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IT'S JEPH'S BIRTHDAY!

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His very own helium pony!

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The Training Montage!

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Vintage Porn Collection

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Wayfarers, Noam Chomsky flyer, and keys to a Volvo.

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Don't ever look in the black bin.

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How'd training day go? Nerve wracking!

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If I didn't think you could do it I wouldn't have told you to. (That makes one of us.)

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We wanted to say thank you for showing us around today.

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Banana Smoothie!

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WORK HARDER Evil Bonercat Demotivator!

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What's this strange feeling? "Job satisfaction." I think I need to lay down.

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You need the extra responsibility. I might not be working at the library forever...

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Like, what if my band takes off, and -

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How IS your band doing? "W-well... we're kind of still trying to write some songs..."

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Cart before the horse? "The horse is a foal. The cart is a pile of lumber and a gleam in the carpenter's eye."

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I WILL ACCORDION 4 YOU

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It can still be a fulfilling job if you put the effort in.

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Do what you love, but you don't have to be miserable. Make the most of it.

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Jeez, now I feel guilty for getting high and watching cartoons all day.

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Total Members Voted: 44

[jwhouk]

By the way: HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEPH!

[cesariojpn]

By the way: HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEPH!

So will Raven flash her tits at him as a birthday gift?

[WAYF]

Yay, I completely forgot that Jeph's birthday is one day before mine

Actually cesario, I'm not sure why, but I'm expecting some strong fan disservice this year.

[Tellusora]

Happy Birthday Jeph! I've pretty much spent most of my teenage years reading QC and thank god for this nice cuddly forum =)
Love this place and love the people.

[HiFranc]

Happy Birthday, Jeph!

[pwhodges]

thank god for this nice cuddly forum

I don't think we've been described as "cuddly" before.  The term "fetid sewer" has been used in the past, but times have changed, fortunately.

[cvcharger]

By the way: HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEPH!

So will Raven flash her tits at him as a birthday gift?

Nah, I'm sure she would only do that for Sven's birthday.

[Penheart]

thank god for this nice cuddly forum

I don't think we've been described as "cuddly" before.  The term "fetid sewer" has been used in the past, but times have changed, fortunately.

I always pictured this place like a gentlemen's lounge with everyone smoking a curled wood pipe with bubbles and Anamanaguchi or yellow submarine playing in the background.


HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEPH!!

[Border Reiver]

It is a gentlemen's lounge -

There are strict rules for conduct which are occasionally bent into interesting shapes and some of us are waiting for others to pay up their tabs ...

[Tova]

I can't bring myself to select any of those poll options... 

[FunkyTuba]

Happy birthday indeed!

[Omega Entity]

Watch the second-to-last frame very closely...

[cvcharger]

It is a gentlemen's lounge -

There are strict rules for conduct which are occasionally bent into interesting shapes and some of us are waiting for others to pay up their tabs ...

Hmm...  so are strippers included?  Or am I thinking of something else involving the term gentlemen?

[Kugai]

Happy Burpday Jeph   


Hmmmm, that is hypnot...............

[mustang6172]

Holoponies for everyone!

[Is it cold in here?]

Miniature American flags for others!

[Welu]

IICIH, you've given me my second laugh of the day. The first of course being the floating star pony.

[snubnose]

Happy Birthday Jeph !!

[WAYF]

Watch the second-to-last frame very closely...

Ah, thought I saw something!

To save people time, turns out it's an actual photo of the present Danielle (that is Danielle Corsetto, right?) gave him.

[VonKleist]

Ohhh, a horsie


Happy Birthday, Mr. Jaques!

[TinPenguin]

wooo holopony woooo happy jephday woooooo

To save people time, turns out it's an actual photo of the present Danielle (that is Danielle Corsetto, right?) gave him.

That would be Cristi.

[techkid]

Heh... only a couple of days before me. Happy birthday, Jeph! Hope you, your wife and your horsie have a great one!

[Tormuse]

I doubt that Jeph reads this, but Happy Birthday, anyway! 

[idontunderstand]

I sat down to write Jeph an email to thank him for doing what he does and especially compliment the last two weeks. Then, writing it, I realized I had no idea why I've liked the last few weeks so much. 2197 until about now has had something special. I dunno. I ended up not writing the mail since I had no idea how to explain it and I didn't want him to think I wasn't quite being honest. Fuck. The comic's just struck a chord in me lately. Nothing's felt forced and/or contrived, just a really nice natural flow where the characters have just played out their personalities. Or whatever, you know what I mean.. maybe.

