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Want me to get the hose, Hanners?

0 (0%)

The hose awaits if you misbehave.

1 (2.5%)

Do you have a sister? There's a girl who started interning... Oh god you've met Claire?

0 (0%)

We're gonna need a bigger hose.

2 (5%)

Where were you guys?

0 (0%)

Oh jeez, was Dora there? You didn't talk to her did you? Uh, no... Huh? Yes you did.

1 (2.5%)

You talked to her for a long time! About Ms. Hubbert!

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You are a terrible friend. You're also a terrible friend. We're FRIENDS?

12 (30%)

She asked me not to talk about it. Cat's already out of the bag.

0 (0%)

Doesn't mean I'm gonna let it run out the front door and into traffic.

1 (2.5%)

In for a penny, in for a pound!

0 (0%)

Not throwing good money after bad. (Damn it, I've been out-idiomed.)

4 (10%)

How do you even eat that? With my mouth!

2 (5%)

Want me to say anything? Rather you didn't, still gotta figure out what to do.

0 (0%)

It'll be for the best - unless you smoke crack and punch her in the face...

1 (2.5%)

OMF GROMF HOMF

6 (15%)

My intuition is telling me that Dora's being all wishy-washy aboout it when she SHOULD be over here making out with me.

2 (5%)

Okay. I'm gonna go down there and get a straight answer. Hold down the fort.

1 (2.5%)

Like, maybe you oughta give her some time to make up her mind? Waiting's for suckers!

1 (2.5%)

...Good luck.

6 (15%)

Total Members Voted: 39

[Akima]

Well, the girl IS Sino-Australian. Give her some credit. 

Are you sure you're not mistaking her for someone else?    OK, I know; we all look alike... 

Someone who is Sino-Anything should know better than to make someone else lose face. Especially their boss. Emily seems more jook-sing than FOB to me.

[Tova]

Apparently if you don't see comics through the prism of pure hatred of a QC character, you're knighting now.

Do we need a separate hating forum to give people an outlet? 

[sitnspin]

Can any of you honestly say you would not be upset if you were in Tai's position? She's in an emotionally vulnerable position. She feels embarrassed and exposed after having expressed her feelings for Dora, she is afraid Dora not only doesn't return her feelings but is amused by them. Looking for a little reassurance that she didn't make a complete fool of herself she asks Marten if he talked to Dora, obviously wanting to know if she said anything about her good or bad. Marten says he didn't even talk to her, then Emily calls him out on the lie AND makes it look as though he and Dora were talking about her behind her back and doing so in such a way that he felt the need to lie about it.  Given that this is all the information she has, it is perfectly understandable why she would have the reaction she did.

Oh no! A person didn't react completely rationally to an emotionally charged situation where they are missing important information. What a bitch. 

And of course she was speaking in hyperbole here.

[Tova]

I can put myself in the shoes of each character in this little episode, and understand (or at least believe I understand) their actions and their reactions. Does that make me odd?

Oh, except maybe Emily, who seems to be motivated purely by a desire to be quirky. 

[akronnick]

...and her intense love for banana smoothies.

[DudeReadThis]

VIVA LA BANANA SMOOTHIE!!

I like Emily since she seems to be like early Hanners, before Hanners became slightly less...socially awkward.

I may be in the minority, but I hope the drama between all the characters dies down soon. Drama is good when used in small bursts.

[Is it cold in here?]

Emily may be mistaking a social interaction for a debugging session, which benefits from having a maximum of accurate information. Too literal. I can imagine myself doing that when I was younger and hadn't yet learned to simulate social skills.

Marten, meanwhile, is doing his usual conflict-avoidance thing, at the expense of being strictly truthful. Understandable, though in his culture that's not usually the male role. Not literal enough.

Tai, when she says "you're a terrible friend", probably means "I'm hurt and angry at this particular millisecond". Just plain not literal.

EDIT: Yeagghh! The warning that someone has posted before you is now PINK!

[cesariojpn]

Apparently if you don't see comics through the prism of pure hatred of a QC character, you're knighting now.

Do we need a separate hating forum to give people an outlet? 

Haters Ball?

[Tova]

Comic!

Marten handled that rather well.

[Kugai]

Words have power Marten

'..... and thus The Great Idiom Wars began in an obscure University Library in an unremarkable town on an obscure and unremarked planet in the western spiral arm of the galaxy.  The trillions to die in this protracted war would, at the end of it, hold an annual fete in which effigies of Marten The Moper and Tai The Huntress were burned in remembrance.

From The Encyclopedia Galactica as edited and quoted in The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.

