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Curse

by David M Willis on July 23, 2019 at 12:01 am
  • 04 - Vote for Robin
└ Tags: jason, jennifer, ruth

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    July 23, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

    interestingly, I just got a new passport photo taken and I look horribly old in it, vs. pretty okay with my glasses on

    (I may try again but idk, it’s not like I ever look at my passport photo, and $15 for another round is a lot)

    • Bathymetheus
      Bathymetheus
      July 23, 2019 at 12:21 am | #

      Passport photos are deliberately taken with high contrast. This brings out wrinkles, making people look old.

      • Bathymetheus
        Bathymetheus
        July 23, 2019 at 12:29 am | #

        Or in my case, older.

        • Delicious Taffy
          Delicious Taffy
          July 23, 2019 at 8:44 am | #

          Older? What are you, 16-20ish? That’s when you start getting old, according to every blonde white girl I ever went to school with.

          • Bathymetheus
            Bathymetheus
            July 23, 2019 at 8:01 pm | #

            Haha. No.

      • keithcurtis
        keithcurtis
        July 23, 2019 at 8:51 pm | #

        You can take your own passport photo. I took them for my family.

        • Ana Chronistic
          Ana Chronistic
          July 23, 2019 at 10:53 pm | #

          I don’t have the patience to get photo paper and fuss with our dubious refurbished printer

          • keithcurtis
            keithcurtis
            July 24, 2019 at 9:07 pm | #

            Fair enough. Just pointing out that you don’t have to put up with whatever sort of photo your passport office takes.

    • Neveth
      Neveth
      July 23, 2019 at 9:45 am | #

      (as a passport acceptance agent, you aren’t allowed to wear glasses in your passport photo. they’ll just reject the application)

      • Jon Rich
        Jon Rich
        July 23, 2019 at 12:26 pm | #

        Why on Earth would they have that rule?

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          July 23, 2019 at 2:54 pm | #

          Likely to keep people from hiding their face in the photo, so it’s more easily identifiable.

        • Tan
          Tan
          July 23, 2019 at 2:57 pm | #

          As I understand it, to make both human and software facial recognition easier if you’re not wearing glasses (or are wearing different glasses)

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        July 23, 2019 at 10:52 pm | #

        (what if I’m not a passport acceptance agent)

        [haha grammar pedantry about dangling modifiers]

  2. butts
    butts
    July 23, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

    drink with integrity

    • Freezer
      Freezer
      July 23, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

      All the regrets.

  3. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    July 23, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

    What is she doing there?

    • Dean
      Dean
      July 23, 2019 at 12:30 am | #

      She’s on a date!

      • RuthIsBestGirl
        RuthIsBestGirl
        July 23, 2019 at 1:00 am | #

        Oh god no. We don’t need a bar fight getting them kicked out of school.

      • Kat
        Kat
        July 23, 2019 at 1:47 am | #

        Those Lessons with Dina are paying off.

  4. JetstreamGW
    JetstreamGW
    July 23, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

    Nice slasher movie entrance there, Ruth.

  5. Danielle
    Danielle
    July 23, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

    OH. SHIT.

  6. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    July 23, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

    *plays Garth Brooks “Friends In Low Places” on the hacked Muzak*

  7. shadowcell
    shadowcell
    July 23, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

    is this my curse

    or my destiny

    • Isactuallyabear
      Isactuallyabear
      July 23, 2019 at 12:11 am | #

      It’s your cursed destiny!

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      July 23, 2019 at 12:16 am | #

      Are you human? Or are you dancer?

  8. MixMax
    MixMax
    July 23, 2019 at 12:08 am | #

    I’m calling it now to say that Ruth hasnt actually been drinking, but is instead telling her woes to Jason, kinda just cuz he’s there.

    • MatthewTheLucky
      MatthewTheLucky
      July 23, 2019 at 1:11 am | #

      On the contrary, she’s gone through about a pimt of root beer.

      • krylani
        krylani
        July 23, 2019 at 2:42 am | #

        There’s now a part of my brain that’s shouting about wanting a Wreck-It Ruth crossover, and I think I agree with it.

        • CJ
          CJ
          July 23, 2019 at 5:15 am | #

          Ruth would be Shank who owns the car Ralph and Vanellope try to steal?

