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“Study TOO much? That’s unpossible!”
on squiggly words: my favourite story to tell is when I got over an inappropriate crush by finding out he used “lol” as punctuation
Could be worse. He could have used HOMPK!
How dare you denigrate hompk as punctuationHOMPK
lol
I think it’s fair enough to use sparingly in informal text communication, but unironically verbalizing it as a word is a bridge too far regardless of context.
On the other hand, lutz is perfectly acceptable.
that was my chiropractor’s name lol
i will go on using lol as punctuation lol
if that makes me unfuckable then so be it lol
Not knowing your gender, and I am not sure it even matters, but humourously spiteful use of lol as punctuation has somehow made you seem more attractive. That and “so be it” rather than “thankfully” also. A sacrifice rather than a blessing, which when dealing with the internet is a bold move.
i’m boygendered, and thank you, i guess =D
Crush legit used it like six times in a paragraph with no other punctuation
That’s… horrible.
lol
Personally, I can’t stand the overuse of “like” and upspeak that have become pervasive.
You can blame Shaggy and the gang from Scooby Doo for “like”.
Eh, it’s something I do out of anxiety. Like haha please don’t take anything I’m saying seriously it’s just a joke lol I wanna die lol
aaahahahaha i’m so stupid xD xD xD looool wtf omg rofl nooooo lololol ^^ :facepalm:
…is a message a variant whereof most of my friends will have received a number of times
I once got over the possibility of an erotic relationship with someone when it turned out she was terrible at writing erotica.
I mean, there was nothing wrong with the scenario she sent me per se. It’s just that her prose style made it unreadable.
I’m not necessarily proud.
Huh, theres a coincidence. My ex wife and I got together as much because of my erotica writing as anything. Guess it covered up certain other short-comings that resulted in the ex part of that statement.
I had a great fling with someone once, based largely around dirty writing. It was fun, quick, light hearted, exciting and ended on good terms. It was quite possibly the only healthy intimate relationship I’ve had with the opposite gender. Unfortunately, the goods remain odd so the odds aren’t that good.
I was initially only sort of attracted to my spouse at first meeting, but he won me over by telling me about Sanskrit, like, actually for real, not the Penny Arcade bullshit (Sanskrit is a written language)
unborn lion…?
That is an awesome tale of the meet-cute.
There’s a strip of Girls With Slingshots that features a guy wooing his girlfriend via text all day then in the final text he uses the wrong “you’re”.
No sexy times were had.
Dotty knows whats going on.
Also, web server behaves as on the correct time (comic available at 00:00). It appears that the comments server or maybe database is whats out of chronological whack. This comment posted 4:00 minutes post comic.
And what’s going down.
Dorothy knows her audience.
dotty, people who make turd jokes don’t become president
Yeah, True Presidential Material joke about drone striking people or mockingly mimic disabled reporters.
This turd joke is gonna be part of the republican sponsored smear campaign against her when she runs.
Smearing turds on people does sound like a GOP move.
Tucker Carlson twenty years from now: “Turd jokes. Really? Is that the kind of sense of humor we really want in our commander and chief? If she’s so crass with her humor who knows how she’ll treat our nuclear launch codes?”
Yes and aging Tucker Carlson will definitely still be on the air by the time Dorothy’s old enough to run for president.
judging from the sliding timescale, by the time Dorothy’s old enough to run for president Tucker Carlson will have been dead for two thousand years
So? Horses and Sparrows economics has been dead as a viable theory for over a century and right wingers are still treating it like gospel.
… and yes, I know Horses and Sparrows is not what the strategy is called nowadays, but I prefer this name because it…
1) … emphasizes just how damn old this idea is, inviting an examination of its track record, and…
2) … does a much better job of capturing the dignity with which the “sparrows” are fed relative to the “horses”, which…
3) … dovetails well with today’s comic strip.
Are you really going to make me google Horses and Sparrow economics only to find out it’s supply side theory or something?
