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by David M Willis on January 11, 2020 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - To Remind You of My Love
└ Tags: becky, dina, robin

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  1. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    January 11, 2020 at 12:01 am | #

    Robin’s just practicing her filibuster. She wanted to see how long she could hold the floor.

    • shadowcell
      shadowcell
      January 11, 2020 at 12:03 am | #

      it’s over, Anakin! she has the low ground!

      • Someguy
        Someguy
        January 11, 2020 at 2:26 am | #

        You underestimate my power.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      January 11, 2020 at 2:16 am | #

      Hah!

    • anonamousethatscurriesinthedarkness
      anonamousethatscurriesinthedarkness
      January 14, 2020 at 12:16 pm | #

      As quoted from my various WoW personas –
      “Ah floor. How I have missed your cool, firm embrace.”

  2. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    January 11, 2020 at 12:01 am | #

    Note to self: hardcore fucking is chaste as long as it’s on the floor

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 11, 2020 at 12:14 am | #

      Noted.

    • LeslieBean4shizzle
      LeslieBean4shizzle
      January 11, 2020 at 12:17 am | #

      **opens mouth to bring up real world experience**
      **realizes that would be the very definition of To Much Information**
      **instead writes meta post about not actually writing about the TMI post**

      • DSL
        DSL
        January 11, 2020 at 5:18 am | #

        “Realizes that the TMI Post was sort of written anyway.”

        • LeslieBean4shizzle
          LeslieBean4shizzle
          January 11, 2020 at 11:55 am | #

          Oh no, not at all.
          See, the current version is pleasantly vague. I could be referring to having sex on the floor, or group sex, or both. It also lends an air of mystery to the whole affair, but offers no confirmation on exactly what I am referring to.

          • Clif
            Clif
            January 11, 2020 at 12:51 pm | #

            And what we can imagine is so much better.

            Probably.

          • DSL
            DSL
            January 11, 2020 at 1:38 pm | #

            Mind you, there’s an element of subjectivity to TMI on both sender’s and receiver’s part.

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      January 11, 2020 at 12:36 am | #

      That’s a good way to get carpet burn in some really regrettable places.

      • MatthewTheLucky
        MatthewTheLucky
        January 11, 2020 at 12:37 am | #

        Burnt carpet sounds like the absolute worst.

      • miri
        miri
        January 11, 2020 at 3:44 am | #

        You can move the blanket onto the floor first. It’s still stuff happening on the floor and therefore chaste.

    • HeySo
      HeySo
      January 11, 2020 at 6:12 am | #

      Sounds just like the kind of nonsensical loophole our politicians would attempt to use (likely under the same circumstance, no less), yeah. 😛

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      January 11, 2020 at 7:47 am | #

      If you have two people on a bed, per the Hays Code, one of them has to keep one foot on the floor.

      Ipso facto, if there are two people on the floor in embrace, one of them has to keep a foot on the bed.

      • Ryek Hvek
        Ryek Hvek
        January 11, 2020 at 10:37 am | #

        Hays was an epically lousy lover.

  3. WaterKey
    WaterKey
    January 11, 2020 at 12:02 am | #

    Wait…. did I do the impossible?

    • WaterKey
      WaterKey
      January 11, 2020 at 12:02 am | #

      Nope. Someone else did though.

      But hey, bronze medal. Woo!

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        January 11, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

        Licking your elbow.

        I’ve done it, but it was a story involving multiple regenerations meeting, so I’m told it doesn’t count.

        • Doctor_Who
          Doctor_Who
          January 11, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

          Drat, replied to wrong comment.

          • Clif
            Clif
            January 11, 2020 at 12:22 am | #

            Works though.

            • David
              David
              January 11, 2020 at 2:15 pm | #

              Congratulations, Clif, for the shortest summary of the Kamasutra I have so far had the honor to behold.

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      January 11, 2020 at 12:03 am | #

      What is the impossible?

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        January 11, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

        Getting first post. It’s reserved for anachronistic Time Lords.

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          January 11, 2020 at 12:10 am | #

          Have I done the impossible then?

          • Clif
            Clif
            January 11, 2020 at 12:44 am | #

            That was your predecessor, the Emperor.

