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by David M Willis on February 2, 2012 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - Choosing My Religion
└ Tags: danny, jennifer

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  1. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    February 2, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    Danny 1 Billie -1.

    • DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
      DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
      February 2, 2012 at 3:29 pm | #

      80s Girl Billie still thinks it’s the 1980s.

      Neat thing is, I don’t think she was even born until the decade was 3/4s over.

      • Brady Kj
        Brady Kj
        February 2, 2012 at 7:25 pm | #

        Actually, I think she was born in 1994.

        • Pickle
          Pickle
          February 2, 2012 at 8:24 pm | #

          In DOA? Or the Walkyverse?

          • David
            David M Willis
            February 2, 2012 at 8:27 pm | #

            I think math can answer that question pretty well.

            • Sparks
              Sparks
              February 6, 2012 at 6:43 pm | #

              Oh, c’mon, Willis. Math? This is a strip about college! Why should we have to think? 😉

        • DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
          DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
          February 2, 2012 at 11:58 pm | #

          Only Furthers the Point.

        • Rogue of Space
          Rogue of Space
          June 29, 2013 at 2:34 pm | #

          That’s my birth year! Sweet!

        • Witch [Soul] of Heart
          Witch [Soul] of Heart
          January 28, 2014 at 10:13 pm | #

          If she started in 2011 fresh out of high school, she’d have been born in 1993, chances are.

          I am from 94 and did the same, but didn’t start until 2012.

      • Princessanarchy
        Princessanarchy
        February 6, 2013 at 5:46 pm | #

        that would make her in her forties. Somehow I don’t think that’s correct.

        • Thomas
          Thomas
          November 22, 2013 at 6:37 am | #

          Last time I checked I was under 40, born 78…

  2. Henry
    Henry
    February 2, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    What the hell is a Tandy 1000?

    • Tristan J
      Tristan J
      February 2, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

      I’m assuming from his expression it’s either something sexual, or something Danny can make sexual.

      • darcos0
        darcos0
        February 2, 2012 at 2:10 am | #

        the tandy 1000 as something sexual….maybe 8-bit graphic porn…with that illustrious 128 kilobytes of memory….

        • Far
          Far
          February 2, 2012 at 2:14 pm | #

          It was one of Radio Shack’s early computers. I think it followed the TRS-80 series at a time IBM compatibles were taking over the market from all other competitors.

        • thomas0comer
          thomas0comer
          February 2, 2012 at 8:15 pm | #

          The Tandy 1000 IS porn for technophiles.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      February 2, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

      It’s a computer. I want one.

      • Seraph
        Seraph
        February 2, 2012 at 12:23 am | #

        As an antique?

        • Doctor_Who
          Doctor_Who
          February 2, 2012 at 12:25 am | #

          To play “Animal Quest”. Haven’t seen that once since I was five.

          • drs
            drs
            February 2, 2012 at 11:55 am | #

            Have you looked into emulators?

            • Kelly
              Kelly
              March 20, 2013 at 1:02 am | #

              Bah! Everyone knows that to truly play Spacewar! you have to play on the original hardware!

      • Kaj
        Kaj
        February 2, 2012 at 3:19 am | #

        I still have my Tandy 102 Laptop. Runs for 40 hours on 4 AA batteries, 32KB of onboard data storage. Got me through high school though – teachers allowed it because I couldn’t cheat. No wifi & no spellcheck!

        • Old Computer Guy
          Old Computer Guy
          February 2, 2012 at 11:39 am | #

          The Tandy 102 was and still is a wonderful machine. Years ahead of its time. In an era where “portable” computer weighed more than a full suitcase, it was small enough and usable enough for my technophobe journalist friend to take it on his bike tour of the United States, sending his columns by acoustic modem every other day, and that was in the mid-1980s. Fun fact: the Tandy 102 was probably the last computer that Bill Gates personally wrote any commercial code for.

          See http://www.club100.org if you want to know more!

          • ward Griffiths
            ward Griffiths
            August 4, 2015 at 10:04 pm | #

            The bike tour was done with a Model 100, before the 102 came out. I was tech support at a Radio Shack computer store in those days and followed things on CompuServe at 1200 bps.

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      February 2, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

      Apple II, Danno!

      • Blob Marley
        Blob Marley
        February 2, 2012 at 5:55 pm | #

        Suck it, Apple. That’s my final answer.

      • Kryss LaBryn
        Kryss LaBryn
        February 2, 2012 at 7:39 pm | #

        Apple IIe. Far superior. XD

    • Spammy McSpamster
      Spammy McSpamster
      February 2, 2012 at 12:29 am | #

      I still have my old Tandy 1000. You kids today have it spoiled!
      I remember when we got our first hard drive installed into it. It was a whopping 20mb. Once upon a time, computers didn’t have C drives by default.

      • Andrusi
        Andrusi
        February 2, 2012 at 9:14 am | #

        And they did have A drives. Frequently B drives, too!

