Alternately: when the university slowly over decades subsumes the city it’s in so that by a century out the entire city *will* be the University
OngoingConversation
And when it meets with other towns, other cities, it takes them into itself, absorbs them until soon there is no land left …
Corey C.
That is basically my old college of SCAD and how a good quarter of the buildings in Savannah belong to the college. Last time I visited Savannah in 2019 the college had bought a whole city block and was going to demolish it to make dorms, which greatly saddened me because one of the buildings on the block was this awesome sushi restaurant that I went to whenever I had a bad day. RIP Wasabi’s.
clif
On the other hand, back in the day having a bowling lane in the student center wasn’t at all uncommon. I have no idea nowadays.
Accurate, one of the only times I went bowling (outside of birthday parties) was when my freshman roommate, who did a Youth Group thing, had a bowling event and she invited me with. Which is a shame cause I honestly enjoy bowling… I’m shit at it, but it’s fun.
You know, it occurs to me that I’ve gone roller skating easily a dozen times in my mife, and I still can’t skate. I was always the guy slowly going around the room within arms reach of the wall.
And awkwardly trying to participate in the Chicken Dance.
Keep your knees bent, your toes pointed outward in a V, and shift your weight from one leg to another without lifting them! Keeping the knees bent is the single best step to start skating, personally. It’s easier to keep balance and control your fall if you start to lose. (There are also youtube videos with cool ladies demonstrating how to skate).
More related to the comic, I feel like rollerskating and bowling are somehow connected activities? The smooth, smooth floor and high probability to smash a finger.
Very possible. I don’t know if we’re out of the stage where Asma/Raidah comics are being inserted into an already written buffer, and even if we are, assuming the joke is that they asked Sal instead I see the sense in structuring it so we get the punchline during the date.
It’s amusing that for so long people were arguing that Joyce was straight and just acted gay because Becky warped her idea of what friendship was supposed to look like, and now Dorothy’s admitting that actually applies to her.
I doubt they forgot to ask Sal, since the mix up of having her come is more interesting than her not coming, but it does seem odd not to put a strip showing that in somewhere.
This is the sort of thing that makes sense to happen offscreen, especially if there’s going to be a switcheroo. If Sal is the punchline, having that be revealed when Asma learns it makes sense.
Yeah but people ask about it a lot because the comic shows us stuff that could easily be skipped and skips over stuff that could be juicy plots on their own.
The switcheroo is so obvious and so easily-guessed that I don’t think it’s worth holding close to the chest – and I think that Dorothy and Joyce inviting Sal could easily have been worked into a gag.
High school bowling teams are absolutely a thing and would be put on a college application…but occasionally bowling for the heck of it, no, probably wouldn’t work that in.
—
Also, Dorothy managing to have a non-social experience of high school cross-country is pretty difficult from what I remember, but I could definitely see it for her.
Well for you dotty, it seems to look like role-playing as their evil arch-nemesis.
(Also joyce, you’re acting real smug for someone who’s also had that rug pulled out from under you twice now. Your first best friend was in love with you for who knows how long, and your second best friend *also* was in love with you, this time mutually.)
Not sure why i decided to write this comment in second person, but I digress.
Were Dorothy’s parents the kind of high-pressure “get her into the *right* kind of preschool for success” types? Or did she just make herself like that as part of her ambitions?
From what little we’ve seen of them, they don’t seem very high pressure at all. I remember one strip from Family Weekend where they said they just want Dorothy to be happy, and Dorothy said she wanted to make more of her life than they did, but I can’t find with the multi-tag not working.
I’m gonna be charitable and assume your use of that symbol in your avatar is the version of it used as a sign of good luck in Hinduism and other eastern religions. And hopefully not a version of that symbol that means support for the very evil ideology of Germany in the 1930s and 1940s.
So a couple of things
Dorothy may literally only have had Danny and Joe as her only meaningful non-academic social interactions in High School.
