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[K1dmor]

 Here you go:
 

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[Mr_Rose]

I took a screenshot, but I'm not really sure how to put the image into the discussion here. The original text read: "Dale, this is my girlfriend Tai."

I wish I knew how to make gifs so I could play the speech bubbles back-to-back. I had the original comic open in one tab and the new one open in another, and they look pretty awesome when I line up the images and click back and forth.

Download the GIMP, open file one, open file two as a new layer, rename both so they have a number in brackets in the layer title (this is the display time in ms), save as .gif. That's the extremely compressed tutorial that skips a whole bunch of efficiencies and explanations but there you go.

[cesium133]

Regarding the comment on today's comic, I still cannot for the life of me remember what the acronym 'SMH' is supposed to mean. I keep thinking it means 'shoot my horse.' 

[J]

'shame me hard'?

[J]

'shake my hand'?

[J]

"stab mr. hat"?

[GarandMarine]

According to google it is either the stock ticker code for Merril-Lynch Semiconductors (Who seem to be recovering nicely from an all time low in the third quarter this year if you're curious) or "Shaking My Head"

[mustang6172]

Is anyone else looking forward to Tai meeting Dora's parents?

[Schmorgluck]

Oh, YES!

[HauntingPoem]

SMH stands for shake my head

[JohnTheWysard]

Naming dogs? Yeah, that gets pretty domestic.

Naming cats is easier since cats usually don't care (unless of course you know the Cat's True Name, which of course you never will). Public names like Maxie and Fuzzy and Mousey Tongue and Edward R. Mrrow don't count of course.

[HauntingPoem]

Barkspawn is my personal favorite.

[Method of Madness]

Thomas Barkalter

I, uh...don't get it

[Akima]

Mousey Tongue

I see what you did there...

Jimmy Sniff for a boy dog.
Joan Arfatrading for a girl dog.

[Sidhekin]

Thomas Barkalter

I, uh...don't get it

Google says "Did you mean: Thomas Burkhalter?"

From his about page: "Dr. Thomas Burkhalter [*1973], an ethnomusicologist, music journalist and cultural producer from Bern (Switzerland), runs the research project «Global Niches – Music in a transnational World» at the Zurich University of the Arts. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of norient – Network for Local and Global Sounds and Media Culture. His first book «Local Music Scenes and Globalization: Transnational Platforms in Beirut» was published with Routledge (New York) in 2013. His co-edited book «The Arab Avant Garde: Musical Innovation in the Middle East» is going to be published with Wesleyan University Press in November 2013."

Given Tai's musical taste for weird European stuff (or something along those lines; I can't find that page right now), I'd say Google may have the right idea. 

[Lubricus]

Is anyone else looking forward to Tai meeting Dora's parents?

Hmm... I think she'll get along well enough with Dora's dad.

[maxh]

Dora started going out with Tai based on very tentative interest in someone she only knew as the "cute little redhead."

Her original description of Tai was "adorable little butch girl". But perhaps she used the phrase "cute little redhead" in another strip?

It was "sexy little redhead".

[Jackal]

Thomas Barkalter

I, uh...don't get it

Google says "Did you mean: Thomas Burkhalter?"

My assumption was a reference to Thomas Bangalter, of Daft Punk.  Though now I kind of hope it's this Burkhalter chap.

[greywolfe]

It won't last, they never do. Plus contentment is bad for script ideas.

[jwhouk]

Is that like, reverse shipping?

[Sidhekin]

Gnippihs?

[Pilchard123]

Piracy?

[Method of Madness]

Plus contentment is bad for script ideas.

The first part is a prediction, but this sounds close to telling Jeph what he should do. I'm sure that wasn't your intention, but you should know that's frowned upon here. Reverse shipping (hereafter to be referred to as "pishing", not a perfect reversal but sounds better out loud) is therefore no better than shipping in that regard.

[LookingIn]

Is that like, reverse shipping?

...so that would be "breaking"?

[Method of Madness]

More like returning.

[Storel]

Dora started going out with Tai based on very tentative interest in someone she only knew as the "cute little redhead."

Her original description of Tai was "adorable little butch girl". But perhaps she used the phrase "cute little redhead" in another strip?

It was "sexy little redhead".

Aha, thank you! 

[Kugai]

Not necessarily, they could become the resident 'Cool but slightly crazy Dog owning Lesbian couple' of the strip.   


The only Burkhalter I know of is this chap

[Storel]

The only Burkhalter I know of is this chap

Come to think of it, I actually used to have a crush on know a woman at work whose last name was Burkhalter. She could not have looked less like that picture, though: about 6 feet tall, slender, cute...

[brew]

Why can't I figure out what Thomas Barkalter is a reference to.

[Carl-E]

Because you haven't read up the thread yet. 


Re: dog pun names

We got a golden retriever umpteen years ago that we named Max (unimaginative, but it was just before christmas, so he was named for the Graunch's Grinch's dog, my kids were still little).  We were told he'd probably be about 70-80 lbs, the usual size for a golden retriever. 

He wound up being a fit but huge 110 lbs, as tall a a St. Bernard, and as barrel chested as a rottweiler. 

