So, on topic, do you think Jeph will recreate strip 723 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=723) with Faye and Marigold?An interesting idea. Some modifications are needed for it work. At least because Marigold and Faye aren't nearly as close friends as Dora and Faye already were at that time. I also vote for Momo talking in her dreams on the sofa in place of Hannelore!
An interesting idea. Some modifications are needed for it work. At least because Marigold and Faye aren't nearly as close friends as Dora and Faye were at that time. I also vote for Momo talking in her dreams on the sofa in place of Hannelore!Do anthro-PCs dream of electric Harrison Fords (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner)? Or Svens (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1658)?
(By the way: GO PACKERS!)
Tonight there was a really big football game that the Green Bay Packers won! This newspost will seem quaint and anachronistic after the machine overlords have enslaved humanity and outlawed "football" in five years.
I wonder what Hannellore would think about all that confetti being ejected onto the field at the end of the game... not that she'd do too well at a major sporting event, anyway, I would imagine.
And it's funny that rather than be flattered that he was flirting with her, she can shake it off.Personally, her reaction just made giggle "Way to go Hanners!". Why on earth would she, an intelligent young woman, be flattered by a clumsy, hackneyed line like that? As Hanners herself put it: "Well he wasn't very good at it!"
Through her satellite uplink from her dad's station.That would be a downlink from. She uses her uplink for transmitting data (surveillance video, Winslow's backups, Marten's genetic profile etc.) to the station. Yes, data communication nerdery is part of my job, why do you ask?
Uh, actually he not too bad, as far as I can tell. For a normal woman, that might totally have worked. Was it his fault that Hanners has finer tastes ? He only lost because he didnt accepted the challenge.And it's funny that rather than be flattered that he was flirting with her, she can shake it off.Personally, her reaction just made giggle "Way to go Hanners!". Why on earth would she, an intelligent young woman, be flattered by a clumsy, hackneyed line like that? As Hanners herself put it: "Well he wasn't very good at it!"
What the fuck is hannelore staring at?Her eyes aren't focused on the dude.Of course not. She's focused on the ultimately subjective nature of sensory perception and its effects on that which we think of as objective reality. What's a dude with a plaid shirt and a lame line got to match that?
While we are waiting for the game to start and the comic to drop, I thought I would point out that Jeph has posted a collage of how Faye has changed over the years on his tumblr (http://jephjacques.tumblr.com/post/3096854264/inspired-by-some-other-folks-who-were-doing). I have to say, my personal preference in his artwork was during the 1400-1600 strips.
What the fuck is hannelore staring at?Her eyes aren't focused on the dude.
Dora's reaction seems odd, given that 100 strips ago Hanners and Cosette were being [url=http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1752]trained[/url] in Proposition Avoidance and Countermeasures...
Am I the only person who's never noticed the emoticon coffee cups before?
Yeah jeph kinda messed up on the direction of her right eye, but more importantly what the fuck did jeph to do hanners hair?
Nitpicking and/or placing way too much importance on minutiae while missing the big picture is probably Jeph's biggest pet peeve. Not every little detail is Fraught With Meaning. Sometimes the artist is just having fun. Maybe that character's clothing or hair changed simply because the artist got bored with drawing it the same way.
This is not an injunction to stop talking about it, but do keep in mind what Jeph wrote in the forums rules on this matter:
Marten & Dora
Marigold & Angus
Faye & Sven
well the story kinda runs along the same date as we do now, if he ever wanted to pitch in valentines this would be a good time...
Tonight there was a really big football game that the Green Bay Packers won! This newspost will seem quaint and anachronistic after the machine overlords have enslaved humanity and outlawed "football" in five years.
But doesn't that FREAK YOU OUT?
Quote from: JephTonight there was a really big football game that the Green Bay Packers won! This newspost will seem quaint and anachronistic after the machine overlords have enslaved humanity and outlawed "football" in five years.
No risk of that - the overlords will recognize the "bread and circuses" required to keep us quiet.
Meh. Hanners wearing a Cheesehead, now ... Comedy gold, lemme tell ya. With a side of D'awwww.Quote from: JephTonight there was a really big football game that the Green Bay Packers won! This newspost will seem quaint and anachronistic after the machine overlords have enslaved humanity and outlawed "football" in five years.
