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Errand Girl

Gotta keep your buttfor locked up

Errand Girl

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@Holly Oh, I know! My sister is left-handed. That's what I meant. She might believe a left-handed screwdriver is real (it's not), if she knows about the scissors, which are.

Katrina Urmson

Is the first Euripides?

Hugh Eckert

Not always, I've seen blue, green, gray and once a red flash followed by black

Michael

The mop is dirty and she's inadvertently rubbing it against her shirt.

Matthew Reiter

It's for buttfor stuff.

Matthew Reiter

I'd be happy to give Roko a good buttfing, but I'm married.

Joe

Refs the 2nd best joke of all time

David Durant

Good grief!

ValdVin

& some relative bearing grease. when you're done with that, it'll be time to get ready for the mail buoy watch.

Joe

oh no!! Charlie Brown has a problem with his arm!!

Joe

Of course you do. When you're facing someone, their right arm is on your left side.

awgiedawgie

I recall seeing crates of cans premium air (for cleaning computer keys) at a Fry’s Electronics store in Portland, Oregon. Oh Fry’s, gone thanks to Amazon.

Miyaa

But, left handed scissors really are a thing. My leftie roommate gets awful annoyed when she can’t find her pair.

Holly Nelson

Entropy?

Holly Nelson

W

Chris Warren

Faye might regret resorting to juvenile tactics. Turnabout is fair play, after all. Anh: "mynewbosssayswhat" Faye: "What?" Anh: "YES! NO BACKSIES!"

BookBeard

What's a buttfor for again?

Leak

I'm guessing she falls for it next panel.

Bill Silvia

Wait... how is Anh getting progressively dirtier through the panels?!

Jonathan Liu

Well, I was talking about premium, exclusive air.

legobil

Right next to the Eurmenides

Hugh Eckert

Farting.

Hugh Eckert

Just remember that the printer address is /dev/null

Hugh Eckert

Yeah, ever read the Materials Safety Sheet on that stuff?

Hugh Eckert

Yes. Bofors ran the shop that made Bard's "black arrow".

Hugh Eckert

Fetch me a new bubble for this spirit level, ye little snipe

Tudza

Fifty feet o flight line and a bucket o prop wash...

KEITH S GUILEY

Perri-Air? Canned in Druidia!

Benjamin Geiger

The problem is when they come back and hand you something.....

Raymond Dannelly

…and breathe. Finally up to date from a month's complete (re)read of QC. I have no regrets. How has Faye managed to stay out of kill mode, these past few strips? (That bidet joke took a long time to come around again, though 🙂)

Pete Jordan

"Mob Acquired" Next Items to Acquire: 1 - Left Handed Screwdriver 1 - Can of Elbow Grease

Techy

In scouts, we used to send the newbies for the left-handed smoke shifter. Had kids walking all over camp sometimes, and each scoutmaster would send them to a different campsite. It did have the side-effect of teaching them the layout of camp.

OakleafRanger09

Faye, what are you thinking? You don't use a left-handed screwdriver on a right arm!

Stewart MacWilliam

We used to tell the new kids at the lumberyard to go to the basement (which we didn't have) and get the board stretcher.

awgiedawgie

I believe that should be "ro-butts disease".

Matt Pedone

Bring back a tub of elbow grease while you're in there

Sam Suchabutt

Farts

Michael Steamweed

Farts

Michael Steamweed

But be careful not to get it on your skin! That stuff is so lethal, that everyone who ever touches it will die!

Michael Steamweed

Being admired and holding up pants, mostly.

kusko25

Having flashbacks to working in Tooling Preventive Maintenance at Boeing. Lead kept a bunch of job sheets for lost tools (think carts to haul big airplane parts around) to keep newbies busy hunting for one when he didn't want to bother teaching them something. I probably spent two hours in the lot reading and re-reading hand-stamped ID plates.

Carl Cravens

They were cousins of Balin and Dwalin, weren't they?

BookBeard

Classic lol. The toolbox is next to where the blinker fluid is kept.

Mae.Bee

Trouble is, robot bodies may well use actual elbow grease.

Phil_M

Presumably that represents some fraction of a long ton.

Phil_M

Poor customer didn't deserve to be caught in this crossfire.

Phil_M

Hey, you can buy containers of air. (SCUBA, keyboard cleaning...)

