# 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:** 44
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/861 "2011-08-30T23:18:36Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > Not the Foglios, just Phil. Before he met Kaja (who was something like 14 when the comic was originally published in the mid-80s). My bad. I saw the year listed as 2007 on the front page and figured that was when it actually ran. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/862 "2011-08-31T00:45:10Z")
Kaja IS, however, [the spitting image of Agatha](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Phil_and_Kaja_Foglio_Gen_Con_2007.jpg/220px-Phil_and_Kaja_Foglio_Gen_Con_2007.jpg), with red hair instead of blonde. ---
**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 31, 2011, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/863 "2011-08-31T02:13:25Z")
I wonder what happens to Momo’s old chassis? Does Momo/Marigold keep it as a backup? Does the store recycle it, or refurb it to sell again? Is it donated it to a charity for disembodied or newly-born AI’s? ---
**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 31, 2011, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/864 "2011-08-31T02:29:52Z")
Given the new chassis is apparently breathtakingly expensive, Marigold and Momo probably traded it in for a discount on the new one, so it’ll likely be refurbished and resold (if this arc doesn’t end with a trade back). ---
**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 31, 2011, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/865 "2011-08-31T03:07:06Z")
I’m betting on “dream sequence.” ---
**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/866 "2011-10-10T12:09:20Z")
[LOOK AT THIS GIRL SHE WILL BE IMPORTANT](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2031) (Jeph’s very subtle with these things) ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/867 "2011-10-10T13:40:32Z")
> [@MostlyClueless](#): > > [LOOK AT THIS GIRL SHE WILL BE IMPORTANT](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2031) > > (Jeph’s very subtle with these things) Will she be? I thought it was just a cameo. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/868 "2011-10-10T14:04:31Z")
First panel, I thought random window dressing, very much in line with the ‘lets draw a cute girl’ philosophy that underlies the strip. Second panel, she looks at our heroes = gonna be important. ---
**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:** [October 10, 2011, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/869 "2011-10-10T14:12:31Z")
Cameo. That’s “Sweet Tits” – Yelling Bird’s friend/victim from filler comics. ---
**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:** [October 10, 2011, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/870 "2011-10-10T14:21:31Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > Cameo. That’s “Sweet Tits” – Yelling Bird’s friend/victim from filler comics. Missed the edit – [here’s her first appearance in one of several filler comics](http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1160). ---
**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:** [October 10, 2011, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/871 "2011-10-10T15:38:59Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > Cameo. That’s “Sweet Tits” – Yelling Bird’s friend/victim from filler comics. Ha. That’s awesome. I wouldn’t have caught that. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/872 "2011-10-10T19:34:10Z")
Yeah, the Bird Care book gave it away. ---
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/873 "2011-10-14T11:43:29Z")
What does Marigold’s shirt say in today’s [strip](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2035)? Looks like GEEK (save ends), which doesn’t make sense. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/874 "2011-10-14T12:09:07Z")
> [@Stauderhorse](#): > > What does Marigold’s shirt say in today’s [strip](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2035)? Looks like GEEK (save ends), which doesn’t make sense. “Save ends” is a mechanic in D&D 4th Ed. I don’t know the details (I’ve never even actually seen a 4th Ed rulebook yet), but it appears to indicate that a spell’s duration lasts until the target makes a saving throw. ---
**Author:** ![Ura-Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/51bf81/32.png) [@Ura-Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ura-Maru)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/875 "2011-10-17T07:37:17Z")
Good guess. You get a saving throw vs ‘save ends’ effects at the end of each turn. Sometimes at the beginning too, if you’re a member of a particular tough-guy class or have the right feat. Or even more often, if you hang around with a Cleric or a Warlord. They use a different mechanic from 3.x’s saving throws. (which got turned into defenses for 4e) They’re mostly used for shrugging off ongoing effects and bleeding to death. And pushing people into lava. – An odd t-shirt for Marigold to be wearing. So there’s a 50% chance she’ll stop being a geek after any given turn. 60% if she’s an Elite or a Solo. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/876 "2011-10-17T11:30:37Z")
> [@Ura-Maru](#): > > An odd t-shirt for Marigold to be wearing. So there’s a 50% chance she’ll stop being a geek after any given turn. 60% if she’s an Elite or a Solo. WAG: just a joke timed for the particular strip, since she was saying she didn’t have time for something geeky. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2011, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/877 "2011-11-25T05:02:27Z")
My turn to not get it. [Nice glasses, Poindexter](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2065). Faye has shorter hair, and the same glasses as always. And they’re much like Marigold’s. So what’s the joke? I’m obviously missing some culture reference, right? ---
**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:** [November 25, 2011, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/878 "2011-11-25T05:07:52Z")
She broke them, and taped them back together at the bridge. That’s standard shorthand for ‘nerd’. (And ‘Poindexter’ is a standard, if…horribly dated nickname for nerds.) Oddly, when talking about her terrible morning, she never actually mentioned breaking them, and I had to look back and check to see if they had the tape in the previous non-Turkey strip (they do). Jeph was a bit too subtle for his own good with that one, maybe… ---
**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:** [November 25, 2011, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/879 "2011-11-25T05:15:12Z")
Ah, indeed. I’d remembered Padma busting them several strips ago, but hadn’t made the connection. And I agree it’s darned hard to notice the glasses mending in the art, at least for me. Thanks! ---
**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:** [November 25, 2011, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/880 "2011-11-25T05:26:50Z")
Ach, and thank you…I was racking my brain trying to remember when she broke them, since, looking back, it clearly wasn’t in the morning, but you posted before I finally worked my way back to the facepunching. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967.md?page=43) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967.md?page=45)