“Oh, and now we play the game of who had the worse dad?”
“My dad’s dead.”
“Classic!”
“No, he’s seriously dead.”
“Hilarious!”
“He died of a heart attack last year.”
“…I’m sorry for your loss.”
A guys walked up to me and played a sound bite of a woman moaning and he said that my mom with him last night. Complete jerk never saw him before he was just being a jerk. Straight faced I said my mom died two months ago and he and he’s friends jaws dropped. I walked away selling it like a boss. My mom is okay. That’s how you do it.
As a lady (I’ve got a card and everything) I can assure you that the term “Lady balls” is quite often tossed around, and considered complimentary…for some people.
You’de be surprised. Not to be profiling or whatever, but people highly aggressive and dominant outside the bedroom have a strange tendency to be subs inside the bedroom.
Huh, what do you know, it is. Also, according to the Constitution, the Vice Presedent’s jobs are being the tie braking vote in the senate and protector of the Space-Time Continuum. Are we sure our founding fathers weren’t drunk when they were making these documents that created the foundation of our country?
Humm..and the games afoot. Interesting. As an investigative reporter, Billie makes a good tightrope walker. If Ruth is lying…then who was on the phone….curiouser and curiouser.
I can see them as friends, they are both crazy as shit house rats and just as self absorbed.
Maybe not her Dad, but whoever it was they have enough hold over Ruth to compell her to drink and now that Billie knows it’s not Ruth’s father she can narrow down the choices further.
That is if Ruth is telling the truth and if so I wonder how he died.
Nah, not the brother we know at least. Nobody’s been THAT different in this series so far, and not only that but Howard’s her younger brother- not a chance she’d be calling him ‘sir’, no matter what.
…Really, nobody has come up with the possibility that her dad was in the service and was just KIA. The “Sir” in question being a Company Chaplain or Commanding Officer?
Unless Ruth herself is in the military, she wouldn’t be obligated to call the chaplain or CO “sir” (although she might just choose to do so out of respect, I suppose). And I don’t see why either of these figures would be chewing her out to the point of making her cry.
Billie is in a slightly tighter spot I think (though I’m not sure all that Ruth would have to admit to give up her info) in order to give the information she would have to, as she has right now, admit to breaking into her RA’s room and hiding in her closet for hours, knowing Billie she would probably spill that she stole the liquor as well just because she bumbles like that.
Why did Billie assume Ruth has issues with her father? In what universe has anyone ever called their father “sir”? Sounds like she was insulted by her boss or a near stranger. Probably her boss.
Methinks you had a normal father. I don’t claim not to have, but at least one of my friends calls their father “sir”… and so do I, because YOU DO NOT F*** with that man, and that’s what he demands.
Unfortunately, some people just have controlling parents. :/
If they’re lucky, they can survive it without any deep emotional troubles showing up.
Yeah, Billie didn’t think this through. The booze thing, can of course be used against Ruth, because that’s against the school rules.
The attempt at using Ruth’s emotional issues against her however… yeah, that’s not going to scare Ruth off. After all, what would that information do against Ruth? Most likely it would get her sympathy from other people or provoke her to become even more aggressive. It would basically be poking an already psychotic and blood thirst bear with a stick, and then teaching that bear to use a rifle and standing before a big bulls-eye.
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http://www.sadtrombone.com/ (sorry, but I had to)
No, emotional bombshell was a dud and misfired.
But…the only way to win is not to play!
Billie would much prefer a game of Tic-Tac-Toe to what she’s experiencing now.
The best way to win Tic-tac-Toe is to be the first player and hope the other guy screws up.
That would’ve been a fun twist. The boy screws up and the computer learns that the only way to win is through a pre-emptive strike.
Like this, perhaps? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFCOapq3uYY
Exactly like that, what they need to do to settle matters now is to have a showdown via the Ultimate Staring Contest.
Too bad Billie didn’t find more skeletons while in that closet.
If she did, she wouldn’t feel as boned as she does right now.
Well played!
Point set match. Game Ruth. If she’s lying extra points for cunning.
“Oh, and now we play the game of who had the worse dad?”
“My dad’s dead.”
“Classic!”
“No, he’s seriously dead.”
“Hilarious!”
“He died of a heart attack last year.”
“…I’m sorry for your loss.”
I’ve done that once. It made work incredibly awkward for the rest of the night.
A guys walked up to me and played a sound bite of a woman moaning and he said that my mom with him last night. Complete jerk never saw him before he was just being a jerk. Straight faced I said my mom died two months ago and he and he’s friends jaws dropped. I walked away selling it like a boss. My mom is okay. That’s how you do it.
