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Mutual self-perpetuating sleep-deprivation freakouts!

10 (17.5%)

"I tried. Five times. They keep forgetting."

5 (8.8%)

"You're not stupid!"

0 (0%)

Just takes her hobbies very seriously.

0 (0%)

Who sets their alarm for 9:17?

2 (3.5%)

MARIGOLD LOUISE FARMER!

6 (10.5%)

Hanners grounds Marigold!

6 (10.5%)

JOU JOU YUUJOU! BANJI MAJI KACHOU!!!

5 (8.8%)

Hi dad... No, I didn't BREAK SOMETHING... No, it's not the Red Chinese...

0 (0%)

You run a SHOE WEBSITE.

0 (0%)

I'm not lying! I swear! Talk to my dad, he'll prove it!

1 (1.8%)

Your father wants me to extend it to a week (AUGH!)

6 (10.5%)

No video games for the next three days!

0 (0%)

Sad eyes at Momo! (It's for your own good)

0 (0%)

Th - the Mitsubishi PX-3500?

0 (0%)

But it costs thirty thousand...

0 (0%)

I'LL TAKE OUT A LOAN JUST LET ME PLAY SOME FRIGGIN' VIDEO GAMES

7 (12.3%)

Were you serious about the new chassis?

0 (0%)

'Sides, I like you just the way you are.

3 (5.3%)

Momo fills out her resume!

5 (8.8%)

14 Elm Grove Lane (no such number)

1 (1.8%)

Total Members Voted: 51

[jwhouk]

And here we go into the 90's. Trivia: Wednesday is the year I first hit the 'net running.

[Border Reiver]

Wednesday is the year I wore a blue beret on Cyprus. 

Their first gig will likely be CoD -

Dora's already asked if they could play "Girl from Ipanema"

[jwhouk]

Might be a late strip tonight - Jeph said he was a-gonna nap about an hour ago (just before midnight EDT).

[Method of Madness]

I'll start kindergarten on Wednesday.  Just three weeks until I start college!

[jwhouk]

Wednesday is when I got married, too.

[Method of Madness]

Mazel tov.

[pwhodges]

Wednesday is when I got married for the second time  (24 years after the first time).

[dodecahedonist]

I was born on Wednesday.   

[tilt]

Born on Thursday in backwards/forwards time travelling land that this place seems to have become.

[iduguphergrave]

I've had a few "zoned-out in public" moments. But some of them may or may not have been drug-related. Anyway, this really made me giggle, especially Hanners' expression in the second-to-last panel. 

Also, Toy Story came out on Friday. (I thought about mentioning something from my own life but Method of Madness already did kindergarten (though I start tuesday) and nothing else terribly interesting happened to me in that timeframe)

[TinPenguin]

Huzzah, I was born today!

And today's comic is hilarious. Coincidence? I think not yes.

[WAYF]

Wednesday will be my birthday!

Is it possible that we've had another time skip today? It seems about the right time for one...

[VonKleist]

Today: excellent

Tomorrow: I start elementary school, yay

[Tova]

I haven't really felt the whole "Hannelore is creepy" thing until today.

[Akima]

And here we go into the 90's. Trivia: Wednesday is the year I first hit the 'net running.

And when I started high-school. Hanners and Marigold, the skipping records of QC. Come to think of it, I'm trying to remember if I've even heard a skipping record except in films etc. How long will it be before the metaphor loses any meaning?

[rje]

Huzzah, I was born today!

And today's comic is hilarious. Coincidence? I think not yes.

Happy birthday!
On Thursday I start high school, on crutches with a broken leg I got from falling off a trampoline at the Freshman/Senior Band Camp party.
omg like soooo humiliating

And today's comic, I SO relate   I am the master at zoning out mid-conversation

[DSL]

C'mon Faye. Vulcan Boob Squish for Hanners, then prop her up in the corner. Marigold will get the message as soon as she's sure Hanners won't wander into traffic.

Also, movie night with Hanners and Marigold: "50 First Dates" and "Groundhog Day."

[snubnose]

C'mon Faye. Vulcan Boob Squish for Hanners, then prop her up in the corner.

Good idea.

[EcoReck]

I'm seeing all these posts about Grade School starting for you guys. I feel old 

Starting college on Wednesday, coincidentally.

[jwhouk]

Tuesday will be the last time I attended college (didn't get enough credits for the Masters; forgot it was '92 not '94).

Wednesday will also be somewhat bittersweet, as it was the year I started to work for the state of Wisconsin as well.

[tobiasgies]

1991, the year I was born. *Just* early enough to still be part of the Millenial generation. 

[DSL]

A little late to this game, but someone mentioned feeling old, so: My birth year was the Meeting on  the Steps. Graduated from high school during the Haircut and the riff for "Enter Sandman" was played for my college graduation.

