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Mello Yello is actually the Coca Cola Company’s third try (at least!) at competing with the Mountain Dew juggernaut. You youngsters should ask your parents if they remember either the short-lived “White Lightning” of the ’70s or “Rondo” from the 1980s.
Dr Pepper is unique in that it gets Coke and Pepsi to distribute for them. My campus was a Coca-Cola campus, but we had Dr Pepper, not Mr Pibb. Even fast food joints are not immune. No matter if it’s a McDonald’s or Taco Bell, you can ALWAYS find Dr Pepper. (It’s even in those new-fangled Coca-Cola Freestyle machines, though only with the Cherry and Cherry-Vanilla flavors. Dagnabbit, if I can get Grape Coke, I should be able to get Grape Dr Pepper!)
Oh, and cream soda? Crush makes the definitive cream soda, but I don’t think it’s available outside Canuckland. It’s like drinking carbonated vanilla extract.
Best root beer in America — bar none — is the “1919” draft root beer available in the upper Midwest from the New Ulm Brewing Co. of New Ulm, MN. If you’re lucky you might find 5-quart ‘growler’ kegs in stores, but otherwise the only way to get it is in on tap from quarter- or half-barrel kegs.
How good is it? It’s worth the trip to Minnesota, that’s how good it is.
Personally I’m quite fond of Thomas Kemper for both root beer and cream soda. Bonus, they also make a black cherry soda that is amazing, and the three are frequently packaged in a twelve bottle variety pack. The only downside is that this package includes a fourth, far inferior soda which I can’t think of what it is. I want to say orange cream.
I dunno about Indiana, but you can’t get Mello Yello hereabouts. It’s really annoying, because I don’t like cola, and it means that Coke-product restaurants have nothing else but Sprite. Which is palatable, but basically pointless.
(My preferred soda is Sunkist, but you can’t get that in restaurants ever, because it’s a Dr. Pepper product.)
Sometimes. Maybe 50/50. Crush is better than Sprite, but still distinctly inferior to Sunkist. As far as I’ve been able to determine, Sunkist is the only caffeinated orange soda, and I need the caffeine to keep my neurons firing properly.
And, see, for the longest time I could only drink Sprite, as it was the only fast-food-available soft drink that didn’t have caffeine; was on some medication that reacted badly with the stuff.
That took some getting used to in the US. In Canada, only dark-colored sodas that used caffeine as a “natural flavor” were allowed to have caffeine. Fruit sodas like Crush, 7-UP and Mountain Dew.
If you drink Mug, you are basically drinking Pepsi. Not saying it’s bad, just why call it ‘root beer’? And then my college roomie introduced us to IBC. He also introduced the RA to IBC who thought he was bringing in beer. After the RA stopped looking at his IBC bottles, he started bringing in beer…
Al this time, I thought Dr. Pepper was owned by one of the Cola’s (either Coca- or Pepsi-, I was never sure which). I never knew it was a Cola in it own right.
The question isn’t whether Dina saw us (obviously, Dinasaurus), but whether or not WE saw Dinasaurus see us. Seeing Dinasaurus is a sore spot amongst Dina-seers. Some say Dinasaurus shan’t be seen unless Dina saw us seeing her. In short, we shan’t see Dina so Dina shall be seen.
Some people have the metabolism to pack away everything within reach and gain nothing, save perhaps some residue on one’s innards’ lining. They’re scrawny enough that I’d readily believe that they’re among our ranks.
Off to have another chocolate cake…
My cousin’s like that. Scrawny runner’s build, and I’ve seen her eat an entire large pizza by herself, and then start cadging slices off other people because she was still hungry. I don’t know where she puts it. I mean, forget the calorie content… I don’t see how she physically has room for it inside her belly.
When I got bored, I bought a tube of like 3 lbs of hamburger for $5 and just dumped it in a pot and stirred until it was brown, then drained the grease and ate it directly from the pot…
I can’t see Dina with anyone not on board with current paleontology. Like, I doubt they’d have to be an expert, but they can’t be uninterested or reject it.
I’ve done it in the past. Cereal gets pricey, but milk contains most of what you really need (granted, I have access to raw milk, so I have an advantage there) and healthy cereals exist. The sugar-bombs most cereals seem to be are utterly disgusting to me.
Sugar does not cause diabetes. Type 2, kinda but if every person who ate super sugary got diabetes almost the entire US would have it. Type 1 is a genetic mutation, and mountain dew is effective in treating low blood sugars, which are arguably more dangerous than the sugar within the mountain dew.
