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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: jwhouk on 15 May 2011, 05:56
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So here we go!
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Virgin comment thread?
Guess we'll have to be gentile its first time.
I like the way the last week went, and am hoping to see where Jeph is going to take this week.
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Guess we'll have to be gentile its first time.
Are you saying that this thread doesn't like Jews? :psyduck:
Also, welcome back, jwhouk. Looks like I have another week off.
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Guess we'll have to be gentile its first time.
Are you saying that this thread doesn't like Jews? :psyduck:
No, it just hasn't been trimmed yet. :angel:
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Also, welcome back, jwhouk. Looks like I have another week off.
Technically, all you've done is provide Jwhouk with a couple of weeks off.
Also, I vote we'll see something happen in the comic this week. Maybe something exicting, or Pintsize spreading cake-mix on the walls. Whichever comes first.
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Technically, all you've done is provide Jwhouk with a couple of weeks off.
Perhaps.
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There's something I need to get off my chest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Socialized kicking of Swedish ass at the WC finals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Regularly scheduled incomprehensible mumbling will resume in a couple of days after I sober up and..
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Hahahaha, wrong WC. But congrats to...whoever beat Sweden?
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I think he's Finnish. </end_thread>
:roll:
Anyways - yeah, I'm back for a moment or two. Schedule is what will dictate my future ability to do threads.
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There's something I need to get off my chest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Socialized kicking of Swedish ass at the WC finals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Regularly scheduled incomprehensible mumbling will resume in a couple of days after I sober up and..
Despite the risk of sounding bit silly (or even stupid), HELL YEAH!
</stop sportsrant>
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something exicting, or Pintsize spreading cake-mix on the walls. Whichever comes first.
saaaaaayyyyyy......
We've seen what havoc Pintsize can wreak with say, one batch of frosting. What if he had the run of a Bakery.....!? :psyduck:
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The Doom of Starbucks.
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saaaaaayyyyyy......
We've seen what havoc Pintsize can wreak with say, one batch of frosting. What if he had the run of a Bakery.....!? :psyduck:
The real reason CoD keeps ahead of the competition, wanton destruction!
(not to be confused with wonton destruction, which is something else entirely!)
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Socialized kicking of Swedish ass at the WC finals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Calm down, it's only ice-hockey... :-D
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We find out "Jim" is the name of a woman.
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We find out "Jim" is the name of a woman.
Can I change my vote?
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We find out "Jim" is the name of a woman.
1925 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1925)
First panel
Padma: "Jim doesn't come in until after we close. He does the overnight baking. Lemme give him a call and we'll see if he is interested."
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Can you see where I'm going with this?
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We find out "Jim" is the name of a woman.
1925 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1925)
First panel
Padma: "Jim doesn't come in until after we close. He does the overnight baking. Lemme give him a call and we'll see if he is interested."
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Can you see where I'm going with this?
Unless it's Tai's friend who identifies as a man ...
EDITED to correct Tai dialogue reference.
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Unless it's Tai's friend who identifies as a lady ...
What? Common sense? Stop with the crazy talk you crazy fool.
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What? Common sense? Stop with the crazy talk you crazy fool.
You hate common sense? You are DEAD to me! :cry:
*cough*
So, how about a friendly (non-romantic) date between Hanners and Elliot? I'd like to see that.
Or, the "tweest" that one of the characters is really Yelling Bird in disguise!
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Early comic is early :)
Yeah, bit silly of Dora but 10%? Jeez, can't take a joke can he?
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Okay, Jim is a lot older-looking than I was expecting. Dora's comment aside, this business venture definitely looks promising.
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Dora needs to work on her negotiating skills. :-D
Yeah, bit silly of Dora but 10%? Jeez, can't take a joke can he?
Perhaps he's just a dead-pan snarker.
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What? Common sense? Stop with the crazy talk you crazy fool.
Common sense dictates that someone who identifies as female would keep the name Jim, and that employees would use male pronouns behind her back in front of potential business partners?
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Dora needs to work on her negotiating skills. :-D
Yeah, bit silly of Dora but 10%? Jeez, can't take a joke can he?
Perhaps he's just a dead-pan snarker.
And probably not that particular friend of Tai's. Well, I tried. And in my earlier post (fixed above; is that proper protocol now that I've been caught?) I meant to say "identifies as a male," as Tai clearly said in the relevant strip but which I got wrong. Bluh. Or maybe, Buh.
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I know Dora (and indeed most QC characters) has chronic foot-in-mouth syndrome but she better watch it if she doesn't want Jim to say it's not worth the trouble. Jim looks old enough to not feel like he has to take any shit.
Also, "proper roasting?" I'm just dying to know Dora's secret proccess now :evil:
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Well it's Coffee Jim, but not as you know it.
Really Dora, you must remember to control your emotions, they will be your undoing.
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Really Dora, you must remember to control your emotions, they will be your undoing.
First Martin, then CoD, then Mivielle.....Mauville....Mir....that black pussy Dora has.
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I thought she was a natural blonde?
:evil:
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It's Marten
and the cat is Miéville, after the sci-fi author.
I like the Salt 'n Pepper sideburns, I wonder if we are seeing a new regular?
[edit] are you free Mr Humphries? [/edit]
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And now, the introduction of Jim To-old-for-this-shit(german name) proprietor of the Secret Bakery
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Anyone who can employ Padma and Renee without micromanaging them all day has my vote for a cool dude.
And I'm pretty sure he's just peeved because his gesture of friendship to a stranger (that he's being pressured to do business with) threw his self-depreciating compliment back into his face. Keep in mind this is his first meeting with a competitor of his.
It's a 10% jerk fee. To discourage further jerkery. Herkery jerkery, even.
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I see Dora and Jim dating.
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Damn you.
Why did you had to provide BOTH
- "Cosette burning BOTH places down (with Renee's help). EVERYONE cries."
AND
- "Raven's RETURN!"
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That was a truely hard choice.
Only thing missing would be an option with Hanners ... I could never come to an decision !
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Hey guys, twice already? I really don't believe that in real life whenever you see a man and a woman talking business for the first time your immediate thought is that they're going to date. When there is a clear reason to suggest such a possibility here, it can be discussed, but not before - and at present there is no reason at all, not a hint.
Please keep your fantasies to yourself.
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Don't mess with a baker.
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Nice way to screw it Dora :lol:
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I took an irrational dislike to Jim the instant I saw that ridiculous bit of face-fuzz under his chin. But now I have to congratulate Dora on her wonderful negotiating skills... :roll:
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[edit] are you free Mr Humphries? [/edit]
I'm Free!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLUQ2TQUZbI)
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For #1926...
1. Again, I like Jeph's side-by-side artistic efforts. In this case, panel #1 of Faye and Padma side-by-side with similar stances, both of them look great as did Hanners side-by-side with Elliot.
2. Ooh nice a new named character (TSB's Jim)... There have been a lot of new characters of late. It would be awesome to see a comparison line-up between Coffee of Doom and The Secret Bakery (once we have the complete TSB cast, still missing "neck-scar dude" if anyone else too) as connecting prints, perhaps with Marten standing in-between the two groups as the "bridge."
example: [Coffee of Doom line-up print] => [Marten] <= [The Secret Bakery line-up print]
3. Jim's stubble could be from coming in during the daytime, since he bakes through the night after The Secret Bakery closes (along with a crew of baking gnomes...? :roll: )
3. Despite the slight off-step of first meetings between Dora and Jim, and to use a classic movie-quote per from last week's discussion: "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDhGS4EJS8M)
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What is the real life business reason for two small businesses that may or may not be in decent shape to partake in such a deal? It seems to me that Jim would be better off stealing the roasting secrets of Dora and taking her coffeeshop out entirely rather than cooperating and making two somewhat identical coffeeshops. Either they're leaning towards a merge, or this "negotiation" that started out as a joke is going to be utterly idiotic.
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Two-way cooperation doesn't need to lead to identical businesses - this seems a perfectly natural thing to me.
As a parallel, there was a time when Minolta and Leitz (Leica) shared camera technology, and a couple of the Leica R-series reflexes were built around Minolta bodies while some Leitz lenses appeared under Minolta's Rokkor name. Even at the time there was no way they could be seen as identical, though, and in time the partnership broke up. There is now a similar (possibly closer) partnership between the camera divisions of Leitz and Panasonic.
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He might not be interested in stealing Dora's secrets because:
1. He's not Beatrice Chattham
2. He knows that his coffee isn't the best, and because he bakes all night maybe he doesn't want to spend all day/weekend roasting beans with a process he's not familiar with and could screw up.
3. It's an opportunity to sell large quantities of product, without the "less fresh" concerns
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"That's funny, my wholesale price just went up 10% and I have no idea why."
Jeph's probably not going to top that punchline this week. Or even this month, for that matter.
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I don't really see tSB and CoD in direct competition with one another (other than the fact that they are both retail fodd establishments.)
The Secret Bakery's main draw is their baked goods, and the coffee they sell is ancillary to their main business, and they also supply other establishments their bread and pastries for further sale.
Coffee of Doom's primary offering is excellent coffee based beverage with a strong helping of scorn and derision. You can't re-sell that!
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Dora will now go on to the semi-finals for the Poker-Face championship! :laugh:
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The reason Dora and Jim might do something is called "Synergy". I do 'A' well and you do 'B' well. A plus B is awsome. So together we'll be great.
The goal (and the biggest hurdle) is money.
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Hey guys, twice already? I really don't believe that in real life whenever you see a man and a woman talking business for the first time your immediate thought is that they're going to date. When there is a clear reason to suggest such a possibility here, it can be discussed, but not before - and at present there is no reason at all, not a hint.
Please keep your fantasies to yourself.
I'm thinking at this point that the shipping is being done specifically to annoy Jeph/moderators (or some lame "meta" attempt to control the comic by posting stuff like that specifically to keep it from happening).
Countdown until the shippers start making comparisons between Marten, Jim and Marten's dad and postulating that he looks like a combination of the two and bla bla bla bla bla? :psyduck:
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I don't really see tSB and CoD in direct competition with one another (other than the fact that they are both retail fodd establishments.)
Uh, what's a "fodd"?
Isn't it something jet engines have to worry about?
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It's what happend when I type to fats. :psyduck:
Fcuker.
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I stand by my demands for a spell checker in this forum, but it still ain't here. :-(
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"That's funny, my wholesale price just went up 10% and I have no idea why."
Jeph's probably not going to top that punchline this week. Or even this month, for that matter.
I wouldnt bet on that one.
P.s.: Darn, I have such a beautiful post count now (911). Now how can I ever post again ? :roll: Life is unfair !! :cry: I guess I have to make a new acount ... :evil: :roll:
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I'm thinking at this point that the shipping is being done specifically to annoy Jeph/moderators
The recently banned contributor liked to try to wind me up, I think, though not by shipping. Nearly all shipping that pops up now (like the one that triggered my remark this morning) comes from newbies who have clearly not read the rules yet nor lurked enough to see how things are.
