The Commonwealth of Greater Barfland
Motto: “Quot sine coitu abiit matres?”
Secondary Motto: “We just go with Google Translate and hope it’s close enough.”
Mary’s not sitting in the room alone any more. Artificial insemination has radically increased the size of that population. Not everyone tries that option last, you know.
For some reason I can’t reply to the comments branching off this one, but according to a book by George Carlin I read once, the “immaculate conception” refers to being conceived without original sin, and the idea of conception without, y’know, fucking, was a later puritanical invention.
I would assume frogs and sharks still get a free pass on that one.
Or if we want to be slightly more serious about this, what we’re actually talking about is virginal conception, not immaculate conception. The latter refers to the whole “original sin” concept, the former is explicitly about sex. Very common to use “immaculate” when you really mean “virginal” outside of theological discussions, though. Up until the late 1600’s there was even an school of belief that said Mary herself was virginally conceived (poor Joachim gets none!) but the Catholic Church condemned that one ages ago.
Rich:
Actually, I think the Protestant churches are the one who did the whole “no immaculate conception” thing (which term, by the way, refers to Mary’s birth, not Jesus’ birth). As far as the Catholic church is concerned, the immaculate conception of Mary may be apocryphal (because it didn’t have enough Jesus in it to get in the Bible), but it’s still seen as something true.
Also, Joachim did get some. Mary has at least one sibling. I think her name’s Elizabeth.
Note: I’m just some guy who read this on the internet somewhere (even if it was the Encyclopedia Catholic, or whatever it’s called). Feel free to correct me.
No Name: I’m no theologian either, but I think there the Protestants originally accepted immaculate conception during Martin Luther’s period, then moved away from it during the Calvinist reforms.
Jesus Mom Mary’s sister was also confusingly named Mary, not Elizabeth, but she may have been a sister-in-law (ie part of Joe’s family) rather than a blood relative. Joachim and Anne had fertility problems that required divine intervention to produce the first Mary, so it would be a little odd if they had a second daughter, especially by the same name.
Elizabeth is the mother of John the Baptist, and cousin to Jesus Mom Mary.
I’d almost forgotten what a tangle this stuff was to sort through.
How did that movie line go?
“I came up with this move. I call it the Stranger. You sit on your hand for about 5-10 minutes, then use it to jack off. Ye’ see, that way, it feels like someone else is doing it…”
Can’t remember what movie, it was on TV, but relevant I think…
Looks like his mother’s plan for him making it in the medical profession are going to hit a snag in the form of her son counting himself amongst the numerous dopes who flunk their freshman year. Gentleman’s C for him, baby!
Next year, Mike will be responsible of about 80% of the babies of the neighbourhood. 15 years later, he starts harnessing them as his army of elite super soldiers.
He then travels to an alternate dimension where hid mind takes over the body of a peaceful alien, he then starts giving babies of this dimension superpowers in a plan to take over the world.
He also doesn’t seem to care whether or not he passes. A perfect opportunity to make Ruth’s life hell by making her forcibly remove him (or at least try to) from campus after he flunks out at the end of the year.
That’s his deep, dark secret in this universe, show him a cute kitty vid & watch his eyes turn into dinner plates, listen to the baby talk & make sure to video it from a good hiding place or he’ll find 1 for you, long term…
I love this idea but that means Willis would actually have to write out a detailed lesson for Walky to learn (“blah blah blah” would mean he’s NOT paying attention)
Actually, I was thinking of some truly awful anime clips I’ve had the misfortune of seeing. Shirtless Chris Farley is a significant improvement. Thanks!
I think hard work and perseverance have been shown throughout history
to be more effective then school. School is important but it did not
make Bill Gates a billionaire.
True, but hard work and perseverance weren’t all it took to make him a billionaire, either; a fair bit of good luck, timing, and ambition came in to play as well.
He has said one of the biggest factors in his success was having access to computers to play with and work on when he was a kid; he said all the interest he had in them wouldn’t have amounted to anything without access to them to actually work on. As I recall, in the interview I’m referencing from several years ago, there was a mainframe or something at a college in the area that he’d sneak out at night and go and use.
