Topic: WCT 20-24 Sep 10 (Read 90849 times)

Mr_Rose · « **Reply #200 on:** 24 Sep 2010, 06:29 »

Quote from: Y on 24 Sep 2010, 06:19

So how did the stains on her shirt magically disappear?

Hannelore doesn't realise it yet, but all those years of exposure to bleach fumes whilst playing Ride of the Valkyries too loud has given her a mutant super-power; she now emits cleansing radiation capable of breaking down and dissolving any and all stains within a fifty-yard radius - it just takes a little while is all.
No-one has noticed before because she never stays in one place long enough for it to work unless she's already cleaned it the hard way first.

amandathehunter · « **Reply #201 on:** 24 Sep 2010, 06:32 »

I just wanted to say, Mr_Rose...

I <3 your siggy. ^^

jwhouk · « **Reply #202 on:** 24 Sep 2010, 06:57 »

Quote from: Random832 on 24 Sep 2010, 05:01

Quote from: LeeC on 23 Sep 2010, 22:39
though faye probably just sees Sven and Blonde, his type

When have we ever seen Sven with a blonde?

Quote from: Tergon on 24 Sep 2010, 00:44
Yes, she's skinny and blonde and innocent-looking, which seems to be his type

Again, have we been reading the same comic? If he has a 'type', this ain't it.

Vivanca, Genevieve, Eva and that gal from the HR that wrote her number on his napkin would all disagree.

Shok Xone Studios · « **Reply #203 on:** 24 Sep 2010, 07:09 »

By GAWD, but blushing Hannelore is so damned cute.

Somebody · « **Reply #204 on:** 24 Sep 2010, 07:57 »

Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 23 Sep 2010, 23:00

Should it alarm me that Faye has thought out in detail how to seduce Hannelore?

Ah, not just me then...

Aggie · « **Reply #205 on:** 24 Sep 2010, 08:06 »

It's like Batman's contingency plans for the Justice league members, only with seduction.

Steve the Pocket · « **Reply #206 on:** 24 Sep 2010, 08:07 »

The problem with Faye's scenario (well, among other things) is that it would take a lot of planning. Sven has never struck me as that manipulative, but more to the point he's not trying to seduce her. He's more the kind that would seduce a woman more or less by accident (and has, if certain theories about him and Faye are to be believed), or at the very least on the spur of the moment. Not through meticulous planning and research.

Also, I like the little lampshade hanging about the font... which I noticed has now changed back for some reason.

laizeohbeets · « **Reply #207 on:** 24 Sep 2010, 08:45 »

Quote from: jwhouk on 24 Sep 2010, 06:57

Quote from: Random832 on 24 Sep 2010, 05:01
Quote from: LeeC on 23 Sep 2010, 22:39
though faye probably just sees Sven and Blonde, his type

When have we ever seen Sven with a blonde?

Quote from: Tergon on 24 Sep 2010, 00:44
Yes, she's skinny and blonde and innocent-looking, which seems to be his type

Again, have we been reading the same comic? If he has a 'type', this ain't it.
Vivanca, Genevieve, Eva and that gal from the HR that wrote her number on his napkin would all disagree.

My "type" is tall guys with dark hair, blue eyes, and freckles, but yet I've dated mostly blonds. I still find the dark/blue/freckles combination far more attractive than blond.

What you end up bonin' doesn't necessarily have anything to do with type so much as Attractive and Available.

Varian7 · « **Reply #208 on:** 24 Sep 2010, 08:51 »

Quote from: Shok Xone Studios on 24 Sep 2010, 07:09

By GAWD, but blushing Hannelore is so damned cute.

I agree! Blushing Hanners is incredibly cute!

Tergon · « **Reply #209 on:** 24 Sep 2010, 08:53 »

Quote from: laizeohbeets on 24 Sep 2010, 08:45

My "type" is tall guys with dark hair, blue eyes, and freckles, but yet I've dated mostly blonds. I still find the dark/blue/freckles combination far more attractive than blond.

What you end up bonin' doesn't necessarily have anything to do with type so much as Attractive and Available.

Yes, but we're talking about Sven.

