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The new FAQ

Posted: Mon May 20, 2002 3:15 pm
by Allan_ecker
Anyone have any extra questions that should be added? Comments on the existing answers? Large buckets of fish to throw? :roll:

Posted: Mon May 20, 2002 8:43 pm
by Hampster
Repost, keen bites, swallows post. :D

1-What do Saundra's boobs look like? :P

2-I still say you only intrroduced the straight guy to annoy me. :P

3- Your faq rocks.

Posted: Wed May 22, 2002 3:58 pm
by Andrick
How's about dese kwest-yuns:

1) there seems to be a lot of references to future technology in the past tense; is the comic in the future?

2) Parents and families have been depicted so far as being the same species to each other and their related cast character. If this is so, why? Are interspecies relationships doomed to no offspring; are there any taboos about such things?

3) Is there are particular locale for Umlaut House we should know about? Jokes about (sub)culture in the U.S. easily fly over the heads of international visitors like the same would be for (sub)cultural jokes in the U.K.

4) How much time do you have on your hands, anyway?

toodles

I can actually answer one of the questions!

Posted: Fri May 24, 2002 7:22 am
by Alfador
I can actually answer one of the questions!

The story is set in the future; the storyline where Jake meets Rick's parents (well, parent) reveals this. And I believe Allan gave the exact year somewhere on these forums, where I'm too lazy to find it.

Re: I can actually answer one of the questions!

Posted: Fri May 24, 2002 7:41 am
by Andrick
Alfador wrote:...I believe Allan gave the exact year somewhere on these forums, where I'm too lazy to find it.
Dat iz vhy ve need it in da FAQ!

Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2002 11:27 pm
by Allan_ecker
Andrick wrote:How's about dese kwest-yuns:

1) there seems to be a lot of references to future technology in the past tense; is the comic in the future?

2) Parents and families have been depicted so far as being the same species to each other and their related cast character. If this is so, why? Are interspecies relationships doomed to no offspring; are there any taboos about such things?

3) Is there are particular locale for Umlaut House we should know about? Jokes about (sub)culture in the U.S. easily fly over the heads of international visitors like the same would be for (sub)cultural jokes in the U.K.

4) How much time do you have on your hands, anyway?

toodles
Just because it's going to be a while before I update the main page:

1: Yes, and I'll make a nice explanation of how I plan to do time for this universe in the FAQ

2: There aren't taboos as such, but there are slight fertility barriers. (Not as bad as the Suburban Jungle universe, but worse than, oh, say, the PDI universe.)

3: They're where I am. But I try not to make an issue of it.

4: Not enough! Eep! (YEah, I'm aware of the paradox of someone who writes a comic strip claiming to have no time on his hands...)

Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2002 10:53 am
by Allan_ecker
I've updated the FAQ! Huzzah!

And you get a picture in all that, too!

Aren't you lucky!

Ten points if you can guess it.

Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2002 12:48 pm
by Andrick
And there was much shouting and pulling of hair and gnashing of teeth! But that has absolutely nothing to do with this. And now...

#4...

The Larch....

The... Larch...

And now...

for something completely different...

Buh....

Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2002 3:22 pm
by Alfador
As soon as I saw that "And now for something completely different" an image popped into my head. Richard Sebastian from Associated Student Bodies, singing thusly:

"I'm an astrophysicist, I'm okay! I watch stars all night and screw all day!"

Brain check on Isle[sic] #3, we have evil emerging.

Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 3:20 pm
by ZOMBIE USER 4075
What do Saundra's boobs look like?
Don't tell Saundra it was me, but:

http://www.furnation.com/UmlautHouse/

::Runs away and hides.

Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 3:39 pm
by Fallwind
/me drops jaw

wow Karlotta, those are REALLY good!

Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 5:31 pm
by ZOMBIE USER 4075
Allan drew them. I just dug up the link out of obscurity.

:)

Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 6:45 pm
by Fallwind
ok, heres a question:

what is a 'yiff'?



/me presentes himself for the ritualistic beating of the newbee :)

Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 8:16 pm
by Andrick
Here you go, Fallwind. I think you deserve it:

Image

"Yiff" or "Yiffy" is a reference to sex or nudity as it relates to furry art/stories/comics or any other media of furriness. At least that's what has been implied by various internet sources. The current rumor I've been able to track down about its source is the supposition that foxes mating make this noise.

...

Its amazing what one learns once a body gets an internet connection.

Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2002 7:23 am
by Allan_ecker
:o

I thought I'd got rid of that.

I heard that they used to say Yiff on the MUCK as just a friendly hello. However, people used the term during cybersex and the term meaning-shifted into the common vernacular, which is simply Furry Boinking.