I’ve already determined she’s an aspie, and let me tell you – that Dew is staying RIGHT IN THAT CUP. BLECH! Aspies NEVER EVER EVER IN A THOUSAND YEARS NEVER KIND OF EVER SCREW WITH THE TASTES WE KNOW!
We don’t care how it looks to outsiders, if there’s no milk in the bowl now, there aint gonna be milk in the bowl.
Earworms never die, they just hibernate in your subconscious till the least opportune moment. You can try to replace them, but you can never truly be free, for the original one still lurks and still makes the occasional appearance, in addition to the one you tried to replace it with. And it only ever gets worse.
Yeah my brain is a never-ending cycle of all the songs I’ve had stuck in my head ever, set on random.
I don’t pay attention to what Dumbing of Ages run with what Shortpacked!s, as I draw them months apart, so I didn’t realize the synergy until I went to go tweet Dumbing of Age’s update after having tweeted Shortpacked!’s.
I know of a guy who used to work at taco bell in high school and would fill a large cup with mountain dew SYRUP, and drink it like that. Habitually. His closest friends liked to joke that his sperm count must be negative because of that habit.
Pretty much, yes. We aspies (I’ve determined her to be one of us! ^.^) do enjoy slight, yet controlled deviations from the norm, but are comforted by routine. This is pretty much how we handle it.
On a different note, DAMN YOU WILLS! THIS IS NOT A TIME FOR AN ARCHIVE BINGE!
My Dina needs for this week have been fulfilled – you may continue with the story, Mr Willis. Alternatively, more strips of Dina would also be acceptable.
While her classmates deal with romantic ordeals, moral issues, and childhood traumas, Dina’s biggest revelation is Mountain Dew with cereal. Love it XD
I had hard cider on an empty stomach. Which is only about one beer, but I’m a non-drinker (if not a literal lightweight), and it made me feel pretty oogy for a while. Didn’t help that I knocked it back like it was the “soft” kind and didn’t realize until afterward.
Also: many people seem to love chocolate oranges, but for me, the combination brings out the bitterness of both. I love them separately, but.
And my brother drinks Coca Cola like it’s water. My mom believes it is because she drank it constantly to offset her stomach problems while she was pregnant with him.
Next time try mixing Lucky Charms, Frankenberry and Cocoa Puffs with Jolt Cola, Dina. When they peel you off the ceiling you’ll feel like a Pterodactyl during the mating season.
Tomorrow on DoA: Dina rediscovers the lost 12-pack of Surge she’s kept since the 90’s, opens one and drinks, then time-travels to grab Amazi-Girl’s hand just before she punches someone else, saying “Don’t, the bunnies don’t like it.” before disappearing again.
Actually, dachshunds killed the dinosaurs. And a pair of dachshunds who jumped off an Oregon Trail wagon train were responsible for the majority of the North American great plains bison being slaughtered. It’s true because you just read it on the internet.
Dina is courting Type 2 diabetes. Also, I thought she was a “Dinasaur”, and that dinasaurs were carnivorous.
As for my college diet, it was something like 90% meat as anyone can grill a burger or steak, but you actually have to know what you’re doing to make veggies taste good.
No, not dinosaur, Dinasaur. It’s why she hides behind doors: the better to ambush prey.
@Disloyal Subject: Agreed with the raw carrots (part of the non-meat 10% of my college diet), but bananas are only eaten under duress. Dried honeyed banana chips, OTOH …
If think there is more than one Dinasaur. We have seen the meek, door-dwelling specimen and the “red in tooth and claw”-type that is the Raptor. I’m not sure which of them is a cerealvore.
I don’t understand Mountain Dew. With a name like that, you’d expect it to be mineral springwater or something. Instead, it’s stuff of a sickly fluorescent colour, which apparently doesn’t deter people from drinking it.
Pre-soft drink, ‘mountain dew’ referred to moonshine, so even before it came to mean ‘a highly caffeinated citrus drink’, it wouldn’t have suggested spring water to most people.
I know, right? I expected it to be like, actual dew drops collected from sweet-scented flowers, and a freshness like the icy air of a mountaintop. Instead, it tasted kind of like Sprite, except more artificial.
The first known dinosaur was the Nyasasaurus found in Tanzania in layers dating back to soon after the Permo-Triassic mass extinction. It was the size of a median sized dog.
