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Expelled

by David M Willis on November 11, 2014 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - When Somebody Loved Me
└ Tags: agatha, jennifer, mary, ruth

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    November 11, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    but Ruth majors in PAIN

    better watch it, Mary

    • Kodra
      Kodra
      November 11, 2014 at 12:29 am | #

      Mary probably wanted to get close with Ruth based on their interaction over the dingdong bandit, but now feels betrayed since she’s not really the figure of vengeance she could use to get that hit of delicious delicious schadenfreude.

      Schadenfreude: it’s what keeps the church together.

      • Rosicrucian
        Rosicrucian
        November 11, 2014 at 12:33 am | #

        So it takes a girl like an Old Testament plague to really wind Mary’s clock.

        • Kodra
          Kodra
          November 11, 2014 at 12:52 am | #

          sending bears to kill kids over minor insults is what really gets her going.

          • DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
            DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
            November 11, 2014 at 9:18 pm | #

            Yep. Malcontents gotta do their thing.

    • OnyxIdol
      OnyxIdol
      November 11, 2014 at 1:20 am | #

      “…with a minor in women studies”

      It’s amazing how well this reference fits.

    • fogel
      fogel
      November 11, 2014 at 7:40 am | #

      Mary delenda est

      • 3oranges
        3oranges
        November 11, 2014 at 4:03 pm | #

        Now for full historical accuracy I think you need to say that at least once on every comic, regardless of what it’s about.

        It’s…it’s not the worst thing to do.

      • Jordan
        Jordan
        November 11, 2014 at 10:26 pm | #

        I understood that reference!

      • fogel
        fogel
        November 12, 2014 at 12:53 am | #

        Yep: homecoming, chess club, math class, the nominal topic does not matter, till she’s plowed under and the ground where she stood is salted.

    • EvergreenFir
      EvergreenFir
      November 11, 2014 at 11:25 pm | #

      redhead have (on average) higher pain tolerance. As do women.

  2. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    November 11, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    Do we know Mary’s? I thing it might be theatrical criticism.

    • Cthulhu's Intern
      Cthulhu's Intern
      November 11, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

      No, I’m pretty sure that it’s…

      …theatrical criticism.

      • AgentKeen
        AgentKeen
        November 11, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

        Why’d you put that pause before… …theatrical?
        AHHHH, now I’m doing it!

        • Ryan
          Ryan
          November 11, 2014 at 1:13 am | #

          Because it sounds enough like…

          … theatre that the alt text applies.

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      November 11, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      Studio art. So lots of critiques.

      • begbert2
        begbert2
        November 11, 2014 at 10:57 am | #

        I prefer to do my art in…

        …the atrium.

        • N0083rP00F
          N0083rP00F
          November 11, 2014 at 2:38 pm | #

          With a candlestick ….

          Wait, this is Clue right?

          • Jen Aside
            Jen Aside
            November 11, 2014 at 6:59 pm | #

            Nah, Clue is Ruth’s and Howard’s lesser known cousin…

            CLUE LESSE

      • AustKyzor
        AustKyzor
        November 11, 2014 at 10:59 am | #

        Nah, it’s probably poli-sci

  3. airyu
    airyu
    November 11, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    Who knew Mary was intelligent…?

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      November 11, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      We never said that Mary was dim, just a horrible person.

      • Sushi
        Sushi
        November 11, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

        Horrible people tend to be very ignorant in certain areas, which makes them assholes.

        I know this one guy, hard science major, could tell you anything you wanted about nuclear physics…. but he thinks any other science or study is pointless accept his own. Especially space science, biology and psychology. Thinks all the research money should be in nuclear and particle physics. He’s smart, witty and if it wasn’t for his proudness towards his own ignorance and close-mindedness, I might even like the guy. Alas, what a jerk.

        • oldFart
          oldFart
          November 11, 2014 at 12:28 am | #

          Just let him have any major health crisis and he will be singing the praises of bio-medical research. Or ask him how particle physics is going to help contain ebola.

          • Disloyal Subject
            Disloyal Subject
            November 11, 2014 at 12:52 am | #

            I’d be interested to hear his answer.
            I guess nukes would technically work…

          • sps48
            sps48
            November 11, 2014 at 11:31 am | #

            Not necessarily.

          • Vincent
            Vincent
            November 11, 2014 at 9:16 pm | #

            Well, Ebola’s technically only a problem in the few countries it has hit due to lacking sanitary facilities…

            The flu, though, absolutely.

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          November 11, 2014 at 11:13 am | #

          That person wouldn’t happen to be Dr. Sheldon Cooper would he? Because I saw that episode of BBT.

          • Kryss LaBryn
            Kryss LaBryn
            November 11, 2014 at 12:20 pm | #

            That episode is EVERY episode of BBT.

  4. Darbinator716
    Darbinator716
    November 11, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Damn it Mary.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      November 11, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      Now Now. Only our lord and savior can damn things.

      • Rosicrucian
        Rosicrucian
        November 11, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

        And Mary. By Proxy. She helpfully points out who to smite.

        • Doctor_Who
          Doctor_Who
          November 11, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

          Mary: put on this earth to be the little laser pointer on God’s sniper rifle.

          • MrSirk
            MrSirk
            November 11, 2014 at 12:55 am | #

            “HEADSHOT!..Thanks, Mary.”

          • Calvin Coolage
            Calvin Coolage
            November 11, 2014 at 12:56 am | #

            If she’s the laser, then who is God’s spotter?

            • MrSirk
              MrSirk
              November 11, 2014 at 1:04 am | #

              Jesus?

              • thebombzen
                thebombzen
                November 11, 2014 at 2:55 am | #

                Jesus did a 360 no scope. Came right back around.

            • nerdboy64
              nerdboy64
              November 11, 2014 at 1:45 am | #

              God doesn’t need a spotter. He rocks the l33t MLG 360 no-scopes.

  5. Dave
    Dave
    November 11, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    I didn’t even know I was supposed to be reading these out loud

    • Dave
      Dave
      November 11, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

      So much catching up to do

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      November 11, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

      As if you need to read it aloud to put a mental dramatic pause in that line of text.

      • Yotsuyasan
        Yotsuyasan
        November 11, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

        If a dramatic pause is in order, we need to get Shatner to do a reading of tonight’s comic!

