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Too much cake-mix

May got too excited with Pintsize

May had a nasty meet-up with Yelling Bird

SOMEONE had to clean up Dale's bed!

The obligatory reference to synthetic ham

MAY IS MELTING FROM ALL THE SQUEE

May found Marigolds stache of sexy dude pictures

butts

[BenRG]

I really don't see Claire moving in with Marten, if she decided against kissing him when he was drunk. She is much too cautious and sensible to do something as rash as that.

Oh, it wouldn't happen for a while in my suggested scenario. Indeed, I'd prefer for at least the first formal date to have passed before that happens. Mostly because I'd find the tension and awkwardness of two sort-of-romantic partners living together but not being together-together just yet intensely funny.

Because I'm sadistic like that. 

[Fig]

(Left work early because seasons suck and a rather nasty cold has felt it needs my lungs to live in.)

Regardless of how Marten ended up in Claire's kitchen eating pancakes, because homemade pancakes are better than diner pancakes period, hopefully her mom has the tact to recognize these two potentials may want some privacy to discuss things and gracefully bow out for a moment.  Once the talking is done, THEN pester her daughter about it.

[Orkboy]

In the interest of contributing on our path to 20 pages, I'll toss this out.:

I think Our Benevolent Comic Overlord is going to string us along for another week or two.  We have too much going on to wrap it up easily without doing to wall o' text that he seems to have gotten away from.  We have the previous drama of drunken flirting and almost-smooches, the new and added complication of Claire's mom now knowing Marten, and we'll need at least a comic or two of Claire-mom's input and Jeph telling us how much of the previously existing drama Claire-mom is aware of. 

[MooskiNet]

Not to mention Clinton popping out like an overprotective jack-in-the-box.

[TomOBedlam]

In the interest of contributing on our path to 20 pages, I'll toss this out.:

I think Our Benevolent Comic Overlord is going to string us along for another week or two. ...

Yup, I think that's the most likely result too.  Not putting any hopes out there today

[Aziraphale]

In the interest of contributing on our path to 20 pages, I'll toss this out.:

I think Our Benevolent Comic Overlord is going to string us along for another week or two. ...

Yup, I think that's the most likely result too.  Not putting any hopes out there today

No, tonight's strip will probably circle back to one of the other characters, and we'll see the developments/consequences/fallout of last night's on Monday.

[iandanger]

At this point a thanksgiving timeline isn't out of possibility. They brunch, Faye-Angus drama, Dora-Sven drama, pintsize does something inappropriate, then Marten-Claire date with a kiss goodnight around turkey day

[Is it cold in here?]

Welcome, new people!

[BenRG]

I've just noted how apologetic Marten's body language is in the last panel. He's pointing at Claire's mother; he's very obviously saying: "Don't blame me! She made me do it!"

[TomOBedlam]

No, tonight's strip will probably circle back to one of the other characters, and we'll see the developments/consequences/fallout of last night's on Monday.

I like your optimism   QC has been the high point of my week so far - the rest of it has been crap - so whatever is posted today will be grand   (I work in the federal bureaucracy in Australia - for the last year, it feels like we've been working for Lord Voldemort).

[jwhouk]

I just have to say that I love the polls and their options- kudos to whoever does them!

They are harder than they look, trust me.

[Pilchard123]

[jwhouk]

Since NoHam in the QC-verse is relatively small, it's possible that he just walked over there to ask her out for pancakes, and got pulled in by mom.

[Aziraphale]

No, tonight's strip will probably circle back to one of the other characters, and we'll see the developments/consequences/fallout of last night's on Monday.

I like your optimism   QC has been the high point of my week so far - the rest of it has been crap - so whatever is posted today will be grand   (I work in the federal bureaucracy in Australia - for the last year, it feels like we've been working for Lord Voldemort).

You have my condolences. I'd been wondering if it was as bad as it looked from here.

[TomOBedlam]

You have my condolences. I'd been wondering if it was as bad as it looked from here.

