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May 12, 2026

Tyler

by David M Willis on March 12, 2013 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - Guess Who's Coming to Galasso's
└ Tags: dorothy, joyce

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  1. Sensedog
    Sensedog
    March 12, 2013 at 12:02 am | #

    Well, that is actually pretty tame compared to most of what you can find online.

    • Resne
      Resne
      March 12, 2013 at 12:51 pm | #

      Indeed.

    • xero
      xero
      March 17, 2013 at 1:49 am | #

      hot girl mucus goes for $5.00 an ounce on some websites (AOTS used to have a segment on truly WTF fetishes)

      • Jenny Creed
        Jenny Creed
        July 27, 2013 at 10:13 am | #

        It’s the mucus that binds us!

    • Znayx
      Znayx
      December 7, 2015 at 8:59 pm | #

      I might have watched an extreme version of what she’s describing, between two girls. Possibly.

  2. SUGauthor
    SUGauthor
    March 12, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

    Ewww…..

    • ASmellyOgre
      ASmellyOgre
      March 12, 2013 at 12:09 am | #

      I gagged a little imagining that.

      • Skull025
        Skull025
        March 12, 2013 at 12:16 am | #

        I emptied my sinuses all over the keyboard imagining that.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          March 12, 2013 at 12:17 am | #

          Funny enough, I did not empty your mom’s sinuses for a nickel. That’s where I draw the line.

        • Geegles
          Geegles
          March 12, 2013 at 2:42 am | #

          I’ve been emptying my sinuses all day. Not into anyone’s mouth, though. Thankfully.

          • Groove
            Groove
            March 12, 2013 at 5:00 am | #

            Oh God, poor Tyler. He’s just some imaginary backstory guy, but I feel REALLY bad for him.

            • Rognik
              Rognik
              March 12, 2013 at 5:10 am | #

              Actually, I kinda want to hear more about Meth-boy. Maybe he and Sarah’s first roommate know each other…

              • Josh
                Josh
                March 12, 2013 at 6:34 am | #

                PLEASE let him join the comic!

                • Dicrel Seijin
                  Dicrel Seijin
                  March 12, 2013 at 7:00 am | #

                  Am I a bad person for laughing hysterically at Tyler’s plight for the past few minutes?

                  And of course as it has been uttered on the internet, there is now a fetish site for it. (Eww.)

                • Josh
                  Josh
                  March 12, 2013 at 7:24 am | #

                  Yes. But don’t worry, this is the Internet. 😉

          • NeverAgain
            NeverAgain
            October 24, 2013 at 9:02 pm | #

            Obviously, you’re just not trying hard enough.

      • f.p.
        f.p.
        March 12, 2013 at 1:24 am | #

        It can’t be too much different from snowballing.

        • Gears
          Gears
          March 14, 2013 at 2:05 am | #

          The line, it has been crossed twice.

      • Aisling
        Aisling
        June 6, 2015 at 2:35 pm | #

        You’re not the only one… my stomach turned.

  3. taekwondogirl
    taekwondogirl
    March 12, 2013 at 12:04 am | #

    Okay, that got me laughing hard enough that my shoulders shook.

  4. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    March 12, 2013 at 12:04 am | #

    I guess she wont be having any feta cheese on her complimentary Greek salad.

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      March 12, 2013 at 5:10 am | #

      …I can’t even being to understand what this has to do with the strip in question.

      • Anonymous
        Anonymous
        March 12, 2013 at 5:54 am | #

        My guess: ‘complimentary Greek salad’ as that’s the food/situation that you would have a choice of feta cheese for. ‘feta cheese’ because of substance similarity. Aversion to it because her boyfriend plausibly learned after her accident how to do it deliberately for her.

        –Unsanitised version below–

        Her boyfriend probably got used to emptying his sinuses down her throat due to her lie, so by this point she plausibly can’t stand anything that resembles nasal mucous, including feta cheese (which you might have the option of having on a complimentary Greek salad in a restaurant or similar).

        • Jandaru
          Jandaru
          March 12, 2013 at 6:31 am | #

          If your nasal mucous resembles feta cheese, you should see a doctor…

          • Josh
            Josh
            March 12, 2013 at 7:25 am | #

            Or a questionable Salad bar.

            • Drunken Nordmann
              Drunken Nordmann
              March 13, 2013 at 1:11 am | #

              More questionable or less questionable?