Phhpbbbbttt. :P
If you didn't want me to use Hannelore in a Packers cap as an Avatar, you could have just sent me a message.
;)
Can't see Sven getting it on with anyone, no plausible single girls left in the story.
That's shooting down a player with a Minigun.
"What's that, coffee? Kill them all? Good idea!"
Waffles are on the decline then.
if I met a girl who could go off on such an intelligent tangent I would be head over heels! Ah, my weakness for intelligent women...
"It's something like late-winter/early-spring in QC time" right now, per #1844 newspost (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1844). Mid-February would be about right.well the story kinda runs along the same date as we do now, if he ever wanted to pitch in valentines this would be a good time...
That's probably wrong because it's been winter in QC for about two years now.
When did QC turn into 'Kill Bill'?Somewhere around here. (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=745)
Kill Bill, or Scott Pilgrim?I thought "Man, too much Scott Pilgrim for Jeph" too.
So what's the Secret Bakery analogue of Faye's "sculpture"?
I was thinking stegosaurus coffee grinder.So what's the Secret Bakery analogue of Faye's "sculpture"?
A triceratops percolator?
speed lines (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=721) make everything better (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpeedStripes)
I was going through some of the more recent comics in random and found this.
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1363 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1363)
Does anyone else think this refers to Padma?
(am I the only one who misses Cossette's roomate? She was fun for the three comics she was in... :| )Cosette has a roomy ?
Oh, QC has Padme now.
Very Star Wars-y.
(I'm planning to play Star Wars: The Old Republic so I'm phrone to noticing such things)
Hmm, could this secret bakery girl be Angus' ex?
Um............we're taking swings at people in the street for no reason now?
(am I the only one who misses Cossette's roomate? She was fun for the three comics she was in... :| )Cosette has a roomy ?
Luna (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1546), though she describes her as a friend rather than a roommate.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should...
:-Dspeed lines (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=721) make everything better (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpeedStripes)
Yes, they do! (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1485)
Um............we're taking swings at people in the street for no reason now?No reason ? NO REASON ?
Angus: "Oh,, sorry, I forgot to mention, you'll have to kill the other baristas I've dated."
So, PseuDora is Indian in descent. I thought she looked as much. So I guess that only leaves faye-tai as Angus's ex and Marten needing to hook up with Padma and we shall have complete mirroring. Then Northampton will be swallowed by the singularity that opens between CoD and TSB. :psyduck:
Angus: "Oh,, sorry, I forgot to mention, you'll have to kill the other baristas I've dated."
I was going through some of the more recent comics in random and found this.
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1363 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1363)
Does anyone else think this refers to Padma?
Hmm, could this secret bakery girl be Angus' ex?
Angus seems a bit too pleased to see Padma for her to be his ex. Your link shows that it was a very sour relationship that ended badly. MAYBE it's the other coffeeshop girl, but I sincerely doubt it.
Gee, we're all thinking the same thing, aren't we?
The Emoticon on your mug. - 15 (29.4%)
The Waffles. - 15 (29.4%)
Gee, we're all thinking the same thing, aren't we?
great minds think alike?
That's the eggo emoticon...
great minds think alike?
...and so do ours...
:laugh:
Um............we're taking swings at people in the street for no reason now?
That was basically my reaction...
...and apparently Angus' as well.
Mine was, "Why did Padma strike first?"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ! :-D
That's the eggo emoticon...
Mine was, "Why did Padma strike first?"
I think Angus' ex may have made them go to the Secret Bakery after the snail incident, hence how he knows Padma. Maybe the fight is more tSB believes CoD stole one of their favourite customers (and I mean, come on, who doesn't like Angus? Besides his ex, that is.)
I think Angus' ex may have made them go to the Secret Bakery after the snail incident, hence how he knows Padma. Maybe the fight is more tSB believes CoD stole one of their favourite customers (and I mean, come on, who doesn't like Angus? Besides his ex, that is.)
They didn't "steal" one of their customers. Angus had actually been around for some time prior (I personally believe that he started coming in all the way back at strip 375 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=375).
That black chick is all kinds of sexy. I notice the detail in the hair too, as well as the increase in Faye's length (lovin' that too). Jeph put in work on today's comic.
ADDENDUM: On the topic of people I'd like to see more of... http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1402 the redhead!
Faye's just the alpha-bitch (can't find the comic where Penelope calls Faye that. Sorry.)953. It's not in ohnorobot, had to check the wiki.
