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by David M Willis on January 4, 2013 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - If the Shoe Splits
└ Tags: jason, penny, sal

Discussion (256) ¬

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    January 4, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

    KNOCKIN’ BOOTS

    [I time-travelled here from 1991 to say that]

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      January 4, 2013 at 12:05 am | #

      Doing the bedroom pretzel.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        January 4, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

        The horizontal monster mash.

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          January 4, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

          The bedroom tango.

          • Doctor_Who
            Doctor_Who
            January 4, 2013 at 12:15 am | #

            Rolling for initiative.

            • Rokku
              Rokku
              January 4, 2013 at 8:22 am | #

              Calculating adjusted THAC0? No, wait.

              • Nathan
                Nathan
                September 3, 2013 at 6:20 pm | #

                I read that as “Calculating adjusted Taco” and nearly passed out laughing.

              • Nathan
                Nathan
                September 3, 2013 at 6:26 pm | #

                The Dance with no Pants, the venerable “doing it”, Gettin’ it on, the horizontal hoedown.

                • fatemaster1
                  fatemaster1
                  June 22, 2014 at 11:16 pm | #

                  Doing the dirty thing.

                  (I time traveled here from the 1950’s to say that)

                • The Seer Of Rage
                  The Seer Of Rage
                  August 19, 2015 at 7:11 pm | #

                  Penny Is Like An Adult Dina.

                  (Google “kanaya text”)

          • Wonder Wig
            Wonder Wig
            January 4, 2013 at 12:33 am | #

            The adverb innuendo.

            • Steven
              Steven
              January 4, 2013 at 4:13 am | #

              To verb the adjective noun! *Thrust*

              • Max
                Max
                January 7, 2013 at 5:28 pm | #

                Oh my god I love you <3

              • Joseph
                Joseph
                March 30, 2013 at 3:33 pm | #

                Nobody verbs with the adjective noun like Gaston!

          • AckAckAck
            AckAckAck
            January 4, 2013 at 2:01 am | #

            The Horizontal Tango.

            • Aizat
              Aizat
              January 4, 2013 at 2:10 am | #

              Driving the stake into the ground.

              • Melizza
                Melizza
                January 4, 2013 at 2:29 am | #

                Sharpening the pencil.

              • abjuron
                abjuron
                January 4, 2013 at 2:55 am | #

                Posting your comment.

                • Aizat
                  Aizat
                  January 4, 2013 at 3:22 am | #

                  Feeding the bird.

                • ArkhamTexan
                  ArkhamTexan
                  January 4, 2013 at 9:08 am | #

                  The hunka-chunka.

                • Saint
                  Saint
                  May 19, 2013 at 11:06 pm | #

                  Oh god, abjuron, your picture makes the comment.

            • Bill
              Bill
              September 3, 2013 at 5:11 am | #

              The mattress mambo.

          • Dibullba
            Dibullba
            January 4, 2013 at 5:30 am | #

            The Hanky Pokey

            • mrelegos
              mrelegos
              January 4, 2013 at 6:43 am | #

              The two backed beast

              • CWR
                CWR
                January 4, 2013 at 8:05 am | #

                Bumping uglies.

                • CWR
                  CWR
                  January 4, 2013 at 8:09 am | #

                  Dammit, gotta start reading the whole thread before posting. I got nothing.

                • hmrc4evr
                  hmrc4evr
                  January 6, 2013 at 8:26 am | #

                  Tab B into slot A

                • The Other Mike
                  The Other Mike
                  January 30, 2015 at 5:49 am | #

                  The proper term is “Smite Evil,” nor “bump

                • The Other Mike
                  The Other Mike
                  January 30, 2015 at 5:50 am | #

                  Arrg, clicked on the wrong thing. Ahem.
                  The proper term is “Smite Evil,” not “bump uglies.”

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          January 4, 2013 at 2:33 pm | #

          Inserting rod A into slot B.

          • Esmé Lloyd-Baldwin
            Esmé Lloyd-Baldwin
            January 6, 2013 at 12:59 pm | #

            Engaging in shenanigans?

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      January 4, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

      You travel on the information superhighway quite well from someone from 1991.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        January 4, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

        With internet speeds being what they were back then, he actually had to hit the submit button in 1991 to get first comment today.

        • Tucker
          Tucker
          January 5, 2013 at 1:08 pm | #

          *highfive*

        • hmrc4evr
          hmrc4evr
          January 6, 2013 at 8:30 am | #

          Na. He just got his modem up to 8800 baud and got back before the strip was even up!

          • N0083rP00F
            N0083rP00F
            January 7, 2013 at 3:03 pm | #

            8800 was a PC model unless your leased lines had some bad cross-talk and dropped your 9600 down a bit. Then again I was screamin through at 14-4 back then. … or so a have heard >_>

      • tahrey
        tahrey
        January 4, 2013 at 3:58 am | #

        I wonder what the comparitive physical travel speeds would be if you analogised early 90s modems vs modern broadband in that way…

        Let’s say our up-to-the-minute, late-1991 computer user has got hold of a recently released 14.4k (v32bis) modem, and intends to use it through their local internet-portaling online service provider to access CERN’s recently activated public “www” server using a browser they downloaded from some BBS. This 14400 bits/sec* represents walking pace…

        My home broadband, which is something of a budget model, tops out somewhere around 12,000,000 – 13,000,000 bits/sec (or approx 23-24% of the wifi router’s 54mbit link).

        In 1991 we could walk at 2.5mph … now we’re in a hypersonic jet, travelling at nearly 2200mph (or ~2000kts, over mach 3).

        Yeah, they’re gonna be walking a while to catch up to this forum page.

        • tahrey
          tahrey
          January 4, 2013 at 4:06 am | #

          oops forgot my footnote

          * no, not “baud”. The highest symbol rate achieved was 8000, with the 56k modems, encoding a 6 or 7 bit symbol on each clock = 48000~56000 bit/sec. Before that, the top symbol rate was between 2400 and 3600 per second, with a good 8-12 bits per symbol in the latter (33.6k) days, a mere 2-4 bits with only moderately advanced machines (4800/9600/14400 bit/s), and single-bits with the primitive ones (up to 2400 bit/s… which were also 2400 baud. Or 1200, 300…)

          If we rework the above calculations to consider modern broadband as travelling at the same speed as a car on a freeway, we’re doing 75mph, and they’re at a slow but still noticeable crawl, somewhere between that of a really fast snail and a mildly sedated sloth. (0.039m/s, or 139 metres/hour, 0.086 mph). Which given the uses we put the web to these days, vs what it was used for waybackwhen, is maybe the better illustration.

