Government Town #16: Bachelor of Shawarma

by Government Town on November 13, 2018 at 9:00 am

Are you a victim of derisive scoffing in the workplace? CALL NOW to join the fight for pssshhh-free work environments for all!

Anyway. Thanks for your patience, guys! I hope the continuing bickering adventures of Rana, Ali and Shameem were worth the wait. And with this strip, we’re officially past the halfway mark for Season One! Got a lot of stuff to cram into the next 14 comics, so get ready for that.

Also, I am absolutely sure that Shameem is not alone in his desire to wax academic on all things Lebanese food, so if anyone feels compelled to send me additional shawarma-themed thesis titles on twitter, I would definitely be amused by that.

ALSO ALSO, in the grand tradition of webcomics everywhere, I’ve added a little blogroll of comics I like just below here. A few big names just in case you’re a straggler who somehow got to 2018 without ever reading xkcd (how?!) et al, and some you might not know! Check ’em out. Read comics all day. Feel the warm embrace of comics against your eyeballs. Roll up a comic and use it to snort more comics. Comics are good.

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Transcript

Panel One
RANA: But yeah—I love my field, but after a certain point too much theory that doesn’t go anywhere gets frustrating.
ALI: I get that. That’d drive me nuts.
SHAMEEM: Psshhh!
Panel Two
RANA: Don’t “psshhh” me!
ALI: Yeah, this is a psshhh-free work environment.
Panel Three
RANA: Okay, like, look at it this way. Imagine you’re exactly as competent as you are now at making food, but before you’re allowed to work here, you have to write an 18-page research paper on the history of garlic, take a two-semester seminar on contemporary issues in halal slaughter, give a fifteen-minute presentation on the origins of grilled eggplant, and write an honours thesis on the relative merits of spicy versus regular hummus as they relate to the commodification of minority “ethnic” cuisine for consumption by the dominant culture?
Panel Four
SHAMEEM: Absolutely everything about that would be ideal to me.
ALI: Yeah, if I could major in garlic potatoes I might actually consider going back to school
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