  5. David Herbert
    David Herbert
    March 12, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

    And then Dina pipes up saying she bit her first kiss.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      March 12, 2013 at 12:08 am | #

      And her second. And third.

      Girl has a bit of a complex.

    • Nifar
      Nifar
      March 12, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

      Giggity.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      March 12, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

      Dina first stomped her feet and released low pitched mating calls, as to let the male know that she was receptive of his advances.

      • Audiophillie
        Audiophillie
        March 12, 2013 at 1:08 am | #

        That’s probably the most adorable thing I’ve imagined all day. Good work.

        • Aydr
          Aydr
          March 12, 2013 at 2:31 am | #

          It’s less adorable when you realize Dina tells them from INSIDE the stall. Joyce has been sitting on her this whole time and she’s been too polite to say anything.

      • Cora
        Cora
        March 12, 2013 at 11:09 am | #

        This Joe Iconis song is now appropriate. Enjoy.
        http://youtu.be/YFsKZNJ-2Ts

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      March 12, 2013 at 5:11 am | #

      I bet Dina hasn’t been kissed either. Or isn’t even interested in one. She’s a more literal female Sheldon Cooper than Amy Farah Fowler ever was.

    • Kai Gon
      Kai Gon
      March 12, 2013 at 6:25 am | #

      I’ve been wondering for a while now where Dina went.

      She went up from the table in the Restaurant, after Walky told her what Girls really do in the bathroom. I was convinced she’ll arrive in the bathroom. Did she miss the right door and is lost now?

      • SUGauthor
        SUGauthor
        March 12, 2013 at 10:50 pm | #

        She’s probably been standing right behind them for a while now. The second there’s a pause in the conversation she’s going to weigh in and make both of them jump.

        • Rognik
          Rognik
          March 13, 2013 at 1:07 am | #

          And what do you know, he called it. Then again, so did a lot of people. Man, this comic is getting so predictable. Boo, Willis, classic Dumbing of Age was so much better than it is nowadays! :p

          • Kai Gon
            Kai Gon
            March 13, 2013 at 6:31 am | #

            Haha … yes, I noticed it!

            My first thought at the last panel of tomorrows comic was: “Ah, there she is!” 😀

          • SUGauthor
            SUGauthor
            March 15, 2013 at 12:00 am | #

            I think the story is just getting interesting. Some gags are getting a little old however.

  6. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    March 12, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

    So kissing leads to meth production eh? I’m glad I avoided that slippery slope.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      March 12, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

      Kiss: Not even once.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        March 12, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

        …and getting to 2nd base leads to the black-market arms trade.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          March 12, 2013 at 12:13 am | #

          3rd base turns you into a genocidal dictator with a massive nuclear army.

          • Valdrax
            Valdrax
            March 12, 2013 at 12:18 am | #

            And actual sex? Telemarketing.

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              March 12, 2013 at 12:27 am | #

              GASP!!

              • James
                James
                March 12, 2013 at 12:47 am | #

                YOU EVIL,EVIL MAN!!!

    • Wonder Wig
      Wonder Wig
      March 12, 2013 at 12:12 am | #

      Also, the slippery slope is quite a popular kissing maneuver.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        March 12, 2013 at 12:15 am | #

        *is now trying to imagine what this looks like*

        • Josh
          Josh
          March 12, 2013 at 6:30 am | #

          It involves a icy hill and some sinus action, that’s all you need to know.

      • Rognik
        Rognik
        March 12, 2013 at 5:12 am | #

        Isn’t that the one where the man kisses the…

        • Charlie
          Charlie
          March 12, 2013 at 6:19 pm | #

          WELL don’t leave us in suspense!

          • Rognik
            Rognik
            March 13, 2013 at 1:09 am | #

            ..Actually, I was kind of hoping someone else would finish the statement, but in a completely silly way like “the man kisses the… foot in between the second and third toe.” But no one did. I am sad.

            I think it was pretty obvious what *I* was hinting at, but I now declare this a “make your own joke” joke. Have fun.

  7. NCP19
    NCP19
    March 12, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

    Dorothy’s expression in the last panel is hilarious to me. She’s gone full Scrubs-style flashback right there.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      March 12, 2013 at 12:18 am | #

      After a few seconds of silence, she returns to reality with some sort of non sequitur; “Still, the pruning shears were on sale.”

