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A blue police box on the corner of a street

Ally and Lisa as friends of Veronica Vance

Pintsize dreaming of electrical sheep

Lieutenant Potter getting reassigned to Cheyenne Moutain

Faye's father's car was a 1969 Dodge Charger stock car.

Pintsize making a deal for the Robot Devil's hands

Monsieur Creosote at the Coffee of Doom

[cesariojpn]

* Ally and Lisa as friends of Veronica Vance -> And that'd be ... ?

Sunstone. A Webcomic centered on slice-of-life BDSM-centric relationships of people both inside and outside of the fetish scene.

* Pintsize making a deal for the Robotdevil's hands -> Mu? Cowboy Bebop?

Futurama.

Anyway, if anything happens between Delilah and Marten, I don't see it going towards romance proper.

I see something more casual. Maybe casually carnal.

Or maybe, maybe, they'll just cuddle a bit.

Or maybe they'll just spend the rest of the night sharing the leftover booze and casually chatting.

But I don't see romance, I'm not sure why.

Friends with Benefits?

[Schmorgluck]

Yeah, I don't rule it out. I can see just about anything happen but romance.

I can't imagine either saying "I love you" to the other. But I can imagine either of them finding the other cool and maybe cute.

[riccostar]

Time to heavily over analyze speech bubbles.  Does Marten's ",uh,"  in panel two suggest that he was looking for a reason to stay behind and therefore has alternate intentions...? 

[Kugai]

Could someone please find Tais Reset Button, it may be in the same place as Hanners one.


And go Marten.

[OleGriz]

Anyone feel that D's reaction to getting a bearhug from Bob screams 'not interested in male attention'?

I'm not so sure.  Delilah seems to be looking right at Marten in that panel.  She might be keeping her arms to the side to emphasize the message 'This is just a friendly good-bye hug'. Though your interpretation would be possible as well....

[Schmorgluck]

Except Marten isn't in that panel...

[KOK]

Lt. Potter is assigned to Cheyenne Mountain. Meets man of her dreams. They are interrupted by a robot thinking it's World War III. Robot launches entire nuclear arsenal of the U.S. The world ends.

edit -- new comic's up. Judging by her look in the last panel, I don't know is Delilah is in on Marten's scheme...

I don't think he has a scheme.

[OleGriz]

Except Marten isn't in that panel...

Whoops!  Green-shirt guy had very similar hair.  Probably should have looked closer at the rest of the comic, huh? 

[Quantum Glass]

*Pintsize dreaming of electrical sheeps [sic]

Don't be ridiculous.

Pintsize runs on Windows. Besides, I don't think AnthroPCs can even have touchscreens.

[KOK]

How can he think that dyembe sounds Swedish?

I'm pretty sure he was saying he thought the "j" in "djembe" might be pronounced like a "y", as in Swedish.

Is there a difference? To me the English j sounds just like dj. That is, if you run "had yet" together as one word, it is indistinguishable from "hajet".

[Shjade]

I was going to ask if Tai's eyes looked weirdly pink to anyone else.

Then I remembered what they were doing all night at the party.

The brain says, "Oh. Right. Nevermind."

[Storel]

Anyone feel that D's reaction to getting a bearhug from Bob screams 'not interested in male attention'?

"Not interested in Bob's attention", at least. Or perhaps "not fond of getting hugged, period." Given that she is a friend of Tai's and that most of Tai's friends are lesbians, it's certainly possible -- likely? -- that Delilah's a lesbian, too; we just don't have any evidence of her sexual preferences yet.

Time to heavily over analyze speech bubbles.  Does Marten's ",uh,"  in panel two suggest that he was looking for a reason to stay behind and therefore has alternate intentions...? 

Good question. That's certainly one possible interpretation. It's also possible that Marten was woolgathering at that moment, and he just inserted the "uh" as a placeholder while he collected his thoughts. (I'm fairly absent-minded myself, and that's the sort of thing I do all the time.)

I'm pretty sure he was saying he thought the "j" in "djembe" might be pronounced like a "y", as in Swedish.

Is there a difference? To me the English j sounds just like dj. That is, if you run "had yet" together as one word, it is indistinguishable from "hajet".

In English there isn't really a difference between dj and j, except that dj almost never occurs naturally in English so the question never really comes up. To me, as a native English speaker, dj and dy sound completely different. While "had yet" does sound like "hajet" when most English speakers slur the words together, that's because of sloppy diction, not because it's supposed to sound like that. Y at the beginning of a word does get turned into J or CH when people speak sloppily, especially when the preceding word ends in a D or T ("got ya" turning into "gotcha", f'rinstance)... but I think that tends to happen more in America than in Britain, perhaps because we Americans tend to speak more sloppily to begin with?

