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Come and knock on our doooooooooooor!
We’ve ben waiting for yoooooooooooooou!
Where the kisses are hers and hers and hers
Three’s Company, tooooooooooooooooooo!
Got drunk, went on a bit of a bender, took a piss in the falls in front of a Canadian cop, then all sorta turns into a blur. Wasn’t the worst vacation ever.
This is why you visit Niagara Falls from the American side. It’s a park so you can piss over it all you want. What’s the ranger gonna do, get your for pissing in the woods?
Niagara falls has it’s own police, NRPS.
Also, the American side doesn’t reach the horse-shoe falls. Which everyone knows are the REAL “Niagara Falls”.
Heh. Amateurs. Being who I am got me banned from six biker bars, the Dick’s Last Resort in San Antonio, the Hard Rock Cafe in Heidelberg, Howard County, Iowa, and last I knew, France.
I’m very familiar with Howard County IA. One of the few places in Iowa where people consider going to Decorah to be a journey to a major metropolitan area.
Know where Highlandville is? I grew up about ten miles down Bear Creek from Highlandville.
As for my ban from Howard County: It’s usually a good idea to ascertain whether a girl’s father is in fact a prominent local judge before entering into a fuck-buddy relationship with her.
uh. I’m sorry but no. That just has conflict of interest written ALL THE FUCK over it. If you get yourself a half-decent lawyer, you could probably get that judge thrown off the bench with a decent chance of getting him thrown in jail for not recusing himself.
A small-town magistrate’s influence typically extends well beyond the courtroom, and in small towns there are lots worse places than open court to have scores settled upon you.
What Stoney said. Besides, this was about thirty-five years ago. I don’t even know if the guy is alive any more. And hell, it’s not like there weren’t other girls around.
And it wasn’t any legal thing; I was never in the guy’s courtroom. It was a small-town cop thing; “Judge so-and-so doesn’t want this kid hanging around his daughter, so keep an eye out for him.”
It wasn’t as colorful as my ban from Dick’s Last Resort, which resulted from the Great 1987 Riverwalk Ketchup War.
She is. But did you notice that Joyce was a bit unpleasant herself? Not to Becky, but to Sarah.
Given the fact that having a 3rd person in the room might be a bit of an imposition, Joyce should have said “I have a favor… Becky needs to stay here. Its an emergency”. (Even if she didn’t want to give details, she could have kept things vague.) Instead, she more or less decrees “She’s staying with us”.
Well, I think if Joyce had asked for a favour, Sarah would’ve just said no. This isn’t really something Joyce thinks needs arguing over, Becky is staying because Becky needs to stay, as she’s got no where else. So I can kind of see where Joyce is coming from here.
…And after a few more years, Sarah and Joyce will probably be better at handling crises without being unpleasant, but right now, I applaud them for being assertive rather than crawling into a corner and hoping that The Proper Authorities will magically parachute in and make everything alright. It isn’t given to many people to stand up for what’s right while also being pleasant at their age (I still fuck that up and I’m more than twice as old as they are!).
Oh, yes, but I think that the common (not taxonomic) name segnosaur (no -us, like the username above) is the old name (referring to obsolete Segnosauria), and therizinosaur is the new common name (referring to Therizinosauridae), more or less (?)
Sorry, I was introduced to them in Bakker’s “Raptor Red”, where he called them all segnosaurs, so that is what I tend to think of.
Also, I find this odd, since I am FB friends with Thomas Holtz, from Maryland, who is a paleontologist. But I don’t know that he goes by TJ. Or do you?!
Wait….is that fun in the “lol the dramaz!” or fun in the “people making out in a demographic I am attracted to” sense? Because if the latter…..WWWWHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTT?
She kinda knows the setting and the sort of drama people gets into, but she’s just one step behind the plot. That’s why she has the bat. Messy aftermaths and all that.
My guess? A little bit of both. Probably covering up fear and anxiety with humor, which isn’t the worst thing sometimes. Plus, Sarah’s “I just got owned” face is priceless.
She is scarily good at hiding her emotions – the full day of playing around and being cool despite everything that was going on shows that. But here I think she tries to be as honest as possible – which is a very good idea during the circumstances.
She is scarily good at hiding her emotions – the full day of playing around and being cool despite everything that was going on shows that. But here I think she tries to be as honest as possible – which is a very good idea during the circumstances.
I’d say she’s bounced back.She’s been thrown a lifeline, not the one she wanted granted, so she’s gone from having nowhere to go to a place to be for the moment. All things considered things are on an upward trajectory here.
Forgetting your own existence would be bad. You’d be scared every time you passed by a reflective surface. And god help you if you were carrying a bone in your mouth–no wait, that was the dog in Aesop’s fable.
I would have been confused by this comment had I not just read the linked xkcd comic and found out that third base is no longer “hands in the pants” but now oral sex. You crazy kids, with your furries and quantum foursomes and harvey wallbangerz and so forth
I’ve given up on trying to figure out the baseball metaphor and just play Calvinball. It’s more fun anyway.
And, man, sharing root passwords before home base? I’ve made home runs with a few ladies, and I’ve never shared any of my passwords with anyone. My root password seems more like something I’d have engraved in fiery Tengwar on the wedding band.
In my youth, I shared apartment keys and root passwords with three people and only bodily fluids with one of them. Though lots of beer with all. Come to think of it, the others’ partners most likely were out of the password loop. But then mine literally owned the central server and printer.
Four friends, three apartments, one RG58 segment. When men were men and women were women and either knew that “Terminator 2” is where you stop.
After coming down from the squee high, my going theory is that that ending was at least partial trolling to Nick for shafting Korra on broadcasting the past two seasons. A more significant part is the production crew going “Fuck it, last episode, let’s give the fans what they want.”
It… It’s over? And they made Korea/Asami of all things canon?
Damn, I love that crew. I need to catch up from the beginning… Never really got around to Korea after Avatar.
I give it a 6 out of 10. Things could get so much more unpleasant than they did but didn’t. BTW to get n idea of how unpleasant a 10 is, think Mike with everybody’s moms and a wheelbarrow full of nickels. Unpleasant for us that is, not bad at all for Mike.
Have you forgotten that Joyce tends to have that effect on her? The “elusive silent last panel” was a Joyce and Sarah strip. About straps-on, if memory serves.
This semester at my school, my roommate invited her girlfriend to live in my room with her. She did so without telling anyone in the apartment building as Joyce is doing here, or asking any of the suitemstes if they were okay with someone else living there. And they like to argue at 3 in the morning about the most ridiculous crap, too. By the end of the semester they’d “broken up” 5 times that I know of, and I’m pretty privy to thrir conversations because they have no concept of privacy and talk very loudly at all times while sitting in the room and not leaving. And if they’re not both in the room, then they’re on the phone together, probably arguing.
Here’s to hoping I get the room change I requested.
