# I don't quite get today's "Questionable Content" strip **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-strips\ **Created:** [April 13, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967 "2010-04-13T17:48:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/181 "2010-08-04T22:15:30Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Hanners will end up opening up a business next to CoD selling boutique cupcakes, most likely buying out the entire commercial building that CoD is located in, becoming Dora’s landlord in the process. Actually, I think Hanners will end up doing the store’s books, considering she’s [helped out with that sort of thing before](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1458). Coffee of Doom will suddenly be fabulously profitable under Hanner’s financial management, and will open 3300 locations nationwide. Dora and Marten will retire in Antigua. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/182 "2010-08-24T05:33:21Z")
[OMG Faye kissed Angus back](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1736) I’m guessing Angus will have all kindsa shit to learn if he beds Faye after Faye dating Sven. Seriously, Faye’s last benchmark for good lovin’ is her time with Sven, a license cockswain, so I can’t see Angus even matching that sort of performance without Faye giving gentle (or not so gentle) guidance. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/183 "2010-08-24T05:40:14Z")
Faye is hot when she’s happy. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/184 "2010-08-24T07:30:15Z")
I just want to know what the “Alphabet Trick” is. Faye’s told that story twice, but the “trick” has never been explained. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/185 "2010-08-24T07:59:50Z")
It’s a method for giving cunnilingus. While you’re going down on the girl, you trace out each letter of the alphabet with your tongue. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/186 "2010-08-24T12:34:51Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > It’s a method for giving cunnilingus. While you’re going down on the girl, you trace out each letter of the alphabet with your tongue. No, it 's simply keeping rhythm to the alphabet. Tracing would be way too slow. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/187 "2010-08-24T12:44:52Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > > [@Miller](#): > > > > It’s a method for giving cunnilingus. While you’re going down on the girl, you trace out each letter of the alphabet with your tongue. > > No, it 's simply keeping rhythm to the alphabet. Tracing would be way too slow. Says you. I agree with Munch. Anytime I’ve ever heard of the alphabet trick, it’s tracing the letters. Besides, what do you mean too slow? To achieve your version, all you have to do is trace every letter to the rhythm of the alphabet. (I’m not actually sure what you mean by that… I’m going to assume you mean the Alphabet song) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/188 "2010-08-24T13:10:59Z")
I too agree with Miller. Not that I’d heard of the Alphabet Trick before this strip, mind, but searching for its meaning, every sexual reference I could find under that name is tracing the letters. On top of which, Munch’s version doesn’t make sense in the context of the strip because it would render both Faye’s joke in the anecdote, and Angus’s joke in response to it nonsensical. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/189 "2010-08-24T13:19:09Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > Not that I’d heard of the Alphabet Trick before this strip, mind, but searching for its meaning, every sexual reference I could find under that name is tracing the letters. I don’t know if he started it but it was part of Sam Kinison’s routine. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/190 "2010-08-24T22:07:50Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > > [@Miller](#): > > > > It’s a method for giving cunnilingus. While you’re going down on the girl, you trace out each letter of the alphabet with your tongue. > > No, it 's simply keeping rhythm to the alphabet. Tracing would be way too slow. How do you mean, too slow? Like, you’d spend too much time on it, or your tongue wouldn’t be moving fast enough to be effective? If the latter, I don’t see why your tongue would be going any slower using this method than it would “freestyle.” And if the former, please pass along my condolences to your girlfriend. 😃 Or maybe that should be :p? ---
**Author:** ![Kim\_o\_the\_Concrete\_Jungle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ee7513/32.png) [@Kim\_o\_the\_Concrete\_Jungle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kim_o_the_Concrete_Jungle)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/191 "2010-08-25T05:03:38Z")
[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1737](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1737) There’s more than one Toto song? Who’d have thunk? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/192 "2010-08-25T05:10:45Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > It’s a method for giving cunnilingus. While you’re going down on the girl, you trace out each letter of the alphabet with your tongue. And if you _really_ love her, you’ll use the Chinese alphabet. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/193 "2010-08-25T05:17:22Z")
> [@Kim\_o\_the\_Concrete\_Jungle](#): > > [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1737](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1737) > > There’s more than one Toto song? Who’d have thunk? Lord help me, I think I agree with pintsize. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/194 "2010-08-25T05:30:59Z")
I can’t decide if I like Hold the Line or Africa better, but screw Rosanna. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/195 "2010-08-25T12:37:21Z")
Is it me, or does he keep drawing Marigold thinner and thinner? [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1738](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1738) [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1536](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1536) ---
**Author:** ![Kim\_o\_the\_Concrete\_Jungle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ee7513/32.png) [@Kim\_o\_the\_Concrete\_Jungle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kim_o_the_Concrete_Jungle)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/196 "2010-08-25T13:05:47Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Is it me, or does he keep drawing Marigold thinner and thinner? I think it was always going to work that way – that she would get better looking over time, as she started to come out of her shell. Her ugliness in the beginning was so completely over-the-top it was obviously a setup for something. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/197 "2010-08-25T14:40:23Z")
> [@Folly](#): > > > [@Kim\_o\_the\_Concrete\_Jungle](#): > > > > [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1737](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1737) > > > > There’s more than one Toto song? Who’d have thunk? > > Lord help me, I think I agree with pintsize. Likewise. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/198 "2010-08-25T17:52:42Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Is it me, or does he keep drawing Marigold thinner and thinner? Her relative weight, much like all of the character’s relative heights, has bounced around quite a bit, depending on Jeff’s constantly-improving but uneven portrayal. She certainly doesn’t look fat to me in her [first appearance](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1413); unkempt, sure, but not overweight. I think part of Marigold’s apparent weight changing can be chalked up to the character’s usually being visible only from the waist up, and Marigold’s visible weight seems to be portrayed in her legs, butt and thighs. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/199 "2010-08-25T17:56:33Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > She certainly doesn’t look fat to me in her [first appearance](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1413) In fact, she looks kind of scrawny, there, even allowing for Jeph’s art style tending toward the noodly at times. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2010, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/200 "2010-08-26T12:33:47Z")
[Dora](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1739) finally gets it right on the Toto question. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967.md?page=11)