He’s a big proponent of having computer access in schools (which is less of an issue nowadays than when I was a kid, at least, but I’m not sure how universal it is) because of that.
hey, I said people who want to better themselves, not ALL people who want to better themselves
I think American schooling is a sham but will readily concede that there are for-real people who exist AND can benefit from schooling even of the current quality and rip-off pricing when mere desire and independent study alone do not work. As my boss says, “Every case is different (and I want you to copy-paste these pre-written texts exactly for each case).”
I was in that boat, too. Obnoxious brat kid who could make Principal’s List despite sleeping thought half my classes and doing all my assignments the night before. Get to uni. First year, still did fine. Second year? “crash and burn” comes to mind. GPA dropped from 4.3 to 3.1 in one semester.
Though, I did learn how to study after that. Mainly because I had friends who actually had to study and they took pity on me and were all, “Here is how you take notes on a reading. Here is how you review for a test.” etc.
I had Walky’s problem. Basically skated through school never studying. Had no idea where to even start when I had to. It’s a really nasty wake up call when you hit that glass ceiling of studying.
Holy crap: Joyce got a boy friend and broke up with him, Walky got a girlfriend,
Ambers abusive father appeared. Sal started sleeping with the T.A Becky reappeared and revealed herself to be gay. That is a lot of stuff to happen in the span of a couple weeks.
A single day in the dumb-verse can take as much as 14 strips to pass from begining to end. So if there are 52 weeks in a year and this strip is about two years old that means about a year of time has passed. These guys are about ready for summer break and they haven’t accomplished anything.
The first three weeks ran pretty consistently about a real-time year to a DoA week. This week (Week Four) will have been a year and a half on the 25th, and there’s still most of Saturday to go. I don’t remember exactly when the weekend updates started, but the first year, at least, was only weekday updates.
There has been no DoA day as short as 14 strips, save the ones that were skipped and got a single panel or less – Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of Week Two waiting for pajama jeans, and Thursday and Friday of Week Three studying with Dorothy. Storylines are single days, modulo some occasional spill past midnight at the end, and those two timeskips. The shortest storyline so far was 30 strips; the longest 117.
I’m really looking forward to the end of October rolling around in story time. Halloween was insane in my own freshman year, and my dorm didn’t have anything like the level of drama DoA has.
Hopefully I live long enough to see it happen…2022-ish at the current rate, maybe?
Like I said, a storyline is typically a day/night cycle.
Here is a detailed timeline. You may note that there is no day in that timeline, save those that were skipped entirely, and today, which isn’t even close to over, that has links to fewer than 21 strips – and none of them have links to all the strips that happened that day; just strips that I found notable. That generally means scene changes, significant events, plot points, and stuff I’ve found myself wanting to reference later.
(I need to go through and note all the strips where Joyce is shown holding her wounded hand…)
At least it’s math he’s struggling with. Getting the hang of sample problems, while arduous, is at least a more predictable studying method than flash cards for history or science.
This is nearly every first year college student I teach. My job, alas, is to break them and make them cry. I don’t enjoy doing it… really… really, I don’t 😀
Dorothy’s been slipping recently. Enjoying life instead of studying. Even Mike called her a bit on that.
this… will show. And there will be a lot of yelling.
On the old “I Love Lucy” episodes (which come on at 4:00 AM CT on one of those all-night throw-back cable TV channels) that I’ve seen he plays a single-headed bokú (which the show incorrectly called a conga), not a bongo.
Hmmm, I must be conflating different instruments. I have seen photos of Desi Arnaz playing actual bongo drums, but on closer examination the shots were publicity stills, not scenes taken from the show. He probably played quite a few instruments, and I’ll admit I don’t know for sure which he preferred in real life. In character as Ricky, it was definitely the “conga” on the show, even if the instrument was more accurately a boku or maybe ashiko.
