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looking forward to another exciting date with Other Jacob either way
This comment… fits your current avatar so well XD
haha I cant even!
Daniella no
A bit blunt there Dina; people who weren’t Sarah might not have taken it near as well. Which makes me wonder if we’re going to see her figuring out what is and is not acceptable behavior as she experiments with humor and conversation, with consequences more severe than a quick apology to Amber and odd looks. If she’s taking lessons from Becky in being a bit better at things like jokes and social interaction in general, then there’s a better chance of her having to confront that. I’m interested to see.
….I can’t help but suddenly be eager to see Dina test these newfound conversational skills against Ruthless.
(If only because it would lead to Billie overhearing and stifling laughter which Ruth would hear anyway and within minutes, Carla would be complaining about the slamming of doors again.)
whoa there youngster. there’s a difference between taking the floaties off and diving into the deep end
Oh I’m not expecting her to go and do that *now*, but…at some point it’d be fun
I’m just interested to see Becky and Dina make out some more :p
As are we all
They have made put and I missed it?
The party.
Humor is really hard to handle when you’re not good at reading people. The failure mode of clever is asshole.
I know that feel.
We need a larger version of Dina’s second panel reaction.
2nd class Dina, reporting for duty !
We are all a little weird.
Some of us are a lot.
ALL of the weirdness >:O
What? Just because I enjoy gargling mayonnaise whilst balancing calico cats (whose white parts have been painted either blue or orange, depending on lottery) on my head and arms, whilst ALSO holding a greased broadsword between my teeth, every Tuesday night at 3:27 AM to ward off the brain-goblins that feast on my thoughts every night, that doesn’t mean I’m weird!! YOU’RE the weird one!
That is hardly being weird. That is being eccentric. If a man gets into a cardboard box and pretends to drive, he’s merely eccentric. If he gets into a box and thinks he’s driving, he’s crazy. And only when you see a man get into a cardboard box and drive off that you can call him a weird man. You have a long way to go.
…Is that weird or goddamned miraculous?
Yes.
Depends on if there were already wheels on the box or not.
So eccentric is to crazy is to weird as dweeb is to nerd is to geek. Got it.
Eccentric is a weird person with a lot of money.
If we weren’t the world would be a very depressing place to live.
I have my very own weirdness filter which allows to enjoy the level of weirdness I like most.
In my head when I read her closing line all I could think was *mic drop*
I had the same thought.
What can I say…
We’re all mad here… O.o 8)
Some of us more than others…
Glorious!
Only Dina can serve four panels of comeuppance with a smile.
Is that her first contraction? Is it? Is this a big moment?! *hopes so*
No she’s used contractions before.
No.
No. And Ethan is gay.
NO. WAY.
But he’s had girlfriends, he can’t be gay!
And he dated that nice Christian girl, what was her name again?
Mary ?
Go sit in the corner and think about what you did.
mu ha ha ha ha
Look at Sarah and all her friends. She’s becoming such the social butterfly.
in that she is an evolutionary conundrum that is none the less incredibly popular? i agree!
In University of Indiana, the more popular you want to become, the less popular you will be.
See: Billie and Sarah.
ouch! poor billie. at least she’s tapping that freckled ass
Or the freckled one is tapping Billie’s ass, if that strapon promise was any indicator.
She wouldn’t be too happy to know that Dina is now officially hotter than her, though.
Billie’s got quite a few friends as well, they’re just not who she assumed they’d be.
I thought it was, “the more popular you assume you will be, the less popular you will be.”
First DoA in a while that’s made me laugh out loud
Sarah is so not ok with being second favorite. Second place is first loser
Second place is the first loser. Or so I have heard.
If ya ain’t first you’re last.
So, if someone else beat you to that comment by a couple of seconds . . .
… Yep.
…then I’m the first loser. That’s correct.
Oh, man, Dina’s smile in that last panel. I’d like a billion tickets to Hell, too, please.
Wouldn’t be Amber be second favorite after Becky?
dina’s working on that. in the mean time, she seems to have worked out that people can say inaccurate stuff without disclaimer. figure it out as you go along: that’s the scientific method!
Sorry Amber, you’ve been demoted to third.
