Short version: Minneapolis-based woman works as a museum curator, stumbles upon the supernatural and an apparent accident going back tens of thousands of years that caused time to reset and repeat 56 times. Woman, along with three girls who were transformed into golems by the society that caused the time reset issue, fix the machine that caused the reset - permanently.
That doesn't include the demons, monsters, mythological beings and a dog who likes pizza.
Dogs like everything.
It's better than it sounds. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BetterThanItSounds)
An ordinary big-breasted Latina girl from Minneapolis has regular conversations with gods, monsters and demons but is convinced there's a rational explanation for it all. Oh yeah, and she can teleport.
Dogs like everything.Dietzel's actual reason for buying so much pizza (how he orders it in the first place, much less pays for it, remains a mystery*) appears to mostly be so that he can share it with the cute pizza delivery girl… good job Pintsize hasn't figured that trick out yet or Pizza Girl would never get a moment's rest.
Dumb query, but is the Livestream crashing for anyone else?
I feel fine. 8 (38.1%) <--- Beatles song quotes FTW.Fixed.
Sam just got skyrocketed towards awesome.Seconded. That expression on her face is cute to no ends. (I'm gonna call that look the Horrorpedia-look)
Robot bacon zombie coffee ninja UGH
"I'm so glad...that she's my little girl/She's so glad...she's ending all the world!"I feel fine. 8 (38.1%) <--- Beatles song quotes FTW.Fixed.
Possibly. Here is a college age version. (http://www.dumbingofage.com/cast/attachment/castdina/) Willis may have been the first to introduce a female character big into dinos, but I am guessing that XKCD was the first of these three to run a paleontology gag. One word proof: Velociraptor.
Either Sam talks fast or Dora's "startle" reaction is set for "delay." Little Miss Snakecatcher got in quite a few words before Dora jumped. This and Sam's expression make this even funnier.
That reminds me of this weather forecast for Virginia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVEPvXBEOSE&feature=youtu.be).Quote from: FayeRobot bacon zombie coffee ninja UGH
Thank you, Faye. Thank you.
Oh, and regarding the end of the world. You've probably already seen this, or something like it, but in case you haven't - here is this week's weather forecast.(click to show/hide)
her friend/employee/right-hand-whether-she-wants-to-admit-it-or-not.Her Dragon (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheDragon)? :-D
Anyone notice that the second thing Dora said to Faye was "Why do you hate money?"But it sure is nice if you can both make a living off of it and love it. Dora made very good points in that initial encounter about Faye avoiding things.
If I remember correctly, Faye started they tyrannosaur espresso machine as a way to get back into sculpting. It was Dora who pushed her to do a second piece for that gallery. The thing here though, is that its not "Why do you hate money?" its "I can't get my 10% from you any more". Faye has never seemed to me like one of those artists who would live off their work, the art is what they love to do.
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Why hasn't anybody mentioned this as yet as a possible model for the next espresso machine? A Cappuccino Monkey! :psyduck: [I may have broken something earlier *twitch* ]
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See that? It's the pun jar.
Pay up.
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See that? It's the pun jar.
Pay up.
You're going to break that out for that, and not Westrim's "Coffee Annan or Muammar DaCoffee "? :-o
He is our beloved leader, we call him Kim Jong Pun.
Jeph turned Dora's head into a guitar pick! :psyduck:
I agree that the Dora art seems a bit different in this strip. I think if her head is a pick then it is a Gibson pick, it is too rounded on top to be a Fender one.
Indeed. Like my father before me I shall lead the Great QCNation and swear to forever fight the Evil Procrasti Nation.He is our beloved leader, we call him Kim Jong Pun.
(http://s8.postimage.org/wt9nucvut/tumblr_lx7rz3l_Xdh1r3gqwio1_400.jpg)
Wait, it's winter, and it's summer in the strip......
For all we know, it could be the summer of '69.Wait, it's winter, and it's summer in the strip......
So there's a two seasons time lag.
But is the comic still in the summer of 2012 or already in 2013?
For all we know, it could be the summer of '69.It couldn't, though, because of music references.
Or it could be 1942, the year of the birth of my father, the Eternal General Secretary. After all, the comic is intentionally vague on dates and though it has explicitly mentioned years before, they could easily be under a less enlightened calendar. All we really know is that it basically looks and acts just like now ('now' being whenever a comic is written) but with some advanced tech literally walking around courtesy of the Workers Party.
It couldn't, though, because of music references.
Let me put it differently, then: QC is definitely taking place in the equivalent of the early 21st century, whatever calendar they adhere to.It couldn't, though, because of music references.
