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some of us have BETTER THINGS TO DO than just play VIDEO GAMES all the...

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WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME

9 (14.1%)

Butts.  

8 (12.5%)

The fact that it's plural really worries me.

1 (1.6%)

FWEEEE

3 (4.7%)

...that is a LOT of victorian pornography...

2 (3.1%)

No thanks.  I've been to the city.  It's loud and smelly.

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DJ Squeekz

3 (4.7%)

I...I love you too!

11 (17.2%)

Gimme a coping mechanism on the rocks.

5 (7.8%)

PIP PIP CHEERIO AND BUGGER ME BOLLOCKS

18 (28.1%)

None of the above

2 (3.1%)

DJ Wafflz

1 (1.6%)

Total Members Voted: 62

[pwhodges]

I'm picturing Knives Chau with that shirt (in the library incident).

[idontunderstand]

Angus looks cross-eyed in the first frame.

[Soulsynger]

I want an avatar of DJ Sqeekz. Somehow that mental image of a disc-jockeying mouse is tickling my brain... in a good way.

And can someone photoshop a faint SFX:"ROMPLE" into the near righthand background of panel three? I totally envisioned the poor customer falling over in a most hilarious cartoon~y fashion.

Also, I'm gonna make a shirt with "1.21 GIGABUTTS?! GREAT SCOTT!".

[westrim]

I came here to infect you with my vision of a rapping rodent, but was instead infected by yours. 

[Delator]

Must....have......knives shirt..............

I'm with ya!

Work can spring for a pricey room in NYC, but Angus has a roomate...    

Eh? Why is this confusing? Employers/clients have paid for me to stay in nice hotels (the Hong Kong Hilton for example) in the centre of distant cities that I certainly could not afford out of my own pocket.

It's not confusing, but it just raises some questions that have never really been addressed before...

Just how important is Angus in his workplace, anyways? Apparently important enough to warrant first-class travel accommodations? That's a pretty sweet deal, especially for a trip with such a short turn around that's only a short train ride away.

Most workplaces would make him stay in the Newark Super 8, is all I'm sayin'  

[Tova]

Hey, you could be right, but ... you got all of that from "fancy hotel room"?

He's talking about rapping rats. It could mean anything.

[westrim]

It's not confusing, but it just raises some questions that have never really been addressed before...

Just how important is Angus in his workplace, anyways? Apparently important enough to warrant first-class travel accommodations? That's a pretty sweet deal, especially for a trip with such a short turn around that's only a short train ride away.

Most workplaces would make him stay in the Newark Super 8, is all I'm sayin'  

He doesn't have a workplace, he has clients and venues. Assuming a real world correlation, he's probably being hired by some Wall Street firm to strawman the Occupy Wall Street views and present them in a bad light. That means money and a desire for close proximity so he can get around, which means lower Manhattan, which means few cheap hotels even if they wanted to set him up in one.

[Akima]

Just how important is Angus in his workplace, anyways?

I've always imagined he must be a freelance. I can't imagine the professional strawman business having salaried employees somehow.

[Emperor Norton]

And as a freelance worker myself, he could easily do really well at times and not so well at others. Would explain why he sometimes has clients who are putting out enough money for him to stay in swanky hotels, but still prefers the lower cost of living with a roommate.

[akronnick]

Or maybe he is acustomed to living frugally from a time in his life where he wasn't rolling in loot, and chooses to keep his expenses low and bank the rest.

Didn't he say something about going to some high end boarding school?

He strikes me as the kind of guy who doesn't need to make a big deal out of "living large."

Angus could have a five or six digit trust fund squirrelled away somewhere.

[TinPenguin]

Faye has a great facial expression as she tosses the beans (not a euphemism). I can almost see the "I was going to open these and make you some coffee. But not now. Busy now. Whatever. Chew on this."

 

1.21 GIGABUTTS??!  Great Scot!

I think this thread just hit 88 miles an hour!

I'm late, but I just wish to say: 88 piles an hour.

[Lubricus]

Knives to meet you! That's brilliant! I want that T-shirt! 

[Soulsynger]

Looking at some of Angus' facial expression, I somehow get the feeling he might have ulterior motives for dragging Faye to the big apple.

Also, a sudden sense of impending doom comes over me. What if Faye looses Angus in the crowd ... even for just one second? It'd be trauma-town all over again. I don't like this.

[gopher]

Could be Angus has finally sacked up and will ask Faye to marry him.

[Throg]

soooooo, did Jeph go to NY Comic-Con, that just wrapped up around here?  Maybe he's got some photo refs for NYC backgrounds.

[TinPenguin]

Maybe Faye and Angus will get shot in the backstreets and this is them being written out of the comic FOREVAR.