      • Beef
        Beef
        January 11, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

        Ana Chronistic is usualy the first to comment when a comic goes up so people always treats it like a big deal when somebody else comments first (though basically commenting “first” is kind of cheating)

        • Clif
          Clif
          January 11, 2020 at 12:48 am | #

          All is fair in commenting first and premarital hanky-panky.

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      January 11, 2020 at 12:03 am | #

      Nope.

  4. William Leonard Reese Jr.
    William Leonard Reese Jr.
    January 11, 2020 at 12:03 am | #

    . . . Was Robin just . . passed out on the floor that entire night? I mean granted that’s not hard to see but one would imagine that Dina and Becky would have seen or at least tripped over her before crawling into bed right?

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      January 11, 2020 at 12:04 am | #

      Who says Robin went to bed before them?

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 11, 2020 at 11:11 am | #

      Honestly, that would be pretty on-brand for Robin.

  5. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    January 11, 2020 at 12:04 am | #

    I have to agree with Becky’s fundie upbringing on this one. Having hanky-pankied her girlfriend and having just slept in the same bed with her girlfriend are equally-troubling.

    • BarerMender
      BarerMender
      January 11, 2020 at 12:47 am | #

      In my book, sleeping with your girlfriend for the first time and NOT hanky-pankying is what’s disturbing. There she is, right next to you. Get busy already.

      • Kalirren
        Kalirren
        January 11, 2020 at 10:48 am | #

        Am I the only person here who slept with their first RL significant other for three whole months before actually engaging in hanky-panky?

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          January 11, 2020 at 11:11 am | #

          Nope. Longer than that before we actually had sex, but a slow gradual escalation up to that point.

          She was willing to sleep with me because she trusted that we wouldn’t go farther than that, which makes the “There she is, right next to you. Get busy already.” seem pretty creepy to me.

          • Reltzik
            Reltzik
            January 11, 2020 at 12:20 pm | #

            Short version: Not having consenting adult sex because that’s your comfort level and you’re enjoying what you have is great, but not having sex despite really wanting to because you’ve been brainwashed from childhood by a misogynistic cult obsessed with sexuality is still disturbing.

            • David
              David
              January 11, 2020 at 2:21 pm | #

              You don’t just switch off getting brainwashed from childhood by a misogynistic cult obsessed with sexuality. If you do, it just switches itself back on at the least convenient of times. You have to redirty your brain one cerebral convolution at a time in order for it to stick.

              • Reltzik
                Reltzik
                January 11, 2020 at 2:42 pm | #

                Oh, sure, not blaming the victim here. It’s the child-brainwashing misogynistic cult obsessed with sexuality that’s the disturbing part.

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              January 11, 2020 at 3:47 pm | #

              That girlfriend was from a Catholic family and the pressure from that certainly contributed to her wanting to delay.

              Other than the most extreme cases, it’s difficult to distinguish “brainwashing” from just “how I was brought up”.

              • Reltzik
                Reltzik
                January 11, 2020 at 9:21 pm | #

                Again, not blaming the victim. But I’m willing to file the Catholic Church under the heading of “child-brainwashing misogynistic cult obsessed with sexuality”.

          • BarerMender
            BarerMender
            January 11, 2020 at 7:35 pm | #

            But Dina has already stated her willingness. Dina isn’t the holdup, here.

    • MatthewTheLucky
      MatthewTheLucky
      January 11, 2020 at 12:49 am | #

      Well yes, 0 = 0.

  6. ian livs
    ian livs
    January 11, 2020 at 12:04 am | #

    Sad to say, Becky’s thinking here isn’t hyperbolic. Like, the first time I slept over at a friend’s place along w my now-spouse (we were just dating at the time, though quite serious), I woke up the next morning with this horrible sense of weird religious guilt even if all we’d done was sleep next to each other and make out a little. Ah… how young and easily startled I was.

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      January 11, 2020 at 1:21 am | #

      I hope she quickly gets over her guilt for something that is so obviously good for her (Dina’s love).

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 11, 2020 at 11:14 am | #

      Every so often we need a reminder that Becky and Joyce grew up in the same religious culture.

  7. Kravis
    Kravis
    January 11, 2020 at 12:04 am | #

    I’m a bit (very) concerned about Becky’s eyes in panel 2.

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 11, 2020 at 12:51 am | #

      Do they remind you of her love?

