Also, does this mean Angus will eventually have to fight Dora "sexy phase" Bianchi?Somehow that makes me think of Dora as Trinity (http://cathygeagan.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/trinity.jpg)...
Ok, is it me, or did Faye go sans-bra?
You should go see the Scott Pilgrim movie!!!
...is that Faye's cleavage or her scar?Yes.
Contrary to popular belief:Have you heard of this wonderful invention known as the world wide web?
(a) not everyone lives in the same country
(b) movie theatres around the world dont all show exactly the same movies
(c) many english movies never travel to to other countries
Or in short: scott what ?
Or in short: scott what ?
Ummm... the Scott Pilgrim author, who was heavily involved with the movie, is Canadian, not American. True, it's sometimes hard to tell the difference, but there is one.
[MorkVoice] Humour! ArArArArAr [/MorkVoice]
Contrary to popular belief:And yet you post that in the forum of an American webcomic, made by an American, which you viewed by accessing the 'internet' which has tools called 'search engines' that you could have used (like, say, Akima did) instead of bitching- about a movie based on a Canadian graphic novel series. Oh Snub, I can always count on you to say something silly for me to mock.
(a) not everyone lives in the same country
(b) movie theatres around the world dont all show exactly the same movies
(c) many english movies never travel to to other countries
Or in short: scott what ?
Scott Pilgrim VS The World was kind of like Twilight for a male audience.
Nonetheless, I guess it was better than most mainstream movies of its genre.
4. The ending slapfight is hilarious and awesome. Though I suppose this could start off the Marten/Angus shippers . . .
I reckon you could put ANYTHING in panel 2 and it would work.
My brain apparently wants me to commit suicide, because it thought of replacing Angus with goatse.
On a scale from one to 4chan, how bad is it that I immediately thought of goatse? *shudder*
Hey look! American pop-culture reference! Yeah, we're in virtual America here, Toto. And it's not as if Jeph peppers his strip with references to that most densely opaque piece of USAnian culture, baseball.Well, there WAS that one strip where the bouncer (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1071) wore an alternate Red Sox baseball cap... (http://shop.mlb.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3847587&cp=1452345.1452682.1454548)
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y31/SwitchbladeUK/ceilingcatiswatchingyoudate.jpg)I don't think Angus is up to tackling Ceiling Cat.
Okay, I'm culturally deprived - what song is Angus "quoting" in that last panel?
WARNING: extreme tastelessness hides behind this link. (http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y31/SwitchbladeUK/notsofastabortion.jpg)
It amuses me to see Faye already trying to sabotage the date.
If I'm ever going to see that Scott Pilgrim movie, the ads better be showing the stupidest scenes in the entire movie.I remember bad trailers of good movies ... but ... they are very rare.
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If you're genuinely getting upset because you don't get a pop culture reference in a Webcomic,
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Rant over, Hulk feel better.
1. I'm really not. You're so vain, you probably thinkthis songthis diatribe is about you.
2. I actually do like CAD, don't tell anybody. (Tim/Ethan is still an asshole though.)
Brr.
Do I really have to follow every reference to stuff someone throws at me ?
No, I really dont.
You are a very queer minority.
[Of course, if you like demonstrating you ignorance, wasting your own time and pissing people off, be my guest. If I were talking about you, which I'm not. Because I'm not talking about anyone specifically. I'm just saying, if one where to engage in behavior like that, what that may or may not accomplish, if anything. (and if it lasts for more than four hours, see your doctor)
Watch this, please. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjG9JcyLYbw)
On a different note - who were the three ladies Angus had to act as judge between?Er... Well, the Judgement Of Paris (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgement_of_Paris) was between Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite. So far, we've only seen Angus choose between Marigold and Faye, neither of whom much resembles any of their classical antecedents. So... I don't know.