Seems like she didn’t have any girlfriends or a girl best friend at all, at least not past elementary or middle school, given the way she phrased it.
more good news,
I am FINALLY back on my PC with a setup which can accommodate my inflamed leg, although given my low energy levels cuz of meds and anemia it’ll be a while before I can get back to full swing of things TT-TT
oh yeah might as well craft me a new avatar to go with these… trying times like fuck imma give my ID to YouTube, suck my dick
I mean it’s a mixed bag
I can have it down below my heart more but my leg still hurts like fuck and it’s started oozing and scabbing again (Sweets Syndrome)
additionally I have C. Diff infection, so taking meds for that, over halfway through the 10 day med regime now, hopefully i can get through without this killing me, I can’t even get my first iron transfusion until this is cleared
FUN FUN FUN @~@
Sierra’s one of the nicest, most casual, most laid-back people in the building, and by the end of a single semester rooming with Dorothy she was Stepford-smiling.
When I was in high school, for our senior year our required gym class had five activities and we were supposed to do three of them for three weeks each until the quarter was over. One of them was bowling, and the only thing that mattered to our grade was showing up on time. There was no grading based on number of pins knocked down, we just had to be outside the gym for the bus to pick us up and drop us back off. Easiest “Pass” I ever had. (And what’s surprising was there were some kids who failed EVEN THAT by skipping the class entirely.)
My high school gym class had a week where we went bowling at the local bowling place. I wasn’t into sports as a kid and wasn’t very good at them, but I still went bowling during that week of gym class, and I even played an old bowling video game. I guess I’m kinda surprised that Dorothy has never gone bowling before, since in my experience it’s a sport you can play very casually, even if you were more focused on studying than sports in school.
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NGPZ
BOWLING!!!!! LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
clif
You know, Joyce is way ahead of Dorothy on regular platonic female friendships. She had Becky as an example.
Pocky
the bowling arc is finally started
I Know Why The Mowed Lawn Screams
happy birthday to me i just learned that IU has their own friggin’ bowling alley i guess
I Know Why The Mowed Lawn Screams
There’s nothing wrong about that btw, i just always find it funny whenever a university has the means to function as it’s own city-state
Lanz
Alternately: when the university slowly over decades subsumes the city it’s in so that by a century out the entire city *will* be the University
OngoingConversation
And when it meets with other towns, other cities, it takes them into itself, absorbs them until soon there is no land left …
Corey C.
That is basically my old college of SCAD and how a good quarter of the buildings in Savannah belong to the college. Last time I visited Savannah in 2019 the college had bought a whole city block and was going to demolish it to make dorms, which greatly saddened me because one of the buildings on the block was this awesome sushi restaurant that I went to whenever I had a bad day. RIP Wasabi’s.
clif
On the other hand, back in the day having a bowling lane in the student center wasn’t at all uncommon. I have no idea nowadays.
NGPZ
Happy birthday to you!
The world is a zoo!
We wish you a great party!
And some bowling balls too!
🥳 🪅 🎉 🎂 🎈 🎊 🎁 🎳
Dot
IU has its own bowling team! Idk how well-regarded they are.
KtBear
Indiana Tech is 7th amongst collegiate bowling teams nationally, so pretty good. Bloomington on the other hand don’t feature.
Doopyboop
Accurate, one of the only times I went bowling (outside of birthday parties) was when my freshman roommate, who did a Youth Group thing, had a bowling event and she invited me with. Which is a shame cause I honestly enjoy bowling… I’m shit at it, but it’s fun.
AshleyMagica
Oh shit. Didn’t think we’d get to this bowling alley until September.
Doctor_Who
You know, it occurs to me that I’ve gone roller skating easily a dozen times in my mife, and I still can’t skate. I was always the guy slowly going around the room within arms reach of the wall.
And awkwardly trying to participate in the Chicken Dance.
Yumi
Oh yeah, I preferred to roll over to the carpeted arcade area where I was less like likely to fall and also could play arcade games.