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Mike, that's your browser's failing, not the forum's. When I type "dfda" I see red squigglies. I even see squigglies under "squigglies"! As for the facial hair, I guess he's just starting to grow out a beard without a mustache after just having a soul patch for a while?
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I stand by my demands for a spell checker in this forum, but it still ain't here. :-(
Both Opera and Firefox provide me with a spell checker at every site!
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Both Opera and Firefox provide me with a spell checker at every site!
My sister and bro-in-law swear by Firefox. I guess I'll give it at try.
I just swear at Intenet Explorer.
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The Doom of Starbucks.
Dirk Benedict and Katie Sackhoff get killed?
Socialized kicking of Swedish ass at the WC finals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Calm down, it's only ice-hockey... :-D
Sorry Akima, but you are now officially dead to all Canucks. There is no such thing as "only ice-hockey" here, all of us undergo a very through indoctrination in these matters.
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Work took me to the capital. I just checked into a hotel a quarter mile from the market square. The official party will start there in two hours. The police expects about 100000 people to show up. TV is showing our air force Hornets escorting the flight of the homecoming team just now.
Yeah, Akima. It is not just ice-hockey.
For the record: Canada has 23 WC titles, the Soviets 22, ..., Finland and U.S.A. both 2).
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Sooooooo....
We're tied with Finland?
Wooo?
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The Doom of Starbucks.
Dirk Benedict and Katie Sackhoff get killed?
I think I can hear some crickets. Expect a tumbleweed to roll by in a few moments.
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What is the real life business reason for two small businesses that may or may not be in decent shape to partake in such a deal? It seems to me that Jim would be better off stealing the roasting secrets of Dora and taking her coffeeshop out entirely rather than cooperating and making two somewhat identical coffeeshops. Either they're leaning towards a merge, or this "negotiation" that started out as a joke is going to be utterly idiotic.
You must be lots of fun at Prisoner's Dilemma.
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My sister and bro-in-law swear by Firefox. I guess I'll give it at try.
I just swear at Intenet Explorer.
Year 2000, is that you? How's it goin!? I haven't seen you in years!
(was that joke too hipster-y?)
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My sister and bro-in-law swear by Firefox. I guess I'll give it at try.
I just swear at Intenet Explorer.
Year 2000, is that you? How's it goin!? I haven't seen you in years!
(was that joke too hipster-y?)
Aw, c'mon. :oops:
They screwed it up just last week with version 9. :roll:
(& I am very proud of my GOM'ness)
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The Doom of Starbucks.
Dirk Benedict and Katie Sackhoff get killed?
I think I can hear some crickets. Expect a tumbleweed to roll by in a few moments.
Like I expect ANY of what I say to be funny. But I demand at least some rolling of the eyes, perhaps a pained groan...
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Stand still and we'll deliver a pained groin! :evil:
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My sister and bro-in-law swear by Firefox. I guess I'll give it at try.
I just swear at Intenet Explorer.
Year 2000, is that you? How's it goin!? I haven't seen you in years!
(was that joke too hipster-y?)
Aw, c'mon. :oops:
They screwed it up just last week with version 9. :roll:
(& I am very proud of my GOM'ness)
Still using Internet Exploder 7, with Windows XP, the only OS that's its own emoticon (XP)
Damned university machines... always at least one update behind, adjunct faculty get the old stuff, and they don't trust us enough to give us admin rights so I can't add squat on my own...
XP
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Vista is FAR Worse than XP ever managed! :-P
Um, Uh...... Does anybody remember something about a comic posting this morning? :psyduck:
Just checking.
These senior moments are too frequent.
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Stand still and we'll deliver a pained groin! :evil:
No - I'm old enough to have seen both series on TV but I'm not quite old enough to accept that!
And yes there was a comic this morning - I'm thinking that Faye had put more thought into the proposal than Dora did with her comment, but hey, who am I to judge the lady's negotiating skills?
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Actually, Faye and Padma did not negotiate anything.
If you check Thursday's posting, they were simply finding the synergy between the companies. The money angle never came up. It was more like a couple of friends playing matchmaker. :-D [Can you say "shipping"]
It's not negotiation until prices are discussed!
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Vista is FAR Worse than XP ever managed! :-P
Um, Uh...... Does anybody remember something about a comic posting this morning? :psyduck:
Just checking.
These senior moments are too frequent.
Windows 7, here, and they managed to get right what they should have gotten right in Vista this time around.
I think that it kind of goes like that for home versions of Windows (every other version being absolute shit, with the others being actual improvements; see the transition from 98 to ME to XP to Vista to 7).
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Sooooooo....
We're tied with Finland?
Wooo?
You're so sadly neglected
And often ignored,
A poor second to Belgium,
When going abroad.
Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I quite want to be,
Your mountains so lofty,
Your treetops so tall.
Finland, Finland, Finland.
Finland has it all.
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W7 is only good if you have a computer powerful enough to run it. It takes a huge amount of processing power and a good graphics card, also the sales policy is really shitty (Basic does sweet FA, but how much does it cost?)
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The Doom of Starbucks.
Dirk Benedict and Katie Sackhoff get killed?
I think I can hear some crickets. Expect a tumbleweed to roll by in a few moments.
Like I expect ANY of what I say to be funny. But I demand at least some rolling of the eyes, perhaps a pained groan...
Me, I thought I heard the whistle and crunch of a bomb falling. :-D
Safari has an excellent spellchecker.
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Work took me to the capital. I just checked into a hotel a quarter mile from the market square. The official party will start there in two hours. The police expects about 100000 people to show up. TV is showing our air force Hornets escorting the flight of the homecoming team just now.
Yeah, Akima. It is not just ice-hockey.
For the record: Canada has 23 WC titles, the Soviets 22, ..., Finland and U.S.A. both 2).
And the scary thing is, you did it without your best goaltender.
(And I'm waiting for him to figure out who I'm talking about...)
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W7 is only good if you have a computer powerful enough to run it. It takes a huge amount of processing power and a good graphics card, also the sales policy is really shitty (Basic does sweet FA, but how much does it cost?)
I run W7 on a ten year old desktop(not as a primary pc, its the one in in my daughters room) and it runs easily as well if not better than XP did. Vista had a HUGE footprint, W7 really not so much.
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Yeah, Akima. It is not just ice-hockey. For the record: Canada has 23 WC titles, the Soviets 22, ..., Finland and U.S.A. both 2).
The thing is... To me, and I suspect much of the world, an unqualified "World Cup" means football (soccer). I had no idea to which World Cup you were referring (I knew it wasn't the football one). On looking into the matter further, I found that Australia not only had a team in the tournament (Division II)*, but won its group. Which just goes to show that Australians will compete in any sport, no matter how ridiculous. Come on Finland, enter the world surfing championship! "HA! IN YOUR FACE! WOO!" :-D
*China came second in Group B. Come on China, you can do better than that! Uh oh... It seems ice-hockey fanaticism is contagious...
Safari has an excellent spellchecker.
So does Camino (http://caminobrowser.org/features/), my web-browser of choice.
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The thing is... To me, and I suspect much of the world, an unqualified "World Cup" means football (soccer). I had no idea to which World Cup you were referring (I knew it wasn't the football one). On looking into the matter further, I found that Australia not only had a team in the tournament (Division II)*, but won its group. Which just goes to show that Australians will compete in any sport, no matter how ridiculous. Come on Finland, enter the world surfing championship! "HA! IN YOUR FACE! WOO!" :-D
Do Australians even know what ice looks like? And I don't mean the little cubes in the trays. :-P
Incidently, wooo, rugby world cup this year!
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3. Jim's stubble could be from coming in during the daytime, since he bakes through the night after The Secret Bakery closes (along with a crew of baking gnomes...? :roll: )
Great, why did you make me remember the Underpants Gnome Song? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_MpZWzXQFU&feature=related)
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9 of the last last 10 posts have had nothing to do with the comic.
Derailing complete.
Is there a computing subforum?
Should there be one?
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Division II in the IIHF (International Ice Hockey Federation) is the equivalent of the double-A minor leagues of baseball. It would be the equivalent of a bunch of teenagers going up against a team of veteran professionals - in pretty much any league in any sport out there.
Meanwhile: anyone else getting this vibe that Jeph is preparing to write Dora out of the story?
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Meanwhile: anyone else getting this vibe that Jeph is preparing to write Dora out of the story?
I hope not, simply because I feel there is a huge amount of unresolved ideas with Dora, especially her past and her own issues. It just doesn't feel like her character has run her course yet.
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Meanwhile: anyone else getting this vibe that Jeph is preparing to write Dora out of the story?
Quite the opposite. This is fresh type of relationship for Jeph to include in the strip. He's lived it with the T-Shirt co. "Topaco"?
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Sweden lost the WC because all of their best players are on the Red Wings :)
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I smell a merger: TSB pastries, CoD coffee, and in TWO locations!
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I smell a merger: TSB pastries, CoD coffee, and in TWO locations!
I was going to say that would be a death kneel for at least one outlet, but I've just remembered that where I live there are at least three Subway outlets all within 10 miutes walk of each other and each is practically on the main street. Not to mention there are two branches of a reasonable successful domestic store on the main street...right across the road from each other. With a third branch literally two streets over.
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Meanwhile: anyone else getting this vibe that Jeph is preparing to write Dora out of the story?
I don't think so. If Dora decides to work with TSB she'll end up at their store some day, likely running into Marten and we'll finally get to see this: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1875 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1875)
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newbies who have clearly not read the rules yet nor lurked enough to see how things are.
The elitism. It's sooooo goooooooood.
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newbies who have clearly not read the rules yet nor lurked enough to see how things are.
The elitism. It's sooooo goooooooood.
You realise that I'm now trawling through the archives trying to find a good picture of Marten in a top-hat now? Damn you.
++Edit++....Found one.
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Meanwhile: anyone else getting this vibe that Jeph is preparing to write Dora out of the story?
I don't think so. If Dora decides to work with TSB she'll end up at their store some day, likely running into Marten and we'll finally get to see this: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1875 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1875)
We get to see more Garlic Bread Kitty?
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See, this is why I advocated the minions do the negotiating first. Good job, Dora. Even Faye knows to divide the taunting from the negotiating.
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Cue Dora unwittingly signing over CoD to Jim, and the QC version of the old Iron Man storyline "Demon in a Bottle".
Only Dora does not end up with a suit of power armour....
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Hey, we've only seen Jim in one comic, and I like him already! Maybe it's the Mr. Fantastic hair he's got going on.
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Meanwhile: anyone else getting this vibe that Jeph is preparing to write Dora out of the story?
I don't think so. If Dora decides to work with TSB she'll end up at their store some day, likely running into Marten and we'll finally get to see this: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1875 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1875)
Maybe Pizza Girl was just faking her death so she didn't have to give up her life as Penelope.
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Cross genre Jump! I looked at the Dora & Jim introduction and thought yikes! Dora is doing business with the animated version of Little finger from Game of thrones. Too much tv make cat_rant something something.... :psyduck:
Hope this business venture works. It would be interesting to observe the partnership. Also Dora was totally schooled. That's business for you.