        • Disloyal Subject
          Disloyal Subject
          November 11, 2014 at 12:53 am | #

          Make it so!

          • Yotsuyasan
            Yotsuyasan
            November 11, 2014 at 1:04 am | #

            Eh, I suppose Patrick Stewart could work in a pinch… Not quite as known for the dramatic pausing as Shatner, but if you specifically ask him to ham it up, I’m sure he’ll oblige.

            • Jules
              Jules
              November 11, 2014 at 1:28 am | #

              I think a Horatio Caine impersonation will do, at the very least.

            • nothri
              nothri
              November 11, 2014 at 3:12 am | #

              Just don’t get the Sisco involved. He doesn’t pause. He only punches. That is why you do not mess with the Sisco.

              • fogel
                fogel
                November 11, 2014 at 8:05 am | #

                So not true. Sisco’ s “You. Are. In. Trouble. BIG TROUBLE.” glare combined with his voice in low volume with sub space harmonics timbre was like standing at the plate facing Dave Stewart fixing you with his Death Stare from the mound, right before he unleashed that fast ball. Avery Brooks played Sisco like a 24th century Hawk: just as tough, but a highly educated and trained insider with a jovial side, rather than an outsider who revealed his full persona to almost no one. Hawk could bring the Serious Whoopass,but often his sheer menace was sufficient.

                • fogel
                  fogel
                  November 11, 2014 at 8:48 am | #

                  Plus, Sisco often solved problems with diplomacy and other means. He was a complete Star Fleet officer.

                • Doom Shepherd
                  Doom Shepherd
                  November 11, 2014 at 9:43 am | #

                  When confronted by a hostile alien, Kirk will punch it in the face.
                  When confronted by a hostile alien, Picard will make a speech bringing it around to his point of view.
                  When confronted by a hostile alien, SisKo will make a speech bringing it around to his point of view, THEN punch it in the face, so it remembers.

                • nothri
                  nothri
                  November 11, 2014 at 3:18 pm | #

                  I’ve often felt that SisKO (happy, Doom?) was the Winston Churchill of Star Trek captains. “We will fight them on the sea, we will fight them on the land….we will never surrender.” He was confronted with a constant threat of overwhelming and nearly absolute evil on his doorstep, and he refused to compromise with it. There are some folks who argue he caused the Dominion War by ignoring their demands to stop traveling through the wormhole. I think if he HAD capitulated it would have been much worse, cause given what we know about the Dominion they would have been unlikely to simply ignore the Alpha Quadrant and all those potential threats to their perfect order. Instead, they probably would have taken the opportunity to build an overwhelming fleet on their side of the wormhole and launch a surprise attack against all powers. In terms of captains, Sisko is less of a diplomat than Picard because he has to be. He’s not cruising through the galaxy in a powerful ship seeking to make peaceful first contact. He’s maintaining a presence on the border of the Federation with various hostile powers all around him. He has to use a very different combination of diplomacy and force than Picard, and sometimes that means making back room deals or getting his hands dirty in ways Star Fleet would not approve of (In the Pale Moonlight, anyone?). That doesn’t make him better or worse than any other Starfleet captain (except Janeway, of course). What it does mean is that he is the best possible choice for the post he was given.

                  Also, he was the only captain willing to punch Q in the face for being insufferable. And say what you will about Q’s comments regarding him…the omnipotent little bastard never did dare to show his face on DS9 again after that.

              • Doom Shepherd
                Doom Shepherd
                November 11, 2014 at 9:40 am | #

                There is a GODDAMN “K” in “SISKO” you… URRGHH!

                • Starscreamer
                  Starscreamer
                  November 11, 2014 at 5:59 pm | #

                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgIOdcBkkzg

              • fogel
                fogel
                November 11, 2014 at 1:01 pm | #

                Kirk does a McGiver: builds a cannon out of a hollow log, mixes up a batch of gun powder, loads some diamond crystals, BOOM. Unless the hostile alien was a space babe, but I don’t think it was his fists he used in those scenarios. And if it was a computer, he shorted them out by sending them into a recursive feedback loop. PICARD I don’t remember making speeches to the Borg to win them over. I did like him trading stories around the campfire with the alien captain who was willing to give his life to establish friendly communication. SISKO I don’t recall using speeches or fists on the Founders OR Gul Dukat (right guy?).

                • nothri
                  nothri
                  November 11, 2014 at 3:28 pm | #

                  Naw, he mostly handled the Dominion and Cardassians with a little space ship called the Defiant, a prototype warship he personally spent several years inventing with the explicit purpose of blowing the federation’s enemies straight to hell. Yet another reason you do not mess with the Sisko. The list of ways he is awesome is so long the only surface large enough to write them all down on is his penis.

                  And since I’m now blatantly stealing his material, I’ll go ahead and plug http://sfdebris.com/ Hands down the best and funniest reviews of Star Trek across every series, with deep character and scientific analysis alongside hilarious commentary.

              • PedanticJerkass
                PedanticJerkass
                November 11, 2014 at 1:37 pm | #

                SisKo, not SisCo.

              • fogel
                fogel
                November 11, 2014 at 9:56 pm | #

                Nothri: nice analysis of Sisko, I like it very much. But I will add one qualification. The time he gave some to Garick (?sp?) for arranging the destruction of that Romulan ship/negotiator, framing the other side, and thereby paving the way for the Romulan Alliance, Sisko showed he wasn’t willing to do The Full LeCarre, ala Spy Who Came in From the Cold; he played Lemas to Garick’s Control–and Garick sneered because he wasn’t willing to do ANYTHING that might be necessary to win.

                • fogel
                  fogel
                  November 11, 2014 at 10:10 pm | #

                  Ok, I meant nothri’ s Churchillian comparison, I’m not touching n’s comments about Sisko’ s penis … although, is it true that he had DEFIANT tattooed on it? I look forward to checking out sfdebris. If it truly is the best and funniest take on Trek it’ll be hella treat and if it isn’t it the very pinnacle it probably will still be a treat: there’s some damned good Trek-ish stuff been done.

        • Marianne
          Marianne
          November 11, 2014 at 6:51 am | #

          Shatner inserts his own dramatic pauses, though. If Shatner were to ever actually try to read a dramatic pause from a script, he’d instantly turn into a massive black hole and destroy the universe. Either that or he’d burp the pause. It’s kinda 50/50.

