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Wil and Penelope.

4 (6.3%)

Pizza Girl!

11 (17.5%)

Dora and Tai.

13 (20.6%)

Dora and Tai bring along Raven (as a chaperone).

14 (22.2%)

Sven crashes the party.

2 (3.2%)

Gabby's older brother... DALE.

12 (19%)

Cosette's roommate Luna.

1 (1.6%)

Emily's AnthroPC.

0 (0%)

Some yet-unknown character.

2 (3.2%)

Space Station makes a holo-visit!

2 (3.2%)

Enough partygoers! GIT 'ER ON!

2 (3.2%)

Total Members Voted: 61

[DSL]

It would be an act of charity not to mention spontaneous human combustion to Hannelore. She has enough anxieties already.

Truth. But her last coherent thought might be, "This would be a good way to clean."

Also, I find something ador(k)able about any girl or woman in a plain green tank suit. No, I couldn't explain it even if I wanted to. Green's not even my favorite color.

[mustang6172]

My predictions have come true!  New Jersey is attacking!

[Redball]

Also, I find something ador(k)able about any girl or woman in a plain green tank suit. No, I couldn't explain it even if I wanted to. Green's not even my favorite color.

And she has a bottom. Don't get to see that often. Enough.

[celticgeek]

Butts, butts, butts.

[Kugai]

Emily scares me


Officially

[Is it cold in here?]

What would software written by Emily be like?

[Method of Madness]

You know, we can all make fun of Emily for this, but I honestly didn't know the difference between tanning lotion and sunblock until I was a 18 or so. I have enough melanin that it was never an issue or necessity for me.

I...didn't know there was a difference until this comic.

Seriously.

I'm confused, because I've heard tons of people call sunblock "suntan lotion". Like, that's what my parents called it when I was growing up, and I go back and forth between the two, and nobody's not known what I meant.

My predictions have come true!  New Jersey is attacking!

We are? Nobody tells me nothin'.

[Hypster]

I'm beginning to suspect that she's really not as clueless as she acts, and if she isn't, then she is quickly going to drop from a character I like to a character I despise, as I can't stand two-faced people.

I hope not. Raven's kinda-fake-clueless enough as it is.
...I suddenly really want Emily and Raven to meet. I think that'd be funny.

[Y]

I haven't heard about tanning lotion before, we only use sun cream of varying protection factors. I have heard about sunless tanning chemicals in movies, but I don't think that was this.

I wonder if we'll see Marigold in swimsuit at all, if it becomes suddenly evening after gaming.

[Omega Entity]

I'm beginning to suspect that she's really not as clueless as she acts, and if she isn't, then she is quickly going to drop from a character I like to a character I despise, as I can't stand two-faced people.

I hope not. Raven's kinda-fake-clueless enough as it is.
...I suddenly really want Emily and Raven to meet. I think that'd be funny.

Raven's different, though - she's highly intelligent but flaky as hell, and I don't think I've ever seen her do anything malicious. It's starting to appear to me that Emily knowingly uses a space-cadet facade in order to get away with things that she otherwise wouldn't be able to, and in more than one occasion, things that are mean, inconsiderate, or rude.

Or maybe I'm reading too much into things. I hope I'm wrong, but if I'm not... gonna get 'I called it' out of the way.

[Toe]

At this point, I pretty much see Emily as Jeph deciding that he wanted a different Raven.

[Teao]

I only actually saved it to my hard drive recently. Believe me, I have wanted to use that a LOT.
I'm just glad somebody recognized it.

(Now if I could just find a .gif of strikes two and three...)

google image search ftw

[Carl-E]

For some of us (the easily burnt), you can't get a tan unless you use a pretty heavy sunscreen to slow the UV process.  So it's understandable to get the two mixed up, but real tanning lotion usually has an SPF of about 2, and has oils (usually coconut) that somehow make you browner faster.  My wife likes those. 

Me, I hit the beach in a wide brimmed hat, t-shirt and trunks.  When sitting on the beach I also drape a towel over the legs and feet - nothing more miserable than putting shoes onto sunburnt feet. 

After losing the hair, I rarely leave the house without a hat - a sunburnt scalp's no fun either! 

[Jedit]

Maybe it's just a matter of attitude. 

"I'm round, and proud" ?

