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Marty and Faye got into a bottle of schnapps under the sink, so that's why for the texts.

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Annnyway.... NO, I didn't make out with Tai.

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Too friendcestuous? ...I don't know. I never really thought about it.

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I've seen you check out her ass. Hey, be fair! I check out TONS of asses!

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Your hair is different! It's the humidity.

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Claire has a latte for Marten! (Kiss-ass)

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Tai called and said she's sleeping in, librarians don't get in for 2 hrs. and I don't have keys.

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We could use Momo as a battering ram!

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Your hair's different today. It's the humidity.

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Do your pigtails detach? Do you store roll cake in your arms?

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If you like anime that much, I should introduce you to my friend Marigold.

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Um, what's "anime?"

3 (6.4%)

Your hair is differ- HUMIDITY

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Oh hey, you're here. Why wouldn't I be?

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I DID NOT HOOK UP WITH TAI! (Everybody being all up in my business isn't helping)

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Duct Tape! (I bet you wanna get all up in TAI'S business)

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She's also about to have her blackboard privileges revoked.

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So... What do you think? ... you know me better than anybody else.

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She's the one who's pursuing you... seems like a good setup for avoiding what messed up OUR relationship.

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If you're just considering it because she's shown interest in you, that's not really fair to her.

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BUT think how cute your babies would be! (We're both female, we can't -) WE ARE WORKING ON THAT TECHNOLOGY

17 (36.2%)

Total Members Voted: 45

[akronnick]

edot:

Some days you eat the bear and some days the bear eats you...

[Schmorgluck]

Why exactly might Tai be "sleeping in"?

Hangover.

As someone whose curly hair is very sensitive to humidity, I sympathise with Claire and Gabby – although since I wear them long it's not a big issue, and I actually find that they look better with the extra curliness.

And Emily is quirky as usual.

[idontunderstand]

Bwahaha. I love Emily now.

[Method of Madness]

Damn, Gabby, you are not a morning person.

[Drake]

As a research assistant with no keys, this comic speaks to me.
(There is a back door that's always unlocked, but then the security cameras see me  )

[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]

The rare kindhearted yet kiss-ass gesture that also implies your supervisor has a lousy work ethic.  Claire is destined for Big Things.

[Black Sword]

Momo is the cutest battering ram you ever will see.

[Mad Cat]

I think I would have the same reaction as Momo to the suggestion that I be used as a battering ram.

[no one special]

Or, you know, just go to Tai's place and get her keys.

[Skewbrow]

Yeah. Tai lives in a dorm, right? How far can it be?

[jmucchiello]

Love how Emily is good at lateral thinking.

[cesium133]

What they need is for Raven to ninja her way in.

[FunkyTuba]

Shush you guys! I wanna see Faye make Claire squirm some more!

[Throg]

Shush you guys! I wanna see Faye make Claire squirm some more!

I would too, but that's Rule 34 and frowned on in here!

Emily is one lateral suggestion away from getting herself BZZZZAT'd by Momo.

[DSL]

She might like that. Banana Smoothie!

[cesariojpn]

Shush you guys! I wanna see Faye make Claire squirm some more!

I would too, but that's Rule 34 and frowned on in here!

Goddammit, why did you make me think of a S&M scene with those two?

[Carl-E]

Nobody made your mind go there...


...it went of it's own volition! 

[iduguphergrave]

The question is, why did he make us think about it? 

[jwhouk]

The Secret is...

Strong enough for a man, but made for a woman.    7 (22.6%)
The Peppermint Schnapps was actually Hannelore's.    4 (12.9%)
Dora's growing her hair out - and it's not turning blonde.    5 (16.1%)
Dora's looking a LOT like a certain Lieutenant up on the Station.    3 (9.7%)
Dora owns a first-gen iPad. FIRST generation!    0 (0%)
Cookies on Dora's floor = contact high from Tai's earlier weed smoking.    0 (0%)
Dora's actually looking at buying a house!    1 (3.2%)
The headband moved forward and back across Dora's ears!    0 (0%)
Fresh Cuts Salon and Panda House went out of business YEARS ago.    0 (0%)
Dora's place has NO AIR CONDITIONING!    1 (3.2%)
There is no such thing as SPACE HAM!    1 (3.2%)
The Waffles are a LIE!    3 (9.7%)
DAMN YOU WILLIS!    6 (19.4%)

Total Members Voted: 31

[Sorflakne]

Emily, I like the cut of your jib.

