WCT Nov 9-13, 2009

[giant_bug]

In Shipper-verse there is no such thing as 'just friends'.

"Wow there's a picture in the paper of Pope Benedict and Cardinal Fuffnangle smiling together. OMG THEY ARE TOTALLY AN ITEM SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!".

I think it's a neurosis caused by excessive reading of celebity magazines.

[no one special]

he says "we've known each other since college" but she seems surprised that he even knew who she was in college.  Something does not compute in my head. 

[Malsies]

he says "we've known each other since college" but she seems surprised that he even knew who she was in college.  Something does not compute in my head. 

Well, Marigold has low self-esteem.  I'm sure she knew who Angus was, but because they probably never spoke except in passing, she assumed that he never gave her a second thought.  A reasonable enough conclusion.  I've run into people I know from swing dancing, and they're all like, "Who are you?"  Um, yeah, hi.  You spent a three-and-a-half minute song with your hands all over me.   

[LeeC]

Malsies said it better than I ever could.

[BobtheDancingFlea]

Up until this point...I thought Angus and Marigold were related. D:
Now I'm trying to remember how I got that idea in my head.
It feels like that's how they knew each other, so now I have to go look at the archives or I'll never know. :'C

[Carl-E]

I seem to recall it being brought up in he WCT th week they went to the bar w/o Angus...

[smack that isaiah]

Up until this point...I thought Angus and Marigold were related. D:

I thought for a few weeks that they were brother and sister.  I'm also unsure as to how I thought that, but once there was the whole "is Marigold attractive" thing and Angus looked her up and down and said yes, I thought not.

[LeeC]

yeah when the "is marigold attractive" strip came out it was evident they were not related.  But I think they just consider each other friends.

[BobtheDancingFlea]

Up until this point...I thought Angus and Marigold were related. D:

I thought for a few weeks that they were brother and sister.  I'm also unsure as to how I thought that, but once there was the whole "is Marigold attractive" thing and Angus looked her up and down and said yes, I thought not.

Now, see...something must be wrong with me, 'cause that totally made me keep believing it.
Or maybe it's just the fact that I have no idea what it's like to have a sibling.
I just thought it seemed brotherly I DON'T KNOW WHY. D:

[zagraf]

[From Jeph's comment under tonight's comic]:  Cutest Marigold ever in panel 2. Creepiest ever in panel five.

I dunno, I find her smile in panel five more adorable than creepy.  Faye's "trying to be friendly to the customer" smile was creepy.  Hannelore's "be friendly to the boy smiling at me" grin was creepy.  This was adorable.

[Is it cold in here?]

My favorite was panel 1, the natural-looking happy Marigold. It's good to see her happy.

[epoch]

Angus just wants to make Marigold happy. Aw. SO. ADORABLE. So should they be Marigus or Angold?

[Carl-E]

Marigus, definitely. 

Because not enough words rhyme with asparagus. 

And Angold sounds like something from a Wagnerian opera...

[Moxie]

See, I would have said that Marigus sounded like another type of flower, whereas Angold sounds like some medical treatment for athlete's foot. 


Nice to see Marigold being more social, even willingly, but it makes me think she might be reading into this all just a bit more than Angus intended.

[raoullefere]

I think its safe to say the "friend" he was referring to, was Angus.

OMG! He's a genius! He's been stalking her since college and even managed to get an apartment with her so that he can stalk her up close! This explains everything! Only, now she's starting to socialize and he can't have that, so he's making his move. WHY DIDN"T I SEE IT BEFORE??!!!

 

Because you aren't so paranoid that you assume that everyone is not only lying, but telling and living a huge lie just to conceal their evil plans?

he says "we've known each other since college" but she seems surprised that he even knew who she was in college.  Something does not compute in my head.  

Apparently your college experience is incomplete, since it does not include the "mystery guy" (or girl; less common, from my experience, but I see no reason for her not to exist). Everyone you know has seen him, no one has seen him actually talking to anybody, and no one knows what he does, although at least one person of your circle is certain he was in this hundred-plus student class they were in, too. Sometimes you actually get to meet this person and discover he's cool, interesting, brilliant, obsessed, creepy, strange, non-communicative, lonely, self-absorbed, distrustful, or personally disturbs you—take about three from the list, and you might add has some odd odor. I recall about three guys like this from college (including grad school). Two I met, and one just faded away about mid-semester. Legend had it 'they' came for him (although no one ever properly established who 'they' were.)

