Aaaaawwwriiiight Angus!!!
I think if I were Faye I’d have been tempted to prolong the whole having sex thing. See just how badly he’d work for it. 
Like Angus learning to juggle, wrestling a bear, and dancing with a puce condom for her roommate? What more could she ask for? 
Kind of makes you wonder why Faye finally decided to go for it. Was it seeing Marten and Dora break up and realizing life is short? Or maybe hearing about Renee and worrying about losing Angus? Or maybe she was just horny.
I’m going for door #3, with a large helping of finally trusting Angus to be a Good Guy. Faye finally isn’t afraid her guy will abandoned her. Or that if he does, she can take it. At last.
I’ve always been partial to the head of John the Baptist myself. 
Angus’s naked dance would kind of skeeve me if I were in that position, too. But maybe because I don’t think I’m good enough in bed to warrant that kind of praise…
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1892
Heh. It’s almost like he’s writing Dora out of the series.
I don’t think we’ll be that lucky, but a girl can dream.
I predicted Dora’s going to become a minor character. Like Penelope or Sven.
Nah. Dora’s going to show up way more than usual, just to stretch the punchline of this joke for a long, long time.
Romantic times between Angus and Faye? Interrupted by Dora.
Work conversations between Marten and Tai? Made insanely uncomfortable by Dora showing up out of nowhere.
Marigold’s new gaming buddy? Dora!
We’ve clearly been set up for a relationship between Tai and Dora, so I’m sure we’ll be seeing more of her in that context (as well as in the coffee shop strips).
The latest strip is funny because it’s true. I’m planning a move to MA and people have said, “Boston is so far away, like 30 minutes!”
Being from Cali a 30 minute drive is not far at all. “Far” to me is 6+ hours one way.
I grew up in MA, and it is absolutely like that. I had friends in the next town who might as well have lived in Pennsylvania. Going anywhere more than 20 minutes away was an unusual adventure.
From Jeph’s twitter feed today:
English people visiting Australia usually provide a good source of amusement for me in this respect. They have absolutely no sense of scale.
“We thought we’d drive down to Melbourne [from Sydney] today.”
Oh you did, did you? smirk
Or on those real-estate shows on the television, where someone’s looking at a property two miles out of the village: “How would you cope with being so remote and isolated?”
Err, what? That’s still walking distance.
And then I met an Italian couple who just casually mentioned they’d circumnavigated Australia, with two little kids in the back of the car. Um, okay. Wow. (People have actually died when their car broke down in the more remote parts of northern Australia – I didn’t mentioned that to them.)
You may get a kick out of the map in this entry of my mom’s blog. The owners of this vehicle have circumnavigated Australia, and then some
Yeah, plenty of people do it. But usually, you know, it’s kind of a big deal.
That east Africa trip would have been pretty intense.
I use to see the same thing around New York City. You’d watch the weather report on a NYC television and they’d give you the prediction for Manhattan’s upcoming weather. And then, with a totally straight face, they’d give you the prediction for Brooklyn’s upcoming weather.
Here’s a tip for people in Brooklyn - you can use Manhattan’s weather report. It’s a couple of miles away - you’re going to have the same weather.
Ok, CLEARLY you people don’t understand the context here. Amherst isn’t just over the river, (the RIVER!) it’s PAST HADLEY. You have to go OVER THE BRIDGE, then THROUGH HADLEY, then EVEN FURTHER.
That’s almost TWENTY FIVE MILES!
Actually, I always thought that was just a townie thing on the Northampton Amherst axis. None of my western MA buddies live within 45 minutes of each other, and people in the hill towns need to go 20 miles just to see another human, let alone find employment. Not even mentioning the poor bastards in Chicopee, which is basically a chunk of New Jersey.
I don’t think she’d have granted Angus breast-access unless she intended to end up here. Just took a little time.
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It’s also possible everyone was traumatized by the bridge repair. Between 2000 and 2005, the only bridge between Northampton and Amherst was down to one lane, and the horrific traffic made the trip closer to an hour and a half. (The nearest alternate route took almost exactly the same amount of time)
I agree they’ve been heading in this direction. I was just wondering what it was about that particular day that made her finally decide to go ahead rather than spend another week or month thinking it over.