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by David M Willis on October 19, 2012 at 12:01 am
  • 06 - Strange Beerfellows
└ Tags: dorothy, walky

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    October 19, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    The pressure of being totally fucking smart =p

  2. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    October 19, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    I remember those hidden 3d pictures, I find that focusing to the glass covering it helps me to see the hidden picture in the colour pattern.

    • Jim
      Jim
      October 19, 2012 at 12:35 am | #

      interestingly, I find that if you focus together panels 1 & 3 together you get floating walky eyebrows and projected pajama patterns!

      • Historyman68
        Historyman68
        October 19, 2012 at 8:38 am | #

        Whoa. And if you cross your eyes with panels 3 & 5, you get blinking Walky mouth!

        • das-g
          das-g
          October 19, 2012 at 5:18 pm | #

          And a picassoesque Dorothy.

  3. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    October 19, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    All I see is a sailboat.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      October 19, 2012 at 12:12 am | #

      Sure it’s not a schooner?

      • Robert
        Robert
        October 19, 2012 at 12:15 am | #

        All I see is the Eifel Tower.

        • Boom
          Boom
          October 20, 2012 at 9:07 am | #

          All I see is Walky’s underpants.

      • Mally
        Mally
        July 23, 2015 at 12:38 am | #

        Pretty sure it’s just a guy in a suit.

    • Blob Marley
      Blob Marley
      October 19, 2012 at 12:26 am | #

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_f8ayQQx4I

      Oh, yeah, I see it too!

    • Ren
      Ren
      October 19, 2012 at 8:43 am | #

      I think I see the Voyager. -__- Take me far away from this world Spock.

  4. GenericScreenName101
    GenericScreenName101
    October 19, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

    Now if you raise the book to the ceiling you can make those spaceships fly

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      October 19, 2012 at 1:00 am | #

      Better yet, throw them across the room.

  5. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    October 19, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

    Man, I read all of a textbook, even the boring parts, for fun.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      October 19, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

      REALLY??

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        October 19, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

        Well, I used to. See, all the way up through high school, I tended to be a bit ahead of the curve, since the first few lessons tended to be review or other stuff I already knew. So, I’d be bored and read ahead in the textbook, and it tended to be more interesting than the lecture. And by the time they got to whatever part of the textbook, I’d be reading beyond that, and I’d eventually end up reading through my textbooks multiple times. Since teachers in high school almost never teach outside of the textbook, it was a good way to let me pass my classes without much effort. In retrospect, I could have been one of the top students if I’d actually bothered to study. I wish I had.

        • Blob Marley
          Blob Marley
          October 19, 2012 at 12:27 am | #

          Are you me?

          • Yotomoe
            Yotomoe
            October 19, 2012 at 1:01 am | #

            Are you both the anti-me?

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              October 19, 2012 at 1:06 am | #

              So if you two meet, the world will explode.

              • Spazman
                Spazman
                October 19, 2012 at 4:41 am | #

                or would the me and the anti-me spontaneously erupt in makeouts?

                hmm……

                • Dragon
                  Dragon
                  October 19, 2012 at 6:19 am | #

                  just made think of that part in Timecop when the past and future senator guys touched and got all jacked up

              • Dragon
                Dragon
                October 19, 2012 at 6:30 am | #

                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D01mdGW9-Zg&feature=related

      • Wixvhen
        Wixvhen
        October 21, 2012 at 12:59 am | #

        Seriously, I was the guy who could figure out everything cept history just by glancing over it. I was the Walky of my school. As soon as you set a book in front of me, I go ‘… What pages do I have to do so you can take this thing away from me?’

  6. JebJeb
    JebJeb
    October 19, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

    My eyes immediately focused on the word sex. Glad to know what my brain’s priorities are.

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      October 19, 2012 at 12:13 am | #

      Really? I got amygdala. Weird. Wanna trade?

