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Over/Under on number of Awkward Zone Initiations This week?

None at all.
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One or two.
- 12 (14.6%)
Three to five.
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Six to eight.
- 6 (7.3%)
Nine or 10.
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More than 10.
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It depends on how much those involved drink...
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...and on the amount of Spathe Ham consumed.
- 1 (1.2%)
I dunno, but I don't want to see MartenMom drunk.
- 2 (2.4%)
Nor Claire.
- 8 (9.8%)
10 tons of snow will suddenly fall on the cast, dropping the wedding into darkness.
- 6 (7.3%)
Be realistic: more like 5 tons.
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There are no waffles because you eat Pancakes on Fat Tuesday, so there. :P
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Author Topic: WCDT: 2382-2386 (11-15 February, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread  (Read 103385 times)

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I'm across the pond, and quite a few people I know also use the up/down terminology. I've said on more than one occasion that I'm going "up to Florida," even though I live north of there. "Up" seems to be the term that I use for anywhere that isn't my hometown. I even say I'm going "back down to Tennessee" when I'm heading up from Florida. I'm a lot more conscious of this phrasing these days because I randomly realized one day that it sounded rather odd.
I don't really use up/down except if I'm shipping up to Boston. People in my state will often say they're going "down the shore" when they're going to the beach. I didn't accidentally leave the "to" out of it, that's what they say, and it's as annoying as it sounds.
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In the US, the up/down thing seems to be regional. In the north, people go "up" to somewhere, and the south people go "down" to somewhere, regardless of the actual geography involved.
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As I keep reminding New Yorkers, one must remember the Greek for "to the city"...
I don't know what that is, and attempts to determine it keep getting me travel guides and the Battle of Marathon.

"Eis ten polin."

(Say it out loud.)
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I've said it out loud in every conceivable accent I can think of and it still means nothing. Do you have to be American for this to make sense?
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As I keep reminding New Yorkers, one must remember the Greek for "to the city"...
I don't know what that is, and attempts to determine it keep getting me travel guides and the Battle of Marathon.

"Eis ten polin."


(Say it out loud.)

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In the US, the up/down thing seems to be regional. In the north, people go "up" to somewhere, and the south people go "down" to somewhere, regardless of the actual geography involved.
I've never heard of this.
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"Eis ten polin."

(Say it out loud.)

Yeah, this is why you shouldn't get your historical information from songs. It being Greek too and all.  :-D

Us Norse just called it "The Great City" (Miklagarðr) and when people talked about "The city" my mind immediately went to Constantinople as well.
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"Eis ten polin."
(Say it out loud.)

I've said it out loud in every conceivable accent I can think of and it still means nothing. Do you have to be American for this to make sense?

Ice Ton Poland?

Yeah,  I wasn't picking up "Istanbul" either, sorry.
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BLACK FLAG?  Henry Rollins, Greg Ginn, and the boys PLAYING A WEDDING?

I am definitely with Marten on this one.

That is one wedding I wish I could have been at.  Where's a frikkin' time machine when you really need one?
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In the US, the up/down thing seems to be regional. In the north, people go "up" to somewhere, and the south people go "down" to somewhere, regardless of the actual geography involved.

I find that highly inaccurate. I'm from the north and everybody I know and have ever met, most from the Mid-West, uses the word down.
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I don't think Petula Clark was ever heard to sing about "uptown."
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BLACK FLAG?  Henry Rollins, Greg Ginn, and the boys PLAYING A WEDDING?

I am definitely with Marten on this one.

That is one wedding I wish I could have been at.  Where's a frikkin' time machine when you really need one?

The lady who owns one is a bit busy with some domestic issues at the moment.
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Am I the only one who would love to see a flashback comic of Henry and Veronica's wedding?

I don't really use up/down except if I'm shipping up to Boston. People in my state will often say they're going "down the shore" when they're going to the beach. I didn't accidentally leave the "to" out of it, that's what they say, and it's as annoying as it sounds.
A fellow New Jerseyan?
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I've never been to a wedding reception with live music.  Is that strange?
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I think everyone's missing the most important thing about today's comic: HOLY SHIT BLACK FLAG PLAYING A WEDDING WOULD BE AWESOME

Edit: treyhawk beat me to it, serves me right for not reading the whole thread before I post :/
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I would dearly love to see a cameo from Henry Rollins, either present day or flashback.
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A fellow New Jerseyan?
Yep. North Jersey if you couldn't tell.
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I don't even care about the wedding anymore.  What kind of wacky adventures are Faye and Angus having in the city?  How are Dora and Penny holding up at Coffee of Doom?  What hallucinatory monsters have struck Hannelore?  Is Marigold still kicking Dale's ass at Warcraft?  Will Pintsize fall in love with his reflection in a mirror?
Last time Marten left, they had to fight off the Pintsize Apocalypse. This time, maybe Godzilla? Something organic, anyway.

I find referring to New York as THE city rather interesting, especially since it's done in-comic by people who are what, 150 miles from it? I live a couple counties away from LA, but no one calls it anything but LA or Los Angeles. I mean, sure it's big, but it's not like every other community in New England is a hamlet.

Unless I'm massively wrong and they and you are talking about Springfield or something.

I find it fucking fascinating that there's more discussion about the how people phrase that they're 'going somewhere' than about the actual comic, all because of a comment that was about something we aren't even seeing.

Just to add something to this strange, somewhat misplaced, somewhat pointless conversation...

