For me, it's the puns that actually make her cuteness[1] decrease. Granted she *has* had a few good ones, but most are really painful. I'd say all in all for me, out of only named characters, and excluding AIs, I'd have to avoid AIs.
[1]How does even quantify cuteness anyhow? And for units, do we use "kawaii"?
Not everyone has the same capacity for tolerating puns.
Rowling's attitude towards the shipping phenomenon has varied between amused and bewildered to frustrated.
On a tangential note, I just read the section on Harry Potter fandom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipping_(fandom)#Harry_Potter_fandom) in the wikipedia article on shipping, and it is strangely hilarious.QuoteRowling's attitude towards the shipping phenomenon has varied between amused and bewildered to frustrated.
I can relate to that, and I'm not even an author.
Bubbles' batteries are low? Both walking back to the rink? Maybe Lilac will choose this moment to take revenge, when Bubbles is vulnerable.
Meanwhile, Claire = shipper is confirmed. That said, one should be wary of fanmade crossover ships, especially if there is a ssignificant time-period difference.
Meanwhile, Claire = shipper is confirmed. That said, one should be wary of fanmade crossover ships, especially if there is a ssignificant time-period difference.
Is there a significant time-period difference between Sherlock Holmes and Mr. Darcy? I believe they were both in the 19th Century, but perhaps at different ends of it. Sherlock flourished in the 1880s and '90s. What period was Mr. Darcy in?
Neither mu nor not-mu.
This isn't the first time that Jeph has put the words of the forum into a character's mouth. I'm not sure if it is a form of meta satire or just confirmation that we aren't suffering from a mass hallucination!
Meanwhile, Claire = shipper is confirmed. That said, one should be wary of fanmade crossover ships, especially if there is a ssignificant time-period difference. I do find myself wondering how much time Claire spends on reading shipper fics though? Is that her secret addiction? :wink:
ben did you write a guest comic.
"Wuthering Pipes"Very good! That would be a Holmes/Heathcliff ship, I guess. It would be even more creepy than a Darcy/Holmes ship, since Heathcliff is 30-40 years old in 1801.
(FWIW, Faye and Bubbles feeling a certain pressure towards a relationship but deciding not to do so because they prefer platonic friendship is an entirely valid outcome).
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I've decided that I might as well plant my flag and declare my new status as "friendshipper."
If I squint, I can pretend that says "Tova's Friendship."
And for a moment, I thought you were going to find a way to post the Norwegian Dream again. :laugh:
If I squint, I can pretend that says "Tova's Friendship."The hanzi on the ship's bow read 運誼二號 (yúnyíérháo or roughly "ooin-ee-are-how (http://members.optusnet.com.au/~kunimoto/ShipName/trans-friendship.html)"*). An accurate translation would be Transport Friendship II, but presumably they wanted to economise on white paint, and it wouldn't be as funny.
For me, it's the puns that actually make her cuteness[1] decrease. Granted she *has* had a few good ones, but most are really painful. I'd say all in all for me, out of only named characters, and excluding AIs, I'd have to say Hanners. Damn, I cant multitask.Well, it is a matter of taste, and "umami" is a flavor type. So, I'd say 'yes' to using 'kawaii' as the unit name.
[1]How does even quantify cuteness anyhow? And for units, do we use "kawaii"?
...which indicates that an eldritch horror from a parallel dimension will emerge momentarily and devour your brain (Means: "Don't bother wiz ze screaming and running avay")
Elliot, is there some other way you think the eldritch runes ought to glow?
The runes glow because of isotope decay, obviously (Means: "You should maybe consider screaming & running away"). If not, then it's Cherenkov-radiation resulting from a divergence in the local Calabi-Yau manifold, which indicates that an eldritch horror from a parallel dimension will emerge momentarily and devour your brain (Means: "Don't bother wiz ze screaming and running avay")
They'd better keep that beer away from Hannelore, given her subconscious connection (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1753) with the Great Old Ones.
