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⚧️ "Critical Kate” Willært
Those renegade Leafs, refusing to be called Leaves.
They won’t be constrained by your “rules”, man!
When is somebody going to introduce them to pot? No withdrawal symptoms!
Yeah, but then Sarah would get them kicked out of school.
Supposedly it has to due with the team name being a proper noun, and therefore subject to different pluralization rules.
(Source: http://lastwordonsports.com/2012/10/24/the-peculiar-side-of-sports-why-not-the-maple-leaves/ )
But I like the idea of hockey teams actively choosing to be grammatical renegades more.
Better than being one of two variations of “Sox”.
Yeah… what’s up with that? Who wants to be named after socks?? And do the Red Sux… I mean Red Sox actually wear red socks as part of their uniforms?
The used to.
*siiiigh*
(they) “” does not show up
I just realized the storyline changed, when did that happen?
This morning. Each new day is a new chapter. With Dorothy wakin’ up.
She then rolls over and tells Walky about going to go to class, only to find out she never went to college. And she’s thirty-two.
And it’s Joyce next to her.
And Joe is behind her.
And everything is burning
And Mike is the bed.
And then it gets wierd.
Ronald Reagan is there in nothing but a pair of socks and a hat.
They really are the Odd Couple.
Nah, Plas, they’re not *that* different from one another. Some other couple that’s got snappy dialogue . . .
They both have gender in common.
True. Maybe they’re more like Ernie and Bert. : )
I have trouble visualising either of them as Bert.
Oddly enough, I always envisioned them as brothers. The more common reference to them never really crossed my mind.
I’ve always thought of Ernie and Bert as brothers, too. Calling them a gay couple has always bothered me because to me that’d be incest!
Make any two other Muppets a gay couple, and I’m cool with it, but Ernie and Bert are not fucking incestuous! No! That is NOT happening!
Incest is disgusting!
Cancer incest?
I am confused. If they are engaged in a combining relationship, than the evidence that led you to conclude they were brothers is explained another way. If they are brothers, the evidence that they are in a combining relationship is similarly otherwise accounted for. In one case, they are brothers, but do not combine, in the other, they combine, but need no longer be brothers. Why do you not simply reassess your original conclusion rather than integrating it to the new one in a way that clearly distresses you?
As usual, I agree with Optimus Prime.
Because, Prime, it’s important to stick to your guns! That’s why. Remember when you killed yourself over a video game? That was awesome.
Billie & Ruth are brothers? How long have we known that?
I blame Amber’s dad.
Um…so do the Odd Couple.
Please don’t.
Are you talking to Billie or to us with that alt-text, Willis? Because if we’re going to have a serious discussion then I should probably put on some pants and offer everyone attending a drink.
Oh, he’s talking to us alright.
Also applicable to religion, by the way.
It’s applicable to a lot of things! That’s just the way we are! Ain’t nothin’ wrong with that. Although, as a Cowboys fan, it just means I’ve been suffering for YEARS now. Damn that Jerry Jones!
What do you want to drink?
Cowboys? At least you won a couple Super Bowls. Here in Minnesota, we have a team with and 0-for-4 Super Bowl record!
Two words, and possibly the most cringe-worthy words in the NFL: Detroit. Lions.
You win.
As a geek, I mostly ignore sports, but I have a soft spot for the Red Wings since they’re the one consistently great sports team in the area.
I’ve been to Tigers and Pistons games, and I’ve enjoyed them (and I’m a fair weather ‘fan’ who roots for them, though I never watch televised sports*), but the Wings are the only ones I’d be willing to put myself behind.
*caveat: I sometimes watch sports that aren’t part of the ‘big four’ (Hockey, Baseball, Basketball, American Football), such as tennis, but only rarely.
I’ll see your Detroit and raise you the Cleveland Browns (I am a New England man myself, despite being from Texas. But I blame video games for that)
That’s a tough one, really. I mean, on the one hand, they’re the Detroit Lions. Sucking is part of their culture. On the other hand, the Browns are from Cleveland. And no one deserves that.
Can’t remember the exact year off-hand (I think it was 2008) but the Lions won every game in their preseason and then continued to lose EVERY SINGLE GAME in the regular season which set a new NFL season record as it was the first time a team had lost every game since a couple extra were added to the regular season.
That’s not bad, that’s awe-inspiring!
