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Sarah looks like a good candidate for an ankylosaurian – a slow moving, perpetual ornery tank whose response to any other species ranges from “ugh, why are you even NEAR ME” to “one step closer, motherfucker, ONE STEP, and I’ll BREAK YOUR FUCKING LEG”.
Actually, a shaken martini isn’t dry as shaking it causes the ice to chip and waters down the martini. James Bond is ordering a weak martini.
A stirred martini would be the dryer (and stronger) option.
*Weird stuff I learned watching the West Wing.*
Much debate about shaken vs stirred. The “dry” in dry martini refers to the sweetness from the vermouth though, not any water from melting ice. Generally dry vermouth vs sweet vermouth, though often with the implication of less vermouth overall.
Having never touched a martini in my life (bleck), 100% of my knowledge about them is taken directly from the aforementioned West Wing episode. And yes, from my wife’s wine tasting (also bleck), I know what dry actually means – I misused it intentionally as a segue into the shaken/stirred trivia.
A shaken martini is dry, it’s just not as strong; it’s also colder, though, which is the rationale Bond gives for having his drink (not exactly a martini, but a similar drink made with a different aromatized wine) shaken in the first novel. A “dry” martini comes from the fact that traditionally, a martini would be made with sweet vermouth, and more of it than today, with the earliest recipes being half-and-half. I’ve heard that the dry variant taking over came about because of better gin becoming available after prohibition, but I’m not sure where under prohibition you’d get that much vermouth.
What month is this, in continuity, again?
I forget. Also, what day?
Why, NO… I’m not planning on making copious amounts of fanart for them both every year when that day rolls around! Why do you ask?!!
*eyesdartingbackandforthnerevously*
*fauxinnocentwhistling*
Last week was MY birthday, and booze was involved. Sadly, no dinosaurs.
It’s also Monday, so there’s classes again. (I think Calculus and Gender Studies, so we’ll probably see Leslie and maybe a wide shot of Alan in the coming months.)
You know, when I decided to google “wang chung definition” I was expecting something funny and dirty. Instead, I learned that “wang chung” means “yellow bell” in Chinese and is a term for the first note in the Chinese musical scale – so basically “Do” as in “Doe, a deer, a female deer”.
So interesting trivia, particularly with the walkyverse’s odd relationship to the Sound of Music, but otherwise dull.
Um…I guess that’s kinda implied by what she’s saying, but in a stretched/joking way?
Like, Ruth’s saying, “You should be used to dealing with people who are difficult in that way (because you deal with me).” And Billie’s saying, “I deal with you by kisses and hanky-panky.”
And yeah, with a layer of “Which I don’t think would work for Sarah,” but again, joking.
Though, now I am wondering what she used to do for Alice’s birthday.
She threw parties with lots of boys and only made it with Alice if none of the boys were interested. Probably after publicly making out with Alice to turn them on.
At least that’s my head canon, based on Billie’s descriptions of her party girl days and how dysfunctional that relationship with Alice seemed.
Both, I think. Since the booze wouldn’t depend on Sarah being straight.
Dealing with such people is Billie’s specialty, since that’s basically Ruth, but she can’t employ her usual tactics since Sarah’s straight. Then she thinks of the booze.
Nah, she’s mentioned being bisexual before, I think, like I don’t know if she had properly *dated* a woman before, though clearly, her and Alice had a relationship. I just don’t think Billie recognized it as that at the time, and it was probably more of a “friends with benefits where one person has fallen for the other” timebomb.
You might want to read it. She starts to deny she’s queer, then stops. She is queer, she has to admit, at least to herself. But she’s not a lesbian, dammit.
I don’t think she’s actually said she’s straight. Not queer. Not lesbian. Bisexuals are just for porn. She doesn’t want to say she’s normal, because that’s terrible, but I suspect it’s how she really thinks about it. It’s all tied up in her cheerleader self image.
Well, maybe she went for one of the oldfashioned meaning of straight as in
– not deviating from an indicated pattern
– not using or under the influence of drugs or alcohol
– marked by no exceptions or deviations in support of a principle (or party)
Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/straight
Huh, I didn’t even now ‘sober’ was a possible meaning.
