The Brads - Illogical Conclusions
February 8th, 2010
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Dave
February 8, 2010 at 1:00 pmRight on Brad! Hear that one all the time.
Josh Walsh
February 8, 2010 at 1:00 pmNot 1, not 2, but 3 emails today that asked us to “Redesign their site so that they get more traffic.”
One of them was trying to sell to kids under the age of 8. I don’t think “more traffic” will make those pre-teens whip out their credit card.
Nate Klaiber
February 8, 2010 at 1:00 pm@Matt
I used to deal with the same thing. The company would write marketing fluff articles, then be surprised that no one would read them. And then, assume I could make it better. ha.
Stomme poes
February 8, 2010 at 1:00 pmYou forgot the next panel where the solution obviously is “Let’s add some AJAX, opacity tricks, some gradients and an embedded video!”
Matt
February 8, 2010 at 1:00 pmReminds me of how management will always contact me if, when I send out the monthly web traffic report, the numbers for our news section are down. They don’t seem to understand that people only visit the news section when we have interesting news for them to read.
liam
February 8, 2010 at 1:00 pmBrad “The Truth” Colbow with another humorous story. Spot on, love it
Mickey
February 9, 2010 at 1:00 pmhahaha, I like it! Your comics are getting better :D
Adi Ulici
February 10, 2010 at 1:00 pmThis is my fav till now, hope you’ll keep us updated with more comics!
Zlatan
February 11, 2010 at 1:00 pmI’ve just read all of your comics and I must say that every one of them is funny. Keep up with the good work
Whatyathinking
February 11, 2010 at 1:00 pmThere are obviously lots of reasons of growing teen pregnancy. However in UK, looking few decades back, there is a correlation between it and sex education in public school.
Stephan Heijl
February 12, 2010 at 1:00 pmWhile I agree with the last 3 panels, and found the overall comic quite amusing, I must say that, in the timeframe the character in the first panel seems to be in, there were no such things as telescopes, nor had anyone dared travel around the world. The sun revolving around the earth would make sense, and the earth revolving around the sun would actually be quite far fetched, considering the total lack of supporting evidence.
Keep up the good work though, when I check up on this comic, I’m always guaranteed to have a laugh
Stu
February 12, 2010 at 1:00 pmClever. Ever thought of doing a weekly spot in a newspaper?
John Crenshaw
February 13, 2010 at 1:00 pmGood stuff. Yeah I like Stomme poes’ comment…there are about a million directions you could take this. It could go on forever!
Simon Woodard
February 14, 2010 at 1:00 pmLove your comics dude, I just stumbled across it then from SM, and finished reading all your strips, funny as… cause its true
Lyndit
February 14, 2010 at 1:00 pmHilarious as always! Maybe we should add in backpack leashes for kids and low fat diets making people fatter.
Aaron Calderon
February 15, 2010 at 1:00 pmI love this comic so much. Funny indeed.
Paul Corey
February 16, 2010 at 1:00 pmGreat stuff man. Good to know someone else in NE Ohio is dealing with the same type of clients I deal with!
Mike
March 6, 2010 at 1:00 pm@Stephan Heijl:
First recorded proposition of a heliocentric view of the universe - 4th century BC.
First telescope - 17th century AD.
About two thousand years later, if you don’t want to do the math. True, it wasn’t until Copernicus in the 16th century that it was proven and accepted by the scientific community at large, but that doesn’t mean people were unaware that the Earth might not be the center of the universe. It just wasn’t seen as important.
Mr Atoz
March 10, 2010 at 1:00 pmHave to agree with Mike here. Copernicus didn’t use a telescope. It was all eyesight and pencil. Therefore there was enough supporting evidence in Moses’s time. Granted it is not a simple, straightforward matter just to deduce what is revolving around what—takes some acute observation and above-average wits—, but the correct conclusion was perfectly within the limits of Science at the time of the Egyptians, Hebrews and Greeks.
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ailaG
August 1, 2010 at 3:23 pmmoar animations!
MOAR!!!
I had a client whose competition had a clean design, yet they had a news marquee with slightly outdated news. They DEMANDED a marquee because of that, even though many of their visitors may have learning disabilities (it’d be hard for them to read scrolling text..) and despite being presented with the million problems a marquee poses, and they DEMANDED a message board even though they tried running one already and it had no conversations whatsoever.
To make the site better they demanded a hundred colors in its palette and unrelated pictures everywhere (including one on their navigation bar’s background, in similar colors to the navigation text).
They thought their web design ideas were so brilliant they’d suffice for a good website, so they didn’t put content in over half the pages. Really.
Eventually they got sick of me having all these pesky ideas, suggestions and opinions, that they went to another company. That company gave them a site in an iframe with a marquee, offending colors (a palette of the colors that are used to make fun of what they do) and not much more… BUT, they finally got the marquee they desired.
And they never put any text in the marquee.
(they also didn’t demand that the other company would create a messy, ugly design like they demanded from us. Ugh)
PenPen
July 26, 2011 at 6:29 pmA Heliocentric solar system model was proposed as early as 270 BC by Aristarchus of Samos. The Egyptions would almost certainly have at least heard of it at some point, but human arrogance is such that no one took it seriously. It took a thousand years of research and data for heliocentrism to make any major inroads in the scientific community.