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ONWARD TO DANCY TIMES

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I'm gonna look like such a tool.

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Isn't that what we're doing?

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GONNA GET ALL MERCE CUNNINGHAM UP IN THIS BITCH

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I told Padma how I feel.

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I do feel better getting it off my chest.

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Yer not gonna beat up my friend *hrrngh*

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EEEEEEEE-CHAH! *POW*

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YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BLOCK IT!

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A double bourbon on de rogs

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Angus told me he lubbed me

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Hard to have a serious conversation when you're stuffy-sounding

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...I said I loved him too

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That's great and it'll be fine!

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...as long as you don't freak out and dump him

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Only a crazy person would do THAT

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(that guy in the back looks like he needs some waffles)

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Total Members Voted: 65

[Soulsynger]

Why did the bar behind Faye and Marten spontaneously change into a DJ setup table in panel 2? °-o
 (and no, I don't care about the obvious explanations... the change of viewing angle between panels 1 and 2 is not great enough to provide insight into an entirely different area.)

There is dimensional mischief going on here and I won't stand for it! *grumble, cross arms*

[TinPenguin]

We will have to add "does not follow the laws of Euclidean geometry" to this.

[pendrake]

For comic #2044...

1. Aw, I hope this does not spoil any friendship between Faye & Padma.  I think the two have a pretty good dynamic going, not just for fighting ability.

2. It does indeed look like DJ Tai Fighter in the background of panel #2.  And probably will be worth a few strips along this story-arc if it is.

3. Hurrah for Hannelore patchworking Faye's glasses, but as most have correctly expected, our Southern Punching Belle will need a replacement pair.  As I said earlier, I think this would be a good oppurtunity for Jeph to experiment with a change to Faye's look (assuming he has not planned all this in order to).  I could see Faye with round or oval glasses, though I imagine her square glasses are simply easier to draw.

4. Guy in the background of panel #4 definitely has made some mistakes.  The kind of mistakes I am certain Jeph and many others like us never hope to make again .

5. And just for completeness...  (stuffy-sounding) "grabitas" likely means "gravitas", which defines as: "Dignity, seriousness, or solemnity of manner."  Or in Faye's case, lack of it at the moment.

6. @jwhouk...  /gasp.  How dare you mimic my ease-of-quote posting style!  Have at you, sir!  /whitegloveslap  [just kidding, of course.  works well for these kind of threads, oui? ]

7. @Soulsynger...  ( /fistbump for the ponytail thing too, by the way)

 - Frink: "Yes, over here, [...] in Episode BF12, you were battling barbarians while riding a winged Appaloosa, yet in the very next scene, my dear, you're clearly atop a winged Arabian! Please do explain it!

 - Lucy Lawless: Uh, yeah, well, whenever you notice something like that... a wizard did it.

 - Frink: Yes, alright, yes, in episode AG04-"

 - Lucy Lawless: Wizard!

 - Frink: But what about-

 - Lucy Lawless: Wizards!

     —The Simpsons, "Treehouse of Horror X"

[pwhodges]

Also... when has Angus lubed her?

I note Jeph has changed "lubed" to "lubbed" to avoid prompting the kind of jokes we had earlier!

[Lubricus]

1. Aw, I hope this does not spoil any friendship between Faye & Padma.  I think the two have a pretty good dynamic going, not just for fighting ability.

PadmaSaur used DynamicPunch! It's Super Effective!

Sorry, couldn't help myself... 

[DSL]

Why did the bar behind Faye and Marten spontaneously change into a DJ setup table in panel 2? °-o
 (and no, I don't care about the obvious explanations... the change of viewing angle between panels 1 and 2 is not great enough to provide insight into an entirely different area.)

There is dimensional mischief going on here and I won't stand for it! *grumble, cross arms*

The room is spinning. Poor Faye ...

[Jabberwocky]

lube = love

*snicker*

[jwhouk]

lube = love

*snicker*

Terribly sorry, but we're all out of those. Would you settle for a Payday bar instead?

[Paranoid]

I have my doubts on it being Tai.  I admit it does look an awful lot like her, but I would like to think she would've noticed Faye walking in with a bloody nose and Marten and Hanners in tow.  It's possible though, as she could be distracted.  I suppose we'll find out for sure tomorrow.

