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For a brief moment I discarded the idea that Joyce was into girls and considered the idea that she was just taking social cues from her best friend. What was I thinking?
It would bother me not at all if DoA includes precisely zero tragic automobile fatalities, thank you. Nearly stopped reading the other strip over that. Too close to home.
I don’t know why that rubs me a little wrong; Sarah might not have been comfortable with the idea, and Jacob might not have known anybody at the party bar Ethan and Sarah. And given that Joyce knew the two weren’t talking (at least according to Sarah) the whole thing just reeks of awkward.
Well in Joyce’s defense, she probably just sees this as the romantic turnaround from the two disliking eachother to starting to see the light. And not the light of God’s love either, the warm light of not-singleness.
(To be honest, I can’t blame Joyce for thinking it’s probably not as bad as all that, given how Sarah is so clearly blowing things melodramatically out of proportion in that strip. But still, I’m pretty sure she has romantic-comedy strategies on the brain, and it’s not going to go well.)
A) Please don’t call anybody a slut, there is no need to demonize someone for their sex life.
B) Lindsay Lohan was 11 when that movie was filmed, which is why it really felt weird that you referred to her as a slut.
Hollywood gossip notwithstanding, I don’t think “Lindsay Lohan” the moment I read the word “slut” – especially when we’re talking about preteen Lindsay Lohan. And yet Chrissy introduced her name without prompting. Neither Captain Batson nor the line from Joyce he was quoting mentions her.
Dude, if you’re talking about The Parent Trap, and a distinction is made between “the old one” or “the one with the slut,” THAT’S NOT REALLY JUMPING TO ANY CONCLUSIONS, IT IS SPELLED OUT EXPLICITLY. You don’t even need to say “the one with the slut,” because the Haley Mills one is already “the old one” and there’s JUST ONE OTHER VERSION.
Making this a “YOU’re the slut shamer because YOU’re pointing out someone else’s slut shaming” thing is bullshit, man.
On top of the difficulty in even finding Dana, and ignoring the discussion, for now, of whether Joyce is actually naive enough to think that would work, this is an impromptu party organized no more than a few hours ago, and she said that while Becky was out doing the invites. Even if she could contact Dana, there hasn’t been time to get word to her, convince her it’s a good idea, and get her there.
It’s a recipe for disaster, but Jacob seemed pretty okay with the invite, so maybe things will work out better than expected. If he was bothered about seeing Sarah he wouldn’t show up at all – not like he doesn’t know she’s Joyce’s roomie after all the stories.
Well it wasn’t that long ago that she thought you could get divorced parents back together like in a movie so this probably seems pretty straight forward
I can tell I’m older than you – I can never hear the words, “THAT’s the spirit!” without hearing them in the voice of the alien copilot from The Last Starfighter.
“One starfighter against the entire armada?? It’ll be a slaughter!”
“THAT’S the spirit!!”
“NO, OUR slaughter!!”
Betting Joyce’s parents monitor her purchases pretty closely. Having a high-end Little Jake show up on her credit card bill seems like it might be hard to explain.
Well, she doesn’t have any of their contact information, so that would be some hard sleuthing indeed.
Plus even if she asked Dorothy or Billie to investigate down that route I think they would see why that is sticking their noses in places they don’t belong.
I am liking the personal growth exhibited by Joyce in this chapter. She’s showing that even the worst of home-schooled Xtians are redeemable. And before anyone gets their panties in w bunch over the use of the word “Xtian” know this: a Xtian is a person pretending to be a Christian while doing very unChristian things.
I originally read that as X-Titans. As in, some kind of awesome crossover event where the 80’s Titans fight the Chris Claremont X-Men. Can we get that?
Does anyone else think it odd that things seem normal with Joyce and Sarah after that outburst? I thought I might have missed a strip, but everything is normal. Maybe Sarah preemptively forgave Joyce to avoid some really sappy attempt to atone.
I wouldn’t say things are normal. I think part of the reason Joyce is being so dramatic here is because she desperately wants to try and patch things up with Sarah.