Not sure about your housing/university policies, Shanunu, but at a lot of student housing complexes, that could get your roommate and her gf kicked out. A new roommate usually has to be approved by the landlord (or university, in the case of university-run housing) and has to have the consent of the other roommates living in that suite/room. At my uni, even visitors were restricted to three days tops (over the weekend) or overnight (during the week). I wasn’t even allowed to have my husband living with me in my dorm, despite having a single, because of dorm policies.
If you don’t get the room change, I would definitely look more carefully at your building’s roommate policies.
Becky handled Sarah perfectly. She told her the flat unvarnished truth. Lying to Sarah would have been a huge mistake.
She may not like most people on general principle, but she has ‘adopted Joyce” sort of as a hopeless case I think. But she does try to protect Joyce most of the time.
Sarah is one of my favorites.
Got a feeling this may work out well.
Get a job Becky, enroll next semester on a grant if you get it thru.
“Joyce, we’d better show Sarah what she missed.” *smoochsmoochhonk*
“Hey! You didn’t squeeze my bosom the first time!”
“Oh, sorry, I guess I just meant to. We’d better do it again and see if I can get it right this time.” *smoochsmoochhonk* “Sorry, it’s just got a mind of its own! Third time’s the charm?”
Sarah’s family now too. Specifically, she’s the grumpy big sister who’s sure you’re up to something and wants to tell on you to mom and get you sent away for the summer.
I’m surprised. I thought Sarah would vehemently protest the idea of having to deal with another babbling brook. Maybe the realization that Becky will be around for the long-term hasn’t kicked in yet.
I think she has understood and is pretty resigned to the idea. Sarah’s big problem the whole time (in her own mind) has been her inability to stick to herself. No, she always has to find someone to help. And Becky needs help.
It also helped how Joyce phrased it. Not a question, not a plea, just a statement and a dare-you-to-disagree-glare. I’m don’t think Sarah really wants to cross paths with a pissed-off Joyce
Well it hasn’t been established to Sarah that she’s staying long term. people visit and stay the night all the time. she has no reason to suspect an indefinite term.
The whole “ran away” part implies that long term might be in the cards. The way I read that beat panel, Sarah realized the implications realized that whatever she tries to tell herself she is not the kind of person to threw out Becky, and fell back to grumpy snark.
Oh wait, it must be Kathleen. The avatar makes it look like you’re responding to Bagge, but the text is clearly lined up with Bagge so you must be responding to Kathleen.
…eat your heart out, Sherlock.
Oh man, if your real name is Kelly (and I’m guessing it is, cuz it’d be purrrty weird as an internet nickname-y thing) and your mom’s is Kathleen… does that mean your parents did that un-frakking-bearable thing where all the kids have the same first initial? Mine did that. I am Josh, my dad’s name was Jeff, I have three brothers with J names… barf barf barf. You have my sympathy, assuming my train of assumptions is correct.
I had a good friend in that situation, both parents had the same first initial, so of course all three kids (2 girls, 1 boy) also had the same first initial, as did all three dogs. And strangely enough, the initial was “J”.
Even in her painful moments, Becky continues to have her little moments of snarkiness and self-depreciation, showing that she’s above the petty situations, but not above others, even as, in Sarah’s cases, they fall flat on their misanthropic faces.
So glad Becky’s likely to be around a while longer. And no matter what, I won’t let up the hope. Joyce has already grown and developed her own worldview so much in terms of her faith and how who she considers a good person isn’t restricted to whether they’re a person of faith or similar orientation. Feelings can slways still have room to blossom, even among childhood friends who choose to remain close and keep growing up together.
I love the look of “Well fuck I done messed up a bit didn’t I” that Sarah has. Of course, she’d never SAY that, but you know. Thought that counts? Maybe? No? At least Sarah didn’t say no.
I love that – despite all her attitude Sarah actually knows when to fold. Of course, she chose to phrase it as “shouldn’t have played to begin with, dangit”
The other day I was looking for something in the archives, and found a strip with, to quote Willis, “the elusive silent final panel”. It takes some setup to work that one right. It was also a Joyce/Sarah strip…
I guess I’m always on Team Sarah, but I don’t think she was being terrible here. Becky WAS being sneaky and deceptive in a way. She was hiding something big, and Sarah caught onto that. Sarah sees Joyce as a naieve rube and thinks people can easily take advantage of her, so she assumed Becky was up to no good. As soon as Becky explained why she was acting like that, Sarah understood and was sympathetic in her own, sarcastic way.
I really think everyone has been on their best behavior today, and what fault they had are more than understandable.
Becky spent a day lying… but it could very well have been her last good day with Joyce. Once she came clean she explained everything without fuss.
Joyce reacted with shock and deflection to Becky kissing her and explaining the situation… for about five minutes before she wholeheartedly embraced Becky just as she is and took her in.
Sarah was rightly suspicious and jumped to the worst sort of conclusion… but fell back immediately and accepted Becky as soon as the situation was clear for her.
Why, there is hardly any room for tragic/dramatic missunderstandings now.
Wait till Becky catches Dorothy teaching Joyce how to make-out, or Becky drinks with Mike …. this is a Willis comic.
OH Jocelyn! Maybe she will visit the campus presenting as female and Becky , not recognizing her will hit on her,
or Joe takes out Jocelyn, but learns who she is and has to hide her from Joyce.
So Amazi-girl is closeted ( as her idenity and knowing that Sal was robber )
Joceyne closeted.
Ethan partially closeted.
Danny, In Ambers closet and His own.
Billie and Ruth , secret , sexy lesbian Suicide pact.
Robin De Santo .
All of these secrets has the potential for comdic folly and comedies of errors.
I forgot Mike. Secret Drunk nice guy persona, secretly into submission, and possibly anything kinky with anyone.
It might have been the result of Alien tinkering with his genome.
Tangentially, I’m sad that we won’t be getting to the twins’ 21st birthday any time this century. I want to see Joyce drink them under the table again.
Hmm. Actually, I guess the twins are month older than Joyce in this continuity, not eleven months younger as they were in the Walkyverse. Joyce’s 21st, then.
He’s not secretly into submission. He was rather quick to cop to it when Amazi-girl pinned him. As to the nice drunk bit… has he ever had a drink before? I think… probably not!
…oooh, I hope Becky somehow becomes Fundamentalist Buddies with Mary without the latter realizing she is gay until much later. It’s unlikely due to Mary’s Maryness, but I can dream.
I think Willis will throw us a curve ball with Mary. Either she will turn out not to be a threat at all, or she will turn out to be relatable once you get her side of the story. She has been a cartoon villain for too long for me to believe that’s all there is to her.
I’ve been harboring a suspicion for a while that those wristbands that Mary always wears are covering up scars, either from cutting or a suicide attempt. I really hope I’m wrong, because I don’t want to have to have sympathy for Mary.