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And the scary thing is, you did it without your best goaltender.
(And I'm waiting for him to figure out who I'm talking about...)
Can't pass this. Hmmm. The Predators' starter? No, must be the netminder who won the Stanley cup last year with the Blackhawks and seems to be doing reasonably well sith the Sharks this year. But... Kipper is my hometown hero, even if he wouldn't necessarily make the national team any longer. Hmmm.
@Akima: Surfing? Amidst all this ice? Hey, let's invent another sport like that and start competing! :-D
@All: Sorry about derailing this. I just couldn't keep the lid on :oops:
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"Yes, I fired my lawyer...out of a cannon."
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Creepy..............
Also, whats with Dora's head/neck in the third to last panel?
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Hmm...so, Jim has some bad experiences with lawyers. And has a dry sense of humor that creeps Dora a little.
Awkward zone senses...tingling.
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Some ominous music during panel four would have been perfect.
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It's not everybody who can get Dora off balance.
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Is there a computing subforum?
It's called CLIKC at present. Essentially it's a computer games forum, but people also discuss computer hardware problems or getting new computers, from time to time.
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Very successfully messed with her head, he did.
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Some ominous music during panel four would have been perfect.
Oh wait, was that just in my head? Daaang.
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Wow....been reading a little too much manga over the last couple days and accidentally read Tuesday's comic manga-style. Oddly, I found it to be funnier than reading it normally for some reason.
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And Jim continues his awesomeness!
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I actually want to see how much crazy this guy has.
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Jim is awesome. Today's QC(1927) is one of the funniest I've seen in quite a while hahaha great expression in the 4th panel, love it.
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This whole storyline could take QC on an off-ramp to Twilight Zoneville.
(And Skewbrow: Yes, I'm talking about Pekka. Rinne >>>>> Niemi and Kiprusoff.)
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I actually want to see how much crazy this guy has.
Having the hitler-stache on his bottom lip seems like foreshadowing, to me. :mrgreen:
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It's called a soul (http://www.google.com/search?q=soul+patch&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=o1nSTYLnB8H40gH6zrHnCw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1259&bih=592) patch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_patch), not a hitler stache. They've been slipping in and out of popularity for quite a while for some reason.
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Oooookkkkaaaayyyy, the 4th panel was just supposed to be creepy?
I was getting a 4th wall kinda vibe from it. It kinda looks like Jim was looking back at the audience.
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I think I like Jim...
Looks like he just doesn't shave regularly. Wel,l he works mostly at ungodly hours, so it may also be that Padma dragged him out of bed, and he didn't have the time to tidy up?
(jwhouk: Rinne refused to play for the national team => this fan calls for tar and feathers :evil: Not really, money talks, and he had the valid excuse that the Predators were still hunting for a spot in the next round. Also, bringing in freshly eliminated NHLers frequently turns sour- Ovechkin was quite useless in the semifinal. ------Edit: And now (checking out pwhodges' CLIKC suggestion) I realize that there are other places on this forum that might have actually if not welcomed my hockey posts at least found it not off-topic. Mea culpa.
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It's called a soul (http://www.google.com/search?q=soul+patch&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=o1nSTYLnB8H40gH6zrHnCw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1259&bih=592) patch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_patch), not a hitler stache. They've been slipping in and out of popularity for quite a while for some reason.
It is quite popular amongst people on the sex offender registry in where I live, too, though I don't know how relevant that is.
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I wouldn't like anyone to take any significance from that statement, though. Although stereotypes generally arise for a reason, very easily that reason can in fact be entirely random or uncorrelated - which is why use of stereotypes can so readily become harmful.
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Cross genre Jump! I looked at the Dora & Jim introduction and thought yikes! Dora is doing business with the animated version of Little finger from Game of thrones. Too much tv make cat_rant something something.... :psyduck:
Hope this business venture works. It would be interesting to observe the partnership. Also Dora was totally schooled. That's business for you.
That'll be creepy, as he marries the sister of the woman he loves so as to be better able to try and bone the daughter, all the while playing the game well enough to go from minor to major player.
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Was Jim looking back at ... Padma? ... In that third tier? And, yes, Dora's head is thoroughly messed with this day.
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I think we've seen that Padma probably could negotiate her way out of a paper bag, so no, i don't think she was his lawyer.
Wait - did you mean she's his ex? Naaah, I don't think that one works either. No matter how bad a negotiater his lawyer was, there's no way he'd be forded to keep his ex on as an employee!
It's just a dramatic aside from a ridiculous angle. Either that, or he has a serious twitch that turns his entire head whenever he thinks about his divorce...!
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... Just seems to me Dora's looking at whatever Jim's looking at in that tier. Also, strange but true: There's a restaurant, a very successful restaurant for many years now, near my hometown that is owned/run by a couple who stayed in business together after their divorce.
Edit: Looked again. Dora could be looking sideways at Jim.
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Was Jim looking back at ... Padma? ... In that third tier? And, yes, Dora's head is thoroughly messed with this day.
Its an aside, thats all. After all, if it was aimed at Padma, wouldn't it shown an awkward/oblivious Padma standing in the background? For all we know, Jim could have sent her back to the bakery to help Elliot, or she could be talking to Faye at the other end of the counter. As she isn't in the comic today, you're inferring she is Jim's ex, based on an angry aside.
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Either that, or he has a serious twitch that turns his entire head whenever he thinks about his divorce...!
I know guys that have worse tics when they talk about their divorce.
One gets all Tourettes* at the mere mention of his ex. And that's decades later.
* at least the uncontrollable swearing part
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Either that, or he has a serious twitch that turns his entire head whenever he thinks about his divorce...!
I know guys that have worse tics when they talk about their divorce.
One gets all Tourettes* at the mere mention of his ex. And that's decades later.
* at least the uncontrollable swearing part
It eases after about 5 years or so.
I can now mention her name without having to visibly supress the string of invictives.
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I hear James Urbaniak's voice reading Jim's lines.
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Ah the joys of the adversarial nature of the divorce process. It doesn't have to go that way, but it usually does get ugly when a marriage ends and the resulting scars can linger for decades, especially if the scarred one had a lousy lawyer.
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I remained on civil terms with my first wife; not least we were inevitably going to meet at our son's concerts. A couple of years on we had her round for dinner (my present wife knew her before we married), and we do from time to time to this day (nearly 20 years on); but I still feel a bit uncomfortable in her company (though I get on with her husband like a house on fire, we have so much in common :roll: ).
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(though I get on with her husband like a house on fire, we have so much in common :roll: ).
I wonder how much that irks her...
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I smell a merger: TSB pastries, CoD coffee, and in TWO locations!
The Secret Doom.
...it's either that or Coffee of Bakery.
"Yes, I fired my lawyer...out of a cannon."
Haha, awesome.
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I smell a merger: TSB pastries, CoD coffee, and in TWO locations!
The Secret Doom.
...it's either that or Coffee of Bakery.
What? No love for Bakery of Doom? Or the Coffee Secret?
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I like "The Secret Doom"...of course no one from the outside would guess it was a coffeeshop/bakery :psyduck:
There doesn't seem to be such a thing as a good first impression in the QC-verse :-P
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The Secret Bakery of Doom.
The Secret Coffee of Doom.
La Secret Patisserie et Cafe de Malheur.
Effng portmanteaus... sometimes, they just don't work!
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The Secret Coffee-Cake of Doom.
The Coffee-Cake of Secret Doom...
OT:
My first wife's second husband: (a) has the same birthday as me, and (b) works in the same building of the same university department that I was a student in when we met.
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Usage of the insanity font would be a must for the new shop names, either way.
OT:
So she traded for a younger model? :mrgreen:
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Secretly Baked Coffee of Doom?
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So she traded for a younger model? :mrgreen:
No, no - we're the same age, give or take a year or so (I don't actually know his exact age). My present wife says I'm way better preserved than him...
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Seems Dora has met her match. Jim appears to be a Dark Lord of the Bakery to her Coffee Apprentice.
(how in the world can a lawyer be a bad negotiator and get work? Don't they rely on word of mouth to survive? I'd believe it if he was not as skilled or well-positioned as his opponent, but still....)
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That one is simple: not all lawyers are the courtroom variety you see on TV.
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Seems Dora has met her match. Jim appears to be a Dark Lord of the Bakery to her Coffee Apprentice.
(how in the world can a lawyer be a bad negotiator and get work? Don't they rely on word of mouth to survive? I'd believe it if he was not as skilled or well-positioned as his opponent, but still....)
Most liars....I mean lawyers, get paid no matter the outcome of a divorce, and any supposedly halfway decent lawyer will try and take the most expedient route for their client. If Jim lost the divorce settlement, it was probably because his lawyer didn't put up that much of a fight, or just saw that if things went on longer, it could hurt Jim more in the long run. And given the fact that most divorce judges tend to support the wife over the husband, Jim's lawyer might have just decided to cut and run.
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Covered courts (civil) for a few years for a paper. Not unusual at all for the losing side in a family court case to trash everyone involved: The judge is corrupt, his or her lawyer sold out, etc. etc. etc. And they'd want me to write a story "exposing" their lawyer, the ex's lawyer, or the judge as a liar, cheat, fraud, drunk, puppy-kicker, stealer from the church collection plate, etc. I'd ask if they were sure they wanted all their dirty laundry in the paper and ... Well, then, I was part of the corruption and coverup.
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Is anyone else hearing Jim's speech in almost a Cave Johnson sort of voice?
Because I definitely am.
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Is anyone else hearing Jim's speech in almost a Cave Johnson sort of voice?
Because I definitely am.
I wasn't, until you said that. Now I can't stop. IT WORKS SO WELLLLLLLLLLLL
addendum: and now I want to play through Portal again. I have exams to study for. D:
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Maybe Jim does the anti-social night time baking shift for a reason. He looks a little rough round the edges... Almost like a guys who has been kicked in the nuts by life - repeatedly.
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Maybe Jim does the anti-social night time baking shift for a reason. He looks a little rough round the edges... Almost like a guys who has been kicked in the nuts by life - repeatedly.
Could be the other way 'round - baking through the night, possibly alone (yes, one person can bake that much stuff in a pro kitchen), muttering to himself about the ex-wife and lawyers... it'll make you a bit rough around the edges!
But yeah, seems nut-kicked. At least once.
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If he's been divorced just once, chances are his nuts weren't just kicked, they were trapped in a vice and squeezed until they cried for the sweet release of death (and yes, I did mean to imply that the testicles themselves are the ones doing the crying).
I'm not married; my parents' marriage was enough to show me the dangers of that scene. I'm not saying it'll NEVER happen for me, but damn if I'm not gonna be cautious.
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I smell a merger: TSB pastries, CoD coffee, and in TWO locations!
The Secret Doom.
...it's either that or Coffee of Bakery.
What? No love for Bakery of Doom? Or the Coffee Secret?