Me too. I even called it BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS, particularly because it was almost always froot loops. My painting professor (hi, art school) assigned us “self-portrait through food” and I painted giant froot loops 150cm wide. FROOT LOOPS ARE LIFE
That reminds me of Henry Rollins’ explanation for why Ritalin and similar drugs (which belong to the same general class as amphetamines) are used to treat ADHD: he says that when he was put on that sort of medication as a kid for his ADHD, it amped up his nervous system so much that it semi-paralyzed him.
I know that this is totally (probably) not how they really work, but I keep imagining Ritalin et al as causing an integer overflow – pushing the variable past 255 so it rolls over.
So… am I the only one who, after reading the day’s shortpacked hoped the impossible hope that this strip would have been Dina trying on a new (old) outfit and finding herself getting pulled through a mysterious hole in reality?
Upon her return, Amber asks where she had been, and Dina responds “I don’t know”. It is never spoken of again.
So I’m sure someone’s mentioned but I have to wonder if Dina’s excited about Jurassic World. I mean it has a super dino in it but the science is probably garabage so it might be a toss up for her.
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NOT MELLO YELLO??
friggin’ Pepsi sellouts
Don’t get me started always drinking Sierra Mist instead of Sprite. Dipwads all of them!
Don’t forget Beerios®!
That…sounds absolutely vile.
Mello Yello: the poor man’s Mountain Dew Throwback.
Throwback is the only TRUE Mt Dew!
No, moonshine is
Actually, I’m starting to think this is the one true Dew. (available in many grocery stores lately)
Sun Drop or GTFO.
Good for when they have those giant crazy coke machines with a million flavors tho
Ack! You take that back! Mello Yello was here first! I think. >.>
Nnnnnnnnope! Dew was created in the 40s, Mello Yello was introduced in the late 70s
Mello Yello is actually the Coca Cola Company’s third try (at least!) at competing with the Mountain Dew juggernaut. You youngsters should ask your parents if they remember either the short-lived “White Lightning” of the ’70s or “Rondo” from the 1980s.
But Mello Yello had the advantage of commercials with Dusty Rhodes AND Ernest P. Worrell in ’em, knowhutimean?
Mountain Dew is for those who can’t handle Sundrop.
Sundrop is for those who can’t handle Jolt. The original formula.
Jolt is for those who can’t handle cocaine, the original original formula.
And since the original Coca-Cola had cocaine in it, we have come full circle with our soda.
Are any campuses under contract with Dr Pepper Snapple?
Dr Pepper is unique in that it gets Coke and Pepsi to distribute for them. My campus was a Coca-Cola campus, but we had Dr Pepper, not Mr Pibb. Even fast food joints are not immune. No matter if it’s a McDonald’s or Taco Bell, you can ALWAYS find Dr Pepper. (It’s even in those new-fangled Coca-Cola Freestyle machines, though only with the Cherry and Cherry-Vanilla flavors. Dagnabbit, if I can get Grape Coke, I should be able to get Grape Dr Pepper!)
mix the two. better yet, make grape cherry dr. root beer.
As long as the root beer isn’t Barq’s – nasty biteses..
I like many root beers, including Barq’s, which is actually my drink of choice. When I want something more mellow and “creamy”, A&W.
Let me introduce you to Stewart’s or I.B.C. But not Virgil’s.
Oh, and cream soda? Crush makes the definitive cream soda, but I don’t think it’s available outside Canuckland. It’s like drinking carbonated vanilla extract.
Crush’s cream soda is the best cream soda. A&W has a pretty decent cream soda too, though; maybe that one is available State-side?
Best root beer in America — bar none — is the “1919” draft root beer available in the upper Midwest from the New Ulm Brewing Co. of New Ulm, MN. If you’re lucky you might find 5-quart ‘growler’ kegs in stores, but otherwise the only way to get it is in on tap from quarter- or half-barrel kegs.
How good is it? It’s worth the trip to Minnesota, that’s how good it is.
@ Kryss LaBrynne:
Yes, yes it is.
At the very least, the Navy bases have it.
Personally I’m quite fond of Thomas Kemper for both root beer and cream soda. Bonus, they also make a black cherry soda that is amazing, and the three are frequently packaged in a twelve bottle variety pack. The only downside is that this package includes a fourth, far inferior soda which I can’t think of what it is. I want to say orange cream.
Barq’s is root beer flavored soda. Henry Weinhard’s is REAL root beer.