          • Charlie
            Charlie
            January 4, 2013 at 10:27 am | #

            I have no idea what you just said but I congratulate you for it

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            January 5, 2013 at 4:35 am | #

            Gotta ask, did you get this information from your education or from using website calculators?

            • Felix Kütt
              Felix Kütt
              January 5, 2013 at 10:07 pm | #

              likely answer is: both.

              • Plasma Mongoose
                Plasma Mongoose
                January 5, 2013 at 10:39 pm | #

                *strokes chin*

                • Felix Kütt
                  Felix Kütt
                  January 6, 2013 at 7:28 am | #

                  –_–

          • Dwayne
            Dwayne
            January 9, 2013 at 3:21 am | #

            You make me hot.

        • Kilonum
          Kilonum
          January 4, 2013 at 12:17 pm | #

          And at 150,000,000 bits/sec, my broadband just achieved escape velocity

          • Aeyt
            Aeyt
            January 20, 2013 at 4:40 am | #

            Escape Velocity was a great game. My ForkLift was powerful.

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        January 7, 2013 at 10:50 pm | #

        Gahdamnit, I can’t believe no one else gets that reference =(

        • Jen Aside
          Jen Aside
          January 7, 2013 at 11:33 pm | #

          (hint: ironcircus.com)

    • Edward
      Edward
      January 4, 2013 at 1:33 am | #

      Bumpin’ Uglies!!

      • Miko
        Miko
        January 4, 2013 at 9:45 am | #

        The correct term is “smiting evil”.

    • Ancestral Hamster
      Ancestral Hamster
      January 4, 2013 at 2:32 am | #

      “Doing the Nasty!”

      {IIRC, that was from the 80’s}

    • Crumplepunch
      Crumplepunch
      January 4, 2013 at 4:24 am | #

      Smoking the long-stemmed pipe.

    • Becky
      Becky
      January 4, 2013 at 11:30 am | #

      Bumpin’ Monkeys!

      …that was a real term, right?

    • Nee Hou
      Nee Hou
      January 4, 2013 at 12:28 pm | #

      In Jason’s case it might be more of spanking monkeies.

    • Zap Rowsdower
      Zap Rowsdower
      January 4, 2013 at 12:30 pm | #

      HAVING SEX

      • Chug
        Chug
        January 5, 2013 at 2:22 am | #

        You’re no fun at all 😛

    • AY
      AY
      January 5, 2013 at 4:10 am | #

      They’d fondue’d

    • The Aussie Bloke
      The Aussie Bloke
      January 7, 2013 at 4:48 am | #

      Shtoinking.

    • Aeyt
      Aeyt
      January 20, 2013 at 5:23 am | #

      so many remain.
      burrowing the bishop, launching the torpedo, burying treasure, planting the flag, staking the claim, singing and dancing, hot beef injection, drilling, pounding, pecking, mounting the pony, laying pipe, sewing the gash, playing in puddles, hiding the sausage, the list goes on forever more but I’ll end with my favorite, praying… lol

  2. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    January 4, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

    I’d slapjack her, I tell ya what.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      January 4, 2013 at 12:04 am | #

      I couldn’t agree more.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      January 4, 2013 at 12:09 am | #

      Right there and then, I suppose?

  3. David Herbert
    David Herbert
    January 4, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

    It’d be painful if they tried to bugger improperly.

  4. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    January 4, 2013 at 12:04 am | #

    Where I come from, we just call it rooting.

    • Resne
      Resne
      January 4, 2013 at 12:18 am | #

      Washing the orangutan.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        January 4, 2013 at 12:26 am | #

        Exploring the cave.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          January 4, 2013 at 1:51 am | #

          Spelunking! 😉

          • AckAckAck
            AckAckAck
            January 4, 2013 at 2:02 am | #

            Drilling for white oil.

            • Aizat
              Aizat
              January 4, 2013 at 2:07 am | #

              Hammering the nail.

              • Melizza
                Melizza
                January 4, 2013 at 2:30 am | #

                Putting the penir in the vaginer

                • Tualha
                  Tualha
                  January 4, 2013 at 6:05 am | #

                  Schtupping!

          • GrrArg42
            GrrArg42
            January 5, 2013 at 4:23 am | #

            Ok, now I’m SURE I don’t understand.

            • Deanatay
              Deanatay
              June 16, 2015 at 4:51 pm | #

              I’ve bathed an ape myself, back in the day.

    • awnman
      awnman
      January 4, 2013 at 7:50 pm | #

      The Australian marsupial eats, roots, shoots and leaves

  5. Vex Godglove
    Vex Godglove
    January 4, 2013 at 12:05 am | #

    I can’t decide if “slap-jackin” or “bonky-tonkin” is now my new favorite euphemism.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      January 4, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

      I would be fine with “practicing the Kama Sutra”

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        January 4, 2013 at 12:12 am | #

        Though I also prefer “slap chop”

        • AckAckAck
          AckAckAck
          January 4, 2013 at 2:04 am | #

          How about “Making Sausage Taco with mayonnaise on top?

        • Rokku
          Rokku
          January 4, 2013 at 8:21 am | #

          *insert “you’re gonna love my nuts” joke*

        • Khrene Cleaver
          Khrene Cleaver
          January 4, 2013 at 1:12 pm | #

          One slap you got big chunks for stew; two slaps, salad!

        • Dragon Nataku
          Dragon Nataku
          January 4, 2013 at 1:42 pm | #

          Chop? Really? You must have a thing for Lorena Bobbit then ^o__o^;;

    • Flushmaster
      Flushmaster
      January 6, 2013 at 1:39 pm | #

      I now have a personal mission to use “bonky tonkin'” in a conversation.

  6. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    January 4, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

    All I’m getting from this is that Sal and Penny are trying to figure out if Jason is doing the other one.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      January 4, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

      Everyone wants a piece of that bow-tie.

      • Jehosaphat
        Jehosaphat
        January 4, 2013 at 1:36 am | #

        Bow ties are cool.

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          January 4, 2013 at 2:11 am | #

          So are stetsons and fezzes.

          • Bibulb
            Bibulb
            January 4, 2013 at 9:42 am | #

            Let me tell you, when I wear my cowboy fez, the womenfolk love it.

    • DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
      DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
      January 4, 2013 at 1:09 am | #

      Due to Uber-Frosh Sal failing to get that her concern being a big, toad-squashing negative is exactly what Penny’s raving about in the first place.

  7. Parismio
    Parismio
    January 4, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

    Slick-tackin, kiddlin, toffying!?
    Yknow…. the best stuff…

  8. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    January 4, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

    Same old Penny raging hormones. *Puts on body armour and helmet*

  9. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    January 4, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

    I’d definitely invite her up to see my etchings.

