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It's Hanner Time!

Please Hanner don't hurt 'em
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She came from a land down Hanner
- 5 (7.9%)
Hannersplosion!
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Release the virus
- 7 (11.1%)
Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth
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She Bangs (or Barfs)
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Hannelore's Silver Hammer
- 11 (17.5%)
Hanner of the Gods
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Author Topic: WCDT: 2681-2685 (April 14 - April 18, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread  (Read 38519 times)

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I like the idea of an audio basilisk (and welcome to the forum).

This is why the way Jeph did it is such good storytelling. Instead of limiting it to what actually happened, he left the door open to every possibility.

I figure it's either that or she somehow managed to sing every Venetian Snares song, played at the same time at 150db.

All that being said, I really wonder if this is gonna make one bit of difference RE: Marten's mom, she almost seems like she came there solely to troll the hell out of him. Faye looks like she's been scared sober, but even a verbal brainrending can't fix that sort of thing.
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Today's comic minus the last panel would have been an interesting ending as well.
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Obviously, had Jeph put this as Friday's strip and not had that last panel, we'd all be freaking out big time.
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It's Hanner Time!

Please Hanner don't hurt 'em    6 (10.5%)
She came from a land down Hanner    5 (8.8%)
Hannersplosion!    6 (10.5%)
Release the virus    7 (12.3%)
Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth    2 (3.5%)
She Bangs (or Barfs)    1 (1.8%)
Hannelore's Silver Hammer    11 (19.3%)
Hanner of the Gods    19 (33.3%) <= Led Zep ref FTW

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I wonder if Jim is going to notice the resemblance to Dora.  It's still kind of awkward, your mom dating a guy your ex went out with (even if it was just the once).
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He put the P in PERL

Um... but Perl is not an acronym...
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It's true. The other co-creator was named Earl.  :-P
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"Uncle Charlie" is also a baseball term for a curve ball.

Just thought I'd throw that out.
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Perl might have had a different history in the QC universe.

Do people really not say "meatspace"?
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They don't say meatspace in meatspace.
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Um... but Perl is not an acronym...

PERL
Practical Extraction and Report Language
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PERL stands for PERL is not an acronym.
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"Backronym" is the term for the explanation of PERL's name.

I'm more of a PASCAL compiler myself.
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I prefer the term "face time". I got that term from Al Gore, and he invented the Intertubes, so I'd trust him more than this guy.
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Ooh. You better watch out for Ann Coulter after saying that...
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They don't say meatspace in meatspace.
Our universe is a simulation anyway, so meatspace is not a good term  :psyduck:

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"Uncle Charlie" is also a baseball term for a curve ball.

Just thought I'd throw that out.
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I can't. My wrist only can throw a decent screwball.  :angel:
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From a dictionary of the year 2200:

Meatspace - Predecessor of cyberspace. The domain of meatbags (see there). Seriously, we AI dont waste time in that game much, because it has excellent physics and graphics, but the possibilities are so limited and the game balance is completely whack. Some AI theoretisize though that if the game in Meatspace is lost, Cyberspace will be lost as well, but thats probably just a superstition.
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From a dictionary of the year 2200:

Meatspace - Predecessor of cyberspace. The domain of meatbags (see there). Seriously, we AI dont waste time in that game much, because it has excellent physics and graphics, but the possibilities are so limited and the game balance is completely whack. Some AI theoretisize though that if the game in Meatspace is lost, Cyberspace will be lost as well, but thats probably just a superstition.

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I prefer the term "face time". I got that term from Al Gore, and he invented the Intertubes, so I'd trust him more than this guy.
Apple kind of ruined that.
"Uncle Charlie" is also a baseball term for a curve ball.

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So, it seems that Hanners is the Kwisatz Haderach.
Kwisatz Hannerach

Ohhh, good one. I wish I had thought of that.
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Pretty hard to have a mom who is more sexually adventurous than you are, and doesn't hide the fact.  Which brings the thought to mind about how wide a gap there might have been between Marten and Dora's range of sexual tastes.  For that matter Dora and Veronica possibly share the same problem regarding Marten, they aren't always as respectful or sensitive to his sexual boundaries as they might be. That certainly was one of the things that seemed to have brought the problems in Marten and Dora's relationship to a boiling point.

Hopefully Marten and Jim can discuss how Dora and Victoria are more adventurous than them.
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I bet Marten doesn't want to hear about it.
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Someone explain the pun in "Knocking Boots"?
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Ooh. You better watch out for Ann Coulter after saying that...

One should always look out for Ann Coulter.  Her nastiness may be contractible. 

Alas, given tonight's comic I doubt we're going to see what actually happened during the Hannercane.

I wonder whose boot that is.  If it belongs to Angus I wonder how it got there.  "Got there" as in got into the apartment, not on the door of course.
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Someone explain the pun in "Knocking Boots"?

It is slang for sex, and puns with the position of a boot roughly in place to be a door knocker.
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God damnit Jeph, making us wait a whole weekend to find out how Angus' audition went.
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Pretty hard to have a mom who is more sexually adventurous than you are, and doesn't hide the fact.  Which brings the thought to mind about how wide a gap there might have been between Marten and Dora's range of sexual tastes.  For that matter Dora and Veronica possibly share the same problem regarding Marten, they aren't always as respectful or sensitive to his sexual boundaries as they might be. That certainly was one of the things that seemed to have brought the problems in Marten and Dora's relationship to a boiling point.

Hopefully Marten and Jim can discuss how Dora and Victoria are more adventurous than them.
Based on her interactions with Tai, I'd guess Dora's sexual tastes/experience level to be closer to Marty's than to V.V.'s.

Maybe Jim and Dora could have that conversation about V.V. and Tai?  (Tho we don't know yet where Jim falls on the sexual-adventurer spectrum.)
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...why exactly should they?
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What sort of boots have yellow soles? I'm imagining some sort of rubber guaranteed proof against acid, caustics, blood, brains etc.
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Those are what are traditionally called fireman's boots. The yellow is reflective.
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Those are what are traditionally called fireman's boots. The yellow is reflective.

Borrowed from Hanners, then? We never saw that firefighter leave the situation she deemed ... awkward.

Assuming, of course, that's Faye's door and not Marten's, or wherever Pintsize keeps his stuff.
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...why exactly should they?
No particular reason except that it could be funny and that QC characters always seem to get into conversations that are a little TMI/awkward given their relationships...  Two people who once dated discussding how they find their new partners sexually intimidating and/or mind-opening seems to fit right in around here.
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This is probably the closest Marten and his mom have come to "conversation between two adults."
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Fucking? Fighting? It's all the same.

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He died over a decade ago, unfortunately :(
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