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...are over for good.

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...until someone explains that Hannelore doesn't do puns.

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...has an obsession with peas.

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...and Q's.

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...has tried so hard to be the "good" child in her family.

6 (7.2%)

...are not over! No puns, no peas!

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...Oh, no, not again.

13 (15.7%)

...Waffles? (Wait, that's not a pun.)

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...needs to be given a second chance at peas.

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Total Members Voted: 75

[jwhouk]

Another week, another WCDT where we speculate aimlessly.

[mustang6172]

I wonder what cereal Steve is eating this week.

[GarandMarine]

Mmmm time for breakfast.

[Skewbrow]

I wonder what cereal Steve is eating this week.

DOKYA will send Steve to hunt down evil Doktor Müsli, the infamous cereal killer.

[cesariojpn]

I wonder what Pintsize is downloading this week.

[Is it cold in here?]

I wonder what cereal Steve is eating this week.

Perhaps instead of giving a definite answer Jeph will waffle on the subject.

[Rghfrgl]

I wonder what cereal Steve is eating this week.

Dirty version. Same cereal. Same 4 panels.

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Except last panel there's a sudden *bonk* and 'ow ow ow ow!' from under the table.

[cesium133]

I wonder what Pintsize is downloading this week.

Same thing he downloads every week. 

[DSL]

I wonder what cereal Steve is eating this week.

Dirty version. Same cereal. Same 4 panels.

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Except last panel there's a sudden *bonk* and 'ow ow ow ow!' from under the table.

Or maybe

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... there's a sudden *bonk* from under the table and an 'ow ow ow ow!' from Steve.

[Masterpiece]

This so needs to happen, someone mail Jephzibah.

[mtmerrick]

My messed up brain still reads Jephzibah as Jephlizabeth. >_<

[Kugai]

I wonder what Pintsize is downloading this week.

Same thing he downloads every week. 

Narf

[Is it cold in here?]

Fran spelled backwards. He's downloading pictures of Fran.

[Loki]

Pintsize being Pintsize, I shudder for Fran, whoever she may be.

[GarandMarine]

*wince* well no one's going to accuse you of being a smooth operator that's for sure Angus.

[Soulsynger]

Classy Angus is classy.

[Loki]

Wtf? Faye's right ear is double-pierced? Is that a retcon?

[Is it cold in here?]

The Pugnacious Peach should finish college. Not that she asked me or that it's my business.

[jesslc]

Uh oh...

[jwhouk]

No, jesslc, we've been trying to ship the demise of Fayengus for years. It doesn't work like that.

[Is it cold in here?]

It's the tumidity.

[TinPenguin]

In reference to Northampton, MA, which particular settlement is "the city"?

[GarandMarine]

Boston would be my bet.

[Near Lurker]

Most likely New York.  The only time you call Boston "the city" is if you're basically already there (e.g., in Reading or somewhere).

[jwhouk]

Angus has referred to NYC as "the City" before, so it's not the first time.

[Masterpiece]

Angus has this"I'm planning for the rest of my life" attitude on him.
It's creeping me out. The thought of planning anything further ahead than half a year just scares me so much. It's like, when you plan that much, you always need a contingency plan in case of failure, and I don't want to think about stuff like that.

[TheBiscuit]

Faye's reaction is a strange one if she actually likes Angus and stuff...

[Skewbrow]

I very much liked this. Faye is (not unnaturally) scared about trying to pursue her dream (if sculpting is her dream job?) 100 per cent. Angus (and in the past Dora) are the two people who can try and give her the nudge. Angus is (again) being Angus in his blunt way that somehow also manages to convey his desire to be a part of Faye's future.

[Border Reiver]

I can empathize with both characters here:

A.  Faye, because I can never have deep conversations with Mrs BR late at night due to being a morning person and usually have been awake for a significant portion of the day at that point;  and
B.  Angus, because I am a heterosexual male....

[Moanerette]

Faye's reaction is a strange one if she actually likes Angus and stuff...

I don't think so. He's just annoyed her by asking one of those unanswerable job-interview questions and hassling her about the future. Then when she tries to turn it back on him he gets the punchline in. This would aggravate anyone, surely.

[Akima]

Yeah. Pretty much, but that is Angus, and Faye likes him that way. And he is *ahem* ball-deeply into her...

[Tova]

Strangely, her grumpy-face in panel five reminded me in a small way of Dora.

Maybe it's more revealing of how I see Dora than anything else.

[TimO]

Wtf? Faye's right ear is double-pierced? Is that a retcon?

It's double pierced in 2411, 2419, 2424, and probably many other earlier ones.

Her left ear also appears to be double pierced in many strips, presumably they match (which admittedly isn't always the case with some people).

[Method of Madness]

From last week's thread.

"Balls Deep in Faye's Jacuzzi" would be a good band name.

[jwhouk]

When you get to my age, you start planning more than half a year in advance, mostly because you have to.

[TimO]

Wtf? Faye's right ear is double-pierced? Is that a retcon?

It's double pierced in 2411, 2419, 2424, and probably many other earlier ones.

Her left ear also appears to be double pierced in many strips, presumably they match (which admittedly isn't always the case with some people).

Back at 2006 Faye's hair is too long to easily see her ears, the next time we see her in 2016, it's cut slightly differently, and we can see her ears, and still can since it's continued to be styled similarly.  Jeph obviously doesn't write her hairdresser appointments into the strip!