    • captainswift
      captainswift
      November 11, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      Don’t worry. I’m assembling a cast to produce an audio track so you can just listen along as you look at the pictures. We’ll do the dramatic pauses, so you don’t have to.

  6. Yotsuyasan
    Yotsuyasan
    November 11, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    D’ya think Mary bought it? (Alas, somehow I doubt it.) Anyway…

    The Great “Help Yotsuyasan Choose
    A New Gravatar” of 2014, part 2:
    Electric Boogaloo!

    Hello again, everyone! Not much response to my initial inquiry posted with yesterday’s comic… I know I am by far the most well known member of the posting community here, but I hope that is because you were waiting to see other options to judge them against one another! And not just because you were all like, “Yotsuyasan? Who the smeg is that and why should I care what his bloody Gravatar is?” Ha ha. 😀

    Anyway, since I started this, I figure I must press forward. And so, tonight I have debuted my second option! Unlike my first option (the custom Ruth presented yesterday) and my final option (the horrifying truth of which you can learn tomorrow), this one is not based on Dumbing of Age characters, but is a wholly original design.

    So, what is this one? Well, assuming you are reading this within 24 hours of when it was first posted, you should see it there to the left!

    This is the avatar I use pretty much everywhere else I post online that allows for avatars, and it is based on the main character (who may be a gratuitous self-insert) in a series of my own creation, Boy Scouts ½. The two super-deformed figures represent two different versions of the same character who’s name is Matthew Atanian. (By a strange and staggering coincidence, this might just happen to be my own name! Shock!

    If you wish to have a closer look at the illustration of the figure on the left, Matt in his natural male form, please click here. For the figure on the right, Matt’s cursed female form (yes, it is a Ranma ½ based fic) who goes by the alias Matty Hayes, please click here.

    • Yotsuyasan
      Yotsuyasan
      November 11, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      Huh… “Your comment is awaiting moderation.” That’s new… (To me, at least.) Did I inadvertently do something wrong, or is that just a standard thing to posts with links to other websites in them?

      • Rosicrucian
        Rosicrucian
        November 11, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

        It can be set up so that certain keywords or tags require manual approval.

        • Thoroughly Moderated
          Thoroughly Moderated
          November 11, 2014 at 1:20 am | #

          Really? I must use those words a lot, then, because all of my comments (all, like, five of them ever) require moderation.

          Of course, I change my name every time I comment to align with that comment, so that could have something to do with it. We all have to have our schticks, I suppose.

          • Machine of Slight Discomfort
            Machine of Slight Discomfort
            November 11, 2014 at 10:04 am | #

            Posts of first time commenters are always put into moderation, I think.

            • Machine of Slight Discomfort
              Machine of Slight Discomfort
              November 11, 2014 at 10:06 am | #

              Or it’s talking about moderation that does, ’cause my comment totally just went into the moderation queue. Or I just comment too rarely.

            • Thoroughly Moderated
              Thoroughly Moderated
              November 12, 2014 at 12:42 am | #

              That makes a lot of sense. It’s a good way to weed out trolls and spam bots before they, you know, troll and spam.

      • Catullus
        Catullus
        November 11, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

        If there are two or more links in your comment, it goes into the moderation queue.

        • Catullus
          Catullus
          November 11, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

          (Pretend my first comment was a reply to Yotsuyasan’s comment, because that’s what I meant it to be.)

        • Yotsuyasan
          Yotsuyasan
          November 11, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

          Ah. That makes sense… I don’t usually have cause for excessive linkage!

          Hopefully it doesn’t take too long. Just out of curiosity, since I can see my own awaiting moderation comment, is it publically visible in the interim, and you can all see my initial post? Or is it only visible to me until it is approved, and yet you can see (and reply to) my own reply to my initial post? (If the later, odd to allow replies to an invisible post…)

          • Leorale
            Leorale
            November 11, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

            Can’t see it yet, though Willis’s moderation is silent and swift, like a snowy owl upon a fresh dish of Mac n’ cheese. swoosh!

            • Yotsuyasan
              Yotsuyasan
              November 11, 2014 at 12:22 am | #

              I like Mac & Cheese! And in other news, I seem to have been Willis approved! Huzzah!

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        November 11, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

        It’s because of the link. He probably wants to make sure you aren’t a derailing spam-bot.

      • TheZachariah
        TheZachariah
        November 11, 2014 at 1:43 am | #

        I’d say an excessive use of anchor text may be….linked to it.

    • Yotsuyasan
      Yotsuyasan
      November 11, 2014 at 12:23 am | #

      Oh wow… After all of that, I just noticed quite the typo! “I know I am by far the most well known member of the posting community here…” Wow, I sound full of myself, eh?

      I assure you, there was supposed to be a “not” in there…

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        November 11, 2014 at 12:36 am | #

        You could just pick the gravatar you like the most.

        • Yotsuyasan
          Yotsuyasan
          November 11, 2014 at 12:45 am | #

          I could! But I thought, since I had three options, it might be fun to do it this way. 😀

          If, after tomorrow’s reveal of the final options, I don’t get any feedback, then I shall just pick for myself. But if I do get feedback, then the majority shall rule!

          • Leorale
            Leorale
            November 11, 2014 at 1:33 am | #

            Okee doke. I guess I don’t really get it, but far be it from me to stand in the way of somebody’s harmless fun!

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        November 11, 2014 at 12:56 am | #

        Glad to hear it. I was assuming sarcasm.

    • Yotsuyasan
      Yotsuyasan
      November 11, 2014 at 8:10 am | #

      Re-reading the comic this morning, ir is a good thing Ruth’s face in panel 3 is cut off on one side by panel 4, or else I just might have had to extend this whole fiasco by another day by throwing in a last minute entry of a second Ruth option. She is rather adorable in that panel…

  7. liahansen
    liahansen
    November 11, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    I love how this is gonna end up being a drama exclusively between them three, because you just know nobody else is gonna care

    • nothri
      nothri
      November 11, 2014 at 12:42 am | #

      Oh, I’m sure Joyce is gonna hyperventilate all over the place, but beyond that…yeah. Though there might be expulsion threats if the folks upstairs find out the RA is having a sexual relationship with one of her floormates.