It is probably worse than it looks, although I think we are just playing catch-up with the US and UK (with apologies to anyone who thinks things are ok in those countries, but WTF!?!)  Its the breathtaking stupidity that really fucks with my head...

[Aziraphale]

You have my condolences. I'd been wondering if it was as bad as it looked from here.

It is probably worse than it looks, although I think we are just playing catch-up with the US and UK (with apologies to anyone who thinks things are ok in those countries, but WTF!?!)  Its the breathtaking stupidity that really fucks with my head...

No apology needed (at least on my account). It's not one of our better exports.

[Masterpiece]

I just have to say that I love the polls and their options- kudos to whoever does them!

This is the first week I made polls in a WCDT, so thanks! Normally someone else does them (and most of the times, I avoid going upstairs to the comic threads cause the wild speculating feels like I'm spoilering myself...).

[Method of Madness]

It's only a diner if A: it's open 24 hours, and B: you can get pancakes (or a cheeseburger) any damn time you walk in. Otherwise, it's just a restaurant, or a luncheonette.

I saw this and immediately thought "someone's from Jersey". I then checked your profile and...yep!

(If I ever leave Jersey for good, I'll have to go to a diner every time I visit)

[Honkytonk]

Not to mention Clinton popping out like an overprotective jack-in-the-box.

POW, right in the kisser!

[bhtooefr]

You know, as a random thought re: Clinton's overprotectiveness... I wonder if Clinton is actually consciously trying to be a father figure to Claire (given that their actual father is absent), even though he's actually her younger brother.

[Rghfrgl]

 No matter how long it takes, I will have my Clinton Rocket Punch.

[Aziraphale]

It's only a diner if A: it's open 24 hours, and B: you can get pancakes (or a cheeseburger) any damn time you walk in. Otherwise, it's just a restaurant, or a luncheonette.

I saw this and immediately thought "someone's from Jersey". I then checked your profile and...yep!

(If I ever leave Jersey for good, I'll have to go to a diner every time I visit)

Dead giveaway, I guess. But yeah, diners out of state are so hit-and-miss.

You know, as a random thought re: Clinton's overprotectiveness... I wonder if Clinton is actually consciously trying to be a father figure to Claire (given that their actual father is absent), even though he's actually her younger brother.

Quite possible. The cultural baggage of the "man of the house" can be hard to shake even when/though it's unnecessary.

[BenRG]

I wonder if Clinton is actually consciously trying to be a father figure to Claire (given that their actual father is absent), even though he's actually her younger brother.

From what I've heard (and experienced at a certain level with families I know) it's a common behavioural trait for sons in families affected by either divorce or the death of the father.

[TomOBedlam]

No apology needed (at least on my account). It's not one of our better exports.

Just for you Aziraphale, if you haven't already seen it (and totally off topic, I know - in my defence, its one of the reasons I would much, much,much sooner live in the QCverse)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3IaKVmkXuk

[bhtooefr]

Mind you, there is the DISCUSS subforum for political stuff...

[Miaboop]

You know, as a random thought re: Clinton's overprotectiveness... I wonder if Clinton is actually consciously trying to be a father figure to Claire (given that their actual father is absent), even though he's actually her younger brother.

There is the possibility that Claire have gotten hurt in the past by guys, other than her dad. It would explain Clintons skeptical nature towards Marten

[TomOBedlam]

Mind you, there is the DISCUSS subforum for political stuff...

Yep, sorry - I'll stop it now...

[Kugai]

Plot twist for Friday

Yelling Bird watching Steve eat cereal.

[Honkytonk]

Plot twist for Friday

Yelling Bird watching Steve eat cereal.

"I DARE YOU TO STUFF CORNFLAKES IN MY CLOACA"
"Dude, what's wrong with you?"
"A LACK OF CORNFLAKES IN MY CLOACA YOU FUCKING COCKSTAIN, GET TO IT!"

[Aziraphale]

Plot twist for Friday

Yelling Bird watching Steve eat cereal.

