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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: Akima on 18 Apr 2010, 20:02
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Motorboating? :?
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Oh, you HAVE to be kidding me. You've never heard of the term, even halfway across the world in SE Asia/Australia?
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...I want to hear the rest of her conversation with Angus.
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kinky
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In Marigold's defense, I'm pretty sure it's not a subject that would come up in yaoi. :-P
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Epic reverse chronology is epic. Always loved comics that can pull that off well (see also several Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comics).
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Motorboating? :?
It involves onamonapia and large breasts.
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Can't imagine it working on pillows, really... you need that skin-to-lip contact.
But it can work on other body parts...
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Oh, you HAVE to be kidding me. You've never heard of the term, even halfway across the world in SE Asia/Australia?
1. ESL.
2. OK, I should have looked in Urban Dictionary.
3. Get stuffed! :laugh:
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Well, I guess that sets American-Chinese relations back a hair... ;)
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btw, Danielle Corsetto's webcomic Girls With Slingshots is deliciously naughty. Jeph recommended it awhile ago, and I can only agree. She does have a flair for expressive faces, and teasing the censorship lines (which I always enjoy) and also gets webcomic-incestuous, like with Something*Positive's Choo-choo bear (the pink malleable cat seems to be the father of GWS' new kittens...!)
These webcomicists do get around, don't they? Their world looks like fun, from here.
ESL - my first guess was eat shit, loser... sorry! Urban Dictionary to the rescue, again :-)
Gee, with that and wikipedia, any isolated loner like Marigold or me can keep up. :-(
And I'm guessing the snot is from the realization of how rediculous what she was doing was... Maybe more self-aware than some give her credit for. ...Or, her sinuses still loosened up from the crying. Whatever.
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"deliciously naughty" ?
I only saw the first douzen of strips and it already has a 10 - year old boy who talks all the time about sex.
A TEN YEAR OLD !
I didnt had a clue what sex is until 14, for heavens sake.
And I hated boobs until then, too.
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(I grew up on a farm; sex was just part of life, you know?)
If I recall correctly, that ten-yr-old boy with the sex-obsession turns out to have a mother who fervently pretends sex doesn't exist, for some rediculous Religious reason. So I think Danielle is suggesting something important about how the drive gets perverted by repression..? Most of GWS' main characters talk about sex and relationships all the time, Clarice works in a porn shop, and besides the obligatory gay characters, one whole recent plot arc shows us two lesbians' dating adventures. And I find all that refreshingly, deliciously liberating. (Do any of us still read The Family Circus?)
Thank GOD we've advanced to where we can acknowledge reality, at least online... :-) Yay Freedoms!
Of course, she and Jeph still have to keep their strips "family-friendly" (whatever the FUCK that means, today!?) or face God-awful pressures, retribution, etc. (Like, we still can't draw a boob... one of the first things a baby sees, but it is deemed VERBOTEN by The Moral Guardians.) Who are we protecting, and from what?
(/soapbox)
btw, snub, I've always appreciated your sig - True Dat, Bro.
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Sorry, most of the stuff you describe is OK, but a 10 year old boy who talks about sex, thats not cool. He hasnt even a working sex drive yet, for heavens sake.
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By the way, Davin from Something Positive does get around (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=511)... (second panel)
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Sorry, most of the stuff you describe is OK, but a 10 year old boy who talks about sex, thats not cool. He hasnt even a working sex drive yet, for heavens sake.
You are aware that the kid in question is a fictional caracter, and that his (not really that) extreme young age is what makes the joke?
Danielle is not advocating that it's OK for children to know all about sex, or that it is appropriate for children to behave that way or for the adults responsible to allow that sort of behavior.
Also, the kid doesn't have very much of a role in later story arcs. You should give GWS another chance.
But in reality, is it really all that outrageous for a 10 year old boy to act like a horn-dog? There was the neigbor kid in Mad Men who got a crush on Betty Draper, and he was portrayed to be 9.
You'd be surprised by how much a 10-11-12 year old knows (or thinks he knows, which is worse) about sex.
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omg, jwhouk, that's Davan and Peejee! Thanks! :-D
(...um, what is this "aLife" thing I should get? And where do I download that?)
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Actually that was Davan and Nancy.
If you find the site to get that download let me know....
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By the way, Davin from Something Positive does get around (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=511)... (second panel)
...when did Dora stop wearing black lipstick?
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Sorry, most of the stuff you describe is OK, but a 10 year old boy who talks about sex, thats not cool. He hasnt even a working sex drive yet, for heavens sake.
Speak for yerself, sonny. Remember human development (as with anything that has multiple variables) follows a bell curve, and there's a lot of variation. There will always be individuals out in either extreme. To be honest, knowing nothing about sex until you were 14 sounds a bit far from the mean in its own right, just in the opposite direction!
Ask any Jr. High (6-7-8th grade, 10 - 14 year olds) teacher - those kids are nothing but a mass of rampaging hormones and (probably as a result) neuroses!
And from a personal standpoint, I know I started early, but that had a lot to do with early maturation - I was 5'6" and 150 lbs in 6th grade, biggest kid in the school, and starting to get hairy and interested in (older) girls. You can't even begin to understand the level of awkward that entails!
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did you guys see jeph's twitter? there's a link to a sketch of hanners meeting chiyo's dad. made my morning.
p.s: WILL SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN
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It's even younger for girls... from about 3rd grade to about high school when the other girls started catching up, I was the youngest kid in my grade but, physically, the most developed. At 12 years old I was mistaken for 18 (seriously). Add in the hormones that come with puberty, and if I'd had different parents, I could well have been one of those sexually active middle school kids.
Now I teach high school. One of my students was a freshman who was scared to death to tell her mom that she'd gotten pregnant for the second time (she had her first baby in 7th grade).
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Motorboating references in the strip: 859, 860.
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p.s: WILL SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN
quite right, this is an important part of everyone's education and should not be left to chance or animation from Japan to teach people. Appropriate demonstrations should be carried out in schools at the right ages to ensure that there are no questions as to what is meant.
I am presuming this has something to do with waterborne tyransportation other than by canoe right?
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Sorry, most of the stuff you describe is OK, but a 10 year old boy who talks about sex, thats not cool. He hasnt even a working sex drive yet, for heavens sake.
It turns out later that he actually didn't know anything about sex. He just talked it up alot. That is exactly like the average 10 year old boy.
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quite right, this is an important part of everyone's education and should not be left to chance or animation from Japan to teach people. Appropriate demonstrations should be carried out in schools at the right ages to ensure that there are no questions as to what is meant.
Something like this, you mean (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTMlZSKEu-Y)?
