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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: TheMusicalVito on 13 Nov 2010, 08:11
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I dunno, she doesn't look like her at all anymore. What happened :psyduck:
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Dude, old news is old.
But yeah, she's hotter with black hair.
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I like how she doesn't look like marten's sister now.
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She could just let it grow out again, but then Jeph would have to remember to darken the tips.
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Can always dye it back to black!
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I kinda love the purple hair.
It suits her more than black or her natural blonde. She's too spunky for brunette. She's too grounded for pink or green. Purple fits her eccentric personality but doesn't scream at people for attention.
Now, I would LOVE it if she grew her hair out again and actually committed. Then maybe red.
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Like your avatar?
And, guessing by extension, yourself?
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Similar to my avatar, but not similar to my real life appearance (Although I did dye it for my April O'Neil costume this year)
Here's kinda what I was thinking, but I'm still not sold. I think purple is still better.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/charrediyce/redora.jpg)
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^ Looks too Hanna Barbera. Any look that isn't at least slightly goth robs her of her personality.
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Yeah, the more I look at it the less I like red.
I was thinking Run Lola Run, not Hanna Barbera
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I actually quite liked her with the blonde with black tips.
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I actually quite liked her with the blonde with black tips.
This
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(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4128/5178208816_d469081398.jpg)
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(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4128/5178208816_d469081398.jpg)
Win.
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(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4128/5178208816_d469081398.jpg)
fail.
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Isn't there an "auto-win if drawn by Jeph"-rule? There should be one.
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Like your avatar? And, guessing by extension, yourself?
By that logic, I should prefer black. Oh... :oops:
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I actually quite liked her with the blonde with black tips.
Ditto.
And anyone who tries to beat me with a sign is eatin' it.
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I'd like to see her hair ENTIRELY its natural color, w/o the black tips...then maybe she could go back to black, but it would be nice to see her Bianchiness in full swing just the once.
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She had problems before she went purple, but they sure seemed to accelerate after that. This is coincidence but it's a basis on which to build silly theories.
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[img]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4128/5178208816_d469081398.jpg[img]
Win.
[img]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4128/5178208816_d469081398.jpg[img]
fail.
oh aren't you two clever
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I actually quite liked her with the blonde with black tips.
I was reading the archives again this weekend and I have to say this was by far my favourite Dora look! I like the purple hair don't get me wrong. The black hair made her look like Marty's sister and I think the blonde and black shaggy-ish hair just gave her a nice kinda different look in my opinion.
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I always thought it looked a bit like ermine.
(http://www.chichesterinc.com/images/ErminetailsLg.jpg)
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A cool pic, Carl-E. Is this from "An introduction to braid groups"?
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I really, really liked her with blond/black hair. It looked neat.
There are some times that I like the purple, and there are random moments that I really dislike it.
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I liked her in all black, personally. Then again, women with crazy unnatural hair colors are generally not my cup of tea.
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She had problems before she went purple, but they sure seemed to accelerate after that. This is coincidence but it's a basis on which to build silly theories.
The best, silliest theories are all built on a coincidences. Is that a coincidence? Or a pair o' docs?
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Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.
Yup, Dora dyes her hair purple then breaks up with Marten. That must be the reason. No other possible explanation. If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
William of Occam* is spinning in his grave!
*Most parsimonious, not simplest
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If I may be indulged in a silly theory some more, consider that everyone who has dyed her hair purple has broken up with Marten, and since the strip began nobody who hasn't dyed her hair purple has ever broken up with Marten (Faye and Sara were never together with him).
Post hoc egro propter hoc meets universal generalization from a single data point.
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Your sample size lacks statistical significance.
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NOTHING in this strip is of any statistical significance.
Just ask Hannelore.
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i think the purple hair made her even crazier and that is why she broke up with marten, not directly because of the purple hair, but all the hair dye has finally fried her brain
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i think the purple hair made her even crazier and that is why she broke up with marten, not directly because of the purple hair, but all the hair dye has finally fried her brain
*headdesk*
*headdesk*
*headdesk*
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i think the purple hair made her even crazier and that is why she broke up with marten, not directly because of the purple hair, but all the hair dye has finally fried her brain
*headdesk*
*headdesk*
*headdesk*
Actually, when you look at it the 3 doras have had some differences, black hair dora was the whinny insecure one. The blonde look she was a bit more warmly and nice and more maternal. The purple one was just insane and more of a bitch.
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If I may be indulged in a silly theory some more, consider that everyone who has dyed her hair purple has broken up with Marten, and since the strip began nobody who hasn't dyed her hair purple has ever broken up with Marten (Faye and Sara were never together with him).
Post hoc egro propter hoc meets universal generalization from a single data point.
