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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: ysth on 09 Aug 2009, 22:04
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Because no one else did, and I am impatient.
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Patience young padawan
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It's a little known fact that Martin also moonlights as a narrator for public access documentaries.
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So what was Faye doing standing outside the restroom with her arms folded? Was she in hiding from the Wrath of Dora?
Is Faye being preemptively jealous?
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Trying to hold it. The person in there now is taking FOR-EV-ER!
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One simalcrum, two simalcra. It's third declension, people!
Remember,member, every day, neuter PLURALS end in -a!
...goddamnit, I didn't even take latin.
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So what was Faye doing standing outside the restroom with her arms folded? Was she in hiding from the Wrath of Dora?
Is Faye being preemptively jealous?
Or there's some sort of hideous queue. Seriously ladies, I don't know how you manage without doing a small jig or something. Or do you go like 10 minutes before you think you'll need to?
I like how the door says 'Bitchez'. What would the mens say?
I wonder what Dora calls the hamster.
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Or there's some sort of hideous queue. Seriously ladies, I don't know how you manage without doing a small jig or something.
Jigs. They happen.
Also, that's one of the (many) reasons we go in groups. Someone to take your mind off it.
Faye does look weirdly upset, though.
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Ha. Funny enough, I've got a hamster I named after Dora.
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One simalcrum, two simalcra.
One simulacrum, two simulacra actually. Or, if you don't like Latinisms, one simulacrum, two simulacrums. How many people use fora as the plural of forum these days? Or dogmata as the plural of dogma? Who knows, perhaps abandoning Latin plurals might discourage people from using media, criteria, and data as if they were singular nouns.
Or maybe, robot-Dora is only one of many, possessed of a distributed-cluster AI which has problems with the whole singular/plural concept...
We are the Dora... We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own... Resistance is futile...
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ah latin, i miss it from highschool. Was fun back then. I think its cool Marten is tutoring Marigold on beer.
So what was Faye doing standing outside the restroom with her arms folded? Was she in hiding from the Wrath of Dora?
Is Faye being preemptively jealous?
I like how the door says 'Bitchez'. What would the mens say?
Dicks?
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Can anyone read what it says on Marigold's shirt? I've been staring at
her boobs the writing trying to make it out and it looks like "Science is a [something] now."
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Can anyone read what it says on Marigold's shirt? I've been staring at her boobs the writing trying to make it out and it looks like "Science is a [something] now."
a leap now.
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ah latin, i miss it from highschool. Was fun back then. I think its cool Marten is tutoring Marigold on beer.So what was Faye doing standing outside the restroom with her arms folded? Was she in hiding from the Wrath of Dora?
Is Faye being preemptively jealous?
I like how the door says 'Bitchez'. What would the mens say?
Dicks?
It's where you can let it all hang out.
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SCIENCE
It works, Bitches.
On the back is a graph of the universe's temperature spectrum from the COBE mission or something, which almost perfectly matches up with the theoretically predicted black body spectrum.
Oh, but why, Mr. Wizard? Why does it match up so well?
Because it's
SCIENCE.
It works, Bitches.
http://store.xkcd.com/xkcd/#Science (http://store.xkcd.com/xkcd/#Science)
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It sounds like an attempt to feminize it, like alumnus/alumna, but it doesn't really work since it wasn't masculine in the first place...
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Does the Horrible Revelation have these bathroom signs too? If the men's room said 'dicks', though, I would have expected them to be consistent and make the ladies' say 'pussies'.
The shirt doesn't say "It works, bitches", it says "Is a (...) now".
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oh, my, god... I just remembered that when i was in primary school i had a pet Guinea Pig that looked like Dora!...
ITS THE HAIR PEOPLE! My Guinea Pig (which i named 'Precilla', coz the boy one was 'Elvis' - also coz of the hair) was black with a tan patch on the top of its head.
We'll be right back :-D ...
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faye does seem to be a little jealous, but she's always been protective of marten.
dora swings between mad insecurity and calm level-headness quite frequently. i kinda like that, since i can relate. and i suppose most ladies can, also.
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ohh, and i believe marigold's shirt says
"SCIENCE! its a verb now."
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Yes:-
SCIENCE
It's a verb now
is what I can make out after downloading and blowing up the graphic. Which begs the question, what does the slogan actually mean?