Has Faye lost weight? She looks like she has in today's strip.
Has Faye lost weight? She looks like she has in today's strip.
Her name is Padma. Her ethnic origin is the Indian subcontinent.That was my second guess, and I had an honest feeling she was, but it's a comic and you really couldn't go wrong with 'black'.
Seriously, though - Jeph's damn good, but he's notoriously inconsistant in his body dimensions. People inflate/deflate in the strangest ways, but never by extreme amounts, certainly not enough to make them look all that different. I recall several complaints comments just over a year ago when Marten suddenly looked beefier in a strip or two, and then went back to his old skinny self.I've noticed this mostly with Faye. I can't remember which strip it was and I certainly can't find it, but she was wearing a yellow shirt in one strip and I could tell right away it was an art goof because it seems like she lost at least 50 pounds. But in later strips, she turns into kind of a porker. I'd be fine if he kept designing Faye the way she currently is.
speed lines (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=721) make everything better (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpeedStripes)
Yes, they do! (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1485)
For the sake of completing the list, there was also this (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1731).
Also, yay for comic. It made me laugh out loud for two minutes straight :D
So, they're fighting for no reason.........then they just stop fighting for no reason.
Speaking as someone that never has and never will see Scott Pilgrim, should I just bail until this story is over?
I'm starting to notice that while the hair is becoming fine and detailed, it doesn't really fit with the rest of the art. Jeph's going to have to make considerable improvements on both the wardrobe and other details to match its quality.
It's a backup career option: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1217
You know, this is just gonna be me, but if she does become a regular, I'd like to watch her go through the ABCD/FOB things that such a girl typically has identity crises about. (American Born Confused Desi and Fresh Off the Boat). I think it'd it be interesting to watch JJ handle something different and more based on cultural clashes that happen within those people, rather than the continued handling of psychological and low self-esteem issues.Are you an immigrant, or a member of an ethnic minority where you live? I am both, but I'm guessing you are not since you use the charming term "those people" :?, so with what authority exactly do you pronounce on what is "typical"? I am quite certain that Jeph has the good taste, and good sense, not to make jokes about an experience he doesn't share, based on second-hand stereotypes of minority/immigrant.
I wonder how Padma knows about the "oven explosion of '98", or what Ed was like before it? That is fourteen years ago, so assuming she's another twenty-something, she'd have been maybe fifteen years old at the most. Was it some kind of legend locally?
I wonder how Padma knows about the "oven explosion of '98", or what Ed was like before it? That is fourteen years ago, so assuming she's another twenty-something, she'd have been maybe fifteen years old at the most. Was it some kind of legend locally?
Also, to Skewbrow; I'm not sure of the term outside the US, but here a cafeteria is an assembly-line style restaurant, food on steam tables, get a trayful, find your seat, bus your own tray. We'd call CoD a cafe. Or to most people, just a coffee shop.
Gah, I sound snarky. Sorry...
You know, this is just gonna be me, but if she does become a regular, I'd like to watch her go through the ABCD/FOB things that such a girl typically has identity crises about. (American Born Confused Desi and Fresh Off the Boat). I think it'd it be interesting to watch JJ handle something different and more based on cultural clashes that happen within those people, rather than the continued handling of psychological and low self-esteem issues.Are you an immigrant, or a member of an ethnic minority where you live? I am both, but I'm guessing you are not since you use the charming term "those people" :?, so with what authority exactly do you pronounce on what is "typical"? I am quite certain that Jeph has the good taste, and good sense, not to make jokes about an experience he doesn't share, based on second-hand stereotypes of minority/immigrant.
I wonder how Padma knows about the "oven explosion of '98", or what Ed was like before it? That is fourteen years ago, so assuming she's another twenty-something, she'd have been maybe fifteen years old at the most. Was it some kind of legend locally?
As an ABCD (not really, but Indian immigrant parents, but born in the US and definitely raised as an American due to being born in the middle of the Midwest), Black Sword speaks the truth. :D It can be confusing, and that's something I think almost all children of immigrants face.
