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Faye catches Marigold reading Slash

2 (2.4%)

Tai WROTE "Quidditch Field Idyll"

3 (3.7%)

WILL YOU SIGN MY NETBOOK

4 (4.9%)

"It's really good though!"

0 (0%)

Wanna come to dinner?

1 (1.2%)

Marigold has no idea, does she?

24 (29.3%)

Novel Euphemism

10 (12.2%)

It's got lots of potential!

0 (0%)

B-but yea, TONS of potential!

4 (4.9%)

You have to show people WHY it's sexy.

4 (4.9%)

Ron... and SNAPE...

16 (19.5%)

I give up.

14 (17.1%)

Total Members Voted: 70

[laizeohbeets]

Here's a litmus test to see if you've read fanfic: "Still the prettiest!"  If you recognized that quote, you have.

[grumble] Not King yet. [/grumble]

Very Secret Diaries! I read those when I was 17 and a huge, huge LOTR fan.

[iduguphergrave]

I am now officially shipping Jeph and Fanfiction.net: http://jephjacques.tumblr.com/post/1456308074/fffffffff

Can't tell if Marigold is hot n' bothered or just plain bothered in that last panel.

[Carl-E]

Probably a good chunk of each!

[ysth]

...

Also noting that Goldie is either really slow at switching/ closing tabs, or that netbooks suck even more than I already thought (don't get angry, I have big fingers- I hate smartphones too.).

...

[bile]

whilst i'm sure that Marigold will be a linux user I've developed a real hatred of netbooks and could easily see a small one taking 10s or more to hide Firefox.

my wife has just bought a brand new acer aspire 1 with windows 7 basic, and not only is it slower than the acer aspire 1 from 2 years ago that was running xp when it broke, it's slower than the 1995 era dell dimention 4400 runing xp sp3 that i have at home as a "server".

I understand that moores law allows for either cheaper or more powerful, but my larger fingers aside i simply cannot stand these tiny things. it's faster for me to use my old iPhone 3G to look up something.

[/bile]

Try uninstalling all the crap that acer puts on there.

[AnAverageWriter]

Try uninstalling all the crap that acer puts on there.

Totally. New Windows machines from the get-go start out full of bloated garbage, and it just goes downhill from there. It would be like if every time you wanted to buy a car, there was a comatose hippopotamus stuffed in the back...
"What, you don't want the free hippo we've included? Well, you can always drop it off somewhere... just be careful, cause those things get MAD when you move em."

[Jerein]

Dora in last panel: awesome.

MariTai seems to be underway.

[akronnick]

Oh this is gonna hurt...

*covers eyes with hands*

*peeks through fingers*

[hannahsaurusrex]

DATES FOR EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!

[Near Lurker]

I see Dora's got some shipper in her.

...what do you want to be she's got some femslash under her belt?  Hmm... someone tell Marten to Google 'dora daria jane.'

[iduguphergrave]

Oh this is gonna hurt...

No, I'm sure Tai will be gentle.






teehee

[TheHappyBerry]

Here's a litmus test to see if you've read fanfic: "Still the prettiest!"  If you recognized that quote, you have.

[grumble] Not King yet. [/grumble]

Very Secret Diaries! I read those when I was 17 and a huge, huge LOTR fan.

I'm not sure I want to admit those were my gateway, and I read all her other fanfic, and thought it was actually good.  Glad I got over that phase

[westrim]

It seems to be a near unanimous NO WAI to anything involving Pintsize so far, and well it should be.

I dislike Dora and I want to dislike her conduct here (miss defensive-on-everyone's-behalf is now a-ok just because the scenario appeals to her? Dick move. ), but goddamn that face in panel 4 is cute.

I am now officially shipping Jeph and Fanfiction.net: http://jephjacques.tumblr.com/post/1456308074/fffffffff

Shipping a human with a website? maybe the singularity has hit after all.

And yes, it was Chinese food (or at least what we Americans call Chinese Food).

What, fortune cookies and chow mein aren't native Chinese cuisine?

You can blame the Japanese for fortune-cookies. "Chow-mein" (炒面 chǎo-miàn, pronounced roughly chow-me-en*) is an authentic traditional dish, or rather family of dishes, since all it really describes is fried noodles with shredded meat and/or vegetables, and there are many, many variations prepared in China, and wherever Chinese people have settled.