Seriously, I linked to that comic in a post that was, like, five posts before the one you quoted.

raoullefere · « **Reply #210 on:** 24 Sep 2010, 09:03 »

Quote from: disaacs on 24 Sep 2010, 05:20

Quote from: raoullefere on 24 Sep 2010, 00:31
Yes, Faye has thought out this fantasy. Only problem is, unless Sven is somewhere, deep inside, exactly as wierd as Hannelore, he's going to be so turned off by the end of all that it'd be a miracle if he got an erection a week afterward.

I mean, a movie about fonts? Jesus Christ on a beanpole!

Due to various circumstances I've seen that movie about fonts 3 times. I can't say it impacted my sexual performance at all, positively or negatively.

I simply hope there's no one out there having a lusty sexual encounter whilst they scream "Fonts, Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, TIMES ROMAN!" I mean, I got pretty excited the first time I loaded up my mac with a couple hundred, but not that excited, or remotely in that way.

Of course, now that stupid rule just generated a goddam font-pron website.

Edit: Sonuvabitch!

pendrake · « **Reply #211 on:** 24 Sep 2010, 10:01 »

Good end-comic for this week, to prelude the Hannelore+Sven date coming soon to many readers' anticipation.

1. First off, as it has been said before, Hannelore is NOT actually immune to Sven's "Come Hither" look. From comic: #1078: Mr. Face. Sven's aim was off and 'missed' Hanners, 'hitting' Faye, thus sparking off the whole Faye+Sven story-line.

2. Love the Hanners' skeptical look in panel 2 and blushings in panels 4-5.

3. Hannelore: "Yes. He's too tall. I could only kiss a boy who was the same height as me." Is not...Marten...Hanner's height? [dun Dun DUN!]

4. On the other hand, it would be very adorable to see Hannelore standing on tip-toes to be kissing Sven...

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someone1074 · « **Reply #212 on:** 24 Sep 2010, 10:03 »

Tergon, I'm pretty sure laize was just adding additional support to your argument.

Shteevie · « **Reply #213 on:** 24 Sep 2010, 10:29 »

Sven will pick Hanners up at her apartment.
He will bring flowers that are nice, but not trying too hard.
Hanners will want to put them in a vase.
She will need to use a step stool to reach the top shelf.

When she turns, she will recognize that she and Sven are the same height.

Kiss.

LTK · « **Reply #214 on:** 24 Sep 2010, 10:34 »

Nice to see that Hanners is putting her contempt-face to good use.

Heliphyneau · « **Reply #215 on:** 24 Sep 2010, 10:41 »

Quote from: pendrake on 24 Sep 2010, 10:01

Good end-comic for this week, to prelude the Hannelore+Sven date coming soon to many readers' anticipation.

1. First off, as it has been said before, Hannelore is NOT actually immune to Sven's "Come Hither" look. From comic: #1078: Mr. Face. Sven's aim was off and 'missed' Hanners, 'hitting' Faye, thus sparking off the whole Faye+Sven story-line.

That may be accurate, and it was certainly Sven's assessment at the time, but I actually like it better if Hanners is immune to The Look. It doesn't mean she doesn't like him or would be immune to any kind of seduction (as Faye's recounting of a hypothetical date indicates), but it makes things a little more interesting.

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2. Love the Hanners' skeptical look in panel 2 and blushings in panels 4-5.

Yes! I mean, Faye's expressions are good too, but Hanners' are great in this strip.

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3. Hannelore: "Yes. He's too tall. I could only kiss a boy who was the same height as me." Is not...Marten...Hanner's height? [dun Dun DUN!]

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING.

It's possible that he might be an inch taller (something Hanners would notice), but they are close in height -- party pic: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1679

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4. On the other hand, it would be very adorable to see Hannelore standing on tip-toes to be kissing Sven... .

D'aww. Yet Hanners attacking her face with bleach immediately afterwards would be somewhat less adorable.

BTW, the folks saying that Hannelore is Sven's type are only partly right. Sven prefers blondes (natural ones at that, given how scandalized he was by the revelation that one of his exes dyed her hair), and he does like them skinny, but he also likes them to have big boobies and be wildcats in the sack. Granted, many (most?) guys might want those last two things, but it means that, like Faye, Hanners doesn't have all the elements. Now if you took some parts of Hanners and squished them together with some parts of Faye . . .