        • Spammy McSpamster
          Spammy McSpamster
          February 2, 2012 at 12:24 pm | #

          We had a B by default. I think we got our a drive much later as an add-on

      • Kryss LaBryn
        Kryss LaBryn
        February 2, 2012 at 7:38 pm | #

        Our first one was a Lazer XT from Radio Shack. Sadly, we couldn’t convince Mum to spend the extra $200 for the colour monitor so it was the monochrome orange one. I still remember the day the tech came by and installed… something… (no idea what, I doubt it was an internal hard drive but it might have been something like that) so instead of inserting the one floppy into it, letting that run for about ten minutes, and then swapping in the second and letting that run for another seven or so to boot it up, you only had to do the second disk. I had mixed feelings about that. On the one hand, only seven minutes instead of neatly twenty! OTOH, seven minutes wasn’t really long enough to go do anything else like making myself a cup of tea while I waited for it to boot up.

        Haha, yeah, man. Twenty minutes just to turn on your computer! Hahaha!! It was a great machine. It had a word processor AND a flight simulation game on it! I used the word processor to write horrible fantasy and to draw pictures of Darth Vader with ANSI text. Oh, and to transcribe episodes of “Knight Rider” I’d taped off the TV with my CASSETTE RECORDER (by holding the tape deck up to the TV’s speaker for the WHOLE EPISODE) into something I could reread at my leisure because VCRs hadn’t been invented yet. XD Everyone at school was very jealous of my tape recorder. At only half a foot long or so it was so small it looked like a Walkman, but it had a SPEAKER so my friends could listen along with me. Plus it had TWO HEADS so when it got to the end of the tape it would just play the other side without having to eject the tape and manually flip it!! Man, I listened to it forever.

        LOL, high tech from 1982 or so. XD

        • Spammy McSpamster
          Spammy McSpamster
          February 2, 2012 at 10:52 pm | #

          Okay.
          You win the oldest nerd award.
          Emphasis on the ‘nerd’, not the old. Though you’re probably one of the older ones around here.

          • Kryss LaBryn
            Kryss LaBryn
            February 2, 2012 at 11:23 pm | #

            Haha, I totally am. Probably on both counts too. 😉

            And, hooray! XD

    • fellixe
      fellixe
      February 2, 2012 at 12:30 am | #

      The Tandy 1000 is a technological step between Atari 2600 and Lite-Brite.

      • qka
        qka
        February 2, 2012 at 12:39 am | #

        Not.

      • Spammy McSpamster
        Spammy McSpamster
        February 2, 2012 at 12:46 am | #

        Except I gave up my lit-brite ages ago.
        It doesn’t impress the ladies (over 4)

        • Undrave
          Undrave
          February 2, 2012 at 2:04 am | #

          There’s a new version of lite brite now, uses a flat screen. Comes in blue or pink colours.

          • Andrusi
            Andrusi
            February 2, 2012 at 9:15 am | #

            I’ve heard of that! They call it iPad.

            • Charlie Spencer
              Charlie Spencer
              February 2, 2012 at 11:21 am | #

              Bah-Zinga!

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      February 2, 2012 at 1:03 am | #

      It’s like a newer version of a typewriter.

      • Maycroft
        Maycroft
        February 2, 2012 at 1:51 am | #

        You guys make me feel young.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          February 2, 2012 at 3:10 am | #

          They make me feel even older now.

          • Spammy McSpamster
            Spammy McSpamster
            February 2, 2012 at 2:44 pm | #

            Now it’s making me feel a little randy.

            and believe me, Randy doesn’t like being touched, OR called little.

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              February 2, 2012 at 6:27 pm | #

              So that’s what you call it huh? 😛

          • Kryss LaBryn
            Kryss LaBryn
            February 2, 2012 at 7:41 pm | #

            If it’s any comfort I’m probably older than you by a good ten years. XD

            –Yeah, I know. It’s not. XD

    • Kisai
      Kisai
      February 2, 2012 at 3:27 am | #

      I had one, and we kept it till like 8 years till it was given away. If you were a 80’s kid chances are you had one or a Apple II. This was before the NES made these old computers look pathetic and expensive.

      • Vincent
        Vincent
        February 2, 2012 at 3:41 am | #

        First I remember was a (Vic20, though I only saw it a few times) Commodore 64, parents had an IBM PC. My first own computer was an Amiga 600HD though.

        Think we got a NES when I was like 6, 7 or 8, fuzzy on the time. By that time the Commodore 64 had stopped working for some reason.

        I was born 82, so… Yeah, we got a NES kind of late.

        Outside of Strong Bad I’ve never even seen mention of the Tandy until now. Suspect it might not have been that big in Europe (or outside the US, even).

    • Marr
      Marr
      February 2, 2012 at 3:56 am | #

      The Tandy 1000 was a IBM clone computer put out by Radio Shack (part of the Tandy corporation) around ’87 or ’88. I had a Tandy 1000TL. It had a 286 processor, 16 color graphics and a 20 Megabyte hard drive. Which was smoking back then. I sold it when I bought a game – Police Quest- that required 21Meg of hard drive memory to install. I also used to sell them at Radio Shack (87-90)

      • FlyingFish
        FlyingFish
        February 2, 2012 at 9:46 am | #

        I think I had the same model. I remember when I hit a storage wall — 9 MB to install Monkey Island 2, and nothing we were willing to uninstall. And I quote: “What kind of game needs NINE megabytes?”