And apropos of nothing, I can dimly remember watching “I Love Lucy” and “Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour” reruns on network TV back in the days before cable. Seemed like they stayed on the air forever when I was young.
It’s funnier. Has some side effects, though – you sound absolutely ridiculous when talking about dog breeding, and sound less demeaning and sexist when talking about anything else. So long as we aren’t rambling on about breeding bongoes, I think the side effects are tolerable.
On a more serious note, the filter went in after one comment section began to center on whether a character was or wasn’t a bongo, and I’m pretty certain she is neither a dog nor interested in breeding (I said breeding, not sex).
I understand why Willis did it, but censoring in the comments a word that’s used in the strip itself, by sympathetic characters, even self-referentially… bothers me.
Oh hey, and in the URL of at at least one strip, so it’s not possible to link it in the comments now. (It’s the one after this one. Which is, ironically, entitled “Not directly”.)
This censorship may be clumsy, but apparently Willis has been getting a lot of complaints about the atmosphere here being rather unwelcoming, and this was his reaction. Plus, he may yet decide that the filter has become unnecessary, and remove it. We’ll see.
Mike? When did he ever do anything evil? He’s rude, but he’s usually just calling people out on hypocrisy, not indulging in pointless spite. Case in point, this.
Punching someone (even though it was Joyce who wanted him to be chaperone)… giving away Walky’s DVDs (although he might have just been joking about that)… Both of these would be considered illegal (if not immoral).
He talked about doing it; there’s nothing that indicates that he did, and he could have before Dorothy took his phone. If was really into that kind of thing, wouldn’t he have outed Ethan on Facebook, posted that Becky the runaway lesgirl is hiding out with Joyce, etc. His assholery with Dorothy announced to asking her, in his own inimitable way, whether she’s really thought through what pursuing the Presidency means.
No, he wasn’t. If he had actually been trying to ruin Dorothy’s life, he would have done it while she was sleeping and couldn’t do anything about it, and she probably wouldn’t even have known that those pictures existed until they showed up on Fox Noise the October before her election. But he waited until she woke up and told her what he was doing when she could stop him. He wasn’t trying to ruin her life; he was making a point in the most dickish way possible. Most of the stuff Mike does falls into that category.
No, you’re just incredibly lucky. Most of the rest of us feel a twinge of painful nostalgia when we see our college and/or high school selves in Walky.
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“I mean, think of all the SEX I could have had in that time!”
That’s, y’know, like 3 rounds at least.
At least 15 times… 😀
Ouch
I dunno, I’m not going to feel too sorry for him being quick on the trigger if he can reload that fast.
“Is that a semi-automatic in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?”
Nah it’s more like reloading a flintlock pistol really really fast.
Given how much Dotty seems to enjoy it, I’d say it’s more like a blunderbuss…
After reading the above comment, try to watch this without giggling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCs2RIyeUwc&feature=youtu.be&t=1m31s
Bad netizens! This is clearly a comment threat that should have had a trigger warning …
Arrgh. Cue jokes about not knowing the safety was off, the capacity of Walky’s magazine, and Dorothy racking the slide of his piece.
And then go read the Ballad of Eskimo Nell.
Yeah, guess some of those were half-cocked…
Think of how many nickels Mike could have spent!
How many moms went unfucked?
Someone say that in Latin so it can be the motto of my half-ironic micronation.
The Commonwealth of Greater Barfland
Motto: “Quot sine coitu abiit matres?”
Secondary Motto: “We just go with Google Translate and hope it’s close enough.”
My Latin is a bit rusty, but it seems like an accurate translation of “How many mothers have gone away without mating?” (=
The value of a classical education! 🙂
Sounds like a paradoxical support group.
(Mothers Who Never Mated)
With one member – the Virgin Mary.
Well, one _human_ member – she hangs out with a bunch of frogs…
Mary’s not sitting in the room alone any more. Artificial insemination has radically increased the size of that population. Not everyone tries that option last, you know.
Virgin Mary, frogs, also some sharks! This sounds like a cool group.
