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What? No they’re blue and green. The Bruins wear black and gold, and they’re the worst (not play wise, they’re a competent team. They’re the worst because they’re evil)
Canucks used to be black yellow and red through the first few designs, Philly has often given the bruins a good run for most evil team. Right now though, i kinda feel like its the kings.
OK, I’m pretty sure that if Joycy has just ordered this dress, it’ll take like several weeks to arrive (real world) even if she gets it sent by next day delivery (in story).
I’m also certain it’ll look totally adorable and have Ruthie jumping her bones again for sure though. :3
I have a… FRIEND called Snow White who can look exactly 4 days, 6 hours, 3 minutes, 45 seconds, 14.5 nanoseconds in the past. If I do it correctly, I can send a message back in time…
Joyce knows Billie did some experimenting. She likely believes sexuality is binary so she assumes Billie is straight since she went back to boys after.
Funny thing: ‘nice’ and ‘annoying’ are often the same thing. Sometimes, you just wanna do your own thing and the kindness of a relative stranger is an unwanted irritation.
Bisexual? Oh, God! Another option for Joyce to come to grips with.
(Metaphysically speaking, of course – Joyce hasn’t come to grips physically with anything yet).
I remembered I was a little kid when I saw the Leafs win the Cup on TV, and I was right. We were watching it on the CBC out of Vancouver that year. Hickey Night in Canada went bonkers.
I don’t know much about the hockey climate in Indiana, but here in metro Detroit at least, wearing a Blackhawks or Penguins jersey might get you some comments/judgment.
Wearing a Quebec Nordiques jersey in Boston made a lot of people talk to me at random even though the team has been defunct since 1995. I don’t know about Indiana, but hockey is big in the north, even outside of Canada.
if the leafs won a championship and invalidated your strip, that would be the least of your concerns, what with the ensuing apocalypse and coinciding collapse of all civilization and whatnot
I’ll be finding a new planet cause something tells me it’ll be the start of the Apocalypse. Might sit on the moon & watch it all unfold tho, may as well get some entertainment value out of it…
I assume the birthday thing was invalidated by the “Too late, I’m buying you a present” line. She’ll get it when it shows up in a week. (Does Joyce have Amazon Prime?) So I mean, we won’t see that dress any time soon, regardles…
Gonna be honest, never really got hockey. Despite having a father who watches hockey during the season and a mother who grew up playing it, it never really interested me that much. Also1967? Sheesh
In 1994 the Stanley Cup final was between the Canucks and the NY Rangers, who hadn’t won since 1949.
No wonder there was a riot when they won. *eyeroll*
(I’ll be honest, I was living in Vancouver at the time, and there was gonna be a riot even if the Canucks did win. That town was wound waaaay too tight. NO idea how the cops didn’t see it coming.)
You can’t change what default avatar you have unless it gets reshuffled when Willis does an update of the avatar pool. You can, however, change it to a character face from in-comic. Joyce, in particular, has great expressions.
Anything can be your grav (well, almost anything). This is the only site I use Gravatar for (besides It’s Walky!), so I pulled my grav from this comic.
If you don’t want to register a custom grav… it determines the default grav it gives you from a hash of the email address you provide. Changing the email – and I think even otherwise insignificant changes like messing with the capitalization will work – will change the grav.
Though I think you’d need to get re-approved, and if you do that too much, Willis might get annoyed and stop approving you.
I could just go find it from the original comic. I just meant that I didn’t want to take it if Melanie is still using it. The Grav I’m using right now is a custom pull.
I’m not sure if I find it more amusing to think that Joyce is intentionally playing up the ridiculously sheltered and naive thing to have a little fun with Billie, or that Joyce is being completely serious. What a conundrum.
Rugby = unsexy for me. First it’s never, EVER on TV so I can’t watch it, but especially not after I learned about Wayne Shelford. Never heard of him? Google for “Wayne Shelford Battle of Nantes”.
Nope, failure is all your own, but success comes solely from Jeebus. (And [$DEITY] I wish I was making that up, but I’m not. I’m quoting my youth pastor)
I find the “Thank you, Jesus, for letting me win!” talk even more amusing/bemusing in the fight sports. So, Mr. Boxer, you’re telling us Jesus let you beat the crap out of the other boxer?
OK so many Maple leaves fans are so pissed off right now but this is hilarious. Don’t stop there buy her tickets to the next game and invited invite Walky to make fun of the entire thing.
