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WCDT: 2146-50 (19-23 Mar 2012) QC IN SPAAAAAACE... Week NINE?!?!?!?!?
Akima:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 19 Mar 2012, 23:43 ---Never pegged an Ellicott-Chatham for usig Yiddish...
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Doesn't everyone? Do you have the chutzpah to claim you've never used bagel, glitch, klutz, schmaltz, schmuck or schlep? Come on, be a mensch and admit it! If I can use Yiddish, anyone can! I will admit, however, that schtup is not a word I use...
If Dr. E-C holds his fists like that, I don't think Marten is in much danger. Marten has a reach advantage too.
jmucchiello:
--- Quote from: squab on 19 Mar 2012, 18:05 ---
--- Quote from: vsonics on 19 Mar 2012, 08:45 ---
--- Quote from: tender on 19 Mar 2012, 06:10 ---I understand, Carl, but the replication of so many near-identical facial expressions in panel four just seemed "off" to me.
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Yeah, something about the comic just didn't hit my adorable bone right, and I'm pretty sure that that's it. The beginning is really sweet, but then they're all just lookin' at them. Thank goodness Potter came in to save the day.
I couldn't help but wonder how many of them actually know Hanners either. Obviously she grew up on the station and we know that a lot of the older scientists and workers there do, but some of them look pretty young. Having them just staring at a girl they only know as "the boss's daughter" like that is even odder.
Also pointing out the differences between the panels made me notice the person on the left with their back to the scene. Also strange.
All in all, though...pretty cute. The HannerHug and having Marigold turned in towards the Science Man like that made up for some of the creepy.
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Well, how long ago did Hanners leave the station? She's 22 now and I'm pretty sure she was there during her teen years. As far as I know* she could have left between ages 15-17. Maybe even 18. That's only 4-7 years off station. Most of the people could have probably been there like 5 years. Yeah, most of them would at least have a 4 year degree of some sort, but everyone's a genius so some people probably got a degree and went up to the station at like 18 or something.
*sorry if it's known when she left and I'm way off
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This might explain my own dissatisfaction with the comic. I assumed she left the station near 11 when no good therapists could be found in space. Most of the people in the picture look young. I suspect E-C hunts down the child geniuses and lures them to work there IN SPACE at a young age. And I'm sure IN SPACE loses its luster after 5 years when you are young and have nowhere to really party.
Additionally these are scientists and they aren't social science types: you don't go into space to study people's social interaction. How many of them have average or above average social quotients? IOW, how many have the capacity to remember Dad's daughter is OCD, how exactly it mannifested, or the significance of the hug? The scene is too D'awwww.
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 19 Mar 2012, 23:20 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 19 Mar 2012, 22:39 ---We don't actually know when Hannelore came down to earth. We know she's been in therapy since she was eleven, and she said that good therapy wasn't available in orbit. Put those together and you've got a case that she left the station at age 11. (Links to relevant strips are in the wiki).
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I think that Hannelore's descent to Earth is more recent than that. Her Dad did throw her a sweet-sixteen party. When she wet her pants.
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She didn't need to be in orbit for dad to throw her a party. Parties do happen in rented halls, I hear, perhaps even in the QC universe.
jmucchiello:
--- Quote from: Akima on 20 Mar 2012, 01:45 ---
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 19 Mar 2012, 23:43 ---Never pegged an Ellicott-Chatham for usig Yiddish...
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Doesn't everyone? Do you have the chutzpah to claim you've never used bagel, glitch, klutz, schmaltz, schmuck or schlep? Come on, be a mensch and admit it! If I can use Yiddish, anyone can! I will admit, however, that schtup is not a word I use...
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No. But for me Yiddish is comedians like Buddy Hackett. I know no one who speaks it commonly.
But seriously, who says schtup? Does anyone besides me want to go back a read all his dialog with a Yiddish accent?
bhtooefr:
I recall a comic in which she said she poured boiling water on someone who tried to kiss her in 8th grade?
Which would put the timeline at 14 or so for her coming down to Earth, at the latest, and she had to have been functional enough to go to a school.
Edit: http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=896
pwhodges:
I read that as that she tried to sterilise herself using the boiling water, not pouring it on the boy.
Anyway, even if she came down for school then, do we know that she stayed down rather than going back up for holidays while still at school, for instance?
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