  9. Nono
    Nono
    July 23, 2019 at 12:08 am | #

    What IS Ruth doing there?

    • AntJ
      AntJ
      July 23, 2019 at 12:11 am | #

      Perhaps waiting to see if Billie would show up.

      Anyway, maybe THIS is what finally gets Billie to stop.

    • Kyoulkoa
      Kyoulkoa
      July 23, 2019 at 12:24 am | #

      Ruth’s finally going to get those femurs

      • Dean
        Dean
        July 23, 2019 at 12:31 am | #

        Galasso’s has a special this week, quattro fromaggi et femur pizza.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      July 23, 2019 at 2:08 am | #

      I’m assuming either she was waiting for Billie, or she’s drinking again. Or maybe she just likes hanging around the bar part of Galasso’s for some reason.

      • Felian
        Felian
        July 23, 2019 at 6:29 am | #

        “hanging around the bar“ isn’t particularly conducive for a recovering alcoholic, though… Ruth what are you doing

  10. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    July 23, 2019 at 12:08 am | #

    Relapses are either going around these days, or Ruth went here to see her.

    Is Ruth legal either?

    • Chronos
      Chronos
      July 23, 2019 at 12:10 am | #

      I was under the impression she was only a year older than the freshmen.

      • Nono
        Nono
        July 23, 2019 at 12:14 am | #

        That actually brings to mind something – Ruth very briefly attempted to hit on Tony near the start of the strip, only for him to say, ‘I’m not buying you beer, freshman.’

        Is Tony legal? And why would Billie assume anybody in the dorms could buy her beer anyway?

        • Rotunda
          Rotunda
          July 23, 2019 at 12:20 am | #

          It was Billie who accosted Tony: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/01-move-in-day/card/

        • Marsh Maryrose
          Marsh Maryrose
          July 23, 2019 at 12:21 am | #

          You mean Billie, of course. And there must be 21-year-olds in the dorm.

          And it’s not like everyone has a jewel in their palm that changes colors on significant birthdays.

          • Nono
            Nono
            July 23, 2019 at 1:34 am | #

            Yeah, I knew what I meant, my brain just crossed wires while typing.

            Maybe it’s just my old tired brain but I feel like 21-year olds would just have moved out of the dorm at that point and away from dorm drama. Or Tony just looks older.

            • Marsh Maryrose
              Marsh Maryrose
              July 23, 2019 at 1:51 am | #

              IU-Bloomington is insanely big, student-population-wise, and I assume nearby apartments are priced accordingly.

              I haven’t done a serious investigation, but in the IRL world it looks like campus housing is currently a bargain compared to nearby rentals, so you’d expect to see more upperclassmen in the dorms than you would in normal times.

              And I would be crushed that you missed my Logan’s Run reference were it not for the fact that Logan’s run came out when I was…a lot younger than I am now.

              • Marsh Maryrose
                Marsh Maryrose
                July 23, 2019 at 1:54 am | #

                And really, how is Carousel any different from ascension to the Heaviside layer?

                • jmsr7
                  jmsr7
                  July 23, 2019 at 2:10 am | #

                  Hey, i got it

                • Geneseepaws
                  Geneseepaws
                  July 23, 2019 at 7:55 am | #

                  Are you rocking it for the Sci-Fi geeks, or the old fogies?
                  Yes!

                • StClair
                  StClair
                  July 23, 2019 at 9:38 pm | #

                  Renew! Renew!

            • Needfuldoer
              Needfuldoer
              July 23, 2019 at 9:12 am | #

              Maybe the school houses upperclassmen of legal drinking age in a different building, so they don’t become alcohol suppliers to younger students?

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          July 23, 2019 at 6:58 am | #

          Also, from that strip, it’s not clear that Billie was expecting him to be able to buy her beer, but that what he thought she wanted. I think she was just looking for the prestige of hooking up with an upperclassman.

          In my (now long ago) college experience, while few were legal to buy alcohol, older students were more likely to have figured out how to access it – fake ids, older friends, places that wouldn’t card, something. Certainly more so than freshmen in their first days on campus. So he’d probably been asked. (Honestly, at this point, I don’t even remember how I got booze. I didn’t have a fake id, but I never had trouble having alcohol around.)

          Billie, of course, had a good fake id to start with and needed no one to buy for her.