On a different note - who were the three ladies Angus had to act as judge between?Er... Well, the Judgement Of Paris (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgement_of_Paris) was between Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite. So far, we've only seen Angus choose between Marigold and Faye, neither of whom much resembles any of their classical antecedents. So... I don't know.
I don't get half of the references in QC. But that's okay! Either I'll decide I can't be bothered and forget about it, or a quick google usually tells me what I need to know. Great way to discover new things.Yes, I didn't get the quote reference at first. Then I yahooed it and did, and knew why I didn't, too: Bouncy sets my teeth on edge. So, of course, now I wish I hadn't. Thus it goes.
And, I mean, references are everywhere. You can't be insulted when one crops up that you don't understand - then you're going to spend a lot of time being insulted.
Repeated references in various things are why I can quote movies and TV series that I've never watched.
Watch this, please. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjG9JcyLYbw)
I'm more and more surprised that still no woman here has rejected the "every lady likes to think she's got a little bit of Helen of Troy in her" part. :?
Shall we men return to the old ways and fight to death over the ladies ? :D
Oops, culture fail. Faye is Southern. Hell yes she'd want Angus to fight for her. He's not a man if he wouldn't.Hey, this is an interesting point. Someone should have picked it up and run with it by now.
Shall we men return to the old ways and fight to death over the ladies ? :DWell of course I expect a qīnggōng duel over the rooftops with traditional weapons from my suitors. But I reserve the right to have the victor executed if his calligraphy is bad, or he can't compose classical jěntǐshī (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi_(poetry)#Jintishi) praising my beauty and character. :wink:
The only sure thing is Pintsize = Eris. :lol:
(How's THAT for obscure references?)
If you want obscure, tell me what vibrophone, Trebuchet and Coelacanth have in common...The letters H and E... :angel:
Oops, culture fail. Faye is Southern. Hell yes she'd want Angus to fight for her. He's not a man if he wouldn't.Hey, this is an interesting point. Someone should have picked it up and run with it by now.
Faye has deliberately distanced herself from several aspects of her native culture. Maybe this is one of them.
She wins an internet.If you want obscure, tell me what vibrophone, Trebuchet and Coelacanth have in common...The letters H and E... :angel:
Oops, culture fail. Faye is Southern. Hell yes she'd want Angus to fight for her. He's not a man if he wouldn't.Hey, this is an interesting point. Someone should have picked it up and run with it by now.
Faye has deliberately distanced herself from several aspects of her native culture. Maybe this is one of them.
...How is this Southern culture?
(First lines of this little movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/) from over 70 years ago)
Brent Tarleton: What do we care if we *were* expelled from college, Scarlett? The war is gonna start any day now, so we'd have left college anyhow.
Stuart Tarleton: Oh, isn't it exciting, Scarlett? You know those fool Yanks may actually *want* a war?
Brent Tarleton: We'll show 'em!
Scarlett: Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war; this war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides... there isn't going to be any war.
Brent Tarleton: Not going to be any war?
Stuart Tarleton: Why, honey, of course there's gonna be a war.
Scarlett: If either of you boys says "war" just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.
Brent Tarleton: But Scarlett...
Stuart Tarleton: Don't you *want* us to have a war?
[she gets up and walks to the door, to their protestations]
Scarlett: [relenting] Well... but remember, I warned you.
You do realize current-day Georgia is nothing like Gone With the Wind, right?Of course. We have much more modern depictions to go by, like Deliverance and The Dukes Of Hazzard. :laugh:
You have The Vampire Dairies, Steel Magnolias, and Designing Women, too, at least. And, heaven help us, Matlock.You do realize current-day Georgia is nothing like Gone With the Wind, right?Of course. We have much more modern depictions to go by, like Deliverance and The Dukes Of Hazzard. :laugh:
Oops, culture fail. Faye is Southern. Hell yes she'd want Angus to fight for her. He's not a man if he wouldn't.Has less to do with being Southern, so far as I know (And I've been here a while) than class. The less a girl has, the more she wants this sort of thing.
