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Title: Place Your Bets, Please
Post by: mike837go on 20 Jun 2011, 05:05
Last week's WCDT (1946-1959) suggested August of 2012 as the time we'll finally see the party.

The dialog in today's (Monday 6/20) strip strongly suggests that it isn't Friday yet, since Marten says "Friday" not "Tonight".

My imaginary money has July 6, 2011 as the first strip that takes place at the party.

Unless we get side-tracked on Dora and Jim...

Any other guesses?
Title: Re: Place Your Bets, Please
Post by: Kugai on 20 Jun 2011, 15:01
100 Fanian Pobble Beads on November 12, 2012
Title: Re: Place Your Bets, Please
Post by: DSL on 20 Jun 2011, 16:25
Two million quatloos on Stardate 3211.7
Title: Re: Place Your Bets, Please
Post by: jwhouk on 20 Jun 2011, 16:26
Let's see... I'm actually betting it'll be before next week.

I'll take June 27.
Title: Re: Place Your Bets, Please
Post by: Thiefree on 20 Jun 2011, 18:13
TOMORROW

(http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u71/Thiefree/7f7b9a7a-a935-4a35-a15a-d3c9c33c11b0.jpg)

Just kidding. It'll be ages.
Title: Re: Place Your Bets, Please
Post by: akronnick on 20 Jun 2011, 23:15
Something tells me it will somehow be involved with the SDCC guest week that Jeph does every year and is coming up in a few weeks.

Like the end of the date will be the cliffhanger or something.
Title: Re: Place Your Bets, Please
Post by: TheEvilDog on 21 Jun 2011, 11:39
We'll either have some of the party this week, maybe the last panel on Friday is Dora meeting Jim at the restaurant and then...... Guest Week!
Title: Re: Place Your Bets, Please
Post by: AbsentiaFall on 22 Jun 2011, 23:28
 :psyduck:

The party probably won't get nearly as much comic time as the date will. Which is unfortunate because I was kind of looking forward to Marten finally having something to do in the comic as opposed to the plot just happening to him. It's like every character has grown and changed except for Marten...
Title: Re: Place Your Bets, Please
Post by: mike837go on 27 Jun 2011, 11:48
Two million quatloos on Stardate 3211.7

You grabbed the spirit of the thread with both hands....

And did the research too!

I love you, man!


[Bros....Bros.....Bros!]
Title: Re: Place Your Bets, Please
Post by: gprimr1 on 28 Jun 2011, 10:07
The party should be going on now though:

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1945

If Dora can't go to the party because she has a date, and she is on the date now, thus the party should be imminent. Assuming it really is going to be a big deal and not just a non-starter.
Title: Re: Place Your Bets, Please
Post by: mike837go on 28 Jun 2011, 11:34
It's all-well-and-good that, in the real world, two events can occur at the same time.

However, we are guessing when the other event will actually be presented to us (the audience).

Considering the relativistic properties of Time in a soap-opera comic strip, (nearly 8 years of production has been around 3 years for the characters) Our Stroryteller can give us a snippet of The Party. Show the entire shin-dig or we stay with Dora all of Friday night. Then Dora open's the shop Saturday morning with Faye, Raven, Hanners, et al all suffering from massive hangovers.....

This thread is simply about silly speculation of events we have no control over.

Have you ever read Heinline's The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress?  Manny compare's the complaints of the prisoners to a bunch of kittens in a box. We are those kittens.

This is fictional bets on what we would like to see.  What Mr. Jacques decides to do and when is totally up to him and we will enjoy every moment of it!
Title: Re: Place Your Bets, Please
Post by: jwhouk on 28 Jun 2011, 17:30
I have a similar situation at my workplace: it's called "confinement relativistic time dilation". You think something is taking longer than it should, simply because you have no way of knowing how much time has elapsed.
Title: Re: Place Your Bets, Please
Post by: mike837go on 29 Jun 2011, 05:05
I have a similar situation at my workplace: it's called "confinement relativistic time dilation". You think something is taking longer than it should, simply because you have no way of knowing how much time has elapsed.

And it's complement: "Time Flies When You're Having Fun".
Title: Re: Place Your Bets, Please
Post by: Carl-E on 29 Jun 2011, 09:15
As you get older, you realize that time flies whether you're having fun or not. 

It only creeps when you're waiting...
Title: Re: Place Your Bets, Please
Post by: mike837go on 29 Jun 2011, 11:04
Creeps in the waiting room?
Title: Re: Place Your Bets, Please
Post by: TheEvilDog on 29 Jun 2011, 17:17
How was it Einstein tried to explain Relativity? (It may be anecdotal) Place your hand on a hot stove and a minute can seem like an hour. Be in the company of a beautiful woman and an hour can seem like a minute. My question is...why would you leave your hand on a hot stove for a minute?  :psyduck:
Title: Re: Place Your Bets, Please
Post by: Near Lurker on 29 Jun 2011, 17:21
I can't imagine Einstein would have explained it in such a pop-physics, mystical kind of way...
Title: Re: Place Your Bets, Please
Post by: nonethousand on 30 Jun 2011, 01:16
me thinks the answer is...

today!! :angel:
Title: Re: Place Your Bets, Please
Post by: cesariojpn on 30 Jun 2011, 01:24
The world ends......hmmm, so which nutjob religion/prophet/loony do you wanna use?
Title: Re: Place Your Bets, Please
Post by: mike837go on 30 Jun 2011, 05:20
Ok, the official appearance of the party is June 30, 2011.

All of those who selected that date may see the cashier to collect your winnings.

Title: Re: Place Your Bets, Please
Post by: Carl-E on 30 Jun 2011, 05:25
Oh, good.  I'd forgotten what we were betting on!