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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: Border Reiver on 20 Dec 2009, 18:44
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And because it's that time of year - here ya go!
Enjoy.
Or not, its up to you.
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Three french toasts, two turtlenecks...
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God bless us, everyone.
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The Great One wishes you a happy holiday.
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The Great One wishes you a happy holiday.
Gretzky? :P
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decended from..
for fuck's sake, Faye, get over yourself, and go jog a mile.
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So Faye's Grandmother was a Confederate Pirate Whore.
That explains quite a bit actually.
That actually explains nothing at all.
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Or Genghis Khan. Those are the only options.
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Man, that sucks for Faye. What a whore-ibble revelation.
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I'm sorry, I'll go dig nice hole for myself now.
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I wouldn't have thought they were boarding anyone, being Yankees.
(if you take my meaning)
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"Delayed Entendre Recognition"
Best. Comic strip. Title. Ever.
:-)
I wouldn't have thought they were boarding anyone, being Yankees.
(if you take my meaning)
I'm not sure I do. You're implying Yankees were what -- celibate? impotent?
Clue me in here!
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Well, you know, they're YANKees.
And being Canadian, I not only get the reference, I've actually HAD beer in a tree. As well as the backbacon comic books and other stuff.
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I think my favorite was the look of stark utter horror on Fayes face when she realized that.
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Man, that sucks for Faye. What a whore-ibble revelation.
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I'm sorry, I'll go dig nice hole for myself now.
That won't be necessary. A box (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1410) will be sufficient.
Just make sure it's big enough for Well, you know, they're YANKees.
as well.
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5...Golden...touques. 4 pounds backbacon, three french toast, two turtlenecks, and a Beer, in a tree. :-D I think I have that song somewhere.
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Man, that sucks for Faye. What a whore-ibble revelation.
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I'm sorry, I'll go dig nice hole for myself now.
That won't be necessary. A box (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1410) will be sufficient.
Just make sure it's big enough for Well, you know, they're YANKees.
as well.
I think my point was that YANKees wouldn't GET a box...
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I think my point was that YANKees wouldn't GET a box...
*Looks over wall*
*throws snowball*
*ducks*
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"A whore! A whore! My kingdom for a whore!"
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Wait, isn't that how it usually works?
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Or Genghis Khan. Those are the only options.
why not both?
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In all likelihood, hunter/gatherer is the world's oldest profession :x
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What your ancestors did is in no way relative to what you do. Mine were blacksmiths and border reivers shipped from the Anglo-Scottish border to Ireland to "pacify" the locals. I'm only marginally competent when it comes to working with my hands, and the Canucks are hardly likely to ship me and the family to a foreign land to settle and beat down the natives because I've been nicking other people's stuff.
Looks like there are lots of people out there who know Bob and Doug - not obscure enough I guess.
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Today's results:
What do you want for Christmas?
My wife not to have to work that day 1 (4.8%)
Peace on Earth, Goodwill towards all people 5 (23.8%)
You to stop jamming your day down our throats 7 (33.3%)
Beer, in a tree (bonus points if you get the reference) 8 (38.1%)
Total Voters: 21
Looking at the results, I can see where people's priorities lie. Make it a Christmas Ale for me then and watch this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2oPio60mK4).
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In all likelihood, hunter/gatherer is the world's oldest profession :x
I think the idea is that is excluded from being called a "profession" by some technicality of the definition being used.
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Actually, if by "Professional Apologist" you mean "Politician"... yeah, I had this uncle a while back.
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So Faye's Grandmother was a Confederate Pirate Whore.
That explains quite a bit actually.
That actually explains nothing at all.
In fact, it raises more questions than before.
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What your ancestors did is in no way relative to what you do. Mine were blacksmiths and border reivers shipped from the Anglo-Scottish border to Ireland to "pacify" the locals. I'm only marginally competent when it comes to working with my hands, and the Canucks are hardly likely to ship me and the family to a foreign land to settle and beat down the natives because I've been nicking other people's stuff.
I agree, who are descended from (particularly distantly) has little to no bearing on what you are now. If you were descended from any one of the various indigenous people that were taken over by the English/French/Dutch/Whatever there is probably a reasonable amount of mixing going on, so are you really a part of the oppressed or the oppressors?
Personally I have no idea what ancestry I have, but it seems that Faye is really taking hers quite hard... odd that she should have a panic attack over her ancestors being whores rather than telling Angus about her dad. Perhaps her hysteria was misplaced...
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Things get whores before they get better. :-D
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Relieved to see the comic is up.
When I read Jeph's tweet about being incapable of movement after eating too much sushi, I was worried the blowfish toxin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugu#Toxicity) was kicking in.
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Things get whores before they get better. :-D
Another candidate for the box! And think this one's a suspendable offense...
("Hangin's too good for the likes o' them!")
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Actually, if by "Professional Apologist" you mean "Politician"... yeah, I had this uncle a while back.
I read that as "Ape-ologist" at first, and thought it was an evolution reference...
That being said, you can really get some weird impressions of your family history when you're younger. I remember thinking my mother's family was Italian when I was little.
They were Russo-Polish Jews.
And no, I have no idea where that impression came from, other than my grandma using her hands a lot when she talked...
Hope Fay's ancestral ship had effective defenses against those boarding seamen!
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Hope Fay's ancestral ship had effective defenses against those boarding seamen!
Please tell me that was on purpose...
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Hope Fay's ancestral ship had effective defenses against those boarding seamen!
Please tell me that was on purpose...
Well, if her female ancestors got boarded by yankee semen, wait for the face of Faye finding THAT out. That she is a Yank born south.
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Hope Fay's ancestral ship had effective defenses against those boarding seamen!