"I DARE YOU TO STUFF CORNFLAKES IN MY CLOACA"
"Dude, what's wrong with you?"
"A LACK OF CORNFLAKES IN MY CLOACA YOU FUCKING COCKSTAIN, GET TO IT!"

That's disturbingly plausible.

[grouchygizmo]

Plot twist for Friday

Yelling Bird watching Steve eat cereal.

"I DARE YOU TO STUFF CORNFLAKES IN MY CLOACA"
"Dude, what's wrong with you?"
"A LACK OF CORNFLAKES IN MY CLOACA YOU FUCKING COCKSTAIN, GET TO IT!"

  I just... no words.

[jwhouk]

Y'all are really making me want to go to Waffle House today.  You know that, right?

I would love to go to Waffle House right now, but it's all the way on the other side of town and the effort of walking 1.5 miles to my car to drive it there is defeating the will to go there.

In other words, I'm being lazy.

ARRRRGGGGGHHHH.

Do you REALIZE how many PEOPLE there are out there who CANNOT go to a Waffle House because it is not only NOT "within walking distance" or even "on the other side of town" - but a FULL TWO STATES AWAY????

[TomOBedlam]

Do you REALIZE how many PEOPLE there are out there who CANNOT go to a Waffle House because it is not only NOT "within walking distance" or even "on the other side of town" - but a FULL TWO STATES AWAY????

Look on the bright side - at least you are on the same continent as a Waffle House   That said, we are well catered for here in Oz when it comes to breakfast joints - can't throw a rock in my home city without hitting a cafe or restaurant that has a decent breakfast menu

[cesium133]

Y'all are really making me want to go to Waffle House today.  You know that, right?

I would love to go to Waffle House right now, but it's all the way on the other side of town and the effort of walking 1.5 miles to my car to drive it there is defeating the will to go there.

In other words, I'm being lazy.

ARRRRGGGGGHHHH.

Do you REALIZE how many PEOPLE there are out there who CANNOT go to a Waffle House because it is not only NOT "within walking distance" or even "on the other side of town" - but a FULL TWO STATES AWAY????

... but it's a whole 4 miles away. I have to drive all the way to I-35, and go like two exits...

... maybe I'll go there tonight and have breakfast for dinner.

(and, yes, I measured the distance on Google Maps. I had actually thought it was farther than that.)

[Method of Madness]

The closest one to me is over 100km away in Pennsylvania.

[Case]

Y'all are really making me want to go to Waffle House today.  You know that, right?

I would love to go to Waffle House right now, but it's all the way on the other side of town and the effort of walking 1.5 miles to my car to drive it there is defeating the will to go there.

In other words, I'm being lazy.

ARRRRGGGGGHHHH.

Do you REALIZE how many PEOPLE there are out there who CANNOT go to a Waffle House because it is not only NOT "within walking distance" or even "on the other side of town" - but a FULL TWO STATES AWAY????

Sounds like a job for ...


(Hat-tip to ZoeB for that glorious avatar ...)

[Orkboy]

No matter how long it takes, I will have my Clinton Rocket Punch.

You could always request it on the fanart thread.  .-.

[greywolfe]

ARRRRGGGGGHHHH.

Do you REALIZE how many PEOPLE there are out there who CANNOT go to a Waffle House because it is not only NOT "within walking distance" or even "on the other side of town" - but a FULL TWO STATES AWAY????

Make your own!

[Is it cold in here?]

New folks, here's your pocket guide to being polite around trans people. Please read it.

[Smallest]

As an aside, all the talk about Claire's hair is much like my own; it's wild, wavy, poofy, and red (though considerably darker). Many jokes are had at the expense of my Medusa-like locks killing and/or maiming those around me.

C-c-c-cosplay?

Oh no. I was viciously beaten awhile back and I'm not too keen on my appearance since. My hair and weight is all I have going for me at the moment. Oh, and boobs. Glorious boobs. Maybe I just think so since I waited so long for them...

I'm so sorry to hear that, and I'm sorry if I rubbed salt or anything.