I love Dina sass.
i believe you have mis-punctuated ;3
but, yes. that back-talk at the end was pretty sweet
“Gentlemen, BEHOLD!”
(meaningful pause)
“Avoidance of contractions–for EMPHASIS!”
I love Dina so much
At this rate, Dina might even understand people before I do even if she’s hindered by comic-book time.
The problem with understanding people is that there’s so many of us.
Worse, we’re all subtly or overtly different and, worse still, every last one of us thinks that we’re the normal one!
Long and short, normal doesn’t exist.
People are dumber than they think they are. This includes me, and I’m brilliant (objectively).
Judge people by what they do, not what they could do.
… I think that covers it? I’m not real good at the whole attracting mate thing, though, you’re on your own there.
She sure learns fast.
“Second place? That’s just a fancy word for losing.”
– Bender Bending Rodriguez.
“Second place? Second place is no place, you’re off the team!”
-Kyle Reese, Karate Kid II
Argh, John Kreese, not Kyle Reese. Just forget I said anything.
Considering what the last movie did to the timelines, it COULD be Kyle Reese in the Karate Kid 2
I’ve never seen the movie you’re referring to and would have had no idea of the error. But now, I will never forget. And anytime I meet someone called Dean, I will feel a sense of smug superiority, because someone using the name ‘Dean’ on the internet once mixed up a name.
KReese
Come with me, if you want to learn karate!
Sure wasn’t 1st base when I was dating
Totally surprised that she has not told Sarah that Toedad is on his way and how she sidetracked him. As Becky is busy drooling over Dina (understandable) and rubbing Joyce’s face in it (grow up Becky)……wonder when it will be announced?
At this rate ? off panel.
It would be interesting if she told that to Amber inst-
Wait, no. Amber isn’t supposed to know about Becky.
thank you. i knew that we had all forgotten something: not everyone knows about becky’s situation. therefore this needs to be handled with more care than just assembling the doa avengers.
when becky walked in and announced something about getting kicked out of school, my brain did briefly scan the comic to see who witnessed it, but it is only dina, sarah and joyce who know
No, Joyce told Billie. (Now Billie is in a bit of a quandary, since she has to not tell Ruth…delicious early relationship challenges.)
somehow, i don’t imagine this being as big a deal as the ‘not quitting drinking’ thing. but thanks for the reminder, i did forget about billie. for a drunk, horny, bi-racial cheerleader, she is much too easily overlooked
Considering Ruth’s personal experience with shitty family, I expect her reaction to Becky’s presence will surprise many of us.
She could tell Amber anyway, either in confidence as she is (sometimes unwittingly for both) Amber’s confidante, or try to make it not look like Becky was actually staying with Joyce for more than the weekend (which would be reasonable, a rule abiding short visit and help figuring out where she goes next)
So, what is 1st and 2nd base? Someone explain to a non-American please?
the stages of relationships are vague, but as it was explained to me:
1: kissing with tongue
2: fondling under the shirt
3: hands in the pants
4: the rest of it [constantly expanding]
1. kissing
2. groping over the clothing
3. groping under the clothing
4. sex
I’ve always heard it was the 4 F’s.
French (kissing)
Feel(ing each other up)
Finger
Fu…. you get the picture.
Ah, I see.
Thanks a lot
Dina’s hood reminds me of Voltron now, in how the lion’s mouth would open to reveal the robot face.
2nd favourite can also mean that if Dina and Becky decide to try out threesomes, Sarah will be Dina’s first choice.
Everyone; we have the subject(s) of the next Slipshine!
A Certain Scientific Threesome
A Certain Magical Threesome works too
that would surely be joyce in a unicorn hoodie!
…why does that not sound appealing?
Not for Dina. Science doesn’t have time for Magic.
I dunno, if magic is a proven force subject to empirical experimentation then I’m sure she’d have no problem with it.
Actually, Dina might enjoy D&D. She’d do well as an Eberron halfling.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
Hats, Bandannas, and a whole lot of Redhead.
Given that there is a high probability that Dina wouldn’t fully understand the ramifications of a ‘threesome’, I imagine that she would sound out several possible candidates. This would lead to widespread shock and disorientation in her social circle!
I blame Roz.
