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Title: Did you notice that?
Post by: Eddie 88 on 09 Jun 2013, 12:35
This thread is for little stuff you notice about QC that you didn't before, or think others might've missed.

I'm doing an archive crawl, and just noticed that Sven is left-handed...
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=946
Note the positioning of the mouse.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: celticgeek on 09 Jun 2013, 12:47
Sven does play the guitar left-handed. (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=519)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 09 Jun 2013, 12:48
Now that's an eye for detail!

Want to become a contributor to the wiki?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Eddie 88 on 09 Jun 2013, 13:19
Hanner's punchline here is a Futurama reference. I Searched the forum and couldn't find any mention, and Jeph never brought it up.
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=961
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0584449/quotes ("...out of a cannon, into the sun.")

Actually, that was the first QC strip I ever saw. I was linked to QC from TVTropes (weren't we all?) and since Jeph didn't say "shoutout to Futurama" or anything, I thought, "bah! He's stealing that joke!" And didn't start reading QC until quite awhile later.

Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 09 Jun 2013, 12:48
Now that's an eye for detail!

Want to become a contributor to the wiki?

Perhaps. I am a pretty bitchin' writer. What precisely does becoming a contributor entail?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: pwhodges on 09 Jun 2013, 13:32
Login; write.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Loki on 09 Jun 2013, 13:46
Quote from: Eddie 88 on 09 Jun 2013, 13:19
I was linked to QC from TVTropes (weren't we all?)

I am pretty sure I came here from xkcd because I was hoping for porn.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: cesium133 on 09 Jun 2013, 13:49
Yeah, I was linked here from XKCD as well. Instead of porn, I found a woman and a little anime-themed robot going robot-chassis shopping. Ended up reading the whole thing several times.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ankhtahr on 09 Jun 2013, 14:19
I arrived after seeing a few linked strips on Imgur. First comic I've seen was about two women, one of them telling the other that her vulva would be mad at her. I was confused and it took me a while to visit again. Then I read through the whole thing in under a week.

To get back to the topic: IIRC not everyone did recognise the Pratchett/Foul Ole Ron reference of Hanners when she collapsed: "Millennium hand and shrimps…"
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Masterpiece on 09 Jun 2013, 17:06
I think I was fed up from reading slow-updating Furry comics and just googled "webcomic".
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: celticgeek on 09 Jun 2013, 17:16
I got here from "Unshelved" (http://www.unshelved.com/), about the time that Marten got the job at the library.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: DSL on 09 Jun 2013, 18:10
I first found QC about the time Raven was first hired at the coffee shop and thought, huh, another story about younguns hanging around a coffee shop, and thought no more of it. Next time I saw QC, and I'm not sure what led me there, Faye was having an anxiety attack about her date with Angus (I remember wondering what she was doing in the hallway in her underwear, not realizing at the time she was sharing an apartment with Marten) and didn't even realize it was the same comic, because of the art evolution. I stayed on through the Dorapocalypse and it wasn't until after that I decided to check out the forum. I think I'm glad it worked out that way.

I found out about TVtropes much later. I could stand to have not found out about it at all.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 09 Jun 2013, 20:08
I see the math/science geeks got here from xkcd (as did I).  I had tried it from the beginning once or twice, and couldn't get into it.  Then one day, I clicked the link and saw a young woman sledding down a hill with an upraised beer, and her friends looking on. 

I actually read the comic backwards from there for several hundred strips, watching the plot re-fold, seeing characters I'd gotten to know introduced ("Oh, so that's why...") and watching the art slowly devolve.  I finally went back to the beginning, and met myself halfway while keeping current. 

Oh, and the "fired... out of a cannon" joke's a lot older than futurama.  I seem to remember Louie from Taxi (Danny Devito's character) using that line. 


And maybe Abbot & Costello. 
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: pwhodges on 09 Jun 2013, 22:09
And speaking of Futurama... (https://twitter.com/jephjacques/status/343948403597787136)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: mustang6172 on 09 Jun 2013, 22:18
I once spotted a Leftover Soup strip that showed characters drinking out of Coffee of Doom style emoticon mugs.   I can't find it now though.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Eddie 88 on 10 Jun 2013, 01:18
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=333
 - Raven's "nine times" is a Homestar Runner reference. We probably all knew that one, but I've never seen it mentioned.

Quote from: pwhodges on 09 Jun 2013, 13:32
Login; write.

Heh, that's pretty simple.

Quote from: Carl-E on 09 Jun 2013, 20:08
Oh, and the "fired... out of a cannon" joke's a lot older than futurama.  I seem to remember Louie from Taxi (Danny Devito's character) using that line. 

And maybe Abbot & Costello.

Doesn't mean Jeph didn't get it from Futurama. The wording is almost exactly the same.

Quote from: pwhodges on 09 Jun 2013, 22:09
And speaking of Futurama... (https://twitter.com/jephjacques/status/343948403597787136)

That's the hazard of popularity -- get enough readers and they'll collectively know every line of every popular work ever produced, and someone will see quotes and references where there are none.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ChaoSera on 10 Jun 2013, 02:48
I just noticed that in more recent strips Tai doesn't have her anchor tattoo (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=768) anymore. No idea when Jeph started leaving it out, though.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Storel on 10 Jun 2013, 05:40
Quote from: ChaoSera on 10 Jun 2013, 02:48
I just noticed that in more recent strips Tai doesn't have her anchor tattoo (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=768) anymore. No idea when Jeph started leaving it out, though.

Maybe it was only a temporary tattoo.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Sorflakne on 10 Jun 2013, 07:38
It could've been drawn on with a felt-tipped marker...
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Masterpiece on 10 Jun 2013, 07:51
Jeph no longer draws Claire with her tail that used to frame her face.

Example is from #2408 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2408):

(http://i39.tinypic.com/hvrnno.png)

Starting with #2425 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2425) he stopped:

(http://i40.tinypic.com/ibj19j.png)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ChaoSera on 10 Jun 2013, 09:30
Well, I suppose she just got a haircut.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 10 Jun 2013, 09:38
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=964

Despite the news post he never made that shirt. I still want that shirt.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 10 Jun 2013, 11:06
Quote from: Masterpiece on 10 Jun 2013, 07:51
Jeph no longer draws Claire with her tail that used to frame her face.

Example is from #2408 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2408):

(http://i39.tinypic.com/hvrnno.png)

Starting with #2425 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2425) he stopped:

(http://i40.tinypic.com/ibj19j.png)

Note that in the first, she has no ponytail.  That hank of hair is long enough to be pulled back into the ponytail, leaving just some short curly's in front of the ear. 

He drew her dozens of times before she was introduced - I think he's got her hair down pretty well! 
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 10 Jun 2013, 12:17
It's also on the other side of her face.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Masterpiece on 10 Jun 2013, 14:11
Okay, sorry but I can't agree with neither of you. And I'll try to prove why.

Quote from: Carl-E on 10 Jun 2013, 11:06
Note that in the first, she has no ponytail.  That hank of hair is long enough to be pulled back into the ponytail, leaving just some short curly's in front of the ear.

Exhibit #1:
These are from #2387 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2387), #2388 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2388) and #2405 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2405), respectively.

(http://i42.tinypic.com/300a6nr.jpg)

As you can see, she has the swiggly tail, despite having her hair pulled in a ponytail. In fact, in the last two, she takes off her hair band, and the swiggly tail persists.


Quote from: Method of Madness on 10 Jun 2013, 12:17
It's also on the other side of her face.

Exhibit #2:
Those are #2459 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2459) and #2426 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2426).

(http://i42.tinypic.com/iclf1e.jpg)

Claires head is visible from both sides, but the swiggly tail is gone. After #2425 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2425), the tail was never to be seen again. And if you look at Exhibit #1, the tail is visible, even when her head is turned to the other side.


Quote from: Carl-E on 10 Jun 2013, 11:06
He drew her dozens of times before she was introduced - I think he's got her hair down pretty well! 

Exhibit #3:
Strip #2203 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2203) and a sketch from Jephzibahs Tumblr (http://jephjacques.com/post/16684038774/no-idea-who-this-is-but-shes-been-showing-up-in).

(http://i43.tinypic.com/5wxna9.jpg)

These two images are the first appearances of Claire in qc, the first one is when Tai introduced the interns to Marten, and the second is her first sketch ever, in Jephs blog. She has the swiggly tail in both of them.

Quote from: Carl-E on 10 Jun 2013, 11:06
I think he's got her hair down pretty well! 

I agree! I love Claires hair, especially how poofy and untamed it is, and I always felt the swiggly tail was part of that. I just remember seeing #2425 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2425) and thinking "whoah! the tail is gone!", and I wanted to share it here because I deemed it relevant. I'll miss the swiggly tail (not that she looks any worse than before. I love the most recent sketch (http://jephjacques.com/post/52443364918/tonight-i-figured-out-how-to-use-clipping-masks) Jeph made of her!).
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 10 Jun 2013, 14:12
Fair enough, I was going strictly on those two frames.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Masterpiece on 10 Jun 2013, 14:16
On a completely unrelated note, Jeph posted that first sketch of Claire on my birthday, so I always thought Claire was his birthday gift to me :)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ChaoSera on 10 Jun 2013, 14:17
I still stick with the simple 'she got a haircut'.
It's not like she'd be the first character to change her hairstyle...
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: TinPenguin on 10 Jun 2013, 14:18
The other easy explanation - the squiggle finally grew long enough to stay up in the ponytail.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Valdís on 10 Jun 2013, 14:21
Uh, Masterpiece, when putting it up I go between choosing to put it all up in a ponytail or leaving awesome Hair-scythes framing my face all the time. Just sayin'.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Masterpiece on 10 Jun 2013, 14:24
Sure, Valdis. I wasn't saying that Claire decided to change something about her, it's just that, before #2425, it's there, after #2425, it isn't. Whether that's because Claire got a haircut, decided to put it into the ponytail or just vaporize it using Pintsizes' laser, that's another thing completely and I can't tell what happened.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 10 Jun 2013, 14:27
I prefer to think it's in the ponytail, but able to come out in an unruly moment (like after the wedding). 


It'll be back. 
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Loki on 10 Jun 2013, 14:30
Say what now? We cast Arnold Schwarzenegger for the part of Claire's hair?  :-o
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jwhouk on 10 Jun 2013, 15:07
My wife does some in-between-visits-to-the-hairdresser trims of her bangs. I'd have to guess Claire just got tired of it, and trimmed it off.

And no, it wouldn't be the first time we've seen hairstyle changes. Right, Faye and Dora?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ThomasEll on 10 Jun 2013, 15:33
Dora said Tai could be her rebound after Marten (as a joke) way before the breakup.


http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1400 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1400)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 10 Jun 2013, 15:54
That only applied if Marten dumped Dora, though, the opposite happened.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ThomasEll on 10 Jun 2013, 16:10
Quote from: Method of Madness on 10 Jun 2013, 15:54
That only applied if Marten dumped Dora, though, the opposite happened.

I suppose, although Tai did then jokily try to get Dora to dump Marten in the last to panels :P
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Zebediah on 10 Jun 2013, 17:52
You can rebound even if you're the dumper. (Trying to think of a lame basketball joke about offensive rebounding, but it's not working.)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Eddie 88 on 10 Jun 2013, 18:31
The justification of the text on Dora's shirt changes from panel 2 to panel 3.
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1111

...

I don't have OCD.

Quote from: ChaoSera on 10 Jun 2013, 02:48
I just noticed that in more recent strips Tai doesn't have her anchor tattoo (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=768) anymore. No idea when Jeph started leaving it out, though.

Whoa, great catch!

Quote from: Method of Madness on 10 Jun 2013, 09:38
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=964

Despite the news post he never made that shirt. I still want that shirt.

Heh. Well, he did only say "we shall see." Presumably, he didn't get a flood of emails asking him for the shirt, which is what I assume prompts most of his merch decisions.

Quote from: ChaoSera on 10 Jun 2013, 14:17
I still stick with the simple 'she got a haircut'.
It's not like she'd be the first character to change her hairstyle...

Though QC characters usually note haircuts in-comic.

Quote from: Loki on 10 Jun 2013, 14:30
Say what now? We cast Arnold Schwarzenegger for the part of Claire's hair?  :-o

Arnold Schwarzenegger is so burned!

Quote from: ThomasEll on 10 Jun 2013, 15:33
Dora said Tai could be her rebound after Marten (as a joke) way before the breakup.


http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1400 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1400)

That'd only be foreshadowing if Dora and Tai banged. I wouldn't call that foreshadowing of the breakup. Honestly, for me, Dora and Marten looking like fraternal twins was foreshadowing of the breakup :p

Quote from: Zebediah on 10 Jun 2013, 17:52
You can rebound even if you're the dumper. (Trying to think of a lame basketball joke about offensive rebounding, but it's not working.)

I thought of one! "You can rebound even if you're the dumper, just like offensive rebounding in the sport of basketball."
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: cesium133 on 10 Jun 2013, 19:49
Quote from: Eddie 88 on 10 Jun 2013, 18:31
The justification of the text on Dora's shirt changes from panel 2 to panel 3.
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1111

...

I don't have OCD.
Not just the justification, the word "A" moves from the first line to the second.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 10 Jun 2013, 20:54
We're getting awfully close to nitpicking.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: cesium133 on 10 Jun 2013, 20:58
I thought that was the point.  :psyduck:
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 10 Jun 2013, 21:04
Sven being left-handed is a discovery, not a nit-pick.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: cesium133 on 10 Jun 2013, 21:08
Yes, but I was responding to the post about the T-shirt text, not the post about Sven being left-handed.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 10 Jun 2013, 22:07
Changes in the justification of the text on a t-shirt are perilously close to nit-picking.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ThomasEll on 11 Jun 2013, 04:21
Quote from: Eddie 88 on 10 Jun 2013, 18:31

Quote from: ThomasEll on 10 Jun 2013, 15:33
Dora said Tai could be her rebound after Marten (as a joke) way before the breakup.


http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1400 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1400)

That'd only be foreshadowing if Dora and Tai banged. I wouldn't call that foreshadowing of the breakup. Honestly, for me, Dora and Marten looking like fraternal twins was foreshadowing of the breakup :p



I don't think that it was necessarily foreshadowing of the breakup, although it is possible that Jeph was already entertaining some ideas about Dora and Tai getting together after the breakup at that point.



 
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 11 Jun 2013, 04:37
Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 10 Jun 2013, 22:07
Changes in the justification of the text on a t-shirt are perilously close to nit-picking.
Complaining about it is, yes. Noticing it isn't.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 11 Jun 2013, 10:11
OK.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Zebediah on 11 Jun 2013, 12:44
You want nitpicking? I'll show you some nitpicking.

In 2428 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2428), Emily is wearing a purple top and blue shorts.

2431 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2431) appears to happen on the same day - Clinton and Claire are still wearing the same clothes, and Clinton is still with Claire in the library. This begins the whole sequence where Claire and Marten finally talk about what happened after the wedding.

2436 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2436) is definitely the same day as 2431, and presumably the same day as 2428, but Emily is now wearing a pink top and turquoise pants. She continues to wear this outfit until 2438 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2438).

So - either we have two different days, and Clinton just happened to visit Claire at the library again on a different day when they both happened to be wearing the same clothes as his previous visit, or Emily changed clothes in the middle of the day for some reason.

There. That was nitpicking.  :-P
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Pilchard123 on 11 Jun 2013, 12:47
Of course, Emily changing clothes mid-day is fairly sensible compared to what she normally does.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Masterpiece on 11 Jun 2013, 12:50
well she did run home in a hurry. maybe she felt so sweaty she wanted to change clothes?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Sidhekin on 11 Jun 2013, 12:52
It was not just Emily's life that was changed forever.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ankhtahr on 11 Jun 2013, 13:01
During my latest archive crawl I noticed that Dora tries on a furry tail and encounters a furry in a full fursuit in 1526 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1526)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: pwhodges on 11 Jun 2013, 13:34
I know someone who routinely wears three outfits a day.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: TinPenguin on 11 Jun 2013, 13:35
Quote from: ankhtahr on 11 Jun 2013, 13:01
During my latest archive crawl I noticed that Dora tries on a furry tail and encounters a furry in a full fursuit in 1526 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1526)

The links in threads like this always set me off on archive crawls of old plotlines. It's almost as dangerous as TV Tropes. :psyduck
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ThomasEll on 11 Jun 2013, 16:29
Quote from: ankhtahr on 11 Jun 2013, 13:01
During my latest archive crawl I noticed that Dora tries on a furry tail and encounters a furry in a full fursuit in 1526 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1526)


A few pages later (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1528) Marten is wearing an outfit that includes a shirt collar, but seemingly no shirt, which makes me think that he is wearing a shirt with a tshirt on top of it that has a chest pattern on it.

Otherwise how else do those shirt collars stay up?!  :psyduck:
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Valdís on 11 Jun 2013, 16:31
Presumably just attached to the tie? :wink:
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 11 Jun 2013, 17:58
Actually, looking at that, it really does look like a shirt, because of the folding under the collar (which would be weird if his skin folded that way).
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: TinPenguin on 12 Jun 2013, 02:42
It's just crazy shojo art. They probably sellotaped a ripped-off shirt-collar to the tie. Or maybe there was a Magical Love Gentlemen booth selling accessories.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: SomeCanadianWeirdo on 12 Jun 2013, 07:09
Quote from: Eddie 88 on 10 Jun 2013, 01:18
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=333
 - Raven's "nine times" is a Homestar Runner reference. We probably all knew that one, but I've never seen it mentioned.


Not me.  I've never read the series.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Eddie 88 on 12 Jun 2013, 15:37
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1342

Not really a big "did you notice that" thing, but the little girl and her dad in the background, especially in the first panel, really caught my eye in this one. A combination of A) the girl looks like the girl who asked Marten out and B) the dad/daughter reminded me of Faye and her dad.