Oh man, no cleveland wins. There should be a whole page dedicated to god hates cleveland. This has nothing to do with the town, its not most peoples cup of tea but it appeals to some. But in the sports world the gods have forsaken cleveland like no other town. Also I’m not a browns fan but when the vikes were brought up, my first thought was cleveland.
You are from Texas and are not a Cowboys fan? How is that possible, isn’t it like, a felony or something?
PFFFFTTT. I was born in northern columbus which made me a BROWNS FAN.
I DARE you to think of an NFL franchise with worst luck.
… I’m going to make them all hard drinks then. Here’s to you, my Browns and Vikings fans!
Bills.
Buffalo Bills.
The Browns were BAD, but the Bills were, four straight years, UNLUCKY.
I live in Chicago, I don’t have anything to complain about for the year. Also, just ginger ale for me. Followed by an actual ale. Then a beer keg. and a goat.
Sorry, all I have is the goat.
And Chicago has CM Punk. You can be happy FOR LIFE!
Ah, the good ol’ Bills.
I bet you already had brown diapers.
You think you have it bad? They don’t even have baseball where I am from. Or American football.
We need to rely on TV for getting brain damage.
hi guys we’re the bengals what’s happeni- uh oh oh no MLLOORRRRGHGPHPHP
Posting for the first time on this site just to say that RG3 will haunt your dreams for the next 12-15 years.
I’d be more upset about RG3 if he hasn’t been such a damn class act so far. Goddamn NFC rivals Redskins… but you just can’t help but love RG3! I’d rather lose to him than Eli Manning *any* day!
I’d rather lose to Eli than Romo, but that’s just because I dislike the Cowboys so much. Also because Eli can be pretty funny: http://snygiants.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/image001.jpg?w=270&h=300
I honestly feel kinda bad for Romo that he’s stuck with Jerruh as team owner. Sure, he didn’t have to sign that extension, but when you’re offered that much money it’d be pretty hard to turn it down. And this is coming from a Redskins fan…thankfully Snyder has started to atone for his sins.
You’re not kidding about Jerry. I mean, yeah, there’s the Browns and the Lions and all the other rest of the teams that have been ragging themselves on this thread, but EVERY GODDAMN YEAR the media (fueled by Jones) is front and center and thinking that anything less than a Super Bowl win means the season is a failure for the Cowboys. EVERY. YEAR. The same promises are made and broken and Jones doesn’t have any damn clue that, y’know, perhaps it’d be good to be outta the limelight for a while, pipe down, and just play some football with the hopes of having a respectable season. Instead, it’s “Super Bowl or Bust” and it’s been bust for about 18 years or so now. But, each year, we Dallas fans buy it hook, line, and sinker.
http://www.thedrawplay.com/?p=304
It’s very much like that.
I love Tony Romo. I just hate that the Cowboys is his team. I was actually hoping he’d go somewhere else because he’s fantastic–but NO ONE would be able to find success under Jerry’s rule.
But, hey, Jones makes craptons of money on the Cowboys and they’re the highest-valued franchise in the NFL right and have consistently been up there in terms of money-making. So the fact that they keep making money tells Jones he must be doing something right so he’ll stay the course since it speaks in dollars.
My god, he’s the Vince McMahon of the football world.
Exactly. I used to be a Cowboys fan. Emmitt Smith got me into football in the first place. After that era, I still held a candle for them a little, but not enough to suffer through years of mediocrity. I’ll root for them when they’re against a team I hate or don’t care about, but within the NFC East I love the Giants (parents from New York, plus I’m a huge Manning Family fan).
Some teams that suck for a while tend to cycle back to the forefront due to collecting high draft picks, such as what’s going on with the Lions. (Cleveland is exempt from that rule because the management has no effing clue what they’re doing.) However, the ‘Boys have never been able to succeed or fully suck, so they are trapped in a limbo of average. They are pretty much the definition of average. The good news is that the NFC East is so even with no clear dominant team, that they could pull themselves out at any time. But they don’t.
The strange thing is, it’s not that the talent isn’t there. Maybe the team mindset needs adjusting. More often then not, they tend to shoot themselves in the foot and prevent themselves from winning games. If they could keep penalties down, and play smart near the end of games, maybe they could make it into the playoffs.
