Topic: Dream jobs for the QC cast? (Read 23592 times)

Skewbrow · « **Reply #50 on:** 18 Feb 2011, 04:40 »

What will future bring to Marigold?
She sticks to her job as Dad's webmaster.    - 6 (12.2%) <----- 2nd (tie)
She temporarily moves to XKCD-verse in order to fix a pair of unmatched parentheses.    - 4 (8.2%) <3<3<3 THANK YOU, whoever the 3 other voters were
Dilbert recruits her to work for the Pointy Haired Boss.    - 2 (4.1%)
She starts working for HannerDad to develop RoboBF ver3.0.    - 6 (12.2%) <--- 2nd (tie)
She joins forces with Pintsize. Together they make best-selling doujinshi.    - 1 (2%)
She creates a successful Habbo Hotel -like social networking website designed for Otaku.    - 6 (12.2%) <---2nd (tie)
She gets a job coding and testplaying new editions of WoW.    - 8 (16.3%) <---- WINNER!
She starts a cryptocompany together with Hannelore.    - 4 (8.2%)
She ends up working for Bill Gates as a microserf.    - 1 (2%)
She ends up teaching HTML at a community college.    - 1 (2%)
Salt seeping shameless sea cucumber?    - 1 (2%)
Pocky for breakfast.    - 5 (10.2%)
A free lance job as THE pocky critic for NYT    - 4 (8.2%)
She joins a thinktank designing AI for the next generation of Tachikoma    - 0 (0%)

Total Voters: 18

We foresee Marigirl to have a kind of a dream job where she can combine her passions. Also the runners-up (other than that one choice with potential for creepiness) would be good alternatives.

Wil is next. I feel sorry for poor Wil, 'cause if my passion were for poetry instead of math I could easily find myself in a similar predicament. The alternatives are mostly cruel. Sorry squared. After Wil, we'll have either Tai or Dora. I haven't made up my mind, yet.

Skewbrow · « **Reply #51 on:** 21 Feb 2011, 07:27 »

The "rip off" poll on Wil will run for 24 some hours more(backlog of work). At the moment it looks like Tennyson and Dora fight for the top spot with Carl-E ahead of Douglas Adams in the battle for the third place.

Next poll will be on advice we would like to give to Dora. How to make CoD even better? What kind of contingency plans would we like to suggest?

DSL · « **Reply #52 on:** 21 Feb 2011, 07:55 »

Pick-up line contest. Hanners is judge. Winner gets ... extra abuse?

Skewbrow · « **Reply #53 on:** 22 Feb 2011, 14:18 »

"Sweet Lady Fate, why dost thou piss on me so?" What should Wil do to get a dream job or make more money?
Poetry on tap generates more tips. If done right.    - 9 (17.6%) <-- 1st (tie)
Graduate to 10$ adjectives (and higher).    - 1 (2%)
Finish his first collection of poems. "Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?"    - 9 (17.6%) <-- 1st (tie)
Mail that manuscript of his novel. The publisher will reply...    - 5 (9.8%)
Look for gigs involving smoking opium and casual sodomy.    - 3 (5.9%)
Claim a soapbox in a street corner. Recite his own poetry. Pass the hat around.    - 2 (3.9%)
Become a really ambitious panhandler.    - 1 (2%)
Take gigs reciting his own lewd poetry at bachelorette parties. In tights and a codpiece.    - 9 (17.6%) <-- 1st (tie)
Work for Bill Gates' PR department.    - 1 (2%)
Teach poetry to Vogons.    - 6 (11.8%)
Teach poetry at high school (remember to stay above neckline).    - 3 (5.9%)
Ode to waffles    - 2 (3.9%)

Total Voters: 20

We end in a 3-way tie. Good luck, Wil!

Suggestions for Dora will be on the poll for the next few days. I will add more options upon request. Sunday I will switch to a poll on Tai's possibilities.