If she just usually wore them, I wouldn’t think much of it. But she wears them when she’s brushing her teeth in her pajamas, she wears them when she’s in Sunday church clothes, she wears them when Billie bursts into her room without warning and she’s otherwise naked except for her panties. The only time we’ve seen her without them, she had a long-sleeved blouse on.
It wouldn’t surprise me if you were right. I had a friend do exactly that in college. We just thought she liked those wrist things a lot (plus, I’m oblivious to a lot of things). Nope. Hiding scars.
She’s a villian I love to hate.
I think Willis has been slightly teaking her to make her seem more relatable and human and thus a more accurate real-life santimonious Xtian fundamentalist shrew.
At least I hope he is. I think Mary is more fun when is she almost like someone you could get to know and see through her facade, and then once you do you see the real mary inside, given a choice will choose evil in the guise of righteousness . And that makes her evenb more hatable
Tch, can’t believe Willis is giving into the pressure for more redhead representation. I mean, 3 cast members that are gingers? So unbelievable. I’ve never seen more than one.
Man, I love Becky. Becky is the GREATEST character. I love that she just admits it so easy here, even though Sarah is being kind of antagonistic Sarah, because lying would just make it worse.
Plus the fact that she’s back to her flippant funny self, even though she’s probably had a bit of a crap day (that admittedly has got better) is just great. But I see myself a lot in Becky, even down to the hair cut/colour hahaa.
I laugh at EVERY ONE of these kinds of comments, b/c it’s pretty weird to be caught up here. I remember when I got caught up. I think it was the Ding-Dong bandit part.
Seems like she was removed when it became official that Amazi-Girl is NOT U*l*t*r*a*C*a*r, but a persona of of the Amber character.
Funny thing is, Becky was part of the cast for a very long time (until spring 2014, see March 27) although had only very few appearances. She disappeared when Carla (literally) rolled in.
I think that Joyce will probably go to Dorothy for help/advice about Becky, because she trusts and respects her (and isn’t scared of her like she is of Ruth). After a couple of days to get things arranged, Becky will go stay with Dorothy’s parents because Dorothy knows they’ll take care of her and keep her away from her dad.
Well shit, the only thing I have to say anymore is “Becky is the best.” Willis, you’re gona have to kick over some crapbaskets if you wana maintain a level of drama around here.
Joyce really needs a reality check here, yes its great shes supporting her friend but she seems to have forgotten its not just her place but Sarahs place as well
Not to mention the person shes giving attitude to is the same person willing to take a baseball bat to a rapists head to protect her
“So you kissed her but she’s straight.
No surprise, because incompatible sexual orientations are her thing.
Did she already tell you about that gay guy she has a relationship with?”
So where’s Becky going to stay? She doesn’t dare sleep with Joyce, and I can’t see Sarah letting her snuggle up with her. And sleeping on the floor can get real uncomfortable really quick (not to mention you could get stepped on in case anyone has to make a middle-of-the-night potty run).
Carla and Ruth are the only others (that we know of) that might have a vacant bed.
Until she wakes up in the morning and discovers that she’s spooning Becky with her hand on her boob and gets the gay panic again. And Becky just opens one eye and goes, “Aw, I liked that there. You can put it back if you want.”
My experience is that dorm beds aren’t actually big enough to do that without significant risk of whomever’s on the outside ending up on the floor. And they’ve got loft beds; it’s a long way to fall.
This was discussed somewhere around the time Walky and Dorothy first slept together I believe. I *think* Willis outright stated that in the Dumbiverse, the beds are wider than in our universe.
I have to wonder if Kaitlin will show up at some point and try to make things right with Becky. From the “She told everyone I was a bad influence”, it could mean that Kaitlin was the one who initially had a crush on Becky and made a move first, which Becky encouraged by reciprocating.
I doubt that Kaitlin has a good way of finding Becky at this point. Everyone she knows, and the only contacts she has with Becky, are all very determined to keep them apart.
There is a reason that Sarah acts like she knows more about the world than Joyce and needs to protect her from it. It’s because Sarak does know more about the world than Joyce, and somebody needs to protect Joyce from the world she has been raised in ignorance of. I don’t recall if we have seen the mighty bat of justice weilded more than once, but the only time I recall it being used, Sarah was preventing Joyce from being raped.
I like Becky, but this is kind of like how a roommate announces their bf/gf is moving in
Well if Sarah is cool with it, but I wouldn’t blame her if she wasn’t. It’s her living space too and she already knows what can happen if you’re too accommodating.
But other than that, is it that easy? No bribing security to be lax with the guest policies? Actually, do the dorms here even have a sign in system? Both Becky and Amber’s dad seem like they just walked in with no problem.
Well, Amber’s dad did it during the confusion of Freshman Family Weekend (and got his femurs handed to him by the RA, which seems to be the official way of dealing with these things). Becky probably was just a good talker. She got Sarah to let her in the room, probably got into the building same way, if there indeed is a more advanced system than a locked door.
As long as it’s daytime, you have free access to the innards of the residence building. When I visit the actual Read Hall to take reference photographs, there’s nothing stopping me going up the elevators. I mean, I don’t, but there’s technically nothing stopping me.
I don’t know about Read specifically. In Teter (which has no elevators), you need an ID to get into all the buildings except the main one, and you need your key to get onto your floor as well as into your room. In Forest (which is much bigger and has elevators) the panel inside the elevator doesn’t have buttons; it has keyholes instead.
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Sarah enjoy your new roommate.
This is basically the greatest sitcom premise ever.
Come and knock on our doooooooooooor!
We’ve ben waiting for yoooooooooooooou!
Where the kisses are hers and hers and hers
Three’s Company, tooooooooooooooooooo!
You’re fired. Clean out your cube.
Look, I’m sorry, man. I had to do it. Is there anyway I can get my job back at DoA, INC.?
*sigh* *rubs temples* Okay, how about you just have sixty pages of Mike and Dina slash fiction on my desk by Monday morning and we’ll call it even
HAHAHAHA…….I CANT
“Is this all just…two people in theropod costumes hurting everyone else?”
“I was trying to describe the perfect date.”
Okay but slash implies same-gender so is this male!Dina or female!Mike?
It didn’t say femslash, so male!Dina, presumably.
I’d watch that.
The Dumbing Girls
THANK YOU FOR BEIN’ A ROOMIE
And every episode would start like:
“Hey, Dumbing Girls was filmed before a live studio audience!”
Evenin’ everybody!
DAN!
How you doin’ Mr. Wilcox?
Like shit, because my life is the worst.
Roomies? More like Wombies! Amirite? Cuz uteruses.
That groan wasn’t my stomach grumbling…
But I did laugh at your groan.
That was bad. You should feel bad.
And the link didn’t show, oh well try this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PctWoKShGU8
There wasn’t quite as much “messy aftermath” as Becky would have liked GOD I NEED TO STOP
Just be who you are
Sorry, dude, but being who I am got me banned from Niagara Falls.