For some reason I can’t reply to the comments branching off this one, but according to a book by George Carlin I read once, the “immaculate conception” refers to being conceived without original sin, and the idea of conception without, y’know, fucking, was a later puritanical invention.
I would assume frogs and sharks still get a free pass on that one.
Or if we want to be slightly more serious about this, what we’re actually talking about is virginal conception, not immaculate conception. The latter refers to the whole “original sin” concept, the former is explicitly about sex. Very common to use “immaculate” when you really mean “virginal” outside of theological discussions, though. Up until the late 1600’s there was even an school of belief that said Mary herself was virginally conceived (poor Joachim gets none!) but the Catholic Church condemned that one ages ago.
Rich:
Actually, I think the Protestant churches are the one who did the whole “no immaculate conception” thing (which term, by the way, refers to Mary’s birth, not Jesus’ birth). As far as the Catholic church is concerned, the immaculate conception of Mary may be apocryphal (because it didn’t have enough Jesus in it to get in the Bible), but it’s still seen as something true.
Also, Joachim did get some. Mary has at least one sibling. I think her name’s Elizabeth.
Note: I’m just some guy who read this on the internet somewhere (even if it was the Encyclopedia Catholic, or whatever it’s called). Feel free to correct me.
Zeus is looking on at all this Christian stuff about virgins conceiving and thinking, “not on my watch!”
No Name: I’m no theologian either, but I think there the Protestants originally accepted immaculate conception during Martin Luther’s period, then moved away from it during the Calvinist reforms.
Jesus Mom Mary’s sister was also confusingly named Mary, not Elizabeth, but she may have been a sister-in-law (ie part of Joe’s family) rather than a blood relative. Joachim and Anne had fertility problems that required divine intervention to produce the first Mary, so it would be a little odd if they had a second daughter, especially by the same name.
Elizabeth is the mother of John the Baptist, and cousin to Jesus Mom Mary.
I’d almost forgotten what a tangle this stuff was to sort through.
“Your right hand doesn’t count as sex, and Dorothy’s busy studying.”
“What about my left hand?”
Well…
http://giantspod.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/lefty.jpg
That is a risky click
A good gravatar for your comment.
How did that movie line go?
“I came up with this move. I call it the Stranger. You sit on your hand for about 5-10 minutes, then use it to jack off. Ye’ see, that way, it feels like someone else is doing it…”
Can’t remember what movie, it was on TV, but relevant I think…
I feel you, Walky. I feel you.
Huh. Well, he and Dorothy never did have that exclusivity chat, so I guess feeling him is okay if it’s consensual and all.
Yeah, no one really wants to.
“It’s too bad I can’t get all this higher learnin’ and growth without all that having to LEARN AND GROW”
I liked studying for my WSET exam. Of course, ‘studying’ meant drinking a lot of wines.
Damn it, Walky.
Yeah, I have no sympathy for Walky on this one.
I do, as I know that feel aaaall too well 😐
Looks like his mother’s plan for him making it in the medical profession are going to hit a snag in the form of her son counting himself amongst the numerous dopes who flunk their freshman year. Gentleman’s C for him, baby!
Wait, they want him to become a doctor? Did I miss that comic?
Took place during Freshman family weekend… Walky’s mom was talking to Dorothy’s mom after the football game.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/04-just-hangin-out-with-my-family/footforward/
Walky. A gentleman. Are you sure that you know what that word means?
Just get your genius girlfriend to help you study, you goof.
he sort of tried, without admitting that he needed help, but he did try to study with her
Are McNuggets brain food or something just as offal?
Almost anything can be brain food if you believe.
Or stick it in your eyes and then push it along the path of your optic nerves.
Take heart Plasma! I noticed your spleendid pun, even if no one else did.
Also, I have the guts to stomach a bowelful more!
Thank goodness for that. ^_^
Kind of tripe, wasn’t it?
It’s a bit tongue and cheek when it comes to offal punning
As a old Wendy’s ad asked, “which part of the chicken is the nugget?”