"Culture" is a very wide-ranging term, y'all.
"Mahten, Mahten! Whatevah shall I do? Wheahevah shall I go?"
Whow. :-oShall we men return to the old ways and fight to death over the ladies ? :DWell of course I expect a qīnggōng duel over the rooftops with traditional weapons from my suitors. But I reserve the right to have the victor executed if his calligraphy is bad, or he can't compose classical jěntǐshī (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi_(poetry)#Jintishi) praising my beauty and character. :wink:
Personally, my gnocchi would've been ruined when my date started recounting her adventures in oralI confess it wouldn't be my choice of conversation-topic on a first date. But then, this isn't a typical first date is it? Faye's been sparring with Angus for comic-ages, beat him up a couple of times, and accidentally poisoned him (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1123) with dairy products (the deadliest of food groups (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=264)).
What makes you think that Sven iwould be a better lover than Angus?I wonder too.
1) More practice.Um.
2) Faye basically couldn't get enough.Ok, that one counts.
However, Faye's hand on the table in panel 4 is really bothering me. It can't be connected to her arm unless she's doing a Mister Fantastic. No forearm is visible and the elbow is below the bottom of the frame so the forearm must be horizontal, giving an impossibly long hand.Hmm ok I have been wrong in such things before, but yet I dare to disagree again. She's not having her whole hand on the table, just the fingers. The palm however is bent down so the forearm doesnt have to be completely horizontal.
VREEP VREEP VREEP VREEP...
"Captain! Sensors indicate proximity to a Toronto Maple Leafs fan!"
"Go to Blue Alert. Set photon torpedoes to disintegrate, Mister Weber."
At the risk of drawing akronnick's ire, I'm going to ask what the alphabet trick is. What's the alphabet trick?VREEP VREEP VREEP VREEP...
"Captain! Sensors indicate proximity to a Toronto Maple Leafs fan!"
"Go to Blue Alert. Set photon torpedoes to disintegrate, Mister Weber."
No need to be so drastic; there's a cure for Maple Leafs fandom now. :-P
Normally I wouldn't regard the sort of joint that has paper-napkin dispensers on the table as dinner-date-worthy (in Australia that is normally the mark of a fast-food eatery, transport café etc.), but Dora did brief Angus that it was Faye's favorite place, so I'll give him a pass.
Helen, n. A unit used by girlwatchers as a measure of feminine beauty.
Helen, n. A unit used by girlwatchers as a measure of feminine beauty.
Like Helen Narbon?
If you want obscure, tell me what vibrophone, Trebuchet and Coelacanth have in common...
Faye may be self-sabotaging -- when isn't she -- but mostly she's recycling. "Hey, Marty got a kick out of this story; I'll tell Angus!" And so she learns, different boy, different situation, different result. Win?Of course, you are talking about the guy she kept telling 'no way, no how.' Plus, unless that's not Sven she's talking about, this 'first time' you're talking about would have to be after Marten was very safely out of reach. Thinking about it, though, talking about your sex-life to a guy you led on like crazy also seems a bit twisted. Maybe Dora needs to beat Faye again.
Why has no one yet mentioned the bizarre rarity that is Faye in a dress? The suggestion that she likes Angus enough to shave her legs for him is a big step for my favorite QC girl.I've been trying not to comment on Faye's fashion choices; I think she's out of practice. Pale blue and mauve? Not ideal colour choices IMHO for a girl who's probably an Autumn, and has brown eyes and chestnut (?) hair. Get into the warm colours girl, and leave the pale blues to Hanners and Penny!
You know, you're right - aside from the fancy dress at the Terrible Truth (or whatever that bar's name is), we haven't seen Faye in a dress since the Space Canary (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=150) days!
:police: <--- Fashion Police. Edit: Possibly a ripe avocado palette (I might have got the dress a little too mustardy)?
