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by David M Willis on June 13, 2012 at 12:01 am
  • 04 - Time Keeps on Slippin'
└ Tags: jennifer, ruth, sarah

Discussion (70) ¬

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  1. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    June 13, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    And I the penalty boxes all set up and everything. 🙁

    • thelastnerd
      thelastnerd
      June 13, 2012 at 5:44 am | #

      I think you accidentally a word.

      • TheBenenator
        TheBenenator
        June 13, 2012 at 1:25 pm | #

        No, I pretty sure didn’t.

        • dusk
          dusk
          June 24, 2012 at 5:06 am | #

          Stop trying make mistakes

    • bobjohnsonandthediglets
      bobjohnsonandthediglets
      April 9, 2016 at 12:19 pm | #

      i no idea what you mean

  2. Ridureyu
    Ridureyu
    June 13, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    so bloodthirsty and kill-happy that even Sarah wants to see murder!

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 13, 2012 at 12:33 am | #

      Don’t we all?

    • ryan
      ryan
      June 13, 2012 at 8:59 am | #

      sarah wouldn’t mind if all the other students died. then she wouldn’t have to deal with anyone or their drama.

  3. Sensedog
    Sensedog
    June 13, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    Well, there is still plenty of time remaining in their college days.

  4. Twisted Two-face
    Twisted Two-face
    June 13, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

    This fills up Sarah’s monthly appearance/quip quota.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 13, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

      I imagine she has checkoff sheet.

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        June 13, 2012 at 12:54 am | #

        “Okay, I’ve taken care of Joyce and Billie, now for Dorothy.”

      • lordphulish
        lordphulish
        June 13, 2012 at 5:39 am | #

        It’s better than most tokens, where they say things like “oh snap!” and “no she di’int!”

        • lordphulish
          lordphulish
          June 13, 2012 at 5:41 am | #

          Oh yeah, and “DAT ASS!”.

        • coobee
          coobee
          June 13, 2012 at 7:27 am | #

          … don’t thiiiiink you can describe Sarah as a ‘token’ when Walky and Sal are also part black, Billie and Dina are asian or part asian, and Ethan and Joe are jewish. Just, uh, no.

          • David
            David M Willis
            June 13, 2012 at 8:23 am | #

            Nothing questionable about reflexively calling every black character a token.

            • explodingdragon
              explodingdragon
              June 13, 2012 at 6:56 pm | #

              The closest I’ve seen to a token black guy happening recently was the last minute casting of Lawrence Fishbourne to voice the Silver Surfer in the second Fantastic Four movie. As the only other black guy isn’t likable and dies pretty easily.

              If you want some token white guys, try the latter version of Death at a Funeral. Or Red Tails, when I watched that I couldn’t tell the white guys apart!

            • AJBulldis
              AJBulldis
              June 13, 2012 at 9:47 pm | #

              In my younger years, I was a part of an anime “club” that had one black member; he went by the nickname of Token.

        • Whit
          Whit
          June 14, 2012 at 2:59 pm | #

          As someone who grew up in Bloomington, IN and attended Indiana University, I can attest that this looks more or less like the ethnic/racial make-up of the campus, definitely more Asian and Jewish students than African-American.

  5. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    June 13, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

    Actually…I’m with Sarah…I woulda liked to see them throw down.

  6. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    June 13, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

    Wow, Sarah’s starting to show a little of her rebellious side. She’s even drinking out of a bendy straw and not a standard-issue straight straw! What a maverick.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 13, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

      and look at that casual paper cup rather than the recommended glass or even plastic cups.

      • TheBenenator
        TheBenenator
        June 13, 2012 at 1:29 pm | #

        What? It’s more recyclable than plastic, and less breakable than glass. She doesn’t have to hear gripe-drama from us environmentalists this way.

