On a separate note, glad to see you're all still here, and that I'm not the only heathen on the forum. :roll:
How about an employee exchange scheme? Elliott goes to CoD and Faye goes to TSB, and subsequently drives away their entire clientelle.... uh, what good would that do ?
What do you think the likelihood of Jeph working the non-rapture into today's comic is?He generally stays away from topical stuff nowadays. I think he's even said directly he tries to stay away from anything that dates the material.
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He generally stays away from topical stuff nowadays. I think he's even said directly he tries to stay away from anything that dates the material.
(I vote to make "knoife" the official forum spelling for "knife.")Motion is seconded. The motion shall be put to a floor vote.
Gonna have to disagree with Elliot. Ever tried properly flaying a fish that's flopping around? Yeah...much easier to crack 'em on the head with a rock or a hammer and then start flaying.
Eh. She'll be fine with the Knife Killer, just give her a shovel.
I'm amazed that nobody's reacted to Hanners in Faye's panel 2 reaction before....
(I vote to make "knoife" the official forum spelling for "knife.")Motion is seconded. The motion shall be put to a floor vote.
Gonna have to disagree with Elliot. Ever tried properly flaying a fish that's flopping around? Yeah...much easier to crack 'em on the head with a rock or a hammer and then start flaying.
2. Not sure why, but I liked Faye's ":psyduck:" reaction in panel #2. You know you have screwed up, somehow, when you cannot get the (or any) words out. Gods know I have had that moment more than once if life... ("that...it- gyerg- arrggh!!")
By the time you get there, they've drowned in the air and you can gut them easily.
OK, I thought it was me.Quote from: Jeph's Twitterwtf, my justin.tv channel got closed
The banner I got when it happened was that it was a "terms of service" violation. Someone responded that it may have been the bonercat sketches he makes when he takes a break...
It was, obviously, a joke.Well, yeah. I just wanted an excuse to use the word "unraptured".
On a separate note, glad to see you're all still here, and that I'm not the only heathen on the forum. :roll:What if they gave a Rapture and nobody came?
Who knows! Hanners does not think like other folk.
<big ol' snip>
If you are working in the fishing industry, you slice the underside open and scrape the insides out :-P .
If you are working in the fishing industry, you slice the underside open and scrape the insides out :-P .
so he resorts to playing [...] classical music to avoid that.
Elliott The (Fish) Knife. :-DDoesn't quite have the same ring as "Mack the Knife"....
Well, it was bound to happen eventually - Hanners broke Faye.
I think he was talking about the kind of stuff you can find over on musopen.org's music listings or whatever huge archives of public domain music are out there.Yes, that is what I meant. The public domain classical music stuff.
More to the point, what if they gave a Rapture and nobody left?On a separate note, glad to see you're all still here, and that I'm not the only heathen on the forum. :roll:What if they gave a Rapture and nobody came?
There is something distinctly uncomfortable (and not in a humorous way) about Hannelore not having the wherewithal to do anything but stand there waiting for Faye. "Hanners is awkward" is a pretty well-worn punchline, but today's was more like "Hanners is infantilized".
Eh, only about 95% true. I've seen a few fish that have sat on open ice for 10+ hours (we take ice fishing seriously in Minnesota) start to twitch once they've thawed after being brought into a warm room for flaying. Granted, they're not jumping off the block, but seeing a 20+ inch half frozen fish suddenly go U-shape as it's being flayed will surprise anyone.Gonna have to disagree with Elliot. Ever tried properly flaying a fish that's flopping around? Yeah...much easier to crack 'em on the head with a rock or a hammer and then start flaying.
Or just put 'em on ice in the back of your truck and drive home. By the time you get there, they've drowned in the air and you can gut them easily.
What if they gave a Rapture and nobody came?
Yay! Pizza Girl! Now we can have a story line about Penelope's long-lost twin sister that she never knew she had!Yay! :laugh: :laugh:
At long last, one of the great questions of QC has been answered with a resounding "No, but the resemblance is uncanny!"
It's really funny, because I read that newsarama interview last night before he started drawing (he posted the link on his twitter) and I was like "nah, no way Jeph will actually put Pizza Girl in the next comic." Apparently I was wrong!
