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"Jimbo!" "Dad!" "CLAIRE?" "...Jimbo?"

28 (35.4%)

Steve (Commence arms race!)

8 (10.1%)

Pintsize & Winslow ("It's been militarized!  RUN!")

20 (25.3%)

"...Tai?  Are you FOLLOWING us?" "Just wanted to see which slashfic played out!"

23 (29.1%)

Total Members Voted: 73

[cesium133]

The experience I've had with customs is that you should say as few words as possible to them. Granted, I work in atomic physics, which sounds to a customs agent like "nuclear weapons," so now when I enter the country and they ask me what I was doing, I say "Conference" and leave it at that.

[Neko_Ali]

Planning the overthrow of your decadent country!

Very well, do you have any fruit or nuclear materials to declare?

[hedgie]

I'm just glad that the last time I had to deal with US customs, despite their tirade of harassment, they didn't actually check my bags for the (then-illegal) absinthe that I was carrying.  Only other customs I've ever been through was UK customs, and well, I actually never saw any agents.  Heathrow was basically get off the plane, and walk straight to immigration.

[MooskiNet]

Planning the overthrow of your decadent country!

Why does this line make my brain reply with "CAKE OR DEATH?"

[Blackbird]

My encounters with the TSA and Homeland on the other hand has been like dealing with Gang Members.
There are always a few that are relate-able people but for the most part all are bullies who love to abuse their power and will find any excuse to exercise it and they will treat you as a criminal.

The TSA booth: where all Americans get treated like regular cops treat black people.

*sniff* There really is a post-racial world out there.  It's only the airport, but still, it's a start.

[katsmeat]

I'm just glad that the last time I had to deal with US customs, despite their tirade of harassment, they didn't actually check my bags for the (then-illegal) absinthe that I was carrying.  Only other customs I've ever been through was UK customs, and well, I actually never saw any agents.  Heathrow was basically get off the plane, and walk straight to immigration.

UK customs tend to be more subtle, but I can assure you you were carefully scrutinized on your way through.  If you had displayed signs of nervousness before entering customs and relief after passing through, you might well have been taken aside for a little chat. Triply so if your flight had originated in a known drugs shipment point.

[Neko_Ali]

It's not about the subtlety. It's about blatant abuse of power and people given free reign that don't deserve it. Not that they're all bad of course. But there are enough of them out there who are permitted to stay after some pretty horrible stories.

[Zebediah]

I'm one of the few people who has had a positive experience with the TSA. The TSA agent was trying to explain something to a Frenchman who had very little English, and she called out "Does anyone here speak French?" My wife speaks French fluently and so volunteered to act as a translator, which cleared up the whole situation in a couple of minutes. The TSA agent then called someone from our airline over to her station, pointed to us, and said "I want these people in first class." We didn't actually get into first class that time (no available seats) but we got a voucher for a future flight.

So hooray for government agents abusing their power in nice ways, I guess.

[Gladstone]

Comiiic!

Yessss.....



(And I hope those thirteen people in the poll above didn't put any money down on Veronica.)

[osaka]

Is Veronica's reaction time measurable with current timing contraptions? I don't think it is.

[bhtooefr]

And Claire's about to be subjected to the test of the mom jabbar.

[greywolfe]

And suddenly, mom

Time for a ClaireReaction

[MooskiNet]

Veronica looks as happy as Tai did.

Wonder if she'll have better boundary sense than Clairemom - I hope she doesn't invite herself to dinner with them.

[Gladstone]

Is Veronica's reaction time measurable with current timing contraptions? I don't think it is.

Well, since she was probably several blocks away a moment before Claire spoke in panel 1, her ability to appear in that exact spot several seconds after being invoked is pretty damn impressive.  "Mom-sense activating!  My son and a girl I think would be good for him are discussing me?  I'll just duck into this alley, and--zip!--Hello, dear!"

[Arancaytar]

She's definitely squeeing on the inside.

(Also: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2379 )

[Gladstone]

And Claire's about to be subjected to the test of the mom jabbar.

Nah, she already passed that.

(Whoops, Arancaytar beat me to it.)

[Gladstone]

Not sure what Claire's reaction in that last panel is saying though.

[valkygrrl]

Veronica looks as happy as Tai did.

Wonder if she'll have better boundary sense than Clairemom - I hope she doesn't invite herself to dinner with them.

that would be delightfully transgressive.

[AprilArcus]

Great hand poses in panel 4.

This is the exact same punchline as 2810 and 2822. Are we done with the victory laps yet?

[bhtooefr]

Not sure what Claire's reaction in that last panel is saying though.

Claire knows what Marten's going through right now, because she's seen Veronica in action before, and has a pretty good idea that Veronica is like her own mother when it comes to boundaries.

[Svennerson]

This is the exact same punchline as 2810 and 2822. Are we done with the victory laps yet?

No.
Never.
More victory laps.
Victory Sunday Drive.
Victory Ferry.
Victory trip to outer space.

[stinson6016]

I love the last panel! the looks on Marten's face all "not now", the look on Veronica's face is all squeeeeeeee, and Claire is all "what?"
Just so much emotions packed in such a small amount of space.