    • Undrave
      Undrave
      January 4, 2013 at 1:33 am | #

      Or antique Japanese prints?

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        January 4, 2013 at 2:06 am | #

        I would invite her to see my sculpture.

      • AckAckAck
        AckAckAck
        January 4, 2013 at 2:06 am | #

        Or Etch a Sketch gallery?

        • petsinwinter
          petsinwinter
          January 4, 2013 at 7:38 pm | #

          I’d show her my pokemans

          • Someone random
            Someone random
            January 5, 2013 at 12:13 am | #

            THAT’S POKEMON
            SAY IT RIGHT

          • LuckyStar7
            LuckyStar7
            January 5, 2013 at 10:50 am | #

            Or Digimons?

            • hmrc4evr
              hmrc4evr
              January 6, 2013 at 9:09 am | #

              Just dont invite her back to show her your Leomon. He’ll be dead and that will really kill the mood.

  10. Romanticide
    Romanticide
    January 4, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

    Sal looks so small compared to Penny and Jason

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      January 4, 2013 at 12:13 am | #

      I can’t unsee it. Willis!!! How short is Sal!? she is like…Dwarfed by these “fellow adults”.

      • Mogotoo
        Mogotoo
        January 4, 2013 at 12:18 am | #

        Jason is tall compared to everyone.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        January 4, 2013 at 12:27 am | #

        A classic case of Teens Are Short.

        • David
          David M Willis
          January 4, 2013 at 12:47 am | #

          Sal and Walky are both roughly my height, so from my perspective, Sal’s the normal one.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            January 4, 2013 at 1:54 am | #

            I heard that in Western countries like the US and Oz, adults under 5’6″ are officially short, is this true for you?

            • eerilychildish
              eerilychildish
              January 4, 2013 at 2:40 am | #

              That depends on whether you’re talking men or women. The average adult male height in the US is ~5’10”, so a man shorter than 5’6″ would definitely be considered pretty short. The average adult female height, on the other hand, is ~5’4″, so 5’6″ is a bit taller than the average woman.

              • AckAckAck
                AckAckAck
                January 4, 2013 at 3:21 am | #

                Oh wow. I thought American average height is much taller.

                But as a SE Asian I’m 180cm (5,9) is already considered quite tall (but not the tallest).

                • CWR
                  CWR
                  January 4, 2013 at 8:15 am | #

                  Believe it or not, it used to be – average height for US males has declined from a few centuries ago. (Source: United Stats of America on History channel).

                • The Weird Dude
                  The Weird Dude
                  January 4, 2013 at 10:07 am | #

                  My good sir, I do believe you have your numbers a little bit wrong. You see, 180 cm do not translate as 5’9. If that were the case, my 170 cm would end up being around 5′ instead of the 5’8 I previously held, further shattering my self-esteem.

                • Pat
                  Pat
                  January 4, 2013 at 12:59 pm | #

                  I think AckAckAck might have meant five-point-nine feet, which is correct, rather than five foot nine inches.

                • AckAckAck
                  AckAckAck
                  January 6, 2013 at 6:22 am | #

                  Thanks for the correction Pat 🙂

            • DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
              DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
              January 5, 2013 at 11:37 am | #

              Yes. For men, anyway. An American woman around 5’6″ would be on the tall side. As for men, 5’7″ to 5’11” is average. 6’0″ or more is tall.

              Last I checked, by Global standards, North America is a land of Big’uns in more ways than just weight. How this relates to the strip is that JAson and Penny are making Sal appear Fun-Size due to being a couple’o sun-blockers.

              • Flushmaster
                Flushmaster
                January 6, 2013 at 1:47 pm | #

                I’m 6’4″ (about 193 cm) so most people are short from my perspective. I’m accustomed to looking down when talking to anybody. When I meet someone taller than myself (not common, but it happens) I’m impressed.

                • Flushmaster
                  Flushmaster
                  January 6, 2013 at 1:51 pm | #

                  And, oddly enough, I’m generally attracted to short women. If I can use her head as an armrest while both of us are standing, I usually think she’s cute. If she’ll actually let me do that and not kick me in the shins, then I consider her a keeper.

        • Blur
          Blur
          January 4, 2013 at 2:09 am | #

          Why? Why would you link to there? Now I’ll never get to sleep!

          • Raoullefere
            Raoullefere
            January 4, 2013 at 7:18 am | #

            That’s probably pretty much why.

  11. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    January 4, 2013 at 12:08 am | #

    Is she Irish or British (meaning English).

    • Blob Marley
      Blob Marley
      January 4, 2013 at 12:13 am | #

      Pretty sure those are English slang. Source: I know a guy who is English… ish.

      • Groove
        Groove
        January 4, 2013 at 4:11 am | #

        That makes it sound like you know someone who sells illegal slang.

        • Raoullefere
          Raoullefere
          January 4, 2013 at 7:21 am | #

          Or is an English illegal alien. Which is insane, since nearly everyone in the U.S. would be tumbling ass over tea-kettle to get him naturalized.

      • Martin S Smith
        Martin S Smith
        January 4, 2013 at 9:28 am | #

        Those are British slang, though you’d be unlikely to find the type of person who says ‘knobbing’ (which is fairly vulgar) also saying ‘boffing’ (which is, well, not something I’ve ever heard anyone ever actually say).

        • Hbees
          Hbees
          January 4, 2013 at 10:19 am | #

          Yeah it doesn’t really matter whether she’s supposed to be from London or the North, both would be waaaaay more crude than that. They don’t bother with euphemisms, they’d go straight for the hardest expletive that came to mind. But also the only person who says ‘jolly’ anything would be the Queen. It’s like she’s trying to be a posh cockney, and that’s an oxymoron.

          • begbert2
            begbert2
            January 4, 2013 at 10:34 am | #

            Yeah, if I didn’t know better I’d think that Willis wasn’t British.

            • Earlofthercs
              Earlofthercs
              January 6, 2013 at 3:56 pm | #

              It’s like he’s learned how to speak from watching old episodes of French & Saunders, or Fry & Laurie.

        • Blob Marley
          Blob Marley
          January 4, 2013 at 6:59 pm | #

          I’ve actually heard “boffing” in some British works of fiction. Never in real life.

        • Li
          Li
          January 7, 2013 at 9:07 am | #

          Not to undermine the point, which I agree with — the dialogue in this strip is trying a little too hard, IMHO — but I am always kind of bemused when I hear British people complain that “no one” says, for example, “bloody hell”. If you want Americans to stop writing Brits as saying that, the best thing to do would be to stop British TV, books, and movies from having Brits say it.

