Yeah, that guy's dead.Moment of black humour...
BRUN!!!
Mind you, she naver said she was responsible for his death.
Yes, but that was weeks ago, he might have recently died. Perhaps while trying to fulfill his dream.
Just FYI, there is no umlaut in Brun's name.
Just FYI, there is no umlaut in Brun's name.
'Brün' is short for 'Brünhilde', you know.
(It's not my fault Jeph is too mingy to buy umlauts.)
Never heard of sploshing till this strip. While on the one hand I could happily have gone the rest of my days without discovering it, it seems harmless albeit wasteful.
'Brün' is short for 'Brünhilde', you know.
So the Peaches 'n Bubbles Robot Chop Shop will at last become a thing. Booyah!
Never heard of sploshing till this strip. While on the one hand I could happily have gone the rest of my days without discovering it, it seems harmless albeit wasteful.
GFDI I think we know exactly what pics are gonna spawn on paheal after this one. The only question is whether this was a devious plot by Jeph to get art of Bubbles and Faye sitting on cakes.
On investigation, it appears to actually be standard in much of the US that diacriticals of any kind are off-limits for birth certificates.
There's no federal law on the matter, but various states have various laws and in some cases just acknowledged limitations of their data systems that they've decided don't need fixing.
https://www.thebump.com/a/baby-name-rules (https://www.thebump.com/a/baby-name-rules)
I particularly like Vermont: “You may use trademarked names (IBM), diseases (Anthrax), and obscenities, but we highly recommend against it.”
There are kids whose names are emoji now.
Hmmm. It looks like my Social Interaction Challenge for today is to work Hoboken Squat Cobbler into a conversation. :?
On investigation, it appears to actually be standard in much of the US that diacriticals of any kind are off-limits for birth certificates.
There's no federal law on the matter, but various states have various laws and in some cases just acknowledged limitations of their data systems that they've decided don't need fixing.
https://www.thebump.com/a/baby-name-rules (https://www.thebump.com/a/baby-name-rules)
I particularly like Vermont: “You may use trademarked names (IBM), diseases (Anthrax), and obscenities, but we highly recommend against it.”
There are kids whose names are emoji now.
A friend of mine is a social worker in North Carolina. She once told me the story of a young teenage mother she was counseling, and of her efforts to talk her client out of naming her son "Shi'thead". Pronounced "shi-THEED", according to the mother. The girl was totally unable to see what her son's name looked like without the apostrophe and would not listen to reason.
I wonder whatever became of young Shi'thead. He'd be about sixteen now.
Veronica Reed and Jim both have business expertise and money to invest, and Faye could go to them with less baggage than she'd have consulting Dora.Also one could showcase his baking and the other her filmography :roll:
Veronica Reed and Jim both have business expertise and money to invest, and Faye could go to them with less baggage than she'd have consulting Dora.I can imagine it now: "Are you sure you don't want to start a cake-sitting website? You'd be so good at it!"
A friend of mine is a social worker in North Carolina. She once told me the story of a young teenage mother she was counseling, and of her efforts to talk her client out of naming her son "Shi'thead". Pronounced "shi-THEED", according to the mother. The girl was totally unable to see what her son's name looked like without the apostrophe and would not listen to reason.
I wonder whatever became of young Shi'thead. He'd be about sixteen now.
I do believe that that is quite the smirk that Bubbles has there.
And getting business advice from Dora - she's gonna enjoy that.
I do believe that that is quite the smirk that Bubbles has there.
And getting business advice from Dora - she's gonna enjoy that.
Punchbot is a CPA. He would probably be a good source too.
Clinton's attempt to say her name is 'Brooon'. Which tells me that here is indeed an umlaut involved.In my experience in Britain there are people who pronounce their names any way they like, and why the hell not. If Brun wants a u as in super why the hell should she need to indulge in keyboard gymnastics or explain umlouts?
I do believe that that is quite the smirk that Bubbles has there.
And getting business advice from Dora - she's gonna enjoy that.
Punchbot is a CPA. He would probably be a good source too.
Quite. It may mean that Faye should stop drawing youknowwhat in his face though. As in starting last week.
We've seen it manifested in many ways since the Time Skip, almost all of them turning out to be imposing on poor Bubbles in some way...
"Time Skip"? (titled, no less!)
Have I missed something glaringly obvious?
(wouldn't be the first time!)
"Time Skip"? (titled, no less!)
Have I missed something glaringly obvious?
(wouldn't be the first time!)
In "Been A While, I Guess" (Strip 3126 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3126)), the strip jumps forwards about three in-universe months from late summer to late autumn.
Spookybutt is back! Yay! Friendship restored!
The attraction must be obvious if Dora noticed in the limited amount of times they've visited.
The attraction must be obvious if Dora noticed in the limited amount of times they've visited.I suspect that every time Faye has visited, she's been with Bubbles.
I've got the feeling that it is a topic of gossip in Coffee of Doom!
Oh, the friendship was restored a long time ago; no, Faye uses a nickname here because she's nervous and is trying to cover it with aggressive behaviour.Perhaps is an unconscious call-back on Faye's part to times before "stuff happened", though. Dora hasn't been "spooky" for a long time, and her gothiness lies forgotten among the debris of discarded plot elements. Only the black hair-dye remains.
"Oh, that's simple!"... :-D :-D :-D :roll:Hi Carl!
If memory serves, that's from the new rich trying to distance themselves from their commoner beginnings.Clinton's attempt to say her name is 'Brooon'. Which tells me that here is indeed an umlaut involved.In my experience in Britain there are people who pronounce their names any way they like, and why the hell not. If Brun wants a u as in super why the hell should she need to indulge in keyboard gymnastics or explain umlouts?
