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And the moment of the week was...?

...And then HE said "that's not a femtosecond initiation optical pulse, that's my WIFE!
- 4 (5.5%)
Enjoyin' the egghead jokes? I think I'm a few PhD's short.
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Wanna ditch?
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Let's get outta here before they start tryin' to arm-wrestle the hunter-killer droids.
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You turned down all that money? (Meh, no big deal)
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Floating in space: "Even if I am just a glorified TSA agent, I get to do it in SPACE..."
- 2 (2.7%)
Space Hooch Spit Take - "So, are you and the doc's kid ####in' or what?"
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We're just friends. (I assumed...)
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It's not all it's cracked up to be.... you bump into things too much... See this scar?
- 1 (1.4%)
Dunno if she was playin' you or what, but you coulda handled it a little better.
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Send her an e-mail or something! No sense leavin' it off on a sad note.
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No offense, buddy, but you're not my type.
- 1 (1.4%)
You were seriously gonna try and make a move on me when you don't even know my FIRST NAME?
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I like big guys, y'know? I want a man who can bench press me one handed.
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You can call me Abbie. And write that email!
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"...You wouldn't believe where I'm emailing you from..."
- 7 (9.6%)
Hannelore? Could you meet me on observation deck 3?
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Table, candlelight, nice view of Earth... and a dressed up Station!
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Do you have a DATE? Oh my gosh! Who is she? Is she nice?
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...She's VERY nice. Have a seat. Oh no, no, I wouldn't want to be a distraction.
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Enjoy your dinner! "W-wait!"
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Yet another week of The Kids Go To Space. Enjoy.
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it has been a long arch...


sortof offtopic here but
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what happened to the weeding? we never saw it right? did it happen or not yet?
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Resisting the urge to pun on your typo...

Weddings take a long time to plan. Not unusual for it to be over a year in the preparation, and I don't think that length of time has passed yet in the QCverse.
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Meanwhile, back in Northampton:
SVEN, opening his mail: "Smallest royalty check I've seen in a while. Forgot I even wrote that 'Wake up! Wake up! Good morning!' song."
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I vaguely remember Jeph saying he didn't want to do a wedding arc.
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I imagine, by the way, that Francis getting the girl would be terrible. Because he lives in space.

If he can't get a 10 dollar pokemon game up there, hows he going to get a girlfriend up there?
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I suppose so. But a pleasant interaction between them would be ... pleasant, and memorable for both.
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There is skype y'know. Plus Hannerdad might have a few holographic communicators they could borrow.
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Yeah, and then they would quickly discover that they have very little in common and Marigold would be super sad.
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Waddaminute.......


Is it just me or was Francis the 'Prototype' model for BoyfriendBot??
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The Prototype-Boyfriend never had a personality because they just uploaded Winslow for a bit and looks aren't the same but that would be an interesting-but-cruel outcome.

Also love Hanners' hair in that strip era. So poofy.

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Yeah, and then they would quickly discover that they have very little in common and Marigold would be super sad.

Unpleasant experience is still experience and usually more wisdom comes from it. Even socially-aware and self-confident people rarely end up with the first person they dated. There's a learning curve.

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Oh man, can see this coming from a mile away. Marten's just way too much of a Nice Guy to take her up on the offer.

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Damn it, Marten. You are like...Half a person, you are so lanky. How do you get ALL the sexy ladies?

I feel like Marten is incapable of one night stands. I know guys like him. No sex unless you really like the lady and want to be with them for a while. So, even if she offered, he wouldn't take her up on it. Unless, of course, this is the beginning of Marten development. I hope it is. I hope he has all sorts of meaningless sex and realize hes an awesome dude and needs to just be more aggressive about what he wants in life.

Edit: I know guys that /are/ like him. Leaving one word out when talking may work, but that read as "I know guys that are hot for Marten". Hrm.
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Welp, there goes this week. Batten down the hatches, the shippers are coming.
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Damn it, Marten. You are like...Half a person, you are so lanky. How do you get ALL the sexy ladies?

I feel like Marten is incapable of one night stands. I know guys like him. No sex unless you really like the lady and want to be with them for a while. So, even if she offered, he wouldn't take her up on it. Unless, of course, this is the beginning of Marten development. I hope it is. I hope he has all sorts of meaningless sex and realize hes an awesome dude and needs to just be more aggressive about what he wants in life.

