Topic: WCT 7 Dec - 11 Dec 2009 (Read 87778 times)

JD · « **Reply #50 on:** 07 Dec 2009, 22:35 »

Quote from: westrim on 07 Dec 2009, 22:06

Quote from: Ravenswing on 07 Dec 2009, 21:39
Quote from: Tuitsuro on 07 Dec 2009, 21:08
I've lived in this dorm. The fuckers on the second floor always set the alarms off by microwaving popcorn.
Eh, it could be worse. For a couple of years, I dated a couple of women in the old Hopkins A & B at Smith (which were torn down about a dozen years ago). The buildings were so antiquated they didn't HAVE fire escapes; what they did have were knotted ropes with loops with which students were expected to rappel out of the windows in case of actual emergency.

I really am not making this up.

It could have been worse; the ropes could have been painted YELLOW.

Yeah that would be terrible.

TheHappyBerry · « **Reply #51 on:** 07 Dec 2009, 22:36 »

This strip brought back memories of dating a guy that lived in an all guys dorm. It awkwardly hilarious when the alarms would go off at night, then you would have a few of us girls trying to be invisible, and hoping people notice the guy with a penis sharpied on his face instead of us.

Exar_Kun · « **Reply #52 on:** 07 Dec 2009, 23:58 »

Wow, is that a pink condom stuck in Steve's zipper in panel 2? Classy...

Also, the title of the strip had me laughing more than the actual punchline.

EDIT: Also noticed...the person on the extreme left with half her face cut off in panel 2 looks like Velma....just sayin...

Weaselon · « **Reply #53 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 00:02 »

We need Team Riker shirts, like now.

akronnick · « **Reply #54 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 00:35 »

Wait, why is Steve hanging out with these random dudes while his special lady is standing out in the cold? All by herself. On crutches.

pendrake · « **Reply #55 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 01:16 »

Akoronnick,

Probably because it is a girls' dormitory and it would look bad for a bunch of guys to be lounging with the girls after a smoke alarm (real or false).

As for strip #1552,

Team Riker = awesome. Go Steve & Cosette too.

Boyfriend Waiting Area. Coffee, cognac, & camaraderie, wish I had that during my datings of youth.

Also, nice touch with the one guy (turtleneck) in the waiting area reading Proust, goes really well with the other guy having cognac

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akronnick · « **Reply #56 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 01:41 »

They're sitting in easy chairs fifteen feet from the front door. It's pretty obvious why they are there. Why do they need to make themselves scarce? If they are not allowed in the dorm wouldn't they want to be anywhere but near the scene of the crime, as it were?

scarred · « **Reply #57 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 01:44 »

Weirder things happen at dormitories.

Mr_Rose · « **Reply #58 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 02:18 »

Quote from: akronnick on 08 Dec 2009, 01:41

They're sitting in easy chairs fifteen feet from the front door. It's pretty obvious why they are there. Why do they need to make themselves scarce? If they are not allowed in the dorm wouldn't they want to be anywhere but near the scene of the crime, as it were?

Have you never been to a school where the standard fire drill is for everyone to wander out onto the nearest field where the population will be checked against the list of known residents?

akronnick · « **Reply #59 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 03:14 »

No. All the dorms where I have lived I was free to come and go and have visitors as I pleased.

What would happen if a resident was not at home when the alarm went off?
Do they have to sign out every time they leave the building?
Is there a curfew? Last time I checked it wasn't 1962 anymore.
If visitors are allowed, how would they be accounted for?
If they are not allowed, how would they be kept away from the residents when everyone is outside, in public?
Are residents forbidden from seeking other places of repose when the fire alarm sounds?

I know that high schools treat their charges more like inmates than students these days, but I don't think colleges are like that (yet.)

LizziL · « **Reply #60 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 03:49 »

The dorm I lived in had a sign-in, and people could only stay a certain amount of days in a row. There wasn't a curfew so much as 'quiet hours', and those were only really during exams. During exams we couldn't have guests either >_<. And, during fire alarms, we didn't tend to go anywhere, because you never knew how quickly you'd be allowed back in!

Mr_Rose · « **Reply #61 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 03:59 »

An alarming number of uni dorms do still have check-ins and outs, possibly accomplished by means of a smart card these days, especially on-campus dormitories.
Most of the time it has nothing to do with keeping strangers out or preventing people from interacting (especially in the cases of mixed dorms) and more to do with ensuring everyone can be accounted for in an emergency. Such as when the fire alarm sounds.
As for being forbidden from going elsewhere when the alarm sounds, I never heard of anyone being detained longer than it takes to get their name ticked off the list as "exited the building" so there is generally a rush toward the clipboard-wielder. Not getting checked out is considered bad form.