          I think I understand that phrases like bloody hell and boffing are in your TV, movies, and books because they’re more kid-friendly, and everyone in England realizes that and translates those terms in their heads to more hardcore slang, but personally when I write characters I’ve seen on TV I tend to emulate the speech patterns they have there.

          So… yeah.

  12. Blob Marley
    Blob Marley
    January 4, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

    Willy-Wonkin’?

    • Audiophillie
      Audiophillie
      January 4, 2013 at 1:58 am | #

      I’d have a taste of those gobstoppers.

      • Zababcd
        Zababcd
        January 4, 2013 at 5:14 am | #

        Opening up the ol’ chocolate factory… no, wait. Wrong euphemism.

        • ArkhamTexan
          ArkhamTexan
          January 4, 2013 at 9:11 am | #

          Showin’ off the Oompa Loompahs.

          • Vabolo
            Vabolo
            January 4, 2013 at 10:41 am | #

            Givin’ her the Golden ticket.

            • Bill M.
              Bill M.
              January 4, 2013 at 12:45 pm | #

              Dipping a candy cane into her snozzberries.

  13. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    January 4, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

    Penny. Why are you monologuing? You are no longer a super villain.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      January 4, 2013 at 12:14 am | #

      You know who else like to monologue?

    • John
      John
      January 4, 2013 at 12:14 am | #

      Are you sure? Someone has to be Amazi-girl’s nemesis.

      • james
        james
        January 4, 2013 at 12:42 am | #

        There is Faz-Tasitco.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      January 4, 2013 at 12:15 am | #

      She wishes that Jason would ‘monolog’ her for a change.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        January 4, 2013 at 12:18 am | #

        She wants his monolog.

        • Blob Marley
          Blob Marley
          January 4, 2013 at 12:20 am | #

          She wants to nom his log?

          I’ll just see myself out…

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            January 4, 2013 at 12:39 am | #

            Heh-heh!

    • Mkvenner
      Mkvenner
      January 4, 2013 at 1:27 am | #

      Who’s monologuing?

  14. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    January 4, 2013 at 12:12 am | #

    That poor sweater vest is never going to return to its proper shape.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      January 4, 2013 at 12:14 am | #

      He actually bought it with indentations in the size and shape of sal’s fist and it fits like a glove.

  15. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    January 4, 2013 at 12:17 am | #

    Biblical Sense is good term for they are talking about.

  16. Count Dracula
    Count Dracula
    January 4, 2013 at 12:21 am | #

    If Penny thought Jason was too into protocol to have any energy to invest in diving for pearls, why didn’t she just ask the Professor to change his schedule to include some gob-stopping?

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      January 4, 2013 at 12:40 am | #

      Jason doesn’t understand inuendo. He will literally buy her gobstoppers.

  17. QD
    QD
    January 4, 2013 at 12:21 am | #

    I can’t tell if the joke is supposed to be that this is what americans think british people sound like?

    • Kanickels
      Kanickels
      January 4, 2013 at 1:09 am | #

      God, I hope this is intended to be sardonic, because if not, it’s REALLY embarrassing. Granted, when I talk to my Irish boyfriend, there are always one or two words per conversation I do not understand, but this is just ridiculous.

      • Kanickels
        Kanickels
        January 4, 2013 at 1:13 am | #

        The comic, that is, not the comment.
        I absolutely adore Dumbing of Age, but…seriously?

        • KHNO
          KHNO
          January 4, 2013 at 2:01 am | #

          It took me years before being able to fake properly other french accents, years and travels. And I own a degree in literature and phonetics. So maybe, I don’t know, it’s not so easy when it comes to your own language to know how to deform it? You know adults are really bad at faking talking as hip as teenagers and how it always sounds embarassing. I think the whole point might be there. And in the difference between what is real and what is real enough not lose people. As in roleplay, if the master knows physics and the player don’t, then it’s difficult for them to resolve an enigma about how a hadron collider work. But again, maybe not and it’s just fun with stereotypes like bowties. Or even both. Or even the author making fun of what he created when he had no other clue of what an englishman souns like…Or I should go to work instead of making sound hypotheses

          • Groove
            Groove
            January 4, 2013 at 4:21 am | #

            My wife is Glaswegian and despite being deeply in love and spending most hours in every day together, it still took me a year before I had to stop saying ‘what?’ every once and a while. Mainly that was speed and style of talking rather than slang but still.

            Similarly, I had a much wider vocabulary than she did (of actual words that exist in a dictionary) and it took her a lot of adjusting as well.

            Writing that down, I realise it’s kind of like a much more genitally-entwined version of Penny and Jason.

            • N0083rP00F
              N0083rP00F
              January 7, 2013 at 3:18 pm | #

              Okay – pardon me for asking this if its offensive in any way – But does she know of or practice the Glaswegian martial art of Icky Thump?

              • Snograt
                Snograt
                January 25, 2013 at 10:22 am | #

                Good grief. For one thing, it’s “ecky thump,” and for another it is either Lancastrian or Yorkshire – flat cap, ferret and woodbine country. Google that term plus The Goodies.

      • Flibblebot
        Flibblebot
        January 4, 2013 at 1:33 am | #

        Couldn’t agree more. Dick Van Dyke has a lot to answer for.

    • Egg
      Egg
      January 4, 2013 at 2:10 am | #

      Yes, Virginia, that’s the joke 😛

    • DaJoshMaster
      DaJoshMaster
      January 4, 2013 at 2:57 am | #

      As an Englishman, I would KILL to be able to have an accent like this. 😛

      • Flibblebot
        Flibblebot
        January 4, 2013 at 4:25 am | #

        As a Welshman, I would kill ANYONE that had an accent like this (just on principle. Nothing personal).

        Note to the US: Dick Van Dyke’s accent in Mary Poppins was crap. Nobody in the UK speaks like he did. People around the UK speak with more accents than just fake Cockney. Please, people of ‘Merka, learn this and we can be friends again.

        • begbert2
          begbert2
          January 4, 2013 at 10:38 am | #

          Meh, I have enough friends. Let’s gear up for war!

        • Tamsen Na
          Tamsen Na
          January 4, 2013 at 10:00 pm | #

          We’ll learn this as soon as everyone else learns that Americans aren’t all A) fat, B) Cowboys, or C) Tan, muscular surfer dudes (that would be the Californians… jk.) 😛

          • Aeyt
            Aeyt
            January 20, 2013 at 4:59 am | #

            I’m a Californain, a South Cali resident at that, and while I am naturally tan being of partial Hispanic descent, I am not buff, though I am fit, and do surf. Furthermore, I do not have a surfer accent. But I am a fricken awesome factory. Everything I produce is awesome. lol 😛

    • Rokku
      Rokku
      January 4, 2013 at 8:25 am | #

      I’m pretty sure the joke is that Penny and Sal both have accents and use slang so far-afield from what the other one is used to that they may as well be speaking different languages.

    • DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
      DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
      January 5, 2013 at 6:40 pm | #

      Jason’s whole character is a joke on what assumbly-line Americans think British people are about. Ever seen Family Guy?

      A bag of oak apples says he was forced to vacate Great Britain for that very reason.

  18. Agera
    Agera
    January 4, 2013 at 12:22 am | #

    red hair green eyes does she weigh the same as a duck becuase if she does that means shes a…

    • Agera
      Agera
      January 4, 2013 at 12:23 am | #

      opps *because*

      • Jehosaphat
        Jehosaphat
        January 4, 2013 at 1:39 am | #

        *oops* 😉

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      January 4, 2013 at 2:29 pm | #

      Bridge component?

      • DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
        DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
        January 5, 2013 at 6:48 pm | #

        I think Agera means she has a really bad Itch she can’t seem to scratch…

        Maybe a nervous Twitch she hasn’t shown on-panel yet….

        Ain’t fair to call her a bongo yet, especially with the likes of Billie, Raidah, and who know who else down the line in the cast, so that can’t be it…

        Oh! Maybe it’s that she isn’t a natural redhead, and her hair was originally as black as Pitch….

  19. Chupacabraconvoy
    Chupacabraconvoy
    January 4, 2013 at 12:49 am | #

    Yay, I missed seeing Jason and Sal. Also, it’s cool seeing less Starscream esque version of Penny. I look forward to comparing and contrasting the two versions of her.

  20. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    January 4, 2013 at 12:59 am | #

    the beast with two backs, humping, roll in the hay……
    how about just plain having sex?
    And Sal’s still got a good hold on that sweater

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      January 4, 2013 at 10:40 am | #

      She’s forgotten she’s holding it; she’s just gripping it on automatic now.

      Which is going to be a little awkward when she gets back to her dorm and starts changing to her pantless state of repose.

  21. Uncle Rylon
    Uncle Rylon
    January 4, 2013 at 1:03 am | #

    It’s like that game “if you know what I mean…”

  22. Peruhain
    Peruhain
    January 4, 2013 at 1:49 am | #

    That would be “shagging,” wouldn’t it? Or maybe “scrogging?”

    I thought “boffing” was an American expression. Of course, I learned it in the Navy, and I suppose we absorbed slang from every port we ever visited.

    • N0083rP00F
      N0083rP00F
      January 7, 2013 at 3:24 pm | #

      But isn’t A boffin is British slang for a scientist, engineer, or other person engaged in technical or scientific work?

  23. RachelEvil
    RachelEvil
    January 4, 2013 at 1:54 am | #

    Oh, I could read pages of this conversation…

  24. Osaru Sensei
    Osaru Sensei
    January 4, 2013 at 2:08 am | #

    Giggly-wiggling? Smurfing? Oogling her googlies? Doing the Horizontal Mambo? Yakking? Gafroogling? Eating the Smorgasbord?

    … Some of these may or may not be material used by me and my gf.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      January 4, 2013 at 2:13 am | #

      Try using eating a Twinkie.

      • AckAckAck
        AckAckAck
        January 4, 2013 at 2:18 am | #

        But Hostess already bankrupt!

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          January 4, 2013 at 2:32 am | #

          Or you could use the one we have in Malaysia. What’s its name again….oh right Twiggies.

          • AckAckAck
            AckAckAck
            January 4, 2013 at 3:25 am | #

            You mean like London Swiss Roll?

            http://img.21food.com/20110609/product/1211265333859.jpg

            • Aizat
              Aizat
              January 4, 2013 at 3:46 am | #

              This is what Twiggies look like: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YFiRavajoN4/TAu-i0PjE7I/AAAAAAAAENc/XGyHCr1Ncvc/s1600/Twiggies+%281%29.JPG

              • AckAckAck
                AckAckAck
                January 4, 2013 at 4:40 am | #

                Interesting, I have to find this.

                • Aizat
                  Aizat
                  January 4, 2013 at 4:46 am | #

                  Hey, if you’re in Malaysia, you can find it in any convenience store

                • AckAckAck
                  AckAckAck
                  January 4, 2013 at 6:48 am | #

                  I’m your neighbour anyway. I can always look on imported snack section or grocery store owned by someone from Kalimantan (that’s where I get my London Swiss Roll).

  25. Orangey
    Orangey
    January 4, 2013 at 2:09 am | #

    Welp, I’ve never heard of boffing or knobbing and I’m english. If you went for shagging on the other hand… I’m pretty sure that this is just mocking the usual stereotype of british people though, because I don’t know anyone who speaks like this.

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      January 4, 2013 at 10:42 am | #

      Everyone in England talks like this; they just put on airs when they think you might be listening.

    • mrelegos
      mrelegos
      January 4, 2013 at 1:54 pm | #

      Welp, as a proud West-Midlander, I can assure you, both knobbing and boffing are real terms, if a little antiquated in my region.

      Personally, I’m not seeing it as mockery, more of a gesture of love. So far, Penny and Jason are the most well spoken characters in the strip.

    • nitpicker
      nitpicker
      January 5, 2013 at 10:18 am | #

      I think the idea is an English person trapped in middle-of-nowhere Midwestern college towns struggle so mightily bottling up their English-ness while living among the degenerate Americans that they can’t but help spill it all out in super-dense format when they manage to find another Englishman.

      Or they deliberately speak with excessive Britishisms in order to conceal their conversation from American eavesdroppers.

  26. Ridureyu
    Ridureyu
    January 4, 2013 at 2:47 am | #

    PRE-MARITAL HANKY PANKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  27. Scot
    Scot
    January 4, 2013 at 3:52 am | #

    Jason looks so…..Mike-ish in that last panel.

  28. Traps
    Traps
    January 4, 2013 at 3:54 am | #

    I think dave may have been listening to gav on the roosterteeth podcast too much

  29. tahrey
    tahrey
    January 4, 2013 at 4:09 am | #

    I’m now just trying to figure out why they both talk like they’ve escaped from a Merchant Ivory comedy from the 1950s… 🙂

    • Tualha
      Tualha
      January 4, 2013 at 6:08 am | #

      I’m trying to figure out how it happened that this professor, in an American university, ended up with two British TAs. I’m aware that foreign students are well represented in STEM, but I would think Brits wouldn’t be as common as, say, east Asians; Brits have plenty of excellent schools of their own they could enroll in. Implausible, Willis!

