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by David M Willis on September 26, 2012 at 12:01 am
  • 06 - Strange Beerfellows
└ Tags: jennifer, ruth

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  1. Vivvav
    Vivvav
    September 26, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    Yes. That’d be interesting warpaint.

    • Resne
      Resne
      September 26, 2012 at 2:40 pm | #

      I think tattooing it on her knuckles would leave a more lasting impression.

      • Rognik
        Rognik
        September 26, 2012 at 8:17 pm | #

        But then she would need to have it tattooed backwards, so the bruise can be read properly. Or would it be tattooed normally, so the bruise can be read more easily in the mirror?

        • Kintrex
          Kintrex
          September 26, 2012 at 8:56 pm | #

          Clearly you’re living in a more awesome universe than we are, but around here tattoos don’t leave bruises that look like the tattoo.

      • PotaTOE
        PotaTOE
        September 27, 2012 at 8:14 pm | #

        also, I don’t think Ruth has that many knuckles. . .

  2. David Herbert
    David Herbert
    September 26, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    Quick Ruth, balance it out by pointing out Billie isn’t as popular as she was in high school.

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      September 26, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

      But SHE WAS A CHEERLEADER!!1

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        September 26, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

        FORMER Cheerleader.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          September 26, 2012 at 12:21 am | #

          Now if only she was a Transformer Cheerleader. Then maybe she and Joe will hook up.

        • ASmellyOgre
          ASmellyOgre
          September 26, 2012 at 12:22 am | #

          But if you say she was a former cheerleader, doesn’t that imply that saying she is a former cheerleader is untrue, meaning she is a cheerleader (but clearly she isn’t)?

          • GrrArg42
            GrrArg42
            September 26, 2012 at 2:27 am | #

            She must be in a superpositioned state oscillating between the two eigenstates of |being a cheerleader> and |being something else>. Anything else would just be overly complicated.

  3. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    September 26, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    Billie arbitrarily mentioning Walky in a conversation? How very Un-Billie of her.

    • Sensedog
      Sensedog
      September 26, 2012 at 12:12 am | #

      I think she cares for him more than she would admit. Or at least understands him on some level.

      • Blob Marley
        Blob Marley
        September 26, 2012 at 1:16 am | #

        I think she just clings to him because he’s one of the few people that remembers her former status atop the social ladder.

    • David Herbert
      David Herbert
      September 26, 2012 at 12:14 am | #

      She loves him, but her pride won’t let her admit it. That’s why Sal always disappears, ’cause Billie’s the sister Walky picked.

      • Andrew_C
        Andrew_C
        September 26, 2012 at 5:55 am | #

        Don”t you mean”Thats why Sal always disappears, ’cause Walky’s the sibling Billie picked?

  4. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    September 26, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    Please, my father was killed by french fries.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      September 26, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

      His remains were devoured by Maple Leaves.

      • GrrArg42
        GrrArg42
        September 26, 2012 at 2:28 am | #

        But that’s where my syrup comes from!! I don’t want blood syrup!

    • Herohatch
      Herohatch
      September 26, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

      All that poutine… Never forget.

      • Rognik
        Rognik
        September 26, 2012 at 8:20 pm | #

        Curds you! May your whole line be curds until the end of time!

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      September 26, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

      That’d be an interesting origin for Bruce Wayne.

      “I shall strike fear into the hearts of french fries everywhere. They are a salty and un-nutritious lot. I shall become Ketchupman! With my sidekick Malt Vinegar!”

      • Wonder Wig
        Wonder Wig
        September 26, 2012 at 12:14 am | #

        Ketchupman and Malt Vinegar sound like they would do well beside Wonder Wig and Alfredo Boy

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        September 26, 2012 at 12:23 am | #

        He’s against frying his foods, after the incident and frowns upon the use of fried batter.

        • Rognik
          Rognik
          September 26, 2012 at 8:22 pm | #

          I’m sure the Tempura Wizard would have something to say about that.

      • Blob Marley
        Blob Marley
        September 26, 2012 at 1:21 am | #

        Ugh, ketchup and vinegar on the same fries? D:

        • fellixe
          fellixe
          September 26, 2012 at 1:43 am | #

          Hmm, Batman vs. Frylock. Hardly seems sporting.