I was just keeping them in order; both of those seem to lean toward one of the parent shops, whereas mine maintains equality because it is impossible to tell what it is based on the name.
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I actually want to see how much crazy this guy has.
Having the hitler-stache on his bottom lip seems like foreshadowing, to me. :mrgreen:
Wow. This has to be the most interesting way to Godwin a thread ever.
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I actually want to see how much crazy this guy has.
Having the hitler-stache on his bottom lip seems like foreshadowing, to me. :mrgreen:
When you're old enough to shave, then you can judge and make bad jokes.
Most guys do tend to develop a soul patch if they don't shave for a couple of days, simply because it is one of the most visible areas on a man's face.
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Wonder how Marten will react when he realises that because Dora dumped him he went to tSB and that led to - whatever it's leading to?
Technically this deal happened because Angus introduced her to Padma (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1857), and she later decided (apparently) to scope out tSB. So really Angus is the one to thank here.
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*Low. creepy Violins*
Hmmmmmm
Jim strikes me as a cross between Seymour Skinner and Jake Morgandorffer.
Grud, what a combination!
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Jim's kinda scary.
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Urgh, that poll just made me crave for more Raven. :-(
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What fourth wall?
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What fourth wall?
....Is Jim really Wade Wilson?....
HOLY CRAP! DEADPOOL IS GOING TO KILL THE QC CAST!!! While making witty jokes and constantly referring to us, the readers, and his little yellow thought boxes.
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"Yes, I fired my lawyer...out of a cannon."
Into the sun?
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What fourth wall?
....Is Jim really Wade Wilson?....
HOLY CRAP! DEADPOOL IS GOING TO KILL THE QC CAST!!! While making witty jokes and constantly referring to us, the readers, and his little yellow thought boxes.
(http://i.imgur.com/XedNR.jpg)
what
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She never actually confirmed her age...and he didn't push. Good form on both parties.
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What is happening in the last panel?
Why is Faye twisting Padma's arm?
And why is Padma holding a wooden spoon?
Does Jeph realize he's virtually guaranteed a relentless wave of Jim/Dora shippers?
(Not that it would happen, Dora's not ready for that kind of thing, she didn't seem very impresses with Jim's line (if that's what it was,) and I'd miss Tai when she was sent to prison for the brutal murder of Jim and/or Dora.)
I am confuse! :psyduck:
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She never actually confirmed her age...and he didn't push. Good form on both parties.
I got the impression that he misinterpreted her reply as a confirmation. Whereas I read her reply as meaning that she was pleased that she came across as young as that.
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Did Faye catch Padma raiding her supply of emergency Ben & Jerry?
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Or was she trying to steal The Chinese War Spoon?
Hmmmm, Jim is definitely no Kirk.
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I believe you mean the Indonesian fighting spoon. (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=540)
Forgive my ignorance and my being too tired to just google it, but is a silver fox like a male version of a cougar? An aging dude who especially likes younger women? I don't think I've heard that term before.
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I believe you mean the Indonesian fighting spoon. (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=540)
Forgive my ignorance and my being too tired to just google it, but is a silver fox like a male version of a cougar? An aging dude who especially likes younger women? I don't think I've heard that term before.
I do believe it's similar to that. Although, I think it can also be used just to describe an attractive older man.
Don't you just love how men get a fairly nice/sophisticated sounding label like silver fox and women get stuck with cougar.
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Mmm... Silver Fox. Sounds like the name of an exotic liquor, a strange cologne, or perhaps a gas station condom. :laugh:
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I personally just know the term from a movie called Grandma's Boy. One of grandma's friends seduced the main character's friend and his nickname for her was 'Silver Fox' which instantly relates to cougardom for me.
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Padmas complete inability to detect any subtility is getting kind of annoying now. I mean, she's worse at that than I am.
So "Silver Fox" stands for woman who likes younger men ?
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So "Silver Fox" stands for woman who likes younger men ?
No, that would be a cougar. A silver fox is a middle aged man who likes younger women.
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I believe you mean the Indonesian fighting spoon. (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=540)
I think we are more on the lines of Penelope's throwing ladle and Faye's judo-hold (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1718) :angel:
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Don't you just love how men get a fairly nice/sophisticated sounding label like silver fox and women get stuck with cougar.
What's so terrible about cougars?
Padmas complete inability to detect any subtility is getting kind of annoying now. I mean, she's worse at that than I am.
To paraphrase Roger Rabbit, I'm sure she doesn't normally miss subtleties - only when it's funny (ok it wasn't incredibly funny, but that's not the point).
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What's so terrible about cougars?
They're cruel beasts that weigh over a hundred pounds and have behaviors almost exactly like feral housecats.
But I've also heard the word used as a synonym for mountain lion.
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What's so terrible about cougars?
They're cruel beasts that weigh over a hundred pounds and have behaviors almost exactly like feral housecats.
But I've also heard the word used as a synonym for mountain lion.
Well-played. I almost missed that one.
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What is happening in the last panel?
I think what's happening is sankyo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPTxQFnr_gc).
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Everyone else is going to talk about how they are shipping Dora and
Littlefinger (thanks cat_rant, I saw it and now I can't un-see it) Jim now, but I am going to talk about how much I am shipping Faye and Padma
Love will bloom on the Malaysian culinary-instrument battlefield I just know it
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Love will bloom on the Malaysian culinary-instrument battlefield I just know it
Don't go there. :x
I would remind you that we have been through the issue of shipping at length, and your example is clearly proscribed here (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,25614.msg989639.html#msg989639). Even if it is meant as a joke, I would say that the behaviour of this forum is not yet so secure that such jokes can be allowed to pass.
There is no call to belittle the concept of friendship by trying to turn every relationship into a romantic one. It is simply unnecessary and not true to life (real or comic) either - thus inappropriate. And Faye is already in a romantic relationship.
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What is happening in the last panel?
I think what's happening is sankyo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPTxQFnr_gc).
Think so, too. But then a technique like this might be present in different styles under different names.
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But the real question is, why is she using martial arts techniques on her?
Or did CoD suddenly become a dojo?
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But the real question is, why is she using martial arts techniques on her?
Or did CoD suddenly become a dojo?
Sorry if I am redundant: Penelope's throwing ladle + Faye's judo-hold (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1718)
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What I find intriguing is that neither Jim nor Dora thinks it remarkable there is an altercation/martial arts demonstration/what have you between their respective employees/friends as they speak.
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Sorry if I am redundant: Penelope's throwing ladle + Faye's judo-hold (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1718)
True, but in that instance, (which wasn't the first time Faye and Penelope came to blows) there was an actual disagreement which led to the exchange. Here, Faye seems to be manhandling Padma at random, and what's more, Padma is commenting on the verbal exchange between Jim and Dora and not even reacting to Faye trying to re-engineer her upper extremity.
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Looks like both Jim and Dora are used to that kind of nonsense from their employees, though Jim doesn't look like the patient-est person to me.
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Silver fox is indeed similar to a male cougar but not exactly the same. Silver foxes (at least with my experience) normally don't pursue younger women, they are simply so elegant and awesome younger women/men flock to them. Also the whiter the hair, the Foxier they get.
Real life examples both gay and straight include: Cary Grant, George Clooney, Anderson Cooper, Tim Gunn (even though he's celebate everyone wants to be with him), Anthony Bourdain, Eric Ripert, Steve Martin, and Jon Stewart is On the brink.
As a Lover of Dora/Marten I'm uncomfortable, but as a lady who goes weak in the knees with gray in the hair, I can't say I want it to fail.
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So "Silver Fox" stands for woman who likes younger men ?
No, that would be a cougar. A silver fox is a middle aged man who likes younger women.
Silver fox! That sounds a lot better than most of the alternatives I've heard. If I started chasing college girls after they have passed my courses, somehow I don't think that 'Silver fox' would be the term used to describe that?
Also, some posters seem to think that cougar is a derogatory term. My exposure is apparently again very different from theirs, but I haven't heard it being used (nor have I used it myself) in that way. To me it refers to an objectively attractive lady, who knows what she wants, and more often than not can get it. True, a cougar is about half a generation older than the prey of her choice, but she carries her few extra years with dignity, and won't let such a chronological triviality deter her from her pursuits. In some cases it shows poor taste/judgement on her part, but let's not be ageists :-)
But Jim has (to reiterate) a well-defined "soul patch", stubble on the sides and chin, and a smooth top lip/neck - it's clearly by design rather than by neglect.
That may well be the case, but stubble in that part of my face is often the result of trying to shave too quickly and with as few strokes as possible. When carefully avoiding cutting the lower lip, and/or passing the chin, the blade may momentarily lose contact with the skin (or make contact with a lower pressure), and this is what the result looks like - unless time is taken to check out the result. Read: 'neglect'.
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Sorry if I am redundant: Penelope's throwing ladle + Faye's judo-hold (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1718)
True, but in that instance, (which wasn't the first time Faye and Penelope came to blows) there was an actual disagreement which led to the exchange. Here, Faye seems to be manhandling Padma at random, and what's more, Padma is commenting on the verbal exchange between Jim and Dora and not even reacting to Faye trying to re-engineer her upper extremity.
we--ell, talking about coming to blows, Padma and Faye "made acquaintances" (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1857) sparring in the street... :laugh:
what I think happened "behind the scene" is something like this:
P: wow, that's a nice throwing ladle..
F: gimme that!!
P: no way!
>TONK!<
F: ok lady, it's schooling time!
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A silver fox is a middle aged man who likes younger women.
You have it back to front. A Silver Fox is a middle-aged man who is fancied by younger women. A middle-aged man who fancies younger women is just a Dirty Old Man. :-D
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Look, when the characters are doing 'shipping of other characters, it's okay.
Right?
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But no characters are shipping Faye and Padma. What Faye says is up for appropriate comment, of course.
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hodges you are ruining my mental fanfiction with your moderation :cry:
In all seriousness, though, I don't think they're more than friends at all, nah, I just like how they interact and find the aesthetic of them together not wholly displeasing, but that's as far as I'll take it or say anything about it
I also must respectfully disagree that they had any dialogue at all--they probably just started sparring whilst Dora and Jim were concluding negotiations/flirting
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Mental fanfic is OK, it's just when we mention it in the forum that Mr. Hodges brings the hammer.
Speaking of our prof, is there a way to get the proper sound effects or flashing light for the last part of his sig?
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Mental fanfic is OK, it's just when we mention it in the forum that Mr. Hodges brings the hammer.
Just so. The trouble is that once mentioned, it never simply stops there - this is a discussion forum, after all.
Speaking of our prof, is there a way to get the proper sound effects or flashing light for the last part of his sig?
:-D 'fraid not (an admin probably could, I suppose) (edit - oh, look!). BTW, that quote is from a thread in another part of the forums in which my moderation caused some fairly heated controversy.
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I actually want to see how much crazy this guy has.
Having the hitler-stache on his bottom lip seems like foreshadowing, to me. :mrgreen:
When you're old enough to shave, then you can judge and make bad jokes.
