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maybe if you stand still he won’t see you
also hold some branches and put a squirrel on your head
a little late today, website? birthday hangover?
I knew there was a reason that Squirrel was tagged.
How long did it take to find that? I’m impressed. I read that strip twice before I found the squirrel.
About two seconds? I have Squirrel’s first appearance noted in the timeline (Monday of Week 4), so it was just a matter of flipping to the other window and typing “squi”.
Man, you know you’re a failure at being extra, when the squirrel gets into credits and you don’t.
i no rite =p
It’s a spy for squirrelgirl
“NEVER trust a squirrel”. Ben Hardi from Perusse City says (Funny show from Quebec)
call squirrel girl, she can readily supply a squirrel or two.
You know, it just occured to me that in the previous page, Mike wasn’t waiting for them. He’d have just gone ahead to not hear them arguing.
So, he was probably waiting for Sal.
I dunno; it wouldn’t be out of character for him tp hang around an argument and choose the best moment to interject.
I’m with Disloyal on this one. I strongly suspect that Mike would hang around a group of people whose behaviour is annoying him just so he has a justification to be mean to them.
I don’t think Mike needs a justification, just an opportunity
Waiting for an opportunity to punch somebody in the faaaaaaaaaaace. Been a few weeks for him.
FACE!
He did state that he finds Sal attractive, but that doesn’t prove much. EVERYONE finds Sal attractive.
Well yeah, but it’s *Mike*. There gotta be something
Don’t be fabulous. He sees based on straightness.
This is a job for Amazi-Girl!
Seriously, see if you can borrow the costume. Between that and the haircut, no way he’ll recognize you.
I thought bisexuals were the invisible ones?
Is this why no one listens to me?
No, it’s the way you’re constantly “inviting us” to be a “special guest” at your next “pretend summoning of Yog-Sogoth, it’ll all be in good fun, really!”
And for the record, I tested that knife you keep telling us is a theatrical stage prop. It’s sharp and it doesn’t retract.
That escalated quickly.
Is there any other way of escalating?
Slowly. But that’s rather inefficient.
That is the sort of person I would advise listening to. It makes thwarting u- er, themmuch easier.
Nothing wrong about some nice demon summoning. I mean, Voodoo is just the magical excuse for a dance party!
you need to use that, sneak into both locker rooms!
I mean I’d only hafta sneak in one, they’d let me in the other.
Gotta get your sneaking practice in where you can.
+1
Really not understanding the Dorothy issues. Have I missed something, I mean apart from the joke?
Joyce is scared of confronting Dorothy now that she knows Joyce was dating Ethan to “fix” him.
yup. she doesn’t know how long dorothy has known, and she’s not sure whether or not dorothy harbors strong opinions about it. sarah seemed fairly confident that she would
Oh. I thought it had something to do with the fact that she was drinking during Joyce’s party.
Joyce is pretty OK with other people having slighted her – then she can forgive them.
She having slighted other people on the other hand is a much worse issue.
I’m the same way. It’s not particularly healthy yet for some reason I only notice that when I see others doing it.
Ohhhhhhh. I didn’t get this either.
Sadly, that only applies to his reasoning.
yes, toedad can only see what is straight ahead of him
That’s cuz he has no neck and so he can’t turn his head.
Darn, beat me to it.
Heh. That reminds me of the old Steve Martin joke:
“I just want to meet a girl with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks. That way when I walk into a restaurant with her, every head turns. Except hers – she has no neck!”
Just like a turtle. Later we might see him withdraw it back into his ,,shell”.
Cue Dina ranting that there’s no evidence of that, and that even in the film it was said to be a trait of the modern animals they’d spliced in…
And that in the lost world Malcom says it’s wrong.
I do mean the book
I’ve read that book and it is basically Michael Crighton complaining about a film that is so different in so many ways to his book being successful.
I am pretty sure lesbians don’t have invisibility powers, not unless they’re Dina anyway…
Clearly Becky needs to be wearing the t-rex hat.
maybe they can wear it together like one of those couple sweaters
I don’t think it’d stretch that much.
Simple solution, go buy a new one and sew them together into one mega hat.
Or Dina can teach her how to teleport behind doors
Well we know Becky doesn’t have invisibility powers, but hiding a nuclear explosion ain’t gonna happen.
Serves what you know, I heard Becky learned the invisibility technique from Playing reptile on MK.