Quote from: cesium133 on 10 Jun 2013, 19:49
Quote from: Eddie 88 on 10 Jun 2013, 18:31
The justification of the text on Dora's shirt changes from panel 2 to panel 3.
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1111

...

I don't have OCD.
Not just the justification, the word "A" moves from the first line to the second.

Oh, pff. I didn't notice that.

Quote from: ThomasEll on 11 Jun 2013, 04:21
Quote from: Eddie 88 on 10 Jun 2013, 18:31

Quote from: ThomasEll on 10 Jun 2013, 15:33
Dora said Tai could be her rebound after Marten (as a joke) way before the breakup.


http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1400 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1400)

That'd only be foreshadowing if Dora and Tai banged. I wouldn't call that foreshadowing of the breakup. Honestly, for me, Dora and Marten looking like fraternal twins was foreshadowing of the breakup :p



I don't think that it was necessarily foreshadowing of the breakup, although it is possible that Jeph was already entertaining some ideas about Dora and Tai getting together after the breakup at that point.

Wait, d...do Dora and Tai get together? That'd be...pretty effing weird. I haven't actively been reading QC for over a year, the last major event I can remember being current on was the Marigold roomate rejection drama.

Quote from: Zebediah on 11 Jun 2013, 12:44
You want nitpicking? I'll show you some nitpicking.

In 2428 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2428), Emily is wearing a purple top and blue shorts.

2431 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2431) appears to happen on the same day - Clinton and Claire are still wearing the same clothes, and Clinton is still with Claire in the library. This begins the whole sequence where Claire and Marten finally talk about what happened after the wedding.

2436 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2436) is definitely the same day as 2431, and presumably the same day as 2428, but Emily is now wearing a pink top and turquoise pants. She continues to wear this outfit until 2438 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2438).

So - either we have two different days, and Clinton just happened to visit Claire at the library again on a different day when they both happened to be wearing the same clothes as his previous visit, or Emily changed clothes in the middle of the day for some reason.

There. That was nitpicking.  :-P

Aw, you shoulda gone with the random moustaches comic. "Prior to this comic, none of the characters had moustaches, and in the next one, they're all gone. Furthermore, Dora and Tai are female and thus incapable of growing said facial hair."

Quote from: pwhodges on 11 Jun 2013, 13:34
I know someone who routinely wears three outfits a day.

Is that someone you?

Quote from: ThomasEll on 11 Jun 2013, 16:29
Quote from: ankhtahr on 11 Jun 2013, 13:01
During my latest archive crawl I noticed that Dora tries on a furry tail and encounters a furry in a full fursuit in 1526 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1526)


A few pages later (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1528) Marten is wearing an outfit that includes a shirt collar, but seemingly no shirt, which makes me think that he is wearing a shirt with a tshirt on top of it that has a chest pattern on it.

Otherwise how else do those shirt collars stay up?!  :psyduck:

Ask Hatsune Miku.
In other news: I think I just found my cosplay for the next Tekkoshocon.

Quote from: TinPenguin on 12 Jun 2013, 02:42
It's just crazy shojo art. They probably sellotaped a ripped-off shirt-collar to the tie. Or maybe there was a Magical Love Gentlemen booth selling accessories.

*points*
You're British!

Quote from: SomeCanadianWeirdo on 12 Jun 2013, 07:09
Quote from: Eddie 88 on 10 Jun 2013, 01:18
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=333
 - Raven's "nine times" is a Homestar Runner reference. We probably all knew that one, but I've never seen it mentioned.


Not me.  I've never read the series.

It's a series of flash toons. Here's the first appearance of "nine times..."
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail72.html

Wow, Aitch Star was last updated in 2010. And that was just one or two things; it hasn't been regularly updated since 2009. Ah, arcadia of my youth...
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 12 Jun 2013, 16:26
Quote from: Eddie 88 on 12 Jun 2013, 15:37
Wait, d...do Dora and Tai get together? That'd be...pretty effing weird.

They're dating and taking it slowly. What's weird? We've known Dora is bi practically forever and Tai's been interested in her for a long time.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Eddie 88 on 12 Jun 2013, 17:32
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1374

Kind of an obvious one, but the Malayan Tapir description is taken straight from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayan_tapir). Less obvious: four years later and that text is still there on the Wiki.

Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 12 Jun 2013, 16:26
Quote from: Eddie 88 on 12 Jun 2013, 15:37
Wait, d...do Dora and Tai get together? That'd be...pretty effing weird.

They're dating and taking it slowly. What's weird? We've known Dora is bi practically forever and Tai's been interested in her for a long time.

Yeah we knew Dora was bi, but Tai's never struck me as the monogamous-relationship-type. Her interest in Dora seemed purely carnal, whereas Dora has always seemed to be looking for a more traditional relationship. Plus, Tai's kind of a little kid, you know? And Dora's a grown-ass woman. I can't realistically see them together, they're just a weird couple.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ThinksTooMuch on 12 Jun 2013, 17:45
Quote from: Eddie 88 on 12 Jun 2013, 17:32
Yeah we knew Dora was bi, but Tai's never struck me as the monogamous-relationship-type. Her interest in Dora seemed purely carnal, whereas Dora has always seemed to be looking for a more traditional relationship. Plus, Tai's kind of a little kid, you know? And Dora's a grown-ass woman. I can't realistically see them together, they're just a weird couple.

Thing is, while Tai has surely enjoyed the polyamory and no-strings sex, she has shown several major hints that what she actually wants is a stable monogamous relationship.  She was extremely put out when Bailey turned down her request to go exclusive, for one example.  And if you haven't read the intervening comics yet, you really should.  Both Tai and Dora have had some opportunities to grow in the last year.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Loki on 12 Jun 2013, 18:02
You should really go and catch up :) You can now navigate the comics with the arrow keys, which is great for archive crawls. The arc where you left off starts at http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1630. Which was... not one,  but three years ago o.o

Come on. You can now have the power of archive crawling at your fingertips. I literally linked you to the place where to start. What could possibly go wrong? :evil:






Join me and together we shall rule the galaxy!

Ahem. Wrong deceiver routine. Sorry. Happens to me a lot.



















Boy, this is awkward.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Eddie 88 on 12 Jun 2013, 18:45
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1422

I dunno if I'm high on tiredness or what, but I read Dora's first line there as sexual innuendo and I can't stop giggling.

Quote from: ThinksTooMuch on 12 Jun 2013, 17:45
Quote from: Eddie 88 on 12 Jun 2013, 17:32
Yeah we knew Dora was bi, but Tai's never struck me as the monogamous-relationship-type. Her interest in Dora seemed purely carnal, whereas Dora has always seemed to be looking for a more traditional relationship. Plus, Tai's kind of a little kid, you know? And Dora's a grown-ass woman. I can't realistically see them together, they're just a weird couple.

Thing is, while Tai has surely enjoyed the polyamory and no-strings sex, she has shown several major hints that what she actually wants is a stable monogamous relationship.  She was extremely put out when Bailey turned down her request to go exclusive, for one example.  And if you haven't read the intervening comics yet, you really should.  Both Tai and Dora have had some opportunities to grow in the last year.

Then I shall return with further judgement when I'm all caught up.

Quote from: Loki on 12 Jun 2013, 18:02
You should really go and catch up :) You can now navigate the comics with the arrow keys, which is great for archive crawls. The arc where you left off starts at http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1630. Which was... not one,  but three years ago o.o

Come on. You can now have the power of archive crawling at your fingertips. I literally linked you to the place where to start. What could possibly go wrong? :evil:






Join me and together we shall rule the galaxy!

Ahem. Wrong deceiver routine. Sorry. Happens to me a lot.



















Boy, this is awkward.

Three years?! Sheesh. Where does the time go? I'm archive-crawling; currently up to the comic at the top of this post.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Eddie 88 on 15 Jun 2013, 01:43
Sorry for the double post. Got more stuff.

http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1611
 - In the strip title, Jeph correctly used the term "aubade," which is the morning-themed equivalent of a "serenade." Just...I happen to know the difference, and didn't know if other people did, and thought maybe I should point it out...

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=984
 - The pain-star coming off Faye's whacked head here has no face. All the stars before this one had little sad faces, and all the ones after this one stopped having faces until...

http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1604
 - ...this strip, in which the sad-face pain-star makes its triumphant return.

http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1635
 - Marigold has what appears to be Randy showercurtains.

(Side note: I fuggin LOVE how Hanners pushes through her OCD when dealing with Marigold. I know from personal experience -- the fastest way a pathetic person can get non-pathetic is to befriend someone even more pathetic.)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 15 Jun 2013, 06:19
Holy shit, that last one (Randy shower curtain). Awesome, never noticed that.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Mlle Germain on 15 Jun 2013, 10:24
Hi everyone! I've been a lurker for quite some time, but just signed on specifically to post in this thread. The thing I noticed only a few weeks ago already happened earlier, so somebody might already have mentionend it somewhere. I'm sorry if I didn't see that. Also, it's pretty obvious and everyone probably noticed it except me. It is:
Angus stopped wearing glasses right before the lake party! I honestly never noticed until the recent arc about moving to New York City.
Here is the last comic with him wearing glasses: http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2286 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2286)
And from here on he has been without them, I think: http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2290 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2290)
So, anyone else didn't notice?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 15 Jun 2013, 10:32
Welcome, new person!

That's an interesting change given how much he liked fashionable glasses.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ChaoSera on 16 Jun 2013, 08:06
I'm probably not the first one to notice this, but there's Legion (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1998) (or at least any generic Geth) in the background of the the third panel.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Loki on 16 Jun 2013, 10:50
...and to the left of it appears to be the robot nekowafer currently uses as her avatar?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jwhouk on 16 Jun 2013, 12:32
Which is from Diesel Sweeties, if memory serves correctly.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Nepiophage on 16 Jun 2013, 13:38
Quote from: Mlle Germain on 15 Jun 2013, 10:24
Hi everyone! I've been a lurker for quite some time, but just signed on specifically to post in this thread. The thing I noticed only a few weeks ago already happened earlier, so somebody might already have mentionend it somewhere. I'm sorry if I didn't see that. Also, it's pretty obvious and everyone probably noticed it except me. It is:
Angus stopped wearing glasses right before the lake party! I honestly never noticed until the recent arc about moving to New York City.
Here is the last comic with him wearing glasses: http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2286 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2286)
And from here on he has been without them, I think: http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2290 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2290)
So, anyone else didn't notice?

But he still has glasses -- in http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2452 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2452)  they are on his bedside cabinet. So he has contacts, takes them out at night (of course) and uses the glasses for reading in bed, and seeing his way to the bathroom in the morning.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Mlle Germain on 16 Jun 2013, 13:49
Ah, well spotted! I didn't notice that. I must say however that I think Angus looks better with glasses. That's just my taste though, apparently he thinks differently . :-)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Mish on 16 Jun 2013, 20:33
I am just a noob here and this is my first post, but, I did notice that Jeph can make Faye look pretty hot.

But, I actually do wonder what Momo is reading in #2072. 

A mag with a centrefold?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 16 Jun 2013, 20:42
(http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSt2UhDnbcJBCxnCQF-fhSRoYYnS0j7DdR8cPdfUdI0nUpseBky-Q)

Also, you do not want to do the Google image search I did to find that :psyduck: (It was the first result but still)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 16 Jun 2013, 23:03
Welcome, new person!

Robots look at centerfolds too (http://questionablecontent.net/1737).
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Zebediah on 17 Jun 2013, 04:22
Speaking of #1737 (http://questionablecontent.net/1737), I love that Marten is reading Guitar Porn magazine.  :-D
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Pilchard123 on 17 Jun 2013, 11:30
Quote from: Mish on 16 Jun 2013, 20:33
I am just a noob here and this is my first post, but, I did notice that Jeph can make Faye look pretty hot.

But, I actually do wonder what Momo is reading in #2072. 

A mag with a centrefold?

The magazine is called Applied Robotics. But yes, centerfold and shocked Momo :D
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Eddie 88 on 18 Jun 2013, 17:48
Two things...
1) Did you notice that Pintsize's mouth looks like a knife when it's open?

2) Did you notice the QC universe operates on Narnia time? Well, what I mean is, if we assume that QC started out in the year 2003 (a pretty reasonable assumption, I think) when the comic began, not a whole year has passed, right? It took like, four or five real-life years just for the seasons to change. Then we went through winter, now it's summer, right?

Well, in this comic, where it's still presumably 2003...
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1206
...Hanners is singing Battles' "Atlas," which didn't come out until 2007.

And of course, the cast have smartphones now, the first of which didn't appear until 2007, and like I said, it's still presumably 2003/2004 in the QC universe. Granted, it's clear that QC-World is different than the Real World, what with AI and AnthroPCs and all, but the topic is "did you notice," not "this thing is bad."

Quote from: Mlle Germain on 15 Jun 2013, 10:24
Hi everyone! I've been a lurker for quite some time, but just signed on specifically to post in this thread. The thing I noticed only a few weeks ago already happened earlier, so somebody might already have mentionend it somewhere. I'm sorry if I didn't see that. Also, it's pretty obvious and everyone probably noticed it except me. It is:
Angus stopped wearing glasses right before the lake party! I honestly never noticed until the recent arc about moving to New York City.
Here is the last comic with him wearing glasses: http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2286 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2286)
And from here on he has been without them, I think: http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2290 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2290)
So, anyone else didn't notice?

Nice catch. It's also nice to see Jeph's artwork swinging back towards the cute end of the spectrum. I'm a few years out of date, but I really personally dislike the turn his art style took. I like the cute, late hundreds, early 1000s (around the Worry Hat and Faye first banging Sven) style. As soon as QC time turned to winter and Dora started growing her hair out, the art became too realistic for my tastes; everyone got beady eyes, lanky limbs, pointy jaws.

To be sure, Jeph's technical ability has always continually progressed, I just prefer the cuter style he employed during the mid years.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 18 Jun 2013, 18:01
I'm pretty sure it's been about two years but that's disputed.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jwhouk on 18 Jun 2013, 18:36
Word of Jeph has said that it is more or less modern day:

Quote from: 'JephJacques.com (tumblr Q&A dump)'
What time period is QC set in? Since anthro-pcs are running around being a part of the community and such

Present day, different universe.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Aquaisces on 18 Jun 2013, 18:57
Exhibit #1:
These are from #2387 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2387), #2388 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2388) and #2405 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2405), respectively.

(http://i42.tinypic.com/300a6nr.jpg)


Exhibit #2:
Those are #2459 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2459) and #2426 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2426).

(http://i42.tinypic.com/iclf1e.jpg)

Um, guys? The lock of hair is still there, it's just tucked behind her ear. Because having your hair fall in your face all the time is really friggin' annoying.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 18 Jun 2013, 19:32
Somewhere recently Jeph said that the QC world is in a quantum superposition of 2006 and the present.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Masterpiece on 19 Jun 2013, 02:05
Quote from: Aquaisces on 18 Jun 2013, 18:57
Exhibit #1:
These are from #2387 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2387), #2388 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2388) and #2405 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2405), respectively.

(http://i42.tinypic.com/300a6nr.jpg)


Exhibit #2:
Those are #2459 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2459) and #2426 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2426).

(http://i42.tinypic.com/iclf1e.jpg)

Um, guys? The lock of hair is still there, it's just tucked behind her ear. Because having your hair fall in your face all the time is really friggin' annoying.

There are so many images during the wedding that show the lock of hair tucked behind her ear that I'm not going to bother posting them here. I've tried explaining what I meant by "it's not there" - Jeph is simply not drawing the lock the way he used to.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Mlle Germain on 19 Jun 2013, 03:45
About Angus and his glasses again: I just found out that there is a whole period in the 1660ies, maybe longer, where he doesn't wear glasses either. So apparently he switches between glasses and contacts quite a bit and it's not that exciting apart from being quite obvious to begin with. Still pretty weird that I never ever noticed although I have read the whole comic repeatedly. And now I will stop talking about it, I promise...

Edit: Fixed typo
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Arancaytar on 19 Jun 2013, 09:50
Quote from: Eddie 88 on 09 Jun 2013, 12:35
This thread is for little stuff you notice about QC that you didn't before, or think others might've missed.

I'm doing an archive crawl, and just noticed that Sven is left-handed...
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=946
Note the positioning of the mouse.

I can't speak for other left-handed people, but I don't think I've held a mouse in my left hand ever. Is that really a common thing? Not sure how much of it is training, but the only thing I can't do right-handed is write. Yet I'm in no way ambidextrous; I really can't write for crap with my right hand, even with practice.

Edit: Well what do you know. I just caught myself reaching over my right arm with my left hand in order to hold the mouse. Weird.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Zebediah on 19 Jun 2013, 09:56
I actually used to use a mouse left-handed even though I'm right-handed. About 20 years ago I was working for a telephone company, and so much of what I typed was numbers that I found I could be much more efficient if I kept my right hand on the number pad and used my mouse with my left hand.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: pwhodges on 19 Jun 2013, 10:24
Working in support for many years, I have gained the knack of using a mouse right or left handed, with or without the buttons reversed; also large or small trackballs (never a stylus, as it happens).  Normal right-handed is faster and more fluent, though, I'll admit.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Kugai on 19 Jun 2013, 21:04
Despite having used the standard Keyboard for years, I still wish I could afford a left handed Keyboard as, on occasion, the standard one feels odd to me.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Nepiophage on 20 Jun 2013, 12:32
Just noticed Faye has picked up Marten's habit of grabbing the back of her neck when she is embarrassed or nervous. See http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1703 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1703), Second panel.
Also http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1735 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1735)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 20 Jun 2013, 13:38
Angus, too (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1726). 