        • Doctor_Who
          Doctor_Who
          September 26, 2012 at 1:54 am | #

          I much prefer just vinegar myself. One reason Five Guys is awesome is they have vinegar for their fries. Just try getting some at frigging McDonalds. And a “regular” fry is a damned meal. A large fry is a banquet. No sense of moderation, those guys.

          • Historyman68
            Historyman68
            September 26, 2012 at 2:24 am | #

            And free peanuts!

          • Hythrain
            Hythrain
            September 26, 2012 at 8:22 pm | #

            And we love them for their total lack of moderation. 😀

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          September 26, 2012 at 12:51 pm | #

          Yup, thats the best, when it is malt vinegar. Even better is when you can get some good gravy on there too. I will admit that this is something I picked up when I lived in Ontario, I am looked at strangely when I do this here in Alberta. I draw the line at mayonnaise on fries,however, that is disgusting.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      September 27, 2012 at 1:41 am | #

      And my mother died being deep fried and covered in cheese sauce.

  5. LadyIslay
    LadyIslay
    September 26, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    You mean… all taco bells don’t have french fries?

  6. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    September 26, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    She was kicked out of Canada for her Ruthiness! And for not liking Tim Horton’s enough!

    • Mkvenner
      Mkvenner
      September 26, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

      Naw. Robert Pickton was much worse.

      • Tucker
        Tucker
        September 26, 2012 at 12:11 am | #

        Hey-oh!

      • TPman
        TPman
        September 26, 2012 at 1:34 am | #

        Not cool dude. Also not seeing the relevance, but more relevantly, not cool.

        • John
          John
          September 26, 2012 at 2:26 am | #

          And more heinously, not actually funny.

      • Spazman
        Spazman
        September 26, 2012 at 4:29 am | #

        don’tcha know we aren’t gettin’ your reference, eh?

        • Andrew_C
          Andrew_C
          September 26, 2012 at 5:57 am | #

          Notorious Canadian serial killer.

          • Moleman
            Moleman
            September 26, 2012 at 10:48 am | #

            Fed his victims to the pigs on his pig farm

          • Spazman
            Spazman
            September 26, 2012 at 6:50 pm | #

            Do you mean Mack the Knife?

        • Narf
          Narf
          June 25, 2013 at 7:23 pm | #

          We could tell ya all aboat Robert Pickton, but ya could also try oat usin’ google to do yer own research. Soary to sound rude, but we can’t be doin’ everything for ya, eh? 😛

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      September 26, 2012 at 8:25 pm | #

      But wouldn’t that make Canada Ruth-less?

  7. Michael
    Michael
    September 26, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

    American Taco Bell doesn’t have french fries?

    • Michael
      Michael
      September 26, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

      Also we use the term Quebec fries.

      • Ziaheart
        Ziaheart
        September 26, 2012 at 3:57 am | #

        Which province/territory are you at?

        • Michael
          Michael
          September 26, 2012 at 3:48 pm | #

          Ontario.

          • Ziaheart
            Ziaheart
            September 27, 2012 at 1:52 am | #

            Wow. In BC we still call ’em french fries!

            • Michael
              Michael
              September 29, 2012 at 3:01 pm | #

              I was joking

              • Narf
                Narf
                June 25, 2013 at 7:24 pm | #

                My heart is glad that someone fell for that 😀

    • Todd
      Todd
      September 26, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

      That’s so strange.

      The only reason I go to Taco Bell is for the Supreme Fries

    • Ancestral Hamster
      Ancestral Hamster
      September 26, 2012 at 12:21 am | #

      No, but its rival Del Taco does.

      • Michael
        Michael
        September 26, 2012 at 12:23 am | #

        What’s a Del Taco?

        • Ancestral Hamster
          Ancestral Hamster
          September 26, 2012 at 12:38 am | #

          My original answer has been eaten, and since I don’t want to retype all of it … Del Taco is a US fast food chain similar to Taco Bell, but which also serves standard burgers and fries along with the Americanized Mexican food.

