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Planes.

1 (2.7%)

So who's taking him down to the airport, just to fly back up to Burlington? #FAIL

2 (5.4%)

Trains.

1 (2.7%)

The station is a bit out of the way (Amtrak line is up in Amherst).

1 (2.7%)

Automobiles.

4 (10.8%)

But *whose* automobile? Marigold? Steve? EMILY? CLAIRE??????

14 (37.8%)

Hitchiking? Walking?

0 (0%)

Uhm, no. Skinny indie boy legs won't get him out of NoHam.

0 (0%)

Spaceship? Stealth blimp?

1 (2.7%)

Hannelore's sick, remember?

0 (0%)

Bus?

1 (2.7%)

Like he would last on a Greyhound.

3 (8.1%)

Bike?

2 (5.4%)

Harley's aren't his style.

1 (2.7%)

AnthroPC?

0 (0%)

Okay, now you're just getting silly.

6 (16.2%)

Total Members Voted: 33

[jwhouk]

So Who Will Marten Take?

Claire.    20 (29.4%)
Hannelore (he will convince her somehow).    23 (33.8%) <== Guess this ain't happening.
Steve.    2 (2.9%)
Tai.    0 (0%)
Emily!    4 (5.9%)
Gabby.    0 (0%)
Clinton. (How's THAT for irony?)    2 (2.9%)
Marigold.    2 (2.9%)
Momo.    1 (1.5%)
Pintsize (?!?!?)    0 (0%)
Jimbo!    1 (1.5%)
Jim (the Secret Bakery owner)    0 (0%)
That gal who's always reading about dicksissels and bandicoots. Harriet something.    5 (7.4%)
He'll go stag.    1 (1.5%)
WAIT! There's ALWAYS another option!    2 (2.9%)
Like Lt. Potter!    5 (7.4%)

Total Members Voted: 68

[de_la_Nae]

I once drove from New Jersey to Connecticut and back. It took a week and I drove 2,000 miles by way of Indiana, Canada and Buffalo. Road trips are pretty awesome indeed.

Wat.
So you...and then...but to do that you had...I...I just don't...

 

[ScoutX]

What does he need a car for? Can't he just ride his anthroPC? You know, that giant robot whale that he... oh wait. Crap.

[riccostar]

Hanners   

There was absolutely no avoiding this poll being a planes, trains, and automobiles reference was there?

[Is it cold in here?]

Marten,

It is theoretically possible to borrow a friend's car. Return it with a full tank of gas.

[ink slinger]

Can't Marten just, you know, rent a car?

Edit: Ah, you do use the same word as us in the UK. Elk (Älg). It's just you Americans being weird again.

Let's just nix the word "elk." Moose shall be moose, and the animal known as elk (in N. America) shall be called wapiti.

Also, apparently wapiti are called elk because European explorers thought that they resembled moose.

[Lubricus]

I guess Marten might not have a driver's license. That would be quite typical of him.

[Valdís]

Let's just nix the word "elk." Moose shall be moose, and the animal known as elk (in N. America) shall be called wapiti.

pls stahp ;_;

The closer to mutual intelligibility the Northern languages are, the better! The Normans are the worst!

Pfft, needing fancy words for Pig-meat! Pansies!

[Blood-Tree]

I think you're getting moose and elk confused with reindeer.








 

[Near Lurker]

Reindeer?  You mean caribou?

My first thought was "of course Marten doesn't have a driver's license," but it occurred to me - you really can't get around California without a driver's license, can you?  The Northeast, shit as it is, has some of the best public transportation in this godforsaken country.  Even in the heart of Los Angeles, I hear, you absolutely need a car.  (I think San Francisco is better - maybe Marten's from San Francisco?)

Also, I looked it up - by bus, he could leave Northampton at 10 and reach Montpelier at 2, then leave Montpelier at 3 AM to reach Northampton at 11.  There's bus service from Montpelier to Stowe, but I'm not sure what the hours are.

[cesium133]

As for buses, from what I've seen, Greyhound is okay as long as you never go west of Pittsburgh. One experience of sitting next to a drug addict suffering from withdrawal symptoms from St. Louis to Columbus is enough. Still better than the kid in the seat behind me screaming "Oh Snap" repeatedly from Tulsa to St. Louis.

Since then, I've taken planes instead...

[bhtooefr]

Try Greyhound all the way from Columbus, to Portland, OR, and back.

Yeah, that's not an experience I ever want to repeat in my life.

[no one special]

If his dad already bought him plane tickets, why can't he just get someone to drop him off at the airport? I'm not sure what his difficulty is...

[cesium133]

Try Greyhound all the way from Columbus, to Portland, OR, and back.

