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Our current arrangement is fine.

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Bunk beds? (Momo can sleep perfectly well sitting up.)

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Where does Pintsize sleep? In a Faraday cage? Duct taped to a wall? In a lead lined box?

3 (8.1%)

The next dinosaur coffeemaker? Meh, I'm done with dinos.

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Why do you hate money? I'm just tired of dinosaurs.

1 (2.7%)

Robot bacon zombie coffee nija UGH. Sorry, I'm allergic to internet memes.

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Sneaky Sam: Anomalocaris! (Somebody's been working on their sneaking skills!)

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School's out for the summer. Duh. (We'd have plenty of room for the parts, but...)

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Does your dad know you're here? Yes.

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Faye gives her the look: "I mean, um, I'll call him now."

4 (10.8%)

Jim? Dora. We seem to have acquired your offspring.

1 (2.7%)

Sword training! "No, no, you don't have to come get her."

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THWACK! "On second thought, can you come get her AND Faye?"

5 (13.5%)

"Okay Sam, let's go. You're in big trouble."

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THERE IS NO SAM HERE THERE IS ONLY SKULLMASTER, MASTER OF SKULLS

9 (24.3%)

Well, you better FIND her, because she's ALREADY grounded for a week and if I don't see her face in the next 3 seconds I'm extending it to a MONTH.

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PUNY MORTAL! YOUR FEEBLE THREATS ARE NOTHING TO SKULLMASTER! (Holy crap, she doubled down!)

10 (27%)

"But I didn't say those things, Skullmaster did!" (Well if it makes you feel better, you're BOTH grounded.)

0 (0%)

Absolute skull power corrupts skulls absolutely.

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Really weird seeing you play with a kid. (I like Sam, she shows great potential for future mayhem.)

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I really hope her punishment includes mandatory showers, because that kid is RIPE.

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Feces and lice and two-week-dead mice, that's what little girls are made of.

3 (8.1%)

Total Members Voted: 35

[jwhouk]

And we head into another week.

Everyone got their new Mayan Long Count Calendar ready to go?

[Kugai]

Waiting for it to arrive in the Mail

It should be here by Friday

[MillionDollar Belt Sander]

This doomsday better be REALLY spectacular.  As a Mormon I've been hoarding food and water and supplies for The End.   Which is SILLY because I belong to the Church Of The Chosen.   If we're the Favored Ones why are we stockpiling supplies?   We'll be departing FIRST leaving the rest of you behind...

Hey wait a moment,  this was all a PLOT by the non-believers to get free stuff out of us during the Rapture, WASN'T IT?!    HAH!  I'M ON TO YOU!


(don't take  the above too seriously.  )

[Soulsynger]

It's always the end of the world somewhere.

I say: Bring it on! (And a happy new Aeon of Aquarius, everyone!)

[HiFranc]

Talking of the end of the world, you may like this.

[techkid]

So long as we make the week with our QC fix, I don't care how the world ends.

Like how I posted on my Facebook wall in response to some apocalypse reposting:

Two possible outcomes:

1. The world (which I read as "human civilisation") continues, which is cool, I guess.
2. The world ends, which will be the most interesting thing to happen in my life.

[Vurogj]

I (more or less) get all the poll references except the third one. Could someone give this confused Brit a reference? Google isn't really something I want to go to to search "three girls and..." anything really.

[jwhouk]

Two words: "Wapsi Square".

EDIT: It's a long story. You could do either an archive binge or get the six books, then follow from about mid-March of 2011 onward. The story of the Calendar Machine takes up most of the first four books, though.

[de_la_Nae]

*clicks on the Wapsi Square link*

What.

[Nevinz]

Option One was one of my favorite songs in high school. It ended every dance at my summer camp, sometimes played two or even three times.

Ah, those were the days.

