# Questionable Content 01/22 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 22, 2009, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questionable-content-01-22/482525 "2009-01-22T21:38:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questionable-content-01-22/482525/1 "2009-01-22T21:38:26Z")
Who else thinks Dora is going to flip out on Martin and start a problem in their relationship? Martin’s inability to cheat has been the focus of two strips so far, and with a girl asking him out, I really think Dora is going to act irrationally. What say you? [http://questionablecontent.net/](http://questionablecontent.net/) ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questionable-content-01-22/482525/2 "2009-01-22T21:43:10Z")
Probably not, given that the girl implied that she got rejected. But you’re right, she is pretty irrational. What I want to know is where the hell did the sword come from? I don’t have an eidetic memory, but I’ve been following the strip for a while and I _do not_ remember that. :eek: Also, damn Dora is smokin’. I love two-tone hair. ---
**Author:** ![Lawn\_Gnome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lawn\_Gnome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lawn_Gnome)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questionable-content-01-22/482525/3 "2009-01-22T21:55:42Z")
I wouldn’t be surprised if Dora flips out completely. I remember this little series ([Questionable Content](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1098)) with Dora being pretty irrational. In this particular series Dora starts off pretty crazy but eventually calms down and comes to her senses. Perhaps it’ll be the same. Or maybe the strip takes a whole, new spin in the plot. ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questionable-content-01-22/482525/4 "2009-01-22T22:00:38Z")
I don’t know why this would make Dora flip out on Marten. I mean, if some chick was bemoaning to me about this kind of thing and she described my boyfriend and was sad that he was already taken I would take that as a sign that he is faithful, not that I need to go all psycho-killer on him. ---
**Author:** ![MikeS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MikeS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeS)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questionable-content-01-22/482525/5 "2009-01-22T22:09:11Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > What I want to know is where the hell did the sword come from? I don’t have an eidetic memory, but I’ve been following the strip for a while and I _do not_ remember that. :eek: [It’s for fighting off robbers and breaking pots.](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=468) ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questionable-content-01-22/482525/6 "2009-01-22T22:12:26Z")
> [@Lawn\_Gnome](#): > > I wouldn’t be surprised if Dora flips out completely. I remember this little series ([Questionable Content](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1098)) with Dora being pretty irrational. > > In this particular series Dora starts off pretty crazy but eventually calms down and comes to her senses. Perhaps it’ll be the same. Or maybe the strip takes a whole, new spin in the plot. Wasn’t there also a comic where she got pissy because he said he still thought about or had vague feelings of love for girls he knew in high school? I can’t remember how it went exactly, but she wasn’t happy… ETA: [Questionable Content](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1066) It’s this one. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questionable-content-01-22/482525/7 "2009-01-22T22:14:02Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > What I want to know is where the hell did the sword come from? I don’t have an eidetic memory, but I’ve been following the strip for a while and I _do not_ remember that. :eek: It’s mentioned in one strip that there’s a laptop and a broadsword under the counter. They used the sword to break a pot off of Raven’s head. I think it was during the Astroglide hair gel bit. ---
**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:** [January 22, 2009, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questionable-content-01-22/482525/8 "2009-01-22T22:15:07Z")
> [@MikeS](#): > > [It’s for fighting off robbers and breaking pots.](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=468) They were also playing around with the sword and what appears to be a wizard’s staff in Tuesday’s comic, for reasons not made explicit in the strip. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questionable-content-01-22/482525/9 "2009-01-22T22:26:18Z")
> [@MikeS](#): > > [It’s for fighting off robbers and breaking pots.](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=468) Thanks. No wonder I didn’t remember it, that was 900 strips ago. ---
**Author:** ![willthekittensurvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@willthekittensurvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willthekittensurvive)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questionable-content-01-22/482525/10 "2009-01-22T22:38:19Z")
Yay! a questionable content Thread Euhm…nothing to add at the moment but Yay!!! ---
