Star Wars Arcade cabinet), but most often, things like today’s strip happen to him.
Some days the best options is to just realize that the people at Starbucks spend time thinking of ways to fuck with people.
y’know, Mephron, i don’t doubt it. we can hope the baristas in the strip here aren’t just messing with bot, but you never know. maybe the Cornfather’s in on it, too! *gasp!* 😉
LOL! Poor ‘bot.
yes, poor bot. but he may get his vengeance yet, Insectoid!
yeah, probably not. heheh.
http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/ Should relatively sum up the feeling in that particular instance. Sorry that guy refuses to call your name, ‘bot. I know the feeling though, having the name ‘Hugh’, no one pronounced it right (around East Tennessee, anyway), or at all, until “House” started airing. /lesigh.
Better luck next time, though.
The button, it made me giggle. 😀
that site makes me laugh and cry at the same time, Twigus Maximus. 🙂
and how do people mispronounce your name? “hug” and/or “huge”?
So its not them, its you. XD
yeah, pretty much. 🙂
Maybe it’s just that one barista? The one dumber than all the rest?
Yes, that guy does look rather confused and clueless throughout all three strips. 😉
maybe he’s a new hire. i seem to attract those all the time, too.
it’s possible, jiro, but i do frequent two Starbucks and get the same treatment at both. maybe i just get the, uh, “slow” baristas?
Re: your reply to Mephron’s comment – I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the Cornfather was in on this. It seems just like him to do something like this to mess with Jefbot.
So is that the kind of stuff you order from Starbucks. I’m so non-adventurous when it comes to coffee. I always just get a regular coffee. 😛
If CF is in on it, I think we can expect to see him pay off the barista in the next strip.
if that happens, let’s hope jefbot doesn’t catch him, Fijiman. 😉
I don’t know, I think the end result of JB catching CF doing that would be pretty hilarious.
if the Cornfather’s in on this one, there will be blood, shanna!
and, yeah: i generally order the sweet, dessert-y espressos. normally the Caramel Macchiato cuz it has the least amount of calories ‘n sugar for those kind of drinks, but every so often i’ll get a white chocolate mocha. mmMMMmm… 🙂
I just remembered a story I read where some guy decided to be an @$$ to someone at Starbucks and got a free coffee out of it. I can’t be bothered to look it up right now. I also had a revelation last night about your situation here, but the massive headache I had last night destroyed any memory of what it was. 🙁
Also, has anyone heard from Sonitan lately?
if you remember what you dreamed, let me know, Fijiman! it could be the answer i’m looking for.
and Sonitan did post a comment a couple strips ago, but i haven’t heard anything since. if i don’t hear from her soon, i’ll send her an email.
I actually thought of it before I went to sleep.(what little I got) And like I said, the massive headache destroyed any memory of what it was.
Good Morning Boteers!
Awwww Bendito Jefbot! *hugs* Pixie hugs make everything better. (It’s the boobs I tells ya!)
Panel 3 is amazing!!!! I love this. You go on with your Bad AZZ Exhaulted One Self!!!!
Guess who had a large coffee with lots of sugar this morning?! I’m watching Tankgirl at work and rocking out!
g’mornin’, Pix!
glad you dug that 3rd panel. it went through a few different variations before getting there, so your mention is appreciated!
and you get to watch Tank Girl at work!? awesomesauce.
oh, and i think i’m gonna need another hug. just to make sure everything’s better. 😀
Oh Exhaulted One, this is where having a portable DVD player, headphones and a cool boss come into play. I usually bring movies from home anyway, because my job is to QC projectors that have been repaired by my department. Well, as long as my work is getting done while watching/listening to movies, my boss is okie dokie with it.
nice! my boss is cool, but not that cool, Pixie! (at least as far as watching movies at work is concerned. we do talk about geek stuff like Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica and more recently, Game of Thrones, all the time, so he’s still pretty awesome. 🙂
I think it’s safe to say that you scored a job that many a lazy bum would actually do things for in addition to an awesome boss.
OH and I thought maybe we should be more like the Musketeers with plume hats and sword than the Mouseketeers. I have a new outfit in the works…thoughts Fellow Harem Members and Mancubs?
Totally in favor! Especially if I can wear tight leather pants and a flouffy shirt with lots of lace! And a sword, muahahaha!
Sign me up for a sword, too!
A cool hat and shirt/jacket will do nicely.(plumes not necessary) Oh, and a gun because musketeers actually specialized in guns, not swords. None will probably ever know why musketeers was chosen for the name of that book, but who really cares?
Name your source that says they specialized in guns. I’ve never heard or seen that. Always sword fighting. Guns are fine though.
Key word MUSKETeers. And here is more evidence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musketeer
I wanna dark Captain Jack (Harkness, not Sparrow) style Trenchcoat, and a trilby-style Black hat….
sounds good! unfortunately, i always look crappy in hats, so i might need some other form of head gear. always down with wielding a sword, though! 🙂
YAY! Musketeers it is!
