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The comment was much more fun before you clarified. I was trying to figure out how to pronounce “Ht” so I could work it into everyday conversation and then define it for people.
I been using a green background in my avatar in other forums/comments, but uptil now I being using red backgrounds for the DoA and SP! comments, I believe it is time for a change.
Pussy lips are an English slang term for labia, you might known them better as Beef Curtains, Muff, Tunnel Of Love, Poontang or even Gateway To Her Guts…
I just presumed that those ‘panties’ are the sort that short legs on them, and what you perverts are imagining is her crotch is actually just the side of her leg.
Not that seeing some inner thigh is a bad thing either, but get a grip people. If you’re *that* desperate for some panty action, Sal’s still in the archive.
She isn’t a cheerleader and hasn’t been one for months now. This fact was recently pointed out to her even, and by “pointed out” I mean “jammed down her throat with sufficient force to break her brain.”
Billie, once again you make me dislike you and feel sorry for you at the same time.
I can’t help but feel pity for her; she is having such a hard time adjusting to a new setting (mostly her own fault) that she is regressing back to her personal “glory days”, at least in her own mind (and with the help of her alcoholism). This is almost painful to watch. But at least Billie spoke some truth in the last panel.
Billie: I couldn’t believe they took that article away from me! What do you think, Mr. Boozie?
Beer bottle: You’re right, Billie, you deserve to write about Amazi-girl!
Sal: …there have got to be sane people here. Somewhere.
Don’t think HS was the best days of my life by a very long shot. I was there to learn not socialize. I always feel sorta sorry for people who say that it was ‘best days of their lives’, most of ’em would get along with Billie just fine.
Really? Because I surely wasn’t happy until I started studying at a university. High school wasn’t bad, but I was glad I was done with it and I don’t think about it very often (and avoid reunions).
I looked at your link, then I had to look up what Bovril is, then I realized that this is possibly the most disgusting drink ever created, including some created at parties when the rule in my apartment was “you can make any experimental drink you want from ingredients found in the kitchen, as long as you drink it afterward”. On a side note, some really good drinks came out of these experiments, most notably a drink I referred to as “The Bloody Mao”, because it was a Bloody Mary with Chinese hot mustard and spicy oyster sauce replacing the standard Worchestershire sauce and horseradish, both of which were missing from the kitchen that night.
Those aren’t panties! Those are shorts underneath, as they clearly go a little bit down the thigh. Unless maybe we’re to believe that Billie has boyshorts that mach her skirt and thought to wear them.
Billie’s secret is that she honestly has no idea that her old uniform is starting to become rather ill-fitting.
…Although that’s not really the right quadrant of the Johari Window to count as a secret, huh?
#BREAKING: Yellow and Green fire was seen exploding out of a manhole at Texas Tech University moments ago.
Evacuations are underway for the whole campus.
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This "mob" of "Anti-Israel" protesters is predominantly Jewish.
Sheryl Weikal (The Leftist Lawyer)@leftistlawyer.com ⋅ 7h
And now, let's see how news media in the purported only democracy in the middle east is covering the Trump administration disappearing a Palestinian American for his speech.
kind of stunning how unpopular trump is already...and yet how craven senate Ds remain in confronting him.
like, everyone hates him. just oppose him relentlessly! this is a fucking lay up!
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Trump's Approval On Foreign Policy:
Disapprove: 48%
Approve: 37%
Ipsos / March 12, 2025 / n=1422
ROZ: Niles said you’re going on a date with a trans woman.
FRASIER: I suppose you don’t approve.
ROZ: Oh, no, Frasier, I really feel for trans women.
FRASIER: Oh? Do go on.
ROZ: Oh, I can just relate to any woman who has a useless prick they’d like to get rid of
Dear cis people,
It's well past the point where this kind of thing will fix everything, but I want you to take note of how easy this is.
These little freaks are soft-handed little babies that will fold like a napkin in the rain.
Light these fools up.
Ari Drennen@aridrennen.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Texas Republican Keithself storms out of the meeting he's supposed to be running because a Democrat asked him to treat his colleague Sarah McBride with respect. These people would not last one day as a trans person.