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That comic really works best in reverse. :-D
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Something like this, you mean (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTMlZSKEu-Y)?
Exactly like that. Bore them out of their skulls over the subject, never let them avoid knowing about any aspect of it, however miniscule, and teen pregnancies will decrease. (I know, I know, but I live in an area where the 'abstinence until marriage' thing is in full swing, pledges, churches, and the whole damned hoop-de-la. We also have the highest per capita teen pregnancy rate in the U.S. and are getting towards tops in various forms of VD. Time to take 'em out a WHOLE NEW DOOR*, I say.)
Can't imagine it working on pillows, really... you need that skin-to-lip contact.
But it can work on other body parts...
Hence the stains—Marigold tried it repeatedly, with no success.
*Guess the quote origin for noprize
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"It's an ocarina, sir."
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I wouldn't imagine that Marigold were all that concerned with performing a motorboat as much as receiving a motorboat. The girl is endowed, you know.
Of course, if Mar-bear is harbouring secret lesbian crushes, say on Faye, then mastering the technique could be useful.
Let's just see where that verbal hand grenade explodes.
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Sorry, most of the stuff you describe is OK, but a 10 year old boy who talks about sex, thats not cool. He hasnt even a working sex drive yet, for heavens sake.
Um... um.... have you talked to any 10 year olds lately? Trust me, many of them are more familiar with sex than you may think. I mean, it's nice for you that you hated boobs till you were 14, but uh, a lot of pre-pubescent kids masturbate. That's normal. Many of them play sexual exploration games with each other. Also fairly normal.
When I was 14, I was drawing a pin-up girl for fun at an after-school program (nothing scandalous, just a girl in a bathing suit) and this 9 year old came up to me and asked if I could draw him a picture like that, because he liked the girl's boobies. My 9 year old cousin, at his older brother's wedding, was having the time of his life playing around with the bridesmaids (their gowns were fairly low-cut) who thought he was just a cute little boy. Well, that cute little boy ran to tell me about how he got to bury his face in their cleavage when they hugged him, and how he was hoping to touch their butts too. (He used rather more vulgar terms than that.) It happens, dude.
I actually don't even think GwS is naughty at all. It strikes me as a comic that deals with so-called "naughty" topics in extremely tame ways. (I do like it a lot, but compared with S*P, Anders Loves Maria, and many other webcomics out there, it is entirely family-friendly polite.)
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'Pap smears for everyone'?!?!?!?! But what if I don't have a cervix?!?!?!
Where's the line for the prostate exams?!?!
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Dora in a pink blouse and Faye in a plaid flannel...? ...laundry day?
(Elsewhere, Marten walks around in bleach-stained tye-dye.)
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PAAAAAAAAAAP SMEEEEAAAARRRRSSS
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In this comic...
Angus discovers Lactaid, and Dora has apparently discovered the world's best boob job...
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Coming out of lurking to remark how freaking manly and chiseled Angus looks in that last panel. Oh dear lord. Back to lurking now.
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In this comic...
Angus discovers Lactaid, and Dora has apparently discovered the world's best boob job...
It looks like a issue of migrating boobage, since Faye seems to have nearly none (perhaps the plaid pattern obscures it/makes it harder to draw?). I do like how Marigold saw Angus as all anime'd out.
Regarding motorboating . . . ladies who are well-endowed enough can actually self-motorboat. It's possible both Marigold and Faye are big enough to do that -- though as pleasure-inducing activities, getting motorboated, self- or otherwise, ain't high up there. Just sayin'. You know, if you're already on your way to your bunk.
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This is an Alternate Universe.
In this Universe, Dora and Faye are a married couple running a Coffee of Doom Franchise and are incredibly wealthy but down to earth - their only 'Vice' is they own a Slave named Tai.
Marten is in New Zealand managing the Franchise Holdings there with his wife Hannelore
Steve is now working as a security advisor at The White House
Sven got mysteriously run over by a Tour Bus while working for Gina Riversmith
Angus is a local Soap star as well as Marigolds roomie
Jimbo is a well known Author and Tea Totaler
Pintsize, Winslow and Momo successfully sued Microsoft founder Bill Gates and now own the company - Bill's their Manservant
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Nice going, but .. um .. for the record, when a guy is handsome, beautiful, and sexy in manga or anime,
he usually looks like this >> (http://i639.photobucket.com/albums/uu120/mccormickl/TakashiMorinozuka.jpg) not like this >> (http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w296/yuzu_2007/hunny.jpg)
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Coming out of lurking to remark how freaking manly and chiseled Angus looks in that last panel. Oh dear lord. Back to lurking now.
Pretty much my reaction. Angus looks like a no nonsense mother-fucker in the last panel, and I am okay with this.
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Nice going, but .. um .. for the record, when a guy is handsome, beautiful, and sexy in manga or anime,
he usually looks like this >> (http://i639.photobucket.com/albums/uu120/mccormickl/TakashiMorinozuka.jpg) not like this >> (http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w296/yuzu_2007/hunny.jpg)
Screw you and your rules
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In this comic...
Angus discovers Lactaid, and Dora has apparently discovered the world's best boob job...
It looks like a issue of migrating boobage, since Faye seems to have nearly none (perhaps the plaid pattern obscures it/makes it harder to draw?). I do like how Marigold saw Angus as all anime'd out.
Regarding motorboating . . . ladies who are well-endowed enough can actually self-motorboat. It's possible both Marigold and Faye are big enough to do that -- though as pleasure-inducing activities, getting motorboated, self- or otherwise, ain't high up there. Just sayin'. You know, if you're already on your way to your bunk.
I'm just saying... it's hard to tell with Faye (although it seems she's even bigger than usual), but Dora is Braless Racktastic Awesome. Obviously the QCverse has solved the stem cell breast upgrade problem :-)
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Err, I dont see much migration in boob size. We only see Faye frontally, where even women with big racks dont necessarily show, unless they are really extreme. And Dora's boob size shifted all the time before anyway (as does Fayes and every other womans) in the comic.
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I am presuming this has something to do with waterborne tyransportation other than by canoe right?
could be done in a canoe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_1A38hB86Q&feature=related (~53 seconds)
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Err, I dont see much migration in boob size. We only see Faye frontally, where even women with big racks dont necessarily show, unless they are really extreme. And Dora's boob size shifted all the time before anyway (as does Fayes and every other womans) in the comic.
Also it's a guest strip, so what's there to take seriously.
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Today's guest strip shows just why checked shirts are bad, unless the artist is really prepared for pain. The checks don't look as if they're draped across a *ahem* three-dimensional surface. Faye looks like a cardboard cut-out from the neck down.
Pap Smears? I hear the old guy is dating Mam O'Gram...