LeeC · « **Reply #216 on:** 24 Sep 2010, 10:53 »

Quote from: Tergon on 24 Sep 2010, 05:53

Quote from: Random832 on 24 Sep 2010, 05:01
Quote from: LeeC on 23 Sep 2010, 22:39
though faye probably just sees Sven and Blonde, his type

When have we ever seen Sven with a blonde?

Quote from: Tergon on 24 Sep 2010, 00:44
Yes, she's skinny and blonde and innocent-looking, which seems to be his type

Again, have we been reading the same comic? If he has a 'type', this ain't it.

Um...

Actually it totally is. Seriously. There's, like, a fair bit of evidence about that. So in answer to your question... I guess we're not reading the same comic? Because, y'know, in the one I'm reading... there's this whole big thing about Sven liking blondes.

Thanks for the assist Tergon

as for the marten hanners thing, I always thought hanners had a thing for marten for a bit.

Border Reiver · « **Reply #217 on:** 24 Sep 2010, 10:55 »

Way I see it, we've built up to the date this week at work.

Next week we get the rest of the pre date stuff out of the way, possilbly with both Dora and Faye promising nasty implications if Sven is anything but their definition of harmless, ending on Friday with Sven showing up at Hanner's door.

The following week will be the date itself - which will follow Faye's outline to an uncanny degree, right up to the point where Sven offers to show a movie he's rented - then Hanners will freak right out leaving our bemused hero alone on the couch.

The following week will be the apres date shenanigans - Dora and Faye upset at Sven for being a less than stellar date, Hanners mortified that Sven may or may not have been trying to seduce her, Sven just completely confused and Marten roped into his usual position as the mediator/voice of reason. or Sven will only be saved with a secret video of the date made by Pintsize, who's upset because there was ntohing interesting for him to film.

If I've called it, I will graciously expect your internet award. If not, you'll forget all about it.

raoullefere · « **Reply #218 on:** 24 Sep 2010, 11:24 »

Well, we would've, except you had to go and challenge us.

Border Reiver · « **Reply #219 on:** 24 Sep 2010, 12:03 »

Then in the words of Weird Al - I've brought shame and disgrace on my family name for generations to come.

tomart · « **Reply #220 on:** 24 Sep 2010, 14:04 »

Quote from: raoullefere on 24 Sep 2010, 09:03

I mean, a movie about fonts? Jesus Christ on a beanpole!

I mean, I got pretty excited the first time I loaded up my mac with a couple hundred, but not that excited, or remotely in that way.

Hey, now you're treading on sensitive computer-artist-graphics-nerd ground here...

I've collected a few THOUSAND fonts, needing (I tell myself) to have the perfect one handy when I need it, for my maps-graphics-logo- work, t-shirt designs, free-form lettering, etc etc etc... Fonts are art+meaning, they're sensual, dazzling, magnificent, amazing, some are even thrilling... I can get lost in a good font book for hours, it's like tvtropes for typesetters.

I guess all those people who DON'T get excited about fonts just haven't seen all the good ones...

Akima · « **Reply #221 on:** 24 Sep 2010, 15:22 »

Quote from: tomart on 24 Sep 2010, 14:04

I guess all those people who DON'T get excited about fonts just haven't seen all the good ones...

Font font font...

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #222 on:** 24 Sep 2010, 17:40 »

Fonts are calligraphy for computers.

zagraf · « **Reply #223 on:** 24 Sep 2010, 18:08 »

Am I the only one who thinks Dora and Faye should stop treating Hanners as if she's twelve years old or developmentally delayed or something? She has a psychiatric disorder, yes, but she's made a lot of progress in living with it. And all this time she's been living on her own, supporting herself one way or another. She's not a fragile freakin' flower. I know Dora and Faye mean well, but they really need to back the hell off already and stop assuming she doesn't know how to make her own decisions. Can Ah get an Ay-men, brothers and sisters?

As for movies about fonts, how about the 1949 classic The Fontainhead, based on the bestselling novel by Ayn Ravie? Thank you, I'm here all week, try the (etc. etc.)