Marigus, definitely.  

Because not enough words rhyme with asparagus.  

And Angold sounds like something from a Wagnerian opera...

Stop that.

[Akima]

Angold sounds like some medical treatment for athlete's foot. 

Or worse, a hemorrhoid cream... Or lube...

[Kugai]

I think Marigold was more that shy, brainy, awkward kid that knows all the answers but prefers to sit in the back of the class and mumbles when called on.

Dawwwwww  Mari-Bear has da crushes on Angus.




Hmmmmm

Why is it that when I se Marigus I suddenly have this image of Angus and Marigold in Roman Armour?

[maddness]

Mangold
Mangus
Margus
Marang
Man
Ma

OMG! He's a genius! He's been stalking her since college and even managed to get an apartment with her so that he can stalk her up close! This explains everything! Only, now she's starting to socialize and he can't have that, so he's making his move. WHY DIDN"T I SEE IT BEFORE??!!!

 

Because you aren't so paranoid that you assume that everyone is not only lying, but telling and living a huge lie just to conceal their evil plans?

Wow! This proves I'm saner than I used to be!

Apparently your college experience is incomplete, since it does not include the "mystery guy" (or girl; less common, from my experience, but I see no reason for her not to exist). Everyone you know has seen him, no one has seen him actually talking to anybody, and no one knows what he does, although at least one person of your circle is certain he was in this hundred-plus student class they were in, too. Sometimes you actually get to meet this person and discover he's cool, interesting, brilliant, obsessed, creepy, strange, non-communicative, lonely, self-absorbed, distrustful, or personally disturbs you—take about three from the list, and you might add has some odd odor. I recall about three guys like this from college (including grad school). Two I met, and one just faded away about mid-semester. Legend had it 'they' came for him (although no one ever properly established who 'they' were.)

I was that girl, only it started well before college. I think it was elementary school.

[Border Reiver]

[From Jeph's comment under tonight's comic]:  Cutest Marigold ever in panel 2. Creepiest ever in panel five.

I dunno, I find her smile in panel five more adorable than creepy.  Faye's "trying to be friendly to the customer" smile was creepy.  Hannelore's "be friendly to the boy smiling at me" grin was creepy.  This was adorable.

Remember, you're just comparing Marigold to Marigold, on that scale, the man is right.  When we introduce Faye, or Hanners, then the variables change.

[Carl-E]

[From Jeph's comment under tonight's comic]:  Cutest Marigold ever in panel 2. Creepiest ever in panel five.

I dunno, I find her smile in panel five more adorable than creepy.  Faye's "trying to be friendly to the customer" smile was creepy.  Hannelore's "be friendly to the boy smiling at me" grin was creepy.  This was adorable.

Anyone with a fixed smile on their face is creepy lookng - it's the opposite side of the uncanny valley, someone real looking a little too plastic...

[raoullefere]

I don't know. Creepiness is, I suspect, like so many things, partially a matter of intent. Faye was trying to be creepy—Marigold's just trying to amuse. It makes me feel a little better, at any rate, as it's something one would do with a friend, not a romantic interest.

sigh Don't want the not-real comic girl to get crushed, I don't.

Because you aren't so paranoid that you assume that everyone is not only lying, but telling and living a huge lie just to conceal their evil plans?

Wow! This proves I'm saner than I used to be!

It would, except it's me making the observation.

[rynne]

Can I say that I have been really, really impressed how Jeph's art accurately depicts Marigold as plain-looking?  By which I mean she's not ugly, but neither does she have the secretly-stunning-without-my-glasses vibe (as opposed to, say, Penelope).  She looks exactly like she should: a girl who could probably be cuter if she bothered, but is legitimately of average attractiveness.  It's not really something that a lot of comics pull off well, and it goes such a long way to adding realism to Marigold's personality.

[epoch]

sigh Don't want the not-real comic girl to get crushed, I don't.

She isn't going to. Because her and Angus are going to get together, and fall in love. It will be super adorable. Yayyy!

[Abigmoron]

Angus's shirt is literally everything I have ever wanted in a shirt

[Schmorgluck]

I don't know if Hannelore is growing a crush for Angus. This would be immature from someone her age in general, but somehow understandable from a kind of asocial girl just going out of her shell.
The other possible explanation is that, going out of her shell, she's taking a taste for socializing and being around people. Which is even more cute and awwwwwwwsome. Reminds me of myself, back when playing tabletop roleplaying games with many like-minded yet very various people, helped me be easier around people.