To quote Seinfeld: “If it McComes from where I McThink it does, I don’t wanna McEat it!”
I wonder what Mike’s been doing on his phone this whole time…
Texting Satan?
Killing spiders with Amber.
Actually, i’ve been wondering wether Mike ever study.
As long as Mike can sow discord by getting good marks (e.g. making other feel stupid), his Erisian powers give him effortless A’s.
He’s not a student. He’s a professor in the SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS
His salary consists of millions of nickels.
“If I had a nickel for every time I fucked your mom… OH WAIT I ALREADY DO”
Next year, Mike will be responsible of about 80% of the babies of the neighbourhood. 15 years later, he starts harnessing them as his army of elite super soldiers.
He then travels to an alternate dimension where hid mind takes over the body of a peaceful alien, he then starts giving babies of this dimension superpowers in a plan to take over the world.
He also doesn’t seem to care whether or not he passes. A perfect opportunity to make Ruth’s life hell by making her forcibly remove him (or at least try to) from campus after he flunks out at the end of the year.
I don’t think Ruth is the RA for the men’s side.. only for the women… (Any of the floor meetings we’ve seen have been women only.)
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/03-answers-in-hennessy/rapture-ready/
Do we know Mike’s major? I’m thinking like Hospitality Management… or possibly some kind of arcane post-structuralist nonsense.
He’s doing a photography course, so… some kind of arts degree?
according to Walky: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/04-time-keeps-on-slippin/year/
Are you kidding Satan is terrified of Mike
I was halfway expecting Old Nick to pop up and publically disavow Mike after he pulled that “All Hail Satan” with Joyce’s phone a while back.
“Look, I’m the Prince of Darkness and all, but I really don’t want to be associated with you, Mike. You just go too far.”
I couldn’t help but read that in the voice of Satan from South Park.
Sending his latest update to his alien bosses hiding in the asteroid belt.
“Mike calling Orson, come in Orson…”
“Check out this adorable cat video!”
He’s adding to his collection…
That’s his deep, dark secret in this universe, show him a cute kitty vid & watch his eyes turn into dinner plates, listen to the baby talk & make sure to video it from a good hiding place or he’ll find 1 for you, long term…
The smallest bit of will power would do you some good walky
new slipshine: dorothy teaches walky how to study, but it has boobs in it so he pays attention
Sex ed class
mike comes along and records every time walky giggles at the mention of a sexual organ or secondary sexual characteristic, especially if it is a boob
It’s educational!
I love this idea but that means Willis would actually have to write out a detailed lesson for Walky to learn (“blah blah blah” would mean he’s NOT paying attention)
Or he could use the power of the time skip/scene cut/montage to circumvent that
He did it with Sal, after all.
Dorothy: Now Walky these are the testes and this is the clit
Walky: Dorothy your new fetish is really weird
Wasn’t that study method used in Billy Madison?
And now you’re all thinking of a shirtless Chris Farley. You’re welcome. Mwa-ha-ha…!
Actually, I was thinking of some truly awful anime clips I’ve had the misfortune of seeing. Shirtless Chris Farley is a significant improvement. Thanks!
Hey Walky, at least you aren’t doing something stupid like reading a webcomic when you’re supposed to be doing homework.
Er, not that I or anyone I know would ever do such a thing.
That is my entire life
haha, school is for SUCKERS
(and people who want to better themselves so they don’t wind up with shitty minimum wage jobs I guess)
It’s almost cute how you think someone’s life can be improved with school.
Sure, I’m willing to bet that there are people out there whose lives have been improved by school, but for me it all turned out useless in the end.
Such was the joy of the Economic Collapse of 2008.
I think hard work and perseverance have been shown throughout history
to be more effective then school. School is important but it did not
make Bill Gates a billionaire.
True, but hard work and perseverance weren’t all it took to make him a billionaire, either; a fair bit of good luck, timing, and ambition came in to play as well.
He has said one of the biggest factors in his success was having access to computers to play with and work on when he was a kid; he said all the interest he had in them wouldn’t have amounted to anything without access to them to actually work on. As I recall, in the interview I’m referencing from several years ago, there was a mainframe or something at a college in the area that he’d sneak out at night and go and use.
