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New Character: Jim from TSB!

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HAH! IN YOUR FACE! WOO!

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Dora is a little competititve when it comes to coffee...

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"My wholesale price just went up 10% and I have no idea why."

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He doesn't have a lawyer - Not since the divorce, anyway...

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Guy couldn't negotiate his way out of a paper bag.

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Impressed someone your age put together a business this successful.

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"Anyone younger than (25-26) looks like a kid to me, y'know?"

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"Woo, looks like we got a silver fox on the prowl!"

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"We had a raccoon problem, but never foxes."

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Northampton Bonercats Summer Kickball League!

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"Do you think they'll be back soon?" "I hope so."

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"Should quit job. Pet me full time."

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Total Members Voted: 65

[snubnose]

"That's funny, my wholesale price just went up 10% and I have no idea why."

Jeph's probably not going to top that punchline this week. Or even this month, for that matter.

I wouldnt bet on that one.


P.s.: Darn, I have such a beautiful post count now (911). Now how can I ever post again ? Life is unfair !! I guess I have to make a new acount ... 

[pwhodges]

I'm thinking at this point that the shipping is being done specifically to annoy Jeph/moderators

The recently banned contributor liked to try to wind me up, I think, though not by shipping.  Nearly all shipping that pops up now (like the one that triggered my remark this morning) comes from newbies who have clearly not read the rules yet nor lurked enough to see how things are.

[Method of Madness]

Mike, that's your browser's failing, not the forum's.  When I type "dfda" I see red squigglies.  I even see squigglies under "squigglies"!  As for the facial hair, I guess he's just starting to grow out a beard without a mustache after just having a soul patch for a while?

[pwhodges]

I stand by my demands for a spell checker in this forum, but it still ain't here. 

Both Opera and Firefox provide me with a spell checker at every site!

[mike837go]

Both Opera and Firefox provide me with a spell checker at every site!

My sister and bro-in-law swear by Firefox. I guess I'll give it at try.

I just swear at Intenet Explorer.

[Border Reiver]

The Doom of Starbucks.

Dirk Benedict and Katie Sackhoff get killed? 

Socialized kicking of Swedish ass at the WC finals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Calm down, it's only ice-hockey...  

Sorry Akima, but you are now officially dead to all Canucks.  There is no such thing as "only ice-hockey" here, all of us undergo a very through indoctrination in these matters.

[Skewbrow]

Work took me to the capital. I just checked into a hotel a quarter mile from the market square. The official party will start there in two hours. The police expects about 100000 people to show up. TV is showing our air force Hornets escorting the flight of the homecoming team just now.

Yeah, Akima. It is not just ice-hockey.

For the record: Canada has 23 WC titles, the Soviets 22, ..., Finland and U.S.A. both 2).

[Carl-E]

Sooooooo....

We're tied with Finland? 


Wooo?

[TheEvilDog]

The Doom of Starbucks.

Dirk Benedict and Katie Sackhoff get killed? 

I think I can hear some crickets. Expect a tumbleweed to roll by in a few moments.

[St.Clair]

What is the real life business reason for two small businesses that may or may not be in decent shape to partake in such a deal? It seems to me that Jim would be better off stealing the roasting secrets of Dora and taking her coffeeshop out entirely rather than cooperating and making two somewhat identical coffeeshops. Either they're leaning towards a merge, or this "negotiation" that started out as a joke is going to be utterly idiotic.

You must be lots of fun at Prisoner's Dilemma.

[iduguphergrave]

My sister and bro-in-law swear by Firefox. I guess I'll give it at try.

I just swear at Intenet Explorer.

Year 2000, is that you? How's it goin!? I haven't seen you in years!



(was that joke too hipster-y?)

[mike837go]

My sister and bro-in-law swear by Firefox. I guess I'll give it at try.
I just swear at Intenet Explorer.

Year 2000, is that you? How's it goin!? I haven't seen you in years!
(was that joke too hipster-y?)

Aw, c'mon.  

They screwed it up just last week with version 9.  

(& I am very proud of my GOM'ness)

[Border Reiver]

The Doom of Starbucks.

Dirk Benedict and Katie Sackhoff get killed? 

I think I can hear some crickets. Expect a tumbleweed to roll by in a few moments.

Like I expect ANY of what I say to be funny.  But I demand at least some rolling of the eyes, perhaps a pained groan...

[mike837go]

Stand still and we'll deliver a pained groin! 

[Carl-E]

My sister and bro-in-law swear by Firefox. I guess I'll give it at try.
I just swear at Intenet Explorer.

Year 2000, is that you? How's it goin!? I haven't seen you in years!
(was that joke too hipster-y?)

Aw, c'mon. 

They screwed it up just last week with version 9. 