I dunno about Indiana, but you can’t get Mello Yello hereabouts. It’s really annoying, because I don’t like cola, and it means that Coke-product restaurants have nothing else but Sprite. Which is palatable, but basically pointless.
(My preferred soda is Sunkist, but you can’t get that in restaurants ever, because it’s a Dr. Pepper product.)
Don’t they have Crush? (My personal favorite soda. Long live orange soda)
Sometimes. Maybe 50/50. Crush is better than Sprite, but still distinctly inferior to Sunkist. As far as I’ve been able to determine, Sunkist is the only caffeinated orange soda, and I need the caffeine to keep my neurons firing properly.
Same here. I used to envy the Scots for Irn Bru, until I realized that Sunkist was basically the same thing.
And, see, for the longest time I could only drink Sprite, as it was the only fast-food-available soft drink that didn’t have caffeine; was on some medication that reacted badly with the stuff.
That took some getting used to in the US. In Canada, only dark-colored sodas that used caffeine as a “natural flavor” were allowed to have caffeine. Fruit sodas like Crush, 7-UP and Mountain Dew.
Crush is for those who can’t handle Nehi.
I avoid Sunkist for the same reason I avoid Barq’s – they’re caffeinated. Crush and Mug are preferable.
If you drink Mug, you are basically drinking Pepsi. Not saying it’s bad, just why call it ‘root beer’? And then my college roomie introduced us to IBC. He also introduced the RA to IBC who thought he was bringing in beer. After the RA stopped looking at his IBC bottles, he started bringing in beer…
Al this time, I thought Dr. Pepper was owned by one of the Cola’s (either Coca- or Pepsi-, I was never sure which). I never knew it was a Cola in it own right.
It’s not a cola.
Oh man, I remember when they sold that stuff.
Are you saying it still exists in the US?
I hate my life.
Mountain Dew > Mello Yello.
(Though that’s not saying all that much.)
In panel 2, do you think Dina saw us?
Doesn’t she always?
Dina transcends the fourth wall. She’s always been aware of us.
so proven by ANOTHER Willis comic today…
She can always see us. Always.
She’s behind your door RIGHT NOW.
Watching.
I’m gonna go steal her hat! ^.^
Except when you keep still, of course.
Good Question. What about you, Camachri- Doyouthinkshesaurus?
(Excellent Jurrasic throwback, I must say.)
She saw us, and then had the mountain dew idea and decided it was more interesting
I missed the pun the first 5 times I read that comment…
The question isn’t whether Dina saw us (obviously, Dinasaurus), but whether or not WE saw Dinasaurus see us. Seeing Dinasaurus is a sore spot amongst Dina-seers. Some say Dinasaurus shan’t be seen unless Dina saw us seeing her. In short, we shan’t see Dina so Dina shall be seen.
Dina has joined the Walky side.
But without Walky’s alternate self’s metabolism they’re both going to be putting on the freshman fifty in short order.
Some people have the metabolism to pack away everything within reach and gain nothing, save perhaps some residue on one’s innards’ lining. They’re scrawny enough that I’d readily believe that they’re among our ranks.
Off to have another chocolate cake…
My cousin’s like that. Scrawny runner’s build, and I’ve seen her eat an entire large pizza by herself, and then start cadging slices off other people because she was still hungry. I don’t know where she puts it. I mean, forget the calorie content… I don’t see how she physically has room for it inside her belly.
Her husband calls her the World Eater.
Im the same way. I can drink a liter of.soda and 6 slices of pizza, get up later for a midnight omelette and still be a beanpole.
it’s not the walky side until she gets 50 mcnuggets at once and drinks it with a gallon of mt. dew
and even that’s just getting started.
Breakfast of champions!
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner of champions…..and snack….
sorry, but the breakfast of champions also requires bacon.
And the occasional short curly hair.
It’s this the first strip that doesn’t have party of the dialogue as the title (sans stirps without dialogue)
NO, it isn’t. There’s an even earlier one.
Coincidentally, it also stars Dina.
Dina’s back.
I only see her front …
She looks the same from both sides. It freaks Amber out.
I guess Dina doesn’t wanna live to be 30.
But she does want to poop constantly until that point
Oh pish. I’m sure half of us ate/drank like that in college. I know I did.
Throw in some pizza and ramen, and you’ve got my entire diet for 4 years.
When I got bored, I bought a tube of like 3 lbs of hamburger for $5 and just dumped it in a pot and stirred until it was brown, then drained the grease and ate it directly from the pot…
miraculously, I only got the Freshman 10
I add loads of cheese and rice, plus an assortment of seasonongs; they probably balance out.
