Everclear. You can find it in 150 proof and 190. The stuff is so strong that if you pour it out, you can light the air inside the empty bottle on fire.
The EverClear I have bought for jello-shots and the like, had no negative smells associated with it – and certainly didn’t resemble any petrochemical!
It had the characteristic ethanol smell, at 190 proof – but it took surprisingly little excess to hide it’s alcohol flavor (say… compared to Grey Goose or Ketal 1, which requires only an ice cube!).
I have often wondered if a medical grade carbon filtration would adsorb enough impurities to skip an additional distillation. No chemistry majors who have done so without setting yourself on fire?
Have you been to a US theater? Let’s bump that up to $27.50. Oh and Fred, you can’t go to a show like this without a drink! Wait, were you hoping the alcohol from their soon-to-come catfight would just fling onto the audience?
The last time he had a Ruth, clearly he was not Ruthless!
I don’t know how many other names it applies to, but if I had a name like Ruth… I’d hate it.
It’s distressing to even think about, actually. I’d be puking grief over it 24/7 – unless nice people with $100 bills felt true pity for me, and stuffed that cash into my undies. I’d probably be able to work through it at that point.
Then I’d ask Penny what she’d be willing to do for a Klondike Bar.
Billie. Barge in there, declare your love for her, and then make out. Fireworks and rainbows in the background. Choir of angelic beings singing. The works.
Well… you kind of wouldn’t expect that when one potential partner is physically and verbally abusive and both drink too much. There’s tsundere, and then there’s thug, and Ruth is way more of the latter.
Sooner or later you reach a point where you’re too drunk for your punches to connect, though. And then the reasons why she sublimates her anger, frustration and other daddy-issues complexes into physical violence against minor transgressors.
Well, a random golden shower usually means one of two things. Either somebody’s peeing on you, or you’re about to get raped by Zeus. I think the former is the lesser of two evils.
(Of course, there’s still the possibility Ruth will say or do something to make Billie lose her temper again, but for now it’s the right thing because Ruth clearly needs help.)
If it’s not body juices then hopefully Billie can see through her booze-hunger and bring a bit of positivity to the whole affair… or maybe it’s Seinfeld time.
Ehrm, I’m not native. My English is pretty much above par, but the “she’s been holding out on me” got me. Could anyone translate (rephrase) it for me?
Pretty please?
“Holding out on me” means that the person has been keeping something that the speaker believes they deserve, generally used in a joking manner. Here, Billie is saying that Ruth should’ve been sharing some of the strong alcohol with Billie.
Oh no… it seems doa Ruth has more in common with walkiverse Ruth than the red hair and freckles and brother… wait… have we seen her brother? *tangents off into the archives*
I’m excited to see Billie try and help out. I like that she just helped some people, she’s feeling her power again a little. And she just so happens to know her booze…
This is probably going to make me sound weird, but I’ve been waiting for this ever since Billie ran off after Ruth kissed her. And not in a ‘Yay! Lesbians!’ way; I’m honestly curious about how this is going to affect both of them.
Am I the only one dreading that she might be dead in there? It seems like most everyone thinks there’s just going to be a drunken Ruth laying into Billie (in some sense or another).
Really guys? This is Willis we’re talking about. Ruth is probably halfways dead from Alcohol poisoning and Billie will have to rush her to the hospital. At BEST they’ll bond on the way there.
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Hmm, Canadian liquor it seems
…or Southern Moonshine.
Which oddly enough can be used as gasoline…once.
Mao Tai. It’s liquor, but it smells (and tastes) like gasoline.
Pshaw I have drunk much Mao tai. Gasoline doesn’t have that horrible bubblegum-esque aftertaste.
Everclear. You can find it in 150 proof and 190. The stuff is so strong that if you pour it out, you can light the air inside the empty bottle on fire.
You can do that with bottle that held even 80 proof liquor. In my younger days, I heard it referred to as “flaming the devil”.
