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Ayo is full of good ideas

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Nope, he says it's biased against computers. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1383

BookBeard

Nah, you need a secret menu that you don't tell your lovers (if any). Or a set of hand signals (for when the music's loud). Or a cowbell. Or a set of handbells -- you know, the signal for a large caramel mocha latte is Bach's Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C Major BWV 564. And so on.

Ursus Ridens

Newest AI playing chess are getting bad. Does Pintsize play chess? https://www.popsci.com/technology/ai-chess-cheat/#:~:text=A%20new%20study%20suggests%20reasoning%20models%20from%20DeepSeek,game%20files%20in%20their%20favor.%20Credit%3A%20Deposit%20Photos

Paul Johnson

Bad example, the submacopter was clearly a work of genius.

BookBeard

I doubt it's even in the top ten lol remember the Submacopter?

Lucas Werkmeister

This may be the stupidest idea anyone at CoD has ever had.

awgiedawgie

*slow clap again*

Stewart MacWilliam

The Pintsize : [REDACTED]

Nicolas Dao-Phan

AND she could achieve her superhero dreams!

enchantedsleeper

Ayo would look *fine* in the one Emily designed. Dang.

Hugh Eckert

That checks out, she did used to work there. At least she hasn't suggested "venti boy". Yet. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5172

BookBeard

"... and he wants a drink!"

BookBeard

Nah, their ship name would actually be "oh dear god, what have we done".

BookBeard

It is well known that Elliot is a marshmallow.

legobil

The Starbucks sickness RUN

Rob Wright

*slow clap*

Stewart MacWilliam

Ayonh Flux.

Stephen Wells

So I know outside the 🇺🇸 they are rechristening the Americano as the Canadiano. Maybe it could be called the Emmett in QC because like Emmett they are shy, awkward but also causes chaos where they go and now at least prefers black.

Miyaa

Solomon, more of "one who judges" then "one who comments". Or is it whom?

allanfranta

Ah, a quintuplet short boy! Clearly you’re a commenter of culture

Solomon Garland

Choosing to believe they don’t have drizzles, so… syrups: sticky, spicy (cinnamon), squirrel (hazelnut) (not nutty cause that means almond milk), cool (mint). Boy refers to coffee types: flat (flat white), frothy (cappuccino), burger (americano), short (espresso), milky, and chocolate. For drinks with milk, the modifiers are skinny, oaty, soy, and nutty. So if someone orders a cappuccino with oat milk and cinnamon syrup, that’s a spicy oaty foamyboy, which can subsequently be made fluffy. Extra shots could be twin, triplet, etc boys. Tea is referred to based on what Bubbles pictures when she sniffs it, so we can have Hanners asking Dora if they can restock on sexy unicorn and friendly giraffe soon

Solomon Garland

Good lord there are a lot of great characters in this comic! Now I can't wait for Ayo and Anh to interact. (So if we ship *them* will they be "Anhyo"?)

Stewart MacWilliam

4 shots espresso, black and bitter like my heart.

allanfranta

Kronk is the absolute best 😂

David Paul

@Melissa they're quoting a Spongebob episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1xC-5vw3vI

MayLaBelle

No good will come of this & I am here for *ALL* of it!

Melissa Wilson

I was imagining Ayo shouting, "Got a big fluffy sticky local boy!"

Steve DeGroof

Aw, c’mon, Ben! You know you’ll love it in here! The water’s warm & we’re steeping in mirth!

Melissa Wilson

Translation, please?

Melissa Wilson

& there will be DOOM!

Melissa Wilson

@Brian, from what I understand, that may depend upon whether the Waffle House will serve one’s kind.

Melissa Wilson

A tall grim boy with a shot of "ketchup". https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5100

BookBeard

Caramel drizzle would be sticky on top.

Opus the Poet

Was there ever any doubt?

Melissa Wilson

Nice!

Melissa Wilson

@bookwyrm1216 there used to be a place here in Garland where you could get cayenne sprinkled on your cocoa, but they didn't have code words for it, just order cayenne on it.

Opus the Poet

As a native Ohioan, that whole moment in slang makes me sad.

Melissa Wilson

Wow… power move going all ad identitatem. We are humbled before your brilliance!

Melissa Wilson

But the wording can't be confused with a different order. It's not quicker it's less likely to go wrong.

Opus the Poet

Thanks, Ralph! I came here just for that & I’m so glad someone beat me to it!

Melissa Wilson

Is there any easier way to look happy all the time, without any side effects?

Melissa Wilson

I feel like the Deacon at a revival meeting translating the preacher speaking in tongues. Only this actually makes sense to me.

Opus the Poet

Sold!

Melissa Wilson

Much as I crave some next-level linguistic lunacy, I think I might appreciate that expression even more!

