BRAINPAN LEAKAGE

Hamster Month Continues on Brainpan Leakage, the final toon…

Image Copyright © M. R. Sellars – A number of months after I went to work for the new company they started a division that ran an internet service provider, site host, and access point service. In addition to my duties as a bench tech, I was charged with running and maintaining those servers and dialup accounts (Yeah, dialup… We had ISDN pipes from bigger clients too, but this was pre-DSL)… And so came this cartoon of Merp surfing the web. This was in the early days of the “Virtual” world, and just for fun, Merp is wearing his VR Goggles, VR Gloves, and riding his virtual surfboard in an oddly “STTNG Holodeck” sort of room.

And there you have it. The only 8 Merp The Tech Hamster toons still in existence – to my knowledge, at least.

Maybe I need to start a new chapter… “Merp The Author Hamster and his Sidekick/Owner Ex-Nuclear Physicist Turned Dominatrix, Evil Kat”…

More to come…

Murv (aka Merp!)

Hamster Month Continues on Brainpan Leakage…

Image Copyright © M. R. Sellars – This is likely to be the single most twisted and bizarre “Merp The Tech Hamster” toon ever. It looks innocuous on the surface, but when you know the story behind it, there is a bit of weirdness factor like you wouldn’t believe. As I mentioned before, Phyllis metaphorically played the character of “Doctor Shirley Knot,” Merp’s arch nemesis. There had never been any real explanation behind why she was his nemesis, or even why he had a nemesis to begin with, other than the fact that it gave me something to “draw about”… At any rate, in one of Phyllis’s far more darkly humored moods, she mentioned something about baby hamsters on a plate with cocktail sauce – ala shrimp cocktail. Yeah… Kind of “ewww-bizarre-funny-ewww” all at the same time, I know.

Either way, that little snippet ran through my head and by proxy, Merp’s head too. And so, as he “remembered” the plate of baby hamsters with cocktail sauce he had a Eureka moment that finally explained the adversarial relationship between the two of them.

More to come…

Murv