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Peas?

The Angel of Peas!
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Give peas a chance!
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Peas cannot be achieved through violence.
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Imagine whirled peas.
- 6 (7.8%)
A vision of peas with a Birdseye view.
- 3 (3.9%)
Peas on hurt; goodwill to all sentient beings.
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+5 soothe pain, -5 cause light frostbite.
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No justice - no peas.
- 5 (6.5%)
Peas porridge hot - no Earl Gray.
- 2 (2.6%)
Peas porridge cold - with a side of waffles.
- 6 (7.8%)
Space ham and peas?
- 3 (3.9%)
Can we peas stop the puns?
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Author Topic: WCDT: 2434-2438 (29 April-3 May, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread  (Read 67729 times)

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I wonder if Thursday's comic will show an attempt at a-peas-ment.
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Haven't been on Twitter in ages. I've missed all the QC cast's tweets, didn't even know Claire was on it. Argh.
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Perhaps Emily's face reflects her belief in the saying "If you would have peas, prepare for war".
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We just need to appease Emily.    :-D
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I guess Emily decided that for lunch, she would give peas a chance.
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2437]Giving peas a chance?
Well, I guess the secret is out, though I'm sure some of you suspected it. The truth is, I am- wow, this is hard. Okay. I am Claire.


And I can't figure out why. Wordplay is funny, right? ...Right?

If she had stuck around, I would have asked Emily if it was difficult to have so many peas on her palate.
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I begin to suspect that Emily actively tries to be quirky, rather than it being a natural condition.
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Oh man that joke was so bad it was good hahahaha
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So it is was not just sibling rivalry. She habitually ruin other people's moments in the spotlight. This was not as bad as 2305, since she did not know Emily would react like that, but it is still anoying.
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Whoa, Emily got angry.  Was Claire's joke really that bad?
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Whoa, Emily got angry.  Was Claire's joke really that bad?
Seriously, that was a face of sheer disgust. The joke wasn't that bad.

I do not understand why the other QC characters react the way they do to Claire's puns.
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Perhaps Emily's face reflects her belief in the saying "If you would have peas, prepare for war".
“Fighting for peas is like screwing for virginity.”
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Whoa, Emily got angry.  Was Claire's joke really that bad?

No - but she stole Emily's chance to say it.
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Whoa, Emily got angry.  Was Claire's joke really that bad?

No - but she stole Emily's chance to say it.

Exactly. That is the face of someone who's just had her punchline stolen.
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*cough* actually it really was that bad. It's the reactions that make the comic funny, not the bad gag.

Claire's delivery bad; Jeph's delivery good.
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I like Claire's "pun face", although it looks to me a bit like she's optimistically waiting for people to laugh at her, still it's kind of cute.

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"...like screwing for virginity.”

Not altogether fair, since that is by far the most common method of increasing the number of virgins.
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"...like screwing for virginity.”

Not altogether fair, since that is by far the most common method of increasing the number of virgins.

and decreasing them at the same time, odd how that works no?
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Not necessarily decreasing them at the same time, no.
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I begin to suspect that Emily actively tries to be quirky, rather than it being a natural condition.

Today's comic gave me similar thoughts, but for now I'll give her the benefit of the doubt. Being odd doesn't mean a person can't occasionally try to be funny. Or that their idea of humour must, by definition, always be baffling.

it's perfectly possibly to be both an oblivious, kooky oddball, who's under the impression they're perfectly normal, and also be pissed-off when somebody swipes your joke. In fact, you could say that occasional flashes of neurotypicality make Emily more of a character and less of a caricature.
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She has seemed completely artless sometimes.

We could speculate that she got pigeonholed early on as "the odd one" and chose to make the best of the role by cultivating it.
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Awwww, c'mon Emily peas don't go. That joke was kinda cute.
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Not necessarily decreasing them at the same time, no.

I wanted to research the question what the (virgins devirgined):(new virgins created) during standard sexual intercourse would be.

I looked and found this study. It did not answer my questions, but raised a few eyebrows. The whole dataset can be downloaded here. I used this PDF.

Among other things, people were asked to imagine their perfect relationship, given a deck with cards with events such as "we would kiss", "we would get married" etc and throw out the ones that don't imagine happening in their perfect relationship (page 460 and following of the PDF). Afterwards, sort the cards they kept by "what would the first/second/... stage of said perfect relationship be".