Different calendars, comrade.
... it's not worth thinking about, really.
Faye has the all-seeing eye. Her hypothetical kids are doomed.
What kind of cellphone is she using? How cheap is her dad?It looks very similar to a clamshell Motorola my stepdad uses because "it's robust and simple, it does what I need it to do". I like it for the whizzy noise it makes when it's opened and closed. Googling for it makes me think it's at least 10 years old. the V66 maybe?
Faye has the all-seeing eye. Her hypothetical kids are doomed.
And it *is* summer right now, what is everyone talking about? :wink:Well, it's is here in the south of the planet at least :-)
Second: What kind of cellphone is she using? How cheap is her dad?
Dang, Dora, how horrible that a 12-year-old wanders down to the coffee shop without express written permission from her father ::)
Also maybe in the QC world the poles are flipped seasonwise, meaning the Northern hemisphere has summer and Australia is cold right now. And Akima, I'm curious, growing up, did you not have a winter break? Because our winter break in the States is centered around Christmas and New Year's, but those are already part of your summer break.
What kind of cellphone is she using? How cheap is her dad?Given that this is Samantha we're speaking about (http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=2018), I suppose he went for something robust rather than fancy.
Actually, it was Dora (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1317)Faye has the all-seeing eye. Her hypothetical kids are doomed.
Indeed. I think it's been established canonically that she would eat her young.
Second: What kind of cellphone is she using? How cheap is her dad?
Faye has the all-seeing eye. Her hypothetical kids are doomed.
And it *is* summer right now, what is everyone talking about? :wink:
The "all seeing eye" is more in the mind of the beholder than it is in the ... purveyor.
Then again, there are some people who, out of respect, you just can't lie to. I like to think Faye is one of those for Sam.
What kind of cellphone is she using? How cheap is her dad?
Then again, there are some people who, out of respect, you just can't lie to. I like to think Faye is one of those for Sam.
Actually, it was Dora (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1317)Faye has the all-seeing eye. Her hypothetical kids are doomed.
Indeed. I think it's been established canonically that she would eat her young.
And Akima, I'm curious, growing up, did you not have a winter break? Because our winter break in the States is centered around Christmas and New Year's, but those are already part of your summer break.We have a school year made up of four, about ten-week, terms (http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/calendar/?do=setViewperiod&categoryid=21&viewType=yearView). We have one big, roughly five-week, summer holiday, starting about a week before Christmas (21st December was last day of term this year), and ending around Australia Day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_Day) (26th January). The other three holidays are roughly two weeks each, though the one associated with Easter is often "stretched" by the holidays associated with that festival. Our "winter break" is usually the first couple of weeks in July. My main complaint was that I was usually back at school by the time Chinese New Year came around...
And Bev, I don't know which part of the country (or which country, but anyway) you're in, but these past couple of weeks, it's been fuckin' Melbourne weather here!
@pwhodges: What you say is true, but although I won't deny those are useful capacities, they still do not come into "need" as I see it. And to reiterate the key point, certainly not for a child.
Saying nobody needs a smartphone is like saying nobody needs a computer. Sure, it's true, but phones these days are basically computers you bring with you.
Dang, Dora, how horrible that a 12-year-old wanders down to the coffee shop without express written permission from her father ::)
If Sam's dad was somehow really pissed off about it, I wouldn't see their relationship lasting. But I understand the desire to err on the side of caution with a new partner's kids.
Saying nobody needs a smartphone is like saying nobody needs a computer. Sure, it's true, but phones these days are basically computers you bring with you.
So are laptops.
When I can do complex 3D modeling and post-processing for extrusion-printing on a smart phone I will buy one.
Until then TracFone all the way.
Faye has the all-seeing eye. Her hypothetical kids are doomed.
And it *is* summer right now, what is everyone talking about? :wink:
Sure.
In the QCVerse, Northampton is in Australia. The United States are in the Southern Hemisphere. Pie floaters are a New York thing.
Oh god, you're right! Scratch that, then. I was getting my timelines all mixed up. I sped through the whole comic up until the lake party, so some earlier stuff is kind of a jumble now, and that was just my first reaction to it.
The "all seeing eye" is more in the mind of the beholder than it is in the ... purveyor.
Don't the stages of technology go something like:
1) Wouldn't it be neat someday if ...
2) We're never gonna need anything like ...
3) Well, yeah, you can have one if you're rich.
4) I gotta get me one of these ...
5) How'd we ever get along without ...
