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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: BenRG on 06 Nov 2016, 12:30
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Well, the time has come to throw down your marker and know on whose side you are in the great debate: Who is best suited to represent QC-verse Northampton in Congress? I've tried to summarise the major positive of every character in the poll (although some might see them as disadvantages).
As for me? After a long period of thoughtful consideration, I selected Dora for Congress. She's sufficiently hard-headed and dedicated to doing the right thing, even if it costs her personally, that I think that she'd do a good job resisting pressures and making choices based on values rather than political pragmatism. She'd possibly also take out a few of the worst incumbents with that sword, making her the first member of Congress to kill someone in a duel of honour since Rep William J Graves in 1838! :evil:
What about this week in the strip? I'm sensing that Brun will awaken and that Elliott will take his heart in his hands and take decisive action over his attraction to her. I suspect that Brun will enjoy the outcome, whether or not Elliott does!
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Oh frak!
I just did a poll!!!
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Yeah, but Benergy's was first.
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And as in US elections it's first past the poll no matter how big a minority of the vote they get. At least it doesn't go through an easily bribed / corrupted college that votes for you ..... :-P
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With some reluctance I voted for Bubbles. She's the best person for the job, but she's been through so much misery that sending her to Congress would be worse than sending her back to the battlefield. She deserves better.
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I voted Bubbles as well. Knowledgeable, careful and honest. Her military background would insulate her from some sorts of attacks, and her size would make her formidable in debate. If she ever needed to mount a filibuster, she wouldn't need bathroom breaks (just an innocuous cord to keep herself charged). Most of all, she has strong empathy. She'd make a terrific legislator, although she'd probably hate having to do all the fundraising politics necessitates.
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Beatrice is really the QC-verse's version of Hillary.
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Come on, now. Hillary wants to be President. Do you know how much power Beatrice would have to give up to be President?
(That's a reference to this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI0vtqxoG1k), if anyone was wondering)
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She's the Congresswoman Northampton deserves but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt her. Because she can take it. Because she's not our legislator. She's a violent guardian, a watchful persecutor. A Corpse Witch.
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I'm getting pretty tired of pop culture references. But in the end, it doesn't even matter.
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Optical lattice clocks are probably a bit hard to come by on a barista/bartender's salary, but I hear you can get 10 MHz rubidium atomic clocks on eBay for like $50-100 (http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1311.R7.TR11.TRC2.A0.H1.Xrubidium.TRS0&_nkw=rubidium+10mhz&_sacat=0).
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Well now I'm wondering how good Brun's counting abilities are. (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=523)
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I'm getting pretty tired of pop culture references. But in the end, it doesn't even matter.
One thing, I don't know why, doesn't even matter how hard I try...
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Is Hanners about to get a roommate? And if she does, will it be a disaster?
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"We have to get these two together."
"I think that would be extraordinarily dangerous."
-- Dr. Peter Venkman, Dr. Egon Spengler
Or as They Might Be Giants put it,
"This could lead to excellence or serious injury."
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I think Hanners has found her soulmate.
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I really love the dawning OMG she understands me expression on Brun's face.
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Is Jeph saying that Hannelore and Brun may end up as room-mates? Or is he lampshading that Brun is The Secret Bakery's alt-Hanners? Either way would fit in with today's strip.
Meanwhile, I do think that Brun really, really wants to know where this conversation is going. When someone is that understanding of her mindset and interests then there has to be a pay-off at the end! Or at the very least a lease on an optical lattice clock.
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I love the prospects of a Valkyrie joining forces with a Space Princess.
It could become
- a beautiful friendship, or
- QCverse gets an Auditor. (http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Auditors_of_Reality)
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More to the point I suspect Beatrice and Corpse Witch are the only ones that would consider running...
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I really love the dawning OMG she understands me expression on Brun's face.
I strongly feel that this is the real direction of Brun's initial character arc. Although she has a friend in Renee, Brun has mostly been very socially isolated, mostly because she has a very difficult time 'getting' people. She has evidently dealt with this simply by never leaving her mental safe-zone of a tiny circle of friends and casual working associates; it has never occurred to her before that she could meet someone who seems so similar to her in the manner that Hannelore seems to.
The events of the fire and afterwards have forced Brun to expand her circle and get to know new people. I think that Jeph is planning to write her learning, slowly (and possibly painfully), to deal with an expanded circle and to have a social life. This will doubtless include some missteps and at least some of her new social connections will crash and burn dramatically. I suspect that's why we have both Clinton and Elliott interested in getting to know her better: So Jeph can write at least one unsuccessful date into Brun's story as part of her personal growth and learning to have the courage to take a risk on people.
