# 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:** 91
**Author:** ![yellowjacketcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4bbf92/32.png) [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1801 "2015-04-13T12:46:14Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > All told, this actually seems like a pretty good date, probably-broken nose aside. Well, aside from Clinton trying way too hard. He’d be doing 10x better if he would just chill out. Of course, I suppose that’s the point of the whole character. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1802 "2015-04-13T15:46:18Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Worked at Secret Bakery - apparently he’s got a new job now. I thought he had mentioned having a bouncer job but couldn’t find a comic where he said that. ---
**Author:** ![Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hershele_Ostropoler)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1803 "2015-04-13T16:04:41Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Worked at Secret Bakery - apparently he’s got a new job now. > [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > I thought he had mentioned having a bouncer job but couldn’t find a comic where he said that. That’s my recollection also, he worked at both Secret Bakery and one of the five thousand bars the characters went to after Jeph quit drinking. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1804 "2015-04-13T17:57:47Z")
ANY date with Emily in a sundress would be a good date. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1805 "2015-04-13T18:01:14Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > All told, this actually seems like a pretty good date, probably-broken nose aside. Well, that and the disfigured for life by an impulsive tattoo that you got to impress a girl thing. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1806 "2015-04-13T19:17:27Z")
I’m betting that tattoo removal is fairly easy in their universe with the AI and other tech advances. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2015, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1807 "2015-04-13T19:50:23Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Well, that and the disfigured for life by an impulsive tattoo that you got to impress a girl thing. This is a guy who goes around with a clearly robotic hand, just because he thinks it looks cool.\* I doubt he’ll consider a tattoo of an electrical socket particularly disfiguring. \*Yes, he has the hand because of an incident with a firecracker. But he could have it covered with realistic looking skin to hide it, and chooses not to because he thinks robots are awesome. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1808 "2015-04-13T20:21:40Z")
On the other hand, it sounded as though he pulled “electrical socket” out of his butt when he was scrambling to make it sound as though he always thought tattoos were awesome and he always wanted one. Given more time, he might have had a dozen better ideas. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1809 "2015-04-13T20:30:02Z")
That’s true. I’m just saying, nerdy and naive as he is, Clinton’s been established as being okay with a pretty radical level of body modification. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2015, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1810 "2015-04-13T20:59:50Z")
“No plan survives first contact with the enemy.” Or with a pretty girl in a sundress. Love it. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1811 "2015-04-13T21:04:42Z")
Okay, and Emily looks like she’s prepared to take a punch in the latest strip. I like her more and more. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1812 "2015-04-16T14:10:17Z")
As someone who has fished for and caught salmon in lakes, let it be known that [Martin is wrong](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2940). ---
**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:** [April 16, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1813 "2015-04-16T14:29:21Z")
I realize that this might just be the art in general but that tattoo looks terribly done. Like the sort of thing you’d see on a “Bad Tattoos” blog – shaky lines, no shading or details, looks like it was drawn with the tattoo equivalent of a cheap ballpoint pen. Isn’t Emily one of the taller characters in the strip? That dude at the bar was a fair bit larger than her and then Elliot (? the bouncer) towered over him. It’s like the Tavern of the Behemoths over there. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1814 "2015-04-16T14:42:22Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > As someone who has fished for and caught salmon in lakes, let it be known that [Martin is wrong](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2940). Indeed. In particular, someone should explain kokanee salmon to him… ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2015, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1815 "2015-04-17T08:40:21Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > Indeed. In particular, someone should explain kokanee salmon to him… Indeed. [This picture](http://www.artinnaturephotography.com/images/large/kokanee-salmon-taylor-creek-20091010_0173.jpg) is only slightly exaggerated from what I’ve seen. You can’t fish them when they’re spawning though, that’s just cheating. The dog did like eating their washed up eggs. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2015, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1816 "2015-04-17T15:20:47Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Isn’t Emily one of the taller characters in the strip? That dude at the bar was a fair bit larger than her and then Elliot (? the bouncer) towered over him. It’s like the Tavern of the Behemoths over there. I’ve noted before the Jacques has problems with the relative heights of his characters. There are times when he’ll show two characters having the same height in one strip and then show them having noticeably different heights in another strip. He apparently just draws them with whatever height feels right at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1817 "2015-04-22T02:15:12Z")
> [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](#): > > That’s my recollection also, he worked at both Secret Bakery and one of the five thousand bars the characters went to after Jeph quit drinking. The reason I couldn’t find Elliot mentioning it was because Elliot never mentioned it. [Will mentioned it.](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1883) ---
**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:** [May 6, 2015, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1818 "2015-05-06T17:46:37Z")
So what meme is Jeph parroting in [#2939](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2939) with the final “Yeah, Baby!” panel? I ask because another web comic [just did the same thing](http://threepanelsoul.com/). ? ---
**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:** [May 6, 2015, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1819 "2015-05-06T22:57:48Z")
Update: my anime-loving son fingered it (ha!). It’s from a J-comic called Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures. See top illustration [here](http://kotaku.com/the-second-arc-of-jojos-bizarre-adventure-is-better-th-470822948). I also found a page of folks that seem to make a hobby of recreating Jojo comics’ covers [here](http://kajipon.sakura.ne.jp/jojo.htm); note several examples of the hand-face pose, esp. right at the top with the matching comic cover at left. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1820 "2015-05-07T00:28:45Z")
He actually references it below the comic. Not that it meant anything to me, but… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967.md?page=90) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967.md?page=92)