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Mieville vs. Pintsize - 'nuff said.

31 (39.7%)

Dora and Faye start sharing undies

5 (6.4%)

Marten and Dora start sharing undies (!)

16 (20.5%)

Hanners freaks out over Mieville

4 (5.1%)

Hanners freaks out over the "Sex Pony"

10 (12.8%)

Steve and Cosette rent Dora's old place

12 (15.4%)

Total Members Voted: 66

[jwhouk]

Might as well get things started with a poll.

[westrim]

Oh thank you! THANKYOU!!! *weeps   and kisses your feet* Finally, someone to relieve me of the ever so onerous task of starting the weekly thread!

......

Aherm.   So, I'm tempted to pick one of the last two, but I'll be a (little) serious and choose option 2. Though I still hold out hope for the Faye/ Marten (Farten?) ending of option 3, that's pretty much impossible without a way uncool crash and burn of Dora and Marten's (Dorten? Mara?) relationship. And option one would be just complicated, requiring another apartment, Marten and Dora to have already been alone for a while, and for Faye to burn down the current apartment in order to join them.

[Kugai]

I chose the last option just to be controversial.   

[akronnick]

I just saw Hannelore's name and automatically chose that option. I didn't even read the question.

[vettechinohio]

Not that I'm not enjoying the current story arc, but I was sort of hoping for a Faye/Angus confrontation to start the week. From the ustream it looks like a Dora/Marten conversation. I hope that Faye gets around to letting Angus know she doesn't hate his guts soon. I feel bad for the guy ):

[Shadic]

Well uh. This comic answered the Thread Poll.

I figured that was what was going to happen. Heck, have we even seen Dora's place in the last year? (Real time)

[jwhouk]

Oh thank you! THANKYOU!!! *weeps   and kisses your feet* Finally, someone to relieve me of the ever so onerous task of starting the weekly thread!

Hey, no problemo.

Obviously, I posted the poll before Jeph had the comic up, so I didn't realize Dora would decide off the top of the bat.

Also, I'll admit I'm not much for swearing, so don't expect any snarky polls with cussin' in it. (Yeah, I'm 42, why do you ask?)

[westrim]

I just saw Hannelore's name and automatically chose that option. I didn't even read the question.

I chose the last option just to be controversial.  

How dare you intentionally disrupt a very thorough and important scientific study! Now we have to start all over again.

Also, that's a pretty hopping coffee joint to have an eye-care plan.

Hey, no problemo.

Obviously, I posted the poll before Jeph had the comic up, so I didn't realize Dora would decide off the top of the bat.

Also, I'll admit I'm not much for swearing, so don't expect any snarky polls with cussin' in it. (Yeah, I'm 42, why do you ask?)

I shall name my first child jwhouk in your honor. And I think opinions on swearing have more to do with taste than age. I'm not averse to moderate and situation appropriate (oh fuck, my arm!) swearing, but when it becomes a verbal tick (like, totally like valley girl talk ) it is exceedingly annoying. I will never again watch Robin Williams do standup.

[IlGreven]

...and oh, the fun times to be had with Pintsize, Winslow, Roomba, and Mieville, Dora's weed-cat...

[zagraf]

I think Dora's decision was a no-brainer.  She was practically living there as it was, overnight in any case.

[Blackjoker]

I just imagined Pintsize trying to use Mieville as a steed...and then realizing that cats are a bane to all things computer.

[tinkerbell]

Is it just me, or is the way that Dora is looking at Marten in panel 4 kind of scary... maybe I am imagining things. I guess I am just wondering how well this is going to go down. It would not exactly be compelling if they all slept in one big pile like hamsters (thank you Futurama for this analogy) and lived happily ever after. Question is, who will be the one to rock the boat?

[sitnspin]

Wait, they have an eye-care plan? I never had insurance when I worked as a barista.  I want to work for Dora.

[jwhouk]

I'm pretty sure she's kidding about the eyecare. As in, if she really wanted to be "correct", she'd add, "...or pretty much anything else, since we don't have one." Course, you never know; in the QC Northampton, they might have a University Health Care System that has really great and affordable plans for small businesses.

Almost tempted to change the poll to "What do you think the living arrangements will be?"

Dora and Marten in one room, Faye in the other
Faye and Dora in one room, Marten in the other
Faye and Marten in one room, Dora in the other (!)
Dora in one room, Marten in another, and Faye back on the couch
All three in one bed!
Pintsize gets one bedroom, Mieville gets the other

[Border Reiver]

I have this bizare feeling the corporate health care plan at COD is "don't get sick". 

On a different note as a forty year old I also try not to swear - don't want to teach the lads too many bad habits (not that they haven't picked up a few words on the school ground), or the troops (amazing how much better the troops pay attention to you when every second word isn't some form of profanity)

[Binary]

R. Lee Ermey is very disappointed in you!   

WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION?!

[Tuitsuro]

They'll all murder each other within a week.  Pintsize will then proceed to make it look like some sort of epic death orgy. 

[Carl-E]

"Come and knock on my doooor,
we've been waiting for youuuuu..
Where the laughter is hers, and hers, and his -
Three's Company, too!" 