Sarah on the other hand, seems to be taking it okay. But I think she’s suppressing her hurt feelings in order to try and avoid drama. She’s trying to retreat into her crusty shell. I think it’s also part of the reason she’s leaving the party now.
I can see this going pretty badly if Sarah indeed stays at the party until Jacob arrives. If they try talking again but have another fight, Sarah will again try to internalize so as not to ruin the party and then later blow up at Joyce for their earlier fight and now having made things worse with Jacob OR she’ll just plain blow up at Jacob.
Party will could get ruined anyways by some other things though. Sal showing up and Amber freaking out. Amber witnessing one of Danny & Ethan’s awkward moments (the kind that make us fujoshis squeal) and freaking out. Ruth coming to check on the pary and finding out Becky’s been staying in Joyce & Sarah’s dorm room. Maybe some other things. Maybe (probably) a combination of several of those things.
… I don’t remember where I was going with this.
Sarah’s quip about Joyce serving her heart on a platter betrays how she really feels about the situation, though. So yeah, she may seem to be okay, but she really is not.
I’m surprised that Sarah stayed even ’15 minutes’. But, Sarah is going for her usual adult approach I guess.
I’m not surprised that Joyce thinks that setting up a blind date for Sarah will heal what she said to Sarah. Thinking that you will always get your way if you’re cute enough, and holler “God’s will”, doesn’t always work.
Face it Joyce, you screwed up big time. Leave Sarah alone.
To be fair, Joyce said that statement because Sarah said, “Yes, kick her to the street without sarcasm.” That was not a joke that Joyce needed to hear at that time.
Maybe. I’m not betting against the possibility that both Sarah and Jacob manage a reconciliation (awkwardly, of course) at the party and wander off to talk some more after their 15 minutes are up. Doubt it’ll lead to Ethan finding a sock on his doorknob or anything, but I’d be a little surprised if they still aren’t speaking to each other at the end of the night.
Really depends on how Sarah reacts to him showing up. Jacob certainly knows she’s likely to be there, and he seemed to be fine with it.
Sarah’s misanthrope is clearly reflected in the squintiness of her eyes.
Panel 2: moderate squintiness. Still sociable, but cynicism and sarcasm defenses are on full alert.
Panel 3: squintiness eases a bit due to offer of present. Sarcasm defenses still engaged.
Panel 5: maximum squintiness achieved. Sarah must withdraw now.
Goddamnit Joyce, that present better be First Jacob, though knowing Joyce (and Willis) I wouldn’t put it past her to have invited Dana or her friends.
On the other hand, it’s probably First Jacob – it’s the only reason I can think of for him to not have arrived with Ethan and Danny. Either way, I’m sure Willis will find a way to turn it into a trainwreck.
I volunteer to be the bookie on the bet “Will Joyce mention Other Jacob in the presence of First Jacob?”.
1) How would she invite Dana? She doesn’t know her, she only knows one person who would have any idea how to contact her, and that’s Sarah. (She’s met Raidah all of once, and indications are that when Dana was pulled out of school all her friends lost contact with her.) Raidah is slightly less impossible as she’s still at the school, but, again, she’s met her all of once, and as far as we know, only knows her first name.
2) Why would she invite either of them? After the circumstances of that one-and-only meeting, even Joyce can’t be naive enough to think that simply showing up at the same party would be enough for them to bury the hatchet (unless it was in each other’s heads).
All doors may have a Dina behind them. You cannot know if she’s there until you close it. This is known in Physics as “Dina’s Door,” though it also applies to groups of people, which you cannot know Dina is a part of until you check.
Hmmm….I was in a corner single and it was bigger than some of the other doubles. But the third floor corner doubles were massive, so they’d have fit here. Albeit my dorm was one of the oldest east of the Mississippi.
