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May 19, 2026

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by David M Willis on August 20, 2012 at 12:01 am
  • 05 - Saturday's All Right for Slighting
└ Tags: dana, dexter, sarah

Discussion (151) ¬

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  1. Amaziboy
    Amaziboy
    August 20, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    Where is Dexter?

    • thomas0comer
      thomas0comer
      August 20, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

      Dana’s using a Dexter (Head Alien) themed paraphernalia.

      • Nifar
        Nifar
        August 20, 2012 at 12:11 am | #

        Heh. Head Alien. Excellent pun, Willis.

        • David Herbert
          David Herbert
          August 20, 2012 at 2:25 am | #

          She’s getting head.

          • Kernanator
            Kernanator
            August 20, 2012 at 2:58 am | #

            *cue rimshot*

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              August 20, 2012 at 4:32 am | #

              *cue rimjob*

            • Khrene Cleaver
              Khrene Cleaver
              August 20, 2012 at 4:44 am | #

              *cue cumshot*

              • LuckyStar7
                LuckyStar7
                August 20, 2012 at 9:48 am | #

                *cue gunshot*

                • Jehosaphat
                  Jehosaphat
                  August 20, 2012 at 10:07 am | #

                  *cue woodchipper*

                • Bill M.
                  Bill M.
                  August 22, 2012 at 11:39 am | #

                  *cue whiskey shot*

                • fatemaster1
                  fatemaster1
                  June 17, 2014 at 10:04 pm | #

                  *cue deathstar*

                • That guy
                  That guy
                  August 17, 2014 at 1:56 am | #

                  Cue c-c-combo breaker

      • Amaziboy
        Amaziboy
        August 20, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

        I missed that. Thank you.

      • Regalli
        Regalli
        August 20, 2012 at 9:24 am | #

        I was actually going “Wait, is that Head Alien?” before reading the tags. Yaaay, tags!

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      August 20, 2012 at 3:59 am | #

      I was wondering who would be the first to notice the tag. Clearly, I underestimated.

  2. Khantalas
    Khantalas
    August 20, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    Well.

    This is awkward.

  3. thomas0comer
    thomas0comer
    August 20, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    This can only get worse.

  4. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    August 20, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    I NEED that bong. For…. science.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 20, 2012 at 12:57 am | #

      You mean ‘applied chemistry’ right?

      • Rex Hondo
        Rex Hondo
        August 20, 2012 at 2:39 am | #

        Pharmacology.

      • Ancestral Hamster
        Ancestral Hamster
        August 20, 2012 at 2:41 am | #

        That’s an interesting gravatar, PM: who is she?

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          August 20, 2012 at 4:31 am | #

          She is Cyber-6, a superheroine who poses as a mild mannered MALE school teacher during the day.

          • Khrene Cleaver
            Khrene Cleaver
            August 20, 2012 at 4:45 am | #

            Where does she put her boobs?

            No seriously banding can only do so much..

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              August 20, 2012 at 6:35 am | #

              It is never explained but often questioned.

              • TheLastOutlaw
                TheLastOutlaw
                August 20, 2012 at 9:07 am | #

                I hold them for her, it’s a win win arrangement. I won’t get into the specifics though as they technically warp the fabric of reality.

                • LuckyStar7
                  LuckyStar7
                  August 20, 2012 at 9:51 am | #

                  Mike holds them for a nickel a minute.

          • Ancestral Hamster
            Ancestral Hamster
            August 20, 2012 at 1:01 pm | #

            Thanks. I’m going to look her up now.

          • HMRC4EVR
            HMRC4EVR
            August 20, 2012 at 6:45 pm | #

            I was really enjoying the show while it was on Fox Kids, but like a precurser to modern day Cartoon Network they kept shuffing it around all over the schedual until it just vanished and never came back.

            • fatemaster1
              fatemaster1
              June 17, 2014 at 10:07 pm | #

              Yeah, I hate it when they do that with my favorite shows!