@Clif It’s trickle-down economics. But google it anyway to see how its metaphor helps with points 2 and 3.
Thanks for this nugget of information. Definitely not the least useful TIL in this comment section.
Funny how ‘Horses and Sparrows’ left the vernacular right around the time the Horses wanted to sell the philosophy to the sparrows, isn’t it?
Damn! Thanks for the history lesson. On the bright side, we are garnerung a growing body of solid academic data showing that economic model is bupkus, no matter what it’s called.
On the not-so-bright side, most of the people pushing this idea only give a damn about the science when it supports their preferences, and when it doesn’t the science is obviously a liberal/communist/fascist/satanic conspiracy.
*grumblegrumblegrumble*
Yeah, true or not, it sounds like a better argument for feeding the horse than just “We’re horses and we want more food.”
And this is coming from a butt. I’d listen.
You got a Ko-fi or something for commissions? You mentioned a dogpile idea a week or so ago and I was wondering if cash could be a decent motivator.
Yes I do!
Also I did draw this 😀 https://i.imgur.com/oCcqNc2.png
I guess the site won’t let me link a Ko-fi or anything so I guess just search my name.
Hot damn, honey mustard indeed! I’d “shut up and take my money” you, but broke. Thank you for sharing though. That was a real pick me up.
People forget that this comic literally opened with Becky making a joke about an inaugural poop.
chronic me disease
Your time has come.
No need to be blunt about it.
TBF that goalpost was airlifted to the other side of the planet with the last administration
actually, the past 4 years would disprove your assertion….
Pffft yeah, you’d need to be an *actual* turd.
LBJ forced people to talk to him while he took a shit with the door open. Your argument is invalid.
When did reality ever matter to political commenters?
Wasn’t he the one who, when a reporter followed him into the bathroom, gave him a good look and made a remark about how everything is bigger in Texas?
He was well known for swinging around his Lyndon B. Johnson.
i present to you George W. Bush who called Karl Rove ‘Turdblossom’ and Putin ‘Pootie-Poot.’
I 1000% guarantee Obama has made poo jokes.
He’s growing stronger!!…Maybe. I assume Becky is near here and her absolute zero reaction to Walky hotness is so low that it’s not even worth panel time. We’ll see.
There you are. I was afraid an impostor was posting using your name.
I may have slipped for a moment. Forgive me. I’ll be more vigilant in the future.
Having longer hair makes him look slightly more like Sal, and Sal is the very hotness, so I guess it’s possible that Becky would notice he’s like 1 angstrom hotter.
Seeing Walky with long hair would give a lot of people weird feelings they usually wouldn’t have for a man.
The curse of Androgynous looks.
lookslocksoh and blessing instead of curse. 😀
I THINK the difference is that his eyebrows are much more visible. … maybe.
God dammit, Dorothy.
You have an error in punctuation. You left out the “Damn You, Willis” at the end. The use of lol or Hompk! is optional.
Maybe this will help Lucy move on towards someone more reasonable.
Walky please have a spine and don’t bark back up that tree though.
It’s like the “I’m the future Mrs. Socks-On-His-Ears” IW! strip.
Lucy: I’m the future Mrs. Cheeto Turds.
This, more than anything, demonstrates to me that Lucy and Walky are not relationship material.
I feel like Lucy needs a friend to say “girl, you can do better” right about now.
I mean, on one hand. One joke does not an entire relationship make.
On the other hand, yeah. I think Lucy has had Walky mentally pegged as nothing other than “Cute boy who likes cartoons” without any real awareness of who he actually is as a person.
Which implies she hasn’t been paying attention for the months they’ve known eachother.
I don’t know, I kind of read this strip as her being, “really…? Poop jokes?”
Didn’t Booster tell her that during that first floor meeting of the semester?
Dorothy: No you’re not. I am.
Like Joyce?
“I looked down
Thought I was dying
But I had just eaten a whole bag
Of flaming-hot Cheetos
I’m dyeing, mama
I’m dyeing, don’t you see
It’s turdplay, that’s right, it’s just
Dying, with an e”
“Mama….