Dina has to completely recalibrate her understanding of bases.
Don’t worry, Becky can help her in this endeavor I’m sure.
Becky will certainly give her a calibration… not sure if it will be the same as everyone else’s though.
beck wasn’t exactly given ‘full exposure’ so it will be interesting. maybe they should start with t-ball? or maybe handball (whatever that is)
Well I think what people perceive as bases differs.
Case in point, “home plate” for Dina is probably going to be “Becky sees her without dinosaur apparel on her head”.
Wow Dinan you really are cold blooded.
that is how we roll [shades] in the hood
>inb4 everyone starts bongoing about their diversion from The Matter At Hand, which is Important Above All Other Things.
Too late.
So much bongoing in here I’d think this was a drum circle gathering if I didn’t know better.
We could just rename the Comments section to The Drum Circle.
… That’s actually kind of an awesome idea.
I’d be into The Drum Circle.
Drumming of Age?
If Willis ever gets rid of the bongo filter so many threads will get so confusing. What? They’re already confusing?
Everybody run! She has released the Sarah!
Does Amber know she’s been demoted to third?
My thoughts exactly. And her poor parents aren’t even in the top three anymore!
Well, she didn’t specify what Sarah was her favorite of. She might mean ‘favorite peer,’ rather than ‘favorite person.’ Obviously whatever category Sarah’s attained second place in doesn’t include inanimate objects, or fossils and/or cocoa puffs would probably win.
Let’s face it – Amber is really only able to tolerate the presence of other people with the exception of Ethan and Danny. Dina may be uncertain about how social interactions work but I think she is quite able to understand that Amber isn’t fully happy with her continued presence.
That isn’t “Amber is a bad person”, it’s “Amber is as bad about social interactions as Dina, she’s just less nice about it”.
Did anyone else feel the need to google the bases because they realized there is apparently some variation in how they’re defined? I’d been under the impression that first base was just smooching, no tongue required. But then, I never really gave it a lot of thought because I’m an asexual with no interest in sports.
Hey, what base is reading smutfic together?
Here.
https://xkcd.com/540/
Basically nobody knows what the hell they are.
Especially outside of America o_O
Even in America. Heck, I barely know what they mean in baseball, let alone relationships.
*spluttering baseball fan noises*
Well, Who’s on first, What’s on second, I Don’t Know is on third…
What are you asking me for, I’m asking you!
I didn’t know first base but I know the others.
2nd base- groping over the clothing
3rd base- groping under the clothing
homerun- sex
I just got back from vacation and this is the first strip I’m reading in like 3 weeks and I’m just so glad it wasn’t heartbreak and doom but instead two of my favorite ladies doing some awkward-yet-cute bonding in their own unique way
Welcome Back!!
Sez you. Sarah could just be putting up a brave front; for all you know, she could be inconsolable!
Well, probably not, but MAYBE
So, Dina clearly sees honesty as the best policy. This is one area where I differ from her. For all I have significant gaps in my social skills, one social skill I have learned to some extent is telling people what they want to hear, and I tend to default to that when interacting with people.
I’m not saying this is a good thing. It’s an avoidance tactic to an extent because I really don’t know how to do conflict and confrontation. I tend to avoid making waves or do anything that might disrupt my familiar routine. Also, I don’t have very high self-esteem, and I tend to feel compelled to please others because my instinct is to place a higher value on others than myself. This is unhealthy. I might as well walk around holding up a neon sign that says, “Hi, I’m a doormat. Please step on me, and use me to wipe all the crap off the bottom of your shoe.” It’s really not a good thing, and it’s something for me to work on.
Still, I can see how being too blunt can have pitfalls too. There’s got to be a healthy middle ground somewhere.
Even so, I don’t really think being “second favorite” is so bad, especially when one considers how many people Dina must encounter on campus on a daily basis. I’m sure Sarah ranks quite a bit higher than Toedad McDickbag.
I can understand Dina’s confusion regarding bases. There’s no real logic or sense to the assignment of bases. I’ve heard more than one definition of the bases myself.
Maybe Sarah could lead a tutorial on the bases. Dina would take copious notes. Becky might as well. Joyce would be deeply conflicted regarding whether she should go back into BSOD mode, or take some copious notes of her own.
