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False leg

False teeth

Prosthetic arm

Prosthetic hand

Real arm (yours)

Real arm (someone else's!)

Detachable head

(running gag of your choice)

[DSL]

Looks like Marten keeps living up to his last name.

A slender Reed?

Reeds make music. I wonder if Jeph did that deliberately.

I took it as reed-like, as in bending with the wind. Among the forumoids who thought the same, he was/is seen as either resilient or spineless, depending on the forumoid.

[Is it cold in here?]

"Slender reed" implies weakness.

[Schmorgluck]

I was more on the "flexes but doesn't break" line myself.

[jwhouk]

The Boss has said that he had regretted naming the webcomic as such years ago. I bet if he could go back to 2003, he'd tell his past self to call it something different.

Of course, somethingdifferent.com might have been taken as domain name already back then...

[Method of Madness]

Why does he regret this?

[Perfectly Reasonable]

"A Different Kind of Stupid".
That's what I'll call -my- webcomic.

[jwhouk]

Why does he regret this?

For situations such as what is portrayed in today's "filler" comic.

[Kugai]

Fun with Banks

Heal quickly and well Jeph. 

[mustang6172]

Jeph is always having minor surgery.  It's time to show some commitment and have major surgery.

Go big or go home!

[cesariojpn]

Drugs? If I was in that banker's shoes, I'd be asking "Is this some sort of Porn site?"

[cpflux]

Jeph is always having minor surgery.  It's time to show some commitment and have major surgery.

Go big or go home!

Jeph just needs to scale it up and change his tune.

[Near Lurker]

Banks don't mind porn sites, though.

I kind of think that, with all the semi-legal dispensaries popping up (just now coming down the Pike to Assychussetts!), which, because of the ambiguity of the business under federal law, banks still want nothing to do with, this is likely to be at least for some banks a standard question, like when the post office clerk asks you "does this contain anything explosive, toxic, etc., whatever?"

[Is it cold in here?]

Jeph is always having minor surgery.  It's time to show some commitment and have major surgery.

Go big or go home!

"Heart surgery" means surgery on a heart, "lung surgery" means surgery on a lung, "knee surgery" means surgery on a knee, so obviously "minor surgery" means surgery on a minor.

[Storel]

Jeph is always having minor surgery.  It's time to show some commitment and have major surgery.

Go big or go home!

"Heart surgery" means surgery on a heart, "lung surgery" means surgery on a lung, "knee surgery" means surgery on a knee, so obviously "minor surgery" means surgery on a minor.

Along the same line of logic, I've been saying for many years now that since corn oil is made from corn, peanut oil is made from peanuts, and olive oil is made from olives, clearly baby oil is made from babies.

And let's not even get started on bicycle oil... (How the hell do they extract it??)

[KOK]

Looks like Marten keeps living up to his last name.

A slender Reed?

Reeds make music. I wonder if Jeph did that deliberately.

He did play a reed instrument at his first concert.

[Zebediah]

See, Jeph, this is why you name the business side of things something innocuous like "Jacques Productions" or "QC Productions". Even "Pintsize Productions" sounds clean to somebody who doesn't read the comic.

Along the same line of logic, I've been saying for many years now that since corn oil is made from corn, peanut oil is made from peanuts, and olive oil is made from olives, clearly baby oil is made from babies.

And let's not even get started on bicycle oil... (How the hell do they extract it??)

Girl Scout Cookies. Are they made from real Girl Scouts?

[GarandMarine]

Banks don't mind porn sites, though.

I kind of think that, with all the semi-legal dispensaries popping up (just now coming down the Pike to Assychussetts!), which, because of the ambiguity of the business under federal law, banks still want nothing to do with, this is likely to be at least for some banks a standard question, like when the post office clerk asks you "does this contain anything explosive, toxic, etc., whatever?"

Actually the DOJ just issued guidance giving banks the greenlight to deal with legal pot dispensaries.

[Y]

Drugs? If I was in that banker's shoes, I'd be asking "Is this some sort of Porn site?"

Apparently my AV(Nod32) thought the same about this site and put it on the anti-phishing blacklist since yesterday.

[Nepiophage]

Girl Scout Cookies. Are they made from real Girl Scouts?

They should be, but the cheaper ones are made from undocumented immigrants.

[St.Clair]

Homines est!  Dici, dici omnes!  Soylens viridis homines est!

[Storel]

Along the same line of logic, I've been saying for many years now that since corn oil is made from corn, peanut oil is made from peanuts, and olive oil is made from olives, clearly baby oil is made from babies.

And let's not even get started on bicycle oil... (How the hell do they extract it??)