So for me, the correct pronunciation of "djet" would be just like "jet", while "dyet" would rhyme with the Russian "nyet". Unless I knew the J in djet was supposed to be pronounced according to the rules of a non-English language, like German or Swedish... which I believe is where we came in.

[KOK]

The English j is not part of the Danish sound system, and gets approximated by dj in loanwords. Or at least is does by me.

I was puzzled by the scene in V for Vendetta when V corrects Evey: it is jukebox, not dukebox. They sound exactly the same to me. Note that this takes place in Britain, where the u of duke is pronounces ju, (as in uniform), not in America where it is pronounced u.

[cesariojpn]

Yeah, I don't rule it out. I can see just about anything happen but romance.

I can't imagine either saying "I love you" to the other. But I can imagine either of them finding the other cool and maybe cute.

Considering one is almost a Half-Type Sasquatch.....

[Storel]

The English j is not part of the Danish sound system, and gets approximated by dj in loanwords. Or at least is does by me.

I was puzzled by the scene in V for Vendetta when V corrects Evey: it is jukebox, not dukebox. They sound exactly the same to me. Note that this takes place in Britain, where the u of duke is pronounces ju, (as in uniform), not in America where it is pronounced u.

Ah, interesting. I've read before that people who grow up speaking a language or dialect that doesn't have certain sounds (phonemes) in it often can't even hear the phoneme when it's pronounced carefully (unless they're exposed to other language that do have that phoneme while they're still young), and this seems to be a case of that. (As one example, even native English-speakers who grow up in a region where "nuclear" is pronounced "nucular" often can't actually hear the difference.)

Even pronouncing the u in duke the British way, the difference betweeen jukebox and dukebox is quite distinct to a native English speaker. An initial j is pronounced as a "hard" j, with a sound somewhere in between "zh" (as in French "Jacques") and "ch" (as in English "church", not the Scottish/German/Hebrew "ch").

[Loki]

Yeah, I don't rule it out. I can see just about anything happen but romance.

I can't imagine either saying "I love you" to the other. But I can imagine either of them finding the other cool and maybe cute.

Considering one is almost a Half-Type Sasquatch.....

Oh godfuckingdamn it, Cesario. What is it with you and body hair shaming? You are usually better than that, man.

[Is it cold in here?]

Marten has a body hair hangup.

[KOK]

The English j is not part of the Danish sound system, and gets approximated by dj in loanwords. Or at least is does by me.

I was puzzled by the scene in V for Vendetta when V corrects Evey: it is jukebox, not dukebox. They sound exactly the same to me. Note that this takes place in Britain, where the u of duke is pronounces ju, (as in uniform), not in America where it is pronounced u.

Ah, interesting. I've read before that people who grow up speaking a language or dialect that doesn't have certain sounds (phonemes) in it often can't even hear the phoneme when it's pronounced carefully (unless they're exposed to other language that do have that phoneme while they're still young), and this seems to be a case of that. (As one example, even native English-speakers who grow up in a region where "nuclear" is pronounced "nucular" often can't actually hear the difference.)

Even pronouncing the u in duke the British way, the difference betweeen jukebox and dukebox is quite distinct to a native English speaker. An initial j is pronounced as a "hard" j, with a sound somewhere in between "zh" (as in French "Jacques") and "ch" (as in English "church", not the Scottish/German/Hebrew "ch").

Those sounds like sjak and tjřrts to me, respectively. Danish does not have voiced s either, and that it is a difference I have great difficulty catching when initial. When final, e.g. "has" or "is", z sounds like the th of there followed by an s to me, and that is how I approximate it.

"The nations of the world are like the letters of the aphabeth, save that there is no z, no useless letter." Baggesen in Labyrinten.

[Loki]

Marten has a body hair hangup.

I wouldn't read that as a sign for general hangups with body hair. Pubic hair specifically has certain, uh, practical implications.
Anyway, I still feel the manner body hair is referred to here is unnecessarily unnice.

[Lubricus]

Marten has a body hair hangup.

I wouldn't read that as a sign for general hangups with body hair. Pubic hair specifically has certain, uh, practical implications.
Anyway, I still feel the manner body hair is referred to here is unnecessarily unnice.

+1 to this.

[Skewbrow]

Marten has a body hair hangup.

I wouldn't read that as a sign for general hangups with body hair. Pubic hair specifically has certain, uh, practical implications.

