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Lead singer (turns out she's classically-trained at opera).

5 (7.2%)

Keyboards (she's better than Nat ever was).

10 (14.5%)

The lead violin.

9 (13%)

Harmonica.

1 (1.4%)

The... Clarinet.

9 (13%)

The Rock Flute!

2 (2.9%)

The Butt Grab!

5 (7.2%)

The Sousaphone.

5 (7.2%)

The Space Horn. (Not related to Spathe Ham.)

1 (1.4%)

The iPod.

5 (7.2%)

"I'm a librarian, not a musician!"

11 (15.9%)

Something else (because the OP is a bit distracted at the moment).

6 (8.7%)

Total Members Voted: 65

[Masterpiece]

I never noticed the contractions thing if it wasn't blatantly pointed out. Repeatedly.

[Sorflakne]

Eh, it's just the comic storyline marching on.  Sometimes it takes turns that defy Elucidation space.

Is that related to Euclidian space?

If that's an autocorrect, it's epic.  If it's a pun, I think I'd prefer lower case, but it's still a win. 

Um, sure, that works

[DSL]

Ain't character growth a wondrous thing to behold?

I'm just glad she learned contractions.

Old Faye = Date
New Faye = Lore

(DSL takes the last of  his Trekness out behind the shed and shoots it)

[raoullefere]

Q: How many guitars does a guitarist need?

A: One more.

That's almost right:  A:  At least one more. 

Quote from an ad in Guitar Magazine:  Need ain't got nuthin' to do with it. 

(Note:  I only have three guitars, myself, so far.)

Indeed. enabler? You don't need no stinkin' enabler. A good case of GAS* is all you need.

*Guitar Acquisition Syndrome. I went though a bout of it not long ago myself. Wound up with a Les Paul 100, then an Ibanez AM93 and then an Epiphone Les Paul Standard before it ran its course (Fortunately, I only paid anything like full price for one of them). Of course, now Ibanez has come out with the AR420…

[Redball]

Left out of the poll is the utterly obvious: The clairenet.

[bhtooefr]

(_)

[Lubricus]

The clairenet.

 

[Mr_Rose]

Is that like a hairnet?

[Carl-E]

God, I hope not.  There's no musicality in a hairnet. 


Of course, I'm making assumptions about the clairenet, aren't I?

[Mr_Rose]

I still say the crazy hairdresser was Claire's mom.

[Lubricus]

Wasn't she a bit young to be Claire's mother?

[FunkyTuba]

I voted... have to admit I'm a little biased

The Sousaphone.    - 3 (16.7%)

Left out of the poll is the utterly obvious: The clairenet.

+1WOULDPUNAGAIN

[Lubricus]

Who will play the Gaffophone, then? Dale?

[Is it cold in here?]

Panel three: are Faye's boobs REALLY lop-sided, or is the Bearmonster a trompe l'oeil whose eyes follow you around the room?

They are, it's been mentioned in comic. I'm too lazy to look it up now.

[Pilchard123]

How do you fix a sousaphone?
With a tuba glue.

What's a tuba for?
1 1/2" by 3 1/2" unless you request "full cut."

How do you keep a euphonium from being stolen?
Put it in a tuba case.

What's the range of a sousaphone?
About twenty yards.

[GarandMarine]

Eh, it's buildup to an entirely new arc. If it were a TV show, I'd be the start of a new season. It doesn't bother me one bit. (though admittedly I am disappointed that we're not seeing me of marten & Claire)

also swords are awesome. Once I have my own place, and, y'know, money, I want one. A REAL one. Either a hand-and-a-half, or a katana. And I'm gonna learn how to use it god dammit.

I start Iaido this fall! the Sword Buyer's Guide custom Katana is probably the best deal out here if you want a battle ready Japanese sword.

[Is it cold in here?]

Panel three: are Faye's boobs REALLY lop-sided, or is the Bearmonster a trompe l'oeil whose eyes follow you around the room?

They are, it's been mentioned in comic. I'm too lazy to look it up now.