Also, I have never been in a bar that served beer in shot glasses. Although that is an awesome idea. I would be more adventurous in sampling different beers if I wasn't worried about being stuck with a pint of something undrinkable.
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I've been in some bars that do that - although the glasses usually hold about 250ml (one cup) - it was nice to be able to sample different types. If I remeber right, you paid about the equivalent of two pints for the privilege.
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Yeah Faye does seem a little upset, just by her body language and what she said in the second panel. I'm not sure if Jeph meant for it to seem like that or not... I think he did. Kind of annoying on Faye's part if she is getting jealous, that's Dora's job. Speaking of Dora... she's annoying.
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[...] is what I can make out after downloading and blowing up the graphic. Which begs the question, what does the slogan actually mean?
Just f'in science it.
Beer with chocolate.. who is to blame for this abominable offspring? In the name of the Reinheitsgebot I demand answers.
No but seriously, I gotta try this.. to the Irish pub!
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Speaking of Dora... she's annoying.
What
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If I remember right, you paid about the equivalent of two pints for the privilege.
Well, that is considerably less awesome. And very bad marketing.
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If I remember right, you paid about the equivalent of two pints for the privilege.
Well, that is considerably less awesome. And very bad marketing.
Not really, considering four cups is two pints.
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[...] is what I can make out after downloading and blowing up the graphic. Which begs the question, what does the slogan actually mean?
Just f'in science it.
Beer with chocolate.. who is to blame for this abominable offspring? In the name of the Reinheitsgebot I demand answers.
No but seriously, I gotta try this.. to the Irish pub!
You may need to go to a nice wine store to find some Chocolate stouts, as well as a world of other beers you may have been unaware of. My personal favorite chocolate stouts are made my Rogue and Southern Teir. Youngs Double Chocolate stout is okay and probably easiest to find, but it's fairly unbalanced and best served with food.(Deep chocolate desserts, etc.) Brooklyn makes a chocolate stout that isn't too bad either. My only complaint with that one is it is much more malty compared to the others, but that maltiness may indeed suit your taste.
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Also, I have never been in a bar that served beer in shot glasses. Although that is an awesome idea. I would be more adventurous in sampling different beers if I wasn't worried about being stuck with a pint of something undrinkable.
I was at the Boise Green Expo a couple of weeks ago; it was held in loose conjunction with a beer fest with about 30 Northwest breweries. You could buy a set of eight tickets - each ticket got you a roughly two-ounce sample of beer (or you could cash in four tickets for a glass of beer).
The hazelnut ale was the most interesting, but the Black Butte porter was the most satisfying.
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I think Dora has much less to worry about Marigold than about the foxy babe from the library...
Of course Marigold may be going to blossom soon, but that's a long "soon" I suspect!
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I've been in some bars that do that - although the glasses usually hold about 250ml (one cup) - it was nice to be able to sample different types. If I remeber right, you paid about the equivalent of two pints for the privilege.
There's a chain of pubs here in the UK that do 3 one third pints of the specials whenever theres a 'beer festival' for the price of a pint of any of them.
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Speaking of Dora... she's annoying.
What
I am not a fan of Dora and her switching from one extreme to another. I know we girls are finicky and have our mood swings but for whatever reason I find Dora extremely annoying when she does it.
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After the bout with Shy Library Girl, she's been pretty good about jealousy, actually. Remember the random redhead in CoD?
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I think Dora has much less to worry about Marigold than about the foxy babe from the library...
The foxy babe from the library is doing Steve now...
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1430
Not really, considering four cups is two pints.
I read the OP as saying you were served a cup and charged for two pints. Yes, four cups would be a better deal. A whole bunch of shot-sized measures would be better still.
London bartenders - make it so!
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I have been in microbreweries where they do this (four samples of various beers, about 250 ml each) and offer a little sheet telling about each of the drinks in the batch. Kind of a fun way to check out new beers.
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is what I can make out after downloading and blowing up the graphic.
dang. i didn't have to blow it up.
i just squinted. of course, i'm horribly farsighted and see tiny things the best for some reason.
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You know, with this hair Dora looks kinda like this one girl on Ace of Cakes? I gotta find her name.
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Apparently Faye can't comprehend people learning from their mistakes. OH NOES.
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We are the Dora... We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own... Resistance is futile...
I hear The Borg's lawyers are looking for you. :D ;)
I think Faye's being a bit childish here. It's almost as if she's jealous of Marigold taking attention away from her. Then again, knowing her insecurities, she probably feels threatened by Marigolds sudden inclusion into their little group.