(http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww358/AndiJF/1731.jpg)
Also, check it out, urbandictionary quotes Faye about the alphabet trick (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=the+alphabet+trick).
What? Make the changes instead of just carping about Akima's work? You must be mad.
Why has no one yet mentioned the bizarre rarity that is Faye in a dress? The suggestion that she likes Angus enough to shave her legs for him is a big step for my favorite QC girl.I've been trying not to comment on Faye's fashion choices; I think she's out of practice. Pale blue and mauve? Not ideal colour choices IMHO for a girl who's probably an Autumn, and has brown eyes and chestnut (?) hair. Get into the warm colours girl, and leave the pale blues to Hanners and Penny!
:police: <--- Fashion Police. Edit: Possibly a ripe avocado palette (I might have got the dress a little too mustardy)?
(http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww358/AndiJF/1731.jpg)
I've been trying not to comment on Faye's fashion choices; I think she's out of practice. Pale blue and mauve? Not ideal colour choices IMHO for a girl who's probably an Autumn, and has brown eyes and chestnut (?) hair. Get into the warm colours girl, and leave the pale blues to Hanners and Penny!Agreed. Either a lighter dress or maybe a deep red sort of rusty tone for the jacket, though, I think?
:police: <--- Fashion Police. Edit: Possibly a ripe avocado palette (I might have got the dress a little too mustardy)?
(http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww358/AndiJF/1731.jpg)
:[ No, this one was too realistic to be funny.
Seriously it is the best Toto song ever and I will fight you if you say otherwise.I won't say otherwise, because as far as I know it's their only song.
I'd just like to point out that Jeph has, yet a-fucking-gain, led us into the weekend on a surprise kiss. Possibly the least surprising one yet, but still, surprise kiss? Weekend?Surprise? :?
Pale blue and mauve? Not ideal colour choices IMHO for a girl who's probably an Autumn, and has brown eyes and chestnut (?) hair. Get into the warm colours girl, and leave the pale blues to Hanners and Penny!Baaaawuah?
Weirdest misheard lyrics evar: "I guess it rains down in AaaaAAAAAfrica!"Hah, so I am not alone :)
Surprise? :?
Toto? TOTO?! What person these guys' age (twenties, right?) listens to Toto? I mean, Toto IV* came out in 1982–I was in high school at the time. Faye and Angus'd have to be no more than two or so to miss being thirty now.
Toto? TOTO?! What person these guys' age (twenties, right?) listens to Toto? I mean, Toto IV* came out in 1982–I was in high school at the time. Faye and Angus'd have to be no more than two or so to miss being thirty now.
Toto? TOTO?! What person these guys' age (twenties, right?) listens to Toto? I mean, Toto IV* came out in 1982–I was in high school at the time. Faye and Angus'd have to be no more than two or so to miss being thirty now.
My favourite music was made 60 years before I was born. You don't have to have been alive when something came out to enjoy it. :P
I can't resist... I guess Faye and Angus aren't in Kansas any more, Toto.
"Africa" is a great song. And I listen to J.S.Bach. That doesn't make me over 250 years old despite what you might have heard about Taoist medicine...Toto was good, very good, but they were never, by any stretch of the imagination, J.S. Bach. Nor were they Zeppelin. Nor Jefferson Airplane. Nor Creedence. Nor the Beatles. Nor the Doors. Nor the Ramones. And so on. I liked them, but they're the sort of band I've never really associated with staying power, or, as a group, with much influence.
Speaking as another perpetually unemployed actor, I feel your pain.
DO we still count as actors if we haven't done any acting in years?
Thank you. 'Africa' doesn't even make any sense.
Besides, everybody knows their best song was "Rosanna."
....in 1982...Faye and Angus'd have to be no more than two or so to miss being thirty now.Surely it's still only 2004 in the QCverse...
