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1 (Dark Green with Frill Crossover)

10 (10.4%)

2 (Dark Red with odd bustline)

7 (7.3%)

3 (Slate Tunic)

9 (9.4%)

4 (Pink Pantsuit)

1 (1%)

5 (Turquoise Top)

7 (7.3%)

6 (Björk Björk Björk)

4 (4.2%)

7 (The Blue Dress)

21 (21.9%)

8 (Princess Peach!)

8 (8.3%)

I'm torn.

3 (3.1%)

She looks cute in ALL of them!

11 (11.5%)

Meh.

4 (4.2%)

I'm lousy at dresses.

11 (11.5%)

Total Members Voted: 86

[Method of Madness]

I got bored after the first line, but I think I got it perfect.

[Near Lurker]

So did I.

[Redball]

I never heard of Ellen Allien, sheltered person that I am. Had to make sure the woman wasn't the Ellen of earlier QC comics. Allien's bio seems to make her twice Earlier Ellen's age.

[mustang6172]

I think that young lady is having a stroke.

[ankhtahr]

I never heard of her as well. But Marten seems to know her.

I consider it funny how the first panel of many comics seems to answer/confirm the stuff being mentioned in this thread.

[DSL]

Know of her, perhaps. She seems to be pretty famous among DJs and DJ connoisseurs, for all that Jeph's rendering of her looks remarkably like someone who once tried to teach Derrida to moray eels.

She is also "so ashamed." Perhaps ironically?

Also, Marten ... she's RIGHT THERE.

[Blackie62]

Swearing loudly at your fathers' wedding. Oh yeah Marten, that's totally acceptable.

[MillionDollar Belt Sander]

If that last panel doesn't make the caption contest next week so help me I will murder ALL OF YOU with an arc-welder.   ESPECIALLY ALL OF YOU.   

I already have 13 crude and offensive caption-sets jotted down.  *nod*

[Gerardic]

The question is will Marten finally take the initiative and hit on Ellen?
Lets hope he doesn't ditch her if she becomes too mainstream for indie.

[Ashtagon]

And this is to test your color vision, to solve  the whole dress colour thing.

I got 28. Apparently, I suck at green-blue and red-orange.

I got 16. My weak spot is in the yellow-green range.

[Lubricus]

I got a perfect score. I'm not surprised, I knew I had good colour vision, but it's still nice to get it affirmed.

[pwhodges]

The question is will Marten finally take the initiative and hit on Ellen?

Very unlikely, I think.  It's one thing for Jeph to include a real person as a cameo, but getting her involved in a story arc would surely be a step too far.

Anyway, Marten is dazzled by her fame, and his brain is currently rebooting.

[Soulsynger]

She's embarrassed about having been beaten at beer pong.

Also, she's much cuter in the comic.
Gotta have to listen to some of her sets when I get home.

Very unlikely, I think.  It's one thing for Jeph to include a real person as a cameo, but getting her involved in a story arc would surely be a step too far.
Anyway, Marten is dazzled by her fame, and his brain is currently rebooting.

I wonder if real life Ellen knows about this...

[hakko504]

4. I'm quite satisfied, especially as all problems seems to be in the same area.

[Valdís]

Very unlikely, I think.  It's one thing for Jeph to include a real person as a cameo, but getting her involved in a story arc would surely be a step too far.

Yeah, that'd be kinda weird unless thoroughly discussed with the person in question beforehand. Also about how old is Marten in-universe? Not that age would be a huge thing given the event they're attending, but still. 

One episode of BSG in particular was severely triggering for many of us.

For that matter, a lot of Trans women really identified with Zoe in "Caprica"
Do I look male to you.... FRACK!!

Which particular bit did you have in mind? I'm curious.

Heh, I wasn't even aware that an important character in Caprica was named Zoe. Hadn't seen the show yet, but started today because you reminded me of it (and it's given me sads). Was just thinking of Baltar's Cylon Detection Device at the time.

(click to show/hide)

Lacy: "I don't know you!"
Zoe: "You grew up with me.."
Lacy: "I GREW UP WITH ZOE GRAYSTONE! You're something she.. created.. you're just a thing!"
Zoe: "Zoe promised me I'd see the real world one day.. that's the crazy thing, I already know what the real world feels like.. I remember it! Just like I remember growing up with you.."
Lacy: "No.."
Zoe: "It's true.. I've never been to your house, never played in your room, never put on your make-up or tried on your clothes.. I'm not a person; I know that.. But I feel like one.."

zoe plz ;_;

[WAYF]

For anyone who's wondering, I ran Ellen's lines through Google Translate, and she's really embarrassed that Maurice was able to beat her in Beer Pong.
I also learned some rudimentary German today. Knowing the sort of person I am, this one may come in handy:
Es ist mir so peinlich = "It is so embarrassing".

[cesariojpn]

I already have 13 crude and offensive caption-sets jotted down.  *nod*

You do realize not all Germans are crude boorish sexual deviants now....