Please tell me that was on purpose...
Well, if her female ancestors got boarded by yankee semen, wait for the face of Faye finding THAT out. That she is a Yank born south.
Ummm.... you did read today's comic, didn't you?
Good. Just checking!
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Man, we could do this all day. I'll start the collection:
Man, that sucks for Faye. What a whore-ibble revelation.
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I'm sorry. I'll go dig nice hole for myself now.
I wouldn't have thought they were boarding anyone, being Yankees.
(if you take my meaning)
(Later) Well, you know, they're YANKees.
(Later still) I think my point was that YANKees wouldn't GET a box...
"A whore! A whore! My kingdom for a whore!"
Things get whores before they get better. :-D
Another candidate for the box! And think this one's a suspendable offense...
("Hangin's too good for the likes o' them!")
Hope Fay's ancestral ship had effective defenses against those boarding seamen!
And now some more from me:
Did the Yankees attack with different sized ships? If so, I suppose they were seamen in all vessels (seminal vesicles... yeah).
And did those ships have rubberized hulls?
Did any have cannons known for going off too early?
Did they ride whores while aboard ship, or only on the city streets?
Did they ever get an alarm from the ship and have to pull out early?
Were these seamen sent by General Hooker?
Did they get whores from all the salt spray and yelling?
I could go on for a long long time.
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Also:
Faye clearly has no desire to take up her ancestor's career. Thus she can now be classified as "whore de combat". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hors_de_combat)
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OK.
The sane folks in this forum (both of us) will be glad to know that the 53' shipping container that I ordered for the new penalty box should arrive tomorrow so we won't have to endure this constant assault too much longer.
It will slow down the pace of discussion in here if all the forum members are locked in a big metal box with no internet, but what are you gonna do?
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Either that or we'll have to endure another day of PUNishingly bad jokes.
Next - Faye goes flat on her back
After slipping in her Coffee
What? :angel:
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In all likelihood, hunter/gatherer is the world's oldest profession :x
I think the idea is that is excluded from being called a "profession" by some technicality of the definition being used.
Following a profession must provide pay of some form, even if it's only a hunk of cheese. Hunter-gathering is more direct than that. Unless, of course, you're being paid to hunt and gather, I suppose.
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You damn kids have it easy, what with your electric PICTURE BOXES which deliver dirty pictures to right where you sit, in the comfort of your own homes. In the old days people hiked uphill for miles in driving snow in nothing but their skivvies just to pound Faye's grandma for a buffalo nickel. An' they were PROUD to DUNNIT.
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Following a profession must provide pay of some form, even if it's only a hunk of cheese. Hunter-gathering is more direct than that. Unless, of course, you're being paid to hunt and gather, I suppose.
I agree. Hunter/gatherer is more of a trade than a profession.
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Following a profession must provide pay of some form, even if it's only a hunk of cheese. Hunter-gathering is more direct than that. Unless, of course, you're being paid to hunt and gather, I suppose.
I agree. Hunter/gatherer is more of a trade than a profession.
Yes. And then you trade those nuts and that rabbit for some nookie. Thus, prostitution's status as the oldest profession.
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You damn kids have it easy, what with your electric PICTURE BOXES which deliver dirty pictures to right where you sit, in the comfort of your own homes. In the old days people hiked uphill for miles in driving snow in nothing but their skivvies just to pound Faye's grandma for a buffalo nickel. An' they were PROUD to DUNNIT.
That's another thing. I assume the 'she' Faye's talking about is her great, great grandmother. For her grandmother to have been a whore in the Civil War*, she'd have to have been about 131 (at least) when Faye was born. That and/or one of Faye's parents was right spry themselves. Anyway, I hope it was a paternal ancestress. "That ole Whitaker whore"** is too good to pass up.
*Hey, alteration!
**Better alteration!
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You damn kids have it easy, what with your electric PICTURE BOXES which deliver dirty pictures to right where you sit, in the comfort of your own homes. In the old days people hiked uphill for miles in driving snow in nothing but their skivvies just to pound Faye's grandma for a buffalo nickel. An' they were PROUD to DUNNIT.
That's another thing. I assume the 'she' Faye's talking about is her great, great grandmother. For her grandmother to have been a whore in the Civil War*, she'd have to have been about 131 (at least) when Faye was born. That and/or one of Faye's parents was right spry themselves. Anyway, I hope it was a paternal ancestress. "That ole Whitaker whore"** is too good to pass up.
*Hey, alteration!
**Better alteration!
I believe you mean "alliteration"
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Either that or we'll have to endure another day of PUNishingly bad jokes.
Next - Faye goes flat on her back
Well, she's too young to go flat on her front...
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To be honest I'm curious how far this could go and in what ways. I look forward to the reactions of Sven, Marten, Hannelore, Angus, and Marigold but most especially Pintsize and Winslow...that and I wonder if the Roomba is still flying in comic-time.
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Faye's right, BTW; she does.
Also, panels 1 and 3; the girl with the nose and funky fringe: Marigold has a sister?
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Hunter/gatherer is more of a trade than a profession
It's a lifestyle!
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What your ancestors did is in no way relative to what you do.
Apart from totally banging of course... or you wouldn't exist.
And maybe emigrating... or you'd have been born somewhere else.
And banging/not banging someone with a nasty little recessive gene... or you'd be/not be suffering from haemophilia, porphyria, cystic fibrosis etc.
And making/not making lots of money... or you'd have grown up rich/poor.
And your Dad's sperm determined your sex, locking you into your society's favoured system of gender stratification.
:-D
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Yes - if our ancestor's hadn't had sex we wouldn't be here of course.