Eh, it could be something they could get into should Padma ever start dating one of the members (for instance, Marten), and bouncing the absolutely hysterical culture clash that could occur if Marten's mother ever met the stereotypical Indian family. But, either way, it's cool that there's an indian in the strip now. Represent? :D
Eh, it could be something they could get into should Padma ever start dating one of the members (for instance, Marten), and bouncing the absolutely hysterical culture clash that could occur if Marten's mother ever met the stereotypical Indian family. But, either way, it's cool that there's an indian in the strip now. Represent? :D
S'alright man, its early. and the GOM need to be grumpy about something, and with all the snow, there's no one on our lawns!Well, no-one except the snowmen. Never trusted them - all over the place in January but then you turn your back for a minute and they've up and disappeared! Now where do you suppose they go all year, eh?
The authority I say it with is because I was inundated in their culture for four years while dating my ex, a Gujrati girl, and as hip 20-somethings, they openly attached ABCD and FOB to the correctly identified persons. They also wondered amongst themselves as to their exact identity, given they were expected to be good Indian girls yet good American girls as well, a state of being that made some of them wonder that despite their completely Indian makeup and bloodline, if they themselves were not actually "half-breeds." And I say typical because direct observation as well as what they told me themselves revealed that the vast majority of them suffer that issue, and react to it in different ways, but all of them are caught in a net of "melting pot" that contradicts and confuses them.Sure, I have confused feelings about my Chinese and Australian "selves" too, but there is a huge difference between members of a minority saying things about themselves, and having it said about them by non-members. You can't understand what growing up and living as a member of an ethnic and cultural minority is like by "doing research" at second hand, and it's pretty offensive (IMHO) for anyone who hasn't shared the often-unpleasant experience to make jokes about it.
there is a huge difference between members of a minority saying things about themselves, and having it said about them by non-members. You can't understand what growing up and living as a member of an ethnic and cultural minority is like by "doing research" at second hand, and it's pretty offensive (IMHO) for anyone who hasn't shared the often-unpleasant experience to make jokes about it.
The authority I say it with is because I was inundated in their culture for four years while dating my ex, a Gujrati girl, and as hip 20-somethings, they openly attached ABCD and FOB to the correctly identified persons. They also wondered amongst themselves as to their exact identity, given they were expected to be good Indian girls yet good American girls as well, a state of being that made some of them wonder that despite their completely Indian makeup and bloodline, if they themselves were not actually "half-breeds." And I say typical because direct observation as well as what they told me themselves revealed that the vast majority of them suffer that issue, and react to it in different ways, but all of them are caught in a net of "melting pot" that contradicts and confuses them.Sure, I have confused feelings about my Chinese and Australian "selves" too, but there is a huge difference between members of a minority saying things about themselves, and having it said about them by non-members. You can't understand what growing up and living as a member of an ethnic and cultural minority is like by "doing research" at second hand, and it's pretty offensive (IMHO) for anyone who hasn't shared the often-unpleasant experience to make jokes about it.
Agree with other posters. Padma is angling for a deal with CoD to become their pastry supplier. But surely she knows that Dora is the one calling the shots?
Anyway it seems to me that:
- tSB is first and foremost a bakery (look at that selection of bread and pastries). They serve coffee on the side.
- CoD is first and foremost a cafeteria. They serve pastries on the side. Location (near SMIF?) helps CoD. Also the business model based on sass.
We may eventually have a showdown between Dora and Padma (= the famous Northampton Coffee Party that will be in the history books two generations down the road). They can probably also peacefully coexist. An additional plus is that Jeph can then use the same pastry tray drawings at both shops without nitpicking complaints, if Dora accepts this business proposal.
Also, I am quite over Faye behaving like that. For christ's sake. It's not a big deal - it's her character, and it's a webcomic so by nature somewhat exaggerated. But I really fucking hate the idea that either partner should have to walk on eggshells wrt past relationships, and particularly that it's natural that the woman in a heterosexual relationship is entitled to be aggressive and go so far as to "punish" their boyfriend in such scenarios. Boo. :x
If I were Faye I'd be bugged at this point too.I agree, this is creepy.
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If I were Faye I'd be bugged at this point too.
So Marten has reason to avoid CoD, and Angus has reason to avoid tSB; where will it all end?
Huh, the way I saw it wasn't "Angus is creepy," so much as "Angus doesn't have much game." i.e. He really only knows one way of getting to know/interacting with women.Yes, I'd see it that way too. Padma, like Angus himself, maybe needs to work on that internal censor. Unless, of course, she has it in for Angus and is trying to mess things up for him. Maybe she is a friend of Renee's?