      • AckAckAck
        AckAckAck
        January 4, 2013 at 6:51 am | #

        It’s common for several adventurous students to go overseas for their studies. Japan is well known for their graphic design school but I knew a Japanese who went to Australian Graphic Design School. He just want to try designing from other country’s point of view.

  30. Null Set
    Null Set
    January 4, 2013 at 4:40 am | #

    “Hmm, I’m worried I overdo it with Sal’s accent. Time to double- no, triple down.”

  31. Azumango
    Azumango
    January 4, 2013 at 4:52 am | #

    If this boat’s a-rockin’…

    We’re probably bonky-tonkin’

  32. Zababcd
    Zababcd
    January 4, 2013 at 5:20 am | #

    I doodled down to the grocery store the other day to do some boffing. I knobbed a couple of loaves of bread, slap-jacked the money to the guy at the checkout, then bonky-tonked right on home.

    This is all one long euphemism.

  33. sandbridgekid
    sandbridgekid
    January 4, 2013 at 6:05 am | #

    Can she have a Scottish accent? But if she’s the It’s Walky Penny she sounds like a female Stephen Fry, which my darlings, is most an equitable, urbane Oxbridge, whose Snark can be heard across the Multiverse.

  34. Tualha
    Tualha
    January 4, 2013 at 6:10 am | #

    If they were science students instead of math students, and if they were hiding the sausage, I guess that would make them boffin’ boffins…

  35. MrLShade
    MrLShade
    January 4, 2013 at 6:11 am | #

    Why do I now have this uncontrollable desire for Jam-Butty’s and Fairy Cakes? :>

  36. Jimmy
    Jimmy
    January 4, 2013 at 6:26 am | #

    Southern accent meets British accent. Let the hilarity ensue!

    • AckAckAck
      AckAckAck
      January 4, 2013 at 6:51 am | #

      The sex will be awesome.

      • N0083rP00F
        N0083rP00F
        January 7, 2013 at 3:30 pm | #

        And a perplexed Jason will watch.

  37. Jimmy
    Jimmy
    January 4, 2013 at 6:27 am | #

    And I have no idea what either one of them are saying. That’s the hard part of living in Ohio. 🙂

    • Aeyt
      Aeyt
      January 20, 2013 at 5:08 am | #

      That’s the hard part of living in Ohio? How about the fact that you live in Ohio? lol. I have family and an ex that live there. Not my fave place.

  38. Jackson
    Jackson
    January 4, 2013 at 6:50 am | #

    I’m starting to feel sorry for Jason in this continuity. In It’s Walky!, he had a reason to be so uptight–the survival of the planet depended on the success of his squad. In DoA, he’s just the stalwart defender of maths.

    • luluvbrit
      luluvbrit
      January 4, 2013 at 1:09 pm | #

      Au contraire. there could be future engineers in that class. If they can’t accomplish maths then society could crumble.

  39. ADHadh
    ADHadh
    January 4, 2013 at 7:06 am | #

    More funny accents!

    • ADHadh
      ADHadh
      January 4, 2013 at 7:07 am | #

      And my avatar reminded me of the “Waw-key” strip.

  40. Raoullefere
    Raoullefere
    January 4, 2013 at 7:24 am | #

    Different universe, same Penny. Only in this one she’s frustrated, which is either a plus or a frightening thought.

  41. Jesper
    Jesper
    January 4, 2013 at 8:17 am | #

    Why do Jason and Penny use British English words?

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      January 4, 2013 at 10:46 am | #

      Because they’re Swedish.

      • AckAckAck
        AckAckAck
        January 6, 2013 at 6:07 am | #

        Bork Bork.

  42. ArkhamTexan
    ArkhamTexan
    January 4, 2013 at 9:14 am | #

    … this is pretty hot, actually. Let’s stick with this for a while.

  43. GMWestermeyer
    GMWestermeyer
    January 4, 2013 at 10:24 am | #

    I miss Walkypedia. I’m new to the Walkyverse and I liked being able to see who these new characters were in the earlier series.

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      January 4, 2013 at 10:46 am | #

      Huh? When did it vanish?

    • AckAckAck
      AckAckAck
      January 6, 2013 at 5:59 am | #

      Fans, if you really love Willis’ comics then it’s time for you guys to rebuild the wiki from scratch. Just slowly building it up day by day and soon you will have a place you can call home…. or wiki.

  44. Marcos Dantas
    Marcos Dantas
    January 4, 2013 at 11:03 am | #

    Funny thing, English is not my first language, and I took quite some time to get they are having difficulties in uderstanding each others.

    To a non-native speaker, exposed to a wide range of works in English, say, John Wayne & Colin Firth movies, all English sounds almost the same.

    • AckAckAck
      AckAckAck
      January 6, 2013 at 5:55 am | #

      English is also not my mother language. But I was different. I was taught British English but watching a lot of American English movies. So I know the differences between British English and American English.

      Also I went to Australia for 2 years as a student. So I too know Aussie English.

      Tbh I like British English the most. Maybe because I love Monty Python’s skits (even though I admit several jokes flying over my head).

      This one? Yeah, I get the comic after reading it once. Tbh I start thinking about is there a porn starring a Southern Belle with thick Southern accent with a very British guy? it will be verrrrry interesting.

  45. Aizat
    Aizat
    January 4, 2013 at 11:46 am | #

    I’m surprised that nobody did this joke. What joke I’m talking about? “Boffing! Ekans!” Yeah, it’s a sounded funny in my head.

    • TheBenenator
      TheBenenator
      January 4, 2013 at 10:33 pm | #

      That was Gastly.

      • Izzy
        Izzy
        January 6, 2013 at 4:52 am | #

        Shut your meoth. His joke may have been farfetch’d, but it’s the thought that counts

  46. bunivasal
    bunivasal
    January 4, 2013 at 11:54 am | #

    I’m not an authority on dialectical English, but to my ear Penny sounds more like someone with a Literature/Theater double major.

  47. brumagem
    brumagem
    January 4, 2013 at 11:55 am | #

    Penny used Seduction! It’s not very effective…..

  48. Jesper
    Jesper
    January 4, 2013 at 11:57 am | #

    So either all the teachers of this college are imported from the UK or Jason and Penny are the same kind of people as Frasier Crane?

  49. Shariku Onikage
    Shariku Onikage
    January 4, 2013 at 12:56 pm | #

    More proof that with the right context hinted at, any words ending ‘-ing’ can be taken to mean sexual intercourse:

    Spalng-danging
    Kish-ponging
    Book-Ending

    • |Agent
      |Agent
      January 4, 2013 at 6:35 pm | #

      “Book-ending” is an actual thing.

