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Holy ####nipples that's cold!

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Watch out for dragonfly larvae!

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Gonna get my SWIM on

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Twenty bucks and I'll let you grab his butt. (I DON'T WANNA GRAB HIS lemme go get my wallet)

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Muskrat muskrat muskrat muskrat (Muskrat muskrat muskrat muskrat) (Muskrat muskrat)

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BLOOSH! Momo RISES!

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Gabby wanted me to tell you the hotdogs are ready.

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There are RAFTS under the DECK

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Sorry we're late. We woulda got here like 3 hours ago but we took a wrong turn.

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This is 24 NORTH Pine Island Road. You're lookin' for SOUTH Pine Island Road.

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...said the overweight, elderly nudist.

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And it took you 3 hours to find the right street? (Emily blushes while Tai and Dora roll their eyes)

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Theeth cookieth are AMATHING. Theriouthly, I'll thell 'em at my thop. (Oh, you!)

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Card Playing Tai: You sure you don't wanna come with us? (No, no, you young folks have your fun.)

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You're lucky. This thing seizes up completely if it gets any water in it. (Recommended synthetic covering...)

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How'd you lose your hand, anyway? (No, no, I don't mind talking about it.)

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It all started back when I was thirteen years old(He jacked off so much his hand withered into a claw...)

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That doesn't make sense. Wouldn't that make your hand stronger?

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At the very worst, it might lead to some sort of repetitive stress injury.

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Necrosis seems highly- IT WAS A FIREWORKS ACCIDENT

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Total Members Voted: 52

[cesariojpn]

If we REALLY have to explain it...

She walked into the water, walked along the bottom of the lake, and when she got to Marten, grabbed his arm and "jumped" up.

Uh, doesn't she have to "breathe" somehow? Unless the QC universe has figured out a way to eliminate heat in electronics, Momo might have cooling system or vents to dissipate heat from her AnthroPC body. Or give he a "Marine Mode."

[Ph2]

If we REALLY have to explain it...

She walked into the water, walked along the bottom of the lake, and when she got to Marten, grabbed his arm and "jumped" up.

Uh, doesn't she have to "breathe" somehow? Unless the QC universe has figured out a way to eliminate heat in electronics, Momo might have cooling system or vents to dissipate heat from her AnthroPC body. Or give he a "Marine Mode."

She could have some sort of hidden vent that closes up when she goes underwater/in a shower. The water could work well enough as a coolant for her to go submerged for decently short periods of time.

[cesariojpn]

Replace Muskrat with Marklar.

Or Mukluk.  Mukluk mukluk mukluk.

Aw dammit, your reminding me of the strip with Marten and Dora talking nonsense and chastising Faye for judging them in talking like that.

[Ph2]

Replace Muskrat with Marklar.

Or Mukluk.  Mukluk mukluk mukluk.

Aw dammit, your reminding me of the strip with Marten and Dora talking nonsense and chastising Faye for judging them in talking like that.

Google-fu!

[Tova]

In the event of a water landing, Momo may be used as a flotation device.

Did you mean that ironically?

Did you mean that ironically?

[Ph2]

In the event of a water landing, Momo may be used as a flotation device.

Did you mean that ironically?

Did you mean that ironically?

Well, while iron does sink naturally, if filled with air it will float. So, perhaps she could have a air bladder.

[DSL]

Well, the salesAI at the mall store did mention having been in charge of a nuclear submarine before, so there might have been some apps available for Momo to take home with her new chassis. And I can't imagine the chassis being made of solid metal; the power cost for basic locomotion, not to mention wear and tear on furniture, would be ridiculous. And weatherproofing (or shower-proofing, or walking-on-the-bottom-of-the-lake-proofing) implies some degree of water-tightness. Ergo, Momo can be her own personal watercraft if she wants to be.

[Ph2]

Well, the salesAI at the mall store did mention having been in charge of a nuclear submarine before, so there might have been some apps available for Momo to take home with her new chassis. And I can't imagine the chassis being made of solid metal; the power cost for basic locomotion, not to mention wear and tear on furniture, would be ridiculous. And weatherproofing (or shower-proofing, or walking-on-the-bottom-of-the-lake-proofing) implies some degree of water-tightness. Ergo, Momo can be her own personal watercraft if she wants to be.

It could very well be some magical made up super material, I've always imagined Momo (new chassis) being some sort of plastic/rubber combination with the older chassis (Pintsize) being light-weight aluminum.

[Is it cold in here?]

Water is a more effective coolant than air. Momo's heat sink would have worked even better in the lake.

[DSL]

Are the ponytails the heat sink, perhaps?

[Kugai]

Here's a question I don't think anyone has considered yet



If Momo was able to walk along the bottom of the lake, then grab hold of Martens arm, just how SHALLOW is the lake near the dock?

