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Pugnacious Peach Pugilistic Punchout

Claire Crimson Cheek Continuation

Marten Mainly Mumbles Methodiclly

Steve Swallows Serially

Battling Bianchi Battlezone

Tai Terrorizes Tall Twin

Jeph Jacques Japes

Waffling Waffles Wander Wonderingly

Butts

[Kugai]

[jwhouk]

Re: WCDT: 2796-2800 (22-36 September 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread

Did I miss a memo or did they do something to the calendar down in Kiwiland?

[cesium133]

Don't you remember the old rhyme?

Thirty-six days hath September,
April, June, and November.
All the rest have forty-two,
Except February, because we're on a planet where the year has 466 days.

[Rghfrgl]

And here I thought the cliffhanger just made the weekend longer.

[TheEvilDog]

Tell me Doctor, where are going this time, is it the Fifties or September 36th?
All I want to do is find a guitar to sling.

[cesium133]

Tell me Doctor, where are going this time, is it the Fifties or September 36th?
All I want to do is find a guitar to sling.

So take me away, I don't mind.
Just promise me we'll be back in time.

[DrBear]

Up in Wisconsin, with the winter dragging on, we'd call a day in April "February 90th."

[jwhouk]

Up in Wisconsin, with the winter dragging on, we'd call a day in April "February 90th."

HUSH on that!

[cesium133]

Up in Wisconsin, with the winter dragging on, we'd call a day in April "February 90th."

When I went to a conference in Madison, one of the Wisconsinites (Wisconsinians?) I talked to said it had gotten down to freezing two weeks before the conference and they were worried it would still be like that when the conference happened. In June.

[Kugai]

[MumblyVoice] Sassnfrassinmassinrassin... [/MumblyVoice]

[ysth]

F5
F5
F5

[Rghfrgl]

F5
F5
F5

Cliffhanger + premade comic for out of town=guaranteed filler.

And I'm f5ing anyway even though I know that.

[TheEvilDog]

F5
F5
F5

Cliffhanger + premade comic for out of town=guaranteed filler.

And I'm f5ing anyway even though I know that.

Jeph said on Twitter last week that the reason he premade the comic was he realised he'd be getting home around 11 in the evening. Not a guaranteed filler but then again we can't be sure.

[Rghfrgl]

Yay, proved wrong with adorable blushes.

[Is it cold in here?]

A suspiciously heated denial, but we know from her first appearance that Claire reacts vigorously if she feels attacked.

[jwhouk]

Quack quack quack! 

[mustang6172]

Quack quack quack! 

And a baby duck would peep before it learns to quack.

[Neko_Ali]

daaaaaang... If Claire blushes any more her cheeks are going to out-red her hair.

[GarandMarine]

Me thinks the lady doth protest too much.

[Is it cold in here?]

The perfect quote.

[Kugai]

Methinks thou doth protest too much Claire.

[KOK]

Now I understand why Faye likes that the stools are secured against use as weapons.

[hedgie]

Hmm, Claire doesn't seem like she'd be much in a fight, since Faye has the experience, but then again, she did have to be persuaded to put down that sword, and may have powers that just haven't awakened yet.

[Sidhekin]

Methinks thou doth protest too much Claire.

Shakespearean grammar nazi sayeth: "thou dost".  ("I do"; "thou dost"; "he, she, or it doth".)

[anahata]

Poor Claire. I think Faye is being a bit unkind here, but then again that's Faye.

And she's (to some extent) drunk.

[bhtooefr]

Aaaaaaaand now we get the blush.

Faye really is pushing her a little too hard, but she has a point, and like Barmymoo said, that is Faye for you.

Now, what would be ironic is if Claire's following Marten around for professional reasons and actually didn't have a crush on him, but Faye got her thinking about it, and now she does. But, I doubt that's the case.

[swapna]

Aww SO cute. I don't know, Faye is being a little pushy here, but some people will never admit stuff like that without a little prodding. Or A LOT of prodding. She's also not the worst person to ask when you want to know how to get close to Marten.

I kind of want to see Claire/Marten dates and awkwardness now!

[Tormuse]

Click here to see a baby duck following someone.

It's most definitely a "peep peep peep," rather than a "quack quack quack." 

[Method of Madness]

Up in Wisconsin, with the winter dragging on, we'd call a day in April "February 90th."

In a non-leap year, April ends on February 89th

[bhtooefr]

What are you people talking about? Today's date is 1993-09-7692.