If he is attracted to snarky, clever women, and Faye was like that, and Renee was like that, then it's understandable that he would use similar methods in interacting with them.
Maybe Renee was a lot like Faye, but more intense. Maybe she's bitchy to people and doesn't even feel bad, to the point that she barely has a conscience.
Maybe Renee is just like Faye, but dialed all the way up to ELEVEN!
You guys I think some of you got it backwards. Angus met Faye first, she kept rejecting him, he meets this Renee at a party (Renee almost has to be the other as yet-unnamed SB barista), they hit it off because she reminds him of Faye, they date, he gets burned, Angus tries again with the girl he's liked better all along anyway. Renee was the substitute Faye, Faye isn't the substitute Renee.Ooooh ! Yes, you're totally right !
Maybe Renee is just like Faye, but dialed all the way up to ELEVEN!
So Marten has reason to avoid CoD, and Angus has reason to avoid tSB; where will it all end?
His on what?
/grammarjokes
shouldnt that be 'he is on what?' ;o?
Clearly it will end in a bar somewhere... several panels of drinking while wearing fancy hats... Someone will say something insightful and there will be a punchline.
*slaps $5 on the table*
His on what?
/grammarjokes
shouldnt that be 'he is on what?' ;o?
Now I'm really scared Marten's gonna meet Renee.
Dora and Padma
Faye and Renee
Whose doppleganger will be named next?!?!
Angus simply needs to remember the Lodge's pledge from Red Green - "I am a man, but I can change, if I have to, I guess."
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If I were Faye I'd be bugged at this point too.
Why?
Because the person you're dating now used to date someone who shares a few of your own characteristics?
That when you weren't ready to date anybody, he was dating someone else rather than sitting at home obsessing about your unavailability?
There are nearly seven BILLION people in the world, if you are "one in a million" that means there are 7000 others just like you.
You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.
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If I were Faye I'd be bugged at this point too.
Why?
Because the person you're dating now used to date someone who shares a few of your own characteristics?
That when you weren't ready to date anybody, he was dating someone else rather than sitting at home obsessing about your unavailability?
There are nearly seven BILLION people in the world, if you are "one in a million" that means there are 7000 others just like you.
You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.
Or you are...
Maybe Renee was a lot like Faye, but more intense. Maybe she's bitchy to people and doesn't even feel bad, to the point that she barely has a conscience.
Maybe Renee is just like Faye, but dialed all the way up to ELEVEN!
Is it me or does most everyone in this strip look for ways to sabotage themselves?
does most everyone in this strip look for ways to sabotage themselves?
Is it me or does most everyone in this strip look for ways to sabotage themselves?
- holds mirror up to society (http://serve.mysmiley.net/innocent/innocent0009.gif)
You guys I think some of you got it backwards. Angus met Faye first, she kept rejecting him, he meets this Renee at a party (Renee almost has to be the other as yet-unnamed SB barista), they hit it off because she reminds him of Faye, they date, he gets burned, Angus tries again with the girl he's liked better all along anyway. Renee was the substitute Faye, Faye isn't the substitute Renee.Ooooh ! Yes, you're totally right !
Is it me or does most everyone in this strip look for ways to sabotage themselves?
- holds mirror up to society (http://serve.mysmiley.net/innocent/innocent0009.gif)
Oh, and hey! Spam!
That is an interesting theory. Do we know the timeline of that for sure?No, we're lacking the information on that.
As someone who has dealt with mental illness presumably her whole life, I think Hannelore is the most self aware or all the characters, and knows how to not self sabotage. She knows how to monitor her own behaviour in a way the others do not. And so I'd have to agree with your observation.That is an interesting theory. Do we know the timeline of that for sure?No, we're lacking the information on that.
Here's a weird thought. There's one character who doesn't engage in self-sabotage. Would you say that means she's the character with the best mental health? It's Hannelore.
Sure, I'd probably get over it quickly, but the fact that he was going to two different places at the same time to flirt with two different people who have a lot in common, at least superficially, and that after dating the other one and it not working out he came back to me?Um, yeah, that sounds like Life.
Sure, Faye wasn't emotionally ready to date anyone when Angus and Renee started dating, but that doesn't mean she can't be upset that he started going with Plan A and now she's Plan B.You want to be upset because you're not Plan A?