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Oh, god, the pain. When will it stop, Akira? Make the hurting stop!
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Raoul to make the pain stop I recommend a steady diet of godzilla movies to make the bad anime go away. If that doesn't work, then rewatch the "7 Samurai"
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Ha! and to think there's a lot of people here who consider Jeph's style as "too anime". Stick today's comic in your pipe and smoke it.
also
mastering the technique could be useful.
"but you mastered your technique, you should be able to beat him now"
apropos of nothing, I don't know why I just remembered that
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Pap Smears? I hear the old guy is dating Mam O'Gram...
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAHAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA[hurk*cough*sputter]
Duly noted and filed, with tears in the eyes!
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Coming out of lurking to remark how freaking manly and chiseled Angus looks in that last panel. Oh dear lord. Back to lurking now.
He looks like he should be busy bench-pressing buses, or something.
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"Pap smears for everybody" reminds me of the time I came home and there was a message on my answering machine from a doctor's office telling me that my Pap test results were normal. I though this was funny since I'd never been to that doctor and I'm from the cervix-challenged gender.
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Okay, that trumps the month of spam-mails I got urging me to seek relief from painful menstrual cramps. Not that I've not done that, of course, but the cramps were actually happening to someone else. Makes me wonder if men really are watched when we go to buy the pads, pamprin, etc.
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Loved todays guest spot. :lol:
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Motorboating? :?
It involves onamonapia and large breasts.
I don't believe it took two days for this to register in my brain - finals must be getting close...
Onomatopoeia is when the word sounds like what it is, like "boom", "pop", "mumble" or "roar".
So motorboat, though a very descriptive noun, isn't onomatopoeia.
However, "pfbltblbltfblftblfbltfbtlbt" is.
:police:To serve and correct
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I didn't say that it was onomatopoeia, I said it involved onomatopoeia!
:roll:
Yes I realized that as well, but it was already up there.
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I want credit for not complaining about the spelling. :-D
(Actually, I sympathize—for whatever reason, I discovered a few years back that word's a pain in the ass to look up, even with wildcards).
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Akronnick, my bad. And I wasn't complaining about the spelling - I had to look it up, pain in the butt greek roots and all!
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...even though it's long, I would think "onomatopoeia" is a common enough word that it wouldn't fall under the usual sesquipedalian rules. Like "schadenfreude."
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Okay, that trumps the month of spam-mails I got urging me to seek relief from painful menstrual cramps.
And I, like every other woman on the internet, have been bombarded with spam offering to enlarge my non-existent penis (http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1300). Does every spammer have a futa fetish or something?
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Possibly. Might explain the offer I got for a cream to make my breasts firmer and fuller.
Near Lurker, that may be the case now, but I know I had the devil's own time finding the spelling two-three years ago, enough so that I stuck it in a textfile where I keep words that are difficult to look up. The key problem is that I, like whoever came up with the misspelling Akronnick is using, had, was that i thought it was o-n-a, not o-n-o (after I put that in, my mac's dictionary yielded it up). I see now that quite a few sites actually reference the misspelling Akronnick employs—in fact, Wikipedia has it set up as an alias to the page for the correct spelling of the word—which tells me many people have had similar problems.
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I tried Google's auto-complete and that's what it came up with, but the consensus of the links failed to yield a clearly correct spelling.
That's when I said 'fuck-it' and decided to spell it [puts on sunglasses] onamonapoetically.
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Near Lurker, that may be the case now, but I know I had the devil's own time finding the spelling two-three years ago, enough so that I stuck it in a textfile where I keep words that are difficult to look up. The key problem is that I, like whoever came up with the misspelling Akronnick is using, had, was that i thought it was o-n-a, not o-n-o (after I put that in, my mac's dictionary yielded it up). I see now that quite a few sites actually reference the misspelling Akronnick employs—in fact, Wikipedia has it set up as an alias to the page for the correct spelling of the word—which tells me many people have had similar problems.
I don't know, I remember bickering in the nineties with my father over whether it was "o-no-mah-to-poe-ia" or "o-no-mat-o-poe-ia," and we're not exactly linguists.
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On Pen-Pen. Panel 4 was awesome.
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Methinks Pennelope is dissatisfied with her job. At a minimum, with the part of it that involves listening to Faye.
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Faye has a point, though. Original is exciting, any copy work is immediately boring. Most true art is one-offs!
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Yeah. Boring. Yep.
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With Raven's hours cut way back, if Faye leaves for an artistic career then Dora will need to hire another character.
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Yeaaahhhhh, gotta side with Faye on this one. After all, the part that she enjoys isn't the simple fitting of metal pieces together (or else she may as well have gone into trade metalworking), but the creative and inventive aspect of sculpting. Take the creativity out of it so that all that's left is rote copy-work, and it may as well be any other menial job.
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Penelope has a point.
So dose Dora
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Is there maybe some envy in Pennelope's reaction? She sees someone who might escape from a dead-end job, one which she herself isn't really happy with (1138).
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Penelope has a point.
So does Dora
Wait - about her premiums?
'cause the whole "show the costumers customers" thing is BS, she comissioned a Faye original for the coffeeshop, not a sales opportunity for herself! I mean, it was a nice bit of syzygy, but it's not Faye's job to crank T-Rex-pressos out, nor was there any agreement between them!
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Pen-pen is ANNNNGRYYYY!
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New-art Penelope is awesome! Love her new glasses too. Definitely a Puritan in a previous life though, I think.
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The artwork on Pen-Pen today is outstanding :mrgreen:
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I can see Faye's side in this-making copies of a original piece of art, especially by hand, is less fun that creating the original art in the first place. Plus when you start doing something for money it generally becomes less fun anyway.
However, actually receiving money, especially in the amount Faye was offered, IS fun, so she needs to suck it up and get to work on that copy.
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:-o Wow. Penny.
I. Am. So. Turned. On.
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Wait - about her premiums?
Yes
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PENELOPE SMASH!
i can see faye's point too. it's just that said point is irrelevant and asinine. she's looking at $1800 for probably about ten hours work at an absolute maximum, the hard part having already been done. that is worth a bit of boring copy work.
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Premiums? It's a small coffee shop. No way does she offer health insurance.
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Doesn't have to be an exact copy, the v-raptor expresso maker and bagel slicer will probably satisfy the cusotmer, Or she could have a sauropod variant that'll steam the milk for of a cappucino.
I agree with Penny here - This is definitely a "suck it up Princess" moment.
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CoD will soon become Coffee of Dinosaurs with all that equipment.
Edit: My n key is sticky.
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God dammit, the... original cast is back.