  5. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    August 20, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    She’s dead get over it.

    • thomas0comer
      thomas0comer
      August 20, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

      Pot evidently helps with that process.

      • Aegon01
        Aegon01
        August 20, 2012 at 12:35 am | #

        It helps about as much as alcohol does.

        • Raoullefere
          Raoullefere
          August 20, 2012 at 5:47 am | #

          Which is to say not at all. Just puts off dealing with it.

        • djangermouse
          djangermouse
          August 20, 2012 at 1:22 pm | #

          it actually helps way the shit more

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 20, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

      Mkvenner’s compassion and understanding knows NO BOUNDS!!!

      • Wonder Wig
        Wonder Wig
        August 20, 2012 at 12:30 am | #

        Mkvenner or … *rips off his mask* Mike Warner!

      • DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
        DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
        August 20, 2012 at 12:33 am | #

        Yeah, “Flushing your (or at least your less privileged roommate who had nothing to do with your misfortune) University prospects down the toilet won’t bring your mother back to life, but it MIGHT make it harder for her to rest in peace” may have been a better way to express the point.

        • Drunken Nordmann
          Drunken Nordmann
          August 20, 2012 at 6:58 am | #

          I’m a bit confused. Isn’t Mkvenner a character in Gaunt’s Ghosts?

          • Drunken Nordmann
            Drunken Nordmann
            August 20, 2012 at 8:08 am | #

            Ah, that Mkvenner. I think I was blind for a moment.

        • djangermouse
          djangermouse
          August 20, 2012 at 1:25 pm | #

          That would be about as good of a way to express that thoughtless and viciously unsympathetic point.

          • HMRC4EVR
            HMRC4EVR
            August 20, 2012 at 6:47 pm | #

            I have to ask…where’s Penfold?

          • DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
            DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
            August 20, 2012 at 11:37 pm | #

            As opposed to what?

    • Khrene Cleaver
      Khrene Cleaver
      August 20, 2012 at 4:46 am | #

      I think we need to switch Gravatars…

      • Thisguy
        Thisguy
        August 20, 2012 at 5:21 am | #

        No, he needs to switch with someone who has Mike.

        The joke is wasted on DoA-exclusive readers.

        • LuckyStar7
          LuckyStar7
          August 20, 2012 at 9:52 am | #

          I want my Dina one back.
          I hate Gallaso (Galasso?).

          • TheLastOutlaw
            TheLastOutlaw
            August 20, 2012 at 11:00 am | #

            Go to http://www.gravatar.com and setup your own. You can use any pic, just ask Plasma Mongoose 😛

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              August 20, 2012 at 8:55 pm | #

              You would think I was some kind of expert on the subject the way you said that. 😀

  6. Humson
    Humson
    August 20, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    Well.. now I’m sad

  7. Gundi
    Gundi
    August 20, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

    Well I think we can all see where this is going.

    • thomas0comer
      thomas0comer
      August 20, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

      Sarah gives in and turns to drugs!

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        August 20, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

        Sarah gives in and turns into drugs.

        • thomas0comer
          thomas0comer
          August 20, 2012 at 12:18 am | #

          You are what you eat. Or in this case, inject, inhale, sniff, huff, puff, blow… and so on.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          August 20, 2012 at 12:58 am | #

          Are you calling Sarah a dope? 😛

          • Yotomoe
            Yotomoe
            August 20, 2012 at 1:27 am | #

            No, I’m saying she blows.

            • Rex Hondo
              Rex Hondo
              August 20, 2012 at 2:27 am | #

              Somewhere, Joe’s ears (and pants) just perked up.

              • Khrene Cleaver
                Khrene Cleaver
                August 20, 2012 at 4:49 am | #

                I’m sure Joe would love some of that crack!

    • Gordon
      Gordon
      August 20, 2012 at 12:14 am | #

      …No?