Nah, Joyce knows that would just spoil it if anybody knew Sarah sincerely liked Halloween. (Or, you know, anything.) We’ve already seen Joyce cover for her once.
I wanna say Billie could sell off her alcohol to the over-21s at college parties and earn some of the money back but I feel that idea can backfire somehow.
A birthday party coming at which Billie wants to dump her booze? I’ve got a feeling that many characters are going to wake with interesting self-revelations in the next chapter!
I’ve never bothered to check what famous people have the same birthday as me until now. Kinda annoyed that I have the same birthday as Mike Pompeo and Matt Lauer.
I’ve got Max Roach, Frank Sinatra Jr., Rod Stewart, Donald Fagen, George Foreman, and Pat Benatar, which is cool, but I’ve also got Jared Kushner, which fucking sucks. I’ve also got the death of David Bowie, which impacts me far more than the births, since David Bowie has since became my idol and one who I wish I had explored more when he was alive, because he’s literally everything I aspire to be, being unafraid to take risks in music and push the art form further forward and challenge pop senses.
Just the idea of RAs doing something for people’s birthdays kind of boggles my mind. Is this common?
I mean, my birthday is in the summer, so I would have missed out anyway, but I don’t remember anything for roommates or friends. Sometimes we threw parties or some such, but not as a semi-official thing for the RA to do.
I suppose it depends on the RA. It strikes me that Ruth is organised enough a mind that she would want to keep track of all the students’ birthdays just so she can know when to barge in and make sure they aren’t having a good time that goes against the regulations.
However, I think that, now that her meds have kicked in, she really wants someone to have a good day on their birthday for once. Such a pity that person is Sarah, who isn’t a party animal, Asher is skulking around at Blaine’s behest and everyone has a large pile of baggage waiting to collapse everyone as soon as the social stresses start building up, say at a time and place when you feel obliged to put up a strong and determinedly-cheerful front.
“I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected. That child deserves our support. Don’t worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity.”
Minnesota Star Tribune@startribune.com ⋅ 20h
Gov. Tim Walz is doubling down on trans rights — and criticizing members of his party who are retreating — at a time when the issue has become a political lightning rod nationally and back home in Minnesota.
they managed to get the arms and thighs to be different grays, which I wasn't sure they'd be able to do, the way the mold's set up
though maybe they're just producing a lot of extra thighs and/or arms in the wrong colors and throwing those away, i dunno
Cops are overgrown children cosplaying War, with all the rest of us forced into their stupid, childish game without our consent, consuming vast funds from the public treasury and ruining lives by the hundreds of thousands.
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I cannot get over these cops wearing night vision to arrest a dude on a Southwest Airlines flight in broad daylight.
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“Whose birthday is it?” sounds like the worst regifting plan
okay but points for efficiency (if they are the appropriate age)
Ruth: Dina, in honor of your birthday – Struthiomimus.
Dina: Yaaay!
Billie: Shame that doesn’t work with Sarah.
Ruth: I wonder…
…
Ruth: Sarah, in honor of your birthday – Struthiomimus.
Sarah: Yaaay!…Wait, what just happened?
Sarah looks like a good candidate for an ankylosaurian – a slow moving, perpetual ornery tank whose response to any other species ranges from “ugh, why are you even NEAR ME” to “one step closer, motherfucker, ONE STEP, and I’ll BREAK YOUR FUCKING LEG”.
Polacanthus!
Eh, nodosaurian, lacks the tailclub for legbreaking.
Took me a moment to realize that “struthiomimus” is not an obscure Baroque musical instrument.
I assumed it was a Shakespearean oath.
The fact that Dina and Sarah share a birthday makes their friendship all the better.
They do, Billie, but dry campus. Be careful with your choices.
Dry beer is okay though, right?
And martinis?
Only if shaken, not stirred.
Actually, a shaken martini isn’t dry as shaking it causes the ice to chip and waters down the martini. James Bond is ordering a weak martini.
A stirred martini would be the dryer (and stronger) option.
*Weird stuff I learned watching the West Wing.*
Much debate about shaken vs stirred. The “dry” in dry martini refers to the sweetness from the vermouth though, not any water from melting ice. Generally dry vermouth vs sweet vermouth, though often with the implication of less vermouth overall.