A few years later, my wife found a pomeranian mix running along the back highway in the woods - no collar, black with filth, down to about 4 lbs.  We rescued her (okay, she leapt into the van), and when we cleaned her up, her fur was the exact same color as Max's. 

We named her Minnie. 

They were best friends, played fox & hound together (Minnie would bug Max until he chased her through the yard.  When he got tired of her running figure eights around him, he'd pin her down with a paw). 



Walking them was always fun for the looks - I'd tell people they were twins.  The names (Max and Minnie) were usually good for a laugh, too.     



Max passed away three years ago this weekend from liver cancer at the fairly good age of 12.  We have no idea how old Minnie is, but she's still with us.  The name has lost its pun-ch without her other half, though. 

[Zebediah]

As long as we're on the topic of dog names: I used to joke that my dog could say her own name. Her name was "Ruth".

OK, so that's lame. But she was a great dog and I miss her. 

[brew]

Because you have3n't read up the thread yet. 

Oof, I even googled that name last night and assumed from first glance that it wasn't the right name (second hit being a linkedin profile of a different person with the same name). Pretty obscure one.

[WAYF]

In Australia, SMH stands for "Sydney Morning Herald", the newspaper. You think I'm joking, but
http://www.smh.com.au

I can think of a few dog pun names.
Clive Barker
Arj Barker
Mark RUFFalo
Pen (usable if the dog is a female Shar Pei)
Virginia Woof.

[Rghfrgl]

As long as we're on the topic of dog names: I used to joke that my dog could say her own name. Her name was "Ruth".

OK, so that's lame. But she was a great dog and I miss her. 

I had a dog named Babe. If only they'd met.

[Method of Madness]

Her name was "Ruth".

[Carl-E]

Have a friend who named his dog "Stain".  That way, he could shout "Come, Stain!"  out the back door...

[Kugai]

 

[cesium133]

If I ever get a dog, I want to call him Bob Barker.

Incidentally, I'd probably never be allowed to have a dog. 

[Method of Madness]

You think that's bad? I once saw a dog named Sarah Jessica Barker.

[cesium133]

Is this a new character, or one I've forgotten about?

[Method of Madness]

A new one, just a friend (ex?) of Tai we haven't seen before.

[Nepiophage]

I knew a man once who had three dogs called Ketchem, Tearem and Eatem. People ran away when he called them.

[Method of Madness]

I probably would've heard the first one, assumed it was a Pokemon reference, and not even noticed the other two names.

[cesium133]

Go, Growlithe! Use Flamethrower!

*house burns down* 

[cpflux]

Is that like, reverse shipping?

...so that would be "breaking"?

I would think it'd be called "iceberging," right? Or some variation?

It won't last, they never do. Plus contentment is bad for script ideas.

HRP has been proven to lead to many unique storylines.

[Dr. ROFLPWN]

Oh oh.

...On the one hand, Tai, meet Dora's terrifying jealousy/control problem! Yeah she kind of helped break up Marten and Dora and she makes Dora, when angry, frankly even scarier than Faye! Faye might punch you, but Dora will cut you. With a sword.

But on the other, that smirk and that shitty expression on little miss Allie of the Reverse Raven Hairstyle seems to suggest she thinks Tai is the village lesbian bicycle! Which is a shitty fucking thing to think about a person and indicates that no, no one would be sad if Allie died! I wouldn't, anyhow. 

[cpflux]

Oh oh.

...On the one hand, Tai, meet Dora's terrifying jealousy/control problem! Yeah she kind of helped break up Marten and Dora and she makes Dora, when angry, frankly even scarier than Faye! Faye might punch you, but Dora will cut you. With a sword.

But on the other, that smirk and that shitty expression on little miss Allie of the Reverse Raven Hairstyle seems to suggest she thinks Tai is the village lesbian bicycle! Which is a shitty fucking thing to think about a person and indicates that no, no one would be sad if Allie died! I wouldn't, anyhow.

I'll bet you the smirk was the outward expression of an internal dialogue along the lines of, "Ha, you're dating *her*?"

I'd throw a specific flavor of the thought out there, but I don't even know how Allie knows Tai.

[Stanistani]

Oh oh.

...On the one hand, Tai, meet Dora's terrifying jealousy/control problem! Yeah she kind of helped break up Marten and Dora and she makes Dora, when angry, frankly even scarier than Faye! Faye might punch you, but Dora will cut you. With a sword.

But on the other, that smirk and that shitty expression on little miss Allie of the Reverse Raven Hairstyle seems to suggest she thinks Tai is the village lesbian bicycle! Which is a shitty fucking thing to think about a person and indicates that no, no one would be sad if Allie died! I wouldn't, anyhow.

Would we be lucky enough to have Aliie's last name be Saur?

[Near Lurker]

Lesbian cannibals?

[Akima]

I'll bet you the smirk was the outward expression of an internal dialogue along the lines of, "Ha, you're dating *her*?"

Mmm... I wonder what Dora has in mind. The Thousand Cuts? Quartering by four buffalo?