[ankhtahr]

For anyone who's wondering, I ran Ellen's lines through Google Translate, and she's really embarrassed that Maurice was able to beat her in Beer Pong.
I also learned some rudimentary German today. Knowing the sort of person I am, this one may come in handy:
Es ist mir so peinlich = "It is so embarrassing".

A little remark about something which is not really translateble: "Es ist mir so peinlich" states that she is embarressed by it, not that something is embarrassing in general.

[Soulsynger]

She's embarrassed about having been beaten at beer pong.
[ ... ]

For anyone who's wondering, I ran Ellen's lines through Google Translate, and she's really embarrassed that Maurice was able to beat her in Beer Pong.
[ ... ]

I feel neglected.
And if translated true to the meaning it would even be "It is so embarrassing to me."

@cesariojpn:
Wherever did you get "boorish sexual deviants" from? °O

[Sidhekin]

A little remark about something which is not really translateble: "Es ist mir so peinlich" states that she is embarressed by it, not that something is embarrassing in general.

Hey natives, would "it embarrasses me (so)" do the trick?

[ankhtahr]

Well, "it embarrasses me so" sounds to me (as a non-native speaker in English) like the German "Es beschämt mich so sehr", which is rather old fashioned, and doesn't catch the whole meaning of the sentence as well. I consider Soulsynger's translation more fitting: "It's so embarrassing to me"

[Loki]

What ankhtahr said.


I assume, though, that Jeph was going for something along the lines of "this is awkward". If you have "Oh my gosh, this is awkward" anywhere in one of 'em American highschool girl movies, it will mostly be translated as "Oh mein Gott, das ist mir soooo peinlich!"

[Is it cold in here?]

Also about how old is Marten in-universe? Not that age would be a huge thing given the event they're attending, but still. 

He's younger than Dora, who is a year younger than Sven, who recently told The Pugnacious Peach that he's 28.

[Akima]

And this is to test your color vision, to solve  the whole dress colour thing.

I scored a perfect zero!    It's a pity the test doesn't tell you into which percentile you fall. Or whether the distribution is Gaussian.

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."

[TinPenguin]

When I read the name Ellen, and saw that red hair, I was certain that this must be steve-dating, dolphin-loving, probably-legal-now Ellen, and drama was about to ensue. Five seconds later, crushing disappointment.

[bhtooefr]

Also, she's much cuter in the comic.

Mind you, Wikipedia shots tend to bring out the absolute worst in people's appearances. (It's weird, it's not just because they tend to be candid shots (because the set up shots aren't under CC-BY-SA or any less restrictive license), because Wikipedia shots tend to be WORSE than most candid shots.)

[Soulsynger]

Chose to go with the most true-to-life appearance of her I could find on the nets. Lucky coincidence for me it was also on her wiki page.
I don't go to the staged professional shoots for references about what people look like.

There are a few other pictures of her floating around which would've also proven my point. (Which btw. was not that she wasn't cute at all. Just that in my eyes Jeph seems to have depicted here somewhat cuter or even younger than her real life self.)

[bhtooefr]

Honestly, I think it mainly needed for her to look closer to her age, then it would've looked fine (what he drew looks like a 20-something, when... *hits up Google* damn, she does look good for ~44).

But, my point was that Wikipedia shots have a talent for making even good looking people look horrible, when they don't look that bad in real life or in other candid shots.

[Aethien]

The question is will Marten finally take the initiative and hit on Ellen?

Very unlikely, I think.  It's one thing for Jeph to include a real person as a cameo, but getting her involved in a story arc would surely be a step too far.

Anyway, Marten is dazzled by her fame, and his brain is currently rebooting.

Well, as long as he doesn't start humping her leg and shouting that he loves her he'll be ok.

[Soulsynger]

[ ... ]
But, my point was that Wikipedia shots have a talent for making even good looking people look horrible, when they don't look that bad in real life or in other candid shots.

Agreed, that they actually do. But in this case it wasn't THAT bad. It just looked most authentic to me.
(And... wow, ~44? Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang.)


@Aethien:
You avatar is mesmerising.

[bhtooefr]

That's actually one thing I've noticed in Jeph's art - he draws a comic of 20-somethings, so he has trouble making someone look older than mid 30s.

I can't decide whether Amir was lampshaded or not (he was 35, and looked mid 20s), and Hannerdad, Hannermom, and Jim look their ages, but Veronica and Henry don't look anywhere near their ages. I mean, ffs, Henry looks like he's in his 30s or 40s, except for going gray early, when Word of Author is that he's in his late 50s.

And, I second that comment on Aethien's avatar.

[Mr_Rose]

[ ... ]
But, my point was that Wikipedia shots have a talent for making even good looking people look horrible, when they don't look that bad in real life or in other candid shots.

Agreed, that they actually do. But in this case it wasn't THAT bad. It just looked most authentic to me.
(And... wow, ~44? Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang.)


@Aethien:
You avatar is mesmerising.