Where I was, the doubles were the same size as the common room (minus a few inches to account for the wall, but that wasn’t really useable real estate in the common room, either)…so getting the whole house into one of the doubles would only have been difficult because of the much larger amount of non-sittable furniture. Getting five into the smaller singles just required one or two to stand (depending how cozy the ones sitting on the bed were willing to get)…the corner singles had plenty of room to move in a few chairs, and the super-singles (doubles with one bed removed) could fit everyone no problem.
My freshman dorm was an old heap built in the 50s, and the doubles would fit 10-12 people with a little crowding, especially if you’d installed a loft bed and moved the chairs out to another room. Sophomore year was a newer dorm and way more cramped, but a double could still fit 8 or so. Best “dorm” I ever lived in was a minimally converted apartment building – had separate bedroom, bathroom, living room, and a kitchenette to boot. Only 26 people in that building, and we could fit everyone in any one room with a bit of squeezing
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“OH COME ON SARAH …you could crawl up into them and be safe and warm forever“
That is, until she extricates her self.
There is no escape. Ruth is still trapped in their orbit.
Who’d WANT to escape…
*Snuggles up for the night, only popping the head out the top…*
As both Joyce and Ruth have found out…
And becky has known all her life.
I honestly forgot about that line until now.
For a brief moment I discarded the idea that Joyce was into girls and considered the idea that she was just taking social cues from her best friend. What was I thinking?
You can like the comfort of big breasts without being sexually attracted to them. They make nice meat pillows.
But she hates Billie, since the incident at the cafeteria ?
Sarah has always had a very low opinion of Billie.
and everyone else.
Twist ending, Joyce then shouts KALI MA, and actually serves Sarah her heart on a plate.
Well, at no point does she actually contradict Sarah’s guess so …
kali maa…
KALI MAA…
KALIMAA, SHUT DEE DAI…
Heads up, that IS a link to the actual scene, apparently it’s a good idea to warn people about that kinda stuff…
Well, this answers everyone’s question of why Jake was invited.
I was really confused by you calling him Jake for a minute. But to be fair I don’t think he’s ever been called that.
Oops. That was a kind of left-brain hip check on my part, I guess. And he *does* seem more like a Jacob.
Oh honey, it was never in doubt.
Well, presumably Joyce feels Jacob is a non-threat at least.
Now I’m curious what would have been Joyce’s moral dilemma if Sarah was into Joe instead; make Sarah happy and risk inviting the creeper?
If that were the case, next thing we know Ruth is killed by a truck while Joyce and Joe are attacked by aliens.
It would bother me not at all if DoA includes precisely zero tragic automobile fatalities, thank you. Nearly stopped reading the other strip over that. Too close to home.
I think Willis has already promised zero automobile fatalities in DOA, thankfully.
D’aww, Joyce being adorable.
Joyce is in a constant state of adorableness, only surpassed by Dina.
I think your Gravatar shouting FOOLS really sells that. I agree.
That Gravatar can really sell a lot of things.
That present’s named Jacob, isn’t it?
Sorry, Sarah already has one.
No law against having more than one Jacob.
She even called it “Other Jacob”.
Wow so Joyce invited Jacob just for Sarah?
I don’t know why that rubs me a little wrong; Sarah might not have been comfortable with the idea, and Jacob might not have known anybody at the party bar Ethan and Sarah. And given that Joyce knew the two weren’t talking (at least according to Sarah) the whole thing just reeks of awkward.
Well in Joyce’s defense, she probably just sees this as the romantic turnaround from the two disliking eachother to starting to see the light. And not the light of God’s love either, the warm light of not-singleness.
Does Joyce even know they argued/had a disagreement? She’s probably still just matchmaking.
She knows something happened, though not what exactly.
(To be honest, I can’t blame Joyce for thinking it’s probably not as bad as all that, given how Sarah is so clearly blowing things melodramatically out of proportion in that strip. But still, I’m pretty sure she has romantic-comedy strategies on the brain, and it’s not going to go well.)
It’s like The Parent Trap, but with your friends!
The old one or the one with the slut?