Then I developed the energy and my archive fu failed me. It was a scene at the coffee shop featuring Dora, Faye, and Hannelore. There is something about Hannelore's piercings being symmetrical but then she goes on about trivial asymmetries in the rest of her body. Faye says one of her own breasts hangs lower than the other, and she calls it the "underachiever". The last panel is Hannelore offering to go get her calipers and apply them to Dora to quantify Dora's imperfections.

It is time to ask for help from one of my superiors at archive knowledge.

[Is it cold in here?]

Comic's up!

Geez Marten, you've made bad decisions before, but WOW. Good luck taking ANYONE out on a date now, because all you'll have are FOODSTAMPS.

"Yes, I'd like the quarter-pound of store-brand bologna, and my date will have a dented can of crushed pineapple."

He wiped out his savings, not his income.

Geez, everyone's acting like he just took a loan against his testicles. He paid with money he already had. The object of his desire might not have been especially sound, but his method of payment was as sound as possible.

The next unexpected expense or employment interruption will put him in debt. He lives in a country without socialized medicine. He can't afford a deductible now. All it would take would be one raccoon and he'd be in real trouble.

[Akima]

i have no real idea why, but i really don't care for the idea of marten and claire as anything more than just platonic, so i'm pretty happy that a new arc's begun.

Platonic relationships can be really solid...

[westrim]

Panel three: are Faye's boobs REALLY lop-sided, or is the Bearmonster a trompe l'oeil whose eyes follow you around the room?

They are, it's been mentioned in comic. I'm too lazy to look it up now.

Then I developed the energy and my archive fu failed me. It was a scene at the coffee shop featuring Dora, Faye, and Hannelore. There is something about Hannelore's piercings being symmetrical but then she goes on about trivial asymmetries in the rest of her body. Faye says one of her own breasts hangs lower than the other, and she calls it the "underachiever". The last panel is Hannelore offering to go get her calipers and apply them to Dora to quantify Dora's imperfections.

It is time to ask for help from one of my superiors at archive knowledge.

I am not known for my archive fu, but here it is.

The next unexpected expense or employment interruption will put him in debt. He lives in a country without socialized medicine. He can't afford a deductible now. All it would take would be one raccoon and he'd be in real trouble.

He should still have credit available to take care of that, and he lives in Massachusetts which is somewhat better about such things.

[Is it cold in here?]

i have no real idea why, but i really don't care for the idea of marten and claire as anything more than just platonic, so i'm pretty happy that a new arc's begun.

Platonic relationships can be really solid...

Ideally.

[Method of Madness]

Left out of the poll is the utterly obvious: The clairenet.

Until proven otherwise, I'm assuming her middle name is Annette.

[celticgeek]

Win!

(_)

[mtmerrick]

Who will play the Gaffophone, then? Dale?

And marigold shall play the Yellophone =D

Turns out, Momo is highly proficient with the Ocarina.

Faye shall be the singer.

Raven will ask to play to tambourine and fail miserably.

(Thats all I got for now)

[jwhouk]

What would Claire play in Deathmole?

Lead singer (turns out she's classically-trained at opera).    2 (8.3%)
Keyboards (she's better than Nat ever was).    4 (16.7%)
The lead violin.    4 (16.7%)
Harmonica.    0 (0%)
The... Clarinet. (formerly "Ham Sandwich!")    0 (0%)
The Rock Flute!    2 (8.3%)
The Butt Grab!    2 (8.3%)
The Sousaphone.    3 (12.5%)
The Space Horn. (Not related to Spathe Ham.)    0 (0%)
The iPod.    1 (4.2%)
"I'm a librarian, not a musician!"    4 (16.7%)
Something else (because the OP is a bit distracted at the moment).    2 (8.3%)

Total Members Voted: 24

[Valdís]

Raven will ask to play to tambourine and fail miserably.

Although she could be pretty ace at the harmonica from her hobo boyfriend.

(Yes, he played guitar, but they have loads of guitarists already!)

