I just realized. Friday's comic would've been so awesome if Mieville had an exclamation mark too, when he noticed the moth in panel two.Sometimes going for the obvious references isn't the best thing to do. I'm frankly surprised he didn't.
I just realized. Friday's comic would've been so awesome if Mieville had an exclamation mark too, when he noticed the moth in panel two.
if Mieville had an exclamation mark too, when he noticed the moth in panel two.
But...he did. I mean, there's only one exclamation mark, but it's still a very obvious reference. And it's still funny. And thanks, Skew! I've only been here a couple months, so I don't think I've seen that user. Anyway, I figured I'd use a Pintsize avatar, so I found this comic and cropped it.I just realized. Friday's comic would've been so awesome if Mieville had an exclamation mark too, when he noticed the moth in panel two.Sometimes going for the obvious references isn't the best thing to do. I'm frankly surprised he didn't.
huh. thank you for pointing that out. it was prominent, but in a blind spot.But...he did. I mean, there's only one exclamation mark, but it's still a very obvious reference. And it's still funny. And thanks, Skew! I've only been here a couple months, so I don't think I've seen that user. Anyway, I figured I'd use a Pintsize avatar, so I found this comic and cropped it.I just realized. Friday's comic would've been so awesome if Mieville had an exclamation mark too, when he noticed the moth in panel two.Sometimes going for the obvious references isn't the best thing to do. I'm frankly surprised he didn't.
She's apparently a forgiving sort today.
I am glad that Faye is being pretty reasonable here, not her previous, punches-for-everything self. I mean, presumably even Clinton lived through his hand's misdeeds.
Am I wrong, or is this the first QC strip to take place in a car?
May 2, 2011 12:35amYay !
Comic!
Jeph just went and did the perspective that I've been trying to do for my own comic for some time (in a car from the same angles), and he did it with such precision as well. Goddamn that looks accurate.
Okay, name the car Tai is driving.The only conclusion I can reach is that it's a wagon, judging from the roof-rack visible at the top of the first and last panels. If Tai were a lesbian stereotype, as suggested last week, wouldn't it be a Subaru Forester? :-D And yes, what is that in the door-pocket? A pack of sandwiches in cling-film?
Great drawing in today's strip. The joke... not so much. But at least we can spend the week getting outraged about making a joke about bad driving!
[...] But at least we can spend the week getting outraged about making a joke about bad driving!Yay !
Great drawing in today's strip. The joke... not so much. But at least we can spend the week getting outraged about making a joke about bad driving!
This would only really apply if Tai was actually asian (which has long since replaced the "lol women are bad drivers" stereotype in terms of offensiveness).
Okay, name the car Tai is driving.
I'd say American given the craftsmanship and use of materials. 2000's Chevy Cavalier.
I asked that in the live feed and I was reminded of this bit with Amanda (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=609).
Why Jeph has Faye even riding somewhere with Tai to begin with is beyond me. I mean, how did Faye get to where they were to start with and why would she leave Sven and Dora to ride in a car with Tai?
It just doesn't make any sense at all unless Faye is literally that damn lazy and intent on bailing on Sven/Dora.
Great drawing in today's strip. The joke... not so much. But at least we can spend the week getting outraged about making a joke about bad driving!
This would only really apply if Tai was actually asian (which has long since replaced the "lol women are bad drivers" stereotype in terms of offensiveness).
I'd say that wonderful programs like Canada's Worst Driver (http://www.discoverychannel.ca/Showpage.aspx?sid=28780) have pretty much shown that bad driving is definitely not limited to certain ages, sexes, ethnic origins or whatever.
Don't drive distracted!
Daaaaaaaang, it pretty much is all driving Miss Faye-sie, ain't it?
Great drawing in today's strip. The joke... not so much. But at least we can spend the week getting outraged about making a joke about bad driving!
This would only really apply if Tai was actually asian (which has long since replaced the "lol women are bad drivers" stereotype in terms of offensiveness).
Why Jeph has Faye even riding somewhere with Tai to begin with is beyond me. I mean, how did Faye get to where they were to start with and why would she leave Sven and Dora to ride in a car with Tai?
It just doesn't make any sense at all unless Faye is literally that damn lazy and intent on bailing on Sven/Dora.