          • LR
            LR
            July 28, 2019 at 12:55 am | #

            My state raised the drinking age 10 days before my birthday. Maybe I misunderstood the law, but I remember losing my right to drink for 10 days. Fortunately, drinking wasn’t very important to me. Two of my housemates and I once took about a week to get through a six pack. I suppose that MIGHT have had something to do with the quality of the beer.

      • BarerMender
        BarerMender
        July 23, 2019 at 1:19 am | #

        Two years older. Ruth is 20.

    • BarerMender
      BarerMender
      July 23, 2019 at 12:11 am | #

      I agree. Ruth is hoping Billy will show up at the bar.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      July 23, 2019 at 12:13 am | #

      Ruth’s 20, so not in the states.

      I’m HOPING she’s either here to see Billie or here to get something to eat without alcohol (I do it in bar sections all the time).

    • Geeky Warrior
      Geeky Warrior
      July 23, 2019 at 11:03 am | #

      At some point I remember her saying she was 2 years older than the freshman. Based on the timing, she might have an October or earlier birthday making her legally 21.

      On the other hand, she did buy alcohol earlier in the series. So either she is already 21 or looks old enough with a decent fake.

  11. AntJ
    AntJ
    July 23, 2019 at 12:09 am | #

    wow, I thought this would happen two storylines ago

  12. Yumi
    Yumi
    July 23, 2019 at 12:09 am | #

    Oh, shit, Ruth! 🙁

  13. PB
    PB
    July 23, 2019 at 12:10 am | #

    Why … is Ruth at a bar.

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      July 23, 2019 at 12:48 am | #

      Why do fools fall in love?

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      July 23, 2019 at 12:50 am | #

      Why are there so many songs about rainbows? And what’s on the other side?

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      July 23, 2019 at 12:52 am | #

      Why must I be a teenager in love?

    • C.
      C.
      July 23, 2019 at 1:48 am | #

      Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near?

      • DaveM
        DaveM
        July 23, 2019 at 1:54 am | #

        https://xkcd.com/348/

        • Marsh Maryrose
          Marsh Maryrose
          July 23, 2019 at 2:04 am | #

          It was a zombie jamboree!

    • Geneseepaws
      Geneseepaws
      July 23, 2019 at 7:58 am | #

      And Who wrote the book of Love.
      That’s what I just asked you, who?
      That’s right, Who.

      • Clif
        Clif
        July 23, 2019 at 12:45 pm | #

        You can’t blame everything on the Doctor.

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        July 23, 2019 at 5:25 pm | #

        No, it was The Monotones, Who is on first.

    • Ed Rhodes
      Ed Rhodes
      July 23, 2019 at 8:38 am | #

      Why does the sun go on shining?
      Why does the sea rush to shore?
      Don’t they know it’s the end of the world?
      ‘Cause you don’t love me anymore

  14. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    July 23, 2019 at 12:11 am | #

    So what are the odds they have a mature and adult conversation here, like they need to? And what are the odds Billie makes an ass of herself?(again)

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      July 23, 2019 at 8:46 am | #

      I give it 25:1

      • Clif
        Clif
        July 23, 2019 at 12:46 pm | #

        Optimist

  15. ShinyNeen
    ShinyNeen
    July 23, 2019 at 12:11 am | #

    Wear your glasses, folks! You might notice that the free beer isn’t until tomorrow!

    … And you can see that your maybe-girlfriend maybe-ex-girlfriend is sitting right there just kinda watching you and probably about to try to discuss some heavy shit and probably try to dissuade you from coming back tomorrow for that free beer and you aren’t sure if you want that or not so wouldn’t it be great if you could at least see her before you sit down?

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      July 23, 2019 at 4:02 am | #

      “Free beer tomorrow”?  Does this mean that Galasso, while having no mercy, does have a sense of humor?

      • AbelUndercity
        AbelUndercity
        July 23, 2019 at 5:22 am | #

        When I was in college, “Free Beer” was the name of a band that worked the local bar circuit.

        • Delicious Taffy
          Delicious Taffy
          July 23, 2019 at 8:47 am | #

          That’s genius. I’m definitely having that name.