[WAYF]

How fitting that the comic for QC's birthday would have exactly the sort of punchline that Jeph used to do a lot of back in the pre-500 strips. Good old days.

[HiFranc]

Can any of you honestly say you would not be upset if you were in Tai's position?

I can honestly say that I would not be upset with Marten if I was in Tai's position.  However, that's because I was a confidant and agony uncle long before I ever was in a relationship myself.  Being a confidant is second nature to me so I understand that confidences have to kept.  I would be upset with myself for getting myself into a position where my crush didn't feel able to talk to me and I would be upset with Emily for breaching a confidence (I do feel that strongly about being a confidant) but I would not be upset with Marten for not telling me.

[Dr. ROFLPWN]

God damn, Tai, you get all riled up over Marten's little white lie last comic, now you're whining at him to spill the details. 

Good on Marten, though, handled that like a champ.

And dang everyone needs to chill out, no one was all like TAI IS A BITCH, that particular word didn't get thrown around at all. People are allowed to criticize Tai when she acts like a dang brat. She is acting like she is fucking fifteen years old, here. Girl needs to show some maturity or I'd tell Dora "no, she isn't ready."

[iduguphergrave]

An English major would use that kind of argument.

(said the former English major)

[Is it cold in here?]

Emily reminds me of this:
http://www.dilbert.com/fast/1994-10-09/

[Mothykins]

Maybe I'm just in a minority, but I think they both handled this fairly well.

Marten, for once, isn't being a pushover! Good on him~

And instead of going into full-on whiny bitch mode, Tai is admitting defeat at the hands of Marten's idiom prowess. She's calmed down a good deal. So good on her, too

[Redball]

There wasn't much content in the discussion between Marten and Dora as presented in two days of comics. He could have told Tai, "She's still processing it all," and that would have told her, accurately, as much as we know. We might assume they talked quite a while and that he knows a good deal more about Dora's reaction, but we don't know that. But I'm not complaining about any of the three. I'm just enjoying the story.

[Asterus]

Guys, guys, guys, we're missing something important here. Tai gets to ride a shelving cart to [presumably] her office? Pushed by her "not-really-a-qualified-employee, but not-really-an-intern-either" friend? That's awesome!

[Throg]

Well, this comic definitely shows that it's not just Marten that gets
*puts on sunglasses*
pushed around.
YYYYYYEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[cesariojpn]

Guys, guys, guys, we're missing something important here. Tai gets to ride a shelving cart to [presumably] her office? Pushed by her "not-really-a-qualified-employee, but not-really-an-intern-either" friend? That's awesome!

Depends on the cart. Some are good, some topple if you overload them.

[Welu]

Well done to Marten for smart-talking his way through that. Good use of idioms. Also Tai's huffy stance in the last panel is adorable.

[jwhouk]

I hate it when I get out-idiomed.

[quix0te]

Well played Marten...

[snubnose]

Guys, guys, guys, we're missing something important here. Tai gets to ride a shelving cart to [presumably] her office? Pushed by her "not-really-a-qualified-employee, but not-really-an-intern-either" friend? That's awesome!

Depends on the cart. Some are good, some topple if you overload them.

I would say overloading is a bad idea no matter what.

[pwhodges]

EDIT: Yeagghh! The warning that someone has posted before you is now PINK!

The background colour of that warning was always pale pink - you have just become sensitised to it.  However, I have now changed it to a colour that better fits the theme (i.e. pale orange).

[DSL]

Where, exactly, would one re-shelve Tai?

Women's Studies? (too obvious?)
Human Sexuality?
Music?
Technology?
Literary History?
The Victorian Porn Collection?

(click to show/hide)

Selected Short Subjects?

[FunkyTuba]

Oh, come on - Claire's had 2 major rants; Gabby's main lines so far are "I like books", and blaming her hairstyle on the humidity. We've basically had "Overintense Intern", "Slightly Insane Intern" and "OtherHumidity Intern".

fyp hth hand

[Throg]

@DSL: {golf clap}

Marten's fundamental loyalties also run a little closer to Dora than to Tai, as is right. He coulda ducked the subject entirely, if Emily hadn't outed him, but failing that, he's just not gonna casually cross his ex. That's a classy move, in my book.

And while Tai's motivations might be a little deeper than female skinship and a girlcrush, it still remains to be seen. Dora and Marten had already had a post-breakup, I'm-not-sure-if-I'm-ready-to-date talk. Marten had his (more or less) fling with Padma, that's one thing, but Dora had more issues to work through re:relationships. 

Great, now I'm overanalyzing. 