Okay, name the car Tai is driving.The only conclusion I can reach is that it's a wagon, judging from the roof-rack visible at the top of the first and last panels. If Tai were a lesbian stereotype, as suggested last week, wouldn't it be a Subaru Forester? :-D And yes, what is that in the door-pocket? A pack of sandwiches in cling-film?
The real question is why Tai was doing out in Amherst, unless she lives out there.
Okay, name the car Tai is driving.
I'd say American given the craftsmanship and use of materials. 2000's Chevy Cavalier.
Did you want the answer or did you want to keep guessing? I saw him tracing it and he said what it was too. (and yes, they are CDs in the door pocket)
pretty much assaulted her
pretty much assaulted her
I don't especially want to restart the PC roundabout here, but "assaulted"? Has horseplay ceased to exist?
I AM a lesbian, and that IS where I keep CD's in my car.I figured that's where everyone keeps their CDs in their car (but hopefully, unlike Tai, in cases)
pretty much assaulted her
I don't especially want to restart the PC roundabout here, but "assaulted"? Has horseplay ceased to exist?
I AM a lesbian, and that IS where I keep CD's in my car.I figured that's where everyone keeps their CDs in their car (but hopefully, unlike Tai, in cases)
Nah, it's all good. I was mostly pointing out that her CDs must be scratched to hell.
We live in an era where the world is wrapped up in cotton wool and common sense has been thrown out the window. So yes, yes, horseplay no longer exists. (The same goes for tomfoolery, shenanigans and other appropriate terms).
awwww man, thinking about scratched cds makes me sad.
Which they aren't, as far as I can tell. It's just a clump of discs.Nah, it's all good. I was mostly pointing out that her CDs must be scratched to hell.
Unless they are in a CD wallet.
Which they aren't, as far as I can tell. It's just a clump of discs.Nah, it's all good. I was mostly pointing out that her CDs must be scratched to hell.Unless they are in a CD wallet.
Also Tai's car looks insanely clean to me, but I tend to use my backseat like a extra storage shed. xDMe too! Glad I'm not the only one. :laugh:
What's an MGS guard?
What's an MGS guard?
Why Jeph has Faye even riding somewhere with Tai to begin with is beyond me. I mean, how did Faye get to where they were to start with and why would she leave Sven and Dora to ride in a car with Tai?
It just doesn't make any sense at all unless Faye is literally that damn lazy and intent on bailing on Sven/Dora.
We live in an era where the world is wrapped up in cotton wool and common sense has been thrown out the window. So yes, yes, horseplay no longer exists. (The same goes for tomfoolery, shenanigans and other appropriate terms).
What about skylarkings?
I AM a lesbian, and that IS where I keep CD's in my car.I figured that's where everyone keeps their CDs in their car (but hopefully, unlike Tai, in cases)
Guess my joke was lost then. :(
Who are you responding to?
It's replacing the racial epithet commonly referred to as "the 'n' word" but it also catches the alternate pelling off snicker.
Seriously, what the hell just happened? The joke has sailed ten miles over my head and I am so confused right now.Your use of the synonym for giggle, or snicker caught the profanity filter, and activated a script. :police: This does occasionaly happen.
Kinda lost here. Mari drew a nice, yet WAY too self-deprecating comic, and her expression in the last panel says.........what the hell does that expression say?I think it's "What?! What did my characters just do?"
Kinda lost here. Mari drew a nice, yet WAY too self-deprecating comic, and her expression in the last panel says.........what the hell does that expression say?I think it's "What?! What did my characters just do?"
Kinda lost here. Mari drew a nice, yet WAY too self-deprecating comic, and her expression in the last panel says.........what the hell does that expression say?
Kinda lost here. Mari drew a nice, yet WAY too self-deprecating comic, and her expression in the last panel says.........what the hell does that expression say?
Indeed.(click to show/hide)
It's replacing the racial epithet commonly referred to as "the 'n' word" but it also catches the alternate pelling off snicker.Remind me not to talk about the main ingredient of wine around here.
I think today's strip is way too meta, and not very funny.
I think he was getting at "rape", implying the filter might block that as well.It's replacing the racial epithet commonly referred to as "the 'n' word" but it also catches the alternate pelling off snicker.Remind me not to talk about the main ingredient of wine around here.
Grapes? Vinegar has the same sound, but different spelling.
I actually don't know what word you mean. Maybe link me to the Wikipedia article or something.
Remind me not to talk about the main ingredient of wine around here.