Safe for Work. Slovenian group does an a capella rendition of Africa. Personally I like it better. *waits to be shot*Wow! That was pretty amazing. Not bad for a song with no staying-power... :-D
Don't worry, it doesn't make it a classic. This nostalgia too, will pass. My younger daughter was quite taken with Cyndi Lauper a couple of years ago...
We take the stuff that was pop when we grew up for granted. It will always be fluff to us. Personally, being a little older than Raoullefere, I can't understand why people like the BeeGees (didn't disco die?)I must have missed the big '80s revival in the '00s. This isn't the first time I've heard there was one, but I never saw it. Also, "Africa" is famous enough that they could have discovered it without looking for it or ever hearing any of their other work. I assume they're not the sort to say they like the band without actually listening to any of their other stuff after that though.
But nostalgia trends have a generation's delay, as kids discover their parent's music collections. In the 70's all the nostalgia was for the 50's (Happy Days just led the trend). And Disco did have a bit of a revival through the 90's. So these current 20-somethings were looking back in their teen years to... the 80's.
I know, it's a bit sad, really. But I sorta liked Africa when I heard it on the radio back then, too.
Couldn't understand most of it, but the emotions clicked.
Don't worry, it doesn't make it a classic. This nostalgia too, will pass. My younger daughter was quite taken with Cyndi Lauper a couple of years ago...
Carl, you've now got Girls Just Want to have Fun stuck in my head. I'm trying to use True Colors and Time After Time to shift it. ;-)
...I skimmed over your post and without even consciously reading the words "Cyndi Lauper", "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" started playing in my head.
...You owe me a new head.
QuoteSeriously it is the best Toto song ever and I will fight you if you say otherwise.I won't say otherwise, because as far as I know it's their only song.
Toto? TOTO?! What person these guys' age (twenties, right?) listens to Toto? I mean, Toto IV* came out in 1982–I was in high school at the time. Faye and Angus'd have to be no more than two or so to miss being thirty now.Pfft half my music selection is made of stuff released before I was born or a few years after. :lol:
Judging by Faye's reaction to Angus saying he likes James Taylor, and his prompt of "Your turn!", I'm guessing their conversation up until the sloppy makeouts was something very much along the lines of "What's your biggest musical guilty pleasure?" So I think it's acknowledging that, yeah, Toto was never great, and you could reasonably expect someone to poke fun at you if you say you're a fan (Faye clearly expects this from Angus).
Couldn't understand most of it, but the emotions clicked.Kind of like listening to opera in a language one can't understand. If Con Onor Muore (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25qOY9cwz88) doesn't at least stir the hairs on the back of your neck, I suspect you're dead.
Looks around and hopes that the ghost of Howlin' Wolf doesn't whale the tar out of him.I know how you feel. But I believe (hope?) art can transcend its cultural roots. In the clip to which I link above, a Chinese soprano sings European opera in Italian as a Japanese character. So maybe you don't have to be black and dead, legitimately to sing the blues.
Thank you. 'Africa' doesn't even make any sense.
Besides, everybody knows their best song was "Rosanna."
Faye and Angus had about a 25% chance of blurting out the same Toto song. The only four songs any normal person remembers are Hold the Line, Africa, Rosanna, and I Won't Hold You Back (the last being sort of dubious).
As far as signs and portents go, it's pretty weak sauce. But I guess any excuse for public snogging is a good one. :|
(And is it just me, or is that a mighty dainty kiss for such a passionate moment? And also, Angus is short.)
[You don't, but I was more referring to the contrast between the most recent album and "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"Looks around and hopes that the ghost of Howlin' Wolf doesn't whale the tar out of him.I know how you feel. But I believe (hope?) art can transcend its cultural roots. In the clip to which I link above, a Chinese soprano sings European opera in Italian as a Japanese character. So maybe you don't have to be black and dead, legitimately to sing the blues.