Dora's punishment work here is done. Though I don't thing she would be mean enough to let Faye wet herself - Would she??
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I smiled at Dora being insecure about whether she's overcome insecurity.
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Faye doing the Pee-pee dance, I love it!
The real question is, is Faye the kind of person who can't pee if someone's talking to her? (Think Elliot Reed on Scrubs)
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Or for an example closer to home, Hannelore (from the story line featuring her mother, which I can never find in the archives).
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Hahaha yes! I love Faye and her pee pee dance! For whatever reason I love her face in the last panel.
Ergh... Dora...
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Oh man, I've been in that same damn situation, and I, absolutely CANNOT pee whilst being talked to. There was a guy back in high school who figured that out, and used it against me. How fucking low.
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Decidedly evil :evil: :-D
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Anyone notice the black woman walking out of the bathroom is a Faye twin?
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Not really
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other than the fact that she has different hair, a markedly different jawline and facial shape, thicker arms, smaller and higher boobs, is narrower-hipped and less chubby, YEAH! she's a total Faye clone! Of the african persuasian!
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Totally the same except for all the stuff that's different!
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Or there's some sort of hideous queue. Seriously ladies, I don't know how you manage without doing a small jig or something. Or do you go like 10 minutes before you think you'll need to?
I like how the door says 'Bitchez'. What would the mens say?
I wonder what Dora calls the hamster.
I like how we saw both Faye doing a jig and the title revealing the bathroom name (Sons of Bitchez). If only we knew what the hamster was called!
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Faye's facial expresion >giggle< in panel 3 is still causing me to have >giggle< giggling fits >giggle<... hurr hurr hurr 'Giggling' is a funny word >giggle<.
PS: I may or may not >giggle< be "suffering" from sleep madness >gurk<
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i am a big fan of faye's pee jig and her face in panels three and four. very funny and realistic, because having to pee desperately is a horrible thing and necessitates horrible facial expressions.
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You may need to go to a nice wine store to find some Chocolate stouts, as well as a world of other beers you may have been unaware of. My personal favorite chocolate stouts are made my Rogue and Southern Teir. Youngs Double Chocolate stout is okay and probably easiest to find, but it's fairly unbalanced and best served with food.(Deep chocolate desserts, etc.) Brooklyn makes a chocolate stout that isn't too bad either. My only complaint with that one is it is much more malty compared to the others, but that maltiness may indeed suit your taste.
Thanks, noted. :>
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I don't think Dora was that bad before, it was only really one or two incidents that she realized she was wrong about right after. If Dora was really that possessive she would have insisted Marten end the friendship with Faye long ago. She's the only other one in that cast he could have realistically ended up with.
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I don't think Dora was that bad before, it was only really one or two incidents that she realized she was wrong about right after. If Dora was really that possessive she would have insisted Marten end the friendship with Faye long ago. She's the only other one in that cast he could have realistically ended up with.
I dunno, I think if Hanners loosened up a little she would want to be with our pal Marty.
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where is Raven? Its been quite a long time
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I don't think Dora was that bad before, it was only really one or two incidents that she realized she was wrong about right after. If Dora was really that possessive she would have insisted Marten end the friendship with Faye long ago. She's the only other one in that cast he could have realistically ended up with.
I dunno, I think if Hanners loosened up a little she would want to be with our pal Marty.
Even if Marten wasn't with Dora, it's not like there are a whole lot of alternatives; Steve is with the library girl (probably), Sven is too unfaithful for her, Jimbo is too drunk all the time, and that leaves...Agent Turing?
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Nah, I say of faye did hook up with a random dude from the series it would be amir. :mrgreen:
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um, has everyone forgotten about angus?
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Last time I saw a comic strip this funny I was reading the newspaper.
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Oh well, can't be gems everyday. Gotta have a dud sometime...
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where is Raven? Its been quite a long time
Holy frell, have patience. With an absence this long, her return will be awesome.
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Or there won't be a return. :(
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Not very damn likely. Raven's just too cute and awesome a character to feed to the allosauri.
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I keep telling myself that but you never know. D:
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Marten apparently reads the forums.
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Marten apparently reads the forums.