Grapes? Vinegar has the same sound, but different spelling.
I actually don't know what word you mean. Maybe link me to the Wikipedia article or something.
In the mornings and afternoons during the school year, Amherst really is 20 minutes from Northampton, despite being 9 miles away.
I bet the hidden fifth panel has Faye force Tai to swap seats with her.Probably not the best idea, we don't know if Faye feels comfortable behind the wheel of a car considering the crash she had. That said, 20 minutes of Tai's driving might force a breakthrough for the Savanah Tsunner.
Remind me not to talk about the main ingredient of wine around here.
Grapes? Vinegar has the same sound, but different spelling.
I actually don't know what word you mean. Maybe link me to the Wikipedia article or something.
No, I did mean grapes. Not the 'n' word though - totally different word. But I guess that one isn't being picked up. Huh. I guess the filter has a fairly narrow sense of what it thinks is offensive (should have been obvious given the replacement text it uses).
Edit: And now that I've read the rest of the thread (oops), yes Watched Pot was right, that's what I was getting at.
I think he was getting at "rape", implying the filter might block that as well.It's replacing the racial epithet commonly referred to as "the 'n' word" but it also catches the alternate pelling off snicker.Remind me not to talk about the main ingredient of wine around here.
Grapes? Vinegar has the same sound, but different spelling.
I actually don't know what word you mean. Maybe link me to the Wikipedia article or something.
Nine miles in twenty minutes would require an average speed of 27mph (43kph). Personally, I'd have trouble doing that on my bicycle. I am in awe of your athleticism...In the mornings and afternoons during the school year, Amherst really is 20 minutes from Northampton, despite being 9 miles away.What a bunch of lazy bums, I'd cover that just by extending my daily run another 20 minutes (but then, I'm trying to get in shape for a marathon, so whatever).
Do you think the word "rape" is inherently offensive?
That's about 12 mph, a pretty respectable marathon runing speed.
I never really got into running, which is funny because I'm military and we run all the time for PT (and amusingly (or sadly), I'm one of the faster runners in my squadron). 6'5", weigh less than 200 lbs, but just could never find the joy in it, so pretty much the only running I do is at mandated PT.
Anyone else think Steve needs a good punch to the jaw? I do.Yeah. I mean... Dude?
Anyone else think Steve needs a good punch to the jaw? I do.Oh totally. But that's not going to happen; it is not the Way of the Marten. But hen since the Way of the Marten also involves befriending Steve in the first place it's pretty much the exact opposite of what I'd do.
I think the best the human body can manage is about 25 km/h.Nine miles in twenty minutes would require an average speed of 27mph (43kph). Personally, I'd have trouble doing that on my bicycle. I am in awe of your athleticism...In the mornings and afternoons during the school year, Amherst really is 20 minutes from Northampton, despite being 9 miles away.What a bunch of lazy bums, I'd cover that just by extending my daily run another 20 minutes (but then, I'm trying to get in shape for a marathon, so whatever).
Marten: "Yeah, but Dora wasa really messed up and had all these issues, while Cosette...Cosette might have issues, who hasnt, but she's anything but messed up. She seems quite stable to me. In fact, if she has a boyfriend like Steve, she HAS to be very stable.
Oh. I see your point"
:lol:
Marten does not seem to enjoy friendships so much as survive them.
I think the best the human body can manage is about 25 km/h.Nine miles in twenty minutes would require an average speed of 27mph (43kph). Personally, I'd have trouble doing that on my bicycle. I am in awe of your athleticism...In the mornings and afternoons during the school year, Amherst really is 20 minutes from Northampton, despite being 9 miles away.What a bunch of lazy bums, I'd cover that just by extending my daily run another 20 minutes (but then, I'm trying to get in shape for a marathon, so whatever).
Animals might manage 50 km/h, some for short distances 100 km/h, but thats about it.
Marten: "Yeah, but Dora wasa really messed up and had all these issues, while Cosette...Cosette might have issues, who hasnt, but she's anything but messed up. She seems quite stable to me. In fact, if she has a boyfriend like Steve, she HAS to be very stable.