      • Historyman68
        Historyman68
        August 20, 2012 at 4:45 am | #

        Ha

  8. Tarpo
    Tarpo
    August 20, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

    When my Dad died I kinda said the same thing.. Without the getting stoned part..

  9. otusasio451
    otusasio451
    August 20, 2012 at 12:09 am | #

    …Oy. Spoiler alert: this won’t end well. At all. Nope.

    • Kensou
      Kensou
      August 20, 2012 at 4:44 am | #

      …Dammit! I HATE spoilers! (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻)

      • LuckyStar7
        LuckyStar7
        August 20, 2012 at 9:59 am | #

        I’m with ya. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻)

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      August 20, 2012 at 5:24 am | #

      At all? Maybe a little…?

  10. John
    John
    August 20, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

    Let the awkwardness begin!

    • John
      John
      August 20, 2012 at 12:11 am | #

      Damnit, my gravitar keeps changing.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        August 20, 2012 at 12:59 am | #

        I know the feeling. 😀

        • Shade
          Shade
          August 20, 2012 at 9:12 pm | #

          Yeah but yours is self inflicted.

  11. derick
    derick
    August 20, 2012 at 12:14 am | #

    Damn you Willis, that’s really sad.

  12. Corsair114
    Corsair114
    August 20, 2012 at 12:27 am | #

    The scientific term for this situation is, I believe, “spiralling.”

    It’s also the word of the day.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 20, 2012 at 12:37 am | #

      AAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaHHHHHH!!!

  13. Not an elf
    Not an elf
    August 20, 2012 at 12:28 am | #

    Yeah, I’m seeing the RA calling the police or something and Sarah being in the position of saying who the weed belongs to or both of them spending the night in jail and missing exams, something along those those lines where she’s between a rock and a hard place.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 20, 2012 at 12:38 am | #

      a crack rock and a hard place o3o

    • Aegon01
      Aegon01
      August 20, 2012 at 12:48 am | #

      I doubt the police will be involved because they aren’t called very often IRL for just “teenagers smokin’ weed” on a college campus. I’m sure it’ll either just be an RA *threatening* to call them, or campus security catches a whiff.

      Either that or this won’t escalate at all, and is in fact, already at the climax. Someone will notice this once.

      • Not an elf
        Not an elf
        August 20, 2012 at 1:16 am | #

        Could be, still it would be hard not to feel sorry for Danah if that’s what happened. She’s been really nice so far, going out of her way to include Sarah in circle of friends, and assuming they’re telling the truth even using fairly kind words to describe her to them.

  14. Romanticide
    Romanticide
    August 20, 2012 at 12:28 am | #

    I am guessing she won’t only want to have that that once only ):

  15. Giant Speck
    Giant Speck
    August 20, 2012 at 12:43 am | #

    Right in the heart, man. Right in the heart.

  16. Alex
    Alex
    August 20, 2012 at 12:43 am | #

    *sitcom laugh track*

    • Khrene Cleaver
      Khrene Cleaver
      August 20, 2012 at 4:52 am | #

      Jeez what is this a Disney show? Put that wildly inappropriate laugh track away!

      • HMRC4EVR
        HMRC4EVR
        August 20, 2012 at 6:51 pm | #

        Humm….if this was a Disney show…say Kim Possible…who would be who?

        • Shade
          Shade
          August 20, 2012 at 9:15 pm | #

          Well Sal would have to be Kim. Simply sue to the nature of their shared acrobatic skills.

  17. Aegon01
    Aegon01
    August 20, 2012 at 12:43 am | #

    Frequent substance use is actually okay if you set rules and follow them (and obviously, you remain relatively productive IRL). It’s when you break your own rules and make exceptions that things go to shit, because then it’s that much easier to break them whenever you want in the future, and then it transforms from something you have control over into something you do whenever you feel like it.

    • Khrene Cleaver
      Khrene Cleaver
      August 20, 2012 at 4:55 am | #

      That reminds me of a my roomate last year, he did this to a tee.