Just poo’ed the can…..
Flamin’ Cheetos in mah head
Crappin’ dye, thought I’d be dead….”
Cheetos
Are a burnin’ thing
And they make
A fiery ring.
Bound
By appetite
I shat orange with all my might.
Dumbing of Age Book 11: Turdplay
Best potential book title so far.
Dumbing of Age Book 11: That Wasn’t Necessary Information
Making sure there’s logic in scatological.
Mray Mae May Kingshu sure the ther errs scuh scuh scatin scatglological.
Just so you guys know I am drawing something and I’ll post it later tonight. Look forward to it.
aw yiss
Given the subject matter of this strip I’m a little nervous.
Also, butts likes it. So, be afraid.
Woooo
https://i.imgur.com/oCcqNc2.png
Posting this here too.
i am giggling madly, thx
They’re hungry, but not for the nuggets.
That’s not hungry, that’s thirsty.
oh shit Walky is extremely HOMPK!ing hot in this
Amber’s light-coloured hair threw me off though?
Walkys never been so adorable
Oh that’s delightful, Yotomoe!
Harem anime indeed!
Of all the fun things in that I think I like that the nugget box keeps count of the contents the most.
Dorothy, no. For so many reasons, no.
No? Why not? Walky’s a fun, (suddenly even hotter) guy. He was never actually that bad an influence on her. If anything his presence helped her learn the value of relaxing which is a very important lesson for her. She might even need a few refresher courses. It would be a good thing for both of them, they both deserve, with zero downsides. Everybody wins!
Lucy doesn’t.
Lucy isn’t winning anyway.
I don’t think a “win” in this instance would be all that good for Lucy. There’s a big imbalance in the respective desires between Lucy and Walky, and I think she’d let him walk all over her even when he didn’t mean to, whereas Dorothy was perfectly willing to call Walky out on his crap and challenge him. And I think Walky complements Dorothy a lot better than he’d complement Lucy. Of course she wouldn’t consider Walky getting back together with Dorothy a win, but I think it might be better for everyone.
I don’t think Walky would walk all over Lucy. There is definitely and imbalance in desire here, but the comic has shown us what they’re like together when Lucy isn’t one-sidedly lusting for his bod.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/03-see-you-in-the-funny-page/comedicmasterpiece/
They seem to work off each other pretty well and would make a nice couple….maybe.
See! There’s that imposter again. We know the real Sirksome would be telling us that Walky is so bad that he wouldn’t make a nice couple with anyone.
Maybe if you take Walky’s manchild tendencies and Dorothy’s mechanical academic precision and put them together, you get a single, likable human being?
“Everybody wins!”
Well, Joyce doesn’t.
I see dating someone who isn’t Walky as a win for Lucy- not because I consider Walky to be a bad person, but because I consider Lucy to be someone who deserves to date someone who hasn’t been fake-ignoring her affections for several months
Do we have any confiration that Walky isn’t JUST THAT DENSE?
I mean, come on, we’ve all been 18. We’ve all woken up years later in the middle of the night figuring out “OH GOD THAT GIRL WAS MAKING A PASS AT ME FOR MONTHS IN HIGH SCHOOL”
I don’t know. Saying Walky’s dense kind of breaks his characterization for me. We’ve seen him in two relationships now. We know how he acts when he’s attracted to someone. Even if for some reason we throw out his past experience and say he doesn’t realize Lucy’s into him, he still hasn’t shown any sign of being into her.
Your saying Lucy loses Walky and Joyce loses Dorothy?
They can still be friends.
Joyce either needs to make a move or step aside. On either Walky or more likely Dorothy. (I feel like Walky has been available long enough that Joyce has had ample opportunity to pursue him if she really wanted to.) That goes double for Lucy! Walky’s a catch and he can’t be expected to stay on the shelf forever. Someone’s gonna pick that up.