        Well, at least we still had Starflight and Bard’s Tale!

        • Kryss LaBryn
          Kryss LaBryn
          February 2, 2012 at 7:42 pm | #

          Oh man, Bard’s Tale was great! Remember the excellent cut-scene graphics? It would suck now but we’d never seen anything like that! (I may be thinking of BT2).

          • TxGator
            TxGator
            February 2, 2012 at 8:20 pm | #

            I remember that the ‘Z’ key rocked because it would allow you to instantly summon an Earth elemental into your party!

      • Crumplepunch
        Crumplepunch
        February 3, 2012 at 10:31 am | #

        I had forgotten about Police Quest until you mentioned it.

        I don’t actually remember much about it except I shot a guy and lost the game.

    • TxGator
      TxGator
      February 2, 2012 at 8:17 pm | #

      I suddenly feel old… 🙂

    • tahrey
      tahrey
      February 3, 2012 at 4:00 am | #

      It’s one of these:
      http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Tandy+1000

    • Mikehatesyou
      Mikehatesyou
      February 14, 2012 at 8:39 am | #

      For a nickle, it’s anything you want baby.

  3. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    February 2, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    Danny’s down with the “not in this universe” ship, too!

    I think.

  4. David Herbert
    David Herbert
    February 2, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    Danny, you’re not going to get in her pants acting like that. Offer her some booze.

  5. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    February 2, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    “Well SHIT… I just wasted 40 bucks.”

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      February 2, 2012 at 12:18 am | #

      Oh c’mon, old school is cool.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        February 2, 2012 at 3:11 am | #

        But she only got it cos she don’t even consider using her phone’s voice recorder before Danny mentioned it.

        • tahrey
          tahrey
          February 3, 2012 at 4:02 am | #

          A minidisc or microcassette recorder would be even more professional and embarrassingly obsolete (and a digital one, somewhat borderline – they still see use because they’re less of a theft risk than a phone so better for confidential recordings), but no-one would have recognised what they were 😀

  6. Joe
    Joe
    February 2, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    Oh my god, is that Danny’s idea of spitting game?

    • fellixe
      fellixe
      February 2, 2012 at 12:32 am | #

      Kinda hard to watch. I feel… pity. Yes, pity.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      February 2, 2012 at 4:04 am | #

      So? At least he didn’t royally screw it up like I did. How was I supposed to know she’s already spoken for and her boyfriend is standing right next to her?

      • Zuche
        Zuche
        February 2, 2012 at 9:36 am | #

        Try asking someone out while her girlfriend is right behind you. That was not a good day.

        • John
          John
          February 2, 2012 at 5:18 pm | #

          The only thing to do at that point is propose a threesome.

          If you’re already in it that deep, might as well go for the gold. Might get lucky.

    • tahrey
      tahrey
      February 3, 2012 at 4:03 am | #

      Hey, he’s figuring her for a retro nerd. Words offering her a chance to play with his Tandy would be honey-dipped.

      • tahrey
        tahrey
        February 3, 2012 at 4:03 am | #

        …especially, I guess, if he points out how big the joystick is

  7. dchorror
    dchorror
    February 2, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

    It’s too early to be calling mistakes of the day.

    • Tristan J
      Tristan J
      February 2, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

      Mistake of the day: Called mistake of the day too early.

      • Andrusi
        Andrusi
        February 2, 2012 at 9:16 am | #

        This totally sounds like a Texts From Last Night quote.

    • Henry
      Henry
      February 2, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

      It’s not if you’re Billie.

      • dchorror
        dchorror
        February 2, 2012 at 1:29 am | #

        It may be worse then. Calling mistake of the day is a guarantee of making you wrong. Especially if the universe loves watching you suffer.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      February 2, 2012 at 12:15 am | #

      Calling mistakes of the day too early: Mistake number 1.

      • HiEv
        HiEv
        February 2, 2012 at 10:48 am | #

        Actually, you made a mistake there.

        If you’ve called a “Mistake of the Day” then you’ve already made at least one mistake before that, so it would be at least mistake #2.

        • TheBenenator
          TheBenenator
          February 6, 2012 at 12:29 am | #

          Unless, of course, you begin numbering from 0. So the first mistake is Mistake #0 of the day, calling Mistake of the Day too early is Mistake #1, and so on.

      • KresyAntics
        KresyAntics
        February 2, 2012 at 11:18 am | #

        A simple work around… you have to acknowledge it was a mistake in the first place. it’s really difficult for those who think they are always right… like in the case of Billie.

  8. milk experiment
    milk experiment
    February 2, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

    Hmmm. Not sure if mockery or failed nerd flirtation attempt…

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      February 2, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

      It’s amazing how often those two can be similar. One of the hallmarks of being a nerd is that flirting gets you laughed at, so we learn to make that part of the plan.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      February 2, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

      Definitely flirting.

  9. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    February 2, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

    Panel 4 will be someone’s gravatar. I can sense it.

    • Mkvenner
      Mkvenner
      February 2, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

      Sense? You mean seen right.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        February 2, 2012 at 3:13 am | #

        I can seen it? That sounds wrong to me.

