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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: BenRG on 05 Apr 2015, 06:50
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So, we are at another crossroads. Personally, I think that Jeph has signalled that he is going to tell us the story of Clinton and Emily's date in flashback. My idea is for Clinton to rant about it to Emily and for her to try to apologise (she got just a tad over-excited, you see).
One alternative is for us to check in with CoD, now sans-Faye. Has discipline collapsed without her to keep the troops in line?
Don't be shy! Share your ideas with us!
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TIL it's March again, and Monday is now on the 5th. ;)
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I think we're going to have Fun With Flashbacks.
Clinton: "I don't think I remember everything that happened. There's this one part that I'm pretty hazy about..."
FLASHBACK:
Minister: "Do you - um, is this really your name?"
Clinton: "YES THAT IS MY REAL NAME."
Minister: "Ahem. Do you, William Jefferson Clinton Octavianus Augustus, take this woman Emily Azuma..."
:evil:
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Eh, I'm thinkin' it'll be left as a mystery, like how May's hand got coated in sticky goop.
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Emily climbed the Flagpole.
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Emily climbed the Flagpole.
That sounds like innuendo, but with Emily it's literal.
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Eh, I'm thinkin' it'll be left as a mystery, like how May's hand got coated in sticky goop.
If this happened, I'd be fine with it, but I think it's in a different category. With May, we were completely in the dark. Do we even know what her job is?
But with this, we have a framework. We know it happened all surrounding Clinton and Emily's date, we know BOTH the main characters involved, and we knew from the start that the potential for hilarious hijinks was high.
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She works at a convenience store. (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2754)
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Comic!
Yep, first date.
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So, Clinton's roommate. Steve's younger brother, or just a generic bro?
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Go Pizza!
With the suspenders on I can see that Clinton will at some point between this strip and the last turn into a droog.
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Did Clinton manage to get beat up by his roommate?
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In thinking back on my college time, PIZZA should have been the pennant on my wall too.
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Where does Clinton go again?
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You know, honestly? That's not a bad look for Clinton.
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So, Clinton's roommate. Steve's younger brother, or just a generic bro?
I was thinking Steve's brother as well.
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So, Clinton's roommate. Steve's younger brother, or just a generic bro?
Bro
Bro
Bro
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Apparently neither member of the Augustus clan had dated before. Clinton is an ass, but knowing how it will go makes him sympathetic, to a degree. Wondering if we'll get the full tale told by Friday.
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Emily: "A tattoo would remind us of our date forever!"
Tattoo guy: "What motive do you want on your boyfriend?"
Emily: "A Welsh locket"
Tattoo guy: "OK, got it. Don't look, this will hurt a little"
:psyduck: :psyduck: :psyduck: :psyduck: :psyduck: :psyduck:
(http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mkaZpfLfJ01x9TXazs-oCUg.jpg)
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"Your love is like an electrical socket, Emily. You can either turn me on, or give me severe electrical burns."
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I'm a little confused. Claire is still living at home, but Clinton isn't? Didn't we see them on the way to university together with Marten?
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It looks like he's living in the dorms. Since his family is in town, he may have just visited there that morning.
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I'm a little confused. Claire is still living at home, but Clinton isn't? Didn't we see them on the way to university together with Marten?
What Cesium said, looks like a dorm room. Clinton might have preferred it to living at home and it might be practical if Umass is a long hike from the Agustus home, or it might be an unnecessary expense who knows.
Claire's a grad student so probably no dorm. She's also someone who probably values privacy over living with someone in a single room even if it is away from home. There could also be... policies about that depending on things that would either prevent her from or make the choice to live in a dorm unworkable for her personally. That leaves home or getting her own place and we don't even know if her internship is paid. Claire could be completely broke.
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Might be school just started up again as well.
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About what month are we in right now on the QC timeline?
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Some universities actually require you to stay in the dorms your year or two, I believe, regardless of where you actually live. Though I forget how many years apart Claire and Clinton are.
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Claire said that Clinton is 21, which would suggest he's a senior.
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Some universities actually require you to stay in the dorms your year or two, I believe, regardless of where you actually live. Though I forget how many years apart Claire and Clinton are.
Mine required it for two years UNLESS you were a townie at the time when you applied for admission or over a certain age. They also had a dorm set aside just for older and married students.
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I think a waistcoat would do well over those suspenders.
But I'm a sucker for redheads and bowties. If I saw Clinton on the street like that, I'd probably nod so appreciatively. So appreciatively. And he'd think I'd be the weird one, of the two of us.
Damn it.
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You know, honestly? That's not a bad look for Clinton.
I was thinking he looked better than usual without the glasses. Then I noticed the fun fact of the day.
It's not a oversight that he got a black eye without breaking his glasses, he got a new pair. (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2931) Not winning THIS round Change Blindness!
Nice change I think. Give him a bit of his own look and not just Not-Twins by not having the same big round frames as Claire.
Though seriously, contacts would be even better.
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So, it would appear that Clinton is not quite as naive as first appearances led me to suspect
And Burn Rebound, that's gotta hurt.
Warning - while you were typing a group of Goth Punks wandered through the Thread. You may wish to review your post.
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Yeah, Jeph went to a lot of trouble when developing Clinton to make him a stereotypical nerd. I wonder if Jeph is going to build on the 'total geek' foundation during this arc? We have established that he is into the history of technology but it will be interesting to see if he knows anything else about anything.
I suspect that his Roomie fills the same role as Steve - the cool adviser/foil to the more academic and less experienced protagonist.
April has suggested that, in-Universe, we are at the beginning of the autumn term. At 21, Clinton may just be starting his Senior year at college. I could understand him staying in the dorms. Mrs A is a well-intentioned interfering parent and he and Claire are like sodium and water. I think that, no matter how much teasing he gets, he finds it easier to focus on his studies in the dorms
He may feel somewhat liberated by not being in an exclusively female environment too. :-D
I agree that he'd look better with a necktie and wearing contacts. I wonder if his look will evolve if he and Emily continue to date?
Wondering if we'll get the full tale told by Friday.
Personally, I doubt it. It's more likely to be a 10-strip arc, IMHO.
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Clinton's roommate is nothing but dismissive and mocking. Douche bro, not supportive bro. Only question now is whether there are more. A group of douchebros is probably called a 'grope.'
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I don't know about Generic Bro #1. You say that he's only mocking, but we've only seen 1 strip with him. I've had longer back-and-forth attacks with all of my friends. He might be supportive, but been established as someone who feels that it's better to lighten the mood than to worry someone.
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Wikis : Not Even Once
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So, Clinton's roommate. Steve's younger brother, or just a generic bro?
Bro
Bro
Bro
But those bros are nice! At least I like to think so.
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Yes, the Bros are all right. It is their mission in life to celebrate bro-hood wherever it is found.
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Where does Clinton go again?
UMass, I believe.
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Anachronistic dress senses are nothing new in this comic.
that being said, dating advice from websites? i would have credited Clinton with more intelligence than that, unless he was truly desperate. i get that he's a social novice/total prick, but i didn't think of him as, you know, intellectually naive enough to resort to "doing it by the book/yahoo answers".
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Yes, the Bros are all right. It is their mission in life to celebrate bro-hood wherever it is found.
They don't even exist, they are as small gods, manifesting wheresoever they are invoked and performing their chant, before returning unto the formless ether until summoned once more by the belief of mortal men.
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Glingleglingleglingle
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Anachronistic dress senses are nothing new in this comic.
that being said, dating advice from websites? i would have credited Clinton with more intelligence than that, unless he was truly desperate. i get that he's a social novice/total prick, but i didn't think of him as, you know, intellectually naive enough to resort to "doing it by the book/yahoo answers".
Well, 'doing it by the book' might not be the worst idea - at least some good advice's in there:
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2565
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I'm guessing Clinton somehow got new glasses at some point during the night, because they went from round to rectangular.
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I'm guessing Clinton somehow got new glasses at some point during the night, because they went from round to rectangular.
As I have said before, I've got the feeling that the 'date' turned into Emily trying to 'upgrade' Clinton in aesthetic terms because, in her humble opinion, that's what girls are supposed to do for their guys.
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I'm guessing Clinton somehow got new glasses at some point during the night, because they went from round to rectangular.
As I have said before, I've got the feeling that the 'date' turned into Emily trying to 'upgrade' Clinton in aesthetic terms because, in her humble opinion, that's what girls are supposed to do for her guys.
Let's face it with Emily involved, we have no idea, and are just along for the ride.
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I'm guessing Clinton somehow got new glasses at some point during the night, because they went from round to rectangular.
As I have said before, I've got the feeling that the 'date' turned into Emily trying to 'upgrade' Clinton in aesthetic terms because, in her humble opinion, that's what girls are supposed to do for her guys.
Let's face it with Emily involved, we have no idea, and are just along for the ride.
Agreed. It's just as likely someone had warned her about men hitting on her and she responded to his 'you look nice tonight' as assault, punching him in the face and throwing her drink at him. Then, while he was unconscious, she drew an electrical socket on his arm because she thought it silly there was nowhere to plug his hand in.
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I'm guessing Clinton somehow got new glasses at some point during the night, because they went from round to rectangular.
Probably his backup pair, whatever blackened his eye could have broken his glasses.
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I'm guessing Clinton somehow got new glasses at some point during the night, because they went from round to rectangular.
Probably his backup pair, whatever blackened his eye could have broken his glasses.
It's alarming how many different sets of glasses Clinton would seem to have. He's got the round ones, a pair of oval frames on the table in front of him in today's comic, and the rectangles he had on in the last comic.
As a guy who's worn glasses since second grade, this isn't a character discrepancy necessarily. You don't always throw out your old pairs, but it says something interesting about Clinton's character, I think, that he keeps his old glasses around enough that it might factor into his morning dress plans, which pair to wear that day. A spare pair, fine, fair enough, but two?
Either he's matching outfits with his glasses, or he's so comically inept that he needs a spare set for his spare glasses. Then again, he did lose a hand in a firework accident.
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Glingleglingleglingle
High Five for reference getting and making of own reference :-D
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Either he's matching outfits with his glasses, or he's so comically inept that he needs a spare set for his spare glasses. Then again, he did lose a hand in a firework accident.
One pair for reading, one pair for writing, one for out of doors, one for looking at you over the top of, and a fifth pair for looking for the other four on the frequent occasions when they're lost.
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Either he's matching outfits with his glasses, or he's so comically inept that he needs a spare set for his spare glasses. Then again, he did lose a hand in a firework accident.
One pair for reading, one pair for writing, one for out of doors, one for looking at you over the top of, and a fifth pair for looking for the other four on the frequent occasions when they're lost.
I did used to own "formal" glasses. they were different from my everyday one by being fancier and not being photo-chromatic sunglasses. they offered me 2 for 1 on pairs so i got a fancy pair.
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Anachronistic dress senses are nothing new in this comic.
that being said, dating advice from websites? i would have credited Clinton with more intelligence than that, unless he was truly desperate. i get that he's a social novice/total prick, but i didn't think of him as, you know, intellectually naive enough to resort to "doing it by the book/yahoo answers".
Well, 'doing it by the book' might not be the worst idea - at least some good advice's in there:
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2565
The book of love is long and boring
No one can lift the damn thing
It's full of charts and facts and figures
And instructions for dancing (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2041)
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I've worn glasses since I was seven. I *like* having old pairs around, but I can never manage to do it.
The worst was the time I got hit in the face by a volleyball in gym class and had to go the rest of the day with no glasses. If I wanted to have a prayer at reading the board, I had to move my desk practically on top of the teacher.
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The worst was the time I got hit in the face by a volleyball in gym class and had to go the rest of the day with no glasses. If I wanted to have a prayer at reading the board, I had to move my desk practically on top of the teacher.
Spare glasses are a necessity to me. I have two pair. I own a glasses-repair kit.
Were I in a similar situation, no teacher would even ask me, my vision was so famously bad in high school.
Legally blind starts at 20/400 vision. Without correction, mine's in the 20/1600 range, meaning I have to be 20 feet to see something normally-sighted folk can see from about a third a mile away.
In third grade, I went on a field trip to an orchestra without my glasses, and the teacher asked us to write about what our favorite instrument was. Everyone else said stuff like, 'the trumpet looked cool!' Mine boiled down to 'I liked the fuzzy one. The one with the funny name. It looked fuzzy.'
My basketball coach called me Velma, despite my being a male, after I stopped basketball practice because my glasses fell off. My reaction was loud, to say the least; it stopped not only the boys' practice, but the girls' as well, on the other end of the court.
Like I said, if we presume Clinton to be accident-prone and poorly-sighted, I understand why he would keep multiple pairs.
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It's alarming how many different sets of glasses Clinton would seem to have. He's got the round ones, a pair of oval frames on the table in front of him in today's comic, and the rectangles he had on in the last comic.
