You know that one guy in the background last comic? Turns out he’s been Jason’s best friend for years. He went to the guys bar mitzvah! You might not have noticed him because he didn’t have a tag. Wait there were two guys…Two friends!
He has realized that if he introduces Sal to his friends, that is one step closer to people finding out he is having relations with a student. This was foreshadowed the last time we saw Jason.
… is the joke that his friends (colleagues) are over there and he’s not socialising with them, or that his friends (colleagues) aren’t there at all and he’s lying?
I think of Jason’s “friends” as basically the dudes who only hang out with jason despite the fact that they all think he’s kind of a dry bone. But on the plus side he always tags along with this one dude whose just a cut up. Like literally the whole room just erupts with a good belly laugh every time he tells a joke. Think of it as the Andy Richter/ Conan O’Brien kind of duo.
I think the thing I like the most about Canada is they have a strategic maple syrup reserve so in case they get a bad harvest they can still get the Real Thing for their waffles and pancakes.
Its a popular joke/self defense in the US. At least in US sitcoms, of a nerd claiming he’s not single, but has a long distance girlfriend in Canada whom nobody has ever met.
We sometimes attempt the same personal defence here in the UK, but we’d probably say that the secret girl/boyfriend no-one’s ever met is from Australia. 😛
Is that all it takes? Let’s see, I think around here I have some water, some white chocolate, perhaps some turpentine, and I think some windshield wiper fluid out in the car. Time to get started!
Reality check, not only is begbert2 drinking far too milky chocolate, they added water.
*Thud.*
See, so little cocoa that poor begbert2 fell off the stool.
It’s not impossible that it’s beer, but the dark colour of the beverage combined with the fact that it appears to be served in a highball glass is understandably making us think mixed drink. I doubt it’s pure Bailey’s, but I don’t think a Mudslide is out of the question.
I’m of the opinion that it is just a drawing of a pint glass and she is drinking some sort of a darker beer — like maybe New Belgium’s “Fat Tire Ale”…. especially because in the first panel of yesterday’s strip the curly-haired guy in the bluish-colored shirt behind Sal was holding practically the same thing.
I’m trying to pry the Belgian brew out of long term memory that was brewed so that monks could stay true to their vows of not eating during Lent, but still get a fair amount of nutrition. It had the nickname of “liquid bread”. Such is the “joy” of brain damage and age, you remember that you know something, but you can’t remember what it was. I even remember drinking a glass, about 8 ounces worth (250 ml?) and it was a great beer with a very heavy mouth feel and a very yeasty finish, slightly sweet.
Opus, could that possibly be Chimay? That is a Belgian beer that is brewed in a Trappist monastery and is fully controlled by the brothers of the monastery.
Ghawd you gais! It wasn’t about one factor or the other, but when you take the probabilities of both and multiply them… *flips tabe*
Maybe it’s just the shitty sample of bars I’ve been to, but it seems like light beers are generally more abundant than dark. It’s basically Sophie’s choice between light pisswater and Guiness.
nb4 it’s improbably chocolate milk, like other people have suggested.
If you’re going by types of beer, there are a lot more darker beers than there are lighter beers.
If you’re going by sheer volume, the fact that the major mass-market beers are ‘Pale Lagers’ means that if you’re seeing a beer commercial you’re seeing something bright yellow.
In any case, if you go back to the previous strip, every glass is filled with the same color substance, and I doubt everyone there is drinking mudslides 😉
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“Well, say hello… Harvey!”
Along with my my dancing frog and my Snuffleupagus.
And all the voices in my head, too! Hey, insanity #5!
“Merry Go Round Broke… Down. Quite a loony selection for a group of drunken reprobates.”
STOP THAT LAUGHING!
Shave and a haircut. . .
notgonnasayitnotgonnasayitnotgonnasayitnotgonnasayitnotgonnasayitohgoddamnit
TWO BITS!
“Me and my friend are now going to the basement for…well, the first rule is I can’t tell you about it. And you second rule is I can’t talk about it.”
RIGHT SURE THEY ARE…. oh shite they really are….
See now i feel like a dick
Yeah, suuuuuuuuuure they are. Whatever you say, sir. *exaggerated wink*
Is that a Farscape reference or am I seeing things?
Farscape referenced Harvey, look it up, it’s a great movie.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit reference.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit was also referencing Harvey. 🙂
Yes, but the delivery as quoted in the post is identical to the line from Roger Rabbit. I don’t believe there is a similar line in Harvey itself.