Yeah, that's not an experience I ever want to repeat in my life.

Yeah, mine was from Hagerstown, Maryland, to Norman, Oklahoma and back. Like I said, east of Pittsburgh, it was fine, but once you get west of Pittsburgh... not an experience I would want to repeat.

[Near Lurker]

If his dad already bought him plane tickets, why can't he just get someone to drop him off at the airport? I'm not sure what his difficulty is...

For most purposes, "the airport" for Northampton is either Bradley (=Hartford) or Logan, and for Stowe, Burlington, and that flight would most likely go through Philly or DC.  Unless his father's chartered a plane, in which case it was a hell of a thing for him even to consider going by car, it was all kinds of ridiculous for him even to think of it.

[LantisEscudo]

If his dad already bought him plane tickets, why can't he just get someone to drop him off at the airport? I'm not sure what his difficulty is...

For most purposes, "the airport" for Northampton is either Bradley (=Hartford) or Logan, and for Stowe, Burlington, and that flight would most likely go through Philly or DC.  Unless his father's chartered a plane, in which case it was a hell of a thing for him even to consider going by car, it was all kinds of ridiculous for him even to think of it.

There's also direct flights between Boston and Rutland Regional airport (via Cape Air).  Which actually might be a better choice than driving, given some of the crappy "highways" you'd be taking in that area (VT-103 is not a fun drive, and US-5 isn't a lot better).

[cesariojpn]

What does he need a car for? Can't he just ride his anthroPC? You know, that giant robot whale that he... oh wait. Crap.

Do you expect him to go thru the Atlantic Ocean, St. Lawrence Waterway, and the Great Lakes?

[Sassafras]

Marten,

It is theoretically possible to borrow a friend's car. Return it with a full tank of gas.

Given how much poor judgement Marten's been showing the past few strips, I'd be worried he'd trade my car for a handful of magic beans.

[Is it cold in here?]

...maybe Marten's from San Francisco?

All we know is that it's somewhere in northern California.

[Bluesummers]

If he bowed a friend's car, I'd expect him to get lost somewhere along the line and end up in Canada, where Raven has been hiding.

"The GPS told me to..."

[Kugai]

Marten will eventually go by Boom Tube

[Bluesummers]

Makes sense, Darkseid loves to attend fashionable functions. 

In unrelated news: Kugai, Live Long and Prosper. \\//,


EDIT: Hanners is full of crap, I swear to God. She's faking it for whatever reason, which is yet to be seen. THAT is my wager.

[jwhouk]

Hanners   

There was absolutely no avoiding this poll being a planes, trains, and automobiles reference was there?

No, considering at one point I drove past the hotel used in the movie every #### day.

[riccostar]

Heh wow, that sounds exciting for about a week. 

[Method of Madness]

I once drove from New Jersey to Connecticut and back. It took a week and I drove 2,000 miles by way of Indiana, Canada and Buffalo. Road trips are pretty awesome indeed.

Wat.
So you...and then...but to do that you had...I...I just don't...

 

I should clarify. I live in New Jersey. Last summer I had just quit my job and my friend had a week off from work, and we both needed to be in Connecticut the Saturday at the end of his vacation for a day long thing.  So we decided to make a road trip, starting by driving to Indiana to see a friend, then driving to Buffalo to see another friend (although getting from Indiana to Buffalo by way of entering Canada in Detroit was just, well...I don't have a reason for that, but it was intentional).

Anyway, not as funny when I explain it, I suppose    (Also I guess that explanation is also for Bluesummers in case his "getting lost and ending up in Canada" was a response to my post )

[de_la_Nae]

No no, after a minute I realized you had to have done something like that. I just...couldn't not say anything. I live in Indiana (sadly), so did a double-take when I read your post. You know how it is.

[Method of Madness]

Where in Indiana? I was in Muncie!

[quix0te]

Is it just me, or is it shocking that Marten first forgot that his dad had sent him a wedding reminder, then had to ask for money for plane tickets, and now has to be told he could drive there after his dad already bought those tickets? Kind of a crappy son if you ask me.

I had that thought a day or three back.  The consensus seemed to be... "No, he's just a ditz!"  I've been reading this comic for five years or so, and I'm trying to remember what I found exciting.  I think the vulnerability of the original characters, particularly Faye (believe it or not).  Now Dora and Marten aren't together and he just seems to have degenerated into a cardboard punchline with no possibility of growth.  I mean, statistically, he'd have to catch a break EVENTUALLY.   But he seems to be destined to fall off cliffs and have anvils land on him.

[Is it cold in here?]