Your secret is YOU LEZZIE
Ht is a lOve for the vagina
w-what?
my iPhone wanted to make “her secret” a contraction and capitalize the “o” in “love” so it did
The comment was much more fun before you clarified. I was trying to figure out how to pronounce “Ht” so I could work it into everyday conversation and then define it for people.
I think it might sound like a grunt someone’s making while on the toilet.
“Hnnt”
Agreed, I and many others have made that sound while shitting on the throne.
Photoshop those panties off of Billy on your gravatar, Plasma :3
Thise are actually spats, those short spandex shorts.
Green background? o_O
I been using a green background in my avatar in other forums/comments, but uptil now I being using red backgrounds for the DoA and SP! comments, I believe it is time for a change.
Billy needs an intervention. Nowish.
in the FAAAAAACCCCEEE
That’s optional.
Oh i almost forgot.
You’re still wrong, you stupid drunk.
And I’m still going to write a book by that title. It’ll be an international bestseller.
Shhh no one react to what I’m about to say… I think Billie might have an alcohol problem.
The real surprise here is that Sal was using a door.
blasphemy!
I’m pretty sure that wasn’t a secret, Billie.
How is that a secret? I thought everyone knew that Billie.
Plas, you magnificient bastard! I would kiss you if you’re a gal and would give you a brohug if you’re a dude.
It feels strange to use a grav without a FACE!
FAAAAAAAAAACE!
What are you talking about? The lips are nearly visible.
….
‘Loose lips sink ships’ that’s what they always used to say…
I don’t think those are lips, taekwondogirl.
Pussy lips are an English slang term for labia, you might known them better as Beef Curtains, Muff, Tunnel Of Love, Poontang or even Gateway To Her Guts…
Tell me more, Master.
you left out tacos and clams…
I could be all day if I posted EVERY slang term for pussy lips, hence why I left out so much.
*facepalm*
Gnnngh.
I apologize if I had done anything that may had caused you to start facepalming. I am really sorry about my behavior. Please don’t ban me.
Everyone, say something that will make Willis facepalm!
I just presumed that those ‘panties’ are the sort that short legs on them, and what you perverts are imagining is her crotch is actually just the side of her leg.
Not that seeing some inner thigh is a bad thing either, but get a grip people. If you’re *that* desperate for some panty action, Sal’s still in the archive.
Oh, it goes deeper than that. The Latin “labia” means “lip.”
At least it has femurs.
I see she hasn’t sewn the N and S back on yet.
You think Billie knows how to sow?
Are you calling Billie a pig?
No she’s a Kraken. Because They Do Not Sow.
This was glorious.
Not a farmer.
Only thing Billie sows is her wild oats.
No, no — she’s just really into Rocky IV.
Puns? What puns?
She’s very “Cheery”.
Nope. Still not getting it. Is it a normerayankian kinda thing?
/refugeefromthehomelandofenglish
I’m normanaryan, or whatever, and I only just got it myself – Billie’s ‘s impersonating a CHEERleader!
“Impersonating”?
She isn’t a cheerleader and hasn’t been one for months now. This fact was recently pointed out to her even, and by “pointed out” I mean “jammed down her throat with sufficient force to break her brain.”
Oh wow I get it
:T I’m ashamed to say that panel 2 makes me want to see much much more of cheerleader Billie.
I’m astounded that she can fit into her costume as well as she does.
You think she would have put on 20 pounds over the summer?
You make it sound like putting 20lbs(9kg) is somehow hard.
It’s called the freshman 15. So it’s likely. Billie just went overboard…
It doesn’t usually happen the summer before freshman year, though.
Billie couldn’t wait. she was so excited
Whoa, I just got a “Saved by the Bell” flashbacks.
Depends how much you drink, really. Beer has lots of calories. And she does like a tipple or five…
I dunno, she has the slightest bit of muffin top going on in the first panel.
More cheerleader Billie? Excuse me, gentlemen.
