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Ringtone

by David M Willis on June 22, 2011 at 12:01 am
  • 05 - Media Rumble
└ Tags: jennifer, metallica, ruth

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    June 22, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    Sandman? Really?

    Sandman.

    • A. Colunga
      A. Colunga
      June 22, 2011 at 12:22 am | #

      I’m a bad fan because it took me until 10 seconds after reading the last panel to figure out the song.

      • sammy
        sammy
        June 22, 2011 at 1:23 am | #

        i realized it then was reading the song in james hetfield voice

        • Hypsie
          Hypsie
          June 22, 2011 at 2:16 am | #

          Hahah Same here!! That voice is engraved in my head thanks to my uncle rocking me to sleep to that song.
          \m/^_^\m/

      • David Herbert
        David Herbert
        June 22, 2011 at 2:21 am | #

        I didn’t until I read the comment.

    • Thor
      Thor
      June 22, 2011 at 12:26 am | #

      I like to think that it’s the Richard Cheese version of “Enter Sandman”, as that version is infinitely better than the original.

      • Bekah
        Bekah
        June 22, 2011 at 1:35 am | #

        I want to have 1 000 000 of your babies.

      • Jimmy
        Jimmy
        June 22, 2011 at 3:34 am | #

        Hey his version could be her ringtone, right? …..right?? 🙂

      • Wack'd
        Wack'd
        September 1, 2012 at 1:19 am | #

        You are the reason I now have 60 Richard Cheese songs on my iPod.

        THANK YOU.

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      June 22, 2011 at 1:27 am | #

      It seems like life imitating art. Or art imitating art. Sorry, I had a train of thought but I ran out of coal…

  2. Kojiro
    Kojiro
    June 22, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    Oh boy, she forgot to put the uniform down. That won’t end well.

    • Cholma
      Cholma
      June 22, 2011 at 12:11 am | #

      Forgot? Now that she finally has it back, she would never let it go.
      🙂

      • Rognik
        Rognik
        June 22, 2011 at 1:27 am | #

        I doubt Ruth has even noticed it missing. It’s not like it’s HER precious baby…

        • Kojiro
          Kojiro
          June 22, 2011 at 6:32 am | #

          No, but it IS her new toy, and her main tool of screwing with yet another helpless victim.

  3. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    June 22, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    Surprisingly, I did NOT see this coming.

  4. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    June 22, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    that song fits perfectly. 😀

  5. Madock345
    Madock345
    June 22, 2011 at 12:04 am | #

    I can’t figure out where she is hiding, is that a closet or some cabnits?

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      June 22, 2011 at 12:10 am | #

      From the look of it, I’d say it’s a cabinet of some sort.

      • NCP19
        NCP19
        June 22, 2011 at 12:25 am | #

        I figured it was a closet to sync up with the song.

        • MacGravatar
          MacGravatar
          June 22, 2011 at 12:29 am | #

          I agree. It’s more than likely that it is, in fact, a closet.

          • Rognik
            Rognik
            June 22, 2011 at 1:28 am | #

            Does that mean Billie will be coming out of the closet soon?

            • Matt
              Matt
              June 22, 2011 at 3:03 am | #

              Well, this isn’t Shortpacked, but it is still a strip written by the same man. I guess what I’m getting at is that it’s anybody’s guess.

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              June 22, 2011 at 5:32 am | #

              At least it wasn’t a transparent closet.

    • soloran
      soloran
      June 22, 2011 at 1:18 am | #

      A lot of dorm rooms don’t have closets. They have wardrobes with a large upper compartment to store hanging clothes and a set of drawers underneath. As this is an older state college, I assume that is what is furnished.

      • goatman95111
        goatman95111
        June 22, 2011 at 6:02 am | #

        Yeah… OSU was the same way. In fact, I remember a contest involving cramming the most number of students into such a room, with students both inside the wardrobe, and lying sprawled on top between the wardrobe and ceiling.

        On another note… why am I suddenly feeling a certain sense of familiarity and appreciation for Ruth? Is that wrong? Do I need some Seroquel?

    • sammy
      sammy
      June 22, 2011 at 1:32 am | #

      the dorms in IU have no cabinets. it’s a closet

  6. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    June 22, 2011 at 12:04 am | #

    Is that the Enter The Sandman ringtone I hear?

    • knowwonattawl
      knowwonattawl
      June 22, 2011 at 1:58 am | #

      I can verify that it is what you read. What you hear I cannot say.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 22, 2011 at 5:31 am | #

        Reading and hearing are sometimes end up becoming the same thing.