        • Bicycle Bill
          Bicycle Bill
          July 23, 2019 at 10:04 pm | #

          In my area of western Wisconsin there used to be a band that called itself “Three Beers ’til Dubuque” (a city in Iowa about three hours south of where I call home)… and during the karaoke craze one of the traveling karaoke outfits was called “Free Beer and Naked Karaoke”.
          (note: they never delivered on either one)

  16. BBCC
    BBCC
    July 23, 2019 at 12:12 am | #

    Oh dear. This’ll be something.

  17. ktbear
    ktbear
    July 23, 2019 at 12:13 am | #

    This whole day is starting off wonderfully.

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      July 23, 2019 at 12:26 am | #

      This may be the start of your day, but it’s the end of the casts’.

      I just noticed that the next storyline is in the Archives grab-bar. Whose birthday is it, I wonder? Has this already been revealed and I just forgot it?

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        July 23, 2019 at 12:45 am | #

        Dina?

        • Marsh Maryrose
          Marsh Maryrose
          July 23, 2019 at 12:58 am | #

          I don’t know how I forgot in just two months, but are absolutely right.

          In my defense, I’ve been known to forget the birthdays of close family members.

          • Marsh Maryrose
            Marsh Maryrose
            July 23, 2019 at 1:00 am | #

            ^ “you are”.

            I used to spot grammar mistakes like a hawk. Now I’m more like Billie without glasses.

            • Bathymetheus
              Bathymetheus
              July 23, 2019 at 8:09 pm | #

              I would be surprised if hawks can spot grammar mistakes.

              Isolated rabbits, on the other hand . . .

        • Nono
          Nono
          July 23, 2019 at 4:17 am | #

          Sarah’s birthday is also coming up, though nobody’s mentioned it and I doubt Sarah wants to celebrate it either.

          Unless… Sarah’s birthday IS Halloween.

  18. MaddMaxx
    MaddMaxx
    July 23, 2019 at 12:17 am | #

    And it has begun

    • Kyoulkoa
      Kyoulkoa
      July 23, 2019 at 12:28 am | #

      It begins

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      July 23, 2019 at 1:01 am | #

      You might say it all returns.

      • Clif
        Clif
        July 23, 2019 at 12:50 pm | #

        I predict this will end well. No. Really. I predict it will end well.

  19. etherealdesiign
    etherealdesiign
    July 23, 2019 at 12:19 am | #

    i really hope ruth is there because she knows billie will be and is there to fight for her to come to her senses, not because she’s also drinking.

    i always liked ruth, but ever since her meds kicked in i’ve been really optimistic for her. i hope to be proven right.

    • Dean
      Dean
      July 23, 2019 at 12:34 am | #

      I’m hoping Ruth is there because she wanted a soda.

  20. Synnerman
    Synnerman
    July 23, 2019 at 12:26 am | #

    Oh Billie, such a trainwreck.

    Ruth… protect yourself.

  21. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    July 23, 2019 at 12:32 am | #

    Everyone relax. It’s the only place in town that airs any Leafs games.

  22. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    July 23, 2019 at 12:36 am | #

    Billie, you asked for this, you ignorant bongo. Hi Ruth! Thank the universe she didnt became insane because of her drugs and killed Walky and Joyce. Integrivact is dangerous.

    • Solenoid
      Solenoid
      July 23, 2019 at 12:41 am | #

      And carries a downright frightening list of side-effects.

  23. mrnoidea
    mrnoidea
    July 23, 2019 at 12:52 am | #

    Plot twist: Ruth was just waiting to catch Billie in the act.

    I hope.

  24. Foxhack
    Foxhack
    July 23, 2019 at 12:54 am | #

    No one believed I was the person in my IDs; since I had facial hair in them, people (particularly annoying US Border agents) kept saying they were my father’s.

    My over-40-years-older-than-me father.

    Now that I’m old, facial hair makes me look YOUNGER. Go figure.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      July 23, 2019 at 1:04 am | #

      I once got carded four times in one visit to a casino. I feel your pain.

  25. Tacos
    Tacos
    July 23, 2019 at 12:57 am | #

    No this won’t be awkward at all I’m sure.

  26. C.T Phipps
    C.T Phipps
    July 23, 2019 at 1:05 am | #

    Billie needs to power walk away to “These Boots are made for Walking.”

    Then Ruth can say, “I just got seated here at the bar because all the booths are full.”

