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Femurs

by David M Willis on September 24, 2010 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - Move-In Day
└ Tags: joyce, ruth, sarah

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  1. Cholma
    Cholma
    September 24, 2010 at 12:01 am | #

    Ruth broke Joyce! LOL

    • Hinoron
      Hinoron
      July 15, 2013 at 3:14 pm | #

      Didn’t take much, did it? LOL

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      August 18, 2014 at 12:38 am | #

      A year and some change later, I was just told that femurs are the largest bones in the body and therefore the best source of bone marrow, so it’s possible she WOULD need them to live…??

  2. Trae Dorn
    Trae Dorn
    September 24, 2010 at 12:03 am | #

    I can’t tell if Joyce is scared, or about to SWALLOW YOUR SOUL

    • David Herbert
      David Herbert
      September 24, 2010 at 12:04 am | #

      Both. Souls will give her courage and keep her innocent.

      • Chad from Canada
        Chad from Canada
        September 24, 2010 at 12:11 am | #

        Why do you think the Christians are always recruiting? They need the souls.

        • Jabberwocky
          Jabberwocky
          February 4, 2011 at 4:21 pm | #

          Damn, you’ve uncovered our diabolical scheme.

        • Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
          Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
          February 17, 2011 at 12:15 pm | #

          Not true

          • thomas0comer
            thomas0comer
            July 28, 2012 at 1:18 am | #

            We just really like the taste of them.

  3. Compass
    Compass
    September 24, 2010 at 12:14 am | #

    What could she possibly need femurs fo-…

    Oh. I see.

    • RandomPerson12
      RandomPerson12
      October 15, 2014 at 8:48 pm | #

      I don’t.

  4. Dierna
    Dierna
    September 24, 2010 at 12:16 am | #

    Joyce listens to the Gorillaz?

  5. CyberSkull
    CyberSkull
    September 24, 2010 at 12:25 am | #

    Lousy homeschool education. You don’t need femurs to live, they are just really nice and convenient!

    • Joe
      Joe
      September 24, 2010 at 10:46 pm | #

      To be fair, if Joyce has her own femurs, Ruth can’t beat her to death with them.

      • Jenny Creed
        Jenny Creed
        July 19, 2013 at 1:37 pm | #

        Oh, I think she’d still find a way to make her die with them.

  6. Wackd
    Wackd
    September 24, 2010 at 12:35 am | #

    Damn. Knew selling mine on the black market was a crap idea.

  7. Alan / Falcon
    Alan / Falcon
    September 24, 2010 at 12:37 am | #

    This will haunt my dreams.

    For a week.

    Thanks, Willis.

  8. loneislander
    loneislander
    September 24, 2010 at 12:39 am | #

    Pfft, bring Ruth on. I don’t need no Femurs.

  9. Laurel
    Laurel
    September 24, 2010 at 12:54 am | #

    Joyce’s non-existent pupils are coming back to consume her eyeballs!

    Also, I thought femurs were on notice.

  10. Erik
    Erik
    September 24, 2010 at 12:56 am | #

    As an RA myself, I worry about doing this to my residents. (Scaring the crap outta them, not removing body parts)

    • Malph
      Malph
      September 24, 2010 at 1:39 am | #

      Wait, RAs aren’t supposed to scare the shit out of you or threaten to remove body parts?

      • Trae Dorn
        Trae Dorn
        September 24, 2010 at 10:16 am | #

        When I was in college, I was the Judicial Board Chair…

        …and I scared the crap out of my RA instead. 😛

        • Jeff
          Jeff
          September 24, 2010 at 11:29 am | #

          I was the j-board chair toooooooooo

      • Erik
        Erik
        September 24, 2010 at 1:35 pm | #

        Only if we’re on duty, 😛

    • VPHardt
      VPHardt
      September 27, 2010 at 1:25 am | #

      As an Area Director (Yours might be called Residence Directors? It’s different everywhere lol) , I’ll let you know that it’s not always a bad thing to scare the crap out of your Residents.

      Better to start off as the heavy, and have them respect you, then start of fluffy and have them walk all over you. 🙂

  11. Romanticide
    Romanticide
    September 24, 2010 at 2:15 am | #

    “I need my femurs to live”
    Not exactly but one cannot deny that it would be something dearly missed in the case of lost.

