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Basic Arithmetic

🕑 Added 2018-03-18 03:19:34 +0000 UTC

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Churchill (formerly TeaBear)

Either that, or "You two would make a cute couple." Cue the incandescent double-blush.

There are many sensible and hard-working fools out there today, as can be seen in any comedy club in the country - nay, the world! - and this backhanded slap demeans an ancient and honorable profession. It might be true that a fool would say "Delaware", if he or she was looking for a cheap laugh, but to imply that a fool would not know any better (assuming, of course, that this particular fool knows something about the basic geography of the eastern United States, or has some passing familiarity with either place names or family names) is grossly insulting. You take that back right now.

Holly Nelson

Jessi: Except, there are quite a number of extremely intelligent fools out there. Alas.

gatherer818

@Paul Rendell you can tell he hasn't, because Pintsize hasn't try to f*** the attachment point where Clinton's robo-hand... wait... I think he DID try to f*** the attachment point! Hold on!

Morgan

Dude I thought I was the only one who shipped him with everybody.

Gary Walker

Pintsize is actually why Clinton knows everybody. <a href="http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1898" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1898</a>

Ace

By the same token, clothing can't have a sexual orientation, and yet "that shirt is so gay" is still homophobic.

Isn't half the joke that a dumb person wouldn't say anything, and Clinton missed that?

Daryl Sawyer

I want to see Brun to just walk up, correctly assess the situation between the three of them, and without any foreshadowing, preamble, or lead-up of any kind, just say to them, "We should have a threesome."

Daryl Sawyer

Leah, but Clinton either anticipated that answer, or rolled with it well.

Ben Russell-Gough

Sassy: Panel 1 - "Well, y'know, I'm just so suave!" Smart: Panel 4 - "You see, that's what a *smart* person would say!"

Rob McBobson

As has been said already, the fact that we're talking about people speaking makes it completely obvious that mute people aren't being discussed. 'Tis a non-issue.

Ace

He actually ended up with Pintsize somehow stuck to his hand interface o.O

Jessi Lloyd

for everyone wanting an alternative, how about "a fool would say Delaware" ?

Zach Elwyn

Confused.,. what did Clinton say that was so sassy? Seemed like EIlliot's answer was the sassy one.

Andrew Tate

I'm so tempted to try and mute you...

Ben Russell-Gough

It usually takes a fairly big epiphany for people to radically change their behaviour and I don't think that Elliott has had one of those recently.

Ben Russell-Gough

This may just be me but I suspect that Jeph is deliberately maximising Clinton's opportunities in this arc.

Ben Russell-Gough

That has to be the smartest and sassiest thing that Clinton has ever said! Maybe he is Claire's brother after all! I'm expecting this week to end with Brun announcing to them that they are very obviously flirting with each other. Meanwhile, I see that Elliot's body volume is going on a variable setting again!

Cleo Schmitz

He's a good dog, Dillon!

Brad Knowles

He's drunk. It's easy to have confidence when you're drunk.

Dylan T

Elliot is a good egg

Patrick Mac Manus

Clinton didn't define if there was any decimal value.... so technically if his 2 was 2.3 upwards, the answer would be 5.

Bagge

I don't understand this whole "confidence" thing Clinton has going on, but I like it.

Paul Rendell

Has Clinton even met Pintsize?

Brian

/everyone/? Clinton x Pintsize OTP

Brian

“Dumb” can mean “unintelligent” or “person who cannot speak” and the difference is in the context. “A dumb person would say Delaware” requires that the dumb person be able to speak, so it can be inferred from this that it only refers to the form of the word dealing with intelligence and not the form that deals with speech. There’s literally no way it implies that those that cannot speak are unintelligent. To what alternative would you prefer this word be tweaked?

Andrew

Soft Boy looks like he's shrunk a bit, maybe he's like Baymax but governed by self-confidence. I think I'm starting to self-insert an 'in' at the start of his T-shirt :)

I love it myself. Keep Jeph happy, keep updates on schedule. )

Ace

That is... so not what tone policing is.

Asher Rose Fox

There is no good euphemism for "unintelligent, but I mean it in a funny way". But I trust Jeph to come up with a better tagline if he chooses to.

That was actually pretty suave.

TMN

Elliott is starting to make me actively angry. I hate that he keeps defaulting to this endless cycle of awkward crushes and jealously side-eyeing the people who actively pursue them. It seems to be a circuitous pattern at this point. ...but then I remember that he and Clinton figuratively made a unicorn together, so by all means PROCEED.

Michelle Wex

Which is true for large values of 2.

TMN

If you're going to tone police basic words in the English language, shouldn't you at least offer the creator a better euphemism?

BobC

Really. I hate it when Jeph trolls the shippers.

Corpus Callosum

Why do you make me ship Clinton with everyone

Asher Rose Fox

Jeph, would you please consider tweaking the tagline to not use "dumb", which implies that people who don't or can't speak are inherently unintelligent? ("Stupid" has similar problems, but "dumb" is worse.)