  8. shadowcell
    shadowcell
    January 11, 2020 at 12:04 am | #

    Dumbing of Age Book 10: Does the Congresswoman On the Floor Make This a Threesome?

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      January 11, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

      Dumbing of Age Book X: I Think It Would Be Important Enough To Remember

      • Agemegos
        Agemegos
        January 11, 2020 at 1:02 am | #

        Yup.

      • Bicycle Bill
        Bicycle Bill
        January 11, 2020 at 2:02 am | #

        Make it so, Willis.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        January 11, 2020 at 11:14 am | #

        Perfection.

    • BigDogLittleCat
      BigDogLittleCat
      January 11, 2020 at 12:24 am | #

      The Floor is Properly Chaste. GET IT TOGETHER.

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      January 11, 2020 at 1:20 am | #

      Dumbing of Age Book 10: Curse My Insatiable Desire For Your Perfect Form!

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      January 11, 2020 at 3:36 am | #

      DoA Book 10: That Is Equally Troubling!

    • Rex Vivat
      Rex Vivat
      January 11, 2020 at 7:25 am | #

      I came here looking for this. I wasn’t disappointed.

  9. Lawzlo
    Lawzlo
    January 11, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

    Someone’s gettin’ lesbian pregnant.

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      January 11, 2020 at 5:46 am | #

      I gave the definitive answer to this comment yesterday.

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        January 11, 2020 at 7:56 am | #

        Huh. I stopped reading GGaR after a few chapters. I think I should start again.

  10. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    January 11, 2020 at 12:06 am | #

    Becky and Dina are so cute here, and I am glad my own neuroses never included a period where i was freaking out over sleeping next to my crush/significant other.

    In other news, where the hell are Mike, Blaine and Ross?

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 11, 2020 at 12:18 am | #

      Quick, look under the bed.

      • David
        David
        January 11, 2020 at 2:24 pm | #

        No, that’s just Joe.

    • He Who Abides
      He Who Abides
      January 11, 2020 at 12:29 am | #

      I never went through that with my fiancee either, but due to reasons I don’t understand she was living with my family since we were 12-ish.

      Freaking out over getting an apartment, on the other hand . . .

      • Clif
        Clif
        January 11, 2020 at 10:49 am | #

        This is ya’lls life and everything, but I can think of some scenarios where it might be kind of important to understand why she was living with your family since ya’ll were 12.

        • He Who Abides
          He Who Abides
          January 11, 2020 at 6:17 pm | #

          We’ll have to ask either my dad or her parents. She doesn’t know either, and it’s probably something she should know too.

    • GutterChick
      GutterChick
      January 11, 2020 at 2:03 am | #

      When I was in 7th grade I kissed my girlfriend and touched her boobs at a movie because she wanted me to

      I went home and cried after and felt guilty after. She also once tried to dirty talk once and said “I’m your bongo” (there was some sort of set up) and I almost had a discomfort panic

      Idk why, my parents were never socially conservative in any way, and I’m a huge slut these days, maybe I just wasnt ready as a teen.

      • GutterChick
        GutterChick
        January 11, 2020 at 2:04 am | #

        Lmao I didnt know the comment section censored. Bongo is the uh, other b word

        • Sam
          Sam
          January 11, 2020 at 2:32 am | #

          That word and a couple of other things got censored due to people overusing them. Some people now even naturally type bongo in the first place instead.

          • Agemegos
            Agemegos
            January 11, 2020 at 5:26 am | #

            Or refer habitually to “small hand-drums”.

        • David
          David
          January 11, 2020 at 2:26 pm | #

          That censor bot seems way convenient for writing Joyce’s dialogs.

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            January 11, 2020 at 6:57 pm | #

            It’s only the b word.

            • BarerMender
              BarerMender
              January 11, 2020 at 7:38 pm | #

              The c-word is also censored.

              • BBCC
                BBCC
                January 11, 2020 at 11:53 pm | #

                Okay, true.

              • Makkabee
                Makkabee
                January 12, 2020 at 3:55 pm | #

                Cholesterol? I didn’t realize the comment section was so health conscious!

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              January 11, 2020 at 8:54 pm | #

              Though it would be kind of funny to expand it to use all of Joyce’s replacements.