The runes glow because of isotope decay, obviously (Means: "You should maybe consider screaming & running away"). If not, then it's Cherenkov-radiation resulting from a divergence in the local Calabi-Yau manifold, which indicates that an eldritch horror from a parallel dimension will emerge momentarily and devour your brain (Means: "Don't bother wiz ze screaming and running avay")
Nah, wrong beer brewing cult, er...distillery. This is obviously Luciferin (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciferin) causing the glow.
This isn't the first time that Jeph has communicated that he regards that some of the more elaborate, expensive. and 'sophisticated' drinks out there (alcoholic or no) are evidence of the existence of some strange dark cult.
FWIW, I don't think that Brun has ever drunk this stuff before; she could never afford it. She's just decided that, if she's having a free beer, it might as well be one of the most expensive beers on Earth. I think it would be a deep and funny irony if she announces that she wishes she'd just had the house draft because this stuff is nothing but tasteless foamy yellow water.
Or... it could be that she just wanted to hold the cuckoo clock stein once in her life and doesn't really care about the drink within. :-P
Come forth, Beer-elzebub.
...which indicates that an eldritch horror from a parallel dimension will emerge momentarily and devour your brain (Means: "Don't bother wiz ze screaming and running avay")
Ah, so it's that kind of beer...
Is the cuckoo a warning, then? :evil:
Come forth, Beer-elzebub.
Any relation to Beelzeboss?
Come forth, Beer-elzebub.
66.6 degrees?! And you say the English drink warm beer...At least it's isn't Celsius, then it would be glühbier instead of glühwein. I didn't thought that would exist, but it does.
Because I didn't get a full night's sleep, it's taken me this long to realise that strip 3342 should probably be considered mostly a Halloween Special and not considered necessarily part of the canon storyline. Jeph's presence behind the bar is proof positive of that.
Shouldn't this have been yesterday's comic? Also.. just to be sure... Klatuu Verada. Ni... Nu... It was definitely an 'N' word...
66.6 degrees?! And you say the English drink warm beer...At least it's isn't Celsius, then it would be glühbier instead of glühwein. I didn't thought that would exist, but it does.
Whelp, the superlative is a bit weird:
"Wormfather Skull-birthday Dark Brew" is something that should definitely exist (Yes, I've said above that "dark brew" is "dunkeles Bräu", but that sounds stupid, so it's called "Dunkelbräu", or "Dunkelbrau").
Okay, thought I'd do a real Opinion Poll here. Now, I know that this is an awfully subjective and, arguably, divisive question. However, I'm not really interested in an objective framework about what defines 'cute'. So many people have so many different ideas that there is little chance of anyone agreeing on one anyway.
Just answer the question: You, personally: Which of the QC ladies best fits your own personal definition of 'cute'?
This is actually a harder question to answer for me than I initially thought when I had the idea for the poll. I'm torn between Hanners (who has this whole waif-like innocence and purity) and Emily (whose personality, although alarming at times, screams 'nice' on a very fundamental level). I guess I could toss a coin but, in the end, I chose Emily, mostly because literally everything she says makes me smile.
I don't know whether this vindicates or mocks my ship.
I was thinking in Celsius anyway, but wow, people really drink glühbier? That does not sound nice.
Whelp, the superlative is a bit weird:
"Wormfather Skull-birthday Dark Brew" is something that should definitely exist (Yes, I've said above that "dark brew" is "dunkeles Bräu", but that sounds stupid, so it's called "Dunkelbräu", or "Dunkelbrau").
Aha, I should have realized "totenkopf" was 'skull'. I translated the component parts individually and came up with "deadhead". 8-)
Edit: That must complicate matters when translating articles about Grateful Dead fans (Deadheads) into German. How would you translate "Deadhead" without making the German readers think you're talking about skulls? (Or people who call themselves skulls, at least.)