Society tries it best to pretend lesbians are invisible. I’m not sure that counts as a superpower though.
No, that’s like the “do not think of elephants” thing. The harder they pretend, the more obvious it becomes.
Soon the only people Toe-Dad will see is… Faz?
Banged Mike and enjoyed it, actually.
Mom?
Y’know the big thing I’m taking away from this is how supportive so many people are being. People are agreeing to keep Becky being around a secret, they’re keeping a watch out for toedad mcdickbag…
Joyce really does have the best friends around her
She does, she really does – and she has the best friends because she has earned them – as has Becky for that matter.
Even Sarah sticks out her neck for Becky – Sarah who despises that compassionate side of herself and has only seen it backfire horribly before.
It’s awesome, it’s beautiful and it’s the reason Toedad will fail even more miserably in round two.
Nah this is when Willis turns it around and Becky gets kidnapped by toedad kicking&screaming and we never hear from her again. Dina falls into depression and start drinking and gets hit by a truck.
Any plan whose linchpin involves Joyce lying to anyone is a bad plan.
Exactly. As my mother used to tell me,
“O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive.”
You mother sounds like she’s harboring some sort of arcane secrets. Is she a witch? Or perhaps witch-adjacent? I’m asking for a friend.
My mom loved that line as well!
“Practice makes perfect,” though.
Yeah, but Plan B required Joe to take a vow of celibacy, Mike to volunteer at a soup kitchen, Dorothy to win the Republican nomination for president with Dina as her running mate, and Ruth to infiltrate Femur’s R Us without drawing attention.
…Come to think of it, Plan B was a little bit wacky. Maybe Robin shouldn’t be consulted for Plans anymore.
I’m down with Plan B. With Vice-President Dina, we’ll have velociraptors on Mars by 2020!
Will they ride minibikes?
No, but they will be gloriously fluffy.
I SEE MGDMT FANS
In all seriousness, I wonder how much overlap there is in fans of various comics. That would be a cool study.
Won’t that start a war with the Biker Mice already living there?
Mice and Raptors are sworn enemies last I heard.
No mice, the Commies killed them all.
http://www.amazon.com/Commies-Mars-Planet-Collected-Works/dp/0867193433
Running around like goofballs is fun.
Do we tell the truth/Do we live a lie/Is the feeling good/Is that what makes you cry…
i love that joyce can already make homophobia jokes. she really is somewhat autobiographical, isn’t she?
Joyce is already incorporating Jurassic Park into her religious views. This is where things get interesting…
Wait until she gets to “dinosaurs eat Man, Woman inherits the Earth.”
It might be interesting if we find out how this happen. Was this Joyce and Becky’s token High School Rebellion ™? Did they sneak off one Saturday afternoon to watch JP1-3 at the local Multiplex?
It might make for an interesting flashback scene, especially if they tried to dress ‘non-Christian’ for the event. Something tells me that Joyce and Becky’s pre-college idea of what looks ‘sexy and rebellious’ would have been… odd to observe.
Actually, I don’t think that last line was intentional on Joyce’s part. I, for, instance, didn’t get it immediately (but then, I only saw the movie through once) but still thought it a reasonable, and funny, line for Joyce to say, given the context.
What am I missing? Why does Joyce not want to talk to Dorothy again?
Dorothy knows that Joyce was trying to “fix” Ethan as part of their relationship. Sarah put the fear of god in Joyce that Dorothy would not stand for it waaay back when it started. Joyce is terrified the next time shes Dorothy all hell will break loose. Or at least that Dorothy will drop Joyce like a lead brick.
Joyce and Dorothy last interacted at the dorm party. Shouldn’t something have happened then?
They weren’t alone there.
Something did. Dorothy got drunk.
Dorothy knew, but because of what she saw at the sushi restaurant, realized that Joyce has changed. So Dorothy let the whole thing drop. But then at the Questioning meeting Walky told Joyce that Dorothy knew. But didn’t tell her when Dorothy figured it out. So Joyce thinks that she figured it out after the party, and is now afraid to talk to Dorothy.
Because Sarah told her long ago that if her friends (and especially Dorothy) discovered she was trying to “cure” Ethan’s homosexuality, they’d shun her.
And yesterday, she learned that Becky knows now.
