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A bet with Emily ('I bet I can drink more than you before doing dumb stuff!')

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Frightened by Eels (They WERE under the counter after all!)

2 (5%)

Traumatic Experience (Pintsize and May are an item now?)

3 (7.5%)

It turns out that Dora makes hooch on the side; so putting it in her is 'putting it where you found it'

1 (2.5%)

It was a boring day; time to mix things up!

10 (25%)

Dora needed to talk to the Tequila Monster of Hangovers for some reason

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Dora tried to understand Emily's thought processes; bad mistake

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Faye dropped by, saw the bottle and said: "It's a waste to throw it away; drink it for me!"

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Dora said: "Let's freak out Hanners by getting drunk on the job!"

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Other (Specify in comment - the more surreal the better)

1 (2.5%)

Sexy Distilleries aka Method cheating and adding an option after the fact

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Felix is upset with all of the poll options and adds another after Method.

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Total Members Voted: 39

[Akima]

Apparently you drink this stuff and turn into a monster. I guess it could be called lichenthropy.

[anahata]

Regarding the bait that I threw out there

I was tempted for a couple of seconds, but I am sufficiently familiar with your quality of posting and sense of humour around here to guess that you were being ironic. Well played!

[Is it cold in here?]

@Travis B.,

Welcome, new person!

[Gyrre]

Apparently you drink this stuff and turn into a monster. I guess it could be called lichenthropy.

I mostly read QC on work breaks and lunch. It took a bit to find that comic. Read how the cockatrice speaks.

[DSL]

Well, the context is pretty clear. ...

I thought so too. But it seems not all agree with us. Well, dang.

[Kugai]

It also cleans and disinfects Rocket Engines

[Storel]

It's possible that we may be worrying over nothing:

Unless the present progress of change [is] arrested...there can be no doubt that, in another century, the dialect of the Americans will become utterly unintelligible to an Englishman... Thomas Hamilton, 1833

"There even are places where English completely disappears!
In America, they haven't used it for years."

 -- Henry Higgins, in "Why Can't the English", from My Fair Lady

[Method of Madness]

The fuck's he on about?

[WareWolf]

I prefer "Rickety Rickety Wrecked".

I've always been fond of the British idiom "legless."

[Tova]

The fuck's he on about?

https://youtu.be/EAYUuspQ6BY

[Method of Madness]

Oh, I was perfectly aware of what it's from, it just seemed like the proper response.

[cesium133]

New comic. And the question is, who will run out of money first, Marten or Pintsize?

[TheEvilDog]

And why do I get the feeling that May is thinking $40 for materials and services, but Corpse Witch bumping it to $400 for the danger to her enterprise?

[Is it cold in here?]

Corpse Witch would be foolish to let a potential informant near her operation now that she knows the heat is on.

"Potential informant", because the police can pressure somebody on probation easily and damn near irresistibly.

Meanwhile, the wackiness of today's strip is a delight.

[WoaLG]

Corpse Witch would be foolish to let a potential informant near her operation now that she knows the heat is on.

"Potential informant", because the police can pressure somebody on probation easily and damn near irresistibly.

Meanwhile, the wackiness of today's strip is a delight.

I doubt Faye would take her to the workshop. Corpse Witch got pissy about it last time she did (can't remember the exact comic number) and Page 3030 implies that Faye has her own tools, since I also doubt that Corpse Witch would have let her take any of the workshop's tools.

And May already knows about it, though I don't know if Corpse Witch knows that.

[BenRG]

May is accepting payment in $2 bills? How did she ever manage to embezzle in the first place with that level of naivete about things?

I'm wondering if we're about to see Corpse Witch realising that there is money in being nice, if you know the right way to do it. Either that or she's going to blow her top and rather stupidly throw out Bubbles and Faye just minutes before the police raid for which a 'charity repair shop' could have been an ideal countermeasure.

New comic. And the question is, who will run out of money first, Marten or Pintsize?

Given that Pintsize has just basically confessed to not having money (although May clearly is too ignorant to know this), I'm wondering if this is a Nefarious Plan. Could it be that Pintsize plans for Marten to entirely fund May's upgrade simply by pushing the bidding up to $80 and then walking away? Knowing Marten, if May explains exactly what's happening, he'd end up helping her anyway.

[Is it cold in here?]

What's naive about any particular denomination?