[Soulsynger]

Maybe Faye and Angus will get shot in the backstreets and this is them being written out of the comic FOREVAR.

If I was capable of emotion, that still wouldn't have fazed me at all. You're clearly so very obviously over-interpreting this.
They're just being written out of the comic for a year or so of real time. Then they'll come back either as a corporation-erasing duo-force specializing in zassing corrupt managers to death or as sidekicks to the then-famous DJ Sqeekz and his pumping alternative post-neo-dubstep-core music.
Or as potatoes, carried under his feather~y wings by Yelling Bird... your pick.

[Near Lurker]

Ugh, I hate it when people nowhere near New York* call it "the city."  It just feels like buckling to their self-aggrandizing.

I should just remind everyone of a city in Greece that the everyone got into the habit of calling just "the city"... you know, when they would talk about things "eis ten polin"...

(*No, they are not "near New York."  I'm a tiny-stater.)

[Carl-E]

Re:  Angus' hotel room.  

My father was an industrial consultant.  The consulting firm he worked for flew him wherever first class, put him up in swanky places, he made fantastic comissions.  


When he worked.  



So yeah, first class accomodations =/= wealth or even regular paychecks.  You squirrel away and mete out what you earn, and keep the expenses modest.  

But my wife and I were able to stay at the Gramercy Park Hotel for a weekend during our honeymoon, because he was on a job in Manhatten and had gone home to Buffalo for the weekend.  It was his wedding present to us  


As for the predictions... 

[Carl-E]

Ugh, I hate it when people nowhere near New York* call it "the city."  It just feels like buckling to their self-aggrandizing.

Besides, if you're in NorthHampton, wouldn't "the city" be Boston? 

[Carl-E]

Didn't he say something about going to some high end boarding school?

Yes, but like me, he could easily have been a scholarship kid.  Money won't keep up an academic reputtion, they have to import smart kids sometimes. 

 

[Near Lurker]

Besides, if you're in NorthHampton, wouldn't "the city" be Boston? 

You desert-staters have a fucked up sense of scale.

[pwhodges]

In most of the UK, at least among the older generation, saying "I'm going up to town" pretty much always means London.

NorthHampton

I'm interested to note that in many of the Northamptons (one "h") in the US, there is a parallel usage of "North Hampton" in names of institutions.  In the town of Northampton in the UK, there is no such usage that I'm aware of.  (Same goes for Southampton.)

[Carl-E]

Besides, if you're in NorthHampton, wouldn't "the city" be Boston? 

You desert-staters have a fucked up sense of scale.

Dude, I'm in west central Pennsylvania.  When people go to "The City" around here, it's Pittsburgh.  Unless they mean "the Capitol", Harrisburg.  If anyone's sense of scale is effed up, it's east coasters New Yorkers...



And my folks live in Massachussetts.  "The City" is Boston, to be avoided at all costs...

[Soulsynger]

From a foreign standpoint this is an interesting discussion to follow. In Germany we hardly use something like "in die Stadt" (roughly "to the city") unless we already live in it.
"Ich gehe mal in die Stadt." (I'm going into town.) usually means you're going to the central district of the town you live in to visit some stores or go shopping.
From the top of my head I don't know any city in Germany that is not referred to by name...

I always hear of New York being referred to as The Big Apple ... I never would've thought that wasn't canon in America.
(Then again, this is a mutual matter of many misunderstandings. F.e. not every German wears Lederhosen and eats Bratwurst mit Sauerkraut all day. )

... why is Boston to be avoided? I have a friend there I am going to visit next summer... anything I should know? °-o

[Border Reiver]

Instead of the debat about what constitutes "The City" all that went through my mind was ,"She's turning down a weekend away with the BF?"

[Soulsynger]

Instead of the debat about what constitutes "The City" all that went through my mind was ,"She's turning down a weekend away with the BF?"

Initial dislike for the destination on her part aside, she still hasn't even remotely said anything final. It would be one hell of an awkward fight if she refused simply out of dislike for the destination, though...

[Carl-E]

That was my first thought, too.  But I don't see it as trouble in paradise - just Faye's neuroses getting the better of her.  

Angus may yet be able to talk her into it...

[SomeCanadianWeirdo]

Didn't he say something about going to some high end boarding school?

Yes, but like me, he could easily have been a scholarship kid.  Money won't keep up an academic reputtion, they have to import smart kids sometimes. 

 

That brings up the question of what kind of background Wil comes from given he went to a private school.  I can just imagine it eventually cmoing out that he's from money, and lives like he does to keep his writing "authentic."  This would likely not bode well for his relationship with Penelope, who is likely to be rather pissed off at someone "slumming," while she has to work hard to make a living on a barista's salary.

[Carl-E]

Question: What's does the great and powerful Hanners really see?  

