Phrase Police

No, I am not reacting to any person in particular. I just notice how often words or phrases or names slip into our conversations and Facebook that we do not even realize what we are saying. So, I decided to humorously call attention to the way we communicate and have someone say, "I don't need to hear that type of language." Is it worse than profanity? I don't know, but I don't appreciate either one.

TASER Team

I got in this morning with no fresh ideas for today's comic. SO, I pulled an entry from my idea log file. I was not sure of anything except the business meaning of the letters. I decided to have both characters make indirect references to the TASER gun instead of the redirected business acronym.

Scrum Stand-up

After our training on Agile and Scrum a couple of weeks ago, I wanted to continue the theme for at least one more comic. So, as I considered the word scrum, I took it back to its original context of rugby. What if the team did their scrum meetings, but was actually being good at rugby itself? I decided that the final panel needed to be about the manager not interrupting them because they were winning.

Back to the Drawing Board

I saw a version of this online and liked it, especially since my brother is an architect. No, he was not robbed (at least not recently), but I needed something to set up the punchline.

Concealer

Over the weekend, I saw a commercial about these women that had horrible bags under their eyes. They explained them away, saying they were hereditary, or they were tired. The ad was for a concealer, but all the 'after' photos said they were simulated. If this stuff really works, show me the real thing, right? Still, hearing the word 'concealer' gave me this idea. Then, today, I still had to decide what panel four should say.

Jobs Fall

I am sure you can guess where this idea came from. Sure, I heard on the radio that jobless claims went up again. So, the radio team started talking about tracking jobs month to month. I wondered why they would track Steve Jobs and that led to today's comic. Then, as I was writing it, I decided I needed a bit more twist ion the final panel and came up with another word/name that could be misconstrued. Hmm. In a beauty pageant, what would the award for Miss Construed be given for? I'll have to think about that.

Still Fragile

I decided to see if the F.R.Agile theme could continue at least one more day. I did further define a couple of Agile concepts, but I then took the comic in a direction that would make sense to even non-techie types.