Yeah, I’ve heard anywhere from 1/4 jigger to “wave the bottle in the general direction of London”
My mother was of the latter persuasion – she said that as long as she knew a bottle of vermouth existed somewhere on the planet, it was enough…
My favorite is “hold the vermouth bottle so the light shines through it on to the glass while pouring the gin”.
Still, if there’s no vermouth involved, you’re really just drinking straight gin. Own it.
At times I like mine dry and dirty, so it’s really gin and olive brine!
Having never touched a martini in my life (bleck), 100% of my knowledge about them is taken directly from the aforementioned West Wing episode. And yes, from my wife’s wine tasting (also bleck), I know what dry actually means – I misused it intentionally as a segue into the shaken/stirred trivia.
A shaken martini is dry, it’s just not as strong; it’s also colder, though, which is the rationale Bond gives for having his drink (not exactly a martini, but a similar drink made with a different aromatized wine) shaken in the first novel. A “dry” martini comes from the fact that traditionally, a martini would be made with sweet vermouth, and more of it than today, with the earliest recipes being half-and-half. I’ve heard that the dry variant taking over came about because of better gin becoming available after prohibition, but I’m not sure where under prohibition you’d get that much vermouth.
What month is this, in continuity, again?
I forget. Also, what day?
Why, NO… I’m not planning on making copious amounts of fanart for them both every year when that day rolls around! Why do you ask?!!
*eyesdartingbackandforthnerevously*
*fauxinnocentwhistling*
Last week was MY birthday, and booze was involved. Sadly, no dinosaurs.
I wanna say at either mid/late October
Hope it’s still October. I want more strips about Sarah loving Halloween.
Ah, and she’s an October baby, like me – no wonder she loves Halloween!
By my notes this is the last week of October and we’ll be getting to Halloween very soon.
I’m so happy that we’re gonna get possibly two months of Halloween.
October 18th, unless there was a time skip between chapters, but I think those are usually noted.
They are.
It’s also Monday, so there’s classes again. (I think Calculus and Gender Studies, so we’ll probably see Leslie and maybe a wide shot of Alan in the coming months.)
Who’s Alan?
Never mind, I should have consulted Walkypedia before posting. Poor Alan doesn’t even have a tag in DoA.
Professor Rees, the calculus teacher. He was pretty important in the old continuity, but we’ve only seen him from across the room here.
Midterms are happening so likely early November.
@hovertext: From one Sarah to another!
*plays Wang Chung’s “Everybody Have Fun Tonight” on the hacked Muzak*
“Seriously? This is what we’re doing? What the [*bleep*] is a ‘wang chung’?”
You know, when I decided to google “wang chung definition” I was expecting something funny and dirty. Instead, I learned that “wang chung” means “yellow bell” in Chinese and is a term for the first note in the Chinese musical scale – so basically “Do” as in “Doe, a deer, a female deer”.
So interesting trivia, particularly with the walkyverse’s odd relationship to the Sound of Music, but otherwise dull.
I barely know how to have fun, how the hell do you expect me to know how to “wang chung”?!
Does Billie usually offer to fuck people for their birthday, or am I missing a crucial detail yet again?
Um…I guess that’s kinda implied by what she’s saying, but in a stretched/joking way?
Like, Ruth’s saying, “You should be used to dealing with people who are difficult in that way (because you deal with me).” And Billie’s saying, “I deal with you by kisses and hanky-panky.”
And yeah, with a layer of “Which I don’t think would work for Sarah,” but again, joking.
Though, now I am wondering what she used to do for Alice’s birthday.
I think we can safely assume that Billie’s birthday gifts to Alice were booze and sex.
Maybe. Or at least sort of.
She threw parties with lots of boys and only made it with Alice if none of the boys were interested. Probably after publicly making out with Alice to turn them on.
At least that’s my head canon, based on Billie’s descriptions of her party girl days and how dysfunctional that relationship with Alice seemed.
There is a reason why naked is sometimes called your birthday suit after all.
I thought it was cuz we’re born naked.
It’s booze. She means giving her her booze, like Ruth says int he very next panel.
Both, I think. Since the booze wouldn’t depend on Sarah being straight.