Most guys do tend to develop a soul patch if they don't shave for a couple of days, simply because it is one of the most visible areas on a man's face.
I've been shaving for eighteen years, thanks.
Most guys that go without shaving for a couple days definitely don't develop a soul patch, though (I don't, nobody I know does at work or in my family and we've all seen each other in pretty advanced levels of disarray over the years). That particular look requires daily maintenance (which explains the fuzziness you see surrounding it on Jim's face, he hasn't shaved in about a day so the rest of his face has that "shadowed" look).
So "Silver Fox" stands for woman who likes younger men ?
No, that would be a cougar. A silver fox is a middle aged man who likes younger women.
Silver fox! That sounds a lot better than most of the alternatives I've heard. If I started chasing college girls after they have passed my courses, somehow I don't think that 'Silver fox' would be the term used to describe that?
Also, some posters seem to think that cougar is a derogatory term.
The only people that think of cougar as a derogatory term are women-that-aren't-cougars and dudes-that-never-attract-them. It gets a bit more complicated than that with older men going after younger women, though, due to the power dynamics usually at play in our society (and is a bit of a negative commentary on our society in general if a dude up to twenty years younger than a given woman can be seen as her equal while the reverse is viewed as impossible).
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I also must respectfully disagree that they had any dialogue at all--they probably just started sparring whilst Dora and Jim were concluding negotiations/flirting
I'd agree with this. I can picture Padma and Faye waiting for Jim and Dora to get through their business discussion and just became bored. What better way to kill time than sparring?
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Exactly!
If I may be allowed a tangent, I think that shipping is generally a healthy, perfectly okay thing to do so long as one doesn't break some cardinal rules, like:
-don't show the creator your porn/ideally, don't make porn
-don't get into a war over how awesome your favorite pairing is
-don't disrespect the creator or his canonical relationships
-don't get really creepy/serious about it
Hooowwwever I also realize these rules are pretty much impossible to follow, and newcomers will break them (hell I broke all of them in my first weeks), so the shipping ban must stand for the good of the community :/ I wish it were otherwise, though
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When you're old enough to shave, then you can judge and make bad jokes.
Most guys do tend to develop a soul patch if they don't shave for a couple of days, simply because it is one of the most visible areas on a man's face.
But Jim has (to reiterate) a well-defined "soul patch", stubble on the sides and chin, and a smooth top lip/neck - it's clearly by design rather than by neglect.
If I don't shave for three days, I end up with quite a lot of stubble and a very strong soul patch, for some people it just happens naturally. It takes nearly a week for me to get as much stubble on my upper lip.
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1) I think Jeph is deliberately messing with us fans to 'suggest' a shipping and then pull the rug out. He has said he is mean to his characters, why not us too?
2) Padma has always been differently clued about relationships. Renee even commented it early on: http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1867 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1867)
And further evidence: http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1865 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1865)
3) Faye and Padma will constantly be testing each other. Those two are behaving like sisters (sibling rivalry) more than anything else.
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I am personally hoping for this arc to lead up to a Zalgo appearance on Friday to prepare people for absolutely nothing happening on the 21st.
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1) I think Jeph is deliberately messing with us fans to 'suggest' a shipping and then pull the rug out. He has said he is mean to his characters, why not us too?
I agree entirely. He might even allow it to go further than it already has, but he won't pull the trigger on it. How do I deduce this? By the simple fact that there has never been a pairing in this strip which I approve of. :laugh:
We'll know ol' Jephy is doing a bit of a ship tease (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShipTease) if Hannelore just happens to be having a cup of coffee when Mannelore pops by with the cupcakes.
Also this deal is going to work out badly for Dora because Faye will eat all the cupcakes leaving none for the customers. Will Angus still love Faye when she has a bigger muffin-top? Will she still make his dough rise? Tune in next week to find out.
<edited by mod, only to correct link - they break if you put quote marks round the URL>
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Am I the only one who didn't see that as a pick up line or a come on? I'm Dora's age, I feel like Jim does, and I'm not that far removed from those kids, age-wise.
Sorry if I am redundant: Penelope's throwing ladle + Faye's judo-hold (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1718)
True, but in that instance, (which wasn't the first time Faye and Penelope came to blows) there was an actual disagreement which led to the exchange. Here, Faye seems to be manhandling Padma at random, and what's more, Padma is commenting on the verbal exchange between Jim and Dora and not even reacting to Faye trying to re-engineer her upper extremity.
we--ell, talking about coming to blows, Padma and Faye "made acquaintances" (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1857) sparring in the street... :laugh:
what I think happened "behind the scene" is something like this:
P: wow, that's a nice throwing ladle..
F: gimme that!!
P: no way!
>TONK!<
F: ok lady, it's schooling time!
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Faye was related to the Thing. Not because of size or anything, just her economic and direct use of clobbering to fix things.
Still rooting for Padma in these skirmishes, though. Go Padma!
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1) I think Jeph is deliberately messing with us fans to 'suggest' a shipping
Very unlikely IMO; I can't seeing him deliberately encouraging the forum to do things that he specifically hates. It's merely the way the story has gone at this point in his mind - or the characters' minds, as Jeph is one of those writers who finds that sometimes the characters dictate the story in ways he finds unexpected, even to himself (this is even suggested by his comment).
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1) I think Jeph is deliberately messing with us fans to 'suggest' a shipping
Very unlikely IMO; I can't seeing him deliberately encouraging the forum to do things that he specifically hates. It's merely the way the story has gone at this point in his mind - or the characters' minds, as Jeph is one of those writers who finds that sometimes the characters dictate the story in ways he finds unexpected, even to himself (this is even suggested by his comment).
I dunno, almost feels like a false flag to me. Like he's engineering an excuse to finally indiscriminately swing around the ban-hammer like it's Mjolnir. Nuke half the board and leave everybody else too scared to say anything about the comic ever again. :mrgreen:
Note: The preceding post is completely facetious in nature. This poster is not attempting to suggest anything of any nature and has no definitive opinion on the purpose of the possibly flirtatious behavior of any of the characters of late.
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Someone mentioned that Padma is responding to Jim & Dora's conversation, rahter than Faye redesigning her arm, but really she's responding to Faye's observation about Jim. "Foxes?..." And it looks to me like Faye's just convincing Padma to DROP THE LADLE, LADY, AND NOBODY GETS HURT.
And I think Faye's being a wee bit sarcastic. Jim's no silver fox - the term is used for someone with a certain amount of suavity (?), and he basically guessed her age correctly by telling Dora that she doesn't look as young as the other "kids". I think most of us can agree, that's sorta the opposite of suave. His last line really didn't help, either. Clearly his idea of a "real woman" is more his age... probably not what Dora wants to hear!
On a different note, the art in the last panel is just amazing - I keep looking at the facial expressions, the body placement, the tilt of the heads, the details of postioning indicated in the clothes...
Man, he's gotten good. Like, lightyears beyond just a year or so ago.
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And I think Faye's being a wee bit sarcastic. Jim's no silver fox - the term is used for someone with a certain amount of suavity (?), and he basically guessed her age correctly by telling Dora that she doesn't look as young as the other "kids". I think most of us can agree, that's sorta the opposite of suave. His last line really didn't help, either. Clearly his idea of a "real woman" is more his age... probably not what Dora wants to hear!
To be fair, everyone in QC-land is as about as subtle as a brick thrown through a window.
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Except for Steve, who's more like a wrecking ball.
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So, there is a mutual agreement formed. Huzzah! Faye and Padma's rivalry continues unimpeded. YES!
All is right with the QC universe. For now.
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I think I found one of Dora's secrets to the coffee roasting process!
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=711 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=711)
The last line of the last panel, usually known as the punchline...
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Jesus Jim! Way to roll a natural twenty on the creepy skill subset!
I've gone from being sympathetic to step away from the creepy man in 24 hours. I am flip flopping between two decisions- either he was of the market for a long time and has no chat up skills or he is one of those people who get a kick out of making others feel awkward.
As for Fayemagedon and Padma these is something somewhat sibling rough housing about that last panel. I like it :)
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Where I come from, even attempting to guess a lady's age is so far from suave you can't see there from here.
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Where I come from, even attempting to guess a lady's age is so far from suave you can't see there from here.
As an important rule of adult dating says:
A lady's age is none of your business!
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Where I come from, even attempting to guess a lady's age is so far from suave you can't see there from here.
As an important rule of adult dating says:
A lady's age is none of your business!
except in situations revolving around the internet then its everyones business
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But it's also easier to lie...
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Ya missed it.
If she is obviously over the age of consent, one simply does not ask a woman's age.
And, if you happen to find out, DO NOT let her know you know.
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Ya missed it.
If she is obviously over the age of consent, one simply does not ask a woman's age.
And, if you happen to find out, DO NOT let her know you know.
Addendum: For example, NEVER buy a woman a birthday card specifically lists an age (i.e., "Happy 40th Birthday" cards). Unless you want a transforming moped to kick you in the balls or something worse.
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Wait, you do realize Dora asked "how old do you think I am?", right? It's not like he just guessed her age out of the blue.
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Meh. For some reason this story arc really isn't amusing to me. Probably just my state of mind, but nonetheless...
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Wait, you do realize Dora asked "how old do you think I am?", right? It's not like he just guessed her age out of the blue.
True, true, but Jim opened the gate with his remark about being surprised at how successful Dora was for her age. He still gets creepy points. But the man bakes all night so one might expact his social skills to be only half-baked. Prolly spends a lot of time on web forums, too. :-D
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<snip>
We'll know ol' Jephy is doing a bit of a ship tease (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShipTease) if Hannelore just happens to be having a cup of coffee when Mannelore pops by with the cupcakes.
</snip>
Curse you, linking to TVT. There went 15 minutes of my life.
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On a different note, the art in the last panel is just amazing - I keep looking at the facial expressions, the body placement, the tilt of the heads, the details of postioning indicated in the clothes... Man, he's gotten good. Like, lightyears beyond just a year or so ago.
Indeed. I think this with practically every strip. Perhaps I should put it in my sig-line, but I think that would be stepping over the line into total fangirl-ism, only one step short of turning up to a con cosplaying as Momo-tan.
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<snip>
We'll know ol' Jephy is doing a bit of a ship tease (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShipTease) if Hannelore just happens to be having a cup of coffee when Mannelore pops by with the cupcakes.
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Curse you, linking to TVT. There went 15 minutes of my life.
15 minutes?! You got off lucky! :-o
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On a different note, the art in the last panel is just amazing - I keep looking at the facial expressions, the body placement, the tilt of the heads, the details of postioning indicated in the clothes... Man, he's gotten good. Like, lightyears beyond just a year or so ago.
Indeed. I think this with practically every strip. Perhaps I should put it in my sig-line, but I think that would be stepping over the line into total fangirl-ism, only one step short of turning up to a con cosplaying as Momo-tan.
I would pay to see someone cosplay Momo-Tan. Seriously.