Given the sliding timeline, the Leafs not only have to not win this year, they have to not win ever before decades from now when DoA gets up to Cup time in-universe in order to not invalidate the strip.
She never said she was short on funds- given that she’s from a successful middle class family, that’s unlikely- she simply noted that she could fully feed Becky off her meal plan just by giving up breakfast, so she doesn’t have to worry about paying for Becky’s food out of pocket.
For reference, most universities I’ve encountered, if you buy a meal plan, it usually comes with more allowance than you need, and whatever is left over at the end of a year is removed from the account.
Ergo, she’s basically feeding Becky ‘for free’, due to typical bullshit capitalistic US education system practices :X
Alternatively, even if that’s not the case for this school, she’s still simply making a point that she doesn’t have to pay out of pocket. It could simply be to avoid a ‘Hon, why are you buying meals on the side, doesn’t your meal plan cover enough?’ ‘Sorry mom, busy feeding Beck- oh crap you weren’t supposed to know about-‘
Point being, she never says anything about her funds, or has ever given any impression that she’s short of.
Also?
A single jersey, no matter the price (unless you buy a signed $300 one or something, I guess) shouldn’t be near the price of feeding someone (especially on typical university meal costs, which tend to be quite high compared to buying from a store or fast food) for a semester.
Point stands double for dresses, which unless they’re elaborate (such as gowns, steampunk corset dresses, etc) or designer branded, they’re generally quite a bit cheaper than jerseys, jackets, suits, any non-shirt/blouse/pants apparel.
A quick google search shows sports branded dresses starting at $25, while jerseys seem to start at $45 and $80 depending on quality.
Yes, the team jersey has the name spelled out across the maple leaf. Willis just didn’t go into that much detail and merely alludes to it with the three lines on the leaf representing the text.
But Joyce is behind Billie, which is why I thought it was on the name plate, too. If she was in front of Billie, reading it off the leaf would make sense.
Didn’t register that Joyce was standing behind Billie, so yeah, you’re right that she couldn’t have been reading it off the front of the shirt and the back would only have a number (and possibly a name). Perhaps Joyce does know a bit about hockey and can recognize team jerseys by colors; or maybe she had seen Ruth wearing it sometime before?
I’m guessing since they’re facing each other next panel, they turned to face each other mid-panel, which is when Joyce read the name. That’s how my processors picture it…
They’re up to date on pop culture though. i mean, if joyce can have a singular sexy thought about harry styles, then i’m sure they have ironic fashion by now.
Wait, do hipsters exist in the dumbiverse?
is this going to be a thing? Billie continues to be inexplicably gets taken for a Leaf’ fan and the ruth finds her really attractive in the dress joyce bought her and before you know it leaf’s gear has become a part of their foreplay. yeah its totally gonna be a thing.
decades later old billie will have only one regret. that her wife ruth made her a leafs fan.
Oh I’ve no doubt whatsoever. That’s because the one thing good in the relationship is their bond with each other, at least in the form its reached now. Their problems are outside factors at this point, and I’ve faith they can get themselves to a better place, yes.
Also she is not exactly paying for two normal meals (to her). She explicitly stated a plan about eating less or something like that to help support Becky.
Not really. Then Willis gets to claim he changed the team’s fate, and extort tons of money from the Cubs to break their curse. It’s all part of his evil scheme.
If Becky doesn’t deserve any judgement for using her only $20 in the world on a haircut, which she does not as it was her money, Joyce also doesn’t deserve any judgement for what she chooses to do with her money.
Okay, so just take it as a sign of what Joyce’s finances look like. (Good enough to splurge occasionally, though a Maple Leafs dress is probably not so much a “splurge” as it is something that seller will pay you to take because they’ve had on the rack for a few… decades.)
So, if one of your friends is having financially hard times, it’s forbidden to buy presents for your other friends. “Happy birthday. I didn’t get you anything because you’re not the poorest person I know.”
Yeah okay but if you say the same thing about the Montreal Canadiens they’ll burn you at the stake even though the lamers haven’t won a Cup since 1993.
And also they have the worst fans of any sport ever.
yeah i hate how the habs star got moody and completely stopped trying for the last few months or how their captain got traded to them amongst rumours of sexually harassing other players wives, oh wait that’s the leafs…
But Billie, Ruth already found you hot while wearing the sweater. Just imagine how desirable she would find you if you wore a Toronto Maple Leaf dress. There are advantages to this.
Uhhh…the Leafs last cup win was 4 years before I was born. I’ve had a lifetime of sports heartache by being a Leafs fan. Oh well, there’s always next year…hahahahahahaha…no.