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        March 12, 2013 at 12:27 am | #

        Soon the rest of the cast follows suit and they all have fantasies. They walk a thin line, though. Trying not to fall into Family guy level cutaway gags.

        • Rognik
          Rognik
          March 12, 2013 at 5:14 am | #

          Ugh, Family Guy. It has some humour, but not in the right way. And then they had its creator, Seth McFarlaine host the Oscars? No wonder the show was critically acclaimed… as a horrible piece of dreck!

          • Andiemus
            Andiemus
            March 12, 2013 at 4:02 pm | #

            You get what you pay for.

    • ridtom
      ridtom
      March 12, 2013 at 12:26 am | #

      Joyce: “Dorothy?”

      Dorothy: “……..Luckily we dislodged the stomache pump and finished our vegetarian portfolios without Dr. Janitor finding out.”

      *Scrubs theme plays*

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        March 12, 2013 at 12:28 am | #

        “I’m no Superman” would actually be oddly fitting as a theme for Dumbing of Age.

        • Andiemus
          Andiemus
          March 12, 2013 at 11:05 pm | #

          Huh. Yeah, it would.

      • Totz the Plaid
        Totz the Plaid
        March 12, 2013 at 12:41 am | #

        You mean Dr. Jan Itor, right?

    • Potatamoto
      Potatamoto
      November 7, 2014 at 5:34 pm | #

      Sorry to comment on such on old strip, but yes. That is the Face of Infinite Regret. Few people see it, because it usually only appears on your face when it’s 2am, you can’t sleep, and your brain decides to play ‘The Worst Moments of You!’ on a loop. They will haunt you for eternity.

  8. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    March 12, 2013 at 12:12 am | #

    Dorothy has ruined Tyler for every one else, forever.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      March 12, 2013 at 12:14 am | #

      Every time he has snotty sex with his girlfriend, she thinks, “If I ever meet Dorothy, I’m going to kill her.”

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        March 12, 2013 at 12:16 am | #

        You’ve given away the ending to DumbingofAge

        • Neospector
          Neospector
          March 12, 2013 at 12:27 am | #

          Snotty sex? I do not like.

      • Rognik
        Rognik
        March 12, 2013 at 5:16 am | #

        That or its become his new fetish. “Baby, I want you to snot in my mouth.”

        …I really want to believe this is the one situation where Rule 34 doesn’t apply, but I’m afraid to look.

    • Tom T.
      Tom T.
      March 12, 2013 at 1:47 pm | #

      Nonsense. Tyler went on to empty himself halfway down the next girl’s throat. 😉

  9. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    March 12, 2013 at 12:12 am | #

    …I weep for that poor boy. And the awkward talks he has with his future girlfriends.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      March 12, 2013 at 12:15 am | #

      The awkward talks he has with his future ex-girlfriends. Their relationships tend to end instantly.

  10. Tandel
    Tandel
    March 12, 2013 at 12:16 am | #

    Gross. Possibly even more so than this: http://imgur.com/gallery/MRmKd

    • Vabolo
      Vabolo
      March 12, 2013 at 12:19 am | #

      WELP.

    • Tan
      Tan
      March 12, 2013 at 2:16 am | #

      Why did I click that?

      • Groove
        Groove
        March 12, 2013 at 5:03 am | #

        I wish I knew, it would help the doctors to know what’s wrong with me.

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      March 12, 2013 at 5:18 am | #

      I hesitated for a moment on clicking this. I suppose I should be grateful to the people who posted in reply, or I might have actually stupidly clicked a link that pretty much said “This is an extremely gross image! Click if you want to be grossed out!”

      • Tandel
        Tandel
        March 13, 2013 at 12:38 am | #

        Your imagination? Not as bad as the reality.

        At least it’s not violent gross.

        • Rognik
          Rognik
          March 13, 2013 at 1:10 am | #

          …STILL not gonna click it. There is power in ignorance, after all.

  11. HEYOUGUYZ!
    HEYOUGUYZ!
    March 12, 2013 at 12:18 am | #

    Willis.

    I demand first kiss revelation 4 all character.

    pleas

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      March 12, 2013 at 12:20 am | #

      Mike’s was your mom for a nickel.

    • David Herbert
      David Herbert
      March 12, 2013 at 12:32 am | #

      I’m willing to bet Walky’s first was Dorothy.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      March 12, 2013 at 12:44 am | #

      Ethan’s first was in the hotel room after prom.