Border Reiver · « **Reply #62 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 04:15 »

This strip brought back memories (dating back 18 years) of living in rez.

Other than the ooportunity to see what she looks like at 2AM without her hair or makeup done there really isn't a plus. And at at -30 it really sucked.

Ravenswing · « **Reply #63 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 05:57 »

Quote from: Mr_Rose on 08 Dec 2009, 02:18

Have you never been to a school where the standard fire drill is for everyone to wander out onto the nearest field where the population will be checked against the list of known residents?

Maybe, but Smith hasn't been one of them.

Fen · « **Reply #64 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 05:59 »

blonde guy is SMOKIN'HOT.
i bet he's what set off the alarm.

raoullefere · « **Reply #65 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 06:47 »

Quote from: akronnick on 08 Dec 2009, 03:14

No. All the dorms where I have lived I was free to come and go and have visitors as I pleased.

I know that high schools treat their charges more like inmates than students these days, but I don't think colleges are like that (yet.)

It's been, ah, some time, but way back when we had check ins and outs, and, technically, anyway, god help you if you got caught with a girl in the room, not signed in, after visitor's hours—started the year after I was a freshman. Luckily, at the upperclassman male dorms no one but the dorm manager (officially) and a few suta* RA's ever cared. Not so at the female dorms.

Maybe they had more sticks.

*Stick up their ass

Mad Cat · « **Reply #66 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 06:52 »

Could be worse. The Team Riker poster could have been this pic:

*obligatory righteous indignation that a young woman can't enjoy sex without being a slut*

When I was in grad school, I lived in co-ed grad student housing. We just had carved slivvers of metal, laughingly referred to as keys, to check our comings* and goings. (Everyone knows real keys are 4096-bits.) In theory, if we had a guest for a week or more, we were supposed to pay a "rent" fee.

I remember one late-night winter fire alarm that had a bunch of young men and women milling around in their PJs outside. One guy who rolled his own cigarettes from pouch tobacco started rolling one right there in front of the campus mall cops. I gleaned copious entertainment from watching their eyes light up, but there wasn't the first thing they could do about it.

It's been mentioned, but, Steve... digging the fuscia briefs, dude.

* Write your own joke here.

akronnick · « **Reply #67 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 07:17 »

Eeeeewwww No-Beard-Riker! Just Eweeewwww

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #68 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 07:29 »

Quote from: Fen on 08 Dec 2009, 05:59

blonde guy is SMOKIN'HOT.
i bet he's what set off the alarm.

Are you thiinking of that old joke, "Do you smoke after sex?"?

maddness · « **Reply #69 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 10:13 »

Quote from: Kugai on 07 Dec 2009, 22:30

Next, we find out she dated Angus

Nooooooooooooooo!

Quote from: Kugai on 07 Dec 2009, 22:30

It coulda been worse - It coulda been a Team Worf Poster

Please, I'd totally go Team Warf. I likes my men difficult and growly. Plus ... there's the biting ... which is ... you know ... kind of a plus ... ok ... bye now!

I'll be honest ... I never liked Riker much.

Can there be a Team Picard? I still find it funny that at the age of 11 I thought the hottest guy on tv was an old bald guy.

SleeperCylon · « **Reply #70 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 13:11 »

I remember living in a college dorm. The constant fire drills in winter, followed up by the fire department lecture.

The fire department totally blind to the fact that people wouldn't stop to get their shoes if they knew it was a real fire. I used to slink out the back and go for a walk to avoid the lecture.

laizeohbeets · « **Reply #71 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 13:21 »

We had fire drills, which was mainly an excuse to make sure underclassmen (ie: Anyone under 21) didn't have booze in the apartments. So if people took forever to get out, it was because they were hiding their booze. (Yay, party schools.) It took a rid-damn-diculous amount of time for the fire department to get there, too,

This is why when, if there was a fire drill, we would head over to Taco Bell as soon as we were out. 40* weather, no matter how you look at it, is cold when you're standing in it for ages.

Ghanima Atreides · « **Reply #72 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 13:35 »

It would be funny if there were a real fire - then Marten's prediction about the date could potentially come true.

Carl-E · « **Reply #73 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 14:46 »

A friend of mine named Francis* was put into a women's dorm at Purdue. It was two weeks before housing caught up with him ad transferred him into a men's dorm...

The RA's at the door just assumed he was someone's boyfriend coming and going!