      • Yotsuyasan
        Yotsuyasan
        November 11, 2014 at 1:15 am | #

        I expect Joyce will do as you suggest, and probably also say something stupid and insensitive, but in the end come around and be supportive of her friends. (And jealous that someone else gets to crawl up into them and be safe and warm forever.)

        Despite herself, it is her way to love and (eventually) accept her friends. This is the gal that stood up to her folks for Dorothy, after all!

        • nothri
          nothri
          November 11, 2014 at 3:17 am | #

          Yeah. That’s what I like about her for sure. One thing to be a kind person when you have no biases towards other people. Quite another to be a kind and caring person towards people when your entire worldview has been shaped to believe they are sinners and heathens bound for hell. Joyce is a genuinely good person, and that’s all the more remarkable because she’s had to swim against the current of her own beliefs this whole time.

          • Swoop
            Swoop
            November 11, 2014 at 1:06 pm | #

            Just because you think someone is bound to hell doesn’t mean you hate them. For pentecostals, any miner sin bumped you down to hell. Unless you happen to have prayed for forgiveness the moment before death or the rapture you were screwed. A lot of young people used this logic to justify being friends with heathens. All my friends were going to hell, but it’s not like I hated them.

            some of the nicest, most generous people I have ever met, believe a woman cutting her hair justifies her an eternity in hell. Christians are weird like that.

            • David M Willis
              David M Willis
              November 11, 2014 at 1:33 pm | #

              Is a miner sin where you mix two different kinds of ores?

              • Swoop
                Swoop
                November 11, 2014 at 1:43 pm | #

                well shit.

              • Beckett
                Beckett
                November 11, 2014 at 2:58 pm | #

                Iron 13:7: “And the Lord sayeth, ‘Alloys are an abomination under the Lord'”

                • saltchocolate
                  saltchocolate
                  November 11, 2014 at 9:51 pm | #

                  And typos. Verily, verily.

              • Bagge
                Bagge
                November 11, 2014 at 3:09 pm | #

                It has something to do with pickaxes.

              • Yotsuyasan
                Yotsuyasan
                November 11, 2014 at 3:41 pm | #

                Well, Mary would certainly think it a sin to mix zoisite and kunzite.

                • Rutee
                  Rutee
                  November 11, 2014 at 3:45 pm | #

                  I should really be watching the remake

              • Thomas64
                Thomas64
                November 11, 2014 at 7:32 pm | #

                Mixing two kinds of ores, mixing two kinds of fabrics, let’s call the whole thing off.

                • fogel
                  fogel
                  November 11, 2014 at 10:21 pm | #

                  Is there an equivalent of the shatnes (?sp?) test (not Shatner test) for mixing ores contrary to scripture? The Law is a bear: I’m always forgetting whether you can eat pizza while wearing polyester with a dilithium crystal in your pocket.

  8. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    November 11, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    The point isn’t whether Mary knows, it’s whether anyone would believe her.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      November 11, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

      If you cant believe a Christian nudist, who can you believe?

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        November 11, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

        A Pagan nudist?

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          November 11, 2014 at 12:56 am | #

          That would be all of us… er them.

      • Dirk Strider's Splinter Hopeself
        Dirk Strider's Splinter Hopeself
        November 11, 2014 at 1:37 am | #

        Yaoi characters. You can always trust yaoi characters.

  9. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    November 11, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    There are lots of gay people in the theatre so it kinda counts as an educated guess.

    • GamaranSepudomyn
      GamaranSepudomyn
      November 11, 2014 at 1:09 am | #

      Thespians are neato!

      • fogel
        fogel
        November 11, 2014 at 8:12 am | #

        I wonder if either of them is a philatelist?

    • Gigafreak
      Gigafreak
      November 11, 2014 at 1:43 am | #

      Thespian lesbians! Thesbians!

      • sun tzu
        sun tzu
        November 11, 2014 at 11:30 pm | #

        But is any of them a Victorian Silurian?

  10. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    November 11, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Her major is drinking. Minoring in being sexy. But I think she’s found a good balance between her degrees.

  11. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    November 11, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Unless Mary can make others care Liahansen…like admin because Ruth is an RA…otherwise …
    This strip was cute, liked better than yesterdays, which while cute, was a bit too close to violence with sex – which is not cute.

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      November 11, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

      It was consensual, good communication, making-them-both-happy pretend violence, though. Different strokes for different folks, style of thing.

      • Lel
        Lel
        November 11, 2014 at 5:19 pm | #

        Remember, if something doesn’t match your personal tastes, it’s completely horrifying and the people involved are deviants and won’t you please think of the children!

    • Rutee
      Rutee
      November 11, 2014 at 2:23 am | #

      Yesterday was more S/M than it was violent. Like, it wasn’t exactly S/M, but it was close.

  12. GoogerGeiger
    GoogerGeiger
    November 11, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Mary, stop being right.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      November 11, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      At least stop being FAR right. 😛

      • Dirk Strider's Splinter Hopeself
        Dirk Strider's Splinter Hopeself
        November 11, 2014 at 1:38 am | #

        COME TO THE LEFT SIDE
        WE HAVE EQUALITY

        • tinfoil theory
          tinfoil theory
          November 11, 2014 at 2:42 am | #

          People who are already more equal than others don’t want equality.

          • fogel
            fogel
            November 11, 2014 at 8:14 am | #

            Some do.

          • Dirk Strider's Splinter Hopeself
            Dirk Strider's Splinter Hopeself
            November 11, 2014 at 2:47 pm | #

            “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others” -George Orwell, Animal Farm

            • tinfoil theory
              tinfoil theory
              November 12, 2014 at 3:35 am | #

              And we wouldn’t want those less equal than their betters to be equally equal, right?

    • Yotsuyasan
      Yotsuyasan
      November 11, 2014 at 12:33 am | #

      I don’t care if she is right. But Mary, stop being a bongo! And know that some things just ain’t your business! In that sense, she’s not right!

      • fogel
        fogel
        November 11, 2014 at 10:23 pm | #

        Mary delenda est

  13. Jesse
    Jesse
    November 11, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    DUM DUM DUMMMM… http://youtu.be/y8Kyi0WNg40

  14. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    November 11, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    “Hey Maurice, going anywhere this weekend?”

    “Yes, I am going to the…THEATRE.”