And while it's somewhat irrational, it still hurts.Life is irrational and hurts; you don't need to add to it!
You want to be upset because you're not Plan A?
I'd estimate Angus' first crush ("Plan A") was probably before adolescence, so by his age now, whoever he meets is approximately Plan Z17B12.
Seriously, you'd let that bother you?
I don't know, I think I would be kind of bothered by that. If my boyfriend's last girlfriend was someone who looked and talked like me, had the same attitude as I did, and worked the same job, it would be weird. Especially having had him tell me already that at the end of the relationship he had decided that his ex was a crazy bitch. For someone who is working on trust and opening up and needing to take things slow, knowing how much anger he had towards his ex and how similar you are to her is a little scary.
Angus and Faye are just too damn adorable :-D
It's too bad that any romanticness of the main QC cast towards the Secret Bakery cast kind of automatically constitutes as being creepy.
Regarding the comic: Everyone say it with me. D'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
Where is "bitchnium" on the Periodic table?Definitely down in the unstable Transuranic elements, I should think. Can't exist in nature, but constantly created in the nuclear fires of Faye's personality.
That was my first thought, too. Mostly because the periodic table is kinda full all the way up to Uranium (and a bit beyond). We need more clues to place it more accurately. The only thing we can measure is its half-life. The most stable isotope of bitchnium seems to have decayed to ½ Faye in about 1000 strips. Another isotope mellowed considerably within the space of one strip (from 1859 to 1860), and is now at a level that is impossible to gauge accurately.Where is "bitchnium" on the Periodic table?Definitely down in the unstable Transuranic elements, I should think. Can't exist in nature, but constantly created in the nuclear fires of Faye's personality.
...Does this help?
My guess is, the immediate crisis resolves within a strip or two, but the issue manifests later.
Great.
Not only is she radioactive, she explodes if you get her wet!!! :psyduck:
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One the other hand- wet t-shirt contest!
Not only is she radioactive, she explodes if you get her wet!!! :psyduck:With a sufficient mass of U-235, you don't even need to get it wet. You can take two subcritical lumps, and if you put a bucket of water in between them you get a blue flash and everybody nearby dies. The water acts as a moderator facilitating a slow-neutron chain reaction.
I'm sort of getting the "alkali metal" vibe from bitchnium.
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Not only is she radioactive, she explodes if you get her wet!!! :psyduck:With a sufficient mass of U-235, you don't even need to get it wet. You can take two subcritical lumps, and if you put a bucket of water in between them you get a blue flash and everybody nearby dies. The water acts as a moderator facilitating a slow-neutron chain reaction.
Alcohol would probably work as a moderator too, but that doesn't fit the Pugnacious Peach: she's a happy drunk.
Seattle? Booze? I'm in! (And here!)
I get an interesting "Roseanne and Dan Conner" vibe from these two. It works because even though they both will sacrifice each other's feelings for a clever retort, they both know it's what they do, and so they're able to read around it.Oh my, you realize there are a lot of people on this board who have NO IDEA what you're talking about?
I was expecting Faye and Angus to start singing "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off" for a bit there.I've had this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N416Er-AFM) in mind since Angus' ex came up.
Oh, and hey! Spam!
<clicks fingers - gone>
I get an interesting "Roseanne and Dan Conner" vibe from these two. It works because even though they both will sacrifice each other's feelings for a clever retort, they both know it's what they do, and so they're able to read around it.Oh my, you realize there are a lot of people on this board who have NO IDEA what you're talking about?
(Hint for you young'ns: that lady who got nailed with the log in the Snickers Super Bowl commercial is Roseanne.)
It works because even though they both will sacrifice each other's feelings for a clever retort, they both know it's what they do, and so they're able to read around it.
I get an interesting "Roseanne and Dan Conner" vibe from these two. It works because even though they both will sacrifice each other's feelings for a clever retort, they both know it's what they do, and so they're able to read around it.Oh my, you realize there are a lot of people on this board who have NO IDEA what you're talking about?
(Hint for you young'ns: that lady who got nailed with the log in the Snickers Super Bowl commercial is Roseanne.)
You know, I'm not that old, but my god, reading that just makes me feel ancient.
I get an interesting "Roseanne and Dan Conner" vibe from these two. It works because even though they both will sacrifice each other's feelings for a clever retort, they both know it's what they do, and so they're able to read around it.Oh my, you realize there are a lot of people on this board who have NO IDEA what you're talking about?