        • nothri
          nothri
          June 22, 2011 at 3:21 pm | #

          Right, for some this happens when they take too many recreational drugs, and for others it happens when they take too few non-recreational drugs.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            June 22, 2011 at 5:42 pm | #

            In my case, I was refering to the phenomena where when you read things like lyrics from songs you heard before, the song replays in your head.

          • dralou
            dralou
            June 23, 2011 at 12:48 pm | #

            OR you’re one of the few people that have a neurologic condition called “Synesthesia”. Like Duke Ellington, or Thom Yorke…

  7. Romanticide
    Romanticide
    June 22, 2011 at 12:10 am | #

    In your Heaaaaaaaaad!!!! *headbangs*

    Billie’s plan are just not going right it seems.

    • Spiffster13
      Spiffster13
      June 22, 2011 at 10:47 am | #

      it all seems to be blowing up…

      IN HER FAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCEEEEE!

      I’ll shut up now.

  8. Kafloobop
    Kafloobop
    June 22, 2011 at 12:10 am | #

    THE PLOT THICKENS!

    • MM
      MM
      June 22, 2011 at 12:23 am | #

      Will it be blackmail material, confrontation, or unexpected sympathy? Place your bets, folks! 😀

      • Joe
        Joe
        June 22, 2011 at 1:14 am | #

        My money’s on sympathy.

        • knowwonattawl
          knowwonattawl
          June 22, 2011 at 2:00 am | #

          From Billie? That’s hard to imagine at this point. She isn’t the most empathetic of people and Ruth has crossed her repeatedly.

      • lord of dance
        lord of dance
        June 22, 2011 at 2:22 am | #

        im thinkin the good old fashioned – fake sympathy so what starts out as ok blackmail material turns into incredible blackmail material- routine

      • begbert2
        begbert2
        June 22, 2011 at 10:54 am | #

        Beatdown.

  9. Jetpack Monkey
    Jetpack Monkey
    June 22, 2011 at 12:15 am | #

    Wait, so what happens if Metallica suddenly shows up a lot as a tag? Do they go into the banner?

    • Undrave
      Undrave
      June 22, 2011 at 12:38 am | #

      Yes but for copyright reasons the role of Metallica is played by the ’86 Saint-Louis Blues defense line-up.

      And Ronald Reagan.

      • Jetpack Monkey
        Jetpack Monkey
        June 22, 2011 at 3:12 am | #

        I’m strangely okay with that.

  10. Ridureyu
    Ridureyu
    June 22, 2011 at 12:23 am | #

    So many horror movies have this exact scene!

    • NF
      NF
      June 22, 2011 at 1:03 am | #

      “The call came from inside the house!”

  11. arjay2813
    arjay2813
    June 22, 2011 at 1:05 am | #

    looks like billie will be coming out of the closet for ruth. is it ironic that just before reading this i was reading Gotham Central before DC’s big reset or w/e? i’ll just have to find out tomorow

    • Bekah
      Bekah
      June 22, 2011 at 1:37 am | #

      Same bat time, same bat channel?

  12. knowwonattawl
    knowwonattawl
    June 22, 2011 at 2:01 am | #

    I feel like “Sandman” should have been tagged instead of Metallica. He’s the one that entered after all.

  13. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    June 22, 2011 at 2:03 am | #

    What a cool ringtone.

  14. Sonicburger
    Sonicburger
    June 22, 2011 at 2:10 am | #

    BEST RINGTONE EVAR

  15. Charlie Owens
    Charlie Owens
    June 22, 2011 at 2:20 am | #

    Ruth is still a horrible person, but she has the coolest ringtone in webcomics.

    OK, anyone else wanna share their tones? I’m using the theme to “The Boondocks”. Even though I don’t watch the show.

    • David
      David M Willis
      June 22, 2011 at 10:02 am | #

      Mine’s the Italian Batman: The Animated Series theme.

      • Rachel
        Rachel
        June 22, 2011 at 2:13 pm | #

        Dude, that is SO AWESOME! 😀

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 22, 2011 at 5:45 pm | #

        Do you mean this theme Willis?

    • Mkvenner
      Mkvenner
      June 22, 2011 at 3:03 pm | #

      I have the theme to psych.

    • Al the Mighty
      Al the Mighty
      June 24, 2011 at 8:33 pm | #

      The Jurassic Park theme…

    • Animaniac
      Animaniac
      June 26, 2011 at 4:09 am | #

      The theme to Animaniacs, unsurprisingly =)

      • Mkvenner
        Mkvenner
        June 30, 2011 at 6:48 pm | #

        You win hands down. 😀

  16. Gentooman
    Gentooman
    June 22, 2011 at 2:28 am | #

    Ringtone! Why did I buy that stupid Ringtone. I just can’t imagine now what IIIII was thinking at all (Really what was I thinking); my friends all stare at meee whenever IIII get a caaaalll…

    …What? It’s appropriate considering Weird Al’s new album came out yesterday.
    Also, 36 comments and no FAAAAAAAAAAAAACE joke?