      He would smoke weed, get drunk, take like codine (I think), and cough syrup, and shrooms on a regular but he stayed very productive and had guidlines, and would turned down opportunities to get high whenever they contradicted with one of his rules.

      • Historyman68
        Historyman68
        August 20, 2012 at 5:27 am | #

        And it worked out for him?

        • HeatPhoenix
          HeatPhoenix
          August 20, 2012 at 10:04 am | #

          Walking the tightrope.

      • NaptownSnake
        NaptownSnake
        August 20, 2012 at 7:03 am | #

        Yeah, there are plenty of functional alcoholics/ junkies who manage to keep a normal life going. It often spirals out of control eventually, or impacts their relationships, but it is not uncommon for them to keep a decent day-to-day existence going.

        • TheLastOutlaw
          TheLastOutlaw
          August 20, 2012 at 9:14 am | #

          That sums it up. I could go into gruesome detail regarding someone I personally knew who went from “functioning pot-head” to homeless waste but I think today’s strip maxed out the depression quota already.

      • artemi71
        artemi71
        August 20, 2012 at 10:39 am | #

        It really isn’t the drugs fault, most of the time. If you LET them control your life, sure. But you had to get there in the first place.

        • EmCaCo
          EmCaCo
          August 21, 2012 at 6:42 pm | #

          Just wondering, are you saying that from a ‘it’s your fault for trying it in the first place’ perspective, or a ‘it’s your fault for letting it become a problem?’
          There are so many messy elements going into addiction, one being that humans are more similar to Pavlov’s dog than we like to admit.

    • Inarai
      Inarai
      August 21, 2012 at 4:05 am | #

      The difference between use and abuse doesn’t have a lot to do with frequency. Dana’s leapt over that line now to the point where her substance abuse is covering up issues arising from her mother’s death – preventing her from dealing with those problems. It becomes a feedback loop, basically, because the problems won’t stay the same – if they don’t get better, they’re going to get worse. As they get worse, so will her substance abuse unless someone DOES something about it. Which I’m guessing Sarah tries to and then it doesn’t go well for her.

  18. Taryn
    Taryn
    August 20, 2012 at 1:27 am | #

    :/ I guess I should have expected a college themed comic to come to this topic of drug use. But damn if it isn’t still annoying. v.v Damn my addiction to Willis comics.

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      August 20, 2012 at 3:27 pm | #

      You realize that the topic came up in like, the ninth strip? Right? one month shy of two years ago today?

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/01-move-in-day/high/

      • Taryn
        Taryn
        August 21, 2012 at 12:58 am | #

        Yes, I’m aware. >| I can read.

        But now there is a storyline focusing on it more heavily and depicting it. I find it rather frustrating.

  19. Rex Hondo
    Rex Hondo
    August 20, 2012 at 1:35 am | #

    This, right here, explains why there are no abductees in this universe.
    Would you want to invade a planet where the mellowest members of society are using your advance force’s skulls as bongs?

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      August 20, 2012 at 2:13 am | #

      This… makes sense.

    • thomas0comer
      thomas0comer
      August 20, 2012 at 2:28 am | #

      And where they have frequently airing propaganda (cartoon show) training its denizens to be vigilant in the scenario of a covert alien invasion.

  20. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    August 20, 2012 at 1:42 am | #

    I feel sorry for both of them. I lost my mother and It hurts. There is no way to get around it or over it or under it. You just get through it. Drugs /booze don’t help-it just puts facing it/feeling it off.
    I feel sorry for Sarah, she wants to help her, but no way anyone can. You just say you’re sorry and try to be around if needed.

  21. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    August 20, 2012 at 2:14 am | #

    There is no way this won’t end in fire.

    • Ryan
      Ryan
      August 20, 2012 at 3:31 am | #

      Well SOMETHING’S getting burned right now OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH–

  22. Sporky
    Sporky
    August 20, 2012 at 2:52 am | #

    The second thing on the list is weed.