        Wait. Bendy-straw. WHAT AR—– *shot*

  7. Confuzor
    Confuzor
    June 13, 2012 at 12:11 am | #

    Wasn’t Ruth just giving Billie shit for being where she wasn’t supposed to be? And Sarah just gets off scott free for being in the same place!?

    Ruth must truly be rattled.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 13, 2012 at 12:15 am | #

      a better question…Why’s Sarah even there?

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 13, 2012 at 12:19 am | #

        Ain’t they in the men’s dorm?

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          June 13, 2012 at 12:19 am | #

          Sarah finally took Joe up on his offer.

          • Undrave
            Undrave
            June 13, 2012 at 1:16 am | #

            that’s why she looks so chipper!

    • WhiteEyedCat
      WhiteEyedCat
      June 13, 2012 at 12:27 am | #

      Billy was in trouble for being there for the purpose of avoiding Ruth.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 13, 2012 at 12:32 am | #

        Ruth doesn’t handle rejection too well.

        • Kernanator
          Kernanator
          June 13, 2012 at 12:50 am | #

          She wants Billie to return her calls.

          She just can’t see that it’s over already.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            June 13, 2012 at 1:00 am | #

            I just hope this sinking ship has lifeboats.

  8. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    June 13, 2012 at 12:12 am | #

    If you can’t have the brouhaha settle for the brew.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 13, 2012 at 12:15 am | #

      I have never seen a person actually spell “brouhaha”

      • Historyman68
        Historyman68
        June 13, 2012 at 2:42 am | #

        I don’t know if I’ve ever heard someone pronounce “brouhaha.”

        • Raiser
          Raiser
          June 13, 2012 at 2:45 pm | #

          S’pronounced “Broo-hah-hah”. I’ve heard it, and used it, quite a bit myself.

          This said, I was glued to a dictionary for much of my childhood, so sesquipedalian loquaciousness was standard operating procedure when I was younger.

          Or, well, general use of words that most people never encountered outside of a thesaurus, in any case. The habit has worn down to some degree, I do have to look things up fairly often, but the fact that the words still come up in my train of thought (and that I seek to confirm their usage) I suppose qualifies as a good thing.

          Less so the fact that I seem to be incapable of writing something less than three sentences unless I’m cracking a joke.

          • Yotomoe
            Yotomoe
            June 13, 2012 at 3:46 pm | #

            Sir I have hypopotomonstrosesquipidaliaphobia and I find your 2nd paragraph offesnsive.

          • Kryss LaBryn
            Kryss LaBryn
            June 13, 2012 at 6:02 pm | #

            I got to use repatriate, eviscerate, and defenestration today (and at the same time). It was fun. 😀

  9. Izzy
    Izzy
    June 13, 2012 at 12:34 am | #

    Excuse it if its sub-par I haven’t done an edit like this before
    <a href="http://i1255.photobucket.com/albums/hh635/DoAedits/modded.jpg title="TaDa!"

    • Rimaslxbya
      Rimaslxbya
      June 13, 2012 at 12:44 am | #

      The picture totally makes up for your problems making a working comment. X)

      • Izzy
        Izzy
        June 13, 2012 at 12:55 am | #

        yay

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      June 13, 2012 at 12:56 am | #

      Awesome.

      • Izzy
        Izzy
        June 13, 2012 at 12:59 am | #

        thank you!

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          June 13, 2012 at 1:01 am | #

          It’s a shame that Ruth doesn’t have much of a bootay.

          • Izzy
            Izzy
            June 13, 2012 at 1:02 am | #

            ill fix THAT later

  10. Izzy
    Izzy
    June 13, 2012 at 12:34 am | #

    Excuse it if its sub-par I haven’t done an edit like this before

  11. Wack'd
    Wack'd
    June 13, 2012 at 12:34 am | #

    …

    Sarah’s kind of a bongo.

    • SkepticJ
      SkepticJ
      June 13, 2012 at 12:37 am | #

      I like Sarah, and I usually see where she’s coming from, but yeah, she could probably tone it down a bit.

