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Guiness.

10 (13.5%)

Whatever's on tap.

7 (9.5%)

A fine craft beer.

5 (6.8%)

The local IPA.

7 (9.5%)

Mead.

8 (10.8%)

Something fancy but not too pretentious.

2 (2.7%)

If it's not served by a busty barmaiden in Munich, I don't want it.

6 (8.1%)

Porter Stout.

2 (2.7%)

Pale ale.

0 (0%)

I don't know what it's called, but it's yellow.

3 (4.1%)

Space Beer!

7 (9.5%)

I'd rather have a wine cooler.

2 (2.7%)

How about just some bread and wine?

8 (10.8%)

Or circuses?

7 (9.5%)

Total Members Voted: 71

[jwhouk]

"So toniiiight, the heart ache's on me..."

[Zebediah]

Does anyone still even make wine coolers? I haven't seen one in decades.

[cesium133]

Most of the time (that's sort of deceptive as I rarely go to bars and/or drink), I get something fairly cheap and yellow and it's fine. There's one bar off campus where the cheap beer is from a microbrewery in town. I don't really like their beer, though, they use so much hops (even in the wheat beer) that it tastes nasty.

[Method of Madness]

Hops = the best.

[pwhodges]

Does anyone still even make wine coolers? I haven't seen one in decades.

I have two on the shelf - the porous earthenware kind that you soak in water beforehand, and the evaporation then cools it.  Last used for champagne at my last significant birthday party.

[Detachable Felix]

Hops = the best.

Agreed. There's far, far too much hate for IPAs and other hoppy beers on this forum.

[Mr_Rose]

Does anyone still even make wine coolers? I haven't seen one in decades.

I have two on the shelf - the porous earthenware kind that you soak in water beforehand, and the evaporation then cools it.  Last used for champagne at my last significant birthday party.

I think they mean the other kind of wine cooler….

[pwhodges]

I've never heard that name for that sort of drink.

[hedgie]

I've never heard that name for that sort of drink.

Be glad that you have not.

[Neko_Ali]

They're not really called wine coolers anymore, but a lot of companies make them. Smirnov Ice, Mike's Hard Lemonade, that sort of thing. Basically, a weak malt beverage with some sort of fruit base. I like them for a light drink myself, when I'm not breaking out the scotch but I want something...

[Method of Madness]

I've only heard them called that, which is funny since they don't have wine in them.

[Smallest]

Ignoring the plot talk, does 'Hop Kaiju' mean 'glass of orange juice?' Because that's all I'm seeing.

[jwhouk]

DRAMA ALERT!

[SomeCanadianWeirdo]

New York threatens once more!  Will Angus literally get put on the bus?  Or will he fly?

[K1dmor]

Ignoring the plot talk, does 'Hop Kaiju' mean 'glass of orange juice?' Because that's all I'm seeing.

 Hop Kaiju is the yellow beer.

[Schmorgluck]

I'm... pretty confident that Jeph will not pull a Branwen. I mean, I hope.

[Method of Madness]

It'd be cool if you told us what that meant.

Ignoring the plot talk, does 'Hop Kaiju' mean 'glass of orange juice?' Because that's all I'm seeing.

Kaiju are the monsters in Pacific Rim, so a Hop Kaiju is a beer with so many hops it'll tear through a reinforced wall and destroy a major city.

[HauntingPoem]

For the poll there was not a choice for neat Vodka, so I picked mead. But damn, I love me some vodka.

[J]

It'd be cool if you told us what that meant.

Ignoring the plot talk, does 'Hop Kaiju' mean 'glass of orange juice?' Because that's all I'm seeing.

Kaiju are the monsters in Pacific Rim, so a Hop Kaiju is a beer with so many hops it'll tear through a reinforced wall and destroy a major city.

which can only be prevented with a jaegerbomb, served by at least two synchronized  bartenders

[techkid]

No scotch, either. Oh well...