What do you think the likelihood of Jeph working the non-rapture into today's comic is?
It would be cool if Will saw her as well so Faye could believe Penelope.As if that would make the slightest difference to Faye. This would be solidly in the "Pics or it didn't happen" category to the Pugnacious Peach.
It would be cool if Will saw her as well so Faye could believe Penelope.I'm not sure Will could be considered a reliable witness after the black eye incident (http://"http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1883") :-D
Maybe they did Akima,
Maybe they did.(click to show/hide)
A few weeks later in QC time:
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Personally, I thought it would be funnier to have Wil answer the door - then double take.
But this worked pretty well!
Coming up: "QC: The Pepperoni Knight."
Schrodinger's Pizza Girl? No, wait, that takes us back to the Milholland crossover, or maybe the Slauson Cutoff ...
...and Faye is showing a three-button cleavage! :-D :evil: :psyduck:I generally try to stay away from commenting on this sort of thing but, honestly, I couldn't help but find myself thinking: That's a lot of open buttons for work!
You haven't been in some of the workplaces I have. Some offices I've worked at some of the women come in dressed more for the club than the office. I guess it's because they're going clubbing after work, but still, they couldn't be bothered to bring a change of clothes?Some women are looking to collect more than a paycheck..
You haven't been in some of the workplaces I have. Some offices I've worked at some of the women come in dressed more for the club than the office. I guess it's because they're going clubbing after work, but still, they couldn't be bothered to bring a change of clothes?Some women are looking to collect more than a paycheck..
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I think Jeph is just trying to show that Faye 'loosening up' after years of being extremly uptight over everything...
Faye is probably wearing a skimpy Bikini Top under the shirt. ;)*nosebleed*
You haven't been in some of the workplaces I have. Some offices I've worked at some of the women come in dressed more for the club than the office. I guess it's because they're going clubbing after work, but still, they couldn't be bothered to bring a change of clothes?
I wish some of the women where I worked would dress like that.
Some of them, not all of them.
A main door that opens outward, so that the hinge pins are on the outside where miscreants and evildoers can get at them, is a really bad idea.Jeph obviously drew it like that, because a normal left-hinged, inward-opening front door would have hidden the (surprisingly sparsely-filled for a two-bookworm household) bookshelf, and eliminated the Chaucer joke. But yes, I don't think I've ever seen a front door that opened outwards.
A main door that opens outward, so that the hinge pins are on the outside where miscreants and evildoers can get at them, is a really bad idea.Jeph obviously drew it like that, because a normal left-hinged, inward-opening front door would have hidden the (surprisingly sparsely-filled for a two-bookworm household) bookshelf, and eliminated the Chaucer joke. But yes, I don't think I've ever seen a front door that opened outwards.
A fine "brick joke" as someone pointed out earlier, and it's nice to see new-art Pizza Girl.
4. The "Pizza Girl" in that comic is in fact an automaton developed by Faye in secret to make Penelope, the true Pizza Girl, doubt her own memories as unbeknown to the rest of the cast, Faye is actually a supervillain.You mean they haven't figured it out yet? :psyduck:
5. Two words: Time. Warp.It's just a jump to the left.. 8-)
Huh, Penelope's and Pizza Girl's respective hair looks unusually flat in panel 3...
A main door that opens outward, so that the hinge pins are on the outside where miscreants and evildoers can get at them, is a really bad idea.
Well, at least she's honest...right?
Man, I remember the first party my former wife and I went to after we broke up! We had been invited as a couple, and both decided there was no reason for us not to go; first wife arrives with new (well, not so new, actually) partner - mega uncomfortable evening as ex glares daggers at me whenever I'm visible (but civilisation was not destroyed).
This could actually be cool, especially if Tai can finish up that "hey I uh would kind of like to date Dora, bro, I hope that's cool" line that Marten interrupted with his dumbassery
Tentative bro fist, Tai, keep doing the right thing
"I'm going to try to seduce the woman you recently broke up with, in front of you, at a party I invited you to" is doing the right thing?!