I buried my mother’s ashes today.
Do I win?
Selling it would have involved punching the guy in the face and yelling “My mom is dead, asshole!”
MY PARENTS ARE DEEAAAAAAD!!!
I’m a horrible, horrible person.
And now they’re gonna get drunk together and bond. And people will write slash fics about it.
Mmmm Ruth/Billie? I can dig it!
…and it will be called Blackmail Shipping.
Don’t believe it Billie, that’s the oldest trick in the book! Just don’t blame me when you call her bluff.
What, you think Ruth is pulling a Wheaton’s Nana Gambit?
Should have kept your mouth shut Billie. Don’t mess with Ruth’s Lady Balls.
You just said a mouthful.
we call them ovaries, thanx
Obviously Billie doesn’t.
Man, Billie. First Amazi-Girl, and now this. For a journalism student, you’re really rotten about actually doing any research.
That’s true – does she actually care about the course? (Or would that interfere with valuable WAAAAA I WAS A CHEERLEADER time?)
Of course. Why should she waste her time on things that aren’t her?
“Lady balls”? See, that doesn’t strike me as something an actual lady would say. It’s more like something I would say and then regret severely.
Are you implying that Billie is an actual Lady?
no she’s a cheer leader
“But”, not “no”.
To paraphrase, “That was no lady, that was Billie!”
As a lady (I’ve got a card and everything) I can assure you that the term “Lady balls” is quite often tossed around, and considered complimentary…for some people.
female here — would just say balls (no “lady” with it) whether or not the owner has them
“alleged owner” …. derp
well fuck.
Her step-father then?
when you assume you make an ass out of Uma Thurman.
Which is a lot harder than making a horse out of Sarah Jessica Parker.
or a Platypus out of Pauly Perrette
Or a dick out of Mel Gibson.
C-C-C-Combo Breaker!!!
Sorry, always wanted to do that.
Do you feel better now for doing so?
Oddly, these two could end up as friends. Hey, stranger things have happened.
Well, well, well. What *is* Ruth’s big secret, then?
She’s Mike in drag.
An Electra complex?
That she’s Amazi-Girl’s arch-nemesis.
I’m guessing Ruth has a couple of ’em. Most people do.
I keep mine in a deep hole in the middle of the bush, like all smart killers.
The Shadow knows.
Her father is dead and the “sir” in her life, whether stepfather or guardian, is abusive and controlling. Thus driving her to drink.
it’s totes her Dominant.
There is no way in he’ll that Ruth is a sub.
There is no way in hell that Ruth is a sub.
You’de be surprised. Not to be profiling or whatever, but people highly aggressive and dominant outside the bedroom have a strange tendency to be subs inside the bedroom.
I second this – it was the first thing I thought when rereading her phone conversation.
Ruth, you have no right to call anyone an asshole. Ever.
I mean it. EVER.
Unless Billie personally killed your father. (In which case she should prepare to die. And so forth.)
It’s her right as an American citizen to call someone an asshole, it’s written in the Bill of Rights IIRC.
She could also call her an african snowball princess. I dunno why…but she could. god bless america.
*Looks through Bill of Rights*
Huh, what do you know, it is. Also, according to the Constitution, the Vice Presedent’s jobs are being the tie braking vote in the senate and protector of the Space-Time Continuum. Are we sure our founding fathers weren’t drunk when they were making these documents that created the foundation of our country?
Bring drunk was normal cack then, maybe they were high at the time.
Abraham Lincoln was far too busy fighting vampires to pay attention to what he was signing.
Abe was alive when they wrote the Bill of Rights?
Abraham Lincoln has always been. He died for our sins and rose 3 days later.
No, see, Abraham Lincoln was the 22nd Doctor. And also will be. Time is complicated.
And then he became a vampire hunter and fought alongside the Belmont family.
I don’t think Sam Adams spent 15 minutes sober between his 14th birthday and his death.
No, but I’m pretty sure that saw Gary Seven in one of those paintings of the Continental Congress.
OOOOL Obscure ST:TOS reference.
Yeah, dayuuum.
Not that obscure. I mean, Assignment: Earth. Back-in-the-day Teri Garr? Mrowww.
Or maybe I’m just old…
Obscure by modern standards.
Not helping on the “feeling old” front, there, Mongoose.
Article II, Section 3
Fuck you Hamilton. You’re an asshole and will never be president.
-Thomas Jefferson
Article VI, section 4
I get to write my name first guys. I promise I’ll leave space
-John Hancock
This… could have gone better.
It is likely going to get worse, I seen this trope in action too many times to believe otherwise.
