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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #100 on: 12 Jul 2016, 11:40 »

She would be the aloof Victorian harpoon mad scientist mixer.

 Thats a bar scene we all miss. Wait, is he and penny still together? I can't remember the last time we saw him.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #101 on: 12 Jul 2016, 12:31 »

Penny's bf worked in a bar, maybe she can get employment there?
Brun in a Victorian costume is quite a mental picture.

She seems comfortable enough holding a harpoon; I got no issues at all seeing her in a bustle, holding the same harpoon.

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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #102 on: 12 Jul 2016, 12:56 »

Penny's bf worked in a bar, maybe she can get employment there?
Brun in a Victorian costume is quite a mental picture.
She seems comfortable enough holding a harpoon; I got no issues at all seeing her in a bustle, holding the same harpoon.
I would think that any whaler worth their salt would never be caught wearing a bustle, and anyone attempting to make said whaler wear a bustle would have to talk to the harpoon first.
I picture her with said harpoon but wearing more appropriate to a seafaring woman on a whaling vessel.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #103 on: 12 Jul 2016, 16:19 »

Pantaloons??!





It does kinda look like Brun has Renee pegged, so I don't think she's too worried about how she treats her as she seems to be able to shoot Renee down when the need arises..
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #104 on: 12 Jul 2016, 17:23 »

Surely a whaler would wear breeches.  :claireface:
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #105 on: 12 Jul 2016, 19:57 »

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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #106 on: 12 Jul 2016, 20:47 »

A guffaw seems to me to be too energetic to associate with slothfulness. A slow chuckle, perhaps ...
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #107 on: 12 Jul 2016, 23:59 »

I think I'm missing a strip or Brun and Renee have gone from job hunting to online dating.  I think it's Renee's account since Brun has a lot of other things to sort out first.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #108 on: 13 Jul 2016, 00:08 »

Interestingly, that dating app thinks that the Bros, sport fishers and Pintsize are Brun's ideal dating matches. I wonder if the only thing she entered into the 'about me' box is 'I work in a nautical themed bar'?
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #109 on: 13 Jul 2016, 00:11 »

I'm thinking it's Brun's because she seems to be the one making the final decisions, while Renee provides more animated commentary.

So Brun (Renee?) is bi.

Also, it is very hard not to ship Brayden with Jayden.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #110 on: 13 Jul 2016, 00:19 »

Wouldn't it be Renee's account because it's her phone? The speech bubbles reverse because the perspective goes from looking down at the phone to looking at Brun and Renee.

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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #111 on: 13 Jul 2016, 00:24 »

Interestingly, that dating app thinks that the Bros, sport fishers and Pintsize are Brun's ideal dating matches. I wonder if the only thing she entered into the 'about me' box is 'I work in a nautical themed bar'?

I didn't even think of that, but I guess you might be right.

Although given that Pintsize is there, I think she must have misspelt "nautical" as "dongs" or something.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #112 on: 13 Jul 2016, 00:33 »

This is the hardest I've laughed at a QC strip in awhile.

Wouldn't it be Renee's account because it's her phone? The speech bubbles reverse because the perspective goes from looking down at the phone to looking at Brun and Renee.

Yes, which means that it's Brun giving the swipe directions. Brun is on the left (from their perspective).
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #113 on: 13 Jul 2016, 00:37 »

I think it's Renee showing tinder to Brun. Renee is using her profile and Brun is giving the dictations kind of in the tone of "this would/would not be good match for you", hence why Renee is saying "What?" in the last panel about Pintsize.

The comic reading convention is in effect, so even if on the Tinder shots it's Brun on the left, in the final panel they have swapped places so their word balloons don't need to cross. Or, strictly speaking they don't even swap, but the camera is panned 180 degrees.

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Also, Tinder exists as is in the QC universe, in place of some trademark friendly joke stand-in, such as "Striker & Flint".
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #114 on: 13 Jul 2016, 00:52 »

My first thought was that Brayden and Jayden were, in fact, siblings.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #115 on: 13 Jul 2016, 01:47 »

What? He seems nice ...? 
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #116 on: 13 Jul 2016, 01:56 »

What? He seems nice ...?

