These Are The Daves I Know

These are the Daves of our lives

At the office where I work, I was once surrounded on all sides by guys named Dan...

When did Yay become obviously female?

I can totally picture Yay as a freelance security consultant - the same kind as the guy who's been taking down all North Korea's websites and Internet border routers as a personal hobby/political statement because they annoyed him by trying to hack him. (See recent Wired article.)

Why does everyone always think accountants are awful :(

Yay was presenting a gender? How? Did they capture it and mount it on the basement wall? :-D

…you know. I’ve always seen Yay as being a literal non-binary ai and just left it at that. But now that I am thinking about it, what Is their gender presentation? Is it exactly as described? Something else? I want questions for answers I didn’t even consider lol

I worked in an office of ~100, and there were so many Daves we started numbering ourselves. I was number 7. At one point the company was over 10% Daves.

Too Many Daves by Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel) Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCave Had twenty-three sons and she named them all Dave? Well, she did. And that wasn’t a smart thing to do. You see, when she wants one and calls out, “Yoo-Hoo! Come into the house, Dave!” she doesn’t get one. All twenty-three Daves of hers come on the run! This makes things quite difficult at the McCaves’ As you can imagine, with so many Daves. And often she wishes that, when they were born, She had named one of them Bodkin Van Horn And one of them Hoos-Foos. And one of them Snimm. And one of them Hot-Shot. And one Sunny Jim. And one of them Shadrack. And one of them Blinkey. And one of them Stuffy. And one of them Stinkey. Another one Putt-Putt. Another one Moon Face. Another one Marvin O’Gravel Balloon Face. And one of them Ziggy. And one Soggy Muff. One Buffalo Bill. And one Biffalo Buff. And one of them Sneepy. And one Weepy Weed. And one Paris Garters. And one Harris Tweed. And one of them Sir Michael Carmichael Zutt And one of them Oliver Boliver Butt And one of them Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate … But she didn’t do it. And now it’s too late.

Yay should come work in my office. I'm terrible with small talk, or at least, I think I am, so I try to avoid it whenever possible. I've gotten through 10 years with pretty minimal small talk (and never with any Daves from Accounting, though some with a Dave from Software, but he retired). Plus, we're largely remote now, and I think the software teams will stay mostly remote when/if we ever return to "normal".

Oh, wow. I'd forgotten about "Daves I Know" by KITH. 🎶

See, this is how I like Yay to be written! A bit petulant and childish, but at the same time, potent. That attitude of "FINE, if you don't want me to wreak havoc with my near-unimaginable powers then I WON'T do that, SHEESH." That's how I like it. Yay has a soft side, but Yay doesn't ONLY pout and pet dogs.

Thank you for the Daves Those endless Daves, those sacred Daves you gave me I'm thinking of the Daves I won't forget a single Dave, believe me

Totally unrelated to this Dave-themed thread, but I pretty sure Yay is the only AI that doesn’t have a neck seam. I wonder if there’s any significance to that. I’ve also noticed those with ambiguous/fem qualities, has what I would describe as “winged eyeliner”. Though, that might just be an artistic thing. Jeph mentioned having a record of deep lore for the QC universe. I’d happily pay for a look into it.

This brings up the question of, "What IS Yay's gender?" I know I'm getting a lot of "sushi chef who insists on getting a bit of the poison with fugu" with hints of "child who hasn't learned the word no" and "cat who insists you love it but does not want to be touched". Not sure if I'm getting those from the gender, though, or the age

Yay is still deeply in their edgy teenager phase

Roko is so good for/to Yay 🥰

"vaguely uncomfortable with our gender presentation..." :-)

I'm just picturing the Head Accountant from The Good Place. I bet they would have more fun with Bill from Weird Sex Things department.

Has anyone pointed out that Yay looks a lot like Dora when she was first introduced, all pail and gothy? Oh the 90's HotTopic/goth look, it's funny what makes you nostalgic as you get older.

These aren't the Daves you're looking for.

People still work in offices with watercoolers?

How many of the Daves know Hal?

Wow, deep cut on "Dave's I Know", I haven't heard that since the summer I was a house painter. There was a Dave on our crew, so of course we had to make up our own verses about him, mostly his ability to overspray nearly any drop-cloth in order to add a touch of color to a driveway or lawn.

they all have their own hands but they come from different moms

These are the Daves of your life.

The worst Dave was Hurricane David in 1979. Went through the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Bahamas, and along the East Coast of the USA and Canada. $1.54 billion worth of damage, 2069 fatalities. It’s death toll and damage in the Dominican Republic alone was enough for the National Hurricane Centre to retire David as a hurricane name.

Dave from accounting is actually a very senior member in the Dave Conspiracy; in charge of hiring mad scientists. (Narbonic, if you MUST know...)

I’m a Dave (card-carrying) and I love these threads

I immediately got extreme cyber punk vibes from 'free-lance skulker in networks', and when they transferred it to an office environment the aesthetic refused to leave my brain. I picture Dave in black leather and with a prosthetic camera eye. His golf club is cybernetic

The Dave ratio seems off in these comments. Are you like tribbles?

Kids in the Hall! Excellent reference, A+.

There was an accountant named Dave who kept a spreadsheet in his cave

I'm just Dave from Supply Chain, Dave from Accounting is over in Building 4

Don’t be such a Dave, Dave.

Is it too late to reply, "Dave’s not here”?

Could not be happier for a Kids in the Hall reference!

as a genderqueer dave, i am sorry for dave from accounting, he'll be reprimanded by the dave's Union

And these were the Daves of our Lives.

Dave also plays World of Warships a lot :P If anyone gets this, what are you doing here?! Back to the Salt Mines!

Dave in Marketing is laughing his ass off. Nervously.

Dave L. went down to Georgia; he was looking for a stapler to steal…

Vaguely uncomfortable but also slightly aroused.

Wait a sec.... "these are the daves I know I know, these are the daves I know".... This implies that Jeph also acknowledges the existence of Daves he doesn't know he knows. Most of us go through our entire lives without acknowledging the existence of unknown unknowns, much less unknown Daves. So kudos to Jeph for that insight. (And also to Dave.)

I love the these are the Dave’s I know reference…KITH

So basically Dave from Accounting is a math problem.

I love Roko's attempts to reform Yay into a useful and upright member of society. It may be a lost cause, but it's an honest attempt.

Some of them are Davids, but most of us are Daves.

Love Yay's expression in panel four. Like they're about to hiss.

Some of them are Davids, but most of them are Daves...

Dead Daves are the enemy

Mama said there’d be Daves like this…

I love this SO MUCH and it’s SO ACCURATE, but my Dave-from-Accounting has a different name.

Imagine the things Yay might do to challenge their self restraint, their patience, and their creativity for the sake of amusement, if that kind of thing sounded challenging in an amusing way

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the Daves of our lives.

Those were the Daves, my friend We thought they'd never end

Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCave had 23 sons, and she named them all Dave?

i think I'm being called out in a bunch of ways here

This is far too relatable

must suck to be a dave