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More Faye Is BOSS shenanigans!

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Next: Tai tries to climb Emily!

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Dale notices that Penelope looks like Pizza Girl...

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Marten time!

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Claire time!

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"Next, on a very special Questionable Content, Faye learns her mother has cancer..."

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...or something like that.

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Marigold and Dale's DATE! (You thought we forgot, hmmm?)

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Hannelore and Emily have a weird-off!

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Waffles! Spathe Ham! Banana Smoothie! Ear Cheese!?!?!

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Whatever it is, it'll be FAN-tastic!

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...and COMPLETELY out of left field.

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Total Members Voted: 65

[Kugai]

Nuking from orbit


The only way to be sure.


Then, of course, there's always this




But that could be a bit extreme   

[Method of Madness]

That's an awesome helmet. If it weren't for the earwig (which Faye didn't know about when she decreed it), that hardly seems like a punishment.

[jwhouk]

That's actually the top of a trash can.

EDIT: You know, of course, that there is only one person who could clean that basement.

[Method of Madness]

Hmm...I suppose it could be that. Or maybe Daft Punk lives there.

[J]

i cannot possibly be the only one who thought of this

[Zebediah]

Well, it's clear now that Dale can hold his own with Faye. In his own special way, of course. 

[Perfectly Reasonable]

Woot! Spider Zone! With historically significant spiders!
Also this reminds me of Yotsuba's reaction to giant crow-scaring eyeballs.

[Midwesterner]

Turns out there are enormous earwigs. They're native to Australia, of course.

Huge bug warning

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[Border Reiver]

i cannot possibly be the only one who thought of this

I did, I laughed.  And the Sgt Maj in me said, "That was an appropriate way to handle that."

[Storel]

I grew up in a town where our town walls date back to the 12th century (second oldest example in the country), even the town itself dates back to around the 9th century when the Vikings wanted a base they could launch raids up the river. So hearing Americans and Australians sounding so amazed that their homes date back to the 18th century always makes me chuckle a little.

"The Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long drive."

No idea who said that originally, but I've always liked it. 

[Truec]

I grew up in a town where our town walls date back to the 12th century (second oldest example in the country), even the town itself dates back to around the 9th century when the Vikings wanted a base they could launch raids up the river. So hearing Americans and Australians sounding so amazed that their homes date back to the 18th century always makes me chuckle a little.

"The Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long drive."

No idea who said that originally, but I've always liked it. 

Sounds like the sort of thing Douglas Adams or Graham Chapman would toss out.

[GarandMarine]

Google says it was a fellow named Earle Hitchner in Reader's Digest.

[Storel]

Your Google-fu is stronger than mine, GM. The only attributed quote I found just said "Earle Hitchner", without mentioning any publication.

Then all I found about Earle Hitchner is that he is or was a music writer for the Wall Street Journal. Not the sort of person I'd expect to come up with a remark like that, but then the WSJ is not the sort of publication you'd expect to have a music writer in the first place...

[Sorflakne]

The last panel is strangely fitting for me, as I just finished a hunt for a cockroach that took me through every room of my apartment, tore apart my closet, and basically upended half my stuff until I finally cornered it under a sword scabbard (don't ask) and rushed it with a vacuum cleaner hose and finally got it.

So glad to be moving back to MN next month, where all bugs die off for much of the year and cockroaches are creatures of legends.

Turns out there are enormous earwigs. They're native to Australia, of course.

Huge bug warning

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WHY GOD WHY??

[Akima]

Spider body-parts in the coffee? What kind of cruel mocha-ry is this?

[cesariojpn]

Obviously Dora is the Spider Queen!

Lolth is not amused.

[ev4n]

...and we shall call him Bradley Earwiggins!  (Or maybe Ender Earwiggins?)

[judemorrigan]

i cannot possibly be the only one who thought of this

[Khan]

No.  No you were not.

[westrim]

But Dora was willing to get rid of the spiders.

Obvious misdirection.

That's actually the top of a trash can.

I don't think so, it looks like the bottom narrows to form a collar and no trash can top I know does that.

Hmm...I suppose it could be that. Or maybe Daft Punk lives there.

That was my first thought as well.

Turns out there are enormous earwigs. They're native to Australia, of course.

Adorable bug warning

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Australia. Of course. I trust you have an explanation for this, Akima? 

[Schmee]

AS AN AUSTRALIAN I AM OFFENDED THAT YOU THINK AKIMA IS THE ONLY AUSTRALIAN ON THIS FORUM oh wait no I'm not.
But really, Australia isn't that bad; all the venomous snakes and stuff that people complain about have been killed and eaten by all the poisonous spiders.

[Thrudd]

Don't forget the poisonous spiders, snakes, fish, octopi, jellyfish, plants, ants, centipedes  ..... what the heck is a Platypus categorized as now anyways?

[Method of Madness]

Its classification is classified.

[Mr_Rose]

Platypi are still platypuses (according to region) and are their own special kind of weird, being the only surviving venomous egg-laying mammal.