And that's when he gets AIDS.
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Looks like we will spend a few more weeks in space. Good.

How come Marten has no boozles? Is the double racist Grandma on the rocks not working?
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Let's see - she's nicely built, has a strong personality, and drinks heavily.
Or: busty, bossy and boozy.

OMG She's Faye in Space! (minus the glasses)  :lol:
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Welp, there goes this week. Batten down the hatches, the shippers are coming.

That was my first reaction, too. Lets hope Lt. Potter is just going to introduce Marten to her brother Harry or something...
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Looks like we will spend a few more weeks in space. Good.

How come Marten has no boozles? Is the double racist Grandma on the rocks not working?

The bitters were bad, so he dumped it into one of the fake potted plants in the ballroom.
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Marten did turn down Sven's offer to find him meaningless hookups, but wasn't Padma relatively casual?
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Marten leaving with a drunk, half dressed and probably horny Lt. Potter


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Marten leaving with a drunk, half dressed and probably horny Lt. Potter

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Yeah, my thoughts exactly.
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Marten did turn down Sven's offer to find him meaningless hookups, but wasn't Padma relatively casual?
Casual doesn't necessarily equal meaningless.
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Marten did turn down Sven's offer to find him meaningless hookups, but wasn't Padma relatively casual?
I get the feeling Marten would qualify a difference between casually dating and having sex while doing so and hooking up for one night with a woman he met a day or two ago.
You're also ignoring the time skip between Sven's offer and Padma's advances. A couple of days after being dumped, Marten probably didn't want to think about sex at all, much less random sex. A couple of months later, he thought he might be ready for a fling. Of course as we know, our favorite doormat started having feelings again and has thus pretty much proven himself constitutionally incapable of having completely casual sex.

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Wondering now if Marten and Lt. Boozles (who reminds me more of a certain D. "... or would you prefer a quick fuck on the counter" Bianchi than she does of Faye) will, in search of a make out spot, will stumble across a certain space-time researcher and Pokemon expert figuring out what to do, things are so wonderful, adding up to the coming week's awkward moment.

With Hanners and Station watching on the HoloComm, of course.

EDIT: Stream's up. I'm bad at predicting.

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Damn it, Marten. You are like...Half a person, you are so lanky. How do you get ALL the sexy ladies?

I feel like Marten is incapable of one night stands. I know guys like him. No sex unless you really like the lady and want to be with them for a while. So, even if she offered, he wouldn't take her up on it. Unless, of course, this is the beginning of Marten development. I hope it is. I hope he has all sorts of meaningless sex and realize hes an awesome dude and needs to just be more aggressive about what he wants in life.

And that's when he gets AIDS.

Hmmmm, let's see...

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...oooo, you hit the trifecta!!  WELL DONE.
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Admit it Jeph, you just wanted to reuse the background for #2119/#2132 :P
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Squee.

That is all.
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Marten leaving with a drunk, half dressed and probably horny Lt. Potter


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Nothing's gonna come of it. One of two things is likely to happen (assuming she even offers, which is not 100% certain at this point);

- Marten's gonna turn her down (most likely)

- Marten accepts but then she pukes on him, head-butts him in the junk, then passes out (less likely, but more hilarious. For us anyway).

The second option is likely to turn Marten off any thought of casual sex in the future.
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Are we sure drunk PhDs make jokes like that when drunk? (intended sort-of pleonasm)
The ones I know (granted, few) make the same badmouthed regular flaps like common people. °O

Always thought the "indeciferable physics joke making drunk PhD" was a foul stereotype.

And who here still thinks Marten is a kind guy concerning possible one night stands? Have we all forgotten the Padma-arc?
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she pukes on him, head-butts him in the junk, then passes out

Jeph tries not to repeat, so that is unlikely.
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I hope the space station story line finishes soon. QC is so boring lately..

Apologies to anyone who is enjoying this development, it's not personal I am just really not enjoying any of this.

 Knowing that eventually they will all have to leave the Space Station I see no point getting invested in any of the characters on the ship.
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she pukes on him, head-butts him in the junk, then passes out

Jeph tries not to repeat, so that is unlikely.

