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🕑 Added 2025-03-04 03:12:59 +0000 UTCGotta keep your buttfor locked up
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Katrina Urmson
@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.
Hugh Eckert
Is the first Euripides?
Michael
Not always, I've seen blue, green, gray and once a red flash followed by black
Matthew Reiter
The mop is dirty and she's inadvertently rubbing it against her shirt.
Matthew Reiter
It's for buttfor stuff.
Joe
I'd be happy to give Roko a good buttfing, but I'm married.
David Durant
Refs the 2nd best joke of all time
ValdVin
Good grief!
Joe
& 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!!
awgiedawgie
Of course you do. When you're facing someone, their right arm is on your left side.
Miyaa
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.
Holly Nelson
But, left handed scissors really are a thing. My leftie roommate gets awful annoyed when she can’t find her pair.
Holly Nelson
Entropy?
Chris Warren
W
BookBeard
Faye might regret resorting to juvenile tactics. Turnabout is fair play, after all. Anh: "mynewbosssayswhat" Faye: "What?" Anh: "YES! NO BACKSIES!"
Leak
What's a buttfor for again?
Bill Silvia
I'm guessing she falls for it next panel.
Jonathan Liu
Wait... how is Anh getting progressively dirtier through the panels?!
legobil
Well, I was talking about premium, exclusive air.
Hugh Eckert
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".
Tudza
Fetch me a new bubble for this spirit level, ye little snipe
KEITH S GUILEY
Fifty feet o flight line and a bucket o prop wash...
Benjamin Geiger
Perri-Air? Canned in Druidia!
Raymond Dannelly
The problem is when they come back and hand you something.....
Pete Jordan
…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 🙂)
Techy
"Mob Acquired" Next Items to Acquire: 1 - Left Handed Screwdriver 1 - Can of Elbow Grease
OakleafRanger09
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.
Stewart MacWilliam
Faye, what are you thinking? You don't use a left-handed screwdriver on a right arm!
awgiedawgie
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.
Matt Pedone
I believe that should be "ro-butts disease".
Sam Suchabutt
Bring back a tub of elbow grease while you're in there
Michael Steamweed
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!
kusko25
Being admired and holding up pants, mostly.
Carl Cravens
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.
BookBeard
They were cousins of Balin and Dwalin, weren't they?
Mae.Bee
Classic lol. The toolbox is next to where the blinker fluid is kept.
Phil_M
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...)
Fred
don't forget the long weight...
David Durant
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!
legobil
Right between the barrel of blinkerfluid and container of premium air.
allanfranta
I was sent out for a bucket of steam once, brought back a bucket of water and said "It must of condensed!"
David Paul
Not that toolbox! The one next to the bucket of welding sparks!
enchantedsleeper
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
Daniel Burnett
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.
enchantedsleeper
I love that xD
enchantedsleeper
It's a shame that Hanners already re-sorted all the ball joints 😅
legobil
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”
Alasdair Mackintosh
But what's a robotic buttfor?
prettydragoon
Of course Anh didn't pick it up! Picking up is the job of servants.
Bagge
Anh is SO PROUD
djellafine
@joe I almost spit my water. Well played
Andrew
Picturing Anh in panel 3 as an emergency room janitor. Super keen and eager to help, in a very limited capacity!
Carin Maja Brooks
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
Aeryn Monet
I am definitely pooped, yeah, been looking for it for AGES
Jason Zions
Always with the receipts, BookBeard. Don't ever stop. :-)
Jason Zions
The tool cabinet is just under the jar of deez nuts.
Todd Ellner
Along with the blinker fluid
Sleepy John
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.
Fart Captor
I'm delighted that Ahn has provided Faye with such an easy target
Thisguy
In Australia they’re known us bumfors. Not to be confused for bofors.
Finvaara
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.
David Jackson
We're gonna need another timeskip to get to the point where Faye gets bored of hazing her
Andrew
Disappointed the mop isn’t stained a suspicious shade of red
SpookyPenguin
Look up ambidextrous scissors ✂️
Nicolas Demers
It was, but Ahn didn't pick it up! Booo
Mad Marie
Oh no! This bag of m&ms needs to be sorted alphabetically. Remember that the 3s come before the Es, Ms and Ws
William Cole
Is that similar to a boyfling?
Diptych
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.
Mad Marie
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.
jonesnori
She took off her turtleneck! I guess she really is ready to work.
A Dark Planet, Lit By No Sun
Army motor pools needs a couple bottles of headlight fluid.
jonesnori
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.
BookBeard
Don't forget to straighten out your cables occasionally. The zeros can get through okay but the ones are pointy and they get stuck.
George Wirth
For pooping, silly.
Aeryn Monet
Okay, I get the need for a southpaw screwboy but what even IS a buttfor?
BookBeard
Signal flare storage, specifically. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3999
Sammitch
Sounds like that guy could use some elbow grease...
Todd Beaubien
US Army signal units always needed more cable stretchers - new privates were tasked with going over to get one from the motorpool.
Ohh Crap Guy
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.