DSL · « **Reply #54 on:** 22 Feb 2011, 15:22 »

Quoting Skewbrow's Penelope poll:
She takes that internship and advances by bringing in Wil and Tai as new best-selling authors. - 9 (20.5%) <---- Winner!
What, no Jimbo? I can see the collaboration even now, on an expanded edition of "Quiddich Field Idyll."

Skewbrow · « **Reply #55 on:** 22 Feb 2011, 20:27 »

Me 2! But I saved collaboration with Jimbo as one of the options for Tai

. I think that makes even more ... sense?

Carl-E · « **Reply #56 on:** 22 Feb 2011, 21:24 »

...and sensibility.

DSL · « **Reply #57 on:** 22 Feb 2011, 23:26 »

... and zombie slut space princesses. In dump trucks.

Antario · « **Reply #58 on:** 23 Feb 2011, 03:31 »

... with pirates in space rikshja's

wait...what?

DSL · « **Reply #59 on:** 23 Feb 2011, 05:35 »

Options for Jimbo's next book. How about it, Skewbrow the Pollster?

dps · « **Reply #60 on:** 23 Feb 2011, 09:54 »

Faye's dream job would be enforcer for a protection racket.

Skewbrow · « **Reply #61 on:** 24 Feb 2011, 03:28 »

Quote from: DSL on 23 Feb 2011, 05:35

Options for Jimbo's next book. How about it, Skewbrow the Pollster?

Hmm. It depends. Did you mean a poll dedicated to Jimbo's next book or just a few items on Tai's poll? Sure we might run a poll on Jimbo's options later, but I won't give that too high a priority

. Mostly because Jimbo has dropped out of sight.

If you want to suggest a specific poll option, you can post it hear or PM me. All suggestions are welcome! (unless coming from the bear hat guy)

Quote from: dps on 23 Feb 2011, 09:54

Faye's dream job would be enforcer for a protection racket.

Or something else

. I am undecided about whether we should run a poll on Faye's career plans? She is a very central character, and certainly has many interesting options. If it weren't for the earlier poll run by Is it cold in here, I most certainly would do one in this thread. But have we learned enough more about her since then (300+ strips ago) to warrant another survey?

I guess I could also simply stop worrying about it and just do it

.

Skewbrow · « **Reply #62 on:** 27 Feb 2011, 06:51 »

Help out Dora! How could she make CoD even more successful? Plan B?
Stick to your shtick. "If it ain't broken, don't fix it."    - 9 (15.5%) <--------------------------------------------- 1st (tie)
Make a deal with the Secret Bakery. Get your baked goods from there.    - 9 (15.5%) <----------------------------- 1st (tie)
Help your fremployees help you. Espressosaurus + Faye worked out. What about the others?    - 9 (15.5%) <---- 1st (tie)
Go metal! Nothing else matters! Don't play this soft stuff at CoD!    - 3 (5.2%)
Improve the interior. Add tableclothes and cute decorational items.    - 1 (1.7%)
Improve the atmosphere. Keep air fresheners in the cave of 20 asses.    - 4 (6.9%)
Waffles and whipped cream on the secret menu.    - 4 (6.9%)
Run annual pick-up line competitions for male customers. The first prize is "go fuck yourself".    - 4 (6.9%)
A hostile takeover of the Secret Bakery.    - 1 (1.7%)
A hostile takeover of the restaurant at the end of the universe.    - 4 (6.9%)
"Dora is a computer ninja." Internet café of Doom is the full service solution.    - 3 (5.2%)
Open Dora Bianchi school of business administration and the opposite of social graces.    - 1 (1.7%)
Hide some hemp plants under Melvin. Sell the weed under the counter.    - 3 (5.2%)
Become Veronica Vance's protegé. You're in control?    - 3 (5.2%)
Guide the youth. Become a Wiccan priestess!    - 0 (0%)

Total Voters: 22

3-way draws are becoming a habit. Let's try Tai.

Skewbrow · « **Reply #63 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 04:40 »

Later today (mid to late afternoon in US time) we'll begin an attempt to predict Angus' professional future.