Well, he is nice, on the rare occasions that he isn't trying to gross people out!
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #117 on: 13 Jul 2016, 02:22 »

Are fish the new tigers on Tinder?
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #118 on: 13 Jul 2016, 03:44 »

Hey, you're all missing the biggest revelation in this strip. The Bros have names.

One of them is Chad.

Clairemom had sex with a Bro.


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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #119 on: 13 Jul 2016, 04:05 »

My first thought was that Brayden and Jayden were, in fact, siblings.
My first thought was that Brayden and Jayden were, in fact, the same person, pre-transition and post-transition.

Then I remembered that Tindr hasn't been around for three years yet.

In light of that revelation, sibs seems a more likely explanation.

And is Pintsize trying to claim that he's "hung like a horse" in that ad?
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #120 on: 13 Jul 2016, 05:26 »

Isn't Jayden wearing Brayden' s hat?
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #121 on: 13 Jul 2016, 05:33 »

Interestingly, that dating app thinks that the Bros, sport fishers and Pintsize are Brun's ideal dating matches. I wonder if the only thing she entered into the 'about me' box is 'I work in a nautical themed bar'?

Doesn't Tinder match you based on nothing but age and proximity?
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #122 on: 13 Jul 2016, 05:46 »

Jayden has the bigger fish. Don't want to think what that could mean.

All I can think of is this strip is Jeph's method of re-integrating Brun into the main cast given she lost Clinton's contact info. Also it reveals a bit about her psyche, namely that she instinctively connects with AI's better than humans.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #123 on: 13 Jul 2016, 05:58 »

Jayden has the bigger fish. Don't want to think what that could mean.

All I can think of is this strip is Jeph's method of re-integrating Brun into the main cast given she lost Clinton's contact info. Also it reveals a bit about her psyche, namely that she instinctively connects with AI's better than humans.

Wouldn't she have to (be shown to) actually connect with an AI in order to base conclusions regarding her psyche on (the observation of) said connection?
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #124 on: 13 Jul 2016, 06:05 »

Isn't Jayden wearing Brayden' s hat?
They're wearing the same khaki shorts too. Only diff is plastic or wire frames on their shades and spaghetti tank versus V-neck tee.

And although Jeph hasn't actually reused backdrops, he's apparently taken pains to depict that they have a fondness for the same fishing hole. (Observe the upper profile of the greenery between the bills of their identical hats.) Apparently, Brayden and Jayden is Jeph's commentary on how close two otherwise apparently compatibly people can be (footnote about annihilation not withstanding) and yet they can never meet except, perhaps, through a social network app.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #125 on: 13 Jul 2016, 06:08 »

Wouldn't she have to (be shown to) actually connect with an AI in order to base conclusions regarding her psyche on (the observation of) said connection?
Desire to do a thing often tells us just as much if not more about a person than actual capability to do that thing. Brün feels no attraction to the extrant examples of carbon based life forms, but is attracted to a profane bucket of bolts. Though, to be fair, she doesn't (yet) realized how profane he is, though his choice of moniker should be a clue.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #126 on: 13 Jul 2016, 06:20 »

Beucephalus is indeed a famous horse, but it literally means 'ox-head'.

So that's at least two body parts Pintsize might have been referring to.
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« Reply #127 on: 13 Jul 2016, 06:44 »

Wouldn't she have to (be shown to) actually connect with an AI in order to base conclusions regarding her psyche on (the observation of) said connection?
Desire to do a thing often tells us just as much if not more about a person than actual capability to do that thing. Brün feels no attraction to the extrant examples of carbon based life forms, but is attracted to a profane bucket of bolts. Though, to be fair, she doesn't (yet) realized how profane he is, though his choice of moniker should be a clue.

Desire - if that is actually what motivates Brun, I'd think that if anything, 'preference' would be more appropriate - tells us that something is desired, nothing else. Pintsize being AI, and not human is just one of the differences between his pic and the others: It would be as valid to assume that she has a preference for ancient Greek history, or the movie "American Beauty" (*).

Provided that there was indeed a consensus amongst psychologists about the possibility to reliably infer preference based on choices between items in a set of four.

To base conclusions about the quality of her connections with AIs/humans - without actual observation of any interaction with AIs - on such a small and "noisy" (**) dataset strikes me as ...