[Blood-Tree]

Is something unusual happening with the tree in the final two panels?

It looks... hungry...

[GarandMarine]

Claire's still living at home. Odds are, she's never lived on her own before, and never quite had the responsibility that comes with that.

That mismatch in life experience can cause serious issues down the road.

While one can't automatically assume that what's true in this universe is true in the QC one... do you realise how outrageously rare having supportive parents is for girls like her? (Hint : average age of homeless trans children is 12 1/2, many, many get kicked out)

That she has family support (parents, brother ) possibly accounts for her relatively good mental health. Though I see an anxiety attack looming... if one doesn't happen now, I'd say they're gone.

If I was that age, woke up without having a chance to clean up, came downstairs to see Mum and prospective first boyfriend ever chatting it up after a night when I ended up in his arms.... anxious doesn't even begin to describe it. We're talking fullblown PANIC here.

I didn't see this coming. Jeph, you magnificent bastard.

You read his comic? 

Basically this. Zoe is awesome as usual.

[eschaton]

There is the possibility that Claire have gotten hurt in the past by guys, other than her dad. It would explain Clintons skeptical nature towards Marten

Maybe, but we know she's never been kissed.  They would have had to have been guys that hurt her by teasing her, or online romances, or crushes, or something like that. 

[Platypodes]

I've been thinking, Clinton may take after his mom a lot.  That combination of benevolent intentions, obliviousness to boundaries, and over-enthusiasm/pushiness....

Anyways: does no one remember that Claire had her PJ's on when she was at the wedding with Marten?

You're right, I did forget that.  It still doesn't totally compare with this situation, though, since those were the particular PJ's she chose to pack when she knew she'd be seen by a boy... and the top half is a lot more covering than the one she's wearing now.

[SteveCostello]

Do you REALIZE how many PEOPLE there are out there who CANNOT go to a Waffle House because it is not only NOT "within walking distance" or even "on the other side of town" - but a FULL TWO STATES AWAY????

Ew. I, for one, am plenty happy to not be in the immediate vicinity of a Waffle House (although, as I am in St. Louis, I am positive that one is not more than a 15 minute drive from me). I'd rather take the 15 minutes it takes for me to whip up a batch of my very tasty malted waffles... and use real maple syrup. That "syrup" they give you in restaurants? I can't even.

[Fig]

Since we're on the topic of pancakes, waffles, and other assorted breakfast dishes (any love for French toast?), the absolute best place I've had pancakes was from Cracker Barrel.  Huge pancakes and the syrup they give you comes in little glass bottles that's heated and REAL maple syrup.  So good, but they're a bit pricey. 

[ankhtahr]

Folks, I'm still hungry, and I still don't think there are any real breakfast restaurants in this whole country.

[Platypodes]

I'm pretty sure there are skillets, though.  I highly recommend home-made pancakes.  Super easy and delicious.

I've never had restaurant pancakes that I liked as much, really, though I do love the ambiance of a diner.

[Zebediah]

This is getting to the point where we need a diner thread.

But if you're ever in Durham, North Carolina, go to Elmo's Diner for breakfast. Everybody else in town does.

[Aziraphale]

Since we're on the topic of pancakes, waffles, and other assorted breakfast dishes (any love for French toast?), the absolute best place I've had pancakes was from Cracker Barrel.  Huge pancakes and the syrup they give you comes in little glass bottles that's heated and REAL maple syrup.  So good, but they're a bit pricey.

French toast is dicey, though. Lots of places don't make it correctly (or even particularly well when they're doing it wrong).

Cracker Barrel's food is better than their politics. And that's all I'm going to say about that.

This is getting to the point where we need a diner thread.

But if you're ever in Durham, North Carolina, go to Elmo's Diner for breakfast. Everybody else in town does.

A diner and restaurant thread is a great idea.

My favorite spot in NC is North Banks (in Corolla), and I also remember a good greasy spoon on 12 south near Kitty Hawk, but then again, I've never been to Durham.