Skewbrow · « **Reply #64 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 12:09 »

Here's a poll about Tai's future work, where plans, dreams and tautologies meet reality. What's gonna happen?
Reading Marigold's fanfic makes her realize that teaching creative writing IS her calling.    - 5 (11.1%)
Reading Marigold's fanfic makes her realize that teaching creative writing is NOT her calling.    - 4 (8.9%)
She studies gender/sexual orientation discrimination in her first novel and wins the Pulitzer price.    - 5 (11.1%)
She writes a line of lesbian empowerement novels.    - 1 (2.2%)
She signs a contract with Logo TV and writes screenplays for three prime time shows.    - 4 (8.9%)
She makes a living writing a string of lesbian Harlequin novels.    - 3 (6.7%)
She co-authors LARPer steampunk young-adult romance novels with Jimbo.    - 7 (15.6%) <-------- WINNER
Her documentary "Tongue baths to kittens" on "Nature untamed" causes National Geographic to get sued.    - 2 (4.4%)
She writes Ron <3 Snape slashfic together with Marigold.    - 1 (2.2%)
She studies gender/sexual orientation discrimination in her first novel, is accused of ripping off Harper Lee, and decides to try teaching.    - 2 (4.4%)
She ends up teaching English lit at a college/high school.    - 5 (11.1%)
Her students buy her a plush walrus as a gift.    - 3 (6.7%)
This poll is soooo heteronormative.    - 2 (4.4%)
She ends a sentence with a preposition.    - 1 (2.2%)

Total Voters: 15

Perhaps the anachronistic society should be recruiting here. But not by a statistically significant a margin.

Next Angus.

Carl-E · « **Reply #65 on:** 01 Mar 2011, 13:47 »

I can totally see Faye as a senator's wife...

Y'know, the one that takes over his term in office when the senator dies, then goes on to a successful political carreer in her own right...

I guess that doesn't say much for Angus' future!

Skewbrow · « **Reply #66 on:** 09 Mar 2011, 03:16 »

Angus' future work will involve
More strawmen.    - 3 (7.9%)
Stickmen wearing hats.    - 2 (5.3%)
A monologue holding a skull.    - 1 (2.6%)
Writing comedy for late-night TV.    - 7 (18.4%) <------ WINNER
Kicking Conan O'Brien's ass.    - 3 (7.9%)
A moderately successful variety show trio of: Angus (jokes), Marten (music) and Pintsize (drums & modern day ventriloquist's dummy).    - 2 (5.3%)
Dance lessons for preppy schoolers.    - 0 (0%)
A successful career as the president's speechwriter.    - 3 (7.9%)
Career as the president's speechwriter ruined by a misplaced foot-from-mouth comment.    - 6 (15.8%) <--- 2nd
A successful campaign to US senate.    - 2 (5.3%)
An unsuccessful campaign to US senate. "Angus dear, you were supposed to try to WIN that debate."    - 6 (15.8%) <--- 2nd
Powerful narcotics.    - 3 (7.9%)

Total Voters: 14

Hmm. The forum prefers entertainment industry to politics. Take that, Angus! Faye next and after her a wrapper. My poll-fu is nearly depleted. Not to mention the pile of calculus homework to grade.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #67 on:** 12 Mar 2011, 15:24 »

There is a job category of restaurant critic. Is there such a thing as a coffee shop critic? If he did that, and monetized his music blog, that would add up to Marten's dream job.

celticgeek · « **Reply #68 on:** 12 Mar 2011, 16:08 »

Apparently the Local Alternative Rag has a Coffee Shop Reviewer position.

Shremedy · « **Reply #69 on:** 12 Mar 2011, 20:38 »

For Faye, if there had been an entry for flat-track roller derby, that would have won out over wrestling...

DSL · « **Reply #70 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 09:09 »

If a Local Alternative Rag (or even the mainstream daily in a town smaller than, say, New York) has a "coffee shop reviewer" it's someone who already (a) wears six or seven hats at the paper already, not all of them in the editorial department; (b) is some local blogger they convinced to work for $20 per review, or a comp subscription; or (c) is both.