A) Please don’t call anybody a slut, there is no need to demonize someone for their sex life.
B) Lindsay Lohan was 11 when that movie was filmed, which is why it really felt weird that you referred to her as a slut.
Captain Batson is quoting Joyce from earlier in this webcomic: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/03-men-are-from-beck-women-are-from-clark/pizza-2/
Hollywood gossip notwithstanding, I don’t think “Lindsay Lohan” the moment I read the word “slut” – especially when we’re talking about preteen Lindsay Lohan. And yet Chrissy introduced her name without prompting. Neither Captain Batson nor the line from Joyce he was quoting mentions her.
Who’s doing the demonizing, again?
That’s more a case of jumping to conclusions.
Dude, if you’re talking about The Parent Trap, and a distinction is made between “the old one” or “the one with the slut,” THAT’S NOT REALLY JUMPING TO ANY CONCLUSIONS, IT IS SPELLED OUT EXPLICITLY. You don’t even need to say “the one with the slut,” because the Haley Mills one is already “the old one” and there’s JUST ONE OTHER VERSION.
Making this a “YOU’re the slut shamer because YOU’re pointing out someone else’s slut shaming” thing is bullshit, man.
+1
I feel like the present is either Jacob or (somehow) Dana. Joyce probably feels like she really needs to make up for what she said earlier.
On top of the difficulty in even finding Dana, and ignoring the discussion, for now, of whether Joyce is actually naive enough to think that would work, this is an impromptu party organized no more than a few hours ago, and she said that while Becky was out doing the invites. Even if she could contact Dana, there hasn’t been time to get word to her, convince her it’s a good idea, and get her there.
It’s a recipe for disaster, but Jacob seemed pretty okay with the invite, so maybe things will work out better than expected. If he was bothered about seeing Sarah he wouldn’t show up at all – not like he doesn’t know she’s Joyce’s roomie after all the stories.
Well it wasn’t that long ago that she thought you could get divorced parents back together like in a movie so this probably seems pretty straight forward
She probably still thinks that.
I’m wondering if Joyce expects Jacob to show up with a ribbon on top or something.
You mean dressed only with a big ribbon ? :3
Or like the Scotsman in the ribald song…
“Don’t know where you’ve been, but I see you won first prize.”
The booze is in your heart, Billie.
But mostly in your liver.
*slide whistle*
Hmmm, needs a little more “cheesy Saturday morning children’s cartoon” vibe to it.
Joyce – “You see Billie? The booze was inside you all along. Right here in your heart.”
Walky – “Also your liver…mostly your liver.”
Insert that random guy from Rocket Power saying “THAT’S the spirit!”, followed by a rimshot.
*End scene*
Oh hey. Did you know that some cultures believe the soul is in the liver?
Well, Billie’s liver IS probably full of spirits…
Oooh good one *is making finger pistols*
I can tell I’m older than you – I can never hear the words, “THAT’s the spirit!” without hearing them in the voice of the alien copilot from The Last Starfighter.
“One starfighter against the entire armada?? It’ll be a slaughter!”
“THAT’S the spirit!!”
“NO, OUR slaughter!!”
Prepare the Death Blossoms
Alex Rogan: Hold it! There’s no fleet? No Starfighters, no plan? One ship, you, me, and that’s it?
Grig: Exactly! Xur thinks you’re still on Earth. Classic military strategy, surprise attack.
Alex Rogan: It’ll be a slaughter!
Grig: That’s the spirit!
Alex Rogan: No, *my* slaughter! One ship against the whole Armada?
Grig: Yes, one Gunstar against the Armada. I’ve always wanted to fight a desperate battle against incredible odds.
Seen it, rather enjoyed it. Wanna watch it again…
Sarah – you have to stay! Joyce invited a son of Ham for you!
Joyce invited a pig? Will he be slaughtered and roasted?? *mouth waters*
“Son of Ham” is so willfully obscure, that it is quite possibly the best reply this forum has ever seen.