          • taekwondogirl
            taekwondogirl
            September 26, 2012 at 12:19 pm | #

            It’s also amazingly awful and super cheap. I have no idea how they turn a profit at all.

            • begbert2
              begbert2
              September 26, 2012 at 3:21 pm | #

              It’s amazingly American; if you have no interest in authenticity then it’s as good away as any to get your basic mexican-looking foodstuffs with no spice whatsoever.

              And the super-cheap part doesn’t bother me much either.

              • taekwondogirl
                taekwondogirl
                September 26, 2012 at 11:54 pm | #

                I suppose I’m more particular then? Amusingly, I grew up in the Southwest, and I loooove Mexican food. I also like Taco Bell but don’t like Del Taco.

        • begbert2
          begbert2
          September 26, 2012 at 10:52 am | #

          And which I total think should sell Cajun food, since it’s named Delta Co.

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      September 26, 2012 at 7:40 am | #

      LOL, that was my reaction, too.

  8. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    September 26, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

    Billie seriously stop drink. It will kill you BEFORE it kills your liver.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      September 26, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

      She won’t stop drink. She like drink. She drink all the time cuz it fun.

      • Mkvenner
        Mkvenner
        September 26, 2012 at 12:11 am | #

        Even after Ruth uses Billie’s blood as warpaint?

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          September 26, 2012 at 12:15 am | #

          If she drunk, then Billie won’t feel pain of the severe cut she get all over her body from Ruth.

          • blackaeon
            blackaeon
            September 26, 2012 at 12:52 am | #

            I see what you did there.

        • cutestupidfox
          cutestupidfox
          September 26, 2012 at 12:17 am | #

          Espesialy after Roth uses her blood as warpaint as its probebly her blood now… booze blood.

    • Wonder Wig
      Wonder Wig
      September 26, 2012 at 12:21 am | #

      Kills my liver? I hardly know her!

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      September 26, 2012 at 8:28 pm | #

      It’s not the drink that’ll kill her, but her mouth. Which may or may not be related, now that I think about it. But still, check your words before you check your diet.

  9. JoeMerl
    JoeMerl
    September 26, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

    “They stopped serving the French fries…and that’s when I knew there was nothing holding me there anymore.” *violin music*

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      September 26, 2012 at 12:11 am | #

      French Fries was such a good customer, But the waitresses refused to serve him cuz he was greasy and fatty.

  10. Clementine
    Clementine
    September 26, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

    Paint it on her FAAAACE

    • Drunken Nordmann
      Drunken Nordmann
      September 26, 2012 at 9:40 am | #

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVpg0vws10Y&feature=g-u-u
      Like that?

  11. jkasd
    jkasd
    September 26, 2012 at 12:09 am | #

    I just finished roomies, its walky, and joyce and walky, and also caught up on shortpacked. May I just say… WOW

    • Undrave
      Undrave
      September 26, 2012 at 1:56 am | #

      Didn’t you say that YESTERDAY?

      • GrrArg42
        GrrArg42
        September 26, 2012 at 2:30 am | #

        We’re caught in an Escher Time Loop! Run in circles for your lives!!

      • Pat
        Pat
        September 26, 2012 at 11:07 am | #

        But every time there’s a new comic, you have to finish it AGAIN!
        We’ll never be done… unless…

        • Rognik
          Rognik
          September 26, 2012 at 8:33 pm | #

          Unless? Unless what? Good grief, (wo)man, finish your thought!

  12. Wack'd
    Wack'd
    September 26, 2012 at 12:11 am | #

    “I stole your property, blackmailed you with it, kept you in a constant state of fear and panic and have now entered your living space uninvited. Please be considerate of my feelings.”

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      September 26, 2012 at 3:01 am | #

      And that’s what we call an uneven power dynamic

    • Pat
      Pat
      September 26, 2012 at 11:08 am | #

      “It’s the proper way to make sure I’m still here when the police arrive.”

  13. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    September 26, 2012 at 12:13 am | #

    Some kind of record here? They are sitting side by side and still talking…just talking. No hitting. No name calling. Yet?

