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So - which dress? (strip 2397)

1 (Dark Green with Frill Crossover)
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2 (Dark Red with odd bustline)
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3 (Slate Tunic)
- 9 (9.4%)
4 (Pink Pantsuit)
- 1 (1%)
5 (Turquoise Top)
- 7 (7.3%)
6 (Björk Björk Björk)
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7 (The Blue Dress)
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8 (Princess Peach!)
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I'm torn.
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She looks cute in ALL of them!
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Meh.
- 4 (4.2%)
I'm lousy at dresses.
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Author Topic: WCDT: 2397-2401 (4-8 March, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread  (Read 103843 times)

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95.... I suppose I'll have to retake it after I get PRK next week.
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Speaking of famous Germans, I have listened to Ellen Allien's stuff, and it is very good, but when I see random German in an English-language work, I hear another, quite different, voice declaring: "I don't speak German, but I can if you like."

Now that DJ would have prompted a much less enthused, but equally perplexed reaction.

(...she did DJ a bit as Stefani, didn't she?)
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And, of course, some intrepid WikiEditor has already noted her appearance in the comic.
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...and it got undone one hour later.

 :police: Hey, do you want a lecture on why the term Wiki-Editor was likely not what you meant? If yes, read the spoiler, otherwise continue on.

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Correct or not, "wiki" has been associated enough by general use to simply mean Wikipedia. I think it's the reverse of the Kleenex scenario, though. It'd be like saying "tissue" and specifically meaning Kleenex.
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Word of Author is that he's in his late 50s.

I'd like to put that in the Wiki if you can tell me where you saw it (so I can link to the citation).
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Ellen's name in today's comic jumped out at me, because I've been running through the archive recently.  So I dug back again and found that she's been referenced at least once before.  It's been a long time, though.
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I'd like to put that in the Wiki if you can tell me where you saw it (so I can link to the citation).
http://jephjacques.com/post/44755819106/qa-dump-the-reckoning
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...and it got undone one hour later.

 :police: Hey, do you want a lecture on why the term Wiki-Editor was likely not what you meant?

Both adding and removing the tidbit was done by an anonymous user, not by one of the Wikipedia editors.
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ITYM "unregistered editor" or "editor identified by IP address".

(Not only does the editing in question imply that the user is an editor – on Wikipedia, unregistered users are less anonymous than registered users need be.)
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woo! New comic!

So now I wonder how Claire knows what a peaty scotch tastes like, if she enjoys drinking it for the first time…

But I think the others' reactions make this comic!
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Really gotta love Marten's face in the second-to-last panel.
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"What's inside the glass?"
"Pain"

XD

I freaking love whiskey, oh why are women with good taste in booze so hard to find?


*goes back to drinking moonshine*


Seriously, I found moonshine!
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Looks like she's getting in touch with her scottish heritage...


Seriously, just look at her.  If that hair and complexion's not indicative of scottish ancestry, what is? 




(besides a kilt in the closet...)
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Looks like she's getting in touch with her scottish heritage...


Seriously, just look at her.  If that hair and complexion's not indicative of scottish ancestry, what is? 




(besides a kilt in the closet...)
Could be indicative of Irish. Or German. Or Scandinavian/Norse (or, by extension, just about anywhere they got to back in the day).
Still, she's channeling her alcoholic ancestors.
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Claire's got a hidden talent. Go girl!
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I got a 13 on the quiz, with most of the errors in blue/green.  Whether that's actually true or that's just the one I was sloppier on/couldn't be arsed, hard to say.
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Looks like she's getting in touch with her scottish heritage...

Seriously, just look at her.  If that hair and complexion's not indicative of scottish ancestry, what is? 

(besides a kilt in the closet...)

Playing on racial stereotypes?
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Looks like she's getting in touch with her scottish heritage...


Seriously, just look at her.  If that hair and complexion's not indicative of scottish ancestry, what is? 




(besides a kilt in the closet...)

Claymore above the fireplace, a drive to prove that you're really better than/different from the English, pick one and run with it.

And at least we know she's not drinking an Islay malt, or she'd have commented on the iodine.....
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Looks like she's getting in touch with her scottish heritage...

Seriously, just look at her.  If that hair and complexion's not indicative of scottish ancestry, what is? 

(besides a kilt in the closet...)

Playing on racial stereotypes?