Assuming that wasn’t just a flippant comment for the sake of comedy, that demands elaboration!
Got drunk, went on a bit of a bender, took a piss in the falls in front of a Canadian cop, then all sorta turns into a blur. Wasn’t the worst vacation ever.
This is why you visit Niagara Falls from the American side. It’s a park so you can piss over it all you want. What’s the ranger gonna do, get your for pissing in the woods?
The American side is so boring. The Canadian side is better and has alcohol, provided you don’t piss in front of a mountie.
Though pissing in front of the OPP or RMCP would probably be it’s own reward which wouldn’t be available on the other side of the falls anyway.
Niagara falls has it’s own police, NRPS.
Also, the American side doesn’t reach the horse-shoe falls. Which everyone knows are the REAL “Niagara Falls”.
Are you why the river is so foamy below the falls?
NIAGARA FALLS?! Slowly I turned…step by step…
Dammit you beat me to it while I was searching for a gif
Inch by inch… Millimeter by millimeter…
I walked up to him and I SMASHED him, I HIT him, I POPPED him, I BOPPED him, I TORE HIM TO PIECES, and I KNOCKED HIM DOWN!!!
I break-a you down into the leetle cubes!
I was thinking “step by step, day by day…”
Fresh start over, a different hand to play
As long as he wasn’t wearing a susquehanna hat company hat.
It had been too long since I’d heard those words!
Sounds like you had a barrel of a time.
“NIAGRA FALLS!
Slowly I turned
Step by step, inch by inch…!”
Heh. Amateurs. Being who I am got me banned from six biker bars, the Dick’s Last Resort in San Antonio, the Hard Rock Cafe in Heidelberg, Howard County, Iowa, and last I knew, France.
I’m very familiar with Howard County IA. One of the few places in Iowa where people consider going to Decorah to be a journey to a major metropolitan area.
Know where Highlandville is? I grew up about ten miles down Bear Creek from Highlandville.
As for my ban from Howard County: It’s usually a good idea to ascertain whether a girl’s father is in fact a prominent local judge before entering into a fuck-buddy relationship with her.
uh. I’m sorry but no. That just has conflict of interest written ALL THE FUCK over it. If you get yourself a half-decent lawyer, you could probably get that judge thrown off the bench with a decent chance of getting him thrown in jail for not recusing himself.
A small-town magistrate’s influence typically extends well beyond the courtroom, and in small towns there are lots worse places than open court to have scores settled upon you.
What Stoney said. Besides, this was about thirty-five years ago. I don’t even know if the guy is alive any more. And hell, it’s not like there weren’t other girls around.
And it wasn’t any legal thing; I was never in the guy’s courtroom. It was a small-town cop thing; “Judge so-and-so doesn’t want this kid hanging around his daughter, so keep an eye out for him.”
It wasn’t as colorful as my ban from Dick’s Last Resort, which resulted from the Great 1987 Riverwalk Ketchup War.
I’m not allowed into Canada for nearly a decade.
BWAHAHAHA! YES, FEED IT! FEED THE SEXY(ISH) LESBIAN ADDICTION!
Becky. put your eyebrows back on…again. ^_^
Considering her image in the cast page, this may be the natural state of her eyebrows.
And a new friendship was born!
I agree
She’s like the junkyard dog of friendship.
Sarah is really good at being unpleasant.
She is. But did you notice that Joyce was a bit unpleasant herself? Not to Becky, but to Sarah.
Given the fact that having a 3rd person in the room might be a bit of an imposition, Joyce should have said “I have a favor… Becky needs to stay here. Its an emergency”. (Even if she didn’t want to give details, she could have kept things vague.) Instead, she more or less decrees “She’s staying with us”.
Well, I think if Joyce had asked for a favour, Sarah would’ve just said no. This isn’t really something Joyce thinks needs arguing over, Becky is staying because Becky needs to stay, as she’s got no where else. So I can kind of see where Joyce is coming from here.
…And after a few more years, Sarah and Joyce will probably be better at handling crises without being unpleasant, but right now, I applaud them for being assertive rather than crawling into a corner and hoping that The Proper Authorities will magically parachute in and make everything alright. It isn’t given to many people to stand up for what’s right while also being pleasant at their age (I still fuck that up and I’m more than twice as old as they are!).
“Segnosaur”? As in Therizinosaur? Awesome! Not that many people know about them
Segnosaurus is a therizinosaurid (the Therizinosauridae family), but Therizinosaurus is a different genus. #funwithtaxonomy
P.S. But yes, they are both awesome!
Oh, yes, but I think that the common (not taxonomic) name segnosaur (no -us, like the username above) is the old name (referring to obsolete Segnosauria), and therizinosaur is the new common name (referring to Therizinosauridae), more or less (?)
Sorry, I was introduced to them in Bakker’s “Raptor Red”, where he called them all segnosaurs, so that is what I tend to think of.
Also, I find this odd, since I am FB friends with Thomas Holtz, from Maryland, who is a paleontologist. But I don’t know that he goes by TJ. Or do you?!
super duper hot
Wait….is that fun in the “lol the dramaz!” or fun in the “people making out in a demographic I am attracted to” sense? Because if the latter…..WWWWHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTT?
She got to cry into Joyce’s chest. Becky, you sly devil.
Points to Becks for resisting the urge to motorboat.
You can’t motorboat a girl who is wearing a sweater.
Well, you can’t with an attitude like that, Mister!
You produce the sound effect by repeatedly making an breaking a seal; I don’t see how you can do that with knitted wool in the way.
Drama. Remember when Joyce and Dina were arguing over the flu vaccine, for example?
I love it when frank speaking shuts people up.
Well Frank just has a way with words.
booo
Frank Castle?
No, TV’s Frank.
Frank Burns?
*I* was saying Boo-urns
Frank Spencer
No, Lesbian Folksinger “Phranc”!
More like Frank N. Furter.
Perfect!
I see you shiver, with anticipa…
–pation.
Frank N. Sense?
Has anyone ever done a Christmas parody of Rocky?
“How Apollo Creed Stole Christmas” is available on BitTorent …somewhere.
Frank Lee.
My dear!
I don’t give a dam, but I’ve got a bridge for cheep. You might say it was a real steel, if you were given to irony.
Just watch Everybody Loves Raymond for examples of Frank talking.
I would, but…frankly my dear I don’t give a damn.
Oh, that’s our shortstop.
Thank you. I award you one full Internet for being aware of and using correctly an older but still awesome comedy reference. Bravo!
Sarah is so mad she didn’t get to debunk Becky for being a spy.
Sarah doesn’t get to debunk Becky, Becky doesn’t get to bunk with Joyce… It’s a vicious cycle of people not getting their bunk related desires!