[jwhouk]

Short version: Minneapolis-based woman works as a museum curator, stumbles upon the supernatural and an apparent accident going back tens of thousands of years that caused time to reset and repeat 56 times. Woman, along with three girls who were transformed into golems by the society that caused the time reset issue, fix the machine that caused the reset - permanently.

That doesn't include the demons, monsters, mythological beings and a dog who likes pizza.

[Is it cold in here?]

Dogs like everything.

[jwhouk]

Dietzel's a bit different.

[Pilchard123]

Short version: Minneapolis-based woman works as a museum curator, stumbles upon the supernatural and an apparent accident going back tens of thousands of years that caused time to reset and repeat 56 times. Woman, along with three girls who were transformed into golems by the society that caused the time reset issue, fix the machine that caused the reset - permanently.

That doesn't include the demons, monsters, mythological beings and a dog who likes pizza.

It's better than it sounds.

[Caspian Sea Monster]

Dogs like everything.

[Method of Madness]

I'll be pissed if the world ends Friday, I have TSO tickets for Saturday.

[Pilchard123]

Would you know if the world ended?

[jwhouk]

It's better than it sounds.

Oh, hey, thanks!

An ordinary big-breasted Latina girl from Minneapolis has regular conversations with gods, monsters and demons but is convinced there's a rational explanation for it all. Oh yeah, and she can teleport.

Though I think that I'd use the term "otherwise ordinary" there.

[DSL]

One of my more delightful former coworkers was a lady who said she looked forward to the Rapture because, hey, free stuff.

[WAYF]

Also, you know what the end of the world's a great excuse for? Parties.

EDIT- I wonder if Jeph is going to do an extra silly comic for the 21st? You know, a giant meteor is hurtling towards earth, but it's raining, so everyone puts up their umbrellas, and the meteor bounces off. Something like that.

[Mr_Rose]

Dogs like everything.

Dietzel's actual reason for buying so much pizza (how he orders it in the first place, much less pays for it, remains a mystery*) appears to mostly be so that he can share it with the cute pizza delivery girl… good job Pintsize hasn't figured that trick out yet or Pizza Girl would never get a moment's rest.

[jwhouk]

It's the end of the world as we know it!

I feel fine.    8 (38.1%) <--- REM song quotes FTW. 
Oh geez, what did Pintsize do NOW?    2 (9.5%)
Wait, I thought those three girls and that big-boobed pixie from Minneapolis fixed that?    2 (9.5%)
Nyahhh! The meteor missed us!    1 (4.8%)
Is Raven doing theoretical temporal physics again?    4 (19%)
Not happening. Cassie showed us Dallas in 2013. It's all good.    3 (14.3%)
But... but I wanted to know where Pintsize sleeps!    0 (0%)
The global AI hasn't turned into SkyNet... YET.    0 (0%)
Personally? I don't really care, as long as there's waffles and space ham.    0 (0%)
Hanners hasn't read all the posts yet.    1 (4.8%)
Other (please specify in space provided; use back of paper if necessary)    0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 21

[TheCollyWolly]

Option one is proof that REM wins everything forever.

[riccostar]

"feeling pretty psyched!"

I foresee a lopsided poll

[cesariojpn]

Dumb query, but is the Livestream crashing for anyone else?

[K1dmor]

Dumb query, but is the Livestream crashing for anyone else?

 Yes. The link doesn't work.

[Method of Madness]

Sam just got skyrocketed towards awesome.

[Overkillengine]

...waffles.

She forgot waffles!

[ysth]

http://xkcd.com/1104/

Same girl?

[Skewbrow]

Possibly. Here is a college age version. Willis may have been the first to introduce a female character big into dinos, but I am guessing that XKCD was the first of these three to run a paleontology gag. One word proof: Velociraptor.

[Near Lurker]

You'd think all these dinos would be reopening old wounds...

[hakko504]

I feel fine.    8 (38.1%) <--- Beatles song quotes FTW. 

Fixed.

[Blackjoker]

Hmm, well a few other possible idea of to build...