Down these narrow streets a man must walk...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl6TWGRcs6E

[Is it cold in here?]

If Emily is covertly mean, it would be a first in Jeph's characterizations. He's done openly hostile (Hannermom, Vespavenger), and friendly but violent (Faye the kitty cat who only knows how to scratch), but never sneaky.

[Overkillengine]

It *would* explain the lack of friends though.

Or should she could just be horrendously lacking in socialization.




*edit: I accidentally forgot some words.

[jwhouk]

I'm betting in lack of socialization.

Imagine a hybrid Hannelore/Raven combo.

[Kugai]

[SamuelLJacksonVoice] "Oh hell no!" [/SamuelLJacksonVoice]

[Near Lurker]

Gangbangs in near-boiling water?

[Barmymoo]

(As an aside, dude, I'm not wearing tight jeans, not for fashion reasons but I don't like constricting down there.)

It's unhealthy not to.  There's a reason for Europe's prosperity - some form of habitual abuse of the male genitalia is seen in every successful culture in history.

I am so confused by this quote. Unhealthy not to?

I call sunblock suntan lotion - but it definitely is sunblock that I use. I've never seen tanning lotion actually used, but I would also assume you don't get tanned that fast. I suspect it is just meant to be funny, rather than 100% true to life, like so much of this arc!

[pwhodges]

I'd been thinking of it as a spray-on tan...

[Redball]

In the 1940s, my mother used to apply a tanning liquid to her legs. I remember my fascination with the bottle: The pigment, or whatever it was, didn't remain in suspension. I'd shake it just to watch it swirl around. And now that I think of it, it may have been something a woman might use in the absence of nylon stockings; I don't recall her applying it to her face. Of course she had makeup for that.

[Is it cold in here?]

Isn't it old news about suntan lotion being flammable? I mean, there's a really old song that goes "Oh tannin' bomb, oh tannin' bomb...".

[Mr_Rose]

Good job someone left those pun foul GIFs up there, that oughtta discourage … oh.

[Carl-E]

I'd like to point out that spray-on tan would have left Hanners looking orange tan in panel 3, as soon as it was applied.  Actual tanning lotion (that promotes a tan, mainly oils of sorts) will accellerate a tan. 

Also, we have no wy of knowing how long Emily sat there watching Mari play... it could have been a couple of hours...

[Akima]

If Emily is covertly mean, it would be a first in Jeph's characterizations. He's done openly hostile (Hannermom, Vespavenger), and friendly but violent (Faye the kitty cat who only knows how to scratch), but never sneaky.

I'm very much in two (or three) minds about Emily's sunscreen trick/goof. A lot depends on how you read her expression in the 4th panel of 2300, and I'm probably factoring in cultural factors that Jeph did not intend.

Someone earlier in this thread referred to Japanese tanning, and linked to the Wikipedia article on ganguro fashion. The whole point of ganguro, however, is that it was/is a statement of rebellion. East Asian cultures generally deprecate tanning quite strongly, especially for women, and in China it is very common to see women of all ages covering up and carrying parasols. The use of (sometimes quite dangerous) skin-lightening treatments is also widespread. So depending on how Westernised Emily (who plainly does not tan) is, this could definitely be a dirty trick. On the other hand, why pick on Hannelore, whom she has only met serving smoothies at CoD?

[Method of Madness]

Maybe she just grabbed the wrong bottle while shopping and didn't realize it. Or someone left it there and she assumed it was the same thing. We'll find out soon, probably.

[Tova]

I know it's boring, but I think that this is exactly as it appears at face value - she just had no idea there was any difference between sunscreen and tanning lotion. I might not have known myself had I not grown up in an era where all kinds of concoctions containing things like coconut oil were common.

We'll find out soon, probably.

I don't think we will, actually. Just like the mask/hatchet joke - I don't think there will be any further explanation.

(I'm kind of surprised that people are still looking for one, because I had no idea it needed one. It's a joke, Joyce.)

[Method of Madness]

If nothing else happens, then the explanation is probably that it was a mistake and not that big a deal.

[Gnomes2169]

If nothing else happens, then the explanation is probably that it was a mistake and not that big a deal.

... Except for the whole "Tannelore" thing. Sort of freakin' me out, TBH...

[jwhouk]

I was going to suggest Walkyverse myself, actually.