Yeah, I was raised southern baptist…. this comment made me go “ooooooooooh.”
Is it bad that the first thing i thought when I saw the first panel was Amber’s bongo?
If it is then I’m bad too cause I just laughed for a solid two minutes at it.
She’s a hepcat beatnick, always laying out the smooth sounds at the coffee house.
I see Amber as more of a banjo player myself.
Why a banjo? What about a bassoon?
Only a buffoon would play the bassoon.
When a buffoon’s bassoon recital gets postponed: basslater
I did the same, and it seems it now replaces the word for Bongo… and I think is more hilarious XD
I like to believe that Joyce ordered a new and improved Jacob, with multiple settings.
Betting Joyce’s parents monitor her purchases pretty closely. Having a high-end Little Jake show up on her credit card bill seems like it might be hard to explain.
Not if she buys with cash!
Which begs the question; would they be more shocked by that than they were by Mike’s “Hail Satan”?
Only if it is a really badly designed model!
Or one designed to be used by two people at once.
She did … it’s a self propelled model …
I completed “Amber’s bongo” instead of “Amber’s boyfriend”… I am sorry.
The Bongo Filter is the gift that keeps on giving.
I am now imagining somebody using a bongo as a filter.
“This water filtered?”
“Yeah, it’s been bongo filtered”.
“Wait–you filtered it with a bongo?!”
“Naw, man, with a bong!”
“A bong–oh! Right.”
Seems perfectly legit to me. The bong water is a prized commodity in certain communities.
Don’t be sorry. She’s been trying to assemble that drum for months. She’ll be happy to find it completed.
Amber’s Boyfriend may not agree – it’s no fun waiting around to be completed.
Little does Joyce know that it is Billie and Sarah who are fated to be together, not Jacob and Sarah.
…oh God why am I suddenly fearing the idea that Joyce somehow invited Dana or something so she could make up with Sarah?
assuming Dana actually made it through recovery vs. got stoned to death
WAIT THAT CAME OUT WRONG
Let he who is not tripping balls cast the first stone.
That’s pretty good advice, now that I think about it.
I was thinking more “The crew what shunned Sarah for the dana thing” myself.. but yessssss…. this would also be good.
Even Joyce is not that clueless.
Well, she doesn’t have any of their contact information, so that would be some hard sleuthing indeed.
Plus even if she asked Dorothy or Billie to investigate down that route I think they would see why that is sticking their noses in places they don’t belong.
*plays Billy Idol’s “Dancing With Myself” on the hallway Muzak*
In the hallway? That music is for private parties!
Joyce probably isn’t heavy enough to really force Sarah unless Sarah lets her.
The Lord will lend her strength, right?
It’s the powers of the hoodie!
“Darnit, if only I had superhuman strength…”
Soon, Sarah, soon Joyce shall have your heart!
http://chickenforyou.tumblr.com/post/119418157937/mainly-put-this-on-here-so-that-i-could-make-a
Gali Maa…
I’d love to see a Marx Brothers crammed party situation happen.
That’s just kind of a general life goal for me. The more the real world resembles the Marx Brothers films the better.
It’s god’s will Sarah! You can’t fight that!
I am liking the personal growth exhibited by Joyce in this chapter. She’s showing that even the worst of home-schooled Xtians are redeemable. And before anyone gets their panties in w bunch over the use of the word “Xtian” know this: a Xtian is a person pretending to be a Christian while doing very unChristian things.
And here I was thinking “Xtians” would be a good name for Xenu worshippers.
The X-tians are one of the lesser-known Marvel mutant superteams.
I originally read that as X-Titans. As in, some kind of awesome crossover event where the 80’s Titans fight the Chris Claremont X-Men. Can we get that?
Sounds like if Amalgam Comics had happened in the ’80s.
We did get that.
Gosh darn it I am a Computer Science student. I should not be mucking up my hyperlinks.