It's not a stereotype. I have a kilt in my closet. And a claymore hidden where my son can't find it (he will not know that it exists until he's old enough to understand that it's not a toy.)

I don't have bagpipes, but that's just because I'm not a musician.  8-)
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I freaking love whiskey, oh why are women with good taste in booze so hard to find?

Sorry, I married one of the last available.
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Seriously, just look at her.  If that hair and complexion's not indicative of scottish ancestry, what is? 

Viking ancestry, same place everybody else in northern Europe got it from.
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I don't have bagpipes, but that's just because I'm not a musician.  8-)

<insert "bagpipes are not music" joke here>
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By the way: strip 2400 is, should Jeph decide to keep the numbering pattern alive, the last page of what will probably be volume 8 of the QC dead tree edition.
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I freaking love whiskey, oh why are women with good taste in booze so hard to find?

I'm one, but I already have a girlfriend. Sorry. 

We are indeed rare. Too many love their froo froo drinks. Not that there is anything wrong with a froo froo drink now and again, but I consider those to be more alcoholic candy than real liquor. 
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It's not a stereotype. I have a kilt in my closet. And a claymore hidden where my son can't find it (he will not know that it exists until he's old enough to understand that it's not a toy.)

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Could be indicative of Irish. Or German. Or Scandinavian/Norse (or, by extension, just about anywhere they got to back in the day).
Still, she's channeling her alcoholic ancestors.
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I don't have bagpipes, but that's just because I'm not a musician.  8-)

<insert "bagpipes are not music" joke here>

Leave that cat alone!
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Looks like she's getting in touch with her scottish heritage...


Seriously, just look at her.  If that hair and complexion's not indicative of scottish ancestry, what is? 




(besides a kilt in the closet...)

As a pale redhead with freckles, I resent this post.  I can't count the number of times someone has assumed I'm Scottish or Irish just by my physical features.

My ethnic background is German, Polish, and Norwegian.
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Looks like she's getting in touch with her scottish heritage...


Seriously, just look at her.  If that hair and complexion's not indicative of scottish ancestry, what is? 




(besides a kilt in the closet...)

As a pale redhead with freckles, I resent this post.  I can't count the number of times someone has assumed I'm Scottish or Irish just by my physical features.

My ethnic background is German, Polish, and Norwegian.

So you're basically Klingon?   (runs)
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I don't have bagpipes, but that's just because I'm not a musician.  8-)

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100. Claymore mines are not filled with yummy candy, and it is wrong to tell new soldiers that they are.
To be honest, if they fall for that they deserve the pain.
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Depends if they try to open it with a screwdriver or with the det. handle, really. Most of the explosives used in those things aren't normally impact sensitive, you see. Heck, you can use C4 basically the same way you use barbecue firelighters. Or, in an emergency, as the whole fire, except that you can't douse it, ever.
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Claire has become...The Scotch Whisperer. oohwahwahwahwah~~~
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Claire has become...The Scotch Whisperer. oohwahwahwahwah~~~

But after a certain amount, doesn't a Scotch Whisperer become a  Scotch Yeller?

YELLING.
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man, why did you have to awaken the sleeper?

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Claire has become...The Scotch Whisperer. oohwahwahwahwah~~~

Oh goddess, coffee, burning in nose. Warn a man when you're going to say something like that!
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Claire's reaction to scotch (from toxic to terrific) reminds us that whisky derives from usquebaugh meaning "water of life". She is now a Reverend Mother.
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And a claymore hidden where my son can't find it (he will not know that it exists until he's old enough to understand that it's not a toy.)

I didn't know we civilians can have Claymore Mines in our closets.
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One of the domains that I own is claymorewielder.com.
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I like Veronica reactions at the start to "...drinks until then", "Excellent!".  Her hands and the phrase almost feel like they should be done by Doctor Evil. :-D

The concept of a Whisky Savant is certainly novel, although it'll be interesting to see if Jeph runs with this, and whether they'll have her working her way through the entire collections of Whiskies behind the bar!
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Looks like she's getting in touch with her scottish heritage...
 

It just takes a little while before the single malt penetrates your very being, and then...
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此面向敌 = This face towards enemy.
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I have often imagined and vaguely desired a claidhmohr with those instructions engraved along the blade (in Gaelic, of course).
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Nice Ralph Wiggum reference in the comic.
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