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Tai-Dora HOOKUP!

1 (2.6%)

Dora leaves Tai hanging.... AGAIN.

2 (5.3%)

Tai remains catatonic from Dora's attention.

2 (5.3%)

Faye steps in on this one.

0 (0%)

PINTSIZE becomes the voice of reason!

1 (2.6%)

Jeph will leave it as a cliffhanger - because he be trollin'.

9 (23.7%)

C'mon, like he actually READS anything on here?

0 (0%)

Maybe sometimes we are a tad too eager to pair people up.

2 (5.3%)

And a tad too eager to dump on Marten.

2 (5.3%)

I prefer Yellow Mellow ???

0 (0%)

NOTHING IS BETTER THAN SPACE HAM!

1 (2.6%)

...except WAFFLES! Mmm, Waffles.

2 (5.3%)

Where's the basketball hoop?

0 (0%)

SCENE CHANGE FRIDAY!!!

0 (0%)

Guest Strip. (@%#$#@ ROSEWOOD!)

16 (42.1%)

Total Members Voted: 37

[jwhouk]

And here we go with another week!

[FunkyTuba]

Nice poll!

Gratuitous psyduck for my son who wants to see it in a post:

[cesariojpn]

Nah, second option is a no-go. Is Tai still pining for Dora?

[countriebabe08]

One can only hope.

[ASmellyOgre]

While option number 8 in the poll is what's happening (and I happen to agree with number 9), I had to go for number 5.  Faye and Claire becoming friends like that seems like it would be incredible.

[akronnick]

The question is, are the elephants purple, or just the boners? 

[Sorflakne]

Even Tai wants Emily.

[slydon]

Emily is the new Hanners Osaka. 

[St.Clair]

Revenge is a dish best served phallic.

[DSL]

Pretty damn clever way to score a free hot dog, if you ask me.

[Sorflakne]

Pretty damn clever way to score a free hot dog, if you ask me.

Yep...and eating it while the thought of an erect elephant dong is still fresh in your mind...

Man, I'd completely forgotten about comics like this.  Makes me want to go on an archive binge.

[jmucchiello]

So how were purple elephant boners the first weird thing Marten came up with?

[Carl-E]

COLA

Lime
Stuff

Yellow
Mystery
?????

 

[Kugai]

Now Tai will have to go buy a Purple Elephant Boner Dildo

Just to settle her mind     

[Melauren]

The return of the bizarrely not to scale foodstuffs!

Edit to include:

*Cough*

[WAYF]

Ehh, the food to face/mouth scale looks pretty alright to me, but I don't know the first thing about drawing, so...

A technique pioneered by Terry Pratchett, the only way to not think of an object when it is mentioned is to not actually know what that object looks like.
Sadly, I was forced to watch quite a lot of edumacational videos in Biology, so...
I feel kind of like Jeph was trolling us in that newspost.

[Is it cold in here?]

Tai likes them tall, dark, and handsome. Remember Bailey?

[Arancaytar]

The question is, are the elephants purple, or just the boners? 

A question for the ages. I came over here just to ask that, in order to complete the mental image.

Even Tai wants Emily.

"Even Tai"? Her being attracted to a girl is nothing extraordinary. The trope technically only applies when a character is so attractive even straight girls are attracted.

A technique pioneered by Terry Pratchett, the only way to not think of an object when it is mentioned is to not actually know what that object looks like.

It could be worse, I guess. At least none of us (I rather think) know what a purple elephant boner would taste like.

(...aaaaaand you're welcome.)

[cosmicsynch9]

I'm not sure where all this Emily love comes from. Yes, she's tall and asian, which is different. But thus far, Claire has the most actual character development. All we know about Emily is that she loves the smell of books, she's in Compsci, and the idea of a smashed bananna is a cup amuses her. This makes her 'cooler'?

I find Claire more relatable. She's driven, she's a skosh insecure, she's passionate, she wants to make a good impression ,but doesn't brook bullshit...and she actually looks *different* than any character thus far. And is different, really. She's not Marigold, she's not Hannelore.

As they are right now, she's not love interest material for Marten. Maybe she never will be. But of all those introduced, she's the one I like best. Maybe that will change, but...

[HiFranc]

On the topic of not thinking of something when it's mentioned is to play a word association game.  Once someone said to me it was impossible to resist the "Don't think of a camel."  He then asked me if I was thinking of a camel and I honestly answered "No."

I was, however, thinking of The Pyramids.

I'm not sure where all this Emily love comes from. Yes, she's tall and asian, which is different. But thus far, Claire has the most actual character development. All we know about Emily is that she loves the smell of books, she's in Compsci, and the idea of a smashed bananna is a cup amuses her. This makes her 'cooler'?

