884: Rogers St.

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Rogers St.

Title text: "We can also use middle names in place of first pet's names, but yours is something incomprehensible about dropping tables."

Explanation

This comic is a reference to the game of creating your "porn star name" by putting your pet's name as your first name and the street you grew up on as your last name. For example: Max (Dog's name) Pine (Street name). In this comic, Randall would have named his cat "Mister" and had moved to "Rogers" Street and so his kid's porn name would be "Mister Rogers" (from the children's show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood"), which is pretty high on the very unsexy name scale (if there was one) especially for a porn actor.

In this way, Randall has prevented his kid from getting into porn.

In the title text, he references the other way of creating a porn star name by using your middle name as your first name and the street still as your last name. Additionally, the title text references comic 327: Exploits of a Mom in which Mrs. Roberts puts SQL instructions into her son's name so that it will mess with the database at school. In 327, the kid's name is "Robert'); DROP TABLE students;--" and we are led to believe the person in the comic above may be the same Little Bobby Tables. Though, of course, in the context of this comic he would probably not want to be called "little" Bobby Tables.

Here's a link to the location of Rogers Street, which is near Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA.

Transcript

[Someone with curly hair is standing in front of a sign labeled "Auditions". A judge of some sort speaks from off-panel.]

Judge: Seriously?

Judge: Sorry, no, that's a huge mood killer.

Judge: Next!

Before I have a kid, I'm moving to Rogers Street in Cambridge, MA, and then getting a cat named "Mister"

Just to guarantee the kid will never go into porn.

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Discussion

In the UK, "Rogers" is also a verb. Added to this, "Mr Rogers" does not carry the same cultural references.

All in all Mr Rogers sounds like a great name for a UK Porn Star. 188.29.119.251 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Oh wow, I didn't know that. Not only is "rogers" a verb, but it's a verb which means to have sexual intercourse. 98.203.241.55 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

To be honest most verbs mean "to have sexual intercourse", given the chance. Google it! *fnar fnar* (And most nouns mean naughty bits of the body. In fact, I've just been listening to a radio programme about (Doctor) David Livingston, explorer of Africa. There arose the question of "Is it really true that he took his wife up the Zambezi?" Momentary mental boggle ensues.) 178.99.81.144 18:58, 30 April 2013 (UTC)