Skewbrow · « **Reply #71 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 11:18 »

Quote from: Shremedy on 12 Mar 2011, 20:38

For Faye, if there had been an entry for flat-track roller derby, that would have won out over wrestling...

Faye vs. Mimi Massacre? How did I miss that

Kugai · « **Reply #72 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 11:49 »

I'dve preferred to see how she would go against The Undertaker

Mr_Rose · « **Reply #73 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 16:29 »

Faye only needs two moves; the Recrimination Stare and the Vulcan Boob-Squish. Her special weapon is a foam battle-spatula. For some reason it's still sharp enough to take off a hand though.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #74 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 16:35 »

And her professional name just HAS to be "The Pugnacious Peach".

Kugai · « **Reply #75 on:** 13 Mar 2011, 21:06 »

Quote from: Mr_Rose on 13 Mar 2011, 16:29

Faye only needs two moves; the Recrimination Stare and the Vulcan Boob-Squish. Her special weapon is a foam battle-spatula. For some reason it's still sharp enough to take off a hand though.

She also has access to The Stop Sign of Doom during TLC and Cage Matches

DSL · « **Reply #76 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 01:05 »

Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 13 Mar 2011, 16:35

And her professional name just HAS to be "The Pugnacious Peach".

Thank you ... thank you ...

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #77 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 01:17 »

For those who missed it, DSL was the first to realize that Faye should be called The Pugnacious Peach, back in January.

DSL · « **Reply #78 on:** 14 Mar 2011, 01:19 »

I'll take my claims to fame where I can get them.

Skewbrow · « **Reply #79 on:** 20 Mar 2011, 09:47 »

Faye's future work is best described by...
Tear stained dollar bills in the tip jar.    - 2 (4.4%)
Back to college first.    - 3 (6.7%)
Six kids first. Then back to college.    - 0 (0%)
Starving artist.    - 2 (4.4%)
She runs a support group for people with suicide in the family.    - 5 (11.1%)
World Championships in AnthroPC-tossing.    - 6 (13.3%) <--- 2nd (tie)
She joins a circus juggling broadswords and anthroPCs.    - 2 (4.4%)
Training hunting owls.    - 1 (2.2%)
Training mail-carrying owls.    - 0 (0%)
Kicking Jane Pratt's sass.    - 0 (0%)
Espressosaurus is her ticket to fame.    - 8 (17.8%) <--- Winner
A velociraptor coughing donuts is next?    - 4 (8.9%)
Enforcer for the department of KYA.    - 2 (4.4%)
"In the blue corner, wearing lemon trunks, from Savannah, Georgia,..."    - 6 (13.3%)<--- 2nd (tie)
Pies. Pies. Baking moar pies!    - 2 (4.4%)
"A woman's place is in the house ... and in the senate."    - 2 (4.4%)
Powerful narcotics, but is FDA planning an investigation?    - 0 (0%)

Total Voters: 16

I guess the final poll just went up. Many a time something has not gone quite according to the plan at work for one or more of our friends. Which is the most memorable occasion? If I left out a worthy incident, please let me know, and I will add it as a poll item (post here or PM me). Thank you for your support (R.I.P. David Rufkahr).

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #80 on:** 20 Mar 2011, 20:34 »

Final poll? How about Raven? Will she be a billionaire defense contractor or a sex therapist to celebrities?

Carl-E · « **Reply #81 on:** 20 Mar 2011, 22:02 »

No reason she can't hold down two jobs...

Akima · « **Reply #82 on:** 21 Mar 2011, 14:41 »

Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 14 Mar 2011, 01:17

For those who missed it, DSL was the first to realize that Faye should be called The Pugnacious Peach, back in January.

And what a wonderful coining it was too. With her blend of striking and throwing, Faye definitely has a MMA vibe going on.

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Author Topic: Dream jobs for the QC cast? (Read 23592 times)