Anyway: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Uncanny_X-Men_and_The_New_Teen_Titans
No true Scotsman fallacy…
That and the fact that X is short for Christ, hence Xmas, this is pretty poor even in the realm of fallacious idiosyncratic re-definitions
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It’s a transliteration of the Greek letter Χ (chi), the initial of Χριστος, that’s why. Older than English.
Does anyone else think it odd that things seem normal with Joyce and Sarah after that outburst? I thought I might have missed a strip, but everything is normal. Maybe Sarah preemptively forgave Joyce to avoid some really sappy attempt to atone.
I wouldn’t say things are normal. I think part of the reason Joyce is being so dramatic here is because she desperately wants to try and patch things up with Sarah.
Sarah on the other hand, seems to be taking it okay. But I think she’s suppressing her hurt feelings in order to try and avoid drama. She’s trying to retreat into her crusty shell. I think it’s also part of the reason she’s leaving the party now.
I can see this going pretty badly if Sarah indeed stays at the party until Jacob arrives. If they try talking again but have another fight, Sarah will again try to internalize so as not to ruin the party and then later blow up at Joyce for their earlier fight and now having made things worse with Jacob OR she’ll just plain blow up at Jacob.
Party
willcould get ruined anyways by some other things though. Sal showing up and Amber freaking out. Amber witnessing one of Danny & Ethan’s awkward moments (the kind that make us fujoshis squeal) and freaking out. Ruth coming to check on the pary and finding out Becky’s been staying in Joyce & Sarah’s dorm room. Maybe some other things. Maybe (probably) a combination of several of those things.… I don’t remember where I was going with this.
There will be blushing.
Also, shouting. Lots of shouting.
Sarah’s quip about Joyce serving her heart on a platter betrays how she really feels about the situation, though. So yeah, she may seem to be okay, but she really is not.
I’m surprised that Sarah stayed even ’15 minutes’. But, Sarah is going for her usual adult approach I guess.
I’m not surprised that Joyce thinks that setting up a blind date for Sarah will heal what she said to Sarah. Thinking that you will always get your way if you’re cute enough, and holler “God’s will”, doesn’t always work.
Face it Joyce, you screwed up big time. Leave Sarah alone.
The invites were done before they fought.
Still not sure if Billie has no pants.
#nopantsarebestpants
No pants is an indicator of a great party ~_~
Joyce has good intentions, but God knows that they’re strictly interested in fornication so He’s not helping.
Actually, Jacob isn’t interested in a fling.
Yep, confirmed. Sarah took it well, then it sank in…
Joyce’s expression in the last panel is adorable.
To be fair, Joyce said that statement because Sarah said, “Yes, kick her to the street without sarcasm.” That was not a joke that Joyce needed to hear at that time.
I like how Billie is Sarah’s last straw.
She is a bit mutch.
Billie is exactly the kind of person Sarah hates.
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You do this to yourself Willis.
God’s last will and testament.
Let me guess… Joyce invited Jacob, but knowing the circumstances of their last meeting, I think it’s just going to make things awkward.
Maybe. I’m not betting against the possibility that both Sarah and Jacob manage a reconciliation (awkwardly, of course) at the party and wander off to talk some more after their 15 minutes are up. Doubt it’ll lead to Ethan finding a sock on his doorknob or anything, but I’d be a little surprised if they still aren’t speaking to each other at the end of the night.
Really depends on how Sarah reacts to him showing up. Jacob certainly knows she’s likely to be there, and he seemed to be fine with it.
“Look, Sarah, I got you a black guy as a present!”
Yup. Giving people as presents is not exactly the most tactful way of framing a romantic intervention.
Especially not when the gift is African-American.
And most especially not when sex is involved.
But I don’t think Joyce thought of that, still less meant it.
Wrong present ! Wrong presennnnnt !
Billie said booze – a quarter in the jar.
Panel 4, Billie goes to a party and remembers it is in Joyce’s room.
I wonder if she remembered to get pre drunk.
I give her a half hour tops before she slips off to spend time with Ruth. This is not her scene.
I think Billie got pre-drunk too soon – she’s not looking very good.