(& I am very proud of my GOM'ness)

Still using Internet Exploder 7, with Windows XP, the only OS that's its own emoticon (XP)

Damned university machines... always at least one update behind, adjunct faculty get the old stuff, and they don't trust us enough to give us admin rights so I can't add squat on my own... 

XP

[mike837go]

Vista is FAR Worse than XP ever managed!  


Um,  Uh...... Does anybody remember something about a comic posting this morning? 

Just checking.

These senior moments are too frequent.

[Border Reiver]

Stand still and we'll deliver a pained groin! 

No - I'm old enough to have seen both series on TV but I'm not quite old enough to accept that!

And yes there was a comic this morning - I'm thinking that Faye had put more thought into the proposal than Dora did with her comment, but hey, who am I to judge the lady's negotiating skills?

[mike837go]

Actually, Faye and Padma did not negotiate anything.

If you check Thursday's posting, they were simply finding the synergy between the companies. The money angle never came up. It was more like a couple of friends playing matchmaker.      [Can you say "shipping"]

It's not negotiation until prices are discussed!

[Tiogyr]

Vista is FAR Worse than XP ever managed!  


Um,  Uh...... Does anybody remember something about a comic posting this morning? 

Just checking.

These senior moments are too frequent.

Windows 7, here, and they managed to get right what they should have gotten right in Vista this time around.

I think that it kind of goes like that for home versions of Windows (every other version being absolute shit, with the others being actual improvements; see the transition from 98 to ME to XP to Vista to 7).

[ysth]

Sooooooo....

We're tied with Finland? 


Wooo?

You're so sadly neglected
And often ignored,
A poor second to Belgium,
When going abroad.

Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I quite want to be,
Your mountains so lofty,
Your treetops so tall.
Finland, Finland, Finland.
Finland has it all.

[Deadlywonky]

W7 is only good if you have a computer powerful enough to run it. It takes a huge amount of processing power and a good graphics card, also the sales policy is really shitty (Basic does sweet FA, but how much does it cost?)

[Kugai]

The Doom of Starbucks.

Dirk Benedict and Katie Sackhoff get killed?  

I think I can hear some crickets. Expect a tumbleweed to roll by in a few moments.

Like I expect ANY of what I say to be funny.  But I demand at least some rolling of the eyes, perhaps a pained groan...

Me, I thought I heard the whistle and crunch of a bomb falling.  

Safari has an excellent spellchecker.

[jwhouk]

Work took me to the capital. I just checked into a hotel a quarter mile from the market square. The official party will start there in two hours. The police expects about 100000 people to show up. TV is showing our air force Hornets escorting the flight of the homecoming team just now.

Yeah, Akima. It is not just ice-hockey.

For the record: Canada has 23 WC titles, the Soviets 22, ..., Finland and U.S.A. both 2).

And the scary thing is, you did it without your best goaltender.

(And I'm waiting for him to figure out who I'm talking about...)

[Emperor Norton]

W7 is only good if you have a computer powerful enough to run it. It takes a huge amount of processing power and a good graphics card, also the sales policy is really shitty (Basic does sweet FA, but how much does it cost?)

I run W7 on a ten year old desktop(not as a primary pc, its the one in in my daughters room) and it runs easily as well if not better than XP did. Vista had a HUGE footprint, W7 really not so much.

[Akima]

Yeah, Akima. It is not just ice-hockey. For the record: Canada has 23 WC titles, the Soviets 22, ..., Finland and U.S.A. both 2).

The thing is... To me, and I suspect much of the world, an unqualified "World Cup" means football (soccer). I had no idea to which World Cup you were referring (I knew it wasn't the football one). On looking into the matter further, I found that Australia not only had a team in the tournament (Division II)*, but won its group. Which just goes to show that Australians will compete in any sport, no matter how ridiculous. Come on Finland, enter the world surfing championship! "HA! IN YOUR FACE! WOO!" 

*China came second in Group B. Come on China, you can do better than that!   Uh oh... It seems ice-hockey fanaticism is contagious...

Safari has an excellent spellchecker.

So does Camino, my web-browser of choice.

[TheEvilDog]

The thing is... To me, and I suspect much of the world, an unqualified "World Cup" means football (soccer). I had no idea to which World Cup you were referring (I knew it wasn't the football one). On looking into the matter further, I found that Australia not only had a team in the tournament (Division II)*, but won its group. Which just goes to show that Australians will compete in any sport, no matter how ridiculous. Come on Finland, enter the world surfing championship! "HA! IN YOUR FACE! WOO!" 

Do Australians even know what ice looks like? And I don't mean the little cubes in the trays.

Incidently, wooo, rugby world cup this year!

[cesariojpn]

3. Jim's stubble could be from coming in during the daytime, since he bakes through the night after The Secret Bakery closes (along with a crew of baking gnomes...? )

Great, why did you make me remember the Underpants Gnome Song?

[Carl-E]

9 of the last last 10 posts have had nothing to do with the comic.  


