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by David M Willis on February 24, 2018 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - Faz Is Great
└ Tags: dorothy

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    February 24, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    Freshening up!

    …flatulence

    and…

    …

    fuck it

    • DarkoNeko
      DarkoNeko
      February 24, 2018 at 12:37 am | #

      oh, freshening up works. Nicely done.

    • MadeForThePuns
      MadeForThePuns
      February 24, 2018 at 1:21 am | #

      Freshening up is pretty nice.

      I was thinking “Finessing a Flood of fluids to firmly flush filth with a Froth of Fragrant Fat” but i think that might sound too sexual.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      February 24, 2018 at 7:12 am | #

      Funk-elimination?

      • Nelly Dreadful
        Nelly Dreadful
        February 24, 2018 at 1:38 pm | #

        Filth removal!

        • Nelly Dreadful
          Nelly Dreadful
          February 24, 2018 at 1:42 pm | #

          Curses, Colineo actually suggested that one first!

  2. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    February 24, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    You know what else starts with F?

    Faz.

    • Freemage
      Freemage
      February 24, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

      Oh, that would NOT be good…..

      • Passchendaele
        Passchendaele
        February 24, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

        Nope, it would be great, like Faz

    • tim gueguen
      tim gueguen
      February 24, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

      “Faz is the most important thing that starts with F.”

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      February 24, 2018 at 12:35 am | #

      She wants to feel clean, not feel dirty!

    • The Other Mike
      The Other Mike
      February 24, 2018 at 7:34 am | #

      Coincidentally, another F-word is a common reaction to Faz.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        February 24, 2018 at 11:37 am | #

        Faz approves of this reaction. It shows that all the ladies are interested in Faz.

  3. LaduSwala
    LaduSwala
    February 24, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    So long as she doesn’t substitute with “Febreeze”.

  4. Passchendaele
    Passchendaele
    February 24, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    fshower

    • Valerie
      Valerie
      February 24, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

      You win.

      • Emperor Norton II
        Emperor Norton II
        February 24, 2018 at 1:05 am | #

        We demand a recount!

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          February 24, 2018 at 2:24 am | #

          …

          You’re the EMPEROR.

          Can you not just decree one?

          • Emperor Norton II
            Emperor Norton II
            February 24, 2018 at 4:16 am | #

            We like to let people live in the illusion that they have free will under Our reign.

            • AbacusWizard
              AbacusWizard
              February 24, 2018 at 4:40 am | #

              I say, very generous of you indeed.

              • Clif
                Clif
                February 24, 2018 at 6:19 pm | #

                All hail…

              • Roborat
                Roborat
                February 26, 2018 at 2:59 pm | #

                And much less work for the Emperor.

    • Haven
      Haven
      February 24, 2018 at 12:19 am | #

      🎵your futile exi-stence has no meeea-ning

      • Passchendaele
        Passchendaele
        February 24, 2018 at 8:42 am | #

        *dances*

    • LeslieBean4Shizzle
      LeslieBean4Shizzle
      February 24, 2018 at 10:19 am | #

      fsteak?

      • Passchendaele
        Passchendaele
        February 24, 2018 at 2:40 pm | #

        excellent

  5. jimbotherisenclown
    jimbotherisenclown
    February 24, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

    Fumigation?

  6. DinaWho
    DinaWho
    February 24, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

    Alternatively, a case can be made that the shower is necessary to meet the ‘fresh air’ component of her break.

  7. Derek
    Derek
    February 24, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

    spray on some deodorant

    • Coma
      Coma
      February 24, 2018 at 3:54 am | #

      But it doesn’t begin with f!

      Also, it will definitely make things smell worse long time – it might help cover any smells for a bit of time, but then it might smell even worse. Plus, it doesn’t alleviate the feeling of “I need a shower right now”-dirty feeling.

      • Eldritch Gentleman
        Eldritch Gentleman
        February 24, 2018 at 9:30 am | #

        Add a lighter and it becomes a flame-thrower though!

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        February 24, 2018 at 10:32 am | #

        ‘fragrance’

  8. Emperor Norton II
    Emperor Norton II
    February 24, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

    Focal hyperhidrosis removal.