“Is that a rabbit in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?”
Don’t bust a button, Dolores, you’ve only got one left.
I believe in Harvey Dent.
Zach, I think she’s onto us.
The day the Jason has a better social life than Sal…that is the day the world ends.
Well, Sal associates with Malaya, so that counts for negative five friends right there.
But Jason IS Jason, that’s like, negative ten thousand friends all on it’s own.
Jason’s dirty secret is that he has twenty thousand friends on Facebook and they all care about him
The bar is a lie.
the bar was always a lie….
I feel like there’s a lawyer joke in here somewhere
No there are several thousand lawyer jokes in there…
There is only one lawyer joke. It’s all true.
You can’t see them because they’re off-panel.
Oh no. Jason has become affected by a meta bomb…..
It’s like baby logic, “if you cannot see it, it doesn’t exist.”
*plays Devo’s “Peekaboo” on the jukebox*
Jason fell for Peek-a-Boo until he was fourteen, and he still gets upset when people steal his nose.
Hey it works for the monsters under the bed!
More like Canadian Girlfriend logic. If you can’t see it, you can’t claim it doesn’t exist somewhere else.
Is it ironic that Billie actually does have a Canadian girlfriend and is currently tyrying to convince people said girlfriend doesn’t exist?
I think you just cracked the code.
This thread brings up an interesting question. If American men pretend to have Canadian girlfriends, what do Canadian men pretend to have?
Our “fake” girlfriends are still Canadian, but they live one town over.
And when you are out in the former territories of Canuckistan, “one town over” is in the next province.
Except in Quebec….
“American woman …” guess who …
You know that one guy in the background last comic? Turns out he’s been Jason’s best friend for years. He went to the guys bar mitzvah! You might not have noticed him because he didn’t have a tag. Wait there were two guys…Two friends!
“My friends are all over there, [but I don’t want to make Willis draw them all, so they’re] just out of view.”
I wonder who or what Jason saw in the last panel?
Maybe he’s just realizing that Sal is struggling with things other than math.
Just as long as it’s only math and not meth.
naw, it’s “Meh”th. Thank you, I’ll be here all week, try your waitress and tip the veal.
Of course not. That would mean tutoring from her chemistry teacher.
Have you considered that maybe HE’S struggling with things other than math?
Probably looking at every last reader that’s giving him death looks beyond the 4th wall.
Nothing? Just a dopey look on his face as he fails at trying to 1-up Sal.
Sal’s middle finger?
He has realized that if he introduces Sal to his friends, that is one step closer to people finding out he is having relations with a student. This was foreshadowed the last time we saw Jason.
Bad grad student, bad!!
I swear they’re right off panel. They have generic character designs and everything!
Also they’re Canadian…
They all went to some high school called Avalon and wore uniforms in green and white.
Apparently Avalon High is in Tennessee in the Dumbiverse.
Well it’s certainly not where Ruth grew up.
Can I guess Parkdale in The Big Smoke?
Thank you Jason…don’t think she asked though.
Maybe he just got smart, and decided he better not get involved.
Or maybe he’s just a coward and saw ‘something’ that warned him off.
… is the joke that his friends (colleagues) are over there and he’s not socialising with them, or that his friends (colleagues) aren’t there at all and he’s lying?
Maybe they aren’t there because they left him in a lurch.
I think it’s the latter. It’s been previously established that nobody likes Jason.
Nobody likes Jason, but sometimes all the grad students from a certain faculty department are invited for Friday night drinks out of hand.
I think of Jason’s “friends” as basically the dudes who only hang out with jason despite the fact that they all think he’s kind of a dry bone. But on the plus side he always tags along with this one dude whose just a cut up. Like literally the whole room just erupts with a good belly laugh every time he tells a joke. Think of it as the Andy Richter/ Conan O’Brien kind of duo.
Jason is the straight man. Every comic needs one, and Jason is the best straight man.
–Which is doubly hilarious considering his original characterization.
I was thinking the same thing, and I came to the conclusion that it’s funny either way. 🙂
My friends, all just off panel… in Canada…
Ya because I totally have friends, I’m not drinking alone because I just realized Everyone doesn’t like me.
Sal’s chocolate milkshake brings all the TAs to her bar.
HA!
heh heh heh!
muhahahahahmuhaaahaaaamuhaaaMUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!
He could teach her but he’d have to charge!