Damn, I was about to make that joke. My hat's off to your quickness, sir. :wink:
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Martin looks like he's going to have alot of fun. ^_^
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Ok, just for the record: I have absolutely not even the most remote clue what Marten is talking about in his last statement.
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Best to keep it that way...
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but no matter what he means- it would likely be the truth.
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10 minutes of back and forth apologizing.
I wonder what the music track for that scene would be?
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does it matter if no one watches it?
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Okay, now he's just mocking us.
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Okay, now he's just mocking us.
DING!
Especialy since there was an alarming amount of creepyness occuring in the chat portion of the ustream broadcast. I recall Jeph actualy telling people to tone it down at one point. And while he was trying to work to! Sometimes i worry for the human race...
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Hahahaha! I have to agree that Jeph is just making fun of us now. And I like it.
Also, Marigold's fumblings with words and such made me "D'aaaaaw"
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Nah, I say of faye did hook up with a random dude from the series it would be amir. :mrgreen:
um, has everyone forgotten about angus?
*smacks head*
Yes, I did forget about Angus. And Amir, but we haven't seen him in a while, so that's more understandable.
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yeah, that was the first thing i thought when i read today's comic.
i cannot even really express how much marigold/hannelore shippers creep me out. or the absurd number of dudes that pop up and say "oh hannelore is my dream girl, (insert various other creepy and probably sexual things)"
i am sure jeph's freaked-outedness is exponentially higher than mine, since they are his own characters.
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hahah I said random character in the series, not likley character in the series. :-D
but yes hanners marigold shippers are a bit disturbing and I think that was Jeph mocking them.
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Yes
Misdirection
Surprise!!!
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To be honest, shipping Hannigold appealed to the tragedian in me, not the yuri fan.
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Well, we finally know: http://twitter.com/marigoldfarmer/status/3256629441
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yeah, that was the first thing i thought when i read today's comic.
i cannot even really express how much marigold/hannelore shippers creep me out. or the absurd number of dudes that pop up and say "oh hannelore is my dream girl, (insert various other creepy and probably sexual things)"
i am sure jeph's freaked-outedness is exponentially higher than mine, since they are his own characters.
That is the reason that he gave on the forums. Too many shippers.
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shippers are generally kind of creepy. i mean, the vehement and weird ones anyway.
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Vehement and weird people period are generally creepy....shippers just make it worse......>_<
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shippers are generally kind of creepy. i mean, the vehement and weird ones anyway.
This. There is a difference between "I like this pairing because it is hot/funny/fun to read/whatever" and "zomg you will never convice me that Harry and Draco/Sam and Dean/Jared and Jensen/Dom and Elijah aren't canon/having their relationship covered up by a PR conspiracy!"
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But why shouldn't they think that.
After all, Seven and B'Elanna's on Voyager was!!
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i am a big fan of the last panel in tonight's comic. ^^ especially the ripply burp effect.
and faye is being a lot nicer this comic, probably due to copious amounts of alcohol (hence the bubbles around their heads).
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I really don't get the point of burping names.
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it's fun, i guess. i never really burp words on purpose, but if i happen to have a burp while i'm talking i usually don't stop.
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Faye's sort of the opposite of a mean drunk: she's mean when she's sober.
Should she be getting drunk, though? She could lapse back into having a Problem.
"Mar-mar" would be a fun nickname, foreshadowed by the Dora/Marten dialog consisting entirely of saying just that.
Name-burping has also come up before, with Faye having trouble burping "Whitaker".
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eh, it's been a while. and it's in a social setting, it's not like she's drinking at work or by herself. i think she's ok.
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Faye's sort of the opposite of a mean drunk: she's mean when she's sober.
I believe they are called happy drunks.
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Well, now we know what's happened whenever Faye's happy like this :D
I think Mari(bear)gold has Faye beat.
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"Mar-mar" would be a fun nickname, foreshadowed by the Dora/Marten dialog consisting entirely of saying just that.
Also Marble-san , which would make fun of more than one aspect of her, yet be faster to pronounce than her name
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How about Tagete? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagetes)
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I feel the urge to point out that today's strip makes it clear that Marigold's shirt slogan is actually
SCIENCE
IS A VERB NOW
(not "IT'S...")
- Pedantic Pete
Edit: And I still have no idea what that actually means...
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I think Mar-Mar is too much like Pen Pen. But I admit I do like that because of the non-sense converstion Dora and Marten had. But I think Mar Bear is cool.