[epoch]

I don't know if Hannelore is growing a crush for Angus. This would be immature from someone her age in general, but somehow understandable from a kind of asocial girl just going out of her shell.
The other possible explanation is that, going out of her shell, she's taking a taste for socializing and being around people. Which is even more cute and awwwwwwwsome. Reminds me of myself, back when playing tabletop roleplaying games with many like-minded yet very various people, helped me be easier around people.

You mean Marigold, right? Hannelore is a different character.

[maddness]

sigh Don't want the not-real comic girl to get crushed, I don't.

This. EXACTLY this.

I don't know. Creepiness is, I suspect, like so many things, partially a matter of intent. Faye was trying to be creepy—Marigold's just trying to amuse. It makes me feel a little better, at any rate, as it's something one would do with a friend, not a romantic interest.

But, being that she's pretty well inexperienced when it comes to the whole boy/girl interaction thing, she might not have those nuances down.

Because you aren't so paranoid that you assume that everyone is not only lying, but telling and living a huge lie just to conceal their evil plans?

Wow! This proves I'm saner than I used to be!

It would, except it's me making the observation.

Damn! Just when I thought I was making progress.

[Schmorgluck]

I don't know if Hannelore is growing a crush for Angus. This would be immature from someone her age in general, but somehow understandable from a kind of asocial girl just going out of her shell.
The other possible explanation is that, going out of her shell, she's taking a taste for socializing and being around people. Which is even more cute and awwwwwwwsome. Reminds me of myself, back when playing tabletop roleplaying games with many like-minded yet very various people, helped me be easier around people.

You mean Marigold, right? Hannelore is a different character.

Yeah, I meant Marigold... What the fuck is wrong with me?

[Is it cold in here?]

Socially awkward women with the same vowel pattern in their names and the same number of syllables? I can see how a collision happened.

[Kugai]

I don't know if Hannelore is growing a crush for Angus. This would be immature from someone her age in general, but somehow understandable from a kind of asocial girl just going out of her shell.
The other possible explanation is that, going out of her shell, she's taking a taste for socializing and being around people. Which is even more cute and awwwwwwwsome. Reminds me of myself, back when playing tabletop roleplaying games with many like-minded yet very various people, helped me be easier around people.

You mean Marigold, right? Hannelore is a different character.

Yeah, I meant Marigold... What the fuck is wrong with me?

You might need glasses?

[Border Reiver]

Well, based on the poll (which hasn't changed), there was a good percentage of people want me todo the polls.  However there are plenty of others to do the work - many are funnier than I. 

Besides, I'm off on exercise this weekend and won't be back til late Sunday - one of the rest of you will have to do it....

[raoullefere]

I don't know. Creepiness is, I suspect, like so many things, partially a matter of intent. Faye was trying to be creepy—Marigold's just trying to amuse. It makes me feel a little better, at any rate, as it's something one would do with a friend, not a romantic interest.

But, being that she's pretty well inexperienced when it comes to the whole boy/girl interaction thing, she might not have those nuances down.

Well, great. You can just rock me to sleep tonight.

Edit: which you didn't, and I didn't sleep a wink. (starts chucking guilt by the large handfuls).

[LTK]

Oh my god you guys we just bought A HOUSE

Holy crap.

[jonarus_drakus]

A house, awsome! Now you KNOW your popular and cool Jeph, if you wernt, you would be able to aford to buy a house...

srry, dunk... My birthday drinkfest (25 as of the 14th)... pity is was crap...

[syrupykeyboard]

A house, awsome! Now you KNOW your popular and cool Jeph, if you wernt, you would be able to aford to buy a house...

srry, dunk... My birthday drinkfest (25 as of the 14th)... pity is was crap...

Well happy birthday, jonarus!

[ysth]

Oh my god you guys we just bought A HOUSE

Holy crap.

Yay!

Speaking of twitter, I note that pintsize0101 is following KimikoRoss.
As is hanneloreEC, but she also follows sockington, pennycat, and wilw.

[ysth]

Well, based on the poll (which hasn't changed), there was a good percentage of people want me todo the polls.  However there are plenty of others to do the work - many are funnier than I. 

Besides, I'm off on exercise this weekend and won't be back til late Sunday - one of the rest of you will have to do it....

Or we will all patiently wait for your return...