Faye seems to be bouncing back from the realization that perhaps on of her ancestors may have had a less then conventional job description. Or at least one not normally found at www.jobshop.ca
And it's the tits Faye, and the backside, and the pleasing symetry of the face. Initially. After that its up to your personality....
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And as of 0809 the results of yesterday's poll were:
What other embarassing/unsavory trades did your ancestors follow?
Any thing connected to being a sewer worker in 19th Century England 6 (20.7%)
Assistant to Baldrick 11 (37.9%)
Indian Agent 4 (13.8%)
Professional apologist 8 (27.6%)
Total Voters: 29
So I guess that was your great , great, great, great, great uncle next to mine in the photo.
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Dora tells it like it is in the last panel.
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I disagree with the idea that big tits = great tits. Big tits can often be bad, sometimes they just look like jelly or they go floppy when the girl is really young (which is just sad). Faye's tits seem reasonable though, but I wonder if she lost the weight she wants to how small they might get. Perhaps she would lose her allure and the boys would stay away from her sass?!
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Dora's tits > Faye's tits
just sayin'
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And it's the tits Faye, and the backside, and the pleasing symetry of the face. Initially. After that its up to your personality....
...and hers is like a porcupine. Which is why Sven got somewhere (he never got to know her first) and Angus hasn't (he keeps trying to get to know her!)
I know, gross oversimplification, but it was fun.
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Which is what mine was as well
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If you can forgive your ancestors for killing native americans and owning slaves, you can forgive them for being loose.
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Faye's tits seem reasonable though, but I wonder if she lost the weight she wants to how small they might get. Perhaps she would lose her allure and the boys would stay away from her sass?!
Mmmh? Did I miss something? As far as I know, Faye isn't trying to lose weight, she's aimed at being in better shape, and she isn't really overweight for a woman of her build, so...
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Faye has complained about her weight before but I can't remember anything from her Twitter feed about dieting as opposed to working out.
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Yes - if our ancestor's hadn't had sex we wouldn't be here of course.
A few years ago I went to a one-day conference run by the Sexual Freedom Coalition (http://www.sfc.org.uk/) where a friend of mine, a forensic psychologist, gave a talk attacking puritanical attitudes in society
At one point he told the audience "Take a look at your family tree. Every time two lines cross, SOMEBODY FUCKED!"
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I thought fucking created branches on family trees.
*Hey, alteration!
**Better alteration!
I believe you mean "alliteration"
I think I do, too.
And, on behalf of merrymakers everywhere, confusion unto the benighted Puritans and their 'tudes. I would say "fucking 'tudes," but perhaps they weren't.
Also, whitaker seems, somehow, a much more amusing name for a prostitute than whore. Just think: cam-whitaker, attention-whitaker, man-whitaker…
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I disagree with the idea that big tits = great tits. Big tits can often be bad, sometimes they just look like jelly or they go floppy when the girl is really young (which is just sad). Faye's tits seem reasonable though, but I wonder if she lost the weight she wants to how small they might get. Perhaps she would lose her allure and the boys would stay away from her sass?!
Ah, yes, but Faye's tits are great...at least Dora seems to think so.
And, trust me, some guys (and probably some girls) think that big tits automatically = great tits. I've known guys who dated rather homely looking women (with personalities to match) simply on account of their having very large breasts.
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I thought fucking created branches on family trees.
A scientist explains:
(http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/curriculum/Tlingit/FishCamp/images/bigd-29.gif)
"So, Billy, this is your family tree. And wherever two lines meet, SOMEBODY FUCKED!"
"Gee..."
"Why don't you run along now, Billy, and next week we'll discuss ten things you can do with a carrot."
"OK, Mr. Olson. Bye."
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I thought fucking created branches on family trees.
A scientist explains:
(http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/curriculum/Tlingit/FishCamp/images/bigd-29.gif)
But that's just a personal tree. I'm used to the kind that also branches out as it goes down, including siblings, then joining wth their partner's trees, and includng all the neices, nephews and multi-cousins-a-few-times-removed. They look more like an unearthed tree, branches above and roots below, with you in the middle somewhere...
And everytime two lines meet, someone fucked. Maybe even more often than that, if they weren't Catholic... :wink:
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just as long as all the spaces in the ancestors part of the tree are filled with distinct names, it's cool.
It's when the same names pop upi over and over again is when things get wierd.
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Confederate titties are the best titties.
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If you can forgive your ancestors for killing native americans and owning slaves, you can forgive them for being loose.
Mine weren't around for either. Someone else had already done the first by time mine were in the States, and pretty much all of my family lived in the North.
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Based on the laws of the land, the last slaves ancestors of mine would have owned would have looked remarkably similar to themselves. That being pre-feudal England and Scotland, or at least the areas of land that now have those names. Near as I can tell we were too poor to have slaves after leaving England, Scotland or Ireland and as for killing First Nations - well they had it coming. I mean look, they didn't have a piece of paper saying that they owned the land, and they weren't farming it the way Europeans did, so it really was there for the taking wasn't it? It was all self defence. :roll:
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If I were the kind of saddo who faps over cartoon characters, I'd be going nuts over Faye in those last two panels....
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If you can forgive your ancestors for killing native americans and owning slaves, you can forgive them for being loose.
Mine weren't around for either. Someone else had already done the first by time mine were in the States, and pretty much all of my family lived in the North.
I could get all obstinate and start ranting about how all you illegals should go back to Europe when you came from, but I'm only 3/1024s Cherokee, so it would feel kinda weird. But that little bit is enough for the Feds, so I get all kinds of goodies theoretically, and some in actuality, like my free dental work done this summer. Probably some other stuff if I check into it, but that would make me feel downright guilty. Getting that dental work done was costly enough to the taxpayers.
