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Certitude.

8 (13.6%)

Palimpsest.

12 (20.3%)

Cloaca.

10 (16.9%)

Phrontistery.

8 (13.6%)

Gudgeon.

9 (15.3%)

Other. (and you can't say 'antidisestablishmentarianism,' that's cheating.)

12 (20.3%)

Total Members Voted: 52

Voting closed: 18 Apr 2010, 21:51

[Akima]

I'm a little disappointed, really.  I was expecting smething more... abstract.  And more frightening. And less utilitarian.  

Me too actually. It's a bit "Meh". I was expecting something more like this:



                           "Coffee-hound before first cup"

I mean what's the point of having a tortured psyche if you produce something as banal as a small coffee-maker. Now a 30-metre tall Godzilla-coffee-maker that destroys downtown... That would be something.

[zagraf]

Dora should've commissioned a sculpture from Pintsize instead.

...Mmmmaybe not. That might spell the end of CoD. And possibly Northampton. And the Eastern seaboard, and...

[bhtooefr]

So it's fairly clear that the denizens of this forum have a good perspective that genital punching, while bad, is not the worst thing in the world. Whether you have a penis, a vagina or a cloaca, getting punched in the junk isn't the end of the world.

Well, there's always getting shot in the dick. (South Park reference.)

[jwhouk]

Hmm, I suppose it could be considered Tyrannosaur poop if said Tyrannosaur was suffering from a fair bit of . . . digestive distress.  
<snip>

Well, it is espresso... and you know what they say about the diuretic powers of coffee.

And my favorite obscure word: "ennervate."

[Carl-E]

Ennervate is obscure?  Mind you, I don't have occasion to use it regularly, but it's not nearly as off the beaten track as some of the others listed...

I was expecting something more like this:



                           "Coffee-hound before first cup"

I mean what's the point of having a tortured psyche if you produce something as banal as a small coffee-maker. Now a 30-metre tall Godzilla-coffee-maker that destroys downtown... That would be something.

Now, that's what I'm talkin' about!  Where is that, Akima?  It's really cool (in a disturbingly familiar way)...

[evilbobthebob]

That's in the gardens of the Eden Project in Cornwall. It was pretty cool the last time I visited, about three or four years ago now.

[Border Reiver]

Sod T-shirts - I want that coffee maker!

[MillionDollar Belt Sander]

I was expecting a pancake flipping beaver.   

[nonsignor]

T-rexpressso for all!!!
Sold as one size only. Terrible stimulatte!

[MillionDollar Belt Sander]

As a Manufacturing Dood,  I have looked over the design...   With a little bit of work this could be manufactured.

Not in my workshop mind you... I'm not set up for this kind of thing really... but it could be manufactured and marketed.

Also, a Hemi version is possible, if you use the output of the engine to run the water pump and the heat of the engine to steam the coffee.   That would be harder to make but again... possible.

[Wiregeek]

Turbocharged Hemi with a Java-based intercooler...

[Tuitsuro]

As a Manufacturing Dood,  I have looked over the design...   With a little bit of work this could be manufactured.

Can we make it so that when people walk by, it turns its head and sings Don't Worry, Be Happy?

[Carl-E]

NO.

[Akima]

Now, that's what I'm talkin' about!  Where is that, Akima?  It's really cool (in a disturbingly familiar way)...

It is the WEE Man sculpture, intended to illustrate the amout of electronic and electrical waste the average UK citizen will discard in a lifetime. It has been displayed in several locations, but that photo was, as evilbobthebob pointed out, taken at the Eden Project in St. Austel, Cornwell, UK. I've never seen it, I just googled until I found a suitable image.

[Mr_Rose]

BTW, the St. Austel brewery is one of the best in the world, mostly due to the radium-water spring it sits on top of. Pity it only sells to the local area....

[raoullefere]

Other: Phlogiston

[MillionDollar Belt Sander]

As a Manufacturing Dood,  I have looked over the design...   With a little bit of work this could be manufactured.

Can we make it so that when people walk by, it turns its head and sings Don't Worry, Be Happy?

Yes.

[TheHappyBerry]

I don't consider cloaca nearly as obscure as those other words, of course I might be biased by the fact that some of my thesis work deals with birds.

[Carl-E]

As a Manufacturing Dood,  I have looked over the design...   With a little bit of work this could be manufactured.

Can we make it so that when people walk by, it turns its head and sings Don't Worry, Be Happy?

Yes.

Dammit, I said "NO!"

[Steve the Pocket]

Other: Phlogiston

I don't usually bother with the polls, but I had to vote Other to agree with this assessment.

[Sorflakne]

I'm a little disappointed, really.  I was expecting smething more... abstract.  And more frightening. And less utilitarian.  

Me too actually. It's a bit "Meh". I was expecting something more like this:



                           "Coffee-hound before first cup"

I mean what's the point of having a tortured psyche if you produce something as banal as a small coffee-maker. Now a 30-metre tall Godzilla-coffee-maker that destroys downtown... That would be something.

I see your crazy-ass mutated dino-human and raise you one xenomorph:

[jwhouk]

1. Someone finally managed to get back to their hotel in CHI.
2. Not bad for 30 seconds of work, Dora. LOL
3. She can always tell Faye to take her time making the duplicate, and she can give them the Whitaker Original.

[Shadic]

Yay, comic!

And Dora just made an easy $200.

[AngryCallCenterAgent]

Hey, Faye, think fast. *yoink*

[Blackjoker]

I kinda feel sad, that thing could have had some potential amusement, but this also works well. I'm just waiting to see if Faye tries making random stuff to see what people are willing to buy, and then one of Pintsize's parts gets stuck in it.

[Kugai]

Could this be the beginning of FayeCorp?



..................




NAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

[Delirium]

Well that was somewhat disheartening.

[Akima]

I see your crazy-ass mutated dino-human and raise you one xenomorph:

Love the rebar claws!

I think Dora low-balled the price on the dino-coffee-pooper. What hourly rate was she using? Of course it could be a case of a "sprat to catch a mackerel" if it gets Faye's work in front of the gallery-going crowd. But at my employer's charge-out rate, two grand wouldn't buy many hours of my time.

But from the gleam in her eye at the sniff of a deal, Dora must have been a Shanghai merchant in a previous life...

[snubnose]

Hmmmmm.

Looks like Faye will leave the strip sooner or later now, starting life as an artist ?

[Border Reiver]

Actually, I would be flattered if my work was deemed to be worth $2K - and seeing as how Dora fronted the money to make the beastie in the first place, the 10% is probably reasonable.

Now, back to the assembly line woman!

[Carl-E]

That was just tooo damn easy...

[Mad Cat]

Faye totally just got pimped by Dora!

[Carl-E]

I think the term is "represented"

But it's pretty much the same thing...

[sudamerican]

Turbocharged Hemi with a Java-based intercooler...

oh, it's groundhog day at the qc forums again...

[J]

As a Manufacturing Dood,  I have looked over the design...   With a little bit of work this could be manufactured.

Can we make it so that when people walk by, it turns its head and sings Don't Worry, Be Happy?

Yes.

Dammit, I said "NO!"

what if it sings Paranoid?

[Tunahead]

As a Manufacturing Dood,  I have looked over the design...   With a little bit of work this could be manufactured.

Can we make it so that when people walk by, it turns its head and sings Don't Worry, Be Happy?

Yes.

Dammit, I said "NO!"

what if it sings Paranoid?

I for one will settle for nothing less than Gary Moore's Out In The Fields

[fineout]

yay for non soap opera comics again! i missed the silly ones, nice work jeph

[akronnick]

I think the term is "represented"

But it's pretty much the same thing...

It's hard out here for a pimp an artistic representation agent.

[MillionDollar Belt Sander]

As a Manufacturing Dood,  I have looked over the design...   With a little bit of work this could be manufactured.

Can we make it so that when people walk by, it turns its head and sings Don't Worry, Be Happy?

Yes.

Dammit, I said "NO!"

What was that?  I can't quite hear you over the sound of my totally awesome coffee-shitting Bob Marley-singing dinosaur.

[Wiregeek]

fools, Crazy Train is the best song ever.

[raoullefere]

Each and every one of you folks (those wanting singing, caf-crapping dinos) has Bigmouth Billy Bass (or some equivalent) mounted on your wall, don't you?

I say that after the shock wears off, Faye goes crazy(er?) not being able to make anything else that anyone wants to buy. (Ponders that.) Ah, who am I kidding? We all know this success will lock Faye up, big time. She won't try again, for fear of not being successful again.

[jwhouk]

Each and every one of you folks (those wanting singing, caf-crapping dinos) has Bigmouth Billy Bass (or some equivalent) mounted on your wall, don't you?

I say that after the shock wears off, Faye goes crazy(er?) not being able to make anything else that anyone wants to buy. (Ponders that.) Ah, who am I kidding? We all know this success will lock Faye up, big time. She won't try again, for fear of not being successful again.

And she'll have to talk to Dr. Corrine about it. And when she finds out how much she made on commission, she's going to tell her, "I think we need to have a few more sessions... "

[Mad Cat]

As much as I would love to see Jeph express his own inventiveness and mechanicly creative side through Faye's continued creations in-cannon, if the slightly mentally unstable girl starts to build outlandish things, this is going to become Barista Genius.

[ridingonemptytrains]

I kind of hoped I'd never hear the line "What just happened?" again after watching every episode of Scrubs and hearing it one hundred million times but it actually works here.

Also, I too might have to violence Jeph if Sven and Marigold becomes a thing.

[Tuitsuro]

As much as I would love to see Jeph express his own inventiveness and mechanicly creative side through Faye's continued creations in-cannon, if the slightly mentally unstable girl starts to build outlandish things, this is going to become Barista Genius.

She already meets most of the criteria for being a Spark.

[Border Reiver]

I for one will heartily welcome our busty, glasses wearing female overlords.....

[Heliphyneau]

I say that after the shock wears off, Faye goes crazy(er?) not being able to make anything else that anyone wants to buy. (Ponders that.) Ah, who am I kidding? We all know this success will lock Faye up, big time. She won't try again, for fear of not being successful again.

And she'll have to talk to Dr. Corrine about it. And when she finds out how much she made on commission, she's going to tell her, "I think we need to have a few more sessions... "

Or, alternately, this could become another stage in Faye's growth as a person -- the success may inspire her to try harder.  I'm not saying she wouldn't angst about it occasionally, but there's no reason why she couldn't have a successful career (albeit with serendipitous beginnings) as an artist and still be in the strip.  The comic title is Questionable Content, not Coffee of Doom.  And hey, maybe this means Faye's one step closer to building a robot hand.  

[Is it cold in here?]

In 458, Faye said of her sculpture "I had to give that up when I moved up north". She was not being straight with herself. She's been hiding from her past, and it's good that she's recovering. Full credit to Dora for the insight that Faye needed to be pushed into sculpting. Did she notice how content Faye looked in 1130, or is she just that understanding of human nature?

[Shteevie]

Was Faye's ego just stoked by Marten in a wig and fake beard?

[Mr_Rose]

As much as I would love to see Jeph express his own inventiveness and mechanicly creative side through Faye's continued creations in-cannon, if the slightly mentally unstable girl starts to build outlandish things, this is going to become Barista Genius.

If you're going to link to that place and talk about coffee, you might at least link the relevant page...