  9. Tempest
    Tempest
    February 24, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

    “fNot getting distracted by whether the things you need begin with F or not” is also one of the three four some Fs.

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      February 24, 2018 at 2:09 am | #

      Focus!

  10. nick
    nick
    February 24, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

    Fragrant

  11. m-m
    m-m
    February 24, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

    Febreeze

  12. Marsh Maryrose
    Marsh Maryrose
    February 24, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

    Fluviation

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      February 24, 2018 at 5:27 am | #

      Bravo!

  13. Kamino Neko
    Kamino Neko
    February 24, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

    “Fuckin’ washin’ up.’

  14. Valerie
    Valerie
    February 24, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

    “Freshen up.”

  15. Zaidyer
    Zaidyer
    February 24, 2018 at 12:11 am | #

    “Fifty McNuggets”

    • MasakiSayz
      MasakiSayz
      February 24, 2018 at 12:49 am | #

      The finest ‘F’

  16. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    February 24, 2018 at 12:11 am | #

    *plays Eric Clapton’s “Let It Rain” on the hacked Muzak*

  17. Schpoonman
    Schpoonman
    February 24, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

    This is my favorite Dorothy comic strip.

  18. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    February 24, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

    On the one hand, I learned what fusillade means because of Dotty’s bad habits/the alt text. On the other hand, she needs to take care of herself before she has a breakdown. Been there, done that, wouldn’t advise it, ever.

    • Z
      Z
      February 24, 2018 at 8:14 am | #

      Actually, fusillade CAN be a synonym of shower, but not in the way that Dorothy needs. “fusillade of bullets” “shower of bullets”

      • tirachokko
        tirachokko
        February 24, 2018 at 6:34 pm | #

        yeahhhhh I was about to point out the other part of the definition

  19. Keulen
    Keulen
    February 24, 2018 at 12:16 am | #

    Planning your breaks so they’ll be the most efficient, Dorothy? Now you’re truly acting like Twilight Sparkle.

    • JetstreamGW
      JetstreamGW
      February 24, 2018 at 12:17 am | #

      Dear Princess Walklestia…

      • Emperor Norton II
        Emperor Norton II
        February 24, 2018 at 12:25 am | #

        I think we should go with

        Dear Prince CeLeslia.

        • Emperor Norton II
          Emperor Norton II
          February 24, 2018 at 12:26 am | #

          *Princess

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      February 24, 2018 at 12:08 pm | #

      Also: Billieity, Applesal, Ambster Pie(?), Becky Dash, and Flutterdina.

      (Haven’t really watched MLP in a couple of years, but when I first got into Dumbing of Age I ended up reading Dorothy’s, Billie’s, Sal’s, and Dina’s lines in Twilight’s, Rarity’s, Applejack’s, and Fluttershy’s voices respectively…and that’s something that has still stuck with me, with my brain adding Rainbow Dash’s voice to Becky once she became more than a bit character. Not sure who’d be a good match for Pinkie among the Dumbingverse cast.)

      • Murgatroyd
        Murgatroyd
        February 24, 2018 at 10:27 pm | #

        Oh my gosh, I imagine Sal, Becky, and Dina talking like those same ponies! Pinkie Pie is totally Riley.

  20. JetstreamGW
    JetstreamGW
    February 24, 2018 at 12:16 am | #

    “Fucking shower.”

  21. Marsh Maryrose
    Marsh Maryrose
    February 24, 2018 at 12:19 am | #

    If I’m interpreting the timeline correctly, at this point Dorothy may have been up for approximately 30 hours. (It’s lunchtime and she’s been up since about 5:00 AM yesterday morning.)

    How long does it take for sleep deprivation to start inducing hallucinations?

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      February 24, 2018 at 12:28 am | #

      ‘Bout three days.

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        February 24, 2018 at 12:53 am | #

        Can depend on the person, too. But fun stuff starts happening before the point of hallucinations as well. For example, at 52 hours, I started crying about how much I loved trees.

