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Scariest

by David M Willis on September 21, 2012 at 12:01 am
  • 06 - Strange Beerfellows
└ Tags: jennifer, ruth

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    September 21, 2012 at 12:01 am | #

    BEGIN THE SMOOCHING

    • Moonshine McGee
      Moonshine McGee
      September 21, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

      I don’t think one six-pack would be enough to induce bi-curious makeouts in someone with Billie’s tolerance.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        September 21, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

        Six packs of moonshine might be enough though.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        September 21, 2012 at 12:11 am | #

        You didn’t even give her a chance to get Pre-drunk.

        • Shade
          Shade
          September 21, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

          Billie is ALWAYS pre-drunk.

          • Raoullefere
            Raoullefere
            September 21, 2012 at 2:27 am | #

            Yeah, but the shock of the Redheaded RA of Death walk in unannounced is more than enough to sober one from pre-drunk.

          • Volkai
            Volkai
            September 23, 2012 at 3:08 pm | #

            Except for when she’s drunk.

      • John
        John
        September 21, 2012 at 2:19 am | #

        I’m not so sure that inducing bi-curious makeouts in Billie actually requires booze.

        • Kelvandil
          Kelvandil
          September 21, 2012 at 9:44 pm | #

          Probably requires an audience, though.

      • Andrusi
        Andrusi
        September 21, 2012 at 9:25 am | #

        One six-pack would be insufficient alone, but Ruth also has the ability to terrify Billie into thinking bi-curious makeouts are her only chance for survival.

      • Rex Hondo
        Rex Hondo
        September 21, 2012 at 10:45 am | #

        Maybe not, but when Ruth takes off her shirt and reveals the other six-pack she brought…

      • Petre Pan
        Petre Pan
        September 22, 2012 at 12:15 am | #

        Are you kidding? She was all ready to kiss Sal after only a few stolen drinks from Ruth’s room a few comics back.

    • Banah
      Banah
      September 21, 2012 at 12:12 am | #

      All my porn watching tells me this is what happens to drunk college girls. All my drunk college girl experience tells me it’s not.

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        September 21, 2012 at 12:46 am | #

        So what DOES your drunk college girl experience say will happen?

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          September 21, 2012 at 12:50 am | #

          lots of laughing and/or fighting between badly singing songs and thinking they’re awesome.

        • Zap Rowsdower
          Zap Rowsdower
          September 21, 2012 at 1:46 am | #

          Vomit. Most probably on whoever wasn’t drinking.

        • tahrey
          tahrey
          September 21, 2012 at 4:29 am | #

          ^ Mine says all off the above, plus ordering pizza and eventually putting a really cheesy classic movie in the DVD player (or, given how long it’s _actually_ been, the VHS deck). Yet somehow managing to get changed into PJs and clean their teeth before sloping off to collapse half-asleep on the side of someone else’s bed, rather than just passing out in the chair they’re sitting in like the guys.

          • Kernanator
            Kernanator
            September 23, 2012 at 3:20 am | #

            To be fair, that sounds hilarious.

          • Pyrock
            Pyrock
            September 24, 2012 at 9:25 pm | #

            Of course, forgetting to actually start the movie, just leaving it on the menu screen all night

        • Banah
          Banah
          September 23, 2012 at 10:58 pm | #

          Watching a lot of TV and being woefully single, mostly.

    • Tan
      Tan
      September 21, 2012 at 1:21 am | #

      I see now. Well-played.

      (I looked at SP! first tonight)

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        September 22, 2012 at 2:25 pm | #

        It’s hilarious because I didn’t plan it to work that way XD (I read here first)

  2. David Herbert
    David Herbert
    September 21, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    Oh I can just hear the fan fics being written in the minds of thousands of readers.

  3. SplashBoogie
    SplashBoogie
    September 21, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    AND THERE’S THE TITLE.

  4. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    September 21, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    Who is Ruth pretending to be friends for? Is her father showing up soon?

    • Sensedog
      Sensedog
      September 21, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

      If I am not mistaken, her father is deceased.

      Perhaps she is just trying to make a friend in the most unlikely person, or perhaps she hops to get Billie drunk enough to have her pass out so that she can erase a certain incriminating picture on her phone and/or hard drive. Who knows?

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        September 21, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

        Maybe Billie reminds her of a young Ruth and she wants to train Billie in the way of the Beer.

