We are Corg

May 9, 2015 11:25 AM

Ichabod the Optimistic Canine features in a rarely-updated comic and yet even the brief archive of his adventures may contain more optimism than you can handle.
posted by Wolfdog (15 comments total)

We have two or three workCorgis, which I ruthlessly exploit for puppy breaks. They are all enthusiastic for belly rubs and ear skritches, and I always leave feeling better about the world.

I was just telling my husband yesterday that if I owned a Corgi kennel I'd need to name it Happy Wiggle Butts.
posted by offalark at 11:52 AM on May 9, 2015 [5 favorites]

I need a workCorgi.
posted by sarcasticah at 11:58 AM on May 9, 2015 [1 favorite]

apropos of nothing, this is the first time I've ever seen the abbr tag in HTML.
posted by infinitewindow at 12:15 PM on May 9, 2015

The shedding entry is completely apropos.
posted by infinitewindow at 12:19 PM on May 9, 2015 [1 favorite]

apropos of nothing, this is the first time I've ever seen the abbr tag in HTML.

Me too! Had to hit up my Firebug.
posted by slipthought at 1:11 PM on May 9, 2015

workCorgis? Where do you work offalark, Heaven?
posted by JHarris at 4:23 PM on May 9, 2015

apropos of nothing, this is the first time I've ever seen the abbr tag in HTML.

Wait, what? Where?

I use it sometimes right here on Metafilter, it's nice for presenting optional side information without cluttering up the post, although with the drawback that mobile OSes won't generally be able to see it, so you can't use it for things essential to understanding the post/comment.
posted by JHarris at 4:28 PM on May 9, 2015

See? Like this.
posted by JHarris at 4:29 PM on May 9, 2015 [1 favorite]

This is the first time I've seen it, that's all. I use Safari and I saw a weird outline, and the cursor changed to a ?.

Yay for cute Corgis.
posted by infinitewindow at 5:11 PM on May 9, 2015

workCorgis? Where do you work offalark, Heaven?

A not insignificant number of my fellow employees spontaneously got Corgi puppies over the last three years, and we have a dog-friendly office policy. So on any random day of the week, there's up to 3 Corgis within 20 feet of me, chilling out, being fuckin' adorable.

And now that you mention it, at one point me and my office assistant were seriously contemplating the purchase of a bullpen Corgi. Our team did very stressful live ops oh god the thing is on fire-type work, and we were trying to figure out ways to lower their stress levels since we had a hard time hiring into the team.

I still feel I could have justified the expense to my boss if I'd had a comic like this to put into a Powerpoint deck.
posted by offalark at 5:51 PM on May 9, 2015 [1 favorite]

This is the best.
posted by drwicked at 6:03 PM on May 9, 2015

Ah, I see it now, didn't see the underline on my first look at the FPP, thought it was something on the site itself.
posted by JHarris at 8:50 PM on May 9, 2015

I want to work where offalark works.
posted by palmcorder_yajna at 9:58 PM on May 9, 2015 [2 favorites]

This killed me I'm dead now
posted by bleep at 12:12 AM on May 10, 2015 [1 favorite]

A workCorgi would make my work day infinitely better. In lieu of that impossibility, I may set Ichabod as my new desktop wallpaper on Monday.
posted by the thought-fox at 7:50 PM on May 10, 2015