Based on the laws of the land, the last slaves ancestors of mine would have owned would have looked remarkably similar to themselves. That being pre-feudal England and Scotland, or at least the areas of land that now have those names. Near as I can tell we were too poor to have slaves after leaving England, Scotland or Ireland and as for killing First Nations - well they had it coming. I mean look, they didn't have a piece of paper saying that they owned the land, and they weren't farming it the way Europeans did, so it really was there for the taking wasn't it? It was all self defence. :roll:
I will now completely ignore your point to **shi i am an ignorant fucktard, please ban me** at your spelling of defense. :evil:
**EDIT: Aw man. If there was someplace I didn't think would have idiotic robo censoring , it would be here. I wrote S N ! GG 3R, you idiot program. See that "S" in front? That makes it completely different word! Jeez, and I thought that FPS that censored sNIPer was bad.
If I were the kind of saddo who faps over cartoon characters, I'd be going nuts over Faye in those last two panels....
I'm more worried about who might ask them about the free children.
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Certainly puts a new spin on good 'ol Southern Mountains :evil:
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Too bad that Faye's no longer hungry after just having that foot-long sandwich.
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While I can see why Martin would be annoyed (maybe hurt?) that Faye opened up so fast to Angus, she is definatly not the same person she was 1100+ strips ago. I'd say more, but we'll see how this storyline evolves.
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Now THAT'S an awkward moment. In some ways, worse than the one with Angus.
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just as long as all the spaces in the ancestors part of the tree are filled with distinct names, it's cool.
It's when the same names pop upi over and over again is when things get wierd.
Are you talking about pedigree collapse (http://www.generations.on.ca/genealogy/pedigree.htm), or simply either unimaginative, weary, or pretentious (or all of the above) parents giving their children their exact names, yea, even unto the fourth generation? And yes, Binary, I'm used to looking at (and, occasionally, dreaming up) trees that explain how individuals are related to families, not the other way around. Although I hear that's in vogue these days. Truly a celebration of the self-obsessed. (All that sweaty exercise, just to create me!)
On today's strip, I'm hoping Marten appreciates progress rather than feeling slighted. On the other hand, the road to recovery is often cluttered by chickens returning from afar and rather insistently seeking perches.
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just as long as all the spaces in the ancestors part of the tree are filled with distinct names, it's cool.
It's when the same names pop upi over and over again is when things get wierd.
Are you talking about pedigree collapse (http://www.generations.on.ca/genealogy/pedigree.htm), or simply either unimaginative, weary, or pretentious (or all of the above) parents giving their children their exact names, yea, even unto the fourth generation? And yes, Binary, I'm used to looking at (and, occasionally, dreaming up) trees that explain how individuals are related to families, not the other way around. Although I hear that's in vogue these days. Truly a celebration of the self-obsessed. (All that sweaty exercise, just to create me!)
On today's strip, I'm hoping Marten appreciates progress rather than feeling slighted. On the other hand, the road to recovery is often cluttered by chickens returning from afar and rather insistently seeking perches.
I hope he didn't mean when the same person is present on multiple levels. And man, my mom spent months putting together the family info to get us (that is, me, my cousins, and her siblings) our indian cards.
And that is an awesome metaphor that you either just created or I've never heard before. Good for situations where you are deep in a relationship and then your ex from high school walks up to you at dinner and says hi, or for that new Meryl Streep movie.
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Faye put Marten through a serious, probably months-long emotional ringer before finally having "The Talk" with him. Can you really blame him for feeling at least a little slighted that she'd tell all to Angus after only knowing him for what, a few weeks at most?
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Faye can't wear that jacket without making me think of Doonesbury's Honey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_Huan) - a very odd juxtaposition.
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ok, look
1 - Faye's great6 grandmama was not a whore, she was a sperm bank manager, and yes they had those back then, it's an established fact.
2 - Is it me or is Dora's face suffering from the first stages of Space Thunder Kids Disease?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPIR_S1Zrcc#t=1m53s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPIR_S1Zrcc#t=1m53s)
3 - Faye's tits ROCK! PERIOD!
4 - Marten, chill! She hadn't come to terms with it really till she opened up to you! Heaven forbid she evolve emotionally.
9000 - This thread is now about pancakes
(http://i48.tinypic.com/2vv2ph2.jpg)
Merry Ecksmiss everybody!
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ok, look
1 - Faye's great6 grandmama was not a whore, she was a sperm bank manager, and yes they had those back then, it's an established fact.
2 - Is it me or is Dora's face suffering from the first stages of Space Thunder Kids Disease?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPIR_S1Zrcc#t=1m53s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPIR_S1Zrcc#t=1m53s)
3 - Faye's tits ROCK! PERIOD!
4 - Marten, chill! She hadn't come to terms with it really till she opened up to you! Heaven forbid she evolve emotionally.
9000 - This thread is now about pancakes
(http://i48.tinypic.com/2vv2ph2.jpg)
Merry Ecksmiss everybody!
Agreed. Agreed. Agreed. Agreed.
Seriously, what's with all the Faye bashing lately? She's arguably one of the most complex characters in the strip, and she's finally coming to terms with her father's death. WE SHOULD ALL BE PROUD.
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It's when the same names pop upi over and over again is when things get wierd.
LotR does it, so it can't be so bad, right?
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Its just all the typical people who take works of fiction seriously.
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Looks like Faye won't be getting that deposit back, eh?
Not like it matters. Martin will forgive her by the end of the arc. He isn't the type to hold a grudge for more than a few strips.