Oh. I see your point"
:lol:
This made me spit out my drink. I know you were being sarcastic, or perhaps misunderstood what you quoted but imagining someone running faster than the cars going speed limit on a small road made me laugh. And then doing that for 9 miles? Ow, I'm still laughing. He wouldn't have to worry about gas prices.Nine miles in twenty minutes would require an average speed of 27mph (43kph). Personally, I'd have trouble doing that on my bicycle. I am in awe of your athleticism...In the mornings and afternoons during the school year, Amherst really is 20 minutes from Northampton, despite being 9 miles away.What a bunch of lazy bums, I'd cover that just by extending my daily run another 20 minutes (but then, I'm trying to get in shape for a marathon, so whatever).
Has anyone in QC ever faced serious consequences for what they've done? I don't think jail time is any kind of real worry for them.
Has anyone in QC ever faced serious consequences for what they've done? I don't think jail time is any kind of real worry for them.VespAvenger got the closest, then the spooks intervened and gave her a job instead.
It's been coming along for a while, but it's official now: Steve is an asshole.
he even gets on well with Sven despite a bit of hipster one-upsmanship.
Everyone has at least one friend like that, they aren't douchebags, they were just born without that little mental filter that says "errr you might want to rethink that comment before you insult someone by accident"
To be totally fair to Steve, it is perhaps not surprising that watching a relationship that he regarded as being pretty solid self destruct might be enough to make him feel a bit nervous, particularly when about to take a big new step. I think that's all he's trying to express here. I mean, I understand Marten's initial reaction, but I'm sure Steve is far from being malicious.
(edited for grammatical agreement...)
Okay, I thought that when he was threatening Clinton with a sword, we'd seen Marten's murder-face.
We were wrong. So very wrong.
Steve isn't just facing the murder-face. He's about one sentence away from actually provoking the Manatee on Codiene to physical violence. Justified physical violence.
or we get to see what a manatee can do when aroused.
Marten: "Yeah, but Dora wasa really messed up and had all these issues, while Cosette...
Oh. I see your point"
:lol:
I took Steve's remark the same way, as if he intended to say "I'm nervous, if even you and Dora broke up, then what chance do I have?"
Suddenly, Marten is the relationship role-model for Steve
Nothing to put the icing on a long relationship going down in flames than for all your friends to suddenly become tepid about taking any steps in their own relationships, and pointing the finger to your's as proof. It's like: "Thanks jackass. I already don't feel bad about my own life being screwed up, I really needed to think I'm partially responsible for fucking your's up too."
Hipster one-upmanship (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=333)
There was also the guitar episode.
]This made me spit out my drink. I know you were being sarcastic, or perhaps misunderstood what you quotedBoth actually, thanks for noticing. :laugh:
Hipster one-upmanship (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=333)Does Steve share the same hipster value hierarchy that Marten and Sven apparently do? I don't remember him being so into musical "indy cred" or guitar fetishism for example, so would he be susceptible to hipster one-up-manship?
There was also the guitar episode.
What the hell do you mean by a hipster one-upsmanship?
Been there, done that, Marten. Nothing to put the icing on a long relationship going down in flames than for all your friends to suddenly become tepid about taking any steps in their own relationships, and pointing the finger to your's as proof. It's like: "Thanks jackass. I already don't feel bad about my own life being screwed up, I really needed to think I'm partially responsible for fucking your's up too."
If you can't speak your feelings around your closest friends, when can you?
If you can't speak your feelings around your closest friends, when can you?
Marten: Shut your five dollar ass up before I make change...
Marten: Shut your five dollar ass up before I make change...
*gives Grantzilla 10 internets for the New Jack City reference*
I am sorry, I just get of a goddamn temper about this because as a Seattle-dweller I can attest to the fact that the hipster rate in the Northwest keeps growing like a metastasizing brain tumor, and now I know where the fuckers are coming from! BACK TO MASSACHUSETTS WITH YE, HIPSTER FILTH.
I cant help but feel todays comic ... is kinda weak.
ONG, Jeph's a GOM...
I am sorry, I just get of a goddamn temper about this because as a Seattle-dweller I can attest to the fact that the hipster rate in the Northwest keeps growing like a metastasizing brain tumor, and now I know where the fuckers are coming from! BACK TO MASSACHUSETTS WITH YE, HIPSTER FILTH.
Make some use out of them and feed them into the wood pulpers at any of the million paper mills up there.
ONG, Jeph's a GOM...
At 30 and running a sucsessful business, he's too young and stinkin' happy to be a GOM!
Maybe it's a guest strip. And the other artist has the exact same style?