Clinton's attempt to say her name is 'Brooon'.
"It's spelled 'Raymond Luxury-Yacht', but it's pronounced 'Throat-Warbler Mangrove'!"(click to show/hide)
This fits into a theory that I have that Clinton has an occasional habit of stretching out some sounds and syllable gaps when he's talking. Thus, 'Brun' becomes 'Broon' and 'Clinton' becomes 'Clinnn-tonnn' (yes, I think Emily was imitating his own way of saying his name).
Btw, help me out here: Why is mis-sexualizing a straight person (as Dora is clearly doing to Faye) NOT a horrible faux pas? Faye has never demonstrated the least interest in the ladies, and Dora knows it.
My name is mispronounced so often that there are times where I'll just give up and let it go if it's close enough. Most of the time it's not worth the effort.I don't expect English-speaking people to pronounce my name correctly (that is, as a Chinese-speaker would), but it is tiresome when they can't manage the close-approximation-in-normal-English-sounds that I use myself, and insist on using German or French pronunciations that are alien to both Chinese and English.
Btw, help me out here: Why is mis-sexualizing a straight person (as Dora is clearly doing to Faye) NOT a horrible faux pas? Faye has never demonstrated the least interest in the ladies, and Dora knows it.
I think it's a subtle poke by Jeph at the Faye/Bubbles shippers.
So should diacritics go into the melting pot?Your name: do what you like! But be understanding of those who don't know where to find them on their keyboards!
Ag well, after going up to basecamp Dale (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2550) now Mount Bubs has been conquered. Tai takes her climbing serious.
And I am sure Bubbles don't mind. Getting climbed beats a rubber mallet (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3150) by far.
(yes, I'm sorry, here's this week's lunch money for the pun jar, and I'll show myself out now).
Anyone ever have people spell your name wrong when they're responding to you on Facebook? Even though, you know, your name is right there? That happens to me all the time, and my name is short. Sure, there are other legit ways to spell my name, but if my name is right in front of you, maybe spell it right.
And we can now confirm that the customer who was flexing with Elliot is Tai, but with a new look that was never worked into the plot.
IRL? Almost certainly so. I certainly got a chuckle about the harassment, and even more by Faye's "What? No!" response.Btw, help me out here: Why is mis-sexualizing a straight person (as Dora is clearly doing to Faye) NOT a horrible faux pas? Faye has never demonstrated the least interest in the ladies, and Dora knows it.
I think it's a subtle poke by Jeph at the Faye/Bubbles shippers.
My name is Alison. I often shorten it to Ali. People decide that's to long and shorten it to Al. :meh:
My name is mispronounced so often that there are times where I'll just give up and let it go if it's close enough. Most of the time it's not worth the effort.I don't expect English-speaking people to pronounce my name correctly (that is, as a Chinese-speaker would), but it is tiresome when they can't manage the close-approximation-in-normal-English-sounds that I use myself, and insist on using German or French pronunciations that are alien to both Chinese and English.
And I would pronounce it "Ah-KEE-mah", as I read it right now...
My name is Alison. I often shorten it to Ali. People decide that's to long and shorten it to Al. :meh:
I have a hypothesis that people are anti-end vowel. My name is short, usually misspelled, and people like to stick an r, s, or both at the end. My boss even did it.
I'm fairly sure this depends on the native language of people.More local even than that I think. If one considers the related topic of nick names then then a terminal y- Freddy, Jimmy, Smithy and the like is not uncommon in my part of Britain. But in Sydney, Aus, for example, its much more likely to be a terminal o...
So should diacritics go into the melting pot? Your name is tied up with your family history.For a great deal of familes it was WWII that caused many name changes. 'Van Braun' became 'Brown' and the USA's large amount of German heritage was collectively forgotten. A similar thing happened in Mexico as well at some point (just listen to the polka influence clearly present in a lot of traditional Mexican music).
Losing that is a sad thing. My grandfather's name (mine now) was probably mangled at Ellis Island.
My father's eldest brother was insistent that the family be 100% American. So that side of my family history never passed down to me.
On the other hand, my mother's mother was keen on genealogy. Thanks to her, I know that her people helped to found Rhode Island (and Providence Plantations). And I can claim ancestors who were on both sides of the American Revolution.
IS Faye straight? For some reason I thought she was heterflexible/bi?
IS Faye straight? For some reason I thought she was heterflexible/bi?
Dunno. She didn't object to Dora joking about ravishing her once...
As I recall, Akima's forum nameAll exactly correct, and Dana Tan makes a reasonable "cartoon me". Ellen Yin from The Batman would be another possibility. I'm seeing a common thread here...and avatar areis taken from the character Akima Kunimoto, a spaceship pilot in the 2000 American animated film Titan AE. The character is voiced by Drew Barrymore. As the name suggests, the character is Japanese, and so the pronunciation should be something like ah-kee-mah with no predominant stress on any syllable.
(Correction - I think her avatar is Dana Tan from the Batman Beyond series.)
Tai appears to be missing her POW tattoo?I'm not sure it would be visible from our "camera angle" as she's climbing Bubbles, but it wouldn't be the first time that tattoo slipped through the art-net. Tai does seem to have lost her glasses though. Contact lenses? Radial keratotomy? Enquiring minds want to know!
IS Faye straight? For some reason I thought she was heterflexible/bi?
Are there really that many Kinsey 0s? I find that to be incredibly unlikely.
Are there really that many Kinsey 0s? I find that to be incredibly unlikely.
@ Sitnspin: But science.
@ Sitnspin: But science.
I'm hoping this is a joke...