Just an additional note: I think that both Brun and Hanners are over-estimating their similarities and I suspect that this will have consequences at a later date.
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I love the prospects of a Valkyrie joining forces with a Space Princess.
It could become
- a beautiful friendship, or
- QCverse gets an Auditor. (http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Auditors_of_Reality)
Or maybe an auditor (http://www.caligomundi.net/index.php?title=Laundry_Files:_Other_Departments#The_Auditors)? (I admit I kinda like the idea of an agency that has Deeply Scary Sorcerer (DSS) amongst it's official ranks ...)
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I think Hanners has found her soulmate.
Great now another potential ship. The triangle is turning into a square.
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Another similarity between Hanners and Brun is the Floof. But Hanners has it all over Brun in the smiling department.
My impression is that Brun was a character Jeph improvised into being as a foil for Clinton, but then got interested enough in her to need a reason to paste her into the day-to-day cast. So we're starting to see connections formed with other characters. (Note that despite all her recent appearances, Brun still hasn't made it onto the Cast page.)
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Roomie - heck no - replacement for Juicy as resident in the [name of apartment here] a definite yes.
On the Atomic clock front.
Research lab level of quality of assembly and execution
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/ChipScaleClock2_HR.jpg/220px-ChipScaleClock2_HR.jpg)
Can you say - on a chip as part of your GPS?
Soon they will know EXACTLY where you are. :psyduck:
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Two guys I worked with in grad school are currently working at a company that makes atomic clocks. One of them came back while I was still in grad school and gave a lecture about his work (though it only contained information approved by the company lawyers). Me, I'm working on quantum computers, and at a university so they don't care (as much) about trade secrets. :-P
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I think Hanners has found her soulmate.
Great now another potential ship. The triangle is turning into a square.
Don't look now…
<_<
>_>
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But we're ALL square here.
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Roomie - heck no - replacement for Juicy as resident in the [name of apartment here] a definite yes.
On the Atomic clock front.
Research lab level of quality of assembly and execution
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/ChipScaleClock2_HR.jpg/220px-ChipScaleClock2_HR.jpg)
Can you say - on a chip as part of your GPS?
Soon they will know EXACTLY where you are. :psyduck:
No. YOU will know exactly where you are. THEY will have to con YOUR devices into ratting on you against your will for THEM to know where YOU are.
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Who are THEY, anyway?
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Who are THEY, anyway?
Lizard people?
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This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship
Or the precursor to the apocalypse
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This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship
Or the precursor to the apocalypse
They're not mutually exclusive.
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Me, I'm working on quantum computers, and at a university so they don't care (as much) about trade secrets. :-P
You mean that if you have a major breakthrough, the MIB won't slap you with a gag-order, but simply disappear your whole team? Yeah, that's convenient ... :laugh:
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Oh don't worry, if there are any major breakthroughs to be made here, the CIA has probably made them years ago and never told anyone.
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This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship
Or the precursor to the apocalypse
It will be perfectly timed.
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Just an additional note: I think that both Brun and Hanners are over-estimating their similarities and I suspect that this will have consequences at a later date.
That's my suspicion as well. I don't get the impression Brun has OCD.
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The forumites have been discussing their similarities, but I don't think that Brun and Hanners are over-estimating their similarities at all. They have just really hit it off.
Obviously they both like to keep their homes clean and tidy, but I would almost guarantee that Hanners wouldn't make the mistake of extrapolating that to thinking that this means that Brun has OCD. As popular as that line of thinking may be among non-sufferers.
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Who are THEY, anyway?
Sometimes referred to as "the powers that shouldn't be", "the true oligarchy", and/or "the Milner group". 'They' outrank the Builderberg group and happen to own 85% -> 95% of the world's wealth. Generally speaking, 'they' are noble families who are mostly all related to one another by blood. 'They' believe themselves to be superior to all others , and deserving of all others' subserviance (whether by divine right or genetics).
see 'The Corbett Report'
EDIT: fixing typos
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Hanners and Brun end up with a 46 episode anime, where they use the power of friendship and the power of the Moon Clocks to fight evil and their greatest nemesis, Tardy Ness.
Other members of Friendship Team will include:
Marin Tai
Marin Dora
Marin Faye
And featuring Marten as Tuxedo Mask T-Shirt Teh
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And featuring Marten as Tuxedo Mask T-Shirt Teh
I thought it would have been the wonder twins Teh-shirt / trihs-heT? :clairedoge:
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If panel four isn't begging to be posted into a QC Captions thread, then I don't know what is.