  27. Bagge
    Bagge
    July 23, 2019 at 1:48 am | #

    Billie REALLY needs to find herself another bar.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      July 23, 2019 at 4:34 am | #

      Galasso’s is the only bar in town that accepts her cereal box-back ‘ID Card’!

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        July 23, 2019 at 6:13 am | #

        The weird part is that stick-in-the-mud JASON accept it.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        July 23, 2019 at 7:10 am | #

        Billie’s fake id is apparently pretty good. Only reason she has trouble is that she looks young and the crow’s feet help with that.

  28. BenRG
    BenRG
    July 23, 2019 at 1:48 am | #

    Ruth is there because she’s hooked on Jason’s mixed exotic fruit juices!

  29. Keulen
    Keulen
    July 23, 2019 at 2:08 am | #

    I wish Billie would wear her glasses more often. I think she looks better with them on.

    • Sunny
      Sunny
      July 23, 2019 at 4:05 am | #

      Plus she can see better with them on.

  30. Shane Wegner
    Shane Wegner
    July 23, 2019 at 4:22 am | #

    Leave it to Billie to frame herself as the victim who is being harassed unfairly here. How dare anyone correctly discern that she is under legal drinking age and follow the mandated procedure of carding her- something police occasionally ask underage volunteers to test in sting operations. It’s not like he has a lot of wiggle room to be fired over failing to card- that job is his lifeline right now since the whole Accidentally Guessed Student Fraternization thing. Not that Billie cares.

    I’m ready to rubberneck the train wreck of ugly denials coming up. Or maybe she’ll accuse Ruth of stalking her and invading her valuable privacy? Or maybe the third, and least likely, she’ll wake up and realize she is indeed an alcoholic.

    Ruth has a lot of power. All she has to do is say she’s an RA and knows that Billie is a freshman, and the tissue thin grudging tolerance to serve her due to her fake ID is gone at Galasso’s. Some restraints do that thing with Do Not Serve This Person. Of course Billie would be mad at being held accountable and for Ruth doing the right thing. Actually Ruth can’t not do the right thing- an RA can’t knowingly see a student breaking the law and just do nothing, that’s becoming complicit. Ruth is also on thinner ice when it comes to keeping her job and such.

    • Fart Captor
      Fart Captor
      July 23, 2019 at 4:45 am | #

      Acting indignant about being carded is part of the act, trying to convince him she’s older than she is so he doesn’t question it

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      July 23, 2019 at 7:12 am | #

      Ruth’s not on thin ice with her job here. Ruth’s been breaking far more serious rules all along. Her problem is that she can’t get herself fired, thanks to Sir.

    • Tan
      Tan
      July 23, 2019 at 7:40 pm | #

      Jason already knows she’s a freshman anyway.

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/04-of-mike-and-men/backpacked/

  31. tirachokko
    tirachokko
    July 23, 2019 at 6:15 am | #

    kiss kiss breaking up
    (maybe not but vaguely feels like it. Ruth might not be drinking but boy are they in for a talk)

  32. Pocky
    Pocky
    July 23, 2019 at 7:29 am | #

    no, Ruth only shows up with special lenses

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      July 23, 2019 at 10:42 am | #

      Rosecolored lenses?

      …no, that doesn’t seem quite right.

      What color is murder?

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        July 23, 2019 at 2:13 pm | #

        Ironically? Rose.

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          July 24, 2019 at 11:26 pm | #

          Well, there we go then.

  33. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    July 23, 2019 at 7:39 am | #

    .Yeees! Finally! Now either Bill will run like never before in her life or they will have a very embarrassing and necessary conversation.

  34. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    July 23, 2019 at 9:11 am | #

    Sure hope Ruth is just hanging out or drinking virgin stuff.

  35. Charlotte
    Charlotte
    July 23, 2019 at 12:41 pm | #

    Oh god, I hope Ruth isn’t drinking… She was doing so well.

  36. Marisa Mockery
    Marisa Mockery
    July 23, 2019 at 10:34 pm | #

    Two alcoholics walk into a bar…..

  37. Juanoku
    Juanoku
    July 23, 2019 at 11:54 pm | #

    FINALLY UP TO DATE

  38. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    July 24, 2019 at 8:02 am | #

    Panel 3 hits close to home. People regularly tell me they think I’m in my early to mid 20s, even though I’m actually in my early 30s. I just want to buy spray paint without getting carded, dammit!

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