I think Joyce is referring to the fact that in golf, lower scores are better. If hockey were scored like golf, games where the Leafs scored 0 or 1 points would be massive victories.
I wonder whether Joyce simply doesn’t care for sports -like so many of us- or this is her fundie upbringing showing up again. I mean, according to her parents’ branch of Christianity nearly everything is an abomination unto the Lord for one reason or another, so why would hockey be different?
Point of fact: Back during family weekend Jocelyne told her folks she was going to go watch the football game, so yes, it’s probably safe to assume that their parents are alright with it.
Also, while going through the archives to confirm this I just noticed Jocelyne has an e at the end of her name. Apparently I’ve been spelling it wrong in my head (and at least once in the comments) all this time.
Compared to most (somewhat negative) portrayals of christians Joyce’s parents seem positively tame on regards to religion.
I mean, homosexuality, atheism and using God or the devil’s name in vain are pretty much ubiquitously wrong in most religions.
As far as Joyce’s purchase goes we don’t know where she’s ordering from. It might be off eBay, so perhaps it’s at a really cheap price. Of course if it’s from a less than reliable place in 6 to 8 weeks a package may arrive with a “Toranta Miple Leaps” dress.
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BUT IS IT BLUE AND WHITE OR BLACK AND GOLD LOLOLOLOL
*gets lynched*
(inb4 “Billie sure is black and blue lolololol”)
Psh, it’s the Canucks who wore black and gold.
What? No they’re blue and green. The Bruins wear black and gold, and they’re the worst (not play wise, they’re a competent team. They’re the worst because they’re evil)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xHjP1chJYqM/THKMcHxDZsI/AAAAAAAAA_U/Frxuu4fPY4M/s1600/Vancouver+Canucks+1000.jpg
Canucks used to be black yellow and red through the first few designs, Philly has often given the bruins a good run for most evil team. Right now though, i kinda feel like its the kings.
Ahh, 1-click ordering is so…convenient and helpful, isn’t it Billie?
“Why are you spending so much time in the Ra’s room, by the way?”
“Are you wearing pant’s right now?”
“Is that a red hair on your shoulder?”
“And why do you smell like you’ve been working out for half an hour?
her shoulder? maybe I’ve been misled about what sex is. you know, for Maple Leafs fans…
You’d prefer “You have something in your teeth.”?
“Cinnamon floss.”
OK, I’m pretty sure that if Joycy has just ordered this dress, it’ll take like several weeks to arrive (real world) even if she gets it sent by next day delivery (in story).
I’m also certain it’ll look totally adorable and have Ruthie jumping her bones again for sure though. :3
I think that last part is why Billie seizes up a bit in panel three.
If it takes several realtime weeks, then it should be in the comic roughly July 2017.
I read that “Ra’s” to be like Ra’s al Ghul, so was confused for a sec.
I was reading it as Ra the Egyptian sun god for a second so I got really confused… I’m better now.
Clearly, Ruth needs to fight them both to the death.
10 bucks on Ruth.
Insert “Demon’s Head” sex pun here
Why does the Sun God have a room in this dormitory?
For a moment I feared I might be first, but then I popped in to comment and there was Jen… all is right in the world.
How does Jen do it though?
She’s Flash’s daughter.
Irey or Dawn?
But Jay doesn’t have kids. Unless you count those pretenders, Barry, Wally, and Bart.
She has the speed of the Flash…but only in her fingers.
That would get her a ton of girlfriends.
Oh!
http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=2020 Got SP Robin one and a lot of jealous co-workers.
OR give them friction burns in very sensitive places.
Patreon.
I have a… FRIEND called Snow White who can look exactly 4 days, 6 hours, 3 minutes, 45 seconds, 14.5 nanoseconds in the past. If I do it correctly, I can send a message back in time…
If I miss the window, though… eh, who cares
True, last time Jen wasn’t first, there was an interdimensional rift in my wall. Long story short, other world me is boring.
Well, so long as you didn’t shoot your other self, I’d say that meeting went well.
Most iterations of myself from other worlds are dead. Statistics is cruel like that.
Most of *my* iterations don’t even exist, on account of my ancestors chronically choosing the wrong side.
Most of my other iterations weren’t there, but they’d left a note indicating that they had discovered time travel and gone exploring. :/
So you’re the iteration of yourself too dumb to discover time traveling? That’s cheery.