        • Fraser
          Fraser
          February 2, 2012 at 12:36 pm | #

          Because Dr Who can time travel, so why declare a hunch you haven’t already confirmed? I don’t think Mkvenner meant to correct grammar.

          • a99steaksauce
            a99steaksauce
            February 2, 2012 at 1:19 pm | #

            Just because he chose that name does not mean he needs to act the part. He does not need to stay ‘in character’ for his names sake.
            Im starting to hate such standards here. :{D

    • agentksilver
      agentksilver
      February 2, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

      Mine, once I get to a computer rather than my iphone.

    • a99steaksauce
      a99steaksauce
      February 2, 2012 at 12:11 am | #

      Im sure it will someday. I mean look at my drunk mike Gravatar.

  10. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    February 2, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

    But does he have all the cartridges? (The Tandy 1000 was a hybrid quasi-PC/quasi-game console.)

    • Slipgate
      Slipgate
      February 2, 2012 at 12:38 am | #

      I had a Tandy 1000. It didn’t have cartridge slots. It used MS-DOS 3.3 and it used 3.5″ floppy disks, many of which I still have and use the stuff from thanks to DOSBox having Tandy emulation available.

      (In fact, it was the 2000s Internet that told me it ever had cartridge slots – I think those were more prevalent for its predecessor the TRS-80.)

      And, before asked about my specific Tandy, I had a Tandy 1000 TX model, with 12 mhz on its processor, one double-density 3.5″ floppy drive, a Tandy keyboard, a CM5 monitor, and an OKIDATA dot-matrix printer. And it was GRAND. (In fact, I’m in plans currently to get it down from the attic and see if it still operates.) I used that computer from 1987 to 1993. No joke.

      • Kisai
        Kisai
        February 2, 2012 at 3:33 am | #

        Original Tandy 1000, cost about 2000$ with 640K ram, two floppy disc drives, RGB color monitor and ran at 4.77Mhz. No cartridge slot on this either.

        When we later got a 286 suddenly the music on everything sucked. It wasn’t until later Sierra games that I realized that the Tandy systems had a 3 Voice chip that PC’s didn’t was the reason.

  11. addude
    addude
    February 2, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

    After saying that Billie jumps Danny and thus begins a torrent love affair which Joe supports.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      February 2, 2012 at 12:12 am | #

      That’s because she thinks Tandy is a type of booze, and Danny just offered her 1000 vintage bottles of it.

    • agentksilver
      agentksilver
      February 2, 2012 at 12:14 am | #

      I’m trying to imagine a torrent love affair and while it’s very naughty it’s also frustrating, because the lovers can’t touch each other, merely exchange forbidden bits to each other late into the night. “Download this!” “Oh baby, faster, do it faster!”

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        February 2, 2012 at 12:17 am | #

        All the best affairs involve the participants forbidden bits.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        February 2, 2012 at 12:23 am | #

        Wow, you just make downloading sexually attractive.

        • agentksilver
          agentksilver
          February 2, 2012 at 12:26 am | #

          It wasn’t before?

          • Aizat
            Aizat
            February 2, 2012 at 3:07 am | #

            Before, no. Now, yes.

            • Jinxed44
              Jinxed44
              February 2, 2012 at 4:53 am | #

              If downloading isn’t sexy you aren’t doing it right.

          • Animal
            Animal
            February 2, 2012 at 10:11 am | #

            Hint: Torrent =/= torrid.

            • agentksilver
              agentksilver
              February 2, 2012 at 11:08 am | #

              Yes. Hence why I made a joke equating downloading to sex. The OP’s mistake amused me.

              Honestly, it’s like my innuendo is wasted on you people.

              • Animal
                Animal
                February 2, 2012 at 12:25 pm | #

                Creative misspellings amuse me. It’s probably the author in me.

            • DSL
              DSL
              February 2, 2012 at 11:54 am | #

              The first rule of the joke is DON’T EXPLAIN THE JOKE.

              • fellixe
                fellixe
                February 2, 2012 at 12:33 pm | #

                And TELL NO ONE ABOUT JOKE CLUB! I don’t care if they catch you dead to rights with seltzer-soaked hair, greasepaint behind your ear, and banana peel stains on your pantlegs!

                • Kernanator
                  Kernanator
                  February 2, 2012 at 10:57 pm | #

                  What’s the Third Rule? Because everything comes in threes.

    • Brendan
      Brendan
      February 2, 2012 at 11:29 am | #

      The only way that could happen is if Danny twists her girlfriend’s supple flesh into a lifeless, bloody husk, her crushing her brilliant mind to thoughtless meat in a drunken rage. And since the best candidate for that position is Sal, let’s hope that doesn’t happen!

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        February 2, 2012 at 10:58 pm | #

        That sounds like it could be the plot to a decent movie.

  12. Aizat
    Aizat
    February 2, 2012 at 12:14 am | #

    Errr…. yes, “vintage Tandy 1000”.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      February 2, 2012 at 12:22 am | #

      Geek’s have weird names for their junk sometimes.

      Y’know, like “Tardis” , or “Jelly Baby”, or “Sonic Screwdriver”.