Chop-suey, by contrast, is often represented as being some sort of invented, leftover glurge foisted on unsuspecting Americans by sneaky Chinese immigrants, but I am dubious. Chop-suey (杂碎 zá suì pronounced roughly dza-sway*) means "assorted stuff" or "odds and ends", and does anyone actually imagine that nobody in the whole history of China ever threw a meal together out of whatever leftovers they had available before they got to the United States?

*My pronunciations are those of Mandarin Chinese. Many English loan-word names for Chinese food, and many other things, are derived from Southern Chinese pronunciations.

I bow before your superior knowledge and curse my fumbling brain.

Try uninstalling all the crap that acer puts on there.

Totally. New Windows machines from the get-go start out full of bloated garbage, and it just goes downhill from there. It would be like if every time you wanted to buy a car, there was a comatose hippopotamus stuffed in the back...
"What, you don't want the free hippo we've included? Well, you can always drop it off somewhere... just be careful, cause those things get MAD when you move em."

Why does this bug people so much? It doesn't take very long to install Ccleaner, uninstall the excess baggage, then scrub the registry. I mean, the stuff that's a bitch about actually coming out like Norton I can understand, but I can take 10 minutes for a 50$ knock off of the price (which is what it often amounts to for the end user- they don't get to preload those programs for free.)

[Carl-E]

What bugs people is that they have to do it - why can't you just buy a machine with a clean install in the first place? 


Also, this is not Marigold's first encounter with Tai.  I think (OK, hope) she may be a bit cautious after that... incident. 

[celticgeek]

GNU/Linux

Sorry, just had to do that.  I will remove myself to the Old Geeks' Bragging Thread immediately.

[akronnick]

Is that what last week's WCDT has become?

[Carl-E]

GNU/Linux

Sorry, just had to do that. 

[cuzsis]

Here's a litmus test to see if you've read fanfic: "Still the prettiest!"  If you recognized that quote, you have.

[grumble] Not King yet. [/grumble]

Very Secret Diaries! I read those when I was 17 and a huge, huge LOTR fan.

 LOL!

 Those were great!

 My favorite was Isildur. "An evil *ring*?! ..."

 

[cuzsis]

If Dora's eyes get any bigger she's gonna be staring in her own anime cartoon...

[Arancaytar]

Dora smiles like the hypothetical offspring of Hanners and Hello Kitty.

[bicostp]

That looks more like OS X than anything else. (Mostly because of the icon arrangement; all the Linux distributions I've seen try to ape Windows.) Either she Hackintoshed a cheap netbook, or in QC's timeline Apple licensed their OS to third party hardware developers in the mid-eighties and gained the dominant position in market share, essentially inverting the real-world Apple/Microsoft market share figures and allowing for such computers to be legitimately manufactured and distributed.

Or maybe it's just because Jeph uses OS X so that's what he drew.

[CEOIII]

What bugs people is that they have to do it - why can't you just buy a machine with a clean install in the first place? 


Also, this is not Marigold's first encounter with Tai.  I think (OK, hope) she may be a bit cautious after that... incident. 

Yeah, but it's possible Mari still don't know about Tai. All she knows is she's friends with Dora and co., and she likes the booze.

Either way, I approve of this. Let's hope they both have fun, and if Tai makes a pass, Mari either a) lets her down easy, or b) decides to see how the other half lives.

*crossing my fingers and praying for b)*

[Kugai]

I think that Marigolds in for an interesting education. 

That's if her brain doesn't explode.

[Akima]

That looks more like OS X than anything else.

OS/X doesn't have the wastebasket on the desktop, or the Windows-style icons in the top-right corner of application windows. It looks pretty generic to me.

I don't quite see how Faye and Dora could have intervened discreetly. But this could end in tears. Or giggles. Or both. And Dora's having flower-girl fantasies again, isn't she?

[Olymander]

Dora smiles like the hypothetical offspring of Hanners and Hello Kitty.

What scares me is that Dora doesn't look like herself in that last panel.  For a few minutes, I actually thought maybe Raven had come back to visit or something.  Or it was a misdrawn Hannelore.  Or something.

[ysth]

Query: will Angus be upset with Faye for not warning Marigold?

