Patty
From The Official GPF Wiki
First Appearance: Take this Job and rm -f it (August 26, 2004)
Patty (last name currently unknown) is an IT contractor currently in the employ of GPF Software. She first encountered Fooker when they both worked at Regional Telecom. It was here that she rather accidentally became entangled with the elite secret society of hackers known as the Brotherhood of the Twisted Pair. Unceremoniously drafted against her will by Scott, she now seems to get unwittingly caught up in whatever bizarre Brotherhood business he and Tim initiate, including their search for "the One", the fabled geek Messiah who will lead all of geekdom into a future age of technological enlightenment.
Patty is very gruff and rough around the edges, tending to let sarcasm be her answer for just about everything. It turns out that this abrasive personality is a defense mechanism against intimacy, as she prefers not to get very close to anyone. This probably stems from an incident where she sabotaged her own wedding, jilting her groom into leaving her at the altar. She now steers well clear of any sort of romantic attachments as well as most other personal relationships, although Dexter could end up being the one to thaw her icy exterior.
In Sharon's dream world of Harry Barker, Patty appears to fill the role of Minerva McGonagall from Harry Potter. She is a teacher at Hollerith's School of Phreaking and Hacking and is the head of the Torvalds Subnet. In the dream, her last name is "McDongle"; although it is unknown whether or not this is her true name, that seems unlikely and is more likely to be a mesh of the McGonagall character from Potter and the fact that Sharon doesn't know Patty's real last name.