      …or so I’ve heard…

  50. Hannah
    Hannah
    January 4, 2013 at 1:19 pm | #

    Boffing? Is that really used anywhere? I’m English and have never heard it. It could be a london word though im not from there. Knobbing maybe but most commonly used is shagging, or is that one known to Americans? If she’s meant to be too polite to say shagging she wouldn’t say knobbing either I don’t think?

    • Shariku Onikage
      Shariku Onikage
      January 4, 2013 at 6:11 pm | #

      It’s middle English technically, and long since out of use (except maybe in theatre cockney slang). I’m english too (THE QUEEN’s ENGLISH!) and I’ve never heard it outside of a play.

      • Shariku Onikage
        Shariku Onikage
        January 4, 2013 at 6:12 pm | #

        And bonus points for getting to say that with a Jason avatar.

  51. ridtom
    ridtom
    January 4, 2013 at 2:33 pm | #

    Staking the vampire?

  52. Roborat
    Roborat
    January 4, 2013 at 2:36 pm | #

    I think this is one of my favourite pages so far, top ten for sure. Please have more Penny in future. And as others have said, I did get a strong “Out at Home” vibe.

  53. davidbreslin101
    davidbreslin101
    January 4, 2013 at 3:20 pm | #

    Oddly enough, I’ve met a few fellow Brits who actually talk like Penny does here. It goes with being well educated, slightly posh and a bit of a clown- they just love throwing together quaint phrases from all overt’ shop.

  54. ryu
    ryu
    January 4, 2013 at 3:26 pm | #

    dude, a hot, ginger absolute BIRD with the brains to match, and you’re not going after it?

    being proper is all well and good, but that’s just bleedin’ moronic.

  55. CiaranLovejoy
    CiaranLovejoy
    January 4, 2013 at 4:29 pm | #

    As an Englishman I must protest most strongly, “Boffing” has been a Northern English term used solely to refer to the act of Farting since it’s first use, in a similar vein to “Keffing”.

  56. Twirls
    Twirls
    January 4, 2013 at 4:37 pm | #

    I just love how Sal still has a grip on hos sweatervest.
    This looks like the beginnings of a beautiful friendship.

    • AckAckAck
      AckAckAck
      January 6, 2013 at 5:48 am | #

      Between Sal’s glove and the sweater?

  57. JA
    JA
    January 4, 2013 at 6:13 pm | #

    Oh wow, I at first thought Sal was holding a card with happyfuntime terms on it in the last panel…

  58. Sporky
    Sporky
    January 4, 2013 at 7:27 pm | #

    Penny’s implausible British English doesn’t bother me so much. I mean, maybe it’s because she was an extremely over-the-top supervillain in another continuity, but I would just think she’s half saying all of the inconsistent slang for the hell of it.

  59. Hannah
    Hannah
    January 5, 2013 at 11:54 am | #

    PREMARITAL HANKY PANKY!!!!!!!!!!

  60. nothri
    nothri
    January 5, 2013 at 5:05 pm | #

    I’m posting this while deliberately avoiding so much as a glance at the comments. I am predicting that this thread will be full of made up terms for sex and the having thereof. Let’s see if I’m psychic.

    • nothri
      nothri
      January 5, 2013 at 5:07 pm | #

      Yyyyyep. Bye guys, off to join the X-men.

      • mrelegos
        mrelegos
        January 5, 2013 at 8:45 pm | #

        Say hey to Shadowcat for me! 😉

      • Zababcd
        Zababcd
        January 6, 2013 at 6:08 pm | #

        Hey, it’s not my fault that I took part in internet immaturity. When a list appears on the internet, one has no choice but to add to it. The police should start an internet list of crimes people have committed (along with their names and addresses).

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      January 5, 2013 at 10:38 pm | #

      You don’t need to be psychic, you just have to have experience with internet comments.

      • AckAckAck
        AckAckAck
        January 6, 2013 at 5:46 am | #

        Including the ever changing cute girl avatar? 😉

  61. CuriousKitty22
    CuriousKitty22
    January 6, 2013 at 6:38 pm | #

    I… I just read Sal’s dialogue in AJ’s voice. ._.

  62. JA
    JA
    January 7, 2013 at 1:04 am | #

    You know, if a redhead is practically throwing herself at you, and you’re brushing her off/ignoring her, then you really do not deserve to have sex. Ever.

  63. averystrangeplace
    averystrangeplace
    January 14, 2013 at 9:12 am | #

    You’d need a flint and steel to ignite Jason’s passions.

  64. kiefer
    kiefer
    January 19, 2013 at 2:40 am | #

    i hope people fromother countries dont think the whole country speaks like that there are othe major towns and citys apart from bloody london >.>

  65. Snograt
    Snograt
    January 25, 2013 at 10:37 am | #

    As a comparison, how does Hugh Laurie’s merkin accent in House sound to you natives? His natural accent would be somewhere close to where Willis is aiming with Jason, methinks.

    Well, implied accent anyway. Er, I know what I mean. I think.

  66. Potatamoto
    Potatamoto
    April 13, 2013 at 6:41 am | #

    I’m flipping through the archives, and I suddenly realized (playing Bioshock Infinite as I am right now) that I’m hearing these two in my head with the voices of the Luteces. Is that creepy?

  67. Narf
    Narf
    June 26, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

    Sal looks remarkably Walky-esque in panel 3.

  68. JET73L
    JET73L
    July 22, 2013 at 4:36 am | #

    I’m preeeeetty sure Penny just said, translated, “only protocol is the insertive partner in anal sex with your phallus”, i.e., “buttsexes your wiener”. I am now wondering how a todger may be rogered at all, if my understanding of (English) British English slang is correct.

  69. Mystrana
    Mystrana
    October 20, 2013 at 8:37 pm | #

    This one always makes me laugh out loud.

  70. Gareth
    Gareth
    May 31, 2014 at 3:17 pm | #

    So my guesses are
    A) she’s faking it
    B) she’s exaggerating it
    C) this is a poorly written British character and as a British man I am not going to enjoy what comes next.

  71. Space Penis
    Space Penis
    December 25, 2014 at 1:24 pm | #

    I know I’m 2 years late, but Bonky-Tonkin’ is my new favorite word for banging ever.

  72. Torra
    Torra
    February 15, 2016 at 5:37 pm | #

    Just randomed back to this page, agh I do love DOA but I always cringe reading Penny’s statements. No one talks like that in Britain! Such an irritating stereotype that I didn’t want to find here.. Haha. I don’t know if its what Willis intended, but it feels like the punch line is “lol English people talk weird” when none of these words are ever really said in every day conversations. (like, really, roger your todger, come on) – we don’t even say bloody hell or bugger that much, its generally just fuck and shit, which is essentially the same as those in the US.