I for one will not be wearing leather pants cause I’d look like a sausage! The plume hat thing is mostly for show. Swords are a MUST. And pistols are optinal.
Will be working on my outfit somemore tonight. Should be taking pictures and putting it on my crafting blog!
can’t wait to see it! 😀
Maybe you could use a helmet like and/or similar to mine.
Morning Pixie! Sounds like you’re have a lot of fun. I’m gonna go play video games now before everyone else gets up and I have to go help my dad to get the other car from the shop. I swear the thing just up and quit on my brother and I just as we were pulling into a parking spot.
hope everything’s working now, Fijiman – car problems suck.
We got it back the other day and it works fine now. And yes, they do suck.
Ooh, to have ones hope raised and then dashed against the rocks of poor customer service. It makes me lmao.
yep, jefbot’s hopes were dashed by poor customer service and (in a sort of guilt-by-association kind of way) his own friend, Anime fan!
I have had the same problems with Starbucks on Sunset & Gower. The “new” female barista kept screwing up, and I finally said something & waited & waited, trying to be patient then I noticed that everybody who had been behind me had gotten their coffee & were gone, the little coffee wench was messing with me and then the agitation of waiting 15 mins. for coffee and my extreme need for caffine overtook me & I started banging on that plexiglass thats like a partial separation from the customers, and then I got my coffee really quick! But, alas I’m no longer welcomed at that Starbucks! :{
At that point I wouldn’t want to go there ever again due to horrible service.
I think at that point, I would’ve gone out to my car and gotten my sword. Scaring the shit out of the non-serving service people does seem to get results…banging on the plexiglass with a sword hilt would’ve gotten attention! (Might’ve gotten me arrested too, but oh, what a way to go!)
ha! and it would actually make a pretty funny police report to go on your record, Tiana! (not that i’m condoning this. heheh.)
At 2:34 PM today a woman claiming she was a Samurai assaulted a plexiglass window after a Starbucks chose not to announce her order by name.
Lol, I’m not so into the Samurai side…I’m more of a knights-in-shining-armor type, personally. But yeah, that would be a hell of a thing to have on my record!
so how many Starbucks have you actually been banned from, twisted sister? 😉
Cornfather bribed them to call his name to annoy Jefbot. This has no other explanation. Well, except one that says that Universe is out to get geeks but that one scares me.
Or it could be that the guy who has JB’s coffee every time is completely clueless.
i think your assumption is sound, Fijiman.
if there’s some universal law targeting geeks with misfortune, than i’m scared too, Maryz. i might never leave my apartment again…
Heh, poor Jefbot. He should demand for his name to be called lol.
yeah, it’s fist-pounding-on-the-counter time, Jaeh! no doubt jefbot will come up with something before the next day (and next strip!) 🙂
Uh oh, it looks like bot has been thwarted by Starbucks once again. Is this the last straw? Will bot finally get the baristas to call out his name? Or will the next coffee he drinks from this establishment carry the bitter flavor of despair? And does the Cornfather have a role in it all? Tune in next time to find out; same bot time, same bot channel!
perfect way to hype the next strip, Striker; i think you’ve touched on pretty much everything we can expect to be answered in tuesday’s episode, which will be the last of this mini-storyline!
Bahahahahahaha! 1-up’d by Cornfarther. LOVE IT!
thanks, TCG! yep, the Cornfather kinda threw jefbot under the bus (even if inadvertently) on this one.
Of course! Have you tried giving them a crazy over the top name, just to see if that would entice them to say it out loud? I’m going to try that this morning… I let you know how it works!
jefbot will be trying this very thing in next tuesday’s strip, Funnyshaffer, so stay tuned! (and let me know how it works for you and we can compare notes. heheh.)
Uhh, yeah, so it turn’s out that there’s no conspiracy. Starbuck’s has not been taken over by a robot from the future, and they have absolutely no plans involving driving jefbot insane to eliminate the leader of the resistance in the future. And just ignore the well-dressed men standing menacingly behind me; they have absolutely nothing to do with this statement…
RUN, JEFBOT!!!! DON’T LET THEM NEAR YOU!!!! YOU MUST SURVIVE, OR WE ARE ALL DOOMED!!!!!!!!
So is this like some sort of “Come with me if you want to live” Type of situation?
I think this is more of a run like hell and hide if you want to live situation.
thanks for the warning, Maddgodd81!!! (and hope you got away from the “well-dressed” men standing behind you. eep!) now to find out more about this Starbucks conspiracy…
HAHAHA!!! He was about to say his name!! If only the other guy hadn’t appeared..if only. I just looove JB face on the last panel XD
heheh. yep, the words were just about to come out of that barista’s mouth, nicobot! and glad you liked jefbot’s whimpering, tear-filled expression in that last panel. 🙂
I feel Jefbot’s pain so much, my name is not very well known (in fact, I’m the only person I’ve ever heard of with my name) so people in places where they call you by name do EVERYTHING in their power not to say my name. Although in England I was named by name once, and he pronounced it nearly right. I felt like the grinch learning about the merrits of christmas as my heart grew 3 sizes
I’m always thrilled when people pronounce my name right without me having to tell them how it’s pronounced. But my name (same as username) is also highly unusual, so…on the other hand, the newest Disney princess has my name, so maybe people are just picking up the pronounciation from that.