I think the "oval frames" are supposed to be the round ones seen at an angle. They are on top of the dresser until the last frame, when they are on his face, so it's clearly the same pair.
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It's alarming how many different sets of glasses Clinton would seem to have. He's got the round ones, a pair of oval frames on the table in front of him in today's comic, and the rectangles he had on in the last comic.
I think the "oval frames" are supposed to be the round ones seen at an angle. They are on top of the dresser until the last frame, when they are on his face, so it's clearly the same pair.
It seems you are correct. In the interest of continuing my line of thinking, though, he still might have the original frames he wore when he first appeared, which wasn't that long in-comic, I don't think. I don't have the timeline in front of me, but even with how quickly my vision disintegrated, I kept my old pair around for a few months, at least! I've still got a pair from a full year ago, so if we assume Clinton is similar, (I know we can't but I like to imagine him an eye-wear hoarding nerd) then where does this third pair fit in, with the RECTANGLES?
HOW FAR BACK DOES HIS COLLECTION STRETCH?
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Either he's matching outfits with his glasses, or he's so comically inept that he needs a spare set for his spare glasses. Then again, he did lose a hand in a firework accident.
One pair for reading, one pair for writing, one for out of doors, one for looking at you over the top of, and a fifth pair for looking for the other four on the frequent occasions when they're lost.
I almost always get two pairs when I need new glasses, one for work and one for formal occasions. And I tend to keep the old pairs for emergencies, each of my cars has a pair in the glove box, a pair is in my nightstand, one is in the garage (that one I attached some LEDs to, so I can see while I'm under a car), and there's a couple pairs "somewhere" that will just show up randomly.
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The new glasses are easily explained: One of the functions of Clinton's robot hand is that it can scavenge metal and glass from the surrounding environment and use them to fashion a new pair of glasses whenever needed.[/headcanon]
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Uh-oh.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7702/16440706193_9b8a5c24db_n.jpg) (https://twitter.com/jephjacques/status/585235289024528384)
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I dunno about any of you, but I'm getting a definitive Hangover vibe. With a side order of Something About Mary and Something Wild.
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Uh-oh.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7702/16440706193_9b8a5c24db_n.jpg) (https://twitter.com/jephjacques/status/585235289024528384)
That's either a bad sign, or a very, very good sign.
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Uh-oh.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7702/16440706193_9b8a5c24db_n.jpg) (https://twitter.com/jephjacques/status/585235289024528384)
That's either a bad sign, or a very, very good sign.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThisIsGonnaSuck (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThisIsGonnaSuck)
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That's either a bad sign, or a very, very good sign.
Well, that doesn't scan as an evil laugh.
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That's either a bad sign, or a very, very good sign.
Well, that doesn't scan as an evil laugh.
You sure? Because I'm getting some Wicked Witch of the East vibes here.
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Either he's matching outfits with his glasses, or he's so comically inept that he needs a spare set for his spare glasses. Then again, he did lose a hand in a firework accident.
One pair for reading, one pair for writing, one for out of doors, one for looking at you over the top of, and a fifth pair for looking for the other four on the frequent occasions when they're lost.
I almost always get two pairs when I need new glasses, one for work and one for formal occasions. And I tend to keep the old pairs for emergencies, each of my cars has a pair in the glove box, a pair is in my nightstand, one is in the garage (that one I attached some LEDs to, so I can see while I'm under a car), and there's a couple pairs "somewhere" that will just show up randomly.
Then a pair in every stash of natural disaster supplies.
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That's either a bad sign, or a very, very good sign.
Well, that doesn't scan as an evil laugh.
You sure? Because I'm getting some Wicked Witch of the East vibes here.
Don't worry, I'm moderately sure Jeph isn't about to get squished by a flying house.
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Clinton's roommate is nothing but dismissive and mocking. Douche bro, not supportive bro. Only question now is whether there are more. A group of douchebros is probably called a 'grope.'
You've convinced me: unless Clinton's roommate gets an official name in the comic, he's going in my character list thingy as "douche-bro."
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Comic. So far so good.
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And then she punched him!
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Emily, baby, you look good! Pretty good, I'd say!
No wonder Clinton's plans went down the drain. Those eyes would disarm anyone.
And that means trouble. Poor Clinnnnnnnnntonnnnnnn.
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Honestly, who reads "The Art of War" as pre-first date preparation?
Oh, right, I did. Glad to see I'm not alone in that bit.
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Huh. What von Moltke actually said was more like "Two minutes after you meet the enemy, your battle plan is verscheissen."
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Well, this build-up of innocent Clinton is making him much more sympathetic than he would come across as just from previous strips.
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Aren't Clinton and Claire twins?
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Aren't Clinton and Claire twins?
Nope, she's older than him by a couple years.
*edit* arg, too slow. Here's something else:
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2281
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Clinton's roommate is nothing but dismissive and mocking. Douche bro, not supportive bro. Only question now is whether there are more. A group of douchebros is probably called a 'grope.'
I like it. Alternatively, how about a "trilby"?
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Aren't Clinton and Claire twins?
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7647/16441941973_45ebecb6e4_n.jpg) (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2277)
Edit: dang it, valkygrrl!
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In panel 5, those are the eyes that have gazed into the outer dark, and witnessed the stirring of unknowable elder things. That is the face of madness.
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I always figured they were GOING to be twins and then he realized that'd be taking a stance on nature vs nurture.
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Aren't Clinton and Claire twins?
I'm not sure where I'm getting this from, but I'm fair sure Claire is 22, while Clinton is 21
Edit: incorrectness occurred. Claire is 24. Clinton's still 21, though.
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*edit* arg, too slow. Here's something else:
Edit: dang it, valkygrrl!
Sorry sorry, I'll delete the post.
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Also, Claire is a elf.
(http://i59.tinypic.com/2u59req.png)
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Edit: dang it, valkygrrl!
Sorry sorry, I'll delete the post.
Aww, you didn't have to. I just wanted to be fancy and add a screenshot, but my archive-fu (and screenshot-fu) wasn't fast enough. You may keep the tiara for now.
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No plan survives enemy contact. Especially where a beautiful person is concerned.
Sweet lord, that is so F***ing true.
I now have serious sympathy for Clinton.
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Emily looks like she's going to eat Clinton up. She's also adorable in that dress. He's in trouble.
Also, Claire is a elf.
(http://i59.tinypic.com/2u59req.png)
100-hands hiss.
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In panel 5, those are the eyes that have gazed into the outer dark, and witnessed the stirring of unknowable elder things. That is the face of madness.
Beware those who have gazed in such manner, witnessed uncomprehendable things, and come back sane. They are well worth fearing.
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Anyone else getting flashbacks to their first date?
Wait, actually my first date was half a month ago and fantastic. It was the day afterwards, when she told me she's back together with her ex, when all hell broke loose.
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I love Emily's body language in panel 3. She looks like she is ever so slightly insecure which in my opinion may actually be a good sign. I just hope whatever happened to Clinton was post-date.
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I had chaospersonified's vision issues. Danger to myself and others if I wasn't wearing prescription lenses. It took until I was in my late 40s before laser eye surgery evolved to deal with a set of eyes like mine. Which introduced new challenges.
Anyway, Clinton. Sigh. Everyone has to start dating somewhere.
He probably told her that her eyes were like precious stones and she now has a shrine to him somewhere.
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I'm guessing Clinton somehow got new glasses at some point during the night, because they went from round to rectangular.
As I have said before, I've got the feeling that the 'date' turned into Emily trying to 'upgrade' Clinton in aesthetic terms because, in her humble opinion, that's what girls are supposed to do for their guys.
I like this theory; if you notice he's wearing blue pants as opposed to grey (Unless that's my bad eyes or lighting), he's wearing boots (they have what appear to be toe caps) as opposed to whatever shoes he was wearing earlier, and he appears to have had his hair cut.
Anyone else getting flashbacks to their first date?
Down to my brain failure at the sight of my date in a sundress.
Warning - while you were typing 2 new comments on the date have been posted. You may wish to review yours.
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I had chaospersonified's vision issues. Danger to myself and others if I wasn't wearing prescription lenses. It took until I was in my late 40s before laser eye surgery evolved to deal with a set of eyes like mine. Which introduced new challenges.
Anyway, Clinton. Sigh. Everyone has to start dating somewhere.
He probably told her that her eyes were like precious stones and she now has a shrine to him somewhere.
Or she punched him in case he was going to try and harvest those 'precious stones' :psyduck:
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I think after this date, Clinton will be the sharper for it.
The process of sharpening seems uncomfortable for the axe, and enjoyable for the grindstone.
Sparks are going to fly, and it's going to heat up for Clinton.
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May God have mercy upon his soul
THIS is going to be ...... interesting.
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Yep, he's in love alright! I'm pretty sure that he's going to do most of this stuff to himself in a desperate, testosterone-addled need to impress "the pretty girl in a sundress". Y'see, panel 4 strongly suggests his higher brain functions may have been knocked offline!
I agree that Emily's body language is extra cute in today's strip. That doesn't make Clinton's situation any easier!
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Last panel:
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I don't understand the character Emily or Clinton's attraction to her.
you've got to feel a bit sorry of the poor bloke though. I think he's on a hiding to nothing.
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Smart and crazy is a hard combination to resist, add pretty and I can definitely see how it could jam his circuitry.
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Anachronistic dress senses are nothing new in this comic.
that being said, dating advice from websites? i would have credited Clinton with more intelligence than that, unless he was truly desperate. i get that he's a social novice/total prick, but i didn't think of him as, you know, intellectually naive enough to resort to "doing it by the book/yahoo answers".
He has no friends and no experience. What else would he do?
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I've suspected for a while that Emily is somewhere on the Autistic Spectrum. Although I generally disagree with almost everything rfrank posts, in this case, I will agree as far as to say that any relationship with Emily will be high-maintenance, just because social conventions that you or I would consider automatic and intuitive might be a mystery of sorts to her.
Clinton isn't necessarily on 'a hiding to nothing'. However, if he does decide to pursue a relationship with Emily, it will be a difficult process that will require bucket-loads of empathy and patience.
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Jeph's Vendetta against courting tips from the internet continues. :-D
I just hope whatever happened to Clinton was post-date.
I cant help but admire your optimism... I think thats highly unlikely.
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Emily's ignorance of social conventions might be an advantage for Clinton, who obviously isn't too familiar with some of them himself.
Ironically, consulting conventional dating advice from the internet might be especially inappropriate in this case, since Emily doesn't really operate on that plane. For all we know, she might respond well to what the rest of us would call a social gaffe from Clinton.
Except that we already know how it's going to end :-o
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Smart and crazy is a hard combination to resist
i'm so sorry to use the same sentiment twice as an answer but it's a good one.
that's what smart and crazy people want you to think. really they are quite dangerous.
edited twice due to me buggering up the quotes. sorry.
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Oh dear. Clinton is about to be swept by class 5 hurricane Azuma. I'd suggest fleeing the area as fast as possible, but he seems to have shut off indeed.
Yep, he's in love alright! I'm pretty sure that he's going to do most of this stuff to himself in a desperate, testosterone-addled need to impress "the pretty girl in a sundress". Y'see, panel 4 strongly suggests his higher brain functions may have been knocked offline!
I could see that being what happens. Let's hope he doesn't make an ass of himself to the point where Emily won't want to spend any more time with him.
(Next up: Emily calls Claire and tells her she's had the most wonderful night of her life, AND EVERYTHING STARTS MAKING NEGATIVE SENSE)
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Clinton, run. :meh:
those are the eyes of benevolent oblivion for you sir.
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Smart and crazy is a hard combination to resist
i'm so sorry to use the same sentiment twice as an answer but it's a good one.
that's what smart and crazy people want you to think. really they are quite dangerous.
Yes, we are. :mrgreen:
And really, that was a reasonably good plan for a first date. Low-key but fun, and lots of chances to talk about stuff.
Which is probably where things went wrong. Conversations with Emily are prone to fly off on unexpected tangents.
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A pretty girl in a sundress has cast my plans to the wind on more than one occasion. :-D
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I'm still trying to work out the 'why' of 'Clinnn-tonnn'. Here's another possibility: That's how Clinton pronounces it - he draws out the 'N' sound slightly and puts a clear gap between the syllables. Emily, being Emily, has assumed that it's spelt 'Clinnn-tonnn' and is pronouncing it appropriately.
She'll probably be quite surprised when she finds out the truth. "Why don't you pronounce it that way?" she'll ask.
You can tell that I like the thought of Emily as the ultimate innocent. I wonder if Claire is ready for the day when Emily asks her, as her best friend, what this 'sex' thing is really like?
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I'm still trying to work out the 'why' of 'Clinnn-tonnn'.