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      September 26, 2012 at 12:17 am | #

      She’s killing her softly with her words.

    • coobee
      coobee
      September 26, 2012 at 4:33 am | #

      No touching. No kissing. Yet?

      • Khrene
        Khrene
        September 26, 2012 at 5:16 am | #

        We gotta here Ruths sad backstory, as she must open her heart before she opens her legs.

  14. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    September 26, 2012 at 12:13 am | #

    Does the 97 on Billie’s shirt have any significance, or is it just a number?

    Perhaps it’s 9 7 and those are the scores her breasts get. Looks like lefty needs to catch up.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      September 26, 2012 at 12:18 am | #

      It’s a scoreboard. The number goes up everytime she has sex.

      • Ancestral Hamster
        Ancestral Hamster
        September 26, 2012 at 12:24 am | #

        And that’s just today’s total!

        • Jackson
          Jackson
          September 26, 2012 at 6:49 am | #

          She had one for beers, but the number no longer fits on the shirt.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      September 26, 2012 at 12:35 am | #

      1997, or Roomies! Year One.

      I’ve seen lots of folks on campus with random numbers on their shirts, so I guess it works in-universe.

      • GrrArg42
        GrrArg42
        September 26, 2012 at 2:32 am | #

        The day I see one with 42 I will dance.

      • Historyman68
        Historyman68
        September 26, 2012 at 3:02 am | #

        Yeah Willis confirmed it in the book! Which I just got (a few weeks ago)! And it is awesome!

  15. Tucker
    Tucker
    September 26, 2012 at 12:17 am | #

    Look, a non-timeframe specific flat-panel!

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      September 26, 2012 at 12:53 am | #

      YEARS could go by in that panel and we’d never know.

  16. Thisguy
    Thisguy
    September 26, 2012 at 12:39 am | #

    Can’t stop looking at the second panel… Either Billie’s leg is horribly disfigured, or her ass is completely concentrated in her right cheek.

    • Brasca1
      Brasca1
      September 26, 2012 at 1:06 am | #

      I think it’s a bean bag chair which would partially obscure the bottom half of anyone sitting in it.

    • taekwondogirl
      taekwondogirl
      September 26, 2012 at 12:27 pm | #

      Oooor, you know, foreshortening is hard to draw and doesn’t always work as intended.

  17. LBD "Nytetrayn"
    LBD "Nytetrayn"
    September 26, 2012 at 1:06 am | #

    KFC has the fries, too.

    • GrrArg42
      GrrArg42
      September 26, 2012 at 2:44 am | #

      Toothless!!! Whoh,whoh, whoh; and where do you think you’re going?

  18. RandomNameGen
    RandomNameGen
    September 26, 2012 at 1:34 am | #

    I feel the need to watch the movie “Canadian Bacon.”

  19. Raen
    Raen
    September 26, 2012 at 1:35 am | #

    “It started with this boy named Todd…”

    • GrrArg42
      GrrArg42
      September 26, 2012 at 2:48 am | #

      Who used to go fishing for cod…

      • Originalslugboy
        Originalslugboy
        September 26, 2012 at 5:00 am | #

        He forgot to bring bait…

        • Kryss LaBryn
          Kryss LaBryn
          September 26, 2012 at 9:17 am | #

          But then shouted, “Wait!”

          • davidbreslin101
            davidbreslin101
            September 26, 2012 at 9:35 am | #

            “I can multiply fish, ‘cos I’m God!”

            • GrrArg42
              GrrArg42
              September 27, 2012 at 1:06 am | #

              WHOOOH!! Go Team Go! All of you rock my socks.

  20. Undrave
    Undrave
    September 26, 2012 at 1:58 am | #

    Ruth came down from the frozen north to kick ass and pick up chicks!

    And Billie, she’s fresh out of asses.

    • Spazman
      Spazman
      September 26, 2012 at 4:32 am | #

      Well, to be fair, Billie’s ass should last her her a good, long while

      • Rognik
        Rognik
        September 26, 2012 at 8:41 pm | #

        It is a very bad ass.