              • BBCC
                BBCC
                January 11, 2020 at 11:54 pm | #

                it would! April fools maybe?

      • Wizard
        Wizard
        January 11, 2020 at 9:28 am | #

        The closest my boyfriend and I ever got to a PDA was holding hands at the movies after the house lights went down. A little silly, but sweet, and I still treasure the memories.

  11. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    January 11, 2020 at 12:07 am | #

    *plays “Three Is A Magic Number” from Schoolhouse Rock on the stereo*

  12. Zellgato
    Zellgato
    January 11, 2020 at 12:15 am | #

    Dina is great

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      January 11, 2020 at 5:40 pm | #

      Robin sucks.

  13. Tab
    Tab
    January 11, 2020 at 12:16 am | #

    We call that “floor-play”

    Or maybe the sex was so good that they don’t remember (high five for decades old Its Walky reference)

    • Hugo Bedward
      Hugo Bedward
      January 11, 2020 at 3:07 am | #

      I wonder if their cuddling put a hole in the wall

  14. Lumino
    Lumino
    January 11, 2020 at 12:17 am | #

    “The floor is properly chaste” fucking kills me.

  15. John
    John
    January 11, 2020 at 12:18 am | #

    Oh, there’s Dina. Where’d she come from, and where’d that weird hatless chick in the first four panels go? Did Dina eat her? (I mean, in the carnosaur sense, not the “licking her envelope” sense.)

  16. BBCC
    BBCC
    January 11, 2020 at 12:31 am | #

    Wholesome content.

  17. He Who Abides
    He Who Abides
    January 11, 2020 at 12:32 am | #

    Becky, dear, you’re still wearing your pants. So is Dina. Unless there’s some top-secret method by which two women may engage in hard-core hanky-panky while keeping their trousers on, you’re good.

    • LeslieBean4shizzle
      LeslieBean4shizzle
      January 11, 2020 at 1:25 am | #

      Um, are you joking?
      The “slip a hand in at the waistband” trick is as old as pants. Particularly tight pants might require unbuttoning/unzipping, but removal is entirely optional.
      And that doesn’t even get into thigh-to-clit stimulation through pants.

      • Xenocide
        Xenocide
        January 11, 2020 at 3:58 am | #

        There’s also the neat trick of just putting them back on afterwards, though it’s not usually high on the priorities list. It’s not impossible though!

      • He Who Abides
        He Who Abides
        January 11, 2020 at 8:35 am | #

        @LeslieBean4shizzle – I’m really not. Considering that I’m ace/demi with no libido and an abiding respect for other people’s privacy, is it really that surprising that I wouldn’t be interested in learning the mechanics of how couples who are not me achieve sexual release?

        • LeslieBean4shizzle
          LeslieBean4shizzle
          January 11, 2020 at 11:59 am | #

          No, that’s not surprising at all.

          However, I would point out that you opened the door to my reply by speaking as if you did have such knowledge in your original post. To quote “Unless there’s some top-secret method by which two women may engage in hard-core hanky-panky while keeping their trousers on”
          There is such a method, and it is hardly a secret. If you’ve ever had an itch (literal, not metaphoric) and reached into your trousers to scratch your thigh or whatever equipment you might possess, then you yourself have made use of that technique.

          • He Who Abides
            He Who Abides
            January 11, 2020 at 6:13 pm | #

            That’s . . . a fair point. Becky’s reaction made me think she feared something more intense than something that simple, though.

            • Seregiel
              Seregiel
              January 11, 2020 at 6:52 pm | #

              She fears its that simple. 🙂

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      January 11, 2020 at 2:02 am | #

      Google “bundling” as an early American courtship custom.

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        January 11, 2020 at 7:59 am | #

        Wait, did the bundling board just go back to hammerspace?

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      January 11, 2020 at 3:33 am | #

      Pants are only an obstacle if you allow them to be. Their power is an illusion, built upon a foundation of lies and propaganda. Any true hero knows that there are no less than three ways to circumvent the trousers without even unzipping or unfastening them. Meditate on your hubris and think about what you have done.

    • Fart Captor
      Fart Captor
      January 11, 2020 at 4:23 am | #

      It’s not a “top secret” so much as a “secret top” method :V

  18. Confuzor
    Confuzor
    January 11, 2020 at 12:36 am | #

    Dina is aware of threesomes?!