Perhaps she perceives each "n" as a separate mora (syllable, sort of), like ン in Japanese.
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I'm still trying to work out the 'why' of 'Clinnn-tonnn.'
Best I can find is that it goes back to this - http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2854. She was being strange and she apparently found it FUN!!
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Somehow, I just can't imagine Helmuth von Molke going out with a pretty girl in a sundress.
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Somehow, I just can't imagine Helmuth von Molke going out with a pretty girl in a sundress.
Why would you mention that guy ?
Wikipedia says he lived to 90, between 1800 and 1891. So he was young somewhere between 1815 and 1830. Obviously at that time photography wasnt invented yet, so all pictures of him show him as an old man.
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Knowing what Clinton's night is going to end up like in the end, I can't decide if Emily's face in the last panel is terrifying or adorable. Adorifying? Terorable? Hm.
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Why would you mention that guy?
You mean other than because Jeph quotes him in today's strip? :roll: No reason at all...
Never mind photography, had sundresses been invented in the early 19th century?
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Why would you mention that guy?
You mean other than because Jeph quotes him in today's strip? :roll:
Oh, its a quote from Moltke ? Didnt knew that.
Either way Wikipedia says he understood seven languages, wrote a book, made translations etc. Doesnt sound like a man to me that would have trouble getting a woman ?
Never mind photography, had sundresses been invented in the early 19th century?
Err ... Fashion is about clothing. Thats about all I know when it comes to fashion.
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I am not aware of any Western cultures in the early 19th century that would have allowed a young woman to show that much skin in public, no.
Thankfully we live in more enlightened times.
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Never mind photography, had sundresses been invented in the early 19th century?
Is there a substantial difference between a sundress and a knee-ish length tunic?
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isn't clinnn-tonnn the way the simpsons tentacle aliens pronounce president Clinton's name in the tree house of horror episode where they take over Clinton and some other fellah in order to be elected?
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In panel 5, those are the eyes that have gazed into the outer dark, and witnessed the stirring of unknowable elder things. That is the face of madness.
Beware those who have gazed in such manner, witnessed uncomprehendable things, and come back sane. They are well worth fearing.
And whomsoever has gazed into the endless Void, and found the Void gazing back at them, if they should ever return from that dread realm beyond time and space, shall be fundamentally and unutterably changed by the incomparable horrors to which they were never meant to bear witness. Their coming shall be the merest herald of the footsteps of doom.
*rolls for Sanity* ... 1?! Dammit. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoMadFromTheRevelation)
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Now I have the mental image of Emily wearing a kimono or a qipao...
and DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG!
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I've suspected for a while that Emily is somewhere on the Autistic Spectrum. Although I generally disagree with almost everything rfrank posts, in this case, I will agree as far as to say that any relationship with Emily will be high-maintenance, just because social conventions that you or I would consider automatic and intuitive might be a mystery of sorts to her.
My personal theory about Emily is that she is, or at least was ultra smart (at least as smart as Hanners dad, if not more so). At one point she came up with a theory to bridge the gap between synthetic, and organic lifeforms, by downloading AI into organic brains. When she tried to preform the process on herself with a recently compiled AI, something went wrong, and the two personalities merged. That's why she does so many childish things, such as Clinnn-tonnn (like an toddler trying out a new sound they find interesting), and at the same time she can code programs so dangerous that government agencies EMP them before they can run.
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Jeph's Vendetta against courting tips from the internet continues. :-D
I just hope whatever happened to Clinton was post-date.
I cant help but admire your optimism... I think thats highly unlikely.
Then perhaps not of Emily's design or at least well intentions gone wrong.
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Somehow, I just can't imagine Helmuth von Molke going out with a pretty girl in a sundress.
Why would you mention that guy ?
You mean other than because Jeph quotes him in today's strip? :roll: No reason at all...
Never mind photography, had sundresses been invented in the early 19th century?
great... yet another thing to go look up on google
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In panel 5, those are the eyes that have gazed into the outer dark, and witnessed the stirring of unknowable elder things. That is the face of madness.
Beware those who have gazed in such manner, witnessed uncomprehendable things, and come back sane. They are well worth fearing.
And whomsoever has gazed into the endless Void, and found the Void gazing back at them, if they should ever return from that dread realm beyond time and space, shall be fundamentally and unutterably changed by the incomparable horrors to which they were never meant to bear witness. Their coming shall be the merest herald of the footsteps of doom.
*rolls for Sanity* ... 1?! Dammit. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoMadFromTheRevelation)
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Now I have the mental image of Emily wearing a kimono or a qipao...
Or an ao-dai, or any other Chinietnapanorean dress... I'm sure Emily would like nice in any of the above. At his next con, Jeph could sell posters like hot cakes.
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The best part about Clinton's date with Emily? It's not Clinton's date with Hannelore.
I'm glad that Jeph decided to de-creep Clinton and make him a (somewhat) sympathetic character, and I'm really glad he had the sense to avoid rehashing the Faye/Angus storyline, with Clinton continuing to obsess over Hannelore and her dad until she warmed up to him and decided that maaaayyyybeee he wouldn't be such a bad guy to date. Granted, it took several injury-by-broadsword threats from the Coffee of Doom gang, and a shock from Momo, before he backed off the obsessive stalky fan-crush, but that's still more sense than Angus ever had. So it's good to see Clinton taking a chance with someone he doesn't already have a history with. Way to be less creepy, dude.
(I'm still not putting Dale on the same level as Angus. Dale and Marigold had a weird antagonistic thing going on for a while, but it was more of a weird geeky rivalry that went on too long than a bad John Cusack romantic comedy like Angus and Faye were stuck in.)
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I think his crush was more on Hannerdad anyway.
Now THERE'S a ship!
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Of the space variety too.
The best part about Clinton's date with Emily? It's not Clinton's date with Hannelore.
Definitely. That shows that Clinton is not a numbnut like he appeared at the beginning.
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Now I have the mental image of Emily wearing a kimono or a qipao...
Or an ao-dai, or any other Chinietnapanorean dress... I'm sure Emily would like nice in any of the above. At his next con, Jeph could sell posters like hot cakes.
Yay, new information. :) I have seen people wearing these before, but I didn't know the name of them. They are very pretty.
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(I'm still not putting Dale on the same level as Angus. Dale and Marigold had a weird antagonistic thing going on for a while, but it was more of a weird geeky rivalry that went on too long than a bad John Cusack romantic comedy like Angus and Faye were stuck in.)
The early Angus/Faye thing had a serious creep factor. The Dale and Marigold thing, on the other hand, always seemed to come from mutual inexperience and misunderstanding.
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For some stupid reason, I'm amused by the fact that the hem of Emily's dress is at the same height as the top of Clinton's pants. I may be easily amused.
Chinietnapanorean
Once I managed to parse it, I immediately decided I love this portmanteau and hope to find places to use it.
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Now I have the mental image of Emily wearing a kimono or a qipao...
Or an ao-dai, or any other Chinietnapanorean dress... I'm sure Emily would like nice in any of the above. At his next con, Jeph could sell posters like hot cakes.
This is *Emily* that we're talking about. Knowing her, if she put on a kimono or yukata, she'd end up with the obi around her head, somehow, and all the various ties needed dangling from it, and possibly, various parts of her anatomy.
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The early Angus/Faye thing had a serious creep factor. The Dale and Marigold thing, on the other hand, always seemed to come from mutual inexperience and misunderstanding.
Yeah, that's what I thought, too. But I've read a few comments on these forums comparing Dale and Angus, so I wanted to defend him. Dale's thing with Marigold was just some socially-inept WoW feud without a hint of romantic attraction (one-sided or mutual) until much later.
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I missed the 2931 bridge cartoon, and started the Clinton/Emily thing with the DB roommate one. I was enjoying the story better that way. Also, in 2931, is that a US style double socket on his arm? With separate holes for Earth pins? Now I need to do some Googling to understand American electrical systems all over again. :-\
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Energia: Yes, it's a NEMA type 5-15R "duplex" socket. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_connector
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Thanks for the link - I suspect that shopping in our local versions of Home Depot may be a bit simpler. Dying to find out what Emily did to Clinton (or couldn't stop him doing to himself!)
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o god I hadn't even noticed the haircut
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So this is the shape of it: Clinton folds more easily than paper to Emily's suggestions.
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This reminds me of an anecdote that Drew Carey recounted in his book, about chatting to a lady in college and her mentioning in passing (as a vague compliment before she left the bar, incidentally not with him) that she liked Brut, which he was wearing at the time.
"Within a week, I was Brut Man."
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Ah, now it's all starting to make sense.
"I think you would look nice with a tattoo!"
"I think you would look nice with a black eye!"
"I think you would look nice with vomit on your shirt!"
No, wait, it's actually not all starting to make sense. :psyduck:
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Ah, now it's all starting to make sense.
"I think you would look nice with a tattoo!"
"I think you would look nice with a black eye!"
"I think you would look nice with vomit on your shirt!"
No, wait, it's actually not all starting to make sense. :psyduck:
You have it right for the tattoo, after which i think someone does/says something uncouth to Emily, and Clinton takes a beating after white knighting, then at the end of the date she goes on about how wonderful things went, and kisses him good night, at which point he pulls a Southpark and pukes all over himself.
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I'm still guessing the black eye is from the mosh pit at a punk club Emily suggested they go to.
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The hairdresser is a distant ancestor of Uncle John (http://www.alicegrove.com/image/99955503769)
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Hooray for traditional barber shops!
Boo, barber who thinks he can pull off a comb-over!
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In panel 5, those are the eyes that have gazed into the outer dark, and witnessed the stirring of unknowable elder things. That is the face of madness.
Beware those who have gazed in such manner, witnessed uncomprehendable things, and come back sane. They are well worth fearing.
And whomsoever has gazed into the endless Void, and found the Void gazing back at them, if they should ever return from that dread realm beyond time and space, shall be fundamentally and unutterably changed by the incomparable horrors to which they were never meant to bear witness. Their coming shall be the merest herald of the footsteps of doom.
*rolls for Sanity* ... 1?! Dammit. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoMadFromTheRevelation)
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
So there we where, sitting in a nice little non euclidean collage bar, just off the campus of Miskatonic U, trying to translate the Dhol Chants, when this philosophy student comes up and starts talking about Nietzsche. The next thing you know, it's 4 hours later, and we're discussing the parallels between the rantings of Abdul Alhazred, and the writings of modern philosophers. Then all of a sudden we all hear someone hacking up phlegm in the back room to the tune of "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn", which as we all know means it's time to pay the tab and GTFO.
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There is a very endearing kind of idiocy to this situation.
Like the puppy who chews the newspaper to shreds in the desperate attempt to drag it to your feet, because it's just too big for him to handle.
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The date went well, then. At least that's what I'm taking away from what's happened so far.
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I wish I could go into an old-timey barber shop and ask for a Popular Men's Haircut.
But you need hair for that...
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Gimme the Vanilla Ice.
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I guess that haircut is rather popular now that I think of it...
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Of course, Emily only looks concerned in that last panel. But deep down, you know she's thinking "No plan survives first contact with the enemy"? Oh, Herr Moltke, how little you knew... and trying to suppress a maniacal giggle.
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This is even easier than pushing Momo's belly button.
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I wish I could go into an old-timey barber shop and ask for a Popular Men's Haircut.
But you need hair for that...
I wish I could go into an old-timey barber shop.
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Of course, Emily only looks concerned in that last panel. But deep down, you know she's thinking "No plan survives first contact with the enemy"? Oh, Herr Moltke, how little you knew... and trying to suppress a maniacal giggle.
it's "No plan survives first contact with the Emily", don't worry, common mistake.
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The date went well, then. At least that's what I'm taking away from what's happened so far.
About as well as it can go for people who just don't connect at all.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qYbVQu7YAQ
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Kosh is here!
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The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the Clintons to vote.
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You are not ready for Emily
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If you go to Emily, you will die.
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So it starts! Clinton's self-esteem and self-image are both too weak and his desperation to impress Emily too strong for him to resist the slightest suggestion about anything that she may want/like. Of course, as this is Emily, there is no guarantee that these things will even approach being sensible!
So, we know where the tattoo and new dress style came from. We can only speculate about the black eye and puke right now. However, I'm sure that they will have the same basic origin: Emily vaguely suggests something and Clinton immediately charges in to apply it, desperate to please her. This will include strange dining choices and attempting to beat up guys that vaguely annoy her.
What's the bet that, tomorrow (in-universe) that Emily will confide in Claire that her brother is a little too strange for her? She'll give him another shot because he's a cute kind of weird. Claire 's reaction would be priceless!
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Clinton noooooo :-(
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Clinton, you basically already have that haircut.
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terrible drawings today, apart from the barber who is the most human looking human to feature in qc for a looooooong time.
