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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: jwhouk on 30 Mar 2014, 17:26
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And here... we... go!
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April 24th?
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It's a long week... :oops:
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Well then. That's a bit different than the last time Marten got that drunk...
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And she promised! I love it!
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And she smiled while doing it. Angus is going to be OK.
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay :)
In terms of being drunkenly confessed to, you can do worse than being told that you deserve happiness.
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Good outcome, as far as drunken confessions go :-D
Prediction: rest of the week will entirely consist of Pintsize/Winslow shenanigans
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Oh, Marten. If only you cared about your own happiness as determinedly as you cared about that of your friends...
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awwwwwwww
cutest Faye in panel 4 and 5
I do wonder what exactly Marten expects from her, though.
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I am ... disappointed. No lap-barfing this time. It was totally Faye's turn (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=185). No punching either, Faye is not the least bit annoyed.
One question remains: Will Marten remember anything tomorrow morning?
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Oh, Marten. If only you cared about your own happiness as determinedly as you cared about that of your friends...
People who think of their friends' happiness often neglect to think of their own.
I can't think of what to say. The comic was just... nice.
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Marten - now a better drunk than he once was.
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Marten must be drunk, he forgot that the band was The Promise Ring, not the Promise Ring.
And as others have pointed out, Marten is a better class of drunken idiot here.
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Mark is handling himself way better then I would be at the five alcohol bubble phase following my crash from "lightspeed mode".
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He's handling himself pretty much the way I do when I get to 5-bubble drunkenness. Gets all emotional but supportive.
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Marten must be drunk, he forgot that the band was The Promise Ring, not the Promise Ring.
"The" is a tiny word or small word or whatever, so even in a title it's not capitalized unless it's the first word in a sentence, or if you're only saying the title.
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I'm with Akima here - if it's the first word of the title, it should have the capital.
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Nope. A quick check of written references to half-a-dozen band names starting with "the" all show "the" not capitalized except at the beginning of a sentence.
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I'd suggest forming a band called the The, but it's probably already been done.
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Oh, absolutely. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_The)
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Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!
I kid, I kid... that went about as well as it could, which is nice. I actually feel like Angus can actually get the job now without everything going wrong (just mostly everything :wink:).
As for band names with "The," I have to agree with Akima. I don't see a difference between them and the title of books and movies, and I'm pretty sure it's always The Birds, The Cat in the Hat, and A Tale of Two Cities (for the sake of a different article), whether in the beginning or middle of a sentence. Unless, of course, "Promise Ring" is considered to be an equally valid name for them.
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If 'the' is part of a band name officially it should be capitalised. They aren't the Strokes, they're The Strokes.
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It's part of their name, but it's still "the". I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.
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But it's the definite article, not just 'the' in a sentence.
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... books/films/songs/games etc – capitalise the first word of the title, and all words within the title except articles (a/an/the), prepositions (to/on/for etc) and conjunctions (but/and/or etc).
✓ The Last Mohican
✓ Far from the Madding Crowd
✓ Gone with the Wind
✓ World of Warcraft
✓ Grand Theft Auto III
✓ 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life'
✘ 'Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life'
My emphasis.
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If it's part of a proper noun, it gets a capital. Unless the proper noun in question is e e cummings in which case it gets no capitals, mwahaha.
Add: Oh hey that's interesting. Although e e cummings did sometimes write his name with lower case letters, apparently he usually used capitals. It's a convention that other people have adopted on his behalf!
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awwwwwwww
cutest Faye in panel 4 and 5
Panel 4 gets all the more adorable if you imagine Marten's about to boop her nose.
*boop*
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I stand corrected. It's still weird to me to capitalize articles outside the first word of a sentence, but I guess I can't deny it's correct.
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But you'd do it with personal names without a thought. I would normally also place titles in italics; so I might write about Wagner's opera cycle: The Ring.
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Not if it was in the middle of a sentence.
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Even if The Ring is in the middle of a sentence, it's in italics. :mrgreen:
But it seems to me the articles are title-cased only when the first word of, indeed, a title. The same rule does not seem to apply to names of groups and individuals.
Of course, not many English names of individuals have articles at all ...
... but it seems to me names of groups commonly get a lower case the in the middle of a sentence. And not just bands, either; from the afore linked Oxford University Style Guide (http://www.ox.ac.uk/public_affairs/services_and_resources/style_guide/capitalisation.html): "The Department of Computer Science was previously known as the Oxford University Computing Laboratory." (Emphasis mine.)