Jerry’s biggest problem is that he’s a lousy GM. If he wants to promote/hype up his team, fine, I guess as owner that’s what you’re supposed to do. But if you’re gonna be GM, you have to be able to hold yourself accountable to any mistakes you make, or at least listen closely to your scouting and personnel departments. He does neither and at this rate he’ll end up being Al Davis 2.0.
Except he’s made the news a few times this offseason for some less than class act reasons. He needs a bad season next year or he runs the risk of being a ryan leaf/cam newton saga, tons of potential but too big too quick.
What “less than class act reasons” would those be?
Cowboys and Redskins have both been bad for so long that it’s not much of a rivalry any more. That said, I think I can apprecate the awesomeness of RGIII even if he is whipping up on the Cowboys.
I am fortunate to live in a town with for professional sports teams. If the Cowboys are down then the Rangers or Mavericks are doing better. Now, if only the Dallas Stars can pull it together with new ownership, management, coaching, players, zambonis, hot dog vendors, etc…
Ugh, Rangers just lost their 4th in a row tonight though. And, right now, they’re our best franchise at the moment. But, hey, they can pull it together in time…?
I think you’d have been right, but now that Washington finally has a real QB and a legit offense that steamrolled the Cowboys both in Dallas and back in MD/D.C., I’d say the rivalry’s back.
Hey I’m a Cubs fan… you got nothin….
and just a CokeZero for me I’m the DD.
I’m trying to think… the only things I like that’re local is some of the food and a tiny bit of the scenery.
So I guess I like stuff from other places because of where I’m from? Weird.
Physical trauma to the…nah, too easy.
In the immortal words of Joe, “Now kiss.”
… and that grav. Couldn’t be better unless it was Joe himself!
Lets just go with to the Faaaaaccceeeeeeeee
Aw, now I’m just sad that these two aren’t as, er, friendly as the Roomies versions.
They would have been, but Ruth fucked that up.
bongo shouldna shoved her.
Meanwhile in the Walkyverse Billie shoves Ruth to the ground.
‘S not so much a “shove” as a “pounce”.
bongo shoulda pounced me.
Everyone wants Billie pounces!
Everyone knows that physical trauma makes everything better. Just ask the attendees of my last birthday party!
Why is Joyce wearing the “safer sex” hat?
She lost a bet.
The real answer is that, as you probably know, Roz’s first appearance had her wearing what I later dubbed the Condom Cap. Naturally, I thought this was the most fantastic thing ever, and cropped it for my gravatar. And this was good, for about a year or two. Then came “Guess Who’s Coming to Galasso’s, with Joyce’s grumpy face. And I thought this was also fantastic. But now I was faced with a dilemma: I was still fond of my Condom Cap, but I also was in love with Joyce’s grumpy face, which I felt could be useful in all sorts of situations. And I had no image-editing software of good enough quality to combine the two myself. Fortunately, Heavensrun did (and I am very thankful Heavensrun decided to help me). So now I have the best of both worlds.
sidhe’s explanation works on an “In-unverse” level, though.
…Why do I keep forgetting to close my quotation marks?
Panel 3 Billie is cute.
Billie’s so cute that Panel 2 and Panel 4 Billie is cute.
…Panel 2???
Anyway, Billie is always cute. And sexy.
So are panels 6 and on.
Panel 1 Billie’s the cutest to me, but Billie’s always sexy as hell.
I think that Billie isn’t getting the worst of it is probably because she doesn’t drink out of depression.
Ruth, Just grab one of Billie’s boobs. You cannot…I REPEAT CANNOT be angry while holding one of those.
It’s like eating chocolate. No one can be angry while eating chocolate.
Unless you hate chocolate or something, but you’re a MONSTER for hating chocolate.
I don’t think that’s the best simile for that particular action.
Two of the things i love in this world boobs and chocolate
Ever tried boobs covered in chocolate? They are awesome.
The first man to craft boobs out of chocolate will make himself an easy fortune.
They can already do pudding, shouldn’t be too hard for chocolate. But brings up the question of which is better.
Chocolate Pudding Boobs?
We don’t complain about how the Leafs suck. We just wish they would win. And every year, we hope they do.
The Leafs are the Cubs of Hockey, and Hockey is the Cubs of North American professional sports.
Oh god, being reminded that the main characters aren’t even of LEGAL age to drink makes me feel old.
Not me. Ruth’s still older than me.
I’m about the same age as Ruth.
Which feels kinda weird, seeing as I basically started college at the same time as Billie.