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You are not ready for Emily
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_p73PZIDQuA
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Kosh is here!
Kosh has always been here.
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That wide-eyed blank look in Clinton's eyes... I'm now thinking tattoo is possible. I underestimated the power of feminine suggestion.
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I originally thought that it would be cute to see Clinton and Emily together. Now I see that it's like sending a lamb to the lion. Not that Emily is intentionally harmful or destructive but she has no control or filter over her thought processes and says and does whatever comes to mind. Clinton has no basis for determining that this is not normal girl behavior. I now suspect that Clinton went along with every whim and thought Emily voiced - tattoo, skinny jeans, Doc Martens, new glasses, new hairstyle and then Emily (who has no control mechanism) got drunk, pissed off a patron who pounded Clinton when he defended her and then she threw up on him at the end of an altogether "delightful" evening. Poor guy.
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I now suspect that Clinton went along with every whim and thought Emily voiced - tattoo, skinny jeans, Doc Martens, new glasses, new hairstyle and then Emily (who has no control mechanism) got drunk, pissed off a patron who pounded Clinton when he defended her and then she threw up on him at the end of an altogether "delightful" evening. Poor guy.
"Still better than my first ever date! -- Marten Reed
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Still a better love story th- *glurk*
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Hurricane Azuma confirmed and touching ground.
Man, Clinton is jaded. He's in "MUST. CONFORM. PETITIONS. OF. PRETTY. GIRL. IN. SUNDRESS" mode. He's staring deep into the nothingness.
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Know, see, i was looking forward to watching Clinton the dickwaffle spend a week suffering.
but 3 days in and this isn't as fun as i'd hoped.
goddamnit.
i'm beginning to feel sorry for him. it's like watching a dumb puppy fail, there's no humor here.
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Interview with Jeph discusses Faye's support group and treatment of minority characters (http://www.thefix.com/content/lJeph-Jaques-questionable-content-comic-regina-walker0408).
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Clinton, no. This is not what first dates are for.
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Clinton, no. This is not what first dates are for.
First dates are for awkward eye contact.
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Clinton, no. This is not what first dates are for.
Hey, maybe he's looking for a nice lady to give him orders.
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Clinton, no. This is not what first dates are for.
Hey, maybe he's looking for a nice lady to give him orders.
Marten knows someone... but she's currently seeing an owner of a bakery.
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Emily's face kinda looks like she is afraid of the things she set in motion. I can imagine her doing this face in the ER, after Clinton has fallen down a stairs or gotten food poisoning on the restaurant where they went to eat on their date. Her face seems to say "oh no, is this my fault? Does this ruin our date? Will he be OK?"
Clinton's face, meanwhile, says "I am going to a place I have never gone before, and whence I may never return, and I am afraid of it. I have to keep staring straight ahead, because the moment I let my eyes stray, I will turn back and run". It is the face of a soldier going into his first battle; the face of an emigrant boarding the ship to Australia.
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Clinton's face, meanwhile, says "I am going to a place I have never gone before, and whence I may never return, and I am afraid of it. I have to keep staring straight ahead, because the moment I let my eyes stray, I will turn back and run". It is the face of a soldier going into his first battle; the face of an emigrant boarding the ship to Australia.
tl:dr Love is a battlefield
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Comic time!
So it IS a tattoo.
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...and THAT'S how Jeph made everyone feel sorry for the (formerly) creepiest character in the comic.
Still, wow. A power outlet tattoo is something I might consider if I had a prosthetic hand, but this is clearly beyond Clinton's comfort zone and it's gone from awesome (in Friday's strip) to deeply, deeply sad. And not pathetic-sad either. Although also that.
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Clinton's right, he only has himself to blame, but... a power outlet? Really? Poor Clinton needs a hug and a redo on the "How to Deal With Girls" lesson.
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I don't wanna be that guy who says mean things about single parent families, I'm sure Mrs. Augustus did the best job she could with her kids and was a wonderful mother.
That said, we have here an example of a young man who DESPERATELY could have used a strong adult male role model in his formative years.
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Comic time!
So it IS a tattoo.
Yeah, I was wondering if it was, or if Emily had just drawn it on at some unfortunate point in the date.
I'm also suspecting the red spatters on his shirt are from a nosebleed. Hard to tell...
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I don't wanna be that guy who says mean things about single parent families, I'm sure Mrs. Augustus did the best job she could with her kids and was a wonderful mother.
That said, we have here an example of a young man who DESPERATELY could have used a strong adult male role model in his formative years.
Because only men who were raised by single mothers have ever gotten tattoos to impress women?
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I think a power outlet tattoo really fits Clinton's personality (and his robot hand). Though a USB socket might have been even better.
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but... a power outlet? Really? Poor Clinton needs a hug and a redo on the "How to Deal With Girls" lesson.
I think a power outlet tattoo really fits Clinton's personality (and his robot hand). Though a USB socket might have been even better.
I've never experienced the traumatic loss of a hand, but if I did, and if I was able to replace it with a prosthetic hand on the technological level of the QC-verse, then I might actually consider poking mild fun at myself and my condition with a somewhat-lighthearted tattoo showing off that I was a "cyborg." Maybe. Obviously I can't really know for sure, but I can guess. But Clinton isn't as casually easygoing as I imagine myself to be. Sure, he's not ashamed of his injury, and he's definitely not shy about displaying his cybernetic replacement, but one thing Clinton is definitely NOT, is casually-lighthearted about it. He's proud of his hand and somewhat confrontational about it (as demonstrated by his refusal to wear a flesh covering), but a jokey tattoo completely destroys that image. He is going to regret this for a long, long time.
This comic actually hurts to read.
(Edit: And I know I joked about his getting a tattoo earlier this week and in the last thread, but seeing it play out in the comic has changed my mind, and I'm not very happy with the direction this storyline went.)
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Whatever website it was that gave him dating advice needs to be taken down.
I think he'd have a pretty good case against them, myself.
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I don't wanna be that guy who says mean things about single parent families, I'm sure Mrs. Augustus did the best job she could with her kids and was a wonderful mother.
That said, we have here an example of a young man who DESPERATELY could have used a strong adult male role model in his formative years.
Because only men who were raised by single mothers have ever gotten tattoos to impress women?
And no fathers have ever raised their kids wrong or given bad advice!
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I think a power outlet tattoo really fits Clinton's personality (and his robot hand).
Nah, one of these would fit his personality better:
(http://www.radiomuseum.org/forumdata/users/4942/BradleyOhm_Stat_4.JPG)
Ya know, 'cause he can be a bit of a knob sometimes...
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Poor bastard.
I like seeing another side to Clinton; he's coming across as a more nuanced and sympathetic character in these last several strips. Hopefully Jeph does the same with Emily. She isn't unsympathetic, but she's been awfully one-note.
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Oh dear
Clinton, you poor bastard.
Laughing my ass off here
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This doesn't even make sense. Clinton wasn't ever into Emily, it was just Claire/Marten's offhanded suggestion/tease that he ask her out. Why does he want to impress her? Why does she care about tattoos and undercuts all of a sudden? This woman drunkenly cut her own hair off one day. Just...doesn't seem in character for either.
I also realized that the comic is really into characters who have no experience in sex/relationships these days. I'm thinking early days Marten, Steve, Faye, Dora, Sven to Marigold, (Dale?), Claire, Clinton, Emily. As the comic is aging up the characters are aging down in terms of experience, if not maturity. I'm gonna let Tai and Hannelore cancel each other out because I figure they showed up early and around the same time.
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To me, this whole arc smacks of "Hey, these are the two weirdest characters in the strip right now, let's shove them together, watch it all go to hell, and then point and laugh!", both in-universe (Claire and Marten being mean and messing with Clinton and Emily for kicks) and out-of-universe (Jeph deciding that they must suffer to make a few punchlines).
I'm not looking kindly on this storyline, since I have plenty of experience with being the odd/bookish person in the room/class/group and getting messed with relentlessly because others found it "funny". So no, I'm not getting a kick out of this one. If this is Jeph's way of backhandedly making me (and others) sympathize with Emily and Clinton, well, it's working.
On top of that, the contrast between relationships could not be any more stark. Claire and Marten get a hundred strips of relentless saccharine overkill; meanwhile, Faye and Angus are no more, Dale and Marigold get no screen time, Dora and Tai get one brief strip of one argument, and Emily and Clinton get used as the butt of jokes. Gee, I totally can't tell who the author's favourites are ...
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One of the mysteries of humanity is the way that different individuals, in combination, bring out bits of one another that otherwise may never be seen. In my own experience I've seen this in many many interactions. In some ways i become a slightly different person each time I'm interacting with many people I know. In some cases, there may be incurable awkwardness and clumsiness, while in others, there's confidence, or loquacity, or shyness. I may become a nerdy raconteur, or a bemused but mostly silent observer, or many other unexpected personalities. The passage of time doesn't seem to affect it much, either. Seeing an old acquaintance, I slip into the same mental place I was with them years earlier. I don't think I'm the only one this happens to.
Jeph is a good enough observer of humanity that he picks up on this. We've all seen how doormat Marten transformed into a suave and confident man-about-town when in Claire's company. I don't think this is bad writing; to the contrary, it's something that really happens, and it's a sign that the two could have a nice future together. They complete each other and turn one another into better people.
Clinton and Emily's personal chemistry is looking just dire. She becomes even more of a space cadet, and he becomes a complete kneebiter who makes terrible choices. It's difficult to watch, honestly. Maybe they'll find a way through all this to stop going to wherever mental space they send one to, but it's not looking hopeful.
Warning - while you were typing 2 people took the thread in another direction entirely. You may wish to dump your post.
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This doesn't even make sense. Clinton wasn't ever into Emily, it was just Claire/Marten's offhanded suggestion/tease that he ask her out. Why does he want to impress her? Why does she care about tattoos and undercuts all of a sudden? This woman drunkenly cut her own hair off one day. Just...doesn't seem in character for either.
I also realized that the comic is really into characters who have no experience in sex/relationships these days. I'm thinking early days Marten, Steve, Faye, Dora, Sven to Marigold, (Dale?), Claire, Clinton, Emily. As the comic is aging up the characters are aging down in terms of experience, if not maturity. I'm gonna let Tai and Hannelore cancel each other out because I figure they showed up early and around the same time.
Character dynamics. Any time you have a differential in experience (including, but not limited to, romantic experience), you have the potential for a more interesting story; there's potential for conflict, learning, humor, and quite a bit else. If everybody was perfectly and evenly matched, things would likely get old quick.
You also have to bear in mind that not everyone has the same experiences at the same time, then factor in age (some of these characters are younger than others, don't forget), and general nerdiness/geekyness (it made a difference for some of us, y'know).
Regarding the dynamic of their relationship so far: sometimes things start well and go to shit. And sometimes things get off to a shaky start -- as they've been doing here -- and end up quite well. It's a bit early yet to be writing the post-mortem for Emily and Clinton as a couple, or to second-guess what this means for either character's growth as the whole thing unfolds.
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This doesn't even make sense. Clinton wasn't ever into Emily, it was just Claire/Marten's offhanded suggestion/tease that he ask her out. Why does he want to impress her? Why does she care about tattoos and undercuts all of a sudden? This woman drunkenly cut her own hair off one day. Just...doesn't seem in character for either.
I can totally see it. Clinton has a high opinion of himself, combined with zero actual experience with dating. Of course he wants to do a well with it as he possibly can, regardless if whatever feelings he might or might not have for Emily. Stupid pride, combined with completely losing his sense of self when he gazes into those big brown eyes. Emily is no more realistic in her expectations than Clinton, and has a tendency to be totally into random things (frogs, muskrats, tatoos, whatever), at least for a short time. A trainwreck follows.
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Well...as weak willed as he's being overall I'll give him credit for one thing.
He's looking right at that needle. I'm not the tattoo type, but if I were I'd be tense and looking the other way.
Though I guess maybe getting a hand blown off puts that kinda thing in perspective.
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So it was a tattoo. Damn, I stand corrected. Might as well disguise my scar with a tattoo.
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It's the week for painful webcomic reading. Gunnerkrigg Court has been hurting even more than this arc.
The expression on Emily's face is cute but more than a little alarming.
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This doesn't even make sense. Clinton wasn't ever into Emily, it was just Claire/Marten's offhanded suggestion/tease that he ask her out. Why does he want to impress her? Why does she care about tattoos and undercuts all of a sudden? This woman drunkenly cut her own hair off one day. Just...doesn't seem in character for either.
Well Emily is very smart and she was in a class with Clinton. So he may have had an odd fascination for her, plus dates are suppose to let you get to know one another. Going on this date he might discover things about her that he finds attractive.
Anyway, here (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2853) is the strip about her project.
Side note, I honestly didn't think Clinton was that creepy he was just... passionate.
