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Great Minds Think Alike, since he and I posted pretty much the same thing at exactly the same time (or at least within the tolerance of the time-stamps).
Surprisingly enough, that’s not actually true. It’s rare, but if a woman has sex with two men right after the other, it’s been known for her to have “twins” – one from each man. Weird, huh? But either way, just because she’s “late” doesn’t mean she’s pregnant, but her seeming to freak out about it implies she hasn’t been using protection, so in case she’s not pregnant, she could use the condoms.
Hahaha, wow, this is the best comic. That is, all possible comics are comparable to this comic, and this comic is clearly, demonstrably better. It’s kind of a pity, really, knowing that all future comics have been prebested. Maybe it’s time to take up painting or something.
just think if they have room inspection that day and the entire place is filled with condoms? even better, what will billy say when she comes back to her room and someone dumped an entire tray of them on her floor?
While room inspections are required by all dormitories everywhere (with some exceptions), mostly they are looking for safety/health code violations (like candles or violent weapons), or occasionally are there on a tip off that someone has drugs (or alcohol if it’s an alcohol-free dorm). Also, periodically the fire marshal has to inspect the place -it’s the law. Not to mention the maintenance workers who mess with the air conditioner/heater and make sure the fire alarms are working. However, none of these people would be bothered by the condoms, after all they inspect college dorms, they are used to it. College’s can’t really keep you from having sex (except maybe for some religious institutions, I don’t know), though they may have a policy about overnight guests. I mean, why do you thing they have Roz handing out condoms in the first place? And before you say “she works for planned parenthood, not the dorm” remember that anything like that would have to be approved by the dorm, or else they would tell her to stop/get out.
She’s just making sure that Billie won’t be late again. Still, I never could use a “free sample condom;” I’d be too worried some company was trying to get rid of their defective stock. Besides, not like you can take it back for a refund if it doesn’t work…
At all of the Planned Parenthoods I’ve been to, the condoms have been name brands like Durex and Trojan. I imagine they get pretty good bulk discounts, especially because they’re a non-profit. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if condom companies gave them some sort of preferred-customer deal and the occasional giveaway – after all, what better way for condom companies to advertise?
They’re not, and I doubt there are many manufacturers out there that would use defective products for what’s essentially a promotional giveaway. Never mind the possibility of lawsuits or catching hell from the FDA if anyone ever found out.
Also, how would they know they were defective stock anyway? If they accidently went through a load with some scissors, they’re hardly going to put them in the wrappers and box them up, are they?
I would think that people spontaniously running out the door shouting about their lateness would be a pretty common sight in a dorm. Does this happen often to Roz?
Unlikely. If “they” are the condom manufacturers, they’ve already their product in every pharmacy in America. They don’t need to pay salespeople – and even if they did, how would they gain from having those people give the things away?
If “they” is Planned Parenthood, they don’t have that kind of money. They need volunteers and donations as it is.
People like Roz and Steven’s “friend” are volunteers – like Christian kids going out to spread the Word. Roz and Hugging Girl are simply zealots.
It’s the equivalent of pushy evangelism. Someone thinks something is for your own good, so they try to force it on you. Condoms may be more useful than Chick Tracts, but you still shouldn’t be required to take them.
Besides, this happened in high school – did the girl know how Steven’s parents would react if they found those condoms?
If the condom wasn’t going to be a catalyst for parents freaking out, they’d have found some other excuse. That type of parent always finds some other excuse.
You may as well complain about restaurants that give mints out with the cheque. No one that leaves you a condom or a Chick tract or an after dinner mint forces you to use it.
The difference being you aren’t obligated to take the mint. It’s there if you want it. Stuffing condoms into a person’s backpack isn’t leaving a mint with the cheque, it’s ramming the mint into the person’s mouth.
You aren’t obligated to take the tract or the condom, even if they are left in your possession. To compare this to having a mint rammed into your mouth is dishonest, to put it mildly.
When someone left cigarettes in my backpack, for reasons I don’t know, I threw them out.
When someone put a cigarette in my mouth while I was sleeping at an airport, I woke up chewing on the thing and couldn’t get the taste out of my mouth for a good while.
back at college orientation we had a (very humorous) presentation about using contraceptives and not binge drinking and all that good responsables stuff.
at the end the actors all yelled STRAP IT UP! and chucked large handfuls of condoms into the audience. orientataion rocked!
lol, I laughed as soon as I loaded the page just from the sight of her head dildo, and then again after I read it. (it it just me or is the head dildo curving the wrong way in the last panel?)