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Not if it was in the middle of a sentence.
Yes if it is in the middle of a sentence.
No if it is in the middle of the title.
The Second Saladin, yes.
The Wisdom of Big Bird, yes.
The Shipping News, yes.
Tender at the Bone, no.
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I'm not ready for April Fools this year
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Even if The Ring is in the middle of a sentence, it's in italics.
Yeah, I'd still use italics, but I'd say the Ring. I guess it's just a quirk of mine.
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Even if The Ring is in the middle of a sentence, it's in italics. :mrgreen:
But it seems to me the articles are title-cased only when the first word of, indeed, a title. The same rule does not seem to apply to names of groups and individuals.
Exactly. Furthermore, how are you supposed to know whether a band considers "the" to be part of the band's name? Were they The Beatles, or just the Beatles? And was their first album entitled "Meet The Beatles" or just "Meet the Beatles"? What about the Animals, the Birds, the Hollies, or the Bangles? And is it different if the band's name is "So-and-so and [t/T]he Whatsits"? For example, is it "Florence and the Machine" or "Florence and The Machine"? (Wikipedia uses "the" for that one.)
Honestly, capitalizing the "the" in a band's name has always seemed pretentious to me. It just seems more natural and less awkward looking to leave it lowercased unless it's the first word in the sentence. That's how we do it with sports teams, too, which seems to be the same kind of thing. We refer to "the Yankees" or "the 49ers", not "The Yankees" or "The 49ers".
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Awwwww! This strip really highlights how much Marty and Faye have both matured. And it's just adorable.
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Well, as far as a Faye/DrunkenMarten encounter goes, this one went better than the last one.
Maybe she should sing him a lullaby. :-D
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Re: "The": Some organizations with The as part of the name can be quite insufferable about the capitalization. I'm thinking of a certain tax-supported institute of higher education in more-or-less central Ohio.
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Oh, do you mean An Ohio State University? :roll:
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I'd suggest forming a band called the The, but it's probably already been done.
Then call it Teh.
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Were they The Beatles, or just the Beatles?
They were The Beatles, and the name is so printed in the middle of sentences in the sleevenotes of their first album, Please Please Me, which I have here in front of me.
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Even if The Ring is in the middle of a sentence, it's in italics.
Yeah, I'd still use italics, but I'd say the Ring. I guess it's just a quirk of mine.
Is incorrect grammar a quirk? :mrgreen:
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Yep. Although I'm not sure this counts as grammar.
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Wel itt shure ain't speelin'
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Then call it Teh.
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=134089 (http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=134089)
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Yep. Although I'm not sure this counts as grammar.
It's "style" or just "rules", as in The Oxford Guide to Style (formerly called Hart's Rules for Compositors). It doesn't affect sentence formation or the relationship of words, so it's not grammar - it's a typographical issue.
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Oh, do you mean An Ohio State University? :roll:
Oh my god. I just told my wife, a die-hard Michigan fan, about this concept of referring to OSU as "An Ohio State University" for trash-talking purposes, and her reaction was roughly akin to Faye's upon hearing Angus cried watching Yaoi cartoons.
And yes, it should definitely be The Promise Ring. No question about it. Wouldn't have pegged Marten (or Jeph) as a fan of such a quintessentially emo band.
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Oh, do you mean An Ohio State University? :roll:
That's what some of us graduates of the Buckeye State's less-exalted alma maters use to refer to our schools. Although the newspaper in Dayton got off a nice shot when U of Dayton kicked the Buckeyes out of the NCAA basketball championship play. The headline was "THE University of Dayton." It almost made me wish I gave a damn about basketball.
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Back in the 1980s Duke students used to trash-talk UNC by calling Duke "THE University of North Carolina". As an NC State student, I appreciated the dig while calling BS on the implication. :-D
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... books/films/songs/games etc – capitalise the first word of the title, and all words within the title except articles (a/an/the), prepositions (to/on/for etc) and conjunctions (but/and/or etc).
✓ The Last Mohican
✓ Far from the Madding Crowd
✓ Gone with the Wind
✓ World of Warcraft
✓ Grand Theft Auto III
✓ 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life'
✘ 'Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life'
My emphasis.
Editor Alert....those are for titles, not proper names. As the rule quoted above says, "books/films/songs/games". Those are titles of a specific work, which are also always appear in quotes or italics (also as shown in the quotes above).
