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This Week in OC ..........

Claire tells Clinton - Drama and Violence ensue
- 30 (29.1%)
Veronica and Clairemom meet - Embarrassment ensues
- 7 (6.8%)
May and Momo bond - Chaos and mayhem ensue
- 7 (6.8%)
Marigold looks for a new roomie - Hilarity and cringing ensue
- 11 (10.7%)
Dora faces down Sven - Violence and pain ensue
- 1 (1%)
Clinton confronts Marten in CoD - The Pugnatious Peach ensues
- 11 (10.7%)
Angus returns to try and talk to Faye - Scorngasim ensues
- 8 (7.8%)
Tai runs into Steve - Cereal ensues
- 11 (10.7%)
Jeph goes on Vacation - Yelling Bird ensues
- 7 (6.8%)
Purple Monkey Dishwasher - The unexpected ensues
- 10 (9.7%)

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Author Topic: WCDT: 2835-2839 (17 - 21 November 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread  (Read 72638 times)

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Besides, "deci" simply means "tenth". A decimeter is 1/10 meters. Decibel is sort of special because noone uses the base unit "bel", but a decibel is still a tenth of a bel.

True. 390 squee wouldn't be an alarming amount. But that only makes the question even more relevant.


I think that you're taking Zoe's post a mite bit too seriously there, RF!

This is serious business. We might be dealing with more squee than the human body can tolerate! Lives are at stake, man!

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So Dora said Marten's pretty vanilla. Claire's adding French vanilla to the mix. Wishing them all the best.
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What exactly is "French" vanilla? Vanilla is grown on tropical and subtropical islands, like Madagascar and Reunion, so I'm guessing we're not talking about the spice's origin.
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So next week we see Faye descend into alcohol-fueled bitterness that's as angry as this week has been sweet, right? This week has been all sweetness and light, I need a palette cleanser!  :-D
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What exactly is "French" vanilla? Vanilla is grown on tropical and subtropical islands, like Madagascar and Reunion, so I'm guessing we're not talking about the spice's origin.

Quote from: Wikipedia
The term French vanilla is often used to designate preparations with a strong vanilla aroma, containing vanilla grains and sometimes also containing eggs (especially egg yolks). The appellation originates from the French style of making vanilla ice cream with a custard base, using vanilla pods, cream, and egg yolks. Inclusion of vanilla varietals from any of the former French dependencies or overseas France noted for their exports may in fact be a part of the flavoring, though it may often be coincidental. Alternatively, French vanilla is taken to refer to a vanilla-custard flavor.[20] Syrup labeled as French vanilla may include custard, hazelnut, caramel or butterscotch flavors in addition to vanilla.

So, basically, it's how it's made, not where it's made.
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'round these here parts, we call that Freedom 'Nilla! Murika!
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Of course, if you meant deci as in decimeter, then 3.9k decisquee is equal to 39,000 squee. 39,000 or 103900. Either way, that's an alarming amount of squee. I just want to be Claire hear.
It would be 10390, assuming decisquee is an abbreviation of "decibels of squee" (you forgot to divide by 10 in the exponent for the "deci" part). If it's decisquee as in tenths of a squee, then it would be 390 squee.
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Basically, this is Jeph's way of slowly culling humanity one squee at a time by killing us off through either spontaneous combustion or diabetes.
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I could figuratively feel three new cavities forming in my teeth after reading this.  So frakkin' adorable.

I actually did crack a tooth shortly after reading QC this morning. To the dentist!  :-(
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One wonders if it makes Jeph as happy to see his characters this way as it does his readers.

I hope so; you bring that much happiness, you deserve to share.

Like ice cream.
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If that doesn't become canon, it should.
They aren't quite ready for the 1812 Overture.
Really surprised no-one acknowledged this as a level 10 groaner.

One that can upset the tum so much, I'd have to get a loan of some antacid. Maybe some borrowed Eno.

3.9k decisquee and rising.

I see what you did there. Very Discreet.  :-)
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3.9k decisquee and rising.
See, now I'm confused. Like decibels or decimeters?  -- whoah, lets not go there again ---
Of course, if you meant deci as in decimeter, then 3.9k decisquee is equal to 39,000 squee. 39,000 or 103900. Either way, that's an alarming amount of squee. I just want to be Claire hear.