8-)
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The Negotiations Will End With...
Mutually Assured Deliciousness! - 36 (35.3%)
Cosette burning CoD down and Dora crying in the ashes. - 0 (0%)
Cosette burning TSB down and Padma crying in the ashes. - 1 (1%)
Cosette burning BOTH places down (with Renee's help). EVERYONE cries. - 19 (18.6%)
Hannelore asks dad about okapis on his station. - 10 (9.8%)
Hannelore buys out Dora when Dora decides to "go find herself" - 5 (4.9%)
"Jim" turns out to be Dora's ex before Marten! - 5 (4.9%)
Marten goes on a date! - 1 (1%)
Raven's RETURN! - 18 (17.6%)
Pintsize destroys TSB with his cake fetish! - 7 (6.9%)
Total Voters: 102
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<snip>
We'll know ol' Jephy is doing a bit of a ship tease (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShipTease) if Hannelore just happens to be having a cup of coffee when Mannelore pops by with the cupcakes.
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Curse you, linking to TVT. There went 15 minutes of my life.
ONLY 15 minutes?? I am impressed by your self-disciple.
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I got to a point where I said, "NO! You're SUCKING ME IN! You're SUCKING ME INNN!"
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Where I come from, even attempting to guess a lady's age is so far from suave you can't see there from here.
But if a lady asks you how old you think she is, it's always 25. Apparently that's not a very well known fact. Jim knows about it though ;)
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Yeah, Dora is at that age where you have to guess 25 or 26.
When a woman is older, you always under-guess to be flattering, but under-guessing 25 might come off as making her an insult.
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Wait, you do realize Dora asked "how old do you think I am?", right? It's not like he just guessed her age out of the blue.
If you get yourself in a situation where a woman ask you that question, you're already fucked (and not in the good way.)
Your only move at that point is to exclaim "Oh my God, this parachute is a knapsack!" and exit post haste.
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Ya missed it.
If she is obviously over the age of consent, one simply does not ask a woman's age.
And, if you happen to find out, DO NOT let her know you know.
"I can tell a woman's age in half a minute - and I do.
But although I try to make myself as pleasant as I can,
Yet everybody says I am a disagreeable man!
And I CAN'T THINK WHY!"
- King Gama in _Princess Ida_, Act I, W.S. Gilbert
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Wait, you do realize Dora asked "how old do you think I am?", right? It's not like he just guessed her age out of the blue.
If you get yourself in a situation where a woman ask you that question, you're already fucked (and not in the good way.)
"Does this dress make me look fat?"
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"Does this dress make me look fat?"
If you get that, you're screwed either way, so you might as well go all the way and say "yes it does, so take it off immediately.
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On a different note, the art in the last panel is just amazing - I keep looking at the facial expressions, the body placement, the tilt of the heads, the details of postioning indicated in the clothes... Man, he's gotten good. Like, lightyears beyond just a year or so ago.
Indeed. I think this with practically every strip. Perhaps I should put it in my sig-line, but I think that would be stepping over the line into total fangirl-ism, only one step short of turning up to a con cosplaying as Momo-tan.
I could've swore your avatar winked at me when I read that last part!
And I thought the previous post was funny. Clearly, I am sleep depraved deprived.
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"Does this dress make me look fat?"
If you get that, you're screwed either way, so you might as well go all the way and say "yes it does, so take it off immediately.
A great response if the woman asking is in a relationship with you. If not, it could cause greater problems. Of course this all goes back to Method's original supposition that you're screwed if she asks that question anyway...
...and ladies, if you're wondering why we're saying such things about a seemingly simple question, it's because most of us have learned from experience that there is no good answer to it[/b]. No answer you'll be happy with anyway.
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Wait, you do realize Dora asked "how old do you think I am?", right? It's not like he just guessed her age out of the blue.
If you get yourself in a situation where a woman ask you that question, you're already fucked (and not in the good way.)
"Does this dress make me look fat?"
I stupidly answered one time, "Can I wear it then?" Hoo boy.....
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Where I come from, even attempting to guess a lady's age is so far from suave you can't see there from here.
Ok, now thats new to me.
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Jeph, calm down. Everything is fine. And Pintsize is soooo cute....
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Re: Northampton Bonercats poster
...no sir I don't like it
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Hanners looks good with a cup.
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We do care, Jeph. Take it easy.
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I like it, especially the one on the right - Jeph's artistic skillz are delicious.
And dude, relax; your ability to come up with clever, enjoyable, entertaining humor, wrapped in a tasty colorful format, is so far beyond most of our skillsets, you could coast for a few strips, and we'll keep coming back. Take a break, no worries.
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Rest, regroup, recover ... Do what ya need to do, Jeph. Your filler art is a lightyear or so ahead of what most offer with full steam up, so don't worry there. Looks like your Big 3 know how to take a break and have fun. So let 'em.
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I'm trying to work out whether the look in Faye's eyes is a scowl of anger or just a reflection in her glasses. Perhaps both. Either way, I would NOT want to be on the team facing her... and not just because I've never played kickball before.
Hope Jeph will be feeling better soon; anxiety attacks are about as bad as it gets.
"Does this dress make me look fat?"
I must admit, sometimes I will deliberately ask the "Does this XXXXX make me look XXXXX?" question purely to witness the uncomfortable look followed by the faltering answer given half a second too late. Evil? Perhaps. Fun? You betcha.
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As much as I love Bonercats as a kickball team, I think the entire CoD team would be more inclined to play Roller Derby with Marten as a ref. Hannelore would be an excellent Jammer and Faye's deadly hips would be fantastic.
Also they would have truly great derbydentities.
Best relaxation wishes Jeph!
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Where I come from, even attempting to guess a lady's age is so far from suave you can't see there from here.
Ok, now thats new to me.
Why am I not surprised?
Hanners looks good with a cup.
Why isn't Marten wearing a cup?
I'm trying to work out whether the look in Faye's eyes is a scowl of anger or just a reflection in her glasses. Perhaps both. Either way, I would NOT want to be on the team facing her... and not just because I've never played kickball before.
I think those are black stripes under Faye's eyes, like american football players use - not sure of the theory, but it has something to do with glare blocking their vision when they look up to follow the ball? Or maybe it just makes them look more evilly intimidating.
Works for Faye...
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I never understood that either.
Surely if it improved vision, natural selection would have done it eons ago.
And not just for humans. Any visually oriented species would benefit. As it is, you only see that sort of coloration in racoons, and they're nocturnal!
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I hope the source of Jeph's stress isn't a contingent of the crazies talking about Saturday being the end of the world. :psyduck:
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Why is Hanners wearing a cup?
Is there something we don't know about?
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I never understood that either.
Surely if it improved vision, natural selection would have done it eons ago.
And not just for humans. Any visually oriented species would benefit. As it is, you only see that sort of coloration in racoons, and they're nocturnal!
It doesn't improve vision, it simply reduces the glare from the sun which might compromise a player during a game. Warpaint had the same purpose, except, you know, preventing someone getting their head chopped off instead of fumbling the ball.
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You probably need prominent cheekbones for the glare off your own face to be a problem.
And remember, warpaint's original purpose was intimidation!
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and/or camouflage
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...I don't think painting your body blue and running, naked, screaming at your opponents counts as camouflage...
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Faye looks like she's getting ready to pummel her creator over the lack of a strip. Marten and Hanners have the "aw, butts" look going on.
I wonder what Jeph had in mind for the script that he so disliked that he had to toss out?
...I don't think painting your body blue and running, naked, screaming at your opponents counts as camouflage...
It really depends on terrain and purpose. Histroicaly speaking, in ye olde Britannia forests, it worked very well. It helped you hide better in those forests, and when you were in position, you could run out screaming, scaring the bejeezus out of your opponent for that second or two it would take to cross the distance and ram twleve inches of steel up their livers. Doesn't work on everyone though. Julius Caesar found it annoying more than anything else.
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I like the filler art. It looks great - though now I'm hoping for a CoD vs. TSB game.
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I don't know what's more disturbing, Hanners apparently wearing a cup or Pintsize obviously wearing a cheerleader skirt.
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I'n no expert on athletic gear, but Hanners seems to be wearing a tactical flak vest "with extension" -- which makes a Hanners-esque kind of sense. Our spacegirl is more likely to shop out of the SWAT catalogue -- that's kevlar on her head after Espressosaurus II goes awry, not a bike helmet -- than go to the sporting goods store.
EDIT: It's still pretty damn cute.
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I'n no expert on athletic gear, but Hanners seems to be wearing a tactical flak vest "with extension" -- which makes a Hanners-esque kind of sense. Our spacegirl is more likely to shop out of the SWAT catalogue -- that's kevlar on her head after Espressosaurus II goes awry, not a bike helmet -- than go to the sporting goods store.
I just have to second that regarding the mystery of Hanners' outfit. And with regards to Marten, I think that he simply doesn't know what the game is. I don't. Frankly, it makes sense that Pintsize is the only one who actually knows what he's doing there...
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Oh, Faye knows what she's doing. The league officials will find out in a bit ...
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Faye sure knows how to ram people, if that's all there is to it - but I doubt that. I think it looks a lot like Faye is just putting up a confident face, maybe because she thinks it's as simple as that. Then again, I don't know the game...
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Hanners apparently wearing a cup
Catcher's vests just always have a dangling part that covers the nether regions.
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Hanners apparently wearing a cup
Catcher's vests just always have a dangling part that covers the nether regions.
Was going to point this out as well. My mother was a catcher for years on a team, and yeah - they don't make gender specific protective gear. It has that dangling bit no matter what.
As for Faye, I'm relatively certain she's 'kicking' cleanup. You just know she can kick the shit out of that ball.
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"Does this dress make me look fat?"
If you get that, you're screwed either way, so you might as well go all the way and say "yes it does, so take it off immediately.
"Oh, no; it's not the dress that makes you look fat."
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I think the Bonercats could whomp the crap out of the Dickwolves. Any day, any diamond.
Jeph, if you're reading this: I don't mind the days off of the story, and this one-panel was a pretty good piece on its own. Better than most, even. You've been a pretty cool guy in person and for what you're sharing out here on the webbernets, and I have every reason to believe you'll regain your confidence.
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The Bonercats also field a curling team in the Canadian League. They use dickbrooms.
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The Bonercats also field a curling team in the Canadian League. They use dickbrooms.
+1 internet
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Faye sure knows how to ram people...
Just ask Angus.
Anyway, this just in from Jeph's tumblr: http://jephjacques.tumblr.com/post/5643814551/sorry-about-that (http://jephjacques.tumblr.com/post/5643814551/sorry-about-that)
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Ah, we all have our off days.....weeks.....months.......years......
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...I don't think painting your body blue and running, naked, screaming at your opponents counts as camouflage...
I know you were referring to the Celts -- or at least to Braveheart -- but you just made me picture the Blue Man Group, naked and on a rampage, and now I can't stop giggling.