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      January 11, 2020 at 1:56 am | #

      Dina isn’t ignorant of sex. She just hasn’t been sexual until now.

      Her roommate is Amber the Fanficster, so she may know more about sexual variety than most of her peers, albeit in a purely theoretical manner.

      • David
        David
        January 11, 2020 at 2:31 pm | #

        Frankly, the fan fiction of Amber we got to hear yet was butcher’s talk.

      • davidbreslin101
        davidbreslin101
        January 11, 2020 at 4:45 pm | #

        At which point I remember Amber’s goro fics and start worrying for Becky’s safety…

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          January 11, 2020 at 10:35 pm | #

          “Is that not what was meant by ‘eating’ someone?”

  19. BarerMender
    BarerMender
    January 11, 2020 at 12:58 am | #

    “We knocked boots! We bumped ugly! We made the beast with two backs! We interfered with each other! We got sweaty and slid all over each other!”
    “No we didn’t.”
    “Oh.”
    …
    “Well, we must’ve done something wrong.”
    “You know, I’ve had about enough of you and your weird religion.”

  20. Ellegos
    Ellegos
    January 11, 2020 at 1:23 am | #

    “What I’m trying to ask is, you’d tell me if you had some Cocaine around here, right? You can tell me, I’m hip!”

    • LeslieBean4shizzle
      LeslieBean4shizzle
      January 11, 2020 at 1:26 am | #

      Ah Mindy Saint Clair.

  21. Carms
    Carms
    January 11, 2020 at 1:26 am | #

    I completely thought it was roz and was confused

  22. Lokitsu
    Lokitsu
    January 11, 2020 at 1:27 am | #

    The floor is chaste? I thought the floor was lava.

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      January 11, 2020 at 3:36 am | #

      Many purification rituals around the globe have used fire. Lava is basically the wet cement of fire. Therefore, lava is chaste, allowing the floor to exist in both states simultaneously.

  23. Bristingr
    Bristingr
    January 11, 2020 at 1:33 am | #

    So we’re finally seeing Dina without her hat.

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      January 11, 2020 at 3:37 am | #

      We’ve seen this before, earlier on in their relationship.

  24. Josh Spicer
    Josh Spicer
    January 11, 2020 at 1:40 am | #

    I respect Becky’s desire to have post-marital coitus only but like…alright…

  25. PB
    PB
    January 11, 2020 at 2:07 am | #

    HA! “The floor is chaste.” Sweet, naive Becky, you have so much to learn.

  26. Bagge
    Bagge
    January 11, 2020 at 2:14 am | #

    It will never not be funny when Dina tries and almost but not quite succedes in understanding Becky’s metaphores.

    For going from sleeping to awake and Becky freaking out about boots for some reason in a few seconds she does a good job contributing to the conversation.

    and, awwww, Becky. It’s understandable to freak out but it’s OK. God thinks you are rad for being a lesbian. I’m sure he would be cool with that lady-syrup thing too.

    (and if Becky decide that – no, she really does not want to have sex before the wedding, I’m betting anything that Dina would pull up a paleontology professor vested with the power of wedding people before Becky can say Ankylosaurus magniventris)

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      January 11, 2020 at 2:19 am | #

      Come to think of it… congress members can mary people, right?

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        January 11, 2020 at 3:39 am | #

        Yes, they’re basically known for Mary-like behavior.

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          January 11, 2020 at 3:52 am | #

          …oh dear

          • Clif
            Clif
            January 11, 2020 at 11:19 am | #

            And while they they *can* encourage Mary-like behaviour in others, fortunately their ability to Mary other people is limited.

      • Clif
        Clif
        January 11, 2020 at 11:43 am | #

        In the extremely unlikely (and much less amusing) event that what you meant to ask is if members of congress can perform legal marriage ceremonies by virtue of being congress critters, the answer is that it varies by state. In most states a Justice of the Supreme Court can, but congress-folks, not so much.

