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The Date is Nigh!

A week of Yelling Bird Strips.
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It goes off pretty good - and we don't see a moment of it.
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It's a comic laugh riot - and we only hear of it like a "noodle incident."
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We follow along - and find out why Jim shaved the "soul patch" off.
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She tells him what she does for a living. "CHECK PLEASE!"
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"Intriguing!" (Or some variant thereof.)
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It's just coffee, for crying out loud.
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The Marriage Proposal takes place by the third cup.
- 0 (0%)
A week of Steve eating pancakes.
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Angus gets the rejection letter.
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Angus becomes COLBERT'S REPLACEMENT!
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Space Waffles and Ham with the Finest Space Tea!
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As usual: SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. (Ka-BOOOM!)
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She does NOT look happy about that.
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EDIT: Why the heck would Jim have his date at his own workplace? Is it to give his employees something to talk about?

Being the owner, maybe both of them are in the shop after hours?
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That was about as smooth as that belt sander Yelling Bird got threatened with. Not the best move there Jim.
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I don't think she's going to be really pissed, though.
As a public figure (former public figure? Anyway, we know she was well-known enough at one point to have a regular TV documentary made about her) you have to expect people to find out who you are pretty quickly.
And in the QCverse, when you google her name, she's probably the first person who comes up.
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I don't think she's going to be really pissed, though.
As a public figure (former public figure? Anyway, we know she was well-known enough at one point to have a regular TV documentary made about her) you have to expect people to find out who you are pretty quickly.
And in the QCverse, when you google her name, she's probably the first person who comes up.
Also, VV googled Jim, so she should expect him to do the same to her. I guess it is part of a standard "background check" before going on a date these days, so it would not look credible if he pretended not to have googled her.

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Ahhh, that's why I couldn't find the strip. I thought it happened during the wedding arc.
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And in the QCverse, when you google her name, she's probably the first person who comes up.

Actually, even in our world if you google "Veronica Vance" the first result is the "Veronica Reed" page on the QC wiki.
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As someone who's been out of the dating scene for quite some time (happily married 16 years; you dad-gummed kids and your internet these days!), what's the real-life etiquette regarding Googling a prospective date?  I don't know that I would personally be bothered by it, but then, I have nothing to hide.
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It's a bit of a weird cycle.

On one the one hand it could be seen as an invasion of privacy and quite rude to find out information about someone that they have not chosen to disclose to you.

On the other hand if you put that information on the internet without any privacy settings, it is naive of you to not expect people to find it.
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Honestly, I figure most people would google a prospective date. Kind of the same way pre-internet saturation you would ask friends and acquaintances about someone you were going to go out with or thinking about going out with. It's just a simple precaution. However, it's kind of thought of as gauche to tell the other person you investigated them before going on the date.

Veronica has never made a particular secret of her professional life. So it really shouldn't have been any kind of surprise that Jim already knows what she does. Bonus points that he doesn't seem to be either bothered or eager about her job. Just "oh yeah, that's what you do".

I also apparently have an incredibly common name. Even if I limit it to the general area where I live, there are still dozens of people who share my name. So... sweet, blissful anonymity?
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Googling someone is one thing, but I think that regurgitating information about themselves back at them might be a bit over the line.
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I've Googled people to see if there's anything about them on the web, without prior knowledge whether there'd be anything to find. I'm sure we've all done it.

Whether I'd repeat information to the subject's face rather depends on how obviously they are trying to promote themselves - if they have their own personal promotional web site with their name plastered all over it and at least a page full of highly relevant Google hits, it wouldn't seem odd at all. OTOH if you only find vague address information from "people search" services or something like a list of people who left school X in year Y, it might not look so good to make it known you were digging that hard.

And re last panel: I can't imagine anyone not knowing that there's a Wikipedia page about them.
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The background looks familiar.  I don't feel like looking it up, but someone here must be nerdy enough for the task.

In case it hasn't already been stated: they're having coffee at his coffee shop. (Okay, "The Secret Bakery", but that's mincing terms.)
(EDIT: I see that it has. That's me and this third shift thing for ya.)

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Maybe Googling about such things should come AFTER date one?
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A cross-country "blind" date?

Yeah, I think it's perfectly fair for people to be Googling each other in that instance.

Lotta psychos out there.  :psyduck:
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I recently experienced this, and its a little weird, but it saves them an awkward conversation later. It saves Veronica from having to watch what she says, lest she let something slip( As she's been known to do) When you have something that is a big part of your life, it can be nice to be around people that don't know about it, but its also nice not to need to have The Conversation at some point later and try to explain it to them .
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What seems weird to me is that when Veronica was first introduced, we found out that "Veronica Vance" is her professional name, and she goes by "Veronica Reed" (her married name) in her private life. And while it's well known in our universe that Veronica Vance = Veronica Reed, in the QCverse there is no webcomic broadcasting the everyday lives of these characters to the Internet at large... so her private name should be much more, well, private.