He’s a big proponent of having computer access in schools (which is less of an issue nowadays than when I was a kid, at least, but I’m not sure how universal it is) because of that.
hey, I said people who want to better themselves, not ALL people who want to better themselves
I think American schooling is a sham but will readily concede that there are for-real people who exist AND can benefit from schooling even of the current quality and rip-off pricing when mere desire and independent study alone do not work. As my boss says, “Every case is different (and I want you to copy-paste these pre-written texts exactly for each case).”
I didn’t want to be able to ever identify with Walky, but here I am, and I feel him on so many levels and it’s frightening.
This whole arc is 100% true to life.
I am in grad school and I still don’t know how to study properly. Visual learners for the win!
gosh, I hope this never bites me in the butt
OH WAIT HERE WE GO IT IS BITING ME OW
Ohmnomnom crushing despair and regret, delicious
Ah shit, we have an ass cannibal.
I was in that boat, too. Obnoxious brat kid who could make Principal’s List despite sleeping thought half my classes and doing all my assignments the night before. Get to uni. First year, still did fine. Second year? “crash and burn” comes to mind. GPA dropped from 4.3 to 3.1 in one semester.
Though, I did learn how to study after that. Mainly because I had friends who actually had to study and they took pity on me and were all, “Here is how you take notes on a reading. Here is how you review for a test.” etc.
Oh right, I have finals this week.
*guilt intensifies*
I respect the guys honesty
Yes, he adds the truth after some liberal helpings of self-delusion.
Sadly, honesty isn’t going to help much here unless it causes a change of behavior.
You gotta give time for all the knowledge to settle in.
I had Walky’s problem. Basically skated through school never studying. Had no idea where to even start when I had to. It’s a really nasty wake up call when you hit that glass ceiling of studying.
Well then for the sake of everyone on this floor use your study break to take a shower, Walky. It’s been months.
It hasn’t even been months since school started. Get your facts straight, dammit!
Exactly! He hasn’t showered since before college!
Holy crap: Joyce got a boy friend and broke up with him, Walky got a girlfriend,
Ambers abusive father appeared. Sal started sleeping with the T.A Becky reappeared and revealed herself to be gay. That is a lot of stuff to happen in the span of a couple weeks.
My first month of undergrad was nowhere near this exciting. For one, there was a complete absence of superheroes on campus.
Nah, your campus had one, but she was invisible.
Try as I may, I just cannot assemble a Fantastic Four joke out of that comment.
I guess you clearly needed some four-warning so you could stretch out a bit & come out strong. No one wants to just burn away their time after all…
How about an Incredibles joke? Violet has to be at least college age by now.
Oh, right, I remember her! Name was Capsaicin, I think.
Someone I know online had someone dressed as V (from “Vendetta”) running around her campus.
It was pretty sweet.
Wait, is there a rule of thumb for a comic strip time to real life time ratio?
A single day in the dumb-verse can take as much as 14 strips to pass from begining to end. So if there are 52 weeks in a year and this strip is about two years old that means about a year of time has passed. These guys are about ready for summer break and they haven’t accomplished anything.
Oh wait never mind this strip is almost 5 years old. Jeez Joyce was really thin in that first issue.
There are also a lot more than 14 strips per day.
The first three weeks ran pretty consistently about a real-time year to a DoA week. This week (Week Four) will have been a year and a half on the 25th, and there’s still most of Saturday to go. I don’t remember exactly when the weekend updates started, but the first year, at least, was only weekday updates.
There has been no DoA day as short as 14 strips, save the ones that were skipped and got a single panel or less – Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of Week Two waiting for pajama jeans, and Thursday and Friday of Week Three studying with Dorothy. Storylines are single days, modulo some occasional spill past midnight at the end, and those two timeskips. The shortest storyline so far was 30 strips; the longest 117.
