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🕑 Added 2020-10-13 01:12:57 +0000 UTC

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P

Super true! But also: Yay is a 'they' not a 'she'. Just a heads up! :)

jimbo

Hercules doesn't need a diet. He just has a big head

The character growth of Yay is such a joy to watch.

Stephen Wells

A Para-Dong is an emergency air-dropped

Captain Button

A Para-Don is a sort of auxiliary Professor at Oxford University.

Captain Button

Yay has many bodies, they may not all be the same exact configuration.

Kurious

Since when has Yay developed a neck vent?

CaseyAEC

I wonder if Yay knows where they are.... a comic...., as in Genre-Savvy.

Ack

I think that's supposed to be paragon.

Cathal Mc Ginley

I love Yay's eyes in panel 1, and that paw in panel 2

David Pipes

"Paradon"? :-)

Flounder

I think they're more interested in the prospect of chaos.

Each one has an obviously false disguise on.

Wolfger

Did Yay just flirt with Eliot? Or am I projecting?

jimbo

"paradon" (panel 3): 'paradox' + 'mastodon' =an improbable creature, outdated by time and circumstance i.e a suave confident bisexual near-virgin

YourKingMob

Paradon?

Milo

Uh... Is Elliot slimming up too?

lazymagpie

Local Cinnamon Roll Gets Romantic Advice By Robo-Cthulhu

RaptorShadow

Now now, Roko isn't here.

Glenn

I'm totally going to name an album "The Chasm of Romantic Farce"

Nicholas Kratzer

The "chasm" of romantic farce is such an apt description.

Stomat

Yay romantic farce!

JourneymanWizard

CAT!!!!!

Devin Forbes

So it's the paragon of essence of being?

Michael Boettger

I can just see what would happen if Clinton met Yay, fanboy meets godlike AI. Faye might have to talk him down.

Nathaniel Tagg

I'm sorta surprised she didn't offer to play the role of bread dough.

Ace

Sed kial la akuzativo en tiu frazo?

Lisa

I really enjoy Yay's combination of spot-on analysis of humans' interactions coupled with her inability (or unwillingness) to play by human social norms. She's being tactless in panels 2 and 3, and if she had previously established a pattern of communicating politely, it would be rude and insulting. But since it's her, it's reassuring. In any case, Elliot seems a bit reassured. In general I enjoy how Jeph writes a diversity of communication styles that reflect characters who process ideas differently from each other.

Andrew Mitchell

OMG that side-eye Yay is showing in panel too. And their look of mischief as they deliver that final line. Amazing work Jeph. You just know we come here for our daily dose of romantic farce.

Bagge

Did someone say 'Wacky hijinks?" Yay said 'Wacky hijinks'!

allanfranta

or paragon?

Eric Sieck

It’s a perfectly cromulent word!

Alex Borders

Reasonability? Is that a word? Is that a new word? I think 'reasonableness' would be more appropriate.

Jeff Hartley

Paradon: Accusative singular of Parado in the Esperanto language. Parado = stopped in Esperanto

Cliff

Damnit, I come here for the questionable content, not life advice! 😜

Julia Allen-Hesse

Typo... paradon?

Joseph Bonnar

Yay is growing on me. Slowly.

I think you misunderstand - the Paradons were an elite regiment of Italian Special Forces raised in Sicily. During the early stages of the Second World War, they were dropped behind enemy lines to buy up businesses and offer special insurance to local military forces which would have a variety of unfortunate accidents if (or sometimes even though) they failed to pay. Unfortunately, after several remarkably successful campaigns, the unit had lost so many of its members to internal attrition ("friendly fire" was a particular problem) that it had to be disbanded. Most of the Italian government of the time survived the dissolution of the unit, but Benito Mussolini was severely wounded and walked with a limp for the rest of his life.

Kenneth Carlile

Wow, it's got to be such an advantage to be an AI when playing with cats... claws can't possibly hurt as much!

awgiedawgie

Well, since a chasm is a deep hole, I shudder to think what part of you that's your wife's nickname for.

Raphael Bressel

You're good enough, you're smart enough, and doggone it, people like you.

Bradley Richard

I was thinking the same thing. Did a Google and a paradon is a type of viola lol

Summer Sudbrink

Oh lord, we already have one Don, we couldn't survive two!

Hugh Eckert

Get it, Hercules!

At long last it's come to this, Jepf? Esperanto?

Simon Green

Funny you should say that, 'the chasm of romantic farce' is my wife's nickname for my -- HEY WHAT'S THAT OVER THERE

Hugh Eckert

They're a force for farce.

Dean Reilly

Eight drunken Spookybots show up at the bar looking for trouble, to give Elliot the maximum opportunity to appear confident.

SpookyPenguin

Elliot, more adorable than the cat. That's hard for a cat lover like me to say, believe me!

Michael Voorhis

Panel 3: paradon ---> paragon?

LH

i suspect Yay is immune to physical force, so to have this effect it would have to be an *emotional* gut punch. ... and now i kind of want to see that storyline.

Ashleah

Came here to suggest this.

Michael Boettger

Elliot, you're good enough. And listen to Yay. They can probably synthesize advice from Ann Landers to Ask Emily. And they're probably right enough about this.

z

There is going to be a day when Yay! manages to annoy the WRONG person and discovers, "Hey, so this is what being punched in the face feels like! Let's not do it again because it HURTS!"