Tubed hamburger? Only in America… ◴_◶
We have our perks. I’ve only seen it that way in bulk; butcher shop stuff is too good for simple gorging anyway.
“only in america”
and germany
and scandinavia
and various parts of the UK
Trust me, it’s overrated.
damn you, willis
My stomach misses college, but my heart and liver do not.
Dew or dew not. There is no milk.
I can’t believe I’m saying this…
But I don’t identify with Dina in this strip.
I know what you mean, I’m more of a cooked breakfast guy myself.
Wow. All this time I thought you were a woman.
You forgot rule number 16 of the internet.
The are NO girls on the internet.
Rule 101: The gender of an avatar is no indicator of the gender of the commenter using it.
Breakfast is just a way to make the coffee taste better.
Breakfast of Champions.
Dina-Os! Part of a Balanaced Breakfast!
Yeah, I still read Dina as dinasaur, so…
Dinos. ^.^
So do I, and I was gonna do Dinos, but I feared it might not make as much sense.
Yeah, I remember this exact day in college. It was like angels were singing.
…that was probably just all of the sugar, though.
It begins!
Dina is last year’s model.
All hail our new lesbian overlord.
They will hunt you.
They will find you.
They will make you pay.
Becky’s got nothing on Dina.
Mammals are weird.
Just wait until Dina discovers her sexuality. Then Becky will have plenty on Dina… and vice versa.
I can’t see Dina with anyone not on board with current paleontology. Like, I doubt they’d have to be an expert, but they can’t be uninterested or reject it.
Y’hear that?
That’s the raptors coming. ‘Cuz you insulted their pack leader.
Run.
Throwback or nothing!
Apologies for overused meme but…
Do you want cavities? Because thats how you get cavities!
winners don’t do the dew
And just like that, Dinah swoops in to steal “best character” from Becky.
She’s only been eating cereal? That’s it? How is she not suffering from malnutrition?
Maybe she eats healthy cereal? Not all cereal is pure sugar
If she has Weet-Bix with fruit, she would be doing OK. (✿´ ꒳ ` )
I’ve done it in the past. Cereal gets pricey, but milk contains most of what you really need (granted, I have access to raw milk, so I have an advantage there) and healthy cereals exist. The sugar-bombs most cereals seem to be are utterly disgusting to me.
“Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs. Mom won’t let me have the ones with marshmallows.”
If that’s not a Calvin & Hobbes quote, it should be.
I drank a bowl full of cereal with mountain dew for milk once when i was a kid… never again.
What kind of cereal?
Frosted flakes. i couldn’t finish the bowl, i tried as much as i could to but it was to much.
How long before you stopped vibrating?
You notice, though, that she is drinking the Dew on this side, rather than over the cereal.
You do realise that you will need to roll a d20 against tooth decay from now on right, Dina?
I’d be seriously pissed if I had to roll a Fortitude Save for my teeth….
As well as the d100 VS Diabetes.
Sugar does not cause diabetes. Type 2, kinda but if every person who ate super sugary got diabetes almost the entire US would have it. Type 1 is a genetic mutation, and mountain dew is effective in treating low blood sugars, which are arguably more dangerous than the sugar within the mountain dew.
Actually, it’s a Will save, to prevent your teeth from leaping from your mouth in disgust.
First she had to make all those WILL saves vs. Joyce being a moron, and now this
I hope she has some lucky dice. ⚈ ̫ ⚈
She probably has a full set of knucklebones.
I have always wanted to try this. I once mixed ovaltine into a glass of mtn dew. that was an experience
American Mountain Dew!!!
As opposed to the normal non-caffeinated stuff we have here.
non-caffeinated mountain dew? What’s even the point?
Yeah, seriously. It’s not like you drink the stuff for the taste.
I’ve seen diet decaf Dew. Why???
ew! Where?
We *used* to have non-caffeinated Mountain Dew in Australia. Not anymore ;_;
That ban is over…Dew is caffeinated here, now. (The regular stuff…they no longer sell the silly Mt Dew Energy Drink.)
…There’s Mountain Dew with caffeine?
Still not interested.
It’s the only reason anybody drinks it. Otherwise you may as well just drink some 7-Up that’s been left in the sun too long, same taste.
This heresy will stand no longer. Mt Dew is the best of the non-cola soft drinks.