      • Aydr
        Aydr
        March 12, 2013 at 2:33 am | #

        So was Mike’s.

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      March 12, 2013 at 5:19 am | #

      I’m not certain if I should comment on Ruth and Billie’s recent kiss or not.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        March 12, 2013 at 7:31 am | #

        Whether you should or not, you just did, sucka.

        • Rognik
          Rognik
          March 13, 2013 at 1:10 am | #

          …DAMMIT!

      • taekwondogirl
        taekwondogirl
        March 12, 2013 at 2:50 pm | #

        There’s no way that was Billie’s first kiss. Not by a long shot.

        • Rognik
          Rognik
          March 13, 2013 at 1:11 am | #

          What, just because she was a cheerleader, she was also a slut and had a lot of boyfriends? Or that she’s a kissing slut? Oh, that is so racist! You’re racist against cheerleaders!

  12. inafets113
    inafets113
    March 12, 2013 at 12:18 am | #

    That happened to someone I knew once. Except she wasn’t kissing her ladyfriend on the mouth.

    • Josh
      Josh
      March 12, 2013 at 5:15 am | #

      Hot lesbian sinus action?

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      March 12, 2013 at 5:20 am | #

      To be fair, neither was Dorothy?

  13. HEYOUGUYZ!
    HEYOUGUYZ!
    March 12, 2013 at 12:20 am | #

    except mike’s. I’d prefer not to have his first kiss revealed.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      March 12, 2013 at 12:21 am | #

      Whoops. Don’t scroll up.

  14. Count Dracula
    Count Dracula
    March 12, 2013 at 12:20 am | #

    To quote the philosopher Epicurus: “Oh man that is mega nasty. That is dog shit.”

    • eerilychildish
      eerilychildish
      March 12, 2013 at 3:07 am | #

      I believe you’re confusing Epicurus and Cassandra Kazenzakis

      • davidbreslin101
        davidbreslin101
        March 12, 2013 at 1:25 pm | #

        Remind me again, which of those two was the depressed hermaphrodite cat?

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      March 12, 2013 at 5:21 am | #

      Wow, if Epicurus said that, it must be pretty bad. Then again, he only liked pleasurable things. Nothing pleasurable about snot spewing out of any orifice.

      • Andiemus
        Andiemus
        March 12, 2013 at 3:58 pm | #

        That’s what YOU think.

  15. AckAckAck
    AckAckAck
    March 12, 2013 at 12:20 am | #

    So I’m too busy to spend time to comment for yesterday’s comic. I got back today but I think I’m going to barf now.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      March 12, 2013 at 12:26 am | #

      It’s punishment, AckAckAck. Willis is punishing us all for your failure.

  16. ridtom
    ridtom
    March 12, 2013 at 12:23 am | #

    Guess Dotty really gave Tyler…..

    *Puts on sunglasses*

    A mouthfull!!

    • Shobo
      Shobo
      March 12, 2013 at 12:29 am | #

      Your comment snot that funny. (Actually, I chuckled)

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        March 12, 2013 at 1:00 am | #

        Hey, you booger, don’t be mean. How would you like it if someone picked on you?

        • Audiophillie
          Audiophillie
          March 12, 2013 at 1:11 am | #

          Eh, he should be able to just blow it off.

          • SUGauthor
            SUGauthor
            March 12, 2013 at 1:40 am | #

            I don’t think this is such a big tissue anyways

            • Rognik
              Rognik
              March 12, 2013 at 5:22 am | #

              Wipe it off, just wipe it off. Everything is fine. (Weak, I know, but I panicked to join in!)

              • Josh
                Josh
                March 12, 2013 at 10:49 am | #

                Don’t worry, everybody nose how that feels.

                • Anickel4u
                  Anickel4u
                  March 12, 2013 at 4:46 pm | #

                  I like your scents of humor

                • Rognik
                  Rognik
                  March 13, 2013 at 1:12 am | #

                  Smells like we have a winner, folks!

                • Tylertlat
                  Tylertlat
                  March 13, 2013 at 6:54 pm | #

                  I nose humor when I see it, and this is phlegmatic

  17. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    March 12, 2013 at 12:31 am | #

    Tops the list of the ‘OMG’ first kiss stories I’ve heard, gross city.