I’m really looking forward to the end of October rolling around in story time. Halloween was insane in my own freshman year, and my dorm didn’t have anything like the level of drama DoA has.
Hopefully I live long enough to see it happen…2022-ish at the current rate, maybe?
right but thats how much time it takes for a storyline to pass. Not the typical day/night cycle.
Like I said, a storyline is typically a day/night cycle.
Here is a detailed timeline. You may note that there is no day in that timeline, save those that were skipped entirely, and today, which isn’t even close to over, that has links to fewer than 21 strips – and none of them have links to all the strips that happened that day; just strips that I found notable. That generally means scene changes, significant events, plot points, and stuff I’ve found myself wanting to reference later.
(I need to go through and note all the strips where Joyce is shown holding her wounded hand…)
Oh, and I have the beginnings of books and storylines noted on there now, too, so you can see just how closely they correspond to the days.
This is one of the comics on the bookmarks handed out at emerald city comic con this year!
woo another Seattle reader!
Yeah, I should attend ECCC one of these years.
I am relating to this scene more and more with each strip
walky. walky no.
Well at least it finally broke down and got honest in the last panel.
If he thinks he was upset by that lousy grade he got, wait until he fails the class.
At least it’s math he’s struggling with. Getting the hang of sample problems, while arduous, is at least a more predictable studying method than flash cards for history or science.
Walky is they type who is cute and fun to shag, but as far as anything more than that, he’s useless.
Luckily that’s like 90% of life anyway
I changed my mind, it’s more like 69%
This is nearly every first year college student I teach. My job, alas, is to break them and make them cry. I don’t enjoy doing it… really… really, I don’t 😀
Wow, you’ve gotten that jaded already? What does it take to please you?!?
Apparently, the tears of his students…
And once again Walky summarizes my time in college perfectly
Walky, speaking as a college student having to take multiple levels of calculus… I’m going to enjoy watching your grade tank.
Well, that answers my question from yesterday as to how much time went by.
I’m honestly surprised he lasted that long. Fifteen minutes is almost a quarter of an hour, and an eternity if you’re bored.
Why did I say almost a quarter? 15 minutes is a quarter of an hour, by definition!
I was going to mention that earlier, but I already got a snark point today and didn’t want to be greedy. 🙂
Quick quiz time, Walky: what edition is the book?
I think Walky’s expression in the last panel is the slow dawning realization he can’t use that as an excuse anymore.
Ease yourself in gradually into procrastination.
He’s almost the opposite of Dotty, who’s focused, knows what she wants with her life, and will get there.
Not so sure abt Walky.
Dorothy’s been slipping recently. Enjoying life instead of studying. Even Mike called her a bit on that.
this… will show. And there will be a lot of yelling.
(they may breeak up again, violently. Hopefully before starting to study together)
So true.
Several times i knew i needed to study.
Then i decided I’d rather spend all night enjoying life, rather than getting higher than a C the next day on a test
McNugget time. It’s like Miller Time, only… meatier.
Its as if getting good grades and learning stuff requires one to do things they don’t want too. Kinda like a job. No wonder he doesn’t like it.
This is the Bargaining stage, right? When do Anger and Acceptance come in?
Doesn’t anger come before bargaining? In that case, I’d say he skipped it in favor of “panic”
You guys, I’ve been hitting the random button and I just want to call it for the record: Becky and Daisy. And it goes terribly. Mark my words!
Oh, boy. I believed the same thing then… Don´t do the same, Walky. It´s a painful bongoslap onwards the near future. :p
“bongoslap” instead of “b-i-tch -slap” (sorry, but censorship? really?)
There was a bongo-related… incident a while back. The filter is there for reasons.
Fun fact: It works retroactively as well! Go back and read some old comments for hilarity.
I have to know what happens when I actually type it in:
Bongo!
Shucks, I was hoping it would change to “Stickleback” or “Unbearable Lightness of Being” or something equally absurdist.
Ah well, at least we know we can discuss Ricky Ricardo’s musical instrument of choice freely.