Now they’ve got “KickStart”. Mountain Dew with even MORE caffeine
— and some fruit juice to make you think it’s good for you.
Dina, what is wrong with you? Mountain Dew is disgusting!
Try Throwback.
Seconded
All gross. Most pop is gross. Root beer and the occasional cane sugar Coke are the main exceptions
You. I like you.
(Orange soda for the win. Only its flavor can overcome the hideousness of carbonation.)
I tried root beer once. It tasted like some weird kind of tooth paste. It wasn’t horrible, but it went against my natural instincts to swallow it.
What kind of toothpaste are you using? Let me have some!
The weird thing about root bear is it can taste wildly different depending on which kind you get.
Yup. Some kinds are heavier on the anise (licorice) or the wintergreen (mint), others on the vanilla… it’s a blended flavor, like “cola” actually.
College.
In college, I drank it in 32 and even 40 oz quantities. Now, it’s just awful.
If that ain’t a nutritious breakfast I don’t know what is.
Chocolate cake?
er…
Chocolate Cake?
Dina tonight! Dina here! Dina there! DINA FOR EVERYONE!
Next step; Mountain Dew in the bowl.
OH GOD NO!
DINA WOULD NEVER!
I’ve already determined she’s an aspie, and let me tell you – that Dew is staying RIGHT IN THAT CUP. BLECH! Aspies NEVER EVER EVER IN A THOUSAND YEARS NEVER KIND OF EVER SCREW WITH THE TASTES WE KNOW!
We don’t care how it looks to outsiders, if there’s no milk in the bowl now, there aint gonna be milk in the bowl.
Agree 100%
a friend of mine:
“Look, I’m not going to lie to you about this any more than I’d eat unsorted candy.”
(and half of you just nod)
I’m still sore about my Christmas Mint M&Ms getting eaten before I could tally them and determine the red:green:white ratio.
is that a Barney the dinosaur shirt
It appears to be Barney with feathers. And I want it.
Aw man I forgot about the feathers. I was starting to think it was a Barney with a mohawk.
So do I. O.O
no, it’s a Barney the dinosaur with feathers shirt
(i hadn’t noticed what she was wearing, but when i looked it seemed you were indeed correct)
♫I love you,♫
♫You love me♫
♫We all got cav-i-ties♫
It needs one more syllable. Why do I know that it needs one more syllable?!
Earworms never die, they just hibernate in your subconscious till the least opportune moment. You can try to replace them, but you can never truly be free, for the original one still lurks and still makes the occasional appearance, in addition to the one you tried to replace it with. And it only ever gets worse.
Yeah my brain is a never-ending cycle of all the songs I’ve had stuck in my head ever, set on random.
There are various parodies of the theme song out there, most have to do with killing Barney.
Yes there are, and my favorite still remains:
I hate you,
You hate me,
We’re a mixed-up family,
With a shot gun bang and Barney on the floor,
No more purple dinosaur
That shirt rules. Dina rules. This comic friggin’ rules.
This is the REAL personal discovery in Book 5
This feels like a light little stand-alone strip, kind of a breather….
I wonder when Willis realized Dina would appear in two comics today….
About ten minutes ago.
Wait, so is this one a new one you put in the middle, or was this planned months in advance?
I don’t pay attention to what Dumbing of Ages run with what Shortpacked!s, as I draw them months apart, so I didn’t realize the synergy until I went to go tweet Dumbing of Age’s update after having tweeted Shortpacked!’s.
That is funny
I don’t know the shortpacked correlation, cause I’m still on a stupid ARCHIVE BINGE! YOUR DAMAGING MY HOMEWORK TIME DUDE!
Okay, now that I’ve caught up, I know what’s going on. Also, DINA DINA DINA DINA DINA DINA DINA DINA DINA DINA DINA DINA DINA!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dina is now a dudebro.
Yay, a break from Becky and it’s Dina!
I have a cousin who used to have Mountain Dew with every meal and snack. He lost the use of a couple limbs, but that wasn’t why he gave the habit up.
What reason could be more dire than losing use of limbs?!
Losing one’s Mountain Dew apparently.
I know of a guy who used to work at taco bell in high school and would fill a large cup with mountain dew SYRUP, and drink it like that. Habitually. His closest friends liked to joke that his sperm count must be negative because of that habit.
Actually, I started taking my ‘beetus seriously when I realized that my toes were chronically numb.
Is that a punk Barney t-shirt she’s wearing?