@ No Name
One of my esteemed ancestors lost a sizable fortune financing the ’45 Jacobite Rebellion, so… I know that game.
Does he have a goatee?
Ruth would probably be into that.
She’ll be Ruthless in the bed, and the closet, if Billie wears that
I’m pretty sure that’s the exact same thought going through Billie’s head in the third panel.
Yup. You can just see her picturing it. Ruth shoving her up against the wall again, telling her to take the shirt off….
….
… I’ll be in my bunk.
Dress. It’s a dress.
Ruthie shoving her up against the closet again, telling her to leave the dress on, it’s a turn on…
Excuse me, I’ll just nddbgldsbgjlsb…. (sorry, be typing one handed xD)
Sure Joyce. They operate on whatever rules you want them too.
Except Golf.
The Leafs operate on golf rules every spring!
Nyuk nyuk.
One day the NHL should organize an official golf tourney between hockey teams.
Well, the team are probably pretty good golfers, what with all the early spring practice they get every year.
Let’s go Red Wings.
Wooooooo
Where do you want them to go?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Wait, is Joyce being extra nice to Billie because Billie is is bisexual?
You know Joyce, that can be abused.
Wait…. does Joyce know this? I know Becky does but I dont remember how Becky found out…
Oh wait, Alice. Nvm remembered
Joyce knows and was the one who told Becky.
Joyce knows Billie did some experimenting. She likely believes sexuality is binary so she assumes Billie is straight since she went back to boys after.
Nah, I think this is just a Joyce thing to do.
Maybe. But Joyce have aways adore Billie for some reason, so it could easily be just Joyce being Joyce.
I think “Nice” is Joyce’s default setting.
I though that was “annoying”.
That’s another default setting. Joyce has many settings.
Factory standard Joyce is exceptionally customizable when compared with most freshmen of her vehicle class.
Funny thing: ‘nice’ and ‘annoying’ are often the same thing. Sometimes, you just wanna do your own thing and the kindness of a relative stranger is an unwanted irritation.
Bisexual? Oh, God! Another option for Joyce to come to grips with.
(Metaphysically speaking, of course – Joyce hasn’t come to grips physically with anything yet).
I dunno, she came to grips with Joe’s face. Not to mention Ryan’s.
WOO! SPORTS DRESS I DON”T EVEN LIKE THE TEAM FOR! WOO!
This is the first time I can recall laughing more at the alt text than the actual comic.
Same.
Sure Billie you roll your eyes now but that dress is really gonna come through down the line.
And let’s face it , she’ll look fine as hell in that too.
**giggles at your use of the word “come”**
Wouldn’t that be her coming through it?
Dunno how much clothing those two bother removing, but I am in favor of this happening.
Okay, Billie, by this point it’s probably easier to commit to the jersey and start actually rooting for the Leafs.
Something like ….
Go Leafs Go! Go Leafs Go!
with the now added …. And Never Come Back!
Billie will have to pretend to be a Leafs fan to cover up her affair with her RA.
I wonder if that’s where all Leafs fans come from? People pretending to be fans to hide something else? It would explain a lot.
Act quickly, he has figured out the masquerade, release the attack pigeons!
If Billie wears that dress around Ruth, she will get banged more than an ankle in an Ikea coffee table display set up on a giant air hockey table.
This comment wins all the internetz Even the ones in North Korea.
Coincidentally, a giant air hockey table would be an interesting place to bang.
Sounds chilly.
Just a bit breezy.
Either way you’re sure to score!
Unless, like, the puck gets stuck somewhere awkward :X
No no no.
Become the Puck. Be the Puck. You are the Puck.
… aaaand I am not going any further, just because …. =P
Joyce Brown: Improving the world, one “good deed” at a time.
Exactly what you said but without sarcasm (if those quotation marks are meant to display sarcasm – otherwise you can just ignore me.)
I remembered I was a little kid when I saw the Leafs win the Cup on TV, and I was right. We were watching it on the CBC out of Vancouver that year. Hickey Night in Canada went bonkers.
hickey night in canada is always kinda bonkers though
I know it was an autocorrect or typo, but I am endlessly amused at “Hickey Night”
I wonder how Hickey Night would go for Don Cherry?
I’m ambivalent on how Blue would take it.
Yep, fat fingers on a tiny keyboard and typing too fast.
Why is everyone making such a big deal over a hockey shirt?
I don’t know much about the hockey climate in Indiana, but here in metro Detroit at least, wearing a Blackhawks or Penguins jersey might get you some comments/judgment.