Lucy has been pursuing him, just not effectively. Dorothy accomplished more in two sentences than Lucy has the entire time. Part of this is a lack of self confidence on Lucy’s part.
Part of it is having already been his girlfriend and knowing better than most how to relate to him … and being willing to do so.
‘No’ as in, please don’t encourage more poop jokes. We have plenty. XD And also ‘no’ because there is ABSOLUTELY A THING AS TOO MUCH STUDYING. Not so much getting back with Walky, I’d be down for that.
preach
Also – that’s not something Sirksome says. Are you broken? 😛
Every now and then when people get too annoyed at sirk for going extra hard on Walky he course corrects. I think since the start of season 2. I kinda appreciate it
I get that. I think Sirksome can be funny when they’re hating on Walky, but I get why some felt it was wearing thin.
If he’s moderated any, I could see it’s because somehow the surplus ire was transferred to me, because by God I can’t remember disliking a character this much in a long ass time. And I certainly can’t remember the actual character it was.
I won’t go as far as to say “the wrong roommate died”. Walky had actually grown on me by the end of S1.
But I could certainly tell you whom I’d miss less now.
Name one reason that outweighs Walky’s midriff
Don’t think of it as a midriff; think of it as future excrement.
The main reason is this: turdplay is a hard limit for most folk.
(no kink-shame intended – just feel like both of them need to watch what they’re implying without meaning to)
2characters1pun
hahaha
One of the earliest human writing is a fart joke.
I think you can make a poo pun.
Shakespeare was quite fond of them too as I recall
And Shakespeare’s got nothin’ on Mozart in the toilet humor department.
Well Rabelais was the one writing 64 whole pages about farts and how to fart in sociey…
If you think about it, that’s how Hamlet was hoisted on his own petard.
Pardon me; do you have any Grey Poo-pun?
And the question is: “What’s my favorite line ever from Captain Gray/Captain Picard slash.”
Just look at all the dirty graffiti they uncovered in Pompeii. What’s limited to public restroom stalls now was scratched into the streets back then.
I wonder if Lucy just fell out of love. Probably not, she’s been crushing on him this logn.
It’s called the sunken poo fallacy.
I’m embarrassed to admit that this is probably my new favorite strip.
Dorothy In Panel 5: Oh crap.
Topical.
Done. Hoping for harem illo. And not, you know, a turdplay illo.
Okay, that was supposed to be a reply to Yotomoe’s announcement of a post tonight.
Yeah normally I’d be looking forward to it, but coming off this strip, I’m… apprehensive.
Don’t stress. Just relax and wait for it to drop.
I refuse to see what you did there.
Okay, but that fourth panel. The wonderful moment you and one of your friends come up with the same awful piece of wordplay at the same exact time–it’s a joy.
Yet again it’s up to Joyce to save her friend from the lustwolves
As well as she did the first time?
If at first you don’t succeed…
“No,
JohnJoyce. You are thedemonslustwolves.And then Joyce was a horny.
Ugh, yes, the left-over chemistry with an ex.
In this case, they really weren’t over each other. Dorothy was just protecting her aspirations from a time crunch.
a match made in heaven
or somewhere.
Funny thing is, according to the Law of Diminishing Returns, it actually IS possible to study too much.
It’s not really a law. More like a suggestion.
there’s more directly applicable laws, like the Law of Getting Enough Sleep
There’s a word for studying too much – it’s called SUCCESS!
or is it excess
You know you’re studying too much when you miss the test because you lost track of time studying for it.
…a harem anime starring the most irritating dumbass of the entire strip. This is where we have come. This is what we are doing.
I am clearly out of my element now. See y’all next month.
You’re right. It would be ever so much better if we replaced Walky with Danny.
Yeah I was feeling this way more until I realized there is no male character that this would be not weird with, haha. Jacob would probably be uncomfortable, Joe is Joe, Ethan is gay, Danny is Danny… etc.
Mike is dead and in witness protection.