[Method of Madness]

1991, the year I was born. *Just* early enough to still be part of the Millenial generation. 

Unless generations are shorter than they used to be (or there's more overlap) I'm pretty sure the Millennial generation extends to the late '90s.  Also, thanks for not calling it Generation Y, I hate that.

[Border Reiver]

Y all the hate?

[Welu]

My birth comic reminds me of myself very much.

[deathwing107]

Today's strip reminded me of this so much... especially the part at 4:20...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qfFZfzPAOg

[Varian7]

I will get married on Friday!

[Method of Madness]

Y all the hate?

It's lazy.  All the other generation names have some sort of meaning, but then Generation X happened and someone decided "hey Y's after X, good enough".

[Akima]

Also, thanks for not calling it Generation Y, I hate that.

The whole "Generation <whatever>" thing is a load of classist, culturally myopic, lazy-minded bullshit. It is essentially a bunch of educated, middle-class white people in rich countries nattering on about younger people from exactly the same background. About socially disadvantaged people or ethnic minorities in their own society, not to mention the millions growing up in countries outside their golden circle, they have nothing to say, beyond implying by omission that they do not matter.

Also, movie night with Hanners and Marigold: "50 First Dates" and "Groundhog Day."

Win!

[Kugai]

Temporal causality Loop

Where's The Doctor when you need him?

 

[jwhouk]

The problem is that a police call box would be very out of place on the sidewalks of Northampton - in the QC-verse or any other one, for that matter.

[jwhouk]

That first row of panels and the third row of panels, repeated about four times, would be hilarious.

[Shremedy]

The problem is that a police call box would be very out of place on the sidewalks of Northampton - in the QC-verse or any other one, for that matter.

It's supposed to look out of place -- that's why everyone (mostly) ignores it! 

"It scans everything within ten-thousand kilometers, performs an eleven-dimensional analysis of how to best blend in with its surroundings....and then it makes itself look like a 1960's police box."

-- the Eleventh Doctor, regarding the TARDIS's Chameleon Circuit

[jwhouk]

Deathmřle's first concert will be...

At Coffee of Doom, of course.    - 13 (21.7%)
At The Secret Bakery.    - 0 (0%)
Smif Auditorium.    - 3 (5%)
That small theater down the block from CoD    - 2 (3.3%)
At The Horrible Revelation.    - 21 (35%)
MassMutual Center in Springfield.    - 0 (0%)
Fenway Park!    - 2 (3.3%)
Out on the sidewalk.    - 2 (3.3%)
In Amir's mind.    - 4 (6.7%)
Up at Hannerdad's space station.    - 8 (13.3%)
HAH! Yeah, right, they'll never be "in concert".    - 4 (6.7%)
At the local Waffle House.    - 1 (1.7%)

Total Voters: 60

[FrozenPeas]

Let's see here...

I'm in junior high tomorrow and starting high school on Friday.

And if you really want to feel old, you just have to realize that the people who graduated from high school this year weren't even born yet when Jurassic Park--a movie so technologically revolutionary that it changed the entire special effects industry and became a major cultural phenomenon--came out. That's an entire generation of people for whom Jurassic Park, if they bother to watch it at all, is just another movie full of stuff they've seen dozens of times, but less exciting. That fact, when juxtaposed with the fact that that movie blew the entire world's collective minds when it came out, makes me feel incredibly old.

[SirDudley]

Today I started my elementary school.

And this week started off with sleep deprivation hijinks. I second DSL's idea and vote for the return of the Vulcan Boob Squish. Except we are going to need a double dose for Marigold and Hanners.

[Method of Madness]

Also, thanks for not calling it Generation Y, I hate that.

The whole "Generation <whatever>" thing is a load of classist, culturally myopic, lazy-minded bullshit. It is essentially a bunch of educated, middle-class white people in rich countries nattering on about younger people from exactly the same background. About socially disadvantaged people or ethnic minorities in their own society, not to mention the millions growing up in countries outside their golden circle, they have nothing to say, beyond implying by omission that they do not matter.

Also, movie night with Hanners and Marigold: "50 First Dates" and "Groundhog Day."

Win!

In all fairness, "Millennials" covers everyone regardless of ethnicity or social status who happened to be coming of age around the turn of the millennium.  Also, that's only half win (the second half).

[pwhodges]

The whole "Generation <whatever>" thing is a load of classist, culturally myopic, lazy-minded bullshit.

These terms have all passed me by; I have no idea who they are supposed to refer to*, and what implications they are supposed to carry.  Somewhat unusually, I suspect I will lose absolutely nothing by keeping it this way.


* If asked, I might mumble something about the theme of some naff films.

[Tova]

I quite like the terms, as when I see them in an article headline, they send a clear signal to me that I need not bother reading on.

[musicalsoul]

And here we go into the 90's. Trivia: Wednesday is the year I first hit the 'net running.