On comic... well, Faye has matured a lot in her time. But that said, she probably would not be happy with anything changing the status quo ("This is why I don't like change. It changes things."). Given she will be about 3 hours drive (thanks, Google Maps!) from her friends and her comfort zone, I don't think she will handle this that well.

[Tova]

I can't tell you how pleased I am that there are at least two people for whom the whole "space X" thing hasn't yet got old.

[DSL]

Seems to me Angus and Faye have had this discussion and maybe she was a little too vehement in her reassurance, hence Angus's insecurity.
Which leads me to:
Were these real people and were I in the middle of this discussion (unlikely) I would suspect Angus's real question, the one he is trying to ask without asking, is whether Faye might recalibrate her sights and seek solace in Marten, who is, after all, right there.

Spathe root beer.

[anahata]

I would suspect Angus's real question, the one he is trying to ask without asking, is whether Faye might recalibrate her sights and seek solace in Marten, who is, after all, right there.

1. Not that you're shipping or anything... (but that thought occurred to me too)
2. If Marten thought he stood a chance with Faye while Angus was away, would he give Angus an honest answer?

[DSL]

I would suspect Angus's real question, the one he is trying to ask without asking, is whether Faye might recalibrate her sights and seek solace in Marten, who is, after all, right there.

1. Not that you're shipping or anything... (but that thought occurred to me too)
2. If Marten thought he stood a chance with Faye while Angus was away, would he give Angus an honest answer?

1. My understanding of the term "shipping" (the kind that does not involve transportation) is that it reflects a desire, not a prediction or suspicion. And Angus, manipulator that he is, might be projecting "what I'd do" onto Marten -- to whom the idea might not occur unless Angus expresses it. Mr. Reed is rather passive about these things, as a rule.
2: He wouldn't intend to, but might accidentally.

[KOK]

...
2. If Marten thought he stood a chance with Faye while Angus was away, would he give Angus an honest answer?

...
2: He wouldn't intend to, but might accidentally.

Did you mean that?

[Akima]

Kaiju are the monsters in Pacific Rim

That's rather like saying that Achillies is a character in Troy; its true but ignores the original cultural background.

Has anyone else noticed that Jeph seems to have stopped drawing hair texture in the last couple of strips?

[NilsO]

If the audition is tomorrow, and Angus is drinking a lot of beer tonight, he is going to have problems. The audition will fail (or Angus will fail to arrive in time), and everything will be as before. Faye will be thankful to Marten for causing this.

[Schwungrad]

I don't think Angus is worried about Faye and Marten. He'd have to either not know Marten at all or be extremely paranoid.

[Barmymoo]

No, I'm pretty sure that the Marten and Faye ship is not only dead in the water but has been scavenged for parts so thoroughly it's no longer recognisable as a ship. In fact Faye said that herself, if I remember rightly.

I don't think Faye will move if Angus does; didn't she say something along those lines to him before? I can't see Jeph doing that from a plot perspective either; if Angus moves it'll be on his own (but I don't think he will).

[NilsO]

What does today's title (Tie A Few On) mean?

[anahata]

What does today's title (Tie A Few On) mean?

I suspected "have a few more drinks" and a quick Google search seems to confirm this.

[Floorman]

To "Tie one on" is an expression meaning to have a drink/get drunk. "Tie A Few On" most likely means to get really drunk.

[Schwungrad]

No, I'm pretty sure that the Marten and Faye ship is not only dead in the water but has been scavenged for parts so thoroughly it's no longer recognisable as a ship.

By the power of Toto and the rains of Africa, this ship has been sunk. It has ceased to float and gone to meet the ocean floor. It is an ex-ship. It sleeps with the fishes down in R'lyeh.

[NilsO]

Ah, yes. Google is our friend. Here is a good definition from the Urban Dictionary:

tie one on
get drunk for purpose of getting drunk
"when this is over I'm going to tie one on"

[Thrillho]

New York threatens once more!  Will Angus literally get put on the bus?  Or will he fly?