[pwhodges]

I doubt that Jeph reads this,

Although Jeph no longer posts here, he does check in from time to time; he last looked in just a week ago.

[jwhouk]

I sat down to write Jeph an email to thank him for doing what he does and especially compliment the last two weeks. Then, writing it, I realized I had no idea why I've liked the last few weeks so much. 2197 until about now has had something special. I dunno. I ended up not writing the mail since I had no idea how to explain it and I didn't want him to think I wasn't quite being honest. Fuck. The comic's just struck a chord in me lately. Nothing's felt forced and/or contrived, just a really nice natural flow where the characters have just played out their personalities. Or whatever, you know what I mean.. maybe.

"Hey I just posted here
And this sounds crazy
but here's my e-mail
So text me maybe..."


...Sorry, not saying anything bad about your post, but I just heard that playing in the background for some reason.

[VonKleist]

I´m still not over the forum being called "cuddly" O,o (<-- that´s an owl, btw)

[RyanW1019]

I've spent a lot of time on the forums for Star Wars: The Old Republic (a rather new MMO, for those of you who don't know). These forums are Disney-level cuddly in comparison. So much venom and hatred and trolling on those forums...truly it is a most wretched hive of scum and villany. This is by far the most welcoming and troll-free online community I've been a part of.

[Tellusora]

I've spent a lot of time on the forums for Star Wars: The Old Republic (a rather new MMO, for those of you who don't know). These forums are Disney-level cuddly in comparison. So much venom and hatred and trolling on those forums...truly it is a most wretched hive of scum and villany. This is by far the most welcoming and troll-free online community I've been a part of.

Exactly. Everyone on here seems reasonably nice and willing to engaged in (largely) polite and civil discussion. "Discussion" is often just a front for "argument", but here the people are considerate. Though to be honest, I don't think I was here during the 'fetid sewers' era, and I'm not in the slightest bit tempted to visit. I think this forum overestimates its rambunctiousness. Rowdy, not rude.

Rowdy is fun.
Cuddles for everyone!

PS: Has that Psyduck emoticon always been part of our arsenal? How very prescient of whoever set it up.

[jmucchiello]

I sat down to write Jeph an email to thank him for doing what he does and especially compliment the last two weeks. Then, writing it, I realized I had no idea why I've liked the last few weeks so much. 2197 until about now has had something special. I dunno. I ended up not writing the mail since I had no idea how to explain it and I didn't want him to think I wasn't quite being honest. Fuck. The comic's just struck a chord in me lately. Nothing's felt forced and/or contrived, just a really nice natural flow where the characters have just played out their personalities. Or whatever, you know what I mean.. maybe.

You could just send him this. It's both funny and heartfelt in a meta kind of way.

And anyone looking for a horrible webcomic forum can try the El Goonish Shive forums. Flooded with long time posters who haven't liked a single strip in 6+ years and yet refuse to leave. Be grateful that this place is cuddly. Or, IOW, be careful what you wish for because once the cuddly is gone, you won't know you missed it.

[pwhodges]

Has that Psyduck emoticon always been part of our arsenal? How very prescient of whoever set it up.

Psyduck and the T. Rex , also known as Mr Green (see the code), were added by the previous management - about three years ago.  I made sure they came across when the forum software was updated, of course.  I added the smaller version of Psyduck that is used in the global moderators' status.

[Bachi-Atari]

Holoponies for everyone!

YAYYY!

[DSL]

I guess by comparison to some other forums, this one is cuddly, but I prefer the terms "mature" and "civil." My favorite aspect of it is that trolls don't get much traction, whether that's because of the efforts of the mods or the unwillingness of the forumites in general to, as I put it once, "mud-wrassle a pig," or some combination of the two, I haven't figured out and don't care if I never do.

I did get sucked in by one troll a few months back and got a cautionary note from Mr. Hodges, but that was it for me.

I like it here.

[VonKleist]

aww. mud-wrestling a pig can be cuddly too.

[FunkyTuba]

I believe the current state of affairs is mainly due to the proactive work of the current crop of moderators executing Jeph's vision with firm hands when necessary and not necessarily as attributable to the general quality of QC's fanbase.