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I thought Martin was Magical Love Gentleman.
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yyyeah, we're gonna need a bigger version of that panel.
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I think this counts as a case of Head-Tiltingly Kinky... (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeadTiltinglyKinky)
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Sailor Brun.
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I think that today's strip proves that Elliott is both an animé addict (especially magical girl shows) and really is totally smitten with Brun. That said, in its own way, the 'friendship fairies' panel is ultra-cute. I can actually see Hannelore wearing that costume for Halloween!
Also: Well done for standing up to Renee. As he basically said, she isn't the boss of him as to what his inner eye wants to see!
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Just an additional note: I think that both Brun and Hanners are over-estimating their similarities and I suspect that this will have consequences at a later date.
That's my suspicion as well. I don't get the impression Brun has OCD.
Nah, she doesn't "smell" like OCD to me, either. She's just ... Brun.
Of course, 'we of the doubt-sickness' can make friends with non-OCD people, too.
Also: Well done for standing up to Renee. As he basically said, she isn't the boss of him as to what his inner eye wants to see!
Word.
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If panel four isn't begging to be posted into a QC Captions thread, then I don't know what is.
I'm debating between panel 4 and panel 6.
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If panel four isn't begging to be posted into a QC Captions thread, then I don't know what is.
Jeph has already put the panel up as a separate image. I'll bet that it will end up as a t-shirt before long!
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It's difficult to say if Elliot's fantasies are risqué since anime is inherently sexy.
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Renee: You're thinking thoughts again. Stop it.
Me: What else am I supposed to do with thoughts?!
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Oh don't worry, if there are any major breakthroughs to be made here, the CIA has probably made them years ago and never told anyone.
Or Lockheed-Martin's Skunk Works.
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Oh don't worry, if there are any major breakthroughs to be made here, the CIA has probably made them years ago and never told anyone.
Or Lockheed-Martin's Skunk Works.
Or the NSA via Rockwell and their ilk
It's difficult to say if Elliot's fantasies are risqué since anime is inherently sexy.
Attack on Titan :-\
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But will they join forces with the Reindeer Fairy or will she be their nemesis?
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YOU GO ELLIOT!
Fun fact: The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia used to have a display of clockwork escapements in their Physics Department. About two dozen in a big case. Every hour a guard would come by and wind them up. My personal favorite was the Interrupted Flying Pendulum (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgdOvndpviU).
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YOU GO ELLIOT!
Fun fact: The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia used to have a display of clockwork escapements in their Physics Department. About two dozen in a big case. Every hour a guard would come by and wind them up. My personal favorite was the Interrupted Flying Pendulum (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgdOvndpviU).
I just looked up "clock museum". It seems their are quite a few clock and watch museums. Therecs also the Museum Speelklok (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_Speelklok) which houses several music making machines (most of which still work) AND clocks.
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This comic really clicked for me how much Hanners has changed from the character she was introduced as, compared to where she's at now.
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am i the only one who finds brun to be a rather uninteresting character?
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Probably not, but I'd guess you are in the minority here at least.
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Am I alone getting a flashback to how Sheldon Cooper tried to introduce the concept of physics to Penny in one episode of The Big Bang Theory - Assume they know nothing and start from there?
I don't think it matters though. Whatever comes out of Brun's mouth is fine for Elliott. He's just happy that she's willing to spend time with him and that he's the centre of her attention! Meanwhile, poor Renee is getting an increasing feeling that she's the third wheel... again (thinking of the time she ended up excluded when Marten turned up whilst she was talking to Padma in a bar).
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am i the only one who finds brun to be a rather uninteresting character?
Not if you like clocks!
That aside, it been pointed out already that there's an opportunity for personal development with Brun. There's possibly a lot more for us (and her) to discover as she builds a new circle of friends.
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poor Renee is getting an increasing feeling that she's the third wheel.
Not surprising - she's a pain.
As manipulative as Corpse Witch, though I'm ready to believe that she means well.
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Wonder if Brun has an aversion to digital clocks.
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She doesn't think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
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Unless the oscillator is atomic. No quartz-oscillator digital clocks here, thanks. :-P
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For those who like clocks, and well-made videos about making stuff: Check out the youtube channel "clickspring" it's a guy who is making a clock from raw metal stock.
here's the playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZioPDnFPNsETq9h35dgQq80Ryx-beOli
sample video:
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For those who wonder is there any weird digital clocks out there?