I think there are even earlier examples of Faye doing that, though.  And I know I've seen Dora do it, too. 


We need to do a serious search for hand-to-the=back-of-the-neck instances. 
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Nepiophage on 20 Jun 2013, 14:01
Faye again http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1783 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1783)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 20 Jun 2013, 18:21
OK, been trawling, and the first time Faye did it (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=42) was before the first time Marten did it (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=57). 

Unless I missed one somewhere...



And Sara was known to as well... (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=65)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 20 Jun 2013, 20:37
Quote from: Carl-E on 20 Jun 2013, 18:21
the first time Faye did it (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=42)
Except that's not the same thing at all in this case, she's rubbing her head because it physically hurts (hangover).
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ankhtahr on 27 Jun 2013, 13:13
I just noticed the newspost under 1368 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1386). Which links this (http://www.questionablecontent.net/random/1386alternate.png) which made me crack up for a few minutes. Especially Marten's expression.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 27 Jun 2013, 18:04
Reminds me of his little hat smile. Also I MUST TRY SPEED BEER. I hope someone posts it in December so I can get all my classmates to do it, especially because it snows a lot in New Hampshire and well...exams.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Nepiophage on 04 Jul 2013, 14:32
Not aure if this is the right place to post this but . .  In 2472 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2472) ..  Just how likely is a 13 year old Daft Punk fan? I would have thought they were all over 25 at the very least. .  :-)

<mod> fixed URL in link </mod>
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Pilchard123 on 04 Jul 2013, 14:41
You'd added an extra 'a' in the URL, but this (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2472) will take you there.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Storel on 04 Jul 2013, 18:35
Quote from: TinPenguin on 04 Jul 2013, 01:55
Happy Crusader-Slaughtering Day.

1187 Never Forget.

Too late...  8-)

Quote from: Nepiophage on 04 Jul 2013, 14:32
Not aure if this is the right place to post this but . .  In 2472 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2472) ..  Just how likely is a 13 year old Daft Punk fan? I would have thought they were all over 25 at the very least. .  :-)

<mod> fixed URL in link </mod>

Her Dad's probably a fan, and she grew up with him so she's probably heard a lot of his music. I certainly heard a lot of my parents' records, and even enjoyed some of them.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: cesium133 on 05 Jul 2013, 06:29
Quote from: Method of Madness on 27 Jun 2013, 18:04
Reminds me of his little hat smile. Also I MUST TRY SPEED BEER. I hope someone posts it in December so I can get all my classmates to do it, especially because it snows a lot in New Hampshire and well...exams.
I don't think it would ever work here. There's almost no snow in the winter and there are no hills to sled on if it does snow. Also, most of the beer sold in Oklahoma is low alcohol content, so everyone would lose the game by hypothermia rather than by passing out. Plus, I would need friends.  :psyduck:
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jwhouk on 05 Jul 2013, 07:38
"If we had any eggs, we could have ham and eggs." (pause) "If we had any ham."
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 05 Jul 2013, 11:30
So beer can't be sold above a certain ABV or is there just a higher tax on it?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: cesium133 on 05 Jul 2013, 11:40
Beer sold in most stores is limited by ABV to no more than 3.2%. Some liquor stores are allowed to get exceptions to that rule, but if they do, they're not allowed to refrigerate the beer. Oklahoma is weird, but it could be worse. Could be Pennsylvania...
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 05 Jul 2013, 12:17
Not allowed to refrigerate? :psyduck:
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: cesium133 on 05 Jul 2013, 12:21
Yup:

Quote from: Wikipedia
Any beverage containing more than 3.2% alcohol by weight or 4% alcohol by volume, that is, most liquors, wines, and typical beer, may only be sold in licensed liquor stores at room temperature
Alcohol Laws of Oklahoma (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_laws_of_Oklahoma)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Zebediah on 05 Jul 2013, 12:33
Ah, but do they legally define "room temperature"? If you refrigerate the entire store, there may be a loophole.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: cesium133 on 05 Jul 2013, 12:49
So I read the actual law (http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=78096), and it says, "Provided, all alcoholic beverages are to be sold at ordinary room temperature." I'm guessing if you refrigerated the entire store, they could make an argument that your room's temperature isn't "ordinary."

edit -- To try to get this thread back on topic, I'm wondering what question Dora, Faye, and Penelope (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1479) are trying to find an answer for in the first frame of this comic.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 05 Jul 2013, 14:55
Given how crude the characters are, the most widely believed guess at the time was "What food would make the worst personal lubricant?".
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 05 Jul 2013, 14:58
Well yeah, it's pretty obvious, I didn't even know it was disputed. What else would they be answering?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: cesium133 on 05 Jul 2013, 15:04
It did seem kind of obvious, but when I read it I did wonder if that could be the answer to some other question...
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jwhouk on 05 Jul 2013, 17:41
An intrepid reader in the WCDT spotted the small mistake Jeph made with the Google Search screen in 2484 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2484).

Look all the way over on the left: that "ph" is part of Jeph's Google Plus "greeting" line.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ankhtahr on 06 Jul 2013, 07:59
In a world with Anthro-PCs being part of society a magazine called "Applied Robotics" apparently doesn't mean the same as it would in our world…


2072 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2072)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: cesium133 on 06 Jul 2013, 09:45
It's a centerfold of the new model of the Jude Law chassis (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1459).
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ankhtahr on 06 Jul 2013, 10:06
It's surprising how much you can find on every archive binge.

There are homeless Anthro-PCs in QCverse.

"Will Torrent 4 Casa" (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2257)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: cesium133 on 06 Jul 2013, 10:31
Pretty sure that's "Will Torrent 4 Cash".
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ankhtahr on 06 Jul 2013, 10:38
Huh, you're right.

Still means that there are Anthro-PCs which are worse off than others.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Kugai on 06 Jul 2013, 11:00
Either that, or Pintsize was out trolling for cash to update his porn stash.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Storel on 06 Jul 2013, 15:13
Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 05 Jul 2013, 14:55
Given how crude the characters are, the most widely believed guess at the time was "What food would make the worst personal lubricant?".

And dijon mustard was really the worst they could come up with? What about horseradish sauce, or wasabi, or Dave's Insanity Sauce (http://store.davesgourmet.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=DAIN)?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: cesium133 on 06 Jul 2013, 15:19
The Hoodie Memorial makes a return in 1744 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1744).
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 06 Jul 2013, 16:42
I had totally missed that.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: bhtooefr on 06 Jul 2013, 17:47
Quote from: Method of Madness on 05 Jul 2013, 12:17
Not allowed to refrigerate? :psyduck:
Well, who (except for the British) wants to drink warm beer?

I'd guess it's an attempt to make stronger beer unable to be consumed immediately.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Storel on 08 Jul 2013, 12:03
Quote from: bhtooefr on 06 Jul 2013, 17:47
Well, who (except for the British) wants to drink warm beer?

I'd guess it's an attempt to make stronger beer unable to be consumed immediately.

To be fair, in Britain "room temperature" is a lot cooler than in the US...  :wink:
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Mr_Rose on 08 Jul 2013, 12:30
Yeah, no idea where this "warm beer" thing comes from. Not actively, mechanically, chilled sure. Not served over ice either. But stored underground in cold cellars for the most part, definitely.
Besides which, all cooling a beer does is stop the aromatic molecules from getting into your nose, destroying the true flavour.

Of course that's a problem for the recycled piss Budweiser corp. and Coors sell, as then you can tell what it was, so they naturally recommend chilling.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jwhouk on 08 Jul 2013, 17:02
Now, you do have to understand that a lot of brewmasters here in the States had to do their crafting and brewing in caves and cellars, mostly because they didn't have castle-like structures here that they had in Europe. And beer does not keep well on transit, so it had to be cooled so it could be shipped outside the city - because not every city in America had a brewery.

<== Actually learned a few things the last time he took the Miller Brewery tour in Milwaukee.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 08 Jul 2013, 17:03
Maybe I'll check that out if I'm in Milwaukee. Does Miller taste less crappy when it's fresh?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Border Reiver on 09 Jul 2013, 04:15
Probably not - I have yet to taste a beer from the major American brewers that is worth drinking - the smaller craft brewers do an acceptable to an excellent job depending on your tastes. 

Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Thrudd on 09 Jul 2013, 05:18
Is that "little" German restaurant in downtown Milwaukee with that awesome menu still there.
I heard that the Safehouse was mainstreamed and ruined in the process.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jwhouk on 09 Jul 2013, 06:45
Maders will be there forever and ever. Safehouse has indeed been ruined, sadly.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Storel on 09 Jul 2013, 14:22
Quote from: jwhouk on 09 Jul 2013, 06:45
Maders will be there forever and ever. Safehouse has indeed been ruined, sadly.

Darn, my wife will be bummed to hear about Safehouse. She's a Milwaukee native, but hasn't lived there for a long time.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Barmymoo on 09 Jul 2013, 15:13
Quote from: Storel on 08 Jul 2013, 12:03
To be fair, in Britain "room temperature" is a lot cooler than in the US...  :wink:

Um no, not really! The US has air conditioning, like, everywhere. I was cold all the time I was inside in the USA. And then I went outside and melted. The UK is just typically roughly the same in and out, at least in temperate seasons.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Loki on 19 Jul 2013, 00:03
I am not sure whether I ever noticed the magazine Harriet is reading in this strip (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2031).
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 19 Jul 2013, 00:20
Studying medicine can teach you how to torture, I doubt she wants to help YB. (I wonder what Yelling Bird's real name is)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ChaoSera on 19 Jul 2013, 00:38
Hanners' apartment number is 36 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=556). Never noticed that before.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 19 Jul 2013, 01:10
Is 36 special, or is it just "I know her apartment number"?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ChaoSera on 19 Jul 2013, 01:13
Pretty much just the latter. I'm bored at work.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 19 Jul 2013, 01:24
Not judgin', just curious if I missed something.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Loki on 19 Jul 2013, 01:37
I thought that Hanners' appartment number kept changing through the strip?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Masterpiece on 19 Jul 2013, 01:41
I was under that impression also.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jwhouk on 19 Jul 2013, 05:53
Hey! Looks like Spaceship might actually get a brother of sorts in short order:

British Space Plane to get Engine Flight Test in 2020 (http://news.yahoo.com/futuristic-british-space-plane-engine-flight-test-2020-112148075.html)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Mr_Rose on 19 Jul 2013, 06:25
Fun fact: the Skylon has a theoretical twin sister, in the form of a hypersonic commercial jet airliner, using similar tech to hybridise a regular jet and a scramjet. London to Sydney in five hours, crossing the pacific via the North Pole because there's none of that pesky "land" or worse "human habitation" to mess up with the sonic boom…
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: TinPenguin on 19 Jul 2013, 06:33
Even if Skylon ever gets made, I won't trust something sounds like a hybrid of Skynet and the Cylons...
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: DSL on 19 Jul 2013, 07:36
Quote from: Loki on 19 Jul 2013, 01:37
I thought that Hanners' appartment number kept changing through the strip?

It's to confuse the secret nanobot spies of her clone doppelganger.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 19 Jul 2013, 08:31
The wiki tries to list all of Hannelore's apartment numbers.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Mr_Rose on 19 Jul 2013, 08:38
Quote from: TinPenguin on 19 Jul 2013, 06:33
Even if Skylon ever gets made, I won't trust something sounds like a hybrid of Skynet and the Cylons...

I just want it to fly in the gloss black livery it has in the artist renders, because of extra awesome.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: GarandMarine on 19 Jul 2013, 11:57
Quote from: Method of Madness on 19 Jul 2013, 00:20
Studying medicine can teach you how to torture, I doubt she wants to help YB. (I wonder what Yelling Bird's real name is)

The most dangerous human being you know is your doctor. Unless your doctor is also a Navy SEAL. In which case he's the most dangerous person any of us know.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Masterpiece on 21 Jul 2013, 04:25
I ship Hanners and Indy. (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=723)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 21 Jul 2013, 21:48
Hanners does, and that's the only ship that floats! 
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Schmee on 23 Jul 2013, 23:38
Has anyone noticed the similarity between Dale's boss at http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2497 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2497) and the nudist guy at http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2304 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2304)?
Coincidence?
I THINK NOT
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Storel on 23 Jul 2013, 23:47
Hmm. Well, if it is him, he's replaced the soul patch with a mustache. Otherwise, yeah, he looks very similar.  :-o
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Masterpiece on 24 Jul 2013, 01:05
Quote from: Schmee001 on 23 Jul 2013, 23:38
Coincidence?
I THINK NOT
If that is a Incredibles reference, I will hug you.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ChaoSera on 24 Jul 2013, 01:13
I dunno, the nudist guy seems to have a lot more meat on his hips (and other body parts) than the pizza guy. Also he's not wearing glasses. I suppose he could be wearing contacts, but I don't think it's the same guy.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 24 Jul 2013, 06:28
Jeph only has a few stock "old guys", unlike his seemingly endless supply of young women. 
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: gopher on 24 Jul 2013, 09:52
Quote from: TinPenguin on 19 Jul 2013, 06:33
Even if Skylon ever gets made, I won't trust something sounds like a hybrid of Skynet and the Cylons...
Fun fact. Skynet actually already exists and predates Terminator by 15 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_%28satellite%29
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ChaosWolf on 29 Jul 2013, 17:00
Quote from: cesium133 on 06 Jul 2013, 09:45
It's a centerfold of the new model of the Jude Law chassis (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1459).

The words "writhing" and "erection" are two more words to put on the list of Words That Should Not Be Seen Together, right alongside combinations like "frenetic zombie masturbation", "ocular feces insertion" and "clitoral elephantiasis".
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Storel on 31 Jul 2013, 15:27
Quote from: ChaosWolf on 29 Jul 2013, 17:00
The words "writhing" and "erection" are two more words to put on the list of Words That Should Not Be Seen Together, right alongside combinations like "frenetic zombie masturbation", "ocular feces insertion" and "clitoral elephantiasis".

Yeah, I bet zombies hate it when they're masturbating frenetically and their schlong falls off...
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Zebediah on 31 Jul 2013, 16:07
Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "jerking off".

OK, I'll go sit in a corner now.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Masterpiece on 01 Aug 2013, 05:11
Today's Dumbing of Age comic features a cameo of the entire Whitaker family, including her dad:

(click to show/hide)
(http://www.dumbingofage.com/comics/2013-08-01-mister.png)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 01 Aug 2013, 07:58
Holy crap!  Missed that completely... 

This one's going into the "Guest appearances (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,25456.0.html)" thread...
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: cesium133 on 01 Aug 2013, 17:44
After Faye explains the meaning of "Fat Bottomed Girls" in #537 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=537), Marten comments about how he didn't know that Freddie Mercury knew so much about astrophysics. Freddie Mercury wasn't an astrophysicist, but Brian May is (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_May#Astrophysics).
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: KOK on 01 Aug 2013, 21:48
Geophysics and astrophysics are very different fields.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jesslc on 06 Aug 2013, 11:35
Quote from: Carl-E on 21 Jul 2013, 21:48
Hanners does, and that's the only ship that floats!

This reminds me of a question I've been wanting to ask... Who is the guy in the comic where Faye asked Hanners who her ideal man is and we saw Hanners' thought bubble about him, and then we see Faye saying "I'm pretty sure he's gay"

I have always wondered who that guy is - is he based on a real person or is he just someone Jeph made up?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 06 Aug 2013, 11:36
This gentleman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Clean), he's the mascot for a real product. (Mr. Clean, that's his name, that name again is Mr. Clean!)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: SageJiraiya on 06 Aug 2013, 12:06
I am disappointed you needed to be told who Mr. Clean is. He's THE Mr. Clean. He is so clean. He has no hair on his body, anywhere. He only wears white, and he doesn't even have hair because dead keratin is too much of a mess. He epitomizes cleanliness.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 06 Aug 2013, 12:08
They don't necessarily have those ads in Australia.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: SageJiraiya on 06 Aug 2013, 12:12
Oh I was trying to be facetious about it. There's nothing wrong with not knowing of a fictional character. Mr. Clean is just an amusingly stereotypical concept of a cleanly person. Sorry if I offended anybody.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Schmee on 15 Aug 2013, 06:45
I just realised that this comic (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1086) is oddly hilarious when you keep in mind that 'subtext' is an anagram of 'buttsex'.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 15 Aug 2013, 12:05
Quote from: Schmee001 on 15 Aug 2013, 06:45
'subtext' is an anagram of 'buttsex'.
That's oddly hilarious on its own.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Schmee on 15 Aug 2013, 18:25
I first learned that one when a local newspaper ran one of those anagram puzzles, and the letters were "UBTTEXS". There were apparently quite a few complaints.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Redball on 15 Aug 2013, 19:04
Now that's hilarious.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Storel on 16 Aug 2013, 01:47
Quote from: Schmee001 on 15 Aug 2013, 06:45
I just realised that this comic (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1086) is oddly hilarious when you keep in mind that 'subtext' is an anagram of 'buttsex'.

The best line in that comic:

Penny: Good job! I didn't think you had it in you.
Faye: Oh, I had it in me all right...  :lol:
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Pilchard123 on 16 Aug 2013, 04:24
Quote from: Schmee001 on 15 Aug 2013, 18:25
I first learned that one when a local newspaper ran one of those anagram puzzles, and the letters were "UBTTEXS". There were apparently quite a few complaints.

"I understand that the offending affair can only be seen in any detail with quite a large magnifying glass, and so the offense, if such it be, is largely self-inflicted."
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: DrBear on 16 Aug 2013, 08:50
Which reminds me of the old joke about the old lady who calls the cops because there's a naked man standing at the window of his house and she can see him.

The cop looks out the window and says he can't see anything.