Phil_M

don't forget the long weight...

Fred

Sam turns up with Emmett and Anh immediately assumes they're dating. Emmett accidentally sets fire to something in panic. Anh puts out fire with her mop and saves the day!

David Durant

Right between the barrel of blinkerfluid and container of premium air.

legobil

I was sent out for a bucket of steam once, brought back a bucket of water and said "It must of condensed!"

allanfranta

Not that toolbox! The one next to the bucket of welding sparks!

David Paul

I wonder if Anh is going for what she thinks a "working girl" aesthetic looks like xD

enchantedsleeper

She likes Sam too much to use it on her xD

enchantedsleeper

It’s a specialized piece of equipment that assists in the management of robot butts disease… yes it’s mutated into a robot variant… non are safe, but with the buttfor we can manage the devastating symptoms.

Daniel Burnett

I love that xD

enchantedsleeper

It's a shame that Hanners already re-sorted all the ball joints 😅

enchantedsleeper

That is only because it has never been used. That mop is in pristine condition.

legobil

”It is so clearly labeled that a buffoon could find it, don’t you dare ask me if you can’t”

legobil

But what's a robotic buttfor?

Alasdair Mackintosh

Of course Anh didn't pick it up! Picking up is the job of servants.

prettydragoon

Anh is SO PROUD

Bagge

@joe I almost spit my water. Well played

djellafine

Picturing Anh in panel 3 as an emergency room janitor. Super keen and eager to help, in a very limited capacity!

Andrew

Given that there are hydraulic fluids which are dyed red, it's even highly likely it would be (if they had known where it was before Ahn's quest), especially since I've heard it stains horribly

Carin Maja Brooks

I am definitely pooped, yeah, been looking for it for AGES

Aeryn Monet

Always with the receipts, BookBeard. Don't ever stop. :-)

Jason Zions

The tool cabinet is just under the jar of deez nuts.

Jason Zions

Along with the blinker fluid

Todd Ellner

Oh please oh please let Skullmaster Master Of Skulls come by while Ahn is trying to figure out which end of the mop goes in the bucket.

Sleepy John

I'm delighted that Ahn has provided Faye with such an easy target

Fart Captor

In Australia they’re known us bumfors. Not to be confused for bofors.

Thisguy

I see a lot of folks just running with this as hazing, but keeping her out of the way while a customer is in the shop is a valuable method to avoid workflow slowdown. It gives more time to finish cooling off and the opportunity to figure out what, if anything, productive she can be doing once pressing concerns are no longer immediately demanding.

Finvaara

We're gonna need another timeskip to get to the point where Faye gets bored of hazing her

David Jackson

Disappointed the mop isn’t stained a suspicious shade of red

Andrew

Look up ambidextrous scissors ✂️

SpookyPenguin

It was, but Ahn didn't pick it up! Booo

Nicolas Demers

Oh no! This bag of m&ms needs to be sorted alphabetically. Remember that the 3s come before the Es, Ms and Ws

Mad Marie

Is that similar to a boyfling?

William Cole

I think the tool chest is by the long stand.

Diptych

I once read an (allegedly true) story of a new hire at a factory who was told to get some skyhooks. They looked them up online, found that there's a model of portable crane that's called a skyhook (and that costs a few thousand each), and dutifully ordered several and billed them to the business.

Diptych

Now that kinda mop will work a lot more efficiently if it's first treated with Dihydrogen Monoxide. Better go check if there's any around the shop.

Mad Marie

She took off her turtleneck! I guess she really is ready to work.

jonesnori

Army motor pools needs a couple bottles of headlight fluid.

A Dark Planet, Lit By No Sun

I've heard the word, but not at all recently, and I was never quite sure what it meant. My impression was that it referred to something like a cereal or pasta box - thicker than regular paper, but not so sturdy as a packing box.

jonesnori

Don't forget to straighten out your cables occasionally. The zeros can get through okay but the ones are pointy and they get stuck.

BookBeard

For pooping, silly.

George Wirth

Okay, I get the need for a southpaw screwboy but what even IS a buttfor?

Aeryn Monet

Signal flare storage, specifically. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3999

BookBeard

Sounds like that guy could use some elbow grease...

Sammitch

US Army signal units always needed more cable stretchers - new privates were tasked with going over to get one from the motorpool.