Well, the vomit gag has been used like 3 times, that's why they are called "running gag", they can appear more than once.
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Vomiting happens in various circumstances, sure - but repeating the whole gag as it first happened is what I mean.
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Sooo..

the whole forum-going-bonkers-as-soon-as-marten-has-a-prospect-to-get-some-lovin' thing hasn't stopped, huh?

Who woulda thought :-)
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oh god please no, I thought we were going to get to see Marten have a nice trip! Nothing ever works for out for him! This will end in tears...

I've got about 15 potential bad outcomes figured out here.

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Hmm yeah the whole vomit-then-headbutt-the-nuts thing was done so....she'll probably puke in his mouth when they start sloppy makeouts.

Yeah I know, gave me nausea too just typing it out. Thankfully since I typed it out Jeph probably won't do it.

Probably.

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Carry on.
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I've got about 15 potential bad outcomes figured out here.
 :psyduck:
I'm intrigued as to whether you'd be able to keep this promise should it ever be inquired upon. (I am torn ... does "to inquire upon" make sense to anybody else or just me?)

For Marten's, Hanner's, Station's, Lt. Potter's and - of course - ANYBODY else's sake I hope they just get drunk(er) someplace, crack wise about some stuff and have a good time CHEERING UP MARIGOLD! Whooza!



Marten leaving with a drunk, half dressed and probably horny Lt. Potter
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Carry on.
... could this become a thing? Can we do a never-ending story where everyone adds a sentence and its spun into ridiculousness faster than you can say mouthbarf...? Please?
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You're welcome to try playing that game, but it's probably better if you make a separate thread to do it in.
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No thanks, Mr. Hodges. It was merely an idiotic idea sprung from thought-provoking pixels forming a line of dots on my screen. That tends to overspark my synapses and "make da brain go flooid". Hence, the idea.

On a side note: I find it hilarious how this forum almost seems to "hold its breath" today. I remember there usually being much more activity around this time, especially when the comic almost exclusively featured only Marten + a girl in half-drunk conversation.

... OH the suspense!
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Oh please, Marten let one thing lead to another and get some Lieutenant loving, oh please, oh please, oh please!

I mean, I doubt it'll happen. As the poll notes, Jeph has surgically removed all chances of happiness from Marten's existence with the delicacy of Jack the Ripper. But surely we're allowed our hope spots before everything inevitably crashes and burns?

Someone's productivity is going to go down with mine, gosh darn it!

oh god please no, I thought we were going to get to see Marten have a nice trip! Nothing ever works for out for him! This will end in tears...

I've got about 15 potential bad outcomes figured out here.

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You should write Japanese visual novels. So many bad ends, so little time!

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Without spoilering, having seen some of the livestream last night this wasn't the strip I was expecting.

I suspect this arc will wind up sometime midweek next week, barring any need for Yelling Bird strips.

I was just thinking about characters I'm surprised didn't turn up IN SPAAACEEEE!!!!!:

Pintsize is the obvious one.  it's surprsing the little troublemaker didn't sneak along.

Then Winslowe came to mind.  He's been kind of neglected of late in general, but you'd think Hannelore would have wanted her dad to meet him.

Steve.  We know Steve has had some interesting adventures, so I wouldn't be surprised if somehow he'd been there before and knew some of the crew.
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On a side note: I find it hilarious how this forum almost seems to "hold its breath" today. I remember there usually being much more activity around this time, especially when the comic almost exclusively featured only Marten + a girl in half-drunk conversation.

The novelty's worn off, maybe. Or we've all noted that the most furious speculation is quickly rendered moot by the next day's strip. Then again, VonKleist up there seems to think the forum is headed into its usual bonkersville now that Marten is sharing a panel or two with a new female character.

Eye of the beholder, and all that. YMMV. Whatever.
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Someone's productivity is going to go down with mine, gosh darn it!

No, you are NOT going to have TV Tropes Ruin My Life!
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I can't help but think the hunter-killer droids are a nod to the hunter-destroyer machine.
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And that's when he gets AIDS.

Is it evil of me that when I read that, I instantly started singing "Everyone Has Aids!" to myself?
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