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i can see her explain a digital clock saying how the numbers on it indicate the time, but then saying how they are inferior clocks and should never be used.
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It would appear that Elliott has plenty or time for Brun
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I can see that Renee is still not the most popular character, but all I can see is how Renee constantly looks out for Brun and is there for her. It's possible that in the past she was Brun's only real friend for some time.
If you initially thought that Renee's relationship with Brun was controlling or in some other way negative, maybe the time has come to reevaluate in light of what we've since seen.
I'm not sure that Brun would be where she is now without Renee.
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There's certainly a difference between the way Renee reacts to Elliot showing interest in Brun and Clinton showing interest in her. Renee knows Elliot, and trusts him, knowing he'd never do anything to hurt her, so she might actually approve of the possibility of Brun+Elliot. Clinton, as far as Renee is concerned, is just some random guy Brun met at work, about whom Renee knows nothing. So some concern on Renee's part is justified, but Renee took it to absurd lengths. I would guess that's what ticked off a lot of people on the forum about Renee - not the concern for her friend, but the ridiculous degree of overcontrolling that flowed from it.
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I agree that her reaction was (at least from our omniscient point of view) an overreaction, but I disagree that it was to a "ridiculous degree." That, I think, is also an overreaction.
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I am still unsure if i like renee or not. She does seem a touch controlling but with how brun is I can relate to the why so I suppose it depends on how things are going forward when it isn't an instant leaping to reaction and more thought process.
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COMIC
I should try ritually chanting while grinding coffee beans at the office.
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For those who like clocks, and well-made videos about making stuff: Check out the youtube channel "clickspring" it's a guy who is making a clock from raw metal stock.
here's the playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZioPDnFPNsETq9h35dgQq80Ryx-beOli
Ah, Clickspring, the Bob Ross of the YouTube machining channels.
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Typo: Purgatorial.
The only thing chanting does is set up a resonance feedback loop, so that the beans settle more evenly. It's just for the sake of the goth aesthetic.
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Coffee witch Coven
An interesting way to learn the trade.
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Suddenly so much about Dora and how she originally came to know Raven makes sense. Now, I find myself wondering if the spiders weren't happenstance but a deliberate part of the recipe (along with stuff like powdered eye of bat and freeze-dried toe of newt. Yes, I'm deliberately trying to gross you out :wink: ).
Meanwhile, we're reminded that Hannelore has a low irony detection skill. You have to be very careful if you are telling her a parodiac story because she may not get it and try to apply it literally.
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The chanting really did help, though.
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I never knew there was an American spelling of sepulchre, but I suppose it makes sense. It's not a word one uses every day.
Are they witches or GOO-worshipers? And is that blood coating the roaster's hopper? What beast was sacrificed? A civet?
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a young goat is traditional for such things.
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And is that blood coating the roaster's hopper?
It might be red velvet coffee creamer (https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/104919866292831954/)
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Suddenly so much about Dora and how she originally came to know Raven makes sense. Now, I find myself wondering if the spiders weren't happenstance but a deliberate part of the recipe (along with stuff like powdered eye of bat and freeze-dried toe of newt. Yes, I'm deliberately trying to gross you out :wink: ).
Meanwhile, we're reminded that Hannelore has a low irony detection skill. You have to be very careful if you are telling her a parodiac story because she may not get it and try to apply it literally.
"Eye of newt" and the rest of the Weird Sister's ingredients for their potion cauldron were actuly code words for various plants. For all we know, they could have been making soup for dinner.
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Or herbal stew
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Can't really tell unless we know how much liquid was used but my bet is on soup since there was never mention of a cover for the pot.
What's the difference between soup and stew? In theory, a soup is a combination of vegetables, meat or fish cooked in liquid. A stew is any dish that's prepared by stewing - that is, the food is barely covered with liquid and simmered for a long time in a covered pot.
And yay for crock pots that make meal preparation easier :lol: and are not directly hazardous to the user like a pressure cooker. :-\
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Can't really tell unless we know how much liquid was used but my bet is on soup since there was never mention of a cover for the pot.
What's the difference between soup and stew? In theory, a soup is a combination of vegetables, meat or fish cooked in liquid. A stew is any dish that's prepared by stewing - that is, the food is barely covered with liquid and simmered for a long time in a covered pot.
And yay for crock pots that make meal preparation easier :lol: and are not directly hazardous to the user like a pressure cooker. :-\
They could have also been mixing up a medicine of some sort.