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      November 11, 2014 at 1:35 am | #

      Where’s the post office? On Main Street, next to the… THEATRE.

      • XMinusOne
        XMinusOne
        November 11, 2014 at 2:02 am | #

        The proper pronunciation of the word is … (dramatic pause) … theahtah.

  15. Rosicrucian
    Rosicrucian
    November 11, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    So first Mary has to accuse Billie of walking out with sex hair, then Mary has to explain how she knows what sex hair looks like.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      November 11, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

      “It’s in my “Who to condemn and what are the signs” handbook. You’ve got yours, right Joyce? RIGHT!?”

      • MrSirk
        MrSirk
        November 11, 2014 at 1:01 am | #

        Joyce just isn’t fully committed to the condemn part. Which is why she needs to get her ass to Mary’s bible study! Come on Joyce! You’re not even a tenth as spiteful as you should be. WAKE UP!

        • Dirk Strider's Splinter Hopeself
          Dirk Strider's Splinter Hopeself
          November 11, 2014 at 1:38 am | #

          Is that like, anti-anti-Joyce?

        • LuckyStar7
          LuckyStar7
          November 11, 2014 at 7:22 pm | #

          We don’t know, she might be committed to the condom part.
          …I need help.

        • fogel
          fogel
          November 11, 2014 at 10:24 pm | #

          Judge not and ye shall be judged.

  16. itsdvw
    itsdvw
    November 11, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    Sorry guys, I had to. Inspired by David Herbert.

    • Reflex76
      Reflex76
      November 11, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

      We were all thinking it.

    • Mo
      Mo
      November 11, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

      Oh, thank goodness. I was worried that meme was over and I was old. Er. Older.

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        November 11, 2014 at 1:05 am | #

        Some things are immortal.

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      November 11, 2014 at 1:27 am | #

      That’s exactly what I was thinking.

    • Camachri
      Camachri
      November 12, 2014 at 12:59 am | #

      Do you mind if I steal that as an icon for a week or so? It just… speaks to me.

  17. nothri
    nothri
    November 11, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

    I believe you will find that if anything Billie would be majoring in DRAMA.

    But let’s not kid ourselves. We’re mistaking majors for personalities. I’m pretty sure Mary isn’t majoring in heinously annoyingly dumb bongo, after all.

    • tinfoil theory
      tinfoil theory
      November 11, 2014 at 2:45 am | #

      I got the impression that Billie has mastered drama.

    • fogel
      fogel
      November 11, 2014 at 8:21 am | #

      True, but she’s probably President of the Heinously Self-Righteous & Intolerable Intolerant Stone Throwers Club chapter at OH.

      • fogel
        fogel
        November 11, 2014 at 8:24 am | #

        I wrote IU; Spellcheck decided that Mary is the President of HSIISTC for all of Ohio.

        • nothri
          nothri
          December 21, 2014 at 2:55 am | #

          That’s saying something, considering what kind of people live in Ohio!

  18. CapedLuigisYoshi
    CapedLuigisYoshi
    November 11, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

    “Theater”, on the other hand, requires no pause before it.

    I don’t mean it’s unnecessary, I mean having no pause prior to that version of the word is a universal requirement.

  19. Rocketboy1313
    Rocketboy1313
    November 11, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

    What bug crawled into this woman’s regions to make her such a bongo?

    • Rosicrucian
      Rosicrucian
      November 11, 2014 at 12:22 am | #

      Religion as a means of coping with an otherwise crippling inferiority complex and/or secret shame.

      There’s something in Mary’s closet.

      That something may well be Mary.

    • nothri
      nothri
      November 11, 2014 at 12:40 am | #

      I’d wager it is a combination of feeling humiliated that one of them saw her naked:

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/05-media-rumble/dressed-2/

      Combined with getting dick slapped:

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/04-the-whiteboard-dong-bandit/male-anatomy/

      • Yotsuyasan
        Yotsuyasan
        November 11, 2014 at 1:09 am | #

        Well, she should get dressed before 3:00 p.m.! She does have a roommate, does she just parade around in front of her wearing nothing but panties and arm bands? If so, maybe it does help confirm some speculation regarding Mary’s vehemently anti-gay stance. (*cough*closeted*cough*)

        As for the other thing… well, what does she expect, when she’s such a dickhead?

        • LQ
          LQ
          November 11, 2014 at 2:56 am | #

          Ahem, dick*face*.

        • nothri
          nothri
          November 11, 2014 at 3:05 am | #

          But whatever happened to turning the other cheek?

      • fogel
        fogel
        November 11, 2014 at 8:28 am | #

        Was Mary about to say what it looks like she was about to say in that second strip? “stupid c….” I think the C-word there wasn’t “Christian”. It looks like Ruth saved her from a sin.

        • John
          John
          November 11, 2014 at 9:46 pm | #

          I dunno, what do you think she was about to say?

          My theory is “Canadian”.

          • fogel
            fogel
            November 11, 2014 at 10:28 pm | #

            I am deeply offended that you would fully spell out the C-word!

            • John
              John
              November 12, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

              What, it’s not like I said, “Belgium”.

              Oops.

              • fogel
                fogel
                November 12, 2014 at 12:44 am | #

                :-0

                • fogel
                  fogel
                  November 12, 2014 at 12:45 am | #

                  Holy Zarquan!!!!!

  20. Synnerman
    Synnerman
    November 11, 2014 at 12:22 am | #

    And there’s the funny! Mary is about to go into Mrs. Kravitz mode!

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      November 11, 2014 at 1:29 am | #

      Lenny’s mom?

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      November 11, 2014 at 1:30 am | #

      Are you implying she wants to know if Billie is “gonna go [her] way?”

  21. Greg
    Greg
    November 11, 2014 at 12:26 am | #

    Agatha’s super confused right now.

    “No, I don’t think it’s theater. I’m pretty sure it’s journalism. Why’d you pause before you said that anyway?”

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      November 11, 2014 at 12:20 pm | #

      I love the idea that Agatha is having a normal, slightly boring time at college with all this drama going on around her.

      • fogel
        fogel
        November 11, 2014 at 10:30 pm | #

        Perhaps her secret identity is Captain Oblivious?