  18. Turkey Dave
    Turkey Dave
    March 12, 2013 at 1:24 am | #

    oh. oh god. why

  19. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    March 12, 2013 at 1:30 am | #

    Dorothy Kissing you dooms you.
    First Kiss: Cooking up Meth
    Second Kiss: Snot Fetishist.
    Third Kiss: Borderline stalker and obsession with a vigilante.
    Look out Walky.

    • Sporky
      Sporky
      March 12, 2013 at 2:22 am | #

      Huh? When did Billie kiss Dorothy?

      …Oh, you meant Danny.

    • Aydr
      Aydr
      March 12, 2013 at 2:36 am | #

      He hasn’t been stalking her… hell, he’s been REMARKABLY willing to not learn about her personal life, seeing as how he’s managed to miss how obvious who she really is.

      I mean, come on man, respecting a hero’s privacy is one thing but pretending you don’t know it’s Mary is just kind of ridiculous.

      • John
        John
        March 12, 2013 at 2:58 am | #

        … Mary? That makes too much sense! It explains why she wasn’t dressed at 3 pm. Billie burst in on her changing costume! Mary and Amazi-Girl have never been seen at the same time. And it’s well known that Mary shares Amazi-Girl’s immunity to criticism.

        • Turkey Dave
          Turkey Dave
          March 12, 2013 at 3:17 am | #

          I dunno, I still kinda think that it’s Joe in a Really good costume. He’s cultivated too much of a macho man persona to just let it go, and is embracing a broader worldview on women in society by dressing up as one and kicking the shit out of dudes

          • Aydr
            Aydr
            March 12, 2013 at 4:28 am | #

            And by making out with Danny, of course.

      • ADHadh
        ADHadh
        March 12, 2013 at 8:10 am | #

        But he did follow Dorothy to college.

        • Aydr
          Aydr
          March 13, 2013 at 2:39 am | #

          I don’t think that really counts as stalking when he was dating her and it sounds as though she did lead him to believe that she wanted him to come with her.

          Inadvisable, yes, but not stalking.

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      March 12, 2013 at 5:24 am | #

      Um, I think Walky was messed up LONG before Dorothy kissed him. As such, I don’t think it’s so much Dotty’s kissing and her choice in men.

  20. E.C.
    E.C.
    March 12, 2013 at 3:14 am | #

    Prediction: “Coming soon to Dumbing of age, David Walkerton accuses Joyce of canoodle-blocking him with Dorothy!”

  21. Rust
    Rust
    March 12, 2013 at 3:33 am | #

    Sinus Dumping.
    Paid it Forward.

    …Eew.

  22. Madock345
    Madock345
    March 12, 2013 at 3:34 am | #

    It’s true, you Really don’t want to look at my browser history.

    • Josh
      Josh
      March 12, 2013 at 5:18 am | #

      You don’t want to see HER browser history. 😉

  23. Rognik
    Rognik
    March 12, 2013 at 5:09 am | #

    My first kiss? Well, we were 13 or so and I had already reach about 6 feet in height. She leans up to kiss me… and hits my nose. I make a face and wipe the slobber off. She makes a face like I just insulted her. Then we have an actual, real kiss. It was… OK, but then again, we were 13 and inexperienced.

  24. Eriennexton
    Eriennexton
    March 12, 2013 at 11:15 am | #

    My first kiss was with a guy I didn’t even like-like. I was just trying to be grateful with a kiss on the cheek and he turned it into something else. We were in a contrived relationship for a while when he started owing money to people. He told my family the mafia was shooting at him on the bus and he had to run, he told me he was going to join the circus in Florida. Some months later he contacted me on Facebook from Tennessee.

    True Story.

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      March 13, 2013 at 1:15 am | #

      Oh, man. If you ever see that boy in your life again, run. Run fast and run hard and DO NOT look back.

  25. Karin
    Karin
    March 12, 2013 at 1:20 pm | #

    First kiss. All I remember is talking with two of my friends in our high school’s teacher’s lounge then my guy friend pushing me and my female friend together while trying to have a group hug causing our lips to smush together. After that all I remember hearing is the sound of us both screaming bloody murder….
    <..>

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      March 13, 2013 at 1:20 am | #

      Hmm… I think that, just like a first kiss on a playground doesn’t count, a meaningless kiss with the same sex doesn’t count either unless you were intentionally enacting homosexual acts. Unless you really want it to count as your first kiss, write a new story.