Also, I like Pintsize in the cheerleader outfit! If a Pintsize plushie or action figure is ever offered, Jeph could make a mint selling that plus accessories (cheerleader, underwear ninja, top hat, Castro cap plus "beard", lil' box o' cake mix . . .).
W00t to the Shebly and Jeph comeek on Tumblr! No worries, Jeph -- take your time. Sometimes it's good to take a break.
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Anyway, this just in from Jeph's tumblr: http://jephjacques.tumblr.com/post/5643814551/sorry-about-that (http://jephjacques.tumblr.com/post/5643814551/sorry-about-that)
And after 8 or so years, we finally get to see Jeph draw himself in his own art style. That's cause for celebration!
And, lol@Shelby. She's got an..."interesting"...personality.
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Anyway, this just in from Jeph's tumblr: http://jephjacques.tumblr.com/post/5643814551/sorry-about-that (http://jephjacques.tumblr.com/post/5643814551/sorry-about-that)
Heh. I vote he puts that up for tonight's (tomorrow's?) comic. Or at least reserves it as a future filler page-it's as funny as many of his regular comics, and better filler than most webcomic creators put out...
Hah! "Slow-ass dog" indeed....
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NP Jeph, everybody has their off days.
Personally, I don't think Hanners is wearing enough protection for her. I expected to see here in full SWAT Tactical Armour.
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I thought the best part was that he called her Shebly. Also, I think my dog (when he was still alive) would've made the same remark if I tried to explain what papers were, and how I had to write them. In fact, I'd probably explain them word for word how Jeph did.
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Anyway, this just in from Jeph's tumblr: http://jephjacques.tumblr.com/post/5643814551/sorry-about-that (http://jephjacques.tumblr.com/post/5643814551/sorry-about-that)
And after 8 or so years, we finally get to see Jeph draw himself in his own art style. That's cause for celebration!
He's done it before. The day before he got married.
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I just hope he brings the comic over to the actual comic site sometime today. (Has he ever had tumblr only comics before?)
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No, but he's done complete comics with alternate endings (one where Faye peeks up Momo's skirt and gets a face-full of eel, for ex.) and also sketches and stuff.
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Ahh. But those are usually linked at the bottom of the comics, if I remember.
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OK, for those not familiar with the game;
It's baseball, with the small white leather covered projectile replaced by a large rubber air-filled ball, and the bat replaced with your foot. The ball is "pitched" along the ground, and you kick it, with roughly the same rules applying - four bases, three "strikes" and you're out, fielders pick up and throw the ball, you're out if you're tagged with the ball, etc. The field positions are even the same, although the outfielders are closer in, and I thnk the diamond's usually smaller than a regulation baseball diamond.
It's a popular way to get the unathletic out and running around in school gym classes, so it's been taught in american schools for years. And it's a better use for those balls than the sadistic game of dodgeball.
Oh, wait. There's a website (http://www.kickball.com/).
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EDIT: Ninja'd.
EDIT: DOUBLE Ninja'd.
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Oh, god damn it, people who take kickball that seriously are like people who take ultimate frisbee that seriously. They're both ridiculously fun in their simple form, why make them all serious business?
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OK, for those not familiar with the game;
It's baseball, with the small white leather covered projectile replaced by a large rubber air-filled ball, and the bat replaced with your foot. The ball is "pitched" along the ground, and you kick it, with roughly the same rules applying - four bases, three "strikes" and you're out, fielders pick up and throw the ball, you're out if you're tagged with the ball, etc. The field positions are even the same, although the outfielders are closer in, and I thnk the diamond's usually smaller than a regulation baseball diamond.
It's a popular way to get the unathletic out and running around in school gym classes, so it's been taught in american schools for years. And it's a better use for those balls than the sadistic game of dodgeball.
Oh, wait. There's a website (http://www.kickball.com/).
When I was a kid playing kickball, fielders could tag out runners, but beaning them with the ball was also a perfectly acceptable way to achieve a put-out.
Was it different for your region/age group?
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Oh, god damn it, people who take kickball that seriously are like people who take ultimate frisbee that seriously. They're both ridiculously fun in their simple form, why make them all serious business?
woah woah woah hey woah. I've won $150 dollars playing frisbee golf. Respect the games, bro.
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They're both ridiculously fun in their simple form, why make them all serious business?
I feel like this about BMX. I googled Kickball. BMX > Kickball.
I loved Jeph's Tumblr comic, especially his new, and in my opinion best ever, Fart-chan (http://jephjacques.tumblr.com/photo/1280/5558570752/1/tumblr_llbals9Gkn1qzlnwm).
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Oh Jeph. Chill. Deep breathes. We all are human, we are fallible. We all have bad days. Artistic temperament means you will hold yourself to a very high standard and then feel utterly fail when you don't met up to your own standard. Chalk it up to a bad day. Mind yourself and try again tomorrow.
My other half writes games as a hobby. He is very critical and I see this kind of frustration from time to time. He feels he left his players down when this happens.
For what its worth I see the bonercats could be a very awesome poster. I'd buy one!
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Ah, the awkward zone, and they lack both funny hats and direct common interests to defeat the awkward zone, and sadly also lack easy access to fancy clothing to celebrate its defeat.
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You know, if Jeph didn't want there to be people who ship Hanners/Eliot, he wouldn't make them SO DAMN ADORABLE TOGETHER! :mrgreen:
*The preceding statement about shipping is not in and of itself a ship, and any and all shipping of said coupling is to be considered unrelated to the statement stated earlier*
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The dialogue of today's comic is eerily reminiscent of what I feel is passed between my dogs when I leave the house.
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So many well drawn arms today.
By the by, did anyone else originally read the bathrrom doorhanger as "Ask Emcee for a key?"
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Must... not... ship...
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Dawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
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"Ask Emcee for a key?"
Not at first, but it took two times to realize it was a cramped "EMPLOYEE".
For what its worth I see the bonercats could be a very awesome poster. I'd buy one!
It was made as a print for the Toronto con he went to a couple of weeks ago. Limited edition, and all. So it was "ready art" for filler. Maybe he'll make it available? I'm sure it'd sell...
I loved Jeph's Tumblr comic, especially his new, and in my opinion best ever, Fart-chan (http://jephjacques.tumblr.com/photo/1280/5558570752/1/tumblr_llbals9Gkn1qzlnwm).
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Like the rest of his characters, she's looking better with every iteration! And oddly realistic from the neck down... her anime head's cute too, though.
I suppose I could've just said "This"...
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Somehow, this just doesn't give me my usual fix.
And I won't get another 'til monday. Arg. I'm hurting here.
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Must... not... ship...
Holding that stuff in might give you cancer (heads for the Yucca mountains / a remote island /the Moon /a safe location).
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I agree about the "must not ship Hanners + Anyone". I dont think Hanners is ready.
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Oh dear. I just realized, yesterday would have been comic 1929.
Jeph crashed.
Lets avoid a great depression, shall we?
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Bad omen, indeed.
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Oh my god. I feel this. That thing where you have to stand next to someone you've exchanged a few words with, for longer than you wanted to converse and so have to keep standing, in silence because you've nothing to say/run out of things to say/are too shy to talk and it is so uncomfortable.
I mean seriously the fifth panel: pretending that if you slightly turn away from the person that's two feet away from you and stare at something else for the next 20 minutes, it's like they're not there at all.
XD Painfuuuul
(but gah they are so cute I hope they end up BFFs)
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Oh dear. I just realized, yesterday would have been comic 1929.
Jeph crashed.
Lets avoid a great depression, shall we?
Yeah, relax; it's just an off-day, not the end of the world..........
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Awwww D: Poor Hanners and Elliot are so awkward
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Yeah, relax; it's just an off-day, not the end of the world..........
Yeah, that's supposedly tomorrow.
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If the apocalypse does come tomorrow, that would mean Hanners and Elliot would awkwardly stand next to each other...
for....
EVVV....
errrrrrr.....................
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Oh my god. I feel this. That thing where you have to stand next to someone you've exchanged a few words with, for longer than you wanted to converse and so have to keep standing, in silence because you've nothing to say/run out of things to say/are too shy to talk and it is so uncomfortable.
I mean seriously the fifth panel: pretending that if you slightly turn away from the person that's two feet away from you and stare at something else for the next 20 minutes, it's like they're not there at all.
XD Painfuuuul
It's similar to what Douglas Adams and John Lloyd called corriecravie (http://folk.uio.no/alied/TMoL.html) in "The Meaning of Liff".
Douglas Adams created so many great concepts, I swear. The SEP is my favorite thing ever
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Oh dear. I just realized, yesterday would have been comic 1929.
Jeph crashed.
Lets avoid a great depression, shall we?
Yes, we'd need an appropriate villian to fight and then the Yanks would wait two years before committing troops.
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It's similar to what Douglas Adams and John Lloyd called corriecravie (http://folk.uio.no/alied/TMoL.html) in "The Meaning of Liff".
Love seeing Douglas Adams references in here.
Not trying to ship but I would like to see more of Hanners and Elliot. Their awkwardness is adorable but they seem like if they could just get the right topic they'd get into some long, fun discussion. Elliot seemed kept up with space and okapi talk until he accidentally creeped her out.
Actually in the time I've wrote that I'm taking it back. :-P They wouldn't have a long, fun discussion but Elliot seems like the kind of guy who'd be happy to sit and listen to most people whatever the topic which would suit when Hanners gets into her mini-rants like the one when the guy who flirted with her: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1856
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Somehow, this just doesn't give me my usual fix.
And I won't get another 'til monday. Arg. I'm hurting here.
An archive binge, starting around #600 will keep the withdrawal symptoms at bay for a couple of days.
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(but gah they are so cute I hope they end up BFFs)
It sounds like you're doing some friendshipping. (is that a thing?)
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I'm thinkin' Jeph needs to do a Saturday Special comic where Hannelore's Dad deflects the Apocalypse with a network of ultra high powered lasers using his station as the control center (or alternate-reality series next week where the cast of QC is having to deal with an unexpected Zombie Apocalypse, followed by an "It was all a dream" on next Friday).
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^^^^^^^^^^
That's called "Fanfic" and Go For It!
We'll expect a rough outline by Monday and a full shooting script before the end of the month.
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It's only fanfic if someone other than Jeph does it (and it was a suggestion meant to be a fun diversion where he could do crazy stuff and not worry about continuity for a week or something while still posting a comic and also celebrating the world not actually coming to an end).
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doing some friendshipping. (is that a thing?)
It's friendship, friendship, just a perfect blendship.
When other friendships are soon forgot, ours will still be hot.
Da da da da da da dig dig dig.
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Sooooooooooooooooooooooooo adooooooooooooooooooooooorable!!!
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I like Randy's comment at the bottom of this strip (http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05182011.shtml).
I too would like to celebrate the rapture!
It'll give the rest of us something to do while they're all busy...
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Number of times Jim will reappear in the comic?