    • Undrave
      Undrave
      June 22, 2011 at 7:32 am | #

      Well no one left me an opening yet!

      I think I could have squeezed in a ‘with your/his/her penis’ somewhere but no FAAAAAACE!

  17. strv4mdcrty
    strv4mdcrty
    June 22, 2011 at 2:31 am | #

    I’ve literally never read one of these characters before DoA, so I don’t know what i’m supposed to expect of them. That being said I fucking love this dynamic between billie and ruth

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      June 22, 2011 at 10:56 am | #

      You don’t need to read anything else to read this comic. (In fact, it’s contraindicated.) So just sit back and enjoy the ride.

  18. Thomas
    Thomas
    June 22, 2011 at 3:04 am | #

    And this, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call irony.

    • TemplarKnight
      TemplarKnight
      June 22, 2011 at 3:32 am | #

      I don’t see what is ironic here.

      • Steven
        Steven
        June 22, 2011 at 3:35 am | #

        Never mind that noise you heard, it’s just the beast under your bed, IN YOUR CLOSET, in your head.

        • CP
          CP
          June 22, 2011 at 12:42 pm | #

          That’s not irony. Irony is when you expect something to happen or intend for something to happen, and the actual result is the opposite. For example, it would be ironic if Billie hid in the closet so Ruth wouldn’t find her, only to discover that Ruth is actually afraid of monsters in her closet and checks there compulsively.

          • Jen Aside
            Jen Aside
            June 23, 2011 at 12:34 am | #

            http://hotword.dictionary.com/ironic/

  19. Jimmy
    Jimmy
    June 22, 2011 at 3:26 am | #

    It’s sad that I knew that ringtone as soon as I saw the lyrics, It’s probably even more sad that I headbanged to it for a couple of seconds. 😉

  20. Booger.
    Booger.
    June 22, 2011 at 4:43 am | #

    OH!!! That’s her CLEAVAGE in the last panel!! I was staring at it thinking “what the hell IS this?” cause it looks like the cleft chin of an old man or something….she doesn’t have a cleft chin.

    Now I see…it’s her boobies.

    But look at the last panel again and see it like a chin like I did…can you see it???

    My ex-girlfriend had a cleft chin. I tried to be nice and tell her it wasn’t the most masculine thing I’d ever seen, but I was lying. I don’t miss her butt chin…not one bit.

    • Beefcube
      Beefcube
      June 22, 2011 at 8:56 am | #

      Same here! I saw that, as well as her mouth and chin together as her mouth. It’s pretty horrifying.

    • Lt. Taz
      Lt. Taz
      June 22, 2011 at 9:47 am | #

      Dear god, I went and looked at it again, and that is horrifying. It does look like a butt-chin.

    • TexasNinjaBuzzard
      TexasNinjaBuzzard
      June 22, 2011 at 12:34 pm | #

      Why is a grinning John Waters hiding in Ruth’s closet? And where did Billie go- did John eat her?

  21. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    June 22, 2011 at 5:36 am | #

    My ringtone is the sound of the TARDIS dematerialisating.

    • Lt. Taz
      Lt. Taz
      June 22, 2011 at 9:46 am | #

      Mine’s “Do the Mario”, the end theme from the Super Mario Brothers Super show, but I like yours better. *vworpvworp*

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 22, 2011 at 5:50 pm | #

        I can see the advantage of a ringtone like that, it would encourage you to answer as quick as possible.

    • Mkvenner
      Mkvenner
      June 22, 2011 at 3:06 pm | #

      coolest ringtone ever.

  22. Jackson
    Jackson
    June 22, 2011 at 6:44 am | #

    Everything’s gonna be babies.

  23. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    June 22, 2011 at 7:04 am | #

    Thalidomide babies!

    • Jackson
      Jackson
      June 22, 2011 at 3:42 pm | #

      That’s even worse than Babies McIntyre!

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 22, 2011 at 6:50 pm | #

        A lot worse!

  24. ziggy78eog
    ziggy78eog
    June 22, 2011 at 8:59 am | #

    I would have thought that Master of Puppets would be more appropriate for Ruth.

    • Alexx
      Alexx
      June 22, 2011 at 9:51 am | #

      Nah, seems more like a Battery kinda girl with how giddy she is at the idea of pounding face.

  25. marsinvader
    marsinvader
    June 22, 2011 at 9:49 am | #

    Can I make a request? can the comments link redirect to the top of the comments instead of the bottom? I think the use of the link is to “read” the comments no?