        • Jacob
          Jacob
          September 21, 2012 at 2:44 am | #

          What more is there for Billie to learn?

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        September 21, 2012 at 12:11 am | #

        Wasn’t that her father to whom she was talking to on the phone when Billie was hiding in Ruth’s closet a bunch of comic-strips ago?

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          September 21, 2012 at 12:14 am | #

          No. She even made a point to say it wasn’t him later in the hallway when Billie confronted her about it.

        • tahrey
          tahrey
          September 21, 2012 at 4:31 am | #

          Stepfather … Grandfather … Uncle … Foster-father … other legal guardian… who knows?

          • ProfessorZoot
            ProfessorZoot
            September 21, 2012 at 5:11 pm | #

            Christian Grey? Sorry, that was uncalled for . . .

          • Ben
            Ben
            September 22, 2012 at 11:12 am | #

            Head Alien?

      • Caffienated
        Caffienated
        September 21, 2012 at 6:39 am | #

        That does sound believable. I was beginning to think something was bugging Ruth but I like your theory better 🙂

    • Shade
      Shade
      September 21, 2012 at 12:20 am | #

      Maybe… bare with me here.

      She needed actual human company and Billie sad as it may seem knows her more personally then anyone else.

      That or the crazier option of her attempting to offer an olive branch. I prefer the first hypothesis though.

      • David
        David M Willis
        September 21, 2012 at 12:37 am | #

        I will not bare with you!

        • Shade
          Shade
          September 21, 2012 at 12:42 am | #

          Haha, oh man can’t believe I wrote the wrong bear.

          But fine Willis suit your self.

          • Bekah
            Bekah
            September 21, 2012 at 1:03 am | #

            I am suddenly reminded of a guest strip Willis did for Rene Engstrom. I wish Anders Loves Maria wasn’t so hard to navigate these days, and the old guest strips were easier to find.

          • Bekah
            Bekah
            September 21, 2012 at 1:04 am | #

            Found it!
            (NSFW)

            • Yotomoe
              Yotomoe
              September 21, 2012 at 1:27 am | #

              I hate and love you for showing me that.

            • Shade
              Shade
              September 21, 2012 at 1:33 am | #

              That is certainly a penis.

            • begbert2
              begbert2
              September 21, 2012 at 9:56 am | #

              You know, this sort of thing seems to always happen when Willis does guest strips, for some reasons.

            • Rex Hondo
              Rex Hondo
              September 21, 2012 at 10:49 am | #

              I’ve seen more Willis-drawn dick in the last couple weeks than ever before…

              • Jim
                Jim
                September 21, 2012 at 4:54 pm | #

                It needs the Mapplethorpe touch. Where is the bull-whip?

              • Petre Pan
                Petre Pan
                September 22, 2012 at 12:18 am | #

                I totally mis-read that as drawn Willis-dick.
                I was like 0_0 why have you seen so many pictures Willis that way?

                • Rex Hondo
                  Rex Hondo
                  September 22, 2012 at 8:37 am | #

                  Rule 34, my friend. Rule 34…

            • Kernanator
              Kernanator
              September 23, 2012 at 4:44 am | #

              Oh jeez, why does this exist, and why can’t I stop looking at it?

  5. Frostbite
    Frostbite
    September 21, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    I’m scared…maybe aroused? Well it depends in how it goes.

    • GrrArg42
      GrrArg42
      September 23, 2012 at 4:27 pm | #

      IT’S A TRAP!!! -G. Ackbar

  6. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    September 21, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

    It’s like being in a shark cage, while there’s a shark, on the inside, and the shark has boobs, and beer.

    • Luke
      Luke
      September 21, 2012 at 12:19 am | #

      My boner is confused now. Thanks for that.

      • Wonder Wig
        Wonder Wig
        September 21, 2012 at 12:31 am | #

        Then my work here is done. *fwoosh*

        • Shade
          Shade
          September 21, 2012 at 5:05 am | #

          Bless you caped crusader of artifical hair.

          • Historyman68
            Historyman68
            September 22, 2012 at 12:29 pm | #

            Black Canary? Batwoman?

    • ASmellyOgre
      ASmellyOgre
      September 21, 2012 at 12:34 am | #

      When I read this comic, I thought I finally found out why this chapter was called Strange Beerfellows. Now I know why it really is.