[DSL]

The only time we saw Tai DJing, she didn't notice right away it was Dora (Dora!) standing next to her, saying Hi. She's focused.

[snubnose]

Why did the bar behind Faye and Marten spontaneously change into a DJ setup table in panel 2? °-o
 (and no, I don't care about the obvious explanations... the change of viewing angle between panels 1 and 2 is not great enough to provide insight into an entirely different area.)

There is dimensional mischief going on here and I won't stand for it! *grumble, cross arms*

Actually the change in viewing angle is enough. All you have to assume is that Marten moved a bit backward, which is a very reasonable assumption, as he likes Padma and thus tends to follow her movements as long as he is focussed on her.

And if he would NOT have moved, Hanners would have to sit in the foreground.

Dont ask me to explain what happends in the background of the third and fourth picture, though. Only explanation I could offer for that is that the round table they are using is actually rotating, as is the ground their chairs is resting on ...

[SomeCanadianWeirdo]

Hopefully for Padma's sake there are no plans to use this to introduce Shame Orb to the main QC universe.  She'd likely be the perfect target right now.

[Throg]

Sheesh, nitpickers.  

The bar is on the north end of the room, with the door in the corner.  In the northwest, there is a dart board and blackboard.  West side of the room is the DJ setup (Saturday, Lady Gaga making an appearance? Friday, Deathmole?).

Panel 1: camera is at pointed NNW
Panel 2: camera is in Hanners' lap, pointed W. Padma heading to bar.
Panel 3 and 4: camera over Hanners' shoulder, pointed NW.  Hanners is simply out-of-shot in 4.
Panel 5: camera pointing NW.

...what am I DOING.

[celticgeek]

There is a small tunnel leading off to the southwest.

[pwhodges]

But does it lead to treasure or a malevolent goblin?

(Sudden memories of the text-based D&D game I wrote in the late 1970s!)

[Carl-E]

Wait, you  wrote that?  I think I played it a few times...

Also, I had to share this - pwhodges, I know your avatar is randomly served, but sometimes the match is too good to let go...

[celticgeek]

I played it a lot. 

Colossol Cave Adventure

[pwhodges]

I can't remember the name of the one I wrote - it was written in BCPL and delivered with the Nuclear Medicine Imaging and Radiotherapy Planning systems that I wrote using Varian computers (between about 1975 and 1985).  It was quite popular with the customers - they liked being Charlotte Rampling, even if it was in text only!!

[Kugai]

Quick! Faye!

Tell me about the Pwesident's secwet pwan to fight infwation!

Hail Theathar!!


Yes, that's DJ Tai Fighter in the background


Hanners the Swiss Army Knife   


I see a 'Soul Searching Conversation' on the horizon for Faye.

[Cactus from outer space]

I think there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for those space anomalies. Maybe they've just entered one of the dark corners of the earth...

Also: Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn !

Also: I don't think it's Tai at the Dj console, there is, like, more then one glasses-wearing-redhead girl in the world I think 

[Paranoid]

The only time we saw Tai DJing, she didn't notice right away it was Dora (Dora!) standing next to her, saying Hi. She's focused.

Good point.  And you can't say Dora didn't have a noticeable entrance that night.  We'll know for sure tonight I expect.

[StevenC]

I think there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for those space anomalies. Maybe they've just entered one of the dark corners of the earth...

Also: Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn !

Also: I don't think it's Tai at the Dj console, there is, like, more then one glasses-wearing-redhead girl in the world I think 

But is there more than 1 glasses-wearing-redhead girl who is a DJ in the same city?

[Akima]

it was written in BCPL

That is so cool. It's like knowing someone fluent in Linear-B or Oracle Bone Script...  

But is there more than 1 glasses-wearing-redhead girl who is a DJ in the same city?

Especially when that "city" is under 30,000 people. It would be very coincidental.

[pwhodges]

it was written in BCPL

That is so cool. It's like knowing someone fluent in Linear-B or Oracle Bone Script... 

I ported the BCPL compiler to my Varian system because I was fed up with writing everything in assembly code and the incomplete Fortran compiler we had was utterly pathetic.  I also extended my version of BCPL with some Algol-68-like syntax (but not semantics).  Later I ported my extended BCPL to Norsk Data computers, where I used it to write routines for imaging floppies, and one for repairing damaged floppy directories.

