I started coming up with these at about hour fifteen of my final paper for last semester’s class.* Hope you like `em. Leave more in the comments if your sense of humor is as twelve-year-old-esque as mine evidently is. Sorry if some of these are too jargon-y for those friends of mine who already think I’m too much of a pedant; I’d be happy to translate them into layman’s (heh, heh) terms. Or you can just add some of your own about organic chemistry or whatever.
Also, hi to the zillions of you who visited and linked to my Metro drinks comic! Clearly, the key to minor local internet fame is mocking Metro, which I’m okay with. I’m still a little overwhelmed by how many folks read that one, and, by extension, how many people will probably see this one. If any of my professors from VT are reading this, I promise I got more out of your classes than vocabulary fodder for lewd and cheesy comics! And if the bearded dude who was reading The Death and Life of Great American Cities on the S2 yesterday is reading this, you inspired panel six and that’s why I was giggling in your general direction.
If you like this level of pedantry & punning, perhaps you’ll dig the Mies van der Robot and the list of New Urbanist beers in this post.
*There should be a law or something along the lines of “After (__ hours on one project)/(___ people working on said project) in Field X, conversation will inevitably devolve into innuendo using terminology from Field X.”
What about “I’d like to develop mixed uses on YOUR property!” – though it’s very similar to Panel 2. or maybe “100% of your AMI is eligible to get into my housing development!” though I think that one could use some work.
Comment by Jen — May 26, 2011 @ 1:47 pm
I like the last one best because I think you could use it to pick up non-planners, as long as they were urban dwellers that appreciated terrible puns. You know, for those of us who don’t use the ESRI board as a dating site.
Comment by Kashton — May 26, 2011 @ 2:01 pm
I did think of “I don’t need any tax incentives to develop on YOUR brownfield!” but then I couldn’t think of any possible meanings for it that weren’t really skeevy. I like the AMI one, that’s excellent.
Comment by Emily — May 26, 2011 @ 3:18 pm
I also noticed that according to the thing that sorts your comics by subject, you have more comics about bears than bikes.
Comment by Kashton — May 26, 2011 @ 3:45 pm
bikes are harder to draw :P
Comment by Emily — May 26, 2011 @ 4:03 pm
genius
Comment by stack — November 28, 2012 @ 12:15 pm
“Let’s go back to your place and make the Floor Area Ratio 1 to 1″
Comment by Aaron Detter — May 26, 2011 @ 8:17 pm
Haha, excellent!
Comment by Emily — May 27, 2011 @ 8:17 am
Emily, we simply _must_ have you at the Cyburbia Forums. Really. Unlike the folks who gather at that other site, we really do have a sense of humor. And terrible puns.
Comment by Dan — May 27, 2011 @ 7:54 pm
Also, from 2004 …
Comment by Dan — May 27, 2011 @ 7:55 pm
oh wow, that thread is brilliant! I’ll have to stop by, I let my account lapse a while back but planners with a sense of humor are the best.
Comment by Emily — May 30, 2011 @ 6:31 pm
It’s a great idea to do this comics! I’m looking to read more of them.
Comment by Ligia Martins — May 28, 2011 @ 7:22 pm
I want to offend your defensible space all night.
Comment by Chris Whittaker — May 28, 2011 @ 8:11 pm
And to think I spent all these past months on a yellow line train sitting next to a true comic talent without knowing it. I hope you keep up the great work in Wisconsin.
Comment by Tim Maher — May 29, 2011 @ 11:39 pm
Aw, thanks! And hi Tim!
Comment by Emily — May 30, 2011 @ 6:29 pm
*standingovation*
man i wish i had a sense of humor like this. ive seriously been looking for something like this forever! keep em coming
Comment by thgrl — May 30, 2011 @ 9:04 pm
you could get some real estate lawyers with these too.
Comment by anu — May 31, 2011 @ 7:27 am
‘I’ve been surveying you all night, and dont see any restrictions on your wetlands.’
Comment by Jason — May 31, 2011 @ 9:06 am
How about this.
“For you there’s no such thing as a NIMBY because I want you in my backyard.”
Comment by Vinny — May 31, 2011 @ 12:57 pm
Excellent, I knew there had to be a NIMBY one out there!
Comment by Emily — June 2, 2011 @ 8:45 am
How about.
“I’m going to need a variance before I can do all the illegal things I want to do to you.”
Comment by Vinny — June 2, 2011 @ 7:33 am
I gotta apply for a variance, because I want to get into your zone.
Comment by Drieleven — October 16, 2012 @ 2:22 am