Dude, too soon.

[J]

Has anyone else noticed that Jeph seems to have stopped drawing hair texture in the last couple of strips?

i hadn't, but looking again i have to say i think it's slightly better this way. having the hair rendered with detail & physicality, while the rest of the characters were comparatively simple & 2d was always a bit odd looking.

[Srxjo]

Has anyone else noticed that Jeph seems to have stopped drawing hair texture in the last couple of strips?

i hadn't, but looking again i have to say i think it's slightly better this way. having the hair rendered with detail & physicality, while the rest of the characters were comparatively simple & 2d was always a bit odd looking.

If you flick back a few more pages you notice it changes from having it's texture to being plain and then back and forth or at least within the last 20 pages i would say

[pwhodges]

There was a suggestion that it relates to Jeph's working out techniques for use with his new tablet.

[DSL]

...
2. If Marten thought he stood a chance with Faye while Angus was away, would he give Angus an honest answer?

...
2: He wouldn't intend to, but might accidentally.

Did you mean that?

Yes.
And to clarify for the benefit of those responding to what they say I said, rather than what I said: Faye knows the ship has sunk. Readers know the ship has sunk. Marten might even know the ship has sunk. Angus will never be sure the ship has sunk -- because he likes to play the angles and manipulate, and people who play that way generally assume everyone else does, too.

[KOK]

Even so, I think he would give an honest answer. He might be mistaken, but not dishonest.

[Zebediah]

I've only heard them called that, which is funny since they don't have wine in them.

Wine coolers used to have wine in them. They were a big thing in the 1980s, at least in the US. Then they went away.

And no, I don't think Marten is still pining for Faye. They've both moved on.

Of course I could be wrong. I'm notoriously obtuse about such things. (Case in point: A woman I platonically shared an apartment with in college, several years later asked me to marry her out of the blue.)

[Method of Madness]

...did you?

[Zebediah]

No, I didn't. And had second thoughts for years afterwards. In the long run, though, I think it was the right decision.

[jwhouk]

Your choice of brew?

Guiness.    3 (9.7%)
Whatever's on tap.    1 (3.2%)
A fine craft beer.    2 (6.5%)
The local IPA.    5 (16.1%)
Mead.    2 (6.5%)
Something fancy but not too pretentious.    0 (0%)
If it's not served by a busty barmaiden in Munich, I don't want it.    4 (12.9%)
Porter Stout.    0 (0%)
Pale ale.    0 (0%)
I don't know what it's called, but it's yellow.    2 (6.5%)
Space Beer!    4 (12.9%)
I'd rather have a wine cooler.    2 (6.5%)
How about just some bread and wine?    3 (9.7%)
Or circuses?    3 (9.7%)

Total Members Voted: 31

[GarandMarine]

It'd be cool if you told us what that meant.

Ignoring the plot talk, does 'Hop Kaiju' mean 'glass of orange juice?' Because that's all I'm seeing.

Kaiju are the monsters in Pacific Rim, so a Hop Kaiju is a beer with so many hops it'll tear through a reinforced wall and destroy a major city.

which can only be prevented with a jaegerbomb, served by at least two synchronized  bartenders

All of this is a solid win.

 

Kaiju are the monsters in Pacific Rim

That's rather like saying that Achillies is a character in Troy; its true but ignores the original cultural background.

Akima beat me to it. 

[Method of Madness]

Yeah, but that's probably what the beer is referencing.

[GarandMarine]

Hop Kaiju's a decent beer, but I prefer Daikaiju Stout

[J]

Hop Kaiju's a decent beer, but I prefer Daikaiju Stout

[toffee-skye]

i don't drink beer beyound Kriek (cherry beer) so if that's on tap i'll have like, six of those. :3

[lot_jockey]

Angus's audition is the one he talked about roughly 200 strips ago (http://questionablecontent.net/2450), right? It's not a callback audition?