"Well of course!" the lady says. "You have to stand on this box and use these binoculars!"
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 17 Aug 2013, 22:53
Quote from: Schmee001 on 15 Aug 2013, 18:25
I first learned that one when a local newspaper ran one of those anagram puzzles, and the letters were "UBTTEXS". There were apparently quite a few complaints.

It's a good thing it wasn't EGGINR.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Schmee on 17 Aug 2013, 23:14
Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 17 Aug 2013, 22:53
Quote from: Schmee001 on 15 Aug 2013, 18:25
I first learned that one when a local newspaper ran one of those anagram puzzles, and the letters were "UBTTEXS". There were apparently quite a few complaints.

It's a good thing it wasn't EGGINR.

What? Ginger?  :angel:
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 18 Aug 2013, 00:41
...is in the eye of the beholder. 
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 18 Aug 2013, 00:58
Please do not put ginger in the eye of the beholder :-)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Pilchard123 on 18 Aug 2013, 02:00
Best way of defeating a Beholder, is ginger.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Loki on 18 Aug 2013, 02:38
Ah, but how do you defeat a ginger?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Pilchard123 on 18 Aug 2013, 03:54
Sunlight.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Sidhekin on 18 Aug 2013, 04:16
Quote from: Loki on 18 Aug 2013, 02:38
Ah, but how do you defeat a ginger?
Glyphosate?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: bhtooefr on 18 Aug 2013, 04:35
This discussion is reminding me of a video that plays with African American stereotypes, but replacing a certain word with "ginga", and adding a few redhead stereotypes. (And then another one that swaps in eastern Asian stereotypes, and uses "ninja".)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 18 Aug 2013, 10:13
Now I'm thinking of ginger ninjas.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Grognard on 18 Aug 2013, 19:04
Quote from: Masterpiece on 01 Aug 2013, 05:11
Today's Dumbing of Age comic features a cameo of the entire Whitaker family, including her dad:

(click to show/hide)
(http://www.dumbingofage.com/comics/2013-08-01-mister.png)

I'd never heard of this webcomic before.  thanks for bringing it to my attention.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jwhouk on 18 Aug 2013, 19:46
You've... never... heard... of... Dave... WILLIS?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 18 Aug 2013, 19:57
I only know of him because of this forum. I've never read his comic(s).
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jwhouk on 18 Aug 2013, 20:08
Well, yeah. I used to read Shortpacked!, but then things... started to go off the deep end. (Mike using grunts and groans to propose to Amber? Ugh.)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 18 Aug 2013, 20:11
It degenerated to one-offs after Ethan left the store anyway.  There's an occasional storyline, but nothing of note. 
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: DrBear on 19 Aug 2013, 07:07
Agreed. When Amber and Mike left, I lost interest. But for the time when the main cast was together, it was very good (if you like Transformers references)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Storel on 19 Aug 2013, 11:01
My first exposure to Willis & crew was through "Dumbing of Age", probably via QC. I tried going back and reading the original "It's Walky" comic that I think eventually became "Shortpacked", but I found it too confusing to keep up with two different origins for the same group of people, and I wasn't finding IW as interesting once it got weird with the science-fictiony stuff (and I like science fiction, but this seemed a little too "Sluggy Freelance" for me), so I stopped reading it and stuck with DoA. I figured I'd have the same problem if I started reading "Shortpacked", too, so I haven't even looked at it.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ankhtahr on 21 Aug 2013, 09:33
To get back to the original topic, I want to talk about something that I've noticed for a while now.

Has Jeph some relationship to Germany or German?

Probably I notice that so much because I'm German, but I've seen some comics which were titled with German phrases/words. With some of them the reason is obvious (e.g. two strips which refer to Ellen Allien: Stadtkind (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2399) and Tschüss (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2412)), but with some others I can't see why they are named that way. Recently there was Auf Wiedersehen (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2515), then there is Guten Abend (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1964), and another curious example is this one (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2279). That one is interesting in particular, as it's listed as "Hilfe Mich" in the archive list. I'd interpret that in the way that Jeph originally called the strip "Hilfe Mich" (Help me, but completely wrong grammatically), somebody told him that it's wrong, and he changed the title to "Hilfe".

Another thing I noticed is that in these strips (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=661) Faye is obviously wearing a German soccer jersey. The logo on the chest is a variation of the German "Bundesadler", and around that it even reads "Deutscher Fussball-Bund". Comparison here:
(click to show/hide)

(http://31.media.tumblr.com/0acda1376cc10a208b4cb3c5af691417/tumblr_mn4ji8vGcp1rzapx4o1_500.gif)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Masterpiece on 21 Aug 2013, 13:31
Ankh, it's funny you should mention that somebody probably told him it was wrong. Could it be someone from the forums?

(click to show/hide)

Also please don't judge my twitter. I've had a "I need to write down song lyrics" phase during that time.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: cesium133 on 21 Aug 2013, 13:39
Quote from: Masterpiece on 21 Aug 2013, 13:31
Also please don't judge my twitter. I've had a "I need to write down song lyrics" phase during that time.
It's Rosanna, you fucks! (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1737)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 21 Aug 2013, 15:00
Quote from: Masterpiece on 21 Aug 2013, 13:31
Also please don't judge my twitter. I've had a "I need to write down song lyrics" phase during that time.
I'm not judging your Twitter, I'm judging your use of tiny font. (For the record, cesium, I agree with Pintsize but don't outright disagree with Faye and Angus. "Rosanna" is solid, sure, but compared to the other two songs? Not even close.)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ChaoSera on 21 Aug 2013, 15:24
How can anyone think 'Africa' is not the best Toto song? :psyduck:
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 21 Aug 2013, 15:26
Because love isn't always on time. Nah, you're right, but I really do like "Hold the Line" a lot also.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ChaoSera on 21 Aug 2013, 15:32
And you right to do so, it's awesome. But 'Africa' is just a whole over grade of perfect.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: cesium133 on 21 Aug 2013, 16:18
Africa is the only one that I can actually remember the lyrics to. I was joking about his Twitter page which quotes "Hold the Line".
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jwhouk on 21 Aug 2013, 16:49
Sorry, "Rosanna" fan here. I caught Toto at the end of their popularity, not the start.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 21 Aug 2013, 16:55
Their popularity ended?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 21 Aug 2013, 18:47
I prefer "Roxanne". 



Oh, wait...
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Kugai on 21 Aug 2013, 18:58
It's the red dress, isn't it.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Sidhekin on 21 Aug 2013, 23:01
My favourite is "St. George and the Dragon".

... it's all making sense now.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Thrudd on 23 Aug 2013, 11:13
Quote from: Method of Madness on 21 Aug 2013, 16:55
Their popularity ended?
They were popular?   :psyduck:

Also there is no anagram for A K M R S T U
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 23 Aug 2013, 11:16
GO HOME, RUMKATS, YOU ARE DRUNK
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: cesium133 on 23 Aug 2013, 11:22
Of course. Starkum. That's how new stars are formed.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Thrudd on 23 Aug 2013, 13:23
Awww, there is no love for the poor muskrat. :cry:
(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 23 Aug 2013, 13:44
Jeph kind of ruined muskrats for me.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jwhouk on 23 Aug 2013, 14:34
Dork Tower FTW.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 23 Aug 2013, 20:03
Quote from: Method of Madness on 23 Aug 2013, 13:44
Jeph kind of ruined muskrats for me.

The Captain and Tenille (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKw8j7GLSdw) ruined them for me...
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ankhtahr on 24 Aug 2013, 12:52
And I've found another comic for my list of German titled ones. Right at the beginning of a new archive binge: Achtung Nippel (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=13). Achtung means Caution, I think the second word is pretty much obvious.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 24 Aug 2013, 12:53
Caution: Nipple! Someone should make a sign that says that.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Stybar on 24 Aug 2013, 13:09
No, a babydoll t-shirt.
With cut-out boobs
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Loki on 24 Aug 2013, 14:29
Aprons with cut-out boobs are science for horny people!
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 27 Aug 2013, 05:03
If it's an apron, you may need other cut outs, too. 



YMMV. 
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Stybar on 27 Aug 2013, 05:07
I don't know, a woman wearing nothing but an apron is pretty hot on it's own. Don't need te cut our the nipples or other areas.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: cesium133 on 27 Aug 2013, 06:57
*ahem* Ya sure about that? (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2304)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Stybar on 27 Aug 2013, 07:09
Yes, I'm sure (http://media.animevice.com/uploads/0/6637/198258-highschool_of_the_dead___saeko_s_naked_apron_by_inazuma.jpg) (somewhat NSFW)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ankhtahr on 27 Aug 2013, 08:33
Did anybody notice the "ASSY POTATO LASERS" (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=877)?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Zebediah on 27 Aug 2013, 10:07
In that same one there is also "Doom Toaster".
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 28 Aug 2013, 00:52
...which always reminded me of the Amityville Toaster (http://www.illwillpress.com/toast.html). 
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ChaoSera on 28 Aug 2013, 03:31
I did notice the Doom Toaster, but not the Assy Potato Lasers. Sven's kitchen seems pretty dangerous.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Storel on 28 Aug 2013, 22:46
Quote from: Carl-E on 28 Aug 2013, 00:52
...which always reminded me of the Amityville Toaster (http://www.illwillpress.com/toast.html).

Haha, I never saw that one before. Cute.  8-)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Stybar on 29 Aug 2013, 01:54
Maybe it's to scare of one night stands who try to make him breakfast or try to stay with him?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: BillyxRansom on 01 Sep 2013, 23:54
HERE'S A THING THAT I NOTICED

"JUDGEMENT"
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 02 Sep 2013, 00:46
My wife spells it that way as a form of civil disobedience.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: pwhodges on 02 Sep 2013, 01:06
I spell it that way because it's usual in the UK (though not considered correct in official legal writing); it's also not uncommon in other non-US English-speaking countries.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Barmymoo on 02 Sep 2013, 03:03
I was corrected on my spelling of "judgement/judgment" in my first Law essay for uni, but I cannot for the life of me remember which spelling I was meant to use. Based on Paul's post I'd say the second one.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: pwhodges on 02 Sep 2013, 03:07
Correct.  But I'm so habituated to the other spelling that the legal one looks wrong to me.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Redball on 02 Sep 2013, 05:15
I'm good at spelling, but judgment is a problem. Muscle memory keeps inserting the e.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Barmymoo on 02 Sep 2013, 05:29
I have the same problem with granfather (NO! Grandfather) and a few other words that I can't remember right now. There used to be a forumite called Darryl and I always spell it Darrly.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: DSL on 02 Sep 2013, 06:01
Quote from: Barmymoo on 02 Sep 2013, 05:29
I have the same problem with granfather (NO! Grandfather) and a few other words that I can't remember right now. There used to be a forumite called Darryl and I always spell it Darrly.

Oh, that was his other other brother.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 02 Sep 2013, 06:40
The one that couldn't talk? 

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yePWd2zmqn4/UUSQCC98bnI/AAAAAAAAIHI/jkE7fSzdWh4/s400/larrydarryldarryl.jpg)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: DSL on 02 Sep 2013, 06:54
It was like some strange dream.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: celticgeek on 02 Sep 2013, 08:28
At one of my jobs, there was a woman who worked with a Darryl in her group (I was a member of that group) and did a lot of work for another group with a Darryl in it.  And yes, she would introduce them as her brother Darryl and her other brother Darryl. 
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: pwhodges on 02 Sep 2013, 08:33
At work I interact routinely with six people called Claire; one's my line manager.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 02 Sep 2013, 09:05
How do you manage? Nicknames? Subscripts?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Zebediah on 02 Sep 2013, 09:14
I had two uncles. Both were named Don. (My dad's brother and my dad's sister's husband.) I never really thought about it much when I was a kid; to me, "Don" was simply something you called an uncle.

My aunt's husband took a certain perverse pride in introducing himself at family weddings as "the other Uncle Don."  :-D
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: pwhodges on 02 Sep 2013, 09:32
Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 02 Sep 2013, 09:05
How do you manage? Nicknames? Subscripts?

In my group: "Claire B", "Claire S", and "Claire I"; outside just surnames when necessary.  But even within the one group ambiguity is pretty rare - at least they work on different trials!  For a time (no longer) the Trials Group manager and the newest lowly recruit had the same first and last names.  We tried "Sarah 2", but that didn't work, so we got her reluctant permission to call the new person "Sarah-Jane".

My wife and I each have a sister called Frances; each Frances is married to a Stephen/Steven. (The similarity ends there - one is a priest, as poor as priests often are, while the other is an international shipping lawyer who I guess earns over ten times what I do.)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 02 Sep 2013, 09:42
The last initial reminds me of a good friend of mine from college, whenever we'd go to the bar and each start a tab.

Bartender: Ok, so you're Eric and you're...oh. Well you're Eric S. and you're Eric...damn it, really?

After a couple times of being amused, we'd just preempt all this and tell them that I was the blue card and he was the green card.

Also re: judgement/judgment, on the first day of law school orientation two weeks ago, the professor asked us to write down the word, to see how many people knew how to spell it. How I remember goes back way further than that. I was sick once in fourth grade, and called my friend to get the spelling words for that week (we had a spelling test each week). One of the words was judgment.

Me: J-U-D-G-E-M-E-N-T, right?
Friend: Nope, no first E, J-U-D-G-M-E-N-T.
Me: Really? Hmm...ok.

After I got the rest of the words, I looked it up, and was surprised to find out that yeah, it was judgment. That was over 15 years ago and seeing it spelled properly still makes me think of that.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: pwhodges on 02 Sep 2013, 10:11
The OED gives judgement as the primary spelling, with judgment as a variant used mainly in the Law and in North America.  Merriam-Webster, naturally, gives judgment first, and judgement as a variant (with no comment about it).
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Barmymoo on 02 Sep 2013, 10:20
In my history class we had two Rosie Jones. One of them consistently got better grades than the other. Obviously (you can guess the punch line) the teacher got their end of year exams mixed up, and naturally the less-good-grades one resisted any attempts to switch them back.

On the stewarding team at the campsite I just got back from, we had two Eleanors. Last year, they acquired the nicknames Elf and Safety. This year we had two Emilys, so one of them became Spoon and the other, who was one of a pair of twins, became Emergency (her twin was Accident, aka Alice). Another team member arrived with the name Sparky. We also had four different Steves, who all acquired nicknames - Flower, Lockie, The Tool and one I can't remember. By the end of the week I had forgotten how odd these names all were!
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 02 Sep 2013, 10:36
You'd think the smarter Rosie Jones would have thought to start writing her full name (middle name included) on all her exams. Also, since I've always known so many Erics, I've usually gone by my last name anyway.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Masterpiece on 02 Sep 2013, 11:07
I just noticed: There are multiple references to peas with Emily involved, before the infamous "give peas a chance" arc:

Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Kugai on 02 Sep 2013, 13:21
I think everyone's first instinct is to punch Pintsize.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ankhtahr on 02 Sep 2013, 14:51
Quote from: Method of Madness on 02 Sep 2013, 10:36
You'd think the smarter Rosie Jones would have thought to start writing her full name (middle name included) on all her exams. Also, since I've always known so many Erics, I've usually gone by my last name anyway.

Fun Fact: (not really fun) Middle names are not too common in German. You'll probably find more people without, than with a middle name. I have one, but I don't use it normally.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 02 Sep 2013, 15:15
Most people I know who have middle names (me included) never use them. I don't even mind the name itself (Alan), it's just useless, and official forms that require a middle initial kind of annoy me. It's not worth the trouble of officially getting rid of it, but I hate when official documents have my full name. Some of my friends have their mother's last name as their middle name, which seems kind of insulting ("we want our kid to have both our last names, but only one of them can be his real surname, with the other one hidden for the most part") or as a way to acknowledge a relative, but mine is neither of those. It's just a name that was picked to give me a second name.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ackblom12 on 02 Sep 2013, 15:19
I will give middle names one benefit. They can make tracing your family tree a bit easier.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ankhtahr on 02 Sep 2013, 15:22
Actually my parents gave me a middle name because they wanted to make it easier for me to go to the US and study, if I wanted to.

And I still love that my first name was chosen because of Star Trek and Classical music.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 02 Sep 2013, 15:24
If I have a son, and I can get my wife to agree with it, I see no reason to not make his middle name Tiberius. That's the one advantage of middle names, you don't really have to worry about the impact of giving them a cool one, because they're almost never used. Then again, I may drop the ball with the first name in that regard.

(Tyrion Tiberius Surname)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: pwhodges on 02 Sep 2013, 15:50
Quote from: Method of Madness on 02 Sep 2013, 15:15
Some of my friends have their mother's last name as their middle name, which seems kind of insulting ("we want our kid to have both our last names, but only one of them can be his real surname, with the other one hidden for the most part")

In some cultures (Spanish, for instance), this is a normal and expected thing, which is routine rather than chosen in the way you indicate.

I have a middle name which is the Celtic name of a theologian that my father was studying at the time.  My brother had got "Austin", as a form of (St) Augustine; curiously, my Godfather's first name was also Austin.  My middle name is "Winfrith" (look up St Boniface), which is also the name of a village and the adjacent heath down in Dorset and thus in turn the name of the nuclear power station built there (the heath was part of what Hardy called Egdon Heath is his books).  I use it on the Internet a bit because it makes it easier to get a unique login sometimes; but I'd fall over if anyone tried to call me by it!
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 02 Sep 2013, 16:07
And now I know your full name! (Given your screen name, it isn't that hard :mrgreen:)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: pwhodges on 02 Sep 2013, 16:21
It's been publicly available for a long time, so I haven't just let any cat out of the bag.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jwhouk on 02 Sep 2013, 18:25
Quote from: ackblom12 on 02 Sep 2013, 15:19
I will give middle names one benefit. They can make tracing your family tree a bit easier.