      …Not that I know anyone who does that.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        February 2, 2012 at 12:26 am | #

        I know a guy who called his junk “Goldion Hammer”. I don’t know if I should be weird out or ask him why he’d do it.

        • f.p.
          f.p.
          February 2, 2012 at 1:10 am | #

          So when he pulls it out, the action is over an instant later? Or it makes girls disappear? I could believe either of those.

        • AckAckAck(Now with sugar powered speedster!)
          AckAckAck(Now with sugar powered speedster!)
          February 2, 2012 at 6:01 am | #

          I remember a Japanese giant robot called Goldion….

          • Aizat
            Aizat
            February 2, 2012 at 6:36 am | #

            Actually, Goldion Hammer is a name of an attack/ weapon from GaoGaiGar.

      • fellixe
        fellixe
        February 2, 2012 at 12:39 am | #

        If that’s what Danny meant I hope he’s careful not to cause her to want to boot up the ol’ Tandy.

      • Zuche
        Zuche
        February 2, 2012 at 9:42 am | #

        If it’s named the Crawling Chaos, run. Run fast. Run far.

      • nekobawt
        nekobawt
        February 2, 2012 at 2:02 pm | #

        not sure about the wisdom of naming your junk “tardis,” regardless of one’s sex.

        …i mean, “it’s bigger on the inside”?

        • Doctor_Who
          Doctor_Who
          February 2, 2012 at 8:05 pm | #

          It can penetrate the time vortex.

          • Rex Hondo
            Rex Hondo
            February 2, 2012 at 10:02 pm | #

            But if is makes that grinding noise when it’s in use, something is very, very wrong.

  13. brasca1
    brasca1
    February 2, 2012 at 12:19 am | #

    He’s clearly meant for Amber. She’d get that.

    • AckAckAck(Now with sugar powered speedster!)
      AckAckAck(Now with sugar powered speedster!)
      February 2, 2012 at 5:59 am | #

      Or Dina….

      • Rex Hondo
        Rex Hondo
        February 2, 2012 at 10:03 pm | #

        Or both.

        Bow chicka bow wow

  14. Pickle Jello
    Pickle Jello
    February 2, 2012 at 12:20 am | #

    If they want to get REALLY dirty, they can commit the Biblical sin of “wasting seed.”

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      February 2, 2012 at 12:33 am | #

      You mean “slapping the one-eyed champ”?

      • fellixe
        fellixe
        February 2, 2012 at 12:41 am | #

        Rollin’ the bone

        • lawzlo
          lawzlo
          February 2, 2012 at 1:04 am | #

          Playing tug-of-war with the cyclops.

          • Aizat
            Aizat
            February 2, 2012 at 1:17 am | #

            Stroking the one-eyed snake.

          • a99steaksauce
            a99steaksauce
            February 2, 2012 at 1:20 am | #

            Bashing the Bishop.

            • SlenderTroll
              SlenderTroll
              February 2, 2012 at 1:36 am | #

              Strangling the wombat.

              • Aizat
                Aizat
                February 2, 2012 at 1:39 am | #

                Freeing the whales

                • fellixe
                  fellixe
                  February 2, 2012 at 1:50 am | #

                  Rubbing the lamp

                • Rex Hondo
                  Rex Hondo
                  February 2, 2012 at 2:01 am | #

                  Shaking hands with Mister Happy

                • a99steaksauce
                  a99steaksauce
                  February 2, 2012 at 2:17 am | #

                  floggin the dolphin

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  February 2, 2012 at 3:15 am | #

                  Unclogging the pipes.

                • Kaj
                  Kaj
                  February 2, 2012 at 3:21 am | #

                  Washing the wookie.

                • Vincent
                  Vincent
                  February 2, 2012 at 3:56 am | #

                  Paddling… the… canoe?

                • Aizat
                  Aizat
                  February 2, 2012 at 4:11 am | #

                  Making peace with the Germans….wait, that’s not it. Uhm… LigLightening the load.

                • Aizat
                  Aizat
                  February 2, 2012 at 4:11 am | #

                  Damn it, I meant lightening the load.

                • gangler
                  gangler
                  February 2, 2012 at 4:26 am | #

                  Slaying the Cerberus?

                • Jinxed44
                  Jinxed44
                  February 2, 2012 at 4:57 am | #

                  Okay that is a messed up doodad if it has any similarity with Cerberus.
                  … Playing a solo.

                • AckAckAck(Now with sugar powered speedster!)
                  AckAckAck(Now with sugar powered speedster!)
                  February 2, 2012 at 5:58 am | #

                  toweling a dwarf.

                • Rex Hondo
                  Rex Hondo
                  February 2, 2012 at 6:27 am | #

                  Going for the gold

                • gangler
                  gangler
                  February 2, 2012 at 6:35 am | #

                  @Jinxed44: More of a Hydra are we? Must be popular with the ladies.

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  February 2, 2012 at 7:50 am | #

                  Shaking the sauce bottle.

                • Joe
                  Joe
                  February 2, 2012 at 9:06 am | #

                  Going on a date with Palmela Handerson

                • HiEv
                  HiEv
                  February 2, 2012 at 10:53 am | #

                  Spanking the monkey.