If she's going to do that, the right thing to do is, in fact, to warn Marten that she's gonna do that
I'm not entirely sure why Tai would need to invite Martin, especially if she intends to invite Dora. I can't think of any social convention where Tai would need to invite Martin in order to invite Dora too. She could have just invited Dora and bypassed the need for Martin to go.
I wish some of the women where I worked would dress like that.
Some of them, not all of them.
Yeah, some of them are totes ugly. Ugly people don't have any right to try to feel attractive or self-confident, but sexy people should dress as sexily as possible at all times.
We keep gaming this scenario out and Ziggy says that there's an 86% probability that Tai's going to get hurt.
Surprisingly, Dora isn't far behind with a 57% heartache rating, and Marten is only running about 13%, just slightly more than Pintsize (who has no heart)
Trainwrecks are kind of awesome, but for once I'd like to see someone avoid one in the strip.
Man there is a lot of assumption here about Tai's motivations and/or intellect. No, she's not inviting him to watch, she's inviting him to include him because they are friends
But she also realized "oh hey I kind of invited Dora and I would like to get my freak on with Dora"
And then she figured she should probably tell Marten, especially since that might affect his decision whether or not to go, and it's past fuckin time she was honest about her interest in Dora anyhow
How is dating a friend's ex "stabbing him in the back"? Especially if she asks him first?
It seems that exactly what she is trying to do right now. I agree that she should give a heads up, just so he isn't caught off guard should anything come of it. However, I don't see anything wrong with dating someone a friend of yours dated. Then again, I'm lesbian from a place where the options for finding other ladies to date is pretty limited. If you weren't allowed to date someone a friend used to date, no one would be able to date anyone other than their first girlfriend.
I think it's something along the line of:You may be right, but I think that's some pretty faulty logic. Where is this "law of politeness" that says you absolutely must invite every single friend you have to a party that you're going to? I don't think it's rude at all to not invite Marten, especially since he won't know anyone other than Tai and, to make things awkward, Dora. If it was a party with all of Tai's and Marten's mutual friends, it'd be different, but this is a party that Marten has no real obvious reason to be invited to. Tai could have not mentioned it and no one would have been hurt. Instead, she's creating an awkward situation because...well, because she's Tai and that's what she does, I guess.
1) Martin is my friend.
2) IF I go to a party it would be bad manners NOT inviting him.
3) So I invite him, BUT I warn him that things might get awkward.
Now it's up to Martin to accept the awkwardness, or decline the invitation.
Dora can't go "I can't handle a relationship" and then hook up with Tai,
What sort of wood should we use for the stake with which to burn Tai at after this party debacle? Pine? Oak? Cypress?
We keep gaming this scenario out and Ziggy says that there's an 86% probability that Tai's going to get hurt.
Surprisingly, Dora isn't far behind with a 57% heartache rating, and Marten is only running about 13%, just slightly more than Pintsize (who has no heart)
I thought is was "Pizza Avenger" not "Pizza Girl"... or am I confusing her with the "Vespa Avenger"?
Separate post for this one:
Anyone have suggestions for a "What's going to happen at this party?" poll?
Is it time yet for Dr. Corinne's thumbtacks and colored string?
It's a Smif party - what guys? (well, not Marten, in this scenario, obviously!).
This. This could be a delicious train wreck. :evil:It's QC. Would you expect any less?
Separate post for this one:-Waffles and Steak are the food choices for this BYOB
Anyone have suggestions for a "What's going to happen at this party?" poll?
I think it's something along the line of:You may be right, but I think that's some pretty faulty logic. Where is this "law of politeness" that says you absolutely must invite every single friend you have to a party that you're going to? I don't think it's rude at all to not invite Marten, especially since he won't know anyone other than Tai and, to make things awkward, Dora. If it was a party with all of Tai's and Marten's mutual friends, it'd be different, but this is a party that Marten has no real obvious reason to be invited to. Tai could have not mentioned it and no one would have been hurt. Instead, she's creating an awkward situation because...well, because she's Tai and that's what she does, I guess.
1) Martin is my friend.
2) IF I go to a party it would be bad manners NOT inviting him.
3) So I invite him, BUT I warn him that things might get awkward.