      • Greg
        Greg
        November 11, 2014 at 11:27 pm | #

        Yes, absolutely! I hope Agatha’s most dramatic moment at school is when she goes to do her laundry and it looks like there aren’t any washing machines open, but THEN she notices there’s one machine left.

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          November 12, 2014 at 12:26 am | #

          DRAMA

  22. fireindaarcade
    fireindaarcade
    November 11, 2014 at 12:27 am | #

    Ya know, their smile in the third panel is just cute enough that I think I can just forget that the last panel even happened.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      November 11, 2014 at 12:19 pm | #

      We should make a montage of their cute moments, their hilarious moments and their mutually abusive moments separately. They would tell such a different story about their relationship.

  23. MrSirk
    MrSirk
    November 11, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

    Mary’s mama didn’t raise no fool.

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      November 11, 2014 at 12:34 am | #

      Nope, she raised a monster. Is there any redemption for Mary?

      • Rosicrucian
        Rosicrucian
        November 11, 2014 at 12:36 am | #

        Well it’s not like she killed someone or drove someone to suicide.

        That we know of.

        • David
          David
          November 11, 2014 at 1:33 am | #

          I just want to note that this discussion happening between Mary and Mike gravatars is somewhat… theatralic?

        • Dirk Strider's Splinter Hopeself
          Dirk Strider's Splinter Hopeself
          November 11, 2014 at 1:39 am | #

          Oh, Ruth’s been DRIVEN to suicide before.

        • fogel
          fogel
          November 11, 2014 at 8:30 am | #

          Not yet. Mary delenda set.

          • gwalla
            gwalla
            November 12, 2014 at 3:45 pm | #

            “Set”?

            • Commenter
              Commenter
              November 15, 2014 at 5:10 pm | #

              Hm. Can I blame Spellcheck?

  24. Adam Black
    Adam Black
    November 11, 2014 at 12:33 am | #

    Ruth and Mary both need non-sexual friends for narrative purposes.
    Well Ruth does. Marys can be hypocritical hookups or FWB.

    Danny performed this function in Roomies.

    A Danny-Ruth friendship would be interesting now.

    I am glad for the Mary appearances. I want her to be a villain, I love to hate.
    I want her to be just a little less Qartoonishly Qunty . Just enough so her vile hate has a contrast, against a pale goodness. Just enough to make her hate even more real.

  25. Lanval
    Lanval
    November 11, 2014 at 12:37 am | #

    If Billie was a Theatre major, I’d suggest switching over to Journalism.

  26. Equuizzicals
    Equuizzicals
    November 11, 2014 at 12:43 am | #

    Did 4 years of… Theatre in high school. I can confirm that’s the only way to refer to…Theatre.

    Sort of related, wasn’t there a tumblr post about the cast’s majors? I don’t remember if it said anything new or just compiled what is known. I don’t even know if willis made it.

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      November 11, 2014 at 1:09 am | #

      We didn’t bother with the pause… but we did have ninjas pop out of nowhere from time to time. Good times, before tuition was something to worry about.

  27. Amanda
    Amanda
    November 11, 2014 at 12:47 am | #

    Is Mary an art student?

    With those kinds of pauses, she should think about… CSI.

    B)

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      November 11, 2014 at 1:41 am | #

      Yeeeeaaahh!

      • TheZachariah
        TheZachariah
        November 11, 2014 at 1:46 am | #

        Maybe not an art student, but she certainly has investigation…….down to a science.

        B)

  28. Historyman68
    Historyman68
    November 11, 2014 at 1:31 am | #

    I think it’s “journalism?”

    • Sambo
      Sambo
      November 11, 2014 at 10:24 am | #

      Yes. Very much.

  29. Dirk Strider's Splinter Hopeself
    Dirk Strider's Splinter Hopeself
    November 11, 2014 at 1:39 am | #

    No need for all the… Theatrics.

  30. XMinusOne
    XMinusOne
    November 11, 2014 at 1:59 am | #

    Mary needs to be ‘volunteered’ for some drug experiments at the Medical School. I’ve heard they need a control group of bitter, disgruntled people who love Jesus to test some recently developed tranquilizers. The tests on mice, guinea pigs, ferrets and horses didn’t do so well, but they’re expecting more positive results with people.

    • Rowen Morland
      Rowen Morland
      November 11, 2014 at 2:07 am | #

      Is that the circle of hate vaccine I’ve been hearing about?

  31. Orangey
    Orangey
    November 11, 2014 at 2:08 am | #

    To be fair, Mary would have to be pretty dim to fall for this. Right after she talks about lesbianism being a sin in front of Billie, the first thing Billie does is go straight to Ruth’s room and then they perform a really obvious ‘I hate you so much but you’ve got to come to my room a lot to do my laundry and me’ routine yeaaah probs not the best of ideas

  32. John
    John
    November 11, 2014 at 2:19 am | #

    No, sorry, Mary. I’m pretty sure it’s… … journalism.

    • Speedball
      Speedball
      November 11, 2014 at 2:28 am | #

      http://www.dansdata.com/images/blog/tattoos/trans_itsjournalism.png

      It’s journalism.

      • Tenn
        Tenn
        November 11, 2014 at 4:51 pm | #

        Actually, it’s ethics in games journalism.

        • John
          John
          November 11, 2014 at 9:37 pm | #

          We did get threats of sexual violence against women in the last strip.

  33. Willoughby Chase
    Willoughby Chase
    November 11, 2014 at 3:35 am | #

    The-a-ter, dahling, please, as my good friends Larry, Johnnie and Ralphie would say.

  34. Lulu
    Lulu
    November 11, 2014 at 3:38 am | #

    Mary is so sharp it hurts.

    Like I said in the past Mary too must discover the power of girls love herself, maybe try to major in it in a bit voyeuristic sense at start to see that Bible is a bit outdated in that direction ^^

  35. nooB
    nooB
    November 11, 2014 at 4:15 am | #

    Now I imagine Billy overemphasizing her pronunciation like a bad actor

    • fogel
      fogel
      November 11, 2014 at 8:33 am | #

      Shatner?

  36. Bob
    Bob
    November 11, 2014 at 4:27 am | #

    Mary with the calls

  37. Caravelle
    Caravelle
    November 11, 2014 at 5:12 am | #

    I think I’m starting to like this version of Mary? She’s starting to sound like a supervillain. Perma-squinted evil eyes, gratuitous messing with the good guy’ lives, and now DRAMATIC… PAUSES.