The prototype is supposed to be for working out all the bugs in your plans, blueprints, schematics, instructions, etc. (PBSIE). Thereby, you are supposed generate NEW PBSIE which are, if not precise for the new, working prototype, at least more accurate.
Using PBSIE 2.0, the second should be easier, but never without more idea-inducing, modification-leading, design-tweaking activities to keep it interesting for the put-upon artiste.
TL;DR version: Shutup and make the one that'll make you money, idiot!
Didn't Dora "Commission" this one anyway? Faye should already have *that* cash in the bank.
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:-o Wow. Penny.
I. Am. So. Turned. On.
Yes.
I was just thinking what had become of her and Wil yesterday
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The new art on Penelope looks good, but I think the new glasses would have worked better on Marigold. (I really hate those thick square frames, and Faye had them first anyway.)
Premiums? It's a small coffee shop. No way does she offer health insurance.
And with only four employees (including herself), I don't think she has to yet.
Besides, health insurance generally isn't like car insurance, where the more you use it the more you have to pay for it. Usually it's a flat rate no matter how much you use it up to a limit (at which point the company either stops covering things or drops you and you're stuck holding the bill).
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Premiums? It's a small coffee shop. No way does she offer health insurance.
She runs a business where members of the public can just walk in; she has some manner of public liability insurance for that. Also, she employs people who aren't her, so she has liability on them too. Or she's been blackmailing the local inspectors again....
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Meh, Faye is just whining imo... Like somebody else said: "suck it up Princess"
Pen-Pen... woow.
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Penny is indeed really hot!
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Love the red background for enraged Penelope!
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I kinda agree with Penelope here. I mean, I know we're all the 'Generation of laziness', but come on. Faye's a low wage service industry worker, and now she has a chance to be a real entrepeneur and make actual money, and she's complaining that it'd be too boring?
Okay Faye, but when you're a sixty year old waitress with no retirement savings, don't blame anyone but yourself.
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As an artist myself, I understand where Faye is coming from. I personally hate doing most commissioned work. It is boring and artistically unsatisfying, especially when it is something you have already done once. The only thing I hate more (in this context at least) is flash art tats, which ties into the whole "done it already" thing.
But, Pen is right. Making a living at what you do is something most people would kill for.
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I can see Faye's side in this-making copies of a original piece of art, especially by hand, is less fun that creating the original art in the first place. Plus when you start doing something for money it generally becomes less fun anyway.
However, actually receiving money, especially in the amount Faye was offered, IS fun, so she needs to suck it up and get to work on that copy.
YES. Also, by doing the commissioned piece, Faye will start to actually make a name for herself as an artist, and will therefore potentially get future commissioned originals. Plus, unless she was talking out her ass about her sculpture being a prototype, she was already planning to make another one (albeit a ginormous version), sooo . . . yeah. Please log onto quitcherbitchin.com, Faye.
Whether Pen-a-lope is envious or not, her 'rage, rage against the impracticality of the artist' thing (which she usually aims at Wil), is at the core of her characterization. Impressive that her yelling has cowed Faye to the point where she doesn't seem to notice Pen-Pen is poking her chest -- I guess the hearing loss issue is more distracting. Oh, and I now want to see a steel cage match between Penelope and Cosette.
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Is there maybe some envy in Pennelope's reaction? She sees someone who might escape from a dead-end job, one which she herself isn't really happy with (1138).
She can be envious AND still have a valid point, you know. And my money's on fear (of failure? of success? of change?!) being the real motivation in Faye's ridiculous whining. She made $1800 and got a gallery showing THREE MINUTES after bringing her first work in ages into a public space and she's complaining about being bored?! She seriously needed to get called on that! GO PENNY GO. :-D
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Someday Penny will actually snap and go homicidal. And that would be a bad thing. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitle643yzv8u?from=Main.AndThatsTerrible)
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Hey, now, that was uncalled for.
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I think Azurite is right. Faye would hardly be the first character to hesitate about doing something good due to fear of success.
Dora may have been talking about worker's comp premiums, or QC Massachussets may have an employer mandate for health insurance instead of the individual mandate that they do in our world. Dora's mentioned a health plan before. Or Dora may simply have been kidding.
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Or not, in the end it's still intended to be a moment of funny.
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I agree that Penelope seems to have benefited the most from the new art. And, as always, love the rants. Maybe too much.
And of course Faye will find a way to self-sabotage. As I've said before, it's always two steps forward, one (or more) back with her. With the forward movement she's done with Angus and the espresso machine, I'm actually surprised Faye hasn't spontaneously transported back to the Spanish-American War. And if I had to put up with all the grousing we all know Faye does about working at CoD, I'd be ranting now, too. Burst eardrums might well be the least of it—she'd also have to wipe off the flecks of foam spewing from my mouth.
Edit: Why do I love the panel of Faye quailing before the onslaught so much?
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On the other hand, is it really any of Pennelope's business?
Raoullaferre is right, Faye is not the type to make steady progress.
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As a friend of a couple of self-proclaimed artists, I can comfortably say that Penelope is grossly simplifying things here. All artists have some sort of emotional connection to the things they create. Creating a duplicate of something would (at least in my case) totally destroy that emotional connection. That's kind of what makes it art, and not something thats just manufactured.
Can anyone here imagine if Da Vinci realized what a masterpiece the Mona Lisa was and decided to set up a studio that did nothing but crank out copies? It would cease to be art.
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It's been said already, but nobody said that Faye has to make an exact duplicate of her prototype. There are any number of ways she could mix it up and still produce a tiny Tyrannosaurus that poops espresso.
And assuming she doesn't want to get locked into making funky coffee machines all her days, she could, you know, actually TALK to this guy who just casually dropped two grand on her, and see what other kinds of pieces he might be willing to pay her for.
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What I find funny is that Penelope is basically going berserk over a comment Faye made. Nevermind the fact that it seems more rooted in jealousy and nevermind the fact that for someone who seems to pride herself on intellectual pursuits she doesn't seem to understand how art can be so difficult to make and create. Faye might also be (somewhat rightly) worried that she's going to turn into a manufacturing wing for Dora who figures that she can act as an Agent to Faye and get good money due to commissions.
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It's been said already, but nobody said that Faye has to make an exact duplicate of her prototype. There are any number of ways she could mix it up and still produce a tiny Tyrannosaurus that poops espresso.
And assuming she doesn't want to get locked into making funky coffee machines all her days, she could, you know, actually TALK to this guy who just casually dropped two grand on her, and see what other kinds of pieces he might be willing to pay her for.
God forbid, you should ask questions! I teach 20-somethings, and there's something about the hyperconnected terminally clever know it all attitude that just keeps them from asking any questions - it just ain't cool!
I've actually had this conversation with people, usually in my office or in private outside of class;
"Can you explain (xyz)?"