..or beaten up in a dark alley ?
Or molested by Ruth in a dark cloest.
Nah, that’s pretty much only the Leafs.
I meant, the symbolic Ruth of the associated team. There’s gotta be at least one- okay, likely several more than that- for any team you can name.
Except that ONE team, you know the one.
The Predators? Yeah nobody likes them.
AHEM.
(Well, okay, I’m a Jackets fan first, but still. Gotta support friends and family.)
Everyone already figured out Billie’s dating Ruth and are screwing with her.
What a twist ! Or maybe not, the side character seem to be able to catch on faster than the main characters.
I soo want this to be canon.
Its just fun to make fun of a losing team. As a White Sox fan, I can say that it’s a blast pointing out Cub’s fans.
Because Billie doesn’t want them to, and the universe hates Billie, so…
Ya ! I don’t get this much recognition for my Deadpool shirt and that Austin 3:16 shirt I used to have.
Wearing a Quebec Nordiques jersey in Boston made a lot of people talk to me at random even though the team has been defunct since 1995. I don’t know about Indiana, but hockey is big in the north, even outside of Canada.
if the leafs won a championship and invalidated your strip, that would be the least of your concerns, what with the ensuing apocalypse and coinciding collapse of all civilization and whatnot
And the Cubs wondering “Why not us?!?”
What if both the Leafs and the Cubs won their respective championships?
[Achievement Unlocked: Dumber Than a Rock]
I’ll be finding a new planet cause something tells me it’ll be the start of the Apocalypse. Might sit on the moon & watch it all unfold tho, may as well get some entertainment value out of it…
Put all my money on the Cardinals.
(Incidentally, while researching whether this answer made sense [I decided I don’t care], I found that the Stanley Cup is actually in June.)
I dunno, the pork wings might be worth it.
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Huh, does Billie have an official birthday? Because if it’s not by early October, I don’t think we’ll see that dress any time soon.
I assume the birthday thing was invalidated by the “Too late, I’m buying you a present” line. She’ll get it when it shows up in a week. (Does Joyce have Amazon Prime?) So I mean, we won’t see that dress any time soon, regardles…
Gonna be honest, never really got hockey. Despite having a father who watches hockey during the season and a mother who grew up playing it, it never really interested me that much. Also1967? Sheesh
Cubs have it worse.
“Chicago Cubs: Hey, anyone can have a bad century!”
– From a t-shirt that only exists in my imagination
But should exist in real life.
In 1994 the Stanley Cup final was between the Canucks and the NY Rangers, who hadn’t won since 1949.
No wonder there was a riot when they won. *eyeroll*
(I’ll be honest, I was living in Vancouver at the time, and there was gonna be a riot even if the Canucks did win. That town was wound waaaay too tight. NO idea how the cops didn’t see it coming.)
How do I change my gravitar. I don’t like the default one it gave me, or is changing it like a nono?
You can’t change what default avatar you have unless it gets reshuffled when Willis does an update of the avatar pool. You can, however, change it to a character face from in-comic. Joyce, in particular, has great expressions.
Anything can be your grav (well, almost anything). This is the only site I use Gravatar for (besides It’s Walky!), so I pulled my grav from this comic.
I have a separate email address for this comic just so that it doesn’t pull my normal Gravatar (which is a fractal).
Awesome! I wanted a Joyce or Carla Gravitar thanks!
You need to get yourself a Gravatar account and upload a picture of your choice to it, start by visiting http://en.gravatar.com/
If you don’t want to register a custom grav… it determines the default grav it gives you from a hash of the email address you provide. Changing the email – and I think even otherwise insignificant changes like messing with the capitalization will work – will change the grav.
Though I think you’d need to get re-approved, and if you do that too much, Willis might get annoyed and stop approving you.
Honestly I really like the Grav you’re using. Can I have it if you’re done with it? The lip bite is particularly good.
Try copying the image, and uploading it to make a custom grav. The quality may suffer, though.
I could just go find it from the original comic. I just meant that I didn’t want to take it if Melanie is still using it. The Grav I’m using right now is a custom pull.
Being a maple leafs fan is suffering!
Ohhh Joyce you wonderful naive soul.
In other news, my hockey team made it to the playoffs. Go Wild!
I’m not sure if I find it more amusing to think that Joyce is intentionally playing up the ridiculously sheltered and naive thing to have a little fun with Billie, or that Joyce is being completely serious. What a conundrum.
I’m not much of a sports fan. Except for rugby. For…reasons.