Faye and Angus had about a 25% chance of blurting out the same Toto song. The only four songs any normal person remembers are Hold the Line, Africa, Rosanna, and I Won't Hold You Back (the last being sort of dubious).
As far as signs and portents go, it's pretty weak sauce. But I guess any excuse for public snogging is a good one. :|
(And is it just me, or is that a mighty dainty kiss for such a passionate moment? And also, Angus is short.)
Well, if can channel Hanners for a moment, there's actually 10 different pairs possible using four songs (A, B, C, D): A+A, A+B, A+C, A+D, B+B, B+C, B+D, C+C, C+D, D+D. Now, while there are four combinations where they pick the same song (A+A, B+B, C+C, D+D), each one is part of the same 10 pair space. This means the chance of them both picking any one such pair is one in TEN (10%). Of course, this presupposes that the relative wieght of each song is equal. If one song or another is more or less popular, it skews the probabilities.
But really, why isn't anyone here talking about the impending relationship, other than the Angus detractors? Even the special thread for it (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,24987.0.html)'s nearly empty.
Or has it been hashed to death already?
But really, why isn't anyone here talking about the impending relationship, other than the Angus detractors? Even the special thread for it (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,24987.0.html)'s nearly empty.
Or has it been hashed to death already?
Isn't "Africa" everybody's favorite Toto song? (Except for contrarians.)"Rosanna" is the one on my iPod, not "Africa".
Wait, they did "Hold the Line"? Actually I confuse Toto & Poco as a rule. I think this may be the first time I've run across both names on the same page, so I just always conflated the two of them.Toto: Semi-hard edged L.A.-style pop rock. Did some film (soundtrack) work.
<insert favorite garbled battle-cry>
Well yeah, but you are a contrarian. :lol:
Heh. :laugh:Well yeah, but you are a contrarian. :lol:
No
"Rosanna" is also the song that won a Grammy. 'Course, Toto IV won several. I remember that because my mother wanted Melissa Manchester to win it.Well yeah, but you are a contrarian. :lol:
No, it's because "Rosanna" was the first single release from the album (Toto IV), and was the one I was generally listening to my freshman year of HS.
Aah, the good old days, sitting around the front parlor listening to the grammies on that new-fangled Phillips console radio with ma and pa, uncle Eb and all the cousins...One of my earliest clear memories is watching The Real McCoys on a big old b&w television, thanks for bringing that back. :)
What?
Without Sven-tendencies (I submit a new word, unless someone else said it first: Sventendencies) or some other questionable character traits, wouldn't a decent average guy present like this among the QC core characters?Hmmm... I think just "Svendencies" would flow off the tongue better. Just typing that pushed the image into my head of some stereotype Scandinavian blonde saying "He-llo. My name is Elsa; I come from Svenden."....
You should see how she talks about you."Rosanna" is also the song that won a Grammy. 'Course, Toto IV won several. I remember that because my mother wanted Melissa Manchester to win it.Well yeah, but you are a contrarian. :lol:
No, it's because "Rosanna" was the first single release from the album (Toto IV), and was the one I was generally listening to my freshman year of HS.
Just typing that pushed the image into my head of some stereotype Scandinavian blonde saying "He-llo. My name is Elsa; I come from Svenden."....Which in turn puts me in mind of Swindon, and, of course, Diva Fever. (http://www.swindonweb.com/?m=8&s=121&ss=1170&c=5697&t=SPINAL+TAP)
You should see how she talks about you."Rosanna" is also the song that won a Grammy. 'Course, Toto IV won several. I remember that because my mother wanted Melissa Manchester to win it.Well yeah, but you are a contrarian. :lol:
No, it's because "Rosanna" was the first single release from the album (Toto IV), and was the one I was generally listening to my freshman year of HS.
(What's scary - I actually SAW her in concert at Summerfest...)
"Rosanna" is also the song that won a Grammy. 'Course, Toto IV won several. I remember that because my mother wanted Melissa Manchester to win it.