Original Commentary
Brisbane isn't too good with the computers or the ladies.

Modern Commentary
Nowadays, you can hopefully get full specs and properly compare things. Back then, I bought some computer magazines, trying to buy a new computer. I was looking through the ads, trying to get a good deal and they'd throw a bunch of numbers at you. But it was never the same kind of things being measured.
And the ads were obviously designed by somebody who knew how much they were paying for each square inch of ad space and was determined to get their full use out of it. If you, the shopper, had trouble reading it, that was your problem.

Those numbers all measure different things entirely.
Bus speed is how fast the motherboard moves information between components and the CPU.
Horizontal dot pitch is the size of pixels on the monitor. You want this to be smaller, generally.
Level 1 cache is memory storage that's very small, very fast, very expensive, and built into the processor itself. More of it is usually better, but whether or not that's going to be human-noticeable depends on a variety of other factors.
Mean random seek time is a measure of hard drive performance, which was a bigger deal back before solid-state drives, which are 100 times faster.
They are not really comparable things. The measurements have different units entirely. It's like asking if two miles from the freeway is better or worse than a pound of apples.- Terrence

Original Commentary
Enter Robert, Lemon Tech's #1 Support-guy-who-looks-just-like-Carl-from-Spare-Parts (completely intentional, I assure you).

Modern Commentary
It's Carl.
I mean it's Robert.

So, before You Say it First started, we had a comic called Spare Parts. It starred Carl, who looks like the human version of that guy. Spare Parts was ongoing at the time and was the main comic that I was working on.
I don't remember why we did it; I think it was Isabel's idea to encourage me to write more You Say it First. - Terrence

Original Commentary
This is, of course, how Brisbane makes most of his major purchases - he has someone else decide for him.

Modern Commentary
I'm not sure Brisbane's third-panel question makes any sense. Every computer I've seen has used the same kind of power cable, and attaching numbers to that is just trying to dazzle and confuse folks like Brisbane.
The stage directions - and I don't usually include stage directions - for Robert in panel 2 are that the implied meaning is "And your question is?".
He is not looking at where he's pointing. The options are all good enough and Brisbane doesn't know what questions to ask or how to understand the answers he'd get- Terrence

Original Commentary
If that line of thinking works with men going through mid-life-crises when they go car shopping - then it can work for Brisbane.

Modern Commentary
In WarHammer 40k, the Orks have latent psychic abilities. Their subconscious ideas - which are belligerent football-hooligan nonsense - are what makes their things work.
There is no underlying technology. Red vehicles go faster because they believe that red vehicles go faster. "The red ones go faster" is one of those recurring punchlines there.
When we wrote this comic, we were unaware of that part of WarHammer. We barely knew that WarHammer was a thing. We did not borrow that line from Warhammer.
We borrowed it from Sushi Girl, an American manga by Tavisha Wolfgarth-Simons and Rikki Simons, better known for their Reality Check and @Tavicat comics. They, almost certainly, borrowed it from WarHammer and we lifted it from them without knowing the true source. - Terrence

Original Commentary
It's the same stuff that goes into "tropical" flavored iced tea to give it that fresh scent... and slight foam.

Modern Commentary
I think it was Panera that had that tea.

But yeah, that spray won't get your stuff any cleaner, but it'll get your stuff smelling cleaner which is almost as good.

Lemon Technology sells this stuff for industrial use. I've generally pictured it in 50-gallon drums but have not done enough research to verify how they are sold in real life. I'm sure some fragrance chemicals are sold by the pint, but those would probably be the kind where you just need a few drops in a whole batch of the product.
What I'm trying to say is that I have no idea why the company would have a spray bottle like this nor how Brisbane got it.- Terrence

Modern Commentary
Sunday comics!
I'm pretty sure these were donation goals. A lot of our news-stuff from back then got overwritten as we went along. This was before we started NamirDeiter.net.
But dig the white outline around Brisbane in panel 3 and the abstract circle background in panel 4.

Anyhow, in the end, he got her the soda. - Terrence