[pendrake]

For comic #1787...

1. Aww...  Tai really did (physically) sign Marigold's net-book.

2. Poor Marigold, I do not think this will end well for her.  (But amusing for we the audience, of course.)

3. I think Dora, currently in a committed monogamous heterosexual romantic relationship (phew, what a mouthful), has to live out her bi-sexual urges through Tai.

[laizeohbeets]

Here's a litmus test to see if you've read fanfic: "Still the prettiest!"  If you recognized that quote, you have.

[grumble] Not King yet. [/grumble]

Very Secret Diaries! I read those when I was 17 and a huge, huge LOTR fan.

I'm not sure I want to admit those were my gateway, and I read all her other fanfic, and thought it was actually good.  Glad I got over that phase

I don't remember the VSD being terrible, but I have heard horror stories about her Leather Pants Draco. I don't ship Harry/Draco at all, so her non-LOTR skipped my radar.

[srpilha]

Also, this is not Marigold's first encounter with Tai.  I think (OK, hope) she may be a bit cautious after that... incident. 

well spotted. oddly foreboding too.

[Dliessmgg]

I am now officially shipping Jeph and Fanfiction.net: http://jephjacques.tumblr.com/post/1456308074/fffffffff

The folders are yaoi, yuri and sca...?

[Deadlywonky]

What bugs people is that they have to do it - why can't you just buy a machine with a clean install in the first place?  


Also, this is not Marigold's first encounter with Tai.  I think (OK, hope) she may be a bit cautious after that... incident.  

Quite, although I have suggested replacing the OS with a clean copy of XP from her old laptop she has has refused and I can't be bothered to change her mind, i just keep using my MBP and don't touch hers  

GNU/Linux

Sorry, just had to do that.  

I'd be tempted but I've never used any Linux based system, I'm a Mac man through and through.

re the comic, I got confused about Dora for a minute but thinking about it it's been 11 comics since she was last drawn (1776) and she's wearing the same clothes, maybe Jeph is still experimenting, or it's just been so long since she was so happy that we've forgotten what it looks like.

Or as a result of the singularity she has actually been fused with Raven, who's next? Faye, Hanners or Marten?

P.S. On second thoughts scrub Marten, it would be really hard to tell.

[AnAverageWriter]

What scares me is that Dora doesn't look like herself in that last panel.  For a few minutes, I actually thought maybe Raven had come back to visit or something.  Or it was a misdrawn Hannelore.  Or something.

I have seen... "that look" exactly one other time in QC readership.

And last time... it involved Hello kitty belt shenanigans.

[westrim]

What bugs people is that they have to do it - why can't you just buy a machine with a clean install in the first place? 


Also, this is not Marigold's first encounter with Tai.  I think (OK, hope) she may be a bit cautious after that... incident. 

...For the reason I said. That bloatware mitigates costs.

Quite, although I have suggested replacing the OS with a clean copy of XP from her old laptop she has has refused and I can't be bothered to change her mind, i just keep using my MBP and don't touch hers 

I'd be tempted but I've never used any Linux based system, I'm a Mac man through and through.

Must... not... respond... 

But I want to so bad. Maybe I'll just ask a question; what OS does it have and why do you want to replace it? I'll just quietly ignore the Mac part.

[Sorflakne]

Ok, I know Dora in panel 4 is supposed to be all cute and whatnot, but god alive it comes across as nightmare fuel...

[pwhodges]

Windows, Linux, Mac...

OpenBSD (just to throw a spanner in the works); new v4.8 was out yesterday, and it's time to update my firewall.

[Deadlywonky]

Must... not... respond...  

But I want to so bad. Maybe I'll just ask a question; what OS does it have and why do you want to replace it? I'll just quietly ignore the Mac part.

I did list this earlier, but what the hell, its currently running W7 basic, and the reason is it is brand new, yet slower than a dell desktop from the mid 90's.

and would you, kind sir, care to elaborate on why you will be "quietly ignoring the Mac part."?

[edit] There really needs to be an emoticon for " looks down nose, adjusts top hat, and prepares to remove riding glove" [/edit]

[0kamisama]

Given Marigold's social aversion to things that don't involve guilds and fanfic posts, I'm afraid she'll run off as soon as Tai makes a pass, leaving most of us bummed. "GEEZ JEPH, WHY SUCH A DOWNER, RAWR RAWWWR , ETC".

