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Marty and Faye got into a bottle of schnapps under the sink, so that's why for the texts.

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Annnyway.... NO, I didn't make out with Tai.

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Too friendcestuous? ...I don't know. I never really thought about it.

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I've seen you check out her ass. Hey, be fair! I check out TONS of asses!

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Your hair is different! It's the humidity.

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Claire has a latte for Marten! (Kiss-ass)

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Tai called and said she's sleeping in, librarians don't get in for 2 hrs. and I don't have keys.

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We could use Momo as a battering ram!

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Your hair's different today. It's the humidity.

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Do your pigtails detach? Do you store roll cake in your arms?

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If you like anime that much, I should introduce you to my friend Marigold.

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Um, what's "anime?"

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Your hair is differ- HUMIDITY

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Oh hey, you're here. Why wouldn't I be?

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I DID NOT HOOK UP WITH TAI! (Everybody being all up in my business isn't helping)

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Duct Tape! (I bet you wanna get all up in TAI'S business)

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She's also about to have her blackboard privileges revoked.

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So... What do you think? ... you know me better than anybody else.

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She's the one who's pursuing you... seems like a good setup for avoiding what messed up OUR relationship.

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If you're just considering it because she's shown interest in you, that's not really fair to her.

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BUT think how cute your babies would be! (We're both female, we can't -) WE ARE WORKING ON THAT TECHNOLOGY

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Total Members Voted: 45

[snubnose]

You know, Faye being Faye is one thing, but Marten really is being astoundingly creepy about all this.

Um... what ? No ? He isnt ?!?

What's with people calling Marten creepy?  I don't see anything creepy there.

+1

He might not really thinking before speaking, but its early morning.

[Blackjoker]

I'm actually more amused at this because Dora frequently harassed Faye on similar fronts before, while Dora is the boss it is interesting to see her reaction to this.

[cesariojpn]

I'm actually more amused at this because Dora frequently harassed Faye on similar fronts before, while Dora is the boss it is interesting to see her reaction to this.

Guessing Dora can't cope with what she can dish out wantonly.

[Border Reiver]

Duct tape - is there anything you can't do?

[Soulsynger]

Duct tape - is there anything you can't do?

"Yes, Mr. Reiver... love." 

[ihaveavoice]

Also, I love that Emily Claire has frizz from the humidity. It's the kind of detail that makes a world more real.

FYP

D'OH! Thank you, Omega. I guess my brain got stuck on the first name I typed? It was quite late when I logged on last.

[Dr. ROFLPWN]

Faye, people are going to say you are rude, and you are , but shit like this is why I love you. <3

Also poor Gabby. Wonder how many people have been on her case about the hair?

[Welu]

I think Dora's comments like, "Losing blackboard privileges" is her way of giving back what she's getting. It's the dynamic of their friendship and I think it's really fun to watch.

I think I would have the same reaction as Momo to the suggestion that I be used as a battering ram.

"I'm fine thank you Susan."

It's been ages since I've watched Red Dwarf. Need to fix that.

[Asterus]

...what the hell does Faye have to do with Ghost in the Shell?

If anything, I'd have gone with Dora just for the purple hair... or Momo, for staggeringly obvious reasons.

I'd just thought Faye would be the most appreciative of a cybernetic girl with deep underlying issues who's job is to specifically kick ass and kill people in various ways... actually, I could have used Gunslinger girl as an example as well.

Wow. Did not expect an Azumanga AND Nichijou reference in one comic. (BTW, this is wednesday's that I'm referring to)
In the interest of showing off some anime knowledge, I should mention that there should, under no circumstances, be any Chobits references without Tai, Ghost in the Shell references without Faye, or ...*shudder* Black Cat references without Pintsize

As someone who knows nothing about anime, I have a feeling I don't want to know about Black Cat.

...  Cybernetic bioweapon named Eve, but more specifically, the ability to alter her physical makeup to create weapons and wreak havok. Considering how smaller AnthroPC's bodies apparently work (See the finger-patch comics), it'd be alarming (read: hilarious) if Pintsize took any reference to it as ... inspiration.

[jwhouk]

I remember the roll of duct tape!! It was in strip.....strip.....uh........

1654.

(EDIT: Ninja'd.)

[SomeCanadianWeirdo]

Even as I write this certain folks are probably getting fanart ideas from that tape.  Coming soon to a Deviantart account near you....

[WAYF]

Fanart of Faye and Pintsize in a fight against Dora and the Mighty Roll of Duct Tape?
If I could draw, I would draw the hell out of that.

...
What do you mean that's not what you meant?

[Asterus]

Fanart of Faye and Pintsize in a fight against Dora and the Mighty Roll of Duct Tape?
If I could draw, I would draw the hell out of that.

...
What do you mean that's not what you meant?