    • Samantha Johnson
      Samantha Johnson
      February 24, 2018 at 12:59 am | #

      I once did this due to stress didnt sleep for three days coloes started warping oddly and delirium set in at about hour 55 or so

    • Chris Phoenix
      Chris Phoenix
      February 24, 2018 at 3:31 am | #

      I once pulled two all-nighters in a row in college. I think I slept in my chair for a few minutes near dawn of the second all-nighter. Not counting that, I was awake for about 65 hours. I don’t remember any odd mental effects, even on the third day.

      On the other hand, partial sleep deprivation for longer can have worse mental effects. I do remember once hallucinating slightly (just a sense of dark shadows moving at the edge of my vision) after a string of short nights with no all-nighters.

      And then there was the time I fell asleep standing up. I’d been about to brush my teeth. I woke up still on my feet, with a sense that I’d been trying to put something in my mouth that was too big. And I was holding my hairbrush… with toothpaste on it.

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      February 24, 2018 at 5:36 am | #

      When I was bored in high school I tried staying awake for as long as I could to see what happened. Started at about 7 AM on Monday and was hallucinating by 11 AM Thursday.

    • That Dave Guy
      That Dave Guy
      February 24, 2018 at 11:21 am | #

      I once stayed up for basically a week, for reasons too stupid to go into.
      By day 4 I was hallucinating out the corners of my eyes.
      By day 5 I was hallucinating right in front of my eyes.
      By day 6 I no was no longer bothered by the hallucinations.
      By day 7 I didn’t even feel tired, in fact I felt like sleep was probably an illusion and I just wasn’t going to bother any more, I mean think of how much life I was missing and how much more I could get dozzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

      And then I continued to hallucinate for about two or three years afterward. Both visual (the creeping shadows) and tactile (ants crawling on me- sometimes one, sometimes a lot).

      TLDR; I do not recommend sleep deprivation to anyone for any reason.

    • Portland
      Portland
      February 24, 2018 at 11:24 am | #

      For me it was a little over 36 hours, plus a few weeks of not sleeping well before that. I went to a work study job teaching kids to read, and the words started floating off the page. My boss had to send another volunteer home early to drive me back to campus so I didn’t get lost on the bus. I don’t remember anything after getting in the car, but I did wake up in my bed the next morning, having missed my evening class.

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      February 24, 2018 at 2:49 pm | #

      I’ve seen claims it can start as soon as 48 hours, so she’s getting close.

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      February 26, 2018 at 3:05 pm | #

      I was once on an army exercise, got about four hours sleep over a week. I don’t remember any hallucinations, but I don’t really remember much after day 2.

  22. BBCC
    BBCC
    February 24, 2018 at 12:29 am | #

    Oh, come on Dorothy!

    At least work out BEFORE you shower.

  23. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    February 24, 2018 at 12:33 am | #

    Fornicating; while it won’t clean you up, it will at least make you feel better about being dirty.

    • Emperor Norton II
      Emperor Norton II
      February 24, 2018 at 12:54 am | #

      Sort of, but it’s not a good idea to try and start it while already being dirty.

      I mean, for one thing, sweat isn’t just sweat. We perspire in different manners due to overheating, stress, anger, having a work-out and of course, the sweat that happens when you’re busy having sex.

      Plus, there’s the fact that fresh sweat -especially fresh sex sweat– is not really bad. Heck, licking off fresh droplets of sex-sweat off someone’s chest is in fact rather nice, because at this point, it’s still mostly just water and salt and a few other things.

      Dorothy’s sweat, on the other hand, I feel safe to say is old sweat, at which point the bacteria on her skin has had time to turn sweat into something that smells really nasty, and which is generally considered a turn-off for most people (obviously not all).

  24. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    February 24, 2018 at 12:34 am | #

    *Flap Flap*

  25. Meta
    Meta
    February 24, 2018 at 12:36 am | #

    pfft her face in panels 5 and 6

  26. Lingo
    Lingo
    February 24, 2018 at 12:38 am | #

    Flush?

  27. Aeron
    Aeron
    February 24, 2018 at 12:49 am | #

    Febreze.