Didn’t Willis confirm that Jennifer is actually Mike?
that definitely sounds like a thing that willis would have said 😛
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/03-see-you-in-the-funny-page/rockypatch/#comment-1529265
Sh!
I’m certain they’ve done a harem anime centered around a dead guy.
someone make a weekend at bernie’s / anime pun title please, i’m not talented enough
I’m not talking about a plausibility issue. I’m not a stickler for logic.
I’m talking about a “This isn’t fun” issue. A “oh god why is this still going on issue”. A “If I shook hands with someone who actually found this entertaining, we’d mutually annihilate from the anti-matter interaction because we almost certainly come from different universes, such is how little I enjoy it” problem.
“It would be ever so much better if we replaced Walky with Danny”
Willis already did that, it was called “The Most Insufferable Parts Of the Walkyverse.” Seriously– Joyce, Sal, and Billie (the latter of whom won out eventually) were all into Danny, and all of them hated each others’ guts as a result. Joyce fights Sal, and then attempts to force Danny to date her by telling Hank and Carol that they’re engaged. Sal breaks into Billie’s apartment and tries to fight her to the death. Joyce and Sal both try to steal the ring at Danny and Billie’s wedding, despite the fact that Joyce was engaged to Walky by that point. [SPOILERS] did have female friends, including Billie, but even she was introduced solely to die saving Danny’s ass from an oncoming truck!
I was just thinking “we’ve got to be approaching the bottom of how bad this could get”, but clearly I’ve misjudged the depth of the barrel.
I can’t imagine how much of a shark jump it would be for one of the DoA cast to deadass love martyr themselves for this goof.
That ^ being said, I feel you.
I mean I’m starting to see the ‘oh he’s hot now’ angle, but it’s still fucking weird
I have to say, from my experience of college, as couples form and break up, it would be statistically improbable for none of them to get back together. Some kept breaking/making up all the way into marriage and spawning.
Alan last night: “Get within three feet of him though, and the goofiness and taco f*rts will ground anyone back in reality.”
I think we can see the goofiness is a plus for Dorothy. And she didn’t break up with him because he was gross.
It doesn’t help that Dorothy broke it off because she was afraid of committing when she’s got one foot out the door (planning to transfer to Yale), not because either of them felt like their relationship wasn’t working. We’ve seen her have mixed feelings about this decision, and almost go back for “just one more high” at least once.
Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, yes, good choice. My go-to is usually Chili-Limon Dinamitas.
So, Im just chalking this up to some sort of Radon leak or something.
(sorry, didn’t mean to be replying to anyone w that.Also blaming that on the radon.)
I’ve never had a Chili-Lemon anything, but there are these chips with Chili-Lime powder to die for that I try really hard to avoid because they are addictive and I will sit there and eat them all until they are gone or I am sick, even if I already regret it while I’m eating them because I will keep eating them because they are just that wonderful. The sweetness and sourness of the Lime twists and curls your mouth and just then the chili hits. Did I say they were wonderful?
Yes, probably Radon does have something to do with it.
Damn it, now I want some.
In this case, I hate to be the one to tell you, but in this case “limon” actually means lime, so you are talking about the same stuff.
Why would you call a lime a limon? Must be some of that furiner talk.
Spanish. Limón (lemon) vs Lima (lime( but that only holds true in some (most?) Spanish-speaking countries. Some countries don’t have a distinct word for one versus the other, and others inverse it.
“Turdplay” is very dangerous and can cause some very serious diseases.
Lucy, just because you’ve pursued him this long doesn’t mean you’d enjoy catching him. Please move on. Pretty please?
Dorothy/Walky 2: The Sequel is fine. Have fun, be safe
Ughhh I never thought I’d have a shared experience with Walky. *pulls hat over face*
Seriously tho, some of the dyes in snack food are horrid.
There’s this candy in my country, juicy raspberry and blackberry shaped and flavored gummies, they have so much food dye that they lightly stain your fingers, quite like natural blackberries do.