    I went on a big rant here, but this annoys me probably more than it should, as I see a lot of stupid English cliches like this all the times in otherwise good pieces of works (mostly films and tv series, though tbf) and its irritating to see it here too, when DOA is so diverse and yet Penny here, and occasionally Jason sometimes, feel like theyre being made into a punchline with their “English-isms”. Which aren’t even true! The only thing the rest of the world usually gets right about us is that we like a cup of tea. All this “jolly bugger off” nonsense is just ugh nooo

    tl;dr – i love DOA but agh I dont want to see Penny again any time soon

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...look, if you want to kill a goldfish, just... overfeed it, you don't have to EAT IT. you messy bench
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2h
Dumbing of Age: "Salacious sex goss" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomics #webcomic
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Salacious sex goss
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3h
jocelyne and carla are tied at 47 votes for bonus strip
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 8h
I wonder if they sell these outside Columbus.
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social ⋅ 12h
In an adaptation of the NYT diagram in the quoted skeet, a diagram showing Jeffrey Dahmer
krogerfoot.bsky.social's user avatarok city ok @krogerfoot.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Hard-hitting analysis from NYT. As you can see from the diagram, legal impediments are a weak gray box that can be defeated by a strong orange arrow and bold typeface Gift article (but it’s bad) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
NYT: “In Firing Watchdogs, Trump Sidesteps Laws and Moves to Expand Power, By Elena Shao May 22, 2025
President Trump summarily dismissed more than a dozen members of independent oversight bodies during his first two months in office, defying typical procedures and federal laws that say presidents cannot remove certain officials without good cause, like misconduct or neglect.”A diagram shows Trump’s head on the left and symbols denoting nine federal agencies on the right, connected by a faint gray arrow going through a text box reading “Should issue notice citing cause for firing.”
An orange arrow makes 90-degree turns to go up, over, and down the other side of the gray box, captioned “Sidestepping typical procedures,” as if the whole thing was a diagram of a football play.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 10h
SS86 Scrapper may not have a waist rotational joint, but he does have a sassy hip sway.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 10h
i've had this siege astrotrain sitting around for weeks to be ebayed but as soon as i give up and sell it, i just know i'll find that missing rifle it's somewhere in the house it's just gotta be
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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social ⋅ 10h
Postcards are on sale for the next week 🌊 $8 for 10 ☀️ $30 for 40 🫡 have a great Memorial Day weekend shop: paperbackparadise.bigcartel.com/category/pos...
Photo of a postcard of the paperback paradise cover BEACH HUMPER, which features a man gasping for air on the beach but it looks like he crushing that sand
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 10h
i'm PRETTY sure the days of pb&js is right now, actually, if you wanted, especially if you're in a goddamn grocery store
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Aidan Moher @aidanis.fun ⋅ 14h
There’s been a murder.
joolia.bsky.social's user avatarJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social ⋅ 15h
welp I sent an email
Hi Tripp,
I'm a reporter with the Guardian US, based in New York. I hope this finds you well.
I'm reaching out about your most recent article and its inclusion of the claim,
Incidentally, how are you defining
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Chris Schilling @schillingc.bsky.social ⋅ 21h
Headline - Nick Clegg: Artists’ demands over copyright are unworkable 
Strap - The former Meta executive claims that a law requiring tech companies to ask permission to train AI on copyrighted work would ‘kill’ the industry
“Then die”
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Pie @technicolorpie.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
there has to be a better way to phrase a going out of business sale
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 15h
07 ONE WAVE 2
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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social ⋅ 15h
My friend Amena is struggling to take care of her children in Gaza. Please consider contributing to her Chuffed fund so she can feed her family and keep them safe chuffed.org/project/1230...
Help Amena's family start over and get medical attention
$16,437 Raised of $50,000

By Amena Baba

I am Amena, a mother of four children. We survived a merciless war, but we lost everything.
My home was completely destroyed, and I lost loved ones that nothing can replace. My daughter suffers from health problems that require continuous treatment. Life in Gaza has become almost impossible, and with the scarcity of resources and the rise in prices, it has become difficult to secure the basic needs of my children.
I decided to start over, but I need your help.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 15h
Black Series Mon Mothma is definitely not sculpted for frenzied dancing.
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addams family stan account 🫃 (librarian) @northerniion.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
this is 10x more impressive than a strike
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 18h
www.ebay.com/itm/23611085... this auction ends in 5 hours and it's going for... 99 cents! a real bargain
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 18h
Me: it's Saturday! Kids soccer season is over! I can sleep in as long as I want! *wakes up before the alarm is usually set to go off*
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
well, no, it's a goldfish a goldfish that's being kept by wilbur he's already killed one of them
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Dumbing of Age: "Dinaless" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomics #webcomic
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Dinaless
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
My favorite 30 Rock characters are Jared and Jarem. I sense a pattern.
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The Onion @theonion.com ⋅ 1d
“What am I listening to? Oh, just the music of Post Malone. He’s a pop artist,” the panicked, sweating Lily Paolini said theonion.com/ashamed...
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Ashamed Woman Hiding Interest In Country Music Like It Hentai
CHICAGO—Attempting to keep her browser tab concealed from view for fear her guilty pleasure would be exposed to nearby coworkers, ashamed woman Lily Paolini was reportedly hiding her interest in country music Friday as though it were hentai. “What am I listening to? Oh, just the music of Post Malone. He’s a pop artist,” the […]
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
MAC AND CHEESE PIZZA IS BACK MOTHERFUCKERS
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Studio Series doesn't fuck around when it comes to robot mode scale www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Ec...
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
CUT MY LAWN INTO PIECES THIS IS MY LAST RESORT
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
www.ebay.com/itm/23610927... 25 minutes left on Quake
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Jenna Maroney, swinging her finger in the air: Shut it down.
meakoopa.bsky.social's user avatarAnthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
"CUT THE FEED!"
mon mothma
deborah vance
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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Fellow graduate of the Royal Tampa Academy of Dramatic Tricks 🎭
sitcompeople.bsky.social's user avatarSitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
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Paul Southworth ☢️ 🐟 @southworth.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
I did this and you should, too.
gregpak.net's user avatarGreg Pak @gregpak.net ⋅ 2d
This comment period ends today, 5/23, at 11:59 pm ET. Please do comment asap if you believe the government should allow us to get COVID vaccinations. I can't believe we even have to petition them about this, but here we are.
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