    • Rex Hondo
      Rex Hondo
      August 20, 2012 at 2:59 am | #

      And whatever the third thing is on the list, it will soon be replaced by Nachitos.

      • Raoullefere
        Raoullefere
        August 20, 2012 at 5:55 am | #

        I’m not sure you can have both no abductees and Nachitos. Just a suspicion, mind, but I think you either don’t use the Aliens’ skulls as bongs, or you don’t get Nachitos. Something about universal balance.

        • Rex Hondo
          Rex Hondo
          August 20, 2012 at 6:57 am | #

          http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/pmhp/

          Boom. Archived.

          • LuckyStar7
            LuckyStar7
            August 20, 2012 at 10:06 am | #

            PRE-MARITAL HANKY-PANKY

          • Raoullefere
            Raoullefere
            August 22, 2012 at 12:48 am | #

            Drat you, Willis.

  23. Blob Marley
    Blob Marley
    August 20, 2012 at 4:11 am | #

    Not to be a giant shithead, but that kind of talk is exactly what leads to problems in very short order…

    • Blob Marley
      Blob Marley
      August 20, 2012 at 4:12 am | #

      Oh, hey, check it out; my gravatar changed!

    • Azukar
      Azukar
      August 20, 2012 at 4:21 am | #

      And doubtless that’s exactly why things are going to go to hell in about the very next strip, if I’m any judge.

      • Blob Marley
        Blob Marley
        August 20, 2012 at 4:27 am | #

        You are probably correct. This is one of those storylines that really hits home, because I’ve seen one or two lives ruined by allegedly innocuous drugs.

        Before the pot defense squad comes at me, I’m not saying pot is bad every time all the time, but there are definitely people for whom it is Bad News Bears, and seeing it here is a painful reminder of that.

        Once in a while, DoA hits me right in the feels.

        • Khrene Cleaver
          Khrene Cleaver
          August 20, 2012 at 4:59 am | #

          “Before the pot defense squad comes at me, I’m not saying pot is bad every time all the time, but there are definitely people for whom it is Bad News Bears, and seeing it here is a painful reminder of that.

          Once in a while, DoA hits me right in the feels.”

          Agreed Blob, agreed.

          • LuckyStar7
            LuckyStar7
            August 20, 2012 at 10:07 am | #

            IN THE FEELS

        • Orange Lettuce
          Orange Lettuce
          August 20, 2012 at 5:32 am | #

          Word.

        • insomniac
          insomniac
          August 20, 2012 at 7:58 am | #

          Pot is innocuous, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be a catalyst for self-destructive behavior. It isn’t “addictive” like the hard drugs, but it is “addictive” in the same way as gambling, or MMOs, or sex. It’s not a chemical addiction, and it won’t kill you the way dangerous drugs will, but if it’s the only thing someone does or pays attention to, that isn’t a healthy lifestyle.

          • Steven
            Steven
            August 20, 2012 at 2:16 pm | #

            Technically, sex would be considered a chemical addiction.

            • begbert2
              begbert2
              August 20, 2012 at 3:33 pm | #

              Since when? ‘Pleasurable’ =/= ‘chemically addictive’, last I checked.

              • Automne
                Automne
                August 20, 2012 at 4:07 pm | #

                It’s the feel-good chemicals your body releases during sex. It can be addictive.

                • Khrene Cleaver
                  Khrene Cleaver
                  August 20, 2012 at 8:07 pm | #

                  At that point everything, including food, is a chemical addiction.

                  I think the context of chemical addiction here is that theres a particular chemical in the substance that travel through the bloodstream into the brain and invokes the release of hormones or nuero transmitters or whatever rather than taking advantage of an indirect path to one’s reward center like Gaming, Food and Sex.

                • Kikon9
                  Kikon9
                  August 20, 2012 at 9:48 pm | #

                  That’s not quite what chemically addictive means. To be chemically addictive, it has to fundamentally alter the chemistry of the brain. Sex releases feel good chemicals that compel certain people to want it as much as possible, but it’s not an addiction at that point, it’s a compulsion.