She may have trouble spending it around idiots, and it would be dangerous to her to have idiots calling the police because they think it's not a real denomination(*), but she could always deposit it in the bank.

(*) This has happened, but not as often as I thought.

[Akima]

May is accepting payment in $2 bills? How did she ever manage to embezzle in the first place with that level of naivete about things?

We have $2 coins, and apparently there is a US $2 bill/note, so why not?

[hedgie]

May is accepting payment in $2 bills? How did she ever manage to embezzle in the first place with that level of naivete about things?

We have $2 coins, and apparently there is a US $2 bill/note, so why not?

Not only that, but if you feel like wasting money, you can buy uncut sheets of $2 banknotes from the treasury.

[BenRG]

Not only that, but if you feel like wasting money, you can buy uncut sheets of $2 banknotes from the treasury.

If it weren't for the impossibility of a federal agency having a sense of humour, I'd suspect the Treasury Department of playing an elaborate practical joke on the entire planet.

... Then again, that could be said about almost everything the Treasury and the Federal Reserve does these days.

[Gyrre]

Somehow, that post-comic text wouldn't surprise me at all.

I wonder how he manifests in our own universe?

[brasca]

May is accepting payment in $2 bills? How did she ever manage to embezzle in the first place with that level of naivete about things?

Do keep in mind she was busted so her expertise in embezzling to buy a drone chassis may be quite amateurish. 

[Method of Madness]

I have two $2 bills in my wallet. No particular reason. I could spend them if I wanted to.

[cesium133]

I don't have any $2 bills, but whenever I visit another country, I keep some of the money in my wallet when I come back. I've currently got 25 Brazilian reais (worth about US$10) and 25 Canadian dollars (worth about US$25) in my wallet.

[Case]

I don't have any $2 bills, but whenever I visit another country, I keep some of the money in my wallet when I come back. I've currently got 25 Brazilian reais (worth about US$10) and 25 Canadian dollars (worth about US$25) in my wallet.

So the poor foreign denominations also get 'whiff of freedom', right? 

[Jakk Frost]

I never did understand why some Americans say "That's phony as a two dollar bill" when I know for a fact American $2 bills exist and are legal tender.

On today's comic, I love how Pintsize uses his own perverted methods to actually try and assist someone without giving away that that's what he's really doing.  (As has been evidenced before.)

[cesium133]

The phrase I've heard is "phony as a three-dollar bill."

I don't have any $2 bills, but whenever I visit another country, I keep some of the money in my wallet when I come back. I've currently got 25 Brazilian reais (worth about US$10) and 25 Canadian dollars (worth about US$25) in my wallet.

So the poor foreign denominations also get 'whiff of freedom', right? 

I keep my wallet in my front pocket, not my back pocket, so no.

[Charlotte Zane]

How does pissed meaning drunk inherently make any more sense than pissed meaning angry?

I'm not saying it does. But "pissed off" is a phrase that is understandable anyway, means the same as the American meaning of "pissed", and "pissed" by itself is confusing vis a vis the British meaning of "drunk". Plus, as I said, the American usage is inconsistent, because to my knowledge, nobody really says "this really pisses me", but rather "this really pisses me off", even in the US.

But, since a few people have commented on this, I was only half-serious in my original post. Apparently it didn't come across very clearly in text.

Okay, there's a painfully simple misunderstanding here that would give me an aneurysm if I didn't make an account to quickly clarify.

"Pissed" is an entirely separate word from "pisses", and only the former is used in American English to denote a state of anger. To denote someone's anger, they can be "pissed", but it cannot "piss" them. You can be pissed off, and it can piss you off, but you can only be pissed, as it cannot simply "piss" you. "Pissed" is the only form of the word that functions as a status, but it is also generally only used without appending "off" when it is performing double-duty by also serving as a past tense. So "I am pissed off", but "I was pissed". That said, it also works that way with future sometimes, as one often "will get pissed" moreso than "will get pissed off".

A good parallel is "stresses/stressed". You can be stressed, and something can stress you out, but you can only "be stressed"-- something cannot "stresses you" or "stress you", as that is taken to mean that it "emphasizes" you. One simply does not say "that stresses me", they say "that stresses me out", to clarify their context a bit more.

It's acceptable because of this nuance-- and having no way to know that context is hopefully what frustrated you so. Excuse if my explanation is lacking, in any case; I'm far better at spotting miscommunication than actually solving it, unfortunately.