A band name is considered a proper name, not a title. It isn't treated as a separate entity from the sentence structure surrounding it. For instance, "The Beatles" always appears as the Beatles in text.
Also, what you quoted was the Oxford style guide, which is a collection of style rules specific to Oxford University. It's not an overall grammar book.
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Editor Alert....those are for titles, not proper names. As the rule quoted above says, "books/films/songs/games". Those are titles of a specific work, which are also always appear in quotes or italics (also as shown in the quotes above).
I would say proper names always have capitals (but see below).
For instance, "The Beatles" always appears as the Beatles in text.
That is not true; writers vary. In particular, when the group was established, and people referred to each member as "a Beatle", then "the Beatles" referred to the group of individuals. But, as I said before, the text on the sleeves of the albums that have text refers to "The Beatles" throughout, as do some (not all) of my books on them.
Also, what you quoted was the Oxford style guide, which is a collection of style rules specific to Oxford University. It's not an overall grammar book.
It's not a matter of grammar, as I pointed out before; every press and university, and anyone else, can choose to define their own style; but there are certain common conventions which are almost entirely identical whichever body's style guide you choose to look them up in. To illustrate the difference, consider the following from the Chicago University Manual of Style, which disagrees with the Oxford one on this particular matter:
Q. I would like additional clarification regarding a recent Q&A. You stated that a word that is part of a proper name should not be capitalized if such word is being used as an article in the sentence. The example given was “We evaluated the University of Texas’s enrollment data.” You stated that this was correct even if the proper name of this school is “The University of Texas.” I thought that the goal of good editing was to produce clear, accurate, and comprehensible text. If “The” as part of a proper name is not capitalized, the reader will be led to believe that it is not part of the name. Why create confusion, to say nothing of the insult that may be given in certain cultures and communities where a name may have great significance?
A. Chicago’s style is to lowercase, probably because it’s not practical for editors to research the capitalization of “the” in every organization name in a manuscript. Even quick Internet searches leave questions, since Web sites often show inconsistencies in spelling and capitalization. That’s the idea behind having a style manual in the first place: to make arbitrary decisions (which we would not call “correct,” since there are many acceptable styles) that an editor can impose efficiently within a document for the sake of consistency. Readers are not likely to be insulted if the name of their organization is treated the same as that of every other organization in a document.
Note: "That’s the idea behind having a style manual in the first place: to make arbitrary decisions (which we would not call “correct,” since there are many acceptable styles)".
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Readers are not likely to be insulted if the name of their organization is treated the same as that of every other organization in a document.
:psyduck: The author of this sentence clearly has very little experience with the real world. Somebody will be insulted, always, no matter what you do. Especially on the internet, where I probably just offended someone by not calling it the Internet.
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I do know for a fact that it's "The Who".
The sports teams (with the exception of That School From Columbus Ohio) generally don't use capitalized "The" because the team name is considered a "nickname". Even the weird "exceptions" - both of which reside in Anaheim* - "the" is not capitalized.
* - They are the "Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim" and, until about a decade ago, the "Mighty Ducks of Anaheim."
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Uh oh, hopefully Pintsize isn't good at subliminal programming.
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having fallen into a drunken sleep with thoughts of sorting his life out, tomorrow marken will awaken to a zombie apocalypse which will conveniently facilitate his growth as a person.
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This night just took a turn for the awesome.
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Somebody will be insulted, always, no matter what you do. Especially on the internet, where I probably just offended someone by not calling it the Internet.
Why would you ever call it the Internet? It's The Internet, obviously. Rarglfarghl deteriorating academic standards rarghlfargl...
(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/star_trek_into_darkness.png)
https://xkcd.com/1167/ (https://xkcd.com/1167/)
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Uh oh, hopefully Pintsize isn't good at subliminal programming.
Pintsize is out of proportion. Marten is dreaming.
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Uh oh, hopefully Pintsize isn't good at subliminal programming.
Pintsize is out of proportion. Marten is dreaming.
Actually I think its just drawn really close to his head.
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As usual, Pintsize gets straight to the heart of the matter.
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Wondering about the meaning of life, while drunk, seldom give meaningful answers. But apparently, Marten has started thinking. He needs change in life. Maybe he should try to get another job? Maybe get more serious with the band? What about a live performance at the Horrible Revelation?
Angus, by the way, has a rather good definition of a successful life (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1734).
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Marten has started thinking. He needs change in life.
Not for the first time, though. Will he get any further this time?
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Maybe he could get some song writing tutoring fra Sven? The band needs songs if they are to amount to anything.