Now it's up to Martin to accept the awkwardness, or decline the invitation.
I'm not usually one to notice things like this, let alone complain about it, but the space between "cool" and the period was quite an eyesore :(
Sure, she has a crush on Dora, so inviting her makes sense. Martin? Unless she's planning to invite Faye, Hanners et all, that really doesn't make sense to me. Unless she's actually planning some shinanigans with Dora and planning to get Martins okay somehow (not exactly sure what the line 'exact opposite' meant myself...)
/maybe I missed something earlier.
Is it just me, or is it kind of Faye's responsibility to make sure Marten isn't totally unaware of this potential?It's high time Marten took some responsibility for himself, and turned his clue-engine on. The last two panels of 1933 made me want to smack him. I mean, hello, is anybody home? Body language, facial expression, tone of voice? They exist for a reason.
and he seems like he's genuinely getting over her.
So I had a thought...chances are Marten is going to tell faye about the party and that Tai invited hm and that Dora will be there, and then Faye will spill the beans so to speak.
Faye is ostensibly Marten's friend, and vice versa.
Faye knows, for sure, that Tai wants to get with Dora. Not the details, but the intent.
Is it just me, or is it kind of Faye's responsibility to make sure Marten isn't totally unaware of this potential?
Not that she should be blabbing Tai's confessions to everybody, but this could be important. And what if she doesn't tell him, but he later finds out she knew?
That'd put most friendships on the rocks.
I doubt Tai+Dora will happen though.
From a few weeks before the breakup:
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フフフ
Tai ... is looking for approval from Marten, but doesn't realize that as a guy Marten is immune to nuance and needs to be asked simply and directly without any circumspection.
A two by four might help.
Marten is a reasonably smart and sensitive guy, but guys get confused by circumlocutions and indirect questions - they know something else is going on, but have been burned enough times not to even try to guess, so they just go with the most literal interpretation.
2. If she does indeed claim victory over Las Loins De la Dora,,,
An excellent objectification!My disgust (and yes I chose that word very carefully) with Tai's behavior...
Again, I imagine a lot of the animosity against Tai in this instance stems from unhealthy controlling and possessive expectations in relationships. All the more evident here, since Marten and Dora are no longer in a relationship. People should move on, and stop theorizing about whether or not Marten's manhood will "quiver" at the thought of his ex ending up with a friend.
Especially since that kind of erotic fanfiction is not tolerated on these boards!
and it seems that post break-up, he got drunk one night, was kind of a jerk for one day, and then boom, over it.
Dora dun goof'd! :psyduck:COFFEE OF DOOM WILL NEVER BE THE SAME (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/jessi-slaughter)
How does someone who apparently can't function before nine am successfully run a coffee shop?Probably by drinking coffee. :lol:
How does someone who apparently can't function before nine am successfully run a coffee shop?Probably by drinking coffee. :lol:
Megaoops Dora. Not the best way to start a business agreement.Yes. Dora seems out-of-character screwing up like that. If she was that disorganised, she wouldn't be able to run a business at all.
Agreed. I wonder if there's something on her mind that we don't know about.
expressoDamn it, why do people think this is a word?
Because it isexpressoDamn it, why do people think this is a word?
It's entirely possible that she's just that scatterbrained before her morning espresso and has the beans ready but just totally blanked that she was supposed to fork 'em over now.
It's a new relationship - there are bound to be a few hiccups and bumps along the way. What's important is how you handle the revelation that you've been thoughtless of your partner's needs.
It's a new relationship - there are bound to be a few hiccups and bumps along the way. What's important is how you handle the revelation that you've been thoughtless of your partner's needs.
And given Doras track record....
It's a new relationship - there are bound to be a few hiccups and bumps along the way. What's important is how you handle the revelation that you've been thoughtless of your partner's needs.
And given Doras track record....
expressoDamn it, why do people think this is a word?
I enjoy the use of hair as an expressive feature in the QC universe. The way Dora's hair jumps in the last panel is quite amusing to me.
Most dictionaries very clearly indicate that the proper word is "espresso" from the Italian, but that the use of "expresso" is "strictly incorrect, but commonly used". Meaning that we're likely to see it become an actual recognized word in several years as the language evolves.