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My nickname is Mari ... I think I'd have to punch anyone who called me Mar-Mar ... probably in the face. I normally don't like to hit people in the face, but I'd make an exception.
That's worse than when I was a kid and my schoolmates tried to tease me by calling me eskimo or esquirrel ... yeah, they were lame, but it was mostly because they didn't have the guts to be mean to me.
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Ok I have to ask this question only because I've seen it used quite abit. What is a "shipper"?
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Ok I have to ask this question only because I've seen it used quite abit. What is a "shipper"?
AFAIK, shippers are those sick and depraved people , who take random two (usually both female ) chars, and then disgustingly fantasize about them engaging in intercourse and indeed call it fanfic
UPDATE: FIX'D !!!
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Ok I have to ask this question only because I've seen it used quite abit. What is a "shipper"?
The term "shipping" is, somewhat perversely, derived from the word "relationship" in the sense that the 'shipper' (a person who "'ships") conjures a romantic relationship between two or more characters in a fictional work and declares that this pairing (or more) is the the only appropriate relationship for the participants to be involved in, regardless of the established canon of the work, the authors directly stated intent and all logic.
Some "shippers" do go on to become "ficcers", or writers of fan-fiction (derivative works of fiction based [generally rather loosely] on an existing work), but that is not to say that all shippers are ficcers or that all ficcers are shippers, though the intersection between the two groups is quite large.
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AFAIK, shippers are those sick and depraved people , who take random two (usually both male) chars, and then disgustingly fantasize about them engaging in intercourse and indeed call it fanfic
Fix'd.The QC situation is an anomaly.
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AFAIK, shippers are those sick and depraved people , who take random two (usually both male) chars, and then disgustingly fantasize about them engaging in intercourse and indeed call it fanfic
Fix'd.The QC situation is an anomaly.
Very true, i forgot about the sickos writing this kind of rubbish about the Troika from Buffy the vampire slayer(one of the few US series i like very much) . Blech!
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At least Marigold is revealing hereto unknown talents.
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Ok I have to ask this question only because I've seen it used quite abit. What is a "shipper"?
AFAIK, shippers are those sick and depraved people , who take random two (usually both female ) chars, and then disgustingly fantasize about them engaging in intercourse and indeed call it fanfic
UPDATE: FIX'D !!!
I don't consider shippers or fanfic writers "depraved" or disgusting. That's pretty judgmental and rude. Many people fantasize about fictional characters from books and movies and yes even cartoons. The only difference is that fanfic gets written down. There is plenty of traditional fiction (as well as porn) created by taking already established characters and putting them in new settings and giving them new relationships where they *GASP* have sex!
There is nothing wrong with some good old kinky fantasizing. Jeph never seems to have issues with other artists taking his characters to some very graphic and kinky places. The problem comes when idiots with too much free time won't give it a rest and have to let all of us know their deep dark fantasies in an inappropriate forum. I wish more of them would just write some fanfic, get it out of their systems and move on. That's what I do.
Oh and I vote "Mar-Mar" because it's adorably gag inducing.
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It has the drawback of sounding like a ship name for her and Marten. Pity, because the others all seemed kind of lame. Maybe "Stinkypants"? But that's too much like high school Dora.
"Marigeek".
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I like Marigeek.
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HAHA! Faye can burp like a champ, and such perfect timing! Her face... oh goodness, I lol'd hard. I like Mari for a nickname but at the same time Marigold is such a pretty name! It shouldn't be shortened.
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I don't consider shippers or fanfic writers "depraved" or disgusting. That's pretty judgmental and rude. Many people fantasize about fictional characters from books and movies and yes even cartoons. The only difference is that fanfic gets written down. There is plenty of traditional fiction (as well as porn) created by taking already established characters and putting them in new settings and giving them new relationships where they *GASP* have sex!
Well , i do. Firstly , 'judgmental' is justly one of the entries in the "Dictionary of Bullshit" :D , and secondly, there are few ruder things possible on a forum than what said shippers do here.
Yes, many people do have such fantasies, and usually it is harmless, but it is very different to exposing it to public. At best such posts here inane , at worst disgusting. I do not care much , they are easy to skip, and i am not sensitive but such exhibitionism is probably not a good sign. I mean, i do consider Faye attractive, but it does not compel me to invent ways she could be coupled with random other chars.
+1 Marigeek is a good nick
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Oh dear... Faye -vs- Marigold burping contest... this can not end well...