Maybe that’s why the exodus of characters from Shortpacked has bugged me so much… they are much closer in age to me than their younger dummiverse counterparts.
I think Shortpacked! Amber is two years older than I am. So I completely feel where you’re coming from. It’s weird to see them in this verse. Not complaining, but it’s hard to remember that for the most part, they’re supposed to be 10 years younger than I am. I have no idea what that says about me.
C’mon, Billie, that’s not how you respond to Ruth complaining about being alone. Alternate-universe you knows where it’s at!
These two need to kiss already. Again. Mutually.
I remember reading Roomies and every character was older than me.
Can we just have Ruth & Billie comics forever?
Can they get a whole universe to themselves? Themselves and the Leafs?
With Joe watching?
I like how Ruth isn’t even mad at Billie making fun of her.
I mean she’s kinda threatening violence.
That’s how she flirts.
Exactly! They’re just shooting the shit. They seem to have skipped romance and gone straight to we’ve-been-together-so-long-we-have-the-script-down… That means we need some retroactive Ruth-Billie romance, licky-style — right now!!
My hoverlink is busted. I can’t ‘see’ the nifty hidden messages embedded in the comic by Mr. W. anymore.
OK now they’re almost too adorable together.
Goddamn, Ruth is an asshole. And an alky. Detox symptoms at 20? When did she start drinking? 5?
Yeah, I think her being an alcoholic was pretty well established.
Not most! Just…the largest percentage of!
[yellingbird]
YOU NEED MORE HOT ACTION IS WHAT YOU NEED SO START GETTING BUSY WITH EACH OTHER’S BAD SELVES
[/yellingbird]
That said, sometimes one finds an actual affinity in a luck-of-the-birth regional grouping – I know that I do identify pretty deeply with much of the character of my hometown.
(But not our sports teams, because NERD.)
Hurr de hurr indeed.
Sobriety buddies!
Is “physical trauma” an euphemism for “getting laid”? Coming from Ruth, it probably is.
Everything is a euphemism for Ruth. She’s cranky because nobody is ever responding to her advances.
Everything?
Wow, I wouldn’t have imagined she wanted Joyce *that* bad.
Well you would need physical trauma to account for being a Leafs fan, it goes along with the mental trauma of realizing they are perenial disappointments and the emotional trauma of being constantly up and down as a team.
Then agian it’s still healthier than being a Chicago Cubs fan
But my favorite team has ALWAYS been the…
…one moment please…
…Yankees/Giants/Rangers/Knicks!
See, this is why you shouldn’t be a Leafs fan. You should like a good team.
Like the Blues.
Do they HAVE cheerleaders in hockey? I’d just think the combination of cold and violence would make it somewhat impractical to have a bunch of girls in miniskirts out in the rink…
Correction: it would make it better.
Those two years can actually make a big difference at their age.
It’s true! Most of the stuff that I enjoy either comes from Europe, the Americas, or Asia! And I was born in one of those places!
And this is why I’m a sabres fan!
Thus my sort of caring about the Seahawks, Mariners, and Sounders when I remember that major league sports exist. Despite not living in that state since I was a baby. And they still manage to be the closest major league teams in the country to me despite being nearly 1500 miles away.
No Billie, you aren’t, but you could be nailing it, if you catch my drift.
I mentioned this to Walky at Botcon but Ruth and Billie still haven’t addressed the elephant in the room: why DID Ruth kiss her? I mean, we know based on other incarnations of these characters, but in-universe they haven’t sat down and Billie says “Ruth…why did you kiss me?” or something akin to that.
Guess it was easier for them to focus on the alcohol issue for now than anything else.
Ruth kissed Billie because she has the hots for her. Neither of them have addressed the subject because it’s kind of obvious.
My favorite sports team is the L.A. Lakers even though I’m not from California. Is that weird?
As a Red Sox fan, I can verify that the hovertext is 100% accurate.
About that hovertext… it actually decides what I hate rather than what I like.
Not me, I was born in Ottawa, and I don’t cheer for the Senators, and the Rough Riders no longer exist, not that I cheered for them anyway. I am an Edmonton Oilers/Eskimos fan. Before the Oilers existed, I was a Black Hawks fan, and still cheer for them once the Oilers are out of contention. In my defence, I was an Air Force brat, and lived all over the country growing up.
I just say obscenities. I’ve never barfed them up.
in hindsight this strip hurts pretty bad. dammit Billie