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8 (12.7%)

Emily

6 (9.5%)

Talking Turkey

0 (0%)

Marten and The Marines

3 (4.8%)

Sam The Spider Queen

9 (14.3%)

A return to The Secret Bakery

7 (11.1%)

Claire Memes

10 (15.9%)

Soinething else (Please clarify)

7 (11.1%)

Secret Spathe Ham on Toast

1 (1.6%)

Pintsize and the Esspresso Machine get married

6 (9.5%)

Purple Monkey Dishwasher

6 (9.5%)

Total Members Voted: 59

[Kugai]

It's Christmas time.

[GarandMarine]

Oh goddess Freya get me through yule sane this year.

[Kugai]

At least it isn't Zathras

[HauntingPoem]

It is not the Holiday season! It is a season of intense fear and dread called finals.

[Loki]

Nono, it's the season before the season where you get two weeks off for hoildays, promise yourself you will use them to study, then don't and THEN come the finals

[HauntingPoem]

Ahh of course! My way of studying is huddling in the corner of the shower crying about how math makes no sense. 

[GarandMarine]

I was fine with math right up till the bit where they introduced letters.

[cesium133]

It starts to make more sense when they introduce Greek letters.

[RightInTheSquishyParts]

Chicken in the ---

Must be one of the Daily Specials. 

[Rghfrgl]

 The inside of Hanners head is energy efficient!

[GarandMarine]

Oh Hanners

[Method of Madness]

Oh, I completely forgot, I left my apartment on fire!

[FunkyTuba]

Hanners can be good for Plot

[CrowFairy]

Since the poll told me to specify, I've been expecting more Dale/Marigold, and it looks like I was right.

[Is it cold in here?]

Evidence for the idea that Hannelore is being socially astute while seeming not to be.

[Mr_Rose]

Evidence for the idea that Hannelore is being socially astute while seeming not to be.

Pretty sure not, actually. Or, rather, she's taking action based on a set of assumptions roughly parallel to Marigold's but definitely not identical.

I see Mari's "Hannelore!" as a plea for her to rescind her comment whereas it seems to me that Hanners is hearing "what are you still doing here‽" and leaving to give Mari the (hypothetically) requested alone time with Dale.

[Haseo]

Oh Hannelore...

[Method of Madness]

Hannelore (or Hanners), but not Hannelore. Just a friendly reminder.

[LeeC]

hehe, Love to see Marigold get all anxious.  Hanners should have stayed and reffed though.

[GarandMarine]

Hanners evasion is the first instance where it could actually be improved by a "Hey! Look over there! ...yoink!"

[DSL]

Chicken in the roaster? Interesting flavor to the coffee the next couple weeks.
Me, I'm put in mind of one of Bill Mauldin's WW2 cartoons showing Willie and Joe hunched over a makeshift stove in a dugout. Joe's about to heat up a couple K-ration cans by boiling them when Willie cautions him: "Drop them cans in the coffee gentle, Joe. We got a chicken stewin' in the bottom."

[Mr_Rose]

Hanners evasion is the first instance where it could actually be improved by a "Hey! Look over there! ...yoink!"

I dunno… depending on the volume Dora roasts at any given time, the coffee roaster of doom could well be big enough to hold a chicken… getting it in there might be an issue, and I've no idea what that would do to either the chicken, the roaster, or the next batch of beans, however.

[Somebody]

Chicken in the roaster? Interesting flavor to the coffee the next couple weeks.

Nah, this is just Hanners being an utterly useless liar. She's lucky it got as close to making sense as it did, and she didn't end up saying she had to go check on whether their mongoose's eggs had flown up the wall by next Thursday!

[NotAwesomeAnymore]

Interesting that Marigold's kneejerk reaction when Dale asks if he wanted to see her is to shout "No!" Like, how mean is that? She needs to come to grips with the idea that she can hurt people.

[J]

i'm surprised hannelore's idea-bulb is fluorescent, rather than LED based. if one of her ideas breaks, it could release hazardous levels of hypothetical mercury vapor.

[slydon]

I'm pretty sure it's another Nichijou reference.

[Loki]

I tend to make up really obvious excuses (TVTropes link) like that. In fact, I might use some variation of Hanners' version in the future.

[KOK]

1) To clarify my vote for Soinething else: anything else.

2) Isn't a flouroscent a bit old fashioned for Hannelore?

3) Bad excuse Hannelore. Everybody knows that Dora lets nobody use the roaster.

[ankhtahr]

Still better than having to return some video tapes.

[hakko504]

Still better than having to return some video tapes.

Or rewinding the DVDs before returning them.

[Loki]

http://www.dvdrewinder.com/

[techkid]

They sold out of them . I am amused and a little saddened by that.