I suppose Becky could bunk with Sarah – then Becky could show Sarah what she missed. Assuming Sarah is curious.
… I’ll be in my bunk.
Yep. Nobody’s gonna be bunking uglies any time soon.
That’s clearly bunk!
Especially considering nothri’s avatar!
Maybe nothri hasn’t cot-on yet?
Sorry, that was pretty sheety, but I’m blanketing the comments tonight … [takes cover(s) in a bunker]
Now more than ever.
She kinda knows the setting and the sort of drama people gets into, but she’s just one step behind the plot. That’s why she has the bat. Messy aftermaths and all that.
Damn, Becky’s sprung back from that quickly, judging by the flippantness of the last panel.
That, or she is the best at hiding her emotions. Either way, I love her.
My guess? A little bit of both. Probably covering up fear and anxiety with humor, which isn’t the worst thing sometimes. Plus, Sarah’s “I just got owned” face is priceless.
I agree. She seems naturally resilient and cheerful, but also must be covering up a bit. Still, with the good people here, I think she’ll be fine
She is scarily good at hiding her emotions – the full day of playing around and being cool despite everything that was going on shows that. But here I think she tries to be as honest as possible – which is a very good idea during the circumstances.
She is scarily good at hiding her emotions – the full day of playing around and being cool despite everything that was going on shows that. But here I think she tries to be as honest as possible – which is a very good idea during the circumstances.
Covering fear and anxiety with humor is how standup comics are born.
… and they all live happily every after …
Not likely, but if they get their anti-depressants right they might live long enough to get Social Security.
Screw anti-depressants. Just drink and smoke weed. All the best comics do that.
Bleh. Weed sucks, alcohol is ok once in a while, but is the opposite of helpful for depression. I’ll stick to my SSRIs
I like it when people casually mention being on antidepressants. Makes it seem less weird.
I’d say she’s bounced back.She’s been thrown a lifeline, not the one she wanted granted, so she’s gone from having nowhere to go to a place to be for the moment. All things considered things are on an upward trajectory here.
I’m thinking: She’s Joyce-approved. She has no shits to give for anyone else.
Poor Sarah! Shut down by Joyce, then info-dumped on
Better than getting REGULAR dumped on.
If I remember right that old shock site tubgirl was all about getting dumped on… yeek.
Plasma, for reminding me that that exists somewhere you are now my least favorite.
Do you remember that Goatse and lemonparty exist?
As of now I am making a point of forgetting that you exist.
Wow, if I was that good at forgetting things that annoyed and/or disgusted me, I’d have forgotten pretty much the whole of humanity …
… and myself dozens of times over
Quick, nothri, forget tyersome now, that’ll show ’em
Forgetting your own existence would be bad. You’d be scared every time you passed by a reflective surface. And god help you if you were carrying a bone in your mouth–no wait, that was the dog in Aesop’s fable.
Actually mirrors annoy me, there’s always some scruffy creep of an old guy glaring out of them …
You mean like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrnIZXGU1mU
You have GOT to be kitten me …
“I almost made it to second base but I pussed out.”
No, she didn’t. That would have been stealing third.
Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/540/
I’m even MORE confused reading that…
Which seems to be the point of the comic, but still.
If you ignore everything but the actual bases, it’s actually quite straightforward. Munroe is a credit to the very concept of diagrams.
That’s kind of stealing home, in this case.
I would have been confused by this comment had I not just read the linked xkcd comic and found out that third base is no longer “hands in the pants” but now oral sex. You crazy kids, with your furries and quantum foursomes and harvey wallbangerz and so forth
We try.
I’ve given up on trying to figure out the baseball metaphor and just play Calvinball. It’s more fun anyway.
And, man, sharing root passwords before home base? I’ve made home runs with a few ladies, and I’ve never shared any of my passwords with anyone. My root password seems more like something I’d have engraved in fiery Tengwar on the wedding band.
In my youth, I shared apartment keys and root passwords with three people and only bodily fluids with one of them. Though lots of beer with all. Come to think of it, the others’ partners most likely were out of the password loop. But then mine literally owned the central server and printer.
Four friends, three apartments, one RG58 segment. When men were men and women were women and either knew that “Terminator 2” is where you stop.
Yeah… Root password sharing comes way after home base. Like maybe after you got home enough times to make the World Series…
This day has just been full of stuff making me smile.
By the way Willis, have you seen the series finale of Korra?
(SPOILERS of course) canon queer women of color in non-fetishized relationships are kind of the most important thing ever.
That was great!
Wish they could have voiced it, but networks :-/
After coming down from the squee high, my going theory is that that ending was at least partial trolling to Nick for shafting Korra on broadcasting the past two seasons. A more significant part is the production crew going “Fuck it, last episode, let’s give the fans what they want.”
And to that, I respond, “Fuck the reasons, it’s canon and it’s awesome”
It… It’s over? And they made Korea/Asami of all things canon?
Damn, I love that crew. I need to catch up from the beginning… Never really got around to Korea after Avatar.
I’d keep to the south end.
That’s either a candidate for “Damn you autocorrect” or the most consistent typos I have ever seen.
Sarah is so protective towards Joyce, I like that about her a lot.
I love Becky’s last line here.
Same, tho I think she would have preferred…
< that result…
Sorry, had to. Threw it together in "Paint" few days ago. Human tech is fun…
Nice collection of ladies to the side there Mr Willis….
Nice. I have considered using that as an avatar at some point, but it would probably be in few years if shippers dreams do come true
I am here to say pretty much that. I like Sarah and I like Becky.
Sarah, you just have to use your imagination when you next use Little Jacub.
Sa… Sarah, I don’t think that the word fun means what you think it does.
I don’t think the word Sarah means what you think it does.
I don’t think you typed ‘means’ as many times as you thought you did.
I give it a 6 out of 10. Things could get so much more unpleasant than they did but didn’t. BTW to get n idea of how unpleasant a 10 is, think Mike with everybody’s moms and a wheelbarrow full of nickels. Unpleasant for us that is, not bad at all for Mike.
Speak for yourself. I’d buy that Slipshine!
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(You meant the characters’ moms, right?)
Everybody’s moms… Mike just got a couple of pallets of Red Bull and Monster Energy.
Even still, it doesn’t involve Blaine or Ross, so it’s nowhere near the worst things could get.
Or Ryan!
And there’s the full list of legitimately awful people in DoA. If all three appear in the same strip, something will explode.
I am sorry, have you forgotten about the great Faz? Please refer to this diagram to remind you about how great Faz is.
I honestly can’t hate Faz in this setting. He is too young, too misguided and under the influence of a too horrible father. It’s just tragic.
But I like the diagram.
If that scenario is a 10/10 then the scale clearly goes past 11, even assuming it’s logarithmic …
Hooray for the return of Becky’s mystical flying eyebrows!
They’re the best.
Becky’s eyebrows are the wind beneath my wings.