Violence reasons?
Sexy reasons.
Oh my…crap i can’t make sexy rugby joke
Care to scrum around?
Not even about tight head? Hookers? The maul?
Short shorts!
Who wears short shorts?
Rugby players wear short shorts.
Rugby = unsexy for me. First it’s never, EVER on TV so I can’t watch it, but especially not after I learned about Wayne Shelford. Never heard of him? Google for “Wayne Shelford Battle of Nantes”.
Turns out a sports doctor at the time confirmed the French really were on drugs (probably amphetimines)
Rugby League or Rugby Union?
Rugby union.
Damn straight! Go Otago, the All blacks and the Highlanders!! (in that order)
I wonder if Joyce watches any sort of sports.
Her parents banned her from cartoons but what about sports?
Sports are acceptable as long as the athletes acknowledge that Jesus was solely responsible for their victory.
Does this mean Jesus is also responsible for the losses?
Nope, failure is all your own, but success comes solely from Jeebus. (And [$DEITY] I wish I was making that up, but I’m not. I’m quoting my youth pastor)
That comment makes me genuinely sad
No, silly! He’s responsible for the other side’s win!
The other side loved Jesus more.
Biblically.
I find the “Thank you, Jesus, for letting me win!” talk even more amusing/bemusing in the fight sports. So, Mr. Boxer, you’re telling us Jesus let you beat the crap out of the other boxer?
Google reveals all such dresses to be preeety much just that jersey, plus maybe three inches.
OK so many Maple leaves fans are so pissed off right now but this is hilarious. Don’t stop there buy her tickets to the next game and invited invite Walky to make fun of the entire thing.
The nearest teams are the Chicago Blackhawks, St. Louis Blues, and the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Are the Blue Jackets NHL? I thought they were International League (farm teams).
Well, some farm team just kicked the Leafs in the dick last night 5-0. So shows ya how good the Leafs are. Go Jackets!
The International league no longer exists.
Not sure how many hockey fans read your comic, but as one of them (and a red wings fan), I find this deliciously hilarious.
Wow, is it just me or is that Maple Leafs Jersey quickly becoming Billie’s “Scarlet Letter” Jersey?
Gives a whole new meaning to “walk of shame”.
Joyce is so fucking precious.
“Precious” — is that a euphemism for Dorothy? or Becky? Because, if it’s Billie, I think we’re gonna see some truly epic Ruth Rage.
If only if only
Oh, Joyce, you are truly Schrodinger’s Friend: both the best and the worst simultaneously, at least until the dress arrives and we see the result.
Only on slipshine will you see that
If nothing else, it’ll be a nice dress to wear so that Ruth can tear it off of her.
Guess it’ll be a present for both Billie and Ruth, huh?
Given the sliding timeline, the Leafs not only have to not win this year, they have to not win ever before decades from now when DoA gets up to Cup time in-universe in order to not invalidate the strip.
I think you’re still pretty safe.
Billie, panel 5 – “Jesus fuckface, get me out of this shit like nao.”
If only she had Fuckface with her then her problems would be solved.
So my question is:
Where is Joyce getting all this money?
She is going without breakfast to feed her friend the leech, Becky.
But, on the spur of the moment, she is buying a dress for an aquaintence?
Does she know that the world is ending if the Leafs win, so she doesn’t care?
If it’s like $5, who cares
also, college students get the best credit card offers
$5 for a jersey? Almost makes me wish I cared about hockey.
Soggies = Leafs ?
Except ‘Leafs May Win’ is patently false.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/endgame/
She never said she was short on funds- given that she’s from a successful middle class family, that’s unlikely- she simply noted that she could fully feed Becky off her meal plan just by giving up breakfast, so she doesn’t have to worry about paying for Becky’s food out of pocket.
For reference, most universities I’ve encountered, if you buy a meal plan, it usually comes with more allowance than you need, and whatever is left over at the end of a year is removed from the account.
Ergo, she’s basically feeding Becky ‘for free’, due to typical bullshit capitalistic US education system practices :X
Alternatively, even if that’s not the case for this school, she’s still simply making a point that she doesn’t have to pay out of pocket. It could simply be to avoid a ‘Hon, why are you buying meals on the side, doesn’t your meal plan cover enough?’ ‘Sorry mom, busy feeding Beck- oh crap you weren’t supposed to know about-‘
Point being, she never says anything about her funds, or has ever given any impression that she’s short of.
Also?