    • Joe H
      Joe H
      October 19, 2012 at 12:17 am | #

      Aw yeah, JebJeb! Me too!
      We’re sex-buddies!
      …
      Wait…

    • Blob Marley
      Blob Marley
      October 19, 2012 at 12:28 am | #

      I got hippocampus. Wacky.

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        October 19, 2012 at 12:45 am | #

        Are you me?

        • Valdrax
          Valdrax
          October 19, 2012 at 5:01 am | #

          It’s the first word of the middle paragraph.
          No surprise that other people focused on it too (including me).

    • Berenzen
      Berenzen
      October 19, 2012 at 12:37 am | #

      I focused immediately on Spatial Mapping.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      October 19, 2012 at 1:02 am | #

      I somehow got “spatial environment” even though they’re not even on the same line

    • madock345
      madock345
      October 19, 2012 at 2:13 am | #

      I got “Arousing”

  7. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    October 19, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

    But Walky, you must complete your destiny as the new Pagemaster!!!

  8. Kafloobop
    Kafloobop
    October 19, 2012 at 12:09 am | #

    I have never ever in my life been able to see one of those hidden image thingies.

    • Andiemus
      Andiemus
      October 20, 2012 at 4:48 am | #

      Gravatar relevant.

  9. John Madden
    John Madden
    October 19, 2012 at 12:14 am | #

    I know how Walky feels. A few of my automotive textbooks have been nothing but walls of text.

  10. Black Bumblebee
    Black Bumblebee
    October 19, 2012 at 12:24 am | #

    Unless he’s trying to sound like Grimlock, I think it should read If “I” squint real hard, etc…

    Sorry :-p

    • Sporky
      Sporky
      October 19, 2012 at 1:50 am | #

      I didn’t even notice this until I read your comment. I kind of like it better this way though.

  11. Romanticide
    Romanticide
    October 19, 2012 at 12:25 am | #

    Dammit I want to read the text he is reading…

  12. Ryorin
    Ryorin
    October 19, 2012 at 12:25 am | #

    Dude, Walky has the best textbook. I wish mine had spaceships!

    …and…human brains…

    What is he not reading, exactly?

  13. Jim
    Jim
    October 19, 2012 at 12:27 am | #

    A peanut head for Walky, my friend
    For like the noble bean comes a plethora of uses
    300, at least,. by the renowned Carver’s end
    And I’ll have ten times that from what our colleague deduces.
    But be semper vigalins for the sloth of youth
    waste not the promises at our aid
    Go forward and burn birght until comes death
    And all our path may your light be laid

  14. Tristan J
    Tristan J
    October 19, 2012 at 1:27 am | #

    You know, it’s nice to read a version of the Brilliant But Lazy trope that isn’t 100% sympathetic to the brilliant but lazy individual in question.

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      October 19, 2012 at 8:40 am | #

      TROPE

  15. Anonymouse
    Anonymouse
    October 19, 2012 at 2:12 am | #

    The text is from the Wikipedia article on “Sex Differences in Humans”.

    • lightsabermario
      lightsabermario
      October 19, 2012 at 2:39 am | #

      Wow, so in the world of DOA, it’s okay for textbooks to outright plagiarize Wikipedia. Neat!

      • Historyman68
        Historyman68
        October 19, 2012 at 9:12 am | #

        It’ll be a plot point later.

      • David
        David M Willis
        October 19, 2012 at 11:58 am | #

        The textbook has a note about the Creative Commons License in the back.

  16. creatorx2
    creatorx2
    October 19, 2012 at 2:58 am | #

    Even if he was doing it correctly, just reading the textbook is a very inefficient method of studying. If this is Dorothy’s strategy it would explain why she constantly has to forgo social activities; she’s wasting time reviewing mindless banter she already knows.

    You gotta constantly test yourself and isolate problem areas.

  17. Moonshine McGee
    Moonshine McGee
    October 19, 2012 at 3:45 am | #

    Is it just me or does the shading on dorothy’s lips make it look like she has a permanent cheeto-stache?

    • Spazman
      Spazman
      October 19, 2012 at 4:44 am | #

      ……..