The bases are gender dependant.
Like for Danny-Ethan ( O slipshine ) it might be: hug-wrestle-handjob-spoon
first off, much empathy for the first 2 paragraphs. that happy medium is where the lucky oblivious people get to live effortlessly.
secondly, it’s not so much that being second favorite is bad, but that the state of mind that one would normally have to be in to tell another person that they are not their favorite is typically something like passive-aggressive back-handed malice. dina is obviously not pulling that, but most people would avoid the possibility of misunderstanding all the same. that’s probably what sarah is ‘wow’ing.
i do like how dina is now clearly aware that she may be considered weird and that sarah felt the urge to state it
Sarah’s eyes really flared up on that panel.
Is what you just said, consistent with the fact that you said what you just said? Because I think not. You could do worse than try to straighten that out, if you chose to.
Yyyeeaaahhhh, my brain’s got a whole lot of those inconsistencies and contradictions going on. I’ve been stumping professionals since early childhood for a reason.
I’m working on making my peace with the fact that the scattered pieces of my brain are never going to form a cohesive whole that makes sense to anyone, ever. When I die (probably 50-60 years from now if family history is anything to go by), I’d like to donate my body to science. Examination of my brain will raise many, many questions.
Also, I present very differently in text than I do IRL. That particular characteristic is one I suspect is not unique to me.
I hear you, Edupoet.
The happy medium is tactfulness. You usually say what’s true, but in a way that minimally hurts people’s feelings.
Well damn, Sarahtops was such a great ship name.
Hey, if there’s a threesome, they can be Tri-Sarahtops.
I see what you did thar.
And Ethan/Danny/Amber is now my second-favorite triad.
nit just a ship name, but also a universal law whenever she’s involved ; )
Sarah’s lost a lot of potential suitors over the course of this comic. What’s next? Other Jacob refusing to perform for her!?
oh, don;t you worry. she’s got him on a short charger
Okay, wow.
Dina was never my favorite character.
( BUT that could change )
…But, now , I really like seeing her smile.
You may want to run for making that “Dina was never my favorite” comment. The Dina fans are coming. And they are a vast army, all of whom are wearing dinosaur hoodies. ARM YOURSELF!!!
We’re heeeere~
Man it really kills it when my icon is freakin’ Jason
“mates.”
We GET it, you’re from Space Australia!
Well, she indeed never was.
We are many. We are one.
“What the f- DUDE!!! DUCK!!!”
Way to throw contractions around, Dina.
Entering two new meaningful relationships with varying conotations, beginning to further understand her own sexual identity, successfully fending off Toedad, learning the subtleties of humor, AND USING CONTRACTIONS? This is a BIG DAY for Dina!
The only way the day could get bigger is if Dina learned how to shoot lasers from her eyes >.>
Or maybe not, if you remember what Willis did to another comic book character that shoot lasers through his eyes!
Just in case you don’t know the character i wrote about:
Cyclops
It’s been my experience that people find people who don’t understand the base system to be incredibly attractive, which is my primary reason for not even attempting to figure it out.
probably looks cuter for girls. to quote becky, i am “totes jelly”
I think Sarah would be one of my favorite characters if she could just unclench her anus for a second.
whoa! high standards.
but, yes. if she would just stop trying to hurt people into backing off, she would get much more sympathy. even when she’s changing the subject it has to be to focus on the [potential] short-comings of others
but thanks to raidah (rare phrase in the comments section), we know that her crusty shell is there so that she doesn’t stress.
Did… Did Dina just return a jocular serve?
High five!
One word: Rekt
all the adorbs.
I just caught up on the last few strips, but to recap: There are now two lesbian couples among the main cast and both are Asian girl-redhead? Does this mean Marcie will dye her hair when she finally hooks up with Malaya?
It will be revealed Marcie’s been dyeing her hair brown all this time.
Both Billie and Ruth are bisexual, not lesbian.
Yes, but the couple (not the people in it) counts as lesbian.
Isn’t she Di-na-lightful?
Dina is ultra-adorable today. I particularly enjoyed her reaction to learning that she didn’t know what the base markers were at all!