I believe I've mentioned before that I wrote one commercial program directly in hex - i.e. I had to assemble it by hand.  I might not have mentioned that I had to use B-G instead of A-F, because the hardware loader that read hex from the Teletype was severely limited! - I still have to think carefully when using hex to this day. 

[Carl-E]

But is there more than 1 glasses-wearing-redhead girl who is a DJ in the same city?

Especially when that "city" is under 30,000 people. It would be very coincidental.

Twins.  Evil twins.  Somehow, they always wind up in the same place at the some time...

[Tova]

But wait, is this the evil Tai or the good Tai?

BTW Carl-E, your previous face-palm post is solid gold. I got a bigger laugh out of that than the comic, and the comic gave me a good laugh.

[celticgeek]

Good Tai - no beard/goatee.

[AquaNinja]

For some reason I just kind of assumed that Tai and Padma knew eachother all along.

Oh you little rascal...

How does that make me a rascal? it seemed perfectly logical to me, Tai leads a very different life than the rest of the gang. And she only started going to CoD when she met Marten, she has to get coffee elsewhere did she not? I would just assume that it was The Secret Bakery, both those places seem to be the most popular places to go in their city.
But then again I could be just being ridiculous, that is entirely possibly. I tend to do that.

[Watched Pot]

But is there more than 1 glasses-wearing-redhead girl who is a DJ in the same city?

Especially when that "city" is under 30,000 people. It would be very coincidental.

At the risk of enraging the masses, a lot of the people who put so much effort into expressing their individuality with dyed hair and tattoos end up looking identical from 30 paces.

[cesariojpn]

For some reason I just kind of assumed that Tai and Padma knew eachother all along.

Oh you little rascal...

How does that make me a rascal? it seemed perfectly logical to me, Tai leads a very different life than the rest of the gang. And she only started going to CoD when she met Marten, she has to get coffee elsewhere did she not? I would just assume that it was The Secret Bakery, both those places seem to be the most popular places to go in their city.
But then again I could be just being ridiculous, that is entirely possibly. I tend to do that.

No, it's a "running gag" here on the boards that we treat any sort of "pairings" with kid gloves, lest we anger the gods themselves. So tread lightly.

[akronnick]

He just suggested they might know each other, not that they were, um, yeah...

[Tova]

Actually, I can't help but notice that the "running gag" around here seems to be to skirt being moderated for posts about "shipping" or "crack pairings" or whatever by making a post about how other people are doing it (when they weren't), or are surely about to do it; instead of making the observation directly.

For example, the "you little rascal" post quoted above, or delighted exclamations of "let the ships sail", or similar.

It's completely transparent, in case you're wondering. And it's getting a little old.

And the less said about some of the posts on the filler comic earlier this week, the better. They made me start to wonder what I was doing around here.

[Mad Cat]

What does Faye want to grab the ass of? j/k

[DSL]

He's in New York and will return Monday (strip time, not our time).

[AquaNinja]

For some reason I just kind of assumed that Tai and Padma knew eachother all along.

Oh you little rascal...

How does that make me a rascal? it seemed perfectly logical to me, Tai leads a very different life than the rest of the gang. And she only started going to CoD when she met Marten, she has to get coffee elsewhere did she not? I would just assume that it was The Secret Bakery, both those places seem to be the most popular places to go in their city.
But then again I could be just being ridiculous, that is entirely possibly. I tend to do that.

No, it's a "running gag" here on the boards that we treat any sort of "pairings" with kid gloves, lest we anger the gods themselves. So tread lightly.

Ahh okay, obviously I'm new around here so I still got me some learning to do.

[jwhouk]

Holy sh*t! Now what?

Faye gets up and kicks some ass.    - 2 (2.9%)
Faye takes a swing, misses, and falls back down.    - 12 (17.4%)
Faye bursts into tears (unlikely, yes, but bear with me).    - 7 (10.1%)
Padma runs for her life.    - 2 (2.9%)
Padma gets some mace in the face.    - 1 (1.4%)
Padma makes it up to Faye by paying the hospital bill.    - 1 (1.4%)
Padma makes it up to Faye by paying for new glasses.    - 8 (11.6%)
Padma makes it up to Faye by making her waffles.    - 11 (15.9%)
Padma makes it up to Faye by making out with Marten (what).    - 25 (36.2%)
   
Total Voters: 69

[akronnick]

I love the backgorund action in today comic.