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And yay for crock pots that make meal preparation easier :lol: and are not directly hazardous to the user like a pressure cooker. :-\
Pressure cookers aren't directly hazardous to the user as long as they're not malfunctioning.
Like mine ( 'w')
plz save me
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So, did that Starbucks have something... other than a mermaid on its logo?
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So, did that Starbucks have something... other than a mermaid on its logo?
The mermaid was wearing a witch's hat.
Edit: Also, now we know why Hanners showed up unexpectedly. She didn't just teleport in when she heard the word "fastidious", she was checking on them because she was worried about how they reacted to her spiderless roast.
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Today's comic
(https://media.giphy.com/media/fDO2Nk0ImzvvW/giphy.gif)
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Well that was ... different.
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PG-13, much?
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If it was R-rated, May would be taking a dump. :psyduck:
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Well, this is officially the weirdest QC comic ever.
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And yay for crock pots that make meal preparation easier :lol: and are not directly hazardous to the user like a pressure cooker. :-\
Pressure cookers aren't directly hazardous to the user as long as they're not malfunctioning.
Like mine ( 'w')
plz save me
My mom's pressure cooker exploded when I was a wee child. The two halves of the lid left imprints on the kitchen ceiling...
And Pintsize --- A butt is a butt.
And a buck is a buck.
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Today, Pintsize learned something that I suspect that he knew but didn't really want to admit to himself - Without the necessary parts and reactions, certain things stop being 'naughty' and just become 'pointless'.
Hmm... I wonder if Jeph is sending a coded message about other characters with this strip?
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Where did Pintsize get $20?
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He's actually got quite a bit of money of his own from the on-line porn archive he runs.
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We know he has a source of funds for such things as buying samurai gear but the only income I can remember seeing was from selling Internet pictures to Hannelore. Maybe Marten gives him an allowance.
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May, what do your release terms say about taking up prostitution?
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May, what do your release terms say about taking up prostitution?
Technically I suppose since she hasn't got the right bits downstairs (she mentioned, both in hologram and RL form that she's built like a Barbie girl), this doesn't count as a sex act and therefore it's not prostitution. It's also possible that the release terms overlooked it for the same reason. Though it's more likely that she's prevented from 'engaging in illegal activities' or similar legal wording which would only make it a problem if prostitution is illegal in Northampton. Anyone who knows?
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I suppose it boils down to 'intent'. Pintsize gave money for something analogous for sexual services so that's what it was, irrespective of whether May was practically able to provide them. One issue the probationbot would look at is whether May has been making a habit of this. However, if she's kept her nose metaphorically clean since release, it would increase the likelihood of the probation service looking the other way so long as she was not arrested and they are confident it is a one-off thing (and I'm pretty sure it will be).
FWIW, this strip is in character for both principles. We know that Pintsize has a mad fascination for sexual activities. May, also, seems to be curious about human sexuality (at least on a biological level). What we thus have is basically a couple of synthetic teens experimenting...
Or possibly a Dirty Old Bot corrupting someone who is emotionally and intellectually a minor. :-\
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We don't really know how old May is, chronologically or mentally/emotionaly, or even how those concepts hold for AI compared to humans.
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The longer we go without releases like Yelling Bird and SweetTits, the more questionable the content may become.
Pintsize May Rule.
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We don't really know how old May is, chronologically or mentally/emotionaly, or even how those concepts hold for AI compared to humans.
We do know from one of the job application forms that May filled in that there is a recognised mental maturity scale in AIs.
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This comic with May sitting on Pintsize's face rated a 3.3 on my Weird-Shit-O-Meter.
Considering its calibration, that's pretty damn high.
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We know she has held a job with access to large amounts of money, so presumably a legal adult.
It doesn't matter what the law is, it matters what her probation officer thinks it is.
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This comic with May sitting on Pintsize's face rated a 3.3 on my Weird-Shit-O-Meter.
Considering its calibration, that's pretty damn high.
My calibration must be insane, because it doesn't even register as a blip on mine... :-D
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Though it's more likely that she's prevented from 'engaging in illegal activities' or similar legal wording which would only make it a problem if prostitution is illegal in Northampton. Anyone who knows?
Prostitution is illegal throughout Massachusetts. We were founded by Puritans, after all.
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Though it's more likely that she's prevented from 'engaging in illegal activities' or similar legal wording which would only make it a problem if prostitution is illegal in Northampton. Anyone who knows?