Imma file this under “terrible life choices”.
Ah, a rare strip title that doesn’t come from dialogue or sound effects verbatim.
Pretty much, yes. We aspies (I’ve determined her to be one of us! ^.^) do enjoy slight, yet controlled deviations from the norm, but are comforted by routine. This is pretty much how we handle it.
On a different note, DAMN YOU WILLS! THIS IS NOT A TIME FOR AN ARCHIVE BINGE!
My Dina needs for this week have been fulfilled – you may continue with the story, Mr Willis. Alternatively, more strips of Dina would also be acceptable.
Mountain Dew + grape nuts + classic see-through textured plastic glass + backlight = dining hall lava lamp
DOOOOOO IIIIIIIT
I am seriously wondering how Dinah survives…
While her classmates deal with romantic ordeals, moral issues, and childhood traumas, Dina’s biggest revelation is Mountain Dew with cereal. Love it XD
At least one girl has her priorities straight. Riley aproves.
Tried that freshman year with Reese puffs and Mountain Dew. Seperate good , together nope nope nooooooppppppe.
What is it about mountain dew that compels people to make bad decisions?
I once tried sparkling cidar with chocolate. I deeply regretted this decision.
I had hard cider on an empty stomach. Which is only about one beer, but I’m a non-drinker (if not a literal lightweight), and it made me feel pretty oogy for a while. Didn’t help that I knocked it back like it was the “soft” kind and didn’t realize until afterward.
Also: many people seem to love chocolate oranges, but for me, the combination brings out the bitterness of both. I love them separately, but.
I’m partial to root beer if I ever come across it.
And my brother drinks Coca Cola like it’s water. My mom believes it is because she drank it constantly to offset her stomach problems while she was pregnant with him.
Next time try mixing Lucky Charms, Frankenberry and Cocoa Puffs with Jolt Cola, Dina. When they peel you off the ceiling you’ll feel like a Pterodactyl during the mating season.
Next year, Dina switches it up again!
no way, it’ll be Cranberry Sprite
Dina coming back to remind everyone that the answer for every poll, is and always will be Dina.
I hope she makes a comeback in the poll!
Tomorrow on DoA: Dina rediscovers the lost 12-pack of Surge she’s kept since the 90’s, opens one and drinks, then time-travels to grab Amazi-Girl’s hand just before she punches someone else, saying “Don’t, the bunnies don’t like it.” before disappearing again.
Lemonade, now that’s the drink of magic users, Champions, and Spawn!
Spawn, or spawn?
*ahem* Spawn, or spawn?
Just isn’t my night…
The first one is the correct answer, but both is also acceptable.
Doesn’t she know that’s what killed the dinosaurs?!
If it’s good enough for the dinosaurs, it’s good enough for the Dina-saur.
Actually, dachshunds killed the dinosaurs. And a pair of dachshunds who jumped off an Oregon Trail wagon train were responsible for the majority of the North American great plains bison being slaughtered. It’s true because you just read it on the internet.
But I was told homosexuality and satanism killed the dinosaurs…
This was me when I was in the Army. They serve you EVERYTHING now.
Dina is courting Type 2 diabetes. Also, I thought she was a “Dinasaur”, and that dinasaurs were carnivorous.
As for my college diet, it was something like 90% meat as anyone can grill a burger or steak, but you actually have to know what you’re doing to make veggies taste good.
“Dinosaur” is a class in the animal kingdom. Saying dinosaurs were carnivorous is like saying mammals are carnivorous.
No, not dinosaur, Dinasaur. It’s why she hides behind doors: the better to ambush prey.
@Disloyal Subject: Agreed with the raw carrots (part of the non-meat 10% of my college diet), but bananas are only eaten under duress. Dried honeyed banana chips, OTOH …
Dinasaurs are apparently cerealvores.
If think there is more than one Dinasaur. We have seen the meek, door-dwelling specimen and the “red in tooth and claw”-type that is the Raptor. I’m not sure which of them is a cerealvore.
For sit-down meals, I’m much the same. On the go, though? Raw carrots & bananas require zero cooking, and are pretty goddamn tasty.
I had a rough day.
I miss the simple times.
This brought a smile to my face, thank you.
Baby steps.
WOO! Dina’s back! And Amber! Some funny stuff after all the serious stuff! Which I also find funny!
Just when I think Dina can’t get any more attractive…
please sell tshirts i would love to buy one
Now mix them !