The thing is, how big is a squee? Having worked as a Beaver and Cub Scout Leader for a while I can tell you that the squee coefficient and threshold levels vary from rugrat to yardape to adolescent and knows no gender bounds until adolescence.

What we need is a reproducible and consistent measure of cuteness. I propose we use the Kitten as a baseline unit of measure.
Now my question to those more pedantic/analytical than myself is this: Would the scale be linear, logarithmic, exponential or something completely different like Banana?

What exactly is "French" vanilla? Vanilla is grown on tropical and subtropical islands, like Madagascar and Reunion, so I'm guessing we're not talking about the spice's origin.
French vanilla. The name refers not to a vanilla variety but to the classic French way of making ice cream using an egg-custard base.

.... aaaand someone beat me to it by a dozen posts or so ....

One wonders if it makes Jeph as happy to see his characters this way as it does his readers.

maybe but I have the nagging feeling that Jeph is just building up the positive karma before dropping the Tactical Drama Nukes.
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One wonders if it makes Jeph as happy to see his characters this way as it does his readers.

Based on some posts on Jeph's twitter feed, he's having a particularly happy time in his life right now. Maybe he wants to reflect  this in his art?

In any case, it is my feeling that he intends to create a dichotomy of the beginning of Marten x Claire and the end of Angus x Faye. So, yeah, I'm still expecting the decisive meeting of the latter at some time soon, possibly next week. Then for an emotionally exhausted Faye to come home and feel even more guilty that she's a downer after Marten had such a good time.
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  • IT'S DEFINITELY LUPUS.

Well, we're a week away from turkeys, so Angus/Faye resolution is looking pretty probable.
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Turkey Twist. Pizza Girl, killed in action.

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You don't 'join' Mossad; it's a family business. She was always Mossad and was just recalled for a more important mission.
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Probably just a matter of it being a Friday afternoon and I'm about as productive as your average Reddit user, but I was just doing the archives (again) and took the time to:



I'm sure there are people who called it from day one, but man, it's been a fun ride.
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Namely, Tai.
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Namely, Tai.
Yeah, but she took the shotgun approach; she was also shipping him with Gabby and Emily from day one. 
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This is a thought I had moments ago:
Other than Marten/Faye and Pintsize/AnythingThatMoves, have there been any situations in QC where love, lust, or attraction wasn't reciprocated, at least for a little while? I can't think of a single time when someone tried and *failed* to start a relationship. (Once again, other than Marten/Faye.)
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Marigold/Angus?
There are probably some other examples I'm forgetting.

edit: Station/Hannelore could be an example...
Or Marten/Delilah
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Cosette asked Marten out while he was dating Dora. Padma's co-worker held a torch for her for the longest time, and when he told her about it, she turned him down. Deliliah rebuffed Marten's attempt to take things further.
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Steve/Penelope.
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In addition to the ones already mentioned:

Jim/Dora
Marten/Lt. Potter
Tai/Marigold
Raven/Sven
Possibly Emily/Marten
Clinton/Hanners has shades of this too, though it hasn't been overtly stated as an attraction

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Aaand I forgot about those. Okay. Never mind me.
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What exactly is "French" vanilla? Vanilla is grown on tropical and subtropical islands, like Madagascar and Reunion, so I'm guessing we're not talking about the spice's origin.
French vanilla. The name refers not to a vanilla variety but to the classic French way of making ice cream using an egg-custard base.

.... aaaand someone beat me to it by a dozen posts or so ....

I thought it was Vanilla x french kiss.
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This is a thought I had moments ago:
Other than Marten/Faye and Pintsize/AnythingThatMoves, have there been any situations in QC where love, lust, or attraction wasn't reciprocated, at least for a little while? I can't think of a single time when someone tried and *failed* to start a relationship. (Once again, other than Marten/Faye.)

Love, lust, attraction WERE reciprocated, but heavy personal problems made it impossible
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As I recall Raven was flirting with Marten extremely early on, but was then told to stop.
Also Sven / Faye in a romantic love sense instead of the just hooking up
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I think that you're taking Zoe's post a mite bit too seriously there, RF!