I want to see someone (Mongoose, maybe) make a gravatar of Billie’s crotch-shot.
Wish granted. you have only 2 left.
Really? Well, I wish….I wish…… I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray, Hooray.
Well, that didn’t take long.
Do you want this Billie crutch grav for yourself, Bekah?
That was incredibly fast Plasma. I’d congratulate, but something feels wrong about saying “good work” while looking at that grav.
It only took about 5 mins on Photoshop and about 5 mins for Gravatar to show it.
It would be you to do that so quickly Plasma lol
It helps that Willis’ artstyle makes it a lot easier to modify quickly.
I love you. Platonically. But still.
Why is the background so… green? I’m having GEM flashbacks.
DESKTOP ITEMS CANNOT BE PLACED IN THE TRASH
*row of bombs*
Billie was from the Dragonkin frat while at school.
So, Billie is Dovakhin?
No, but she did go to Wizard School.
Someone picked a great day to wear their Slime shirt…what with the beer stains…
And I thought it said “SLIM” …
Is Sal the real Slim Shady? She’s slim and shady.
No, Billie, you’re just colorblind.
B-E-E-R
what hinders my ability to drive a car!?
BEER! BEER!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY Beer
Inhibitions Go away Come again another day!
Go inebriation!
Billie, once again you make me dislike you and feel sorry for you at the same time.
I can’t help but feel pity for her; she is having such a hard time adjusting to a new setting (mostly her own fault) that she is regressing back to her personal “glory days”, at least in her own mind (and with the help of her alcoholism). This is almost painful to watch. But at least Billie spoke some truth in the last panel.
I’m not sure it is regressing if her “glory days” were only a few weeks ago.
The time difference is small but the actual difference in setting and social status is a huge jump anyway.
It can’t be alcoholism since that’s pretty much known to everyone.
Billy in her cheerleader’s outfit? I’ll be right back.
I hope that toilet paper is at least 3ply.
Plasma, photoshop the panties off of billy in your gravatar :3
That would require that I raise the Gravatar Rating beyond G and Willis’s comments don’t allow that as far as I am aware.
I’m pretty sure the Joyce-in-her-bra Grav I’ve been seeing around is a PG-13. But yeah, an unobscured crotch shot would likely be beyond the pale.
(Note: I am not Willis.)
(Note: I am not Willis.)
Well that blows my theory out of the water.
I hope Billie knows you can’t become cool by throwing parties alone.
Oh yeah? Tell that to Pinkie Pie.
Billie: I couldn’t believe they took that article away from me! What do you think, Mr. Boozie?
Beer bottle: You’re right, Billie, you deserve to write about Amazi-girl!
Sal: …there have got to be sane people here. Somewhere.
Mr. Boozie is such a great friend.
Win.
Why do I keep imagining Sal wearing a cowboy hat?
And riding Billie like a NO BAD DARTH
o3o…I…I may have to draw that…
There ya go
Or lemme try this o3o
http://oi50.tinypic.com/30hlflh.jpg whatever.
Thank you, Yotomoe. That is really good.
Sorry that I suck at all manner of hats.
Hey, it’s OK. I like your artwork.
Yeah, that’s really nice, I like your style.
Because hats are glorious. That’s a fact.
Man, Billie really puts perspective into how depressing the notion is that high school might be the best days of your life.
That was just the right grav for that statement.
And that is the right grav for almost any statement.
I wouldn’t recommend it for any Gettysburg-like Addresses though, it lacks a certain dignity.
Well, that’s why I said “almost” any occasion. You need a tophat for that/
Yeah, just shop a top hat onto the knee there and suddenly the grav is ready for political statements at the White House!
I was indecent, then I took a top-hat to the knee
We require a top hat photoshopped over Billy’s lady bits.
Billie not the crazy eye look… Sal don’t look into them you will be traumatized for life. Noooooooooooooooooo.
At least Billie actually has eyes instead of shiny black holes in her face.
What, like Youngblood’s disease?
Is it just me, or does Billie really look like “Buckets of Blood” guy in panel 3?