Girl Scout Cookies. Are they made from real Girl Scouts?

Ah, yes, the classics. Thank you, Wednesday Addams.

[Pilchard123]

Homines est!  Dici, dici omnes!  Soylens viridis homines est!

It is humans! I say, I say, everybody (all?)! Green soylent is humans!

[cesium133]

So that's what happened to the ancient Romans. 

[FunkyTuba]

yes, and be careful of Squirrel Gout Cookies

[KOK]

As Piet Hein said:

"Those people who complain that there is no dog in dog treats and no girl scout in the girl scout cookies, are they the least bit pleased when for once there is sand in the sand cake?"

[pwhodges]

Apparently my AV(Nod32) thought the same about this site and put it on the anti-phishing blacklist since yesterday.

I also use NOD32; I notified both Eset and Jeph this morning [GMT] (I'm presuming it was an advert that triggered it, as has happened with other warnings in the past).

[Near Lurker]

It is humans! I say, I say, everybody (all?)! Green soylent is humans!

Not "I say."  "Dici" is singular imperative - pretty sure it's supposed to be "tell [them], tell everybody" (original quote - "you've got to tell them... you tell everybody") but that doesn't quite work, since "tell everybody" would be "dici omnibus" - the closest thing to a meaning for "dici omnes" would be something like "recite the roster," I think.

[Storel]

As Piet Hein said:

"Those people who complain that there is no dog in dog treats and no girl scout in the girl scout cookies, are they the least bit pleased when for once there is sand in the sand cake?"

I don't know what a sand cake is, but I approve of this sentiment anyway. 

When/how did he say that, btw? I've never heard of anything Piet Hein's written besides his Grooks books, and that doesn't sound like a grook.

[hedgie]

Apparently my AV(Nod32) thought the same about this site and put it on the anti-phishing blacklist since yesterday.

I also use NOD32; I notified both Eset and Jeph this morning [GMT] (I'm presuming it was an advert that triggered it, as has happened with other warnings in the past).

I don't use AV, since I don't need one, but I *have* had adverts on QC (through Google, not the Project Wonderful ones) that tried to download stuff onto my computer.  At this point, just so I don't need to hit "cancel", I only whitelist the PW ones on my ad blocker.  Right now I'm wondering A: how much to send Jeph each month so he gets fair pay from me for his work.  and B: Whether to do it through Flattr or buying stuff.

[pwhodges]

I don't use AV, since I don't need one,

I'd be interested to hear your justification of this, especially in the light of:

but I *have* had adverts on QC [...] that tried to download stuff onto my computer.

[Zebediah]

What I want to know is why the bank teller looks like Little Orphan Annie.

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[Rghfrgl]

 It's clearly Spike Spiegel.

[cesariojpn]

Girl Scout Cookies. Are they made from real Girl Scouts?

They should be, but the cheaper ones are made from undocumented immigrants.

Likewise, is Milano cookies made from Alyssa Milano?

[Method of Madness]

Don't be silly. Alyssa Milano is made from Milano cookies.

[KOK]

As Piet Hein said:

"Those people who complain that there is no dog in dog treats and no girl scout in the girl scout cookies, are they the least bit pleased when for once there is sand in the sand cake?"

I don't know what a sand cake is, but I approve of this sentiment anyway. 

When/how did he say that, btw? I've never heard of anything Piet Hein's written besides his Grooks books, and that doesn't sound like a grook.

I do not know when. But he also wrote prose grooks, like this one. And several other things.

[Near Lurker]

What I want to know is why the bank teller looks like Little Orphan Annie.

Daddy Warbucks decided she had to learn responsibility.

[ZoeB]

Along the same line of logic, I've been saying for many years now that since corn oil is made from corn, peanut oil is made from peanuts, and olive oil is made from olives, clearly baby oil is made from babies.

Yes, but after the hot-press, the residue mass is freeze-dried, ground and made into baby powder.



From the same artist:

[Storel]

When/how did he say that, btw? I've never heard of anything Piet Hein's written besides his Grooks books, and that doesn't sound like a grook.

I do not know when. But he also wrote prose grooks, like this one. And several other things.

Aha, okay, I'd totally forgotten there were prose grooks. Guess I need to find some of those books again; it's been a long time. The only grook I can even remember at this point is this one (phrasing may be imperfect because it's been decades since the last time I read it):

Relativity*

To wear a shirt that's relatively clean
You needn't ever launder off the dirt
As long as you've two shirts to choose between
And always change into the cleaner shirt.

__________
* A grook with no reference whatsoever to the two-party system.

The first time I read this, I thought it was about bachelor life... until I noticed the footnote.