Hm, let me get a shot at it then, if your name is the same as your username then I imagine it would be pronounced like “Tea-anna” or “Tye-anna”
Both incorrect, though those are the typical mispronunciations of my name. It’s actually “Tee-ona”. The “ana” part is pronounced like the Old World version of “Anna”.
yeah, i totally would’a gotten that wrong, T. 🙂
well, the mispronunciation of your name all these years was worth it if it caused your heart to grow three sizes that day, lord Firesnake!
If I was treated like that, I’d start leaving fake names and then make them say it out loud before I took the cup. Names like “Barth,” “Fart,” “Belcher,” and other stuff.
jefbot may be employing a similar strategy in the very next strip, Bl4ckw0lf!
Honestly I don’t care if they call my name {The bloody common name of SUSAN} I care if they keep giving me coffee instead of my hot chocolate.
getting your order right is definitely more important than getting your name right, rinthia! although, at this point, i think jefbot might think otherwise…
When ever I go to Starbucks, they tend to call by last name, which would be fine but thanks to a grandfather who wanted to Americanize, I happen to have a last name that is also a size of drink they offer there, so I tend to wait there for a hour before realizing that someone else took off with my drink, Starbucks in fact is one of the few places in my area that don’t call by what ever happened to be ordered.
i’m glad you have a Starbucks that calls out your name instead of the order, Z. it should be a company-wide policy, methinks!
For me it’s annoying, my name is the size of a drink and I am used to places that call by type, so I never notice when they call for it and I end up loosing my order.
You must’ve done something to piss them off. Sbux in Austin usually calls out first names. Personally, I don’t want everyone to know who I am. It’s none of their business. So I use fake names (Nikolai, Ishmael, François) and the baristas try to call them.
i totally need to come up with an awesome name to give the baristas, Chaucer. although that might completely confuse them, now that they’re actually starting to learn my name. ah, well. so much the better!
In that case you should make a few fake names to use when ever you see a new guy or go to a different place.
This Happens to me on a Daily Basis! The Coffee guy knows My name and what drink I get… says “Hey Britt!!” when I walk in always so happy, writes my name On my cup, then Just hands it to me. I think secretly he just wanted to know my name in the first place so now he writes it to seem like it was for coffee naming purposes only!
heheh. totally sounds like something a guy would do, BK. next he’s going to ask you for your phone number for “naming purposes only”! ;D
HAHAHA That would be Epic! If he does he can so have it! And I will keep you posted lol
P.S how does one get a display pic for the comments?? Where do I sign up >.<
Let Me help you:) I had the same problem…http://en.gravatar.com/
There you go!
Same here. I kind of like how my Gravatar ended up sideways. 🙂
Thanks Guys
I like your Gravatar. 😀
thanks, botreaders, for helping BrittyKitty out!
and, BK: what does your avatar say at the bottom? i can make out “what we live for” but i can’t decipher what’s to the left of that.
looks like it’s saying 3cm
Its actually the NHL Canucks Logo and “2011” (despite the news and this Disgusting act of the few idiots who decided to riot even before the game began!) Not all Canuck fans are like that nor are all Canadians or Vancouverites… Just felt the need to add that on had anyone been watching the news lately… More people helped with the clean up the next morning then the actual riots ^-^
Im a bit protective of my City/Team sorry >.<
Humans in general are idiots who overreact to the stupidest little things. I will not deny that do so on an almost daily basis.(video games can be stressful with all the BS and lag out there) No one here will blame you for being defensive for your city after the display of stupidity that riot was. 🙂
Thank you ^-^ I felt it needed some defending as all the news shows is “Canuck fans” Rioting, when really it was pre-planned, would have happened even if we won… sadly.. but yes humans in general do dumb things… Like Coffee barista’s for example! lol (nice segue Back to comic *grin*)
wow thats creepy….
which part, MrSnow?
I just love the Cornfather’s expression in the third panel. xD
heheh. thanks, Aelyrin! yeah, it’s kinda nice that he’s noticing jefbot’s excitement in that 3rd panel, but that’s all forgotten when the other barista calls the Cornfather by name in the next. 🙂
Michael is “loved” by all, it seems.
*evil snicker of doom*
Meh. I want coffee now ;_; (I’m not allowed yet!!! Fear my anger of doom! FEAR it!!!)
Yay! You’re back. 😀
Love the 3rd panel phaze to B&W!
I win!!!! yay!!! oh and great strip too, bot!