Still, the sheer glut of miscommunication that surrounded your question, though, had me really pissed. I mean, it always pisses me off when the nature of someone's question is misunderstood (as everyone just ends up in some pissed off debate). But really, it does suck when everyone is getting pissed about how pissed off everyone else is rather than trying to find where communication first broke down.

...Anywhos, just had to get that off my chest. Not trying to dredge up old topics, but that was distracting me from what was going to just be laughing at Pintsize paying in $2 bills-- which I've not seen someone able to spend here in, like, a decade or so. Unless it makes some crazy resurgence in QC's timeline!?

[Rincewind]

Somehow, that post-comic text wouldn't surprise me at all.

I wonder how he manifests in our own universe?

As Anthony Wiener, obviously!   
 

[Method of Madness]

I never did understand why some Americans say "That's phony as a two dollar bill" when I know for a fact American $2 bills exist and are legal tender.

Probably because the expression refers to a three dollar bill, at least as I've heard it.

[Jakk Frost]

I never did understand why some Americans say "That's phony as a two dollar bill" when I know for a fact American $2 bills exist and are legal tender.

Probably because the expression refers to a three dollar bill, at least as I've heard it.

Oh I've heard that one too.  I've heard both.

[Skewbrow]

Morris & Goscinny ran with that joke. The oldest of the Dalton brothers (the gang Lucky Luke was battling), not the sharpest knife, served time for an unsuccessful counterfeit attempt. You guessed it, he printed 3 dollar bills.

[Case]

Okay, there's a painfully simple misunderstanding here that would give me an aneurysm if I didn't make an account to quickly clarify.

"Pissed" is an entirely separate word from "pisses", and only the former is used in American English to denote a state of anger. To denote someone's anger, they can be "pissed", but it cannot "piss" them. You can be pissed off, and it can piss you off, but you can only be pissed, as it cannot simply "piss" you.

[Gyrre]

I never did understand why some Americans say "That's phony as a two dollar bill" when I know for a fact American $2 bills exist and are legal tender.

On today's comic, I love how Pintsize uses his own perverted methods to actually try and assist someone without giving away that that's what he's really doing.  (As has been evidenced before.)

We only started making them in the 2000s.

The phrases has been updated to "As phony as a three dollar bill".

[Stoutfellow]

Then there's the story of the city slicker who decided to exploit the hayseeds. He made some counterfeit eighteen-dollar bills, then drove out to the country. He asked the first farmer he met if he could make change; the farmer looked at the bill and said, "Sure! You want two nines, or three sixes?"

[Storel]

I never did understand why some Americans say "That's phony as a two dollar bill" when I know for a fact American $2 bills exist and are legal tender.

On today's comic, I love how Pintsize uses his own perverted methods to actually try and assist someone without giving away that that's what he's really doing.  (As has been evidenced before.)

We only started making them in the 2000s.

The phrases has been updated to "As phony as a three dollar bill".

Actually, we started making the current design in 1976. My father started collecting them then.

[Tova]

...Anywhos, ...

...

On second thought, never mind.

[Perfectly Reasonable]

So May's butt is still khaki? How did her face get bleached? Was it the Noodle Incident?

[oddtail]

So May's butt is still khaki? How did her face get bleached? Was it the Noodle Incident?

I get the distinct feeling I'm missing some subtext or reference in what you are saying (which would be appropriate enough, given that you link to the Noodle Incident page). But in case this is a straight question and not a joke that goes way over my head:

I think she's referring to her face being the ONLY part of her skin that is still khaki. The butt would presumably be blue right now.

And her face didn't get bleached, when it was repaired, only this particular skin tone was available. I assume she wants her face to be blue again to match her body's general skin tone (can't blame her, I still get Uncanny Valley-ish vibes from the way she looks...).

[Gyrre]

I never did understand why some Americans say "That's phony as a two dollar bill" when I know for a fact American $2 bills exist and are legal tender.

On today's comic, I love how Pintsize uses his own perverted methods to actually try and assist someone without giving away that that's what he's really doing.  (As has been evidenced before.)

We only started making them in the 2000s.

The phrases has been updated to "As phony as a three dollar bill".

Actually, we started making the current design in 1976. My father started collecting them then.

Oh.