Right — Roz is busting her butt to get the word and vital supplies out, and Billie, exclaiming to the world she’s tardy to get to her class period, gives the impression she’s late to start her period. No WONDER Roz is throwing objects.
Moral of the story: Get more sleep. You won’t be so hasty in jumping to conclusions.
My mind must go to weird places. I had this vision that Roz threw her entire stock into that room because her voluneteer work is actually some sort of community service sentence that required her to wear “that stupid hat” and shout “those stupid slogans” until she was able to finally give away her stock to people that needed them.
Then all of a sudden, she’s handed this wonderful excuse to unload everything, even if it wouldn’t make any sense even if it wasn’t based on a wacky misunderstanding.
Then part of me wonders if Roz’s overreaction might be due in part to having been where she thinks Billie is now. It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve seen a pregnancy scare trigger activism (biblical or prophylactic).
Right, right, Let Mr. Willis tell his story. I’m almost certainly reading too much into this that isn’t there.
I’m sure Roz is just tossing out her supply so it looks like she passed them all out. I’m sure Ruth will find them and be even bongoier to Billie. I’m sure I’m getting sick of this relationship between Ruth and Billie. Feels completely Scrubs, J.D./Janitor around the time it got a little old just before Janitor was allowed to be a real character.
Hey David, just wanted to say this comic is amazing. Really captures the feeling and brings me back to my freshman year. Absolutely awesome. Keep up the good work!
Realised that @damnyouwillis.bsky.social's characters might actually work really nicely with the River City Girls style, so until I make some more sprites here's Joyce telling Yoko that omigosh she also has a friend who likes hockey, and has she heard of this team called the 'Leafs'?
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2016: ... climate change! and fascism
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really not enjoying the direction this is going to be quite honest
yesterday i tried an "apple jack latte" at a local coffee place, seemed like an okay flavor to try, like, woo, brown cinnamon, whatever
but they put actual apple jack cereal on top of it
do you know what you're drinking now
soggy cheerios
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XD lawl double entendres
Gotta love them!
i thought that was Roz at fist XD
she will never be late again lol
Billie has no idea Roz is there and Roz figured something else happened, yeeeahh. That’s awkward even for Roz.
Wouldn’t it be too late for those if BIllie was saying what Roz thinks she’s saying?
GMTA…
lol, indeed.
Um, excuse me? Translation, please.
Great Minds Think Alike, since he and I posted pretty much the same thing at exactly the same time (or at least within the tolerance of the time-stamps).
Preparation for future avoidances of lateness.
And lets not forget being ‘late’ doesn’t nessicarily mean anything.
OK, if Roz had been correctly interpreting Billie, that’d kind of be closing the barn door after the horse has escaped…
Assuming a woman is only going to welcome one horse into their barn…
I am fairly sure that the barn door is only one horse wide and closes when it goes in, (i can’t think of a way for the metaphor to account for twins)
A two-headed horse??
If it can stretch for the exit, it can stretch for entry…
Surprisingly enough, that’s not actually true. It’s rare, but if a woman has sex with two men right after the other, it’s been known for her to have “twins” – one from each man. Weird, huh? But either way, just because she’s “late” doesn’t mean she’s pregnant, but her seeming to freak out about it implies she hasn’t been using protection, so in case she’s not pregnant, she could use the condoms.
And assuming that said horse is going to be kept.
Hahaha, wow, this is the best comic. That is, all possible comics are comparable to this comic, and this comic is clearly, demonstrably better. It’s kind of a pity, really, knowing that all future comics have been prebested. Maybe it’s time to take up painting or something.
Including this one?
Well isn’t that nice of her.
just think if they have room inspection that day and the entire place is filled with condoms? even better, what will billy say when she comes back to her room and someone dumped an entire tray of them on her floor?
Even better: what will RUTH say?
If she gives a shit at all, I imagine it would be limited to “Pick these up”. Maybe something snarky about how it’s good Billie isn’t going to breed.
What Would Sal Say?
“Cool, free condoms”
I think Sal would say, “Apparently Ah’m not the wild roommate.”
Room inspection? What college did you go to?