6) (sometimes simultaneous to 5) this $%*%&$ thing ...
7) You have one of those? Get with the times, grampa!
... How? She was swinging down!
... How? She was swinging down!
I beg to differ...
The curved "wind" lines are behind the sword, it's going up, Sam is just a tenth of a second before losing the grip, the weight of the blade is balanced enough so that the sword will fly upwards and get stuck in the seemingly soft ceiling.
Improbable, but possible.
Faye doesn't show any indication that she has seen her life pass in front of her eyes...
Sam must have super strength to actually get something of that mass stuck in the ceiling.
Also: Sam must have super strength to actually get something of that mass stuck in the ceiling.The sword was propelled by the power of funny! Presumably she let go of the grip at the top of her swing? That's what you get when you start doing silly cutting stunts without working on your technique first first...
perhaps one of the mods could mention it to him if it isn't fixed in a day or two.
Don't the stages of technology go something like:
1) Wouldn't it be neat someday if ...
2) We're never gonna need anything like ...
3) Well, yeah, you can have one if you're rich.
4) I gotta get me one of these ...
5) How'd we ever get along without ...
6) (sometimes simultaneous to 5) this $%*%&$ thing ...
7) You have one of those? Get with the times, grampa!
ALSO: Sam loses grip just before the top of her swing, sword doesn't have enough vertical distance to travel to complete a tumble, point gets stuck in ceiling tile (or bottom of cash register in previous panel), mass of hilt carries it forward, resulting in angle depicted in 3 and 4. I've seen it happen with pencils (seventh-grade study hall was boring as hell).
Ha, yeah, I saw this and went "wait, we can do that?" That would be pretty cool, but nope, we don't. We just run the place for him so he doesn't have to look at it.perhaps one of the mods could mention it to him if it isn't fixed in a day or two.
We have no special access to Jeph; I just email him like you do (never had an answer). A year ago he once replied to me in the hidden moderators' forum, on a rare visit.
... so what happened to Sam's "I'm calling him right now" in the previous comic? Dora's making another call to Jim? Was Jim not picking up? Was Sam actually calling Oranges R Us for a delivery?
I'm not sure I've ever read anything more accurate. I got my first cell phone when I was sixteen and the only reason I got it then was because payphones had begun disappearing and I needed a way to call my parents when I needed a ride. Now, at 25 I can't help but wonder how people ever got along without them. I mean, there's been so many times I've used mine because my car broke down, or I had an accident, or got stuck in a ditch (I have really bad luck with cars), and having a cell phone made things just, well not quite as terrible. I didn't hop on the smart phone band wagon until about two years ago when my flip-phone of over six years broke in half. And I could live without my droid, but it's so convenient.
So, what I'm left wondering ... how'd the raccoon (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1155) fare?
I wonder if she got the sword stuck into the vent instead of the ceiling, and if that's Dora's phone how she decided to call him instead of letting Sam do it.
I wonder if she got the sword stuck into the vent instead of the ceiling, and if that's Dora's phone how she decided to call him instead of letting Sam do it.
I wonder if Raven is/was hiding in the vent.
I wonder if she got the sword stuck into the vent instead of the ceiling, and if that's Dora's phone how she decided to call him instead of letting Sam do it.
I wonder if Raven is/was hiding in the vent.
"Skullmaster, master of skulls" seems a bit tautologic, doesn't it? °OSkullmaster is one of the employees of our Department of Redundancy Department (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment), part of our effort to make sure that we have a backup of everything necessary for the happiness of our citizens.
Could she be drunk? We haven't seen her show up to work snookered, have we?
Also, not the first time she's used the X, KING OF THE Y format. (http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=2026)"Skullmaster, master of skulls" seems a bit tautologic, doesn't it? °OSkullmaster is one of the employees of our Department of Redundancy Department (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment), part of our effort to make sure that we have a backup of everything necessary for the happiness of our citizens.
The way I read it is she has already been busted previously and off-screen and so was grounded for a week. Breaking this grounding has now extended the punishment to a month.
Of course, it's a coffee shop, so Jim has all the grounds he needs.Did you do that on purpose? :psyduck:
He is PUNMASTER, MASTER OF PUNSOf course, it's a coffee shop, so Jim has all the grounds he needs.Did you do that on purpose? :psyduck:
the hidden moderators' forumThe mental image I have of this is terrifying.
Daw :-D
Imagine the "mummy, why am I a badger?" talk though...
Although, given that it has ninja monks jumping innocent bystanders, it may be too dangerous for anyone to walk around.