  28. Teddae
    Teddae
    February 24, 2018 at 12:49 am | #

    dorothy, to maximize time efficiency you can’t base your decisions on googling words that determine them

    in other words JUST GO AND TAKE A SHOWER

  29. jeffepp
    jeffepp
    February 24, 2018 at 12:56 am | #

    Stir-Crazy on you
    Stir-Crazy on you
    I’m gonna go Stir-Crazy on yoooou
    Yeah

  30. doubleW
    doubleW
    February 24, 2018 at 1:00 am | #

    Gotta fit in a shower before my pomodoro break ends aaaaaaahhhhhh!!!

    • Mr D
      Mr D
      February 24, 2018 at 1:06 am | #

      OI! No copying my Gravatar! Re-Roll the Grav roulette!

  31. Emperor Norton II
    Emperor Norton II
    February 24, 2018 at 1:02 am | #

    Also, while I know that DYW isn’t actually much fond of most Transformers sequels; in my headcanon*, the alt-text in this strip is considered fighting words from Wienersmith.

    *Yes, I like creating headcanons for real people. I’m sure you have some headcanon ideas about me too.

    At least in my headcanon you do.

    Stop judging me!

  32. butts
    butts
    February 24, 2018 at 1:11 am | #

    best dotty face: panel 5

  33. Ellegos
    Ellegos
    February 24, 2018 at 1:41 am | #

    Flushing.

  34. Gojira
    Gojira
    February 24, 2018 at 1:56 am | #

    These are things you need to know when you’re president.

  35. Black
    Black
    February 24, 2018 at 2:05 am | #

    Looks to me like it’s all starting to come crashing down, and she’s just beginning to break.

    I really don’t want to see what her nervous breakdown looks like.

  36. BenRG
    BenRG
    February 24, 2018 at 2:13 am | #

    This is the point where Joyce and Walky need to jump Dorothy and drag her kicking and screaming to a break day whilst she still has some sanity left to save!

    • Inahc
      Inahc
      February 24, 2018 at 2:46 am | #

      eh, I think this is a lesson she’ll need to learn the hard way. better it happens now, when she’s young and healthy and can recover more easily.

      • Betty Anne
        Betty Anne
        February 24, 2018 at 3:02 am | #

        Yep! If she gets an intervention at this point, and one of those shit assignments she just finished comes back with a shit assignment grade, she’ll be blaming it on the intervention. Better for her to crash and burn on her own, so that she learns (the hard way) not to do this again.

        • Inahc
          Inahc
          February 24, 2018 at 3:11 am | #

          yeah 🙂

  37. Tacos
    Tacos
    February 24, 2018 at 2:27 am | #

    Fshow- Oh wait somebody already said it. Uh… never mind then.

  38. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    February 24, 2018 at 2:38 am | #

    I love you, Dorothy, but sometimes you stink. 😛

  39. Pidgey
    Pidgey
    February 24, 2018 at 2:54 am | #

    Falling water

  40. Zaxares
    Zaxares
    February 24, 2018 at 3:25 am | #

    You can replace “Fitbit” with some “Fornication”, Dorothy. 😉 I’m sure that Walky will be happy to oblige, shower or no shower.

  41. Oysteinthenoisy
    Oysteinthenoisy
    February 24, 2018 at 4:12 am | #

    Flume.

  42. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    February 24, 2018 at 4:41 am | #

    Foreshadowed: First F.

  43. AbacusWizard
    AbacusWizard
    February 24, 2018 at 4:43 am | #

    French Cascade.

  44. Delicious Taffy
    Delicious Taffy
    February 24, 2018 at 4:49 am | #

    Freaking the fuck out

  45. Liliet
    Liliet
    February 24, 2018 at 5:13 am | #

    I love Dorothy

  46. GeorgeV
    GeorgeV
    February 24, 2018 at 5:30 am | #

    Flesh Rinsing.

  47. Architex
    Architex
    February 24, 2018 at 5:45 am | #

    I think Jeph could definitely “improve” this one

  48. Dariu55
    Dariu55
    February 24, 2018 at 6:25 am | #

    I feel like the hover text is look-up bait.

    • someone
      someone
      February 24, 2018 at 6:40 am | #

      I do not recommend anyone try showering with a refreshing fusillade. Except perhaps NRA lobbyists, it would probably be their jam.

      Anyways, if “fresh air” counts as an F, then so does “flowing water”.

