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And the final MOMENT OF THE WEEK for 2012 would be?

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?
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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.
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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."
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Jim? Dora. We seem to have acquired your offspring.
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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?"
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"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
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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!)
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"But I didn't say those things, Skullmaster did!" (Well if it makes you feel better, you're BOTH grounded.)
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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.
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Author Topic: WCDT: 2343-2347 (17-21 December 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread  (Read 51725 times)

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Anyone notice that the second thing Dora said to Faye was "Why do you hate money?"

If I remember correctly, Faye started they tyrannosaur espresso machine as a way to get back into sculpting. It was Dora who pushed her to do a second piece for that gallery. The thing here though, is that its not "Why do you hate money?" its "I can't get my 10% from you any more". Faye has never seemed to me like one of those artists who would live off their work, the art is what they love to do.
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Anyone notice that the second thing Dora said to Faye was "Why do you hate money?"

If I remember correctly, Faye started they tyrannosaur espresso machine as a way to get back into sculpting. It was Dora who pushed her to do a second piece for that gallery. The thing here though, is that its not "Why do you hate money?" its "I can't get my 10% from you any more". Faye has never seemed to me like one of those artists who would live off their work, the art is what they love to do.
But it sure is nice if you can both make a living off of it and love it. Dora made very good points in that initial encounter about Faye avoiding things.
« Last Edit: 17 Dec 2012, 09:31 by Westrim »
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I think Dora's point is that if you can find a way to get paid for doing what you love, you have won the game of life. So why stop playing?

Not that Faye is quitting, she's just branching out. She's done dinosaurs, now she wants to try babboons or something.

By the way, did anyone else see Jeph's tweet about "Anomolocarids in popular culture" on Wikipedia? Nobody's actually edited that into the Anomolocaris article yet, but it could happen...  :evil:
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To carry the Pokemon reference a little further, Dora has evolved from Friend/Boss to Agent...

It's a very different dynamic. 



And I used to do what Sam just did.  I had a high school teacher that I would regularly startle with a question before/after class.  She nicknamed me "the silent creeper" (before that had other connotations).  My parents got used to my sudden appearances and disappearances.  And though not as large, I also have the Elliot ability to be undetectable in a group, sometimes to the extent that people thought I was at events where I wasn't...   :roll:
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[stupid internet ate my post]

Why hasn't anybody mentioned this as yet as a possible model for the next espresso machine?  A Cappuccino Monkey!  :psyduck: [I may have broken something earlier *twitch* ]
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See that?  It's the pun jar. 


Pay up. 
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What pun?
I meant a machine that made coffee like this
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The Venn diagram  for Common Sense and Good Sense has very little, if any, overlap.

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[stupid internet ate my post]

Why hasn't anybody mentioned this as yet as a possible model for the next espresso machine?  A Cappuccino Monkey!  :psyduck: [I may have broken something earlier *twitch* ]

Or a Suzuki Cappuccino!
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Jeph turned Dora's head into a guitar pick! :psyduck:
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See that?  It's the pun jar. 


Pay up.

You're going to break that out for that, and not Westrim's "Coffee Annan or Muammar DaCoffee "?  :-o

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See that?  It's the pun jar. 


Pay up.

You're going to break that out for that, and not Westrim's "Coffee Annan or Muammar DaCoffee "?  :-o

He is our beloved leader, we call him Kim Jong Pun.
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He is our beloved leader, we call him Kim Jong Pun.

« Last Edit: 17 Dec 2012, 18:06 by Bluesummers »
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Jeph turned Dora's head into a guitar pick! :psyduck:

I agree that the Dora art seems a bit different in this strip. I think if her head is a pick then it is a Gibson pick, it is too rounded on top to be a Fender one.
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I agree that the Dora art seems a bit different in this strip. I think if her head is a pick then it is a Gibson pick, it is too rounded on top to be a Fender one.

Looks like a jazz/mandolin pick to me. Jeph's starting to draw his heads differently these last few comics. Or is that just me?
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He is our beloved leader, we call him Kim Jong Pun.