[Fen]

(many people, e.g. my wife, can just float on their backs without any swimming motion, but I cannot do that myself well enough to trust it).

Even in freshwater? Because I can definitely do that in saltwater, but in freshwater I always end up vertical if I don't move my legs.

I float so well that I can even take power-naps while floating, though of course since I'm paranoid I don't do that too often . Saltwater with waves as well as freshwater. The worst thing that can happen is the currents can take me away pretty easily. When swimming though, my legs always drop and I can't swim properly because of it =(.

[cesariojpn]

Here's a question I don't think anyone has considered yet



If Momo was able to walk along the bottom of the lake, then grab hold of Martens arm, just how SHALLOW is the lake near the dock?

How do we know Marten didn't just drift out into the lake after the "muskrat" incident?

[Vurogj]

Ergo, Momo can be her own personal watercraft if she wants to be.

Well, we knew this already, didn't we?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels

[Is it cold in here?]

Here's a question I don't think anyone has considered yet



If Momo was able to walk along the bottom of the lake, then grab hold of Martens arm, just how SHALLOW is the lake near the dock?

Shallow enough for Steve to stand on something and have his head above water. Momo may have had to jump to reach Marten, there were certainly sound effects suggesting effort.

[ChaosWolf]

SCIENCE ALERT!! SCIENCE ALERT!!

Actually, the reason why you can float easier on salt water than fresh water is the salt. Because salt water is heavier and denser than fresh water, many things can float much easier than normal.

Or to put it bluntly, look up images of folk floating in the Dead Sea, one of the saltiest bodies of water out there. They float much higher in the water than normal beach goers in the rest of the world. 

http://www.msnucleus.org/membership/html/k-6/wc/oceans/4/wcoc4_1a.html

I actually heard once that, due to the nature of the Dead Sea and its ever-increasing salinity/density, eventually, it might be possible to not merely float but perhaps even walk on it.

[pwhodges]

But not as soon as next week, nor even the week after that.

[jmucchiello]

I believe you mean this.
http://weebls-stuff.com/songs/badgers/

Yes, thanks. Oh, and check out Magical Trevor on the site if you go there. Everyone loves Magical Trevor.

[cesariojpn]

*new strip*

............................................

No comment.

[pwhodges]

Let's hear it for old folks!

[Skaltura]

Butts disease outbreak reported in Massachusetts, more news at eleven.

[dreed]

SCIENCE ALERT!! SCIENCE ALERT!!

Actually, the reason why you can float easier on salt water than fresh water is the salt. Because salt water is heavier and denser than fresh water, many things can float much easier than normal.

Or to put it bluntly, look up images of folk floating in the Dead Sea, one of the saltiest bodies of water out there. They float much higher in the water than normal beach goers in the rest of the world. 

http://www.msnucleus.org/membership/html/k-6/wc/oceans/4/wcoc4_1a.html

I actually heard once that, due to the nature of the Dead Sea and its ever-increasing salinity/density, eventually, it might be possible to not merely float but perhaps even walk on it.

it happened before.  almost 2000 years ago.



new comic
is
cute.   very charming

[pwhodges]

it happened before.  almost 2000 years ago.

Different Sea.

[Skewbrow]

I don't think that physics of swimming work quite like that. IOW Momo cannot produce enough lift by any motion of her arms and legs to compensate for her negative net buoyancy.

I'm sure she could, but it would be very wasteful of energy. I was once challenged to demonstrate that I could swim 50m wearing a 4.5kg diver's weight-belt without a wet-suit or any other buoyancy/swimming aid. The weight was easily sufficient to allow me to stand on the bottom of the fresh-water swimming pool; flat-footed, completely submerged, with full lungs. I had no difficulty passing the test, but I had to work much harder than normal to stay close enough to the surface to breathe. With sufficient power, I'm sure Momo could swim, but the battery drain would be much greater than just walking along the bottom.

So you can overcome something close to a ten per cent addition to your body density? I am a bit surprised, because I thought that the game in swimming is about smaller margins. May be I shouldn't have? After all, scuba divers wearing a weight belt are not reeled back to the surface. Ok, I know next to nothing about that, but already Captain Nemo explained that moving underwater, in particular changing your depth, is more about steering as opposed to dramatically changing your net buoyancy.

Anyway, apparently Momo's density is a bit higher than that, even though she is unlikely to be loaded with metal gear.

[Toe]

That old lady ass seems to be in remarkably good shape. Most at her age are about 6-8 inches below that.

[pwhodges]

Old people are not necessarily large, I would like to point out.

[WAYF]

I'm pretty sure Jeph does this sort of thing deliberately. "You want nearly-naked people? Okay! Nearly-naked old people it is! Huh? You didn't want old people? Whoops! Oh well, it'll have to do!"

That said, this is hilarious.