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I vote Mar-bear. It has a bear! Everything's awesomer with bears. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitleeyyr8ln8spjv?from=Main.EverythingsWorseWithBears)
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Marigeek is golden.
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Or shorten the name from the front and call her 'gold.
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Or 'Goldilocks'. :lol:
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AFAIK,
What
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Marigold's nickname (or Faye's suggestions for it) have sort of been giving me a headache. 'Round these parts, "Marigold" is pronounced with the first syllable identical to the first syllable of "marinate". Using this pronunciation, "Mar Mar" and "Mar Bear" don't exactly roll of the tongue. Due to regional differences in the distinction (or lack thereof) between the pronunciations of Mary, marry, and merry, I'm thinking that in New England maybe the first syllable of "Marigold" rhymes with "bear", making Faye's suggestions much more palatable. But even then, Faye is from Georgia, so maybe that accent is coming into play. On the other hand, she's made efforts in the past to hide her southern accent, so it could still be the New England influence........but it still comes out sometimes when she's been drinking, as she is now.....
Whatever. This over-analysis has been brought to you by Watched Pot: I Will Never Boil.
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'Round these parts, "Marigold" is pronounced with the first syllable identical to the first syllable of "marinate". Using this pronunciation, "Mar Mar" and "Mar Bear" don't exactly roll of the tongue. Due to regional differences in the distinction (or lack thereof) between the pronunciations of Mary, marry, and merry, I'm thinking that in New England maybe the first syllable of "Marigold" rhymes with "bear"
'Round these parts, the first syllable of "marinate" does, in fact, rhyme with "bear", so you're going to have to explain in more detail.
In particular, which one of the mary/marry/merry vowels [which I know about at least academically] do you envision Marigold (and "marinate") to contain, and which do you suppose "bear" has?
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Isn't Marigold just pronounced like Mary (with a shorter A) and Gold put together?
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'Round these parts, the first syllable of "marinate" does, in fact, rhyme with "bear", so you're going to have to explain in more detail.
Hmmm....in retrospect that should have been obvious. I'm not much of a linguist, but I'll do my best to explain--I even found a sound file to help! Where I'm from (near Allentown, PA) Mary and merry are pronounced almost identically, and in these two words Mar/mer would in fact rhyme with 'bear'. Marry is pronounced differently, and this is the "mar" used in Marigold (and marinate). Maybe I should just go to the sound file:
http://www.alt-usage-english.org/mmm_rf.wav
The speaker says "Mary, dear, make me merry. Say you'll marry me," using the pronunciations to which I am most accustomed. I would say "Marigold" using the 'mar' sound the way it is pronounced in 'marry' in that sound clip--it doesn't rhyme with 'bear', and actually makes it a bit awkward to say "Mar Bear" or "Mar Mar".
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Isn't Marigold just pronounced like Mary (with a shorter A) and Gold put together?
That's how I pronounce it. I figured that was the only way to say it.....apparently I was mistaken....
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Isn't Marigold just pronounced like Mary (with a shorter A) and Gold put together?
That's how I pronounce it. I figured that was the only way to say it.....apparently I was mistaken....
I guess I was too since thats how I was saying it. :|
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Tonight: Faye and Sven will both be bummed out by the death of Les Paul and get together to mutually commiserate, etc.
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]AFAIK, shippers are those sick and depraved people , who take random two (usually both female ) chars, and then disgustingly fantasize about them engaging in intercourse and indeed call it fanfic
UPDATE: FIX'D !!!
You seek understanding
Then listen to the music, not the song
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Marten's idea is actually a really good one and I want to do it.
RIP Les Paul <3
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Marten Reed, Genius at work :D
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"Sorry for the out-of-continuity comic" ????????????
I would've been seriously bummed if Jeph had NOT devoted the comic to Les Paul today. (The only question was whether the character doing the tribute would be Marten or Sven--or both.)
Vaya Con Dios, Mr. Paul.
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the 'shipper' (a person who "'ships") conjures a romantic relationship between two or more characters in a fictional work
Though the "fictional work" part is optional (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_person_fiction#Real_Person_Slash).
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Why the FUthBRRGG^^&#-GENERAL PROTECTION FAULT AT $0CFF3E
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the 'shipper' (a person who "'ships") conjures a romantic relationship between two or more characters in a fictional work
Though the "fictional work" part is optional (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_person_fiction#Real_Person_Slash).