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So it was a tattoo. Damn, I stand corrected. Might as well disguise my scar with a tattoo.
I saw pictures earlier of a guy who had a big splotchy birth mark outlined so it looked like a fantasy world map.
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Ok, i'm going to make an early prediction. Once we're done with the date flashback, we're going to see the wrap up with Clinton talking to Claire, and or Marten, and it's goi8ng to be pointed out how well the date actually went, and that Clinton was just too busy worrying to enjoy it.
Clare tells him how the hair cut really works for him, Martin explains that a tattoo should be a reflection of the person getting it, and that he made the perfect choice. Clinton gets home, and tells his room mate about how things went, which earns the reply "Dude, that actually sounds kind of awesome except for the puke part... wait, did you say Emily, as in Emily Azuma? She's totally hot! getting puked on was so worth it. I sir, am impressed!"
Of course all of this is based on my own thoughts on Clinton, which is after getting his hand blown off playing with fireworks, he retreated into a comfort zone where he takes no risks. Emily is dragging him out of that comfort zone (not kicking and screaming, but dragging none the less) and it's only going to be after he's had time to soundboard, process, and look back on the events, that he realizes that he actually did have a good time.
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It's the week for painful webcomic reading. Gunnerkrigg Court has been hurting even more than this arc.
Gunnerkrigg is reinforcing that I really should be reading my story comics by chapter instead of by update. It's making me angry. Which is good and the intent. But since I'm reading by page...it's just making me angry every update with no payoff. I can't keep reading to where either Annie sticks up for herself or Kat or Reynard comes to the rescue.
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It is like watching a trainwreck in slow motion.
You can see each and every rivet deforming, cracking and flying off, while the engine smashes into the wall and gets bent out of shape.
This is in a sense a work of art. But it ends up in blood and tears (and a scrap heap). So, yes, completely comparable to that date.
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Um, WHY does Emily think tattoos are neat? Inquiring minds want to know!
(And I'd really like to see her in a cheongsam.)
Meanwhile, I like tywren's idea that Clinton is benefiting from daring to do things he would never have considered on his own.
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That look on his face in Panel 1 isn't the look of someone going slightly out of their comfort zone, or someone who will look back on this date as a "good time." It's more of a blindfold-and-last-cigarette look. He fucked up and he knows it, and he can't take it back, and he is going to cry himself to sleep tonight.
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There is a painful aspect to this, isn't there? Clinton is so struck by how pretty Emily looks that he seems stuck in a reflexive behaviour to attempt to please and/or impress her. That, in turn, is making him say things that he doesn't mean.
The sad thing is that it's working. Emily is impressed and clearly overjoyed to meet someone with the same whimsical impulses as she has! I just hope that Clinton doesn't blame her for this because, ultimately, all this is due to his weak will! I just hope that he at least gets a kiss out of this! Also... I wonder if Emily will get a matching tattoo or if she'll get one that matches her personality, like a butterfly?
The lesson, children? Bluffing or lying to your date in an attempt to appear more exciting never works. It will always blow up in your face eventually.
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Well, it might work, depending on what you hope to achieve, but it will certainly blow up in your face at the end.
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The thing is, Emily hasn't really been acting weird on this date. She's just been making small talk that Clinton is treating as calls to action.
At this point if Emily said "Nice weather for this time of year," Clinton would try to invent a machine to keep the weather from changing.
Also, remember Emily is someone who got her ears pierced on a whim. I think the impulsive tattoo thing is impressing her.
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That look on his face in Panel 1 isn't the look of someone going slightly out of their comfort zone, or someone who will look back on this date as a "good time." It's more of a blindfold-and-last-cigarette look. He fucked up and he knows it, and he can't take it back, and he is going to cry himself to sleep tonight.
If i'm reading things right, there is no slightly when it comes to Clinton's comfort zone; it's all the way in, or all the way out, with no grey, middle ground to be seen. Like i said, i think he's been that way ever sense he blew his hand off. That's why i said he'll need time to look back, and process, and that he'll only think of it as fun in hind sight. It may also be what leads him to re-discover that gray zone.
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This doesn't even make sense. Clinton wasn't ever into Emily, it was just Claire/Marten's offhanded suggestion/tease that he ask her out.
Clinton was, however, desperate for a date with somebody. And I think we are supposed to understand that the moment he sees Emily he's suddenly much more attracted to her than he was prepared for. And then... we already know Clinton over-reacts to anything that excites him, whether it's discovering who Hanner's dad is or being defensive about his sister.
Anyway, Emily's certainly found an outlet for HER power...
ETA:
I think the aftermath of this may be that Clinton will learn, slowly and painfuly, from his mistakes and become a much nicer guy all round. Jeph's above putting the two weirdest characters together just for cheap laughs: some good has to come of it.
In the end Emily might even be impressed by Clinton's bravery and develop some sort of affection for him, though I'm not taking bets on that one.
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This doesn't even make sense. Clinton wasn't ever into Emily, it was just Claire/Marten's offhanded suggestion/tease that he ask her out.
Clinton was, however, desperate for a date with somebody. And I think we are supposed to understand that the moment he sees Emily he's suddenly much more attracted to her than he was prepared for. And then... we already know Clinton over-reacts to anything that excites him, whether it's discovering who Hanner's dad is or being defensive about his sister.
Exactly. Well put.
Anyway, Emily's certainly found an outlet for HER power...
:claireface: Very well put!
In the end Emily might even be impressed by Clinton's bravery and develop some sort of affection for him, though I'm not taking bets on that one.
She certainly seems impressed so far. However, we already know he ends up with a black eye and no sign of Emily in the vicinity, so I'm guessing she doesn't stay that way.
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To me, this whole arc smacks of "Hey, these are the two weirdest characters in the strip right now, let's shove them together, watch it all go to hell, and then point and laugh!", both in-universe (Claire and Marten being mean and messing with Clinton and Emily for kicks) and out-of-universe (Jeph deciding that they must suffer to make a few punchlines).
I'm not looking kindly on this storyline, since I have plenty of experience with being the odd/bookish person in the room/class/group and getting messed with relentlessly because others found it "funny". So no, I'm not getting a kick out of this one. If this is Jeph's way of backhandedly making me (and others) sympathize with Emily and Clinton, well, it's working.
On top of that, the contrast between relationships could not be any more stark. Claire and Marten get a hundred strips of relentless saccharine overkill; meanwhile, Faye and Angus are no more, Dale and Marigold get no screen time, Dora and Tai get one brief strip of one argument, and Emily and Clinton get used as the butt of jokes. Gee, I totally can't tell who the author's favourites are ...
I'd say you're over-reacting a tad. Jeph wouldn't be doing anything in the comics at the expense of people's real problems, otherwise we'd all be laughing along with him at Faye's alcoholism for example.
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She certainly seems impressed so far. However, we already know he ends up with a black eye and no sign of Emily in the vicinity, so I'm guessing she doesn't stay that way.
It's hard to say for sure. I think wacky hijinks are far more likely than Emily smacking him one.
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This doesn't even make sense. Clinton wasn't ever into Emily, it was just Claire/Marten's offhanded suggestion/tease that he ask her out. Why does he want to impress her? Why does she care about tattoos and undercuts all of a sudden? This woman drunkenly cut her own hair off one day. Just...doesn't seem in character for either.
Well Emily is very smart and she was in a class with Clinton. So he may have had an odd fascination for her, plus dates are suppose to let you get to know one another. Going on this date he might discover things about her that he finds attractive.
Anyway, here (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2853) is the strip about her project.
Side note, I honestly didn't think Clinton was that creepy he was just... passionate.
One of the background characters look like Faye with black hair! :o
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Here's my bet.
This is going to continue escalating.
He will grow more and more frustrated.
The pretty girl in the sundress is going to give him a kiss on the cheek goodnight and say she had a lovely time.
Yes there will be a second date.
Clinton will think everything went absolutely perfectly for the length of time it takes the pretty girl in the sundress to skip away.
Reality will come crashing back down the second she is no longer in his field of view.
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Seriously ?
First to the barber, NOW a tattoo ???
And Clinton never ever stopped and thought "maybe I just, you know, DO THE DATE" ?
This is getting really painful to watch.
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What's next? Donating a kidney? :-P
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I am honestly expecting Clinton to tell Emily it wouldn't work because "you bring out the worst in me". I also expect Emily to weird out Claire by telling her about the date in such a way that all of her quirks (acting out weird impulses, strange interests and uttering random non-sequeteurs) sound like they are Clinton's quirks and they freak her out. "Will I ever find a normal guy?" she'll ask wistfully.
Meanwhile, Clinton will find that he has developed credibility with his dorm-mates because of the new 'do, the tattoo and because: "Dude! He actually dated that freaky Emily girl from Advanced Comp Sci!"
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Meanwhile, Clinton will find that he has developed credibility with his dorm-mates because of the new 'do, the tattoo and because: "Dude! He actually dated that freaky Emily girl from Advanced Comp Sci!"
This i can agree with, the rest? Not so much.
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In the end Emily might even be impressed by Clinton's bravery and develop some sort of affection for him, though I'm not taking bets on that one.
She certainly seems impressed so far. However, we already know he ends up with a black eye and no sign of Emily in the vicinity, so I'm guessing she doesn't stay that way.
My projection was intended for the days following, not the rest of this evening. The theory's already been advanced that Clinton gets the black eye from trying to defend Emily from someone else; that could lay the ground for a positive response from Emily the next day. Remember how impressed she was with Marten's impulsive (if rather misguided) old-fashioned heroism saving her from a harmless snake bite.
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And Clinton never ever stopped and thought "maybe I just, you know, DO THE DATE" ?
He doesn't actually know how to do that. The barber and tattoo are convenient displacement activity.
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And Clinton never ever stopped and thought "maybe I just, you know, DO THE DATE" ?
FWIW, my reading of this is that Clinton went to the barbers, then they had the dinner and the walk along the bike trail. The conversation about tattoos took place whilst sitting on a bench somewhere along the trail.
You see, Clinton has reached the end of his Plan and, I think, he is now improvising. They are making conversation about personal things such as likes, dislikes and aesthetics. This is so subjective that the social pressures are rising continually. This is not a good thing for someone like Clinton, or so the evidence suggests.
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As regards unfortunate and regrettable actions that can't be undone... these are mild and mostly harmless. Thank goodness.
Learning experiences of the "OMG what have I DONE!!" variety rather than the more prosaic and tragic ones, such as wrapping a car round a tree, taking a pill that's far too potent, or even getting blotto and falling victim to those who'd take advantage. Not very serious mistakes with horribly serious consequences.
This one - could be a heck of a lot worse. I wonder if Emily will realise her power - and maybe think things through a bit more, as Clinton is too besotted to. The power of a pretty girl with a sunny personality - and a sun dress to match.
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Oh my, what an assertive, impulsive young man who knows his own mind. My heart's all a-flutter.
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I think the major issue is a combination of two factors
Point 1: Emily says and does any random shit that comes into her mind at that specific moment. most of the rest of the cast treat this politely as her Emily-ness and while they will indulge her with conversation to a point, they never let it go too far. (eg. she cut her own hair on a whim and tried to do the same to Claire)
Point 2: Clinton is a complete twit. he really is. he is the Arnold Rimmer of QC, without the narcissism. right now he up the river NoComfortZoneInSight, with no paddle and no direction. we saw in the haircut strip he seems to be so worried that Emily might be into other men (on a first fekking date no less, you twit) that he's gone full panic mode and agreeing to everything.
in short, what we have in a scenario where Emily's strange whims, thought patterns and interests are being indulged rather than curtailed. this may well lead to her considering this "best date ever" precisely because of that.
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he is the Arnold Rimmer of QC, without the narcissism.
I like you.
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The thing that really bothers me? I don't think Clinton is seeing Emily as a person. He's seeing Emily as a woman, but not a person, I think. That, of course, has somewhat creepy implications.
And, if I'm reading things right, he's desperate enough for a Standard Attractive Woman (and so, so inexperienced) that he's going along with whatever Emily wants even if he thinks it's a terrible idea, rather than being himself (or at least a little bit himself). That's not fair to Emily, that's not fair to himself.
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Clinton's face, meanwhile, says "I am going to a place I have never gone before, and whence I may never return, and I am afraid of it. I have to keep staring straight ahead, because the moment I let my eyes stray, I will turn back and run". It is the face of a soldier going into his first battle; the face of an emigrant boarding the ship to Australia.
tl:dr Love is a battlefield
I would follow this up with the comic punchline (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1039) but that sounds a little morbid from you or to you.
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The thing that really bothers me? I don't think Clinton is seeing Emily as a person. He's seeing Emily as a woman, but not a person, I think. That, of course, has somewhat creepy implications.