(Hint for you young'ns: that lady who got nailed with the log in the Snickers Super Bowl commercial is Roseanne.)
You know, I'm not that old, but my god, reading that just makes me feel ancient.
I get an interesting "Roseanne and Dan Conner" vibe from these two. It works because even though they both will sacrifice each other's feelings for a clever retort, they both know it's what they do, and so they're able to read around it.Oh my, you realize there are a lot of people on this board who have NO IDEA what you're talking about?
(Hint for you young'ns: that lady who got nailed with the log in the Snickers Super Bowl commercial is Roseanne.)
I may only be 22 but it kills me at times seeing younger people spouting off about old music, saying "so and so is trying to copy *insert new actor(ress)/singer/band*." it's a :psyduck: moment for me.
Or better yet when people think a re-make of an old-school song is actually the original. When Limp Bizkit remade "Behind Blue Eyes" back when I was in high school... or maybe I was still in middle school, who knows, almost no one I knew realized it was actually by The Who. Of course, the song that sadly made Limp Bizkit famous was also a cover of an older song ("Faith" by George Michael) and I don't think anyone knew that. Those were always huge :psyduck: moments for me. The most recent :psyduck: moment for me has to be Lady Gaga's new over-hyped song "Born this Way." It sounds like a carbon copy of "Express Yourself" by Madonna. How many teenagers who totally love Gaga are going to know that. Not many, cause, as old as it makes me feel, the little 14 year old's who are listening to it thinking "Oh my God, sooooo creative and original" weren't even born yet when that song was released.
Everything I've just said is absolutely irrelevant to the comic, but you know, music gets me riled up. :laugh:
What a nice end to a shitty (for me) week. No epic cliffhanger or anything.
Internet is going to be iffy for me for quite awhile. Health problems mean less online time and more VIGOROUS TESTING by the Doctors. That means grabbing Net on the go as I turned off the cable-internet at home effective Monday.
I can leave the story off here if I have to and not worry about WHAT HAPPENS NEXT OMG.
Chem jokes, eh?...
I heard it for the first time the other day and I thought it was funny please don't throw things at me.
how about an easy going chemistry question?
name the following molecule
PhD PhD
\ /
C - C
/ \
C C
\ /
C - C
first correct answer wins an internet.
...and yes, I'm straight. My wife wasn't so sure until our 3rd or 4th date. did I mention I like show tunes? (Maybe this belongs under confessions too?)
I was expecting Faye and Angus to start singing "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off" for a bit there.I've had this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N416Er-AFM) in mind since Angus' ex came up.
I was expecting Faye and Angus to start singing "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off" for a bit there.I've had this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N416Er-AFM) in mind since Angus' ex came up.
...you couldn't find the original?
...you couldn't find the original?I probably could have done, but Vonda Shepard is awesome. Her musical interludes, and of course Lucy Liu as Ling Woo :-D, were the only reasons I watched Ally McBeal. As for The Left Banke... Carl is quite correct, I didn't know they existed, but I can't imagine anything much less rive gauche that that squeaky-clean, squeaky-voiced lead singer.
Should I have put in bold that I'm Colombian? That I am a cultural and ethnic minority where I live, more so because the vast majority of Hispanics in the US are Mexican, which is very much culturally different from my own heritage? Should I have added that my first language was Spanish and I didn't learn English until I was six years old? Should I add that I do not feel any particular connection to the American culture I am surrounded with and identify first and foremost with my Colombian heritage? Should I add that my ex is now my ex at least in part because she could not reconcile the good Indian girl with the good American girl struggle? Or do you want to stay on your soap box and feeling high and mighty over...what?
"Nobody can understand without living it first?" So clearly the entire topic of a parent's suicide cannot be done unless your parent suicides, and it cannot be done well enough for it to be a case study in properly done drama in a web comic. Clearly, the additional pigment in my skin makes me utterly unable to comprehend what a guy with an epicanthic eyefold experiences and what girls with bindis feel and TELL ME THEY FEEL. Obviously, what a person says about their experience is utterly unreliable, thereby rendering thousands of years of researching methodology invalid because a person said something and others corroborated it.
I continue to wonder why you're deliberately ignoring the fact that I would like it tastefully done. Get off your soap box already.