Here’s the strip where Joyce finds out Dorothy knew Ethan is gay: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/04-walking-with-dina/freegaypizza/
Becky is depending on Joyce to consciously tell a lie, and quite probably, more than once? I sense an epic fail in the not-too-distant future.
I wonder if Ross is going to have a mental block about the possibility that Joyce could lie to him because he is too confident in her upbringing letting him dominate her. So, Joyce is a stammering mess who blurts out obvious and self-contradictory nonsense in a freaked-out squirrel-like tone of voice. Ross believes it is entirely true because he can’t imagine Joyce lying to him.
Yes, I’m saying that Dina may have uncovered his one serious weakness – his credulity when he thinks that he is in charge of a situation (which is almost always).
Joyce could try to be sarcastic, that isn’t lying, right? And Toedad didn’t get Dinas Sarcasm at all. That might work.
Oh ya because it’s not like you can just go with the better plan of just RELOCATING ! I mean jesus fuck it’s not an impossible idea if Marcie can do it so can you and it risk less since the fact if you get caught all these people well be the one off campus.
Sal isn’t volunteering, and I don’t think anyone else knows Marcie’s exact living arrangements.
Well for Becky to get her own place she would need money. Which is not a resource she has. Maybe if enough people yell at her to pull harder on them bootstraps she’ll end up with some?
Thumbs up.
Aw, thanks. A minute after I made that post that I suddenly got really concerned that my intended meaning wasn’t clear.
I really shouldn’t let “Becky should just do X posts!” get on my nerves, but honestly. If her problems were that easily solvable then that defeats a whole manner of points. Some problems in this comic can easily be solved by the characters clearly, and rationally communicating with each other. (Like Joyce’s current anxieties regarding Dorothy) but Becky’s homelessness is not one of them.
….I’m still confused. What’s the deal with Joyce and Dorothy? I mean, there was that whole “she got drunk” thing, but everyone got drunk, and Joyce isn’t treating them like this.
Joyce is scared about Dorothy’s reaction now that she knows Dorothy knows Joyce was trying to “fix” Ethan.
That’s possible, but if she thinks about it rationally:
– She had attended Joyce’s party on Saturday night.
– Dorothy found out about Ethan’s sexuality prior to the party
– Joyce KNEW that Dorothy knew (she was told at the Sunday meeting)
So if Dorothy knew and still knew, then she can’t really be that upset.
Did Walky tell Joyce *when* Dorothy figured it out? Because I’m not sure he did.
Stupid Joyce letting her anxieties getting the better of her rather than thinking of things rationally.
Joyce was told that Dorothy knew at the Sunday meeting. But she wasn’t told that Dorothy figured it out Friday afternoon. She thinks that it’s bad enough that Dorothy is going to instantly stop hanging out with her. (According to what Sarah said back in book 3). Since Dorothy hung out with her on Saturday, Joyce thinks that she must have figured it out afterwards, possibly Sunday morning. And Joyce has not talked with Dorothy since the party.
She doesn’t want to face her after she found out Joyce was dating a gaye guy, which I find stupid I mean we’re sort of over that already.
We may be, but our timeframe is vastly accelerated compared to the comic. To Joyce this is still enormous and ongoing.
I thought it was because Dorothy was one of the few people that Joyce trusted not to get drunk, because that would put her future at risk and be out-of-character for her.
Basically, Joyce is worried that Dorothy is mad at her because she misinterpreted something Ethan said as meaning that he wanted Joyce’s help to stop being gay. I’m not going to go as far as some and say that Joyce was actually trying to change Ethan’s orientation. I saw no sign of that unless that is why she played his girlfriend and I’m not sure that he particularly minded that; it suited some of his own agenda too.
That’s the real irony here: Joyce didn’t actually do anything wrong. If anyone were to ask Ethan I doubt he’d even know what they were talking about.
In my view, this is 100% about Joyce’s personal sense of guilt about ‘using’ Ethan to fulfil her college romance fantasies. There may be also an element of Joyce’s upbringing at work here; she’s having an identity crisis due to her changing perception about homosexuality. By not talking to Dorothy, she’s not confronting how much she’s changing in herself.
I have no doubt that, when she finally gets the courage to talk to Dorothy, Dorothy won’t know what the problem is and will end up having to deal with a hysterical Joyce who wants to be told she is a bad girl. This is an inevitable response of an upbringing full of ‘thou shalt nots’ and few if any ‘thou shalts’.