**Author:** ![Time\_Stranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@Time\_Stranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Time_Stranger)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questionable-content-01-22/482525/11 "2009-01-23T13:15:17Z")
Well, it looks like you guys were right! I hope he takes this a little further than the other fights. I’m getting a little bored with the perfection that is Marten/Dora. But what I _really_ wish Jeph would do is develop more between Faye and Sven. I mean, we know he likes her already - Make him grow a pair and let’s get official! That would really get under Dora’s scalp. Also, count me as one that really hates Dora’s new hair. (Actually, I think I just don’t like Dora in general, but I’m not really sure why.) ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questionable-content-01-22/482525/12 "2009-01-23T21:23:50Z")
Martin should have told her, but I don’t think it’s a big deal that he didn’t. I mean, the other girl even said he turned her down. I can understand why he wouldn’t though, given Dora’s history at taking small things and blowing them up. ---
**Author:** ![Xan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ac8455/32.png) [@Xan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xan)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questionable-content-01-22/482525/13 "2009-01-23T21:26:30Z")
> [@Time\_Stranger](#): > > Well, it looks like you guys were right! I hope he takes this a little further than the other fights. I’m getting a little bored with the perfection that is Marten/Dora. > > But what I _really_ wish Jeph would do is develop more between Faye and Sven. I mean, we know he likes her already - Make him grow a pair and let’s get official! That would really get under Dora’s scalp. > > Also, count me as one that really hates Dora’s new hair. (Actually, I think I just don’t like Dora in general, but I’m not really sure why.) It looks like someone dumped bleach on her hair. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questionable-content-01-22/482525/14 "2009-01-23T21:28:50Z")
I hate her hair, too. And she’s started to annoy me, too. She’s stopped dyeing it black and that’s her natural color…is that the story? ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questionable-content-01-22/482525/15 "2009-01-24T04:58:37Z")
Dora can’t help her actions. It’s all in her genetic makeup. Her Italian genes make her volatile, and her Swedish genes make her go berserk with a Viking sword. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questionable-content-01-22/482525/16 "2009-01-24T05:08:12Z")
Jesus Christ. You just KNOW she’d be threatened by Marten telling her about a girl asking him out. And now she’s even more pissed that he knows how volatile she is and is trying to spare her feelings/a bloodbath. Then again, part of me probably would react the same way. So I’m torn. Gah. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questionable-content-01-22/482525/17 "2009-01-24T05:46:40Z")
> [@movingfinger](#): > > Dora can’t help her actions. It’s all in her genetic makeup. Her Italian genes make her volatile, and her Swedish genes make her go berserk with a Viking sword. Plus…she’s a woman. 😃 ---
**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:** [January 24, 2009, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questionable-content-01-22/482525/18 "2009-01-24T05:59:58Z")
On Dora’s hair – she mentioned [a couple of weeks ago](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1302) (which is apparently several months ago in strip time; note that it is [now suddenly winter](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1311)) that she was going to grow it out. Dora is a natural blond who started dying her hair in school to be goth-like, and she’s over being goth and has wanted to go back to blond, but [didn’t want to deal with the hassle of changing back](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=618), although Marten was supportive. Apparently she decided to grow it out _and_ not cut it once it was long enough. Go figure. As far as the OP: I’ve said this in a previous thread, so I’ll just repeat: I’m tired of Dora’s psychotic bullshit. They should break up, or we should finally find out more of Dora’s real back story (more detailed than “oh, gosh, Sven was always so much cooler than me, boo-hoo”). Marten should call her bluff once and for all. Pulling out a broadsword and some poor girl who _Marten had just rejected_ because he’s in a committed relationship with Dora is a bit much. Jeph, do must we really do this all again? Is this going anywhere, ever? ---
**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:** [January 24, 2009, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questionable-content-01-22/482525/19 "2009-01-24T06:15:34Z")
BTW, re strip #[1312](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1312), what does this reference? I have no clue. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2009, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questionable-content-01-22/482525/20 "2009-01-24T06:38:33Z")
Aha, the [Dora is really](http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=237) [a platinum blonde](http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=239) strips. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questionable-content-01-22/482525.md?page=2)