# SMBC nails it! (Why I love this board.) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-strips\ **Created:** [April 12, 2022, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smbc-nails-it-why-i-love-this-board/962718 "2022-04-12T13:02:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smbc-nails-it-why-i-love-this-board/962718/1 "2022-04-12T13:02:18Z")
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal ranges from the obscure to the irrelevant, but today’s (Apr. 12, 2022) strip just nails why I love this place. Not to mention old bars. > **[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Mountweazel](https://www.smbc-comics.com/)** > > Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Mountweazel ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smbc-nails-it-why-i-love-this-board/962718/2 "2022-04-12T13:56:51Z")
Well could he? Get a course credit for it? ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smbc-nails-it-why-i-love-this-board/962718/3 "2022-04-12T14:15:30Z")
I’d just like to add a shout-out to this bit at the bottom: > Squirb > > Remember when people used to read the little blog posts under comics? They don’t now, so I can write whole lines of gibberish, squinkle dabyougargh nunglepeep. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smbc-nails-it-why-i-love-this-board/962718/4 "2022-04-12T14:28:08Z")
LOL, I saved that particular SMBC strip and passed it around to certain friends when I saw it yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smbc-nails-it-why-i-love-this-board/962718/5 "2022-04-12T17:27:23Z")
Your link led me to a strip about Cookie Monster. Is this what you were trying to talk about? > **[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Liberal Education](https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/liberal-education)** > > Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Liberal Education ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smbc-nails-it-why-i-love-this-board/962718/6 "2022-04-12T23:23:08Z")
[Updated link](https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/liberal-education). I think. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smbc-nails-it-why-i-love-this-board/962718/7 "2022-04-13T12:30:20Z")
As a teacher who recently retired “to spend more time with my tavern”, I heartily endorse this. Although my college was nowhere near this bad… we got plenty of serious philosophical (even off-topic) talk done between the required stuff. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smbc-nails-it-why-i-love-this-board/962718/8 "2022-04-14T17:42:35Z")
Thanks for the link to SMBC! I’m a big fan of xkcd but had not heard about this one. I wasn’t quite sure about it at first, but as I kept hitting the back arrow and looking at more and more of them, I really got to like it. It’s now a tab on my tablet’s browser and when I go to bed at night or wake up in the middle of the night, I browse through dozens of them. Some of them are good enough to be saved to my illustrious Museum of Terrific Cartoons! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smbc-nails-it-why-i-love-this-board/962718/9 "2022-04-14T17:54:45Z")
There is a middle ground. Even the most technical degrees have a theoretical component (if they _are_ degrees) and a bachelor’s program introduces you to that. It is, therefore, entirely possible to get a job while still learning enough to bootstrap your way into having the interesting discussions without being wealthy or well-connected enough to be able to live inside academe forever. Remember that, historically, Liberal Arts degrees were for people who didn’t work, but _inherited_, a tradition kept alive by “legacy” admissions. ---
**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smbc-nails-it-why-i-love-this-board/962718/10 "2022-04-14T17:58:01Z")
I started reading SMBC through a recommendation on xkcd’s home page, and frankly I find it generally more interesting / wittier / funnier than (recent) xkcd. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smbc-nails-it-why-i-love-this-board/962718/11 "2022-04-14T21:13:55Z")
Also check out the related [BAHFest](https://bahfest.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smbc-nails-it-why-i-love-this-board/962718/12 "2022-04-15T01:17:13Z")
Aside: Am I the only one who reflexively expands the acronym “SMBC” to “Silly Message Board Comics”? I mean, I know that’s not it, but somehow that’s what sticks in my head. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smbc-nails-it-why-i-love-this-board/962718/13 "2022-04-15T01:26:24Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > “SMBC” to “Silly Message Board Comics” Perhaps a better acronym for that comic would have been “SaturDay Morning Breakfastcereal”.