"Sure. Why didn't you ask about it in class when I went over it and asked if there were any questions?"
And the answers range from "I didn't want to look dumb" (for god sake, you're in school, no one expects you to know it all) to "Everyone else seemed to understand it, and I didn't want to waste class time" (believe me, if it's a waste of class time, I'll let you know, and ask you to meet with me outside of class so I can go over it in more detail).
But what I always say is this; If you didn't understand it, odds are there are several others in the class who didn't either, and would have been thankful that you asked about it!
It's a revelation to most people that you can ask for help, or advice - or in Faye's case, what the customer would be happy with - and actually get an answer! And I know it didn't used to be this way...
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Next up: the other T. rex: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8623332.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8623332.stm)
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Someday Penny will actually snap and go homicidal. And that would be a bad thing. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitle643yzv8u?from=Main.AndThatsTerrible)
#### IT! You TVTroped me!
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Penelope really needs to lighten the fuck up. Try to understand how the other person thinks. Blowing up because they didn't see the situation her way is such a bitch thing to do.
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Penelope really needs to lighten the fuck up. Try to understand how the other person thinks. Blowing up because they didn't see the situation her way is such a bitch thing to do.
Seriously. Dora, OTOH, deserves kudos for pointing out Penelope's hypocrisy. And Faye gets points for the cool (if extremely dangerous) sword-balancing. (Hey, better that than using it to threaten customers who ask out Marten.)
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Yeah, you can tell these girls grew up in the internet age.
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Blowing up because they didn't see the situation her way is such a bitch thing to do.
Actually it's such a human thing to do. I certainly couldn't honestly say I'd never done it. Could anyone?
Dora is the boss in this strip, in all senses of the word.
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Reminds me of 1289, where Pennelope was very into being right and Dora was being the voice of reason.
Anybody's biggest buttons are about the things they dislike in themselves. Thus it is with Pennelope.
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Faye has one hell of a perky nose, balance a broadsword on it and it doesn't indent in the slightest
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God I hate people who refuse to acknowledge that they might not correct 100% of the time. Self-righteous a-holes...
Its pretty easy to find people in this Wikipedia era who are like that. Give people a Wiki link and suddenly they are "experts" in a field they didn't know or care about 10 minutes ago.
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Someday Penny will actually snap and go homicidal. And that would be a bad thing. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitle643yzv8u?from=Main.AndThatsTerrible)
#### IT! You TVTroped me!
Bwa-hahahahaha! (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilLaugh)
interesting stuff, I'm a teacher.
What do you teach?
And Faye gets points for the cool (if extremely dangerous) sword-balancing.
I'd like to know how she's doing that, though. Broadswords are, like, heavy man!
Blowing up because they didn't see the situation her way is such a bitch thing to do.
Actually it's such a human thing to do. I certainly couldn't honestly say I'd never done it. Could anyone?
Yes, but your female, so the bitch tag could still apply (insert attempts to make sure you don't find that offensive here (insert apology for assuming you might be offended(insert more nested parentheses))).
As a dude, I can say that I have never stayed in community college for 4 years, dawdling my life away because I don't want to make the choice between engineer, librarian, and history teacher *cough*.
God I hate people who refuse to acknowledge that they might not correct 100% of the time. Self-righteous a-holes...
Its pretty easy to find people in this Wikipedia era who are like that. Give people a Wiki link and suddenly they are "experts" in a field they didn't know or care about 10 minutes ago.
I did that once, in a conversation about whether or not rail and coilguns recoil (I said they did not). BOB, i felt like an idiot jerkass after that one.
Responses, wheee!
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I wonder if she interned at The White House. :-D
Seriously though, Penelope needs to decide whether to fish or cut bait.
Hmmmm I wonder if Faye could do that on a Unicycle.
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First time I got on a TVTrope page without reading douzes of other TVTrope pages as well...
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this is dangerous talk, you know what our Supreme Leader thinks of that site.
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Funniest part of the page to me was the first panel, where Penelope's calling Faye names, and Faye's response? "Dora! Tell Penny to stop being mean to me!" You can almost hear the high-pitched child voice she's using too. Comic gold. The last panel was funny too, but not as much as the first. It was actually kinda sad, knowing that neither Penny NOR Faye should be working in a coffee shop at their ages, but should be on to bigger better things. Or at least "other" things.
Oh well, at least in the QC-verse people make enough from low-end jobs (like coffee shop barista and assistant college librarian) to be able to afford their own apartment. Barely.
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Well, if she's balancing the broadsword it might also be that she has it against the ceiling so she has some other aid to keep it steady. But yeah, that is a fairly amusing thing. As for the comic, go Dora. Also for some reason I now can't help but visualize an Espressodactyl that works as a flying coffee vending machine that then gets hijacked by pintsize to do aerial duels with the flying rhoombas.
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Anti-achievers: Cutting out the middleman of success since... hell, I dunno...
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Since when is a tiny broadsword standard equipment for CoD? Since when is it standard equipment in any coffee house?
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Since 468 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=468), at least.
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Yes, but your female, so the bitch tag could still apply (insert attempts to make sure you don't find that offensive here (insert apology for assuming you might be offended(insert more nested parentheses))).
((((Insert assurance that no offence is taken)))) It's the bracket singularity! :laugh:
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this is dangerous talk, you know what our Supreme Leader thinks of that site.
What is a "surpreme leader" and can one eat it ?
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in the next strip, someone will be horribly maimed and/or killed
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So long as it isn't the only person in this particular strip that is actually doing what they enjoy and wouldn't rather be doing somethin' else for a living.
And by that I mean Dora, she's an entrepeneur and appears ready to keep it up until it's no longer viable. She's got her dream, and now she's living it and making it work.
Faye wants to keep the fun bits without the "feeling like work" business, and Penny is caught by her own hypocrisy (again) - wanting the job, but not the unpleasant bits you need to do to get there.
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Panel 3 Dora pretty much summed up how all feminists work.
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They have a cave troll.
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They have a cave troll.
Thank you Boromir
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So, is this consistent with Pennelope's characterization?
We know she's capable of self-discipline, as shown by her commitment to fitness.
Is it just the idea of subservience that's unpalatable to her?
EDIT: Would it be better storytelling or worse if one or more characters pulled themselves out of their ruts? On the one hand it's easier to see the humor in dysfunctional people and somebody has to work in the coffee shop. On the other hand characters facing challenges and having victories and defeats offer a lot more storytelling opportunities (vide Hannelore!), and even though those tend toward drama there should be plenty of humor involved. Marten's band could be as funny as Spinal Tap. Pennelope in an office environment could be like Dilbert, but funny.