My vote on this weeks poll was Something Else; one of the cast goes out and gets a Woodrow.

[Akima]

At least it isn't Zathras

Nobody listens to Zathras.

Yes, I'd have thought compact fluoros would be a bit old-school for Hanners.

[Soulsynger]

[ ... ]
3) Bad excuse Hanneslore. Everybody knows that Dora lets nobody use the roaster.

Adding that to the list of weird-words-you-can-make-out-of-names.

@Comic:
Rooster in the roaster. I thought thanksgiving was last week?

[themacnut]

Interesting that Marigold's kneejerk reaction when Dale asks if he wanted to see her is to shout "No!" Like, how mean is that? She needs to come to grips with the idea that she can hurt people.

I think it's been well established by now that Marigold's social skills range somewhere between that of a painfully shy person and someone who's very autistic - and leaning more towards the "very autistic" side of that spectrum. Good thing's Dale's used to it (or is equally oblivious himself).

[cesium133]

Considering the roaster resides in the Spider Zone, somewhere Hannelore would never willingly go, that makes her excuse even worse.

[LookingIn]

Considering the roaster resides in the Spider Zone, somewhere Hannelore would never willingly go, that makes her excuse even worse.

To us it might be, but we don't know if Marigold knows about her and spiders or the spider zone.

[Barmymoo]

I don't think Marigold is autistic, I think she's just not had very much successful experience of social interaction.

[94ssd]

Nono, it's the season before the season where you get two weeks off for hoildays, promise yourself you will use them to study, then don't and THEN come the finals

Fortunately finals come before break at my school. I would forget everything.

[Barmymoo]

Finals are in the summer here! It seems a terrible idea to have important exams during the most miserable, dark, depressing time of year. I would do much worse in winter than summer because I am always so tired.

[HauntingPoem]

Ahh I must disagree. Winter is the most beautiful time of year. Eventually i want to move to NorthernCanada.

[Barmymoo]

I agree that it's beautiful, but the lack of sunlight has a seriously deleterious effect on my mood.

[Method of Madness]

Wait, you only have one set of finals per year? Wouldn't that mean you take the same classes all year? That sounds awful.

[Barmymoo]

Um yes, that is how it works here. Although actually to be truthful I suppose in my current degree that's not how it works. I do have a module exam next month, come to think of it. In my law degree, though, I did the same four or five subjects all year and took the exams in late May and early June. That's how the British education system works, except for the option to take a few A-level (16-18 year old) modules in January if you wish.

[draiden]

3) Bad excuse Hannelore. Everybody knows that Dora lets nobody use the roaster.

Wasn't Faye showing Dale how to use the roaster a few comics back? Though much earlier in the comic Faye also said there was a super secret method that even she didn't know about. But I guess dora could have changed the process so others could do it, saving her the work. Or maybe the secret process is something else altogether!

I haven't voted the poll yet but I'm gonna be hoping for Dale and Marigold or Emily gets a Woodrow.

[Kugai]

At least it isn't Zathras

Nobody listens to Zathras.

Yes, I'd have thought compact fluoros would be a bit old-school for Hanners.

Looks like one ot the Eco Bulbs I use in my house, which would be par for the course with Hanners.

[pwhodges]

Wait, you only have one set of finals per year? Wouldn't that mean you take the same classes all year? That sounds awful.

Things may have changed a bit now; but when I was at uni, at Oxford, finals were the single set of exams at the end of the three years.  We were tested on everything we had learnt at that point.  Actually, there were also public exams ("moderations") at the end of the first year, but in most subjects these didn't count in the final degree - though they might get mentioned (a "double first" means a first in both mods and greats, where "greats" is the finals exam in classics).  In sciences, practical work through the course was also assessed and fed into finals as a "paper" in its own right. 

Colleges also hold exams a couple of times a year, known as "collections", which are used by tutors to keep tabs on your progress, and for disciplinary purposes in extremis.  But at Oxford, colleges are separate bodies from the university.

[LookingIn]

3) Bad excuse Hannelore. Everybody knows that Dora lets nobody use the roaster.

Wasn't Faye showing Dale how to use the roaster a few comics back? Though much earlier in the comic Faye also said there was a super secret method that even she didn't know about. But I guess dora could have changed the process so others could do it, saving her the work. Or maybe the secret process is something else altogether!

I haven't voted the poll yet but I'm gonna be hoping for Dale and Marigold or Emily gets a Woodrow.

She showed him how to bag up the beans when they were done roasting so Dora still does the roasting for the shop...

[HauntingPoem]

I don't go outside in spring and summer. I love the gloom. =)

[aliensporebomb]

I loved this cartoon.  Hanners is so cute sometimes.  Poor Marigold.  She'll do fine though.