        • Clif
          Clif
          January 11, 2020 at 12:39 pm | #

          I’m running off of failable memory here, but as I recall, the answer for some states is, it’s complicated. I think there is one state where a member of congress normally couldn’t, but by virtue of being able to do so in another state (California if I recall) can get a temporary permit to do it in their own state. Another would allow the congress critter to perform the marriage if either of the parties to the marriage believed they could, by virtue of a section that indicates that a consummated marriage is not invalidated by being performed by an otherwise ineligible person if either believed the person performing the ceremony was authorized. The State of Texas is the one I’m most familiar with. Texas specifically allows Rabbis, Ministers and Priest, but does not mention members of Congress. But if the congressmember says I’m now the minister of my own church I just started, Texas doesn’t register ministers and as long as the marriage license is applied for and issued, performed between 72 hours and 30 days later, and registered, Texas doesn’t care. And should the Congressperson not bother to do the minimum to qualify as a minister, and no underaged marriage or illegal marriage (such as bigamy) takes place, then the marriage is still legal as long as the person performing it had a reasonable appearance of authority and at least one of the people being married participated in the ceremony in good faith and that party treats the marriage as valid.

    • Xenocide
      Xenocide
      January 11, 2020 at 4:07 am | #

      I assumed Dina was continuing the boots metaphor, meaning they set themselves/their boots next to each other and fell asleep.
      Alternatively deliberately treating the metaphor literally despite knowing what Becky originally meant in order to defuse tension, which is something I do with my friends’ metaphors sometimes but usually for my amusement (and often leading to their annoyance) rather than to defuse tension.

      • Clif
        Clif
        January 11, 2020 at 11:44 am | #

        Booty is where you find it.

      • Jhon
        Jhon
        January 11, 2020 at 4:29 pm | #

        When you trust someone enough to set your boots next to theirs…

  27. Dean
    Dean
    January 11, 2020 at 2:15 am | #

    ‘Licked each other’s envelopes’ is the filthiest euphemism I’ve ever heard.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      January 11, 2020 at 2:18 am | #

      Well… second filthiest.

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-7/01-glower-vacuum/relief/

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        January 11, 2020 at 8:01 am | #

        Putting the free in Freestyle Machine.

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      January 11, 2020 at 5:31 pm | #

      Indeed! I’m going to have to use it at the first opportunity.

  28. Gwydion
    Gwydion
    January 11, 2020 at 3:06 am | #

    No, it’s the fact that Robin’s seen Dina’s naked head at the same time as Becky has that makes it a threesome

    • Jhon
      Jhon
      January 11, 2020 at 4:24 pm | #

      Dina promptly dons her hat in Robin’s presence because she is chaste.

  29. saltchocolate
    saltchocolate
    January 11, 2020 at 3:42 am | #

    Thank you for bringing “knocked boots” back, Willis! Hadn’t heard that one in a while . . .

  30. Keulen
    Keulen
    January 11, 2020 at 3:43 am | #

    I’m wondering how long Willis is gonna make us wait to find out what happened to Mike, Blaine, and Ross.

    • sdrainbow
      sdrainbow
      January 11, 2020 at 4:55 am | #

      It was 20 days between “amber punches Ryan while Dorothy looks on in horror” to the reveal of the “police line do not cross” tag on the stairs.

      • Mr.Morningstar
        Mr.Morningstar
        January 11, 2020 at 6:39 am | #

        did she punch him? I thought she took his knife and stabbed him or something i honestly dont remember

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          January 11, 2020 at 9:32 am | #

          Last we heard he was still in the hospital’s ICU, so yeah Ryan got messed up badly.

        • Sdrainbow
          Sdrainbow
          January 11, 2020 at 10:51 am | #

          Well, the panels showed her fist. I don’t know if the knife got involved later.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            January 11, 2020 at 10:57 am | #

            The last strip showed the knife and blood.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          January 11, 2020 at 11:26 am | #

          She chopped him to ribbons with his own phone after disarming him. Now his family is suing Amber and her mother, so she must have done considerable damage.

          http://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-8/01-face-the-strange/boundaries-2/

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 11, 2020 at 11:31 am | #

      You know, for all the people who kept wishing that Willis would cut away from the Mike and Dad’s episode for a month of Walky farting, this is ever so much nicer.

  31. Pocky
    Pocky
    January 11, 2020 at 4:39 am | #

    When your (potential) congresswoman is sleeping on the floor, watching you and your girlfriend totally not do anything Jesus would disapprove of.