EDIT: Also like to point out that I agree with people around here who are praisin Faye. The fact that she can casually comment on the whole suicide thing without having an episode shows massive psychological and emotional growth from the beginnings of the comic. While it was kinda tactless to mention it like that to Martin, I don't think she deserves a bashing.
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Regardless of how good it is that Faye can deal with it, it's comedy gold that she said it in front of Marten. It's like a Brick joke that took a little less than a 1,000 strips to finally come 'round!
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Also, I don't know why Marten's so freaked; he got Dora out of this whole deal and, paranoiac or not, she is still just as worthwhile a person as Faye. Wishing for what could have been will only end up souring both friendships and possibly destroying any chance of future (or continued) romance with either.
Still secretly rooting for the Faans! solution though, despite Faye not being nearly enough of a martial artist....
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While I can see why Martin would be annoyed (maybe hurt?) that Faye opened up so fast to Angus, she is definatly not the same person she was 1100+ strips ago. I'd say more, but we'll see how this storyline evolves.
Exactly. Making close friendships, learning to talk about her problems with her friends instead of just drinking herself into oblivion, getting into therapy, getting laid. *ahem* I mean, "getting into a somewhat dysfunctional relationship" . All of these things have brought her to where she can talk about this without it being such a big deal.
If she met Marten fro the first time *now* she'd be able to date him. Ah well.
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As a side note I am loving the facial expressions in these last few comics, Fayes was rather nice at the end.
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Having been through a particularly traumatic experience myself, I can attest that there comes a point where sharing it becomes considerably easier. I used to not be able to talk about it at all without reliving it, but after years therapy, healing, and friends I could confide in it became much easier. And now I can talk about it fairly openly which allows me to help pther people who hae gone through the same thing.
Faye is growing and healing, the fact that she could share so easily with Angus speak volumes.
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The thing is that Marten is worried that it speaks volumes about him (especially compared to Angus) and not her...
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And the results of yesterday's poll are now in -
What should we get Jeph for Christmas?
A previously unknown but bitchin' band 6 (13%)
A good single malt 14 (30.4%)
An end to shipping 13 (28.3%)
A week long cushion of comics 13 (28.3%)
Total Voters: 46
It's close, but we now need to get him a good single malt. I recommend Highland Park, Glen Breton (its not scotch, but it is similar, and it is a single malt), or a Glenmorangie (the port barrel is nice). Anyone in Jeph's area able to swing by the local liquor store, pick one up and drop it off on our behalf? We'll do a whip round for you...
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Well, of course - Faye was attracted to Marten, even living with him at the time.
She had to be coerced to even be friendly to Angus.
Apparently, there's some sort of inverse relationship between how much you like/care about someone and how hard it is to tell them something important!
You can call that Carl-E's Law.
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If there weren't such a relationship, professional psychiatry would be impossible.
Not calling it Car-E's law though, since it probably already has a much more obscure Latinate name and I generally prefer those.
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Anyone else just adore Dora's expression in panel 4 yesterday?
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Seems to be Faye's week for Foot In Mouth moments this week.
Still, nice to see some character growth in her. Hers and Marten's faces in the last panel are priceless.
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If there weren't such a relationship, professional psychiatry would be impossible.
Not calling it Car-E's law though, since it probably already has a much more obscure Latinate name and I generally prefer those.
Would the Carolinius Epsilonion Relationship Dynamic be better? (Why, yes, my grasp of Latin truly doth suck.)
Eagles are coming up, I suppose.
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Faye has finally come to the realization that she may, indeed, be a bitch.
In other news, the Earth shifted on it's axis this morning, causing the planet to fly into the sun.
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Faye has finally come to the realization that she may, indeed, be a bitch.
In other news, the Earth shifted on it's axis this morning, causing the planet to fly into the sun.
I thought that that would be Hell freezing over
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If anyone's actually doing the 'get Jeph a single-malt for the holidays', I'm in for $5. Lemme know who to paypal.
What I came in to say was that I'm glad for
a) A strip with a dry punchline
b) interaction between the strip's founding characters [which has been lacking for a while]
c) Some emotional development [openness/acceptance on Faye's part, misuse/chagrin on Marten's]
d) Faye's tits. Though that's not a new appreciation, but rather on cultivated for years now.
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10 Generate super-awkward moment
20 Things go badly
30 Meet another friend
40 GOTO 10
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Faye put Marten through a serious, probably months-long emotional ringer before finally having "The Talk" with him. Can you really blame him for feeling at least a little slighted that she'd tell all to Angus after only knowing him for what, a few weeks at most?
It's had to have been longer than that. Angus was frequenting Coffee of Doom long before the time jump. Maybe Faye's been something other than cruel to him for just a few weeks.
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10 Generate super-awkward moment
20 Things go badly
30 Meet another friend
40 GOTO 10
No. Just no. No GOTO. NO FRIGGIN' GOTO, DAMMIT! BAD! BAD!
*pants*
Duuh, sorry for lashing out like that. Professional reflexes at play (and fear of velociraptors (http://xkcd.com/292/)).
Here's how it should be properly coded to ensure disaster:
while(faye.hasIssues())
{
AwkwardMoment oops = faye.talksTo(Friend(faye,"male").randomPick());
oops.getWorse();
faye.issues.add(oops.getResult());
}
(heh, this forum has a "code" container, I guess it's not used very often around here)
And that's just a Java (ish) version. Behave, or I'll go Perl on you.
EDIT: and I apologize for this exceedingly nerdy post. I tend to lose my temper when "GOTO" is involved.
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That code doesn't even have an exit condition, it is an infinite loop.
Very. Bad. Form.
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I wouldn't know if i was bad form or not - the last time I had to actually prepare a computer program, it was on punch cards.....