Most schools tend to have room checks in the dorms, what college did you go to that you were spared?
While room inspections are required by all dormitories everywhere (with some exceptions), mostly they are looking for safety/health code violations (like candles or violent weapons), or occasionally are there on a tip off that someone has drugs (or alcohol if it’s an alcohol-free dorm). Also, periodically the fire marshal has to inspect the place -it’s the law. Not to mention the maintenance workers who mess with the air conditioner/heater and make sure the fire alarms are working. However, none of these people would be bothered by the condoms, after all they inspect college dorms, they are used to it. College’s can’t really keep you from having sex (except maybe for some religious institutions, I don’t know), though they may have a policy about overnight guests. I mean, why do you thing they have Roz handing out condoms in the first place? And before you say “she works for planned parenthood, not the dorm” remember that anything like that would have to be approved by the dorm, or else they would tell her to stop/get out.
She’s just making sure that Billie won’t be late again. Still, I never could use a “free sample condom;” I’d be too worried some company was trying to get rid of their defective stock. Besides, not like you can take it back for a refund if it doesn’t work…
I don’t believe Planned Parenthood is known for giving away defective condoms.
Then again, I haven’t listened to a nutbar conservative politician today, so they may be pushing that lie now as well.
If the price is right, I’m not sure they’d be too picky about the source.
At all of the Planned Parenthoods I’ve been to, the condoms have been name brands like Durex and Trojan. I imagine they get pretty good bulk discounts, especially because they’re a non-profit. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if condom companies gave them some sort of preferred-customer deal and the occasional giveaway – after all, what better way for condom companies to advertise?
They’re not, and I doubt there are many manufacturers out there that would use defective products for what’s essentially a promotional giveaway. Never mind the possibility of lawsuits or catching hell from the FDA if anyone ever found out.
Also, how would they know they were defective stock anyway? If they accidently went through a load with some scissors, they’re hardly going to put them in the wrappers and box them up, are they?
Wow. This one made me choke with laughter.
I wonder… will Sal find them first?
This one took me two readings, and when I got it, I laughed and applauded. Slappy Squirrel would be proud of your timing.
Now THAT’S comedy!
If the comments for DoA pages had like buttons, I would be spamming it right now for this.
I would think that people spontaniously running out the door shouting about their lateness would be a pretty common sight in a dorm. Does this happen often to Roz?
Pause… Laughter ensues. Awesome strip today.
Has Roz developed thicker thighs in this universe?
I always hated this type of girl. I had someone give me a hug in order to slip some into my backpack. In high school.
*quirks an eyebrow* and this is so terrible becaaaaause…?
Condoms reek of Satan. Also latex.
It’s so terrible because what she did was dishonest. Maybe they were paying her by the unit to distribute them.
Unlikely. If “they” are the condom manufacturers, they’ve already their product in every pharmacy in America. They don’t need to pay salespeople – and even if they did, how would they gain from having those people give the things away?
If “they” is Planned Parenthood, they don’t have that kind of money. They need volunteers and donations as it is.
People like Roz and Steven’s “friend” are volunteers – like Christian kids going out to spread the Word. Roz and Hugging Girl are simply zealots.
It’s the equivalent of pushy evangelism. Someone thinks something is for your own good, so they try to force it on you. Condoms may be more useful than Chick Tracts, but you still shouldn’t be required to take them.
Besides, this happened in high school – did the girl know how Steven’s parents would react if they found those condoms?
If the condom wasn’t going to be a catalyst for parents freaking out, they’d have found some other excuse. That type of parent always finds some other excuse.
You may as well complain about restaurants that give mints out with the cheque. No one that leaves you a condom or a Chick tract or an after dinner mint forces you to use it.
The difference being you aren’t obligated to take the mint. It’s there if you want it. Stuffing condoms into a person’s backpack isn’t leaving a mint with the cheque, it’s ramming the mint into the person’s mouth.
You aren’t obligated to take the tract or the condom, even if they are left in your possession. To compare this to having a mint rammed into your mouth is dishonest, to put it mildly.
Excuse me, use, not take.
I’ll make it clearer.
When someone left cigarettes in my backpack, for reasons I don’t know, I threw them out.
When someone put a cigarette in my mouth while I was sleeping at an airport, I woke up chewing on the thing and couldn’t get the taste out of my mouth for a good while.