I already said, "butts".    17 (30.9%)
Marten dancing ...poorly.  But having fun.    8 (14.5%)
Padma's mind - and it's empty...  3 (5.5%)
The Robot Revolution  4 (7.3%)
Elliot, married with seven kids.    1 (1.8%)
Marigold on a raid date.    2 (3.6%)
Dora in a stable relationship.    0 (0%)
Sweet-Tits!  2 (3.6%)
"My god, it's full of WAFFLES!"  18 (32.7%)

Total Voters: 55

When I went to close this, they were neck and neck, so I'm calling it a tie.  


New poll is UP!!

[Throg]

Dude, I'm in west central Pennsylvania.  When people go to "The City" around here, it's Pittsburgh.  Unless they mean "the Capitol", Harrisburg.  If anyone's sense of scale is effed up, it's east coasters New Yorkers...

Map snipped for bandwidth.
I am a New Yorker, born and bred, and can honestly say that map is 100% accurate.  

[Soulsynger]

That brings up the question of what kind of background Wil comes from given he went to a private school.  I can just imagine it eventually cmoing out that he's from money, and lives like he does to keep his writing "authentic."  This would likely not bode well for his relationship with Penelope, who is likely to be rather pissed off at someone "slumming," while she has to work hard to make a living on a barista's salary.

Did I miss something or are you confusing Angus with Wil? Or am I confusing the subject? Or are cucumbers actually pink? ... I gotta get home...

Wow... New York really is the center of the world to New Yorker's, huh?

[SomeCanadianWeirdo]

Angus could have a five or six digit trust fund squirrelled away somewhere.

Or have a trust fund or inheritance that he can't access until he reaches a certain age, or meets some other criteria.  

[SomeCanadianWeirdo]

That brings up the question of what kind of background Wil comes from given he went to a private school.  I can just imagine it eventually cmoing out that he's from money, and lives like he does to keep his writing "authentic."  This would likely not bode well for his relationship with Penelope, who is likely to be rather pissed off at someone "slumming," while she has to work hard to make a living on a barista's salary.

Did I miss something or are you confusing Angus with Wil? ?

Wil went to something called Williston Academy as a kid, which sounds like a private school.  It doesn't automatically mean he comes from a priviledged background, as people who aren't rich send kids to such schools because they think it wll be better academically or what have you.  But he does kind of come across as someone who might have come from a pampered background without much experience in the real world.  Thinking about it it's not hard to imagine Wil talking with the sort of upper crust Boston accent Charles Emerson Winchester had on MASH, and coming from that kind of upper class background.

[Soulsynger]

Be that as it may... but weren't we talking about Angus? (<- thats what I was confused about )

[Near Lurker]

The way he's springing this on her, she's got every right to turn him down.  In fact, it might be setting a bad precedent not to.

And my folks live in Massachussetts.  "The City" is Boston, to be avoided at all costs...

They probably live east of Worcester, then, is my point.  Northampton's waaay outside the radius where people call Boston "the city."

NorthHampton

I'm interested to note that in many of the Northamptons (one "h") in the US, there is a parallel usage of "North Hampton" in names of institutions.  In the town of Northampton in the UK, there is no such usage that I'm aware of.  (Same goes for Southampton.)

Sometimes I've seen it abbreviated "NH," when it's clear from context that can't mean "New Hampshire" or "New Haven," but actually writing it out as two words, especially in CamelCase, is what folks call "wrong."

[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]

I'm from upstate NY (I could hit Canada with a baseball if I manage a decent throw from my parents' yard) and if you said going you were going into the city, I would assume you meant either Ottawa or Montreal.  I share Faye's disdain of cities in general, and NYC in particular, but I wouldn't pass up a freeish weekend stay in NYC, if only to visit museums while Angus is working.  

[Throg]

Has it ever been stated if Angus is more conservative, more liberal, etc? 

I'm assuming Faye is fairly liberal, but Angus could go either way -- especially if he's employed as a strawman. 

Also, I wonder if OWS is gonna show up in the QCverse -- although one would think that'd be very un-QC-like, to hew to any recent events whatsoever. 

[Mr_Rose]

Angus is secretly a post-fascist anarchist, which is a political affiliation that doesn't actually exist, specifically so that he can take jobs from anyone without feeling bad about it.

[codeRoman]

That brings up the question of what kind of background Wil comes from given he went to a private school.  I can just imagine it eventually cmoing out that he's from money, and lives like he does to keep his writing "authentic."  This would likely not bode well for his relationship with Penelope, who is likely to be rather pissed off at someone "slumming," while she has to work hard to make a living on a barista's salary.

Did I miss something or are you confusing Angus with Wil? Or am I confusing the subject? Or are cucumbers actually pink? ... I gotta get home...

Wow... New York really is the center of the world to New Yorker's, huh?