More interestingly, I've yet to find a strip since that point where we see her wearing any sort of ear adornment, unless she has studs that are too small to easily see in the strips.

Angus does do spectacularly well in going from "deep relationship question" to "Nookie time?" in a very short period of time.

[Method of Madness]

I'm already thinking about my plans for when I finish school in 2016. Sometimes I think about decades from now. Five years isn't that strange.

No, jesslc, we've been trying to ship the demise of Fayengus for years. It doesn't work like that.

Who's this "we" you speak of?

[tassaron]

I feel like I should know Angus better than I actually do, given how much screentime he has had (not recently, but in the past). I'd actually really like it if Jeph took a break from torturing Marten and the interns and gave Faye and Angus something to do. (Although it's getting a bit funny how Tai and Dora hooked up only to be shuffled aside immediately...)

[Madmartigan]

Angus has this"I'm planning for the rest of my life" attitude on him.
It's creeping me out. The thought of planning anything further ahead than half a year just scares me so much. It's like, when you plan that much, you always need a contingency plan in case of failure, and I don't want to think about stuff like that.

Agreed.  And I hate that stupid question employers occasionally ask.  If I could answer that question, I wouldn't be interviewing for this job.  I'd be getting filthy rich winning bets because I could see into the future.

Understand Faye completely.  Talk about being put on the spot.  At probably midnight.

[westrim]

There's so much projection going on in this thread we could show a movie!

As far as the comic itself goes, Angus went with a sex joke to defuse the tension from her refusal to talk seriously with him.

Angus is planning on moving to NY. That's where the jobs are for him, and he clearly likes it there. He loves Faye, and he wants her to come with him and be with her, but if it comes down to staying put because of her neuroses or pursuing his dreams and unwillingness to grow up and face the future, dreams should win (being held back from pursuing the dreams would kill the love anyway). He wanted some variation of "with you," and since he didn't get it things aren't looking too good for them. Not thinking about the future is generally bad for the future, as any corporation paying cleanup costs can verify.

To other people in the thread, Faye is in her late 20s. She needs to start thinking about the future now even if it's hard, because holding a menial service position isn't exactly providing great medical benefits or a retirement plan. 5 year questions are actually about the present; do you want to stay in stasis (Faye), advance (I wanna be president!), or excel (I'll be the best damn sculptor on the Eastern Seaboard)? And no, you don't need a contingency plan. Just go with a basic outline of what you want to do and give it your best shot. If it doesn't work, make a new plan. I've made 2 in the last few years as it became clear the previous one wasn't going to work.

[Carl-E]

When you get to my age, you start planning more than half a year in advance, mostly because you have to.

Unless you cant. 



I hate flying without a net. 

[celticgeek]

At one of my last jobs, they wanted everyone to do a "five year plan".  Since I was a contractor, and 60 years old at the time, I asked if they wanted me to do a five year plan, because at 60 years old, I didn't have any long term plans.  My supervisor told me that I did have to do the five year plan, and not to give her any crap, because I had more long term plans that any other of her employees. 

I actually did the plan, and was kind of surprised that I did have long term plans. 

Of course, I was laid off shortly thereafter, mostly because of the 9/11 problems. 

[Method of Madness]

Well I'm going to law school for the next 3 years and I know what job I want for the two years after that. So I know what I plan on doing for the next five years, it's after that I'm still not sure about. (I know what I probably want, but I'm not sure if I can get it right away.)

[Smallest]

My respect for Angus tripled, due to both him being one of the few who seems to care about the future and also the last panel. I don't understand Faye's reaction though; I could get punching him for changing the subject or something, but this seems more like her reaction to hearing stuff she did not need to about Dora/Marten or something.

[Method of Madness]

Because Angus is basically saying the same thing Penelope did, except she actually cares what Angus thinks (and he's saying it a lot nicer).

[rschill]

I think she was fine with him being balls deep, but didn't quite like the crass way he put it. 

Or maybe his putting it like that and her strong reaction were both played up (by the characters themselves) for comic effect. 

[Smallest]

Because Angus is basically saying the same thing Penelope did, except she actually cares what Angus thinks (and he's saying it a lot nicer).

I meant her reaction to balls deep; the rest makes sense since that can be scary to hear.

ETA- Unless at some point Penelope was saying she wanted to be balls deep in Faye in a much less nice way than Angus did, in which case I missed that and want the link.

rschill: That is possible. Balls deep in anything is a term I very much dislike, so I can sympathize.

[westrim]

It's possible we're all missing the point; Angus thinks Faye will do so well that in 5 years she'll have a place with a Jacuzzi!

rschill: That is possible. Balls deep in anything is a term I very much dislike, so I can sympathize.

I take it you've never heard of Balls Deep, the lowest point in a trench off of Newfoundland, named after explorer Henry Balls.

[Method of Madness]

I meant her reaction to balls deep; the rest makes sense since that can be scary to hear.

In that case, probably because she answered his question seriously even though it clearly made her uncomfortable, and then when she asked him he gave a smartass response.

[TheBiscuit]

Faye's reaction is a strange one if she actually likes Angus and stuff...

I don't think so. He's just annoyed her by asking one of those unanswerable job-interview questions and hassling her about the future. Then when she tries to turn it back on him he gets the punchline in. This would aggravate anyone, surely.

I suppose you've got a point, but I want to go on thinking that I can see some kind of end to Angus being in the strip, so...