I'll never use the phrase "going/headin' back East." I was born in Hawaii, raised and still live in Oregon. Why would anyone born and raised west of the Mississippi say they were "going back?"
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Welcome to the QC forum, where people seize on what interests them and sometimes beat it to death ... Come to think of it, welcome to the Internet.

You'll be doing it before long if you stick around.
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I would dearly love to see a cameo from Henry Rollins, either present day or flashback.

Ditto on this, though I doubt Jeph would do it.
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I'll never use the phrase "going/headin' back East." I was born in Hawaii, raised and still live in Oregon. Why would anyone born and raised west of the Mississippi say they were "going back?"

Maybe because in the not-so-distant past, most people in the west came from somewhere in the east? Migration east to west in the 20th century was intense, and it's possible a habit of speech endured.
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This is the first place I've ever been where people talk about going "in town".  Not down town, not in to town, just "intown", like it's oneword.  There's even a mural on one of the larger buildings with "InTown" across the bottom. 

I've haerd "going down shore" all my life, though I don't use it myself.  But at least it sort of makes sense - unless you're in Death Valley, the shore is lower than where you are. 
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I wasn't objecting about down, I was objecting to the lack of the word "to". They say "I'm going down the shore", rather than "down to the shore" and it just sounds wrong.
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I have to comment on how much I like the shading of Claire's hair in today's comic.
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Am I the only one who was hoping, until I finished reading the bubble, that Veronica was about to say Black Sabbath played their wedding?
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That wouldn't have been impossible, but unlikely, since I doubt Iommi and company would have been willing to do such a show in Cali at the time.


EDIT: I just realized something - the Ford Focus that Angus drove and the Mazda of Claire's indicate that we're probably only about six months to a year off from "real time" in the QC-verse.
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Right, because we can have AI untold decades ahead of time but cars being introduced a few years earlier? Absurd! ::)
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Am I the only one who was hoping, until I finished reading the bubble, that Veronica was about to say Black Sabbath played their wedding?
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Poor Clarice Claire.  :laugh:
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Okay, those last two panels are freakin' hilarious. One of the funniest strips in a while. Part of it is just due to the fact that I can so imagine this pretty vividly. It's the kind of thing I'd totally find funny if it happened in a room I also happened to be in. :) (Okay, that applies to a lot of things, but there have been a lot of punchlines that come from stuff that just wouldn't work for me if it wasn't a comic strip.)
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I feel like Marten in that one comic, second-to-last-panel.
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I don't really use up/down except if I'm shipping up to Boston. People in my state will often say they're going "down the shore" when they're going to the beach. I didn't accidentally leave the "to" out of it, that's what they say, and it's as annoying as it sounds.

Speaking of beating a dead horse...

In particular, "shipping" is not allowed - there is a discussion of this in the Conduct in this forum thread.

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This just confirms for me that Veronica is a Bene Gesserit.

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I wonder if being forgetful of names hurts or helps a dominatrix?

"Now Jerry, spread your arms."

"... My name is Jo-"

"Your NAME is whatever I say it is, Jerry!"

"Y-yes Mistress." *blushes*
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I just realized I should have said "The spiced rum is life."
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Okay, those last two panels are freakin' hilarious. One of the funniest strips in a while. Part of it is just due to the fact that I can so imagine this pretty vividly.
A different font in the speechbubble might have been an improvement, but otherwise yes, most chucklesome.
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I just realized I should have said "The spiced rum is life."

Your original is truer to reality (IMO), but your amendment is closer to Mr Herbert.
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EDIT: I just realized something - the Ford Focus that Angus drove and the Mazda of Claire's indicate that we're probably only about six months to a year off from "real time" in the QC-verse.
Except QC has time dilation, but gets culture from our universe. Presumably, the QC universe runs on UTC in our universe, despite the Earth rotating much more slowly, and the QC characters observing it at what they perceive to be our speed. Of course, that means the date goes up much faster than Earth's rotation in the QCverse.
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I love this. Marten's mom is awesome.
 It looks like Claire's hair is panicking!
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I wonder if being forgetful of names hurts or helps a dominatrix?

"Now Jerry, spread your arms."
"... My name is Jo-"
"Your NAME is whatever I say it is, Jerry!"
"Y-yes Mistress." *blushes*
There's goosebumps. WHY ARE THERE GOOSEBUMPS?


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Kids become immune to that voice early on. Martin probably figured out just how far to test the bluff by 4 or 5.



There's not much of a difference between "Stern Mistress" voice and "Mean Mommy"


Stern mistress is a little husky though. A bit more growl.
Mean Mommy has a bit of crazy to it.

Not that I am an expert or anything...
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Kids become immune to that voice early on. Martin probably figured out just how far to test the bluff by 4 or 5.
[ ... ]

That's all well and good for him. But what about Marten?  :-D

(Mmmmh... husky voiced mean mommies.)
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There's not much of a difference between "Stern Mistress" voice and "Mean Mommy"

The difference is between the riding crop and the wooden spoon...
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I thought the difference was between informed consent and the fact that children are property! Sort of. Not really, but an easy trap to fall into for some.

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There's not much of a difference between "Stern Mistress" voice and "Mean Mommy"

I'd say depending on the client's wishes there might be no difference at all ...
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I'd say depending on the client's wishes there might be no difference at all ...

NOW! We are getting into disturbing teritory?
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