That said, I much prefer the current state of affairs to what lurks deep in previous threads.

[cvcharger]

I believe the current state of affairs is mainly due to the proactive work of the current crop of moderators executing Jeph's vision with firm hands when necessary and not necessarily as attributable to the general quality of QC's fanbase.

That said, I much prefer the current state of affairs to what lurks deep in previous threads.

I do agree that the moderators have done a good job at taming this forum and weeding out the trolls.  I can't really tell you how many different forums I had been on where because the trolling and spamming got so out of control it wasn't worth sticking around.  Heck, I know of one forum that was supposedly 'Christian,' but of course, that just convinced me that religion attracts the trolls.

[Border Reiver]

You've seen Trollhunter, right?

[Barmymoo]

The murky past of this forum wasn't so much due to trolls, but due to a very insular community with a low tolerance for newcomers, which was worsened when there was a problem with the activation emails meaning that there were no newcomers for a while. Things be better now, y'all.

[pwhodges]

The insular community (who now have their own island elsewhere) caused problems in the other parts of the forum; but here specifically, there were trolls, but more to the point, no real attempt to deal with either them or general dickishness.  But the past is past.

[TinPenguin]

I love how this forum has such a complex about its past that every time anyone mentions it's a nice forum, it just mumbles back that it's not really very nice, it's done some bad things, there are things you shouldn't know about it, and then it has to be comforted and reassured that it's better now.

Forum needs to go see Dr. Corrine about its self-esteem issues, clearly.

[pwhodges]

You weren't there; recovery from such trauma is a slow, though I hope certain, process.

[cesariojpn]

aww. mud-wrestling a pig can be cuddly too.

Not while out hunting, thats for sure. Got gored once by a wild pig in my thigh that everyone thought was dead.

[Mr. Doctor]

You weren't there; recovery from such trauma is a slow, though I hope certain, process.

Can't tell if you are playing along with Tin's therapy-comment or not

Shit, I can't believe I've been here since 2009... not much of a poster, I just lurk around.

[jwhouk]

There was the blowup after the breakup arc. Many threads were locked. It was partially because of how sudden it was, and partially because people were just being idiots.

Also - and this is just personal - since <an incident in which a mod misused their power> over in Discuss, things have gotten a LOT saner.

I do think the little hiccup we had with registering new people probably helped.

<moderator>Removed identifiable description</moderator>

EDIT: Sorry about that, y'all. Was a bit of a touchy subject w/me and unnamed mod.

[Tobimaro]

Happy birthday, Jeph.  And I love those eyes in the last couple of panels.  Reminds me of...my avatar!  (Seriously, do a google search of Tobimaro Mizunokouji of Urusei Yatsura.)

[Is it cold in here?]

(moderator)
Thanks for the kind words, everyone. Do give yourselves credit: no amount of moderation could fix a forum if it had a bad crowd. Every good post you make keeps this being a good forum.

Oh, I do recommend against public criticism of particular people, now that there are better mechanism for resolving problems.
(/moderator)

[pwhodges]

I do think the little hiccup we had with registering new people probably helped.

Ther were six or nine months during which registration was not possible (the link to the mailserver for sending the registration messages was misconfigured).  When it was mended, there was an explosion of new people, which coincided with the breakup arc and ruffled some feathers.

I should say I have seen forums far worse than this one has ever been.

[snubnose]

I've spent a lot of time on the forums for Star Wars: The Old Republic (a rather new MMO, for those of you who don't know). These forums are Disney-level cuddly in comparison. So much venom and hatred and trolling on those forums...truly it is a most wretched hive of scum and villany. This is by far the most welcoming and troll-free online community I've been a part of.

Oh, but thats absolutely normal. MMO forums are so vicious beyond any description, its completely unbelievable. Only the Lindsay Lohan forums at IMDB.com can compare.

[pwhodges]

Got gored once by a wild pig in my thigh that everyone thought was dead.

Which unaccountably reminds me of (UK politics, 1978, warning:) Denis Healey describing being attacked by Geoffrey Howe as like "being savaged by a dead sheep".

[Barmymoo]

That's a good point, Paul, I was thinking more of the other part of the forum but up here was much more trollish and creepy. I'm glad we're good now This is the forum I've been using longest, it's been a constant during a lot of change in my life. Kind of odd, but also excellent, that an internet forum would take that role.