Re: Daang; agreement. But then Pauley Perette.
Re: avatar; run it through tineye if you wish to see something revelatory and very NSFW.

[bhtooefr]

It did look rather porny, I was wondering if the hot dog was covering something else.

[Aethien]

That's the whole point of the thing. It's like those shitty MsPaint porn image coverups but done well.

[docC]

A little remark about something which is not really translateble: "Es ist mir so peinlich" states that she is embarressed by it, not that something is embarrassing in general.

Hey natives, would "it embarrasses me (so)" do the trick?

I'm not a native (of the English language, I'm actually German), but "it embarrasses me (so)" feels/looks/sounds pretty weird to me, like something a German would say, you know one of those things that give away that you're a foreigner.
I think, "I feel so embarrassed" would be the best translation as it includes that "undertone" that ankhtahr mentions.

[techkid]

I got nothing to really contribute from today's comic. So...

And this is to test your color vision, to solve  the whole dress colour thing.

I scored 15. Slight problems in red-brown, olive-green, green-aqua and some blue hue transitions.

[Mad Cat]

I scored a perfect zero!    It's a pity the test doesn't tell you into which percentile you fall. Or whether the distribution is Gaussian.

If you answer the demographics questions and get a report, it does show you on a scale of 0-99, but you might have to save it as a graphic and them impose a decile break down on it graphicly to get a percentile number.

I scored an 11, but I don't think that translates to my percentile.

I'm not a native (of the English language, I'm actually German), but "it embarrasses me (so)" feels/looks/sounds pretty weird to me, like something a German would say, you know one of those things that give away that you're a foreigner.
I think, "I feel so embarrassed" would be the best translation as it includes that "undertone" that ankhtahr mentions.

While technicly both "I feel so embarrassed." and "It embarrasses me so." are both perfectly acceptable English, the latter has the feeling for this native speaker of being a little old fashioned, bordering on archaic. Like, I would expect to hear it from a Civil War or Victorian era period piece. Still, I think a modern American wouldn't bother mentioning the word "feel", as feelings would be implied in the word "embarrass". So, to sound like a native, "This is so embarrassing." would do it more convincingly.

[Skaltura]

Scored an eight, slight problems on the yellow-green and green-blue transition.

[Soulsynger]

Scored a 3.

With problems around cyan.

[WAYF]

I scored 4, which is not bad. I do kind of wish I was perfect though. It's bad enough that I didn't realize I was short-sighted until last year, but now my colour is a little off too?

Colour is what makes sight so great...

[kent_eh]

And this is to test your color vision, to solve  the whole dress colour thing.

200 for me.

I expected to be a lot worse, actually.

What allowed me to do as good as I did was to sort by brightness, and not hue. One of the coping skills that I've developed over the decades, I guess.

Now, if you ask me to name what any of those colours actually are, or change the test so there is a bit of white space between the swatches, I'm pretty sure I'd get a record fail score.

[MillionDollar Belt Sander]

I already have 13 crude and offensive caption-sets jotted down.  *nod*

You do realize not all Germans are crude boorish sexual deviants now....

Who said anything about Ellen being crude and boorish?  There are two men standing RIGHT THERE ya know. 

[jwhouk]

If it weren't for the color-picker tool in PaintShop and WhatColor, I'd be lost when it comes to doing anything artistic on the internet.

[jwhouk]

And this is to test your color vision, to solve  the whole dress colour thing.

200 for me.

I expected to be a lot worse, actually.

What allowed me to do as good as I did was to sort by brightness, and not hue. One of the coping skills that I've developed over the decades, I guess.

Now, if you ask me to name what any of those colours actually are, or change the test so there is a bit of white space between the swatches, I'm pretty sure I'd get a record fail score.

WHEW. I was starting to wonder if I was the only one off on the Island of Misfit Toys.

[Valdís]

WHEW. I was starting to wonder if I was the only one off on the Island of Misfit Toys.

Do you seriously need to wonder that around here? 

[HiFranc]

[...]
Es ist mir so peinlich = "It is so embarrassing".

A better translation would be "I'm so embarrassed".  In German people generally use "es ist mir" rather than "ich bin" (because the form "I am" would be taken to mean one is the emotion rather than one feels the emotion).

[Method of Madness]

I think "this is so embarrassing" works better, "this" being the story.

[Loki]

I am amazed by how many Germans frequent this forum.

Now because of all this talk of German and embarrassment, I keep thinking about the word "fremdschämen".

[ButterToes]

After reading today's strip I immediately thought of this:
Iron Maiden At A Polish Wedding
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knC743Nds4Q

[KOK]

For anyone who's wondering, I ran Ellen's lines through Google Translate, and she's really embarrassed that Maurice was able to beat her in Beer Pong.
I also learned some rudimentary German today. Knowing the sort of person I am, this one may come in handy:
Es ist mir so peinlich = "It is so embarrassing".

Maybe this is what she means:
http://ourvaluedcustomers.blogspot.dk/2012/11/to-her-friend.html