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Since "The Talk" concluded with Marten insisting Faye get help and get out of what he (correctly) referred to as "stasis," he'd be something of an ass to be upset that Faye has made progress (even realizing what her past actions really amounted to seems to me to be progress). Which, of course, may not stop him, but one can hope.
Specifically, let's hope he tells her "That's great!" next strip. Or whenever regular programming resumes.
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Jeph tweeted a little while ago that tonight's strip involves Marten and Fayes relationship and how hard it is to write, so hopefully we won't be cliff-hangered until tomorrow.
He also said something about a "Very Swet-tits New Year" so Yay?
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That code doesn't even have an exit condition, it is an infinite loop.
Very. Bad. Form.
Well, it was all about ensuring disaster. If I had wanted to put an exit condition, I could have involved the object drCorinne somewhere, for example. As an instance of Therapist class, it has that nifty method tryToHelpSolveIssue(Sicko patient) that can invoke the workOnIssue(Issue issue) of the Sicko class. The result depends on many properties of the Therapist and Sicko objects, but...
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Since "The Talk" concluded with Marten insisting Faye get help and get out of what he (correctly) referred to as "stasis," he'd be something of an ass to be upset that Faye has made progress (even realizing what her past actions really amounted to seems to me to be progress). Which, of course, may not stop him, but one can hope.
Specifically, let's hope he tells her "That's great!" next strip. Or whenever regular programming resumes.
Well, this is Marten we're talking about. Of course it will stop him. Now, even if he's pretty much a staple genuine nice guy, he has his mischievous sides, so he might 1) briefly act upset just to mess with Faye or 2) merrily snark about it.
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Faye has finally come to the realization that she may, indeed, be a bitch.
In other news, the Earth shifted on it's axis this morning, causing the planet to fly into the sun.
I thought that that would be Hell freezing over
Actually, Hell is probably going to be getting hit with a major snowstorm in a few hours.
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"Flower-Pits?!"
LOVE IT.
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I love it when Faye speaks openly about how she feels, instead of hiding behind snark and sarcasm. A "d'aww" strip indeed.
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D'awwwwwwwwwwwww
I wouldn't know if i was bad form or not - the last time I had to actually prepare a computer program, it was on punch cards.....
Holy crap! You must be, like 40 or something! (In a related note, I found a hard drive of my dad's this morning in the garage. From 1985. It was horrifying.)
Actually, Hell is probably going to be getting hit with a major snowstorm in a few hours.
I presume you mean Hell, Michigan.
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Daawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
*Rising swell of Violin music*
Nice to see Faye growing a bit in this one though.
I'm just glad that Tai doesn't use Brute 33
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D'awwwwwwwwwwwww
I concur.
Actually, Hell is probably going to be getting hit with a major snowstorm in a few hours.
I presume you mean Hell, Michigan.
You are correct, sir.
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"You are a true friend flower-pits." I love it.
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She's had the boy by the figurative-if-not-literal balls almost their entire relationship, and she's crying that she'll lose him over this? I don't blame him for folding, but honestly she's emasculated him to the point where she could have smashed his guitar to tiny bits, right in front of him, and he'd still have forgiven her.
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Daawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
*Rising swell of Violin music*
Nice to see Faye growing a bit in this one though.
I'm just glad that Tai doesn't use Brute 33
I would've thought she'd use English Leather, myself. And I think there at least needs to be some woodwinds in that orchestra.
Also, I'm glad to see some folks have never had to be as vulnerable as Faye is in this strip. It's not a fun place to be.
Time to join the chorus: Daawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
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Daawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
*Rising swell of Violin music*
Nice to see Faye growing a bit in this one though.
I'm just glad that Tai doesn't use Brute 33
It would not entirely surprise me if Tai just kept the flowery one as a backup for herself and made Marten use it as a joke :-P
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I wouldn't know if i was bad form or not - the last time I had to actually prepare a computer program, it was on punch cards.....
Holy crap! You must be, like 40 or something! (In a related note, I found a hard drive of my dad's this morning in the garage. From 1985. It was horrifying.)
Yes, and I can remember when a Commodore 64 and the Vic 20 were the height of personal computing technology with a whopping 64K of memory, and tape drives.
There's the the positive nostalgia I reserve for the early days of Citadel minis and the early days of dating my wife, and then there is the "look how far we've come, baby".
And back on topic, Marten has obviously forgotten that the platonic friends hug requires you to keep your hand off friend's hips and ass.
I presume you mean Hell, Michigan.
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And the result of yesterday's poll:
What are you expecting from Christmas?
Nothing - I don't celebrate the season of overconsumption 10 (31.3%)
Somthing thoughtful and unexpected 9 (28.1%)
The family to squabble all flippin' day 9 (28.1%)
To have my faith in humanity renewed for another year 4 (12.5%)
Total Voters: 32
Apparently, there are a lot of you who may be somewhat upset with the loss of religious sentiment for Saturnalia, Yule, celbration of the Birth of Christ, Hanukah, Kwanzaa, etc.
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D'awwwwwwwwwwwww
I wouldn't know if i was bad form or not - the last time I had to actually prepare a computer program, it was on punch cards.....
Holy crap! You must be, like 40 or something! (In a related note, I found a hard drive of my dad's this morning in the garage. From 1985. It was horrifying.)
He's probably more like 50, unless he worked for a company that was really behind the times. Or the government. Surprisingly, large organizations like the government and the really big businesses are sometimes more likely to be behind on current technology than smaller groups, simply because their size means that it takes a considerable investment to upgrade.
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D'awwwwwwwwwwwww
I wouldn't know if i was bad form or not - the last time I had to actually prepare a computer program, it was on punch cards.....