This times a thousand. It wasn't until this year that I realized my great grandfather HAD a middle name.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Zebediah on 02 Sep 2013, 19:46
Sometimes middle names make tracing your family tree easier. Sometimes not. Ever tried to search for James Francis Finn who was born in Pittsburgh in 1883 or '84? There are lots and lots of them. I have no idea which one is the right one.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: cesium133 on 02 Sep 2013, 20:15
If it wasn't for middle names, it would be nearly impossible to trace my family tree. I share my first and last names with my dad, a couple uncles/great-uncles, cousins, and a couple people I know of that we're not even related to. Not to mention that my first name/last name combination is also used by several relatively well-known people, including a politician. And a guy who was killed by an icicle.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Grognard on 02 Sep 2013, 21:03
I keep running afoul the American Justice System.
there's a occasionally nice fella, currently a Prison Lifer++, with My EXACT same name, but born 2 days prior to me.
yeah.
that has caused problems in the past.
Oddly, in a sorta happy way; the most obvious difference between us is the Melanin count.
I'm Space Shuttle White, and he's Heat Shield Black.
I send him a birthday card every year.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 02 Sep 2013, 23:45
HA!  My issue's not the name, but the face...

I got picked up at the age of 17 walking to school in Buffalo. 

I saw the mugshots of the person they thought I was.  It was spooky.  Especially since he was about twice my age.  Damn facial hair...
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Loki on 03 Sep 2013, 01:24
I share my first name-last name with a certain high-ranking Russian military, that I am not related to (As far as I know. Then again, my father's family tree is impossible to trace).
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jwhouk on 03 Sep 2013, 05:54
That's the problem of about 90% of Americans of German descent, actually. It's the reason why a.) I have no records of about half my family before my great-great grandparents, and b.) I don't know 100% for sure how my great-great grandfather actually spelled his name.

(That's right, my screen name should actually be "jwhouhe" for all I know...)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: FuryoftheStars on 03 Sep 2013, 06:42
My father wanted me to be a "third" in naming, but my mother wouldn't allow it.  They compromised and my middle name is my father's first.

As far as I know, my first name-last name combo isn't shared with anyone in my family or otherwise "known" figure.  Course, I don't think I've looked overly hard, either.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Storel on 03 Sep 2013, 15:40
One of my high school German teachers told us about this one seminar she took in college where one of the other students had the exact same first name and last name... only the middle initials were different. Let's call them Virginia A. Smith and Virginia B. Smith.* And both of them went by "Ginny".

So the professor referred to them as Ginny A and Ginny B all semester, and when the grades were assigned... Ginny A (my teacher) got an A, and Ginny B got a B.

My teacher said she was very glad her name wasn't Virginia F. Smith...  8-)


__________
* Last names changed to protect their privacy.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Kugai on 03 Sep 2013, 20:35
Try three.

My first two names are actually my fathers, my third is in honor of the Catholic Priest who my parents knew and was a family friend - as well as the Priest who Baptised me.  No need to explain where the Surname comes from.

And NO!  My name is NOT James The Kugai!!
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Nepiophage on 03 Sep 2013, 20:54
I do a lot of OCRing of old books and was surprisd to discover that judgment was the standard British spelling in the 19th century. MS Word UK English spellcheck flags it as an error.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Grognard on 03 Sep 2013, 21:01
I really tried to saddle my Son&Heir with a Blah Blah Blah, Junior; but the wife wouldn't let me.   Pout.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 03 Sep 2013, 21:14
No sons, but my eldest daughter is the 4th Laura down the maternal line.  My wife, her mother and maternal grandma were all Lauras. 
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 03 Sep 2013, 21:30
I wonder why females don't use "Jr." or numbers. Unless her name actually is Laura the Fourth (aka Foura).
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 03 Sep 2013, 21:35
Because in a paternal society, the rest of the name is different.  Only the Laura has remained the same.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Grognard on 03 Sep 2013, 21:36
My daughter's middle name is a mix of My Wife's, My Mom's, Wife's Moms, 3 great grandmas', and Wife's Great Great Grandmas.

Jane, Elaine, Ellen, Janet, Eleanor and Ellen again.

My nickname for my daughter is "BOB".  totally PISSES OFF the wife.  :D LOL.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Vurogj on 03 Sep 2013, 23:31
I have the exact same name (first, middle and surname) as my father, and his father, and his father, and his father.

I have mixed feelings about it...
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Masterpiece on 04 Sep 2013, 02:06
Quote from: Kugai on 03 Sep 2013, 20:35
And NO!  My name is NOT James The Kugai!![/size=6pt]

Just a quick note, afaik you don't use parameters with closing tags, so in your case, a [/size] would be sufficient.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: bhtooefr on 04 Sep 2013, 03:59
My middle name, and my first name for that matter, were a compromise, and have nothing to do with familial descent.

As in, my dad wanted me to be Elmer Fudd Rucker.

So, my mom picked a name that let him get the initials, but I got something that wouldn't get me laughed out of elementary school. (Instead I get to deal with the eleventy billion Erics problem sometimes. Solution: if it's a community that knows me online, I go by "toof" (shortened, easily pronounceable version of my online screen name) instead.)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: KOK on 04 Sep 2013, 04:43
Different cultures have different traditions about naming children for people. In my own, it used to be a firm rule that you can only name a child after someone who is dead. This rule is no longer followed, or even widely known.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Zebediah on 04 Sep 2013, 05:06
Oddly enough, that's the rule in my family, imposed by my dad who was named after his dad. He really didn't want me to be the 3rd, mostly because he hated his name. So he decided "Everyone gets their own name", and you could only re-use names after someone had died. Middle names are a different story - my dad's first name is my middle name.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 04 Sep 2013, 05:10
Quote from: bhtooefr on 04 Sep 2013, 03:59
eleventy billion Erics problem
That makes three on the forum that I know of. Could be more.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ankhtahr on 04 Sep 2013, 05:19
Apparently Eric is the English "Moritz". We had 4 of them in our year. And 5 "Julia"s. Luckily there were at most 3 "Julia"s together in one course.

The worst thing is that most teachers are used to calling pupils who share names with the first name and the initial of the last name. Two of the "Moritz"s' last names started with the same letter… We had one teacher who constantly forgot about it. That resulted in the following situation occurring in almost every lesson of this teacher:

Teacher: "Moritz!"
A Moritz: "Which one?"
Teacher: "Moritz L."
A Moritz L.: "Which one?"
Teacher: *sigh* *points at the one he meant*
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Grognard on 04 Sep 2013, 05:48
I worked in a 10 person Security office.  8 of us had Steve/Steven/Stephen in our names.
Thus the sign on the door:



"Den of Steves"  :D
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jmucchiello on 04 Sep 2013, 13:15
Quote from: Grognard on 03 Sep 2013, 21:01
I really tried to saddle my Son&Heir with a Blah Blah Blah, Junior; but the wife wouldn't let me.   Pout.
You are better off with him not being your junior. My records were constantly being mixed with my father's (I'm a junior) until we both started asserting our suffixes (Jr and Sr). I still have a credit card on my credit report that was my father's. He closed the account when I was 3. And yet somehow, I have it on my report that I had a credit card active from 2 years before my birth till I was 3 years old. Can't get anyone to remove the damn thing. Not that it impacts my credit in any way. It's just silly that it's there.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Sidhekin on 04 Sep 2013, 13:25
Quote from: jmucchiello on 04 Sep 2013, 13:15
It's just silly that it's there.
Silliness is highly underrated.

Quote from: Grognard on 04 Sep 2013, 05:48
"Den of Steves"  :D
Consider it appreciated.  8-)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 04 Sep 2013, 13:31
Was the highest ranking person called the Prince of Steves?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Kugai on 04 Sep 2013, 15:05
Quote from: Masterpiece on 04 Sep 2013, 02:06
Quote from: Kugai on 03 Sep 2013, 20:35
And NO!  My name is NOT James The Kugai!![/size=6pt]

Just a quick note, afaik you don't use parameters with closing tags, so in your case, a [/size] would be sufficient.

Yeah, knew that - just forgot to fix the frakup when I Posted that.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 04 Sep 2013, 15:38
Quote from: ankhtahr on 04 Sep 2013, 05:19
Apparently Eric is the English "Moritz".
As far as I know, Eric's got nothing on Mike or John.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: bhtooefr on 04 Sep 2013, 16:35
Or Joseph (two of those in my office), or Thomas, or quite a few others. Still, I find name collisions quite frequent.

And, if I were assigned female at birth, I would've been named after my paternal grandmother, I've been told.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: celticgeek on 04 Sep 2013, 18:32
My first name is Fletcher.  When I was in grade school, there were two separate families (both of whom had children in my classes) whose last (family) name was Fletcher.  It usually took the new teachers a few weeks to figure all of that out. 
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Zebediah on 04 Sep 2013, 18:46
How's this: My fourth grade class had twenty boys. Five were named David.

And that wasn't the biggest statistical anomaly in that class. Twenty boys... and ten girls. The other fourth grade class at my school had the same gender imbalance. For some reason I can't explain, in my particular year (and no other) my elementary school had twice as many boys as girls.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 05 Sep 2013, 07:01
I was named for my paternal line great-grandfather who passed away 5 years before I was born, at the age of 93.  There are several uncles and cousins named Carl, though, and so I use my middle initial as well.  It was his, but none of the relatives wound up using the same middle name, so I lucked out.  Google searches on my full name still bring up photos of the old man. 

My first post-Ph.D. teaching position had a Carl there already, a few years from retirement.  So of course he was Old Carl, and i was New Carl.  Then we hired a Karl.  He became Young Karl (he was, and quite babyfaced as well).  Then there was Carleton in the administration who went by Carl. 

We called him "fuck Carl", for reasons that would be obvious if you ever heard him open his mouth.  He was the one who tried to argue with aa group of mathematicians that a 3% merit pay raise, when distributed, wouldn't average to 3%. 

"Sure it would - some will get more, some less." 

"No, no, 3% is the ceiling." 

"But you got 3% of the salary pool to distribute?" 

"Yes." 

"Then where's the rest going?" 

"There is no "rest". we're distributing it by merit". 

Fuck, Carl!  Meetings with him were like "Who's on first".
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: DSL on 05 Sep 2013, 17:15
Quote from: Carl-E on 05 Sep 2013, 07:01
... Meetings with him were like "Who's on first".

You rang?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Kugai on 05 Sep 2013, 18:39
I didn't know Lurch was a member of this Forum!!


Cool!



:-D
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: FuryoftheStars on 05 Sep 2013, 18:57
*puts head down into hands*

I can't tell you how many times I've had people ask me to do that line....
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Kugai on 05 Sep 2013, 19:30
uuuuUUUUUUuuuuuu
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 05 Sep 2013, 19:50
I could do Lurch in high school.  Nowadays I sound more like Uncle Fester. 

(http://pumpkinjack.ca/Patterns/TV%20And%20Radio/The%20Addams%20Family/Original/uncleFester.jpg)

Look more like him, too...

Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 05 Sep 2013, 21:05
Now you've got me thinking of an Addams Family/QC crossover.

Sam would really like Uncle Fester.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 05 Sep 2013, 21:08
Dora as Morticia. 


For some reason I see Angus as Gomez...


Oh, and guest starring Clinton's hand as "Thing"!   :laugh:
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Mr_Rose on 06 Sep 2013, 01:24
Nonono, Dora just is not Morticia. Veronica now… and that leaves Dora free to play Gomez.
Faye can be uncle Fester while Sven plays Lurch. Momo can portray Wednesday, leaving Pugsley to Pintsize. Obviously, Clinton gets to play Thing and I reckon Claire would make a good cousin It.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Toe on 06 Sep 2013, 03:07
Gabby could be Cousin It, given sufficient humidity of course.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jwhouk on 06 Sep 2013, 04:23
And Marten, the MAIN CHARACTER OF THE COMIC STRIP, THANK YOU, doesn't get even a passing mention?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 06 Sep 2013, 05:03
Nope.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: DSL on 06 Sep 2013, 05:23
... about par for the course for Marten, don'cha think?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Pilchard123 on 06 Sep 2013, 14:32
Here seems the best place for this: The last five words of panel 4 in 168 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=168) remind me of There Must Be An Angel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlGXDy5xFlw)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Mlle Germain on 09 Sep 2013, 14:53
The discussion seems to have changed topic a bit, but I really feel like saying something about my name, too:
In addition to my first and middle name, I have two last names linked by a hyphen (this is because my parents both kept their names when they married. This was possible for some time in Germany). Since my first name is quite long, my "everyday name" without my hardly used middle name has 23 letters and 7 syllables. I often have to squeeze it into much too short spaces when filling out forms. Additionally, the first last name has several spellings in German which means that I always have to specify which it is. Then I have to spell my second last name, which is very rare. Then I have to say that there's a hyphen in between. And then I have to repeat my first name, which people have forgotten by now.  :-D
And this is just in Germany. When I lived in Australia, I just spelled my whole name immediately if anyone asked (some of it is not really pronouncable by English-speaking people).
Also, my name is unique. When you google me (without middle name), there are only hits about me - I don't like that much.
But I also wouldn't want to change my name (e.g. by marriage) or drop one of the last names. Then it wouldn't seem completely like me anymore .
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 09 Sep 2013, 15:04
Quote from: Mlle Germain on 09 Sep 2013, 14:53
This was possible for some time in Germany
Is it not possible anymore? This is actually fairly common in the states.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Loki on 09 Sep 2013, 15:27
Just checked Wikipedia, because that surprised me as well.

The surname of the child must be the surname of one of the parents. So if Mr Foo marries Ms Bar, the only way how their future child can be called Foo-Bar is if one of them decides to take the name Foo-Bar upon marriage.

I think. Checking it out on mobile is kinda a hassle.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 09 Sep 2013, 15:29
If you have an Android phone, download the app, it's pretty useful. Also, that's...really messed up.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Masterpiece on 09 Sep 2013, 15:29
You goddamn programmers
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Loki on 09 Sep 2013, 15:39
I do have the app, but ideally I'd like a way to have both Wikipedia and the forum on my screen, because the law is rather confusing, and it gets more difficult if the parents aren't married.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 09 Sep 2013, 15:45
I'm pretty sure over here the parents can give the kid either or both names, regardless of marital status.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: pwhodges on 09 Sep 2013, 15:51
My nephew has both his parents' surnames, but not hyphenated (so I guess one is registered as a forename).  They "forgot" to give the older daughter both names, so were particularly concerned to get it right the second time around!
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 09 Sep 2013, 19:59
My wife hyphenated. 

The girls both have her maiden name as a second middle name, with my last name as their last name.  This was my wife's idea. 

The hyphenating's a PITA.  17 letters long... both names are German, too, and no one in the states seems able to pronounce my part, though hers is easy.  So when read, they start off fine and never finish...
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 09 Sep 2013, 20:48
I wasn't saying it's for everyone, just that it's shitty to not allow people to do it.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Storel on 12 Sep 2013, 11:49
Yeah, but allowing hyphenation for anything can get messy when it starts happening across multiple generations.

For example, if John Smith and Mary Jones get married and become John and Mary Smith-Jones, that's not so bad. But what happens when their kid, Ellen Smith-Jones, marries Fred Wilmington-Smithers? For convenience, perhaps they simply keep their existing names, or exchange some names (Fred Wilmington-Jones and Ellen Smith-Smithers?), but what about their kids? Poor little Paul Smith-Wilmington-Smithers-Jones will probably fall in love with Sue Baker and decide to take her last name when they get married, out of desperation... (God forbid he should marry Nancy Green-Johnson-Bailey-Mortimer.)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Grognard on 12 Sep 2013, 11:57
One hyphen and no more, lest thy descendants curse thee and curse thy antecedents.

1st Bob, chapter 2, verse 5.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Storel on 12 Sep 2013, 11:59
Now there's a commandment I can really get behind. 8-)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 12 Sep 2013, 12:15
When my wife's friend Jane Alexander married Allen Manifold, they hyphenated.  Their firstborn was named Asher Byron Alexander-Manifold. 

I still maintain that it's the name of an engine part for a Rolls-Royce. 


Edit:  My bad, it's a part for a Sebring. 

(http://www.sebringsprite.com/images/AlexInlet003L.jpg)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 12 Sep 2013, 17:17
Quote from: Storel on 12 Sep 2013, 11:49
Yeah, but allowing hyphenation for anything can get messy when it starts happening across multiple generations.
Maybe, but that's their problem. It's not the government's place to get involved just because someone's name is unwieldy.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jwhouk on 12 Sep 2013, 18:31
It is when it doesn't fit on a form needed for some public service, like voter registration or to pay taxes.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 12 Sep 2013, 20:18
That's how names get shortened.  Put in as much as you can, and forget the rest. 
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 12 Sep 2013, 21:31
My friend Josephine always became Joseph when we took standardized tests.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Barmymoo on 13 Sep 2013, 02:43
Make up a new blended surname! Smith-Jones and Wilmington-Smithers could become Smithington.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ChaoSera on 13 Sep 2013, 03:10
My former german teacher named his son Johann Christian Teophil <LastName>.
I still pity the poor fella :psyduck:
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Pilchard123 on 13 Sep 2013, 04:31
Quote from: Barmymoo on 13 Sep 2013, 02:43
Make up a new blended surname! Smith-Jones and Wilmington-Smithers could become Smithington.

