And everyone who is not jwhouk uses http://www.ohnorobot.com/just when you think you've seen it all...
A combination of the ohnorobot QC search engine (http://www.ohnorobot.com/index.pl?comic=32) and jwhouk's summary (which he's been willing to share by PM). Sometimes I search for strip titles but encounter the exact same problem that you do.
Ohnorobot is best when you remember dialog from the strip you're looking for or another in the same arc. This usually works since Jeph's dialog is so memorable. The downside is that it's missing the most recent strips and has a gap at roughly 920-980. The jwhouk episode guide beats it completely on coverage, for strips like the boyfriendbot assgrab which have no dialog, and for anything where you can't remember the dialog or it's too generic.
Now that I've given away my secrets it won't look like I'm an obsessive memorizer any more. On the bright side it will be easier to conceal that I'm a nerd.
751 Swedish-design poking stick
752 Mild, Medium, or Southern Spicy BBQ? (customer with the Elvis hair)
753 Mom sends Marty a package: "I AM THE PRETTIEST PRINCESS" t-shirt!
754 Elephant seals, corsets, and mating season (Penelope strikes back!)
755 Penelope and the term "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"
756 I am NOT crazy! "That's just what I'd expect a CRAZY PERSON to say!"
757 Pintsize has a peace offering for the Roomba ("void all of your warranties.")
758 Chariot race with the Roomba! (off the edge of the stairs)
759 Get a toothpick for Hanner's Hard Reset Button
760 OMG Turkeys 2006!
761 Chinese Delivery Guy! (non-speaking role, last "costumed" delivery character); Tai has her own social circle
762 Faye: "I wish I had someone to cuddle and watch movies with me." Sven: "Spider sense… tingling!" (Bimbo: That's just my chapstick…)
763 Boo-boo, Dora's stuffed bunny
764 Raven is shocked about Marten
765 Tai talked to Bailey… and it didn't go well. Then she, Serena and Ashley… hooked up. "Ornithologist" joke.
766 Drusilla of Boreheim Manor, by Rutherford Wainwright Ashecrofte – aka Jimbo!
767 Angus (still unnamed): "Where's the Cranky Brunette?" Daily Dose of Contrariness; Penelope: Bop you over the head with a Carafe.
768 Tai: "Trashy, poorly written, incredibly sexist towards BOTH genders, and the most entertaining thing I've read all year!"
769 That dude who always comes in…
770 19th Century Porn?
771 Introducing Tai to Jimbo – and Penelope's "vice"
772 Dora the Warmth Vampire! "A good corpse desecration joke"
773 Others who've seen Dora naked (and Tai hits on Dora?)
774 "The entirety of our culture is a vast conspiracy manufactured by the diamond cartels!"
775 Marty warns Tai about Faye
776 Adorable Butch Girl!
777 Jimbo: "Wait, what? You LIKED it?" Gonzo Romance Novelizing! Hunter S. Thompson would be proud
778 Dora & Faye "Girl Talk"
779 Entre nous Angus
780 Too stupid and self-centered to realize she doesn't enjoy matching wits with him. Plate Glass Window
Gaines, Penelope (698) – Ex-bookstore worker (and former Pizza Girl?) roped into working as barista at CoD. Will's girlfriend after a rather unusual courtship. Doesn't care much for Angus' sass talk. Has a Twitter account, which she usually uses to comment on more esoteric issues, like books.
Genevieve (676) – Another blonde ex-conquest of Sven who corners him at a bar – and Marten hilariously tries to hit on to "distract" her so Sven can make his escape.
Giraffe (1376) – Friendly animal with a long neck at the NoHo Zoo that licked Hannelore on the head. She started screaming and, as a result, was asked to leave.
Girls, Sorority (1278) – Pair of girls who talk about the tattoos they plan on getting as they leave Coffee of Doom; Dora didn't care much for them.
Harmonix Guitar Shop Guy (931) – Guy who sold Marten the 1970 Gibson SG guitar (for most of the money he won in that bet with Hanner's mom).
Harriet (1162) – Sven's lawyer. She's impervious to his charms; she prefers his money (in the form of checks). Faye mistakenly thought he was his latest "squeeze".
Hot Topic Goth Chick (46) – Goth gal whom Faye insulted over the contents of the faux indie store where she was working. Looks a lot like Raven.
Intern, Surrogate Punching (209) – Just what it says on the label. He got beat pretty bad by a woman having twins before coming in to "help" Faye.
Anyone remember the person with the complete character list from a while back? Was that you also, jwhouk? The search was no help...That would be me. And I've updated it a bit to feature latest adventures of Angus, Marigold and Hannelore.
That's much more practical than what I achieved the time I tried to analyze the frequency of character appearances in strips. I got to 1200 or so… I did demonstrate Faye had displaced Marten himself as the central character for a time. Now i think they're even—or it may be a triad with Hanners.
Anyone remember the person with the complete character list from a while back? Was that you also, jwhouk? The search was no help...That would be me. And I've updated it a bit to feature latest adventures of Angus, Marigold and Hannelore.
PM for a copy.
Hot Topic Goth Chick (46) – Goth gal whom Faye insulted over the contents of the faux indie store where she was working. Looks a lot like Raven.Jeph confirmed in the Ask Jeph thread that Hot Topic Goth Chick was Raven.
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...memorize the number and content of every strip so that in a discussion you can say things like "but what about number xyz, faye did ć thing there"?Nope. Not at all. I have a very dim concept about what happened in the past of QC.
I swear that Jeph did this strip (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1640) INTENTIONALLY.
Nor am I, that. Nor do I in all likelihood want to discover where one's pobble is.