Prostitution is illegal throughout Massachusetts. We were founded by Puritans, after all.
Isn't prostitution basically illegal everywhere in the US but, I think, Nevada?
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Well that was ... different.
Indeed. Shit me!! Give us an NSFW warning next time, would you? :) I accessed QC on my lunch break and am in a small office, with a boss likely to walk past that would be immediately canny to the connotations of the images I saw before me :psyduck:
(Or I can just access QC in my phone from now on ;))
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Technically I suppose since she hasn't got the right bits downstairs
Are there AI's that do? That's weirder than the comic.
I should think that probation officers have better things to do than try policing this sort of thing. It's like criminalizing sex simulations in your Barbie/Ken collection.
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I have a thing for women of color - and by that I mean red, blue, green, grey (Oh Chiana!), alien skin colors essentially - so this is basically fanservice as far as I'm concerned. ;)
By the way, does anyone know if there's a name for that particular fetish? I don't think it quite falls under "furry".
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Blurry? Colourry? Hue-rry?
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I suppose Jeph does have to have some content that lives up to the webcomics name on occasion.
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Though it's more likely that she's prevented from 'engaging in illegal activities' or similar legal wording which would only make it a problem if prostitution is illegal in Northampton. Anyone who knows?
Prostitution is illegal throughout Massachusetts. We were founded by Puritans, after all.
Isn't prostitution basically illegal everywhere in the US but, I think, Nevada?
And only a few counties in Nevada.
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I should think that probation officers have better things to do than try policing this sort of thing.
My personal experience is about zero, but allegedly prostitution may be associated with exploitation of the vulnerable and/or drug problems. Arguably a good probation officer *should* be concerned if their client becomes involved with it, legal or not. After all rehabilitation is part of a probation officer's responsibilities.
I 'm not sure whether the fine detail of which appendages and/or orifices are involved is that important. If attempted sexual gratification is being provided in exchange for money its a different game to say two teenagers experimenting.
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I am shocked and disappointed that nobody has linked to this video yet:
https://youtu.be/KkJnd9rSAQ8
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Technically I suppose since she hasn't got the right bits downstairs
Are there AI's that do? That's weirder than the comic.
in 3098 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3098) May definitely hints that those options exists for AnthroPC chassis. Right before Momo sends an electric shock through her. They also discuss a similar subject in 3302-05 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3302)
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In my experience, probation officers jump on any excuse they can to fuck up your shit. If they can conceivably bust you for it, they will.
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I am shocked and disappointed that nobody has linked to this video yet:
https://youtu.be/KkJnd9rSAQ8
Risky click of the day?
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I am shocked and disappointed that nobody has linked to this video yet:
https://youtu.be/KkJnd9rSAQ8
This was the first thought I had when seeing this strip.
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I have a thing for women of color - and by that I mean red, blue, green, grey (Oh Chiana!), alien skin colors essentially - so this is basically fanservice as far as I'm concerned. ;)
By the way, does anyone know if there's a name for that particular fetish? I don't think it quite falls under "furry".
I think it falls under general xenophilia, which would be a catch-all.
'Technosexual' seems to be the term for a sexua attraction to robots.
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I have a thing for women of color - and by that I mean red, blue, green, grey (Oh Chiana!), alien skin colors essentially - so this is basically fanservice as far as I'm concerned. ;)
By the way, does anyone know if there's a name for that particular fetish? I don't think it quite falls under "furry".
I think it falls under general xenophilia, which would be a catch-all.
'Technosexual' seems to be the term for a sexua attraction to robots.
I thought that would have been the cacth-all and Robo-sexual the specific, like moto-sexual and ford-sexual ... :psyduck:
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"If you wish to woo a woman of Quality, you must prove yourself a gentleman of Quality."
- Moustachio Skin Horse (http://skin-horse.com/comic/it-was-2/)
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"Can you list traits you don’t find erotic so I can embody them?"
- Dr. Virgina Lee, Skin Horse
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Blurry? Colourry? Hue-rry?
Hue-y?
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I should think that probation officers have better things to do than try policing this sort of thing.
My personal experience is about zero, but allegedly prostitution may be associated with exploitation of the vulnerable and/or drug problems. Arguably a good probation officer *should* be concerned if their client becomes involved with it, legal or not. After all rehabilitation is part of a probation officer's responsibilities.
I 'm not sure whether the fine detail of which appendages and/or orifices are involved is that important. If attempted sexual gratification is being provided in exchange for money its a different game to say two teenagers experimenting.