I knew a guy called Harry Washington-Smith; we occasionally called him Harold Poshington-Spiffington.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ankhtahr on 13 Sep 2013, 05:40
A friend of mine has the maximum number of names allowed by German law.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 13 Sep 2013, 06:19
Four?  Or six?  or are we talking a maximum length? 
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ankhtahr on 13 Sep 2013, 06:32
I think it is 4 or 5 middle names.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 13 Sep 2013, 07:11
Quote from: ChaoSera on 13 Sep 2013, 03:10
My former german teacher named his son Johann Christian Teophil <LastName>.
I still pity the poor fella :psyduck:

That's almost as bad as "little Bobby Tables" from xkcd.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ankhtahr on 13 Sep 2013, 07:16
Well, I'm more worried about what the name implies. Christian on its own is a common German first name, but together with Teophil/Theophil, which means "loved by god", well, that definitely means something. And the name sounds very old fashioned.

(and I hope his last name wasn't really "<LastName>")
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 13 Sep 2013, 07:52
That's the way I took it.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Loki on 13 Sep 2013, 15:02
Quote from: ankhtahr on 13 Sep 2013, 07:16
(and I hope his last name wasn't really "<LastName>")

Reminds me of that one spam mail we got once which literally ended with the words "Yours, YourName".
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Storel on 14 Sep 2013, 03:24
Quote from: ankhtahr on 13 Sep 2013, 07:16
Well, I'm more worried about what the name implies. Christian on its own is a common German first name, but together with Teophil/Theophil, which means "loved by god", well, that definitely means something. And the name sounds very old fashioned.

"Teophil/Theophil" (loved by God) is the Greek-roots version of the German name "Gottlieb"; the Latin-roots version is "Amadeus". That's why Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart turn out to be the same person. (Similarly, Theodore and Dorothea/Dorothy both mean "gift of God".)

And Johann Sebastian Bach's youngest son, also a composer, was named Johann Christian Bach. Wikipedia says he "is noted for influencing the concerto style of Mozart."

So my guess would be that whoever named his/her kid "Johann Christian Teophil _______" may have done so in homage to their favorite Bach and the man he influenced. But that's just my guess.

(There were actually quite a few members of Bach's family who became composers, though none of them were quite as famous as old J.S. Bach himself. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, the aforementioned J.C. Bach, and Anna Magdalena Bach may be the best known. At least, they're the main ones I've heard of.)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: KOK on 14 Sep 2013, 04:57
Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart is what he was baptised according to Wikipedia.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Redball on 14 Sep 2013, 05:29
Quote from: Storel on 14 Sep 2013, 03:24
(There were actually quite a few members of Bach's family who became composers, though none of them were quite as famous as old J.S. Bach himself. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, the aforementioned J.C. Bach, and Anna Magdalena Bach may be the best known. At least, they're the main ones I've heard of.)
J.S. Bach wasn't famous at first, as this fictional anecdote reminded me: In the 20.1-volume series from which the "Master and Commander" movie was made, Capt. Jack Aubrey and physician Stephen Maturin are the main characters and also pretty good amateur musicians. Between voyages during the Napoleonic wars, in England circa 1800, Aubrey greets Maturin with some sheet music in hand. "Did you know London Bach had a father!?" "Most people do." Aubrey had been looking through music in a store and chanced on some chamber music in moldy condition. Other music by JS Bach had rotted, as I recall.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: pwhodges on 14 Sep 2013, 06:20
(http://www2.nau.edu/tas3/famtree.gif)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Legere-factus on 23 Sep 2013, 10:40
Obviously Hannelore has lots of piecings in her ears, but I only noticed today Faye has two in each lobe too. Not always, and they're just little dots so sometimes it's hard to see but they're definitely there.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Nepiophage on 31 Oct 2013, 09:20
When Marigold meets Dale outside the convenience store, she is holding a cup with  UHA.. ABUK.. on it. What could that be? http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1771 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1771)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Zebediah on 31 Oct 2013, 09:35
Even more interesting is that in the first and second panels the cup says UHA...BUKK. The second line doesn't change to ABUK until the fifth panel.

Also in panel three there's a Z showing, so the first line is UHAZ. Still can't parse it into anything sensible. U HAZ BUKKS?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 31 Oct 2013, 12:40
U HAZ A BUK probably means that giant monstrosity of a beverage costs one American Dollar (plus applicable taxes).
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: DSL on 31 Oct 2013, 13:23
Quote from: Method of Madness on 31 Oct 2013, 12:40
U HAZ A BUK probably means that giant monstrosity of a beverage costs one American Dollar (plus applicable taxes).

I read it as "U HAZ A BUKKET" -- also referring to the size of a Slurpee-analog that is probably not so much dispensed as launched.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Pilchard123 on 31 Oct 2013, 14:32
I thought it was "U HAZ A BUKKIT", like the lolrus.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Storel on 14 Nov 2013, 11:27
Okay, remember the Malaysian Battle Spatula (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=540)? I think I finally found out what one of those looks like while catching up on Full Frontal Nerdity just now: check out panel 5 (http://ffn.nodwick.com/?p=1221).
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: cesium133 on 14 Nov 2013, 12:09
If Nethack has taught me anything, it's that kobold meat is bad for you.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ankhtahr on 14 Nov 2013, 12:30
Quote from: cesium133 on 14 Nov 2013, 12:09
If Nethack has taught me anything, it's that kobold meat is bad for you.

hehehe

I now have to fight the urge to start playing nethack again...
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: draiden on 15 Nov 2013, 06:30
Maybe it's been pointed out already, but in 1979, did Dora recognizes the art gallery guy and Faye complains she should have got twice as much money, but Dora is the one who originally made the deal with the guy and did not know him originally.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 15 Nov 2013, 10:12
Sometimes a punch line is more important than continuity. 
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 15 Nov 2013, 10:24
Or maybe Dora did some research in between.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: draiden on 15 Nov 2013, 10:47
Well, the joke could have been just as funny with proper continuity, I think. And Doras line seems more like surprise recognition rather than knowing she would see him upon return.  Raven could have delivered the line, and since she originally majored in interior design (I think, from when they repainted the shop) it would make sense that she would know some artsy stuff. Maybe it's nitpicking, but it throws me off whenever I read that comic, so I thought I'd post here.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Binks on 21 Nov 2013, 02:51
I don't know if this is the right place to put this, but I've been noticing a lot of Claire/Marten shippers and it confuses me. In 615, Martens line indicates that he would probably mind being with someone who was born male. I don't mind Claire being trans and I know Jeph loves to show how inclusive and tolerant he is, but a relationship between her and marten just doesn't make sense to me. And that doesn't make marten a bigot, that's probably just his preference.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: pwhodges on 21 Nov 2013, 03:30
Discussion of relationships in the immediate context of the comic is one thing, but any shipping outside that context is shut down in this forum.

Quote from: Binks on 21 Nov 2013, 02:51
In 615 [...] someone who was born male.

That is not the way to refer to a trans woman - please see this thread (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,28457.0.html).  I doubt that Jeph would now write that strip using the words that Dora says.

Quote
I don't mind Claire being trans and I know Jeph loves to show how inclusive and tolerant he is

Don't you realise how patronising that remark is, both to Jeph and to the whole trans* community?

Quote from: Binks on 14 Nov 2013, 20:43
Well here's hoping I don't get banned soon for generally being a pain in the ass. That is one of my favorite hobbies!

Stick to the rules and take note of what people say, and you'll be fine; but there's no free pass because you said it first.

Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Binks on 21 Nov 2013, 04:24
Holy shit, you people are more sensitive than I expected. LOL. Okay. Um... My bad?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: GarandMarine on 21 Nov 2013, 04:29
Marten has matured a fair amount since that strip, and of course he's gotten to know Claire too. A couple years ago I probably would have reacted pretty poorly to the concept, a couple years later I've actively dated two trans women. Secret of the night: They're just women.

I also wouldn't call being asked to not refer to a group of individuals in a manner they find insulting or derogatory sensitive.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Binks on 21 Nov 2013, 04:34
I don't understand how that's insulting, though. They WERE born male, right? I mean it's not like I said "freak" or "tranny" or "faggot."
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: pwhodges on 21 Nov 2013, 04:46
Please read at least some of the thread I linked (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,28457.0.html).  You will find it educational (as I and many others did).

Specifically, whatever reason caused a trans woman to be classified as male after birth does not mean that they are male.  Yes, there is scope for misunderstanding; but reading what the trans* community has told us about it should help you get past that.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Binks on 21 Nov 2013, 04:51
All of a sudden I feel like I'm on Tumblr.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: pwhodges on 21 Nov 2013, 04:56
Why?  Because people are trying in a friendly way to educate you so that you can avoid causing unwitting upset?  I didn't know Tumblr was that nice.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Binks on 21 Nov 2013, 04:57
Just a bunch of words like "trans<scrubbed by moderator>" and "genderfluid" on there that confuse the shit out me.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: DSL on 21 Nov 2013, 05:00
Quote from: Binks on 21 Nov 2013, 02:51
I don't know if this is the right place to put this, but I've been noticing a lot of Claire/Marten shippers and it confuses me. In 615, Martens line indicates that he would probably mind being with someone who was born male. I don't mind Claire being trans and I know Jeph loves to show how inclusive and tolerant he is, but a relationship between her and marten just doesn't make sense to me. And that doesn't make marten a bigot, that's probably just his preference.

People, including fictional characters EDIT: and the people who create them, often learn things and change their minds as a result of new information and occasionally even regret their previous viewpoints.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: GarandMarine on 21 Nov 2013, 05:01
trans...what?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Grognard on 21 Nov 2013, 06:52
what is the forum record for quickest Banning?

Hey BINKS. I don't see eye to eye with everyone on this forum, but there are these things called 'CIVILITY' and 'Forum Rules' and 'MANNERS'...
 You should RTFM before you post again.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Binks on 21 Nov 2013, 07:11
Lol k
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: pwhodges on 21 Nov 2013, 07:25
Quote from: Grognard on 21 Nov 2013, 06:52
what is the forum record for quickest Banning?

Single-figure minutes, actually (and that's excluding simple spammers when they were able to reach us).
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: LeeC on 21 Nov 2013, 07:43
No worry Binks.  To put it in a certain light, Claire is a woman.  If I was to entertain what you are saying: Marten never met Claire before that statement.  Whose to say he doesn't feel differently after meeting Claire?  That's why slice of life stories can be so entertaining when done right.  People can grow, change, and experience things just like real people.  Have you ever met a person who makes you question your convictions in a positive way?  Just because Marten said that in a past comic doesn't make it law forever.  He's a person (though fictional) so the real question is, why not?  :-)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 21 Nov 2013, 09:42
(education hat on)
It turns out that trans people often (*) have a profound and permanent sense of being male or female from their earliest memories. Since the organs we are interacting with on the forum are the gray wrinkly ones up top, that's the practically important setting.

(Not just trans people, there was that horrible case of the boy who was consistently raised as a girl after a circumcision accident. He just *knew* he was a boy regardless of the evidence downstairs and how everyone treated him).

The moderators have spent a lot of time educating themselves on the issue and ordering professional papers from the library that aren't online. Scientifically, it looks like the trans people have been right about themselves all along.

I know what you mean by "born male". Saying "male assigned at birth" is not SJW PC tyranny, it's simply more precise thinking. It's a bonus that saying it that way avoids hurting forum members.

GLAAD has some educational resources about transgender people, shorter and better organized than the trans* thread here. http://www.glaad.org/transgender .  I can't vouch for the quality. From trans* people themselves, there's a discussion near the end of "Trans* issues arising from the comic" about whether there's a non-painful way to discuss whether they're physically compatible. There isn't.
(/education)

(moderator hat on)
There's a draft of what will likely become forum rules near the end of the trana* thread in Discuss. Bottom line, we'll enforce it.
(/moderator)

(regular user hat)
Marten has hangups but has been wonderful about treating Claire as a woman in everyday life.

[PM sent explaining things further]





(*) Their experiences vary a lot.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Binks on 21 Nov 2013, 16:17
THANK YOU MR. KNOWLEDGE MAN.

No really, that helps. Thank you.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 22 Nov 2013, 13:45
You're welcome. There's a lot to know.

Anyway, it sounds like Claire is not looking for a relationship, and Marten is such a kickass Justafriend that it's great if they stay at that point.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Binks on 23 Nov 2013, 16:07
I don't know where else to put this. It pertains to the comic but it's also a random thought: It's pretty crazy and kind of sad seeing that a lot the webcomics that Jeph links to in his old newsposts have discontinued and bring up dead links.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Mlle Germain on 23 Nov 2013, 16:24
It reminds you of how long the comic has been running, right? Also compared to how long other webcomics run in their entirety.
I started reading QC shortly before the breakup, so about 1800, so seeing the entire comic, I've been following the last less than 30% of it. And yet I've been reading the comic almost every (week) day for three years now!
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 23 Nov 2013, 17:19
It's a shame when things disappear completely. I've never been able to find a complete copy of The AnthroPC Handbook, for example.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 23 Nov 2013, 19:16
I'm not sure I've ever heard of that, how old is it?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: HauntingPoem on 23 Nov 2013, 19:24
ME neither do tell!
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jwhouk on 23 Nov 2013, 19:41
Once upon a time, it was apparently typed out in one of the former boards that Jeph had attached to the older QC forums, but it was never apparently saved.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: K1dmor on 23 Nov 2013, 19:43
 You mean This text (http://jephjacques.com/post/14655843351/un-hearing-on-ai-rights) that was posted with this strip (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2085)?

EDIT: Oh wait, you mean This thread (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,5271.0). Yeah, the web doesn't work anymore.
 The only thing you can find is:
 The Web-Archive snapshot (http://web.archive.org/web/20051221042530/http://www.sionide.net/anthropc/index.php/Main_Page) or
 The QC Wikia page (http://questionablecontent.wikia.com/wiki/AnthroPC_Handbook).
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: pwhodges on 24 Nov 2013, 02:33
Um, that Wayback page now has working links to the contents of the chapters - I'm sure it didn't used to, but they're sure there now!  (Perhaps someone should grab copies)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jwhouk on 24 Nov 2013, 03:13
Done. Gimme a moment.

EDIT: Got it right here (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9AJYQpA8CKFU0FkT2dhZUo4RVk/edit?usp=sharing) as a Word DOCX document; you can read it on Google Drive.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: toffee-skye on 27 Nov 2013, 05:10
i noticed this (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1011)! Faye's line of "..you don't see fully humanoid robots running around everywhere" struck me as a http://www.questionablecontent.net/comics/1011 bit odd considering Momo's fully humanoid chassis. it makes me wonder if HannerDad sold the patents?

(Fixed the link -Method)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Schmee on 27 Nov 2013, 05:22
Momo's chassis isn't completely humanoid; it's an anime-themed model from Sony. The Idoru Platinum Deluxe, I think.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: DSL on 27 Nov 2013, 06:39
Quote from: toffee-skye on 27 Nov 2013, 05:10
i noticed this (http://www.questionablecontent.net/comics/1011)! Faye's line of "..you don't see fully humanoid robots running around everywhere" struck me as a bit odd considering Momo's fully humanoid chassis. it makes me wonder if HannerDad sold the patents?
Tech marches on, y'know. Even a behind-the-curve guy like me owns a phone he wouldn't have thought possible the previous year. Had the cast met Marigold and Momo 1.0 at that point?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 27 Nov 2013, 08:43
Boyfriend-bot wasn't fully humanoid either. Even now, a chassis like Momo's is two orders of magnitude more expensive than an entry-level one. You don't see cars a hundred times more expensive than a Kia running around everywhere even though they've existed for a long time.

I can believe Hannerdad commercializing the design. The market demand just from AnthroPCs must have been overwhelming.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: toffee-skye on 29 Nov 2013, 13:41
i don't think they had met Marigold at that point, or Momo. and admittedly i'm using humanoid to mean in appearance, rather than Pintsize's robot-like appearance, Winslow's giant-talking-iPod looks and Momo 1.0's chibi chassis.

i didn't consider the money aspect of it, durr. it was just a bit odd to see that comment from Faye but knowing that those humanoid chassis (or at least, human looking to the point that Momo has to tell Samantha she's a robot) existed and were available in many forms - weren't the store assistants robots too?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 29 Nov 2013, 21:42
They were indeed!
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jwhouk on 30 Nov 2013, 06:11
You have to wonder what the cost point would be for a Wooden APC. As in, more or less than Pintsize's chassis?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Grognard on 30 Nov 2013, 07:24
Quote from: jwhouk on 30 Nov 2013, 06:11
You have to wonder what the cost point would be for a Wooden APC. As in, more or less than Pintsize's chassis?

but that's so old school...  oh, wait. Sorry. Had a mental image of DaVinci's wooden APC.
(http://scifi-real.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/da-vinci-tank-design.jpg)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: DSL on 01 Dec 2013, 09:29
Tanks for posting that image.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: TheRedMaiden on 30 Dec 2013, 21:03
Forgive me if I post repeats, I haven't read through all eight pages of the thread.

It looks like Jeph had an idea of what a new-chasis Momo would look like long before she got it. 
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1658

ALSO, I dove through the archives for an hour and a half just to find these two, but it seems Dora and Hanners (and I'm gonna go ahead and assume Jeph), are Terry Pratchett fans!  :-D
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1262
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1313
(The Millennium Hand line from Hannelore is a catchphrase of a character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Masterpiece on 01 Jan 2014, 16:57
Well that chassis is just an oversized version of her former chassis, no?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jwhouk on 01 Jan 2014, 17:26
RedMaiden: 1658 = QC forum version of being "Rickrolled".
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 01 Jan 2014, 20:46
The news post for that one was key information though.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: TheRedMaiden on 01 Jan 2014, 21:41
Quote from: jwhouk on 01 Jan 2014, 17:26
RedMaiden: 1658 = QC forum version of being "Rickrolled".