        • HeatPhoenix
          HeatPhoenix
          August 20, 2012 at 10:02 am | #

          “Pot defense squad”

          That term, I love it.
          And also, it is illegal in the U.S. pretty sure that’s enough reason not to do it in the U.S.

          • insomniac
            insomniac
            August 20, 2012 at 10:30 am | #

            Not really. That’s just reason not to get caught.

            • Blob Marley
              Blob Marley
              August 20, 2012 at 11:05 am | #

              It’s enough reason for me not to do it, but not enough reason for me to protest other people’s use on general principle.

  24. Resne
    Resne
    August 20, 2012 at 4:20 am | #

    Well this can’t go anywhere but to shit.

    • Khrene Cleaver
      Khrene Cleaver
      August 20, 2012 at 4:42 am | #

      Wait… So we ain’t going to funky town? Awww…

      • LuckyStar7
        LuckyStar7
        August 20, 2012 at 10:09 am | #

        We can go to funkytown if you want. (Not to be creepy.)

        • Scoops!
          Scoops!
          August 20, 2012 at 5:14 pm | #

          Won’t you take me?

          • Resne
            Resne
            August 20, 2012 at 8:00 pm | #

            No.

  25. Aesir
    Aesir
    August 20, 2012 at 5:37 am | #

    A Head Alien bong…..wow….

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      August 20, 2012 at 10:38 am | #

      So, is that a home-made job, or did it come from the store like that?

      • TheLastOutlaw
        TheLastOutlaw
        August 20, 2012 at 11:06 am | #

        I’d guess home made. Pot smokers are awesomely creative when it comes to bongs. One of my friends was very proud of his Darth Bong (Made from one of the Darth Maul cup toppers that came out around the time of the original Episode 1 release) and most companies that own a mainstream intellectual property shy away from releasing official drug paraphenalia merch.

  26. AJBulldis
    AJBulldis
    August 20, 2012 at 7:04 am | #

    Fire alarms! So many fire alarms!

  27. NoLast
    NoLast
    August 20, 2012 at 9:18 am | #

    Prediction:

    Sarah goes to a campus authority to help Dana, who just remove her instead.

  28. insomniac
    insomniac
    August 20, 2012 at 10:33 am | #

    This is shaping a lot like I was expecting. There were people who predicted that Dana was going to OD on something, and Sara was going to oust her drug habits to save her life, but I didn’t buy it.

    This has Dana engaging in behavior that’s going to get her in trouble, and more to the point, get Sara in trouble too. Dana might have a reason for it, but it puts Sara in the position of betraying her friend or getting kicked out of school because of someone else’s stupid behavior.

    Rough all around, and entirely believable.

  29. Martigro
    Martigro
    August 20, 2012 at 10:45 am | #

    So much gray area. I feel like I’m drowning in it.
    (Great writing, Willis!)

  30. Dierna
    Dierna
    August 20, 2012 at 11:27 am | #

    That’s the coolest bong I’ve ever seen…

    Now the questions are: Was her mom cremated? And if so… Is she smoking her mom?

    • TheLastOutlaw
      TheLastOutlaw
      August 20, 2012 at 12:31 pm | #

      If so what did she blend mom with? I would go with Maui Wowie, if you’re gonna smoke a loved one do it with style.

  31. mister gray
    mister gray
    August 20, 2012 at 11:27 am | #

    I say she goes to dana’s friends and they just scoff it off and so she does go to a counseler to try to get dana to help her deal with her mom’s death but the counseler reports dana instead and it spirals from there to where dana overdoes because she can’t deal with life and her mom’s death.

  32. Intie
    Intie
    August 20, 2012 at 12:43 pm | #

    I just don’t understand why is Joyce so ok with the whole smoking weed thing. I mean. It’s Joyce. Shouldn’t she be like “howaaah she smoked weed~~?!!”? Or does my straighetdgefagging goes beyond Joyce’s pureness and even Joyce doesn’t find smoking weed to be that bad and sinful?