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      February 24, 2018 at 11:55 pm | #

      Some of us are over-educated dilettantes, and know well what a fusillade is both literally and metaphorically. Some of us, even, know two unrelated meanings of “fusil”, not counting that it is Spanish for “rifle”, and have even cooked fusilli in our time.

  49. Bagge
    Bagge
    February 24, 2018 at 6:36 am | #

    “Friends” and “Fun” begin with F, just saying…

    • motorfirebox
      motorfirebox
      February 24, 2018 at 7:02 am | #

      Sounds like a good synonym for “shower” to me!

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        February 24, 2018 at 9:38 am | #

        Becky agrees.
        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/sample/

  50. Colineo
    Colineo
    February 24, 2018 at 7:22 am | #

    Filth-removal.

  51. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    February 24, 2018 at 7:26 am | #

    Ironic that she’s actively chasing Fs now. Dorothy doesn’t do anything in moderation.

  52. AFluent reader
    AFluent reader
    February 24, 2018 at 7:32 am | #

    Just grab some Febreeze!

  53. Doom Shepherd
    Doom Shepherd
    February 24, 2018 at 8:21 am | #

    Nobody said “FUNK??”

    • davidbreslin101
      davidbreslin101
      February 24, 2018 at 12:58 pm | #

      Go skinny-dipping instead. Call it a “Fish-fashion fluidic freshening foray.”

  54. Dex
    Dex
    February 24, 2018 at 9:13 am | #

    She could always use the archaic “long-s” which kind of looks like an “f,” and write it as “ſhower.”

    • Geoff
      Geoff
      February 24, 2018 at 9:25 am | #

      Shit-titſ I took too long trying to be clever inſtead of juſt being matter of fact and now Dex has beaten me to it and I juſt look like an ignoramus. :ſ

      • Dex
        Dex
        February 26, 2018 at 9:20 am | #

        I’m just happy I’m not the only person who immediately thought of that!

  55. Geoff
    Geoff
    February 24, 2018 at 9:21 am | #

    Juſt uſe “ſhower.”

    Technically ſtill not an ‘F’ but moſt people you run in to won’t know that. They’ll juſt be confuſed.

  56. Eldritch Gentleman
    Eldritch Gentleman
    February 24, 2018 at 9:28 am | #

    Dotty! No! Don’t turn into Walky!

  57. Stellar
    Stellar
    February 24, 2018 at 9:30 am | #

    Falling Water =Shower

    • DSL
      DSL
      February 24, 2018 at 8:02 pm | #

      That sounds about Wright.

  58. Geoff
    Geoff
    February 24, 2018 at 9:42 am | #

    I freaking love the long ‘ſ,’ can we pleaſe bring it back? Round ‘s’ is not nearly as much fun. For people who prefer the round ‘s’ – never fear! Even in the old-timey days of long ‘ſ,’ round ‘s’ was the capital form, and was uſed if ‘s’ was the laſt letter of a word, and in caſes where the letter ‘S’ was uſed twice in ſucceſsion. Alſo, even in thoſe myſtical days of yore, the phyſical limitations of the printing preſs (and the ſame ſ or f confuſion we have now) meant that in caſes with ‘s’ and ‘f’ being adjacent to one another, the round ‘s’ was uſed, ſo all you round ‘s’ lovers ſhould be ſatisfied.

    Phew, ſorry to wax profeſsorial, I juſt went and learned a ſhitload (or an aſston, if you pleaſe) of information about the long ‘ſ,’ and I am a nerd who always muſt ſhare.

    Pluſ I’m ſimply having way too much fun uſing ‘ſ’ ſo I’m juſt making excuſes to keep writing at this point.

    • Masumi
      Masumi
      February 24, 2018 at 11:53 am | #

      Oh, so Engliſh uſed to have the ‘ſ’ too? That’s awesome, didn’t know that! That means it’s more of a coincidence that the ‘ß’ (if I understand correctly, that came from writing ‘ſs’ as a single letter) only appeared in German?