Dealing with such people is Billie’s specialty, since that’s basically Ruth, but she can’t employ her usual tactics since Sarah’s straight. Then she thinks of the booze.
Billie calling Sarah straight in this context implies that Billie is not, which afaik is the first she has acknowledged this.
Nah, she’s mentioned being bisexual before, I think, like I don’t know if she had properly *dated* a woman before, though clearly, her and Alice had a relationship. I just don’t think Billie recognized it as that at the time, and it was probably more of a “friends with benefits where one person has fallen for the other” timebomb.
She’s actively denied being queer. She just said she’s straight and that all girls hook up with other girls at some point.
She has denied being a lesbian. Not the same thing as denying being queer..
You might want to read the strip I had linked before, where she denies being queer.
You might want to read it. She starts to deny she’s queer, then stops. She is queer, she has to admit, at least to herself. But she’s not a lesbian, dammit.
Different weights on how much she gets out, then. As of that strip, I would not say she’s admitted it to herself.
She also thinks bisexuality is made up for porn.
Strip: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/03-the-thing-i-was-before/borderline/
I don’t think she’s actually said she’s straight. Not queer. Not lesbian. Bisexuals are just for porn. She doesn’t want to say she’s normal, because that’s terrible, but I suspect it’s how she really thinks about it. It’s all tied up in her cheerleader self image.
Billie’s sexuality is denial.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/fancy/
That would have been a week ago in-universe. (Also, in-universe, would have been on National Coming Out Day.) I forget if there’s anytime since then that Billie seems like she’s more comfortable identifying as not-straight.
And right before that: “A date with a girl. Huh.”
Yes! I was going to comment this but then saw that you already had. This is really cool
Well, maybe she went for one of the oldfashioned meaning of straight as in
– not deviating from an indicated pattern
– not using or under the influence of drugs or alcohol
– marked by no exceptions or deviations in support of a principle (or party)
Source:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/straight
Huh, I didn’t even now ‘sober’ was a possible meaning.
I’ve often heard that usage more as “Straigt-edge” or “straight-laced”.
Aw, Sarah and Dina are birthday buddies!
Wonder if Joyce will spill the beans on the halloween love to anyone for them to do something for Sarah.
Nah, Joyce knows that would just spoil it if anybody knew Sarah sincerely liked Halloween. (Or, you know, anything.) We’ve already seen Joyce cover for her once.
Billie: underestimating the complexities of other people since 1998.
In both Walkyverse and Dumbiverse. I am surprised her relationship with Danny didn’t end in a murder.
if you kill them the relationship never ends.
“Unwanted”
There’s something you can give Sarah: a new sex toy that hasn’t touched Joyce’s nose. That, or commissioning Mary to draw something erotic for Sarah.
That’s only fun if you’ve got a camera to capture the expression on Mary’s face when you do so.
combine the two and commission Mary to create a Pokachu
What in God’s name is a pokachu
A deliberately bad-looking Pikachu.
It would also be a good name for a penetrative sex toy.
Yeah, a high-tech one that gives you a mild electrical shock. It’s not for the faint of heart.
Just distract Joyce for the day and you will have given Sarah the perfect gift.
Buy each of them a bottle of booze shaped like a dinosaur. problem solved.
If she’s like a rattlesnake, then give her some mice to eat. And a party hat. Sneks love hats.
She’s already got crickets from next door.
You mean lettuce, right?
I was wondering when Tag would make another appearance! #tagtagthelettuce
I forgot how adorable behatted snakes can be.
https://imgur.com/gallery/5at77
Yes indeed, but please don’t try this with your pet rattlesnake. In fact, please don’t even have a pet rattlesnake unless you are a herpetologist.
The way you please a rattlesnake is by leaving it alone. Word to the wise, Ruth.
I wanna say Billie could sell off her alcohol to the over-21s at college parties and earn some of the money back but I feel that idea can backfire somehow.
Yeah, Amazi-Girl might show up and put a damper on things.
A birthday party coming at which Billie wants to dump her booze? I’ve got a feeling that many characters are going to wake with interesting self-revelations in the next chapter!
So Sarah and Dina are soul twins…. cute.