Show some perspective, people.
Come & knock on our door…
Is it a trick of perspective of is Billie quite a bit larger than Ross? I mean she can lift three girls over her head so it would be appropriate.
Both, I think. Roz is pretty tiny, after all.
Why did no one ever throw free contraceptive at me? Imagine all the money that could be saved.
back at college orientation we had a (very humorous) presentation about using contraceptives and not binge drinking and all that good responsables stuff.
at the end the actors all yelled STRAP IT UP! and chucked large handfuls of condoms into the audience. orientataion rocked!
STRAP IT UP is now my new pre-sex battle cry.
That should make for effective birth control.
Roz is now my new favorite.
lol, I laughed as soon as I loaded the page just from the sight of her head dildo, and then again after I read it. (it it just me or is the head dildo curving the wrong way in the last panel?)
rubber? bends how it wants..
i like to think that it’s constantly spinning
ooo spinning dildo i hat.. thats awesome!!
and every hour there is a light show and confetti flies out
Love this update! This is hilarious!
You have to admit that is kind of thoughtful… and hilarious.
You’d think Roz singing loudly would have woken up Billie. Maybe it did. That’s be a hell of a wake-up call.
Oh that’s terribly terribly wrong. =^-^=
Isn’t that like closing the barn door after the horse escaped?
(And isn’t pretty much the only person who’s been with Billy at night… Sal?)
Right — Roz is busting her butt to get the word and vital supplies out, and Billie, exclaiming to the world she’s tardy to get to her class period, gives the impression she’s late to start her period. No WONDER Roz is throwing objects.
Moral of the story: Get more sleep. You won’t be so hasty in jumping to conclusions.
Are you the Demoncat?
Too coherent.
yep. Sounds Green.
Is it mean of me to think: “She needs them much more than you know, Roz…”?
I mean, she was all over Tony buying her alcohol and stuff and wouldn’t have minded sleeping with him…
Excellent. I actually laughed out loud, despite Billie being my second favorite Female Character (Sal’s first) Two Thumbs up.
My mind must go to weird places. I had this vision that Roz threw her entire stock into that room because her voluneteer work is actually some sort of community service sentence that required her to wear “that stupid hat” and shout “those stupid slogans” until she was able to finally give away her stock to people that needed them.
Then all of a sudden, she’s handed this wonderful excuse to unload everything, even if it wouldn’t make any sense even if it wasn’t based on a wacky misunderstanding.
Then part of me wonders if Roz’s overreaction might be due in part to having been where she thinks Billie is now. It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve seen a pregnancy scare trigger activism (biblical or prophylactic).
Right, right, Let Mr. Willis tell his story. I’m almost certainly reading too much into this that isn’t there.
I’m sure Roz is just tossing out her supply so it looks like she passed them all out. I’m sure Ruth will find them and be even bongoier to Billie. I’m sure I’m getting sick of this relationship between Ruth and Billie. Feels completely Scrubs, J.D./Janitor around the time it got a little old just before Janitor was allowed to be a real character.
Wow, a free-sex “evangelical”. She’s like the flip side of Joyce.
Nah, a flip side of Joyce would employ Mike to use violent means to get people to have… y’know, best to drop that thought there.
Why drop it? that’s an awesome thought. “Climax, Damn you!!! Do it!!”
She’s doing that in the dorms? Our dorms freak out if we try to post a flyer.
At least she’s a pro-active cam-whore.
I just went from apathetic toward Roz to Pro-Roz.
I just went from apathetic toward Condoms to Pro-Condoms.
that was supposed to say Condom-hats, stupid lack-of-edit-button
Hey, if you’d typed it on an iPhone, it would’ve come out the same way.
Willis, you just made me kinda like Roz. You monster! How can I face Shortpacked now?
XD
…Burma-Shave.
Oh my god.
I just started reading these today, and I’m obsessed.
You, dear comic-creator, are amazing.
This is also hilarious.
Hilarious.
HAHAHAHAHHAAH I LOVE IT
Hey David, just wanted to say this comic is amazing. Really captures the feeling and brings me back to my freshman year. Absolutely awesome. Keep up the good work!
It’s all about RESPONSIBILITY.
Why throw them? Did she sell one to Billie or something?
I lolled
I think she’s just covering her bases, JUST IN CASE.
Now that,is classic
…I see what you pun-d here.