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🕑 Added 2025-03-27 01:06:07 +0000 UTCAyo is full of good ideas
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BookBeard
Nope, he says it's biased against computers. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1383
Ursus Ridens
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.
Paul Johnson
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
BookBeard
Bad example, the submacopter was clearly a work of genius.
Lucas Werkmeister
I doubt it's even in the top ten lol remember the Submacopter?
awgiedawgie
This may be the stupidest idea anyone at CoD has ever had.
Stewart MacWilliam
*slow clap again*
Nicolas Dao-Phan
The Pintsize : [REDACTED]
enchantedsleeper
AND she could achieve her superhero dreams!
Hugh Eckert
Ayo would look *fine* in the one Emily designed. Dang.
BookBeard
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".
legobil
It is well known that Elliot is a marshmallow.
Rob Wright
The Starbucks sickness RUN
Stewart MacWilliam
*slow clap*
Stephen Wells
Ayonh Flux.
Miyaa
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.
allanfranta
Solomon, more of "one who judges" then "one who comments". Or is it whom?
Solomon Garland
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
Stewart MacWilliam
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"?)
allanfranta
4 shots espresso, black and bitter like my heart.
David Paul
Kronk is the absolute best 😂
MayLaBelle
@Melissa they're quoting a Spongebob episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1xC-5vw3vI
Melissa Wilson
No good will come of this & I am here for *ALL* of it!
Steve DeGroof
I was imagining Ayo shouting, "Got a big fluffy sticky local boy!"
Melissa Wilson
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.
BookBeard
A tall grim boy with a shot of "ketchup". https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5100
Opus the Poet
Caramel drizzle would be sticky on top.
Melissa Wilson
Was there ever any doubt?
Melissa Wilson
Nice!
Opus the Poet
@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.
Melissa Wilson
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!
Opus the Poet
But the wording can't be confused with a different order. It's not quicker it's less likely to go wrong.
Melissa Wilson
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?
Opus the Poet
I feel like the Deacon at a revival meeting translating the preacher speaking in tongues. Only this actually makes sense to me.
Melissa Wilson
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.
Chocolate Stickyboy, no fluff
Chocolate boy, no nuts
Chocolate Stickyboy, no fluff
Sticky American with fluff
Pete Jordan
If you do this thing, Dora *will* kill you. Extra shot, and send your smoking remains to the Starbucks round the corner.
Opus the Poet
Picard and Darmok...
Graydon Armstrong
“The procrastinating student, his assignment due in the morning” is a triple shot.
Stephen Wells
Darmok and Salad :)
legobil
What is a hot chocolate then?
legobil
Woooo! Kinky kinks! Wait.
Steve DeGroof
Cue Elliott entering the shop to get a 24oz Americano with whipped cream and caramel. 😬
Dean Reilly
Yes, they just have spider milk.
Stephen Wells
Winslow likes to look at the unparseable pidgins outside the window.
Ava Foxfort
Decaf is sleepy right? So my order is a sleepy chocolate oatyboy no fluff.
Blair Finkmoore
I absolutely hate all of this thought process
Ísabel Pirsic
Pity they don’t serve hammered banana or carrot abominations anymore
Jason Zions
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.
Frank Wales
Temba, his white flat
Munk33 Magic
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?
Joseph Bonnar
You called, SilverbackRon? Whom do you wish me to smite?
Bagge
"Sugar and spice and everything nice... AND CHEMICAL X!"
Bagge
So many choices. Boyces.
Todd Ellner
Eggs on horseback. Adam and Eve on a raft, wrecked. Mug of murk and a life preserver. Everything old is new again.
Graydon Armstrong
Insert Darmok and Jalad meme.
David Pablo Cohn
Wouldn't be able to stay away!
enchantedsleeper
@William OMG, samesies!
enchantedsleeper
Wait til Ayo finds out that they could have had badass uniforms...
Opus the Poet
Black coffee.
Opus the Poet
Caramel hazelnut latte with whipped cream.
William Cole
As usual.
Veronica Jane
@Bill Every example I am looking at online is the same length as the term it's replacing if not longer
Bill Silvia
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.
Brittany Huckey
I read it as logo, and was confused. Then my reading comprehension kicked in. I'm back on track
Charles Hirst
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?].
Ailadi
It’s equal parts unparseable pidgin, confusion, and Bookbeard.
Erik Ordway
‘Put a ring on it’ to add pineapple.
Luke Meyers
More of an argot than a pidgin. Kinda surprised Hanners would mix those up, tbh. Though "pidgin" is a funnier and more familiar word.
Andrew
Might as well be another language :) https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3641
Ben R
I am commenting without reading any of the other comments. I'm afraid to.
Sean Kinlin
Hey, that sounds good, Hanners. I'll have one unparseable pidgin, hold the root.
Thunder
I was checking to see if anyone else did. I'm glad.
Yonatan Zunger
Pablo!! You're here too!
djellafine
Pig in a blanket!
djellafine
But Elliot is so soft on the inside
David Pablo Cohn
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)
Michael Steamweed
As any linguistician can tell you, any prescriptivist attempt to create the language is going to be resisted. Examples: $tarbuxx and Wawful Hause.
BookBeard
Hanners: "*sigh* that'll be one 'usual' for Melon..."
Michael Steamweed
HR is Dora. Getting her involved will either result in "that facial expression" or the linguistic lunacy getting worse. Could go either way.
Donna Flint
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.
Michael Steamweed
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.
Aditya Rameshan
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 🤣🤣🤣)
Ashbury Haight
Extra shingles with a shimmy and a squeeze, light axle grease, make it cry, burn it, and let it swim
Brian Yaras
Wait til you see how the Waffle House wait staff puts in an order. It'll make you pop a stitch.
BobC
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.