Hanners said something that shocked Tai, and it looks like Padma just found the body!

[Soulsynger]

- Its definitely Tai
- Tai: "You want me to play WHAAAAT?!"

- Gotta love the little details in this one: Hanners has LEGWARMERS! This is too much!

- Padma! Don't you go poking dead things. Who knows where he's been?

Anyone else recall self-directed sarcasm being another of Faye's coping mechanism? Can't find the comic about it but she said something about humor helping her with her insecurities. My guess is, this thing is far from over even after Marten reassuring her.

[AquaNinja]

My guess is Hanners is telling Tai why Faye was all bloody and such.

[Dust]

My guess is Hanners is telling Tai why Faye was all bloody and such.

Or she's aghast at the thought of the Jennifer Beals look making a come-back.

[Soulsynger]

Also: Padma's dress stripes disappeared! What the hell?! The dimensional stability is ajar! Abandon shipping!

I just had a thought:
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[VyperX]

[...]
Anyone else recall self-directed sarcasm being another of Faye's coping mechanism? Can't find the comic about it but she said something about humor helping her with her insecurities. My guess is, this thing is far from over even after Marten reassuring her.

No one would be over something like that after just the reassurance of a friend. Faye is in a vulnerable place right now.... Hanging out with her friends, dancing, etc, should be able to take her mind off it for tonight. After a good night sleep things in her head should have settled down some more so she can think it over without panicking.
At least, that's what I hope for her sake.

Also, love the legwarmers on Hanners. 

[Carl-E]

Faye's comments reminded me of the comic where Marten ironically said that a person would have to be crazy to get involved with a roomate.  Same kind of self-referential humor.  

Which only shows how well they go together.  Or perhaps how much of Jeph's sense of humor bleeds out through his primary characters...

And yes, I thought Tai was goggling about a request of Hanner's.  

"She's a maniac, maniac on the floor
and she's dancing like she's never danced before..."

[AquaNinja]

My guess is Hanners is telling Tai why Faye was all bloody and such.

Or she's aghast at the thought of the Jennifer Beals look making a come-back.

I kinda like that one better, can I change my opinion?

[pwhodges]

I still got me some learning to do.

You're doing fine.  Most of human life involves people being friends and knowing each other, so of course these are not anything to be avoided or skirted round.  

Shipping is a clearly distinct matter, described elsewhere, and only those who are so in thrall to their hormones that they get worked up seeing a knife and fork together in a table-setting might get confused.

Abandon shipping!

<sigh>

[AquaNinja]

I still got me some learning to do.

You're doing fine.  Most of human life involves people being friends and knowing each other, so of course these are not anything to be avoided or skirted round.  

Shipping is a clearly distinct matter, described elsewhere, and only those who are so in thrall to their hormones that they get worked up seeing a knife and fork together in a table-setting might get confused.

Oh, okay I don't feel so horrible then.

[akronnick]

<sigh>

Sometimes, you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you.[/Sam Elliot]

[pendrake]

For comic #2045...

1. Nice legwarmers.  Nice legwarmers, indeed .

2. Guess that is indeed Tai.  Unless Hanners just said, "You know, I have a friend who looks just like you and is also a Disc Jockey...."  Perhaps we will see a comic with Tai & Hannelore come next week to lighten the gravitas of Faye's coping.

3. Is it me, or is Faye's response in panel #2 smaller to indicate a small voice?  "I said I loved him too."  Or perhaps it is just text crowding the speech-bubble?

4. Having random people (even hot women) poke, molest, steal from, or draw on you while passed out drunk is one of the major reasons  I do not miss drinking.  At all.

5. @Carl-E... I thought the same thing with background panel #1 as well

6. Pff, who cares about the knife & fork.  Now the dish & spoon, I think they got something going on there.  But the rest of the tableware families would never approve of a union between the two...

[pwhodges]

Now the dish & spoon, I think they got something going on there.  But the rest of the tableware families would never approve of a union betweeen the two...

Or they might be over the moon about it.

[jwhouk]

You don't suppose the guy in the background was Elliot, do you?