Could Pennelope be a freelance editor? That job does exist.
Is Dora in a rut herself? She's turned down an offer to finance a CoD expansion, after all.
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Penelope's probably just compartmentalizing. The exercise has both long and short term payoffs, but she was
perfectly happy willing to keep her old job at the bookstore with the grabass boss. She had to be pressganged into working at CoD! Although she came back willingly the next day...
And she's able to give good advice and hand out the tough love for the foibles of others (Wil), but can't seem to follow her own advice. Which isn't all that unusual, really.
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She had just been fired from her other job ... "Willingly" in the sense that she didn't reject the bird in the hand in favor of another job that might or might not have been in the bush.
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They have a cave troll.
Thank you Boromir
Three movies and other than Theoden's speech right before the Charge of the Rohirrim, still the best line for me.
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She had just been fired from her other job ... "Willingly" in the sense that she didn't reject the bird in the hand in favor of another job that might or might not have been in the bush.
Got herself fired (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=725), actually. For smartassery, which she probably picked up while at CoD the day before! Without more details it's hard to tell, but it seems to have been tantamount to quitting.
But yeah, either way, she's not one to recognize her own "life choices".
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I wonder if she could have sued after giving permission for her boss to take a picture of her ass.
Oh, and blaming the CoD crew for her getting fired was definitely a lack of awareness about her life choices.
Y'know, here we sit judging the choices of nonexistent people. When we could be advancing our own lives. That's a mini-epiphany. I'm going to put down the computer and go out for a walk in the sunshine with the neighbor's dog.
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Does anyone else think that Marten and Dora tend to act more like Faye/Hanners/Pen-Pen's parents than there friends some times?
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Adoption jokes in 1394 and 630.
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Ooh, ooh! An expressoceratops that shoots coffee out of it's horns! Three times the refill capacity! Man, am I a genus or what! Yes, "genus" was entirely intentional
Anti-achievers: Cutting out the middleman of success since... hell, I dunno...
Since, like, whenever man *draws in breath*.
Since when is a tiny broadsword standard equipment for CoD? Since when is it standard equipment in any coffee house?
1. Since robberies and gun laws.
2. That thing's at least 2 feet long I'd say.
3. Um, I dunno, rule of three (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfThree) (you're welcome!)
Yes, but your female, so the bitch tag could still apply (insert attempts to make sure you don't find that offensive here (insert apology for assuming you might be offended(insert more nested parentheses))).
((((Insert assurance that no offence is taken)))) It's the bracket singularity! :laugh:
Dear Bob, what have you done? It's the bracket singularity! The division by zero! The Hadron Collider collision! OH Noooooooooooooooooooo! :-o
this is dangerous talk, you know what our Supreme Leader thinks of that site.
What is a "supreme leader" and can one eat it ?
Yes, but they're kind of chewy and bitter.
Is Dora in a rut herself? She's turned down an offer to finance a CoD expansion, after all.
To be a Starbucksish megachain. All she would have needed was to sell her soul. Actually, have we ever heard the story of the founding of CoD? i don't think we have. How did a young 20something like her get enough capitol to start a business? Or did she take it over from someone else? Flashback time, Jeph!
They have a cave troll.
Thank you Boromir
Three movies and other than Theoden's speech right before the Charge of the Rohirrim, still the best line for me.
I agree, but "My precious" is eminently more quotable. There just aren't many cave trolls running around.
Does anyone else think that Marten and Dora tend to act more like Faye/Hanners/Pen-Pen's parents than there friends some times?
No, that observation has never been made before. It has not been noted over and over again at all. :evil:
Carl-E, what do you teach?
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Panel 3 Dora pretty much summed up how all feminists work.
Think I just found the cave troll
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Of course, Pen's commentary is even more laughable if you think/believe she really was Pizza Girl...
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I consider it more of a calling than a job (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=399)
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They have a cave troll.
Thank you Boromir
Three movies and other than Theoden's speech right before the Charge of the Rohirrim, still the best line for me.
I agree, but "My precious" is eminently more quotable. There just aren't many cave trolls running around.
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Has to be right up there with Gimli's "Nobody tosses a Dwarf!!"
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Wow, Sven sure is in a funk. I kind of feel sorry for hi- wait, three girls have given him their number!? Dude, sober up (mentally ,not from drunkeness)!
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Wil has grown quite a dapper set of facial hair.
I wonder, has he been hanging out with David Malki ! (http://wondermark.com/) or is that just part of the dress code of The Horrible Revelation?
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Sven - eats salads as a main course.
Sven - will kick your ass.
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Wil has grown quite a dapper set of facial hair.
I wonder, has he been hanging out with David Malki ! (http://wondermark.com/) or is that just part of the dress code of The Horrible Revelation?
I was thinking it was a paste on.
And it's the dress code for bar employees, with rentable costumes as shown in some earlier strips. The bar theme is steampunk.
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Wow, Sven sure is in a funk. I kind of feel sorry for hi- wait, three girls have given him their number!? Dude, sober up (mentally ,not from drunkeness)!
Sven is perfectly sober. He just can't have the one woman he wants.
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Faye turned him into a Eunuch. :-o
I can't help but feel that painting is somehow symbolic.
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Sven!
Wow, he is way depressed. I'm a little shocked he hasn't bounced back from Faye yet, I kinda thought he would be hitting on his intern by now.
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Faye turned him into a Eunuch. :-o
I don't RECALL doing so, but I suppose I could have done it while sleepwalking or blacked-out drunk.
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in the next strip, someone will be horribly maimed and/or killed
Where that "someone" turned out to be the opposite of boredom.
Most boring QC ever, and its about Sven alone, too.
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Sven, you fool! Do you realize what you have done?! You have destroyed the space-time continuum!!
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Sveeeeennnn. :D
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I am ashamed to say that I am that oblivious when it comes to women hitting on me.
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Sven isn't so much oblivious as he is disinterested, or perhaps jaded.
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Man, don't you hate it when girls dirty up your napkin with silly numbers? I know I…never had that problem, really.
Actually, since he's ignoring them, Sven probably gets three times the 'hits' now.
They have a cave troll.
Thank you Boromir
Three movies and other than Theoden's speech right before the Charge of the Rohirrim, still the best line for me.
Mine is from the extended DVD of Fellowship
Frodo: Don't worry, Sam, Rosie knows an idiot when she sees one.
Sam (looking worried) Does she?
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Holy shit!!! Sven's become a Monk! :-o
Faye has ruined Sven forever.
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Wow, Sven sure is in a funk. I kind of feel sorry for hi- wait, three girls have given him their number!? Dude, sober up (mentally ,not from drunkeness)!