Melissa Wilson

In that shirt, I always thought he was being ironical.

Melissa Wilson

Chocolate boy, no nuts

Chocolate Stickyboy, no fluff

Sticky American with fluff

Chocolate Stickyboy, no fluff

If you do this thing, Dora *will* kill you. Extra shot, and send your smoking remains to the Starbucks round the corner.

Pete Jordan

Picard and Darmok...

Opus the Poet

“The procrastinating student, his assignment due in the morning” is a triple shot.

Graydon Armstrong

Darmok and Salad :)

Stephen Wells

What is a hot chocolate then?

legobil

Woooo! Kinky kinks! Wait.

legobil

Cue Elliott entering the shop to get a 24oz Americano with whipped cream and caramel. 😬

Steve DeGroof

Yes, they just have spider milk.

Dean Reilly

Winslow likes to look at the unparseable pidgins outside the window.

Stephen Wells

Decaf is sleepy right? So my order is a sleepy chocolate oatyboy no fluff.

Ava Foxfort

I absolutely hate all of this thought process

Blair Finkmoore

Pity they don’t serve hammered banana or carrot abominations anymore

Ísabel Pirsic

Radio Christmas! (Tuna down [on toast]. no lettuce [noel])

Jason Zions

Almond milk mocha with caramel syrup, whipped cream. This isn't quite right; how can you distinguish between "caramel syrup in the drink" and "caramel drizzle over the top". The caramel *sauce* is what's sticky; caramel syrup is as sticky as any other syrup and is thus not uniquely sticky. Caramel syrup tastes like cooked sugar; not burned, but cooked. A sticky chocolate fluffy nuttyboy should be an almond milk mocha with whipped cream and a caramel drizzle; a cooked chocofluffynuttyboy is almond milk mocha, shot of caramel syrup, whipped cream. Cocoboy? Coconut milk. Soyboy? Same meaning it's always had, lol.

Jason Zions

Temba, his white flat

Frank Wales

I am kinda scared that I think I already speak that dialect. Jeph are you saying you want a hot chocolate on almond with whipped cream and syrup or am I completely imagining things?

Munk33 Magic

You called, SilverbackRon? Whom do you wish me to smite?

Joseph Bonnar

"Sugar and spice and everything nice... AND CHEMICAL X!"

Bagge

So many choices. Boyces.

Bagge

Eggs on horseback. Adam and Eve on a raft, wrecked. Mug of murk and a life preserver. Everything old is new again.

Todd Ellner

Insert Darmok and Jalad meme.

Graydon Armstrong

Wouldn't be able to stay away!

David Pablo Cohn

@William OMG, samesies!

enchantedsleeper

Wait til Ayo finds out that they could have had badass uniforms...

enchantedsleeper

Black coffee.

Opus the Poet

Caramel hazelnut latte with whipped cream.

Opus the Poet

As usual.

William Cole

@Bill Every example I am looking at online is the same length as the term it's replacing if not longer

Veronica Jane

If you don't have any digital technology and you have a lot of customers, saying two words instead of five makes a big difference. Though in the modern era, most of these abbreviations are numbers.

Bill Silvia

Testing, I don't think you can.

Bill Silvia

Maybe girls are cold and boys are hot? (Would match most common patterns of temperature regulation.)

Bill Silvia

Grown up bean boy coming up!

Bill Silvia

Not after that burrito place got shut down, at least.

Bill Silvia

I read it as logo, and was confused. Then my reading comprehension kicked in. I'm back on track

Brittany Huckey

Putting the punctuation inside or outside the quotes or brackets, varies from country to country. Styles can be colourful or colorful. [I do the odd bit of preafrooding\\\\\\\\\\\\proofreading - how do you do strikethrough font in these comments?].

Charles Hirst

It’s equal parts unparseable pidgin, confusion, and Bookbeard.

Ailadi

‘Put a ring on it’ to add pineapple.

Erik Ordway

More of an argot than a pidgin. Kinda surprised Hanners would mix those up, tbh. Though "pidgin" is a funnier and more familiar word.

Luke Meyers

Might as well be another language :) https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3641

Andrew

I am commenting without reading any of the other comments. I'm afraid to.

Ben R

Hey, that sounds good, Hanners. I'll have one unparseable pidgin, hold the root.

Sean Kinlin

I was checking to see if anyone else did. I'm glad.

Thunder

Pablo!! You're here too!

Yonatan Zunger

Pig in a blanket!

djellafine

But Elliot is so soft on the inside

djellafine

Even worse, sometimes it becomes meta-evolution where, like Cockney slang, it has evolved mechanisms that allow it to evolve at almost unfollowable speeds. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyming_slang)

David Pablo Cohn

As any linguistician can tell you, any prescriptivist attempt to create the language is going to be resisted. Examples: $tarbuxx and Wawful Hause.