EmCaCo
Keep your knees bent, your toes pointed outward in a V, and shift your weight from one leg to another without lifting them! Keeping the knees bent is the single best step to start skating, personally. It’s easier to keep balance and control your fall if you start to lose. (There are also youtube videos with cool ladies demonstrating how to skate).
More related to the comic, I feel like rollerskating and bowling are somehow connected activities? The smooth, smooth floor and high probability to smash a finger.
Nono
The moment when Dorothy realized that this is one area of society where Joyce was more well-adjusted than she was.
Doctor_Who
So you’re saying she;s out of her element?
What, it’s a bowling arc, Big Lebowski quotes are inevitable!
I’m just trying to…get the ball rolling!
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Who ends up with Mike’s ashes blown back in their face?
Thing 2
Dunno, but I got my first partner’s ashes back in the face despite carefully throwing them to leeward.
clif
I approve of the Mike reference, with no idea where it came from.
Sirksome
Real question. Do they remember why they were going bowling in the first place? Did that stuff happen off panel?
Thag Simmons
Very possible. I don’t know if we’re out of the stage where Asma/Raidah comics are being inserted into an already written buffer, and even if we are, assuming the joke is that they asked Sal instead I see the sense in structuring it so we get the punchline during the date.
clif
But did they even remember to invite Sal. Last we saw Sal she was talking to Joe.
Nono
Also the talk with Joe that Joyce keeps putting off is going to be over her head like a Sword of Damocles every time she appears in a strip isn’t it
She’s going to be making dinner and people are going to be all “before talking to Joe?!?? Hisssss”
apocryphascribe
I don’t think that talk is going to make much of a difference at this point to anyone except the audience.
Lumino
True, but that’s the point. Seeing Joyce being willing to have the conversation, regardless of what comes from it, is her respecting Joe’s feelings.
Every time she ignores it is her ignoring his feelings, for sometimes reasonable (usually not) reasons.
Morrison
Wow
Astariel
Last panel Joyce is adorable and very funny.
It’s amusing that for so long people were arguing that Joyce was straight and just acted gay because Becky warped her idea of what friendship was supposed to look like, and now Dorothy’s admitting that actually applies to her.
They forgot to ask Sal to come, didn’t they?
Stormtide Leviathan
I doubt they forgot to ask Sal, since the mix up of having her come is more interesting than her not coming, but it does seem odd not to put a strip showing that in somewhere.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Has she ever been to Spain?
Did she kinda like the music?
Dot
So uh did thy tell Sal that this was happening or did they just bail on doing the one thing Asma asked of them
Dot
Or Alice but they probably think Asma meant Sal
Sirksome
What are the odds of some convenient and or wacky development that absolves them here?
Thag Simmons
This is the sort of thing that makes sense to happen offscreen, especially if there’s going to be a switcheroo. If Sal is the punchline, having that be revealed when Asma learns it makes sense.
Shepsquared
Yeah but people ask about it a lot because the comic shows us stuff that could easily be skipped and skips over stuff that could be juicy plots on their own.
Dot
The switcheroo is so obvious and so easily-guessed that I don’t think it’s worth holding close to the chest – and I think that Dorothy and Joyce inviting Sal could easily have been worked into a gag.
Cholma
Oh, Lordy! She gonna hold the ball with both hands and swing it between her legs before throwing! Somebody get the gutter bumpers installed!
Yumi
High school bowling teams are absolutely a thing and would be put on a college application…but occasionally bowling for the heck of it, no, probably wouldn’t work that in.
—
Also, Dorothy managing to have a non-social experience of high school cross-country is pretty difficult from what I remember, but I could definitely see it for her.
Wraithy2773
Well, looks like Dorothy is still wearing what she had on the last time we saw her, so maybe they didn’t end up banging?
Maybe?
Stormtide Leviathan
Well for you dotty, it seems to look like role-playing as their evil arch-nemesis.
(Also joyce, you’re acting real smug for someone who’s also had that rug pulled out from under you twice now. Your first best friend was in love with you for who knows how long, and your second best friend *also* was in love with you, this time mutually.)
Not sure why i decided to write this comment in second person, but I digress.