Of course! After all, Billie hasn’t finished digging her own grave yet.
If you give someone a shovel, they will bury YOU with it, that’s what my grandpappy used to always say.
I’d say something about your grandpappy, but I fear the ironic rebuttle of his recent death
Recent? He died decades ago.
Oh Billy, never tell people that you’ve been hiding in their closet. They start checking and then you have to find a new spot.
Speaking from experience there, sir?
Of course not, I am certainly not typing this from underneath your bed. That is a ridiculous accusation.
…my bed is welded into the floor. There are no breathing holes. How are you still alive?
I’m secretly Leslie’s gooey pink cat, I need nothing so mortal as oxygen.
Billie is not really good at maintaining an advantage.
Humm..and the games afoot. Interesting. As an investigative reporter, Billie makes a good tightrope walker. If Ruth is lying…then who was on the phone….curiouser and curiouser.
I can see them as friends, they are both crazy as shit house rats and just as self absorbed.
Maybe not her Dad, but whoever it was they have enough hold over Ruth to compell her to drink and now that Billie knows it’s not Ruth’s father she can narrow down the choices further.
That is if Ruth is telling the truth and if so I wonder how he died.
It could be her brother? He might be much different in this universe.
Nah, not the brother we know at least. Nobody’s been THAT different in this series so far, and not only that but Howard’s her younger brother- not a chance she’d be calling him ‘sir’, no matter what.
Lost a parent way too recently to be able to take this comic.
No punchline to see here folks. Move along.
I’m just waiting for the punch.
Cue Batman: “My parents are dead!” reference.
Wait.
Does that mean…?
HOLY COW GUYS, RUTH IS AMAZI GIRL!
Then who on Earth is Sal supposed to be?
it depends which earth you’re talking about
Nah, Ruth is too axe crazy. If anything, she’s the Prometheus, or maybe the Hush to Amazi-Girl’s Batman.
With these two, everything is spiked.
Billie spikes her beer with beer.
Remember my theory way back then the guy on the phone was Ruth’s father? No? Good!
And boom goes the dynamite…
The sound effect you were looking for was *fizzle*
THEN WHO WAS PHONE?
It’s still possible that was her dad on the phone. It’s possible that was the last time they spoke. That would warrant some serious drinking.
“vise”
…Really, nobody has come up with the possibility that her dad was in the service and was just KIA. The “Sir” in question being a Company Chaplain or Commanding Officer?
Unless Ruth herself is in the military, she wouldn’t be obligated to call the chaplain or CO “sir” (although she might just choose to do so out of respect, I suppose). And I don’t see why either of these figures would be chewing her out to the point of making her cry.
….oh dear.
So, I don’t like Billie or Ruth. I dislike them by a lot, in fact. Is this the expected reaction?
…Yep.
I’m officially done with Billie.
to make it official, you’ll have to fill out form 22B, and sign… here… here… annnnnnd initial here.
Thank you!
haha, how awkward.
And Billie continues to hold the Championship Belt for “Worst Person in DOA Universe.” I bet her Dad is proud.
See: Ruth versus Billie!
Which clinically overgrown super ego will win?
Billie is in a slightly tighter spot I think (though I’m not sure all that Ruth would have to admit to give up her info) in order to give the information she would have to, as she has right now, admit to breaking into her RA’s room and hiding in her closet for hours, knowing Billie she would probably spill that she stole the liquor as well just because she bumbles like that.
wait wait wait. Then what was the “Yes, I am sorry to disappoint, sir all about. 0_o
This is Ruth we’re talking about. She could be lying to screw with Billie even more.
I approve this theory.
Why did Billie assume Ruth has issues with her father? In what universe has anyone ever called their father “sir”? Sounds like she was insulted by her boss or a near stranger. Probably her boss.
Methinks you had a normal father. I don’t claim not to have, but at least one of my friends calls their father “sir”… and so do I, because YOU DO NOT F*** with that man, and that’s what he demands.
Unfortunately, some people just have controlling parents. :/
If they’re lucky, they can survive it without any deep emotional troubles showing up.
Yeah, Billie didn’t think this through. The booze thing, can of course be used against Ruth, because that’s against the school rules.
The attempt at using Ruth’s emotional issues against her however… yeah, that’s not going to scare Ruth off. After all, what would that information do against Ruth? Most likely it would get her sympathy from other people or provoke her to become even more aggressive. It would basically be poking an already psychotic and blood thirst bear with a stick, and then teaching that bear to use a rifle and standing before a big bulls-eye.
The “Latest” button is only going forward a few on the last few pages.
So Ruth is Amazi-Girl…