Sorry you missed it, Sarah, it was pretty epic. The comments field was ablaze!
New ava? I like it!
Thanks! I finally took the time to figure out how to change. Happy blue-panel Becky will always live in my heart and my gravatar.
How do you change avatars?
Get a Gravatar and connect it to your e-mail.
Click the “Get a Gravatar” link just next to Name in the comment field, get an account and upload an image.
I like the subtext that Sarah wanted to watch.
Because who wouldn’t? That was top notch drama right there.
She would have Jacob-stories for a month!
As opposed to the current situation she finds herself in, which will probably keep her supplied with Jacob-stories for the next twenty years.
Sarah is a dramasexual. She can’t resist some good drama, but only if it’s not her own.
This has got to be one of the only times Sarah was — even temporarily — at a loss for words.
Other than around Jacob, anyway.
She had words, they were just wrong.
“Do you think it was drugs?”
Have you forgotten that Joyce tends to have that effect on her? The “elusive silent last panel” was a Joyce and Sarah strip. About straps-on, if memory serves.
Exposition, exposition, rush it out AS-AP!
Who let Casper in here?
Well, he is a ghost…
This semester at my school, my roommate invited her girlfriend to live in my room with her. She did so without telling anyone in the apartment building as Joyce is doing here, or asking any of the suitemstes if they were okay with someone else living there. And they like to argue at 3 in the morning about the most ridiculous crap, too. By the end of the semester they’d “broken up” 5 times that I know of, and I’m pretty privy to thrir conversations because they have no concept of privacy and talk very loudly at all times while sitting in the room and not leaving. And if they’re not both in the room, then they’re on the phone together, probably arguing.
Here’s to hoping I get the room change I requested.
Not sure about your housing/university policies, Shanunu, but at a lot of student housing complexes, that could get your roommate and her gf kicked out. A new roommate usually has to be approved by the landlord (or university, in the case of university-run housing) and has to have the consent of the other roommates living in that suite/room. At my uni, even visitors were restricted to three days tops (over the weekend) or overnight (during the week). I wasn’t even allowed to have my husband living with me in my dorm, despite having a single, because of dorm policies.
If you don’t get the room change, I would definitely look more carefully at your building’s roommate policies.
Becky handled Sarah perfectly. She told her the flat unvarnished truth. Lying to Sarah would have been a huge mistake.
She may not like most people on general principle, but she has ‘adopted Joyce” sort of as a hopeless case I think. But she does try to protect Joyce most of the time.
Sarah is one of my favorites.
Got a feeling this may work out well.
Get a job Becky, enroll next semester on a grant if you get it thru.
Becky just needs to re-enact the kiss, but with Sarah, so Sarah knows EXACTLY what she missed!
“Joyce, we’d better show Sarah what she missed.” *smoochsmoochhonk*
“Hey! You didn’t squeeze my bosom the first time!”
“Oh, sorry, I guess I just meant to. We’d better do it again and see if I can get it right this time.” *smoochsmoochhonk* “Sorry, it’s just got a mind of its own! Third time’s the charm?”
And then once for Daisy.
Sarah’s family now too. Specifically, she’s the grumpy big sister who’s sure you’re up to something and wants to tell on you to mom and get you sent away for the summer.
…But who, when it really, really matters, will be there for you.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/sisters-2/
Heh, I like how my new gravatar seeks eye-contact with your gravatars when I reply. Blue-panel-bed-Becky seeeeeeees you…
Like this, but with sisters.
Nah, Sarah is the big sister who wants to catch you doing something wrong so she can berate you and threaten to but never actually tell Mom.
I’m surprised. I thought Sarah would vehemently protest the idea of having to deal with another babbling brook. Maybe the realization that Becky will be around for the long-term hasn’t kicked in yet.
I think she has understood and is pretty resigned to the idea. Sarah’s big problem the whole time (in her own mind) has been her inability to stick to herself. No, she always has to find someone to help. And Becky needs help.
It also helped how Joyce phrased it. Not a question, not a plea, just a statement and a dare-you-to-disagree-glare. I’m don’t think Sarah really wants to cross paths with a pissed-off Joyce
She likes Joyce. Why wouldn’t she want another one?
After all, that’s what all of us has been saying these last few days
Well it hasn’t been established to Sarah that she’s staying long term. people visit and stay the night all the time. she has no reason to suspect an indefinite term.
The whole “ran away” part implies that long term might be in the cards. The way I read that beat panel, Sarah realized the implications realized that whatever she tries to tell herself she is not the kind of person to threw out Becky, and fell back to grumpy snark.
Oh wow. I rarely see people with my mom’s name. Hi!
Your mom’s name is “Bagge”?
Oh wait, it must be Kathleen. The avatar makes it look like you’re responding to Bagge, but the text is clearly lined up with Bagge so you must be responding to Kathleen.
…eat your heart out, Sherlock.
Oh man, if your real name is Kelly (and I’m guessing it is, cuz it’d be purrrty weird as an internet nickname-y thing) and your mom’s is Kathleen… does that mean your parents did that un-frakking-bearable thing where all the kids have the same first initial? Mine did that. I am Josh, my dad’s name was Jeff, I have three brothers with J names… barf barf barf. You have my sympathy, assuming my train of assumptions is correct.
Is Jeff a ninja?
Well, he did own nunchucks
Haha, no we were spared that! My brother and I just have gender-neutral names. Gotta love hippies
I had a good friend in that situation, both parents had the same first initial, so of course all three kids (2 girls, 1 boy) also had the same first initial, as did all three dogs. And strangely enough, the initial was “J”.
Ha, that’s funny. My name is also Kelly (obviously) and my mom is also named Kathleen. Coincidences are fun
Nice!
Crud, the portal to the alternate universe is open again….
Well Joyce, a few strips ago (or, yanno, the other day inverse) you asked for a sign.
Specifically an angel
You think Joyce will take this as God trying to tell her something? Maybe she will think Becky showing up is God telling her being gay is not a sin.
I kinda like the message she did take from it
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/pit/
Even in her painful moments, Becky continues to have her little moments of snarkiness and self-depreciation, showing that she’s above the petty situations, but not above others, even as, in Sarah’s cases, they fall flat on their misanthropic faces.
So glad Becky’s likely to be around a while longer. And no matter what, I won’t let up the hope. Joyce has already grown and developed her own worldview so much in terms of her faith and how who she considers a good person isn’t restricted to whether they’re a person of faith or similar orientation. Feelings can slways still have room to blossom, even among childhood friends who choose to remain close and keep growing up together.
I love the look of “Well fuck I done messed up a bit didn’t I” that Sarah has. Of course, she’d never SAY that, but you know. Thought that counts? Maybe? No? At least Sarah didn’t say no.
I love that – despite all her attitude Sarah actually knows when to fold. Of course, she chose to phrase it as “shouldn’t have played to begin with, dangit”
Silent penultimate final panel FTW.