And I thought someone was messing with Jeph's meds. It's a cute joke 'n all. But is itreally Questionable Content?my QC fanfiction?
I hope that the stories of how he ignores these forums are true.
But is it really Questionable Content?
I hope that the stories of how he ignores these forums are true.
If you check Jeph's forum account, you will see that he hasn't logged in to the forums since December. I don't imagine that he would just lurk without reacting to anything, though I suppose he could.
No, no they do not and nor can they be educated to.
Sadly, Portland is not grinding up the hipsters for chum; instead it is letting them roam free, like grazing goddamn cattle, becoming fat on Voodoo Donuts (fucking shut up forever about that place, Portlanders, no one cares) and babbling like a runnng stream about their fucking band/clown college plans/independent film, whilst they abuse the state's lack of sales tax and go get stoned at OMSI. The place has become some sort of dark hipster Mecca, which means that up here in Seattle we get to be Medina and host the further pilgrimage of these assholes. Yes, we know Pike Place Market was not as cool as you expected; yes, we know Belltown is "so expensive" (but that doesn't stop you going out to get crunk every night, now does it); no, we don't want to hear what you think of Starbucks . We have enough of our own unbearable white people. Go away. Go away forever or the natives are going to cull you, and don't think we don't know who you are!
...least annoying, least pretentious hipsters...
Perhaps he has spies...?
...least annoying, least pretentious hipsters...
oxy-morons?
The one thing I know about Oregon is people from Oregon don't know how to pronounce Oregon.You are so wrong.
OK, [how] youse guys pronounciate it?
So, is it Ahr-e-gon, or Or-e-gon? Or is it the two-syllable Or'gon, pronounced like the church instrument?
OK, now I gotta know. Never having met an Oregonian(?) in person, how the hell do youse guys pronounciate it?Here's a good example. (http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?ggoreg01.wav=Oregon)
OK, now I gotta know. Never having met an Oregonian(?) in person, how the hell do youse guys pronounciate it?
So, is it Ahr-e-gon, or Or-e-gon? Or is it the two-syllable Or'gon, pronounced like the church instrument?
Someone I knew when I was pretty young had a bumper sticker that said "ORY-GUN" and she explained that that's how people from Oregon pronounce it. I never did find out if that was true.
After living the first 20 years of my life in Illinois, there isn't much that grates on me more than hearing someone say "ell-ih-noy" or, even worse, "ill-ih-noiz". I do remember there was some local TV personality who combined the two into "ell-ih-noiz" and it made me want to punch him.
Sadly, Portland is not grinding up the hipsters for chum; instead it is letting them roam free, like grazing goddamn cattle, becoming fat on Voodoo Donuts (fucking shut up forever about that place, Portlanders, no one cares) and babbling like a runnng stream about their fucking band/clown college plans/independent film, whilst they abuse the state's lack of sales tax and go get stoned at OMSI.Everything I know about Portland, I learned from reading Bike Snob NYC (http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2011/03/virtual-reality-smugness-is-state-of.html), so assuming a satirical blog is completely accurate, I'm sure I'd be suffocated by the smugness.
One of the many nice things about being Texan, I suppose... EVERYONE knows how to pronounce Texas.And the Alabamans who make it three syllables. TAY-EX-ESS
Making allowances for the immigrants who pronounce it the Spanish way, of course.
This (http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2010/9/23/how-to-pronounce-oregon.html) is where I learned its pronunciation.Funnier if you know that Coos Bay is in Redneck-Oregon, not Hipster-Oregon.
This (http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2010/9/23/how-to-pronounce-oregon.html) is where I learned its pronunciation.
It's crazy, though... before I came to Boston for college, I really didn't think most people on the other side of the country would even know where Portland was on a map, let alone have stereotypes.Hey, I live on the other side of the planet, and I have stereotypes about Portland. It's a global village.
After living the first 20 years of my life in Illinois, there isn't much that grates on me more than hearing someone say "ell-ih-noy" or, even worse, "ill-ih-noiz". I do remember there was some local TV personality who combined the two into "ell-ih-noiz" and it made me want to punch him.I feel the same way about people who pronounce Beijing as Beige-ing instead of Bay-jing, but perhaps I should be more patient if there are those who can't pronounce their own home state correctly. Sydney is easy to pronounce (rhymes with kidney), but if you want to sound like a local, it is "Sinny", which someone from Melbourne (Melb'n not Mel-born, and a resident is a Mel-BURN-ian) would say was completely appropriate.