Holy crap! You must be, like 40 or something! (In a related note, I found a hard drive of my dad's this morning in the garage. From 1985. It was horrifying.)
He's probably more like 50, unless he worked for a company that was really behind the times. Or the government. Surprisingly, large organizations like the government and the really big businesses are sometimes more likely to be behind on current technology than smaller groups, simply because their size means that it takes a considerable investment to upgrade.
Damn kids - no sense of history!
I still have the VT100 and the 800 baud modem I used to write my thesis with on the mainframe...
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I wrote my thesis on a electronic typewriter. And for your information that computer program was written in highschool.
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Daawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
*Rising swell of Violin music*
Nice to see Faye growing a bit in this one though.
I'm just glad that Tai doesn't use Brute 33
It would not entirely surprise me if Tai just kept the flowery one as a backup for herself and made Marten use it as a joke :-P
It was probably left behind in the library, and she keeps it in the "Lost & Found" drawer of her desk.
Along with several condoms and maxi pads (unused) (they fell out of girl's bags when rummaging for other stuff), several pair of glasses, a dozen notebooks and about 30 umbrellas.
The employees use the umbrellas more than anything else
--former library employee
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Apparently, there are a lot of you who may be somewhat upset with the loss of religious sentiment for Saturnalia, Yule, celbration of the Birth of Christ, Hanukah, Kwanzaa, etc.
You got that right. I mean, no bonfires, my employer got angry when I told her she was a "silly clunk," and no groups walking around naked and singing in the streets—not one! Darn kids—no sense of tradition whatsoever. Some fool wearing his freedman's cap actually tried to tell me it had something to do with 'Santa.' Like there's any gens named that.
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I would certainly hope Marten isn't capable of the dickishness to begrudge somebody for not revealing her father's suicide to him fast enough.
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but honestly she's emasculated him to the point where she could have smashed his guitar to tiny bits, right in front of him, and he'd still have forgiven her.
Hehehe... I thought I was the only one who thought that way. Nothing really wrong with Marten, but I think that this comic went way too fast and maked me feel like Marten will forgive pretty much everything.
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Apparently, there are a lot of you who may be somewhat upset with the loss of religious sentiment for Saturnalia, Yule, celbration of the Birth of Christ, Hanukah, Kwanzaa, etc.
You got that right. I mean, no bonfires, my employer got angry when I told her she was a "silly clunk," and no groups walking around naked and singing in the streets—not one! Darn kids—no sense of tradition whatsoever. Some fool wearing his freedman's cap actually tried to tell me it had something to do with 'Santa.' Like there's any gens named that.
Something similar happened to me. Must be some sort of barbarian conspiracy. All the votive offerings on the trees, this individual also claimed to be working with elves. Clearly it is something strange from Germania, Hibernia or Caledonia....
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D'AWWWWWWW.
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Something similar happened to me. Must be some sort of barbarian conspiracy. All the votive offerings on the trees, this individual also claimed to be working with elves. Clearly it is something strange from Germania, Hibernia or Caledonia....
Gods, I hope not. Some of those people impale perfectly useful animals and servants on trees, y'know. I'm perfectly willing to bankrupt myself on viands and wines to demonstrate my status, but that sort of wastefulness is going too far.
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I don't blame him for folding, but honestly she's emasculated him to the point where she could have smashed his guitar to tiny bits, right in front of him, and he'd still have forgiven her.
Oooh yeah! Because a real man holds grudges, right? Or at least lays on the passive-aggressive guilt trips for a couple of months. What a mensch!
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Oooh yeah! Because a real man holds grudges, right? Or at least lays on the passive-aggressive guilt trips for a couple of months. What a mensch!
*Applause*
You, I like.
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Oooh yeah! Because a real man holds grudges, right?
I understand how that is not a good behaviour at all but it doesn't stop to surprise me a little bit since even though it's not a good way to act, it's still a very normal way to act :-)
Although smashing someone's guitar intentionally is just way too much hahaha :-D
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Something similar happened to me. Must be some sort of barbarian conspiracy. All the votive offerings on the trees, this individual also claimed to be working with elves. Clearly it is something strange from Germania, Hibernia or Caledonia....
Gods, I hope not. Some of those people impale perfectly useful animals and servants on trees, y'know. I'm perfectly willing to bankrupt myself on viands and wines to demonstrate my status, but that sort of wastefulness is going too far.
Exactly, and most of them throw perfectly good battlefield plunder into ponds while offering prayers - good thing we don't do that here, who knows where that sort of behaviour could lead.
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Faye is likable with her armor off.
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Oooh yeah! Because a real man holds grudges, right?
No one's talking about Marten eating red steak barehanded, wrestling bears and alligators, or telling his bitch to get back in the kitchen and get him a cold beer. We're talking about the fact that Faye talks as if Marten is the only thing between her and some abysmal psychological hell; and yet she still tends to treat him like crap. The only reason he's even still there for her, is because he rolls over despite it. So yeah, it's a cute moment when she realizes that something that she did hurt Marten, and they hug over it. It's also pretty damn revealing when she starts crying when he actually tells her how he feels for once.
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Has Faye really treated Marten that badly? Yes, she blue-balled him pretty badly but that's not really her fault--she's emotionally fragile and has a reasonable justification for doing that. And I'm assuming he likes her snarkiness or else he'd never put up with her. What exactly should he not be forgiving her for?
On another note: Faye's not mad at Angus now, but I suspect that she WILL be mad at him when she finds out he's told Marigold. By tomorrow around fifty people will know that her dad killed himself (including a bunch of World-of-Warcraft Players).
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Augh! My Eyes! MY EYYYYEEEESS :-o
Also, Steve's metaphor is very disturbing.