Who gets to play Mr. Farley? 

I'm SOOOOOO sorry about that. 

[Gespenst]

But why does she suddenly want to move in? The only thing that happened between her wanting to move somewhere else with him and deciding to move in with them is her finding out that Faye can hear them at night and calls her "Sex Pony"

...wait.

...nah.

[Tuitsuro]

Because then Dora gets her harem and her cabana boy. 

[Border Reiver]

R. Lee Ermey is very disappointed in you!   

WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION?!

So?  The Gunny is one of the other.  (There are two types of people in this world - gunners and targets.)

Obviously there has been a conversation between Dora and Faye that we have not been privy to. 

[Sorflakne]

So Dora's moving in.

The probability of a drunken threesome between Marty, Dora and Faye just went up a few notches.

Maybe Hanners could be a dominatrix...give her a thong instead of a telescoping baton and some leather and this comic could go places

[Is it cold in here?]

Will it do Faye good to live with a cat?

Jeph said once that if she ever had a pet it would be a cat (she seemed more like a dog person to me somehow).

The mental health benefits of having a companion animal around are well known and are the kind of benefits Faye needs.

Mieville doesn't seem to be super-affectionate though. He or she is apparently more the type that stands near you and converses.

[Kugai]

Now all Faye has to do is hook up with Tai and it'd be the perfect Apartment

 

[Akima]

Now all Faye has to do is hook up with Tai and it'd be the perfect Apartment

LOL, getting crowded! it'd be just like my cousin's place in Shanghai! Except for granny... and the kids... and the cousin up from the country looking for work... not to mention the cousin visiting from Australia (me). Nah, plenty of room!

BTW, "spookybutt"? I thought Dora's gothiness had rolled off Jeph's kitchen table and now lay lost in the litter of discarded plotlines...

[Binary]

R. Lee Ermey is very disappointed in you!   

WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION?!

So?  The Gunny is one of the other.  (There are two types of people in this world - gunners and targets.)

I'm sorry, I must be particularly dense tonight. I've read your comment through a dozen times. I can't even parse it, let alone understand it.

The mental health benefits of having a companion animal around are well known

Meh. I have friends with pets. I've seen their houses. I've heard the stories. Having my furniture covered in pet hair, plus the occasional cat-turd in the bed, would send me off the deep end.

[Tuitsuro]

Mieville doesn't seem to be super-affectionate though.

Depends.  If a cat thinks it's presence annoys someone enough, they'll become affectionate with that person just to push them off the deep end.  I imagine Faye will soon be spending her mornings being woken up by a cat pawing her face.

[Heliphyneau]

I sense a disturbance in the force . . . and a distinct feeling that Mieville will team up with the Roomba, assuming it survived its blast-off awhile back.  Kitty + Roomba always = win.

Hanners may have a teeny issue visiting them, though, once Dora and Mieville move in.  I can't imagine her being OK with entering an apartment containing a box of fecal matter.

Is Dora's apartment even in the same building?  If it's a different one, and the one that Marten, Faye, and Hanners are in doesn't allow pets, then Dora may have to give Mieville away -- perhaps to her brother, thus ensuring that Sven will yet again have more pussy than he can handle.

*legs it*

[TwistedRemedy]

-Mieville- That's what I am mostly looking forward to.

[Dliessmgg]

Meh. I have friends with pets. I've seen their houses. I've heard the stories. Having my furniture covered in pet hair, plus the occasional cat-turd in the bed, would send me off the deep end.

1. Close the door to your bedroom. If it can be opened, do something against it.
2. If they go on the furniture, shoo them away.
3. Give them places where they're allowed to be and make them as comfortable as possible.

That works with our cat.

[Carl-E]

Thank you for pointing that out before i did. 

Problems with animals usually have more to do with the training regimens of the owners, not the animals! 

[Mojo]

"Cashstigmatism?"

Ye gods.  Faye's been a terrible influence on the girl.

[Penquin47]

BTW, "spookybutt"? I thought Dora's gothiness had rolled off Jeph's kitchen table and now lay lost in the litter of discarded plotlines...

Obviously he's picking it up again, because she's got a pentagram on her hoodie...

[muffmasta]

I wonder how fay is going (if at all) on her sculpting? It's suprisingly difficult to motivate oneself to make art, I've found. Despite it being enjoyable (mostly).

[Is it cold in here?]

I think Dora is understanding enough to get behind Faye and shove if Faye procrastinates.

[raoullefere]

Jeph's moving, Dora's moving. Hmmm. Probably meaningless.

Sex toys are party favors if you attend the right (or wrong, depending on POV) sort of parties. Beats paper hats all hollow.

And Carl-E, you are very much going to hell for quoting that song and resurrecting my TV-scarred youth. Besides, this will be either 'Four's Company" or five, depending on how one counts Mieville.

[Akima]

Obviously he's picking it up again, because she's got a pentagram on her hoodie...

A smiley-face pentagram, so it's obviously ironic. What could be more indie than that?

[nicoley]

I sense a disturbance in the force . . . and a distinct feeling that Mieville will team up with the Roomba, assuming it survived its blast-off awhile back.  Kitty + Roomba always = win.