Back before car engines were run by computers, it was common to try to start one, have it bang a couple of times, then stop. Then you'd try again, and the same thing would happen. Eventually it would keep running.

Marten may be like that. Someone kicks his metaphorical backside, he does band things for a while, then it peters out.

I hope the engine catches and he turns his dormant energy to the band, or at least to something.

[de_la_Nae]

Where in Indiana? I was in Muncie!

Leetle further south. Bloomington, these days. Don't think I've ever been to Muncie...for some reason a lot of people from southern Indiana, in my anecdotal experience, don't travel further north than here or Indy. Partially for the sake of distances, I assume, but sometimes I wonder if there isn't more to it. Possibly a rural v. urban mindset, even though I'm pretty sure the demographic split isn't *that* different.

[Method of Madness]

Well my friend's friend lived there. I went to a state fair and ate some delicious pie. I forget the name of the pie place, but it was amazing.

[westrim]

Well my friend's friend lived there. I went to a state fair and ate some delicious pie. I forget the name of the pie place, but it was amazing.

Thank you for reminding me to check March 14th on the calendar.

[Method of Madness]

Anytime. That being said, how do people who use the date/month system celebrate Pi Day...the best possible workaround I can think of is July 22nd.

[Loki]

That being said, how do people who use the date/month system celebrate Pi Day...

I was doing an internship in a small IT startup from January till March last year. The IT team consisted of me, my immediate boss, his immediate boss who was also the CIO, and two other guys.

We are in a country which uses date/month. We celebrated Pi day on 3/14. Some of the IT guys made cake for the rest of the company. The cake was delicious.

[Kugai]

Makes sense, Darkseid loves to attend fashionable functions. 

Indeed.

In unrelated news: Kugai, Live Long and Prosper. \\//,

Peace and long life to you Bluesummers

EDIT: Hanners is full of crap, I swear to God. She's faking it for whatever reason, which is yet to be seen. THAT is my wager.

Well, she does have a few psychological issues, but I get the feeling there's more to it than that.

[jwhouk]

It's not like she's never gotten the flu before.

[Is it cold in here?]

Raising the question of how someone who doesn't shake hands, maintains scrupulous cleanliness, and probably got a flu shot manages to catch flu. Airborne particles of a strain the vaccine didn't cover?

[Bluesummers]

It happens...yeah, usually it's a different strain.

It's not like she's never gotten the flu before.

Comic or it never happened. (Seriously, I can't remember her getting the flu)

[MillionDollar Belt Sander]

Raising the question of how someone who doesn't shake hands, maintains scrupulous cleanliness, and probably got a flu shot manages to catch flu. Airborne particles of a strain the vaccine didn't cover?

You build immunity and strengthen you immune response by exposing yourself to germs and infection.

Someone who avoids exposure,  has no defense.

[celticgeek]

Hanners has the flu.

[Sassafras]

Raising the question of how someone who doesn't shake hands, maintains scrupulous cleanliness, and probably got a flu shot manages to catch flu. Airborne particles of a strain the vaccine didn't cover?

Vaccines are great but even they aren't 100% protection and you still have a very small chance of catching the strains you're vaccinated for. Plus she works at a coffee shop and probably has tons of sick customers.

I used to work at a grocery store that targeted young hipsters and older hippies, and most of them bought the "doctors are working with big pharma to give you cancer and vaccines give kids autism" conspiracy crap, so I was getting sick every couple of weeks no matter what I did.

[LantisEscudo]

It happens...yeah, usually it's a different strain.

It's not like she's never gotten the flu before.

Comic or it never happened. (Seriously, I can't remember her getting the flu)

1313 and following

[Is it cold in here?]

Come to think of it, immune response is hurt by sleep deprivation,

[Carl-E]

ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........*SNORRT*   Huh? 

[MillionDollar Belt Sander]

Sleep?   

[Redball]

I don't remember a section like that on I-40, though I've never taken I-40 west of OKC, so it was probably there.

Yes, this was between Oklahoma City and the Texas border.  Crossing the border into Texas was an "ahhhhh that's much better" moment. This was also back in 1999. I believe since then they've redone that stretch of I-40 with asphalt instead of concrete.

I drove it today, Oklahome City to Santa Rosa NM. There were a couple of short stretches of bad pavement on both sides of that border, but nothing really obnoxious.

[Bluesummers]

What is this sleep you speak of? I can sleep when I'm dead, there's work to be done and comics to read!

[Loki]

I've experiments to run,
there is research to be done
on the people who are still alive. 

[Pilchard123]

You don't have to do all that work yourself, Blue! Maybe you can find someone else to help you.

[cesariojpn]

Oh, if she only knew.......if she only knew.