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He did reconstitute the band last time. He could avoid the problem of losing momentum by handing over organizational control to Hannelore.
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maybe he'll move to new york with angus.
actually, maybe he'll just talk about moving on from northampton, and that will set off faye's abandonment issues in a way angus couldn't.
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For instance, "The Beatles" always appears as the Beatles in text.
Not true. I did a Google search on "the beatles" and the very first page shows multiple examples of the band's name being given as The Beatles even in the middle of sentences. So I'll go on capitalising the article in The Beatles, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Clash and The Economist.
The brain-cells that held this thought will probably die in the night. Or be overwritten by images of boobs covered in cake batter.
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... books/films/songs/games etc – capitalise the first word of the title, and all words within the title except articles (a/an/the), prepositions (to/on/for etc) and conjunctions (but/and/or etc).
✓ The Last Mohican
✓ Far from the Madding Crowd
✓ Gone with the Wind
✓ World of Warcraft
✓ Grand Theft Auto III
✓ 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life'
✘ 'Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life'
My emphasis.
Editor Alert....those are for titles, not proper names. As the rule quoted above says, "books/films/songs/games". Those are titles of a specific work, which are also always appear in quotes or italics (also as shown in the quotes above).
A band name is considered a proper name, not a title. It isn't treated as a separate entity from the sentence structure surrounding it. For instance, "The Beatles" always appears as the Beatles in text.
But they're not called Beatles. They're called The Beatles. Assuming you're correct that they never appear in print as The Beatles, a very good case can still technically be made for it to be considered correct.
Also, what you quoted was the Oxford style guide, which is a collection of style rules specific to Oxford University. It's not an overall grammar book.
Exactly. This is a style question, not a grammar question. And even if it were a grammar question , we'd have descended intp the prescriptivist/descriptivist debate by now. Style is even more fluid. There is no definitive answer and this thread could go on forever and ever. When I tried yesterday to say definitively that The Promise Ring is correct, I only meant that the The is technically part of the band's name.
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OK, I officially don't know how to use the "quote" feature. One of my comments appears as though it were yours. Sorry.
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I fixed it for you.
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Where did Pintsize store that thought about putting cake batter onto women? In his battering RAM?
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Ouch, IICIH, that was baaaad! :laugh:
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Where did Pintsize store that thought about putting cake batter onto women? In his battering RAM?
He probably has an entire subdirectory just for that.
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Where did Pintsize store that thought about putting cake batter onto women? In his battering RAM?
Best post ever
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Do not google "huge boobs covered in cake batter". Do not google "huge boobs covered in cake batter".
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Do not google "huge boobs covered in cake batter". Do not google "huge boobs covered in cake batter".
....and of course the first result is some Japanese Porno of a big-breasted girl turning her boobs into a cake.
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Wait...is it actually cake batter?
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Do not google "huge boobs covered in cake batter". Do not google "huge boobs covered in cake batter".
The post says 'do not.' But I am reading 'DOOOOOOO'.
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Do not google "huge boobs covered in cake batter". Do not google "huge boobs covered in cake batter".
The post says 'do not.' But I am reading 'DOOOOOOO'.
I am reading "Aren't you at your work computer, Gareth?"
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I fixed it for you.
Thanks. Truly, the God Administrator title is well-earned.
So is there some trick to inserting commentary into different parts of a quoted post without making it look like said commentary is part of said original post?
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Do not google "huge boobs covered in cake batter". Do not google "huge boobs covered in cake batter".
The post says 'do not.' But I am reading 'DOOOOOOO'.
I am reading "Aren't you at your work computer, Gareth?"
Time for a 'toilet break.'
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Time for a 'toilet break.'
More like time the mods move this to the TMI thread...
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I fixed it for you.
Thanks. Truly, the God Administrator title is well-earned.
Eh. He makes those up himself, you know.
So is there some trick to inserting commentary into different parts of a quoted post without making it look like said commentary is part of said original post?
Remember that quote tags come in nested pairs and when you break a pair to insert a comment you have to remake it after.
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To make it even clearer, you put the quote tage {quote}except it has square brackets not curly{/quote} around the stuff you didn't write. So if you're breaking a sentence to add your stuff, put {/quote}, add your stuff, and then put {quote} to restart the quoting.
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You can write instructions about using tags by enclosing them in [nobbc]...[/nobbc] tags.
Note that as it is not logically possible to put the [/nobbc] tag inside them (as it closes the first), I have used a different technique for that, which you can see by quoting this message.