[Psuedoname]

Would Faye mention the sleeping hug as an example too

[Zebediah]

Faye's face in panel 2 is excellent. You can tell exactly what she's thinking even though she's not saying anything.

[HiFranc]

I'm going to guess that Faye is going to say something to the effect that Marten says something very similar on the subject.  That would lead to Claire being awkward around Marten and Marten being confused about what's happening.  Then again, Faye may have already achieved that.

[KOK]

Click here to see a baby duck following someone.

It's most definitely a "peep peep peep," rather than a "quack quack quack." 

I thought that sound was rendered "tweet" in English. In my native Danish, it is "pip".

[anahata]

I thought that sound was rendered "tweet" in English. In my native Danish, it is "pip".

We commonly use "tweet" for the sound of the kind of small birds that "tweet" even when they are adult.

The sound of a young duckling is a bit different, and I think "peep" is being used here to convey this.

[DrBear]

The difference is that "peep" is generally a repeated, same-sound high note, louder or softer.
A tweet is more musical, has more notes, such as a bobolink's "bob-o-LINK"
Birds do not twitter. Thank goodness 

[cesium133]

Birds do not twitter. Thank goodness 

Not anymore, anyway...

[ysth]

What are you people talking about? Today's date is 1993-09-7692.

Explanation for those that don't pre-date it:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

[HauntingPoem]

Also it might be influenced by the Peep candy ducklings. (which are gross btw)

[Smallest]

I dunno if it's already been mentioned, but while it could as well be just a random inflection by Jeph, the distinction between:

"He invited ME tonight!"

and

"He INVITED me tonight!"

seems important.

[Rghfrgl]

I dunno if it's already been mentioned, but while it could as well be just a random inflection by Jeph, the distinction between:

"He invited ME tonight!"

and

"He INVITED me tonight!"

seems important.

I noticed that earlier when I looked back after reading

Faye's face in panel 2 is excellent. You can tell exactly what she's thinking even though she's not saying anything.

And I think she agrees with you.

[Method of Madness]

Smallest - Well yeah, the ME is emphasized to show that she was the one who was asked to go, rather than her going out of her way to spend time with Marty.

[Rghfrgl]

Smallest - Well yeah, the ME is emphasized to show that she was the one who was asked to go, rather than her going out of her way to spend time with Marty.

They both do. The ME could imply a bit more self importance and maybe 'HE wants to spend time with ME!', with Faye giving a 'now why would you care so much about that' look.

It may well just be a quirk with the writing, but that's what I'm seeing.

[Smallest]

Smallest - Well yeah, the ME is emphasized to show that she was the one who was asked to go, rather than her going out of her way to spend time with Marty.

But then there's the difference between "HE asked ME!" and "He asked ME!"
The former focuses on that Marten was the one that invited her, the second one focuses on that she was the one Marten invited.

I'm assuming it's just a typing quirk, because that seems way too obvious, as well as too aggressive (when including the expression and pointing) for Claire, but it definitely read the second way for me.

[T]

What are you people talking about? Today's date is 1993-09-7692.

Explanation for those that don't pre-date it:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

Better than stay in August for 594 years.

[ankhtahr]

N'yaaa. I really want to see how this goes on. Especially with her stuttered "I'm your favourite?". If she didn't have a crush on him, then Faye seems to have planted an idea in her head. But I also really want to see how the conversation between Faye and Claire continued. I don't really believe she simply stood up on her.

Also I thought broad existential statements were reserved for LSD and other substances.

Edit: No replies yet? Surprising. Anyway:

Multae sunt causae bibendi.

Bibo ergo sum.

[badbum61]

"...and Rene Descartes was a drunken fart,
I drink therefore I am."
</python>

[TheEvilDog]

Bhuel tá duine éigin ag dul a fháil ar a chroí briste an tráthnóna seo, nó ar a laghad an-ligean síos ar bhealach nach subtle amhlaidh. Agus is shamhlú agam go bhfuil duine éigin ag dul go bhfuil hangover ar maidin. Agus Tai nach bhfuil fós fuair a thiomána piggyback fóill.

(Céir liom lyrical i mo theanga dhúchais eile nuair atá sé tríocha cúig ar maidin.)
(Níl sé i ndáiríre.)

[ankhtahr]

I actually like that idea of Descartes. You can doubt anything. But by doubting anything you already prove that you exist.

[Arancaytar]

You're ALL my favorites!

Drunk or not, that line is all kinds of squee-worthy.