What? I'm missing something here.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 01 Jan 2014, 21:44
It gets brought up all the time.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jwhouk on 01 Jan 2014, 21:46
Especially when there's anything about Anthro PC's, chassis changes, sex... you know, the usual.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Storel on 03 Jan 2014, 10:55
Quote from: Masterpiece on 01 Jan 2014, 16:57
Well that chassis is just an oversized version of her former chassis, no?

Couldn't you say that about her present chassis, too?

I think RedMaiden has a point -- there is some similarity between Momo's daydream of what she might look like in a new chassis and what she actually looks like in it. Of course, it makes sense that Momo would choose a chassis that was similar to the one she'd been day-dreaming about. (The real one looks a little less sexy than the fantasy one, though.)

And I didn't know the Millenium Hand thing was from Discworld, although I believe there was some forum discussion about the phrase in the past. So thanks!
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Pilchard123 on 04 Jan 2014, 03:03
Quote from: TheRedMaiden on 30 Dec 2013, 21:03
(The Millennium Hand line from Hannelore is a catchphrase of a character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series)

Also of Mrs Tachyon form the Johnny series.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: freeman on 05 Jan 2014, 05:04
Quote from: ankhtahr on 13 Sep 2013, 06:32
I think it is 4 or 5 middle names.

A name, two middle names and all of them hyphenated? As in "Laura-Joanna Eli-Nora Alexandra-Camilla".

Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: PthariensFlame on 05 Jan 2014, 11:42
Better than an unpronounceable (to us) name, like poor Nǃxau ǂToma (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N!xau_ǂToma).
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Beregorn on 13 Jan 2014, 12:23
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1264
the board reflected in the mirror should be "written" from right to left
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 13 Jan 2014, 19:46
Quote from: PthariensFlame on 05 Jan 2014, 11:42
Better than an unpronounceable (to us) name, like poor Nǃxau ǂToma (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N!xau_ǂToma).
Just because we don't know how to pronounce it doesn't make it unpronounceable. If we heard someone say it enough times we could pronounce it, could we not?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Kugai on 13 Jan 2014, 20:28
Quote from: Beregorn on 13 Jan 2014, 12:23
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1264
the board reflected in the mirror should be "written" from right to left

It's a trick sign.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 14 Jan 2014, 08:04
It's written backwards and hung on the opposite wall so the employees will be able to read it when they look in the mirror. 

:P
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: pwhodges on 14 Jan 2014, 08:44
There are two mirrors?

These options were all discussed in the forum at the time.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: zmeiat_joro on 14 Jan 2014, 16:09
Quote from: Pilchard123 on 04 Jan 2014, 03:03
Quote from: TheRedMaiden on 30 Dec 2013, 21:03
(The Millennium Hand line from Hannelore is a catchphrase of a character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series)

Also of Mrs Tachyon form the Johnny series.

Is it canon that Mrs Tachyon is a time traveller, btw?

EDIT: I want to thank the moderators for apparently handling well what seems to have been some transphobic comments here. There seems to have been some trolling the last year or two, from what I've seen, but also very good discussion. I got some useful links from some members of this community, for which I thank them.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ankhtahr on 14 Jan 2014, 20:07
While binging I once again stumbled over the "Fehlerbrauerei Kugelschweiss" (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1465) , and it took me a while what it was supposed to mean. Fehlerbrauerei is pretty obvious. It means "Mistake-Brewery". The Kugelschweiss isn't that obvious. Instinctively I'd translate Kugel as "sphere". And I kinda overlooked the meaning of Schweiss, because it's actually written Schweiß. It reminded me more of the verb "schweissen"/"schweißen", which means welding. But after a while I realised that it probably meant "Schweiß", and thus "sweat". From there it was rather obvious that Kugel wasn't supposed to mean "sphere", but rather "ball".

So the beer is called ballsweat. By the way, the, very vulgar, correct translation would probably have been "Sackschweiß".
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Detachable Felix on 14 Jan 2014, 20:56
Also note that in the newspost underneath Jeph mentions his favourite Fehlerbrauerei is Schadenbrau, which translates roughly to "damaging brew" or "harmful brew". Or something like that. Iunno, my German isn't as good as it used to be.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ankhtahr on 14 Jan 2014, 21:00
In tkat case it should probably be spelled Schadenbräu. But anyway, it doesn't make too much sense. I just assumed he was referencing Schadenfreude
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Detachable Felix on 14 Jan 2014, 21:06
True, but wouldn't that be where you get drunk as a result of discussing someone else's beer?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 14 Jan 2014, 21:09
No, it's when you get drunk, fall, and someone laughs at your expense.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: DSL on 15 Jan 2014, 13:18
Quote from: ankhtahr on 14 Jan 2014, 21:00
In tkat case it should probably be spelled Schadenbräu. But anyway, it doesn't make too much sense. I just assumed he was referencing Schadenfreude

Reminds me of cartoonist Bob Stevens' "gefractured German fur fliegers," comic-opera German mixed with aviation terms for NATO aircrews, designed to appeal to monolingual (no, I have no room to be self-righteous about this) Americans stationed overseas. Runway is "offroarenbahnstrasse," Radio antenna is "sparkenschpitzenschtick," Student pilot is "der dummkopf lernen fleigen," propeller is "airfloggenfan" etc.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Pilchard123 on 15 Jan 2014, 13:30
ACHTUNG!
ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENPEEPERS!
DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKEN.
IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS.
ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: DSL on 15 Jan 2014, 13:34
Quote from: Pilchard123 on 15 Jan 2014, 13:30
ACHTUNG!
ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENPEEPERS!
DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKEN.
IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS.
ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.

Yeah, like that. But with airplane cartoons.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ankhtahr on 16 Jan 2014, 15:25
I just noticed something cool. In this (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1829) comic Faye throws Pintsize against the wall. In this (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1836) one he still suffers from it, and ends his sentence on the word "cump.", which Faye has then printed on a shirt in this (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1897) one.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Sidhekin on 17 Jan 2014, 00:36
Huh.  Wonder whose idea that was.

Cool.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Storel on 19 Jan 2014, 16:08
Wow, nice catch. I never would have noticed that third one.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: KOK on 20 Jan 2014, 02:20
No. I did not notice that.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: DrBear on 20 Jan 2014, 11:35
OK, here's something I just noticed - this is just the QC Discussion Forum, and Pony Leaks has gone bye-bye. When did this happen?

(and the only reason I noticed is because Windoze 8 crashed on my over the weekend, and I had not saved my bookmarks, so I had to reload everything and noticed this was now saved as just QC Discussion Forum)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Storel on 20 Jan 2014, 11:44
I never had a clue what "Pony Leaks" was in the first place, so I hadn't noticed its departure.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: pwhodges on 20 Jan 2014, 12:10
It was changed the better part of a year ago, as far as I recall.  I felt that it had no continuing meaning, after there had been a couple of posts asking why it was there.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Storel on 20 Jan 2014, 21:45
So why was it there, out of sheer curiosity? Was there another comic that shared this forum originally, or something like that?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: pwhodges on 21 Jan 2014, 00:28
Read from here (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,26928.msg1045393.html#msg1045393) down to my explanations.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Storel on 21 Jan 2014, 10:52
Very illuminating, thank you!

Wow, this place sure had a different vibe back then. I've been here less than a year, so I had NO idea...
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 21 Jan 2014, 12:32
Sometimes I forget how long I've been here, probably because some people have been here far longer (about three years, two as a mod). My life's pretty different in some major ways and depressingly similar in others.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 21 Jan 2014, 15:12
Oh, now, let's not go starting the "how-long-I've-been-here-blues" again...
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 21 Jan 2014, 15:37
Blues? I'm happy about it. Why would being here a long time be a bad thing?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 21 Jan 2014, 15:46
You take me wrong; I was thinking of the blues as a repetitive song pattern, and the repetitive aspect of those comparison "contests" when they get going...
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 21 Jan 2014, 15:48
Oh. What contest? The years have gone by fast is all.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 22 Jan 2014, 08:45
You've seen 'em - we've had a few in here before.  Not a real "contest", just people sitting around, talking about themselves and one-upping each other as best as they can. 

"I've been here this long"
"Yeah, I've been here twice as long as that"
"Well, I've been here since day 2, and I killed the guy who was here first, so top that!" 

Crap like that.  Basically a dick-measuring contest, but with other units. 
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: pwhodges on 23 Jan 2014, 05:55
I was just catching up with the character tweets, which I only do intermittently, and I noticed this Azumanga Daioh reference:

https://twitter.com/marigoldfarmer/status/415711454135070720 (https://twitter.com/marigoldfarmer/status/415711454135070720)

(http://static3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130903212752/azumanga/images/6/6a/Chiyo_father2.png)

(The cat is Chiyo-chan's father - Chiyo-chan being the girl on the right)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: YellowEyes on 24 Jan 2014, 06:30
Totally just noticed that Delilah doesn't shave her armpits. Threw me for a loop because that's not something I see often.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 24 Jan 2014, 07:09
I'm guessing you haven't visited the WCDT this week? :roll:
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: LookingIn on 24 Jan 2014, 08:35
Quote from: Method of Madness on 24 Jan 2014, 07:09
I'm guessing you haven't visited the WCDT this week? :roll:

It's pretty easy to miss in both the strip and the discussion
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 25 Jan 2014, 11:35
Well, the weekend lull brought it back up. 


Sorta like a bad hot dog. 
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: de_la_Nae on 26 Jan 2014, 14:36
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1011

Contrasted with these days.

Also I'm wondering when the first human-AI relationship is going to take place in the comic (you know it's coming).
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 26 Jan 2014, 14:39
If Momo has her way, not long from now.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Loki on 26 Jan 2014, 15:22
The way I imagine it, someone will casually mention being in a relationship with an AI in conversation, and it will totally be not a big deal(tm).
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 26 Jan 2014, 15:32
Slightly related note, has anyone seen Her?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Lubricus on 27 Jan 2014, 01:23
Quote from: Loki on 26 Jan 2014, 15:22
The way I imagine it, someone will casually mention being in a relationship with an AI in conversation, and it will totally be not a big deal(tm).

I can totally imagine Steve suddenly telling Marten that he and Cosette have broken up some time ago, and that Steve now is a realtionship with an AnthroPC. And pretending that neither news is anything big.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 27 Jan 2014, 05:37
I don't think Steve will have another off-camera breakup.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 27 Jan 2014, 09:15
No, too much comedy potential in Cosette being on the other end of a breakup...
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: cesium133 on 27 Jan 2014, 16:18
Tortura has nothing on a Cosette scorned.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jwhouk on 27 Jan 2014, 22:15
Okay, I'm going to admit something...

Despite the surprise ending of today's strip (2627), I noticed something else - Delilah's shirt has a serious case of outline jaggies. I don't think it's been this bad since the strip with Cosette and Hanners on their first day on the job at CoD.

Yeah, yeah, I know - but I noticed it upon a second read of the strip. I'm chalking it up to Jeph's new tablet.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 27 Jan 2014, 22:16
...what are jaggles?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jwhouk on 27 Jan 2014, 22:40
It's a graphics term from "the old days" of the net. The lines around her shirt have slightly "jagged" edges - not 8-bit edges, but not smooth. Like I said, I've only seen it that one other time.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 27 Jan 2014, 22:44
I'm still not seeing it because I'm not quite sure what to look for.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Mr_Rose on 28 Jan 2014, 00:53
Quote from: Method of Madness on 27 Jan 2014, 22:44
I'm still not seeing it because I'm not quite sure what to look for.
Obvious step-changes in curved lines, for the most part. They're a result of trying to represent a curve when your drawing toolkit consists entirely of straight lines and right angles.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jwhouk on 28 Jan 2014, 04:24
Yeah... I just remember the originally-posted version of (wow, was it THAT long ago?) 1758 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1758) where the last panel was rather off with regards to Cosette's face. You can kinda see what I'm talking about when you look at Cosette's right arm - and then at Delilah's shirt.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 28 Jan 2014, 07:16
I honestly don't see anything off.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 28 Jan 2014, 08:03
I'm wondering if it depends on your monitor resolution. 
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: aldonius on 28 Jan 2014, 08:15
I don't see anything massively jarring (worse than normal, anyway), but...
Are you thinking of the apex of the curve of her back in the last panel? I do make out a definite flat section there.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Shjade on 28 Jan 2014, 08:18
There's nothing particularly off about the examples jwhouk's bringing up because...well, every page is like that. Just look at Hannelore's left arm on 1760 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1760) and it's there, too. And Dora's arm on the very next page. And the next page. And so on.

The comic's always got some pixelated edges happening. Sometimes it's just more obvious than other times, usually when there are lighter colors surrounding the lines (which is why arms make it so obvious on pale-skinned characters: thick black line right next to very light tone).

Jwhouk's observation is accurate in that the lines have some jagged pixelation, but MoM's also right in that there's nothing "off" about those examples since it's consistent throughout the comic.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Zebediah on 28 Jan 2014, 08:50
I can see the pixellation if I look hard. But I have to really look hard. It's not something I'd notice if it wasn't pointed out.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jwhouk on 28 Jan 2014, 19:01
It's most noticeable on white pieces of clothing. I'm familiar with it because of my Mac background, and because of my (poor) attempts at coloring b&w comics.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Nepiophage on 30 Jan 2014, 14:19
Tai is an anarchist! At least, her laptop has an anarchism symbol on the lid http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1968 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1968).
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Indicible on 07 Feb 2014, 12:48
Faye's distress code is "the peaches are ripe".
Thing is, a similar code ("the oranges are ripe") was used in the RAF during WW2 to tell bombers the objective was fulfilled (and thus, there was no need to risk other planes in another bomb run.).
Source: Aérojournal n°39, January 2014, page 37
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 11 Feb 2014, 19:30
Quote from: Indicible on 07 Feb 2014, 12:48
Faye's distress code is "the peaches are ripe".

355 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=355), in case you were wondering. 
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Mlle Germain on 12 Feb 2014, 12:58
I noticed that Jeph has (probably accidentally) doubled several small story arcs:
1) Angus does not like coffee and gets an alternative beverage (Fayes lines in both of those are almost identical):
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=898 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=898)
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1122 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1122)

2) Faye talks to Dr Corinne about drinking (although the second time she says she's never brought it up before):
The first time, Faye is really hungover and thus wants to cut down, the second time Marten accidentally calls her an alcoholic.
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=808 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=808)
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=990 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=990)

Maybe there are more of these, but these are the ones I've found.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 12 Feb 2014, 13:13
Re: 1122, I would totally order a wasabi Americano at least once.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Loki on 13 Feb 2014, 23:58
Moderator Comment The resulting discussion is interesting in its own right (particularly to someone who is not American)  and has been moved to Chatter:

http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,29711.0.html

Move at least a little something every day to improve your life ^.^
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Mlle Germain on 14 Feb 2014, 07:41
After my previous post - it's the last one on the previous page, so I think almost nobody actually saw it :-( - sprouted this interesting coffee discussion, here's something else I noticed (I'm currently rereading the comic from the beginning, this is why I stumble upon these things):
Steve and Marten talk about "speed beer" being their college sport:
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1386 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1386)
Also, a few comics before that, Marten talks about college and winter and snow:
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1336 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1336)
And here I was always thinking that Marten went to college in California and then only moved to Massachussets afterwards to be with Vicky, where he also met Steve! I just looked it up: California apparently has snow in the mountains, but probably not that much in the cities near the coast, right? So, where did Marten go to college? Is there a college town with lots of snow in California? Also, we still know Marten and Steve did not go to college together, so "speed beer" can't really have been their common hobby in college.
Possible solution: When Steve says "our school sport", the "our" might not mean Marten and him, but just his college.
So anyway, now I can't decide whether this is an inconsistency in the story or not.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Stoutfellow on 14 Feb 2014, 07:46
I went to college at UC Santa Barbara in the '70s, and in winter there was frequently snow in the Santa Ynez Mountains, a short drive to the north.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Barmymoo on 14 Feb 2014, 10:55
I think pretty much all universities' school sport is drinking in one form or another! Maybe Steve told Marten about it and he brought it into his friendship group.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jwhouk on 14 Feb 2014, 17:40
It was Steve's college drinking sport. If he's from the Pioneer Valley area, it's likely he did it at some point and time during college. Heck, it was a thing we did here in Wisconsin (in the "more inhabited" part of the state), so I'm thinking it would be done out west as well.

The common belief is that Marten is from the Bay Area, so he could have gone to any number of schools out there. And I'd suspect any one of them could have experienced snow at some point, because despite the Pacific's warming trend on the west coast, it does snow in California (as pointed out previously).

Music Theory would be something I'd see at UC-Berkley, myself.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Storel on 14 Feb 2014, 23:45
Quote from: jwhouk on 14 Feb 2014, 17:40
The common belief is that Marten is from the Bay Area, so he could have gone to any number of schools out there. And I'd suspect any one of them could have experienced snow at some point, because despite the Pacific's warming trend on the west coast, it does snow in California (as pointed out previously).

Music Theory would be something I'd see at UC-Berkeley, myself.

It does snow here, but really only in the mountains. It hasn't snowed in San Francisco or Berkeley for decades, for instance, so I wouldn't expect any of the colleges in or around those towns to have gotten any snow recently. What snow they got when it did snow wasn't nearly enough for sledding, either.

And yes, Music Theory does sound like something Berkeley would have in their curriculum, but I'm sure lots of other colleges/universities have it too.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Zebediah on 21 Feb 2014, 12:22
I was doing an archive binge when I noticed: Claire's dad works on the space station. (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2137)

Second panel, far right. OK, so he doesn't look all that much like Claire, but he does have the same hair.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Nepiophage on 21 Feb 2014, 14:19
He looks too young to be Claire's father -- unless people age more slowly in space or Hannelore's dad is trying some new anti-aging method on him that actually works. Maybe he's a third sibling -- Claire's older brother?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Mr_Rose on 21 Feb 2014, 14:24
Older brother maybe? Would explain why Clinton's so into hannerdad's research and/or how he got a prototype hand….