Alex Arrington
Used to send new barbacks for left handed corkscrews when they couldn’t find the Cuba libra mix…
Sarah Valentine
@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
Uniquitous
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.
BookBeard
Sometimes you just need a good butt buffing. A buttfing. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3949
Sarah Valentine
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.
Graydon Armstrong
But how?? Do you have a link or something?
Allan Widner
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".
Graydon Armstrong
*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).
Shinymelon Fearnow
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.
Dissociated Women Incorporated
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.
GregD
I know it's a joke, but given the work Faye has done, I imagine a buttfor is actually a buffer for robobutts.
Daryl Sawyer
No, you got it.
BookBeard
Nah, that joint charges an arm and a leg.
Aerin Moriarty
This feels like a setup for a "Whats a buttfor?" joke and I'm here for it.
tellumo
in a pinch you can substitute the coolant from a '63 beetle
SpookyPenguin
scissors shaped so both left and right-handed people can use them
Ben R
Why, I'll give ya buttfor!
Graydon Armstrong
What are uni-scissors? The googles, they do nothing!
Captain Button
And the sleazy anime "Anhaukyo Maid Team."
Sean Kinlin
Ah, yes, that famous work of queer cinema: I've Seen the House Maids Mopping
Katrina Urmson
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.)
Sean Kinlin
If this place doesn't work out, the customer will move on to The Elbow Room.
Anthony Gaglianese
I believe it is for some damn good squeezin'. Just ask Faye.
SpookyPenguin
I actually have left-handed scissors but uni-scissors are becoming more common thankfully. The left-handed fountain pen is a godsend though.
Joseph McGrath
In the navy it was: get me a can of oil, ID 10 T
Captain Button
I wonder in Union Robotics could do a Motie Mod...
BookBeard
"Seek immediate medical attention if giggling at the name of this drug lasts for more than four hours."
Elizabeth Wallace
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.
ValdVin
"I've seen the maids use them" is a line that deserves more love.
JMK
She was so proud she found that mop! I hope it’s just as easy to find the left-handed screwdriver.
kaitou
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.)
Corvus Cardia
Ikr?? Was going to say something similar, but today I learned ‘ahoge’ and I’m cool with that.
joe velsher
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!
Call me Ishmael.
Also for sittinon, and a supplemental erogenous zone.
Daniel Farnitano
For Faye's enjoyment, I'm pretty sure.
BookBeard
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.
The IT Guy Eh
Reminds me of that time I got asked to get a fresh air sample from the factory I worked in....
Uniquitous
Don't tell me you fell for that old bit. Blinker fluid is universal except for some old cold-war era eastern European jobs!
Yelling Bird
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.
Adam Abbott
For pooping, silly.
darklion
Front or rear?
Uniquitous
That reminds me, I should stock up on blinker fluid
Shawn Pedersen
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.
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what's the buttfor???????
Melissa Wilson
🤫
Adrian Thornburg
Love that the punchline to the prank is left for the future for us to imagine, nice touch
Sean Rotter
This gave me Army flashbacks LOL
Leonardo Taglialegne
Super-rich heiresses are human too! It's Larry Ellison who's a lawnmower
Lee McDonough
Hahaha yes!!! It's like asking the rookie to go get the waterhammer!
Captain Button
Not left-handed smoke benders?
Seth Aaron Hershman has they she pronouns
what DOES bubbles have a buttfor
Ben Shields
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
Bridgette Ryan
Honestly I wasn't sure if the sky hooks were just an Australian joke or not...
Michael Boettger
Dont forget the left- handed smoke shifter.
Bill Silvia
If the customer had purple hair, they might qualify as a tall glass of water.
Alfonso Acosta
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 🤣
Edward Clayton Andrew
The hazing begins.
Veronica Jane
Good idea. Red Symons will know [/australiajoke]
Dean Reilly
If she can't find it, there's one in the cupboard next to the tin of checkered paint.
Doc Gumby
Reminds me of the Scouts, when my troop leader sent me around asking for 500 feet of shore line to hold up the tents.
Eric Pike
Why don't I show ya 😉😉😉😉😉 (that's the joke, no real flirtation intended)
Brendan Luster
it's blue you know?
Dean Reilly
Poopin'
Wynn Donivan
I love how emotive her ahoge is. Pardon me, I meant to say "anhoge" :3
Miyaa
“Buttfor” also is an experimental drug for reducing the inflammation from butts disease.
Errol Lobo
WHATS A BUTTFOR
Brendan Luster
what's a buttfor?
Le Stedman-Falls
And the hazing starts!
Michael
As long as no one sees the magic smoke, you'll be fine
Ryan X
You know I gotta ask it. What's a Buttfor?
Melvin Miller
I keep my left handed screwdrivers in the same drawer as the matterdaddy
Bill Silvia
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
Zig Justice
Oh the teasing! It is for REALS and I am here for it.
Bridgette Ryan
If you can't find either, check the sky hooks
Ali
Kinda surprised she isn't sending her out for blinker fluid.
Randall Norman Pick
Don't forget the wall expander.
Doc Gumby
You can start by lowering the volume there, princess.