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Eh. He makes those up himself, you know.
FYI:
"Administrator" is the default title of my role in the forum (I could change it by defining a second identical role, as I've done for a couple of mods);
"God Warrior" is a "custom title" which anyone can have, but I've only enabled mods to set up (I've given one to Patrick, for instance) - this one is taken from a character in the film and manga Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind;
"Awakened" is the title I have given to users with over 10,000 posts (replacing the former "Dickfish") - taken from the film Evangelion: 2.0 You can (not) Advance.
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I figured God Warrior was a Dune reference.
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The God Warrior, Ohma, is also Arbitrator, which seems appropriate:
(http://hypercastle.com/images/2009-08-25_image3.jpg)
The animation of the God Warriors in the film was the first major public appearance of Hideaki Anno, who went on to produce Evangelion, among other things.
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I figured God Warrior was a Dune reference.
that would be 'god emperor'
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What is it with Pintsize and cake batter, anyway? He's been weird about cake batter since the very earliest days of the strip.
Re: capitalizing "the", since it is matter of style rather than grammer or spelling, anybody can capitalize it however they like and no one can be "right" or "wrong" about it. End of discussion.
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Do not google "huge boobs covered in cake batter". Do not google "huge boobs covered in cake batter".
...So I did (in image search). And the results were.... 100% G-rated and not even remotely disturbing. Mostly pretty pictures of cake, with an occasional picture of a fully-clothed curvy lady.
I checked three times to make sure Safe Search wasn't on.
I never would have thought any google search including the word boobs could produce such innocent results. It's kinda awesome.
Only problem is, after looking at all those pictures, I really wish I had some cake. :meh:
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See? I told you not to google it. I didn't tell you why. :-D
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What is it with Pintsize and cake batter, anyway? He's been weird about cake batter since the very earliest days of the strip.
It's not so much about the cake.
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*Throws Pintsize across the room into the wall*
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I think that this qualifies as an April Fool Comic.
Go, Hanners!
Go, Kitty!
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Still better than a yelling bird comic, even though I've seen this one before.
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Nice
Right up until Hanners OCD took over again.
Oh well.
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This redeems fridays comic.
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I am surprised at this. I honestly felt like this was a bigger waste of my time than a YB...
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I like it :3 The commentary was quite nice.
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Was anybody else at all worried, for a moment, that the drawing would be a bonercat when completed? Then, upon realizing that it is Hanners, quickly dismissed the idea?
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The God Warrior, Ohma, is also Arbitrator, which seems appropriate
Except that Ohma's means of "arbitration" consists almost entirely of "laser it until it is not there anymore." I'd hope there's a little more variety in means of arbitration in forum moderation. >.>
I'd trust the judgment of Nausicaa herself far more, personally.
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Well, it's hard to find parallels that are perfect! I have laser-zapped many spammers and much spam.
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Was anybody else at all worried, for a moment, that the drawing would be a bonercat when completed? Then, upon realizing that it is Hanners, quickly dismissed the idea?
i was quite certain that when i got to the bottom it would be a bonercat, hannelore or no.
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"Awakened" is the title I have given to users with over 10,000 posts (replacing the former "Dickfish") - taken from the film Evangelion: 2.0 You can (not) Advance.
To become Awakened is indeed a worthy goal...
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All I get is a broken image. From the commentary I'm guessing it's Hannelore's "How to Draw a Kitty."
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"Awakened" is the title I have given to users with over 10,000 posts (replacing the former "Dickfish") - taken from the film Evangelion: 2.0 You can (not) Advance.
To become Awakened is indeed a worthy goal...
A goal I'll probably reach by summer.
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Was anybody else at all worried, for a moment, that the drawing would be a bonercat when completed? Then, upon realizing that it is Hanners, quickly dismissed the idea?
I figured it would turn into a bonercat, and then Hannelore would start scolding Jeph for doing it.
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I liked it. It's a nice callback from Jeph's Tumblr from a couple of years ago. Hannelore's face in that last panel always gets me.
Plus, it's better than another appearance by that dickcissel...
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What happened to Step 9 and 10? Are we missing something from the original strip? Or is the OCD messing with Hannelore's counting abilities?
Nice drawing of Hannelore, by the way. She has very green eyes.
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Step 9: ? ? ?
Step 10: Profit!
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Was anybody else at all worried, for a moment, that the drawing would be a bonercat when completed? Then, upon realizing that it is Hanners, quickly dismissed the idea?