The other day I was looking for something in the archives, and found a strip with, to quote Willis, “the elusive silent final panel”. It takes some setup to work that one right. It was also a Joyce/Sarah strip…
I am loving Becky’s witty comebacks.
Damn right it was super hot. I needed a new laptop.
Yikes
I guess I’m always on Team Sarah, but I don’t think she was being terrible here. Becky WAS being sneaky and deceptive in a way. She was hiding something big, and Sarah caught onto that. Sarah sees Joyce as a naieve rube and thinks people can easily take advantage of her, so she assumed Becky was up to no good. As soon as Becky explained why she was acting like that, Sarah understood and was sympathetic in her own, sarcastic way.
I really think everyone has been on their best behavior today, and what fault they had are more than understandable.
Becky spent a day lying… but it could very well have been her last good day with Joyce. Once she came clean she explained everything without fuss.
Joyce reacted with shock and deflection to Becky kissing her and explaining the situation… for about five minutes before she wholeheartedly embraced Becky just as she is and took her in.
Sarah was rightly suspicious and jumped to the worst sort of conclusion… but fell back immediately and accepted Becky as soon as the situation was clear for her.
Why, there is hardly any room for tragic/dramatic missunderstandings now.
…why would you say that?!! You’ve doomed them all!
Wait till Becky catches Dorothy teaching Joyce how to make-out, or Becky drinks with Mike …. this is a Willis comic.
OH Jocelyn! Maybe she will visit the campus presenting as female and Becky , not recognizing her will hit on her,
or Joe takes out Jocelyn, but learns who she is and has to hide her from Joyce.
So Amazi-girl is closeted ( as her idenity and knowing that Sal was robber )
Joceyne closeted.
Ethan partially closeted.
Danny, In Ambers closet and His own.
Billie and Ruth , secret , sexy lesbian Suicide pact.
Robin De Santo .
All of these secrets has the potential for comdic folly and comedies of errors.
I forgot Mike. Secret Drunk nice guy persona, secretly into submission, and possibly anything kinky with anyone.
The nice drunk stuff hasn’t been established in this universe. You shouldn’t assume it exists here.
Isn’t that kinda like Mike’s sexuality (and thus a constant)?
It might have been the result of Alien tinkering with his genome.
Tangentially, I’m sad that we won’t be getting to the twins’ 21st birthday any time this century. I want to see Joyce drink them under the table again.
Hmm. Actually, I guess the twins are month older than Joyce in this continuity, not eleven months younger as they were in the Walkyverse. Joyce’s 21st, then.
He’s not secretly into submission. He was rather quick to cop to it when Amazi-girl pinned him. As to the nice drunk bit… has he ever had a drink before? I think… probably not!
Congrats, Sarah. You are now DoA’s relationship janitor.
If that were a real job, I might apply.
Here are the mope mop, bum broom and drama dust pan.
The dustbin of denial is in the closet.
The deadbeat dumpster is out back.
When can ‘ya start?
This is why I like Sarah.
Our only enemy now is Mary.
…oooh, I hope Becky somehow becomes Fundamentalist Buddies with Mary without the latter realizing she is gay until much later. It’s unlikely due to Mary’s Maryness, but I can dream.
I think Willis will throw us a curve ball with Mary. Either she will turn out not to be a threat at all, or she will turn out to be relatable once you get her side of the story. She has been a cartoon villain for too long for me to believe that’s all there is to her.
I’ve been harboring a suspicion for a while that those wristbands that Mary always wears are covering up scars, either from cutting or a suicide attempt. I really hope I’m wrong, because I don’t want to have to have sympathy for Mary.
I always thought she wears wristbands bc she likes anime. I imagine she wears Naruto wristbands like a middle schooler.
If she just usually wore them, I wouldn’t think much of it. But she wears them when she’s brushing her teeth in her pajamas, she wears them when she’s in Sunday church clothes, she wears them when Billie bursts into her room without warning and she’s otherwise naked except for her panties. The only time we’ve seen her without them, she had a long-sleeved blouse on.
after the reveal with Sal’s gloves, i could bet you’re on to something here with Mary’s wristbands…
It wouldn’t surprise me if you were right. I had a friend do exactly that in college. We just thought she liked those wrist things a lot (plus, I’m oblivious to a lot of things). Nope. Hiding scars.
Ooh, I hope there is something like that going on. I like Mary, she seem really tragic, especially with that “if evil wasn’t fun” line.
‘s not her fault she got a huge dose of fundamentalism.
“Some people ain’t no damn good” -John Cougar Mellencamp
She’s a villian I love to hate.
I think Willis has been slightly teaking her to make her seem more relatable and human and thus a more accurate real-life santimonious Xtian fundamentalist shrew.
At least I hope he is. I think Mary is more fun when is she almost like someone you could get to know and see through her facade, and then once you do you see the real mary inside, given a choice will choose evil in the guise of righteousness . And that makes her evenb more hatable
Look how high up those eyebrows went. That’s the look of “Worth it.” right there.
I think Becky’s eyebrows might give Dorothy’s a run for their money on jumping in the air.
Becky’s eyebrows deserve their own hashtag.
#beckybrows2015
Think Sarah wanted some of that too, oh well.
I love Becky’s response. XD
Tch, can’t believe Willis is giving into the pressure for more redhead representation. I mean, 3 cast members that are gingers? So unbelievable. I’ve never seen more than one.
You just wait until Joyce and Dorothy’s hair turns auburn, and Mike turns strawberry blonde, Leslie goes for the “I love lucy” look .
You can tell it’s fall term when all the students start turning red and orange.
Doesn’t that depend on what school you go to?
Man, I love Becky. Becky is the GREATEST character. I love that she just admits it so easy here, even though Sarah is being
kind of antagonisticSarah, because lying would just make it worse.Plus the fact that she’s back to her flippant funny self, even though she’s probably had a bit of a crap day (that admittedly has got better) is just great. But I see myself a lot in Becky, even down to the hair cut/colour hahaa.
whoops didn’t mean to make this a reply!
Oh god, her eyebrows sprouted off to find a new home and/or conquer humanity.
Totes hot.
Okay, here is the thing.
I FUCKING LOVE BECKY PLEASE DO NOT KILL HER
K thx.
Check the reply to yesterday’s comment #44 …
Just started reading this comic yesterday.
…aaand now I’m caught up.
I laugh at EVERY ONE of these kinds of comments, b/c it’s pretty weird to be caught up here. I remember when I got caught up. I think it was the Ding-Dong bandit part.
Still need to get her out of that hoodie and into a Cutters shirt. Do they sell a Cutters hoodie?
E-eyebrows.
I saw the updated cast page. It is listed by how many appearances yeah? I saw Amber but not Amaza-girl.
It’s basically “Choice of God” with God=Willis.
However it appears the criteria now are:
* Member of main cast.