Ewwwwwwwww
Ah, Dina. I know this feeling well. /autistic brofist
Is that a feathered Barney shirt?
That’s it. Dina is now my waifu
Done
Totally done
All right, Willis, you win. I can die happy now.
Yay! Favorite
The determination and will to succeed in this and all endeavors that emanates from the eyes on Dina’s hat speak to me on a spiritual level.
goes great with the fact your gravatar is dina then.
Mountain Dew with every meal? Yuk! She should do Monster with every meal like I do!
Sugar coma imminent!
I don’t understand Mountain Dew. With a name like that, you’d expect it to be mineral springwater or something. Instead, it’s stuff of a sickly fluorescent colour, which apparently doesn’t deter people from drinking it.
It’s not just fluorescent, it’s piss yellow. That’s why they put it in green bottles.
Pre-soft drink, ‘mountain dew’ referred to moonshine, so even before it came to mean ‘a highly caffeinated citrus drink’, it wouldn’t have suggested spring water to most people.
I know, right? I expected it to be like, actual dew drops collected from sweet-scented flowers, and a freshness like the icy air of a mountaintop. Instead, it tasted kind of like Sprite, except more artificial.
Yeah, now $*@&’s gonna get real.
Woo! Way to be a rebel, Dina! XD
Dina is best rebel. Joyce – take notice.
The first known dinosaur was the Nyasasaurus found in Tanzania in layers dating back to soon after the Permo-Triassic mass extinction. It was the size of a median sized dog.
It eventually evolved into the Nyanasaurus, which flew across the sky leaving a rainbow wake.
Who knew such a perfect woman should have such hireable taste in pop? Canada Dry forever.
Who knew such a perfect woman whould have such horrible taste in pop? Canada Dry forever.
It’s the first time I’ve seen Mountain Dew on the internet without air horns, screaming, and an honor guard of Snoop Dogg gifs.
wow. that is exactly how i spent my mornings in collage
Appropriate gravatar is appropriate.
Me too. I even called it BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS, particularly because it was almost always froot loops. My painting professor (hi, art school) assigned us “self-portrait through food” and I painted giant froot loops 150cm wide. FROOT LOOPS ARE LIFE
I actively recoiled from this concept! Well done!
I bet she’d be fun in the sack.
That reminds me of Henry Rollins’ explanation for why Ritalin and similar drugs (which belong to the same general class as amphetamines) are used to treat ADHD: he says that when he was put on that sort of medication as a kid for his ADHD, it amped up his nervous system so much that it semi-paralyzed him.
I know that this is totally (probably) not how they really work, but I keep imagining Ritalin et al as causing an integer overflow – pushing the variable past 255 so it rolls over.
Oh, that’s totally not how Ritalin works. Humans are at *least* 64 bit.
I only drink the blood of my enemies. Although I sometimes do enjoy a nice sarsaparilla.
“The best part of waking up / Is Mountain Dew in your cup”
I have seen that shirt before, but I’m thinking it was in another DoA strip because I’m not finding a vendor for it in Google.
Dina, no! Don’t go over to the Dew side!
The Mountain Dew is to refuel the hat.
Is it bad that Niki Yang has become my default Dina voice?
For me, it’s Fluttershy
My Dina is closer to Maud.
Well, a change is as good as a rest.
Well, I’ve been out of college for a year and a half now and congratulations, you made me miss the dining hall!
Time to go to grad school, get an unlimited meal plan if they offer it, and show the undergrads how to sling grub. Man I’m hungry…
Yay! Dina!
We need more Dina!
Hell, we know more about FAZ than we know about her……
So… am I the only one who, after reading the day’s shortpacked hoped the impossible hope that this strip would have been Dina trying on a new (old) outfit and finding herself getting pulled through a mysterious hole in reality?
Upon her return, Amber asks where she had been, and Dina responds “I don’t know”. It is never spoken of again.
They are different Dinas.
that only makes it more amusingly surreal.
So I’m sure someone’s mentioned but I have to wonder if Dina’s excited about Jurassic World. I mean it has a super dino in it but the science is probably garabage so it might be a toss up for her.
Dina would have nothing to do with Jurassic World because most of the dinosaurs are actually from the Cretaceous period.
She could be Emily’s (QC) sister. For the record I love both of them.
Mountain Dew? Good lord, what’s wrong with that girl?
I think Dina’s my favorite character.
The first thing that came to my mind when seeing this:
Montage parodies (Google it). “Oh baby, a triple!”
I see no flaws in this plan