Espressowl?

Some kind of rube golberg rig that not only gives coffee but strongly encourages tipping?

An anthroPC that offers to sell snappy comebacks?

[Is it cold in here?]

That outfit looks good on Dora.

[Akima]

Anomalocaris feels pretty. It was up to a metre long apparently. And yes, Dora does look good.

[westrim]

She could make figures of modern political figures, like Coffee Annan or Muammar DaCoffee

[Soulsynger]

Sam just got skyrocketed towards awesome.

Seconded. That expression on her face is cute to no ends. (I'm gonna call that look the Horrorpedia-look)

@Comic:

• Dora looks really comfortable like that... Even while headvacuum-sucking in her eyes in panel 4.
• Holy shit those things look scary! °O
• Coffee from an anomalocaridid's mouth? With cream coming from one apendage... but what comes out the other?

[Tova]

Robot bacon zombie coffee ninja UGH

Thank you, Faye. Thank you.

Oh, and regarding the end of the world. You've probably already seen this, or something like it, but in case you haven't - here is this week's weather forecast.

[Method of Madness]

I feel fine.    8 (38.1%) <--- Beatles song quotes FTW. 

Fixed.

"I'm so glad...that she's my little girl/She's so glad...she's ending all the world!"

[FunkyTuba]

Other: ... because I missed the free-shipping-will-make-it-there deadline for xmas.

[Carl-E]

Possibly. Here is a college age version. Willis may have been the first to introduce a female character big into dinos, but I am guessing that XKCD was the first of these three to run a paleontology gag. One word proof: Velociraptor.

Here she is in action. 

[Soulsynger]

Anomalocaridid : care for anomalies, it did


Oh god, my brain.

[LordVaughn]

I always joked that the Mayan Apocalypse was misinterpreted (due to me knowing that they had such great belief that their civilization would survive well into the 4200s): Basically, the Mayans  found a way to transform themselves into glitter to ensure their survival. Unfortunately, on December 21st, that spell would break, and people who either tracked glitter into their homes or had glitter on them suddenly find Mayans in their place. To this, we would probably beat them to death as we suddenly realise that we've had random strangers all over us and in our houses the entire time.

On another note, Faye taught her student well.

[DSL]

Either Sam talks fast or Dora's "startle" reaction is set for "delay." Little Miss Snakecatcher got in quite a few words before Dora jumped. This and Sam's expression make this even funnier.

[Soulsynger]

Either Sam talks fast or Dora's "startle" reaction is set for "delay." Little Miss Snakecatcher got in quite a few words before Dora jumped. This and Sam's expression make this even funnier.

I read those as simultaneous but your's is funnier indeed. oO

[DSL]

Followed by:

SAM (to Faye): "What do you know about Pokemon?"

A year or so down the road, strip time (we're all dead, real time): Northampton is the center of a licensing empire based on hundreds of different models of coffeemaker because coffee aficionados realize "you gotta catch 'em all."

[Soulsynger]

Aldous Huxley / Satoshi Tajiri crossover... I like it.

[cesium133]

Robot bacon zombie coffee ninja UGH

Thank you, Faye. Thank you.

Oh, and regarding the end of the world. You've probably already seen this, or something like it, but in case you haven't - here is this week's weather forecast.

(click to show/hide)

That reminds me of this weather forecast for Virginia.

[DSL]

Wonder if maybe we've had a little timejump here. At least, both ladies have had time to go clothes-shopping. Dora, in particular, seems to be going for a mature-but-still-youthful, casual-but-sorta-professional (a button-front shirt will do that for you) look.
And Dora seems to be trying, really trying, to be positive and encouraging and is struggling to remind herself to not get angry at her friend/employee/right-hand-whether-she-wants-to-admit-it-or-not.

[Schmorgluck]

her friend/employee/right-hand-whether-she-wants-to-admit-it-or-not.

Her Dragon?