Never again. - 1 (1.3%)
Once, maybe twice more. - 14 (18.4%)
Maybe a week's worth in a couple of years. - 12 (15.8%)
Regular rotation of supporting characters. - 22 (28.9%)
New major character! - 7 (9.2%)
Dora's replacement! - 4 (5.3%)
It will all be about Jim. - 4 (5.3%)
Mmmm, Waffles! - 12 (15.8%)
Total Voters: 76
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I like Randy's comment at the bottom of this strip (http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05182011.shtml).
I too would like to celebrate the rapture!
It'll give the rest of us something to do while they're all busy...
With everyone in mourning over the death of Macho Man Randy Savage, I don't know if anyone will notice whether the rapture happens or not.
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1. Weekend Poll should have included an option for Number ASDF: Comic Failure (http://jephjacques.tumblr.com/post/5643814551/sorry-about-that). I would have voted for, (Shelby:) "Should quit job. Pet me full time."
For comic #1960... (Holy Moley...only about 2 months left before we hit 2,000!)
2. I chuckled at this strip, and I had been wondering what happened with these two. This is what happens when you have two supporting characters together but no primary character, event, or social situation (besides awkward silence) to roll with :psyduck: .
3. I agree that we need more friend-"ships" than romantic, currently.
4. I also agree that I think Hanners and Elliot will be a good pairing for friends once the ball gets rolling in that regard. And I think it will be "interesting" when we see Marigold added to this mix :wink: . [Edit Add: Another height comparision just occurred to me having just written that... Besides Sven, it will be interesting to see height comparision between Dale and Elliot.]
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Does Marten have any idea of these negotiations, and the ensuing goings on?
I just wondered this out of nowhere.
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doing some friendshipping. (is that a thing?)
It's friendship, friendship, just a perfect blendship.
When other friendships are soon forgot, ours will still be hot.
Da da da da da da dig dig dig.
You, sir, are evil. I have that song stuck in my head now after not hearing it for about 10 years.
Of course, mine was the Disney Sing-a-long (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXbrQXVWAwI) version, but that's pretty much the definitive one anyway, right?
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Does Marten have any idea of these negotiations, and the ensuing goings on?
I just wondered this out of nowhere.
He probably will shortly, either thru Faye or Hannelore.
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More likely Faye.
Hanners was at tSB ignoring Eliot while the negotiations were going on at CoD.
Then again, Faye was busy failing to give Padma the beat-down.
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This is what happens when you have two supporting characters together but no primary character, event, or social situation (besides awkward silence) to roll with :psyduck: .
Which makes me thnk of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.
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Lets face it, Jeph has written Eliot as a the personification of awkward silence.
Today, he just mixed that with the personification of uncomfortable anywhere.
A hypergolic mixture that went *fizzle*
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Lets face it, Jeph has written Eliot as a the personification of awkward silence.
Today, he just mixed that with the personification of uncomfortable anywhere.
A hypergolic mixture that went *fizzle*
Agreed. But that still makes the strip a fun one. Well, for me it is. Because Elliot is almost a perfect recreation of how I tend to act in public. Very quiet and awkward.
Seriously, the resemblance between Elliot and me is TERRIFYING. But I like it. Are we sure Jeph hasn't been stalking me for character inspiration?
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Just realized, nobody's commented on the hidden end-of-the-world joke in the title yet (I actually just noticed it now).
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Enough with all the fiddle-faddlin' and latent shippin': it's past time that Hannelore had a boyfriend, and that's that. And that Elliot seems such a nice young man.
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He seems like a nice young man, but you know what they say about the quiet ones....
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@MrMonk There can be relationships without physical contact. I wouldn't want that for myself, but romance and physical intimacy don't have to go hand in hand. Hanners could very well start dating someone, as long as this was clear from the start.
@iduguphergrave They dig up women's graves?
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He probably has an gigazmous penis. I bet Hannelore is afraid of wangs, though..
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Eh, you have the right idea, but the execution was off. You put x in yo x, you don't put y in yo x.
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One time I put y in my x and couldn't walk straight for days.
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Number of times Jim will reappear in the comic?
Never again. - 1 (1.3%)
Once, maybe twice more. - 14 (18.4%)
Maybe a week's worth in a couple of years. - 12 (15.8%)
Regular rotation of supporting characters. - 22 (28.9%)
New major character! - 7 (9.2%)
Dora's replacement! - 4 (5.3%)
It will all be about Jim. - 4 (5.3%)
Mmmm, Waffles! - 12 (15.8%)
Total Voters: 76
I would have voted for "Spin-off!"
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Hahaha, well done, Gravey. My favorites are problably: this one (http://www.hipsterwave.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/yo-dawg-derive-while-you-derive-700.jpg) and this one. (http://static.funnyjunk.com/pictures/6166.jpg)
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This is what happens when you have two supporting characters together but no primary character, event, or social situation (besides awkward silence) to roll with :psyduck: .
Which makes me thnk of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.
Or I could lick yours, of course.
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I agree about the "must not ship Hanners + Anyone". I dont think Hanners is ready.
Why 'ship when we have reality? Hanners is clearly trapped between two equal and opposing forces: her OCD aversion to touching other people and her long-restrained natural urge to, if I may be blunt, f**k like a beast. She'll be frozen in place until one of these forces overcomes the other, which probably means "until her feet start hurting", sore feet not being conducive to horniness.
(Good job, really - they've got access to food and coffee. If they were sitting down, Jeph could probably have come back to them next Friday.)
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Wait, nobody pointed out the joke in the title? Y'ALL ARE SLACKING.
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Well, two others have pointed out that there is a joke in the title. So did we really need to discuss it further?
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I think Jeph is just fucking with the Hanners + anyone shippers now. There's just going to be a series of progressively more awkward and non-threatening yet kind of attractive male characters with whom Hanners will be adorably awkward and ultimately not do anything about. And then there will be a dude WHO IS TOTALLY PERFECT FOR HER and then Hanners will look like she's starting to warm up to him and then she'll paralyze him, put him in suspended animation and store him in her lab where she will do something creepy with him and the Marten blood she saved awhile back.
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Count me in the Hanners-Elliot "friendshippers". They've got some amusing dynamics.
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This is Jeph's modus operandi, though - most character pairings have amusing dynamics. Marigold & Dale, Marigold & Hanners, Marten & Tai (in the older comics), Steve & Damn Near Anyone, Angus & Faye, Wil & Sven, Sven & Dora, and the list goes on...
Oh, and you can't beat Tai for awkwardness lately...
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Padma has the key to the restroom.
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@MrMonk There can be relationships without physical contact. I wouldn't want that for myself, but romance and physical intimacy don't have to go hand in hand. Hanners could very well start dating someone, as long as this was clear from the start.
Pushing Daisies was an excellent show.
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This is Jeph's modus operandi, though - most character pairings have amusing dynamics. Marigold & Dale, Marigold & Hanners, Marten & Tai (in the older comics), Steve & Damn Near Anyone, Angus & Faye, Wil & Sven, Sven & Dora, and the list goes on...
It had better not go on that far.
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This is Jeph's modus operandi, though - most character pairings have amusing dynamics. Marigold & Dale, Marigold & Hanners, Marten & Tai (in the older comics), Steve & Damn Near Anyone, Angus & Faye, Wil & Sven, Sven & Dora, and the list goes on...
It had better not go on that far.
Carl-E was just speaking of interesting dynamics between various pairs of characters, dammit! He even mentioned Marigold & Hanners, Marten & Tai, and Wil & Sven in his pairings, three pairs that have absolutely no possibility of taking any turn to anything remotely resembling a romantic direction (and I strongly suggest anyone who thinks otherwise to go and play in the microwave oven).
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I didn't take that as sexual pairings at all. I urge more moderate discussion than "go play in the microwave".
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Sorry, Jedit remark irked me, and I found no more decent way to vent off my steam than to crack a Bill Waterson reference.
EDIT: and after reading it for the fifth or sixth time, I finally see how it can have been more generally sarcastic than I initially perceived. I'm slow tonight. Sorry, Jedit, my bad.
I don't retreat my "go play in the microwave" remark as a general appreciation, though. It's still valid, and it wasn't even targeted at Jedit to begin with, anyway.
EDIT 2: And just in case my previous post could be somehow read as an attack against Carl-E as well, I prefer to preemptively specify that it wasn't. Anyone who reads it that way is reading it wrong.
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Hanners def has a flirty pose in the last panel.
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Hanners def has a flirty pose in the last panel.
That's kind of what I was thinking. On any other woman I'd consider that a highly flirtatious rendition of the sad puppy face. Of course this is Hanners so there's no way it can be that and were that suggested to her she'd either go catatonic from terror or start speaking the language of the old ones.
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Agreed. If she doesn't even know how to smile at a stranger there's no way she knows how to flirt.
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Hanners def has a flirty pose in the last panel.
Thing is, this is a woman who doesn't recognize flirting, remember?
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True enough
But I think she's not quite as oblivious as she once was
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For example, in the sledding arc, she recognized Faye and Angus's arguing as a "flirty" thing.
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She was just recognising Belligerent Sexual Tension (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BelligerentSexualTension).
Sorry for wasting your time...
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Something like that. This can be explained by Hannelore's brain being stuck in an endless loop. Complete with the auxiliary activities (sorry, I don't know the proper psychological term in English). Elliott is presumably at work, and cannot run away. Neither of them knows the proper protocol. This was quite believable though exaggerated for maximum effect.
OTOH, if Hannelore's line in the last panel had been something like "Have . you .. ever ... been .... a .... fireman?", then IMVHO we could justifiably say that sending a subset of his fans into fits of shipping hysteria is Jeph's way of saying that he does luv us all.
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Hanners def has a flirty pose in the last panel.
Thing is, this is a woman who doesn't recognize flirting, remember?
Thing is, flirting is sort of semi-instinctual anyway. Hanners would only need to know what it looks like mostly to stop herself doing it unconsciously, as most people do, and also to be sure when a flirt is being thrown in her direction.
Besides it's not as if she is unaware of flirting in theory...remember the guy in the restaurant that the tried to smile at?
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But that could have just been friendly, for all the crazy we've seen from Hanners she could have just have thought "boy is smiling at me, he's trying to be friends, I could let this happen provided he follows the rules'
Followed by the disastrous return smile. she wouldn't have needed to understand flirting at all for that
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I don't retreat my "go play in the microwave" remark as a general appreciation, though. It's still valid, and it wasn't even targeted at Jedit to begin with, anyway.
So you responded to an inoffensive comment that didn't even address you by dropping a nuke on my city, but it's OK because it wasn't targeting me specifically? Good job I didn't crack a "yo momma" joke - Howard Camping might have ended up being right.
Happily I am not the type of man to take offense at such things, at least not where there is snark to be mined from the situation. :angel:
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My remark was directed at creepy shippers, which I thought you were accusing Carl-E of turning into, while you were just cracking a joke (I was tired and read it wrong). So at no point of my thought process you were the target of this particular remark.
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Please leave this now, or take it to PMs if you feel you need to.
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I thought Elliot was kinda cute, maybe Hanners thinks so too.