Let's look at it another way:

• She has the get up an go to get things done (Claire commented that she beat other applicants to get in),
• But she's easy going (e.g. didn't make a big deal about anything and asked to join Tai),
• The above things mean that she's assertive (whereas Claire's aggressive), and
• She oozes a quiet confidence.

In short: she knows what she wants, puts a lot of effort into getting it but doesn't make a big deal out of it.

{edit}In other words both Claire and Emily are ambitious but Emily still finds the time to enjoy life and Claire gives the impression that she's so driven she'll either turn into a workaholic, have a nervous breakdown or both.

[TinPenguin]

I'm not sure where all this Emily love comes from. Yes, she's tall and asian, which is different. But thus far, Claire has the most actual character development. All we know about Emily is that she loves the smell of books, she's in Compsci, and the idea of a smashed bananna is a cup amuses her. This makes her 'cooler'?

I find Claire more relatable. She's driven, she's a skosh insecure, she's passionate, she wants to make a good impression ,but doesn't brook bullshit...and she actually looks *different* than any character thus far. And is different, really.

And we know Tai is all about the deep relatable character traits.

[cosmicsynch9]

I find Claire more relatable. She's driven, she's a skosh insecure, she's passionate, she wants to make a good impression ,but doesn't brook bullshit...and she actually looks *different* than any character thus far. And is different, really.

And we know Tai is all about the deep relatable character traits.

Yeah, except I'm not discussing who Tai wants to boff. The poll above was specifically discussing what role Claire is going to play in the future story. Yes, one of the choices was a possible love interest for Tai, but I was responding to the overwhelming assertion that 'Emily is cooler'.

HiFranc makes some interesting points about Emily. Some of it's supposition, but I can get behind a 'show don't tell' methodology that Jeph might be working. That said, those conclusions only work because we have Claire to compare to. I think there needs to be more datapoints before we can nail anything down.

[HiFranc]

[...]

HiFranc makes some interesting points about Emily...That said, those conclusions only work because we have Claire to compare to. I think there needs to be more datapoints before we can nail anything down.

True -- I know I was basing my conclusions on the first impressions that new people gave.

* * *

I just realised that you've only made 2 posts so:

Welcome to the QC and its forum.

[snubnose]

That trick never worked with me ("dont think about superboring X"). I'm just too bored too quickly and theres so much more interesting stuff to think about.

[cosmicsynch9]

I just realised that you've only made 2 posts so:

Welcome to the QC and its forum.

*laughs* Thanks, dude. Longtime reader. Years, really. But I keep forgetting there *is* a forum because the link is so inobvious. I'm sure I signed up once, years ago, and forgot my username. But I doubt I made many posts then, either.

[TinPenguin]

Yeah, except I'm not discussing who Tai wants to boff. The poll above was specifically discussing what role Claire is going to play in the future story. Yes, one of the choices was a possible love interest for Tai, but I was responding to the overwhelming assertion that 'Emily is cooler'.

For what it's worth, I think Gabby is cooler.

[Akima]

In other words both Claire and Emily are ambitious but Emily still finds the time to enjoy life and Claire gives the impression that she's so driven she'll either turn into a workaholic, have a nervous breakdown or both.

We don't know anything about Emily's background, but if her family's like a lot of Asian families, she'd have learned to deal with the incessant push to succeed early on, or had a nervous breakdown at age ten. And it is cool for me at least to see someone who looks a little like me in a Western work who isn't a villain.

Tai's range of expressions in todays strip made me happy.

[techkid]

I chose "confidence lessons". Heavens knows Claire needs them...

I kind of find myself relating to Claire, of the three interns. She's passionate to the point of being obsessive, she loves her line of study, but has neglected the role that "people skills" play in her choice if you remember her monologue (it happened to me when I was studying IT, and am paying for my mistakes now).

[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]

I'd love to see Claire and Clinton meet up for some high strung, overly enthused, hyperventilating, AI/Library systems talk.  Followed by blood tests to confirm they are actually long lost twins.

[Black Sword]

Marten's holding his own this month! Had a montage, trained some interns, and bedeviled Tai. I look forward to the inevitable collapse.

Observation: food service worker in panel 4 is cute

[jwhouk]

It could be worse, I guess. At least none of us (I rather think) know what a purple elephant boner would taste like.

(...aaaaaand you're welcome.)

Probably just like chicken.

[SleeperCylon]

Ugh, this is why I hate Tai.

I'm for anyone screwing anyone if they both want to, but not if one has power over the other.

Tai's the kind of person who will put no effort into anything then complain when she doesn't get whatever she wants.  A sense of entitlement and no respect for boundaries.

[Soulsynger]

One word that immediately sprung to mind:

B O N E R P H A N T !

Its gonna be a thing.


edit:
Yay! 444th post!

[StevenC]

Will it be the new Spathe Ham which was the new waffles?