[Stoutfellow]

Or, you know, just go to Tai's place and get her keys.

Is it really a good idea, after your boss has told you she's sleeping in, to go knocking on her door?

[cesariojpn]

The question is, why did he make us think about it? 

Cause i'm a sadist?

[Is it cold in here?]

We don't know how strong AnthroPCs are. Could Momo wrench the door open? She probably wouldn't be willing to do property damage.

[cesariojpn]

We don't know how strong AnthroPCs are. Could Momo wrench the door open? She probably wouldn't be willing to do property damage.

Waitwaitwait, if you're implying that Momo (and by default all AnthroPCs) has a "morality" chip, then explain why Pintsize is grossing out folks all the time?

[Is it cold in here?]

Momo might simply want to keep her job.

Jeph said AnthroPCs have complete free will, but fortunately they like us. Pintsize probably thinks he is doing people favors by sending them horse porn.

[Tova]

Waitwaitwait, if you're implying that Momo (and by default all AnthroPCs) has a "morality" chip...

I don't think that there was any such implication. That was all you (again  ).

Addendum:

Seeing as we're all having fun suggesting outlandish theories as to the secret, I will run with: "Dora is pregnant."

Don't ask me to justify it.

[jwhouk]

Momo doesn't have a morality chip, but she does have a social protocol database.

[Omega Entity]

Yeah. Tai lives in a dorm, right? How far can it be?

But Dora walked her home to a house... likely that it's the one the house party was at, as someone had suggested before.

[Mothykins]

"Do your pigtails detach?"

;w; Do I detect an Azumanga Daioh reference?

[cesariojpn]

"Do your pigtails detach?"

;w; Do I detect an Azumanga Daioh reference?

I don't get the cake arm roll reference. Anpanman?

[Is it cold in here?]

Now I'm getting a nagging memory of a passing mention of morality programming in AnthroPCs but can't find the reference. Can an Archive Master help me?

[Sorflakne]

Did...did Emily pull an Osaka?

Momo does resemble Chiyo in mannerism and stance, though...

[Method of Madness]

"What the fuck is a clock?"

[Reutan]

I don't get the cake arm roll reference. Anpanman?

The roll cake is a Nichijou reference. The robot in question also has a wind-key that causes her toe to shoot across the room. 

[helloandgoodbye]

Not gonna lie, Emily just seems like Padma 2.0.

[Kugai]

I'm beginning to like these Library Assistants

[T]

I don't get the cake arm roll reference. Anpanman?

The roll cake is a Nichijou reference. The robot in question also has a wind-key that causes her toe to shoot across the room. 

It doesn't make sense that she can make those references without know what "anime" is. It would make sense if it were one popular anime that air on TV but Azumanga Daioh and Nichijou aren't that famous to people outside of otaku culture are they? Where they aired on Canada? Was she just messing with Momo or some crazy explanation is to come?

[cesariojpn]

I don't get the cake arm roll reference. Anpanman?

The roll cake is a Nichijou reference. The robot in question also has a wind-key that causes her toe to shoot across the room. 

It doesn't make sense that she can make those references without know what "anime" is. It would make sense if it were one popular anime that air on TV but Azumanga Daioh and Nichijou aren't that famous to people outside of otaku culture are they? Where they aired on Canada? Was she just messing with Momo or some crazy explanation is to come?

She hates being associated as an otaku due to it's negative connotations? Or since she is asian (She looks Chinese/Vietnamese), the terminology isn't forthcoming?

I don't get the cake arm roll reference. Anpanman?

The roll cake is a Nichijou reference. The robot in question also has a wind-key that causes her toe to shoot across the room. 

How dare you not even acknowledge Anpanman!!

[T]

I don't get the cake arm roll reference. Anpanman?

The roll cake is a Nichijou reference. The robot in question also has a wind-key that causes her toe to shoot across the room. 

It doesn't make sense that she can make those references without know what "anime" is. It would make sense if it were one popular anime that air on TV but Azumanga Daioh and Nichijou aren't that famous to people outside of otaku culture are they? Where they aired on Canada? Was she just messing with Momo or some crazy explanation is to come?