Regardless, it can happen anyway. Consider it a grudge match, since both have lost to duct tape before.

[Throg]

Is this a thing? I mean, gagging Faye?

Not in a Rule 34 kind of way, either. Hanners was pretty quick on the draw once...

[Is it cold in here?]

2054.

[Carl-E]

OK, 1654, 2054, 2239, 2209?
          \    /  \    / \   /
          400   185  -30
               \    /\    /
              -215  -215

Based on this pattern, we should see Faye gagged... about 30 comics ago.   

Oh, look.  Maybe she should have been! 

(are there any other instances I'm missing?)

[DSL]

Well, in the one right after the one you cite, she could have pulled off the gag while gagged.

[cesariojpn]

Duct tape - is there anything you can't do?

[Y]

Based on this pattern, we should see Faye gagged... about 30 comics ago.   

It can also mean that the frequency of Faye getting gagged is increasing by about 2.162... every time, which means the next one is in 86 strips(#2325) but it would also mean in 160 strips every strip becomes a Faye gets gagged strip.

[cesariojpn]

Based on this pattern, we should see Faye gagged... about 30 comics ago.   

It can also mean that the frequency of Faye getting gagged is increasing by about 2.162... every time, which means the next one is in 86 strips(#2325) but it would also mean in 160 strips every strip becomes a Faye gets gagged strip.

I vote for a bitgag the next time around.

[Exar_Kun]

So maybe Dora should just put a certain Ludacris song on repeat and just play it all day?

P.S. If you don't know which song I'm talking about, you can look it up yourself. I am ashamed of my knowledge of Ludacris songs as it is.

[Is it cold in here?]

Is duct-taping Faye's mouth just Dora's gag reflex?

[Method of Madness]

I am ashamed of my knowledge of Ludacris songs as it is.

You shouldn't be. I enjoy his stuff from a decade or so ago.  That being said...what song?  I mean, you say google it, but I'm not quite sure what I'm supposed to be googling.  He has a lot of songs.

[Carl-E]

Based on this pattern, we should see Faye gagged... about 30 comics ago.   

It can also mean that the frequency of Faye getting gagged is increasing by about 2.162... every time, which means the next one is in 86 strips(#2325) but it would also mean in 160 strips every strip becomes a Faye gets gagged strip.

I vote for a bitgag the next time around.

I prefer running gags.  You know, like "IT"S THE HUMIDITY!"

[cesariojpn]

I prefer running gags.  You know, like "IT"S THE HUMIDITY!"

*rimshot*

[iduguphergrave]

I am ashamed of my knowledge of Ludacris songs as it is.

You shouldn't be. I enjoy his stuff from a decade or so ago.  That being said...what song?  I mean, you say google it, but I'm not quite sure what I'm supposed to be googling.  He has a lot of songs.

Rollout!

[Method of Madness]

I don't get how that song applies here 

[iduguphergrave]

You have to watch towards the end when he starts shouting "stay the fuck out of MY BIZNASS"

But the whole song's about how he's pissed because everyone wants a piece of him and they won't leave him alone.

[Method of Madness]

Oh. Ok, then.

[cesariojpn]

So Hanners doesn't know about invitro fertilization? Sperm/Egg banks? Test Tube Babies? Or is she really saying.......okay, i'll just cut that line of questioning right there. I know where i'm headed and I might get banned for it.

[snubnose]

Whow. Hanners is just too overly cute today.

Thinking about this, if they have the technology so women can have children with women, we men get kind of superflous.

But then again, who would enjoy the sight of all these women ?

[Boomslang]

Right now, all of that stuff still requires an egg and a sperm. Turning an egg into a sperm for the purpose of fertilization is still in the future, what little experimental success we've had isn't transferable to humans.

Basically, Dora and Tai could have babies, but it wouldn't be a combination of their genes, and therefore Hanner's talk about their babies would require new technology.

[Method of Madness]

As long as they stop at a reasonable number.

[Toe]

REASONABLE NUMBER OF LADYBABIES!

Also, who is 'we' in the last panel? Hanners and Station?

[Method of Madness]

Humanity as a whole?  Plus Station, I guess.

[Is it cold in here?]

Or her dad and company in particular. There have been hints that Hannelore is a genetic engineering experiment.

[Mothykins]

Right now, all of that stuff still requires an egg and a sperm. Turning an egg into a sperm for the purpose of fertilization is still in the future, what little experimental success we've had isn't transferable to humans.

Basically, Dora and Tai could have babies, but it wouldn't be a combination of their genes, and therefore Hanner's talk about their babies would require new technology.

They have sentient AI. I'm pretty sure QC is set far enough in the future that that kind of technology isn't too far off.

[Is it cold in here?]

Thinking about this, if they have the technology so women can have children with women, we men get kind of superflous.