This begs the question of whether or not this is actually prostitution. Leaving aside whether robots can have sexual contact (does my laptop get aroused when I put a CD in it? Is it sexual when I insert the hose into my car at the gas station?), the whole joke of the comic is that neither May nor Pintsize are being gratified by this silly combination.
But I'll go further. Suppose we say this is something beyond simulated sexuality. What compelling state interest is there in prohibiting it? Who is being harmed? Why stop consenting adults from engaging in consensual sex acts which harm no one, even if there is money involved?
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Is it sexual when I insert the hose into my car at the gas station?
This clip (SFW, gas commercial) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV9iuH2zjsM) hints that the answer may be yes.
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But I'll go further. Suppose we say this is something beyond simulated sexuality. What compelling state interest is there in prohibiting it? Who is being harmed? Why stop consenting adults from engaging in consensual sex acts which harm no one, even if there is money involved?
The horrible things that happen because of prostitution notwithstanding, ALL your questions fully apply to real-life prostitution and the debate of whether it should be legal or not...
It can be argued that illegal prostitution is the worst possible thing for the safety, respectability, financial and economic status, and general well-being of prostitutes. I have yet to see a compelling argument against legal prostitution, especially as it is my strong conviction that making prostitution illegal is *never* a means to eliminate prostitution, once it is illegal it is ignored unless it is specifically required to act against a prostitute. Prostitution is still alive and well, it's not even fought against all that hard. But there's a way to attack someone and dehumanise them, including by the state/law enforcement/system, because they engage in sex work.
It's a tool of oppression and control, not a tool of protection, based on any and all evidence I've seen. It's a "have your cookie and eat it too" approach that allows for the marginalization, vilification, divide-and-conquering of sex workers while still making the profession thrive, catering to the needs of prostitutes' clients (who are rarely punished as harshly OR despised as much as the prostitutes themselves, despite the fact that this attitude makes no sense), *and* forcing many people into sex work, either againts their will or semi-against their will. And while they are harmed this way, they are still seen as the source of the problem by the average Joe, because they engage in a "bad" thing (the fact that they may not actually willingly choose to being usually completely glossed over).
Granted, I brought real life into a comic discussion, but I think it's a pretty interesting point of discussion to come from once you abstract this into robots. The question "who is being harmed?" here is quite obvious because the element of physical stimulation is gone or blurred, as are most of the social and psychological entanglements that are there for humans.
But once you insert those into the mix again, carefully enough, the questions you ask are still relevant. Not as clear-cut, because sex-related stuff does result in harm to people, but I don't think the core of the problem becomes changed in any meaningful way.
And now I done and opened a can of worms... I do wish robot sexuality was more explored in the comic, as silly as this comic is. I think one of the best things about fiction is what it can say about real life. This goes especially for sci-fi.
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Why stop consenting adults from engaging in consensual sex acts which harm no one,
This all depends on your definitions of adult, consent and harm, all of which have been radically different in different societies and cultures. As I don't look around me and see that I'm in a perfect society, and as I'm just about old enough to have witnessed significant changes in how those three words are used, I think it unwise to be too dogmatic about what is right and wrong. I think it reasonably safe, however, to predict that in 40 years time some aspects of the current anglo american liberal consensus (to whatever extent it exists) will be regarded as very peculiar indeed, but I have no idea which ones. I certainly would have failed to predict current interpretations when I was 18. In the unlikely event I'm still around (please no) I shan't much care!
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The longer we go without Jeph blowing off steam with Yelling Bird and SweetTits, the more questionable the content may become.
Pintsize May Rule.
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I know Yelling Bird is probably gone for good, but is Sweet Tits in the past as well?
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I have a thing for women of color - and by that I mean red, blue, green, grey (Oh Chiana!), alien skin colors essentially - so this is basically fanservice as far as I'm concerned. ;)
By the way, does anyone know if there's a name for that particular fetish? I don't think it quite falls under "furry".
Star Trek fan? http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Orion_slave_girl (http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Orion_slave_girl)
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We do know from one of the job application forms that May filled in that there is a recognised mental maturity scale in AIs.
Yeah, but I don't think it can express "fourteen 4-ever" and "Older than Cleopatra" simultaneously.
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By the way, does anyone know if there's a name for that particular fetish? I don't think it quite falls under "furry".
Yes. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facesitting)
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Not the fetish they were talking about...
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I am shocked and disappointed that nobody has linked to this video yet:
https://youtu.be/KkJnd9rSAQ8
Risky click of the day?
No, it's just Monty Python. Click it!