Todd Beaubien

My dad used to hand a capacitor to his students, and when they'd turn it sideways to look at it, he'd say "Don't turn it upside down or the electrons will fall out!" The number of people who instinctively put their hands under the thing to catch electrons was amazing.

Ohh Crap Guy

Used to send new barbacks for left handed corkscrews when they couldn’t find the Cuba libra mix…

Alex Arrington

@Allan Personally my favorite was taught to me back in high school; as a freshman I helped work on the sets for the school play, and one of the seniors had me go looking for an "R-Clamp", said they should be "right next to the C-Clamps". That one took me a minute, lmao

Sarah Valentine

Directionals only ever made sense for track racers anyway, but the wear & tear on the raceways was so bad that they were banned after Monaco '71. Not often you'd see them in the wild anymore.

Uniquitous

Sometimes you just need a good butt buffing. A buttfing. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3949

BookBeard

No see, you're thinking of Robot Sugma. Robot *Ligma* develops out of Robot Duckway. The Updog-to-Ligma line of thinking has long since been disproved by Dr. Bofades.

Sarah Valentine

But how?? Do you have a link or something?

Graydon Armstrong

You would be amazed at the number of people who will search high and low for the proper screwdriver, or the blinker fluid, or the intake bearing... - the list is endless. When you think about it - if a nurse told me to fetch a neck tourniquet i might take a couple steps in the direction of the tourniquets before saying "wait a minute".

Allan Widner

*Is* it for storage?

Graydon Armstrong

You joke, but it's a problem to have directional tyres on upside-down. You'd probably say they're backwards rather than upside-down, but they'll end up backwards if you flip them upside-down end over end (like a coin flip, as opposed to rolling like a wheel).

Graydon Armstrong

I love Faye

Shinymelon Fearnow

Muffler bearings, too. Oh, and hit up the flight deck for prop wash and flight line: as much as you can carry.

Shinymelon Fearnow

I really hope the skilful use of a buttfor can cure this guy’s robot updog. I’d hate to see it develop into full blown robot ligma.

Dissociated Women Incorporated

I know it's a joke, but given the work Faye has done, I imagine a buttfor is actually a buffer for robobutts.

GregD

No, you got it.

Daryl Sawyer

Nah, that joint charges an arm and a leg.

BookBeard

This feels like a setup for a "Whats a buttfor?" joke and I'm here for it.

Aerin Moriarty

in a pinch you can substitute the coolant from a '63 beetle

tellumo

scissors shaped so both left and right-handed people can use them

SpookyPenguin

Why, I'll give ya buttfor!

Ben R

What are uni-scissors? The googles, they do nothing!

Graydon Armstrong

And the sleazy anime "Anhaukyo Maid Team."

Captain Button

Ah, yes, that famous work of queer cinema: I've Seen the House Maids Mopping

Sean Kinlin

Faye…. I … respect getting her out of your hair but… actually, Nevermind. Just cause I knew that was a crock at a young age doesn’t mean Anh* does. If she knows about left-handed scissors it might even sound reasonable. *(I think I’m spelling her name wrong. I’ll need to edit when not on mobile.)

Katrina Urmson

If this place doesn't work out, the customer will move on to The Elbow Room.

Sean Kinlin

I believe it is for some damn good squeezin'. Just ask Faye.

Anthony Gaglianese

I actually have left-handed scissors but uni-scissors are becoming more common thankfully. The left-handed fountain pen is a godsend though.

SpookyPenguin

In the navy it was: get me a can of oil, ID 10 T

Joseph McGrath

I wonder in Union Robotics could do a Motie Mod...

Captain Button

"Seek immediate medical attention if giggling at the name of this drug lasts for more than four hours."

BookBeard

I went to a boarding school for high school (not one that would have been posh enough for Anh tho), and at least once a week at community dinner a senior would ask a freshman for dehydrated water.

Elizabeth Wallace

"I've seen the maids use them" is a line that deserves more love.

ValdVin

She was so proud she found that mop! I hope it’s just as easy to find the left-handed screwdriver.