A single jersey, no matter the price (unless you buy a signed $300 one or something, I guess) shouldn’t be near the price of feeding someone (especially on typical university meal costs, which tend to be quite high compared to buying from a store or fast food) for a semester.
Point stands double for dresses, which unless they’re elaborate (such as gowns, steampunk corset dresses, etc) or designer branded, they’re generally quite a bit cheaper than jerseys, jackets, suits, any non-shirt/blouse/pants apparel.
A quick google search shows sports branded dresses starting at $25, while jerseys seem to start at $45 and $80 depending on quality.
Yes. More Leafs jokes. Yes….
And don’t worry, Mr. Willis, it will be a long time before the Leafs get good and make these jokes no longer relevant.
There is always next year.
. . . decade.
Perfect Charlie Brown face on Billie in the last panel.
I get a Charlie Brown feel off of Billie in that last panel
Good grief.
I can’t stand it.
Wait, where is Joyce reading the “Toronto Maple Leafs” from? Is the name plate on this jersey just the team name?
Darn, I was hoping for Raycroft…
Yes, the team jersey has the name spelled out across the maple leaf. Willis just didn’t go into that much detail and merely alludes to it with the three lines on the leaf representing the text.
But Joyce is behind Billie, which is why I thought it was on the name plate, too. If she was in front of Billie, reading it off the leaf would make sense.
Didn’t register that Joyce was standing behind Billie, so yeah, you’re right that she couldn’t have been reading it off the front of the shirt and the back would only have a number (and possibly a name). Perhaps Joyce does know a bit about hockey and can recognize team jerseys by colors; or maybe she had seen Ruth wearing it sometime before?
I’m guessing since they’re facing each other next panel, they turned to face each other mid-panel, which is when Joyce read the name. That’s how my processors picture it…
WILLIS WE GET IT YOU CAN STOP REMINDING US OUR TEAM EXISTS NOW
Come on billie, it’s 2015. just say you tried wearing it ironically, but no one got it. that’s how we deal with fashion mistakes now, right?
It’s not 2015 in DoA, it’s 20XX.
2020?
Unless it’s on Slipshine, then it’s 2XXX.
At least until Willis draws up a threesome.
So Mega Man’s already operational.
(actually, that should’ve happened in the last decade)
They’re up to date on pop culture though. i mean, if joyce can have a singular sexy thought about harry styles, then i’m sure they have ironic fashion by now.
Wait, do hipsters exist in the dumbiverse?
“How would I know? I’m American, we don’t give a damn about hockey.”
If you wear the butt of the joke, you become the butt of the joke.
Could be worse. Blue Jackets jersey, anyone?
is this going to be a thing? Billie continues to be inexplicably gets taken for a Leaf’ fan and the ruth finds her really attractive in the dress joyce bought her and before you know it leaf’s gear has become a part of their foreplay. yeah its totally gonna be a thing.
decades later old billie will have only one regret. that her wife ruth made her a leafs fan.
It’s cute you think their relationship is going to survive the ticking time bomb of drama and alcoholism.
Oh I’ve no doubt whatsoever. That’s because the one thing good in the relationship is their bond with each other, at least in the form its reached now. Their problems are outside factors at this point, and I’ve faith they can get themselves to a better place, yes.
Oh Joyce, how can you be so warmly dressed when Billie doesn’t feel cold with only a jersay on ^^; Yes, she had some leftover heating but still.
…also aren’t you supposed to be, like, pretty short on money right now ?
Not yet.
I assume she uses a meal card to eat so supporting Becky hasn’t quite put a strain on her funds yet since the card would be paid for by her parents.
Also she is not exactly paying for two normal meals (to her). She explicitly stated a plan about eating less or something like that to help support Becky.
Hm, you have a point.
This comic is going to look really silly when the Leafs do win the cup again!!!
Not really. Then Willis gets to claim he changed the team’s fate, and extort tons of money from the Cubs to break their curse. It’s all part of his evil scheme.
Why not throw in the Browns, too, so he can succeed where Dr. Mystico failed?
Doesn’t she have a homeless friend currently living with her? Why is she buying Billie clothes?
Because Billie is in front of her right now, and Becky has been out of her immediate field of view for some minutes.
Sad but true.
Because she feels like it, I expect.
If Becky doesn’t deserve any judgement for using her only $20 in the world on a haircut, which she does not as it was her money, Joyce also doesn’t deserve any judgement for what she chooses to do with her money.
Also, Joyce may feel like she owes Billie a little, since Billie did buy her boots for no particular reason, as I now recall.