      • Geoff
        Geoff
        February 24, 2018 at 1:28 pm | #

        “ß” did briefly appear in other languages, but probably only because the firſt (European) printing preſses were made by German ſpeakers. German eſtabliſhed particular rules for how ‘ß’ was to be uſed, though, and ſo it remained (al. Of particular concern to German lithographers was that, becauſe German has a lot of compound words, and a lot of words in German end in a ‘double-s,’ and a lot of words in German begin with a ‘ſingle-s’ there was an incredible profuſion of examples of “sss” appearing in print – it was more common than all other triple conſonants combined, ſo to improve readibility, the Germans uſe ‘sß,’ for example in “mißstand.” Other languages don’t have that problem – for example in Engliſh we ſimply don’t create compound words that reſult in a triple letter – and ſo it quickly fell out of ſtyle outſide of German ſpeaking countries. Another uſe for ß in German is to ſhow that unrelated but ſimilar words are, in fact, unrelated (e.g. “meßergebnis” (meaſurement) instead of “messergebnis,” which ſuggests the unrelated word “messer” (knife). In Engliſh confuſing etymology is half the fun ſo we don’t need ſuch diſtinctions. Starting in the early 20th century, Swiſs Standard German dropped ‘ß,’ ſo it is no longer ſeen in Switzerland or Liechtenſtein, but it remains in uſe in Germany and Auſtria.

        Eſsentially there was no reaſon for ‘ß’ to appear in other languages, so it didn’t. When a printer was making a new typeface, they wouldn’t waſte time or reſources making type for letters that they were never going to uſe. Eventually, ſtarting in the 1700’s and with proceſs more or less complete in the firſt half of the 1800’s, the ſame fate befell ‘long-s.’

        Alſo ‘ſ’ looks too much like “f” ſo it was removed from new typefaces for the purpoſe of enhancing readability. From the very beginning, “short-s” was uſed in conjunction with “f” to avoid confuſion (e.g. “ſatisfied” inſtead of “ſatiſfied”), and eventually it was realized that if you can get rid of “long-s” in that ſituation then you can get rid of it anywhere. So they did, as explained in the 1808 edition of Printer’ſ Grammar:

        “The introduction of the round s, instead of the long, is an improvement in the art of printing equal, if not superior, to any which has taken place in recent years, and for which we are indebted to the ingenious Mr. [John] Bell, who introduced them in his edition of the British Classics [published in the 1780s and 1790s]. They are now generally adopted, and the [typefounders] scarcely ever cast a long s to their fonts, unless particularly ordered. Indeed, they omit it altogether in their specimens…. They are placed in our list of sorts, not to recommend them, but because we may not be subject to blame from those of the old school, who are tenacious of deviating from custom, however antiquated, for giving a list which they might term imperfect.”

        God I’m a nerd. Thanks for getting me ſtarted on looking up all that hiſtory (I didn’t know this ſtuff before, you juſt made me curious ſo I looked it up, and then of courſe I had to tell EVERYBODY). I had a lot of fun. 🙂

        • Agemegos
          Agemegos
          February 24, 2018 at 11:48 pm | #

          Lithographers? Is that a typo for “typographers”?

        • Masumi
          Masumi
          February 25, 2018 at 8:47 am | #

          I’m usually a different kind of nerd, but I enjoyed reading that very much, thank you for sharing 🙂

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      February 24, 2018 at 11:44 pm | #

      In one of the Sherlock Holmes ∫tories one of the clues is a note in which long and round e∫ses alternate. Holmes deduces that the note was written by two men writing alternate words, one of whom was taught to write before the change in Engli∫h orthography and the other after: therefore, an old man and a younger one. Since their handwriting was otherwi∫e ∫imilar he concludes that they are related, and his ∫u∫picion falls on a father and ∫on who had a legal di∫pute with the dead man. The ∫tory was written in the 1880s I think, which I ∫uppo∫e places the change of form of e∫ses in the orthography taught at Engli∫h prep ∫chools to ∫ometime about 1840.

      Another intere∫ting point about the the long es is that the mathematical ∫ymbol for integration, ∫, is actually a long es, ∫tanding for “∫um”. As the Greek capital ∆ ∫tands for a finite difference and the Latin lower-ca∫e-script ∂ for an infinite∫imal one, ∫o corre∫pondingly Greek capital ∑ ∫tands for a ∫um of finite values and the corresponding Latin lower-case-script ∫ for a summation of infinite∫imals. I∫n’y that fa∫cinating?