The way I read it is she has already been busted previously and off-screen and so was grounded for a week. Breaking this grounding has now extended the punishment to a month.
I read it that way as well. And he's remarkably good about the issue. Although I suspect that this will change in the not to distant future.
It doesn't seem like Faye to be helping Sam defy her father.I don't think Faye is doing that, exactly. I think they were playing Skullmaster before he even walked in, and now it's not like Faye can just drop Sam. She's staying quiet so as not to meddle but she can't really get away.
It's also quite possible that Sam has pulled this stunt before and that Jim gave her some version of "Don't you ever, EVER take off without telling me where you're going, or you'll be in BIG trouble!" in which case it's appropriate for him to follow through.This may be where the "already grounded" thing came from. As in "Don't you ever, EVER take off without telling me where you're going, or you'll be grounded for a week!" So yeah, parental discipline FTW!
Kid's don't really get body odor until they hit puberty (and she doesn't look very pubescent), and she looks clean judging by her clothes and neat
So, wait, where the hell have all those ponies I leaked to you been going?
So, wait, where the hell have all those ponies I leaked to you been going?
I hope you didn't leak me the one I got my 2-year-old niece for her birthday...I did not know at the time that it talks. I really did not at the time that it talks in both a man's and a woman's voice. Grab the left ear, and it says "I love it when you brush my hair!" (Woman's voice). Grab the right ear, and it goes into this creepy little song that sounds like Droopy Dog. "I'm a little, pony, clippity clop, clippity clop..." etc.
It's downright frightening.
Kid's don't really get body odor until they hit puberty (and she doesn't look very pubescent), and she looks clean judging by her clothes and neat
Maybe.
But she used to play in swamps (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2026) , so...
And boom goes the ridiculousness jar.
"Ponyleaks" is a call-back to the time several years ago when Jeph was renaming the forums to suit his mood (usually: upset with the forums!), and combined with Wikileaks. I have retained it in the title for reasons which now amount to mere nostalgia. There is more explanation in this thread (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,26928.msg1045442.html#msg1045442). One of the changes spawned its own thread (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,22643.msg783846.html#msg783846).
I think the comic is referring to the rhyme about what little boys are made of - in my childhood, "slugs and snails and puppy dog tails", but according to the internet, "snips and snails and puppy dog tails" is the traditional version. That makes more sense considering Dora's final comment...And the traditional counterpart to that is that little girls are made of "sugar and spice and everything nice." You'll note the similarity to Dora's play on the expression.
Indeed - and the version I know is only slightly different (sugar and spice and all things nice). I love how children's rhymes and songs are found all over the world; for instance Ring a ring of roses, which I've heard several versions of from Australia, Canada, and indeed English-speaking people in many other countries.
The last frame of today's strip looks like Dora is shooting white nipple laser beams.
Indeed - and the version I know is only slightly different (sugar and spice and all things nice). I love how children's rhymes and songs are found all over the world; for instance Ring a ring of roses, which I've heard several versions of from Australia, Canada, and indeed English-speaking people in many other countries.
Strangely I never heard of either of these. I mean, the one directed at girls I heard from the Powerpuff Girls intro. But never actually heard it used in a traditional sense.
Indeed - and the version I know is only slightly different (sugar and spice and all things nice). I love how children's rhymes and songs are found all over the world; for instance Ring a ring of roses, which I've heard several versions of from Australia, Canada, and indeed English-speaking people in many other countries.
Strangely I never heard of either of these. I mean, the one directed at girls I heard from the Powerpuff Girls intro. But never actually heard it used in a traditional sense.
Snips and snails and puppy dog tails (and ingredient X) are what the Rowdyruff Boys are made of, as I recall.
Ring a ring of rosesApparently the British and American versions have the sames line two and four, with the first line on my side of the pond being replaced with "Ring around the Rosie", and the third being replaced with "Ashes, ashes". Also, what the hell is "A-tishoo"?
Then why'd they change it to ashes over here?
Then why'd they change it to ashes over here?
Onomatopoeic sneezing. The rhyme originates with the advent of the Black Death and describes, loosely, some of the behaviours and superstitions surrounding it.Isn't the Black Death name associated with the great pandemic of the 14th Century? I understood the rhyme was supposed to refer to the Great Plague of 1665, and that this explanation is probably bogus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_a_Ring_o%27_Roses#Plague_interpretation).
this explanation is probably bogus
Maybe it has do with burning the corpses to slow the plague from spreading?
Indeed *Raises eyebrow*
I usually trust Snopes.