# 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:** 94
**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:** [July 16, 2015, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1861 "2015-07-16T01:43:52Z")
Faye’s a busy girlie. She has no time for chitchat. “Here’s the password, Giant Red Robot Bitch! See? I belong.” ---
**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:** [July 16, 2015, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1862 "2015-07-16T02:19:59Z")
Sometimes Jeph doesn’t include all the panels, because he figures we’re smart enough to get it, or at least if someone wants _Between Failures_ they know where to find it. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2015, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1863 "2015-07-19T17:41:08Z")
> [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](#): > > Sometimes Jeph doesn’t include all the panels, Got an example of when he’s done this before? ---
**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:** [July 19, 2015, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1864 "2015-07-19T18:23:10Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Got an example of when he’s done this before? All of them? If he included “all the panels,” it would be a cartoon, not a comic. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2015, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1865 "2015-07-19T18:45:01Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > All of them? If he included “all the panels,” it would be a cartoon, not a comic. That’s a pretty disingenuous response. I don’t think my observation is unreasonable - there appears to be an error in the dialogue. An extremely minor one, but one nonetheless. Responding with “1-2-3-4-5-6-7” to “Can I help you?” isn’t “figuring we’re smart enough” to figure out that Bubbles said something akin to “how did you get in here?”, it’s just a writing lapse. Jeph indicated on Twitter that day that he’d had an incredibly terrible day personally, and also apologized for the strip he published the next day for being pretty lazy. I don’t think it’s a big stretch to think that maybe this one just wasn’t up to snuff either. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2015, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1866 "2015-07-19T18:48:47Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > That’s a pretty disingenuous response. A little bit, yeah, but in fairness, more to the guy who said Jeph “doesn’t include all the panels.” > [@](#): > > I don’t think my observation is unreasonable - there appears to be an error in the dialogue. An extremely minor one, but one nonetheless. Responding with “1-2-3-4-5-6-7” to “Can I help you?” isn’t “figuring we’re smart enough” to figure out that Bubbles said something akin to “how did you get in here?”, it’s just a writing lapse. Jeph indicated on Twitter that day that he’d had an incredibly terrible day personally, and also apologized for the strip he published the next day for being pretty lazy. I don’t think it’s a big stretch to think that maybe this one just wasn’t up to snuff either. I just disagree. I was honestly more confused by your question if we had found anything confusing about the dialogue. The comic seemed entirely straight forward to me. ---
**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 19, 2015, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1867 "2015-07-19T19:22:34Z")
I also don’t see the confusion. We’ve already been told that Pintsize knows somebody in the underground robot fighting business. Faye knows welding and is looking for a job. So Faye goes up to the door of the underground fight club. The doorman stops her and Faye gives the doorman the password. How is this confusing? ---
**Author:** ![UncaStuart](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncastuart/32/404_2.png) [@UncaStuart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncaStuart)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1868 "2015-07-19T19:29:52Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I also don’t see the confusion. We’ve already been told that Pintsize knows somebody in the underground robot fighting business. Faye knows welding and is looking for a job. > > So Faye goes up to the door of the underground fight club. The doorman stops her and Faye gives the doorman the password. > > How is this confusing? Agree. I just saw it as Faye having no patience and is skipping a few steps: “Here’s the password, no need for us to get bogged down in conversation, let’s get going.” ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1869 "2015-07-19T19:54:19Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > File that under Christian Traditions of Which I Was Unaware. 😉 > [@jayjay](#): > > Weren’t raised Catholic, were you? > > [The Ecstasy of St. Teresa](http://36.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3xxbd4VRt1qbo39mo1_1280.jpg) I was! But Father Fisher never taught us about > [@](#): > > I saw in his hand a long spear of gold, and at the iron’s point there seemed to be a little fire. He appeared to me to be thrusting it at times into my heart, and to pierce my very entrails; when he drew it out, he seemed to draw them out also, and to leave me all on fire with a great love of God. The pain was so great, that it made me moan; and yet so surpassing was the sweetness of this excessive pain, that I could not wish to be rid of it. The soul is satisfied now with nothing less than God. The pain is not bodily, but spiritual; though the body has its share in it. It is a caressing of love so sweet which now takes place between the soul and God, that I pray God of His goodness to make him experience it who may think that I am lying. :eek: ---
**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:** [July 19, 2015, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1870 "2015-07-19T22:34:55Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I also don’t see the confusion. We’ve already been told that Pintsize knows somebody in the underground robot fighting business. Faye knows welding and is looking for a job. Let me be clear - I did not find it confusing. I clearly understood what was going on. > [@](#): > > So Faye goes up to the door of the underground fight club. The doorman stops her and Faye gives the doorman the password. No, the doorman did not stop her - Bubbles asked Faye what it could do for her. That’s well past needing to know that Faye knows the password. She’s already in there - she knows the password. Do you respond to the cashier at the grocery store with “I came in through the front door” when they ask “Can I help you?” It is, to my ear, a non-sequitur at that point. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1871 "2015-07-19T23:28:29Z")
It’s an underground fighting club, they’re not going to advertise it. If you don’t know that it exists, and don’t know the password, no-one’s going to ask you for it… ---