As opposed to most of the forum members over-analyzing one unmentioned webcomic?  :roll: lol

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If that doesn't become canon, it should.
They aren't quite ready for the 1812 Overture.
Really surprised no-one acknowledged this as a level 10 groaner.

One that can upset the tum so much, I'd have to get a loan of some antacid. Maybe some borrowed Eno.

3.9k decisquee and rising.

I see what you did there. Very Discreet.  :-)

Hey, she started it!

Cuteness is measures by by the decisquee levels.

Doesn't the Cute ooze off that strip? No wonder I need a bottle of borrowed Eno.
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This is a thought I had moments ago:
Other than Marten/Faye and Pintsize/AnythingThatMoves, have there been any situations in QC where love, lust, or attraction wasn't reciprocated, at least for a little while? I can't think of a single time when someone tried and *failed* to start a relationship. (Once again, other than Marten/Faye.)

Don't forget Marten and Sara!

May she rest in peace.
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This deserves both a squee and a d'aww :D


SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
D'AWW!



Ok, those shouldn't be used together.....
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This deserves both a squee and a d'aww :D


SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
D'AWW!
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Ok, those shouldn't be used together.....

This is what I've been trying to warn you people about. If decisquee represents the squee/d'awww ratio, then that gif is only about 400 squee. Dog help us all if it gets any worse.

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In addition to the ones already mentioned:

Jim/Dora
Marten/Lt. Potter
Tai/Marigold
Raven/Sven
Possibly Emily/Marten
Clinton/Hanners has shades of this too, though it hasn't been overtly stated as an attraction

Sven/Faye, after they 'broke up'.
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Sven/Faye, after they 'broke up'.

Why did I read that as Snape/Faye?
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I dunno, have you been reading any of Tai's fan-fics lately?
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Snape kills Hannelore.
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Snape kills Hannelore.
To be fair though she was sort of already dead, what with being a vampire dark lord and all.
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What exactly is "French" vanilla? Vanilla is grown on tropical and subtropical islands, like Madagascar and Reunion, so I'm guessing we're not talking about the spice's origin.

"Vanilla" is a slang term that refers to creatures with no rules text (e.g. Scathe Zombies).

"French vanilla" refers to creatures that only have keyword abilities (e.g. Akrasan Squire).
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Doesn't the Cute ooze off that strip? No wonder I need a bottle of borrowed Eno.

Now that's what I call canon.
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What exactly is "French" vanilla? Vanilla is grown on tropical and subtropical islands, like Madagascar and Reunion, so I'm guessing we're not talking about the spice's origin.

"Vanilla" is a slang term that refers to creatures with no rules text (e.g. Scathe Zombies).

"French vanilla" refers to creatures that only have keyword abilities (e.g. Akrasan Squire).
"Vanilla" refers to the straight, unmodded game.

"French Vanilla" means only using nudity mods.
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What exactly is "French" vanilla? Vanilla is grown on tropical and subtropical islands, like Madagascar and Reunion, so I'm guessing we're not talking about the spice's origin.

"Vanilla" is a slang term that refers to creatures with no rules text (e.g. Scathe Zombies).

"French vanilla" refers to creatures that only have keyword abilities (e.g. Akrasan Squire).
"Vanilla" refers to the straight, unmodded game.

"French Vanilla" means only using nudity mods.

French Vanilla is Vanilla with an inexplicably silent t at the end.

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Probably just a matter of it being a Friday afternoon and I'm about as productive as your average Reddit user, but I was just doing the archives (again) and took the time to:

I'm sure there are people who called it from day one, but man, it's been a fun ride.

I can't really call it from day 1, although I have to say that out of the three interns if something did happen I would have preferred it to have be Claire. She seemed the most interesting out of the bunch (2207 and 2208). I took a two year hiatus from reading the comic so I missed all the build up, but I guess I would have thought it was something that Jeph was going to continue to troll the readers with (he only did it for about 1 and half years, but still...).

I think for next weeks poll it should be what turkey twist is going to happen.
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Turkey twist: The turkeys have been cooked. They're on plates, now. Happy Thanksgiving!
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