And, if I'm reading things right, he's desperate enough for a Standard Attractive Woman (and so, so inexperienced) that he's going along with whatever Emily wants even if he thinks it's a terrible idea, rather than being himself (or at least a little bit himself). That's not fair to Emily, that's not fair to himself.
Best analysis I've seen so far.
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Meanwhile, Clinton will find that he has developed credibility with his dorm-mates because of the new 'do, the tattoo and because: "Dude! He actually dated that freaky Emily girl from Advanced Comp Sci!"
When they first meet Emily: "Dude, your girlfriend is a babe!"
Clinton: "I know!"
Five minutes after meeting Emily: "Dude, your girlfriend is weirder than you are."
Clinton: "I know."
Ten minutes after meeting Emily: "Dude, I'm not sure if the babe-ness is enough to compensate for the weirdness."
Clinton: "I'm still trying to figure that out myself."
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A little bit of an aside from the comic, though still relating to Emily, I think I am correct in thinking that she is of Japanese descent, yes? I THINK it has been explicitly stated, but otherwise I am basing that on the surname Azuma as well as the heavy mix of Sakaki/Osaka influences in her character.
So yeah, working on that assumption, the desire to see her in a qipao/cheongsam/ao dai is a little bit of shaky ground racially, as two of those are traditional Chinese dresses and the other is, according to Wikipedia, Viatnamese. I'm not saying it wouldn't be amazing to see Emily in some sort of traditional dress, but I think we have to be careful when making statements like that because it does almost become a case of 'all Asian is the same Asian'.
Sorry, that was a bit of a 'rain on everybody's nice time' kind of post, but I think it is something we should be aware of. Please continue to have a nice time!
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So far I'm 2/2 on my self-inflicted prediction from last week. >_>
I'm sure now that he's reflected a little bit he'll stop doing whatever Emily happens to mention, right? :roll:
As someone who can be pretty easily convinced to do stuff for others, I kinda understand Clinton's troubles. However, the presentation is a little bit too wacky for me to actually feel much of anything about them. It is a bit of a bummer that he is stuck with an idea he came up with on the spot for the technology he cares so deeply about. I hope he's fine with the power outlet idea later.
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Emily appears much more joyful in today's last panel than in yesterday's last panel. Could it be that she's genuinely enjoying what Clinton is doing right now? Not as in "being shaped up to Emily's ideas" but as in "Getting a tattoo".
On the other hand, while Clinton looked absolutely jaded yesterday, he looks worried today. Pretty sure he doesn't want the tattoo.
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A little bit of an aside from the comic, though still relating to Emily, I think I am correct in thinking that she is of Japanese descent, yes? I THINK it has been explicitly stated, but otherwise I am basing that on the surname Azuma as well as the heavy mix of Sakaki/Osaka influences in her character.
So yeah, working on that assumption, the desire to see her in a qipao/cheongsam/ao dai is a little bit of shaky ground racially, as two of those are traditional Chinese dresses and the other is, according to Wikipedia, Viatnamese. I'm not saying it wouldn't be amazing to see Emily in some sort of traditional dress, but I think we have to be careful when making statements like that because it does almost become a case of 'all Asian is the same Asian'.
Sorry, that was a bit of a 'rain on everybody's nice time' kind of post, but I think it is something we should be aware of. Please continue to have a nice time!
The point was that she would look good in any of those. I'd be strongly opposed to anyone saying she shouldn't be allowed to wear something because she isn't of the "proper" ethnicity.
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Claire: How did the date go?
Emily: No matter what I talked about Clin-ton turned it around to be about himself. I mentioned hair and he just _had_ to have a haircut. Tattoos, he had to have a tattoo, everything had to be about him. He's so self-centered!
Claire: I'm sorry, I guess insecure guys can sometimes...
Emily: I have cat pictures on my phone.
Claire: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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Also... I wonder if Emily will get a matching tattoo or if she'll get one that matches her personality, like a butterfly?
The next workday we join Claire in the library talking to Tai..
"It took me months, but I finally got the courage to get this cute little heart tattoo on my shoulder!"
*Emily walks in with a full body dragon tattoo*
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It's the week for painful webcomic reading. Gunnerkrigg Court has been hurting even more than this arc.
The expression on Emily's face is cute but more than a little alarming.
Indeed. In the haircut strip she looked concerned. "Getting a haircut is not something you do on a date. I didn't mean to... uh..." But in the tattoo parlor... getting a tattoo IS something one might do on a date, and she's clearly happy. It's not just her smile, it's also her body language - she's leaning into it.
Maybe it's just that she loves tattoos. It's certainly partly that.
But maybe it's "Clinnntonn will do anything I want! Muahahahahah!"
Let's take inventory:
- Haircut - accounted for
- Tattoo - accounted for
- Puke on shirt
- Loss of bow tie
- Loss of suspenders
- Boots with reinforced toes
- Rolled-up pants to accommodate boots (probably not new pants - if he'd gotten new pants he'd have gotten boot cut)
- Black eye
Maybe they went to "Purgatory", that burger joint in Real Genius.
Somehow I doubt this story will be completely told by the end of this week. Just a feeling.
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A little bit of an aside from the comic, though still relating to Emily, I think I am correct in thinking that she is of Japanese descent, yes? I THINK it has been explicitly stated, but otherwise I am basing that on the surname Azuma as well as the heavy mix of Sakaki/Osaka influences in her character.
So yeah, working on that assumption, the desire to see her in a qipao/cheongsam/ao dai is a little bit of shaky ground racially, as two of those are traditional Chinese dresses and the other is, according to Wikipedia, Viatnamese. I'm not saying it wouldn't be amazing to see Emily in some sort of traditional dress, but I think we have to be careful when making statements like that because it does almost become a case of 'all Asian is the same Asian'.
Sorry, that was a bit of a 'rain on everybody's nice time' kind of post, but I think it is something we should be aware of. Please continue to have a nice time!
The point was that she would look good in any of those. I'd be strongly opposed to anyone saying she shouldn't be allowed to wear something because she isn't of the "proper" ethnicity.
I mean, I think there is an element of wilful misunderstanding going on here.
For starters, I think that it's no coincidence that no one was talking about how great she would look in lederhosen (though I think that we really should be, coz, wow). There is a selection there of a handful of cultures there that are frequently mixed or confused, which can be a sore point; as someone of Afghan descent, people often lump my ethnicity in with Pakistani, Indian, Bangladeshi, etc, and it is not maliciously done but it can feel quite dismissive - I mean, we're all a bit brown, right? What's the difference? You can see how someone could find that offensive, even if understanding that it is not done with ill will, something I never suggested.
As for the idea of being able to wear something if you aren't the 'proper' culture? I have no intention of getting into the discussion of cultural appropriation, because that is not what I was talking about in the first place, and because it can be a very grey area and I feel ill suited to be the pioneer of that particular topic. However, I do think it is a very worthy topic of discussion in general.
Tl;dr, I am not suggesting that it was done maliciously, or that anyone would even be offended by it in the first place, and I am certainly not calling out the people who said it, but I think it is always wise to consider the implications of our own assumptions or comments.
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Smart and crazy is a hard combination to resist, add pretty and I can definitely see how it could jam his circuitry.
Definitely. Dunno about y'all, but Emily, if she were real, would be my type for sure. I've been mystified from the start about why Marten isn't interested in her!
And if I were 21 and on a date with Emily, I'd probably do about as well as Clinton's doing.
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Dunno about y'all, but Emily, if she were real, would be my type for sure.
I would probably not pursue a relationship with someone like Emily in real life. I learned a long time ago that any relationship in which I am the more stable and grounded person is doomed to spectacular failure.
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Dunno about y'all, but Emily, if she were real, would be my type for sure.
I would probably not pursue a relationship with someone like Emily in real life. I learned a long time ago that any relationship in which I am the more stable and grounded person is doomed to spectacular failure.
Oh, me too. I didn't say it wouldn't be doomed. But I'd sure try. Smart + crazy + pretty is like a flame to my moth.
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So yeah, working on that assumption, the desire to see her in a qipao/cheongsam/ao dai is a little bit of shaky ground racially, as two of those are traditional Chinese dresses and the other is, according to Wikipedia, Viatnamese. I'm not saying it wouldn't be amazing to see Emily in some sort of traditional dress, but I think we have to be careful when making statements like that because it does almost become a case of 'all Asian is the same Asian'.
Sorry, that was a bit of a 'rain on everybody's nice time' kind of post, but I think it is something we should be aware of. Please continue to have a nice time!
Alertness and awareness are good things.
I am highly confident that Akima was not falling into ignorant racial insensitivity when she imagined Emily in non-Japanese East Asian garments.
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And, if I'm reading things right, he's desperate enough for a Standard Attractive Woman (and so, so inexperienced) that he's going along with whatever Emily wants even if he thinks it's a terrible idea, rather than being himself (or at least a little bit himself). That's not fair to Emily, that's not fair to himself.
Of course he's not trying to be himself; it's the classic mistake many an insecure, inexperienced guy makes. He believes that being himself is simply Not Good Enough to keep a girl interested (or even attract her interest in the first place) so is trying desperately to figure out what to change to make himself more attractive. In this state he would turn himself inside out and backwards if he thought it would keep Emily around. It's rather pathetic, but it's something I'm sure many a man in Clinton's circumstances can relate to.
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So yeah, working on that assumption, the desire to see her in a qipao/cheongsam/ao dai is a little bit of shaky ground racially, as two of those are traditional Chinese dresses and the other is, according to Wikipedia, Viatnamese. I'm not saying it wouldn't be amazing to see Emily in some sort of traditional dress, but I think we have to be careful when making statements like that because it does almost become a case of 'all Asian is the same Asian'.
Sorry, that was a bit of a 'rain on everybody's nice time' kind of post, but I think it is something we should be aware of. Please continue to have a nice time!
Alertness and awareness are good things.
I am highly confident that Akima was not falling into ignorant racial insensitivity when she imagined Emily in non-Japanese East Asian garments.
so happy to see a mature approach to this discussion. says a lot of these forums.
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as someone of Afghan descent, people often lump my ethnicity in with Pakistani
I have difficulty picking Afghan Pushtun from Pakistani NW Frontier Pushtun. Or Afghan Tajik from NW Frontier Tajik. But I don't mistake Tajik for Pushtun!
An Afghan student doctor saved my life in the late 70s. Long story. That was before things all turned to custard.
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I am apparently the only person here who didn't realize Emily is supposed to be Asian.
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So yeah, working on that assumption, the desire to see her in a qipao/cheongsam/ao dai is a little bit of shaky ground racially, as two of those are traditional Chinese dresses and the other is, according to Wikipedia, Viatnamese. I'm not saying it wouldn't be amazing to see Emily in some sort of traditional dress, but I think we have to be careful when making statements like that because it does almost become a case of 'all Asian is the same Asian'.
Sorry, that was a bit of a 'rain on everybody's nice time' kind of post, but I think it is something we should be aware of. Please continue to have a nice time!
Alertness and awareness are good things.
I am highly confident that Akima was not falling into ignorant racial insensitivity when she imagined Emily in non-Japanese East Asian garments.
so happy to see a mature approach to this discussion. says a lot of these forums.
Indeed. But then, a mature response would have considered what was actually said by Akima in the first place:
Now I have the mental image of Emily wearing a kimono or a qipao...
Or an ao-dai, or any other Chinietnapanorean dress... I'm sure Emily would like nice in any of the above.
"Chinietnapanorean" - note the sarcasm relating to the lack of precision in identifying Asians (because the two garments named in the post she's responding to are from different countries).
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And, if I'm reading things right, he's desperate enough for a Standard Attractive Woman (and so, so inexperienced) that he's going along with whatever Emily wants even if he thinks it's a terrible idea, rather than being himself (or at least a little bit himself). That's not fair to Emily, that's not fair to himself.
Of course he's not trying to be himself; it's the classic mistake many an insecure, inexperienced guy makes. He believes that being himself is simply Not Good Enough to keep a girl interested (or even attract her interest in the first place) so is trying desperately to figure out what to change to make himself more attractive.
One more thing that should be mentioned about this: remember, when it comes to dating Clinton is apparently a total noob. He had to look up dating etiquette on the Internet, after all. I can easily imagine him being totally ignored by girls for most of his life before now, or even worse, being dissed and actively dismissed by them. He is only now getting to do an activity with a girl that more well-adjusted guys started doing back in junior high school/secondary school or earlier, and he has NO idea what the heck he's doing. And on top of all that, for his first date ever, he's got the likes of Emily, the very definition of Cloud Cuckoolander (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Cloudcuckoolander) if ever there was one. It is any wonder said first date is an unfolding disaster?
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A little bit of an aside from the comic, though still relating to Emily, I think I am correct in thinking that she is of Japanese descent, yes? I THINK it has been explicitly stated, but otherwise I am basing that on the surname Azuma as well as the heavy mix of Sakaki/Osaka influences in her character.