**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 20, 2015, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1872 "2015-07-20T00:45:12Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > No, the doorman did not stop her - Bubbles asked Faye what it could do for her. That’s well past needing to know that Faye knows the password. She’s already in there - she knows the password. Do you respond to the cashier at the grocery store with “I came in through the front door” when they ask “Can I help you?” It is, to my ear, a non-sequitur at that point. Maybe that’s the issue we’re not seeing the same. I don’t feel Faye has really gotten inside the fight club. She may be in off the street but I feel Bubbles’ job is to keep people from going inside the real fight club. There’s certainly no sign of any robot fighting going on in the room where Faye and Bubbles are talking. Bubbles is questioning Faye to see if she’ll be let in. Faye passed the first test by knowing the password. Now she has to pass the second test by convincing Bubbles she has a good reason to be allowed inside to talk to the manager. ---
**Author:** ![yellowjacketcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4bbf92/32.png) [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1873 "2015-07-20T03:05:25Z")
**Snowboarder Bo** has to be happy with [Monday’s strip](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3006) ---
**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:** [July 20, 2015, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1874 "2015-07-20T14:41:21Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Maybe that’s the issue we’re not seeing the same. I don’t feel Faye has really gotten inside the fight club. She may be in off the street but I feel Bubbles’ job is to keep people from going inside the real fight club. There’s certainly no sign of any robot fighting going on in the room where Faye and Bubbles are talking. Bubbles is questioning Faye to see if she’ll be let in. Faye passed the first test by knowing the password. Now she has to pass the second test by convincing Bubbles she has a good reason to be allowed inside to talk to the manager. If you look at the first panel of the [strip](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3003), she’s walking across what appears to be the fighting octagon, with a few pieces of broken robots in the lower left corner. But I agree, until she gives the password, she’s not getting any further in, or getting any sort of confirmation that there is a robot fight club. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2015, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1875 "2015-07-20T15:05:53Z")
Asking whether she can fix a crushed chest plate or a frozen joint before a crucial bout seem pretty clear to me they aren’t denying too much from her. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2015, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1876 "2015-07-20T22:10:07Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > But I agree, until she gives the password, she’s not getting any further in, or getting any sort of confirmation that there is a robot fight club. You mean other than the fact that she already gave the password somewhere, otherwise she a) wouldn’t know it and b) wouldn’t know jack about how shitty their password system is? ---
**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:** [July 20, 2015, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1877 "2015-07-20T22:29:20Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > You mean other than the fact that she already gave the password somewhere, otherwise she a) wouldn’t know it and b) wouldn’t know jack about how shitty their password system is? This makes no sense. ‘You will only know the password after you give it’ is an even shittier system than one where the password is ‘1 2 3 4 5 6 7’. It’s actually psychotically ‘this isn’t actually a password’ shitty, rather than lazy ‘eh, nobody will bother to try that’ shitty. She knows the password because Pintsize told her, because that’s how you get into somewhere with a password. She knows the password system is shitty, because the password is ‘1 2 3 4 5 6 7’. She’s talking to the person she has to give the password to. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1878 "2015-07-21T12:50:09Z")
Regardless of the clumsy entrance, to be honest I don’t give a rat’s ass about this storyline. Can we maybe focus on the other characters rather than introducing new one (who will be dropped in 9 months)? ---
**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:** [July 21, 2015, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1879 "2015-07-21T13:13:57Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > You mean other than the fact that she already gave the password somewhere, otherwise she a) wouldn’t know it and b) wouldn’t know jack about how shitty their password system is? WTH? Someone else, presumably Pintsize, told her the password. She realized 1234567 is a shitty password, because that’s obvious (though it isnt’ actually a shitty password). Here’s the system as it appears to me: Anyone can walk into the building. Bubbles asks you if she can help you. If you know the password, you just tell her. She never asks for the password, because that would admit there’s something secret going on there. If you ask about the robot fights before giving her the password, she denies any knowledge of such, tells you they’re renovating the skate park, and asks you to leave. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1880 "2015-08-03T22:39:09Z")
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