Now I Want A Bagel

Dancing on the Edge of Sanity

Needs to be crowd-funded...

tuypo1

With how horny everybody is it's a wonder nobody has done any robots yet

BobC

Srsly? There is Only One Pintsize Ship: Pintsize + Gary. [mic drop]

BobC

Animalcule husbandry.

BobC

Ix-nay on the ipping-shay alk-tay! Else the Jeph Troll will continue to block all shipping.

BobC

Bromance? "Bros! Bros! Bros!"

BobC

NP:

Just thinking of what to call a Pintsize - Droid 06 ship. Armageddon? EndOfTheWorld? EverybodyButShelbyDies?

Ben Russell-Gough's ship needs a name as well, I suppose. Rokbot.

RoofPig

Tweed-Flotsam. Lots of funny names in this universe.

Gary Walker

True. Scones are quickbreads and therefore a matter of chemistry whereas yeast breads are more a matter of animal husbandry.

Churchill (formerly TeaBear)

Clinton and Elliot; Buddy comedy. ;D

David R Long

The reason one can bake the perfect scone is the same reason one can make the perfect cup of tea. It's all in the math.

Rook Hallan

I decree the official ship portmanteaux: Bruniot Brunton Bruliniot Cliniot Clinko Elko Sixpints

Morgan

Clinton - Elliot is my favorite, but I wouldn't mind some Brun sprinkled in as well.

Gary Walker

Droid 06 and all the things.

Ben Russell-Gough

Just to let you know I'm rooting for Roko-Punchbot myself!

How many different Ships are now setting sail? Brun - Elliot, Brun - Clinton, Brun - Clinton - Elliot Clinton - Elliot, Clinton - Roko, Elliot - Roko, Droid 06 - Pintsize?

Patrick Jackson

Tweed-Flotsam :-D I do love the American posh British surname generator :-D

Ben Russell-Gough

SHHH! The guildmasters' agents are always on the lookout for people who leak craft secrets!

Diptych

You put them one way around on one half of the scone and the other way around on the other half.

Abhayakara

Hmm. Does this mean that a proustian moment is a halting state?

Abhayakara

True. They are not particularly complete without a bit of black current jam...

Andrew

I guess they're NP-complete when they finish baking?

Ben Russell-Gough

I hadn't made that connection! Well done!

Ben Russell-Gough

Just fully absorbing panel 5 and I still can't tell if Elliott is sassing Clinton or if he is serious. The crafts such as baking have so many secrets and so much hidden lore that it is difficult to tell if you're being given an insight or they're just trolling you.

With scones the debate is no longer centred around the scone itself, but around the positioning of the clotted cream in relation to the jam. Source: me, lived in Devon for 3 years.

Dave Cochran

Croissants are only NP-hard if you leave em in your knapsack for too long.

Bagge

Awwww. Those two have a great interaction.

蒲公英

Funny footnote/comp theory joke. If only NP wasn't actually ruining my life right now :P... And now I'm just imagining all baked goods as just really tasty computation problems...

allanfranta

ultimate scone

Brent Catherman

I think Elliot would be a better match for Roko. He knows how to bake and he's tall.

DVW

Hell I'd settle for a merely superior scone.

Andrew

Yeah, she’d be all like: “bake me like one of your French pastries”

If Roko were there now listening to this she'd be drooling. Or rather, venting coolant. <a href="http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3669" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3669</a>

Did you find anything?

2 problems come to mind... First, they would be far too soft. A good loaf of battle bread blunts the saw blade when trying to take a sample. And the second problem is that they're too edible. (After all, dwarfs are forbidden to give battle bread to prisoners by the Uberwald Convention.)

JPMK! {verb}

In Morselnomics, food consume you!

I feel like if we get anything close to a real relationship with Clinton it will take at least as long as Marten took if not longer.

Caroline Thornton

The mention of Bertrand Russell gave me grad-level philosophy flashbacks.

Andrew

If those scones are so ultimate, would they stack up against some discworld battle bread?

Brendan Jones

Berthold and Bethany lived by the same riverbank. Had they lived at the same time, they could have invented the cronut sixty years too early, but sadly they're just floating by each other in history.

BobC

The perfect bagel recipe was by Berthold Herringbone-Jetsam. But that just happened, so Jeph may not know about it yet.

Andrew

Do you pay extra if Brun sweats in your drink?

Erik Hawkinson

Am I the only one who searched for Bethany Tweed-Flotsam in the hope it was a real person?

William Cole

That’s some serious old-school QC banter there, like triple entendres or logarithmic nerd scales.

Nicholas Lopez

I'll take one ultimate scone please.