Meanwhile, she should learn not to use contractions too often. I think that it would weird out far too many people.
I was reading this aloud while camping, and got arrested because there was a burn ban.
You are joking right Dina?
“you’re joking right”
The weirdness is in all of us.
It’ll be interesting to see Dina’s reactions to the other bases.
Touché Dina! You’re right, although from the second panel I’m not sure she is (she’s) totally up to speed on baseball terminology…
I see Dina is very good for communicate “bad news” somebody, as Sheldon Cooper on The Big Bang Theory.
DINA BEST GIRL DINA BEST GIRL DINA BEST GIRL DINA BE…
Let’s just change the title of the comics to “Dina of Age”, okay? I want to stay in heaven as long as possible ^_^
Sarah, I release you from your human bonds.
aww! why does dina have the best interactions w literally every character
I’ve been watching this with as much glee as most other people, but a part of me is worried. Just how much do Dina and Becky have in common? How much is Dina’s attraction to Becky based off of Becky taking the time to talk to her? I hope I’m worrying over nothing, after all we can’t see every interaction they have, so maybe there’s more to it. It’s just that thus far the only long,mundane, non-dickbag dad or other drama conversation between the two of them was at the party (I think).
I suppose I’m worrying over things we don’t know yet. It remains to be seen what sort of stamina the relationship between these to has (and just what Dina is going to think of physical intimacy with Becky, kissing, cuddling, canoodling, etc.)
Well, Becky likes her enough to actively discuss Dina’s favourite topic, and also very vocally proclaimed how much she wanted to hit on her. Dina, I feel, has a crush on her the same way Walky did on Dorothy, it’s just that Dina’s good at rationally processing her feelings, so instead of lobbing toys at Becky’s head she decides to go talk to her and tell her that she likes her.
So I don’t think there’s enough to say anything on how intimate Dina is expecting things to go, but she at least feels there’s a notable difference in her feelings for Becky and Sarah, and she seemed pretty happy at the prospect of kissing Becky. I can assume enough on why they would both want to date each other, but since it just started there’s really nothing to say on how they’d make it work, other than Becky thinks Dina is super cute and has shown and stated how much she likes her, and Dina just likes talking to Becky and being with her. Aside from that, I feel that some of Becky’s motivation is based on finding companionship away from Joyce.
err, that is Becky thinks Dina is super cute, and Dina has shown and stated how much she likes her. Becky has actual confirmation that someone feels that way about her, which probably helps.
Well, the last panel does make me picture them together.
They’d have that “Big Barda and Mr Miracle” kinda thing going…
Clearly Mr. Miracle should’ve adopted a dino gimmick if he wanted to be a more popular character.
*Pictures Mr M, asleep on a couch, wearing the raptor hat. BB one-hand-lifts the couch with him on it and vacuums beneath…
Big Sarah and Mrs. Dinacle?
Dina’s face in panel 2 plus her little witty remark in the last one…best. Birthday DOA comic. EVER! ^-^
I want to see Dina trying to interact with lesbian newspaper girl and telling her she got a girlfriend.
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Most gravatar-aware comment ever seen on this site!
+1 Internet for you!
Lesbian newspaper girl is Daisy.
Yes I actually hopped back to a strip from 2013 and read forward until she showed up.
Dina in the Amazi-Girl costume was (and still is) adorable.
I had two posts I was debating trying to get in front of Jen with when Becky got the girl. One was the one that’s there now. The other was
Daisy: “I felt a disturbance in the force, as though somewhere, someone got a girlfriend, and it WASN’T ME!”
Sarah is Other Jacob’s favorite.
http://troll.me/images2/grammar-correction-guy/youre-thumb.jpg
“Tonguin'”? How is she pronouncing that? “Ton gwin”? I can’t even place Sarah’s accent there.
‘tuŋ ɪn
It’s just “tonguing” without the ‘g’ at the end. Kinda how like some people say “fryin'” instead of “frying”.
Ok. That U threw me off. I forgot that tongue has a U in it. I suppose it is essential for letting the reader know they didn’t do anything with tongs.
Asexuals have their own bases of a relationship
I see what you did there
Wow Dina, way to friendzone Sara.
Dina’s really getting the hang of contractions!