[cesariojpn]

I'm pretty sure Jeph does this sort of thing deliberately. "You want nearly-naked people? Okay! Nearly-naked old people it is! Huh? You didn't want old people? Whoops! Oh well, it'll have to do!"

I must've missed the memo where we bitch to Jeph over wanting more skin. Maybe it got lost in the whole "Why is Momo Neutrally Buoyant?" argument we were having......

[Spiff]

He's possibly just following a rule coined by Matt Groening:
"The less you want to see somebody naked, the more likely you will see them naked."

[Abyssalin]

Last time i checked Jeph draws what he wants in a storyline 99% of the time, and not what everyone else demands, it's what makes him good, he doesn't cave.

That said Blech!

[Mothykins]

On one hand, that old lady butt looks soft and squishy and pillow-like.

On the other hand, it's an old lady's butt.

Hmm...

[DSL]

This one (2304) is going on my list of favorite QCs. It's a good little story, well told. From the shifts in viewpoint and tense to the unforced dialogue to the realistic character moments (Dora's entrepreneurial instincts run close to the surface and never stop) to the little background touches (such as Tai's reaction in P2 and Emily's reaction in P3) -- Jeph tried a bunch of new (to him) stuff and went back to some older stuff that worked (the aforementioned tense and viewpoint shift) and it combined for an installment that belongs on the top of the QC heap and is better than most comics I see every day.

Also, old doesn't mean dead.

I like this one a lot.

[VonKleist]

Reminds me of the episode of Daria where Jane and Trent give Daria a ride to her summer-camp reunion and get fed buy some weird country folks.

[Border Reiver]

Let's hear it for old folks!

Come on in dearie, we've got fresh cookies and milk on the counter, why don't you stay for a while and talk, we haven't seen you for a long time.

Now, get off our lawn! 

[Method of Madness]

Haha, a nice version of "get off my lawn" (and into my house for some milk and delicious cookies!)

(Also am I the only one who just assumed the guy was naked?)

[DSL]

Haha, a nice version of "get off my lawn" (and into my house for some milk and delicious cookies!)

(Also am I the only one who just assumed the guy was naked?)

No. Unless you want to posit that he and Clinton have similar taste in swimwear.

[Throg]

I thought it was implied they were both naked / minimally dressed, from Tai's 2nd panel reaction.

Yay! Old hippies are best hippies. 

[Schmorgluck]

Damn, I spent like thirty minutes browsing the archives to check out if the old guy were the same as the one in that comic but apparently not.

[snubnose]

Water is a more effective coolant than air. Momo's heat sink would have worked even better in the lake.

Um.

Air is a good isolator, NOT a good coolant AT ALL.

Thats why people falling into water thats near freezing will die quickly, while people can run around completely naked in freezing temperatures.

Water isnt the best coolant either, but its not too bad, its common and cheap, and its without any health or fire hazards.

[Madmartigan]

Reminds me of the episode of Daria where Jane and Trent give Daria a ride to her summer-camp reunion and get fed buy some weird country folks.

Reminds m of Harold and Kumar.

[Black Sword]

This comic was so random that I would have expected to see it on a Friday to close out the week.

Still, rather amusing. Also, yes to Emily in a swimsuit!

[cesium133]

The city I'm living in is built on a grid where the north/south roads are given numbers based on their distance from the center of town, so it lends itself well to the type of confusion that Dora and Tai encountered. Shortly after I first arrived, there was a physics department get-together at a professor's house on 48th Avenue East (i.e. 4 miles east of the center of town). One of the grad students arrived an hour late, because he had gone to 48th Avenue West. Unfortunately (or fortunately) he only found farms there instead of elderly nudists.

[Sorflakne]

Well of course old people have butts; how would they be able to sit down if they didn't?

[iduguphergrave]

Man I wonder what I'm going to run for the caption contest next week.




 

[DSL]

Man I wonder what I'm going to run for the caption contest next week.




 

Oh, muskrats, definitely ... 

[Ph2]

Well of course old people have butts; how would they be able to sit down if they didn't?

They would sit on pillows.

[Redball]

At my age, I think I'll sit this one out. I have little to contribute, although it looks like 25 of my 180 pounds is in my belly.

[FunkyTuba]

I really loved this comic too. Can't help wondering if it's not based on something that actually happened, if not to Jeph then to some other member of the western mass comics cadre.

[jwhouk]

Pine Island Lake Road does exist (Westhampton, MA). No north or south, though.

[Pilchard123]

Water is a more effective coolant than air. Momo's heat sink would have worked even better in the lake.

Um.

Air is a good isolator, NOT a good coolant AT ALL.

Thats why people falling into water thats near freezing will die quickly, while people can run around completely naked in freezing temperatures.

Water isnt the best coolant either, but its not too bad, its common and cheap, and its without any health or fire hazards.

Um.

Isn't that kinda what IICIH said?