In which Penelope discovers that some people truly can argue with success.
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Panel 1:
(In the Know/Idea front lobby, Bob introduces Penny to one of her co-workers.)
Bob: Nixon, this is Penny. She’s working up a plan to upgrade all our users to Windows 7!
Nixon: Pfui!
Panel 2:
Penny: Excuse me?
Nixon: Listen! Strange women working in data centers distributing commercial operating systems is no basis for a system of computing!
Panel 3:
Nixon: Supreme computational power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical megacorporation in Seattle!
Penny: What are you on about?
Nixon: The only true operating system is that created by the anarcho-syndicalist developer commune!
Panel 4:
(Nixon storms off.)
Penny: Who was that, again?
Bob: That’s Nixon Ug, our resident Linux buff. He hates you now.
(In the Know/Idea front lobby, Bob introduces Penny to one of her co-workers.)
Bob: Nixon, this is Penny. She’s working up a plan to upgrade all our users to Windows 7!
Nixon: Pfui!
Panel 2:
Penny: Excuse me?
Nixon: Listen! Strange women working in data centers distributing commercial operating systems is no basis for a system of computing!
Panel 3:
Nixon: Supreme computational power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical megacorporation in Seattle!
Penny: What are you on about?
Nixon: The only true operating system is that created by the anarcho-syndicalist developer commune!
Panel 4:
(Nixon storms off.)
Penny: Who was that, again?
Bob: That’s Nixon Ug, our resident Linux buff. He hates you now.
This is the best use of this Python quote I have ever seen.
Aha! Thank you! I’m glad someone caught the ref