I figured it would turn into a bonercat, and then Hannelore would start scolding Jeph for doing it.
Hannelore thinks a boner is disgusting (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1885). When Jeph draws a character, I imagine he is inside that character's head. Thus, Hannelore would never draw a bonercat, whereas Jeph is more than happy to do so.
Which brings us to the next question: Is there any reason why Hannelore dislikes boners? As stated before, she is not asexual, she is theoretically heterosexual, and she likes sexy man-pictures (but obviously without visible boners).
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I think it's not so much the boner itself, as the idea of what comes out of the boner that repulses her (this is approaching TMI thread territory :psyduck: ).
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Today's strip is a callback to strip 2280 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2280)
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Today's strip is a callback to strip 2280 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2280)
Hey, Claire foreshadowing. And some two comics earlier, she's worried about Clinton outing her, but you don't think anything of it at the time, because Clinton is Clinton.
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[Insert obligatory Matrix reference here]
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I think it's not so much the boner itself, as the idea of what comes out of the boner that repulses her (this is approaching TMI thread territory :psyduck: ).
Exactly, I got the impression that it was the prospect of having to clean messy fluids -- especially other people's messy fluids -- off her couch that perturbed her so much, not the concept of boners per se.
Also, OCD is one thing, but voices in her head telling her to kill sound a lot more like schizophrenia to me, and that's a lot more dangerous. This isn't the first time she's mentioned voices, either; remember when she mentioned dreams about a rapping penis that urges her to kill? ("Kill your friends... kill them with a knife!") I don't have a strip number for that offhand, but I'm sure someone here does. 8-)
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What happened to Step 9 and 10? Are we missing something from the original strip? Or is the OCD messing with Hannelore's counting abilities?
I think step 8 was adding the top hat, step 9 the monocle, and step 10 the bowtie. She just showed the final result of all three steps at once, rather than the intermediate stages.
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http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1171
(Fixed the URL -Method)
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Also, OCD is one thing, but voices in her head telling her to kill sound a lot more like schizophrenia to me, and that's a lot more dangerous. This isn't the first time she's mentioned voices, either; remember when she mentioned dreams about a rapping penis that urges her to kill? ("Kill your friends... kill them with a knife!") I don't have a strip number for that offhand, but I'm sure someone here
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1171 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1171)
Yes, but that was a dream, not voices heard while awake. Lots of people have quite disturbing dreams without being mentally ill.
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Today's strip is a callback to strip 2280 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2280)
Now we are getting to the core of the matter. QC is a simulation living in Jeph's Mac. Jeph is the omnipotent Creator. Let us hope he never turns it off. That would be The End.
Of course, we are ourselves part of another simulation :psyduck:
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Go ahead and break a leg, Angus!
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Also, OCD is one thing, but voices in her head telling her to kill sound a lot more like schizophrenia to me, and that's a lot more dangerous. This isn't the first time she's mentioned voices, either; remember when she mentioned dreams about a rapping penis that urges her to kill? ("Kill your friends... kill them with a knife!") I don't have a strip number for that offhand, but I'm sure someone here does. 8-)
She seems to be used to hallucinations. http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2430
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Also, OCD is one thing, but voices in her head telling her to kill sound a lot more like schizophrenia to me, and that's a lot more dangerous. This isn't the first time she's mentioned voices, either; remember when she mentioned dreams about a rapping penis that urges her to kill? ("Kill your friends... kill them with a knife!") I don't have a strip number for that offhand, but I'm sure someone here does. 8-)
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1171 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1171)
Yes, but that was a dream, not voices heard while awake. Lots of people have quite disturbing dreams without being mentally ill.
True... but I was reminded of that strip because she scribbled "Blood", "Kill your friends", and "Kill" all over her kitty drawing, which presumably did not happen while she was asleep.
She seems to be used to hallucinations. http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2430
I've noticed that, too. Clearly she has a lot more wrong with her brain than just crippling anxiety and OCD; those are simply her most visible symptoms. Considering she also has a tendency to deprive herself of sleep for multiple days at a time, it's almost surprising that she hasn't already had a psychotic break and done something really awful.
Don't get me wrong, I think Hannelore's a very sweet person, but I'd be a bit nervous if I had her as a friend.
And yeah, go Team Angus!
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This is real growth for the Pugnacious Peach!
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That colour T-shirt doesn't suit Faye at all.