                • Phillip Wilde
                  Phillip Wilde
                  February 2, 2012 at 11:05 am | #

                  Spanking the plank.

                • Aizat
                  Aizat
                  February 2, 2012 at 11:28 am | #

                  Slapping the happy monkey.

                • fellixe
                  fellixe
                  February 2, 2012 at 12:37 pm | #

                  Confuscious Say:
                  “Man who go to bed with sex problem on mind wake up with solution on hand.”

                • Kryss LaBryn
                  Kryss LaBryn
                  February 2, 2012 at 7:49 pm | #

                  C-C-COMBO BREAKER!! dang it.

                  Watering the lizard! –No, wait. Um, having a date with Five-Fingered Mary?

                • Keulan
                  Keulan
                  February 2, 2012 at 8:01 pm | #

                  Waxing the missile.

                • Rex Hondo
                  Rex Hondo
                  February 2, 2012 at 10:04 pm | #

                  Polishing his wand

                • Kernanator
                  Kernanator
                  February 2, 2012 at 11:10 pm | #

                  Shaving an orangutan.

                • Usayasha
                  Usayasha
                  February 3, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

                  “Groping your grinder.”
                  “Establishing your cannon.”
                  “Pampering your paragon.”
                  “Floating your frigate.”
                  “Curling your toes.”
                  Or perhaps, “Joe your Rosenthal.”

                • lordphulish
                  lordphulish
                  February 3, 2012 at 10:06 am | #

                  Masturbating with his penis!

  15. madock345
    madock345
    February 2, 2012 at 12:21 am | #

    Danny got his Joe Faaace on, (his penis) after looking at the back of her Femurs, he wants to joe her so bad he would sell her his tandy for a nickle.

  16. fellixe
    fellixe
    February 2, 2012 at 12:25 am | #

    Yeah, that look kind of concerns me. Anyone who can leer while referencing the Tandy 1000 concerns me.

  17. Romanticide
    Romanticide
    February 2, 2012 at 12:31 am | #

    Times have really changed XD

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      February 2, 2012 at 12:35 am | #

      Yes, back in the old days, people doesn’t name their junk after an old computer.

      • Rex Hondo
        Rex Hondo
        February 2, 2012 at 10:09 pm | #

        Did they name them after typewriters? Because that would be awesome, and after a quick Google search, I may start calling my junk the “Underwood Touch-Master 5.”

        • Kernanator
          Kernanator
          February 2, 2012 at 11:10 pm | #

          Dude, that sounds incredibly porn-y. I love it.

  18. Ian Albert
    Ian Albert
    February 2, 2012 at 12:34 am | #

    If Danny were able to show off his fully functional TRS-80 Model 1 complete with expansion unit then I might give him some credit. If I were Billie, I wouldn’t take Danny seriously until he was able to at least produce a Commodore Colt.

    • Kaj
      Kaj
      February 2, 2012 at 3:22 am | #

      Yeah, but the minute he powers a TRS-80 Model 1 on, the wifi for the whole campus would be down 😉 The FCC was rather horrified that those machines were completely unshielded…

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      February 2, 2012 at 4:13 am | #

      Nah, I’m not impressed. If he produce a typewriter, then I’ll be impressed.

      • Kryss LaBryn
        Kryss LaBryn
        February 2, 2012 at 7:50 pm | #

        I have an Underwood…

  19. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    February 2, 2012 at 12:38 am | #

    Swing and a miss Danny.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      February 2, 2012 at 4:15 am | #

      At least it’s better than swing and the ball ricochet off a tree and hit you square in the face. We are using golf as metaphor, right?

      • a99steaksauce
        a99steaksauce
        February 2, 2012 at 1:23 pm | #

        You might be able to go for baseball in a forest as well

  20. gangler
    gangler
    February 2, 2012 at 12:41 am | #

    Billie receives a compliment, interprets it as condescension, responds with scathing sarcasm. She just went from foreign to relatable in a single panel.

  21. agentksilver
    agentksilver
    February 2, 2012 at 12:43 am | #

    Actually, Billie, soon you will be topped. Or you will do the topping. In any case, topping will occur, and Billie will be involved.

    Ice cream?

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      February 2, 2012 at 1:21 am | #

      You keep using the word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.

      • Bekah
        Bekah
        February 2, 2012 at 3:37 am | #

        If you’re trying to say that it has a sexual connotation, I think agentksilver knows exactly what it means.

        • f.p.
          f.p.
          February 2, 2012 at 9:14 am | #

          Danny strikes me as more of a bottom.

          • Phillip Wilde
            Phillip Wilde
            February 2, 2012 at 11:07 am | #

            Oh my!

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ALsvU50wQ

            • fellixe
              fellixe
              February 2, 2012 at 12:42 pm | #

              …and the YouTube link only confirms that my inner dialog nailed the celebrity voice cue.

          • Bekah
            Bekah
            February 2, 2012 at 7:04 pm | #

            Bingo.

  22. Dani
    Dani
    February 2, 2012 at 1:10 am | #

    sex face!

  23. Chibi Squirt
    Chibi Squirt
    February 2, 2012 at 1:20 am | #

    I think this interaction is *adorable*. They’re both swinging and missing, and swinging again. Dorothy is forgiven, indeed!