So yeah, working on that assumption, the desire to see her in a qipao/cheongsam/ao dai is a little bit of shaky ground racially, as two of those are traditional Chinese dresses and the other is, according to Wikipedia, Viatnamese. I'm not saying it wouldn't be amazing to see Emily in some sort of traditional dress, but I think we have to be careful when making statements like that because it does almost become a case of 'all Asian is the same Asian'.
Sorry, that was a bit of a 'rain on everybody's nice time' kind of post, but I think it is something we should be aware of. Please continue to have a nice time!
I can't speak but for me, and I based my desire in a) Emily is tall, b) Emily is slim, and c) Emily has just the body type for that sort of dress. One of my nieces has that body type, and she chose to wear a qipao for her Quinceaños, which is the Mexican equivalent (soft of) for the American Sweet Sixteen. You look at her, and while there's no doubt she's not Asian, the dress fits quite nicely. As a matter of fact, in Mexico, having an epicanthal fold in your eyes is not that rare: we call them "ojos almendrados" (almond eyes) and part of my brain refuses to assume someone having epicanthal fold in their eyes is Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Mongolian, Mexican, or Filipino, or something.
Emily will look good in a qipao; so would Dora. Both would look good as Charras, or as Adelitas, too, but I live surrounded by those images, so I don't feel as appealed to those images. Faye would look amazing as a rejoneadora in a suit of lights.
And now I can't get out of my head an image of Faye as Mónica Serrano. She's a nice gal I have the honour to know from when I lived in Mexico City.
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Huh. Jeph just updated Alice Grove, but not QC.
I guess this is The End.
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Huh. Jeph just updated Alice Grove, but not QC.
I guess this is The End.
Not sure if being dramatic
(http://i1.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/006/026/futuramafry.jpg)
Or making a subtle Butts joke.
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Life must be being an ass to Jeph for him to be so behind. :claireface:
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If 2015 really is the end of QC, then this year will truly be an Anus Horribilis.
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Comic's up.
Never gesture with your drinking hand.
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Especially not with your cyborg drinking hand.
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Is what Clinton is doing plausible? Is it just random wackiness, not that there's anything wrong with that?
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He's in "Fuck it" mode. He's already made a big mistake, so fuck it. Time to go crazy, throw caution to the wind, no backing down. On Monday, we'll find out that the guy he spilled his beer on is only mildly annoyed ("Hey, man, I liked this shirt. You should try to be more careful next time, okay?"), but Clinton thinks this is the culmination of everything that has gone wrong on this date, and throws the first punch.
The guy steps out of the way, and Clinton trips and hits his face against the counter.
It's the most anticlimactic black eye ever. Somewhere, in one of the back offices that keeps the universe running, a minor bureaucrat snickers and clocks out for the night.
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What's the possibility that Clinton's alcohol intolerant? Marten mentions cookies, Claire remembers the date, Marten asks what that's got to do with cookies, next frame Clinton's tossed his cookies (parked a custard/shouted lunch/insert-colorful-metaphor-of-choice-here). Obviously, neither of them knows he's hurled yet, and that's the only thing I can think of that makes sense to connect the two.
It's also possible that Clinton's hand went into murder mode if the big guy attacked him. We only know there's vomit on Clinton's shirt. We don't know whose yet.
He's in "Fuck it" mode. He's already made a big mistake, so fuck it. Time to go crazy, throw caution to the wind, no backing down. On Monday, we'll find out that the guy he spilled his beer on is only mildly annoyed ("Hey, man, I liked this shirt. You should try to be more careful next time, okay?"), but Clinton thinks this is the culmination of everything that has gone wrong on this date, and throws the first punch.
The guy steps out of the way, and Clinton trips and hits his face against the counter.
It's the most anticlimactic black eye ever. Somewhere, in one of the offices that keeps the universe working, a minor bureaucrat snickers and clocks out for the night.
Headcanon accepted.
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Damnit Clinton, I was all proud I noticed the glasses, because of course the circular ones broke when you got punched in the eye. Get punched first THEN get glasses, you're ruining my headcanon.
Also, before I noticed they were sitting, long Emily is long in panel 2.
People posted stuff, but I'm charging ahead full force like Clinton and not reading it until after I post!
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Next strip: In which Clinton learns how dangerous "Fuck it!" can be as a mentality.
While "Fuck it!" can sometimes, rarely, be very helpful, more often than not... well. More often than not, it's painful to watch.
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Hm, this is pretty painful to watch.
One of the things I like about Claire, so far, is that she is not twisting herself in knots because she snagged a guy that some might consider "punching above her weight." She acknowledges Marten's attractive, and she revels in that without thinking she has to cater to his every whim. Clinton ... seems to not have gotten the memo. It's clear, at least, to me that Emily is gamely going along with the date but really isn't that into him, and yet he decides to twist himself into pretzel-like knots for the "pretty girl in the sundress." Something tells me that if this were Marigold, the undercut, tattoo, et. al not only would never have happened, but Clinton would have done something overtly douchey at the start.
Sigh.
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I kinda want Claire to give Emily a lecture about what a bad influence she is on her brother.
And, for some reason, Emily is wearing a leather jacket during this.
And smoking!
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Goddammit, Clinton, you don't do that to beer...
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Posted before reading the board, but am I the only one here who's thinking, "Clinton's spending one hell of a lot of money, isn't he?"
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No you're not the only one, 1 hour glasses, and a tattoo and a haircut all in one day for a 21 year old student.
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...would it be cliché for the photo Clinton sends Claire to ultimately be happier than we're being led to believe? Because I'm increasingly getting that feeling.
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... he does look much better in the new glasses though. And the haircut. And the confident smile.
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Damnit Clinton, I was all proud I noticed the glasses, because of course the circular ones broke when you got punched in the eye. Get punched first THEN get glasses, you're ruining my headcanon.
$5 says Clinton says "You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses, would you?", and the other guy simply removes them, folds them up, puts them in Clintons shirt pocket, and THEN gives him the black eye.
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... he does look much better in the new glasses though. And the haircut. And the confident smile.
Makes me want to see Claire in different glasses...
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Fun fact: Clinton's robot hand can crush an entire bag of oyster crackers!
You can imagine how useful that will be in a fight. :-o
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Alternate theory: Looming Guy in the last panel isn't mad about his shirt, he's actually an AI rights advocate who didn't appreciate Clinton's dismissive and ignorant comments about malevolent AI. "Not cool, dude. You're just helping to perpetuate the stereotype and justify the prejudice against machine-based lifeforms. And with that hand, too. Try to show a little more understanding, okay?"
He gets the black eye later, in a completely unrelated incident.
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Emily sure is Clinton's Helen of Troy.
"You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses would you?"
Emily removes glasses "Now they won't get broken!" :D
"... Thanks Emily"
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> Gnomeybum:
Jeph has made no secret of his admiration for Azumanga Daioh. So yes, Emily Azuma is certainly of Japanese descent. Watch enough anime, and you will definitely see Japanese girls in cheongsams.
Lessee, "Devil Hunter Yohko" for starters.
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Is Clinton having a manic episode?
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Well, that explains a few things.
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Enough of Clinton's side of the story. Now I want to hear Emily's view of it. And it's Friday...
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Well, it looks like the hysterical episode that has been looming ever since Clinton approached Emily for a date back in strip 2854 has broken out. As I've suggested before, I think that Emily likes a guy who is spontaneous and it looks like, by the time that they reach the bet, they've got to discuss their one mutual interest - weird AI speculation.
Then we get to the part with the bar fight.
Is what Clinton is doing plausible? Is it just random wackiness, not that there's anything wrong with that?
It's plausible alright. When you consider how tightly wound he seems to be, everything that he has done to himself has probably derailed his brain a bit. He just decided to let the flood carry him along rather than try to swim against it! The fact that Emily clearly approves is only adding fuel to the fire!
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This is a hilarious comic. The face on the dude in the bar in the last panel - byotiful.
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Two thoughts about the bar incident: The guy Clinton spills beer on looks miffed, but not really ready to hit anyone (Clinton could probably defuse the situation by means of apology and/or buying the guy a drink), and Clinton has a formidable weapon in the form of a robot hand. My conclusion is that his black eye won't be a result of this incident. Of course, now that I have written this, I'm bound to be proven wrong.
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Here's my semi-parody predication for next week:
MONDAY
The guy at the bar tells a stammering Clinton that he's ruined 'my best shirt'. Clinton does something stupid like say: "That's your best shirt?!?" and the guy hits him in the cheek, just in the right place to blacken an eye without breaking his glasses.
TUESDAY
The guy has grabbed Clinton by the hair and is raising a bottle over his head to glass him. In the second panel, Emily blocks the down stroke saying something like "Hey! That's not nice!" Then she delivers an almighty karate punch to the gut that doubles the guy over. Penultimate panel is Clinton and Emily looking down whilst the guy (out of shot) pukes on Clinton's shoes (Clinton's narration - "Well, at least it can't get any worse!"). Final panel is Emily and Clinton in the distance by the bar. In the extreme foreground are two hands, one holding a heavy monkey wrench and the other adorned with brass knuckles (Clinton's narration - "Fuck. Me and my big mouth.").
WEDNESDAY
First panel: Clinton is saying: "Emily, we need to get out of here!" Next to him, Emily is in a classic martial arts stance
Second panel is a close up of Clinton's face, eyes small saying: "We... need... to...?"
The next panel is a full-width of Emily dancing through the crowd of guys and knocking them aside like they were paper sculptures. Penultimate panel is Emiily ramming a pool cue into one guy's gut whilst another tries to grab her around the throat in a sleeper hold. Final panel is Clinton ducking to one side as the guy who was trying to grab Emily crashing into the mirror behind the bar, blood and teeth flying in his wake (Clinton's narration - "Okay, how do I get off this ride?")
THURSDAY
Starts with a double-height, double-width panel of Emily standing, facing away, in a 'ready' posture, legs slightly spread, holding a baseball bat in one hand and that monkey wrench in the other. Maybe one shoulder strap on her dress is torn and there is a tear in her skirt. She's looking over her shoulder and smiling her mild, friendly smile at our POV. In the background about a dozen roughs are draped over the furniture or hanging through broken windows. One is even dangling from the suspended light strip over the pool table! (Clinton's narration - First box: "Oh..." Second box: "My..." Third box: "God!")
Penultimate panel is Emily offering Clinton a pair of steel-capped boots. "Here Clinnnton! Your shoes are ruined but these should fit you!"
"Um... Thanks! Where did...?"
Last panel is Emily in her usual 'innocent and coy' posture; Clinton now has the boots. "Oh, a guy here in the bar gave them to me! He told me that I could have them! Tee-hee!" Clinton's eyes are bugging out.
Suggested strip title: 'River of Serenity'
FRIDAY
First panel is Clinton finishing his call with Claire.
CLAIRE (over 'phone): "Oh my god! You look awful! Do you need me to pick you up?"
CLINTON: "Nah, it looks worse than it is. I'll see you Saturday for family brunch, okay?"
Next panel: Clinton putting away his 'phone and looking up at Emily, who is still managing to look cute, innocent and maybe a little hopeful.
Next panel: Emily tells Clinton that she had a great time and she hopes that he did too. Does he want to have another date some time? (Clinton's narration - "Say no, you idiot! Run! Run whilst you still can!")
Next panel is a shocked Clinton looking at a hopeful Emily (from her POV). (Clinton's narration - At top of page: "SAY NO! SAY NO!"). Clinton says aloud: "Er... Yes?" (Clinton's narration - At bottom of page: "Oh for fuck's sake!")
Penultimate panel is Clinton and Emily; Emily is clapping and saying "Yay!" (Clinton's narration - "Oh, well...!").
Final panel is Emily giving Clinton a little smooch on the cheek. (Clinton's narration - "Y'know, I really could get used to this!")
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Tried to make the post easier to read
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Enough of Clinton's side of the story. Now I want to hear Emily's view of it. And it's Friday...
Questionable Roshomon!
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Aaaand my sympathy for Clinton the twit went right.out.the.window.
Emily is not cuckoolandering a nervous man anymore, this is a twit who threw himself off the deep end. getting everything he deserved in his ridiculous, pompous, dare one even say pathetic attempt to reshape himself on a girls whims.
on the plus side, we now don't need to blame Emily for his suffering.
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So yeah, working on that assumption, the desire to see her in a qipao/cheongsam/ao dai is a little bit of shaky ground racially, as two of those are traditional Chinese dresses and the other is, according to Wikipedia, Viatnamese. I'm not saying it wouldn't be amazing to see Emily in some sort of traditional dress, but I think we have to be careful when making statements like that because it does almost become a case of 'all Asian is the same Asian'.