This (http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2010/9/23/how-to-pronounce-oregon.html) is where I learned its pronunciation.I say OR-a-g'n, with a "short" O as at the beginning of "office" or "on", so I guess I'm close. The comic strip's advice to pronounce it "Or a gun" would lead an Australian to say "Aw-a-gun". I do approve of the strip's advice that "the people who live there determine how a place name is pronounced", but I wonder how the artist pronounces Beijing...
"Gidday mayyyyyte! Threw ah shiiiiimp on the baaaaaahbie!"Ugh... But we can only blame ourselves (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn_CPrCS8gs) for that. We chose to make Paul Hogan our spokesbogan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA8gJoT5yl4).
"Gidday mayyyyyte! Threw ah shiiiiimp on the baaaaaahbie!"Ugh... But we can only blame ourselves (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn_CPrCS8gs) for that. We chose to make Paul Hogan our spokesbogan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA8gJoT5yl4).
When I think of crazy Australian accents. I think of Claire from Lost.
"CHAHLEE! THEY'VE GOT MY BYE-BEE! CHAAAAAAAAHLEEE!"
Or hell, just try listening to this commercial for Outback Steakhouse (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tswvz_cG9LY&feature=related) without breaking down crying. I couldn't.trust me, there are probably plenty of Americans like myself that are sick of listening to those damned commercials
2 - No, I do not want a Fosters. The reason we export that carbonated fairy urine is because nobody in Australia drinks it.You guys have Fosters, but us Yanks have Bud/Coors/Miller. The trifecta of watery crap-beers. I haven't had Foster, so I don't know if it's worse than say, Coors (which, when extremely cold, has the decency to at least like nothing. Not like nothing else, just absolutely devoid of flavor.) But anyway, despite the popularity of those three, there are actually good American beers.
Lets look at it from Steve's perspective.
Steve's major girlfriends (from what we've seen) have consisted of an overly-needy marine student, a pathology assistant who still lived with her literally perfect ex-boyfriend (whom she dumped Steve for, and promptly married him by all accounts), not to mention Tortura,the scarred Russian Villianess who had Steve in what looked like a torture/bondage session, now on the run from the Department. And currently, but not least, we have Cosette, a woman whose clumsy mishaps would put Inspector Clouseau to shame.
Then, we have Steve's father, a man who has been married 4 times, or perhaps three times, even Steve is a little confused about that, which might indicate that his father has a revolving door leading to his bedroom.
So, Steve looks at his best friend, Marten Reed, a guy, who looking at his past should be all kinds of messed up - parents divorced, gay dad with a nightclub, world famous dominatrix for a mother. Yet despite this, Martin is relatively normal. So, imagine Steve's surprise when his normal pal ends up being in a relationship with a hot, former goth, without, to him, many inhibitions, a fiery ass and is a successful buisness woman. Even Steve has told Marten that he wished he could have the same kind of relationship with a girl that Marten had with Dora. Suddenly, Marten is the relationship role-model for Steve, especially to the point where Dora is moving in with Marten.
And, oop, pretty much out of nowhere, to our resident himbo, Dora and Marten have broken up, the status quo has been shaken up, and now, for Steve, seeing what looked like a stable enough relationship collapse like that has given him cause for concern, and now that mental filter is forgotten about as Steve's insecurities have started rising to the surface.
Duuuuuude, Steve is turning into the Dora in his relationship!
"Gidday mayyyyyte! Threw ah shiiiiimp on the baaaaaahbie!"Ugh... But we can only blame ourselves (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn_CPrCS8gs) for that. We chose to make Paul Hogan our spokesbogan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA8gJoT5yl4).
Personally, if I was an Aussie, I'dve voted for Peter Brock
You can tell that the chick in the first panel is so not into that guy.... how can you tell THAT ? She's casually drinking in that panel.
You can tell that the chick in the first panel is so not into that guy.... how can you tell THAT ? She's casually drinking in that panel.
We just call 'em "FIBS" up here.
We just call 'em "FIBS" up here.
I usually don't call 'em that unless I see 'em driving. Then all bets are off. :-D
I've been meaning to ask you whereabouts in Wisconsin you're located? I'm in the Fox Valley myself.