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Has Faye really treated Marten that badly?
69. 108. 123. 378-379, provoked but still an overreaction.
Faye herself thinks she has treated Marten badly. Remember how she felt about meeting his mother. Also other occasions when she apologized for the way she treated them, but if I posted the comic numbers then people might realize that I'm a nerd. (It's a big secret, you see).
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I think Jeph just wanted an excuse to draw Steve without a shirt again.
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Rawwwrrrr!!!!
and ROFLMAO!
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Time to jump some skinny indie ass.
I'm so lonely.
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Are you sure you're not ronery? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh_9QhRzJEs)
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Backtrack for a moment: Hey, look at that, it's a completely adorable Questionable Content comic, and Hannelore is nowhere to be found! Who would have thought? I approve heartily.
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Good to see that despite all the protestations to the contrary, it's still all about me.
What are you looking forward to in the New Year?
Nothing - I don't see the new year being any better than the last 3 (9.7%)
The people of the world to suddenly realize that being asses to each other is just a bad idea. 8 (25.8%)
Screw that nice shit, where's my flying car? 11 (35.5%)
Pancakes 9 (29%)
Total Voters: 31
As everyone wants the special toy.
No poll for today - and Jeph, my wife says thanks for the cheesecake. It goes well with the chocolate I got her.
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Am I the only one who wants Christmas cards with today's comic on them?
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What has been seen . . . .
*Shudders*
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A: This is really not that sexy, nor is the most realistic still photograph I can approximate to it mentally.
B: Anyone who's actually creeped out by this...honestly? You've been on the Internet how long?
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What has been seen . . . .
*Shudders*
Man, I have got to figure out a way to market my neural firewall without the neurosurgery scaring people off.
I know brain bleach is traditional, but imagine it; the ability to browse Pintsize's entire catalogue without as much as flinching once....
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What has been seen . . . .
*Shudders*
Man, I have got to figure out a way to market my neural firewall without the neurosurgery scaring people off.
I know brain bleach is traditional, but imagine it; the ability to browse Pintsize's entire catalogue without as much as flinching once....
I don't even think Pintsize can do that.
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Awesome!
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Good to see that despite all the protestations to the contrary, it's still all about me.
What are you looking forward to in the New Year?
Nothing - I don't see the new year being any better than the last 3 (9.7%)
The people of the world to suddenly realize that being asses to each other is just a bad idea. 8 (25.8%)
Screw that nice shit, where's my flying car? 11 (35.5%)
Pancakes 9 (29%)
Total Voters: 31
As everyone wants the special toy.
No poll for today - and Jeph, my wife says thanks for the cheesecake. It goes well with the chocolate I got her.
The last poll is still open - pancakes have caught up with the flying car. Probably something to do with Christmas morning and all...
How about flying pancakes? (http://www.chriscakesofmi.com/index.htm)
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Only if there is bacon involved. Bacon makes it better.
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Bacon is dangerous (http://www.popsci.com/bacon)
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Dangerous, but still delicious.
Besides, that was prosciutto, not bacon!
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Them ain't eagles—them's jaybirds!
How about flying pancakes? (http://www.chriscakesofmi.com/index.htm)
Wasn't that a screensaver about a hundred years ago?
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I think you're getting it confused with flying toasters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Dark_(software))?
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d8/After_Dark_Flying_Toasters.png)
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I still say bacon makes it better, and if its dangerous, then that just amps up the awesomeness.
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So, in addition to being the new chocolate, is bacon also the new fugu?
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So ong as we can run faster than the pig.
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I think you're getting it confused with flying toasters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Dark_(software))?
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d8/After_Dark_Flying_Toasters.png)
I miss After Dark.
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So long as we can run faster than the pig.
With too much bacon, you won't be able to catch the pig. This sets up an interesting loop;
Run faster than a pig
Eat lots o' bacon
Get too fat
Run slower than a pig
No more bacon
Lose weight
Run faster than a pig...
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Run faster than a pig
Eat lots o' bacon
Get too fat
Run slower than a pig
Hire a hunter
Fixed.
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Run faster than a pig
Eat lots o' bacon
Get too fat
Run slower than a pig
Hire a hunter
The hunter eats lots o' bacon
Gets too fat
Runs slower than a pig
Hires a hunter
It's a vicious cycle...
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...domesticate pig.
breed pigs to be slow and fat.
pig is easier to catch, and yields:
MOAR BACON!!!1!!
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Press button
Receive bacon
Enjoy bacon
Get too fat
Can't press button
No more bacon
Lose weight
Press button...
Fixed.
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For anyone who missed out on the meme, "push button" refers to the picture that can be found at http://blog.cartelagency.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/push-button-receive-bacon.png
I first saw that here, in the avatar of a user named "Alison".
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Thank you! I saw that on a washroom dryer a while back, and would never have made the connection...
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The previous posts were brought to you by the Pork Products Marketing
Conspiracy Board
"Bacon, the food of the Gods."
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The food of the gods is ambrosia. They don't seem to be much for salty snacks.
...domesticate pig.
breed pigs to be slow and fat.
pig is easier to catch, and yields:
MOAR BACON!!!1!!
Some might point to this as what's wrong with our world, perhaps referring to the domestication of animals, the impact of this on hunters' incomes, or our growing inability to spell. But they're missing the point: the real thing that's wrong with the world is that we've a Pig Bomb.
Thus, all you bacon fanatics might give a thought to arming yourselves (or hiring hunters) and venturing down South. I repeat, we have a pig bomb here, people! (Which translates to bacon you don't have to raise, so long as you don't mind that it fights back) http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/pig-bomb-super-pigs.html
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LOLing that Discovery felt they had to sub-title the redneck!