The EverClear I have bought for jello-shots and the like, had no negative smells associated with it – and certainly didn’t resemble any petrochemical!
It had the characteristic ethanol smell, at 190 proof – but it took surprisingly little excess to hide it’s alcohol flavor (say… compared to Grey Goose or Ketal 1, which requires only an ice cube!).
I have often wondered if a medical grade carbon filtration would adsorb enough impurities to skip an additional distillation. No chemistry majors who have done so without setting yourself on fire?
Yes, Everclear. I have fond memories of american exchange students in my residence bringing bottles in. Was called panty remover for a reason.
Everclear is for fire breathing, not drinking.
The Nose Never lies!
This…this is gonna be ugly.
Time to sit back, grab some popcorn and enjoy the sexual tension.
Way ahead of you. Want some? I’ve got chili powder popcorn, cinnamon popcorn, salted popcorn, garlic popcorn, and any mix thereof. 😛
One big bucket, half and half chili and salted, and a small bucket sweet buttered popcorn please.
Thank you very much.
Here you go. That’ll be US$12.75.
Have you been to a US theater? Let’s bump that up to $27.50. Oh and Fred, you can’t go to a show like this without a drink! Wait, were you hoping the alcohol from their soon-to-come catfight would just fling onto the audience?
USD12.75 will do, thank you very much. And don’t worry Warden, I brought my own “medicine flask”. A 2.5 litre “medicine flask”.
Actually 12 bucks seems about right, a little on the cheap side since it is flavored pop corn.
Sexual tension? I’m just hoping she’s still ALIVE at this point.
only if willis is as ruthless as he was the last time he had a ruth
i’m sorry, i couldn’t resist, i really didn’t want to, but i had had to share the terrible, awful, loathsome pun
The last time he had a Ruth, clearly he was not Ruthless!
I don’t know how many other names it applies to, but if I had a name like Ruth… I’d hate it.
It’s distressing to even think about, actually. I’d be puking grief over it 24/7 – unless nice people with $100 bills felt true pity for me, and stuffed that cash into my undies. I’d probably be able to work through it at that point.
Then I’d ask Penny what she’d be willing to do for a Klondike Bar.
But the comic was quickly Ruthless.
If you had a name like Ruth, you might impress your unix admins.
And now for the horrible release of whatever Ruth’s troubled past is. Prepare for the Ruthpocalypse.
Ruthnorak.
Dagor Dagoruth
Zip zop zap zoobity bip bap
The Siege of Minas Tiruth.
The coming of Ruththulhu.
Aruthmageddon.
I love you guys, did you know that?
Elementary my dear Walky. It’s booze.
And the intrepid Boozehound springs into action, to save the RA!
Place your bets: does Billie feel sorry and actually concerned for Ruth, or she after booze?
I’m putting my money on concerned but not yet willing to forgive.
Panel 2: “She’s been holding out on me.”
Perhaps both.
I’m with you on that on that one, but I imagine the booze part will only be for comedy.
“So Ruth, I’ll let you make out with me if you give me some of that sweet, sweet liqour…”
Kinda like that…
Doesn’t booze already work that way, Led?
I vote booze. Billie’s concern and sorrow is more for the fact that Ruth has spilled so much of it.
Save the R.A., save the dorm.
(I am so sorry)
But, Billie is the Cheerleader? Doesn’t that mean she needs to be saved instead? Or are we going all role reversal here?
Think Buffy.
Considering we’re talking _Billie_ here, I’d say more “think Cordelia.”
Well yes, but Cordelia is much less proficient at the punching.
I was going to say she’s Angel era Cordelia, but she’s not much of a puncher either.
Save the R.A and wipe away your debt.
I dunno, going into a racist sky metropolis doesn’t seem like a fair tradeoff for getting caught drinking on campus…
D’awww! Note: I am squee-ing while cringing. I’m not really sure what to think of this whole thing.
I mean shebang. (just for the lolz)
I can’t wait to count the comments of people getting annoyed with me for saying ‘lol’
I wonder what language booze speaks in?
