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Finding the rarest clock in all of Massechusetts

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Finding Brun a job... at the library... because Tai's head has never exploded enough

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A five-strip dissertation on whether human sweat enhances the taste of croissants

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"Clinton is your brother. I wish to seduce him. Do you have any pointers?"

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"Renee wants Elliott. She's afraid to approach him. Clinton tells me you like matchmaking. I want your help."

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Can Claire convince Brun that Pintsize is a rare clock so that she'll 'collect' him?

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Clinton sees them talking and accuses Claire of interfering; the result leads to a confession or two from Clinton

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Brun, lacking a brain-to-mouth filter, tells Claire something that either shocks, pleases or horrifies her;

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Other (please specify in a comment)

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Total Members Voted: 36

[Welu]

I empathise with Hannelore here. So many times I got spooked and thought someone was a burglar and my mum would respond, "A burglar with keys?" They could have stole the keys! :O

[SmilingCat]

I empathise with Hannelore here. So many times I got spooked and thought someone was a burglar and my mum would respond, "A burglar with keys?" They could have stole the keys! :O

Once coming home from work, I saw a strange car in the otherwise empty driveway. I was almost certain it was my niece's then boyfriend, having caught a ride with the rest of the family to watch her play basketball on the other side of the state.

Nonetheless, I still felt compelled to loudly announce to any potential intruders in the house that I would be shooting first and leaving questions for the coroner.

(no, I didn't actually have a gun.)

[St.Clair]

Oh, that's just doing your duty as an elder male relative to terrify the boyfriend.

[zisraelsen]

Multiple questions.
Is that a cricket bat?
If not, what is it?
If it is, why does everyone own cricket bats? is it a popular sport in massachusets?

[Gyrre]

What if the pancakes are an apology for breaking in?

[St.Clair]

I also wanted to say I think it's really sweet that one of the first things Winslow is using his new range of mobility for is to make pancakes for Hanners.

[Akima]

First he made batter, but then narrowly escaped a battering.

[Tova]

Multiple questions.
Is that a cricket bat?
If not, what is it?
If it is, why does everyone own cricket bats? is it a popular sport in massachusets?

To me it looks more like a paddle, because if it were a cricket bat, the bat part would be longer (ditto the linked comic). But at least in today's case, I won't discount the possibility that a cricket bat is what was intended.

You'd certainly know it if you were whacked by one (at least, in the brief moment before losing consciousness). A cricket bat is a hefty object.

[SmilingCat]

Oh, that's just doing your duty as an elder male relative to terrify the boyfriend.

Oh, he already knows. The fact that I walk with a cane now only makes me more terrifying.

[BenRG]

Now the adaptation starts for Hannelore. The reason that she automatically assumed that someone other than her is making pancakes had to be an intruder is because, of course, up until recently she was the only one in the apartment able to do so. So, it was not unreasonable (although extreme) to assume that it was an intruder. It's going to take her a while to get used to having a fully-mobile Winslow able to manipulate his environment, isn't it?

So, what's in that wall locker? It might be my dodgy eyes but the label looks like "Various Scraps". Does Hannelore store off-cuts from food preparation for later use?

[EDIT]
Oh, I get it! It's 'Various Soaps'! Yeah, it makes sense that the single largest storage space in any given room of Hannelore's apartments will contain cleaning goods!

[oeoek]

So uhm, What Lurks In The Hearts Of Men is pancake batter? I must have missed the memo.

[BenRG]

So uhm, What Lurks In The Hearts Of Men is pancake batter?

Only in the best of us.

[USS Martenclaire]

Baking And Entering?
Assault and Batter-y? 

[Akima]

Is that a cricket bat?

That's not a cricket bat, this is a cricket bat:

That is Kookaburra's largest size, I believe. For the batsman who does not so much wish to strike the ball as obliterate it.

[Mark7]

Is Winslow British?  Only he appears to be making pancakes in our style?

[BenRG]

So, here are a few predictions and/or speculations for next week:

• Brun's second night on the job (because that's when she and everyone else feel comfortable enough around each other to start showing their real weird personalities);
• May visits Hannelore's flats and asks if Winslow can come out to play (!);
• Clinton visits the Horrible Revelation when Brun and Elliott are on shift. A bizarre bit of triangular flirting ensues;
• Bubbles and Faye laugh about finding Claire and Marten snuggled up together; Spookybot drops in to dangle temptation before Bubbles' nose and subconscious fantasies ensue under the influence of fine jin sang tea;
• The landlord asks Marten and Faye to move out but, as they've never been late on rent, she is willing to offer an upgrade to a larger apartment elsewhere in town (near where the Beans live?).

Is that a cricket bat?

No, it is a Beater's bat, used when playing Quidditch! (Hannelore was in Hufflepuff, of course!)

[Gyrre]

They're lucky Bubbles came through the door and not through the wall.

Toes are very practical things. I wonder how people in robot bodies manage without them.

I thought the darker segment at the end was a flexible like the toe joint that many third party transformers toys have.

[lawoot]

Just wanted to say that the art today, with Hanners waking up in the first two panels especially, was wonderful. LOVE how her hair came out.

[Case]

First he made batter, but then narrowly escaped a battering.

[Is it cold in here?]

Hannelore needs extraordinary courage to even leave the apartment. Gryffendore.

[Y]

To me it looks more like a paddle

Breaking and entering is an automatic paddling.

So does Hanners do any sport? I thought getting sweaty and dirty isn't one of her favorite things (apart from when playing the drums). So why should she own a paddle? Unless she got a new interest instead of the firemen after witnessing Claire and Pintsize. Then it might be something she bought but not used.