Also, does anyone else think that the short woman with the long orange hair (same comic, third panel, bottom right) might be an anthro-PC?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: KOK on 21 Feb 2014, 14:33
Prototype? I got the impression that it was pretty standard.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Barmymoo on 21 Feb 2014, 15:38
I like the idea but surely either Claire or Clinton would have mentioned it if they had a relative who worked with Hanners' dad?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: K1dmor on 21 Feb 2014, 15:45
 Claire said she didn't know him (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2279), but at the same time she knew Hannelore's full name (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2278) so...maybe?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 21 Feb 2014, 16:34
Clinton's fanboyism at getting a glimpse of a family member suggests he's not well acquainted with the family.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Barmymoo on 22 Feb 2014, 12:39
Hm, I dunno - I think someone who is closely related to a fan as hardcore as Clinton would be likely to know the full name of his heroes, and Hannelore isn't exactly a common name. In fact she's quite possibly the only one Claire has ever heard of, so the surname would naturally spring to mind.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Storel on 22 Feb 2014, 13:45
But Clinton didn't know Hannelore's name beforehand, either. He only realized from her "Ellicot-Chatham" surname (not a common name either) that she must be related to his hero.

Which does make it seem odd that Claire guessed Hanner's last name just from hearing her first name. My guess is that it doesn't mean anything more significant than a mistake by Jeph...
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ankhtahr on 22 Feb 2014, 14:14
I'd just guess that, fanboy who he is, Clinton told Claire about having met Hannelore, his great idol's daughter, mentioning her by her full name. Seems the most plausible explanation to me.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Carl-E on 22 Feb 2014, 18:49
Also, the small fire-haired woman is actually a girl, and is a tribute to an anime character who's a scientific genius (someone else will have to provide the name, I'm afraid). 
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: pwhodges on 23 Feb 2014, 01:07
Hakase Shinonome, aka the Professor, in Nichijou, I guess (Hakase just means professor).

(http://geekrevolt.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Nichijou-Ep.-3-Nano-Professor-and-Cat.jpg)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Zebediah on 24 Feb 2014, 08:14
This one is kind of weird. Nobody would have noticed this but me, because it involves a picture I took of my son last summer.

This is what I use for my Facebook cover photo:
(http://i1042.photobucket.com/albums/b429/zebgodwin/bluehills2.jpg)

Now, compare to the second and third frames of 2109 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2019).

I was browsing the archives this morning, and suddenly said "Hey! That background looks familiar!" I didn't deliberately duplicate the comic; it was just too good a shot to pass up when I saw it.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: DSL on 24 Feb 2014, 14:43
Jeph worked from a very similar photo as he drew those frames. I remember watching the stream. I think he also mentioned it his Tumblr. Good eye.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Mlle Germain on 27 Feb 2014, 09:27
Did you notice that Jeph seems to have stopped giving texture to the characters' hair this week?
Compare e.g. Faye's hair in
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2644 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2644)
and
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2649 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2649)
But it's consistent with all the characters in the comics in between!
Do you think it's just because Jeph didn't have as much time this week or might this be a permanent change in the art?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: K1dmor on 27 Feb 2014, 13:26
 He doesn't:
 - Give texture to the characters' hair.
 - Put the copyright in the bottom.
 - Use the same font/size in the title,
 when he draw the comics on his new table. I think he doesn't have the fonts and brushes there yet.

 He bought it around 2625, and start drawing there from 2626 to 2632.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Nepiophage on 27 Feb 2014, 13:30
Quote from: Nepiophage on 31 Oct 2013, 09:20
When Marigold meets Dale outside the convenience store, she is holding a cup with  UHA.. ABUK.. on it. What could that be? http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1771 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1771)

I started this discussion a few months ago, but I only just noticed that in comic no. 866 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=866) Dora is wearing an "I has a bucket" t-shirt.

Also I had a look on urban dictionary (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bucket), and the entry is so disgusting that Dora could not possibly have meant it.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Storel on 27 Feb 2014, 13:45
Quote from: Nepiophage on 27 Feb 2014, 13:30
Quote from: Nepiophage on 31 Oct 2013, 09:20
When Marigold meets Dale outside the convenience store, she is holding a cup with  UHA.. ABUK.. on it. What could that be? http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1771 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1771)

I started this discussion a few months ago, but I only just noticed that in comic no. 866 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=866) Dora is wearing an "I has a bucket" t-shirt.

Dora's shirt is almost certainly a reference to the Story of the Lolrus (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lolrus).
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 27 Feb 2014, 14:11
That's most certainly what it's referring to.

(http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/000/026/lolrus.jpg)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jwhouk on 27 Feb 2014, 17:34
I suspect that the new tablet is the reason why there's no texture to his characters' hair. It might be jarring when we next see Claire.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Mlle Germain on 28 Feb 2014, 01:08
I always thought those comics drawn with the tablet are those with the larger font. The font first became bigger when Jeph drew the first comics with the tablet, but lots of those comics (e.g. those with Claire) still have hair texture. However the ones with the Steve talk don't have it. So I guess you're probably right that it's due to drawing with the tablet.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 28 Feb 2014, 05:36
I apparently don't notice much. I'm still not sure I see a difference in the hair.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jwhouk on 28 Feb 2014, 06:41
Like I said, it's more noticeable with Claire.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Loki on 22 Apr 2014, 00:06
So I think I remember the original German line of Ellen Allien in this strip (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2399) was wrong. Looks like Jeph changed it to be proper German.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: ChaoSera on 22 Apr 2014, 05:08
I remember that being the original line when the strip came out, I don't think it was changed.

What I just noticed is that Marten's shirt changes color from strip 2101 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2101) to strip 2102 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2102). At first I thought it was the next day or something but Faye is still wearing the same thing and they are talking about the same subject.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Sidhekin on 22 Apr 2014, 09:25
Quote from: ChaoSera on 22 Apr 2014, 05:08
I remember that being the original line when the strip came out, I don't think it was changed.
It was changed, from "es ist mir so peinlich" (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php?topic=28740.msg1136305#msg1136305) to "das is mir so peinlich".  Unless there was something before even that ...

(My German is plenty rusty, but I did not think the original wrong.  Slightly awkward at most.)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Mlle Germain on 22 Apr 2014, 09:37
Yeah, that's correct. "Es ist mir so peinlich." is correct German, but sounds a little weird, "Das ist mir so peinlich" sounds more natural.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Storel on 30 Apr 2014, 11:55
I don't know if it's been discussed before, but has anyone noticed that Veronica Vance seems to be based loosely on Bettie Page?

Points of similarity that I can think of off-hand:
Any other similarities?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 30 Apr 2014, 12:04
Quote from: Storel on 30 Apr 2014, 11:55
  • Neither one has ever done full nudity or hardcore porn
Well we don't really know this for a fact.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Storel on 30 Apr 2014, 12:18
Quote from: Method of Madness on 30 Apr 2014, 12:04
Quote from: Storel on 30 Apr 2014, 11:55
  • Neither one has ever done full nudity or hardcore porn
Well we don't really know this for a fact.

We have Veronica's word (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=435) for it - doesn't that count?

And Bettie Page is pretty well known for not having done full nudity or explicit sex. I believe there is one extant picture of her fully nude, out of the (tens of?) thousands of photographs taken during her career. And that one may have been faked.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 30 Apr 2014, 12:48
The comparison was made explicitly when Dora recognized her.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Storel on 30 Apr 2014, 13:24
Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 30 Apr 2014, 12:48
The comparison was made explicitly when Dora recognized her.

Yeah, I didn't remember that when I first posted. Just noticed it when I looked up the strip in which VV said she never did full nudity. It wasn't a very detailed comparison, though, and I don't think anyone's discussed it in-strip since then.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: katsmeat on 30 Apr 2014, 16:20
In 1829 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1829), Veronica apparently recognized the Goatse bloke.

Somebody made an effort to track him down.... and found some evidence (moles) that it was indeed a man called Kirk in the picture. See: Finding Goatse: The Mystery Man Behind the Most Disturbing Internet Meme in History (http://gawker.com/finding-goatse-the-mystery-man-behind-the-most-disturb-5899787) (SFW).

Just thought I'd share today's coffee-on-keyboard moment.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Storel on 01 May 2014, 13:56
Wow, Jeph really goes the extra mile in his research.  :-o
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: DrBear on 19 May 2014, 21:20
Anybody see where Shortpacked! gets its pizza? http://www.shortpacked.com/?id=2079 (http://www.shortpacked.com/?id=2079)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: cesium133 on 19 May 2014, 21:26
Quote from: Storel on 01 May 2014, 13:56
Wow, Jeph really goes the extra mile in his research.  :-o
Or he pulled it out of his ass and just got lucky on the name.

(click to show/hide)

edit -- in that Shortpacked comic, I hear Malaya's line in the first panel in Cartman's voice from South Park.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 19 May 2014, 23:10
That comic paralleled the Momo/Marigold dynamics.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Masterpiece on 26 May 2014, 07:13
There's a WTF size coffee in Coffee of Doom. I didn't know that before.

#2548 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2548)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 26 May 2014, 07:24
That goes way back.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Mlle Germain on 04 Jun 2014, 03:43
Haha, I never noticed that Faye takes a sip of the customer's coffee before giving it to him in this strip (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2199). Jeph managed to do the look on his face very nicely!
This shows that I often just read the speech bubbles and look at the characters' faces and don't really pay attention to what else is going on.
Just a small thing, but maybe you also find it funny!
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 04 Jun 2014, 12:19
She was making sure it was only decent (if it was good, she'd have chugged it out of spite).
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Zwammy on 05 Jun 2014, 22:41
Quote from: Mlle Germain on 04 Jun 2014, 03:43
Just a small thing, but maybe you also find it funny!

That cracks me up every time I see it.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Detachable Felix on 28 Jul 2014, 18:23
Momo accidentally picks up a robot porn magazine (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2072)
(Panels 1 and 4)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: hedgie on 29 Jul 2014, 00:39
Look at the schematics on that one.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: cesium133 on 29 Jul 2014, 07:09
It was a particular model from Fujitsu. (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1459)
Title: Re: Things you hadn't noticed
Post by: Nepiophage on 29 Jun 2017, 23:34
There's a thread already, though no-one has posted to it for years
https://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,29035.0.html
Title: Re: Things you hadn't noticed
Post by: Storel on 30 Jun 2017, 18:11
That's fine. Changing the thread title is pretty easy, I believe.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 30 Jun 2017, 21:57
I went ahead and merged the two.
Title: Re: Things you hadn't noticed
Post by: Case on 01 Jul 2017, 06:00
Quote from: emsilly on 29 Jun 2017, 22:37
Here's a thread for things you hadn't noticed before, for archive divers like myself. Please feel free to share things you didn't notice previously about the comic.

With that keyword seeding done, I'll start:

In #2960 (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2960), Prolapse Monthly has an ad for Pintsize and Winslow's singing dildo from  #2818 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2818).

(I did a forum search for a thread like this, but it didn't turn up any results.)

I ... I didn't know I wanted to notice that, but thank you for your work anyhow.  :-\


Quote from: Nepiophage on 29 Jun 2017, 23:34
There's a thread already, though no-one has posted to it for years
https://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,29035.0.html

I wonder why that is ...
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 01 Jul 2017, 07:47
It's a little strange that people haven't. Jeph has a way of putting interesting things and callbacks into his backgrounds without calling attention to them. It's fun to spot them.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: A Duck on 01 Jul 2017, 08:37
In 2550 (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2550), Tai sees Dale and immediately climbs him. Jeph's comment under the comic is "Tai really should join a rock climbing gym".

Jump all the way to 3443 (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3443) and Tai DID join a rock climbing gym!
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Storel on 01 Jul 2017, 21:07
Quote from: A Duck on 01 Jul 2017, 08:37
In 2550 (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2550), Tai sees Dale and immediately climbs him. Jeph's comment under the comic is "Tai really should join a rock climbing gym".

Jump all the way to 3443 (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3443) and Tai DID join a rock climbing gym!

Technically, she only says "I've been rock climbing!" -- that does not necessarily mean she joined a rock climbing gym.

She could have been climbing... you know... real rocks.  :psyduck:
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Nepiophage on 02 Jul 2017, 03:08
In the strip where Tortura visits Steve (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3428) I thought she had a purse over her shoulder -  but it's a gun. No wonder Cosette is intimidated.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: cesium133 on 02 Jul 2017, 05:38
I'm trying to imagine how pulling the gun from that holster would work, and it seems like it would not work well.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Mr_Rose on 02 Jul 2017, 09:41
Quote from: cesium133 on 02 Jul 2017, 05:38
I'm trying to imagine how pulling the gun from that holster would work, and it seems like it would not work well.
??
Looks like a pretty standard cross-draw shoulder holster to me? Worn on the left to be drawn with the right hand.
Perhaps a little too vertical at that point but that could easily be due to her pose, arm locked straight behind it, shoulder hunched, lifting it and forcing the muzzle end forward…
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: TheEvilDog on 02 Jul 2017, 11:24
Quote from: Mr_Rose on 02 Jul 2017, 09:41
Quote from: cesium133 on 02 Jul 2017, 05:38
I'm trying to imagine how pulling the gun from that holster would work, and it seems like it would not work well.
??
Looks like a pretty standard cross-draw shoulder holster to me? Worn on the left to be drawn with the right hand.
Perhaps a little too vertical at that point but that could easily be due to her pose, arm locked straight behind it, shoulder hunched, lifting it and forcing the muzzle end forward…

Probably drawn up tight because she'd have to wear a coat over it. As open as Northampton might seem, its probably not a good idea for anyone to walk down the street visibly carrying a weapon.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Method of Madness on 03 Jul 2017, 14:23
Quote from: Nepiophage on 02 Jul 2017, 03:08
No wonder Cosette is intimidated.
Honestly, I still think the "feed you to pigs" line is a tad more intimidating than a holstered pistol.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: JimC on 05 Jul 2017, 12:40
Quote from: Method of Madness on 03 Jul 2017, 14:23
Honestly, I still think the "feed you to pigs" line is a tad more intimidating than a holstered pistol.
I think the combination of the pistol and the pigs...
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Thrudd on 07 Jul 2017, 18:41
Lobsters because lobsters will eat ANYTHING organic - all that would be left is the polyester suit and the nikes
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: donuts on 26 Jul 2017, 08:08
I was wondering this for a while...in the course of 3500+ strips, has an Asian male character ever been drawn?
I believe there was an Asian waitress at a Chinese restaurant in a really old strip, she was the only Asian female I recall before Emily was introduced.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Zebediah on 26 Jul 2017, 08:12
Off the top of my head, Emily's dad.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: donuts on 26 Jul 2017, 08:31
Ah I forgot about him, I guess that answers the question!
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Nepiophage on 01 Aug 2017, 10:27
There is a thing on the wall in the alley behind coffee of doom -- looks like a dial of some kind
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1664 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1664)
Anyone know what it is?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: pwhodges on 01 Aug 2017, 10:40
Looks to me like it's meant to be a gas meter.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: jwhouk on 01 Aug 2017, 14:40
Quote from: pwhodges on 01 Aug 2017, 10:40
Looks to me like it's meant to be a gas meter.

Electric meter. Pretty common on houses and businesses here in the states.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: OldGoat on 03 Aug 2017, 07:15
Quote from: jwhouk on 01 Aug 2017, 14:40
Quote from: pwhodges on 01 Aug 2017, 10:40
Looks to me like it's meant to be a gas meter.

Electric meter. Pretty common on houses and businesses here in the states.
Yup, analog electric meter.  Every month or so a power company employee comes by and reads it.  They're being phased out by digital devices which, in some cases, can now be read remotely over the power lines.
(http://www.tdsurplus.com/images/ElectricMeterFront005.jpg)
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Nepiophage on 09 Oct 2017, 05:14
In http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2968 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2968) outside the clinic where Hannelore went to get her skin lesion checked, the name of the second doctor could be Takeshi Kovacs, who is the anti-hero in Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon series. You wouldn't want him treating you!
  Does anyone know who the Ericsson might be?
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: PKmonster on 09 Oct 2017, 11:31
Quote from: Eddie 88 on 09 Jun 2013, 12:35
This thread is for little stuff you notice about QC that you didn't before, or think others might've missed.

I'm doing an archive crawl, and just noticed that Sven is left-handed...
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=946
Note the positioning of the mouse.
my mouse is on the right side, but i too am a south paw. O0
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: hedgie on 09 Oct 2017, 11:56
Left-hander as well, but I keep my mouse on the right when not gaming.  That's mostly just because the wacom tablet is taking up room on the left.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: Zebediah on 09 Oct 2017, 13:20
I'm right-handed but I used to keep my mouse on the left. That was because I worked for a long-distance telephone company and a high proportion of what I entered was numbers, so it made sense to keep my right hand on the number pad and use my left hand on the mouse - it was much faster than constantly moving my hand from the number pad to the mouse.

That was twenty years ago and these days I tend to keep my left hand on the trackpad in the middle of my laptop keyboard.
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: JoeCovenant on 17 Oct 2017, 03:28

Been gone for a week...

But did anyone notice.. "Robot's Got Tongues!"

...when "I'm Alive!" robot was paying we get the cartoony.. "tongue just sticking out a little while concentrating"...
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: traroth on 17 Oct 2017, 09:25
In comic http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2347 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2347), Faye is paraphrasing John Dalberg-Acton: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"
Title: Re: Did you notice that?
Post by: specter177 on 20 Oct 2017, 22:16
Well, panel 4 of this comic might become prophetic.
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2262