[lot_jockey]

Oh, darn. Friday comics won't end in a '5' or a '0' for a little while now!

So, the characters who know that Marten and Claire are a thing: Hannelore, Tai, and Faye.

Characters who have probably guessed that they're a thing: Claire's mom, Dora,  and Veronica.

April, I'm sure we'll get a different punchline when Clinton finds out.

[Natswash]

1: Mothers are Supernatural Creatures, they know when they are being discussed
2. There goes my vote in the poll, next guess Clinton

[Gladstone]

Characters who have probably guessed that they're a thing: Claire's mom, Dora,  and Veronica.

Of course, Dora only heard the rumors from Faye and got the news from Tai, but Marten still has to confirm it (with or without pants?), so we still need to get that version of events...

[Natswash]

I'm wondering how many of the female members of the cast haven't seen Marten in his boxers yet. I expect that Tai and/or Faye and/or Hanners will have told the rest of the coffee shop by now or the next day

[GarandMarine]

Looks like the TSA is still bottom of US governmental agencies that make friends and positively influence people! In some ways, it is horribly impressive that they're worse at this than the IRS!

And in comparison to the dark times in Europe where going from west to east and east to west was at times intense, as a kid at the time, the officials were nothing but courteous and professional.
Mind you the ones with the actual guns and body armour were always in the background looking on with cold detachment, never making eye contact if you did look at them directly.

My encounters with the TSA and Homeland on the other hand has been like dealing with Gang Members.
There are always a few that are relate-able people but for the most part all are bullies who love to abuse their power and will find any excuse to exercise it and they will treat you as a criminal.

Heh. You think the TSA is the bottom of that pile? Spoken like people who've never had to deal with BATFE.

And now my favorite customs joke:



Re: Comic
Speak of the mother, and she shall appear.

[SubaruStephen]

She looks like she's going to squeeeee so hard it it makes Scorn look weak

[Half Empty Coffee Cup]

Well, well! Veronica time! Marten's in for a 'fun' time. Let's hope it doesn't turn the date into a disaster for him (though I expect Claire will have a fun time either way, even if it's just amusement at watching Marten squirm).

(Actually, a disaster would be amusing. I amend my earlier statement.)

[Kugai]

Dammit!


Now he'll have to find his mother's 'Reset' Button.

[Undrneath]

Dammit!


Now he'll have to find his mother's 'Reset' Button.

I wonder if Jim has found her 'Reset' Button?

[cesium133]

Now he'll have to find his mother's 'Reset' Button.

Well then. Hopefully they can dodge his mother and find dinner at a place where the food's oedipal.

[SubaruStephen]

That pun rex the entire thread.

[Gladstone]

And healthy.  Best to stay away from Freud food.

[Half Empty Coffee Cup]

oedipal... rex...

Is it me, or do these puns sphinx?

[Undrneath]

Reading them almost makes me want to poke out my eyes with bed pins.

[Kugai]

Yeah

After all, this isn't old Valyria

[Neko_Ali]

To many puns..

I just Kant anymore...

[Kugai]

Have a beer mate.

[Gladstone]

But the night's still Jung!

[Half Empty Coffee Cup]

To many puns..

I just Kant anymore...

Of course you can! You're too Jung to be tired of puns.

damnit Gladstone

[Undrneath]

So he says to me I'm not sure if I've heard of Pavlov but the name rings a bell.

[Sullivan]

Great hand poses in panel 4.

This is the exact same punchline as 2810 and 2822. Are we done with the victory laps yet?

Agree re the hand pose. Masterful.

I think the point of this strip is not so much Veronica being happy-stunned the same way Tai was, but that Marten is wondering the same thing you are: "Ok, how many more times do I have to go through this?" (A: as many as it takes...)

[Gladstone]

Of course you can! You're too Jung to be tired of puns.

damnit Gladstone

Ahaha!  Got a Locke on that pun before ya!  Hope it doesn't Paine you much.

[cesium133]

Well, at least we've pole Voltaire'd over the electrical puns into philosophy puns.

[DonInKansas]

And Claire's about to be subjected to the test of the mom jabbar.

Nah, she already passed that.

(Whoops, Arancaytar beat me to it.)

Martenmom was well into the bottle at this time, though.  SoberMartenMom may have a different test.

[MrNumbers]

Well, at least we've pole Voltaire'd over the electrical puns into philosophy puns.

Long time lurker, first time poster, and I have to say it's almost solely because I approve of all this Nietzsche humour. So I had to Locke in an account, and hope that the first pun wasn't so tortured someone said "Hey, don't Confucius like that". Maybe I ought to Descarte that one and draw another from the deck.

And now I better leave, before the humour Platos.

Oh! Err... 

[Half Empty Coffee Cup]

Of course you can! You're too Jung to be tired of puns.

damnit Gladstone

Ahaha!  Got a Locke on that pun before ya!  Hope it doesn't Paine you much.

I give this post a 7/10. Good effort, and two for one, but you lose Marx for gloating.

[St.Clair]

I think her face is going to stick that way.
At least for a few more panels.

[Gladstone]

I give this post a 7/10. Good effort, and two for one, but you lose Marx for gloating.

I would ask you to reconsider that rating, but I don't like to Hegel.