  38. Aolbain
    Aolbain
    November 11, 2014 at 5:16 am | #

    Adorable smiles are adorable

  39. Minomelo
    Minomelo
    November 11, 2014 at 5:24 am | #

    Mary speaks in UK English?

    • Random832
      Random832
      November 11, 2014 at 7:23 am | #

      A lot of US people differentiate between “theatre” (with stages and plays and all that) vs “theater” (where you go to see a movie).

      • David M Willis
        David M Willis
        November 11, 2014 at 9:50 am | #

        It’s also how the major is spelled at IU: http://www.indiana.edu/~bulletin/iub/college/2010-2011/departments/theatre-drama/major.shtml

        • Dirk Strider's Splinter Hopeself
          Dirk Strider's Splinter Hopeself
          November 11, 2014 at 2:50 pm | #

          Dang. Willis does his homework.

          • fogel
            fogel
            November 11, 2014 at 10:37 pm | #

            Which is something that he rarely shows his characters doing…

  40. Lume
    Lume
    November 11, 2014 at 5:52 am | #

    I think she bought it.

  41. BabiesatemyDingos
    BabiesatemyDingos
    November 11, 2014 at 6:58 am | #

    Did anybody else hear a more sinister version of the CSI:Miami YEEAHHHHHH after reading Mary say “theatre”?

  42. Some Dude
    Some Dude
    November 11, 2014 at 7:02 am | #

    I am confused as to why Billie and Ruth care at all about what a neighbour thinks about their tryst, much less caring enough to put on this whole song and dance to throw her off the trail.

    It didn’t even work!

    • chase
      chase
      November 11, 2014 at 7:11 am | #

      I thiiiink it’s because Mary wants Ruth’s position as DA and she can somehow use the information against Ruth. But I don’t really know how either. I am a little confused as well.

      • Campor
        Campor
        November 11, 2014 at 11:36 am | #

        I think Mary might have a problem with it because of her beliefs, but the fact Ruth would be dating someone she has some level of authority over would be the biggest issue for her.

  43. motorfirebox
    motorfirebox
    November 11, 2014 at 7:34 am | #

    Why would you put a dramatic pause before… theatre?

  44. Kim
    Kim
    November 11, 2014 at 7:43 am | #

    Best Mary’sface ever 🙂

  45. Regalli
    Regalli
    November 11, 2014 at 9:10 am | #

    Seriously, Mary, did you see Blaine’s posing in the first couple strips before The Punch and think “Eh, I can do better” or something?

    Whatever, Supervillain Mary is totally a venture I support.

  46. auo> mous
    auo> mous
    November 11, 2014 at 9:19 am | #

    That’s an unamerican way to spell theater, Mary…

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      November 11, 2014 at 9:51 am | #

      http://www.indiana.edu/~bulletin/iub/college/2010-2011/departments/theatre-drama/major.shtml

    • captainswift
      captainswift
      November 11, 2014 at 2:59 pm | #

      In my experience, as a US Theatre major, it’s the way theatre students spell theatre most all the time.

  47. Cephalo the Pod
    Cephalo the Pod
    November 11, 2014 at 9:28 am | #

    “Huh, I was thinking maybe-

    *Shitshitshit I don’t actually have anything clever to say what would subtly suggest that Billie and Ruth are putting on a show that’s it!!*

    -theatre”.

  48. mrmudkip
    mrmudkip
    November 11, 2014 at 9:59 am | #

    Stop it, Mary. Nobody likes you. Go back to your dumpster

    • Mr. Morningstar
      Mr. Morningstar
      November 11, 2014 at 11:32 am | #

      Mary you are such a grouch!

  49. Kirt
    Kirt
    November 11, 2014 at 10:09 am | #

    ACTING!

    http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/jon%20lovitz%20acting.jpg

  50. Bagge
    Bagge
    November 11, 2014 at 10:16 am | #

    FAAAAACE
    JOURNALISM

    Two catch phrases in the same strip. Beat still my heart.

  51. Paradox
    Paradox
    November 11, 2014 at 11:07 am | #

    I swear, the Dumbing of Age comments section is a comic in and of itself.

  52. Luzahn
    Luzahn
    November 11, 2014 at 11:30 am | #

    Is it wrong that I find Mary adorable? I feel like it might be wrong.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      November 11, 2014 at 12:17 pm | #

      Adorable but deeply flawed who may hurt other people by doing what she thinks is right… Sounds almost like a DumbingofAge character to me.

  53. Waffle
    Waffle
    November 11, 2014 at 11:35 am | #

    I don’t understand still, maybe I am missing something here. Who cares if the two of them date, Ruth can’t get in trouble for it can she? Who cares what Mary knows or doesn’t know. Oh no they are dating, the school can’t punish that, if they did, it would cause bigger problems. Someone explain to me why we are so worried about Mary knowing about this, I don’t see what she can do? None of the people that hang out with Billie are going to care, well maybe Joyce, but she will get over it. Shes slowly starting to loosen up and that is great.

    • OmegaDez
      OmegaDez
      November 11, 2014 at 11:52 am | #

      I’ve been wondering the same thing since this story arc started. Is it a Christian thing? A college law against homosexual relationships? Or is there something about RAs not allowed to date? Is there something about Mary?

      I’ve never been this confused since I watched the Deathly Hallows. I spent both movies asking myself “Why are they running away from those stupid, nameless gypsy guys that we’ve never even heard about? Why can’t they just blow them up?”

      • Luzahn
        Luzahn
        November 11, 2014 at 11:56 am | #

        Willis has mentioned it above, but it’s the idea that the RA is in a position of authority over the people in their wing, and so it’s inappropriate for the two to be dating. Ruth could lose her job.

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          November 11, 2014 at 12:16 pm | #

          It depends a lot on how much Ruth were bragging when she said that the higher-ups let her be as long as she runs a tight ship. If her position was not secure I think the fact that she hit Mary in the FAAAACE (sorry) unprovoked would be reason enough already.

          But I think the exact mechanism is less important. The fact that someone is out to get them not because their actions but because of their sexuality is… not comforting. Mary may or may not find a way to use it against them, but in the meanwhile she can make their relationship a lot more difficult.