Sven is perfectly sober. He just can't have the one woman he wants.
nah, that's not the 'can't have the girl he wants' distraction, that's the 'feels like shit for hurting a girl he likes' depression.
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I hope the return of Sven means we'll get to see his intern Lydia (it is Lydia, right?) again. Not because I want them to get together--that ain't gonna happen--I just like her feistiness and refusal to tolerate Sven's slips into jerkassery. Don't get me wrong: I like Sven, and his jerkass moments have gotten fewer and farther between, but he still has them, and with his not stopping by at CoD anymore (except that one time) even to see Dora, someone's gotta be there to keep him from relapsing into the guy who literally tossed Marten at one of his exes to distract her because he lacked the cojones to face her himself.
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Character development + fancy outfits = smiles.
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I am ashamed to say that I am that oblivious when it comes to women hitting on me.
You and an army. Many men just dont recognize it. I am another example.
Faye has ruined Sven forever.
Naaah now lets just dont get our hopes up.
nah, that's not the 'can't have the girl he wants' distraction, that's the 'feels like shit for hurting a girl he likes' depression.
Depression ? Looks more like the "I dont give a f*** today" mood to me.
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Man, don't you hate it when girls dirty up your napkin with silly numbers? I know I…never had that problem, really.
Actually, since he's ignoring them, Sven probably gets three times the 'hits' now.
<snip>
Only three?
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Y'know, here we sit judging the choices of nonexistent people. When we could be advancing our own lives.
If we really could, we already would have.
This strip reminds me of that episode of House where House, Wilson, and Chase go speed dating.
House bets Chase $100 that even if he acts like a major douche towards all the women there, he'll still rack up numbers just because of his looks. House wins, clearly.
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I am ashamed to say that I am that oblivious when it comes to women hitting on me.
Ditto.
Of course, it could be the fact that I'm a chick and don't frequent gay bars.
Or that I'm constantly chanting, "Azh nazg durbatulûk. Azh nazg gimbatul. Azh nazg thrakatulûk. Agh burzum-ishi krimpatul."
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*Recoils*
NEVER HAS ANYONE DARED UTTER WORDS OF THAT FOUL TONGUE IN THE SERIOUS PONY DISCUSSION FORUM!
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@Mad Cat, After that quote, this is me hitting on you. :)
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Did anyone else wonder what the hell happened to the magical reappearing fork?
I know it's weird. But one panel, holding fork. Next, no fork. Another, still no fork. Then he's chewing, holding fork. It's not laying on the table, or the plate. WHERE DID IT GO?! MY BRAIN CANNOT TAKE THIS WTFERY.
Oh, and also - I am glad to see Sven again. Amused by his cynicism towards being hit on by his previous "type".
On another note, I too suffer from oblivion on the whole "being hit upon" thing. By dudes, 'cause I am a chick, and a straight one, but same basic concept, yeah?
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Seems like the rumors of someone being eaten by an allosaurus were wrong.
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Wait, that's Sven?
Wow. Clearly it's been too long since he showed up in this comic because I ended up reading it three times trying to find a recognizable character before finally coming to the conclusion that the bartender might be Will.
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I like how Wil just made his first appearance in forever and nobody seems to notice. (As far as I know we last saw him in #1529 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1529), which was before last Thanksgiving.)
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YAY, SVEN!
I know there are a lot of Sven haters around here, but I've always enjoyed his character and what he brings out in the characters he interacts with. I'm totally up for some more character development involving him!
YAY!
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i dont think that was will, i think that was the other guy that works there
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Great comic today. I like Sven and the art just keeps getting better.
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i dont think that was will, i think that was the other guy that works there
I'm pretty sure it is. Same nose and cheekbone lines.
(http://i44.tinypic.com/anolc4.png)
The other guy is shorter.
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1480
EDIT: Also:
http://twitter.com/jephjacques/status/12679229773
script done. features a couple characters we haven't seen in a while! I HOPE YOU RECOGNIZE THEM. will start streaming shortly.
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Another character goes asexual after a breakup (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=820).
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To be a Starbucksish megachain. All she would have needed was to sell her soul. Actually, have we ever heard the story of the founding of CoD? i don't think we have. How did a young 20something like her get enough capitol to start a business? Or did she take it over from someone else? Flashback time, Jeph!
Ok figure two bean grinders, two big coffee-makers and an espresso machine... Just a quick look on Craigslist shows I can have all of those for about $2,000.
Then you spend another $1,000javascript:void(0); on tables and chairs... and about $500 on basic cups and spoons and saucers.
Another thousand to put down rent and deposit... and $500 for the permits/inspections.
Then you spend $250 on supplies: coffee, milk, creamer, whatnot.
Roughly $5,000. Her parents could have fronted her part of it, bank-loans cover the rest... hard work at a previous job saving every penny...
Once you are open and have a market share you start reinvesting in the business... buying better machines, custom cups and saucers, remodeling... hiring extra workers, advertising blitz...
I'm basing this partly on my experiences starting my business. I started off with a yellow Chicom lathe and mill for $1,500 and at this point I'm working for myself, I reached my goal of becoming a full-service machine-shop/molding company.
It ain't easy, coffee shop or machine-shop. Not everyone has the drive or the moxie to pull it off... but it's not as expensive as you think.
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@Beltsander
Sweet, can you whip me up a 3/4"x5" shaft with a 2"x4" flat flanged onto the end, then, so I can get my !@$!#%!% lawn mower back up?
;)
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I like how Wil just made his first appearance in forever and nobody seems to notice. (As far as I know we last saw him in #1529 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1529), which was before last Thanksgiving.)
Well of course we noticed! But there's not as much to talk about with him (just a moustache) as there is with whatever the fuck is going on with Sven!
Personally, I'm wanting him to write a country/pop song about the 3rd crusade. It'll be a flop, of course. And the beginning of a huge downward spiral into depression and self loathing which will force Lydia and Penelope into an interventiion involving a lot of good cop/bad cop yelling and the like.
Or not.
I am ashamed to say that I am that oblivious when it comes to women hitting on me.
Same here. Either that, or they just don't. Actually, I'm pretty sure it's the latter...
Probably something to do with the cursed enchanted ring on my finger.
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I think these last few strips with Pen and Faye have disillusioned me on the whole concept of social security.
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Cool to see Sven and Wil again, despite Sven being all pouty-pants. I guess the split with Faye sorta has him off his game, but if I remember right, he was going to 'swear off girls' or some such before the whole interlude with her started. Maybe he's back on track with the whole not-fucking-around-constantly thing, who knows. I do like his intern, so it would be cool to see her again -- hey, maybe she knows Cosette . . . or Tai . . .
Is it weird that the main thing I want to know from today's strip is whether Wil's mustache is real?