  21. John
    John
    September 26, 2012 at 2:24 am | #

    It’s true. It’s all true. The fries supreme is amazing. We also have the ‘cheesy gordita crunch’ which is a hard taco supreme in a soft taco with melted cheese between the taco shells.

    • Vincent
      Vincent
      September 26, 2012 at 2:53 am | #

      Finally! The important question has been answered. Now I can move on with my life.

    • blackaeon
      blackaeon
      September 26, 2012 at 5:30 am | #

      So does the US.

    • Marshall Erickson
      Marshall Erickson
      September 26, 2012 at 6:56 am | #

      Tacos with fries… why didin’t I think of that?

  22. L
    L
    September 26, 2012 at 2:42 am | #

    …So she left Canada in shame because Canadian Taco Bells have french fries instead of papas horneadas al pastor?

    • Ziaheart
      Ziaheart
      September 26, 2012 at 4:01 am | #

      … horny potatoes of the priest?

      I need to brush up on my Spanish.

      • King Of Budgies
        King Of Budgies
        September 26, 2012 at 8:19 am | #

        Shepherd-style baked potatoes.

      • L
        L
        September 26, 2012 at 9:10 am | #

        Shepherd baked potatoes, regular baked potatoes with Shepherd style meat and sauce on them.

        “Horneada” means “[female] baked”, from “Horno” which means oven in Spanish. Pastor means shepherd in Spanish (and Latin I think), I guess that’s why christian religions use it as “Priest”.

        • begbert2
          begbert2
          September 26, 2012 at 10:57 am | #

          And it’s where English gets ‘pastoral’.

          But I still like Ziaheart’s guess better.

        • Ziaheart
          Ziaheart
          September 27, 2012 at 1:54 am | #

          Learning new things is fun! And now I want to get some… horny fries of the priest. It’s like Shepherd’s pie except not mashed?

  23. coobee
    coobee
    September 26, 2012 at 4:36 am | #

    Wow, Ruth’s face is alarmingly adorable and vulnerable in that second panel. Love all this slowly unpeeling backstory, sigh Willis your storytelling is so masterful 🙂

  24. Jimmy
    Jimmy
    September 26, 2012 at 6:34 am | #

    Taco Bells in Canada have fries? Now I want to take a road trip to Canada just to find out how good the Taco Bell fries are!

    • Narf
      Narf
      June 25, 2013 at 7:27 pm | #

      They are delicious. I just saved you a lot of gas. 😛

  25. Sporky
    Sporky
    September 26, 2012 at 7:19 am | #

    I think this is the most blatant Walkyverse callback there’s been in the strip so far.

  26. Gordon Blvd
    Gordon Blvd
    September 26, 2012 at 7:34 am | #

    in Canada, milk comes in BAGS!!!

    • kaixa
      kaixa
      September 26, 2012 at 10:55 am | #

      Our meth comes from their Asian drug gangs!

    • taekwondogirl
      taekwondogirl
      September 26, 2012 at 12:29 pm | #

      This was the thing that threw me for the biggest loop.

  27. Gordon Blvd
    Gordon Blvd
    September 26, 2012 at 7:36 am | #

    in Canada, you get TWO pizzas for the price of ONE!!! http://www.canadian2for1pizza.com/

    • Pat
      Pat
      September 26, 2012 at 11:12 am | #

      So they charge you double for one pizza as a way to get you to buy two?

  28. Dr.Z
    Dr.Z
    September 26, 2012 at 7:47 am | #

    Jeez, Ruth.

    That was a good opportunity to change the conversation without losing momentum. Ya should have embraced it.

    • davidbreslin101
      davidbreslin101
      September 26, 2012 at 9:44 am | #

      This conversation has more “inertia” than “momentum”: you’d need rocket engines to get it moving.

  29. Bill Murphy
    Bill Murphy
    September 26, 2012 at 9:18 am | #

    Ohh, look at who’s getting all sensitive now…

  30. Jehosaphat
    Jehosaphat
    September 26, 2012 at 10:33 am | #

    Ooo Canada… Ruth’s home and native land! No Patriot love in all thy Ruth…

  31. begbert2
    begbert2
    September 26, 2012 at 10:59 am | #

    It seems that Billie’s either lost all sense of self-preservation, or her short-term memory is *really* bad. Ruth is the devil, remember Billie?

