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It’s Apathetic, Baby!

It’s Apathetic, Baby!

by Adam on March 31, 2015 at 12:00 am
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  1. BugFanNo1Million
    BugFanNo1Million
    March 31, 2015, 12:01 am | # | Reply

    Glad to see I’m not alone.

  2. dragon352
    dragon352
    March 31, 2015, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    black hole…. wow. that IS apathey

    • qka
      qka
      April 2, 2015, 2:53 pm | # | Reply

      The black hole would suck in the face paint.

      But this describes me perfectly. I even went to a school that won the championship one year I was there. Big frickin’ whoop-tee-do.

  3. Mat M.
    Mat M.
    March 31, 2015, 2:12 am | # | Reply

    So, what *is* a basketball pool? I’ve heard of basketball and I’ve seen pools, but I somehow doubt you’re talking about a pool full of basketballs.

    • Chug
      Chug
      March 31, 2015, 12:15 pm | # | Reply

      That would make it water polo, wouldn’t it?

    • J-L
      J-L
      March 31, 2015, 1:11 pm | # | Reply

      A “basketball pool” is a betting pool, often popular at work places. Someone will set up a betting pool, and the co-workers will each place their bets on who they think will win. Sometimes predictions of total points and/or point spreads are included. Those who bet win points based on how close their predictions are to the outcome. The person who has the most points at the end of the season wins the betting pool.

      What’s the reward for the winner? Sometimes the betting pool is played for money, sometimes it’s played just for bragging rights, and sometimes a piece of sports memorabilia or equipment is the reward. (For example, the winner of a hockey pool might get a hockey puck.)

  4. Aron
    Aron
    March 31, 2015, 4:13 am | # | Reply

    “I don’t wanna look silly.” I laughed out loud. 😀

  5. Michael Corley
    Michael Corley
    March 31, 2015, 5:11 am | # | Reply

    If apathy towards sports had that effect, my head could be the center of a galaxy!

  6. Jimmy
    Jimmy
    March 31, 2015, 6:24 am | # | Reply

    I love sports, but not a huge fan of doing basketball pools, or saunas for that matter.

  7. l
    l
    March 31, 2015, 7:01 am | # | Reply

    This would be a good spot to start a diatribe about the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association – makes the rules for all college-level sports in USA)and its record of hiding drug abuse, cow-towing to the large universities, and generally denying that college athletes are really pros and should be paid, but I won’t do that.
    Well, I sorta did….

    • Saskfan
      Saskfan
      March 31, 2015, 7:34 am | # | Reply

      You might also mention that college sports are a HUGE money-making venture, where the ones with the talent (the athletes) are the only ones who don’t get paid.

      Or, you might not. But you sorts did.

    • Mahnarch
      Mahnarch
      March 31, 2015, 12:22 pm | # | Reply

      So, that’s what NCAA stands for.

      I’d seen it on clothes in the store and what, but never bothered to look up what it was.

      Figured it had something to do with North Carolina.

      • qka
        qka
        April 2, 2015, 3:12 pm | # | Reply

        North Carolina Automobile Association.

        It’s the state level affiliate of AAA.

    • Rhea
      Rhea
      March 31, 2015, 12:32 pm | # | Reply

      Someone did a chart of the highest-paid state official in each state. In virtually all of them it was a university football coach. In most of the rest it was a university basketball coach. They get more than the governor, university dean, or any other state employee.

      Not caring squat about the NCAA does save a lot of time, but it hasn’t done panel 4 to my face yet.

    • Chris Rivan
      Chris Rivan
      April 1, 2018, 4:38 am | # | Reply

      Collegiate athletes ARE paid, and well. They receive high standard medical care, free room, board, tuition, books, and tutoring services, and they have only two responsibilities: play sportsbawl and remain eligible for same.

      Pretending they don’t get paid is ridiculous. Damn near anyone with tuition debt would swap places with them in moments. When I was a teacher, only two of us on the entire faculty had zero student loan debt; myself and the former NCAA track star turned nfl player. My college came from the military GI Bill and tuition assistance program. His from scholarships.

  8. Saskfan
    Saskfan
    March 31, 2015, 7:34 am | # | Reply

    Black-hole bug looks very attractive.

  9. Pink Floyd
    Pink Floyd
    March 31, 2015, 7:47 am | # | Reply

    Actually, it’s the only time of year I AM interested in basketball. And even then only when it’s finally down to a few teams. Who’s got time to watch all that nonsense? Not me, I’m too busy gearing up for the NFL and college football.
    And yes, this IS the perfect time to start a rant about the athletes that generate the bajillion’s of dollars for Universities at athletic contests are the only one’s who don’t get paid, but then again, those that are there on scholarship ARE getting a free education…well, except for the ones that skate by BECAUSE they’re athletes on a scholarshp…but this is probably not the best FORUM for such a rant.
    Ow, my head hurts. I’m gonna go console myself by eating a girl scout cookie out of my horde of them in the pantry.

  10. Dimentio
    Dimentio
    March 31, 2015, 9:31 am | # | Reply

    What are those objects floating around them in panel 3? Are they scraps of paper?

    • Mahnarch
      Mahnarch
      March 31, 2015, 12:23 pm | # | Reply

      And a hat.

  11. Matthew
    Matthew
    March 31, 2015, 2:09 pm | # | Reply

    Great, now I have the lyrics to Black Hole Sun stuck in my head.

    Black Hole Bug, Black Hole Bug.
    Why don”t you come and wash away the fun.

  12. Erhannis
    Erhannis
    April 2, 2015, 6:18 pm | # | Reply

    I was partway through filling out my “March Madness Bracket” for the office before somebody told me what sport it was for.

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