I don't think we'll see anything of the party itself, but I do expect a WICKED live-tweet session with all the characters' twitter feeds.
It's because everyone knows the word "express", and coffee makes you go faster, so concentrated coffee = "expresso".
Espress ("to press out" in Italian) is from the same root as Express ("to press out" in English).I never learned that "press out" meaning of express (though I suppose expressing (conveying) an idea has the same root). This forum is ESL-educational!
Stop making excuses for illiteracy!
If we put up with that crap we'll end up with leaders unable to refudiate the terriers that misunderestimate the need to put food on your family.
It's entirely possible that she's just that scatterbrained before her morning espresso and has the beans ready but just totally blanked that she was supposed to fork 'em over now.
Oh, come on, now. How long have you been reading this comic?
It is obviously going to be the worst case scenario where she not only didn't roast beans for Jim, she didn't even roast beans for her own store that day.
What if this is Tai exposing Marten to all those available Smifettes, like I hoped would happen by now? The Dora angle just makes it more dramalicious; what if Dora sees him surrounded by eager beavers? Maybe Tai thinks that would get her off the guilt hook... This party could have 13 kinds of drama, boosted and complicated by recreational substances. :psyduck:Tai ... is looking for approval from Marten, but doesn't realize that as a guy Marten is immune to nuance and needs to be asked simply and directly without any circumspection.
A two by four might help.
Marten is a reasonably smart and sensitive guy, but guys get confused by circumlocutions and indirect questions - they know something else is going on, but have been burned enough times not to even try to guess, so they just go with the most literal interpretation.
This is retreading old forum ground, but many of us guys readily verify this; it's SO nice your brains are at home processing devious, indirect, vague hints and concealed intents, but the genders really do think, feel, and talk differently.* Just say what you mean, please??
* I could provide a bibliography if you care.
Sure, women overall might be more periphrastic in their approach to things than men, but do you know what happens to little girls who ask for things? They get told that they shouldn't by parents and other figures of authority. And women who dare to say they want or don't want something? They get called "bitch" or are subject to a myriad of other negative responses, sometimes violent ones (and I am speaking entirely from my own experience and the experiences of women that I know).I'm glad someone else said this, so I didn't have to. It's been eye-rollingly depressing to read the postings in this thread about how men feel entitled to demand that women communicate in a way they claim suits them (but which, in my experience, they never welcome if one actually does it), rather than making any effort themselves. Nearly as depressing as the postings telling us how to dress modestly enough to meet their requirements.
Her hair was apparently just as concerned as she, it jumped too. :P
And her neck smiled.
Elliot is big.
It is impossible to say just what I mean!
But as if a magic lantern threw the words in patterns on a screen:
Would it have been worth while
If one, settling a pillowor throwing off a shawl,
And turning toward the window should say:
"That is not it at all,
That is not what I meant, at all."
Presumably, this particular Monday is the Monday after the Smif party. Something is probably on Dora's mind...
They marry and then divorce, and she leaves him with the coffee shop and he turns into Jim.
Jim is Future Marten.
He is accommodating to fault - a business fault, in this case. He is slightly awkward around women - witness his odd aside about the lawyer and divorce. He is not inclined to confrontation - see his standing around waiting for Dora to remember that she forgot the coffee beans. Future Marten is not much more than current Marten.
But oh! say you. If Jim is Future Marten, and Marten has no goals or initiative, how does he own and manage The Secret Bakery? Stick that in your espresso and drink it.
It's very simple.
At Dora's request, she and Marten get back together. They marry and then divorce, and she leaves him with the coffee shop and turns into Jim.
Thanks for catching that! The way I wrote it originally would be a little bit more awkward than even QC is used to.They marry and then divorce, and she leaves him with the coffee shop and he turns into Jim.
FYP. I really don't seee Dora changing into Jim...
Cue 100 angry coffee roasters decrying Dora's storage methods
I just think we should treat people as individuals and attempt to communicate and understand them from the perspective of who they are as a person. That includes some people learning to occasionally try to read clues more, and some people maybe having to occasionally speak out more directly. Misunderstandings will happen, but it will always happen because we are humans and nothing will ever be communicated perfectly anyway.