You know how French is “the language of love”?
Booze speaks “the language of lush”.
The language of Buzz.
Oh, so that’s why I keep hearing drunk people shout “To infinity and beyond!”
Nice one, Totz the Plaid. 😀
Thanks, Plas!
The same language Tony Stark speak in.
But is that Drunken Gibberish or Technobabble?
Drunken Techno-Gibberish of course…
German.
Russian, of course.
Billie. Barge in there, declare your love for her, and then make out. Fireworks and rainbows in the background. Choir of angelic beings singing. The works.
The while she’s distracted steal her booze and leave the abusive bongo behind.
You might want to skip the fireworks if Ruth’s been drinking that stuff, she might go up in flames.
Somehow, I don’t think this will end in lesbian make out.
With that much alcohol? It’s possible, but it’ll more likely end in Billie holding Ruth’s hair out of the way as Ms. Lesse prays to the porcelain god.
Billie will make out with Ruth just to suck the alcohol out of her face.
That’s giving me “Dorothy’s first kiss story” flashbacks…
Well… you kind of wouldn’t expect that when one potential partner is physically and verbally abusive and both drink too much. There’s tsundere, and then there’s thug, and Ruth is way more of the latter.
Sooner or later you reach a point where you’re too drunk for your punches to connect, though. And then the reasons why she sublimates her anger, frustration and other daddy-issues complexes into physical violence against minor transgressors.
… er, “start to come out”.
I need more coffee, I’m not knurd enough yet.
I love you tahdrey <3
Now, I’m not saying that it excuses Ruth’s behaviour… but it’s probably worth remembering that Billie is the one who threw the first punch.
My pyromaniac senses are tingling with foreshadowing with the use of the line “it’s practically gasoline”.
I’m taking bets it _is_ gasoline.
Bioethanol? E85?
They never saw Billie again.
She has ascended to a higher plane of intoxication. She achieved “Boozevana”
Or she could’ve got beyond the Boozedome.
Two women enter, one woman leave?
Well that and I was going for a Beyond Thunderdome joke.
Boozisattva.
Gasoline? Oh no…..
Most likely ‘fire-water’ which is any type of booze with a huge alcohol content.
There’s a joke to be made here about Ruth and alcohol poisoning, and Billie needing to suck the poison out…
Unfortunately it is then revealed that Billie is a vampire.
After all, we’ve got to fulfill our Unnecessary Supernatural Elements quota.
Only she doesn’t drink blood. She just sucks the alcohol out of it. Which is really handy if you have to drive home.
Or a Karin vampire, who sucks the drunkenness out of people.
Every time I forget that exists, there’s always one random person who pops it back in my head. Damn you, nosebleed vampire!
Nah, this comic’s been deliberately empty of such things so far, we must expect it to continue.
Shortpacked!’s the one where weird shit happens.
THERE IS OBVIOUSLY A CAR WRECKED ON RUTH’S BED
A truck sticking straight up through her dorm crashed into her racecar bed.
“You know, Ruth, you’re not supposed to park that on campus.”
“‘Rue the day’? Who talks like that?”
She got Ultra Car drunk, too?
Feeding her diesel until smoke starts pouring out?
Aw, dammit! It’s not pee!
A common lament.
That’s an uncommon sentence. People are rarely disappointed by a mysterious liquid NOT being pee.
Well, a random golden shower usually means one of two things. Either somebody’s peeing on you, or you’re about to get raped by Zeus. I think the former is the lesser of two evils.
It could be worse. She could be crying “that’s not mud!” o_O
My reaction is just the opposite.
Oh dear god never say that with that as your gravatar.
Why?
Or her alcohol level is so high she’s peeing booze.
The Alcohol is strong in this one.
Billie, you’re doing the right thing.
(Of course, there’s still the possibility Ruth will say or do something to make Billie lose her temper again, but for now it’s the right thing because Ruth clearly needs help.)
….trying to get at the good stuff Ruth was holding back is the right thing?