I prefer to call those people "stalkers."
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I have been in microbreweries where they do this (four samples of various beers, about 250 ml each) and offer a little sheet telling about each of the drinks in the batch. Kind of a fun way to check out new beers.
The Buckeye Beer Engine, which is my new favorite food and alcohol hot spot, does this. As a newbie to all things beer related, it makes trying out the hard ciders and fruit beers easier (I hate bitterness so I'm starting light, heh). The first time there we got two samples, which were roughly 250ml glasses, filled to the top, and charged a few bucks each, but after that when we ask for a sample we get about a quarter of that and they never charged us. They have an on tap sheet that lists the type (cider, IPA, lambic, fruit beer, etc.) alcohol by content and bitterness, as well as a short description of ingredients and flavors. And you can't beat them for a burger or fried pickles. Mmnm, I may have to go there tonight...
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Les Paul was like Alexander Graham Bell? You mean somebody else invented all that stuff and he bogarted the credit by getting the patent through faster?
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"Sorry for the out-of-continuity comic" ????????????
I would've been seriously bummed if Jeph had NOT devoted the comic to Les Paul today. (The only question was whether the character doing the tribute would be Marten or Sven--or both.)
Vaya Con Dios, Mr. Paul.
True dat. After I learned of Les Paul's death and sat around thinking about him, I wondered what sort of tribute comic Jeph would make. It just seemed obvious he would. :)
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Les Paul was like Alexander Graham Bell? You mean somebody else invented all that stuff and he bogarted the credit by getting the patent through faster?
No (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Paul)
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I'm glad for the deviation. I was totally bummed when I found out Les Paul died....
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i always assumed 'mar-bear' was pronounced like 'mare-bear', making it cute.
even 'mar-mar' would be 'mare-mare', which deviates it from dora and marten's babytalk, in that i assumed their's was 'mar', etc.
and i am a georgia girl myself, and if 'mar-bear' were pronounced unlike 'mare-bear', it would NOT rhyme just because of the accent, damnit. we don't pronounce 'bear' like 'bar' here.
oh and, i vote 'mar-bear'!
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Ahhh nicknames. I'll go with Mari mostly cause I Knew a girl with that name. Hmm I must be getting sentimental in my old age. :laugh:
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Les Paul was like Alexander Graham Bell? You mean somebody else invented all that stuff and he bogarted the credit by getting the patent through faster?
No (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Paul)
He was talking shit about Alexander Graham Bell, not Les Paul.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Meucci (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Meucci)
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I knew that.
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I vote Mar-bear. It has a bear! Everything's awesomer with bears. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitleeyyr8ln8spjv?from=Main.EverythingsWorseWithBears)
I just spent hours on TVTropes because you linked to it.
I can't decide if that's a good thing or not.
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Thanks for the Les Paul tribute. Another of the great ones is gone, though his works will live on.
Despite the "progress" of our times, I've always felt that all the progress since the mid-1900's is entirely due to geniuses like Edison and Einstein, and subsidiarily from people like Les Paul, who created ingenious tools based on the early great discoveries. Has anyone in the post-Boomer generation brought any significant contributions to the table?
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Well, there's this guy who put a treadmill on wheels (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0gsaDxK884) so people could run outside.
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I vote Mar-bear. It has a bear! Everything's awesomer with bears. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitleeyyr8ln8spjv?from=Main.EverythingsWorseWithBears)
I just spent hours on TVTropes because you linked to it.
I can't decide if that's a good thing or not.
It's the only purpose of linking to TVTropes.
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I spent 5 minutes on there. Boring
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I just spent hours on TVTropes because you linked to it.
I can't decide if that's a good thing or not.
The effect has been observed before. (http://xkcd.com/609/)
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When did drunk-Faye lose her Southern accent?
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There's not much space for an accent in four sentences.
The effect has been observed before. (http://xkcd.com/609/)
"It's really good when I can just link to TV Tropes, because then I know you'll have hours of reading without me having to do anything else." (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife)
Edit: Damn. I tvtropes-trapped myself.
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When did drunk-Faye lose her Southern accent?
i think its just kind of assumed at this point.
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> Has anyone in the post-Boomer generation brought any significant contributions to the table?