So, has anyone with far better German than me, actually made an attempt at a realistic(ish) translation of "Wurmvater totenkopfgeburtstag dunkelbrau" ?
Google comes up with "Worm father skull birth dark brown", which seems a bit too literal.
Even better, has someone managed to brew some? :-D
The lesson? Be wary of drinking the strong stuff, especially if you're not used to it. There can be consequences. Fortunately, as potentially dangerous as Brun is right now, I've got the feeling that Elliott has experienced a lot worse. That and I think that he has the strangest impression she's fighting someone who isn't really there.
Come forth, Beer-elzebub.
Any relation to Beelzeboss?
Nah, you're thinking of Beelzebooze.
The lesson? Be wary of drinking the strong stuff, especially if you're not used to it. There can be consequences. Fortunately, as potentially dangerous as Brun is right now, I've got the feeling that Elliott has experienced a lot worse. That and I think that he has the strangest impression she's fighting someone who isn't really there.
Elliot is kind of used to having to deal with fighty drunk people after all..
Anyone else anticipating more self revelation for Faye when she eventually meets fiighty-when-drunk Brun?
Theory about what's going to happen.Now be warned but you did ask(click to show/hide)
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So could Mieville (Dora's cat) secretly be a stoner demon? Aparently Mieville gives her good advice when he's not high on catnip.They'd better keep that beer away from Hannelore, given her subconscious connection (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1753) with the Great Old Ones.
Not just Hanners. Both Dora and Emily, and probably others have done it. I'm starting to think that QC isn't set in Northampton, but Arkham.
Faye and Renee would get along. Or kill each other immediately.The second one, definitely. Neither of them strikes me as the type that would appreciate someone exactly like them. I'd cheer for Faye in that case as I still don't like Renee.
Whelp, the superlative is a bit weird:
"Wormfather Skull-birthday Dark Brew" is something that should definitely exist (Yes, I've said above that "dark brew" is "dunkeles Bräu", but that sounds stupid, so it's called "Dunkelbräu", or "Dunkelbrau").
Aha, I should have realized "totenkopf" was 'skull'. I translated the component parts individually and came up with "deadhead". 8-)
Edit: That must complicate matters when translating articles about Grateful Dead fans (Deadheads) into German. How would you translate "Deadhead" without making the German readers think you're talking about skulls? (Or people who call themselves skulls, at least.)
German Deadheads call themselves Germanheads (http://www.germanheads.de/). German articles normally don't translate words whose literal translation would be ambiguous or confusing and use the original expression instead - you can check the German version of the Deadhead-wiki, e.g. The Jolly Roger would be the "Totenkopfflagge" (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolly_Roger)
And yes, oeoek (Bent jij Nederlander?) is correct, both about the translation and about our preference for concatenating words.
Being a German beer, I'm also suspecting that this thing is Reinheitsgebot-compliant... meaning the evilness needs to be entirely done in barley, hops, and yeast.
Okay, so we actually have an interesting insight into Renee here - She's a compulsive liar; she said something about Brun that Elliott knew was false (and, one assumes she knew that he knew was false) but said it anyway as if it were true. She also moves on from that without an eyeblink, which suggests that this is something she does a lot and doesn't mind being called out over because it doesn't matter to her.
Then there is the advocacy of violence; one assumes she is just joking but, again, Elliott's behaviour just doesn't seem to back up that assumption. Either she likes playing with his head or there is something quite concerning about her essential nature here. I can't quite put my finger on it but Jeph really scripted her weirdly today.
Meanwhile, something tells me that, when Brun wakes up, she will be able to define 'headache' with a precision no-one has before.
Okay, so we actually have an interesting insight into Renee here - She's a compulsive liar; she said something about Brun that Elliott knew was false (and, one assumes she knew that he knew was false) but said it anyway as if it were true. She also moves on from that without an eyeblink, which suggests that this is something she does a lot and doesn't mind being called out over because it doesn't matter to her.