Maybe it IS the hair dye--at least indirectly. Maybe she's just cranky cause she never got caught up on her sleep. Tired and hungry is the fastest way to turn me into a rude crank who makes bad decisions and ignores other people's wants and needs.
(Maybe I should have a sandwich and take a nap, just to be safe)
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Maybe the hair dye is just Jeph inserting symbolism to represent the different phases of the Dora/Marten relationship. Black was her original hair color, signifying the beginning of their relationship and Dora getting together with him the way she already is. Blond with black tips represents her getting more accustomed to the relationship as she lets some of true feelings show. Purple means that she thinks things are going too good, so she MUST make a change in the relationship and do something, before he does it first.
And next? She shaves all of her hair off, signifying the end of the relationship.
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And next? She shaves all of her hair off, signifying the end of the relationship.
i vote this ^ (http://www.smiley-faces.org/smiley-faces/smiley-face-thumb.gif)
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And next? She shaves all of her hair off, signifying the end of the relationship.
i vote this ^ (http://www.smiley-faces.org/smiley-faces/smiley-face-thumb.gif)
Seconded.
Full on V for Vendetta makeover.
(why yes, that is a fetish of mine)
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That's making sense.
On the nonsense front, has anyone noticed that purple hair dye contains dihydrogen monoxide? See http://dhmo.org/ for comprehensive information about this deadly chemical. It is found in the brains of all mentally ill people who've been tested for it, and is a major constituent of substances which cause impaired decision making, such as tequila. Dora would not have broken up with Marten if she had been free of dihydrogen monoxide.
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She wouldn't be doing much at all if she were free of DHMO.
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See http://dhmo.org/ for comprehensive information about this deadly chemical.
LOL! I'm easily amused but give the designer an internet. A visit to that site made my day. A highly suspicious compound. Hanners should investigate.
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That's making sense.
On the nonsense front, has anyone noticed that purple hair dye contains dihydrogen monoxide? See http://dhmo.org/ for comprehensive information about this deadly chemical. It is found in the brains of all mentally ill people who've been tested for it, and is a major constituent of substances which cause impaired decision making, such as tequila. Dora would not have broken up with Marten if she had been free of dihydrogen monoxide.
It can also cause sunburns while swimming!
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DHMO is known to cause problems with AnthroPC's too.
Many of the characters in the strip believe DHMO is the way to reduce the effects of a hangover, though.
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See http://dhmo.org/ for comprehensive information about this deadly chemical.
...A visit to that site made my day...
Mine, too, but indirectly! At the bottom of this site is a real ad, for Acme Klein Bottles (http://www.kleinbottle.com/). I met this guy about 12 years ago at a national mathematics convention (what?). He had an assortment of bottles, and we talked for a while about how to design one that could be used for everyday drinking.
Looks like he worked out hte bugs - he now sells a Klein stein (http://www.kleinbottle.com/drinking_mug_klein_bottle.htm)!
I know what I want for Christmas...
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Mine, too, but indirectly! At the bottom of this site is a real ad, for Acme Klein Bottles (http://www.kleinbottle.com/).
Shop on the Mobius strip - you're always on the right side of the road.
That banner ad was, indeed, the icing on the cake. But you're saying that it's for real as opposed to, say, something that escaped from XKCD or SpikedMath? What can I say?
Whoo-pee!
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I know I'm a bit late here in that I merely wish to express my opinion about the hair color change rather than amuse myself with tinfoil-hatted personality theories... but here's my take:
1. I like purple hair.
2. I think purple hair is better suited to other people than Dora, but it's so close to jet black hair that I hardly register much of a difference.
3. I agree that the black/blond hair was the most interesting of the colors that suited her.
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Blond and black was my favorite too, and it reflected Dora's internal conflict.
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Oooh, higher-level meaning FTW!
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...aaaand so the purple was her way of just covering up that internal conflict? Black did that well enough, but maybe she just needed something louder to drown out the little voices...
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Or perhaps Dora is trying to come to terms with the shameful (to her) fact that she's a Prince freak. It's possible a good therapist can assure Dora there's nothing actually wrong with that.
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Assuming for the moment that the hair colors had no greater significance (I do kinda like the relationship-stage theory, though), purple-Dora would have been much handier when Raven was around. Even with Raven's mole, they frequently looked too much alike. As did Dora & Marten during most of Dora's black phase. Sister, hell, try "twin"! And there might also be quibbles about how hard it is to distinguish Sven from Angus sometimes, but that's a different topic. At least the ladies can resort to hair dye to correct that, as we've seen.
I liked the black-tipped blonde on her as well. That brings to mind another goth/punk/etc. hair combo Dora could try -- black with red tips.
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I kinda liked her looks around #1500, for example, in this comic: #1515 (http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1515).
Otherwise not so much.