    • David
      David M Willis
      June 22, 2011 at 9:59 am | #

      I don’t know how to do that.

    • Joey
      Joey
      June 22, 2011 at 5:26 pm | #

      No I think it is to post a comment. The comments link on the post is to read the comments. Don’t really need two links doing the same thing.

  26. ADHadh
    ADHadh
    June 22, 2011 at 10:02 am | #

    Unless Ruth is using that as a ringtone ironically, she has gained a lot in my eyes.

  27. Joebo
    Joebo
    June 22, 2011 at 10:14 am | #

    Oh no! Now Billie is

    • Joebo
      Joebo
      June 22, 2011 at 10:14 am | #

      well that didn’t work…

    • Jackson
      Jackson
      June 22, 2011 at 11:08 pm | #

      Is what? That’s it? Now Billie is…going to give me a million dollars? Or now Billie is going to give me my own spaceship? I mean what the f–

      …wait. Wrong fandom.

      • Joebo
        Joebo
        July 14, 2011 at 7:04 pm | #

        Was trying to post a link to the “Trapped in a Closet” video but something went wrong in my html.

  28. SolegitRR
    SolegitRR
    June 22, 2011 at 10:31 am | #

    My current ringtone is whatever MP3 I happened to have set it to, but my text messaging alert seems incredibly appropriate here, because it’s the [!] noise from Metal Gear Solid…

  29. nosleep3
    nosleep3
    June 22, 2011 at 10:39 am | #

    Ooo, she’s going to overhear something compromising she can use to blackmail Ruth!

    • Mkvenner
      Mkvenner
      June 22, 2011 at 3:10 pm | #

      nah, it’s probably just Howard.

  30. iggy_rock
    iggy_rock
    June 22, 2011 at 11:29 am | #

    I’m still trying to figure out why Mary was lying around only in underwear and wristbands…

  31. Cid
    Cid
    June 22, 2011 at 12:29 pm | #

    ][v][etal up your ass —- \m/ (>_<) \m/

  32. Redpossum
    Redpossum
    June 22, 2011 at 12:35 pm | #

    Sigh.
    The disadvantages of being old and out of touch with pop culture. No idea what that song is about, but curious enough to go find it at YouTube.

    I hate this because, for those who know it, a song can convey volumes of meaning beyond expression in words.
    (6 minutes or so)
    OK, I’ve listened to both the Metallica and Richard Cheese (WTF is this, a Dean Martin parody?) versions. I still don’t “get it”. Is this just supposed to convey that she’s cooler-than-she-seems because she listens to Metallica?

    Mind you, I’m not criticizing the comic. Plainly the problem is my own cultural ignorance. I’m just asking for help in understanding.

    • nothri
      nothri
      June 22, 2011 at 3:29 pm | #

      Honestly, I can’t think of a more appropriate image for Ruth’s approach down the hallway than the lines “Exit light. Enter Night.”

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 22, 2011 at 5:36 pm | #

      It’s just the beast,
      Under your bed
      In your closet
      In your head

      I think having the above lyrics playing while Billie was hiding in the closet was the reason Willis chose ‘Enter The Sandman’ in the first place.

    • Pony of Chaos
      Pony of Chaos
      June 22, 2011 at 6:22 pm | #

      I’d like to think that the reason for using this particular song is simply because listening to Metallica makes anybody at least 20% cooler, but the lyrics fitting the situation is probably the real reason.

  33. Hello, Mr. Anderson
    Hello, Mr. Anderson
    June 22, 2011 at 3:49 pm | #

    I didn’t realize what the song was until I saw the Metallica tag, then it was almost an instant recognition.

  34. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    June 22, 2011 at 5:57 pm | #

    From the shape of Ruth’s phone, it looks like one of those old clamshell phones, I haven’t seen anyone with one of those types for at least 2 years now.

    • iSaidCandleja-
      iSaidCandleja-
      June 22, 2011 at 8:12 pm | #

      I know a lot of people who use them because they associated answering the phone with opening it and various other reasons that fall under the category “old habits die hard.”

      For someone her age, I assume it’s because she is a college student too broke to afford anything better.

    • David
      David M Willis
      June 22, 2011 at 8:35 pm | #

      It’s not a clamshell. Are you misreading the shadow under the phone? We see the phone in an earlier strip, when Ruth shows Billie an image of her uniform.

  35. RV
    RV
    June 22, 2011 at 10:01 pm | #

    I secretly hope this becomes a small running gag throughout the strip- I want to know what everyone’s ring tones are. Or at least Mike… and Joe… and Walkie… and everyone else too! -_-

  36. Happy Ham Ham
    Happy Ham Ham
    July 2, 2011 at 4:16 pm | #

    That song always gives me nightmares. T•T

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