Looks like Baily’s to me
You think you can’t make a milkshake with Bailey’s?
“You wouldn’t know them, they’re from Canada.”
What’s up with you guys and Canada Today?
Ruth: “You got a problem with Canada, buddy?”
Wait, wait, I’m really slow, I’m sure someone else already made this Joke – but Billie actually HAS a secret girlfriend from Canada.
I’m not your Buddy, friend.
Don’t you know that ALL secret girlfriends are from Canada? That’s why you can never, ever, meet them.
No, no, I love maple syrup.
Sorry wrong one, to you I was going to ask if the reason why was that no one would ever bother to look there.
We get the craziest non-sequiters around here.
I am Canadian and I am eating maple syrup RIGHT NOW. 😀
I think the thing I like the most about Canada is they have a strategic maple syrup reserve so in case they get a bad harvest they can still get the Real Thing for their waffles and pancakes.
I mean how cool is that?
And somebody thought it was worth enough to steal it.
I currently AM the Girlfriend Who Lives in Canada. >_> For real. It’s…amusing.
Ah, explains why I’ve never heard of that. See, where I live, Canada is closer than the closest neighboring state.
Its a popular joke/self defense in the US. At least in US sitcoms, of a nerd claiming he’s not single, but has a long distance girlfriend in Canada whom nobody has ever met.
In Canada of course they claim their girlfriends are from Greenland.
Are they unemployed?
Canadians or Greenlanders? Or girlfriends?
We sometimes attempt the same personal defence here in the UK, but we’d probably say that the secret girl/boyfriend no-one’s ever met is from Australia. 😛
It’s from The Princess Bride:
“Do you want me to put you back where I found you? Unemployed, in Greenland??”
“They…they go to a different school.”
“Her name is Alberta, she lives in Vancouver
She cooks like her mother and sucks like a Hoover.”
Would you like to meet them? Or we could go back to my place and snog, quite.
You know what’s Ironic ? Today’s Saints Patricks day and everybody is drinking ( Still 9pm for me)
Yep, definitely chocolate milk. You can tell because Sal hasn’t fallen off her barstool yet.
Maybe it’s Yoohoo.
Calling it now, new Slipshine dropping in.
What’s Sal drinking currently? And is it any good?
I’ve never seen a beer served in a glass like that.
Bourbon Chocolate Milkshake?
No, that’s usually served in a martini glass.
I’m a teetotaller so my knowledge on cocktails is limited.
Well, you take some ingredients and you put them all in a glass and there you have it.
Is that all it takes? Let’s see, I think around here I have some water, some white chocolate, perhaps some turpentine, and I think some windshield wiper fluid out in the car. Time to get started!
Ugh. You’re going to drink white chocolate!?
Reality check, not only is begbert2 drinking far too milky chocolate, they added water.
*Thud.*
See, so little cocoa that poor begbert2 fell off the stool.
Hopefully something with coffee liqueur, because it may be the best thing that exists. But I would expect a lowball glass for something like that.
My original guess was Baily’s but that much baily’s would put you in either a diabetic or alcoholic coma, so I’m going to punt and say “Mudslide”.
Bailey’s is pretty weak, all things considered. You might gag over the sweetness, though.
Not to mention that a full glass of Bailey’s at a bar is going to cost like $50 or something ridiculous. It’s probably just beer.
It’s not impossible that it’s beer, but the dark colour of the beverage combined with the fact that it appears to be served in a highball glass is understandably making us think mixed drink. I doubt it’s pure Bailey’s, but I don’t think a Mudslide is out of the question.
I’m of the opinion that it is just a drawing of a pint glass and she is drinking some sort of a darker beer — like maybe New Belgium’s “Fat Tire Ale”…. especially because in the first panel of yesterday’s strip the curly-haired guy in the bluish-colored shirt behind Sal was holding practically the same thing.
In addition, since ice is cheaper than liquor, most bars will serve a mixed drink with a shitload of ice in the glass and a swizzle stick.
>but the dark colour
I…what?
Beer can be dark.
Great minds think alike.
GUINESS
Stick a fork in it, it’ll stay upright.
The beer that drinks like a meal!
I’m trying to pry the Belgian brew out of long term memory that was brewed so that monks could stay true to their vows of not eating during Lent, but still get a fair amount of nutrition. It had the nickname of “liquid bread”. Such is the “joy” of brain damage and age, you remember that you know something, but you can’t remember what it was. I even remember drinking a glass, about 8 ounces worth (250 ml?) and it was a great beer with a very heavy mouth feel and a very yeasty finish, slightly sweet.