And when I started high-school. Hanners and Marigold, the skipping records of QC. Come to think of it, I'm trying to remember if I've even heard a skipping record except in films etc. How long will it be before the metaphor loses any meaning?

I dunno, vinyl records started becoming popular again around the time I was a senior in High School ('05). I also have friends who love to listen to more old school music on record players. So maybe it'll be a while before the metaphor loses all meaning. I've only ever  heard a record actually skip twice in my whole life.... once when I was like six and I was trying to play something on my mom's old record player and once when I was in band in high school and my teacher was playing us a song we were learning.

[musicalsoul]

Let's see here...

I'm in junior high tomorrow and starting high school on Friday.

And if you really want to feel old, you just have to realize that the people who graduated from high school this year weren't even born yet when Jurassic Park--a movie so technologically revolutionary that it changed the entire special effects industry and became a major cultural phenomenon--came out. That's an entire generation of people for whom Jurassic Park, if they bother to watch it at all, is just another movie full of stuff they've seen dozens of times, but less exciting. That fact, when juxtaposed with the fact that that movie blew the entire world's collective minds when it came out, makes me feel incredibly old.

You know what made me feel old. I made a joke about how I went to high school with Michael Jordan. (I went to school with the name Michael Jordan... haha... I know not exactly the funniest joke in the world). The person I said this to, asked me who Michael Jordan was. And all I could think was... "But Space Jam!" Then I realized they had just been born when that movie came out. Now, I was only like nine when that movie came out, but I mean, it was a kids movie, and I loved it and I can't remember ever not knowing who Michael Jordan was. The worst part is they didn't figure out who I was talking about until I finally said "you know, the tall, bald, black man in those hanes commercials."

And on that note, today's comic was when I started kindergarten.

[snubnose]

So ... whos Michael Jordan ?

(I'm not exactly into sports ...)

Anyway, todays comic fits into my current life 100% only I dont play WoW (baeh) but Vanguard: Saga of Heroes.

Best. Game. Ever !

Okay, it could have likewise brilliant PvP for total perfection. But until then, its the best PvE MMO out there.

[slydon]

Wow, there's some age disparity in here

I can't wait for the scary future year comics, when people start posting stuff like "2045 - this is the year of zombie apocalypse", or "alien invasion", or "this is when internet predicted me to dieeeee  "

[J]

And here we go into the 90's. Trivia: Wednesday is the year I first hit the 'net running.

And when I started high-school. Hanners and Marigold, the skipping records of QC. Come to think of it, I'm trying to remember if I've even heard a skipping record except in films etc. How long will it be before the metaphor loses any meaning?

when's the last time you saw someone put a cart before a horse?





the thing that messed with my head was when i realized that there were human beings in the world old enough to have a conversation with, who have never watched a movie on vhs or listened to a cassette tape, and probably never will. i'm too young to feel this old.

[J]

[WAYF]

I can relate much more than I should to today's installment.


The question is, is that officially Marigold's name now? Marigold Louise Farmer? Or was Hannelore just making it up like Veronica was for Marten?

[Method of Madness]

J, that's awesome.  Also, I think this is the first time Marigold's last name was confirmed.  (Sure, there's her twitter, but I'd assumed that was her making a WoW joke rather than her name being a WoW joke)

[pendrake]

For comic #1992...

1. So now we know Marigold's full name is Marigold Louise Farmer.  I wonder if her surname is intended as a pun, Mari-"gold" Farmer, like her WoW name is "MariGoldFarmer".  But as a "normal" (whatever that term means) name, it is actually quite pretty.

2. For those unfamiliar: a "gold farmer" is the term for the parasitic scum of the MMO world (not exclusive to any single game either sadly) who spoil the enjoyment of an MMO game by trying to make RL money off in-game currencies &/or materials through various EULA-illegal and mass & automated player-harassing means.  Were I ever to actually meet one in Real Life, I would beat them until a noticable quantity of their blood was spilled, pry their eyelids open, and spit in their corneas.

Then I might actually remember to get angry...

3. Sadly I have done what Marigold has.  Sometimes via MMO play, more often with a book I have not yet finished for the first time through.  "I will just read a few more chapters..."  15+ chapters and birds chirping at 0400-0500 later...

4. On an interesting character development note: I find it amusing and heart-warmingly ironic that Hannelore, who used to (and probably still does now & then) sleep over at Marten's on his couch, now gives the same service/concerns to Marigold on her couch.  Especially with the previous thread posts about how the other QC cast are parental over Hanners.  The "trickle down" effect, I suppose .

[Tova]

You can't get much more parental than invoking someone's full name when they are in trouble.

[Method of Madness]

In regards to number two, Pendrake, I actually had less animosity towards the gold farmers and considerably more for the gold buyers.  Although that was before I read the part about automated stuff and harassing.  So...fuck both groups, I guess.