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AckAckAck
Submitted by AckAckAck on December 9, 2013 - 1:55am.
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You know you're in great relationship when your SO came to you in the morning just to share his/her bad breath.... then went back to sleep.

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jocelyn
Submitted by jocelyn on December 9, 2013 - 9:52am.
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haha, so true! When i look back at old photos from when we were in school Trevor is the only person who basically looks the same. Everyone else has aged or changed somehow :)

Michael Wilson
Submitted by Michael Wilson on December 9, 2013 - 1:36pm.
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I thought the girl was named Jam? Was there a name switch somewhere?

Rashkavar
Submitted by Rashkavar on December 9, 2013 - 2:54pm.
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This comic is somewhat autobiographical - Angela really is an engineer and she really is married to Trevor, and they really do like mountain biking, etc. I've yet to confirm the exploding squirrels, though - reproduction of the effect requires small amounts of C4.

Jam is Angela's nickname, according to the comic, and is regularly used. "Jammy" appears to be a term of endearment unique to her.

Several of my friends at university knew her from before she graduated. (The part about being an engineer is the only part I actually know for sure, but it seems odd that she'd write herself the same artificial husband for so long, and her broken wrist from a few months back is a classic biking injury. Also, I haven't actually been experimenting with squirrels to try to make them explode, other than watching for it to spontaneously happen in the wild.)

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Amake
Submitted by Amake on December 9, 2013 - 7:10pm.
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See http://www.wastedtalent.ca/comic/cute-couple for a crash course in Jam jargon. (Jamgon?)

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Sidhekin
Submitted by Sidhekin on December 10, 2013 - 4:23am.
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See also http://www.wastedtalent.ca/comic/jam-jam-jam :)

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Jam
Submitted by Jam on December 10, 2013 - 11:00am.
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Thanks, team! You're all correct, "jammy" was originally a term of endearment that became my nickname (Jam).

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Θωμας
Submitted by Θωμας on December 9, 2013 - 8:07pm.
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There was a strip, quite a while ago, I think, where it was explained that Angela and Trevor use "Jam" as a mutual nickname.
It made perfect sense to me, if only because of some sci-fi story that I had read many years before -- something by Frederik Pohl or maybe Philip Dick -- where some guy ends up in the future and finds himself in a society where *everybody* does this, i.e. when you enter into a steady relationship with someone, you and your significant other call each other by some name, the same name for both of you, and you use that name for no one else.

EDIT: Happy Anniversary Angela and Trevor!!! :-)

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Fuseblower
Submitted by Fuseblower on December 13, 2013 - 4:18am.
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Yeah - happy 10th anniversary of togetherness...

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