I've been surprised before in these situation plotters, but who knows, maybe Marigold really will decide to explore her social horizons a little bit. If Hanners can find it in her to put her hand on a toilet seat, anything's possible!

[Dliessmgg]

[edit] There really needs to be an emoticon for " looks down nose, adjusts top hat, and prepares to remove riding glove" [/edit]

YESSSSSS

[snubnose]

Given Marigold's social aversion to things that don't involve guilds and fanfic posts, I'm afraid she'll run off as soon as Tai makes a pass, leaving most of us bummed. "GEEZ JEPH, WHY SUCH A DOWNER, RAWR RAWWWR , ETC".

... !?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Why exactly would we WANT Tai + Mari ?

I'm completely unaligned in this question ... just curious what happends next.

[AnAverageWriter]

I'm completely unaligned in this question ... just curious what happends next.

I'm not exactly unaligned. I hate it to say it, but Tai as a person is just... repulsive to me. It's not because she's gay, either. I'd have absolutely no problem if Marigold ended up with a nice girl. Heck, I think a Marigold/Raven or Marigold/Faye coupling would be awesome. But Tai? It's just... I don't know, I just feel like out of the entire cast (Vespavenger and Yelling Bird included), that Tai is the most unlikeable out of all of them. And Marigold is sweet and kind and...
I just feel like Tai doesn't deserve her.

[Loki]

Given Marigold's social aversion to things that don't involve guilds and fanfic posts, I'm afraid she'll run off as soon as Tai makes a pass, leaving most of us bummed.

I've got a general feeling about Marigold that he is the type of person who has seen everything around the net, including "Rule 34"s application to itself, so I doubt she will be freaked out by a lesbian. I will digg up some proof when I return from school.

[no one special]

Or maybe Marigold wants Tai to sign her private key?

Kinky!

For those who didn't get it, the normal thing would be to sign a public key.

then maybe Marigold wants Tai to sign her PUBIC key AMIRITE

[bhtooefr]

What bugs people is that they have to do it - why can't you just buy a machine with a clean install in the first place?

I find that various manufacturers business line machines tend to have less or no bloatware.

(In the case of ThinkPads, you can actually reimage it, and tell it to not install the bloatware when you install the image.)

[Delator]

Oh god.

...kinda like animals know when an earthquake is going to happen, I can already physically sense the upcoming awkwardness.

[Dliessmgg]

Humans are the animals to relationshipquakes.

[Loki]

Bad (or good, depending on what you are into) news, guys: Mar-bear specifically said she is not into girls.

I have seen... "that look" exactly one other time in QC readership.

And last time... it involved Hello kitty belt shenanigans.

This one by Angus may qualify too?

There are some mentions on the internet of Marigold having a 4chan poster on the wall (although I cannot find the exact strip), so as I said, as a 4chan visitor she has probably seen a shitload more stuff than just lesbians.

[Border Reiver]

Sets up lawnchair near the railyard, sits down, opens cooler.


"Anyone want a beer?  Show's about to start.  Plenty of good spots left." 

[Mojo]

Dora smiles like the hypothetical offspring of Hanners and Hello Kitty.

What scares me is that Dora doesn't look like herself in that last panel.  For a few minutes, I actually thought maybe Raven had come back to visit or something.  Or it was a misdrawn Hannelore.  Or something.

Ok, now you've reminded me how much I miss Raven.

[laizeohbeets]

A lot of us are currently missing Raven, it seems.

[Olymander]

I am now officially shipping Jeph and Fanfiction.net: http://jephjacques.tumblr.com/post/1456308074/fffffffff

The folders are yaoi, yuri and sca...?

If it follows the usual progression for these sorts of things, the last would probably be scat (f)or scatalogical.  I'd hope for a nice, safe SCA, but I don't think Marigold's social enough for that.

A lot of us are currently missing Raven, it seems.

Personally, I miss Mieville.  I don't think we've seen him since he last assaulted Pintsize with a pair of baby Roombas.

Oh, and looking for the Mieville strip found me this old strip of Dora with the big eyes and adorableness... she's still much more recognizably Dora in this one, though.

[DoubleJ]

GNU/Linux

GNU makes a distro now?