Michael Steamweed

Hanners: "*sigh* that'll be one 'usual' for Melon..."

BookBeard

HR is Dora. Getting her involved will either result in "that facial expression" or the linguistic lunacy getting worse. Could go either way.

Michael Steamweed

Having grown up in the middle of nowhere without a chain restaurant to be had, I can vouch for the claim to stave off boredom or to be funny.

Donna Flint

We appreciate your comedic commitment with your handle. :)

Michael Steamweed

"The sticky milky fluffy nuttyboy is Sven."

Michael Steamweed

And now Dora _really_ wants to talk to you.

Michael Steamweed

When I was a waiter in Texas (lo, last century), we used the terms "86" (for none or we're out), "burn it" (for well-done), "in the weeds" (for being overwhelmed), and "java" or "joe" (for coffee). Everything else was plaintext English.

Michael Steamweed

We're going to get a cutaway scene now of Penelope and pizza girl, arm wrestling for the right of being the only blonde with a ponytail in all of North Hampton, at Will's bar, with Jimbo as a referee. (Jeph, if you actually do this, thanks in advance 🤣🤣🤣)

Aditya Rameshan

Extra shingles with a shimmy and a squeeze, light axle grease, make it cry, burn it, and let it swim

Ashbury Haight

Wait til you see how the Waffle House wait staff puts in an order. It'll make you pop a stitch.

Brian Yaras

When I was a kid growing up in New Jersey, diners had their own "diner speak" that was a joy to behold. While most diners had the order shouted through the kitchen pass-thru from behind the counter, some orders were bellowed from the table the moment the order was complete. Those were the ones us kids liked most! I have a vague childhood memory of visiting one in Manhattan that had the classic checkerboard tile floor, with red vinyl on the counter stools and booth benches. I have no idea if the food was any good, but it got devoured as part of the overall experience. Edit: Of course, Wikipedia knows all about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diner_lingo I don't remember much beyond the egg-related terms.

BobC

Thousand island latte is the forbidden latte

Matthew Delahaye

I want an oolong stirred with a harpoon and extra spider legs.

Summer

If Willow had gotten hired, this comic could be titled Werewolf Style.

William Cole

Ayo is just looking for someone to rub her the right way.

William Cole

And I am Plain Bitter Boy.

William Cole

I knew which comic this would be without clicking.

William Cole

This would be us 😂. Need a flow chart with term crosswalks kthx

Ailadi

Coincidence … or MORE?

William Cole

or maybe a big pinch of jalapeno powder?

alphanor

We like the flip of Ayo’s relaxed confidence and Hanners’ “aaaaagh!” in this one. Nice pivot from the earlier strips.

Ailadi

And Jimbo. <DRAMATIC MUSIC STING>

Rich Holmes

Fortunately, someone has posted it online: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=587612967925816&id=115919138428537&set=a.568359173184529

Sean Kinlin

It's true, she is. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5152

BookBeard

I'll have an all natural super sweet furry hatter, Arnie-sized.

Simon Green

If you want your coffee served by Winslow, you have to order a "Deluxe Regular Boy". https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3541

BookBeard

There was. She spoke fluent Sass.

Doc Gumby

Wait what you did is “wrong”? 🤔

Ailadi

Honestly, I think it's just boredom. When you work in a diner in the middle of nowhere that serves the same twenty people every single day you're gonna start making up funny names for toast just to stave off the madness.

BookBeard

I'm assuming it was a speed thing, to get food out fast, in the heyday of diners as pre-chain fast food

Madeline Hunter

Yeah, that's fair. It's Northhampton, so the number is probably in the dozens.

schmod

"Oh my apologies, I didn't realize you only sold fluffy milky boys here. Is there by any chance a place nearby that sells coffee?"

BookBeard

We’re from the US and still have no clue either. But it’s a big country 🤷🏻‍♀️

Ailadi

It has been a hot minute since I read a Don Martin comic. (I don't know the punch line to the one you reference)

SilverbackRon

I was rather fond of Penelope. Take note, since she has been absent from the comic, you know who else hasn't shown up? Pizza Girl.

SilverbackRon

We laugh but this is how linguistic evolution happens

Yonatan Zunger

You mean a fluffy, sticky, nutty chocolate boi?

Yonatan Zunger

What, you think they let just *anyone* wear those shirts? https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3437

BookBeard

I've yet to warm to Ayo so of course she'd show up when I wished for a break from Anh...

Steve McSheffrey

HAHAHA, priceless! (okay, what was it before?

SilverbackRon

ohmygod

SilverbackRon

I agree! Gendering them all as male just somehow rubs me the wrong way.