[Rghfrgl]

Left out of the poll is the utterly obvious: The clairenet.

Until proven otherwise, I'm assuming her middle name is Annette.

$5 in the pun jar, both of you.

Actually, better make it twenty.

[Method of Madness]

$5 from the pun jar...Actually, better make it twenty.

Yes, it was quite good. Thank you for noticing.   But nope, it was free.

[mtmerrick]

[Method of Madness]

And look how she turned out before meeting her (occasional pun-making) friends! One could say that puns indirectly improved her life.

[mustang6172]

Should there be a comic up?  I'm not seeing one.

[mtmerrick]

i wouldn't expect it up for a few more hours..... 4-5 maybe?

[Method of Madness]

Why is she calling it a bass?

[cesium133]

"Daddy didn't allow puns when I was growing up."

Makes sense that he wouldn't allow puns. Have you seen the quality of puns that physicists come up with? It starts with the "Kamiltonian" and just gets worse from there.

[Zebediah]

Should there be a comic up?  I'm not seeing one.

If you're talking about today's (Wednesday's) comic, I couldn't get it to show up in IE for some reason, but it did in Chrome. So if you're using IE, try a different browser.

[mtmerrick]

Forget reasons of comic, if you're using IE for ANYTHING, use another browser.

[Method of Madness]

"If you're using IE..." is the modern version of "if you're using a rotary phone..."

[mtmerrick]

Only reason to use IE is if you're using Windows Phone or Windows RT - Microsoft platforms that do not allow third party browsers.

If you're using Windows Phone,  whatever, I don't get it but it's your phone bill.

If you're using Windows RT, you're using computers wrong.

[Bluesummers]

Forget reasons of comic, if you're using IE for ANYTHING, use another browser.

Using IE? Speed up your computer by returning it to where you bought it, and just use the rotary phone on your kitchen table instead.

Warning - while you were typing, another user stole your thunder. You may wish to rethink your sense of humor.

"If you're using IE..." is the modern version of "if you're using a rotary phone..."

GOD DAMMIT

[cesium133]

"If you're using IE..." is the modern version of "if you're using a rotary phone..."

When I was a kid, my grandparents still had a rotary phone... I remember trying to use it right after they started requiring 10-digit dialing in Maryland. I couldn't dial it fast enough to get a call through before the phone system got bored, especially because I tried it with my parents' phone number, which had 8s, 9s and 0s.

But yeah, rotary phones are fun. Not sure where I was going with that story, though. 

[Method of Madness]

Oh, I wasn't knocking rotary phones, my grandparents had one and I loved using it when I visited them. I just remember that when you called a place, and they'd give the menu, they'd then say "if you're using a rotary phone, stay on the line", which I would do even on a standard phone because that was the quickest way to get to a real person.

[Rimwolf]

Why is she calling it a bass?

I got curious on the same point. My newfound knowledge is that the two extra strings are lower than a 6-string's, often F# and B, which are only a whole tone higher than a bass guitar's E and A. So she means bass-slash-guitar.

[Method of Madness]

I wonder if there's a true guitar-bass combination, with the six guitar strings, the four bass strings, and maybe a couple strings in between.

[Wagimawr]

Haven't seen anything quite like that, but I have recorded an instrument before that had 5 guitar strings (the top five) and three bass strings on one neck; each had their own separate pickup and output.

This is the beast, I believe: http://novaxguitars.com/sales/ch8.html (fixed the link)

[mtmerrick]

Ok, now, what would you call something like that?

[jwhouk]

Guitars on steroids, perhaps?

And my parents had a rotary phone. It was soooo neat when we finally got a touch-tone phone in the late 70's.

[Wagimawr]

what would you call something like that?

Incrediawesome is a nicely descriptive term, I think:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La2gmwSQJo0&t=1m23s

[Moanerette]

Buke And Gass use a guitar/bass hybrid (or,um, 'gass').

[Method of Madness]

Or batar. (The first a is long, so bay-tar).

[Wagimawr]

Just mastering the batar?

Probably not wise.