Men are a mystery biologically. A species can perpetuate itself better if it doesn't have half its members incapable of bearing children. There is speculation about why males exist but nothing definitive.

[Boomslang]

Eusocial organisms have only a single member of a large group capable of bearing children. They're doing just fine. Ants are one of the most successful species on the planet, and the majority of the members of each colony will never take a direct role in reproduction. And besides, perpetuating the species is not solely a function of having as many children as possible- with larger organisms especially, each offspring takes a lot of care and a large amount of resources to bring to child bearing age. The females of these species are already capable of bearing more children than the community and it's environment can support even without the males.

If you're talking about why sexual reproduction occurs, as opposed to parthogenesis, it's pretty clear that the genetic shuffling that occurs introduces greater genetic variability into a species. Which makes it more likely that under changing conditions the species as a whole will survive. Bacteria can do this sort of genetic shuffling without sex, but their method of doing so is if not impossible, at least highly impractical for multicellular organisms like us.

[techkid]

They have sentient AI. I'm pretty sure QC is set far enough in the future that that kind of technology isn't too far off.

Not so much "set in the future", but certain technologies (AnthroPC's, human-habitable and comfortable space stations, hologram AIs etc) sure as hell are more advanced than what we got here (DARPA included (probably)).

Hannelore might be being a tad optimistic (and more than a bit creepy...), but Marten does raise some good points. Tai's all for it, and Dora in her current state is not being satisfied on an emotional level. But equally, she needs to be sure that this is what she wants. Don't just jump on it (like she did Marten), but be certain that this is what she needs in her life.

As much as we want things to happen, I can tell this will be a long time coming...

[VonKleist]

Also good luck hunting those mammoths, ladies.

/guy mode


Marten is right. It is common to react with interest if someone reasonably attractive is attracted to you. It is unwise to act on it if there is a high probability that things will get messed up. Sooo Tora is not gonna happen.

[Xfraze]

Hannelore strikes me as the type of person to steal a sample of martin's hair, disappear for 9 months, and then show up with a baby.

[DSL]

Or his blood.

[Border Reiver]

Duct tape - is there anything you can't do?

If your wife doesn't find you handsome, she should at least find you handy.  Until next time, keep your stick on the ice.

[Throg]

Okay, that last panel creeped me out a bit. without the connecting speech balloon branch, that sounded like a voice from above. Like Station was monitoring the conversation and decided to interject.

[DSL]

Okay, that last panel creeped me out a bit. without the connecting speech balloon branch, that sounded like a voice from above. Like Station was monitoring the conversation and decided to interject.

Dang, I like that idea.

[El_Flesh]

All you need to make your offspring is to combine the nucleii of two eggs. I don't know if injecting on egg nucleus into another will kickstart it into fetal growth; it might need sperm touching its outer cellular wall to start the chemical changes that commence the process. It might be a process of penetrating the host nucleus as well and combining the two, or, one could remove a nucleus from EACH donor, combine them, and inject the result into another egg that has had its nucleus cleared.
Or, if you remove the nucleus from one egg and inject it into a similarly cleared sperm, then fertilize another egg with it, that might be easiest - however the nucleus of the egg might be too large for the sperm cell; I don't recall their relative sizes.
Another possibility would be to inject one egg nucleus into another egg, then kickstart it with a sperm cell that had its nucleus removed.
I don't know if this degree of microsurgery exists, for sperm cells are a LOT smaller than eggs.

All in all, I'd be pretty surprised to find out that none of this is currently possible. It might be however, that the failure to success ratio would be so high that it simply isn't done at the present time.

[Carl-E]

I find Dora's body language interesting.  She takes what looks like a defensive stance whe she first asks Marten what he thinks - like she wouldn't normally do something like this.  In the second panel, it's more fearful - she's already opened up to him in the past, and is now admitting that fact (to herself as much as to him).  She's really putting herself on the line by asking what he thinks, an he responds honestly, which is a great relief in the third panel.  Interestingly, nothing Marten says is really about Dora, but rather is a reading of the situations, past and present.  That may be why she has the relieved appearance, the personality attack she half expected didn't arrive. 


... and, based on this, I think her therapy's progressing well.  Lucky for her, she asked the nicest guy she knows...

[chickabiddybex]

You get a donor sperm cell, take out its DNA, replace it with DNA of woman A and put the altered sperm into woman B's egg.
You then get child AB!

It is very difficult and I don't think there has been a great deal of success but it's theoretically possible and I believe it will be a reality in the future.

Alternatively, get a stem cell from woman A and try to make it into a sperm cell. I don't know how possible this one is but knowing us, probably very simple in the future!

I'm surprised Hanners likes babies... they're all sicky and gross and poo!

[pwhodges]

I'm surprised Hanners likes babies... they're all sicky and gross and poo!

But they're cute - and cute trumps everything.