Indeed. Like my father before me I shall lead the Great QCNation and swear to forever fight the Evil Procrasti Nation.
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I'm having too much pun in this thread. Please continue  :psyduck:
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"As long as we're all living, and as long as we're all having fun, that should do it, right?"  (from: The Eccentric Family )

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Wait, it's winter, and it's summer in the strip......
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Jeph is sure taking a "light" period! I don't mind at all though.
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Wait, it's winter, and it's summer in the strip......

So there's a two seasons time lag.
But is the comic still in the summer of 2012 or already in 2013?
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We know well that time flows differently in the strip, while still remaining basically in step with the present; beyond that it's not worth thinking about, really.  Having a different season in the strip provides a little escapism in the depths of winter, I suppose.
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Wait, it's winter, and it's summer in the strip......

So there's a two seasons time lag.
But is the comic still in the summer of 2012 or already in 2013?
For all we know, it could be the summer of '69.

Or it could be 1942, the  year of the birth of my father, the Eternal General Secretary. After all, the comic is intentionally vague on dates and though it has explicitly mentioned years before, they could easily be under a less enlightened calendar. All we really know is that it basically looks and acts just like now ('now' being whenever a comic is written) but with some advanced tech literally walking around courtesy of the Workers Party.

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Faye has the all-seeing eye. Her hypothetical kids are doomed.

And it *is* summer right now, what is everyone talking about?  :wink:
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For all we know, it could be the summer of '69.

Or it could be 1942, the  year of the birth of my father, the Eternal General Secretary. After all, the comic is intentionally vague on dates and though it has explicitly mentioned years before, they could easily be under a less enlightened calendar. All we really know is that it basically looks and acts just like now ('now' being whenever a comic is written) but with some advanced tech literally walking around courtesy of the Workers Party.
It couldn't, though, because of music references.
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It couldn't, though, because of music references.

Different calendars, comrade.
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It couldn't, though, because of music references.

Different calendars, comrade.
Let me put it differently, then: QC is definitely taking place in the equivalent of the early 21st century, whatever calendar they adhere to.
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First: Comic Book Time
Second:  What kind of cellphone is she using?  How cheap is her dad? 
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... it's not worth thinking about, really.

*blink*
I had to check that I was at the right forum there for a moment.
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Faye has the all-seeing eye. Her hypothetical kids are doomed.

Indeed. I think it's been established canonically that she would eat her young.
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Kudos to Faye for serving a perfect "no bullshit" look at Samantha.

Kudos to Jeph for drawing it perfectly, too. I mean, come on, it's exactly that.
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What kind of cellphone is she using?  How cheap is her dad?
It looks very similar to a clamshell Motorola my stepdad uses because "it's robust and simple, it does what I need it to do". I like it for the whizzy noise it makes when it's opened and closed. Googling for it makes me think it's at least 10 years old. the V66 maybe?
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Faye has the all-seeing eye. Her hypothetical kids are doomed.

 Faye discover she likes kid --> Start thinking babies are cute --> Angus has a heart attack after she told him that she wanna have one.

And it *is* summer right now, what is everyone talking about?  :wink:
Well, it's is here in the south of the planet at least  :-)


Second:  What kind of cellphone is she using?  How cheap is her dad?

 Maybe he just doesn't have much money...
 
 

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Dang, Dora, how horrible that a 12-year-old wanders down to the coffee shop without express written permission from her father  ::)

Also maybe in the QC world the poles are flipped seasonwise, meaning the Northern hemisphere has summer and Australia is cold right now. And Akima, I'm curious, growing up, did you not have a winter break? Because our winter break in the States is centered around Christmas and New Year's, but those are already part of your summer break.
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Dang, Dora, how horrible that a 12-year-old wanders down to the coffee shop without express written permission from her father  ::)

Also maybe in the QC world the poles are flipped seasonwise, meaning the Northern hemisphere has summer and Australia is cold right now. And Akima, I'm curious, growing up, did you not have a winter break? Because our winter break in the States is centered around Christmas and New Year's, but those are already part of your summer break.