* - last name withheld, I haven't seen him in 20 years, and he was always touchy about this...

Tuitsuro · « **Reply #74 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 17:07 »

Quote from: Ghanima Atreides on 08 Dec 2009, 13:35

It would be funny if there were a real fire - then Marten's prediction about the date could potentially come true.

Prophetical cockblocking. Marten predicts fire; so Steve dies, Cosette catches on fire, and then to add insult to injury, gets raped by RANDY.

In other news, QC's archive is being eaten by grues again. It's that same corrupt image error from last week.

evilbobthebob · « **Reply #75 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 18:38 »

I am using Angus's line in the last panel at the next opportunity, because it is so sarcastically awesome

Cue argument: is Marigold's hair better or worse?

Personally, my opinion is MEH.

LeeC · « **Reply #76 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 18:38 »

d'aww blushy comic today.

zagraf · « **Reply #77 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 18:54 »

"I'll wash you more than twice a year!" is the best retort ever. Only someone as adorably socially inept as Marigold could come up with that.

jordinyc · « **Reply #78 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 18:55 »

someone1074 · « **Reply #79 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 18:57 »

Haven't laughed this hard at this comic in a while. Both from Marigold's comment and Angus's freaking excellent sarcasm.

Carl-E · « **Reply #80 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 19:07 »

Definitely a student/master relationship that's developing.

It worries me that Angus is the master here, his social skills need some work, too. Not nearly as much as Marigolds, but still...

As foir the haircut, you can see her face. It's a psychological improvement, she's not hiding anymore!

Makes it harder to hide the blushing...

Akima · « **Reply #81 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 19:21 »

Quote from: zagraf on 08 Dec 2009, 18:54

"I'll wash you more than twice a year!" is the best retort ever.

I think she should've gone for the classic "Your Mom should wash more than twice a year!"

westrim · « **Reply #82 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 19:44 »

Quote from: Akima on 08 Dec 2009, 19:21

Quote from: zagraf on 08 Dec 2009, 18:54
"I'll wash you more than twice a year!" is the best retort ever.

I think she should've gone for the classic "Your Mom should wash more than twice a year!"

To which I say; "Your mom washes me twice a week, if you know what I mean."

ysth · « **Reply #83 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 19:54 »

Quote from: westrim on 08 Dec 2009, 19:44

Quote from: Akima on 08 Dec 2009, 19:21
Quote from: zagraf on 08 Dec 2009, 18:54
"I'll wash you more than twice a year!" is the best retort ever.

I think she should've gone for the classic "Your Mom should wash more than twice a year!"

To which I say; "Your mom washes me twice a week, if you know what I mean."

By definition, "your mom" lines don't need a "if you know what I mean". It's like fortune cookies.

jordinyc · « **Reply #84 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 20:00 »

For the record, Rushuna Tendo (A) does exist and (2) looks like this:

Akima · « **Reply #85 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 20:09 »

Quote from: westrim on 08 Dec 2009, 19:44

To which I say; "Your mom washes me twice a week

Yeah, at her age it's so great she still volunteers to help out on the retarded kids' ward...

Tuitsuro · « **Reply #86 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 20:15 »

Quote from: Carl-E on 08 Dec 2009, 19:07

As foir the haircut, you can see her face. It's a psychological improvement, she's not hiding anymore!

Makes it harder to hide the blushing...

...and those precancerous lesions that seem to be crawling around her cheek...

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For the record, Rushuna Tendo (A) does exist and (2) looks like this:

Also for the record, she's supposed to be 16! ( Thank you, Japan. )

LeeC · « **Reply #87 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 20:25 »

wow looks like she would need to use a lot of hair spray to look like the girl in that picture you posted.

akronnick · « **Reply #88 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 20:31 »

Is it just me or does her new haircut bear a resemblance to that of a certain acerbic barista that Angus likes to spend time with?

ChopstickForge · « **Reply #89 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 20:43 »

I hate to be one of "Those" people... but the style change for Marigold is particularly cute.

jordinyc · « **Reply #90 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 21:04 »

Quote from: LeeC on 08 Dec 2009, 20:25

wow looks like she would need to use a lot of hair spray to look like the girl in that picture you posted.

No just lots and lots of hair and someone with a giant church fan and a generator following you everywhere. XD

raoullefere · « **Reply #91 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 21:18 »

Quote from: akronnick on 08 Dec 2009, 20:31

Is it just me or does her new haircut bear a resemblance to that of a certain acerbic barista that Angus likes to spend time with?