        • Bleeters
          Bleeters
          November 11, 2014 at 1:02 pm | #

          She kept her job despite throwing a student into a coach in full view of the rest of the dorm, I can’t imagine this is any more risky.

          • Luzahn
            Luzahn
            November 11, 2014 at 1:09 pm | #

            Of course, she could have just been fortunate there, with the students not wanting/caring to report her for that. Now, they’re dealing with somebody who will.

          • Jen
            Jen
            November 11, 2014 at 4:31 pm | #

            This is America! Violence abound, but heaven forbid any sexy shenanigans! 😉

            In all seriousness, when I was an RA in Ohio (not the same college, but still in the Midwest region), one of the rules was that we weren’t allowed to have relations with our residents.

          • Jen Aside
            Jen Aside
            November 11, 2014 at 8:14 pm | #

            I’m sure if she actually HAD thrown a student into a coach, instead of a couch, something might’ve come of it 😉

            • Bleeters
              Bleeters
              November 12, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

              Ok, wow. Yes D:

          • caramelundqueer
            caramelundqueer
            November 11, 2014 at 8:22 pm | #

            HA! I forgot about this before I wrote my comment below.

        • cesium133
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          November 11, 2014 at 1:16 pm | #

          He’s brought it up in the past in analogy to the Sal/Jason situation: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/02-guess-whos-coming-to-galassos/bullshit-2/

  54. Aolbain
    Aolbain
    November 11, 2014 at 12:32 pm | #

    If it weren’t for the whole”hate” thing, Mary would be pretty badass.

    • Luzahn
      Luzahn
      November 11, 2014 at 12:34 pm | #

      I’ve always felt that she’d make an excellent Adeptus sororitas.

      • Bleeters
        Bleeters
        November 11, 2014 at 12:51 pm | #

        Dumbing of Age AU where Mary returns to bathe the dorm rooms in the purifying light of the Emperor. Cinders! Cinders and ash!

        That could work.

  55. Swoop
    Swoop
    November 11, 2014 at 1:09 pm | #

    God damn it. Why do I Mary so attractive?

    • Luzahn
      Luzahn
      November 11, 2014 at 1:12 pm | #

      +1

    • OnyxIdol
      OnyxIdol
      November 11, 2014 at 1:36 pm | #

      I know what You mean. The term “hatefuck” comes to mind.

    • Dirk Strider's Splinter Hopeself
      Dirk Strider's Splinter Hopeself
      November 11, 2014 at 2:53 pm | #

      Since when was “attractive” an adverb and “Mary” a verb?
      “I walked attractive to the park”
      “Yeah, I Mary occasionally.”

      • Swoop
        Swoop
        November 11, 2014 at 3:20 pm | #

        Sorry. I have a learning disability. I use dictation software most of the time, I just don’t have it on the computer I am using now. My laptop is convenient, but it has a terrible microphone. I meant to say “Why do I find Mary so attractive”.

        • Yotsuyasan
          Yotsuyasan
          November 11, 2014 at 3:24 pm | #

          I, for one, was able to derive your meaning, sir, so no worries. And hey, on a purely physical level, I would agree that Mary is attractive.

          Of course, I still want her to fall down an open elevator shaft, from as high a floor as possible… But at least she can die knowing she looked good on the way down!

          (Probably not so much after she lands… Ew…)

      • Yotsuyasan
        Yotsuyasan
        November 11, 2014 at 3:20 pm | #

        I agree with you on “attractive,” but if you ignore for the moment that we are communicating via text, and thus the different spellings and the capitalization make my joke rather fall apart, then of course “Mary” is a verb! And if you do it occasionally, that must imply you do it more than a few times and in a manor that is not lasting… so you must have a lot of alimony to pay!

        Thank you, thank you. I’ll see myself out…

  56. Nena
    Nena
    November 11, 2014 at 4:32 pm | #

    I hate bongoes like Mary. She needs a big fat ass whoopin’.

    • fogel
      fogel
      November 11, 2014 at 10:43 pm | #

      Mary delenda est

  57. Aaron Bourque
    Aaron Bourque
    November 11, 2014 at 5:46 pm | #

    And then when Mary finally reveals the secret, guess what, oh no there’s lesbians in the dorm, who cares.

    • fogel
      fogel
      November 11, 2014 at 10:46 pm | #

      The other lesbians?

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        November 11, 2014 at 11:44 pm | #

        I think Mary should take this story to the newspaper…

    • starkruzr
      starkruzr
      November 12, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

      The problem isn’t the lesbian relationship, the problem is the relationship between an RA and her resident. This could easily get Ruth fired.

  58. SeanNOLA
    SeanNOLA
    November 11, 2014 at 6:02 pm | #

    The-ah-truh

  59. Darwin
    Darwin
    November 11, 2014 at 6:44 pm | #

    Mary would be more effective with that line if she put on sunglasses and was immediately followed by the Who.

  60. FuryOfFirestorm
    FuryOfFirestorm
    November 11, 2014 at 7:46 pm | #

    Being Major Drama Queen, Mary knows real drama when she sees it.

  61. caramelundqueer
    caramelundqueer
    November 11, 2014 at 8:19 pm | #

    There all so focused on the romantic angle (which yeah I get it: titillating/draaaama) and I guess I can see why for Ruth it would look better to be seen publicly abusing Billie as per usual because she probably assumes everyone’s too scared shitless of her to say anything since they’ve been putting up with that for this long. But Ruth has already pulled enough crap to be justifiably removed as RA. If no one believes Mary about Ruth/Billie being together her plan B could be to just bring up the physical abuse/threats against students which there are sooo many witnesses too and honestly I think that’s likely to be what gets her in real trouble.

    • caramelundqueer
      caramelundqueer
      November 11, 2014 at 8:20 pm | #

      *They’re

  62. Timni
    Timni
    November 11, 2014 at 8:28 pm | #

    Mary needs to stay in her to be honest

  63. JohnnyO
    JohnnyO
    November 12, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

    Hey, my major is………………………………..theatre.

  64. Onion
    Onion
    May 10, 2016 at 8:47 pm | #

    Since when was Mary omniscient? I thought that was her son…

    • Onion
      Onion
      May 19, 2016 at 11:01 pm | #

      I’ll probably never know if anyone would have gotten that joke, considering that people stopped looking at this strip about two years ago.

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