  12. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    June 13, 2012 at 12:53 am | #

    *raises eyebrow*

    Interesting. I did not foresee this side of Sarah, the side that loves bloodsport between two college girls.

    Either that, or she’s just making her rounds for quip-giving.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 13, 2012 at 12:58 am | #

      Maybe she just wants moar fanservice, like the rest of us do.

      • Izzy
        Izzy
        June 13, 2012 at 1:00 am | #

        pssst…click the link a few comments up

    • Bekah
      Bekah
      June 13, 2012 at 1:46 am | #

      I think it’s more of her desire to see Billie and/or Ruth’s blood on the floor than it is to see blood on the floor in general.

  13. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    June 13, 2012 at 1:08 am | #

    Sarah is not Billies biggest fan. If I remember she let Billie know her opinion of her when Joyce tried to get Sarah and Billie to be friends. I don’t think it’s seeing bloodshed in general so much as seeing ‘Billies blood shed’.
    But, yeah what is she doing in the men’s dorm?

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      June 13, 2012 at 2:14 am | #

      Looking for guys who need to have their kneecaps broken.

  14. Rex Hondo
    Rex Hondo
    June 13, 2012 at 1:33 am | #

    Never let it be said that Sarah doesn’t have her priorities in order.

  15. Izzy
    Izzy
    June 13, 2012 at 2:27 am | #

  16. Izzy
    Izzy
    June 13, 2012 at 2:28 am | #

    …grrr Revised version!
    http://i1255.photobucket.com/albums/hh635/DoAedits/modded-1.jpg

    • TheBenenator
      TheBenenator
      June 13, 2012 at 1:52 pm | #

      …I liked the first one better, looked like she was just wearing short-shorts.

      Even if the sweater+short-shorts combo was odd by itself, it was more likely to be a thing.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 13, 2012 at 5:55 pm | #

      I should have expected that kind of edit from you Izzy, for some reason I thought you were going to just expand Ruth’s arse with the Liquify tool.

      • Izzy
        Izzy
        June 14, 2012 at 12:15 am | #

        Liquefy tool? What’s that? What program is that in?

  17. Dave McCoy
    Dave McCoy
    June 13, 2012 at 3:32 am | #

    The hell is up with Ruth’s feet?

    • Izzy
      Izzy
      June 14, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

      Slippers

  18. Joe
    Joe
    June 13, 2012 at 11:02 am | #

    I’m starting to think that Sarah doesn’t like Billie.
    Just a hunch.

  19. Lis
    Lis
    June 13, 2012 at 12:02 pm | #

    darn I thought this would go on longer.

  20. narmenduke
    narmenduke
    June 13, 2012 at 1:22 pm | #

    I love the look on Billie’s face in the last panel.

  21. Raiser
    Raiser
    June 13, 2012 at 3:08 pm | #

    Regarding “Why is she in the men’s dorms?”:

    As posited by Ruth roughly two pages ago, Billie is using the men’s dorm elevator to avoid her. This implies the two dorms are connected in some way.

    It well may be that Sarah is of the mind that if her destination is closer to the men’s elevator than the women’s, why not use that one instead?

    • thomas0comer
      thomas0comer
      June 14, 2012 at 6:44 pm | #

      It’s so that
      a: she can appear in this strip
      b: everything is set up for awkward confrontations in the man-vator later on

  22. Legasher
    Legasher
    June 13, 2012 at 4:19 pm | #

    Maybe Sarah is avoiding everyone, not just Ruth. I bet it’s her daily route, and she only runs into the mains on an extra drama day, like today.

  23. WhiteEyedCat
    WhiteEyedCat
    June 13, 2012 at 11:43 pm | #

    Sarah looks so cute in this strip, she should not frown more often.

  24. Jenny Creed
    Jenny Creed
    July 24, 2013 at 4:05 pm | #

    Looks like somebody got lost on the way to Blood Sport College.

    Which is totally a thing I didn’t make up right now.

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