[idontunderstand]

One thing about Claire is that she reminds me a bit too much of Penelope so far and it doesn't feel like she can add much to the cast/storyline. But I may very well be wrong in this, feel free to prove me wrong.

[Soulsynger]

One thing about Claire is that she reminds me a bit too much of Penelope so far and it doesn't feel like she can add much to the cast/storyline. But I may very well be wrong in this, feel free to prove me wrong.

What if she had a pet elephant? (all the signs point to it)
THAT would complement the cast beautifully.

But that feeling of sorta-blandness is certainly there. Might be 'cause Emily kinda stole a lot of the spotlight last week. °O

[DSL]

The return of the bizarrely not to scale foodstuffs!

Edit to include:

*Cough*

Why d'you think they're all so damn skinny?

[Near Lurker]

Now I'm trying to figure out what the hell Dora and Marten are eating there.  ...tofu in red wine sauce and Cornish pasties?

[iduguphergrave]

Now I'm jealous because you're clearly smoking stronger stuff than I am.

[jwhouk]

And how will our Redheaded Intern Claire figure into the further story?

Love interest. Marten. Has it written all over it.    2 (3.9%)
Love interest. TAI. So there (NYAHHHH)    4 (7.8%)
Goofy gamer gal who bests Marigold.    1 (2%)
Somehow, she shares a hobby with Hannelore.    2 (3.9%)
She wants confidence lessons from Faye!    4 (7.8%)
She wants physics lessons from Raven!    1 (2%)
She ends up taking over for Tai in the library!    2 (3.9%)
It'll develop naturally. It works out better that way.    13 (25.5%)
Emily's cooler.     19 (37.3%)
Insert mandatory meme option here (waffles, spathe ham, etc.)    3 (5.9%)

Total Members Voted: 51

[Akima]

*Cough*

Meh. There are plenty of trendy restaurants in Sydney that serve portions that small. What I want to know is why Marten appears to be drinking orange juice with dinner. How old is he, twelve or something? I suppose it could be some weak-sinners-brew American beer?

[FunkyTuba]

*Cough*

Meh. There are plenty of trendy restaurants in Sydney that serve portions that small. What I want to know is why Marten appears to be drinking orange juice with dinner. How old is he, twelve or something? I suppose it could be some weak-sinners-brew American beer?

Oh I don't know... there are plenty of legit pilsners that are that light in color.

Or it could be an unfiltered hefeweisen... those tend to be lighter.

[Tova]

*Cough*

What I want to know is why Marten appears to be drinking orange juice with dinner. How old is he, twelve or something? I suppose it could be some weak-sinners-brew American beer?

... wait, what? You have to be 12 years old to drink orange juice? Do we really live in a society now where you have to justify not drinking alcohol with a meal? 

I know I'd prefer OJ to the alternative you've suggested... gads...

[Carl-E]

Maybe it's Yellow Mystery ????

[Delator]

What I want to know is why Marten appears to be drinking orange juice with dinner. How old is he, twelve or something?

It's not OJ, it's cola... 

Besides, so what if it was OJ???

You and your types, with your ageist mindsets regarding beverage consumption. It's enough to drive one to drink, it is. 

[Shremedy]

PLAID purple elephant boners.      Now everything is even MORE ruined! 

[iduguphergrave]

I drink orange juice all the fucking time. It's damn good stuff.

[akronnick]

OK. Now I'm pretty sure Jeph's just fucking with us now. Characters in the comic are engaging in the same kind of childish matchmaking that is so notorious in the forums? That can't be a coincidence!

[Is it cold in here?]

Emily seems most in tune with the wacky side of the QC world.

Jeph said in the commentary at the bottom that he was making fun of shippers.

[Near Lurker]

... wait, what? You have to be 12 years old to drink orange juice? Do we really live in a society now where you have to justify not drinking alcohol with a meal? 

Now?  Five hundred years ago, it was usually healthier to drink alcohol than water, and there was no such thing as fruit juice, whatever Mormons will tell you (it wouldn't stay fruit juice very long).  Two hundred years ago, the reason for this was understood and its necessity thus largely obviated, but it was still SOP for nearly all beverages that aren't traditionally boiled to be alcoholic, morning to night; there's a reason we call it just "drinking."  With the temperance movement, and the rise of personal transportation, the situation's changed, but if you think we don't live in a society where you have to justify not drinking alcohol, try it sometime.  Go to a fancy meal, or any evening occasion where alcohol is served, and don't drink.  I guarantee that people will assume you're an alcoholic trying not to air your dirty laundry.

(But in any case that's clearly lager.)

Now I'm jealous because you're clearly smoking stronger stuff than I am.

...maybe not red wine sauce, but that definitely looks like some kind of tofu dish, and those definitely look like Cornish pasties.