Exactly what? Other than being a tell-at-a-glance sign of whether a person is pre- or post puberty?

Oral sex? I'll let you in a secret. People have had oral sex for millennia before the beauty industry (or porn industry?) started pushing the idea that people should start removing naturally growing bodily hair.

[Akima]

I don't really know the correct way to pronounce "dj". I think I've only seen it in loan words in English, often of Arabic origin, such as djinn, djebel, djellaba etc. Also in Django Reinhart of course. I just pronounce it as a hard j, as in jump, jungle or joke, so the d is effectively silent.

J is a difficult letter. In English it is usually pronounced "hard" in "jump", but in loan-words French-style and "soft" in "jabot", or German-style like a y in Jungian. I've grumbled before about how English-speakers usually mispronounce Beijing as "Beige-ing" using the French-style "soft" j which is foreign to English and completely absent from Chinese. It is Bei as in bay, and jing as in jingle. Bay-jing. Simple, yes?

I would hope that Tai would not be all blissed out if Marten were doomed to crash and burn, because, for example, all the girls in the house preferred girls or something.

[cesariojpn]

Pubic hair specifically has certain, uh, practical implications.

Spill it.

[snubnose]

Frankly I dont really "get" todays Comic. Does Marten want to hit on Whatshernameagain Hippiegirl ?


Also, Doctor Who thrumps ALL !!! If you give Doctor Who as option, make it the last one ! For I didnt even bother checking the other options anymore.

Doctor Who RULEZ ! Also, I need to finish watching classic Doctor Who ... OMG sooo many episodes ...

[GarandMarine]

Delilah might not be the target of Marten friend's nefarious plot.


Also can Marten plot at all? Nefarious or no the guy's criminally nice and wishy washy.

[KOK]

My guess is that he does not want to hit on her, and that he resents Tai's implication that he does.

[NilsO]

My guess is that he does not want to hit on her, and that he resents Tai's implication that he does.

Maybe, but something has been going on behind the scenes. Otherwise, it would not be natural for Marten to stay behind after Tai and the others leave. Delilah could have asked Marten to stay, for several possible reasons:

• Either she just wants a little help cleaning up
• Or she is interested in him
• We do not know the living arrangements. Delilah seems to live in that house, and acts as host. But Bench/Swing Girl could be her timid room-mate, and Delilah wants her to hook up with Marten.

[Zebediah]

Swing girl has had, what, one line so far? Marten spent a fair amount of time talking to Delilah - apart from Bob, she's the only one at the party who had any character development at all. If Jeph is setting Marten up with anyone other than Delilah, he's being ridiculously oblique about it.

Of course, Jeph could just be trolling the shippers. Again.

[NilsO]

Could someone please find Tais Reset Button, it may be in the same place as Hanners one.

You are referring to this.

[LookingIn]

Delilah turned her head away from Bob- maybe it has to do with the large amount of alcohol he consumed during the hammer game? The guy might not have the best breath and being close to her head it might be a natural reaction given they know each other

[zmeiat_joro]

Could someone please find Tais Reset Button, it may be in the same place as Hanners one.

You are referring to this.

I just realised I have two identically shaped moles at the same place as Marigold on my face.

[Platypodes]

Delilah might also just be protecting herself against the against the crushingness of Bob's hugs.

There are a few ladies at the party, any of whom might be Delilah's housemates.

Tai has some lessons to learn about how to be a good wing-lady, that's for sure!

[Storel]

I just realised I have two identically shaped moles at the same place as Marigold on my face.

On Marigold, I suspect those were probably pimples, not moles. She has bad skin.

[NilsO]

Could someone please find Tais Reset Button, it may be in the same place as Hanners one.

The belly button has already been used. Other buttons, anyone?

[retrosteve]

I just realized that this is Friday's comic, so we won't see Delilah's reaction until at least Monday. Damn you Jacques!

Yep, this was most likely his intent.

Not sure it's Delilah who Marten's hanging about for.  But nobody there seemed to really grab his interest that we saw, and if it's just a random hookup he ends up in, it might be best if we never see her name.  I can picture Marten waking up, saying thanks, and wandering off, leaving us wondering forever who the legs belonged to.

[cesium133]

I've never had any random hookups/one-night stands or whatever, but if I did I'd probably fall into the same trap Hannelore would, of not knowing what to say...

[Schmorgluck]

Tai has some lessons to learn about how to be a good wing-lady, that's for sure!