    • David
      David
      January 11, 2020 at 3:17 pm | #

      The Bible does not really have a lot of interest in lesbians. I mean, Solomon had, what, a thousand wives? What are they going to do all day long? Men with men: now there’s a deadly sin. And women with lifestock, that too. But women with women or men with lifestock? Meh.

  32. Dutch
    Dutch
    January 11, 2020 at 5:35 am | #

    “The floor is properly chast” sounds like a book title

  33. Bathymetheus
    Bathymetheus
    January 11, 2020 at 8:12 am | #

    It occurs to me that Robin’s presence on the bedroom floor suggests that the sofa is occupied by someone else – probably male. Ethan, maybe?

  34. Valerie
    Valerie
    January 11, 2020 at 8:18 am | #

    Hey Becky, her eyes are down there.

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      January 11, 2020 at 9:34 am | #

      Remember Becky has a…thing…for ladies who aren’t wearing hats. Especially if that lady is Dina.

      • TemperaryObsessor
        TemperaryObsessor
        January 11, 2020 at 5:19 pm | #

        No its a ting for ladies who wear hats. How else are you supposed to know their scalp is special.

  35. T Campbell
    T Campbell
    January 11, 2020 at 8:30 am | #

    A little late, but… https://www.npr.org/2010/10/26/130809883/doonesbury-decades-a-timeline-of-turning-points (first image)

  36. Pharmadan
    Pharmadan
    January 11, 2020 at 9:51 am | #

    This is your best comic since the jesus take the wheel one.

  37. bcb
    bcb
    January 11, 2020 at 10:08 am | #

    But maybe it’s close enough to a threesome to make Joe jealous. Or at least make Richard jealous.

  38. Alfie
    Alfie
    January 11, 2020 at 10:19 am | #

    “We licked each other’s envelopes!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  39. Toes14
    Toes14
    January 11, 2020 at 10:24 am | #

    Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t this whole thing start after Becky hooked up with her roommate at Anderson? I know there were no ‘details’ about that encounter, but I thought it was implied that they did more than kiss.

    Thus, Becky has already had “premarital hanky-panky” and shouldn’t be freaking out about it.

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 11, 2020 at 10:41 am | #

      I suspect there is some room between enough to freak Anderson out and actual hanky-panky.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        January 11, 2020 at 11:04 am | #

        I suspect kissing is enough to freak Anderson out – at least lesbian kissing.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      January 11, 2020 at 2:14 pm | #

      They were making out and got busted, not banging.

    • Sam
      Sam
      January 11, 2020 at 2:18 pm | #

      She did not hook up with her roommate. Anderson freaked out but homophobic people will freak out at handholding or a kiss on the cheek if they suspect you of not being straight. It was implied that they are least madeout or went far enough Anderson was alarmed, but never how far it went and given Becky’s reactions, it clearly never went as far as you thought.

      Willis tends to make it explicitly clear that sex is happening or will happen or has made a slipshine for it. This is a rare instance where he tricked us as we thought they would, but instead they didn’t.

    • Joe
      Joe
      January 11, 2020 at 6:11 pm | #

      I think this is just a case of slang meaning different things in different regions. I’ve heard “hooking up” range from meaning sex, to just making out, to simply meeting somewhere. From context I think it’s the middle one here.

  40. kilgaen
    kilgaen
    January 11, 2020 at 10:47 am | #

    Dina finally making herself decent. Good lord, Willis.

  41. Clif
    Clif
    January 11, 2020 at 1:44 pm | #

    I nominate Delicious Taffy for having selected the best avitar ever.

    • He Who Abides
      He Who Abides
      January 11, 2020 at 10:49 pm | #

      Seconded.

  42. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    January 11, 2020 at 4:37 pm | #

    Robin was bored. Or curious.

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      January 11, 2020 at 5:49 pm | #

      Two innocent teenagers went into a bedroom together with the announced intention of discarding their virginities together. Robin followed them.

      Robin is a creep.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        January 11, 2020 at 8:52 pm | #

        Did I miss them announcing that intention?

        • BarerMender
          BarerMender
          January 11, 2020 at 9:13 pm | #

          Becky announced she was going to give Dina her birthday cuddle. They could be forgiven for taking “cuddle” to mean “fuck.”

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