Mr_Rose · « **Reply #224 on:** 24 Sep 2010, 18:34 »

Quote from: zagraf on 24 Sep 2010, 18:08

Am I the only one who thinks Dora and Faye should stop treating Hanners as if she's twelve years old or developmentally delayed or something? She has a psychiatric disorder, yes, but she's made a lot of progress in living with it. And all this time she's been living on her own, supporting herself one way or another. She's not a fragile freakin' flower. I know Dora and Faye mean well, but they really need to back the hell off already and stop assuming she doesn't know how to make her own decisions. Can Ah get an Ay-men, brothers and sisters?

Not really, no. Mostly because there's no evidence that either Dora or Faye are doing that to Hanners. Dora was mostly upbraiding her brother for continuing (from her perspective) to be a lecherous douche and also 'stealing' one of her friends again, and Faye is currently giving advice in her normal adversarial style, the one she uses on everybody up to and including her own mother and sister. None of this is a statistically significant deviation from (their) normal behaviour.

Akima · « **Reply #225 on:** 24 Sep 2010, 18:51 »

Quote from: zagraf on 24 Sep 2010, 18:08

As for movies about fonts, how about the 1949 classic The Fontainhead, based on the bestselling novel by Ayn Ravie? Thank you, I'm here all week, try the (etc. etc.)

Did you hear what happened at the baptism of the typesetter's son? The priest dropped him in the font.

jwhouk · « **Reply #226 on:** 24 Sep 2010, 19:32 »

Hymnals are set in the typeface Every Blessing. (You know, "Come thou font of every bless-ing...")

raoullefere · « **Reply #227 on:** 24 Sep 2010, 20:01 »

And who could forget the classic show about typesetters caught in embarrassing moments: Candide Camera, hosted by Alan Font.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #228 on:** 24 Sep 2010, 22:36 »

Quote from: zagraf on 24 Sep 2010, 18:08

Am I the only one who thinks Dora and Faye should stop treating Hanners as if she's twelve years old

Your point has merit, but on the other hand most people who are over the age of twelve know how to introduce themselves rather than following people around.

Border Reiver · « **Reply #229 on:** 25 Sep 2010, 04:22 »

And as of 0720 25 September 2007 the results are"

Other ways Sven may cause Faye and Dora to worry

He may be a perfect gentleman, causing them to worry what he's really up to 9 (23.7%)
He or Hanners may ask for a second date 16 (42.1%)
They're already worried, he doesn't have to do anything 13 (34.2%)

Total Voters: 38

Apparently, most of us think the best way to irritate Dora and Faye is for Sven and Hanners to enjoy themselves and want to do it again.

akronnick · « **Reply #230 on:** 25 Sep 2010, 06:18 »

Quote from: Border Reiver on 25 Sep 2010, 04:22

And as of 0720 25 September 2007 the results are"

2007?

Carl-E · « **Reply #231 on:** 25 Sep 2010, 06:22 »

Welcome to the wayback machine, Mr. Peabody. Your Sherman is waiting...

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #232 on:** 25 Sep 2010, 06:35 »

That arm.

pendrake · « **Reply #233 on:** 25 Sep 2010, 07:41 »

*horrified noise* "Marten?!? Marten, you can't be here?!? I sent you back...Back To The Future!"

*gasping for breath* "I know, Doc! I came back! I came Back from The Future! And we've got to stop Hanners from dating Sven!"

"... Hannelore...dating Sven...? ...Great Scott!" *collapses*

*cradling Dr. Emmett Brown* "Doc! Aw Doc...!"

*camera pan-out, fade to black, cue theme music*

giant_bug · « **Reply #234 on:** 25 Sep 2010, 07:57 »

Silly Hanners. All boys are the same height ... lying down.

Carl-E · « **Reply #235 on:** 25 Sep 2010, 09:10 »

I have to take issues with that.

True, it's usually only a matter of an inch or so, but....

flamingo · « **Reply #236 on:** 25 Sep 2010, 15:57 »

The most recent comic has made me think... WHAT DOES HANNERS EAT?