  12. Tom
    Tom
    September 24, 2010 at 6:01 am | #

    But you don’t need your femurs to live…

    • No0ne
      No0ne
      September 24, 2010 at 2:21 pm | #

      I will rip out your femurs to test that, I bet you’d die from the lack of femurs… or the blood pouring out of the stumps that are left from me ripping off your femurs.

  13. Deviltrig
    Deviltrig
    September 24, 2010 at 9:12 am | #

    just… just… LOL! that was beautiful…

  14. MrGBH
    MrGBH
    September 24, 2010 at 9:20 am | #

    Silly Joyce, femurs are entirely optional.

  15. Zudarkness
    Zudarkness
    September 24, 2010 at 9:59 am | #

    Joyce needs a pizza. someone order her a pizza.

    Besides taht arn’t RA suppose to be like The Douglar from Undergrads?

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      September 24, 2010 at 12:22 pm | #

      The Dougler’s certainly more like the ones I had… But I’m sure there’s as many Ruths as Douglers.

  16. arjay2813
    arjay2813
    September 24, 2010 at 10:35 am | #

    bsod’ed by ruth lol. is she gonna live this time, i wonder..

  17. Chad from Canada
    Chad from Canada
    September 24, 2010 at 2:28 pm | #

    You TECHNICALLY don’t need your Femurs to live… But if someone ripped out the largest bone in your leg, the gaping wound it would leave would have you bleed out in… I’d be willing to bet on about a minuet, if that… Not to mention the fact that she would be beating you with it…

  18. Alice Macher
    Alice Macher
    September 25, 2010 at 1:36 am | #

    Years ago, I learned from an Itchy and Scratchy short that “You need a heart to live.” Now, thanks to Dumbing of Age, I know that you also need femurs to live. Geeky pastimes have saved my life!

  19. DCHorror
    DCHorror
    September 25, 2010 at 2:02 pm | #

    I saw this comic first today, cause I haven’t been back reading. I proceeded to misread femurs as lemurs.

    Then I saw Ruth, and was all like awesome and such.

  20. Cattleprod
    Cattleprod
    September 25, 2010 at 9:27 pm | #

    Not sure where else to put this… on my bookmarks toolbar, the Joyce icon for DoA keeps turning into the Ethan icon for SP, usually right after I actually go to the SP site. What’s up with that?

  21. Bwernard
    Bwernard
    September 26, 2010 at 2:29 pm | #

    Ruthless sick or Ruth less sick?

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      September 26, 2010 at 9:13 pm | #

      Ruthless, ick!

  22. Protonos
    Protonos
    October 11, 2010 at 7:14 pm | #

    LOL CHAD FROM KANADA that is funny but yeah make sure your one of us before you die. for your own good aaight 😉

  23. Al the Mighty
    Al the Mighty
    January 20, 2011 at 2:32 pm | #

    Aren’t some important cells for the immune system or the blood or something produced in the femurs? I think the lack of them would cost your health, and later your life…

  24. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    January 22, 2011 at 5:34 pm | #

    Silly Joyce, you don’t need your femurs to live. You need your spleen to live.

  25. Engelfire
    Engelfire
    May 20, 2011 at 11:53 am | #

    Joyce_Brown.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

  26. Maycroft
    Maycroft
    April 7, 2014 at 3:01 am | #

    psst, femurs are overrated.

  27. A
    A
    April 29, 2014 at 4:41 am | #

    I like how Sarah is consistently strung up as a villain by commenters later, and, yet, here she is just introduced, and right away is not only tolerant of her roommate’s conservative leanings, she just invited her out to what is generally considered a socially normal activity.

  28. nothri
    nothri
    November 6, 2014 at 6:13 pm | #

    Pizza is always more delicious when flaunting authority.

  29. Aisling
    Aisling
    May 22, 2015 at 2:32 pm | #

    LOL “I NEED MY FEMURS TO LIVE!!” I instantly thought of Invader Zim.

  30. Mousa The 14
    Mousa The 14
    March 31, 2016 at 9:37 am | #

    That was fast. I thought it’d take far longer for someone or something to freak her out.

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