Point is, why do we need to turn this into a gender war. I mean, just by having a gender I've already been accused of certain things in this thread, so why should I listen to the people who accusing me at all? Same goes for both sides.
Making the idea of communication about genders, instead of about INDIVIDUALS (because I've met people on either end of the spectrum both men and women) it turns into a clusterfuck of everyone yelling over each other.
I'm sorry, but I can't see Dora leaving Marten a business she built from the ground up in a divorce, not with the divorce process being as adversarial as it is today, along with Marten being as passive as he is, and Dora as assertive as she is. She and her lawyer would swipe the business right out from under Marten and leave him out in the street paying her alimony.
I'm sorry, but I can't see Dora leaving Marten a business she built from the ground up in a divorce, not with the divorce process being as adversarial as it is today, along with Marten being as passive as he is, and Dora as assertive as she is. She and her lawyer would swipe the business right out from under Marten and leave him out in the street paying her alimony.
As much griping as Dora has done in the past about running the place, what makes you think she wouldn't dump it on Marten in a divorce as the ultimate punishment on a guy that already has a habit of needlessly punishing himself when he thinks he has a responsibility to take care of something?
Sure, women overall might be more periphrastic in their approach to things than men, but do you know what happens to little girls who ask for things? They get told that they shouldn't by parents and other figures of authority. And women who dare to say they want or don't want something? They get called "bitch" or are subject to a myriad of other negative responses, sometimes violent ones (and I am speaking entirely from my own experience and the experiences of women that I know).I'm glad someone else said this, so I didn't have to. It's been eye-rollingly depressing to read the postings in this thread about how men feel entitled to demand that women communicate in a way they claim suits them (but which, in my experience, they never welcome if one actually does it), rather than making any effort themselves. Nearly as depressing as the postings telling us how to dress modestly enough to meet their requirements.
I'm sorry, but I can't see Dora leaving Marten a business she built from the ground up in a divorce, not with the divorce process being as adversarial as it is today, along with Marten being as passive as he is, and Dora as assertive as she is. She and her lawyer would swipe the business right out from under Marten and leave him out in the street paying her alimony.
As much griping as Dora has done in the past about running the place, what makes you think she wouldn't dump it on Marten in a divorce as the ultimate punishment on a guy that already has a habit of needlessly punishing himself when he thinks he has a responsibility to take care of something?
Not without a FAT cash settlement, methinks. Marten would have to pretty much mortgage his future. Not that I think Dora's normally that vindictive, but as I said before, the divorce process is adversarial and tends to bring out the worst in people, and Marten's the type who'd be taken to the cleaners unless he seriously manned up.
<snip> but GET REAL here, people. <snip>
Her hair was apparently just as concerned as she, it jumped too. :P
Seriously, can I get a pipe of whatever you're smoking? I could really use a pick-me-up. :psyduck:
Sure, women overall might be more periphrastic in their approach to things than men, but do you know what happens to little girls who ask for things? They get told that they shouldn't by parents and other figures of authority. And women who dare to say they want or don't want something? They get called "bitch" or are subject to a myriad of other negative responses, sometimes violent ones (and I am speaking entirely from my own experience and the experiences of women that I know).I'm glad someone else said this, so I didn't have to. It's been eye-rollingly depressing to read the postings in this thread about how men feel entitled to demand that women communicate in a way they claim suits them (but which, in my experience, they never welcome if one actually does it), rather than making any effort themselves. Nearly as depressing as the postings telling us how to dress modestly enough to meet their requirements.
<snip> unless someone gives [Marten] a clue - by 2x4 or otherwise.
Unknown: "O God and Heavenly Father, Grant to us the serenity of mind to accept that which cannot be changed; courage to change that which can be changed, and wisdom to know the one from the other, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen."
Gaaa!
First it was the shippers making things that didn't exist.
Now we've got divorce speculation on a relationship that ALREADY broke up?
I know its just a comic, but GET REAL here, people.
Uh, please?
I was about to say - for cryin' out loud, we're not just 'shipping, we're torpedo shipping? What are we trying to do, build a completely new section of TV Tropes?