Sarah’s misanthrope is clearly reflected in the squintiness of her eyes.
Panel 2: moderate squintiness. Still sociable, but cynicism and sarcasm defenses are on full alert.
Panel 3: squintiness eases a bit due to offer of present. Sarcasm defenses still engaged.
Panel 5: maximum squintiness achieved. Sarah must withdraw now.
It’s cute because she’s basically acting like the little sister character from anime/manga here. “Onē-san!”
Goddamnit Joyce, that present better be First Jacob, though knowing Joyce (and Willis) I wouldn’t put it past her to have invited Dana or her friends.
On the other hand, it’s probably First Jacob – it’s the only reason I can think of for him to not have arrived with Ethan and Danny. Either way, I’m sure Willis will find a way to turn it into a trainwreck.
I volunteer to be the bookie on the bet “Will Joyce mention Other Jacob in the presence of First Jacob?”.
1) How would she invite Dana? She doesn’t know her, she only knows one person who would have any idea how to contact her, and that’s Sarah. (She’s met Raidah all of once, and indications are that when Dana was pulled out of school all her friends lost contact with her.) Raidah is slightly less impossible as she’s still at the school, but, again, she’s met her all of once, and as far as we know, only knows her first name.
2) Why would she invite either of them? After the circumstances of that one-and-only meeting, even Joyce can’t be naive enough to think that simply showing up at the same party would be enough for them to bury the hatchet (unless it was in each other’s heads).
3) We know she’s invited Jacob.
4) That, itself, is going to be more than enough of a train wreck.
Also, would someone close the door? Dina’s probably behind it.
*look at door*
But.. but… there’s no space behind the door !! HOW ?!
You really think things like logic and spacial restrictions limit Dina’s power?
Yes, I do.
All doors may have a Dina behind them. You cannot know if she’s there until you close it. This is known in Physics as “Dina’s Door,” though it also applies to groups of people, which you cannot know Dina is a part of until you check.
Shrödina’s Door?
you don’t need booze to get high on life!
I have heard people use Joyce’s tagline seriously, so I was suitably amused to see it here. Well done Willis.
Billie is thirsty… so, so thirsty…
She is thirsty… FOR YOUR BLOOOOO- I mean, liquor cabinet.
And you can see that thirst on her… FAAAAAAAAACE!
Billie thirsts for booze, Ruth thirsts for necks.
“Your heart on a plate? Hah, no, silly — Raidah’s heart on a plate!”
How many people will fit in that dorm room? Mine was decent sized and like 5 people WOULD have been crowded.
That’s a decent sized double where you went?
Hmmm….I was in a corner single and it was bigger than some of the other doubles. But the third floor corner doubles were massive, so they’d have fit here. Albeit my dorm was one of the oldest east of the Mississippi.
Where I was, the doubles were the same size as the common room (minus a few inches to account for the wall, but that wasn’t really useable real estate in the common room, either)…so getting the whole house into one of the doubles would only have been difficult because of the much larger amount of non-sittable furniture. Getting five into the smaller singles just required one or two to stand (depending how cozy the ones sitting on the bed were willing to get)…the corner singles had plenty of room to move in a few chairs, and the super-singles (doubles with one bed removed) could fit everyone no problem.
My freshman dorm was an old heap built in the 50s, and the doubles would fit 10-12 people with a little crowding, especially if you’d installed a loft bed and moved the chairs out to another room. Sophomore year was a newer dorm and way more cramped, but a double could still fit 8 or so. Best “dorm” I ever lived in was a minimally converted apartment building – had separate bedroom, bathroom, living room, and a kitchenette to boot. Only 26 people in that building, and we could fit everyone in any one room with a bit of squeezing
Is… Is Sarah wearing the shame sirt as Dorothy under her T-shirt?
Well don’t worry, alt text Willis, it’s a Joyce party so the crowds won’t be that big.
I don’t usually think Joyce is adorable, but….Joyce is *adorable* here. <3