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Wil has the class not to gloat about having a girlfriend, or at a minimum class enough not to do it on camera at work.
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I am ashamed to say that I am that oblivious when it comes to women hitting on me.
Ditto.
Of course, it could be the fact that I'm a chick and don't frequent gay bars.
Or that I'm constantly chanting, "Azh nazg durbatulûk. Azh nazg gimbatul. Azh nazg thrakatulûk. Agh burzum-ishi krimpatul."
So, the Lady of the Black Lands has come forth to have judgement done upon her.
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Is it weird that the main thing I want to know from today's strip is whether Wil's mustache is real?
Nope, not weird, just nerdy. And now I'm asking myself the same question. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
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Jumping on the "oblivious to advances by ladyfolk" band wagon. Though there is of course the possibility that they've never actually happened to me, there have been a few instances where I realized days or weeks later that someone may have been hitting on me at a particular event. The one girlfriend I've had, had to ask me out, and when she did I at first thought she was joking (other people were involved and it wasn't a direct question, sue me). When I realized she wasn't I said yes and we got along fine. Why yes, the relationship was ended by her 2 months later, and no I don't really know why (though she's still friendly), why do you ask? Sometimes Asperger's pretty much sucks.
Ok figure two bean grinders, two big coffee-makers and an espresso machine... Just a quick look on Craigslist shows I can have all of those for about $2,000.
Then you spend another $1,000javascript:void(0); on tables and chairs... and about $500 on basic cups and spoons and saucers.
Another thousand to put down rent and deposit... and $500 for the permits/inspections.
Then you spend $250 on supplies: coffee, milk, creamer, whatnot.
Roughly $5,000. Her parents could have fronted her part of it, bank-loans cover the rest... hard work at a previous job saving every penny...
Once you are open and have a market share you start reinvesting in the business... buying better machines, custom cups and saucers, remodeling... hiring extra workers, advertising blitz...
I'm basing this partly on my experiences starting my business. I started off with a yellow Chicom lathe and mill for $1,500 and at this point I'm working for myself, I reached my goal of becoming a full-service machine-shop/molding company.
It ain't easy, coffee shop or machine-shop. Not everyone has the drive or the moxie to pull it off... but it's not as expensive as you think.
More like 15 K by my estimates. Didn't research enough to give a cost breakdown, but I live in California and it costs about 80 grand to start a restaurant here, minimum, even in a previously occupied space. She has a cafe devoted to one product, but it's still not going to be cheap even in a state with lower overall costs ( I seriously doubt that she found a place that had a bathroom and a basement large enough to be considered for business expansion with rent AND a deposit for only $1000, no matter what the local economics, and especially not a (guessing) a thriving 2002 Massachusetts town), and it's going to be way more than $5,000. Also, you forgot a few things. Assuming that the place was bare when she moved in but in good condition (clean windows, no holes in the walls, bathroom facilities already there) there's still painting (and the prep work), decorations, the board, the sink and counter, and whatever else I forgot too that she still has to buy. And a fridge, and a- stopping now.
Is it weird that the main thing I want to know from today's strip is whether Wil's mustache is real?
Nope, not weird, just nerdy. And now I'm asking myself the same question. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
B-but, but I commented on its veracity first...
I was thinking it was a paste on.
*pouts*
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I like how Wil just made his first appearance in forever and nobody seems to notice. (As far as I know we last saw him in #1529 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1529), which was before last Thanksgiving.)
Yeah, it is him. There's the "cheekbone mark".
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Boo. Not happy to see Sven again. He could fall off the face of the earth, and I wouldn't care ooooone bit. But, hey, Wil!
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Boo. Not happy to see Sven again. He could fall off the face of the earth, and I wouldn't care ooooone bit. But, hey, Wil!
Meanwhile I happily went "Sveeeeennnnnnnn!!!" I want to see him back to his witty and cocky self though.
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…the beginning of a huge downward spiral into depression and self loathing which will force Lydia and Penelope into an intervention involving a lot of good cop/bad cop yelling and the like.
Now we're cooking.
I don't think enough time has passed for Wil to grow a mustache like that, unless, of course, Wil is especially follicly gifted. Or QC universe has MiracleGro for hair. Which would make it utopia indeed for some, if the Bosley/Hair Club/Hair-on-a-Doornob adds and the like are giving the straight tell.
Of course, if there is MiracleGro for hair in the QC-verse, there simply has to be someone out there who's tried to turn him or herself into a Wookie.
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Raoullefere, I don't know about IRL, but your avatar could use some...
Of course, on a sunny day, I blind the neighborhood when I remove my chapeau!
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I really shouldn't lurk these forums when half-asleep.
I can only see a balded Steve mixing up a watering can of Miracle Gro, and getting Marten to shower his shiny skull with it.
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Funny thing, michi-love, I was thinking that of all the QC males to face possible hair loss, Steve seems to me to be the most likely candidate.
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It's because he's the stereotype.
Also, what with his former line of work, he could have burnt it off...
but mostly he represents that douchey dude who is balding at the ten-year reunion, with a pot-belly.
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Steve experiences hair loss (http://www.questionablecontent.net/831)
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Sometimes Asperger's pretty much sucks.
True dat, Bro.
:mrgreen: Hair Club for Smileys
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Ok figure two bean grinders, two big coffee-makers and an espresso machine... Just a quick look on Craigslist shows I can have all of those for about $2,000.
And the espresso machine was pretty dodgy (http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1258), and even possibly second-hand.
I started off with a yellow Chicom lathe and mill for $1,500
A Chinese Communist lathe eh? Did it shout slogans from 毛主席语录 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/毛主席语录)? Organise Struggle Sessions with the other tools in your workshop? Hum the tune of "The East Is Red" (http://ia311510.us.archive.org/1/items/Music_of_the_Chinese_Revolution/The.East.is.Red_64kb.mp3) as it worked? :-D
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Boo. Not happy to see Sven again. He could fall off the face of the earth, and I wouldn't care ooooone bit. But, hey, Wil!
I would prefer getting Raven back.
She might be the same thing in the female version, but at least she's funny.
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(old) Raven is not a female version of (old) Sven. She's just not smarmy and on the make enough.
Then again, I don't think any woman could be.
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Meena comes to mind. I was just reading the sequence where she and Steve meet, and, reading it with foreknowledge, her actions take a slightly different meaning. Of course, that may be more devious than smarmy.
I agree Raven isn't smarmy at all. On the make? Well, she has all these ploys for getting boys, does she not? Even has a makeout address book as I recall. And she played D&D to have those poor guys salivate over her and giver her breaks and advantaged. And…
Y'know, Raven just might be on the make.