    This is what happens when you drink your weight in beer, folks.

    • Jackson
      Jackson
      September 26, 2012 at 12:44 pm | #

      You’ll have to remind me when Billie ever had a sense of self-preservation.

      I mean, maybe she does. I’ve been known to forget things. But I’d have to be reminded.

      • begbert2
        begbert2
        September 26, 2012 at 3:28 pm | #

        Well, for a while (as lately as three comics ago) she had a pants-wetting terror on about Ruth, which was a rational self-preservative opinion to have since Ruth was displaying every characteristic of a stalkerish psychopath who had chosen her next kill. Five minutes later she’s exchanging small-talk with the woman. Um, what?

        • Jackson
          Jackson
          September 26, 2012 at 4:21 pm | #

          Gotcha. I was just recalling the lunch incident where Billie provoked Sarah to knock her own lunch tray to the floor in rage, and then her own counter-antagonism toward Ruth (with Sal, with the blackmail beer photo…). In all that, I’d completely forgotten last Friday’s strip. I think my short-term memory is broken.

          Yeah…Billie seems to vacillate between extreme overconfidence when she thinks she’s got the upper hand against Ruth, and abject terror when she thinks she’s hopelessly outgunned. It’s feast or famine; it’s a fine line.

  32. LionHeart
    LionHeart
    September 26, 2012 at 11:31 am | #

    How can you not have french fries in your Taco Bells?!

    Savages!

  33. OmegaDez
    OmegaDez
    September 26, 2012 at 2:26 pm | #

    Oh, those damn french fries. I hate how you have to pay extra to replace them with nacho chips and cheese.

  34. Bionic
    Bionic
    September 26, 2012 at 3:49 pm | #

    So… what do Americans eat with their tacos instead of french fries?
    I had no idea we were so lucky. I mean, with regard to taco side dishes.

    • blackaeon
      blackaeon
      October 2, 2012 at 1:10 pm | #

      Our superior American tacos need no side dishes. You’re really hungry, you buy a ten pack, eat six and throw the other four away. Amerrrrrrrrrrica! *flies off into the waving-flag-superimposed sunset on a bald eagle firing assault weapons into the air*

      • Narf
        Narf
        June 25, 2013 at 7:28 pm | #

        I’m almost positive I see what you did there, but if I do not, then you are terrifying. 😛

  35. Animal
    Animal
    September 26, 2012 at 6:00 pm | #

    Walky should try Puerto Rico. Down there everything comes with fries.

  36. Will
    Will
    September 26, 2012 at 8:56 pm | #

    I’ve been wondering why Ruth had a Leafs jersey. They share the same sort of fanatic devotion despite decades of never winning a championship that the Chicago Cubs have. Minus half a century or so.

    As far as Taco Bell, almost every store I’ve been to has been merged with a KFC. So yeah, there’s technically fries available, but I’m not sure they’re Taco Bell’s specifically. This might just be an East Coast thing, mind you.

    • Norah
      Norah
      September 26, 2012 at 9:57 pm | #

      Not just East Coast. We have at least one Tacoma Bell and KFC combo store in Seattle.

  37. Norah
    Norah
    September 26, 2012 at 9:59 pm | #

    Taco Bell, not Tacoma.

  38. Volkai
    Volkai
    September 26, 2012 at 10:32 pm | #

    Only just now noticed the new, larger banner – and the canadian hockey jersey Ruth’s wearing in it.

    Any chance Dumbiverse Ruth had a high school classmate named Ceilidh?

    (Let’s see if I remember how to HTML in a link!)

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      September 27, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

      Sal might’ve!

  39. Mally
    Mally
    July 23, 2015 at 12:16 am | #

    Losing the deliciousness that was Taco Bell’s fries, particularly their Supreme Fries? And then finding out they still had them in Canada? Definitely sore subject.

    I missed those fries. They were the one thing Taco Bell had that could compete with Del Taco.

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