Substitute European for Asian and see where you stand.
A cute girl in a Dirndl or a Vyshyvanka is still a cute girl though "I" think Emily would look better in the latter.
Aaaand my sympathy for Clinton the twit went right.out.the.window.
YMMV depending on life experiences but I am more in agreement with some of the other posters here.
As an analogy, think of this as Clinton asking help in learning to swim and being tossed into the pool at the water park. He can dog paddle but is heading for the wave machine.
Poor guy has social shortcomings and is only learning of them through hard painful experience. aka the shocking lesson regarding personal space trumping exuberant fascination.
His internal monologue is one of, I can almost say Terror, yet his actions are more like he is on autopilot, being agreeable to whatever those around him suggest .
The why is he like this is something we will hopefully learn as time goes on and "He that writes" does not get bored with the character and feeds him to the Allosaurus.
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After thinking about this arc for a bit, it dawned on me: When it comes to women (or at least Emily), Clinton is actually more spineless than Marten. We may be getting a glimpse of how Marten was at the age of, oh, 16. Marten has learned from his experiences and that puts him in the perfect position to mentor Clinton in the art of dating women.
Marten as Obi-Wan to Clinton's Luke. I can see it. (Or would Clinton be Anakin? Which would make Emily Padme... Nah, that's stretching the analogy too far.)
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Goddammit, Clinton, you don't do that to beer...
It's probably American beer, better known as "water", so it's no loss.
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Looks to me like it's Jimbo's favorite beer: yellow.
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Goddammit, Clinton, you don't do that to beer...
It's probably American beer, better known as "water", so it's no loss.
Hey now, popular American beer is mostly piss, okay? Get it right!
Why do you think Looming dude is so upset?
Clinton essentially just urinated on his shirt.
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Hey now, popular American beer is mostly piss, okay? Get it right!
Not just piss, but horse piss. From a specific breed, even - the most popular American beer is Clydesdale piss.
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Without even touching on food or entertainment (Ie movies,theatre , concert and/or other outings) this is one expensive date for a college student.
Haircut: $20
Tattoo: Approx $80 (Wild *** guess)
New Glasses: $100 - $200+ (Depending on lenses and frames)
Beer Tossed on Dude: $5
Look on Sister's face when she sees the picture of the aftermath: Priceless.
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2935 panel 7 ... mirror/spray bottle...did I miss a conversation about mirrors here? or do *I* not know how mirrors work in a perspective drawing?
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Without even touching on food or entertainment (Ie movies,theatre , concert and/or other outings) this is one expensive date for a college student.
Haircut: $20
Tattoo: Approx $80 (Wild *** guess)
New Glasses: $100 - $200+ (Depending on lenses and frames)
Beer Tossed on Dude: $5
Look on Sister's face when she sees the picture of the aftermath: Priceless.
This sounds like a Mastercard commercial. Still waiting for the "priceless" part. :evil:
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I just love Emily's reaction to all this. She's just so delightfully goofy. Irrepressibly cheerful and innocent regardless of where Clinnn-ton takes her. "The government, probably"! indeed.
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Without even touching on food or entertainment (Ie movies,theatre , concert and/or other outings) this is one expensive date for a college student.
Haircut: $20
Tattoo: Approx $80 (Wild *** guess)
New Glasses: $100 - $200+ (Depending on lenses and frames)
Beer Tossed on Dude: $5
Look on Sister's face when she sees the picture of the aftermath: Priceless.
This sounds like a Mastercard commercial. Still waiting for the "priceless" part. :evil:
You mean that one? :P
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Next strip: In which Clinton learns how dangerous "Fuck it!" can be as a mentality.
Speaking as someone who's learned this the hard way... Clinton is not merely going to learn this lesson, but also the opposite one.
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Especially not with your cyborg drinking hand.
Especially when it doesn't have its water resistant covering.
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Without even touching on food or entertainment (Ie movies,theatre , concert and/or other outings) this is one expensive date for a college student.
Haircut: $20
Tattoo: Approx $80 (Wild *** guess)
New Glasses: $100 - $200+ (Depending on lenses and frames)
Beer Tossed on Dude: $5
Look on Sister's face when she sees the picture of the aftermath: Priceless.
This sounds like a Mastercard commercial. Still waiting for the "priceless" part. :evil:
You mean that one? :P
I mean seeing it in-comic. :)
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Marten as Obi-Wan to Clinton's Luke.
"A hipster bar. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious."
I just love Emily's reaction to all this. She's just so delightfully goofy. Irrepressibly cheerful and innocent regardless of where Clinnn-ton takes her. "The government, probably"! indeed.
Well, Emily would know, following her brush (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2853) with the Men in Black.
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I always thought it was the Vatican Exorcists.
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I am new to this discussion board, but a long time reader. I had to make an account finally simply to complain about something minute. :police: I know. I know, who does that? This is the INTERNET!
The point being, as a glasses wearer, one does not simply go to the glasses store, pick out frames, and have them the same night. Unless he is implying that Clinton is the type of person that bought dorky frames that do not require a prescription, although I think he is the only character I could in no way picture doing that.
That is all. Have a nice day.
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Depends last time he got checked, prescriptions last for a year. For a glasses wearer it is probably fairly unlikely, but not out of the realm of possibility.
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It doesn't matter how long the prescription lasts. It generally takes a week to get new lenses made, as they have to be custom cut and prepared for each pair of glasses. We ARE talking about a world where sentient robots exist, so I'll hold off on starting a rebellion over it. Maybe there's some sort of lens AI that can instantly create them.
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It doesn't matter how long the prescription lasts. It generally takes a week to get new lenses made, as they have to be custom cut and prepared for each pair of glasses. We ARE talking about a world where sentient robots exist, so I'll hold off on starting a rebellion over it. Maybe there's some sort of lens AI that can instantly create them.
There are three opticians in my town that offer same day service for uncomplicated prescriptions and there was once one that offered hourly service. Same for contact lenses. And that's in a world without robots theoretically capable of inhuman precision wandering in off the street looking for jobs.
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I go to vision express (http://www.visionexpress.com/opticians/opticians-in-east-england/essex/brentwood/news/one-hour-service/) who explicitly offers a 1-hour service, and it's pretty good!
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Huh. I just noticed how long this date seems to have been. Long enough to have gotten a haircut (so around an hour or so, if they had to wait), a tattoo (uhm, no idea, but I'd guess about two hours), glasses (finding a frame and waiting an hour, so probably another 1.5 hours), and they've gone to a bar at the end. That's a lot of time for talking. Almost impossible Emily didn't get a glimpse of Clinton's character, even if he tried to hide it. And she still seems to enjoy this evening.
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Huh. I just noticed how long this date seems to have been. Long enough to have gotten a haircut (so around an hour or so, if they had to wait), a tattoo (uhm, no idea, but I'd guess about two hours), glasses (finding a frame and waiting an hour, so probably another 1.5 hours), and they've gone to a bar at the end. That's a lot of time for talking. Almost impossible Emily didn't get a glimpse of Clinton's character, even if he tried to hide it. And she still seems to enjoy this evening.
Be honest. how hard is it to amuse Emily?
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Give her a banana, a hammer, and a cup. Emily would be pleased as punch.
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Give her a banana, a hammer, and a cup. Emily would be pleased as punch smoothie.
Fixed that for you. :claireface:
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I go to vision express (http://www.visionexpress.com/opticians/opticians-in-east-england/essex/brentwood/news/one-hour-service/) who explicitly offers a 1-hour service, and it's pretty good!
I've been to several places that offer one hour service....but "not for your prescription, that'll take a week."
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I go to vision express (http://www.visionexpress.com/opticians/opticians-in-east-england/essex/brentwood/news/one-hour-service/) who explicitly offers a 1-hour service, and it's pretty good!
I've been to several places that offer one hour service....but "not for your prescription, that'll take a week."
You probably have a prescription that's rarer than most people,or there might be a different reason . I wear prescription glasses and I usually only have to wait an hour ,same applied to my mom and sister before they switched to contacts . My dad on the other hand usually has to wait longer.
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I am new to this discussion board, but a long time reader. I had to make an account finally simply to complain about something minute. :police: I know. I know, who does that? This is the INTERNET!
The point being, as a glasses wearer, one does not simply go to the glasses store, pick out frames, and have them the same night. Unless he is implying that Clinton is the type of person that bought dorky frames that do not require a prescription, although I think he is the only character I could in no way picture doing that.
That is all. Have a nice day.
We went to the beach with my husband's family last year. My husband handed his mother his glasses for safe-keeping while he taught me how to use the body board. She promptly dropped them. In the ocean. No extra pair. His prescription was expired. We found a place where he was able to have his vision checked/get a new prescription and have a new pair made in less than three hours. And it only took that long because their machine was broken and had to be fixed first. It's possible. Of course, offering same day service close to a beach is just good business sense. The lady who helped us said that it happens a lot.
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I go to vision express (http://www.visionexpress.com/opticians/opticians-in-east-england/essex/brentwood/news/one-hour-service/) who explicitly offers a 1-hour service, and it's pretty good!
I've been to several places that offer one hour service....but "not for your prescription, that'll take a week."
You probably have a prescription that's rarer than most people,or there might be a different reason . I wear prescription glasses and I usually only have to wait an hour ,same applied to my mom and sister before they switched to contacts . My dad on the other hand usually has to wait longer.
Yeah, most prescriptions are for simple meniscus lenses, which are effectively sections of the shell of an imaginary sphere. These can be churned out en masse for relatively cheap because the two important surfaces only have to have one radius each and people need them in sufficient numbers that mass-production and distribution is cost effective, plus they can be fitted more easily since rotational orientation is irrelevant.
Other kinds of lens, which have two or more radii per surface, are both much harder to make and much less in demand so they will be custom-made for each individual which takes days or weeks depending on numerous factors. Similarly, extremely strong lenses are generally not kept in stock at individual stores (though an extensive chain might see enough custom to keep them pre-made at a central location) as they are similarly uncommon, if no more mechanically complicated than lesser powered lenses.
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You're forgetting one thing
This is the QCverse.
Ya know, the one with AI, Robot Companions, an Orbital Space Station/Science Lab owned by the father of one our characters.
One Hour Glasses in this Universe?
Pfffft, drop in the bucket.
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Jeph tweeted
Watching JoJo is rubbing off on this comic I'm drawing
O..oh gosh.
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There was an optician shop which advertised
"We GUARANTEE we will spend more than one hour making your glasses"
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Who is JoJo?
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From JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, I'm guessing. Heard of it, but never read the manga/seen the anime.
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Clinton learns how dangerous "Fuck it!" can be as a mentality.
While "Fuck it!" can sometimes, rarely, be very helpful, more often than not... well. More often than not, it's painful to watch.
I believe it was the basis for the movie 'Risky Business'. Remember how that turned out?
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Jeph tweeted
Watching JoJo is rubbing off on this comic I'm drawing
O..oh gosh.
Incoming fabulous Clinton poses!?
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Jeph tweeted
Watching JoJo is rubbing off on this comic I'm drawing
O..oh gosh.
Incoming fabulous Clinton poses!?
Well, that'll be great. A week of Awesome Fight Scenes, followed by a kiss on the cheek from Emily, and any shame and humiliation Clinton may have experienced on this date can be swept under the rug and never acknowledged again as anything more than comic blundering. Hooray!
Edit: Wow, I'm cynical today.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSbFgt0wp_4
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I am new to this discussion board, but a long time reader. I had to make an account finally simply to complain about something minute. :police: I know. I know, who does that? This is the INTERNET!
The point being, as a glasses wearer, one does not simply go to the glasses store, pick out frames, and have them the same night. Unless he is implying that Clinton is the type of person that bought dorky frames that do not require a prescription, although I think he is the only character I could in no way picture doing that.
That is all. Have a nice day.
I thought about the same thing at first. Then I remembered that QC takes place in a universe where robots are considered individuals capable of self-awareness so given that technology exists to create such beings (and Clinton's robot hand), I can't see why it'd be out of place for there to be glasses that are ready in a few hours—especially since a few stores offer it these days.
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I am new to this discussion board, but a long time reader. I had to make an account finally simply to complain about something minute. :police: I know. I know, who does that? This is the INTERNET!
The point being, as a glasses wearer, one does not simply go to the glasses store, pick out frames, and have them the same night. Unless he is implying that Clinton is the type of person that bought dorky frames that do not require a prescription, although I think he is the only character I could in no way picture doing that.
That is all. Have a nice day.
I thought about the same thing at first. Then I remembered that QC takes place in a universe where robots are considered individuals capable of self-awareness so given that technology exists to create such beings (and Clinton's robot hand), I can't see why it'd be out of place for there to be glasses that are ready in a few hours—especially since a few stores offer it these days.
See my earlier Post.