What's a wing-lady supposed to do, anyway? It's a sincere question. I've considered asking my best friend to play that role for me, but neither she nor I have the first idea of what it involves. All I can imagine is her being around and us being obviously friends, in order to defuse my irrational fear of creeping ladies out.

Anyway, in line with my previous posts, I can totally imagine Delilah and Marten having a long conversation in which she'll give a fresh outside perspective on his relationship hangups. Most of his close friends are too involved. Except Hanners, who has shown insights now and then, but is still too outside as far as relationship matters go. And Steve, but he's... Steve.

[Method of Madness]

Marten has never seemed like the random hookup kind of guy.

[NilsO]

Could someone please find Tais Reset Button, it may be in the same place as Hanners one.

The belly button has already been used. Other buttons, anyone?

...a little button that only Dora can press maybe? 

Perhaps we should stop there. But somebody needs to carry Tai to CoD so Dora can push the button

[LookingIn]

Could someone please find Tais Reset Button, it may be in the same place as Hanners one.

The belly button has already been used. Other buttons, anyone?

...a little button that only Dora can press maybe? 

Perhaps we should stop there. But somebody needs to carry Tai to CoD so Dora can push the button

I thought better of that bad joke, you caught me mid-edit and pre-delete. I am not the ninja-edit master 
But glad to see that I wasn't the only one who thought about that button 

[Is it cold in here?]

"adjust"

[Zwammy]

Marten has never seemed like the random hookup kind of guy.

Doesn't mean it couldn't happen - the whole Lt. Potter thing was bordering on a random hookup attempt, he didn't even know her name. Steve will be so proud of him if he does!

[riccostar]

Tai has some lessons to learn about how to be a good wing-lady, that's for sure!

I'm gonna agree with this for sure, if Tai is there to be a wing lady she should support Marten's go at post-party socialization.

After thought, I think that Delilah would be the most likely for Marten to connect with here.  She's definitely the only female we learned about at the party and there are a couple good comics of setup between Marten and Delilah at this point.

[Platypodes]

What's a wing-lady supposed to do, anyway? It's a sincere question. I've considered asking my best friend to play that role for me, but neither she nor I have the first idea of what it involves. All I can imagine is her being around and us being obviously friends, in order to defuse my irrational fear of creeping ladies out.

I've never played the role or asked anyone to play it, but I thiiiink the role involves things along these lines:
-Being there as your pal so you're never left standing alone feeling awkward
-Facilitating conversation so you don't always have to be the one to think of what to say next
-Making you look cool or interesting by telling stories or facts about you that might sound like bragging if you said them yourself

It would definitely not involve destroying the subtlety of your cautious attempt to find an excuse to be alone with a lady!

Now, since my initial criticism, I've taken a second look at Tai's eyeballs and realized that she may just be too friggin' high to play any kind of role properly at the moment.

[KOODustin]

Oh godfuckingdamn it, Cesario. What is it with you and body hair shaming? You are usually better than that, man.

  I dunno...could it be he doesn't find it attractive?  I don't either.  I don't get why that's now frowned upon.  I'm sure there are plenty of physical things other people look at and find disgusting in a potential partner  Beards, tats, piercings, rat-tails, mullets...do we get to cry about tattoo shaming or rat-tail shaming? 

[riccostar]

I'm pretty sure the issue here is the shaming in general... It's generally considered good etiquette to not beat down on a person for the stylistic choices they make.  Tattoo or piercing shaming would get the same negative response I'm sure.

[Platypodes]

I second that.  Shaming is very different from simply not finding something attractive.  And since it's extremely likely that some of the people on this forum have body hair, beards, tattoos, piercings, rat-tails, mullets, etc., shaming those things here is in effect shaming those people to their faces--an easy thing to forget when you can't actually see those faces as they read your posts.

[Somebody]

This ship is pretty much...

[Jazzmaster]

Yeah, I don't rule it out. I can see just about anything happen but romance.

I can't imagine either saying "I love you" to the other. But I can imagine either of them finding the other cool and maybe cute.

I would've said that same exact thing about most of the people I've been in relationships with.  Most of my romantic relationships have stemmed from what started out as completely platonic friendships.  You never know who you'll end up with in the future or when.

[Is it cold in here?]

Wing-lady story:

A friend of mine provided gentlemanly company to a female friend so that she would get not quite as much unwanted attention as when she went out by herself. She found a way to make it worth his while, despite having no interest in him.

She was quite attractive (a model if memory serves) and women would confront her quite directly asking what she was doing with him ("but he's fat!").

She would look into the distance and murmur "but he's the only man who really knows how to ignite me …".