    • NF
      NF
      September 21, 2012 at 12:59 am | #

      That is an awesome simile. Well done.

  7. ridureyu
    ridureyu
    September 21, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

    I can’t wait for the next story of Awkward Bonding!

    • ArkhamTexan
      ArkhamTexan
      September 21, 2012 at 12:20 am | #

      Awkward boning?

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        September 21, 2012 at 12:29 am | #

        Sounds perfect for Dina.

      • Thisguy
        Thisguy
        September 21, 2012 at 11:20 pm | #

        No, no. They definitely meant bonding. Or maybe it was bondage…

  8. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    September 21, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

    Now you had better to cheer for the Colts or else. (knows nothing about football)

    • SplashBoogie
      SplashBoogie
      September 21, 2012 at 12:11 am | #

      Well you got the right colors and uni style but the only uni we’ve seen for Ruth is the Toronto Maple Leafs (wrong sport btw)

    • Wonder Wig
      Wonder Wig
      September 21, 2012 at 12:39 am | #

      Bludgers

    • SplashBoogie
      SplashBoogie
      September 21, 2012 at 12:40 am | #

      And then I remembered this comic takes place in Indiana and understood everything and felt dumb.

    • David
      David M Willis
      September 21, 2012 at 12:46 am | #

      Ruth cares not for your/our/their Colts!

  9. Ruth
    Ruth
    September 21, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

    Look, I just gotta take a load off.

    • Jim
      Jim
      September 21, 2012 at 4:57 pm | #

      Then you should be in a guy’s room – to get the load off!

      • Joseph Harner
        Joseph Harner
        September 22, 2012 at 1:36 am | #

        No, she needs to get *HER* load off. not his.

        • Bill M.
          Bill M.
          September 22, 2012 at 12:03 pm | #

          There are guys willing to do that, or die trying. Just head for the virgins, they want that experience more than Dina wants and actual dinosaur bone.

  10. Daeva
    Daeva
    September 21, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

    And then they were best friends!

    Forever!

    • Raoullefere
      Raoullefere
      September 21, 2012 at 2:32 am | #

      And ever and Ever and EVer and EVEr and EVER…

      • Skruff
        Skruff
        September 21, 2012 at 7:07 am | #

        And ever and … well, except for that one time, but we shan’t speak of that…

  11. Nexev
    Nexev
    September 21, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

    MY GODS.

    RUTH HAS INVITED BILLIE OVER FOR DINNER AND POLITE CONVERSATION.

    I WILL SAVE YOU FROM THE EVIL OF BLUE LAZER.

    COLLEGE COMMANDOS!

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      September 21, 2012 at 10:16 am | #

      No, Miss Billingsworth, I expect you to dine!

      • Petre Pan
        Petre Pan
        September 22, 2012 at 12:20 am | #

        Ahahahahaha I hug you
        (and your mom)
        for that comment

      • John
        John
        November 4, 2013 at 10:14 pm | #

        Ah, Miss Lessick, we eat again!

  12. Stephen
    Stephen
    September 21, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

    Yesssssss I hope this is the beginning of the Billy/Ruth friendship, I liked them in Roomies, was sad they were enemies here.

  13. Leon
    Leon
    September 21, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

    Her first clue should’ve been the idea of Sal using the door.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      September 21, 2012 at 12:17 am | #

      Billie Painted the door like a window in hopes that it would get Sal to use it more.

      • George
        George
        September 21, 2012 at 12:38 am | #

        Then Sal ripped it off from the bottom, assuming they opened the same way. Facilities doesn’t like Sal anymore.

        • Narf
          Narf
          June 25, 2013 at 7:13 pm | #

          Did facilities EVER like Sal?

          (“God DAMMIT! Bill, look at that. Shoe prints, on the brickwork near that third floor window, AGAIN! Who lives in that damn room, Batman?!”

          Now I’m picturing angry janitors using extend-o-mops to clean sal’s shoeprints off the wall by her window and grumbling the entire time, and it is amusing. 😀

  14. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    September 21, 2012 at 12:11 am | #

    And I have no idea where this is going, or coming from for that matter. I don’t believe Ruth is lonesome.

    • Broggly
      Broggly
      September 21, 2012 at 2:25 am | #

      Given the cruel and heartless persona she feels she has to adopt, I can see it.