Just you. Faye's bangs are so angled they almost aren't (bangs), she has a part, and her hair, these days, anyway, doesn't frame her face the way Marigold's does.

Quote from: jordinyc on 08 Dec 2009, 20:00

For the record, Rushuna Tendo (A) does exist and (2) looks like this:

So Marigold forgot to specify she needed to be blonde and, aside from the bangs, have copious amounts of Miracle Grow for Hair applied. That's not big hair, that's freaking enormous hair. And possibly prehensile.

ysth · « **Reply #92 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 21:38 »

Quote from: raoullefere on 08 Dec 2009, 21:18

So Marigold forgot to specify she needed to be blonde and, aside from the bangs, have copious amounts of Miracle Grow for Hair applied

Not just on her hair.

westrim · « **Reply #93 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 21:41 »

Quote from: ysth on 08 Dec 2009, 19:54

Quote from: westrim on 08 Dec 2009, 19:44
Quote from: Akima on 08 Dec 2009, 19:21
Quote from: zagraf on 08 Dec 2009, 18:54
"I'll wash you more than twice a year!" is the best retort ever.

I think she should've gone for the classic "Your Mom should wash more than twice a year!"

To which I say; "Your mom washes me twice a week, if you know what I mean."
By definition, "your mom" lines don't need a "if you know what I mean". It's like fortune cookies.

I was going to put that in parentheses with "and I think you do" to address to the reader, but accidentally hit post and decided to leave it.

On another note, fortune cookies are tasty!

Quote from: jordinyc on 08 Dec 2009, 20:00

For the record, Rushuna Tendo (A) does exist and (2) looks like this:

A? 2? Does not compute, does not compute-skrrrz

Quote from: Akima on 08 Dec 2009, 20:09

Quote from: westrim on 08 Dec 2009, 19:44
To which I say; "Your mom washes me twice a week

Yeah, at her age it's so great she still volunteers to help out on the retarded kids' ward...

Yeah, it's nice that she can go to work and still be with her kid.

Quote from: Tuitsuro on 08 Dec 2009, 20:15

...and those precancerous lesions that seem to be crawling around her cheek...

Those are blackheads, I believe.

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Also for the record, she's supposed to be 16! ( Thank you, Japan. )

Hey, better to wish for big boobs in an almost completely boob-less society than to starve yourself striving for a skinny ideal (though she's skinny too, so nevermind).

Quote from: raoullefere on 08 Dec 2009, 21:18

So Marigold forgot to specify she needed to be blonde and, aside from the bangs, have copious amounts of Miracle Grow for Hair applied. That's not big hair, that's freaking enormous hair. And possibly prehensile.

Welcome to anime and the foibles of those who try to cosplay.

LTK · « **Reply #94 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 22:16 »

Quote from: akronnick on 08 Dec 2009, 20:31

Is it just me or does her new haircut bear a resemblance to that of a certain acerbic barista that Angus likes to spend time with?

No, Faye doesn't have bangs like Marigold does now. To be honest, the first thing that sprang to mind when Marigold asked 'Do you like it?' was 'No.' Eh, it'll grow on me.

Kugai · « **Reply #95 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 22:26 »

Next comic will see Angus on the floor clutching his crotch

Poor MariBear, she's just not cut out for witty repartee - YET!

sitnspin · « **Reply #96 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 22:28 »

Angus really has no idea he is flirting. Poor girl is being set up for disappointment. I sympathize with the dude, though, as I flirt automatically often without even realizing it. Much drama follows.

Shadic · « **Reply #97 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 22:37 »

I think Angus' issue is that he's obviously a socialite, and typically upfront about things. If he likes something, he'll say it. He's nice enough to typically hold back needlessly negative comments, however.

And according to Faye at least, Angus is a rather attractive guy. So you've got the attractive factor, the confident thing, and the fact that he obviously likes Marigold, though seemingly not in any romantic sense.

~~Schmorgluck~~ · « **Reply #98 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 23:07 »

Quote from: laizeohbeets on 08 Dec 2009, 13:21

40* weather, no matter how you look at it, is cold when you're standing in it for ages.

Except if you look at it in celsius.

JackFaerie · « **Reply #99 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 23:12 »

Quote from: westrim on 08 Dec 2009, 21:41

Quote from: Tuitsuro on 08 Dec 2009, 20:15

...and those precancerous lesions that seem to be crawling around her cheek...

Those are blackheads, I believe.

Actually, I think the 2 black dots are beauty marks/moles (always there, mostly in the same place on her face), and only the red dots are acne.

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