[Tova]

Great, now I'm overanalyzing.

It's OK. You're among friends here.

[Boomslang]

You misspelled fiends.

He's certainly among fiends here.

[Akima]

The Great Idiom Wars.

I can fit a 30-metaphor magazine in my fully idiomatic weapon!

I would say overloading is a bad idea no matter what.

I'm sure the trolley is up to carrying Tai. Books are heavy, and she is small. My copy of The Water Margin (admittedly all the Four Great Classic Novels are notorious doorstoppers) weighs over a kilo. Perching on top like that would be a  bit dicey though.

[jwhouk]

The QC Olympics! What would YOU watch?

Marten in the 100 meter Mope Walk    3 (4.2%)
Faye in the Sass Foil    12 (16.7%) *SILVER*
Dora in the Women's 48 kg Verbal Judo    3 (4.2%)
Hannelore in the 10kg Clean and Disinfect    11 (15.3%) *BRONZE*
Marigold in the Women's Combined WOW Frag-and-Raid    4 (5.6%)
Tai in the Drunken Undressage    19 (26.4%) *GOLD*
The Interns in the 3x100 Book Return Relay!    2 (2.8%)
Angus in the Men's 10k Neurotic Girlfriend Run!    4 (5.6%)
Competitive Spathe Ham and Waffle Eating Biathlon!    6 (8.3%)
Monarch Sky Diving!    3 (4.2%)
Um, what are "Olympics"?    5 (6.9%)

Total Members Voted: 72

[FunkyTuba]

JWhouk: you forgot the complement to #8:

Crazy in the head: crazy in the bed.

[Mothykins]

"A clean house is the sign of a sick mind."

Hanners.

Hanners to a T.

[Sorflakne]

*looks at Thursday's comic*

Oh my...

[Is it cold in here?]

They're both intense to a degree that scares less intense people.

[cesariojpn]

Guys, guys, guys, we're missing something important here. Tai gets to ride a shelving cart to [presumably] her office? Pushed by her "not-really-a-qualified-employee, but not-really-an-intern-either" friend? That's awesome!

Depends on the cart. Some are good, some topple if you overload them.

I would say overloading is a bad idea no matter what.

When I used to work for Borders, we had one cart that was......"tippy." We exclusively used it to store damaged stuff, put into the back, and shoe-horned inbetween boxes.

[Kugai]

Oh good grief, now they come in pairs.

[FunkyTuba]

Someone called this.... Who was it?

[FunkyTuba]

At least two:

Reading the past few comics, I'm thinking Clinton has a sister.

Oh no, I also thought that at first but that would be far too obvious.

Redheaded girl is Clinton's sister; calling it now. Compare chin, facial shape, eye color and hair color.

I was silently in the "I totally think that would be cool but Jeph wouldn't go there" camp... Yay! The sibling storylines really resonate with me.

[Dust]

That ... makes so much sense, it never even occurred to me.

(Stupid clouding pain-killers - two more weeks.)

[Tova]

I keep forgetting how tall Hanners is.

Kudos to the people who called it. It does seem obvious in hindsight.

[Nentuaby]

LOTS of people called it, actually... When he first started sketching her a lot, Jeph had to clarify that she wasn't just Rule63!Clinton on his Tumblr, so sister was the next guess.

I think there are probably more fans that talked themselves back out of it because it seemed too obvious than there are fans who just never guessed.

[Toe]

"Nope, that's not it."

(I still think it has to do with some tweets Jeph made just before the new chars were introduced, relating to a certain... transition)

[Mr. Doctor]

I know Hanners is pretty tall... But I do wonder how tall Clinton is since the difference seems very noticeable. Maybe around 5'5''-5'7''?

[foolsguinea]

LOTS of people called it, actually... When he first started sketching her a lot, Jeph had to clarify that she wasn't just Rule63!Clinton on his Tumblr, so sister was the next guess.

I think there are probably more fans that talked themselves back out of it because it seemed too obvious than there are fans who just never guessed.

Yeah, I was surprised today that Jeph went ahead and connected them. But it works.

[Soulsynger]

I toppleglomp'd out of the chair.

It seems whackyness runs in the family.

[Dr. ROFLPWN]

She hasn't transformed into Supercreep McStalkerboy the way you did, Clinton, so she is far and away ahead of you!

Though now, looking at who she's related to? Boy HOWDY do I understand the tightassedness. I am sorry, Claire. I am sorry.

[TinPenguin]

Man, dinnertime must have been fun in that family.

[AngryCallCenterAgent]

Whoa. Him related to "Harriett"?? Totally did not see that coming.

*mind blown*