I may have the same birthday as Woody Allen, but I utter reject the notion that that makes us soul twins.
Now, Sarah Silverman? I wouldn’t have any objections.
I’ve never bothered to check what famous people have the same birthday as me until now. Kinda annoyed that I have the same birthday as Mike Pompeo and Matt Lauer.
Yeah, I’m stuck with scumbags like That Twitter Pedant, the “person” who murdered Trayvon Martin, and Jesse Eisenberg. Can I reroll, please?
Jennifer Garner, Victoria Beckam, Roddy Piper, and a depressing number of YouTube, TikTok (whatever the hell that is) and Instagram “stars”.
I’m getting Simon Pegg, Jim Jefferies, and Jimmy Hoffa, so that’s not bad.
I’m stuck with Ariana Grande and Chris O’Donnel as the only ones whose names on the list, that I actually recognized.
Annie Oakley and Fidel Castro? I’ll take it.
One of my best friends shares a birthday with Bilbo and Frodo and I’ve always been jealous of that.
Karl Marx and Adele. Odd pairing.
Share a birthday with Theodore Roosevelt over here.
I’ve got mostly athletes, plus Sade, Garth Ennis, and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
And ‘Dr’ Laura. Blah.
William Shatner. I will accept this gladly and refuse to look further down the list.
Heh! I got Marina Sirtis. As well as Eric Idle, Vangelis, John Major (British PM) and John Tyler (10th US president). A motley crew indeed.
My birthday is September 11th, I’d rather not consider myself to be soul twins with a terror attack.
Oooh, I also share a birthday with Assad. How fun.
My wedding anniversary is September 11, so at lease something better?
*least
Mine’s September 12. One of my memories of 9/11/2001 is of feeling vaguely guilty about feeling relieved that it didn’t happen one day later.
Negative, Sarah is a year older.
I’ve got Max Roach, Frank Sinatra Jr., Rod Stewart, Donald Fagen, George Foreman, and Pat Benatar, which is cool, but I’ve also got Jared Kushner, which fucking sucks. I’ve also got the death of David Bowie, which impacts me far more than the births, since David Bowie has since became my idol and one who I wish I had explored more when he was alive, because he’s literally everything I aspire to be, being unafraid to take risks in music and push the art form further forward and challenge pop senses.
I wonder how Sarah will react if someone tells her: “Hey, you’re not a teenager anymore! You’re a grown up!”
With sarcasm?
Re: hovertext:
The angels already took their share
And the Devil got his cut.
Distillery humor! I heartily approve.
In honor of Dina’s birthday – cassowaries!
Birds are dinosaurs. It counts.
Halloween for Sarah !
I’d give Sarah a mug with “FUCK OFF” written on it in big bold letters.
“World’s #1 Grump”
“World’s Okayest Big Sister” from Joyce.
Just the idea of RAs doing something for people’s birthdays kind of boggles my mind. Is this common?
I mean, my birthday is in the summer, so I would have missed out anyway, but I don’t remember anything for roommates or friends. Sometimes we threw parties or some such, but not as a semi-official thing for the RA to do.
I suppose it depends on the RA. It strikes me that Ruth is organised enough a mind that she would want to keep track of all the students’ birthdays just so she can know when to barge in and make sure they aren’t having a good time that goes against the regulations.
However, I think that, now that her meds have kicked in, she really wants someone to have a good day on their birthday for once. Such a pity that person is Sarah, who isn’t a party animal, Asher is skulking around at Blaine’s behest and everyone has a large pile of baggage waiting to collapse everyone as soon as the social stresses start building up, say at a time and place when you feel obliged to put up a strong and determinedly-cheerful front.
Dina doesn’t have baggage.
If a stranger (and my RA was definitely a stranger) had knocked on my door to wish me a happy birthday, I would have been freaked out.
Cautiously optimistic Billie abd Ruth seem to be okay right now and moving in the right direction
Well, Billie’s only been sober for one night. Let’s see if she manages to last more than a day.
And when/if she goes to therapy.
I can’t even tell if Sarah would respond to being called “like trying to please a rattlesnake” with pride or hurt.
‘FINALLY SOMEBODY GETS IT!’
I’d gift Sarah some noise-cancellation headphones.