    • insomniac
      insomniac
      August 20, 2012 at 1:31 pm | #

      I notice that she called it “weed” rather than “marijuana” back when the issue first came up. It’s not something like atheism, where it had never entered her little world before she went to college.

      It wouldn’t surprise me if her little homeschool circles had kids who toked. Likely parents, too. These are people who don’t trust the gub’ment to teach their kids, why should they listen to it about what intoxicants are and aren’t okay?

      • Valdrax
        Valdrax
        August 20, 2012 at 6:07 pm | #

        You don’t know many religious conservatives personally, do you?
        Recreational drug use is not generally approved of.

        • insomniac
          insomniac
          August 21, 2012 at 12:34 am | #

          That’s a pretty broad brush to paint with. “Religious conservatives cover a lot of ground.

          And I can attest to the fact that some of them smoke weed.

          • Valdrax
            Valdrax
            August 22, 2012 at 2:24 pm | #

            I grew up in the Bible belt and knew several home-schooled kids through my church and through other activities. These people’s parents were NOT the kind of people to smoke because The Man disapproves of it.

            The social conservative/liberal divide on anti/pro-legalization is pretty well-defined. Not all “anti-government” views line up together.

          • Valdrax
            Valdrax
            August 23, 2012 at 2:02 pm | #

            Also:
            http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/01-move-in-day/hitimes/

    • Valdrax
      Valdrax
      August 20, 2012 at 6:06 pm | #

      Maybe she’s (a) polite enough not to interrupt the story and (b) already familiar with the fact that Sarah’s last roommate had a drug abuse problem since it’s one of the first things Sarah told her when they met.

      • Kryss LaBryn
        Kryss LaBryn
        August 20, 2012 at 8:53 pm | #

        She probably saw that pot episode of “Diff’rent Strokes” where the dad caught Willis getting high in his bedroom. You know. If I were to hazard a guess. *Grin*

    • David
      David M Willis
      August 20, 2012 at 6:35 pm | #

      I’m not sure where Joyce indicated she was okay with it.

      • insomniac
        insomniac
        August 21, 2012 at 12:34 am | #

        She doesn’t react with the shock or horror most people would expect.

  33. penguintruth
    penguintruth
    August 20, 2012 at 3:25 pm | #

    Mike wanted her mom, too.

    And got her for a nickle.

    Pre-mortem, I’m hoping.

    • Rex Hondo
      Rex Hondo
      August 20, 2012 at 9:46 pm | #

      Mike knows your hopes and dreams.

      That’s why he waited.

      And buried the nickel with her.

  34. CC
    CC
    August 20, 2012 at 10:39 pm | #

    I’m really liking how this thing between Raidah and Sarah is being handled. I like how realistic it is, instead of Sarah vs stupid assholes. I dunno, even if I hate some characters in this strip on princible, they tend to be pretty well developed antagonists and I like that.

    • DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
      DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
      August 21, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

      The more I see of this, the more I’m convinced Raidah has it in for Sarah because Sarah reminds her too much of what she secretly can’t stand about herself. Both ladies seem to be shifting the source of the chips on their shoulders away from it’s source…and tend to crawfish when straight-shamed by the other one…

  35. Shilo
    Shilo
    August 23, 2012 at 3:38 pm | #

    . . . I like this story line. But he makes out weed to be some horrible, horrible drug that can destroy lives. I don’t buy it.

    If Dana were as distraught as she was weed wouldn’t do much to help, it can’t be physically addicting, and I have a feeling she would have turned to alcohol or pharming to cope with emotional distress.

  36. Poskie
    Poskie
    January 23, 2015 at 5:50 am | #

    Huh… Dana isn’t very good at smoking with a bong, is she? You shouldn’t put that part of the lighter near the bowl, otherwise you end up inhaling a lot more butane than you needed to, which isn’t very good for you.

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