      *sigh*

      what is seen cannot be unseen.

    • EmpressTohru
      EmpressTohru
      October 19, 2012 at 6:43 am | #

      That makes this avatar so much better now.

      • EmpressTohru
        EmpressTohru
        October 19, 2012 at 6:45 am | #

        Or it would, if the avatar showed up.

      • insatiablebooksluts
        insatiablebooksluts
        October 20, 2012 at 11:16 pm | #

        I agree that your avatar is now at least 50% more rad.

    • Krylani
      Krylani
      October 19, 2012 at 6:58 am | #

      Maybe it *is* a cheeto-stache. If she’s got him studying, it’s entirely possible that he’s convinced her to experiment with various unnaturally orange snack foods. (They’re the gateway to those “pizza” rolls that taste nothing like pizza, y’know.)

      • Boom
        Boom
        October 20, 2012 at 9:12 am | #

        Pizza rolls are chosen food of the messiah!

    • DaJoshMaster
      DaJoshMaster
      October 19, 2012 at 11:59 am | #

      I expect it’s just a bit of caramel. 😉

  18. sandbridgekid
    sandbridgekid
    October 19, 2012 at 7:17 am | #

    No Joyce Disapproved Hanky Panky? Poor Walky—bring in da munchies and cheeto like nomms as a poor substitute. Back in the 80’s there’d be bootleg animae–Gundam, Macrossu, Bubble Gum Crisis vhs playing on tv for a soundtrack, while in background roomies would be arguing if Han shot first or why is Wesley as douche. Is that asshole next playing that freaking New Order song again? No it’s that new shit– Wrap I think they call it. Who drank all the f__king Dew? Hey, you can’t smoke in here. No, not even that shit.

  19. sandbridgekid
    sandbridgekid
    October 19, 2012 at 7:31 am | #

    Willis you wouldn’t believe the right-wing banners I’m getting when downloading yer toon. Beyond the pale for even the extreme stuff we’re getting in VA. “Why is Obama betraying Our matriage values?” Can you get Ethan to respond for me?

    • Star Ranger
      Star Ranger
      October 19, 2012 at 9:31 am | #

      … Strange. Only banners I see are those directly associated with the webcomic. Could you have gotten yourself tangled up with some sort of right wing Ad-Ware, perhaps?

      And as to the question at hand? because HE thinks its the right thing to do; even if the rest of us dont.

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      October 19, 2012 at 9:45 am | #

      I believe Ethan’s response would be, “What, me? Why should I respond? Why would you think I could say anything particular about that subject? Let’s go, Joyce.” And awkwardly putting his hand around her shoulders.

  20. Bill Murphy
    Bill Murphy
    October 19, 2012 at 9:39 am | #

    I like his study skills!

  21. begbert2
    begbert2
    October 19, 2012 at 10:45 am | #

    “So have you learned anything new yet”? With that smile? Is she kidding?

    Okay, admittedly, I never read a textbook in all my educational career (except briefly in the early years learning it was a bad idea, and of course to find homework problems assigned out of it once I got to college and started doing homework), but even adapting for that bias I can’t see Dorothy’s comment as anything but dippy, if not an embossed and glided invitation for sarcastic comeback.

  22. Vanessa Johnson (@VredaJo)
    Vanessa Johnson (@VredaJo)
    October 19, 2012 at 11:59 am | #

    Aw, come on Walky – anything else that textbook has to say about gender canNOT be as interesting as the bit of neuropsych on that page! I want to read it! I didn’t know the hippocampus is larger in women than in men – I knew the amygdala is slightly larger in men than in women, tho. Although, it does say, “This was proven…” which shows whoever wrote that book is not a researcher.

    • C.
      C.
      October 20, 2012 at 7:58 pm | #

      In fairness, the textbook is a Wikipedia article.

  23. Stevarious
    Stevarious
    October 19, 2012 at 1:16 pm | #

    Oh look at that smile. She’s just like me, loves learning for the sake of learning. I knew she was my favorite character!

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