      • Agemegos
        Agemegos
        February 24, 2018 at 11:45 pm | #

        Damn’ typo!

  59. Ryek Hvek
    Ryek Hvek
    February 24, 2018 at 10:04 am | #

    Fizzbin

    • Amazi-Stool
      Amazi-Stool
      February 25, 2018 at 2:44 am | #

      Sear me, oh puny human?

  60. Deanatay
    Deanatay
    February 24, 2018 at 10:44 am | #

    Here’s a question – how did she get out of her room (where she was studying) and into the hallway without running into stalker-Joyce and her box of spoons?

    (Side note: In my social group, ‘spoons’ has a special meaning, a metaphor for ‘mental energy’ or ‘ability to cope with shit’. To be ‘out of spoons’ is to be unable to cope, to need time to rest/recharge. In this regard, the idea of Dotty having no spoon, and Joyce having a box of them, just seems weird. Anyone else use this metaphor?)

    • Geoff
      Geoff
      February 24, 2018 at 1:31 pm | #

      Joyce was waiting in her own room – she was trying to force Dorothy to come visit to pick up a spoon.

    • Inahc
      Inahc
      February 24, 2018 at 1:45 pm | #

      yes, lots of people use that metaphor 🙂 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_theory

    • No Name
      No Name
      February 24, 2018 at 5:17 pm | #

      I’ve seen it used in this very forum, so I doubt Willis didn’t intend the metaphor. Though to be honest, I didn’t even think of that until you pointed it out.

  61. Deanatay
    Deanatay
    February 24, 2018 at 10:56 am | #

    Also, I’m surprised nobody suggested ‘flush’. It means ‘to clean by pouring water on or through something’. It’s often used in regards to toilets, sure, but it’s also applied to eyes and mouth, and can refer to anything.

    • Lingo
      Lingo
      February 24, 2018 at 1:22 pm | #

      I said flush!

  62. Just for kix
    Just for kix
    February 24, 2018 at 1:00 pm | #

    Fusillade doesn’t mean shower at least not the shower that Dorothy here is talking about. Fusillade is like “fusillade of bullets” or “shower of bullets”, that’s where the synonym comes from :-/

  63. Remmington Steele
    Remmington Steele
    February 24, 2018 at 3:33 pm | #

    The Beatles, “A Day In The Life”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usNsCeOV4GM

    is on the uber muzak …

    • Remmington Steele
      Remmington Steele
      February 24, 2018 at 3:48 pm | #

      The scene at the beginning of the song

      I saw the photograph
      He blew his mind out in a car
      He didn’t notice that the lights had changed

      bears a passing resemblance to a scene at the start of The I.P.C.R.E.S.S. File (which is derived from a French film). Lennon says the lines are derived from Tara Browne’s suicide, but the introduction of traffic lights into the scene suggests a mixture of the two going on.

  64. LS
    LS
    February 24, 2018 at 4:53 pm | #

    fluid-dynamic freshening

  65. Nelly Dreadful
    Nelly Dreadful
    February 24, 2018 at 5:20 pm | #

    While honestly not necessary or even advisable in Dorothy’s situation, since she DOES have time and desperately needs the mental space of a proper shower, IN A PINCH, wet wipes, hand sanitizer, deoderant, and optionally a “fresh” scented lotion can together substitute for full sluicing down as a temporary measure. It’s sort of an emergency portable shower. Well, sponge bath. When I had a hot sweaty day job I carried those and a change of shirt with me in case I couldn’t go straight home for a proper wash at the end of my shift.

    • Just for kix
      Just for kix
      February 24, 2018 at 11:25 pm | #

      Hats off to your resourcefulness!

  66. David DeLaney
    David DeLaney
    February 25, 2018 at 3:24 am | #

    Fungicide?

    –Dave, nobody else’s mind went there at ALL? I am disappoint.

    • Andrew_C
      Andrew_C
      February 25, 2018 at 7:21 am | #

      Funkicide

  67. Jeremy
    Jeremy
    February 25, 2018 at 10:23 pm | #

    Freshen up, Hon. You deserve it. Your sanity deserves it.

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