Apparently, 13 out of 6345 of the participants consider "my partner or I would get pregnant" the ideal first step in a relationship  :psyduck: Interestingly, that's one more than the "ideal first step would be sex" group.

In other news, 466 out of 6380 participants do not consider "we would kiss" to be part of their perfect relationship. 3533 out of 6380 would not have sex.
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Were those unisex peas, or chick peas?

After a visit to Hubbert Pharmaceuticals, might they have been snow peas?

Is Emily pea nuts?
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"...like screwing for virginity.”

Not altogether fair, since that is by far the most common method of increasing the number of virgins.

"Virginity", not "virgins".  Kinda like how division on rationals produces rationals, but does nothing much for rationality.  8-)

Obligatory punned quote:

"The quest for peas begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace."
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Arguably, this one begins in the college library.
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Punchline swiping is bad. That big pile of peas reminded me of a piece of doggerel I read once:

"I eat my peas with honey;
 I've done it all my life.
 It makes the peas taste funny,
 But it keeps them on the knife."
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Doggerel? It could be verse.

Emily looks peaved.
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Don't be upset, Emily, a pun like that isn't hard to make.

In fact, it's easy-peasy-Japanesey.
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It seems like this is really not Emiliy's day. Her mad face his hilarious though.
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Peas: it's what we all want, but no two people can agree on how to achieve it.

Claire is certainly not adverse to dishing out pun-ishment. I liked it.
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"I eat my peas with honey;
 I've done it all my life.
 It makes the peas taste funny,
 But it keeps them on the knife."


In my mind this leads on to:

I wish I was a little grub
With whiskers round my tummy.
I'd climb into the honey pot
And make my tummy gummy.


Reputed to be a signal from a bored warship in the South Atlantic during the early stages of WWII.
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Allied merchant ships were the first NightPosters, it seems.

And yes, Emily indeed looks like someone who had her punchline nicked out from under her.
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I wonder if Thursday's comic will show an attempt at a-peas-ment.

Peas in our time?
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Not if we're taken apart peas-meal.
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I begin to suspect that Emily actively tries to be quirky, rather than it being a natural condition.

Peas is her profession, is what you're saying?

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Some people are born a**holes, some people have a**holishness thrust upon them.  That person manages to make those people look like reasonable human beings.
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This is one of those times Jeph hits on all cylinders.
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About time someone got Emily so good she couldn't even think up a retort but to walk away.

I love her expression in the last panel.
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emily's all like: "bitch, peas"
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"I eat my peas with honey;
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 It makes the peas taste funny,
 But it keeps them on the knife."

I don't get it. Who eats peas with a knife?
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"I eat my peas with honey;
 I've done it all my life.
 It makes the peas taste funny,
 But it keeps them on the knife."

I don't get it. Who eats peas with a knife?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8wZ9nxPd68
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Do people actually eat peas like that? :psyduck:
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So, apparently making really lame puns is one of Claire's defining characteristics.
I like it. ;D
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Em's sad, because Claire's a thief.

She stole Emily's thunder.
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I don't get it. Who eats peas with a knife?

Children; who thus need a ditty to gently shame them out of it.

Altenatively, it's a reflection on the impracticability of it.
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Wait, that's the intention of the poem? If anything it gives kids an idea on how to make peas sweeter and less healthy. Also kind of badass.
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emily's all like: "bitch, peas"
"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peas."

... that's not the word I was expecting, though.
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Wait, that's the intention of the poem? If anything it gives kids an idea on how to make peas sweeter and less healthy. Also kind of badass.

When that poem originated, people's concern with food was not how healthy it was, but whether there would be enough, or any.  Keeping every last pea on the knife rather than wasting some by dropping them must have been important in those days ;).  There's also the matter of manners, especially in Britain.

PS: I enjoy winding people up, so long as it's harmless fun!

PPS: Have peas with mashed potato - then you can take a lump of mash on your fork and stick the peas to it to eat.
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I don't get it. Who eats peas with a knife?

Children; who thus need a ditty to gently shame them out of it.

Altenatively, it's a reflection on the impracticability of it.
I can't imagine being slow enough as a kid to think that putting round things on a flat thing would work as a method of transportation to my mouth. But then, I wouldn't use a fork as appears to be the norm either. It's clearly a spoon food.
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