[neurocase]

It's a different color, but the group has been shown (more than once!) to have an INITIATION PADDLE on hand. Perhaps they have a spare? Shame we never saw Bubbles get the initiation; clang clang clang would be just as hilarious as pap pap pap.

[Neko_Ali]

Well they did kinda. It's just that Emily used a rubber mallet instead. It... didn't work out so well.

[Ztyx]

• May visits Hannelore's flats and asks if Winslow can come out to play (!);

https://youtu.be/YeEbtiruH2Q?t=40

[Shjade]

What if the pancakes are an apology for breaking in?

"Now, look, I understand this is a stressful situation for everyone - I'm nervous too! But I think if we just sit down and talk this out we can come to a mutually beneficial arrangement. So you just take a minute to enjoy these pancakes while I finish looking around to see what's a fair haul for our negotiation, alright? Super."

[SmilingCat]

It's a different color, but the group has been shown (more than once!) to have an INITIATION PADDLE on hand. Perhaps they have a spare? Shame we never saw Bubbles get the initiation; clang clang clang would be just as hilarious as pap pap pap.

Hanellore owns her own cricket bat for just these situations

[neurocase]

It's a different color, but the group has been shown (more than once!) to have an INITIATION PADDLE on hand. Perhaps they have a spare? Shame we never saw Bubbles get the initiation; clang clang clang would be just as hilarious as pap pap pap.

Hanellore owns her own cricket bat for just these situations

Incredible; my archive-fu snapped up what I linked, but your archive-jutsu trounced it with just one strip!

[Tova]

I am not worthy. /bow

[OldGoat]

It's a different color, but the group has been shown (more than once!) to have an INITIATION PADDLE on hand. Perhaps they have a spare? Shame we never saw Bubbles get the initiation; clang clang clang would be just as hilarious as pap pap pap.

Hanellore owns her own cricket bat for just these situations

All hail the canonical cricket bat!

[Perfectly Reasonable]

So it -is- a cricket bat!
And those are flapjacks, if you flip them into the air instead of turning them with a pancake turner.

"I can cook healthy meals for you now!" was one of Momo's selling points for her chassis upgrade.

[Tova]

???

Seriously, though, I thought that in the US, "pancakes" and "flapjacks" were synonymous.

[St.Clair]

They are, though pancakes is (IMO) more common.
(Calling them "flapjacks" seems to be associated with the rather less common skill/technique, displayed here, of actually flipping them in the pan - which, for amateurs, usually results in "hilariously" messy mishaps rather than breakfast - instead of just using a utensil to turn them like a normal person.  )

*google image search*  Brown sugar, oats and raisins, huh?  Over here we'd probably call those "granola bars" these days.  So healthy!  Not.

[OldGoat]

???

Seriously, though, I thought that in the US, "pancakes" and "flapjacks" were synonymous.

You are correct, they are.

I had never heard of anything like the goodies pictured being called "flapjacks," even in the UK.  IIRC, in one Prisoner episode (The Schizoid Man, I do believe) #2 and his underlings are fornicating with #6's head, teaching him to be left-handed with electrical shocks each time he reaches for his favorite food, flapjacks, which look an awful lot like crepes or pancakes.  I can easily see where a flipped pancake could get the name, "flapjack," but when would a cookie bar (biscuit to UK types) have an opportunity to flap?

Now, those thing pictured do look good, and if you add some butterscotch chips to the batter no doubt they'd be excellent!

[pwhodges]

Brown sugar, oats and raisins, huh?  Over here we'd probably call those "granola bars" these days.  So healthy!  Not.

Here is my flapjack:



Not granola bars as I know them; they have no crisp ingredients.  The real thing is made with just oats, butter (or some other cookable spreading fat), and some mixture of sugar with honey or golden syrup.  It's not uncommon to have added ingredients for flavour, such as raisins or other dried fruit - but I view that as a modern perversion.

https://www.lylesgoldensyrup.com/recipe/flapjacks
http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/member-recipes/recipe-detail/2982/

Wikipedia reports that the name was used centuries ago for a flat pie or tart, and the current use in the UK dates back only to 1935.

[Storel]

So uhm, What Lurks In The Hearts Of Men is pancake batter? I must have missed the memo.

It's a reference to the old radio show The Shadow, which began each show with this tagline: "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows." Hanners' final line probably reminded Jeph of it.

[thirtyseven]

Hello and heroic regards from Germany! Longtime reader - first time poster.
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3565 was a very funny strip for me - a total deja-vue because it shows the exact start of my own webcomic - UNION OF HEROES - from 10 years ago.

So I know exactly who may break into your kitchen to create pancakes, Hannelore! THE ONE WHO KNOWS! A German superhero from a parallel world, where heroes with superpowers exist in the Ruhr area of Germany:
http://www.unionofheroes.com/comic/4.html?no_cache=1

Of course I know that the chances are very low that Jeph has seen my little photowebcomic about superheroes in Germany – but the way Hannelore reacts to the smell of the pancaces is very compareable to the way Marc reacts o the smell of the omlette created by the ONE WHO KNOWS in Marcs kitchen, isn't it?

So thank you very much for this little reminder, Jeph! It made me sign up to your forum and comment on your strip for the first time - so it's a good time now to thank you for your great work!
I read Questonable Content since 2007 and it's a pure joy to see how your work has progressed over the time - both art and storywise. It was funny in the beginning - now it's funny and deep and with loveable characters and inspirational storylines - amazing!

Best regards from Germany to all the fellow Questionalbe Content fans!
Arne

[JimC]

So does Hanners do any sport?

Found it at last!

http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2133

[Is it cold in here?]

Welcome, new person!