SilverbackRon

Penny (I'm safe to say that, she's not here) is the closest CoD has to HR. Any excuse to see how she and Will are doing is good for me.

David Durant

I'll have a quad speed run on ice. 🤓

Carrie

Would that be a hot cocoa? Make mine spicy! (Add cinnamon)

bookwyrm1216

OMW so much laughter it made my dog look at me. Thank you Jeph!

Carrie

I am now convinced this is where Jeph came up with her name.

Anthony Gaglianese

I've honestly never understood the whole "American diners having weird names for orders" thing I'm always seeing in movies

Veronica Jane

"Sticky chocolate fluffy nuttyboy?" Oh, you mean PHIL...

Noise

(and yes, I am aware that I'm my recap above I put the punctuation that's not part of the quoted phrase outside the quotes. After N years of software engineering, the 'correct' way just seems wrong. 🤪)

Joshua O'Madadhain

https://store.wondermark.com/collections/stickers/products/unparseable-symbols-sticker-3-5-circle (spelled without the 'e')

Rich Holmes

She's gonna have at least one option.

Chocolate Stickyboy, no fluff

You'd think Penelope or Hanners would've implemented an HR person by now, after all that 😂

Aditya Rameshan

There's no way Dora carries that many varieties of milk though.

Bill Silvia

If you're willing to share, what was the other?

Sean Kinlin

MY SPINACH PUFFS!

Mat

Nutty boys, soy boys, coco boys, and oat boys?

Bill Silvia

OINK AND CACKLES !

Wood

Missing quote mark on Hanners' line in panel 3. I assume it's intended to be [So...a mocha would be a "chocolate boy". Whipped cream would be "make him fluffy".] (that is, missing quote before 'make').

Joshua O'Madadhain

I just came in for a large coffee! HELP!

Joseph Bonnar

I insist on fluffy chocolate girls as well!

Doc Gumby

Ay, yo...?

Sora

This is the second thing I've read this evening with the word "unparseable" in it.

Rich Holmes

"Welcome to Crashout Coffee, can I interest you in our Sigma Ohio blend? It comes with your choice of rizz, skibidi, or gyatt!"

voyager-ngc5195

Elliot is pretty jacked, but maybe Clinton is around!

Grace Kieser

Faye used their code of ethics as toilet paper, and Dora had to be blackmailed into hiring an assistant manager. My guess is there's no HR.

Grace Kieser

It me, flat white boy 😑👍

Magic Chopstick Games

Need to know what they'll call non dairy milks. Immediately.

Chocolate Stickyboy, no fluff

Or hazelnut syrup instead of almond milk

Grace Kieser

Diner talk! Adam and Eve on a raft and wreck 'em!

Ralph

Yes, and it was calculated to drive you MAD.

Sean Kinlin

ABSOLUTELY NO ACTUAL BLOOD PACKS HERE HA HA HAVE A GOOD DAY SIR SORRY WE'RE CLOSED NOW

Rich Holmes

Grill fried with mustard

Grace Kieser

Someone spends too much time in Waffle House...

Tim Illingworth

I was certainly thinking, "careful talking about chocolate people."

Sean Kinlin

You ninja'd me!

Captain Button

Changing my name to Chocolate Sticky boy, BRB.

Chocolate Stickyboy, no fluff

Ayo, honey, I’m pretty sure you’re just inordinately horny 😅🤣

Jon

I am not sure I want to know what an Animal Style latte would be.

Erik Ordway

I need this to cement into the fiction. Honestly, Ayo has been a great addition to the cast

Alcaria Swain

Three oinkers wearing pants; plate of hot air; basket of grandmas' breakfast & change the bull to a gill- GOT IT!

Peter McDevitt

A caramel mocha latte made with almond milk topped with whipped cream?

Amanda Hinkle

Winslow can be your poster child. He's sweet and wholesome enough to make this work, especially the fluffyboy.

ValdVin

Well, they must already have a lingo; they don't literally sell blood packs, right? It's just a funky name for something normal... ... right?

Sean Kinlin

If coffee of doom has an HR, now might be the time to get them involved, before someone says the wrong thing to the wrong person 🤣🤣🤣

Aditya Rameshan

Go to the bakery for a soft boy

Andrew

when Faye worked there it felt like there was a lingo...

Brendan Luster

Hanner's face. 😭😭😭

Andrew Mitchell

Reminds me of a Don Martin comic. "Where's the men's room, Mac? Gotta go, and no foolin'. "

Sean Kinlin

They are ideas, certainly....

Wynn Donivan

Hanners fell in quiiiiick

Tannerbot

As a customer, I would want to adopt this lingo too.

J.C. Jones

I’ll take a triple bossy deluxe 4 by 4 animal style

orangejuicenut


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