While I think Dorothy will probably take the attitude that all’s well now that Joyce has ended the relationship, she was in fact distressed at what Joyce was doing. I don’t think she’s going to tell Joyce there was never a problem.
(Also, I’m not sure how to interpret this strip except as Joyce telling Ethan to work at changing his orientation. She’s doing it with his consent, and she’s not applying any kind of force, but it’s still what she’s doing.)
I am really confused on the pronunciation of “S’poseta”
Like, I’m sure I read it fine the first time through, but now I looked back and started thinking about it too much.
s-pose-tah?
s-po-set-ah?
SPOH-stuh
Start with “supposed to”. Mutate as required.
Suh-POSE-tuh.
Well, I bet we could get a whole 50 people in here, standing around, going “Spose-tuh! Suh-pose-tuh!!”
And I bet it phonetically means something sufficiently pornographic in at least one language on this planet.
“SUP-OAZ-TUUUHHH!!!”
“THIS. IS. SUP-OAZ-TUUUHHH!!!” *kicks Toe-Dad in the face*
I ustacould pronounce s’posta.
Dina is learning fast. I suspect that her former awkwardness was more due to lacking opportunities to learn than to any other cause.
Clearly, what Joyce needs is for Walky to coach her in lying.
Where do I sign up for ToeDad Watch?
Wait was Walky informed about Becky’s living arrangements earlier? Cause if this is the first he’s hearing of it he seems pretty calm.
Joyce told him and Dorothy about Becky during “Three’s a Crowd” when they sat down for lunch.
Thank you!
I was able to find the strip where this actually happens and it’s like six months old! I’m amazed I don’t forget more of what’s going on.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/calls/
Sorry, Joyce, he could see Dina. I’m not exactly sure how to describe her, but, given the macking on Becky, I’m pretty sure “heterosexual” isn’t it.
Dina is allowed to be bisexual.
That still isn’t “heterosexual”.
You know, Becky’s logic is pretty solid, but given the law of narrative irony, I’m suspecting that the return of Toedad will be in the middle of their running around like goofballs time and that said Toedad is not going to react well to the Pokemans who led him astray getting all smoochy and cuddly with what he views as his defective property.
In short, I’m still terrified that the hospital previews we’re getting closer to is going to involve one or both of those adorable cuties.
Um, maybe I’m missing something obvious, but isn’t Dina in their math class? Wouldn’t that kind of preclude running around like goofballs with Becky at the moment?
Base 6: Playing the hooky
http://walkypedia.wikia.com/wiki/Dumbing_of_Age_Class_Schedule
…of course that’s a thing. Nifty.
Friday classes? What kind of barbarians populate Indiana?
Same kind that live in Virginia, apparently. It’s not that uncommon. After all, only two days a week are traditionally “off”, Saturday and Sunday.
You had Saturdays off? Lucky. In Scotland we had Wednesday afternoons and Sundays off. That was it. Mind you, there weren’t that many classes that met on Saturdays, but somehow they always managed to be ones I was in.
I can’t speak for all universities, but the one I attended had Saturday courses basically for those whose schedules couldn’t fit in another MWF class. And even then they tended to be for heavily loaded freshmen.
At least in the North Carolina University system, the traditional one hour classes were MWF, with T/TH being the longer classes/ science labs. Most started at 8am and ended by 6(ish). There were night classes but nothing in my major used late time slots other than MBA programs.
I got screwed when I transferred in: three 3 credit classes only transferred 2/3rds of a point each, so I ended up taking 3 classes worth 9 credits just to get the one credit I was shorted.
Had to max out my allowed credits each semester, including my final senior semester, which was mostly 400 and 500 level business administration classes and all of those were still MWF and T/TH .
My classes were never afraid of making us work fridays. I honestly thought that was standard.
At my community college, it was very easy to avoid Friday classes but now that I’ve transferred to my four year school, I find that it’s quite uncommon for someone not to have a class on Fridays or every week day. The ironic thing is that I might (we start late) end up only having Tuesday/Thursday classes this term. This is also a small private school though
Joyce’s comment reminds me of that old spy thriller trope of kissing in public to become invisible to police patrols.
“Kiss me! I’ll explain later!”
Heterosexuality based vision? So,should we call him Bigotman?
Bigot-Man! Bigot-Man! Does what ever a bigot can!
Which him yell in your face! Based solely upon your race! Hey there! There goes the Bigot Man!