      Sadly, I don’t think you will because most people don’t go back and check old pages like I’m doing now once the next page is up or they are archive diving. Too bad, because I think you might have appreciated the consoling thought.

  26. Ray
    Ray
    March 12, 2013 at 1:36 pm | #

    Dude, that’s gross.

    I mean, that’s obviously the point, but dude, that’s gross.

    Please tell me you made that up and it’s not anybody’s real-life story that you borrowed for the comic.

  27. Aslee
    Aslee
    March 12, 2013 at 2:26 pm | #

    My first kiss wasn’t all that horrible, except that he kissed like Jabba the Hutt. … Which is kind of horrible, yeah, but Dotty’s blows mine out of the water.

    • wynne
      wynne
      March 12, 2013 at 4:03 pm | #

      Haha, that’s exactly what mine was like, too! I was like, “what am I supposed to do in response to all this tongue?”

      • Rognik
        Rognik
        March 13, 2013 at 1:22 am | #

        Oh, man. You don’t wanna know what I did when I first had someone try to tongue me in a kiss. It was not pretty.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      March 12, 2013 at 4:49 pm | #

      And out of her nose.

      …Okay that was horrible.

      • Rognik
        Rognik
        March 13, 2013 at 1:23 am | #

        *passes a hanky and a mop* Use what’s appropriate and clean this up. This is your punishment for succumbing to that horrible (yet sadly fitting) pun.

    • Yarrr
      Yarrr
      March 12, 2013 at 7:19 pm | #

      Mine was kinda… dry? Nice though.

  28. Makkabee
    Makkabee
    March 12, 2013 at 8:17 pm | #

    Kindergarten TOTALLY counts. I still remember my first kiss. I was in my grandparents’ yard pretending to be the Incredible Hulk when I looked across the street and saw the most adorable little girl in the world. Rules against crossing without an adult be damned, I knew I had to meet her. Quickly transforming back into human form, I hurried across the (fortunately lightly traveled suburban) road and introduced myself. With all the gallantry a five year old boy could muster, I took her hand and kissed her — above the knuckle, no less! If a man dares cross the street without mommy, he dares all!

    I still treasure that memory. So don’t fucking tell me kindergarten doesn’t count.

    • Andiemus
      Andiemus
      March 12, 2013 at 9:30 pm | #

      Oh good. It’s not just me who fell in love in kindergarten?

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      March 13, 2013 at 1:27 am | #

      I kinda have to agree with you on that. The first time I kissed someone I wasn’t related to it was actually in Grade 1. The girl I did it to I met in kindergarten and I fell for her as hard you just did. Sadly, we weren’t in the same class, but the next year we were! I was so happy. I forget now what exactly we were doing, but I do remember the whole class filing out the door to go somewhere. I was still in the classroom, on the far corner, and she was the last to leave besides me. Some passion filled me, and I darted down through the rows of desks, grabbed her and kissed her a bit forcefully on the cheek. Too bad she was in her “boys are icky” phase. Oh, and I literally did it an inch away from the teacher watching. That… could have gone better, but I have never once regretted it.

  29. HiEv
    HiEv
    March 12, 2013 at 9:56 pm | #

    Anyone else think that Dorothy’s one eye looks weird in the last panel? Between the darker lens due to the shadow and the slightly larger pupil(?), it just leapt out as kinda’ weird looking to me.

  30. EssThree
    EssThree
    March 12, 2013 at 11:35 pm | #

    Dorothy’s first kiss: Jessie Pinkman.

  31. Jordan
    Jordan
    March 13, 2013 at 1:07 am | #

    I think I found Tyler.
    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091119144832AAGiubV

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      March 13, 2013 at 1:29 am | #

      …Dammit. I clicked the link.

      Also, RULE THIRTY FOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUR!

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      March 13, 2013 at 1:51 am | #

      …Why does this world keep finding new ways to disappoint me?

  32. Tylertlat
    Tylertlat
    March 13, 2013 at 6:56 pm | #

    We can reasonably assume that Meth Kid is making meth now, but I really want to see Tyler’s backstory get fleshed out. I’m not alone in this, am I?

  33. datgoat
    datgoat
    March 22, 2013 at 1:57 am | #

    What’s on Tyler’s browser history?!

  34. Rheios
    Rheios
    May 15, 2015 at 3:07 pm | #

    Hormones are such shit. It doesn’t seem to matter how old you get they’re still there yelling stupid shit at you.

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