... Questionable?  :laugh:

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(*)  Also, I don't really see much indication about Brun's intentions to "do a(ny) thing" - it's Renee's phone, and likely her Tinder account. I'd think it more likely that she doesn't intend to meet with any of them, and is merely curious about Pintsize being ... a curiosity?

(**) "Noisy" in the sense that "human/AI" is not the only variable shown, and hence not the only property that choice could be based upon.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #128 on: 13 Jul 2016, 07:01 »

On Jayden and Braydon: My assumption, based on the same background, clothes, and pose, albeit reversed, is that it is in fact the same picture just cropped to only include the individuals in question. The original picture is of both of them together.  Siblings seems likely. There's also the exes possibility. There are those weird couples out there with rhyming names.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #129 on: 13 Jul 2016, 07:06 »

Or even the same name - I know a couple where both are named Bradley (though the guy goes by Brad.) I also used to know a Martin and Martha who went by Marty and Marti (they have since split.) Then there are my friends Christine and Kristin.  :roll:
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #130 on: 13 Jul 2016, 07:12 »

I'm a lesbian, I suppose the risk is a bit higher for me than for straight people, but I'm pretty sure having the same name would exclude someone from the dating pool for me. I'm not quite that much of a narcissist.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #131 on: 13 Jul 2016, 07:24 »

God, the bedroom activities would get a bit weird there.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #132 on: 13 Jul 2016, 07:32 »

Brunee on Tinder was not what I expected today, but I'm so glad it happened.

My last officemate was Christopher, and he married a gal named Kristin. Their wedding invitation said "Chris and Kris" It was weird.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #133 on: 13 Jul 2016, 07:41 »

Beucephalus is indeed a famous horse, but it literally means 'ox-head'.

So that's at least two body parts Pintsize might have been referring to.

Jeph's ambition is to move to Hawaii and have a dog called Beucephalus http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=812
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« Reply #134 on: 13 Jul 2016, 07:51 »

Is it weirder to date someone with the same name or name variant as you, or to serially date different people with the same name?

Definitely weirder to serially date someone with the same name, no matter what that name is, but even weirder to serially date people with your name. Exclusively dating one specific person who happens to have your name could just be a coincidence, you fell for the person and they just happened to have the same name/nickname as you.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #135 on: 13 Jul 2016, 08:20 »

Or even the same name - I know a couple where both are named Bradley (though the guy goes by Brad.) I also used to know a Martin and Martha who went by Marty and Marti (they have since split.) Then there are my friends Christine and Kristin.  :roll:

I used to work with a married couple Jody and Jodi.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #136 on: 13 Jul 2016, 09:54 »

My first thought was that Brayden and Jayden were, in fact, siblings.

I was thinking, they probably have a whole lot in common.  They like fishing, like boating, like being outdoors, have the same color skin and hair, both of them like girls.....  And they probably also share the disappointment both feel over having  met already. One was disappointed to discover they both like girls, and the other to discover that they're not both girls.  It's a near-miss in terms of romance, but it misses in a particular way that most people consider fairly important. Still, it leaves them room to be best buds, and that's not too bad.

But that was before I read Jeph's comment.  Looks like they've never actually met. 
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #137 on: 13 Jul 2016, 10:07 »

Jeph does have a talent for the unexpected.

Unexpected indeed.

I don't think anyone could have seen Pintsize as the way Brun met the rest of the main cast.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #138 on: 13 Jul 2016, 10:46 »

Also, Tinder exists as is in the QC universe, in place of some trademark friendly joke stand-in, such as "Striker & Flint".
kindling  - touchwood - spunk  - fuel - amadou - fire - ignition - wood - hearth - igniter - punk - lighter
and more than likely a few more I missed.
Igniter actually sounds reasonable as a branding name.

God, the bedroom activities would get a bit weird there.
But then again remembering names gets a whole lot easier and inadvertently saying an exes name gets to be less hazardous.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #139 on: 13 Jul 2016, 11:01 »

Or even the same name - I know a couple where both are named Bradley (though the guy goes by Brad.) I also used to know a Martin and Martha who went by Marty and Marti (they have since split.) Then there are my friends Christine and Kristin.  :roll:
Yeah, I know a Danny/Dani who are not only engaged, but work at the same place.  Although the "same name" thing didn't work out so well for Evelyn Waugh.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #140 on: 13 Jul 2016, 11:22 »

I'm a lesbian, I suppose the risk is a bit higher for me than for straight people, but I'm pretty sure having the same name would exclude someone from the dating pool for me. I'm not quite that much of a narcissist.