*Watch
-smashes keyboard into head-
If it makes you feel any better, I read/sang it as you intended.
I’ve made multiple typos on this page already, though.
He’s got astigmatism for those he stigmatizes!
Now if only I can work stigmata into this pun…
HA! this is great. My favorite joke in awhile. And now that I’m caught up again, I’m strangely less likely to comment for awhile. Back to the shadows for me.
Poor Joyce! She’s going to have to talk to Dorothy eventually. I’ll bet when that happens, Dorothy doesn’t even know why she’s supposed to be mad at her!
Meanwhile, I’m not sure but I think that Dina is experiencing Sal’s Death Glare for the very first time!
Ooo… kay… Sorry, I’m not used to Becky making sense and, by the looks of it, neither is Joyce. Of course, it’s understandable that she doesn’t really feel happy having her friend out of her line-of-sight right now.
Yeah, I think for Dorothy, a lot of the issue was resolved over sushi dinner when Joyce told her that she and Ethan had broken up. And given the rest of Joyce’s anguish that day I’m pretty sure Dorothy has pieced together most of what happened between them. Especially given what was said Here
Joooooooooyce. Talk to Dorothy. You are breaking my heart over here.
Being reasonable and talking to other people?
That’s not the comic you’re looking for, try EGS.
Ir rarely works there unfortunately…
I think Joyce’s joke is interesting. I read the subtext as being that she thinks Becky ‘turned’ homosexual at some point. She’s got a bit of a way to go!
What I’m seeing is that Joyce *really* wants Becky to class with her, security or not.
Do I sense some jealousy ?
In an alternative universe where Joyce was into girls, she would be the one running around as goofballs with Becky. She can’t help being just a tad jealous of that other Joyce (and still feel just a tad guilty that she couldn’t be what Becky wanted her to be).
My theory is that is like the “Faking It” series,where (spoilers for season 1 and 2!) Amy gets on love with Karma,Karma reject Amy thinking of herself as straight,Amy gets a new girlfriend after Karma’s rejection,then Karma get a sexual dream with Amy at the end of ,implying that Karma could be bisexual and attracted to Amy after all.
Granted Joyce is a much better person than Karma,however…
Or maybe Joyce is missing spending time with her friend as Becky is spending most of her time with Dina now.
They have dated for, like a day ; and Joyce & Becky were together to wake up Sal.
I think she also wants Becky with her as a sort of security blanket. Becky is her best friend, and she’s dealing with some stressful feelings.
Bisexuals appear as a kind of grey-scale blur to Toedad, could be based around the Kinsey Scale. The gay-er you are, the more invisible you are.
*walks off, job done*
“Watch! I have naked man and a naked woman, both gay. But touching their butts in rapid success, I can create a strobe effect!”
lol, two jurassic park jokes in a row
XD I know right!
I was going to wonder aloud about the spelling of “lynchpin” until I realized that we’ve already become a people who insist that “grey” is spelled with an A.
Well, as of like 1825, sure.
…it isn’t ?
It’s a British/American spelling difference, I believe.
(I prefer the ‘e’ spelling, myself)
Sort of, yes.
Gray is more common in US English, but is sometimes used in English English. No, you read that right:) I prefer it as there’s no real British English IMO.
The AP Stylebook specifies using ‘gray’ with an ‘a’ when describing the color (or in the case of those wacky Brits, ‘colour’).
Ah yes. “England and America — two countries separated by a common language.” ….George Bernard Shaw
I only wish those wacky Brits would get out of my Spellcheck, since it keeps defaulting to UK when I’m not looking.
or is it Spellcheque
As a half-British Canadian, I use “grey,” of course. But for some reason when I see the word “gray” instead, the colour I picture has a yellowish tinge to it. No idea why.
The new xkcd is fitting.
Too bad for us, since “grey” is cooler. Oh well, back to warping my mind with 19th Century literature.
There’s nothing stopping you from using “grey”. I’ve spelled it that way since elementary school, and had my teachers defend the spelling when our quizzes were traded and graded by other students.
And yes, American here.
grey is such a nice colour.
Oh my god Joyce just made a Jurassic Park Joke! She’s evolving!
Don’t tell her, she won’t be able to handle that.
It’s okay, it’s just micro-evolution within the same kind.
Quick, hold down the A button!
(insert Digimon joke here)
Or for the Transformer fans reading: It’s an Evolution Revolution!