But of course!
I can’t help but think this is all leading to an especially cruel Friday cliffhanger for us shippers.
Except given the shift in update schedule, it’d probably end up being a Monday not-so-cliffhanger.
Oh. Right. Our gravatars are hilariously appropriate don’t you think?
Now get drunk and make out.
Unless enough money happens and it ends up a sunday not-a-cliffhanger-at-all.
Yes yes, we already know this.
Why am I not surprised that Billie is The Boostaz Haderalch?
It’s a good start but can she stick the landing
Well, ah wuz -almost- right 🙂
If it’s not body juices then hopefully Billie can see through her booze-hunger and bring a bit of positivity to the whole affair… or maybe it’s Seinfeld time.
(…that or the LIQUOR gets set on fire)
Ehrm, I’m not native. My English is pretty much above par, but the “she’s been holding out on me” got me. Could anyone translate (rephrase) it for me?
Pretty please?
“Holding out on me” means that the person has been keeping something that the speaker believes they deserve, generally used in a joking manner. Here, Billie is saying that Ruth should’ve been sharing some of the strong alcohol with Billie.
Oh! Thanks 🙂
… aaaand there goes my “shower gel” theory of yesterdays strip. 😐
Just imagine Ruth only wearing a towel, trying to put on some clothes before cleaning the stains, while Billie walks in… 😀
Oh no… it seems doa Ruth has more in common with walkiverse Ruth than the red hair and freckles and brother… wait… have we seen her brother? *tangents off into the archives*
Wait…I called it? Holy crap, I hope there’s no active flames when that door opens, because that’s where my brain went next.
I’m excited to see Billie try and help out. I like that she just helped some people, she’s feeling her power again a little. And she just so happens to know her booze…
Your friend-ly drinking buddy
“g’way, don havenny frens.”
This is probably going to make me sound weird, but I’ve been waiting for this ever since Billie ran off after Ruth kissed her. And not in a ‘Yay! Lesbians!’ way; I’m honestly curious about how this is going to affect both of them.
This is what we have been waiting for.
Shit’s about to get heavy.
Three hands in this strip and they’re all excellent! Very convincing. Hands tend to be the sloppiest part of Willis’ art, so this is a nice surprise.
Yeah, I gotta hand it to him.
Am I the only one dreading that she might be dead in there? It seems like most everyone thinks there’s just going to be a drunken Ruth laying into Billie (in some sense or another).
p.s. how come my gravatar on this site never changes? I thought you got different ones everytime >->
David promised he wasn’t planning to kill any character off. The avatars only change around when Willis adds new ones to the pool.
All I recall is that he said Dina wasn’t going to die.
I was/am also worried that Ruth is dead.
Although, if Thomas is right, I guess that won’t happen?
Hm…
I’m personally indifferent to Ruth’s survival. She’s been horrible so far, why root for her continued presence?
Because this is a comic, so the drama comes from horrible people?
Obviously, she’s not a real person, but the blase attitude is kind of horrifying.
She’s fictional, being dead just means she’s not being drawn anymore.
Wait, practically gasoline? I know students tend to buy really cheap booze, but just what the heck is she drinking?
Everclear! Clears your sinuses. Also your carburetor. Now legal in NY!
I don’t remember Everclear smelling like gasoline, mind you, it has been a while since I encountered any.
She’s killed herself in a bathtub and added yeast?
(If that’s even possible.)
“Just friends?” thought ruth.
I love how her first reaction is “She’s been holding out on me” XD
Really guys? This is Willis we’re talking about. Ruth is probably halfways dead from Alcohol poisoning and Billie will have to rush her to the hospital. At BEST they’ll bond on the way there.
…Now I get this strange feeling Ruth is going to vomit on her. Just for comedy sake. All because you said “This is Willis we’re talking about.”
I hope something comedic happens like that. I just don’t want this Ruth to DIE.
I am changing my previously stated wish:
Ruth, don’t be dead or planning to murder your kismesis. That is all I ask.