[Legere-factus]

And they ooze milk like sweat.

 I once heard it said that Platypi were the first to make omlettes. Sweaty eggy omlette.

[Shjade]

So Dale's an Evangelion fan?  I like him even more now.

I can't help thinking the Eva shirt was intentionally put into place for the subsequent helmet-hhhuuuu scare joke. He's a berserk Eva.

...though I bet Faye wouldn't get the reference. >.>

[Thrudd]

Well there are possible mommy issues and we have no clue about daddy .......  ...... at least he isn't a Shinji Ikari  .... or is he ..... 

[GarandMarine]

Obviously Dora is the Spider Queen!

Lolth is not amused.

My co-worker was assembling a Lolth model as I read this. Coffee in the nostrils = pain.

[Kugai]

Hanners must have hidden a spare Spacesuit down there.


Or it's Khan's hidden base.

[Sidhekin]

Don't forget the poisonous spiders, snakes, fish, octopi, jellyfish, plants, ants, centipedes  ..... what the heck is a Platypus categorized as now anyways?

Monotremes?

Though the Platypus is the only poisonous monotreme, so Platypus will do.

[Carl-E]

That'll do, platypus.  That'll do. 

[Toe]

Hanners must have hidden a spare Spacesuit down there.

Faye told her to bring a helmet, remember?

[Kugai]

Ahh yes, but I'm not sure that that was what she had in mind.

[Method of Madness]

C'mon, Hanners, it's not like you're unfamiliar with the question. Also I read Cathy for years just because it was in the comics and I used to read the comics every day. There were only two pages of daily comics when I read them so I just read all of them. It was pretty fucking terrible. Also this:

[Carl-E]

Ladies and gentlemen, I now present Laurel and Hardy. 

Or maybe Abbott and Costello. 


Either way, they're the real deal! 

[Rghfrgl]

 Marigold, be careful. Dale could be just off panel.

[GarandMarine]

No clothes eh? A bold, if aggressive move Marbear!

[westrim]

Not wearing clothes would speed things along...

I'm surprised no one ever pointed out that the helmet was apparently a Calvin and Hobbes reference, speaking of defunct cartoons.

I'm pretty sure that Hannelore knew the trope, but did not understand the trope.

[Is it cold in here?]

It was funny to have Hannelore field the question but wouldn't it have been more logical to have asked Momo?

[jwhouk]

So we can throw a Princess Bride reference in there too?

[Method of Madness]

As you wish...

[Rghfrgl]

It was funny to have Hannelore field the question but wouldn't it have been more logical to have asked Momo?

Momo practically replaced Hanners when she got her chasis, they need to get back to interacting more again.

[Carl-E]

So we can throw a Princess Bride reference in there too?

[Sorflakne]

AS AN AUSTRALIAN I AM OFFENDED THAT YOU THINK AKIMA IS THE ONLY AUSTRALIAN ON THIS FORUM oh wait no I'm not.
But really, Australia isn't that bad; all the venomous snakes and stuff that people complain about have been killed and eaten by all the poisonous spiders.

Australia has its own section on the Everything Trying to Kill You trope page.  Nuff said.

[Tova]

C'mon, Hanners, it's not like you're unfamiliar with the question. Also I read Cathy for years just because it was in the comics and I used to read the comics every day. There were only two pages of daily comics when I read them so I just read all of them. It was pretty fucking terrible.

Funny that both today's comic and the one quoted above both have a comment/title from Jeph referencing "Cathy" - gives a good hint as to what he must think of the whole "what on earth shall I wear??" thing (if such a hint is even required).

[snubnose]

Apparently Hanners is pretty kickass when it comes to dating advice. She just doesnt know it.

Or at least I've been told that the woman showing up naked is great dating advice. Also, with beer.

[pwhodges]

The woman in particular?  Isn't that getting a bit sexist there?

[Sidhekin]

Humanity is sexist: If a man turns up to a date naked, with beer, the chances of a successful date are considerably lower.

We are aware that "one day" may in fact be "another rung up the evolutionary ladder."

[ackblom12]

Excusing sexism in such a manner is kinda fucked up.

[pwhodges]

Humanity is sexist:

Indeed; but civilisation itself is the result of moving on from our base nature, and we are still trying to improve it.

[Akima]

Technically, a platypus is a monotreme, along with four species of echidna (spiny anteater). Australia is filled with poisonous and weird creatures to keep the rest of the world safe...

The way most people look naked is why clothes were invented. Hanners is quite the fashionista actually, so she could do better at advice, but for an anime-watching night in, is anything special beyond "clean casual clothes" required?

Cathy is terrible. And yeah, the puerile obsession with getting girls out of their clothes in every situation, no matter how inappropriate, is pretty tedious. Go and buy a Realdoll®; it's got all the jiggly bits you like to stare at, it'll wear as little as you like, and it won't mind if you objectify it.