Man, I'm glad I don't still think the music I liked when I was sixteen was the best music ever.
The conversation about pronunciation amuses me. Everyone gets all defensive about how their corner of the US pronounces things, which states have funny accents, all that jazz. Of course, to the rest of the world there's a slight difference when you go from North to South and that's pretty much it. Y'all are just 'Mericans to us!
Because, I think if anyone has the right to claim worst injury in accent-related shenanigans, we Aussies have a decent argument there. Listening to people cry, "Gidday mayyyyyte! Threw ah shiiiiimp on the baaaaaahbie!" whenever they find out we're Australian is the kind of torture that only the worst of us shall have to endure in Hell. The other Aussies on here know what I'm talking about. ;)
Or hell, just try listening to this commercial for Outback Steakhouse (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tswvz_cG9LY&feature=related) without breaking down crying. I couldn't.
Begosh & Begarah Tergon, sure you've never met an Oirish lad or lassie have yeh? :wink: I know the pain you are feeling.
Steve has busted Marten's balls from almost the very first time we met him. I speak from personal experience when I say this - some guys that are best friends do this.
Personally, if I was an Aussie, I'dve voted for Peter BrockUgh... Lee Lin Chin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZIN02mTgeA) for the win!
Faye's expressions today are particularly well done, I feel.I concur. They're very well done indeed.
I wonder how old Faye is supposed to be. I think the self-referential joke in 1920 is that Jeph was in his late teens in 1997, but I feel like Faye's supposed to be younger than 30.
This (http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2010/9/23/how-to-pronounce-oregon.html) is where I learned its pronunciation.
I literally just made an account for the sole purpose of posting that link. Congratulations, sir, for beating me to the punch.
1975!
A Night At The Opera! Has NEVER been topped!
However - I will believe with every fiber of my being that the discovery of auto tune was a blight upon the musical landscape. A BLIIIIGHT
If QC started in the present (then), and has moved, say two years on, then it is at least four years behind the present (now); so Faye would have been more like 16 or so in 1997, which seems reasonable.Ahhhh comic relativity...
However - I will believe with every fiber of my being that the discovery of auto tune was a blight upon the musical landscape. A BLIIIIGHTI'm with you on that, but I concede that...
What's the problem with auto-tune?
Seattle- based indie rockers, Death Cab for Cutie took up a cause at the 51st annual Grammy awards this year, by sporting light blue ribbons on their jackets to protest the use of Auto-Tune. Auto-Tune is a software program that digitally corrects the pitch of a singer's voice, and according to Death Cab frontman Ben Gibbard, it's been over used.
"I think over the last 10 years, we've seen a lot of good musicians being affected by this newfound digital manipulation of the human voice, and we feel enough is enough."
C'mon, people I was hoping this strip would get you to talk about your favorite years (or decades, if that's easier) for music! I want some album recommendations! :-D :mrgreen:
Faye was 24, same age as Marten, at the start of the strip. So she's probably about 25 now.
This means that her musical tastes became fixed when she was about 11. :|
And unless her town in Georgia had an awesome alt-rock station that really brought in the pre-teens, the music from 1997 that she was actually listening to is more like:
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Yeah, not a lot of alt-rockin' on the airwaves going on then.
Don't worry Faye. I would have said 1967.
Faye was 24, same age as Marten, at the start of the strip. So she's probably about 25 now.Oh, dude. I'm 23 now, but when I started reading QC I was about 19, just starting college. Now I just realized that I'll be older than Marten and Faye in a couple years (maybe a little more, depending on time skips). Not sure why this is notable, but yeah.
Whoa, wait a second.
Your post had a link to a legitemate [sp?] site about second-tier folk singer compliations.
I countered with a link to a absolute sacastic commentary on the Folk movement.
Was your reply double-ironic or did you miss the sarcasm?
Me cornfused :?
If it's notable to you, then that's enough.Faye was 24, same age as Marten, at the start of the strip. So she's probably about 25 now.Oh, dude. I'm 23 now, but when I started reading QC I was about 19, just starting college. Now I just realized that I'll be older than Marten and Faye in a couple years (maybe a little more, depending on time skips). Not sure why this is notable, but yeah.