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True... but I was reminded of that strip because she scribbled "Blood", "Kill your friends", and "Kill" all over her kitty drawing, which presumably did not happen while she was asleep.
Maybe she has a Evil Hand.
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Clearly she has a lot more wrong with her brain than just crippling anxiety and OCD; those are simply her most visible symptoms.
Considering that she's apparently connected to the Great Old Ones (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1753) or something, I think Hanners is doing pretty well.
And I'm not sold on the T-shirt colour either, but it's a long way from the worst colour Jeph's put her in.
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...She's had that red t-shirt for a long time now. <shrug>
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Clearly she has a lot more wrong with her brain than just crippling anxiety and OCD; those are simply her most visible symptoms.
Considering that she's apparently connected to the Great Old Ones (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1753) or something, I think Hanners is doing pretty well.
And I'm not sold on the T-shirt colour either, but it's a long way from the worst colour Jeph's put her in.
I'd say this one (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=139) is probably the worst.
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True... but I was reminded of that strip because she scribbled "Blood", "Kill your friends", and "Kill" all over her kitty drawing, which presumably did not happen while she was asleep.
Maybe she has a Evil Hand.
No, that's Clinton (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1911).
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I kinda like that shirt on her. What's wrong with it?
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Uhoh, REDSHIRT!!!!!
Let's hope she has the Scotty Immunity Factor, otherwise this could be bad. :-D
Oh, and break a leg Angus ;)
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Preferably somebody else's leg, but do what you have to do. :laugh:
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What happened to Step 9 and 10? Are we missing something from the original strip? Or is the OCD messing with Hannelore's counting abilities?
Considering she does't appear to remember having written all those KILL BLOOD messages around the kitty, I suspect steps 9 and 10 happened while Hanners was blacked out and, as such, aren't included.
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I think it's not so much the boner itself, as the idea of what comes out of the boner that repulses her (this is approaching TMI thread territory :psyduck: ).
Exactly, I got the impression that it was the prospect of having to clean messy fluids -- especially other people's messy fluids -- off her couch that perturbed her so much, not the concept of boners per se.
Also, OCD is one thing, but voices in her head telling her to kill sound a lot more like schizophrenia to me, and that's a lot more dangerous. This isn't the first time she's mentioned voices, either; remember when she mentioned dreams about a rapping penis that urges her to kill? ("Kill your friends... kill them with a knife!") I don't have a strip number for that offhand, but I'm sure someone here does. 8-)
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What happened to Step 9 and 10? Are we missing something from the original strip? Or is the OCD messing with Hannelore's counting abilities?
I think step 8 was adding the top hat, step 9 the monocle, and step 10 the bowtie. She just showed the final result of all three steps at once, rather than the intermediate stages.
I actually read about someone with OCD recently. They said they would often get vivid images of violence towards their friends and family and were unable to stop them. Its apparently pretty common. The problem with OCD is that you can't stop the thoughts/rituals. Not saying that they would actually do it, but they would imagine it and would be unable to stop imagining it. Either its a fluke on Jeph's part or he actually did some research.
People with OCD generally:
Have repeated thoughts or images about many different things, such as fear of germs, dirt, or intruders; acts of violence; hurting loved ones; sexual acts; conflicts with religious beliefs; or being overly tidy
Do the same rituals over and over such as washing hands, locking and unlocking doors, counting, keeping unneeded items, or repeating the same steps again and again
Can't control the unwanted thoughts and behaviors
Don't get pleasure when performing the behaviors or rituals, but get brief relief from the anxiety the thoughts cause
Spend at least 1 hour a day on the thoughts and rituals, which cause distress and get in the way of daily life.
source: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-ocd/index.shtml#part3
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Good post! Thank you and welcome, new person.
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Let's hope she has the Scotty Immunity Factor, otherwise this could be bad. :-D
Danger couldn't get past her Mighty Fists of Infinite Punches.
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Clearly she has a lot more wrong with her brain than just crippling anxiety and OCD; those are simply her most visible symptoms.
Considering that she's apparently connected to the Great Old Ones (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1753) or something, I think Hanners is doing pretty well.
Oh, right, I'd forgotten about that one! I always figured that was just her friends the Space Aliens taking over her mind for a moment to help her out. (No, we've never seen any Space Aliens or heard Hanners mention them, but that's not the sort of thing you would mention, right? Especially if they blank your memory each time so you can't remember them.)
Or, possibly more plausibly, her friend Station put some useful post-hypnotic defenses in her mind back when she was a kid, to help her out.