Don’t think HS was the best days of my life by a very long shot. I was there to learn not socialize. I always feel sorta sorry for people who say that it was ‘best days of their lives’, most of ’em would get along with Billie just fine.
If high school was the best days of your life, that isn’t a glowing review of highschool, its a sign the rest of your life was utter balls.
And not the brightly colored plastic kind you find in ballpits or the elegant dance party kind of balls, either.
Really? Because I surely wasn’t happy until I started studying at a university. High school wasn’t bad, but I was glad I was done with it and I don’t think about it very often (and avoid reunions).
Oh, I’ve just understood your comment.
I think I need a breakfast.
I feel really badly for Billie… This isn’t going to end well.
I get it. Sal be cooler is a “secret” in the same way Billie being a drunk is a “secret”. Sneaky stuff David.
Gateway To Her Guts…… ????
What are you referring to, Jim?
Do it anally
6 down from your first post
Possibly OT question:
If I’m thirty, and the age poll on the sidebar has options for 22-30 and 30-40… WHICH ONE DO I CHOOSE?!
Bad Willis, making overlapping poll options! No! Get down! No biscuits!
Glad I’m not the only one who had that issue. I chose the lower one since physically I’m 30 but mentally I’m about 12.
Ooh, I didn’t notice that! I presume it’s a sinister plot to make approximately a twelfth of his readership’s heads explode.
I’m too busy feeling bad for Billie to understand Sal’s pun
Billie is acting… cheery. In fact, she’s the leading cheery person in the room right now!
What is the drink?
Can’t identify it based on color or consistency….
A Polish Bison in a soft drink bottle maybe?
I looked at your link, then I had to look up what Bovril is, then I realized that this is possibly the most disgusting drink ever created, including some created at parties when the rule in my apartment was “you can make any experimental drink you want from ingredients found in the kitchen, as long as you drink it afterward”. On a side note, some really good drinks came out of these experiments, most notably a drink I referred to as “The Bloody Mao”, because it was a Bloody Mary with Chinese hot mustard and spicy oyster sauce replacing the standard Worchestershire sauce and horseradish, both of which were missing from the kitchen that night.
Now imagine the smell of Billies beef breathe and spilling the alcho-beef drink all over Sals hipster-t.
Not as sexy now is it?
That background Billie picture implies she WAS thinner back then.
Those aren’t panties! Those are shorts underneath, as they clearly go a little bit down the thigh. Unless maybe we’re to believe that Billie has boyshorts that mach her skirt and thought to wear them.
Well she is billie, and she is drunk.
I just want everyone to know that while reading this I am imagining Mike having an argument with himself about Billie’s underwear.
Billie is Drago!
She must break you.
Does the shape of that bottle make anybody else suspect that billie is drinking rubbing alcohol?
She’s better off drinking mouthwash, it contains alcohol and even if you spew, it will smell minty fresh.
The one time Sal decides to go through the door.
I’d hope she’s now learned her lesson.
This is the dance I imagine Billy is doing in Panel 2:
http://youtu.be/z5sRNFNaYVc
Come on Sal! Teach Billie to be as cool as you!
BTW, having passionate lesbian sex with your roomie while she’s in a cheerleader outfit makes you both wicked cool!
I endorse this.
Why is Billie drinking a bottle of Hydrogen Peroxide?
Billie’s into the REALLY hard stuff
How else do you think she keep her skin looking the way it does?
uuuuuuupppppppppskiiiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrrt.
But it’s just a cheerleader upskirt – those are designed to be as modest as they are immodest, and as conservative as they are titillating.
As alluring as they are inevitable, as anticipated as they are disappointing.
Billie’s secret is that she honestly has no idea that her old uniform is starting to become rather ill-fitting.
…Although that’s not really the right quadrant of the Johari Window to count as a secret, huh?
I would like to let you guys now that Dave Willis is a jerk face (Jeph Jacques wrote that as the link to this site).
It took me 24 hours to get the pun.
I feel so stupid.
Oh my goodness. This is at least the third time I’ve read this strip and I JUST now got Sal’s pun. I feel smart.