      • Raoullefere
        Raoullefere
        September 21, 2012 at 2:37 am | #

        Billie’s not cruel and heartless. I mean, something has to be pumping the blood through her, or the alcohol would never reach her brain.

        Besides, she bought Joyce boots. Do the cruel boot the bootless?

        • Wack'd
          Wack'd
          September 21, 2012 at 10:18 am | #

          Well, “boot” as in “kick out”…

  15. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    September 21, 2012 at 12:12 am | #

    Yeah, when someone who has tormented me for a while starts acting kinda sorta friendly, I get suspicious and scared too.

  16. Jon
    Jon
    September 21, 2012 at 12:18 am | #

    Good job, Ruth. Make sure to barge in on people’s private rooms without knocking. There’s not a chance in hell they’d be pulling a Mary.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      September 21, 2012 at 12:36 am | #

      Ruth wouldn’t care. Soon she’ll be too sloshed to remember what clothes are.

    • tahrey
      tahrey
      September 21, 2012 at 4:36 am | #

      That’s the strangest euphemism I’ve heard for jilling off in quite a while.

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      September 21, 2012 at 2:56 pm | #

      While I was thinking along the same lines, I must say I have never heard that saying before. Any backstory on the origin?

      • Shade
        Shade
        September 21, 2012 at 5:37 pm | #

        There’s a character in this comic called Mary who prefers being naked when alone?

  17. Effie
    Effie
    September 21, 2012 at 12:18 am | #

    Damn, but if she can’t talk, how can she ask for another beer?

    • Skruff
      Skruff
      September 21, 2012 at 7:08 am | #

      Mime?

    • Petre Pan
      Petre Pan
      September 22, 2012 at 12:21 am | #

      Just grab one. Who ‘asks’ anyway?

  18. ArkhamTexan
    ArkhamTexan
    September 21, 2012 at 12:23 am | #

    Ahhhh, both Shortpacked and Dumbing of Age made me smile today. Good way to end a Friday.

  19. Aristophanes
    Aristophanes
    September 21, 2012 at 12:29 am | #

    Aww, fwiends!

  20. ilvos01
    ilvos01
    September 21, 2012 at 12:33 am | #

    GEROMINO STILTON MUST SAVE THE DRAGONS
    CAN YOU? TAKE THE QUIZ
    I must do this. I must save the dragons.

    • ilvos01
      ilvos01
      September 21, 2012 at 12:35 am | #

      I’m some sort of frog poet, apparently.

      • hmrc4evr
        hmrc4evr
        September 21, 2012 at 2:06 am | #

        If you have a little Uru hammer and summon the hammer we can call you Throg.

        You know, the Frog of Thunder? Hammer brother to the Mighty Thor?

        What–does no one else read Pet Avengers??

        • hmrc4evr
          hmrc4evr
          September 21, 2012 at 2:09 am | #

          Summon the thunder not the hammer.

          Typos.

          This is why you dont post at 2am from your cell phone w/o your glasses on.

          • HeatPhoenix
            HeatPhoenix
            September 21, 2012 at 5:57 am | #

            Sounds like you’re having an interesting evening.

  21. Brasca1
    Brasca1
    September 21, 2012 at 12:38 am | #

    If her plan is to drink her under the table and then destroy the evidence Ruth has picked a formidable adversary.

  22. Bekah
    Bekah
    September 21, 2012 at 12:59 am | #

    And so it begins.

  23. BranTheQuixotic
    BranTheQuixotic
    September 21, 2012 at 1:18 am | #

    Didn’t see this one coming! Still can’t shake the impression that this is going to end very badly for at least one of them. Probably Billie.

    • imperator
      imperator
      September 21, 2012 at 1:56 am | #

      I’m electing to be an optimist here. This is where Ruth bares her soul to Billie, they achieve eternal sisterhood, or girl bro-therhood. Ruth becomes Billie’s special friend, the only friend that can give Billie her baths.

      • hmrc4evr
        hmrc4evr
        September 21, 2012 at 2:14 am | #

        Or Ruth reveals that she is secretly a Pony lover and is there to bring Billie into the fold.

        Humm…what do you call a female MLP fan since ‘brony’ isn’t quite right in this case?

