# 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:** 134
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2663 "2022-09-22T13:32:50Z")
Can someone explain the tagline in [today’s strip](https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4879)? “Station/Yay OTP”. All I can think of is One TIme Programmable memory, which probably wouldn’t apply to AIs like Station and Yay. And Claire is wrong to turn down her mom’s help - I’m guessing Yay knows far more about Cubetown than Station ever will. ---
**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:** [September 22, 2022, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2664 "2022-09-22T13:39:36Z")
Hmmm. Urban dictionary lists ‘One True Pairing’ as a possibility. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2665 "2022-09-22T13:54:39Z")
Correct. It’s a shipping term. And shipping here is short for relationshipping, which is when fans imagine or push for characters to be in relationships with each other, based on their chemistry. In this case, he likely is commenting on how he has two characters that form similar roles. There likely are fans who want them to get together based on that. Though I suspect the comment is a bit ironic. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.E](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.e/32/8932_2.png) [@Mr.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.E)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2666 "2022-09-22T22:20:06Z")
Heck, I’d put down money that Yay is directly involved in Cubetown, either as one of the powerful AIs bankrolling it or, possibly, as someone who was created there. Or both, I guess, like an alumnAI program. Anyway, Station and Yay have terrible chemistry. Is Station even that powerful, other than having resources at their disposal? Yay is some kind of intelligence that transcends expected limitations, equating them is comparing CEOs to demigods. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2667 "2022-09-22T22:37:54Z")
I’d say it’s like comparing the Enterprise’s computer to a Culture Mind - and one of the ones with a morally casual attitude at that. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2668 "2022-09-22T23:03:49Z")
By Clinton’s description, I think that Station is remarkably powerful. Just less smug and tediously obnoxious about it than Yay so Station _feels_ more like “he just runs a space station, whatever” ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2669 "2022-09-22T23:19:08Z")
Station is considerably older, since he was able to help raise Hannelore. Yay is only two years old. Station’s had time for psychological maturing and acquisition of interpersonal skills that Yay’s still working on. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.E](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.e/32/8932_2.png) [@Mr.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.E)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2670 "2022-09-22T23:41:01Z")
Oh yeah, I forgot that Yay is only 2 years old. That puts another check in the column of “created at Cubetown” for me. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2022, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2671 "2022-09-23T10:39:07Z")
> [@Mr.E](#): > > Heck, I’d put down money that Yay is directly involved in Cubetown, either as one of the powerful AIs bankrolling it or, possibly, as someone who was created there. Or both, I guess, like an alumnAI program. In the fan subreddit, someone came up with the idea that this is where Yay offloaded their money for Roko. That said, I always got the idea that Yay was originally made for/by the military, since Bubbles knew about them (even if she only thought they were a rumor). I imagined that they escaped, and that’s why the government is after them. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2022, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2672 "2022-09-23T13:09:40Z")
Nah - Cubetown may be a non-profit, but it’s hardly a charity, and they [got multiple replies](https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4037) after the donation, so they must have spread the money around. A children’s hospital wanted to name a wing after them - good thing “Yay” didn’t exist yet. Is the government after Yay? I don’t remember that. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2022, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2673 "2022-09-23T13:20:08Z")
> [@astro](#): > > Is she doing something out of view? Why the surprised look? What subtext am I missing here? _SIGH_ It’s called, “female manipulation”, sweetie. LOL I’m hurt, vulnerable, and in tears. I semi-collapse onto your chest with my arms around you like a child holding her dad. You feel my tears on your shoulder, my warm breasts on your chest, and the scent of my perfume in your nostrils. Suddenly, you are responding exactly the way I want you to respond. Easy-Peasy! 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 23, 2022, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2674 "2022-09-23T13:29:28Z")
After 12 long years **Astro** has their answer. Maybe we can change the thread title now. Although, the subtext of continuous confusion by **Astro** regarding the comic strip has been a source of amusement. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2022, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2675 "2022-09-24T09:17:54Z")
I still think at some point tais gonna get roped into it and shell leave with dora and leave the shop with hannalore and possibly bring back an older character as “help” occasionally …i think it would be funny if it was the delivery girl who was shoved behind the counter and had to get a job there because she was fired ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2022, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2676 "2022-09-24T09:27:33Z")
That was Penelope, who so far as I recall still works there as assistant manager. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2023, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2677 "2023-03-21T06:26:15Z")
[Holy Pintsize, we’re still in Cube Town six months later.](https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5007) Anybody want to explain Claire’s, “Oh my god, your name” to Bartholomew Tender’s intro? kthx . . . . ETA Oh, god, I just got it. “bart tender”. 🤦‍♂️ I’ll be over in the corner. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2023, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2678 "2023-03-21T13:37:38Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > ETA Oh, god, I just got it. It’s like the old joke: A termite walks into a bar, bangs on the corner of it, then yells “Where’s the bar tender?” ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2023, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2679 "2023-03-21T17:50:35Z")
I see the tradition of one female in the party having a difficult encounter with her drink lives on. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2680 "2023-03-27T20:24:30Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > [Holy Pintsize, we’re still in Cube Town six months later.](https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5007) > > Anybody want to explain Claire’s, “Oh my god, your name” to Bartholomew Tender’s intro? kthx > > . > . > . > . > > ETA Oh, god, I just got it. “bart tender”. 🤦‍♂️ > I’ll be over in the corner If it makes you feel any better, I didn’t catch it until reading your post… ---
**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:** [July 26, 2023, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2681 "2023-07-26T06:12:46Z")
So this week’s strips raise the question of who is currently working at the coffee shop. Dora owns it and Hanners is working there. But what about Emily? Penelope? Dale? Cosette? Sara? ---
**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:** [July 26, 2023, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2682 "2023-07-26T06:25:45Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > But what about Emily? Penelope? Dale? Cosette? Sara? Emily, Penny, Dale and Cosette still work there. Jeph just got tired of them. There was a strip that showed them all except Dale just off camera. Sara was eaten by an allosaurus. Very sad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967.md?page=133) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967.md?page=135)