Derailing complete.  


Is there a computing subforum?  

Should there be one?  

[jwhouk]

Division II in the IIHF (International Ice Hockey Federation) is the equivalent of the double-A minor leagues of baseball. It would be the equivalent of a bunch of teenagers going up against a team of veteran professionals - in pretty much any league in any sport out there.

Meanwhile: anyone else getting this vibe that Jeph is preparing to write Dora out of the story?

[TheEvilDog]

Meanwhile: anyone else getting this vibe that Jeph is preparing to write Dora out of the story?

I hope not, simply because I feel there is a huge amount of unresolved ideas with Dora, especially her past and her own issues. It just doesn't feel like her character has run her course yet.

[mike837go]

Meanwhile: anyone else getting this vibe that Jeph is preparing to write Dora out of the story?

Quite the opposite. This is fresh type of relationship for Jeph to include in the strip. He's lived it with the T-Shirt co. "Topaco"?

[cmurocks]

Sweden lost the WC because all of their best players are on the Red Wings

[azurefirem]

I smell a merger: TSB pastries, CoD coffee, and in TWO locations!

[TheEvilDog]

I smell a merger: TSB pastries, CoD coffee, and in TWO locations!

I was going to say that would be a death kneel for at least one outlet, but I've just remembered that where I live there are at least three Subway outlets all within 10 miutes walk of each other and each is practically on the main street. Not to mention there are two branches of a reasonable successful domestic store on the main street...right across the road from each other. With a third branch literally two streets over.

[Rose]

...
Meanwhile: anyone else getting this vibe that Jeph is preparing to write Dora out of the story?

I don't think so. If Dora decides to work with TSB she'll end up at their store some day, likely running into Marten and we'll finally get to see this: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1875

[Nick and Marla]

newbies who have clearly not read the rules yet nor lurked enough to see how things are.

The elitism. It's sooooo goooooooood.

[TheEvilDog]

newbies who have clearly not read the rules yet nor lurked enough to see how things are.

The elitism. It's sooooo goooooooood.

You realise that I'm now trawling through the archives trying to find a good picture of Marten in a top-hat now? Damn you.

++Edit++....Found one.

[cesariojpn]

...
Meanwhile: anyone else getting this vibe that Jeph is preparing to write Dora out of the story?

I don't think so. If Dora decides to work with TSB she'll end up at their store some day, likely running into Marten and we'll finally get to see this: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1875

We get to see more Garlic Bread Kitty?

[Black Sword]

See, this is why I advocated the minions do the negotiating first. Good job, Dora. Even Faye knows to divide the taunting from the negotiating.

[TheEvilDog]

Cue Dora unwittingly signing over CoD to Jim, and the QC version of the old Iron Man storyline "Demon in a Bottle".

Only Dora does not end up with a suit of power armour....

[Monkey Says Yes]

Hey, we've only seen Jim in one comic, and I like him already!  Maybe it's the Mr. Fantastic hair he's got going on.

[Method of Madness]

...
Meanwhile: anyone else getting this vibe that Jeph is preparing to write Dora out of the story?

I don't think so. If Dora decides to work with TSB she'll end up at their store some day, likely running into Marten and we'll finally get to see this: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1875

Maybe Pizza Girl was just faking her death so she didn't have to give up her life as Penelope.

[cat_rant]

Cross genre Jump! I looked at the Dora & Jim introduction and thought yikes! Dora is doing business with the animated version of Little finger from Game of thrones. Too much tv make cat_rant something something....

Hope this business venture works. It would be interesting to observe the partnership. Also Dora was totally schooled. That's business for you.

[Skewbrow]

And the scary thing is, you did it without your best goaltender.

(And I'm waiting for him to figure out who I'm talking about...)

Can't pass this. Hmmm. The Predators' starter? No, must be the netminder who won the Stanley cup last year with the Blackhawks and seems to be doing reasonably well sith the Sharks this year. But... Kipper is my hometown hero, even if he wouldn't necessarily make the national team any longer. Hmmm.

@Akima: Surfing? Amidst all this ice? Hey, let's invent another sport like that and start competing!  

@All: Sorry about derailing this. I just couldn't keep the lid on

[Grantzilla]

"Yes, I fired my lawyer...out of a cannon."

[cesariojpn]

Creepy..............

Also, whats with Dora's head/neck in the third to last panel?

[SirDudley]

Hmm...so, Jim has some bad experiences with lawyers. And has a dry sense of humor that creeps Dora a little.

Awkward zone senses...tingling.

[ZERO]

Some ominous music during panel four would have been perfect.

[Is it cold in here?]

It's not everybody who can get Dora off balance.

[pwhodges]

Is there a computing subforum?

It's called CLIKC at present. Essentially it's a computer games forum, but people also discuss computer hardware problems or getting new computers, from time to time.