Matthew Delahaye
Thousand island latte is the forbidden latte
Summer
I want an oolong stirred with a harpoon and extra spider legs.
William Cole
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.
Ailadi
This would be us 😂. Need a flow chart with term crosswalks kthx
William Cole
Coincidence … or MORE?
alphanor
or maybe a big pinch of jalapeno powder?
Ailadi
We like the flip of Ayo’s relaxed confidence and Hanners’ “aaaaagh!” in this one. Nice pivot from the earlier strips.
Rich Holmes
And Jimbo. <DRAMATIC MUSIC STING>
Sean Kinlin
Fortunately, someone has posted it online: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=587612967925816&id=115919138428537&set=a.568359173184529
BookBeard
It's true, she is. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5152
Simon Green
I'll have an all natural super sweet furry hatter, Arnie-sized.
BookBeard
If you want your coffee served by Winslow, you have to order a "Deluxe Regular Boy". https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3541
Doc Gumby
There was. She spoke fluent Sass.
Ailadi
Wait what you did is “wrong”? 🤔
BookBeard
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.
Madeline Hunter
I'm assuming it was a speed thing, to get food out fast, in the heyday of diners as pre-chain fast food
schmod
Yeah, that's fair. It's Northhampton, so the number is probably in the dozens.
BookBeard
"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?"
Ailadi
We’re from the US and still have no clue either. But it’s a big country 🤷🏻♀️
SilverbackRon
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.
Yonatan Zunger
We laugh but this is how linguistic evolution happens
Yonatan Zunger
You mean a fluffy, sticky, nutty chocolate boi?
BookBeard
What, you think they let just *anyone* wear those shirts? https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3437
Steve McSheffrey
I've yet to warm to Ayo so of course she'd show up when I wished for a break from Anh...
SilverbackRon
HAHAHA, priceless! (okay, what was it before?
SilverbackRon
ohmygod
SilverbackRon
I agree! Gendering them all as male just somehow rubs me the wrong way.
David Durant
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.
Carrie
I'll have a quad speed run on ice. 🤓
bookwyrm1216
Would that be a hot cocoa? Make mine spicy! (Add cinnamon)
Carrie
OMW so much laughter it made my dog look at me. Thank you Jeph!
Anthony Gaglianese
I am now convinced this is where Jeph came up with her name.
Veronica Jane
I've honestly never understood the whole "American diners having weird names for orders" thing I'm always seeing in movies
Noise
"Sticky chocolate fluffy nuttyboy?" Oh, you mean PHIL...
Joshua O'Madadhain
(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. 🤪)
Rich Holmes
https://store.wondermark.com/collections/stickers/products/unparseable-symbols-sticker-3-5-circle (spelled without the 'e')
Chocolate Stickyboy, no fluff
She's gonna have at least one option.
Aditya Rameshan
You'd think Penelope or Hanners would've implemented an HR person by now, after all that 😂
Bill Silvia
There's no way Dora carries that many varieties of milk though.
Sean Kinlin
If you're willing to share, what was the other?
Mat
MY SPINACH PUFFS!
Bill Silvia
Nutty boys, soy boys, coco boys, and oat boys?
Wood
OINK AND CACKLES !
Joshua O'Madadhain
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').
Joseph Bonnar
I just came in for a large coffee! HELP!
Doc Gumby
I insist on fluffy chocolate girls as well!
Sora
Ay, yo...?
Rich Holmes
This is the second thing I've read this evening with the word "unparseable" in it.
voyager-ngc5195
"Welcome to Crashout Coffee, can I interest you in our Sigma Ohio blend? It comes with your choice of rizz, skibidi, or gyatt!"
Grace Kieser
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.
Magic Chopstick Games
It me, flat white boy 😑👍
Chocolate Stickyboy, no fluff
Need to know what they'll call non dairy milks. Immediately.
Grace Kieser
Or hazelnut syrup instead of almond milk
Ralph
Diner talk! Adam and Eve on a raft and wreck 'em!
Sean Kinlin
Yes, and it was calculated to drive you MAD.
Rich Holmes
ABSOLUTELY NO ACTUAL BLOOD PACKS HERE HA HA HAVE A GOOD DAY SIR SORRY WE'RE CLOSED NOW
Grace Kieser
Grill fried with mustard
Tim Illingworth
Someone spends too much time in Waffle House...
Sean Kinlin
I was certainly thinking, "careful talking about chocolate people."
Captain Button
You ninja'd me!
Chocolate Stickyboy, no fluff
Changing my name to Chocolate Sticky boy, BRB.
Jon
Ayo, honey, I’m pretty sure you’re just inordinately horny 😅🤣
Erik Ordway
I am not sure I want to know what an Animal Style latte would be.
Alcaria Swain
I need this to cement into the fiction. Honestly, Ayo has been a great addition to the cast
Peter McDevitt
Three oinkers wearing pants; plate of hot air; basket of grandmas' breakfast & change the bull to a gill- GOT IT!
Amanda Hinkle
A caramel mocha latte made with almond milk topped with whipped cream?
ValdVin
Winslow can be your poster child. He's sweet and wholesome enough to make this work, especially the fluffyboy.
Sean Kinlin
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?
Aditya Rameshan
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 🤣🤣🤣
Andrew
Go to the bakery for a soft boy
Brendan Luster
when Faye worked there it felt like there was a lingo...
Andrew Mitchell
Hanner's face. 😭😭😭
Sean Kinlin
Reminds me of a Don Martin comic. "Where's the men's room, Mac? Gotta go, and no foolin'. "
Wynn Donivan
They are ideas, certainly....
Tannerbot
Hanners fell in quiiiiick
J.C. Jones
As a customer, I would want to adopt this lingo too.
orangejuicenut
I’ll take a triple bossy deluxe 4 by 4 animal style
