The Bad Boys of Computer Science
A sporadically updated web comic from your friends at HotZP.
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Sporadic Rant:
The origins of the term "bloody stool" hearken back to the days of yore -- my senior year of high school. I was in the basement of my friend Chad's house with the HotZP gang, and Chad's mom busted out some really old lollipops. At first, we were "All right, sugar rush!" That is, to say, until we tasted the first of them.
More awful than bat guano would be putting it mildly. When Chad's mom meant old, evidently she meant that these were lollipops created by the ancient Hebrews and passed through the generations from parent to child. So after we each made a face of disgust, we set about giving names to the various colors of lollipops. Andy (a different one than the Andy featured in this strip) came up with "Amoebic Dysentery" for the yellow lollipops, and I said "Bloody Stool" for the red ones.
The term, though funny by itself, was made incredibly hilarious by Brian Brown. You'll just have to hear it for yourself. For whatever reason that makes scatalogical humor so popular among adolescent males, this caught on like wildfire and I've been preaching the good word to the uniniated masses ever since.