Nope, it's hot as fuck here right now, I can tell you that.

Maybe it's because the comic updates so much but I can never tell when a character is going to return from a seemingly long absense or be dropped for good, Sam being one of those characters. I guess since a whole week of comics usually only equals a day in the QC universe, it hasn't really been that long since Sam was last in it. (I miss some people like Raven...)
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There's no set x strips = y days, the space arc took about 60 strips to do at most 2-3 days, I think, but occasionally they'll jump a few days or even a few months because why not.
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Students here get like 6 to 7 weeks off during the Christmas period (usually starts within a week before). So sort of like a summer break, but nothing like what you guys in the States get...

And Bev, I don't know which part of the country (or which country, but anyway) you're in, but these past couple of weeks, it's been fuckin' Melbourne weather here!

Please note (for our non-Aussie fellow Questionables): in Australia, "Melbourne weather" is a somewhat derogatory term meaning that you're basically seeing seasonal variations in temperature and conditions in the space of only a few days. Every few days.
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What kind of cellphone is she using?  How cheap is her dad?
Given that this is Samantha we're speaking about, I suppose he went for something robust rather than fancy.
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Faye has the all-seeing eye. Her hypothetical kids are doomed.

Indeed. I think it's been established canonically that she would eat her young.
Actually, it was Dora
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Second:  What kind of cellphone is she using?  How cheap is her dad?

A flip open "dumbphone." Some of the bargain carriers/plans still use them to keep costs low, plus it's a good alternative to giving kids a smartphone while still having them connected.
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I'm aligned with the escapism theory... It's summer in the comic when Jeph wants to draw summer. I could use a little summer right now.

Also, given Sam's history, I think that Dora's right to make sure Sam's at least given her dad a heads-up... besides, she's about to lose whatever amount of help Faye would otherwise have been as an employee though because it's summer she might be able to afford it if SMIF's out of session too.
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Faye has the all-seeing eye. Her hypothetical kids are doomed.

And it *is* summer right now, what is everyone talking about?  :wink:

Sure.

In the QCVerse, Northampton is in Australia. The United States are in the Southern Hemisphere. Pie floaters are a New York thing. 
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I could use a real winter. There's been no snow in the area for years now and that's depressing me.

Anyway, flip phone for younger kids.... I approve of this parenting. I think I'll keep that in mind for myself in the future, in case of reproduction. Also, good job, Faye, on the all-seeing parental eye! Some are born with it while others learn it. It seems Faye's in the former group.

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Definitely love Faye in the last two panels, and Dora's shock that Sam takes Faye more seriously than her is amusing.
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The "all seeing eye" is more in the mind of the beholder than it is in the ... purveyor. 


Then again, there are some people who, out of respect, you just can't lie to.  I like to think Faye is one of those for Sam. 
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I know I'm late to the party on a lot of things, but ... are flip phones already part of technological prehistory? I had one as recently as four years ago. I have a Droid smart-ass phone now and I even use it for phone calls.

And, yeah, Sam could show Dora a little more respect, though I think it's just a tween's way of calling her out on her need to control. "You're not my mom," and all that. I wonder if this is meant to reveal a *deeper meaning* in that Dora feels proprietary and protective and Sam, perhaps picking up on cues from Dad, sees her as just some girl Dad dated once, coupled with "Not My Mom."
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Flip phones still exist though they are exclusively "dumb" as the form factor is not conducive to at-a-glance notification—Motorola tred to fix tat by adding a second, mono screen on the outside of the clamshell, which went about as well as could be expected—but they don't have to be calls-only; most of them have cameras and music players all the usual bells and whistles too, just no ability to add software features on a whim.
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I was using an old dumb flip-phone until a couple of months ago, so yes, people still use them. And Sam's dad may have given her his old phone when he upgraded. If it still works, why not use it?
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I am still using a "dumb" flip phone.  At my age I don't want a phone that is smarter than I am. 

I still can't use most of the features on my "dumb" phone, even though I have been through the instructions for all of those features.

One of my objectives when I retired (nine years ago) was to learn how to use those features - massive fail.
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