  24. Cope
    Cope
    February 2, 2012 at 2:00 am | #

    Where did she even find a cassette recorder in this day and age?

    • David
      David M Willis
      February 2, 2012 at 2:09 am | #

      Mini-cassettes survived waaaaay longer than normal cassettes.

      • f.p.
        f.p.
        February 2, 2012 at 5:35 am | #

        G1 Soundwave is still relevant!

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          February 2, 2012 at 5:38 am | #

          Darn, you beat to me it.

        • Rex Hondo
          Rex Hondo
          February 2, 2012 at 6:29 am | #

          Not only relevant, Soundwave superior.

    • Cheredarenee
      Cheredarenee
      February 2, 2012 at 2:22 am | #

      Every college bookstore sells mini recorders and cassettes… at least as recently as 2009

      • Vincent
        Vincent
        February 2, 2012 at 4:02 am | #

        And they’re freaking expensive too.

    • AckAckAck(Now with sugar powered speedster!)
      AckAckAck(Now with sugar powered speedster!)
      February 2, 2012 at 5:54 am | #

      Casette tape recorders still used until today because unlike digital it can’t be tampered easily. It’s good for interviews and business discussion to avoid scam and trickery. Also good for detective work as confession won’t be tampered.

      The risk is cassette can be destroyed.

      • f.p.
        f.p.
        February 2, 2012 at 6:23 am | #

        As such, tapes make very good MacGuffins. Hmm, what could Willis be planning? Is there a “gotta get that tape” story on the way?

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          February 2, 2012 at 7:00 am | #

          Or the “recorded conversation that could easily be mistaken out of context” story.

          • f.p.
            f.p.
            February 2, 2012 at 9:11 am | #

            Or the secret recording that exposes the bad guy!

            • fellixe
              fellixe
              February 2, 2012 at 12:45 pm | #

              Or the accidental exchange of supposedly benign material with highly classified data at the center of madcap antics which by freakish coincidence is on the exact same obsolete medium.

              • Aizat
                Aizat
                February 2, 2012 at 12:58 pm | #

                Isn’t that the same as the”out of context recorded conversation” story?

                • begbert2
                  begbert2
                  February 2, 2012 at 3:19 pm | #

                  No, it’s the “run into a spy by accident and pick up each other’s briefcases” story. The recording the innocent person actually made is benign both in and out of context.

      • Vincent
        Vincent
        February 2, 2012 at 2:36 pm | #

        It’s certainly harder than revising an audio file, but this is one case where people might believe older stuff is safer, when it really isn’t. If you really want to manipulate stuff, at worst you can just record the cassette onto an audiofile, manipulate the file, then rerecord the audiofile into the cassette.

        They’re also not that great at keeping information safe. Let me introduce you to my friend, Mr E. Magnet.

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          February 2, 2012 at 2:48 pm | #

          Hey, speaking of magnets, how do they work? 🙂

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            February 2, 2012 at 6:36 pm | #

            They use magic naturally.

  25. Noel Schornhorst
    Noel Schornhorst
    February 2, 2012 at 3:17 am | #

    Danny could show me his Tandy any day…

  26. Aizat
    Aizat
    February 2, 2012 at 4:00 am | #

    Hey, I just remembered something. Wasn’t there some Whiz Kids that are somewhat related to the Tandy Computer?

  27. Izzy
    Izzy
    February 2, 2012 at 4:48 am | #

    Maybe I missed it but I’m surprised I didn’t see a comment by Linkara yet

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      February 2, 2012 at 4:52 am | #

      Maybe he’s busy.

      • Izzy
        Izzy
        February 2, 2012 at 11:51 am | #

        Probably but it was late and I was tired and I was surprised

  28. Tom T.
    Tom T.
    February 2, 2012 at 6:58 am | #

    There’s a voice recorder on my phone?

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      February 2, 2012 at 7:04 am | #

      Hey, if it can connect to the Internet and do video call, it would damn well record someone’s voice. I have one but why in God’s name that they have to remove the flashlight feature? That’s the most useful feature, aside from the alarm clock and music player of course.

      • Fred
        Fred
        February 2, 2012 at 7:45 am | #

        And texting and, you know, placing phone calls.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          February 2, 2012 at 7:47 am | #

          They can make phone calls too?

          HOLY FRICKING CRAP!

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          February 2, 2012 at 8:04 am | #

          Placing calls is what phones do so I don’t think of it as a feature but more of as it’s function. Texting on the other hand is something that I rarely do so I might have forgotten about it.

      • Vincent
        Vincent
        February 2, 2012 at 2:38 pm | #

        Android user here, but anyway: Check your camera function, advanced settings. Flashlight feature might the be there for you.

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          February 2, 2012 at 2:47 pm | #

          Not an Android user. Sorry pal.

    • Kryss LaBryn
      Kryss LaBryn
      February 2, 2012 at 7:53 pm | #

      Dude, there’s a voice recorder on MY phone and it’s a bottom-end Virgin that does nothing but text and make calls. And record voices.