JMK

Because his coworkers liked to send the newbie around for a left-handed monkey wrench, I guy I know of actually made one. When the newbie came by asking him if he had one, he'd dig it out of his tool box, give it to the guy and follow him back to whoever asked for it to watch him fumble with it. (It was just a monkey wrench with "LEFT HANDED MONKEY WRENCH" embossed on the handle. He used to do cast iron stuff.)

kaitou

Ikr?? Was going to say something similar, but today I learned ‘ahoge’ and I’m cool with that.

Corvus Cardia

Also make sure your tires aren't on upside down.

joe velsher

I like telling newbies to fetch me the wire stretcher. Plumbers tell newbies to get the pipe stretcher, but that *always* devolves into dick jokes! Tasteless, repetitive, deliciously hilarious dick jokes!

joe velsher

Also for sittinon, and a supplemental erogenous zone.

Call me Ishmael.

For Faye's enjoyment, I'm pretty sure.

Daniel Farnitano

This is actually the third shop he's tried, but The Arms Dealer is closed on Sundays and The Second Hand Store only does left arms.

BookBeard

Reminds me of that time I got asked to get a fresh air sample from the factory I worked in....

The IT Guy Eh

Don't tell me you fell for that old bit. Blinker fluid is universal except for some old cold-war era eastern European jobs!

Uniquitous

One time my Dad sent me looking for a 'paste-board box'. Given his confusion when it took me half an hour checking the text on cardboard boxes looking for the magical one that said 'paste-board'. I don't think he was fucking with me but that was the first and last time I've heard anyone ever call a cardboard box that.

Yelling Bird

For pooping, silly.

Adam Abbott

Front or rear?

darklion

That reminds me, I should stock up on blinker fluid

Uniquitous

The first time someone asked me to pick up some DEF I was sure it was one of *those* errands. I had to google it before I was convinced.

Shawn Pedersen

what's the buttfor???????

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Melissa Wilson

Love that the punchline to the prank is left for the future for us to imagine, nice touch

Adrian Thornburg

This gave me Army flashbacks LOL

Sean Rotter

Super-rich heiresses are human too! It's Larry Ellison who's a lawnmower

Leonardo Taglialegne

Hahaha yes!!! It's like asking the rookie to go get the waterhammer!

Lee McDonough

Not left-handed smoke benders?

Captain Button

what DOES bubbles have a buttfor

Seth Aaron Hershman has they she pronouns

Man I just... don't know if I'm in the right headspace to appreciate a narrative arc where the super-rich heiress gets humanized

Ben Shields

Honestly I wasn't sure if the sky hooks were just an Australian joke or not...

Bridgette Ryan

Dont forget the left- handed smoke shifter.

Michael Boettger

If the customer had purple hair, they might qualify as a tall glass of water.

Bill Silvia

It should be right under the case of refill bytes. But make sure you don’t accidentally spill them or you’ll have to reassemble all the tiny ones and zeros by hand 🤣

Alfonso Acosta

The hazing begins.

Edward Clayton Andrew

Good idea. Red Symons will know [/australiajoke]

Veronica Jane

If she can't find it, there's one in the cupboard next to the tin of checkered paint.

Dean Reilly

Reminds me of the Scouts, when my troop leader sent me around asking for 500 feet of shore line to hold up the tents.

Doc Gumby

Why don't I show ya 😉😉😉😉😉 (that's the joke, no real flirtation intended)

Eric Pike

it's blue you know?

Brendan Luster

Poopin'

Dean Reilly

I love how emotive her ahoge is. Pardon me, I meant to say "anhoge" :3

Wynn Donivan

“Buttfor” also is an experimental drug for reducing the inflammation from butts disease.

Miyaa

WHATS A BUTTFOR

Errol Lobo

what's a buttfor?

Brendan Luster

And the hazing starts!

Le Stedman-Falls

As long as no one sees the magic smoke, you'll be fine

Michael

You know I gotta ask it. What's a Buttfor?

Ryan X

I keep my left handed screwdrivers in the same drawer as the matterdaddy

Melvin Miller

I criticized Faye last strip but I know she's been waiting since she became a business owner for the chance to use this one

Bill Silvia

Oh the teasing! It is for REALS and I am here for it.

Zig Justice

If you can't find either, check the sky hooks

Bridgette Ryan

Kinda surprised she isn't sending her out for blinker fluid.

Ali

Don't forget the wall expander.

Randall Norman Pick

You can start by lowering the volume there, princess.

Doc Gumby


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