IDK if any of you have seen Food Inc, but the mainstream food industry is very unsanitary.
Even something as natural as food from an Amish farm once had bugs on it, and came out of the ground and all that.

No wonder she's so skinny...

akronnick · « **Reply #237 on:** 25 Sep 2010, 16:18 »

It's hard to overeat when your food preparation technique requires seventeen steps to sanitize the food and anything that may come into contact with it, including the diners.

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #238 on:** 25 Sep 2010, 16:32 »

Wait, so it is bad that food came out of the ground? You are aware that that is where vegetables are supposed to come from?

J · « **Reply #239 on:** 25 Sep 2010, 16:50 »

but the ground is dirty! and it's full ob bugs and stuff! and have you heard what they use for fertilizer!

themacnut · « **Reply #240 on:** 25 Sep 2010, 20:42 »

Quote from: akronnick on 25 Sep 2010, 16:18

It's hard to overeat when your food preparation technique requires seventeen steps to sanitize the food and anything that may come into contact with it, including the diners.

In that respect processed foods are actually more sanitary. Food from a can may be less nutritious and more fattening than food fresh off the farm, but it's also less likely to have bugs in it, since sterilization is usually part of the canning process.

ecstaticjoy · « **Reply #241 on:** 25 Sep 2010, 20:49 »

Quote from: akronnick on 25 Sep 2010, 16:18

It's hard to overeat when your food preparation technique requires seventeen steps to sanitize the food and anything that may come into contact with it, including the diners.

Quote from: flamingo on 25 Sep 2010, 15:57

No wonder she's so skinny...

exactly

Carl-E · « **Reply #242 on:** 25 Sep 2010, 20:56 »

Well, I'm pretty sure eshe'll never eat burritos again. Her reaction was, at the very least, predicatable.

Edit: I was looking for ohter strips where Hanners was eating something, but all I found was this.

ysth · « **Reply #243 on:** 25 Sep 2010, 21:51 »

Quote from: Somebody on 24 Sep 2010, 07:57

Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 23 Sep 2010, 23:00
Should it alarm me that Faye has thought out in detail how to seduce Hannelore?
Ah, not just me then...

Me too. Well, not alarmed, but it's certainly curious.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #244 on:** 25 Sep 2010, 22:23 »

Hannelore is known to eat pizza, though only slices which have an even number of toppings. 593.

raoullefere · « **Reply #245 on:** 25 Sep 2010, 23:32 »

Hannelore eats cake with Faye: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1068

Carl-E · « **Reply #246 on:** 26 Sep 2010, 06:10 »

Quote from: raoullefere on 25 Sep 2010, 23:32

Hannelore eats cake with Faye: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1068

Hanners made that cake, though.

Probably from scratch.

With thoroughly bleached flour...

And it took a bit to find, but she finally ate some of her and Faye's pies.

She also invited Marten to get pancakes once, and Marigold to get breakfast, but either of those those may or may not have ever happened.

flamingo · « **Reply #247 on:** 26 Sep 2010, 09:49 »

Quote from: Cartilage Head on 25 Sep 2010, 16:32

Wait, so it is bad that food came out of the ground? You are aware that that is where vegetables are supposed to come from?

Quote from: J on 25 Sep 2010, 16:50

but the ground is dirty! and it's full ob bugs and stuff! and have you heard what they use for fertilizer!

^this.

My dad has a less serious OCD and he cant eat out without scrutinizing the cleanliness of the preparation of the food. He's been known to go I DONT WANT IT when they bring the food because he saw a worker put on some cheese without a glove.
So Hanners eating habits are probably not accurately portrayed or she just tries not to think about it.

CONCLUSION: Marten and Faye better not pull that comic #456 shit on her.

haikupoet · « **Reply #248 on:** 26 Sep 2010, 11:42 »

Quote from: Cartilage Head on 25 Sep 2010, 16:32

Wait, so it is bad that food came out of the ground? You are aware that that is where vegetables are supposed to come from?

Hannelore no doubt gets most of her vegetables from a hydroponic greenhouse farm in Deerfield. No dirt that way.

Dliessmgg · « **Reply #249 on:** 26 Sep 2010, 12:35 »

Or she uses this method.

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