      Now, getting the recording OFF the phone…

  29. Tenn
    Tenn
    February 2, 2012 at 8:12 am | #

    Omigod! O.O

    Danny is the larval form of Jon Arbuckle!

    !!!!!

    • Zuche
      Zuche
      February 2, 2012 at 9:55 am | #

      That is a disturbing insight. Well done.

    • gangler
      gangler
      February 2, 2012 at 11:05 am | #

      I’ll never be able to unknow that.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      February 2, 2012 at 6:39 pm | #

      If he adopts a ginger kitten later on, then this myth will be confirmed.

  30. Wack'd
    Wack'd
    February 2, 2012 at 8:52 am | #

    Danny’s got me beat. My computer’s a Demension 3000.

  31. Jerrery
    Jerrery
    February 2, 2012 at 10:33 am | #

    Anybody else think Danny’s suddenly over his ex-girlfriend a little too easily? Does this mean plot hole or dick character? I’m leaning toward the latter.

    • Phillip Wilde
      Phillip Wilde
      February 2, 2012 at 11:10 am | #

      Or he’s just an 18-year-old boy, as they tend to think with their dicks from time to time.

    • agentksilver
      agentksilver
      February 2, 2012 at 11:13 am | #

      When I’m recently free from a dude, even if I’m not over it yet I still go a little nuts, because the newness of being single, and therefore able to pursue cute boys, is pretty damn cool. I’m not surprised he’s flirting, but if he were to be completely drama-free in any level deeper than flirting, that would be weird.

    • Rex Hondo
      Rex Hondo
      February 2, 2012 at 10:12 pm | #

      I think it just means stacked girl in glasses.

  32. Alexx
    Alexx
    February 2, 2012 at 10:56 am | #

    I like “realfuckin'” as one word. I can see a lot of great uses for that one…

  33. Kafloobop
    Kafloobop
    February 2, 2012 at 11:36 am | #

    Haha, there are so many great faces in this comic.

  34. Fraser
    Fraser
    February 2, 2012 at 12:39 pm | #

    please, once I got a typewriter with a backspace key technology was already at its zenith. Everything since then was just showing off 😛

  35. begbert2
    begbert2
    February 2, 2012 at 3:25 pm | #

    So, is matchingness a notable enough property of jammies to rate particular mention? Does the normal user of jammies wear a non-matching set? If they sold jammies in non-matching sets, would they still be non-matching sets?

    • agentksilver
      agentksilver
      February 2, 2012 at 5:17 pm | #

      From what I’ve seen, most jammies=t-shirt and pajama pants, with little attention to matchingness. It’s weird to see someone wearing a matching jammie set. Unless that person is my boyfriend, in which case it’s adorable.

  36. ken
    ken
    February 2, 2012 at 4:58 pm | #

    I remember my old vic20 with 2 tape cassette drives 🙂

    • Animal
      Animal
      February 2, 2012 at 7:10 pm | #

      When I was a kid my Dad had a horse that could add up numbers by stamping its hoof.

      • Kryss LaBryn
        Kryss LaBryn
        February 2, 2012 at 7:55 pm | #

        We used a dinosaur.

        • thomas0comer
          thomas0comer
          February 2, 2012 at 8:38 pm | #

          We used stray bits of stellar dust before they collected into anything.

          • Animal
            Animal
            February 2, 2012 at 8:56 pm | #

            Hah! You had stellar dust? Kids these days. We had to use stray hydrogen atoms from the Big Bang. Nobody had even thought up start yet. None of that fancy-schmancy stuff.

            • Animal
              Animal
              February 2, 2012 at 8:56 pm | #

              *stars

              • Kafloobop
                Kafloobop
                February 3, 2012 at 11:05 am | #

                Are you kidding? For us numbers were still an abstract construct. All we had was a single point of indefinite mass.

  37. Propellergator
    Propellergator
    February 2, 2012 at 10:51 pm | #

    Anyone realize that Danny’s face in the last panel is the same as Walky’s in the title bar? :O
    http://playstationeu.i.lithium.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/281929iA0B687262ADAC283/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&px=-1

  38. Lumino
    Lumino
    February 4, 2012 at 1:50 am | #

    It would seem that Joe had to eat his words:

    http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/03-men-are-from-beck-women-are-from-clark/pajamas-2/

    She just did! Oh Snap!

  39. Laser Jesus
    Laser Jesus
    March 19, 2014 at 12:37 am | #

    How does Danny even know about the existence of the Tandy 1000? It’s a decade older than he is!

    • MNGoldenEagle
      MNGoldenEagle
      August 21, 2014 at 8:09 am | #

      It came out in the late ’80s and was on the market for several years. I grew up with one as a kid and I’m only 28. I still have it, actually, and it’s still working last time I checked!

      …. wow, I can’t tell if I’m channeling Danny or if he’s me in comic form. Freaky.

      • ward Griffiths
        ward Griffiths
        August 4, 2015 at 10:22 pm | #

        The first Tandy 1000 model came out in 1984. 128k to 768k RAM, 5.25″ 360k floppies. Sound and video like the PC Jr, much better than PC/XT. Second biggest tech support nightmare the company ever produced. My own collection of old Tandy equipment doesn’t feature anything that new, I hated MS-DOS (still do).

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