Bonobo Conspiracy Web comic #1020: Licenses also are like pants

Yeah, don't come round tonight, 'cause it's bound to take your life. There's a bathroom on the right.

#1020: Licenses also are like pants

Matt: Hi, I'd like to pick up my package from the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Wilhelm: You have to show me a government-issued photo ID card.

Wilhelm: This driver's license doesn't have the correct address on it.

Matt: I just moved. They're sending me a new license with my new address.
Wilhelm: Well, come back when you have that.

Matt: [is speechless]

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Captain Smokeblower from 71.223.9.157 at Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:53:03 +0000:
Remember when we used to grouse about how stupid university rules and procedures were? We wondered how putting up with this pettiness contributed to our education. Now we're out and we meet the government. Slowly the foreboding realization dawns upon us: How well we handled "it" in school reflects how well we will handle "real" life.
There were about 30 of us CS grad students at the U of A who realized it wasn't necessarily the brightest and smartest among us who would go on for PHDs. It was the few who could tolerate the stupidity. Stupidity not created by our professors nor the department, but "the system."

Opus the Poet from 173.57.160.11 at Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:27:43 +0000:
This is almost as bad as a recent change in laws that required a photo ID to get a copy of a birth certificate, but you need a birth certificate to get a photo ID...

ghap from 70.71.6.111 at Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:30:59 +0000:
I wouldn't be tempted toward anarchist philosophy if the decisions made by hierarchies weren't braindead stupid.

Felix from 68.112.174.233 at Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:42:21 +0000:
That reminds me of something that happened to a friend of mine. He's in the business of buying properties that have been repossessed by the government. He was down at the courthouse, and was talking with a clerk about purchasing a plot of land.

Clerk: "Well, I'm going to need the original owner's signature on this."

Friend: "I can't get ahold of him easily. Is there some other way I could have him authenticate it?"

Clerk:"Actually, I think you might find him down the hall there, and around the corner...just have him sign it and come back."

Sometimes I think the drones detest the bureaucracy as much as the rest of us do.

Captain Smokeblower from 71.223.6.95 at Sat, 21 Mar 2009 05:35:08 +0000:
OK, deja vu all over again, or life imitates comic strip. While visiting family in Denver I dropped by the Department of Motor Vehicles to update my driver's license address and ended up repeating the change process because my physical address and mailing address are in different states. They even ended up taking two photos, but unlike Matt above they did deliver my license to my mailing address rather than my physical address.

the_velociraptor from 24.4.249.232 at Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:09:46 +0000:
Here, it's bastard calls swarming my message inbox to reconfirm my new address, or having to fill out more internet forms.

Captain Smokeblower from 71.223.4.180 at Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:36:01 +0000:
I noticed a connection in Ripley's Believe it or not this morning:
http://comics.com/ripleys_believe_it_or_not/2009-04-04/
I wonder if they let the bonobo join the Mile High Club.

columb from 79.77.87.92 at Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:27:17 +0000:
Has any one else noticed that, although Matt hasn't updated in ages, the Stripometer stays pretty static. I guess there's quite a few of us who check this page every day, waiting... waiting...

Opus the Poet from 173.57.160.11 at Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:18:58 +0000:
Yeah, I have been wondering just how close to actual nude Jen will get. The doll maker starts with bra and tiny panties.

the_velociraptor from 24.4.249.232 at Mon, 25 May 2009 02:10:29 +0000:
Matt said it was the older version, so I'm betting it's modded, and he's sorta done the same with Sun-Moon on the Project: Wonderful ads.

Axel from 65.94.190.249 at Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:01:48 +0000:
A real poet would write "naked". Robert Graves has a poem about that somewhere.

Opus the Poet from 173.57.160.11 at Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:21:14 +0000:
I am a real poet, nude and naked are different. Nude is without clothing, naked is unprotected. You can be nude without being naked, and you can be naked without being nude.

norichard from 174.42.170.51 at Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:12:44 +0000:
So with a condom can be nude, but not naked?

Opus the Poet from 173.57.160.11 at Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:35:41 +0000:
Depends on how big the condom and how big the item being protected with the condom is.

Matt from 216.59.252.65 at Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:58:44 +0000:
Yes, there was an input validation bug - even after I'd been so careful. Thanks for reporting it; no thanks for publishing it. It's fixed now.

Matt from 216.59.252.65 at Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:22:18 +0000:
Although I do hope that the person who figured out how to break the Strip-O-Meter won't attempt to ruin it for everybody, at least now there's someone other than me who can testify that it really does go all the way up. Some of you were doubtful about that.

Nerd from 174.142.104.57 at Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:57:22 +0000:
No! I never should have posted that exploit!

Nerd from 174.142.104.57 at Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:59:32 +0000:
I use a proxy so it doesn't matter.

I have a suggestion: Why can't you make it a strip-o-script? A page where they can type a number between 0 and 2000 and she will strip to that much. If you do that, you'll get more traffic.

I should try that on my site!

Nerd from 174.142.104.57 at Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:01:09 +0000:
Oh, I wanted to publish it, not report it!

Matt from 67.158.70.22 at Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:33:17 +0000:
Why not turn your skills to Wikipedia vandalism? They have it coming...

Nerd from 67.159.45.54 at Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:26:24 +0000:
No, they will revert it in less than a day. I tried it, they just revert it in a day or less.

Dwight from 24.22.117.251 at Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:43:54 +0000:
Oh dang! We missed it! Though I'd suggest the scale should be changed, seeing Matt isn't doing his job to drive traffic to the site any more...

Matt from 216.59.225.251 at Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:50:48 +0000:
No, I just post content. The Strip-O-Meter is designed to count third-party referrals, which by definition is traffic *not* brought in by me. Ask not whose job that is.

Sgeo from 137.125.41.80 at Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:26:48 +0000:
Does that mean we should start faking Referers so that we count as traffic not brought in by you?

Nerd from 67.159.45.51 at Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:28:59 +0000:
Why are there so many visitors? If they want a naked girl, they should smarten up and visit:

http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1C1CHNG_enCA336CA336&um=1&sa=1&q=porn&btnG=Search&aq=undefined&oq=&start=0

Matt from 216.59.225.251 at Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:53:00 +0000:
The second hit on that Google link features John Ashcroft, the former Attorney General of the USA. Now that I've seen that, I can never un-see it.

the_velociraptor from 75.51.147.40 at Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:12:23 +0000:
...It looks like he's gone lazy-eyed.

Nerd from 67.159.45.51 at Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:14:17 +0000:
Matthew, you use Execulink Telecom? You live in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.

Matt from 70.67.23.154 at Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:26:57 +0000:
I actually live in Toronto, but Execulink is based in Kitchener.

I wouldn't go back to Execulink - I'm planning to switch to another ISP next time I move house - because they took two fucking weeks to hook up my connection when I did move to Toronto.

As you can tell from the address on this comment, I'm currently visiting BC.

Nerd from 67.159.45.54 at Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:58:51 +0000:
"The second hit on that Google link features John Ashcroft, the former Attorney General of the USA. Now that I've seen that, I can never un-see it."
-Matt the asshole

"You fail!"
-Me

Oh, by the way, what's with the crap web design? This looks like crap from 1990.

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