I figure I’m being protected from the bad effects of the dyes by all the preservatives.
You know that Dorothy is hanging on by thread when it’s Joyce making an intervention with her.
Intervention? Are you certain that, intentional or not, Joyce isn’t encouraging her?
Based on Joyce’s facial expression, I’d say I’m well over 95% sure.
Well yes, but it’s Dorothy’s face you should be watching.
Yes and Dorothy looks sick and more than a little frightened.
I refer you to panels three and five and panels three, five and seven yesterday. But read the comic you see and I’ll read the one I see.
The comic I see has all the panels, but I’m not clear how the ones from before Joyce says anything are evidence that Joyce may be inadvertently encouraging Dorothy.
They are evidence of Dorothy’s state of mind and how she is likely reacting to what Joyce says. I see Dorothy’s face in the last panel in that context. I do not see Dorothy’s face looking sick and more than a little frightened.
Future strips could change my interpretation. But the comic BenRG is responding to is not at all the comic I am currently reading.
Lucy, Lucy, Lucy. Accepting primal obscenities like “turdplay” and the Cheetos Tale is part and parcel of the Walky Experience. You gotta hang on if you’re gonna (co)-sign that lease.
(Dorothy, on the other hand, never really moved out.)
And she just moved back in so effortlessly.
https://i.imgur.com/oCcqNc2.png
IT IS DONE. Enjoy!
Enjoyed. You are good to us.
Thanks for that. The absolute disregard for honey mustard is especially appreciated.
Can’t agree with you there. Honey Mustard is by FAR my favorite sauce.
…I’ll be honest, at first I thought Walky was either Rachel or Billie (or both? somehow??) and I still can’t quite unsee it
Walky is so pure!
Pure is an odd way to spell oblivious.
The question is: Pure what?
enjoying very much thank
God dammit it’s too wholesome, in spite of all the lust being thrown about
Extremely fun, dude, great job.
In order to get with Walky you got to vibe with him and his bizarre antics on some level and Dorothy seems to be able to do it better than anyone else.
the “oh shit what’s happening to me” eyebrow raise lmao
I thought I had rectal bleeding, but it turns out I just have terrible taste in snacks! (Looking at you Dorothy.)
Damn, Lucy’s gonna have to step up her game if she wants to get with Walky. Dorothy’s got a much better chance of getting back together with him right now.
Of course, Lucy could also realize that there’s a huge gap in maturity between Walky and herself, but then this wouldn’t be Dumbing of Age.
…There’s also a huge gap in maturity between Walky and Dorothy, and that didn’t necessarily keep them from being pretty happy together? Amazingly, it wasn’t Walky’s maturity or lack thereof that caused problems.
Lucy knows what Walky’s about and I’m certain the immature goofiness is part of the package that makes him attractive at all. It’s probably a major reason he’s such a bizarre chick magnet, against all odds. He’s fun, nonthreatening, and has appeal as a “project” or a “fixer-upper”. (That last one isn’t necessarily a healthy attitude to take towards relationships but it certainly is a common one.)
It’s also worth remembering that Walky can step up and be mature, though it’s been awhile since he’s had the need. He’s usually harmlessly goofy and likes being that way, since it lowers the demands on him. (And likely derives from dealing with Linda.)
I remember some rapper guy (lil xan?) hospitalised, allegedly because he ate a bag of flamin’ hot cheetos?
What, did he eat the bag itself, too?
I really like this side of Dorothy ♡. The joke, not the study freak.
If you can’t be sexy and make a poo joke then you’re not sexy, sorry not sorry.
Ah, the amount of stupid one is prepared to put up with in order to get the bonage on.
romantic isn’t it
the viking funeral ship is sailing!
… again?
I kind of want to see Dorothy’s attempt to reconnect with Walkerton crash and burn.
Wally Peralta and Dorothy Santiago
Today is just not going your way, Sal.
Unecessary. I was just having lunch when I was reading.
Other comment: Walky making jokes about shit and still sexy.