Opus, could that possibly be Chimay? That is a Belgian beer that is brewed in a Trappist monastery and is fully controlled by the brothers of the monastery.
That’s the general legendry behind the various Trappist ales, at least. I don’t know of any one specifically associated with that, though.
If you’re looking for Trappist, though, Chimay is the place to start. It’s very good and easy to find.
Get out of my head, Bill!
yup, that was my guess too.
Ghawd you gais! It wasn’t about one factor or the other, but when you take the probabilities of both and multiply them… *flips tabe*
Maybe it’s just the shitty sample of bars I’ve been to, but it seems like light beers are generally more abundant than dark. It’s basically Sophie’s choice between light pisswater and Guiness.
nb4 it’s improbably chocolate milk, like other people have suggested.
If you’re going by types of beer, there are a lot more darker beers than there are lighter beers.
If you’re going by sheer volume, the fact that the major mass-market beers are ‘Pale Lagers’ means that if you’re seeing a beer commercial you’re seeing something bright yellow.
In any case, if you go back to the previous strip, every glass is filled with the same color substance, and I doubt everyone there is drinking mudslides 😉
Yeah, I completely missed that in the previous strip. It was a good catch on yours and Bill’s part. 🙂
Maybe it’s a Milkybar.
C’mon, Sal. You don’t have to drink alone. Carla would share a beer or six with you. Sure, she’d snark at you all night, but you can handle that.
Jason should totally sit down, order a double of Loneliness and share it with Sal, legal repercussions be damned!
It’s not a good sign when wearing a bow-tie all the time looks like your smoothest move.
Hey! Leave off the bow ties! Bow ties are cool.
(Doc, you better back me up on this one!)
Well, the Doctor seems to be out, but I’ll play Pretender to back you up.
Bowties are cool!
*Adjusts bowtie.*
Anyone with a contrary opinion can take it up with my katana.
Sorry, got stuck in a time…wibbly…thing. I fell asleep, okay?
Thanks for covering, Wadey.
Wait, you mean I didn’t mess it up there at the end? I uhh… *Ahem* I mean, any time, Doctor.
I’m just here to pick up chicks. Honest!
Of course they are, Jason. Of course they are.
waiit wait.
She’s totally tugging on his sleeve on the last panel. That’s why it’s out of view
Is the joke that we don’t know if he’s lying or not?
So is he catching feelings?
Yep, no social life.
So, uh, I feel like that needs to be a shirt, right?
Willis’s drinks still look like chocolate milk to me…
She’s one of those silver age super heroes who drink a glass of milk in the bar and beats up anyone who makes fun of them
Billie: Amazie-girl!
Now I wanna get Billie drunk and convince her that she’s Amazi-girl.
That’s what happens when she passes out, right? She dons a costume and fights crime? 😀
Boy I am in a wacky mood today. 😀
Jason just saw a familiar motorcycle outside and decided to pop in
He saw something he wanted to ride
And mobile meth labs.
Yep, his best friends are Jack Daniels and his Bud Wiser. 😉
Don’t forget Jimmy Bean!
“Y’know, of all the friends I’ve had… You’re the first.”
There going to be bangin’ in the next slip, right?
Is now a good time to break this back out? I think now is a good time to break this back out…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-95uLna-P0
What do you mean, “Is this a good time to break this back out?” Every time is a good time to break this out!
Where did the image of Joyce with a dickhat come from?
Off-topic, I realize.
Photoshop. Dickhat came from Roz, of course.
It was time to put on Mr. Helmet.
Jason keeps his friends in Dorothy’s hammerspace. Dorothy’s cool with it, so long as he keeps the majority of his bow tied Brits out of her things.
Dorothy’s hammerspace? I thought that was currently reserved for Walky.
The hammer is his penis
Jason, don’t try to make this about you. She wants to open up, just listen to what she has to say.
Oh, hi, Jason. I didn’t realize you could see through the fourth wall.
He knows Penny over at Living To Death, and she’s been giving him lessons.
He’s pointing at the fandom.
Oh….oh dear. He thinks we’re his friends. This is really awkward…
You think that’s awkward? He’s so pitiful that I actually just call myself his friends in the hopes he mans up!
Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness
But it’s better than drinkin’ alone