Kitschensyngk
I think the proper syntax is “never BEEN bowling.”
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Were Dorothy’s parents the kind of high-pressure “get her into the *right* kind of preschool for success” types? Or did she just make herself like that as part of her ambitions?
Astariel
From what little we’ve seen of them, they don’t seem very high pressure at all. I remember one strip from Family Weekend where they said they just want Dorothy to be happy, and Dorothy said she wanted to make more of her life than they did, but I can’t find with the multi-tag not working.
HueSatLight
We bowled in gym class.
clif
Nice.
przxqgl
the proper term for “bowling” is “kegling”. a “bowler” is a “kegler”.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/kegling
Slartibeast Button, BIA
The crossover jokes with Kegel exercises just write themselves, don’t they.
clif
Leading to the well known drinking tune, Who’ll Come a Kegging With Keglers With Me?
Taffy
There’s an interesting Gravatar.
clif
Interesting is a word.
Kyulen
I’m gonna be charitable and assume your use of that symbol in your avatar is the version of it used as a sign of good luck in Hinduism and other eastern religions. And hopefully not a version of that symbol that means support for the very evil ideology of Germany in the 1930s and 1940s.
Queezle
This one is kind of cute.
KM
So a couple of things
Dorothy may literally only have had Danny and Joe as her only meaningful non-academic social interactions in High School.
Seems like she didn’t have any girlfriends or a girl best friend at all, at least not past elementary or middle school, given the way she phrased it.
Twinsword
That alt-text, tho
NGPZ
more good news,
I am FINALLY back on my PC with a setup which can accommodate my inflamed leg, although given my low energy levels cuz of meds and anemia it’ll be a while before I can get back to full swing of things TT-TT
oh yeah might as well craft me a new avatar to go with these… trying times
like fuck imma give my ID to YouTube, suck my dickThag Simmons
I hope you’re feeling better, for what little well wishes from a stranger on the internet are worth.
NGPZ
I mean it’s a mixed bag
I can have it down below my heart more but my leg still hurts like fuck and it’s started oozing and scabbing again (Sweets Syndrome)
additionally I have C. Diff infection, so taking meds for that, over halfway through the 10 day med regime now, hopefully i can get through without this killing me, I can’t even get my first iron transfusion until this is cleared
FUN FUN FUN @~@
IntangibleMatter
Dorothy, are you starved for platonic touch?. I think you might want to ask Danny about that, though he probably isn’t thrilled with you right now.
Dot
Also, Dorothy, girl, you had Sierra for months, do you guys just not talk anymore?
Reltzik
Sierra’s one of the nicest, most casual, most laid-back people in the building, and by the end of a single semester rooming with Dorothy she was Stepford-smiling.
Taffy
I’ve decided that this bowling scene is the reason my parents divorced.
Corey C.
When I was in high school, for our senior year our required gym class had five activities and we were supposed to do three of them for three weeks each until the quarter was over. One of them was bowling, and the only thing that mattered to our grade was showing up on time. There was no grading based on number of pins knocked down, we just had to be outside the gym for the bus to pick us up and drop us back off. Easiest “Pass” I ever had. (And what’s surprising was there were some kids who failed EVEN THAT by skipping the class entirely.)
The Rev
Nico, cousin! Let’s go booowlliiiiinggg
Kyulen
My high school gym class had a week where we went bowling at the local bowling place. I wasn’t into sports as a kid and wasn’t very good at them, but I still went bowling during that week of gym class, and I even played an old bowling video game. I guess I’m kinda surprised that Dorothy has never gone bowling before, since in my experience it’s a sport you can play very casually, even if you were more focused on studying than sports in school.
John Campbell
Don’t worry, Dorothy, no one you know does either. Just fake it ’til you make out.
sultryglebe
Dorothy’s been to paradise, but she’s never been to she.
(Obscure, weird joke that you may need to be old to get.)
Thing 2
Possibly a necessary but not sufficient condition. I’m old, but….
Bogeywoman
This is very funny. I like this one
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