* Number of appearances.
See this page from one of Davids tumblrs. (What’s the proper plural of tumblr?).
There are some characters with more appearances than Carla which are not on the Cast page, so number of appearances alone is not sufficient.
(Well, do you really want Blaine to appear on the Cast page?)
archive.org shows that Amazi-Girl had a separate entry in the past, see this example from Nov 2010.
Seems like she was removed when it became official that Amazi-Girl is NOT U*l*t*r*a*C*a*r, but a persona of of the Amber character.
Funny thing is, Becky was part of the cast for a very long time (until spring 2014, see March 27) although had only very few appearances. She disappeared when Carla (literally) rolled in.
Her eyebrows are doing the thing again.
Yes!
Gosh, Becky can move in with me, she is ADORABLE.
Perfect. Love it.
I think that Joyce will probably go to Dorothy for help/advice about Becky, because she trusts and respects her (and isn’t scared of her like she is of Ruth). After a couple of days to get things arranged, Becky will go stay with Dorothy’s parents because Dorothy knows they’ll take care of her and keep her away from her dad.
Well shit, the only thing I have to say anymore is “Becky is the best.” Willis, you’re gona have to kick over some crapbaskets if you wana maintain a level of drama around here.
WAIT NO DON’T I WAS ONLY KIDDIN—–
I really like how this small arc has brought Becky into the mix, and Sarah is absolutely great in her reaction.
The mouseover text for this one says it all:
sarah shows concern for joyce by attacking anything and everything around her
There are only two beds in that room.
Either Becky sleeps with Joyce or Joyce sleeps with Sarah. Either way, it should be entertaining.
…I mean, she could just inhabit Billie’s now mostly-vacant bed, but that seems too reasonable.
Logically incomplete:
1. Becky sleeps with Sarah. Or
2. One bed stays empty. Or
3. Someone sleeps on the floor.
Yes, but your options largely lack entertainment value.
“One bed stays empty” implies that all three girls are in the other, and I don’t see how that’s not entertainment.
Submarine crews get around this problem by “hotbunking”, which is not nearly as much fun as it sounds.
Particularly on beans and sauercraut day.
It sure was.
The hottest.
Is Becky slyly checking out Sarah in the last panel? I’d like to think that’s part of the reason her eyebrows are hovering above her head.
I just noticed that Becky’s eyebrows are a solid inch above her head. I approve.
Next time you won’t miss it.
And she’ll still be angry. She’ll say she doesn’t want to get involved in that kind of drama.
Joyce really needs a reality check here, yes its great shes supporting her friend but she seems to have forgotten its not just her place but Sarahs place as well
Not to mention the person shes giving attitude to is the same person willing to take a baseball bat to a rapists head to protect her
Becky says what we’re all thinking.
“So you kissed her but she’s straight.
No surprise, because incompatible sexual orientations are her thing.
Did she already tell you about that gay guy she has a relationship with?”
I think it is time for Joyce to break up with Ethan so Becky can date him for maximum awkwardness and unfulfilling relationships.
So where’s Becky going to stay? She doesn’t dare sleep with Joyce, and I can’t see Sarah letting her snuggle up with her. And sleeping on the floor can get real uncomfortable really quick (not to mention you could get stepped on in case anyone has to make a middle-of-the-night potty run).
Carla and Ruth are the only others (that we know of) that might have a vacant bed.
Nah, Joyce’ll be cool with it. Her stream of consciousness will be entirely “platonicsnugglesplatonicsnugglesplatonicsnuggles” all night.
Until she wakes up in the morning and discovers that she’s spooning Becky with her hand on her boob and gets the gay panic again. And Becky just opens one eye and goes, “Aw, I liked that there. You can put it back if you want.”
In all seriousness, the platonic way to share a sleeping surface with someone is back to back. At least until one of you starts tossing and turning.
My experience is that dorm beds aren’t actually big enough to do that without significant risk of whomever’s on the outside ending up on the floor. And they’ve got loft beds; it’s a long way to fall.
This was discussed somewhere around the time Walky and Dorothy first slept together I believe. I *think* Willis outright stated that in the Dumbiverse, the beds are wider than in our universe.
Though of course now I can’t find it… pretty sure it was a thing though.
I have to wonder if Kaitlin will show up at some point and try to make things right with Becky. From the “She told everyone I was a bad influence”, it could mean that Kaitlin was the one who initially had a crush on Becky and made a move first, which Becky encouraged by reciprocating.
I doubt that Kaitlin has a good way of finding Becky at this point. Everyone she knows, and the only contacts she has with Becky, are all very determined to keep them apart.
I love how Joyce is like “I’m not taking any of your shit right now Sarah”
Please continue doing that Joyce, I have said it before ill say it again, Sarah needs to get off her high and mighty bullshit.
There is a reason that Sarah acts like she knows more about the world than Joyce and needs to protect her from it. It’s because Sarak does know more about the world than Joyce, and somebody needs to protect Joyce from the world she has been raised in ignorance of. I don’t recall if we have seen the mighty bat of justice weilded more than once, but the only time I recall it being used, Sarah was preventing Joyce from being raped.
Yes, who’d ever think that somebody whose story doesn’t pass the smell check and is snooping in somebody’s possessions might be up to no good.
true enough, i guess Sarah just reminds me of my own brother who consitantly feels the need to act like he knows whats best, so i may be a tad biased.
Becky seemingly recovered quickly
Omg Becky being there is going to be so much fun!
“But what kind of game is she playing?”
“Angry birds! Duh.”
I like Becky, but this is kind of like how a roommate announces their bf/gf is moving in
Well if Sarah is cool with it, but I wouldn’t blame her if she wasn’t. It’s her living space too and she already knows what can happen if you’re too accommodating.
But other than that, is it that easy? No bribing security to be lax with the guest policies? Actually, do the dorms here even have a sign in system? Both Becky and Amber’s dad seem like they just walked in with no problem.
Well, Amber’s dad did it during the confusion of Freshman Family Weekend (and got his femurs handed to him by the RA, which seems to be the official way of dealing with these things). Becky probably was just a good talker. She got Sarah to let her in the room, probably got into the building same way, if there indeed is a more advanced system than a locked door.
As long as it’s daytime, you have free access to the innards of the residence building. When I visit the actual Read Hall to take reference photographs, there’s nothing stopping me going up the elevators. I mean, I don’t, but there’s technically nothing stopping me.
I don’t know about Read specifically. In Teter (which has no elevators), you need an ID to get into all the buildings except the main one, and you need your key to get onto your floor as well as into your room. In Forest (which is much bigger and has elevators) the panel inside the elevator doesn’t have buttons; it has keyholes instead.
Sooooo, is the open closet in the background a metaphor.
Well, Sarah, perhaps if you were more gregarious, or at least less prickly, you’d be around for the fun stuff more often. Just a thought.