Then there is the advocacy of violence; one assumes she is just joking but, again, Elliott's behaviour just doesn't seem to back up that assumption. Either she likes playing with his head or there is something quite concerning about her essential nature here. I can't quite put my finger on it but Jeph really scripted her weirdly today.
Basically, folks, where English uses multiword phrases, German uses multiword words. No matter how long, any phrase can be made into a compound word in German. Trust me. I'm sure Case can cite even longer examples than mine if there's any lingering doubt. :-D
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>the last panel seems to suggest he has a suppressed 'darker side'
Who doesn't?
Okay, so we actually have an interesting insight into Renee here - She's a compulsive liar; she said something about Brun that Elliott knew was false (and, one assumes she knew that he knew was false) but said it anyway as if it were true. She also moves on from that without an eyeblink, which suggests that this is something she does a lot and doesn't mind being called out over because it doesn't matter to her.
Then there is the advocacy of violence; one assumes she is just joking but, again, Elliott's behaviour just doesn't seem to back up that assumption. Either she likes playing with his head or there is something quite concerning about her essential nature here. I can't quite put my finger on it but Jeph really scripted her weirdly today.
Meanwhile, something tells me that, when Brun wakes up, she will be able to define 'headache' with a precision no-one has before.
Not so much a compulsive liar as a teller of tall tales.
Not so much a compulsive liar as a teller of tall tales.
You say to-may-to, I say to-mah-to...
"Give in to your feelings Elliott and your journey to the Dark Side will be complete."
Darth Renee??
:-D
BenRG likes to spin stories from very few data points
BenRG likes to spin stories from very few data points
BenRG is to creativity what Akima is to debate.
Why does Elliot have weird ideas about housework? His Brun fantasty seems pretty standard to me. Except maybe the bow, but that's probably a callback to the Kiki tthing.
(does anyone actually say to-mah-to?)
"Gah! Where the heck did you come from?!"
"Blame my parent's Eddy."
I like Renee less and less with every strip she's in. Outright loathing is not far away.
QuoteFaye and Renee would get along. Or kill each other immediately.The second one, definitely. Neither of them strikes me as the type that would appreciate someone exactly like them. I'd cheer for Faye in that case as I still don't like Renee.
Eddies in the time-stream?
This could revive the speculation about Hannelore making another giant stride toward social integration by taking on a roommate. It would have to be a fastidious one of course.
Australia too!(does anyone actually say to-mah-to?)Let's start with the whole of the UK...
Australia too!(does anyone actually say to-mah-to?)Let's start with the whole of the UK...
Elliott, I really only have on thing to say right now: Ask the woman on a date. Now. Before you either strain something or walk under a bus whilst fantasising about her in costume. One way or another, you've got to get this out of your system!
I know we're not that relevant, not being native speakers and all, but hey. It's still millions of people using English =D
Australia too!(does anyone actually say to-mah-to?)Let's start with the whole of the UK...
Cue "Everybody Ought to Have a Maid" (from "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum").
Why does Elliot have weird ideas about housework? His Brun fantasy seems pretty standard to me. Except maybe the bow, but that's probably a callback to the Kiki tthing.
Looking at today's comic, Brun in panel 2 is much taller than usual.Taller, or less, err, substantial?
How about po-tah-to?
This could revive the speculation about Hannelore making another giant stride toward social integration by taking on a roommate. It would have to be a fastidious one of course.
I think that several people wondered if Brun would end up as Hannelore's roommate back during the fire arc (I know that I did). I'm not saying that this is the way things are going but it's odd that Jeph should have her turn up out-of-context like this otherwise.
I know we're not that relevant, not being native speakers and all, but hey. It's still millions of people using English =D
Millyuns and millyuns!
OK, now I'm beginning to wonder if Hannelore is a Talent - maybe a T4 or, *Gasp*, a T1 Prime!
(Fans of Anne McCaffrey will get the reference) :D
I've got to say that I think that there was a definite cop-out option added late to this poll!Only because you left so many out!