So Dora is winded up juicily for Tai's party. Marten should wear a crosshair T-shirt, just an idea.
Did someone mention Tv Tropes? :evil: (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShipSinking)
Cue 100 angry coffee roasters decrying Dora's storage methods
So Dora is wound up juicily for Tai's party. Marten should wear a crosshair T-shirt, just an idea.
<snip> kudos to Jim for being so understanding. I see the similarities with Marten. :-)
"Ship Sinking" seems to be what the author does (e.g. Jeph has with Marigold and Hannelore). This is closer to "Abandon Shipping".
Well, I was gonna say something about how I sympathize with Dora, because it can be frustrating when you want to make something right and the other party won't have it, and how that's sometimes more frustrating than when each party is blatantly angling for the immediate advantage because you don't know whether the other party is genuinely trying to accommodate as well, or looking for some other advantage down the line, and how nicely subtle the expressions are in the last panel (Dora more baffled and frustrated than angry and Jim more bemused than anything by the whole thing) ... but daaaaaaang, y'all.
Edited to fix results of fat fingers typing on a touch screen.
Ah, passive aggressive niceness - well done to Dora for breaking the loop!
Dora and Marten have awkward reconciliation sex. 1 (1.1%)
Yep - that's me, and I don't care what anyone thinks about it.
Dora 'Beans' Bianchi :-D
But would that make Hanners Scotty?
I can't really imagine Marten as any character except Spock, and even that's not perfect.Checkov
Dora 'Beans' Bianchi :-D
But would that make Hanners Scotty?
Hell no, she's Data. (unless for some reason we're not including TNG)
You're late. The ship sank in drydock when Jim said she looked "mature".
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I'll happily watch a coffee fairy deliver magic beans.
Of prime concern: Look closer at that statement of Dora's: "Here's what I had roasted for us today." *GASP* There isn't a lot of coffee in that tupperware! What are the CoD's hours? Are they expected to last on that amount of coffee all day, even on a busy day?
For me this isn't intended to be criticism so much as an analysis of how the continuity's going and an attempt to see where/if things are different to what happens IRL. I'm also looking for a way to interpret what's going on in the comic with a bias toward it being consistent as written (i.e. cut Jeph some slack)
Indeed indeed, but you could be worrying about so many other things, not just Dora serving coffee without degassing!
The horror, the horror. A business killer, I know. It causes the machines to explode and rebel against their coffee masters. Yes, in that order.
Of prime concern: Look closer at that statement of Dora's: "Here's what I had roasted for us today." *GASP* There isn't a lot of coffee in that tupperware! What are the CoD's hours? Are they expected to last on that amount of coffee all day, even on a busy day? Good heavens. You should worry about how much business the Coffee of Doom is getting! Secondly, think about the CoD's menu. They have all these fancy specials that obviously cater to the customer's taste (like cat-hair lattes), but is that it? How can everything fit in that one container? Do they only serve espresso? Do they not cater to customers who want decaf? Do they have different coffees available to brew? Don't even start to think about any leftover beans the coffee shop might have under the counter from the previous day; otherwise your brain will melt down your esophagus and rush out your genitals. I mean, really! Will she run the beans right from the roaster (OMG WHERE DOES SHE ROAST THE COFFEE???) and pour it all in another tupperware right away? Will she pour it straight into the grinder and cackle like a mad scientist in front of her customers? Or will she wait for that excess stock to disappear before using it?
Or maybe, just maybe...I'm falling into the over-analysis trap and I just need to go make another french press.
We know she grinds and roasts the stuff herself "in [the] basement" (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1923) using a secret process that she won't share with her
Of prime concern: Look closer at that statement of Dora's: "Here's what I had roasted for us today." *GASP* There isn't a lot of coffee in that tupperware! What are the CoD's hours? Are they expected to last on that amount of coffee all day, even on a busy day?
On the basis that Dora doesn't roast them directly on the premises, quite possibly she has the coffee elsewhere and she brings over a 'fresh' batch each morning rather than a weeks supply on a Monday. How much is in the tupperware? Depending on how fine Dora grinds the beans and then compresses it into the tupperware, there could be a decent amount in there.