I guess I hadn't heard of them until the early 2000s (when I was in high school). I hadn't encountered any until 2012.

[Gyrre]

So May's butt is still khaki? How did her face get bleached? Was it the Noodle Incident?

I get the distinct feeling I'm missing some subtext or reference in what you are saying (which would be appropriate enough, given that you link to the Noodle Incident page). But in case this is a straight question and not a joke that goes way over my head:

I think she's referring to her face being the ONLY part of her skin that is still khaki. The butt would presumably be blue right now.

And her face didn't get bleached, when it was repaired, only this particular skin tone was available. I assume she wants her face to be blue again to match her body's general skin tone (can't blame her, I still get Uncanny Valley-ish vibes from the way she looks...).

There's this weird American Easternism where they refer to someone's ass/arse as "face" in order to be poite.
When Dick Chenney shot that guy "in the face" while hunting, he had actually shot the congressman in the buttocks.

[Kugai]

And nobody has asked the really relevant question




How the HELL does Pintsize know what type of Currency International Arms Dealers prefer to use!!!

[Tova]

Shhhhh.

You know what happened to Calliope when they asked that question a day ago.

... Or maybe you don't remember.

Forget I said anything.

[Truec]

"Anatomical correctness"? So what, she's going to pay Faye to build genitalia for her?

Although I suppose Faye does already have experience.

[WareWolf]

I never did understand why some Americans say "That's phony as a two dollar bill" when I know for a fact American $2 bills exist and are legal tender.

On today's comic, I love how Pintsize uses his own perverted methods to actually try and assist someone without giving away that that's what he's really doing.  (As has been evidenced before.)

We only started making them in the 2000s.

The phrases has been updated to "As phony as a three dollar bill".

Actually, we started making the current design in 1976. My father started collecting them then.

Yeah, my Dad had a bunch of them in his "collection" when he passed. He was convinced they'd be valuable collector's items some day.

[TheEvilDog]

And nobody has asked the really relevant question




How the HELL does Pintsize know what type of Currency International Arms Dealers prefer to use!!!

Obviously Pintsize has been doing some shady things as of late.

And really that's the kind of question that gets people disappeared, usually by international arms dealers.

[Perfectly Reasonable]

So May's butt is still khaki? How did her face get bleached? Was it the Noodle Incident?

I get the distinct feeling I'm missing some subtext or reference in what you are saying (which would be appropriate enough, given that you link to the Noodle Incident page). But in case this is a straight question and not a joke that goes way over my head:

I think she's referring to her face being the ONLY part of her skin that is still khaki. The butt would presumably be blue right now.

And her face didn't get bleached, when it was repaired, only this particular skin tone was available. I assume she wants her face to be blue again to match her body's general skin tone (can't blame her, I still get Uncanny Valley-ish vibes from the way she looks...).

Sorry to mislead. Only her face needed repair, so her butt is presumably still blue. Her face was khaki tan for a couple of strips. Then when she next appeared, it had changed to dead white, no explanation given. Which is why I made the Noodle Incident reference. Maybe Jeph felt she didn't look Uncanny Valley enough.

edits:
May has the khaki face in 3174 and 3 following strips. (The only other choice was orange) When she reappears in 3299, her face is the present white.

[neurocase]

I know it's something of an ambiguous term (and that I'm, in part, analyzing the yearly turkey comic) but the turkey's use of the phrase "evolving relationship" in reference to Bubbles and Faye intrigues me somewhat.

[Tova]

I can see that the commentary on today's comic will put a damper on our relationship.

[cesium133]

I never did understand why some Americans say "That's phony as a two dollar bill" when I know for a fact American $2 bills exist and are legal tender.

On today's comic, I love how Pintsize uses his own perverted methods to actually try and assist someone without giving away that that's what he's really doing.  (As has been evidenced before.)

We only started making them in the 2000s.

The phrases has been updated to "As phony as a three dollar bill".

Actually, we started making the current design in 1976. My father started collecting them then.

And other designs were made from 1862-1966 (according to that Wikipedia page), so, nothing new about the $2 bill. They *are* pretty uncommon, though. Using attention-grabbing currency seems like an odd choice for criminals, not to mention it would take a giant, inefficient bundle of them to pay for an arms shipment.

I...assume. Definitely don't know from personal experience or anything 

Me, I pay for my international arms shipments with $1 coins.