        • Raoullefere
          Raoullefere
          September 21, 2012 at 2:43 am | #

          It’s my understanding that ‘girl’ is considered the apt term. ‘Brony’ only exists to point out the perceived oddity of male pony-lovers.

          Er, you know what I mean.

          • Ziaheart
            Ziaheart
            September 21, 2012 at 4:55 am | #

            … Does that mean that I am not a girl?

            • begbert2
              begbert2
              September 21, 2012 at 10:02 am | #

              That’s correct.

              There’s a reason My Little Pony has been popular with females since its first incarnation: your choice is to like it or lose your gender identification.

              • Petre Pan
                Petre Pan
                September 22, 2012 at 12:23 am | #

                Wow.

        • Audiophillie
          Audiophillie
          September 21, 2012 at 3:01 am | #

          Some have taken to calling them “Pegasisters”, though most people agree that “brony” pretty much encompasses the whole of the teenage/adult fanbase and that it’s not gender specific.

        • HeatPhoenix
          HeatPhoenix
          September 21, 2012 at 5:53 am | #

          Pegasister.

          Don’t ask.

  24. Batman1016
    Batman1016
    September 21, 2012 at 1:33 am | #

    As the Joker once said, “NEVER give them what they expect!!”

  25. shoeboxjeddy
    shoeboxjeddy
    September 21, 2012 at 2:15 am | #

    Yeah… RAs in a THINKING school don’t get Master Keys just handed out like this. Instead, you have access to one BUT you have to document why you checked it out AND 90% of the time you just get the key to the specific room you have a legit reason to enter instead of the horribly abusable Master.

    I’ll forgive it for the sake of this school obviously works however the hell Willis says it does, I just HOPE he knows what a stretch this is. 😛

    • Perfivale
      Perfivale
      September 21, 2012 at 4:20 am | #

      It’s not really that big of a stretch for an RA to get a master key, in all seriousness. When I worked for Residence Life at my university, even the night staff who weren’t RA’s often had easy access to one of the master keys in case of emergencies. The only documentation you had to give was the time you took it, so they knew who to come looking for if it went missing.

      • shoeboxjeddy
        shoeboxjeddy
        September 21, 2012 at 12:38 pm | #

        Well, it might not be a stretch but it is stupid beyond belief. The RA can just be super lootin’ during the day when people have class. Oh your game disappeared? Probably your roommate or guests get blamed unless there’s a specific reason to think the RA might have done it. Oh and ha ha co ed dorms where you can just enter people’s locked rooms at will. That’s safe and not ripe for abuse at all! People say too many lawsuits have “ruined” America, but honestly some places are so dumb they haven’t been sued ENOUGH yet.

    • Alyssa
      Alyssa
      September 21, 2012 at 7:20 am | #

      I lived in a dorm once where anyone who said they got locked out was handed the master key to get back in… none of the keys had the “do not copy” on them either…

    • Valdrax
      Valdrax
      September 21, 2012 at 11:50 am | #

      OTOH, it finally provides solid explanation for how Ruth got Billie’s cheerleader outfit.

  26. Jesse
    Jesse
    September 21, 2012 at 4:33 am | #

    She really has no-one to spend time with other than her enemy? That’s pretty friggin’ sad.

    • Zaxares
      Zaxares
      September 21, 2012 at 5:45 am | #

      Like, “Watchmen’s Comedian confesses only to his old arch-enemy” sad.

  27. Resne
    Resne
    September 21, 2012 at 4:38 am | #

    If my RA did this, I’d be rather confused. Mainly because I don’t have a TV. Or a liking for beer. Or enmity with him. Or tits.

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      September 21, 2012 at 10:06 am | #

      If my RA did this I’d be confused because I don’t have a liking for beer, or an emnity with him, or tits, or a college dorm room, nor have I ever had an RA.

      Though I do have a TV, rather a nice one, so I suppose it’s not that improbable.

  28. AJBulldis
    AJBulldis
    September 21, 2012 at 6:09 am | #

    I APPROVE! BEST FRIENDS FOREVER! BEST FRIDAY STRIP! WILLIS YOU ARE A GOOD MAN AND I WILL BUY YOU A TACO NEXT TIME YOU’RE IN NYC!

    Sorry, got a bit excited there, but there is something I just LOVE about what just happened.