(charlton heston voice) Dora's beans are PEOPLE! Dora's beans are made out of PEOPLE! (/Charlton Heston voice)
(charlton heston voice) Dora's beans are PEOPLE! Dora's beans are made out of PEOPLE! (/Charlton Heston voice)
Dark and bitter.How you take your coffee and/or women?
No, no, no. Lt. Riley.I can't really imagine Marten as any character except Spock, and even that's not perfect.Checkov
For me this isn't intended to be criticism so much as an analysis of how the continuity's going and an attempt to see where/if things are different to what happens IRL. I'm also looking for a way to interpret what's going on in the comic with a bias toward it being consistent as written (i.e. cut Jeph some slack)
Indeed indeed, but you could be worrying about so many other things, not just Dora serving coffee without degassing!
The horror, the horror. A business killer, I know. It causes the machines to explode and rebel against their coffee masters. Yes, in that order.
Of prime concern: Look closer at that statement of Dora's: "Here's what I had roasted for us today." *GASP* There isn't a lot of coffee in that tupperware! What are the CoD's hours? Are they expected to last on that amount of coffee all day, even on a busy day? Good heavens. You should worry about how much business the Coffee of Doom is getting! Secondly, think about the CoD's menu. They have all these fancy specials that obviously cater to the customer's taste (like cat-hair lattes), but is that it? How can everything fit in that one container? Do they only serve espresso? Do they not cater to customers who want decaf? Do they have different coffees available to brew? Don't even start to think about any leftover beans the coffee shop might have under the counter from the previous day; otherwise your brain will melt down your esophagus and rush out your genitals. I mean, really! Will she run the beans right from the roaster (OMG WHERE DOES SHE ROAST THE COFFEE???) and pour it all in another tupperware right away? Will she pour it straight into the grinder and cackle like a mad scientist in front of her customers? Or will she wait for that excess stock to disappear before using it?
Or maybe, just maybe...I'm falling into the over-analysis trap and I just need to go make another french press.
No, no, no. Lt. Riley.I can't really imagine Marten as any character except Spock, and even that's not perfect.Checkov
For me this isn't intended to be criticism so much as an analysis of how the continuity's going and an attempt to see where/if things are different to what happens IRL. I'm also looking for a way to interpret what's going on in the comic with a bias toward it being consistent as written (i.e. cut Jeph some slack)
Indeed indeed, but you could be worrying about so many other things, not just Dora serving coffee without degassing!
The horror, the horror. A business killer, I know. It causes the machines to explode and rebel against their coffee masters. Yes, in that order.
Of prime concern: Look closer at that statement of Dora's: "Here's what I had roasted for us today." *GASP* There isn't a lot of coffee in that tupperware! What are the CoD's hours? Are they expected to last on that amount of coffee all day, even on a busy day? Good heavens. You should worry about how much business the Coffee of Doom is getting! Secondly, think about the CoD's menu. They have all these fancy specials that obviously cater to the customer's taste (like cat-hair lattes), but is that it? How can everything fit in that one container? Do they only serve espresso? Do they not cater to customers who want decaf? Do they have different coffees available to brew? Don't even start to think about any leftover beans the coffee shop might have under the counter from the previous day; otherwise your brain will melt down your esophagus and rush out your genitals. I mean, really! Will she run the beans right from the roaster (OMG WHERE DOES SHE ROAST THE COFFEE???) and pour it all in another tupperware right away? Will she pour it straight into the grinder and cackle like a mad scientist in front of her customers? Or will she wait for that excess stock to disappear before using it?
Or maybe, just maybe...I'm falling into the over-analysis trap and I just need to go make another french press.
Or, you know, we don't actually see how big that container is. It could be standing on the floor as well as on the counter, I guess...
HA HA DORA WAS SUPPOSED TO ROAST COFFEE BEANS BUT SHE FORGOT
OH MAN.
HA HA DORA WAS SUPPOSED TO ROAST COFFEE BEANS BUT SHE FORGOT
OH MAN.
Dark and bitter.How you take your coffee and/or women?
Dark and bitter.How you take your coffee and/or women?
Ground and stored in freezer bags.