Only because it's so damn difficult to get out of here =p

[Carl-E]

And my folks live in Massachussetts.  "The City" is Boston, to be avoided at all costs...

They probably live east of Worcester, then, is my point.  Northampton's waaay outside the radius where people call Boston "the city."

Yeah, in Hyannis, the armpit of Cape Cod. 

Someone else asked why Boston's to be avoided.  The streets are narrow, ill-marked, and the surrounding maze of highways was unnavigable.  I say "was" because the "big dig" was supposed to take care of all that.  What it did was make the mess worse  for several years, run over budget, and drive the last few nervous travellers away.  It's finished now, but the bad taste still lingers...

That, and my folks are pushing 80.  Mom's arthritic and dad's deaf as a post.  So they've kind of given up. 

All for the better. 

NorthHampton

I'm interested to note that in many of the Northamptons (one "h") in the US, there is a parallel usage of "North Hampton" in names of institutions.  In the town of Northampton in the UK, there is no such usage that I'm aware of.  (Same goes for Southampton.)

Sometimes I've seen it abbreviated "NH," when it's clear from context that can't mean "New Hampshire" or "New Haven," but actually writing it out as two words, especially in CamelCase, is what folks call "wrong."

Well, excuuuuse me!  I just couldn't remember if it was one or two words, so went with the mashup. 

[gangler]

Over here the city just means the one you're in. Just like how if I said "The house is looking lovely today" you'd assume I meant the one we were standing in and not the whitehouse. As such the issue sounds a little foreign to me.

I'm personally of the opinion that we need to stop calling places like New York and Los Angeles cities anyway. If your population is in the hundred thousands you're a city. If your population is in the millions then you're not a city anymore. You're a Metropolis. You don't have cityfolk. You have Metropolitans.

I suppose the phrase that would substitute "Heading to The City" or "Going up to town" over here would be "Heading North". We all know what that means.

[pwhodges]

Really? I've never heard anyone say "up to town" to mean "to London". (I'm not sure I've heard anyone say it at all).

In most of the UK, at least among the older generation, saying "I'm going up to town" pretty much always means London.

OK, I may be half a century behind with this; but Lord Peter Wimsey could be in an ancestral pile in the Lake District and say it perfectly naturally, and my parents used it (though we were not so far North).

[Interlude]

Faye might not have meant it as "The City." If someone invites you to a restaurant you can say, "I've already been to the restaurant, and I hated it" without it implying anything more than what you said. That's how I took it. She's already been to THAT city. Then again, I live a little more south, and I would definitely not think of NYC as THE city. If anyone said "I'm going to the city," I would have no idea where they meant. Haha.

[Hebes]

Well, if anyone wanted to know what DJ Squeekz looks like...

[TinPenguin]

I suppose the phrase that would substitute "Heading to The City" or "Going up to town" over here would be "Heading North". We all know what that means.

Out of curiosity, where is "over here" for you?

I've lived in many different parts of England, and rarely have people referred to the nearest big settlement as 'The City', though to be fair most of the places I've lived were the nearest big settlement. When people talk of "going to the town", they mean the town centre (interestingly, this is the case even in cities, probably a relic of when they were lots of small towns that have since been swallowed up). The only place I've heard people talk of 'the city' was when I lived in the suburbs of London, though most often it was known as 'Central London', or just 'London'. The very centre, the historical "City of London" is indeed known as "The City", but not really colloquially, only among twatty businessmen.

All that aside, however, I agree with Interlude's assessment.

[gangler]

Ontario. What with how the population's spread aside from Toronto there's very little to be found by going north, so the phrase is generally pretty self-explanatory even if you haven't encountered it before.

[DSL]

My understanding of the New York version of "The City" is the non-Harlem part of Manhattan Island, and is a name used ONLY by people who want you to know they are from the non-Harlem part of Manhattan Island. All other New Yorkers of my acquaintance say they're from New York -- though the one or two Brooklynites I know will tell you they're from Brooklyn if it comes up in conversation.
In my part of Ohio, at least, "town" or "into town" simply means the nearest incorporated agglomeration of structures, or the center part thereof. As in,"I'm going into town. Need anything?"
Residents of the suburbs of Ohio's big cities simply tell people from other parts of the state they're from that city, because it's simpler.That's been my experience, anyway.

[iduguphergrave]

That's completely right. I live in one of the suburbs outside of Columbus but I usually just tell people I'm from Columbus. It's 10 minutes away anyway and I know the majority of the world hasn't even heard of the suburb I'm from. When someone has to go into the city proper usually I heard them refer to it as "going downtown."

Also, that's at least three people on this forum who are from/live in Ohio. What are the odds?

[Kugai]

It's all a matter of perspective and scale.


BTW, nice catch there by the customer.