  29. Gordon Blvd
    Gordon Blvd
    September 21, 2012 at 6:48 am | #

    you do this to us on a FRIDAY, Mr Willis?
    y u torture? kik

    • Gordon Blvd
      Gordon Blvd
      September 21, 2012 at 6:57 am | #

      note to self – dont post so early in the morning because I cant even manage to spell “lol” correctly………………..

      • Mancuso
        Mancuso
        September 21, 2012 at 10:47 am | #

        Y U get me saying “kik” out loud and laughing like an idiot over and over again.

        • begbert2
          begbert2
          September 21, 2012 at 7:29 pm | #

          Well, wiigii caught on, so…

  30. Gordon Blvd
    Gordon Blvd
    September 21, 2012 at 6:49 am | #

    you do this to us on a FRIDAY, Mr Willis?
    y u torture? lol

  31. Jimmy
    Jimmy
    September 21, 2012 at 7:13 am | #

    Ah yes, being buddy buddy through death threats. Surefire way to make friends Ruth (end sarcasm).

  32. BD
    BD
    September 21, 2012 at 10:12 am | #

    Yeah, I’m not too surprised by this turn of events. Strip away the violence (Ruth is essentially Billie with a little age and filled to the eyebrows with cynicism) and they have alot (roar!) in common.

  33. ik
    ik
    September 21, 2012 at 10:52 am | #

    This is incredibly suspicious. It is possible that the only point of this is to harrass Billie by making her suspicious, or to put her off guard for later.

    Other possibilities: Be there to see Sal enter via the window, erase photos, get her busted for alchohol, whatever.

  34. Bill Murphy
    Bill Murphy
    September 21, 2012 at 11:36 am | #

    Now we just sit and wait for the water to boil…

  35. John Madden
    John Madden
    September 21, 2012 at 1:26 pm | #

    Well this is unexpected.

  36. Jason
    Jason
    September 21, 2012 at 1:44 pm | #

    THEORY: Ruth is drinking with Billie because only Billie knows about Ruth’s illegal drinking habits.

    • Petre Pan
      Petre Pan
      September 22, 2012 at 12:27 am | #

      Yeah. She’s got no one else to drink with.

      Also, if you add “Todd” onto the “Jason” in your name, then your avatar and your name would both rock together.

  37. Sammael
    Sammael
    September 21, 2012 at 3:52 pm | #

    I am feeling… warm… and… and… full of… of… positive feelings.

    I hate it.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      September 21, 2012 at 6:20 pm | #

      Go read today’s Shortpacked!, should fix you right up.

  38. Ray
    Ray
    September 21, 2012 at 4:40 pm | #

    “I realize I’ve been a bongo but you are a worthy adversary and this is an olive branch” isn’t creepy until we get to the “If you value your life, don’t ask any questions.” Although, perhaps the latter is only to say “If I have to admit this is an olive branch then my head will explode, so don’t make me say it.”

  39. ProfessorZoot
    ProfessorZoot
    September 21, 2012 at 5:08 pm | #

    All aboard, the USS Ship Biluth is leaving port . . .

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      September 21, 2012 at 6:16 pm | #

      The Seaward?

  40. Jub
    Jub
    September 21, 2012 at 5:47 pm | #

    I want them to be friends so badly. SO BADLY D:

  41. Naz
    Naz
    September 21, 2012 at 8:00 pm | #

    What’s With the Shortpacked page? It’s all Coded and stuff.

    • Hopeless Savage
      Hopeless Savage
      September 21, 2012 at 9:01 pm | #

      I was also rather curious about that.

    • David
      David M Willis
      September 21, 2012 at 9:19 pm | #

      I dunno. I hafta wait for Frumph to get online to take a look at it. I’m not competent for this kind of work. Apologies!

  42. Keulan
    Keulan
    September 21, 2012 at 9:13 pm | #

    OK, for some reason I can’t view the Shortpacked page for today (or presumably any other day). It’s showing some sort of code or something. Just fyi Willis, something odd going on with that site.

  43. Random New Commenter
    Random New Commenter
    September 22, 2012 at 4:26 pm | #

    Billie and Ruth should just make out and get it over with.

    THE SHIP HAS BEEN LAUNCHED TOWARDS BONE CITY.

  44. Kiggy
    Kiggy
    January 28, 2013 at 1:53 am | #

    The hell?

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