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FWIW, this strip is in character for both principles. We know that Pintsize has a mad fascination for sexual activities. May, also, seems to be curious about human sexuality (at least on a biological level). What we thus have is basically a couple of synthetic teens experimenting...
Or possibly a Dirty Old Bot corrupting someone who is emotionally and intellectually a minor. :-\
Pintsize being the Dirty Old Bot, yes?
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I am shocked and disappointed that nobody has linked to this video yet:
https://youtu.be/KkJnd9rSAQ8
Risky click of the day?
No, it's just Monty Python. Click it!
It's alright, I clicked it shortly after posting that. I wasn't seriously worried, just wanted to make the joke.
I still have my copy of Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl on DVD. 8-)
Why stop consenting adults from engaging in consensual sex acts which harm no one,
This all depends on your definitions of adult, consent and harm, all of which have been radically different in different societies and cultures.
Blah blah blah, pretty sure no harm, fictional or otherwise, was done to either character in this particular comic. Except maybe to the sensibilities of a few readers. :police:
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I have a thing for women of color - and by that I mean red, blue, green, grey (Oh Chiana!), alien skin colors essentially - so this is basically fanservice as far as I'm concerned. ;)
By the way, does anyone know if there's a name for that particular fetish? I don't think it quite falls under "furry".
Star Trek fan? http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Orion_slave_girl (http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Orion_slave_girl)
I do believe that was likely the origin of that little fetish, reinforced many years later by certain comic book characters like She-Hulk and Mystique, sci-fi characters like (as mentioned) Farscape's Chiana, and more recently races in Star Wars: The Old Republic, like Chiss and Sith Trueblood skin colors.
By the way, does anyone know if there's a name for that particular fetish? I don't think it quite falls under "furry".
Yes. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facesitting)
*waves hand* This is not the fetish you're looking for.
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Or possibly a Dirty Old Bot corrupting someone who is emotionally and intellectually a minor. :-\
Pintsize being the Dirty Old Bot, yes?
Correct. It is arguable that this is the role in life for which he was compiled.
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http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1300
Anybody brought this up before?
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All past comics are canon, but if you're going to bring it up the way I think you are...
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Poll Result Post
1. Hannelore (Rich; Uncorruptable; Fastidious; Possibly a Stalker) - 24 (32.9%)
2. Bubbles (Valorous Service; Now Helps People) - 16 (21.9%)
3. Dora (Moderately Successful Businesswoman; Will Enforce 'Red Lines') - 9 (12.3%)
4. Faye (Tough on People; Tough on the Causes of People) - 6 (8.2%)
=5. Claire (Already Vetted by The Library of Congress) - 4 (5.5%)
=5. Beatrice Chatham (Might as Well Make it Official) - 4 (5.5%)
7. Brun (Never Late for a Press Conference) - 3 (4.1%)
=8. Marten (Mr Good Natured Mild-Temper) - 2 (2.7%)
=8. Corpse Witch (A Career Criminal Probably Knows What it Takes to Run a Country) - 2 (2.7%)
=8. Bleminda (No History = No Skeletons in the Cupboard) - 2 (2.7%)
11. Pintsize (Because Congress Needs More Cheerfully Unapologetic Creeps) - 1 (1.4%)
X. Renee (Disliked but Generous to Those In Need) - 0 (0%)
Well, I would say we don't need to worry about recounts and 'hanging chads' this time around; Hannelore won this one by a wide margin. I don't know if she'd clean up government, but I'm sure that she'd make sure that hall of the the House of Representatives was spotlessly clean! I won't even go to what she'd do to her unfortunate fellow Representatives!
Just a note: I don't really have any ideas for this week, so if someone else wants to do the coming week's WCDT, please be my guest.
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So, Hannelore/Bubbles 2020?
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Presumably Bubbles would be the Pence to Hannelore's Trump?
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Presumably Bubbles would be the Pence to Hannelore's Trump?
What?
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Yeah, there's no way that makes sense.
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Indeed
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Still, Hannelore would have a hell of a campaign slogan. "My name is Hannelore Ellicott-Chatham. I end messes."
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Still, Hannelore would have a hell of a campaign slogan. "My name is Hannelore Ellicott-Chatham. I end messes."
And looking at the state of each of the branches that is one huge mess to clean up
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Still, Hannelore would have a hell of a campaign slogan. "My name is Hannelore Ellicott-Chatham. I end messes."
you bastard... now I need to watch "dredd" again.
ma-ma is not the law.... iamthelaw