"The transistor is often cited as being one of the greatest achievements in the 20th century, and some consider it one of the most important technological breakthroughs in human history."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor
Wasn't even discovered until '47, and integrated circuits weren't being made in any significant quantity until the 1970's. The Interbutt didn't really come its its own until the early 1990's.
And 15 years later, we have the webcomic QuestionableContent. ;]
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Still, even the foundations for the Internet would have been laid by boomers...
That said, a huge number of non-boomers won't have had a chance yet to bring a significant contribution to the table.
First off, the US census bureau defines a boomer as anyone born from 1946 to 1964. That's a huge range, and it means the oldest non-boomers are 45.
Second, everyone else got the low-hanging fruit a long time ago. There's certainly room to bring stuff to the table, but it'll be harder to do.
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Still, even the foundations for the Internet would have been laid by boomers...
That said, a huge number of non-boomers won't have had a chance yet to bring a significant contribution to the table [...] the oldest non-boomers are 45.
Second, everyone else got the low-hanging fruit a long time ago. There's certainly room to bring stuff to the table, but it'll be harder to do.
Not sure about 'low-hanging fruit'. Principles of electro-magnetism, and much of electronic paraphernalia into the latter 1900's, were non-trivial things to discover or invent.
I've always approached the issue from my background in artistic expression (music in particular). There's a quote I once heard, though I can't remember the attribution, that says something like: The great banquet of music ended in the early 1900's (post-Romanticism). Now in our age, we are the mice after the banquet, making what we can of the leftover crumbs.
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> Has anyone in the post-Boomer generation brought any significant contributions to the table?
"The transistor is often cited as being one of the greatest achievements in the 20th century, and some consider it one of the most important technological breakthroughs in human history."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor
Wasn't even discovered until '47, and integrated circuits weren't being made in any significant quantity until the 1970's. The Interbutt didn't really come its its own until the early 1990's. [...]
Most significant work on the transistor came from Bill Shockley (the misanthropic eugenicist), who passed away in '89 at the age of 70. Not really a post-Boomer.
The PC, particularly the Apple, was developed by people solidly in the Boomer generation.
The internet is properly attributed to Vint Cert (born '43) & Bob Kahn (born '38), and not to Al Gore (who is a Boomer).
One post-boomer who does come to mind is Linus Torvalds, who came up with Linux. I'm still not sure how significant Linux is - as much as the transistor?
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I've always approached the issue from my background in artistic expression (music in particular). There's a quote I once heard, though I can't remember the attribution, that says something like: The great banquet of music ended in the early 1900's (post-Romanticism). Now in our age, we are the mice after the banquet, making what we can of the leftover crumbs.
Reminds me of the very first Dr. Who episode from the 60's. They tune in a radio transmission of the Beatles, and the girl traveling with the Doctor squees "Oooh, I just looooove classical music!"
Remember, "contributions" are judged by historians! Post boomers ain't history yet.
And the census has it wrong, the baby boom ended in 1960. In that year, birth rates returned to their pre-war level. The population was so huge by then, though, that the numbers of births were still quite high. Also, by that time, early boomers were having their own kids!
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Reminds me of the very first Dr. Who episode from the 60's. They tune in a radio transmission of the Beatles, and the girl traveling with the Doctor squees "Oooh, I just looooove classical music!"
OT: What? In the very first episode the companions are from 1963.
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The ones he picks up are, yes. But there was a girl who arrived with him. The comment was directed at the new companions, I believe...
Of course, it's been a few years since I've gone through the old rotoscopes... but I'm quite sure I'm not mistaken!
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That was Vicki, from the 25th century. The quote appears in the episode "The Chase".
I have now branded myself irredeemably as a nerd. You must now stuff me in a locker.
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You win.
I admit I hadn't thought of Susan, but once reminded I was fairly sure it wasn't something she had said. The upside is, I am now watching the 1st Doctor episodes again.
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Damn. Something else I "need" to do now!
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Aw, now who killed Oglaf?
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Apparantly, we did!
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I like it that Angus has to LOOK and THINK first before he gives his "rating" lol.
Normally one doesnt need to think a lot if asked if a certain girl is pretty.
Only thing to think about is how to say nicely that she isnt.
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Ummm... wrong week!
And this was addressed here (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,23864.msg860379.html#msg860379) - neither Hanners nor Marigold would've accepted any answer without some analytical thought. Since he obviously looked and thought, he now doesn't have to explain the thoughts...
Cagey ol' Angus!