So if Jim was googling "Veronica Reed", he shouldn't have come up with any links for Veronica Vance unless he was digging really hard -- a lot harder than I would normally expect for a first date.

Although... for Hollywood celebrities, biographical websites often include their birth names as well as their stage names, but they're generally a lot more famous and more thoroughly researched than porn celebrities. Still, Wikipedia editors can be pretty obsessive at times, so I suppose it's possible that VV's Wikipedia page actually had her real name on it, in which case my above analysis is completely invalid.
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You seriously think she'd be able to keep her real name that secret? Only people like Banksy manage that nowadays and that's because almost no-one has even seen his face.
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It would surprise me very little if searching for Veronica Reed in QCverse returned:

Showing results for Veronica Vance
Search instead for Veronica Reed
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Well, turnabout's fair play.  She did look him up on Google.
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I half expected him to recognize her like a handful of others already had...
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I don't get why the thing hanging in the window is blocking the view of the sky instead of the brick wall.
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Curses, my lack of knowledge regarding Imperial units has become evident! This is what I get for having nice, simple metric units.


Take me to your liter!
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I don't get why the thing hanging in the window is blocking the view of the sky instead of the brick wall.

It's probably a Light catcher.
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Is it just me, or is Marmom being kind of...unfair?
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No, she's just being Veronica Vance. 
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I wonder what Kerry (Redacted) is doing now? Her professional name - https://www.google.com.au/search?q="sarah+foster+tate"

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That look on panel five. I swear we have seen it on Marten before.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast.

So maybe some kind of nipple clamp?

Ah, more evidence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pandora_Loison_cour_Carree_Louvre.jpg
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Not sure how well this is going. Jim tends to say stupid things. On the other hand, VV might like his open attitude. Also, she might like men that are not easily dominated, and not frightened by her career and personality.

Pandora's box sounds like a medieval torture instrument.

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An iron maiden with dildos instead of spikes?

Also: Sarah Foster Tate's real name is Kerry? Damn, my mind is blown...
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Jeph has become seriously good at facial expressions!
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Pandora's Box is a Greek myth. Sheesh.  :roll:
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Oh Jim, you so smoooth.
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Jim, Jim, Jim... don't annoy the dominatrix. That's got to be the First Rule of something-or-other...
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Survival?
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I freaking love how cartoony (at least that's the word coming to me) Sam's face in the last panel looks. XD
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Looks like Dora is giving Sam espresso. Jim will be so thankful afterward.  :evil:
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Even more so when Sam uses the coffee shop WiFi to satisfy her curiosity about what Ms. Reed looks like.
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Love Dora's exasperated look in the last panel.
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The Date is Nigh!

A week of Yelling Bird Strips.    4 (7.1%)
It goes off pretty good - and we don't see a moment of it.    7 (12.5%)
It's a comic laugh riot - and we only hear of it like a "noodle incident."    7 (12.5%)
We follow along - and find out why Jim shaved the "soul patch" off.    6 (10.7%)
She tells him what she does for a living. "CHECK PLEASE!"    0 (0%)
"Intriguing!" (Or some variant thereof.)    0 (0%)
It's just coffee, for crying out loud.    8 (14.3%)
The Marriage Proposal takes place by the third cup.    0 (0%)
A week of Steve eating pancakes.    2 (3.6%)
Angus gets the rejection letter.    2 (3.6%)
Angus becomes COLBERT'S REPLACEMENT!    8 (14.3%)
Space Waffles and Ham with the Finest Space Tea!    0 (0%)
As usual: SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. (Ka-BOOOM!)    12 (21.4%)

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BTW, is it still considered outing in this case, since Jim "took the initiative" and looked up VV's bio?
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Love Dora's exasperated look in the last panel.
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Love Dora's exasperated look in the last panel.
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A real "fuck this shit" expression, I thought. Akima's right, Jeph is getting seriously good with facial expressions

And not just with faces -- her hand gesture is spot-on, too.
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Looks like Dora is giving Sam espresso. Jim will be so thankful afterward.  :evil:

But she's only giving her Espresso to put into a Latte or something, not to drink it. She's extended her arm to hand it to a customer in panel three.

Sidenote: I enjoy that this strip is in basically "classic" format. It's wider, but it has the original four panel layout.
I also want to note, that over the last week I started to get used to the new layout, as my initial fears of lesser conversation due to too few panels has been disproved. As long as we're getting enough panels for longer conversations I'm fine with it.
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Isn't Samantha supposed to be 13?
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Maybe. What about it?
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