Okay, so just take it as a sign of what Joyce’s finances look like. (Good enough to splurge occasionally, though a Maple Leafs dress is probably not so much a “splurge” as it is something that seller will pay you to take because they’ve had on the rack for a few… decades.)
So, if one of your friends is having financially hard times, it’s forbidden to buy presents for your other friends. “Happy birthday. I didn’t get you anything because you’re not the poorest person I know.”
She’s getting clothes for all the sex weirdos she knows! There’s a really awkward scene with Mandy and Grace coming up.
Yeah okay but if you say the same thing about the Montreal Canadiens they’ll burn you at the stake even though the lamers haven’t won a Cup since 1993.
And also they have the worst fans of any sport ever.
1967 is, like, twice as long ago as 1993, you fuckin’ hoser. Although, fuck the habs, too.
yeah i hate how the habs star got moody and completely stopped trying for the last few months or how their captain got traded to them amongst rumours of sexually harassing other players wives, oh wait that’s the leafs…
So, what? Because the Leafs are bad that somehow automatically invalidates how much the Habs suck?
Fuck em with a rusty trombone.
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha no. Accurate. As a Torontonian, I choose to not follow hockey.
But Billie, Ruth already found you hot while wearing the sweater. Just imagine how desirable she would find you if you wore a Toronto Maple Leaf dress. There are advantages to this.
Q*C is also pursuing the theme of being socially pressured into owning things you do not want. Hot chicks can make people do weird things.
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2935
Emily isn’t just any chick. She’s a genius.
Uhhh…the Leafs last cup win was 4 years before I was born. I’ve had a lifetime of sports heartache by being a Leafs fan. Oh well, there’s always next year…hahahahahahaha…no.
Yes, Joyce. In hockey you’re not supposed to win, just like golf. What?
I think Joyce is referring to the fact that in golf, lower scores are better. If hockey were scored like golf, games where the Leafs scored 0 or 1 points would be massive victories.
looks like Billie’s thinking ”DAMNIT STOP BEING SO NICE. THIS IS AWKWARD”
…that’s pretty much the default response to Joyce, isn’t it?
Billie might be thinking “Probably of getting outed: high. Probability of more mind blowing sex: parity.”
I wonder whether Joyce simply doesn’t care for sports -like so many of us- or this is her fundie upbringing showing up again. I mean, according to her parents’ branch of Christianity nearly everything is an abomination unto the Lord for one reason or another, so why would hockey be different?
Football or baseball tend to be acceptable.
Point of fact: Back during family weekend Jocelyne told her folks she was going to go watch the football game, so yes, it’s probably safe to assume that their parents are alright with it.
Also, while going through the archives to confirm this I just noticed Jocelyne has an e at the end of her name. Apparently I’ve been spelling it wrong in my head (and at least once in the comments) all this time.
Also also, it’s super weird reading the comments in the strips before the reveal all talking about this “Joshua” person. Seriously, who’s Joshua?
Reading this comment prompted me to wonder what people reading through the comic the first time think of the tags.
Compared to most (somewhat negative) portrayals of christians Joyce’s parents seem positively tame on regards to religion.
I mean, homosexuality, atheism and using God or the devil’s name in vain are pretty much ubiquitously wrong in most religions.
I love how Joyce and Becky have the same reaction to Billies team-shirt.
Today is Joyce-dresses-everyone-day!!! She is the friend that just keeps giving.
I’m enjoying the rather quite sweet looks and reactions from Billie as a contrast to the extremely negative, dangerous dark side of the relationship
Its really well done
It is simultaneously wonderful and terrible. You can’t decide if you want this thing to last forever or to end yesterday.
In a perfect world it’d be they both get therepy and continue a warm and loving relationship, in the dumbing of age world though…
The strip is already invalidated if you consider winning the Northeast Division Championship in the 1999-2000 season an actual championship.
As far as Joyce’s purchase goes we don’t know where she’s ordering from. It might be off eBay, so perhaps it’s at a really cheap price. Of course if it’s from a less than reliable place in 6 to 8 weeks a package may arrive with a “Toranta Miple Leaps” dress.
haha it’ll say “Toronto Maple Leaves” =D
Or it will say “Toronto Maple Leafs” — emblazoned on an oak leaf.
Better yet, a pot leaf.
At this point, Billie just gave up.
I still can’t believe they won against the Lightning twice this season.
Joyce here reminds me of coffee!Agatha. Possibly she should be stopped.