Hanners may have a teeny issue visiting them, though, once Dora and Mieville move in.  I can't imagine her being OK with entering an apartment containing a box of fecal matter.

Is Dora's apartment even in the same building?  If it's a different one, and the one that Marten, Faye, and Hanners are in doesn't allow pets, then Dora may have to give Mieville away -- perhaps to her brother, thus ensuring that Sven will yet again have more pussy than he can handle.

*legs it*

dora lives in a different building. And i was thinking the same thing, marten and faye's apartment building might not allow cats. it might have mentioned something about animals when they first moved in though, I can't remember.

[snubnose]

Hanners looks sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cute in the last panel !!!!

[WhyNot]

Will it do Faye good to live with a cat?

Jeph said once that if she ever had a pet it would be a cat (she seemed more like a dog person to me somehow).

The mental health benefits of having a companion animal around are well known and are the kind of benefits Faye needs.

Mieville doesn't seem to be super-affectionate though. He or she is apparently more the type that stands near you and converses.

I was just about to post something about Dora's cat.  I'm not worried about Faye and the cat, but what about Pintsize and the cat?  I have a feeling he's going to try and mod it like he and Winslo did with the roomba.  Going to be a "Borg" kitty running around soon after Dora moves in! (Or a "disemboweled" Pintsize).

[Akima]

dora lives in a different building. And i was thinking the same thing, marten and faye's apartment building might not allow cats. it might have mentioned something about animals when they first moved in though, I can't remember.

There was some talk of a Great Dane, but it's not entirely clear if that was in the same building.

[jwhouk]

Is Dora's apartment even in the same building?  If it's a different one, and the one that Marten, Faye, and Hanners are in doesn't allow pets, then Dora may have to give Mieville away -- perhaps to her brother, thus ensuring that Sven will yet again have more pussy than he can handle.

*legs it*

dora lives in a different building. And i was thinking the same thing, marten and faye's apartment building might not allow cats. it might have mentioned something about animals when they first moved in though, I can't remember.

I don't think they'd have a problem. After all, Marten has Pintsize...

[Mr_Rose]

Aha! that's it! The source of the True Drama; once Mieville is all moved in, he will immediately dump Dora for Faye and sour their relationship horribly, whilst planting his murderous suggestions in Faye's much more receptively violent, and now more embittered, mind, causing her to eventually flip out and kill the coffee shop. It's death-agony will reverberate through the caffinatrix (the mystical plane that binds all caffeine molecules together) and sour the world's entire coffee crop for the next seven years. Only Starbucks survives the cataclysm, because no-one who drinks there knows what coffee is supposed to taste like anyway.

[westrim]

Aha! that's it! The source of the True Drama; once Mieville is all moved in, he will immediately dump Dora for Faye and sour their relationship horribly, whilst planting his murderous suggestions in Faye's much more receptively violent, and now more embittered, mind, causing her to eventually flip out and kill the coffee shop. It's death-agony will reverberate through the caffinatrix (the mystical plane that binds all caffeine molecules together) and sour the world's entire coffee crop for the next seven years. Only Starbucks survives the cataclysm, because no-one who drinks there knows what coffee is supposed to taste like anyway.

I thought that Starbucks was an angel or vision guide or something. The ending wasn't really clear. Also, I thought the caffinatrix was the network of espresso machines our bodies are hooked up to, providing power to them in return for a digital universe and a constant mocha drip.

[Random832]

I sense a disturbance in the force . . . and a distinct feeling that Mieville will team up with the Roomba, assuming it survived its blast-off awhile back.  Kitty + Roomba always = win.

Also, anything of suitable size + Roomba = Epic mount.

[Moxie]

BTW, "spookybutt"? I thought Dora's gothiness had rolled off Jeph's kitchen table and now lay lost in the litter of discarded plotlines...

Spookybutt is a nickname Faye has had for Dora for quite a while.

[ink slinger]

BTW, "spookybutt"? I thought Dora's gothiness had rolled off Jeph's kitchen table and now lay lost in the litter of discarded plotlines...

Spookybutt is a nickname Faye has had for Dora for quite a while.

To be fair, Dora was still doing the goth thing in both of those strips. The nickname doesn't really make sense anymore.

But, of course, one of my friends is nicknamed "Squeaks" because of how hilariously squeaky his voice was when he hit puberty. The name stuck and now, 10 years later, there are still a few people who call him Squeaks.

[Carl-E]

One of my younger brothers (there are four of us) woke up one christmas morning before anyone else.  He was three yeards old. 

He opened everyone's presents and left them in a huge pile.  My parents had to sort it all out, and no one got to open anything. 

From that day to this, he's been nicknamed "Grinch" for stealing christmas.  Even his wife uses it.  He's 41. 

Nicknames stick, people! 

And Carl-E, you are very much going to hell for quoting that song and resurrecting my TV-scarred youth.

For more than that, I assure you!   

[Kugai]

Look out Dora, deadly Puppydog look in panel 3!!!!!



Why not Faye?  It'd be an interesting cake   

[Carl-E]

Finally noticed the coffee board...

I wonder which one of them put those drink names up?  My money's on Faye.