And I'm not sold on the T-shirt colour either, but it's a long way from the worst colour Jeph's put her in.
I'd say this one (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=139) is probably the worst.
Aw, I always liked that yellow dress. I never could figure out why everyone kept referring to it as a "bright" yellow; it's not bright at all -- butter yellow at most.
You want a bright yellow, check out chromium yellow sometime. Blinding!
Uhoh, REDSHIRT!!!!!
Let's hope she has the Scotty Immunity Factor, otherwise this could be bad. :-D
It's not anything to do with Scotty specifically; Uhura always survived landing parties, too. it's actually rank-related. As the "Desiderata of the 23rd Century" (http://www.turtlezen.com/startrekdesiderata.html) pointed out many years ago, "If your rank is below lieutenant, never volunteer for landing parties."
I actually read about someone with OCD recently. They said they would often get vivid images of violence towards their friends and family and were unable to stop them. Its apparently pretty common. The problem with OCD is that you can't stop the thoughts/rituals. Not saying that they would actually do it, but they would imagine it and would be unable to stop imagining it. Either its a fluke on Jeph's part or he actually did some research.
Wow, interesting, I never knew about that. It appears I had some misconceptions about OCD. Thanks for the illumination!
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It is the start of the long distance relationship blues, with a red shirt.
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Wow. Coffee of Doom. It seems like YEARS since we've seen that place in the strip for some reason.
Poor Faye. She'll figure it out.
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She's got so much time and energy invested in her prickly hedgehog act that she's still unsure what to do when she uncurls (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=350#).
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I had completely forgotten this is Dora's new look.
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She's got so much time and energy invested in her prickly hedgehog act that she's still unsure what to do when she uncurls (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=350#).
I'll wait to see what happens when she encounters Dale.
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It's not anything to do with Scotty specifically; Uhura always survived landing parties, too.
Ah, but Uhura did not wear a red shirt, unless you count that bikini-top thing she wore in Mirror Mirror.
It seems Angus is the wind beneath Fay's snark wings.
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I loved today's strip. An insight into Faye when something matters to her.
Also Dora looks mega hot in it today.
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I had completely forgotten this is Dora's new look.
Reminds me of Marten's mom. I think I prefer some of the previous looks.
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Even Emily is brought down by Faye's malaise. This is getting serious. I mean, the girl takes such joy in her banana smashies, but the artistry with which Faye hammers the banana is a critical part of it. Come on, Faye, this isn't just a drink you're making, it's a performance!
I'm not even going to ask how Cosette got her head stuck in a bucket. I don't want to know.
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It's not anything to do with Scotty specifically; Uhura always survived landing parties, too.
Ah, but Uhura did not wear a red shirt, unless you count that bikini-top thing she wore in Mirror Mirror.
:roll:
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I'm not even going to ask how Cosette got her head stuck in a bucket. I don't want to know.
There is precedent (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=467).
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I had completely forgotten this is Dora's new look.
She's looking extra goth and it's really doing it for me.
And Dora never does it for me.
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I'm not even going to ask how Cosette got her head stuck in a bucket. I don't want to know.
There is precedent (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=467).
But that was Raven. Raven is prone to try stupid things just to see what will happen.
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APRIL FOOL! Weirdest thing you'd see in QC?
Faye-Pintsize-Yelling Bird Love Triangle! 5 (10.9%)
Dora-Tai Revenge Pron! 1 (2.2%)
Marten takes assertiveness training! 7 (15.2%)
Marigold and Dale get married! 2 (4.3%)
Momo becomes a sex fiend! 8 (17.4%)
Hannelore starts mud wrestling! 6 (13%)
Sven becomes a monk! 5 (10.9%)
Jimbo goes cold turkey, writes self-help books! 2 (4.3%)
Something even WEIRDER! (WEIRDER?) 5 (10.9%)
Space Waffles and Ham-flavored Coffee! 5 (10.9%)
Total Members Voted: 46
This is probably the first time I've done a poll where the vote was this close.
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In the words of the great Philip J. Fry...
I thought it would fit.
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I'm not even going to ask how Cosette got her head stuck in a bucket. I don't want to know.
There is precedent (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=467).
But that was Raven. Raven is prone to try stupid things just to see what will happen.
And Cosette is so much of a klutz that stupid things *will* happen irrespective of whether or not she wants it.
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Maybe she wanted to Cosiplay the Vorlon God Boojee.
Awwwwww. Faye's missing Angus
Cute.