She hates being associated as an otaku due to it's negative connotations? Or since she is asian (She looks Chinese/Vietnamese), the terminology isn't forthcoming?

What I mean is that the only way for her not know what anime is is by being totally oblivious of otaku culture so she only know about animes that she see on TV and not actively get them. Since Azumanga and Nichijou aren't ultra popular shows with mass producted episodes like Dragonball it is unlikely that she would know them without knowing what anime is.

[Reutan]

It doesn't make sense that she can make those references without know what "anime" is. It would make sense if it were one popular anime that air on TV but Azumanga Daioh and Nichijou aren't that famous to people outside of otaku culture are they? Where they aired on Canada? Was she just messing with Momo or some crazy explanation is to come?

I think she's just having crazy ideas about robots, and they just "happen to be references". 4th wall-ey kinda gag. As T mentioned, Nichijou is a very recent series that would probably not be known by many people who aren't following the scene.

And I'm not sure where Anpanman comes into the equation, especially not from referencing that episode.

[T]

It doesn't make sense that she can make those references without know what "anime" is. It would make sense if it were one popular anime that air on TV but Azumanga Daioh and Nichijou aren't that famous to people outside of otaku culture are they? Where they aired on Canada? Was she just messing with Momo or some crazy explanation is to come?

I think she's just having crazy ideas about robots, and they just "happen to be references". 4th wall-ey kinda gag. As T mentioned, Nichijou is a very recent series that would probably not be known by many people who aren't following the scene.

And I'm not sure where Anpanman comes into the equation, especially not from referencing that episode.

That would be the "crazy explanation" some sort of quantic coincidence!

[Is it cold in here?]

Emily seems to share some obliviousness with Padma, but is far quirkier.

Banana smoothie.

[pwhodges]

"Do your pigtails detach?"

;w; Do I detect an Azumanga Daioh reference?

Curiously I happened to watch that particular episode while waiting for my servers to reboot the other night.

Who are the cameos in panel 3?

[ihaveavoice]

If Emily's Padma 2.0, then I quite like the improvements! Padma was just blunt - likable, don't get me wrong, but not amusingly quirky. I liked Emily better when she specifically wanted a hammer-smashed banana smoothie (not gonna lie, I might also make that order) than when she randomly decided robot = cake-holder, but now that I put it that way, I think she's cool again. I want a cake dispenser robot.

I also want Emily to grow into a complete quirky person, and odds are she will since this is QC, but even if she were to end up as just another resident Cloudcuckoolander popping in a funky punchline every so often, I think I'd be cool with that, too.

[ihaveavoice]

Also, I love that Emily has frizz from the humidity. It's the kind of detail that makes a world more real.

Why has no one complimented Gabby's hair instead of just saying it looks different? Looks like she's got a nice cute curly 'fro goin' on!

[pendrake]

For comic #2238...


1. Loved the anime/manga references, though Dune references still are my topmost favorite.

2. Also like that Marten's "walk-along" supporting cast has been expanded.  It will be interesting to see how he does with each librarian intern girl individually.

(and for our not-as-anime-fluent forum cast...)

3. Panel #2: Azumanga Daioh - Chiyo's detachable pigtails

4. Panel #3: Nichijou - Nano's roll-cake arm

[Mr_Rose]

Has anyone considered that Emily might well be familiar with "cartoons from home" thanks to her parents wishing to raise her in two cultures, but has simply never heard them referred to in English using that particular French loan word?

[Boomslang]

She's a computer science major- a female, asian-american computer science major. I'm assuming she's just pulling Momo's leg here, because the idea someone has not mentioned anime in her presence before now boggles my teensy little brain something fierce.

[pwhodges]

Oh, but people can be that detached or oblivious.

I only first became really aware of anime about two years ago (after a somewhat offputting brief encounter some years earlier); admittedly I'm not in the most appropriate demographic, but my children and grandchildren are.

[Smarch]

People are really looking for an in-universe explanation of Emily throwing anime gags and disclaiming any knowledge of anime?

Guys.  In saying, "What's 'anime'?" she is pulling a meta-Osaka.