On the old “I Love Lucy” episodes (which come on at 4:00 AM CT on one of those all-night throw-back cable TV channels) that I’ve seen he plays a single-headed bokú (which the show incorrectly called a conga), not a bongo.
Hmmm, I must be conflating different instruments. I have seen photos of Desi Arnaz playing actual bongo drums, but on closer examination the shots were publicity stills, not scenes taken from the show. He probably played quite a few instruments, and I’ll admit I don’t know for sure which he preferred in real life. In character as Ricky, it was definitely the “conga” on the show, even if the instrument was more accurately a boku or maybe ashiko.
And apropos of nothing, I can dimly remember watching “I Love Lucy” and “Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour” reruns on network TV back in the days before cable. Seemed like they stayed on the air forever when I was young.
It’s funnier. Has some side effects, though – you sound absolutely ridiculous when talking about dog breeding, and sound less demeaning and sexist when talking about anything else. So long as we aren’t rambling on about breeding bongoes, I think the side effects are tolerable.
On a more serious note, the filter went in after one comment section began to center on whether a character was or wasn’t a bongo, and I’m pretty certain she is neither a dog nor interested in breeding (I said breeding, not sex).
I understand why Willis did it, but censoring in the comments a word that’s used in the strip itself, by sympathetic characters, even self-referentially… bothers me.
Oh hey, and in the URL of at at least one strip, so it’s not possible to link it in the comments now. (It’s the one after this one. Which is, ironically, entitled “Not directly”.)
Maybe we can get Willis to do some retroactive jiggery-pokery and change the URL to read “……ook-3/03-answers-in-hennessy/alpha-bongo/”?
This censorship may be clumsy, but apparently Willis has been getting a lot of complaints about the atmosphere here being rather unwelcoming, and this was his reaction. Plus, he may yet decide that the filter has become unnecessary, and remove it. We’ll see.
Mike? When did he ever do anything evil? He’s rude, but he’s usually just calling people out on hypocrisy, not indulging in pointless spite. Case in point, this.
Punching someone (even though it was Joyce who wanted him to be chaperone)… giving away Walky’s DVDs (although he might have just been joking about that)… Both of these would be considered illegal (if not immoral).
Well, just this morning he was trying to ruin someone’s life by taking nonconsensual pictures of them and hacking into their social media: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/snice/
But yeah, he has seemed to settle down since then.
Going less than 24 hours since last being an asshole doesn’t count as ‘settling down’ in my book.
He talked about doing it; there’s nothing that indicates that he did, and he could have before Dorothy took his phone. If was really into that kind of thing, wouldn’t he have outed Ethan on Facebook, posted that Becky the runaway lesgirl is hiding out with Joyce, etc. His assholery with Dorothy announced to asking her, in his own inimitable way, whether she’s really thought through what pursuing the Presidency means.
Amounted to, NOT announced — curse you Spellwrecker!
No, he wasn’t. If he had actually been trying to ruin Dorothy’s life, he would have done it while she was sleeping and couldn’t do anything about it, and she probably wouldn’t even have known that those pictures existed until they showed up on Fox Noise the October before her election. But he waited until she woke up and told her what he was doing when she could stop him. He wasn’t trying to ruin her life; he was making a point in the most dickish way possible. Most of the stuff Mike does falls into that category.
Wait… Is Mike being somewhat nice these last two strips? He seems a little concerned that Walky can’t study. He’s up to something!
He is resetting his gauges for how to hurt Walky best in the future.
Am I a bad person for finding this whole “Walky doesn’t like studying” storyline as boring as Walky finds studying?
No, you’re just incredibly lucky. Most of the rest of us feel a twinge of painful nostalgia when we see our college and/or high school selves in Walky.
Oh, don’t get me wrong. I recognize myself in Walky here. But mostly that just means I have a desire to slap him in the face.
Mike’s being super nice for Mike. I feel like years of reading about Mike’s antics have trained me to expect a shoe drop to happen any second.
Oh god. It’s worse than looking in a mirror.
standing for no reason in your own room never makes any sense to me