However - I will believe with every fiber of my being that the discovery of auto tune was a blight upon the musical landscape. A BLIIIIGHT
I'm with you on that, but I concede that I do like this one instance of its use:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk)
I don't think I could pick a single "best year for music" -- there's good stuff and a whole mess of crap every single year, some years are better than others . . . eh. Doesn't mean I'm not a GOW, though. Plenty of other reasons for people to get off my lawn.
Call the borgs. We hit a time warp. Not years. Decades or centuries. For me the best year is whichever was the best for Simon & Garfunkel or Manhattan Transfer. Me high school flame used her feminine viles to get me to watch "The Wall"as in Pink Floyd, which was ok, I guess. But the one and only Joplin is Scott, and (Sam the Eagle, help me here) Bach ruuuulllzzz.
I think that autotune should only ever have been used to make that kind of video and never ever in music of any other kind. In other news: would it be offensive to autotune a video of Stephen Hawking? Or a step further, to straight up add autotune to his speech machine?
Discuss.
Sibelius, for the win.
I live in Eugene, Oregon (which will give some context to the earlier comments about Portland), population a little over 150k. I still call and think of it as a "a college town."
(the "small town" I grew up about a mile from, by contrast, has a population of just under 1k.)
Exactly. Hell, Boston is a "college town".I live in Eugene, Oregon (which will give some context to the earlier comments about Portland), population a little over 150k. I still call and think of it as a "a college town."
(the "small town" I grew up about a mile from, by contrast, has a population of just under 1k.)
College town is a term that isn't really the same as saying a town with a college in it. A lot of college towns are actually cities. I live in Athens, GA, which is also a "college town" but if I was asked whether I lived in a town or a city, I would respond with city, because that is what it actually is from a government standpoint. Same with Eugene.
@MoM: Sorry 'bout going a bit off-topic here. Just remembered, where I had seen 'Madness' & 'Method' in the same sentence. The title of one of the trickier levels of Lemmings (anyone else here spent days trying to save them little critters?) was 'There's madness in the method'. IIRC I had to ask a friend for a hint with that one.Man, I haven't played Lemmings in years. But nope, not where I got it from. (Its origin is in my sig, btw)
Lemmings, you say? (http://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/)
No need to thank me. :P Alternatively, if it eats up all your free time (and it will) that's not my fault.
That's what I thought. Since I didn't recall a historical Roman orator by that name I had to google it. I'm afraid references to the works of the Bard fly over my head most of the time. Can't help it. A consequence of not getting your basic education in English, I suppose.@MoM: Sorry 'bout going a bit off-topic here. Just remembered, where I had seen 'Madness' & 'Method' in the same sentence. The title of one of the trickier levels of Lemmings (anyone else here spent days trying to save them little critters?) was 'There's madness in the method'. IIRC I had to ask a friend for a hint with that one.Man, I haven't played Lemmings in years. But nope, not where I got it from. (Its origin is in my sig, btw)
Sibelius, for the win.
Oddities corner: I have a CD of Sibelius's music for organ. Possibly the most interesting thing on it is a piece that he admitted uses material taken from his eighth symphony, which he destroyed. Buying the CD meant finding the web site of an obscure Finnish recording company and then navigating the site and shop entirely in Finnish...
Funnily enough I was listening to some songs on random just as I read that comic and what came on? Johnny Cash's version of Hurt.I still find it amazing that Cash's last big hit was a Nine Inch Nails cover. That worked VERY well with The Man in Black's style.
I know. Cash's version of "Hurt" made me tear up the first time I heard it. Such subtle power in that voice, even in old age.Not to mention just before death as well. I think the music video for "Hurt" aired about...what, three or so weeks before he died?
An oddity, indeed. Sibelius hasn't composed much for organ. Symphonic poems and piano for me. One of my favorite Sibelius CDs has Barbirolli conducting Hallé orchestra.4th Symphony and violin concerto for me. Sibelius is my favourite western composer. After J.S.Bach, of course, everyone is after Bach.
I know. Cash's version of "Hurt" made me tear up the first time I heard it. Such subtle power in that voice, even in old age.Not to mention just before death as well. I think the music video for "Hurt" aired about...what, three or so weeks before he died?
Sibelius, for the win.
Oddities corner: I have a CD of Sibelius's music for organ. Possibly the most interesting thing on it is a piece that he admitted uses material taken from his eighth symphony, which he destroyed. Buying the CD meant finding the web site of an obscure Finnish recording company and then navigating the site and shop entirely in Finnish...