Both the male and female version of my given name are amongst the 10 most popular in my birth-cohort. In any group larger than 20 people, I'm more surprised when I'm the only one answering to [Case's real name].
Can't really afford to put that one on my list of dealbreakers ...  :psyduck:
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #141 on: 13 Jul 2016, 12:19 »

This comic was hilarious. The singularity as arrived! Brun and pintsize...oh go, the horror. Swipe left, swipe left!!!!
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #142 on: 13 Jul 2016, 12:29 »

I'm a lesbian, I suppose the risk is a bit higher for me than for straight people, but I'm pretty sure having the same name would exclude someone from the dating pool for me. I'm not quite that much of a narcissist.

Both the male and female version of my given name are amongst the 10 most popular in my birth-cohort. In any group larger than 20 people, I'm more surprised when I'm the only one answering to [Case's real name].
Can't really afford to put that one on my list of dealbreakers ...  :psyduck:

Fair enough. Mine is in the top 500. I've honestly never met another one, so I am pretty safe, especially considering I'm currently in a serious long term relationship and she doesn't have my name.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #143 on: 13 Jul 2016, 13:12 »

New strip (7/12)!

So, Brun's (ex-) boss is The Joker? Is that what we're saying here?

Or Mr. Sin (from Sam and Fuzzy).
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #144 on: 13 Jul 2016, 14:39 »

Also, Tinder exists as is in the QC universe, in place of some trademark friendly joke stand-in, such as "Striker & Flint".
kindling  - touchwood - spunk  - fuel - amadou - fire - ignition - wood - hearth - igniter - punk - lighter
and more than likely a few more I missed.
Igniter actually sounds reasonable as a branding name.
Many of those may already be registered trademarks. I tried things like "Striker", "Flint" and even "Fireiron" were registered. Maybe by trademark vultures systematically registering every word in the dictionary, so one could buy them in reasonble (if inflated) price for real use, but still.

I'm not even sure if "Flint & Striker" is acceptable, if "Filnt" or "Striker" are registered. How would either party ("Flint" or "Striker") attack me and how would I fight back?

It could also be made in the animesque near equivalent, symbiosis or alternative spelling ways:
Tender / Thunder / Blunder
Tumbder / Twitder / Snaptchdner
Tinbler / Tintter / Tindchat
Tindoe / TeenDeer / Tendeuer

...though his choice of moniker should be a clue.
I just thought out, what sort of associations does "Brun" brink to a native English speaker? Fart/digestive noices?
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #145 on: 13 Jul 2016, 15:15 »


Is it weirder to date someone with the same name or name variant as you, or to serially date different people with the same name?


In Korea the former wouldn't be particularly strange as far as surnames go.  Kim is the most common Korean surname, with somewhere around 10 million of the South Korean population of 50.8 million having that name.  The next most popular surnames are Lee and Park.   Something like 50 percent of Koreans share those three surnames.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #146 on: 13 Jul 2016, 15:29 »

I just thought out, what sort of associations does "Brun" brink to a native English speaker? Fart/digestive noises?
!? Not to this one. Not sure it really brings any associations to me at all actually.


Is it weirder to date someone with the same name or name variant as you, or to serially date different people with the same name?
Or is it weirder to choose *not* to go out with someone because of their name? Might be thought desperately shallow.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #147 on: 13 Jul 2016, 15:37 »

I just thought out, what sort of associations does "Brun" brink to a native English speaker? Fart/digestive noices?

None at all for me.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #148 on: 13 Jul 2016, 15:52 »

On similar named couples; friends of mine, now married, both had Janssen (Johnsson) with a double 's' as family name (they were not related, its a rather common name in the Netherlands). Since their marriage they go through life as Janssssen (Johnsssson).
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Re: WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
« Reply #149 on: 13 Jul 2016, 16:27 »

!? Not to this one. Not sure it really brings any associations to me at all actually.

None at all for me.

Righty'o. How would you pronounce it? IPA alphabet even maybe please?

The other association I get is "bran" as in all-bran. "Pieces of grain husk separated from flour after milling." So it's saying she's but an empty shell or something?
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