Once met a person who made ramen in the same pot as Mac n cheese, drained the water after, and mixed in both seasonings. It was strangely good in a terrible choice way!
Yesterday, saw a post bricks of ramen used instead of pizza dough. Layed-out on baking sheet and water ladled over it. baked/browned. Ladel pizza sauce, then add toppings, cheese, etc. Baked. Gooey pizza.
On one hand, you get free pizza. On the other hand, they now have less pizza to give to people who’d vote for them on the basis of free pizza. 2 very good hands
Ah! But what if said free pizza was actually laced with radical mind influencing chemicals that come election time forced you to vote toward that party’s candidates?! Are you prepared to have that grease and burnt cheese on your hands?!
In that case, by me scamming as much goddamn pizza as I possibly can, that’s a hell of a lot less mind control to exert over others, minimising the damage they can do.
I am thus sacrificing myself for the sake of humankind.
Feel free to raise a statue of me for my extreme bravery and valor!
As far as I’m concerned, you can scam anything you want off a political campaign as long as you don’t work for one and it’ll have a pretty safe bet of being a net positive, ethics wise. Keep a fire burning in the fireplace all winter with yard signs. Get yourself a side hustle melting down campaign buttons and selling the raw aluminum. Wallpaper your house with voter registration forms. Use the adhesive harvested from thousands of bumper stickers to literally stick it (whatever “it” is) to the Man. Technically you’re making the world, if not better than at least un-worse.
Come election day, Walky will be stripped of his stickers at a certain distance from the polling place*. Will he recognize Robin’s name on the ballot when he sees it?
This comic will end when Joe finds an awful mustard colored suit for a Halloween party, triggering his amnesia to wear off and for him to return to his life in Gotham.
Regression to the mean. Between the Joyce/Jacob mini-arc and the Sal/Asher mini-arc, I’d imagine vast quantities of spoons have been collectively and individually used up in the comments section, and it’s a collective relief to have a little time for recuperation. (Especially since the Axis of Evil Dads is looming in the distance and we’ll need a spoon reserve then.)
(It just struck me that “Regression to the mean” has the same structure as “Power to the people.” Put that duo in the Semantic Ambiguity Museum along with “time flies like an arrow/fruit flies like a banana.”)
Dollars to donuts this isn’t going to be a political storyline as much as it is about Leslie’s hypocrisy how even attending Robin’s rallies was totally ok when she wanted to bang Robin, but getting free pizza is horrible now that she’s getting her jollies from someone else.
It is if her opening move is yelling at a student for getting free pizza from someone she provided a platform to because she wanted to get in her pants.
Here’s the problem, though: Robin hasn’t changed from then. Leslie was far more supportive of Robin that Walky’s being. She doesn’t get to go “well, now that *I* have changed my mind, you all better follow suit”.
I know the Sample Gates is a real place on campus, but I can’t help thinking that they must be somewhere near the Tannhäuser Gate, where I once watched C-beams glitter in the dark.
To paraphrase the late, great Jesse Unruh: if you can’t take their shitty pizza and still vote against them in the morning, you have no business voting.
Doesnt the american voting system have you being registered to a party to be allowed to vote in some states? I saw posts about that on tumblr a while back, so they might have sign walkys name up.
The Moderate party did that at my school once. Half the class had cans of soda, “for free”. That is that when signing their names on a paper to get the soda, they became members of the moderate party. And since swedish parties get funding based on the amount of registred members, they just made sure that they had more campain money.
For general election, you can vote for whomever you want. For primaries, there’s at least 3 ways its done. Closed (you can only vote for the party you’re registered as), Open (you choose which party’s primary you want to vote in on election day), and jungle primary (non-partisan ballot, top two vote receivers move on to general, regardless of party). Indiana has open primaries.
In open primaries you can trust your own party to select a reasonably acceptable candidate and vote in the primary for the least electable of the other party. (That’s how you get Trump vs. Clinton; not that I’m bitter or anything.) In jungle primaries it locks out the minority party in the general election so eventually either the candidates catch on and run under the majority party regardless of their actual beliefs, or the big donors fund a lot of different candidates in the party they don’t support in an attempt to split the vote. This hasn’t happened so much yet, but it’s early days.
Side note about party registration: be very careful if you want to register to vote without joining a party, especially if your state has closed primaries.
For example, Massachusetts recognizes a party named “Independent”, and puts it on the form along with Democrat, Republican, Green, Libertarian, and Unenrolled. The box you’d want to tick in this case is “Unenrolled”. This is important because of the closed primaries. If you’re Unenrolled, you can vote once in one primary of your choosing. If you’re Independent, you’re only able to vote in their effectively irrelevant primary.
Wait, so it’s possible for people who are not members of a party to vote for which candidates that party sends to the general election (thus making trying to get an opposing party saddled with a unsuitable candidate possible?) This is a part of the US election system I hadn’t realized before. The mind boggles.
That’s like allowing followers of the Coca Cola way to influence the flavor of Pepsi.
Not necessarily: They can’t generally overwhelm a popular primary candidate with a ringer, but even a relatively small number might swing a close contest.
Most likely to be a concern when one party has an incumbent with no serious challengers. It’s mostly a theoretical thing though.
It depends on the state. If it’s a state with open primaries, everyone gets to vote once in whichever primary they want. If they’re closed primaries, then you can only vote in the primary for the party to which you’ve enrolled. (Unless you’re unenrolled, in which case for you it’s functionally an open primary.)
This doesn’t even cover caucuses, where you literally take sides in a room.
Some closed primary states don’t allow you to vote unless you’re already registered with one party. You can change your registration to be a member, but sometimes there’s a deadline that can be months before the election.
There were a lot complaints about that in the 2016 NY primary – a surge in enthusiasm for Sanders brought out people who wanted to support him, but weren’t registered Democrats in time.
And yeah, caucuses – which I love conceptually, but accept are basically exclusionary and undemocratic.
And then you have states that call themselves closed but are in practice open (like Ohio).
In an open primary state, you are requesting a party’s ballot, but that is all you are doing. Only your eligibility to vote can be challenged, not your selection of ballot.
In a closed primary state, you are declaring a party affiliation, even if it’s a same-day declaration (Ohio only allows you to declare immediately before voting, in fact). The reason it’s considered closed is, anyone who believes that the party affiliation declaration is being made fraudulently can challenge the affiliation. In practice, that does not happen (and IIRC in Ohio’s implementation, if you are challenged on your affiliation, you simply are required to file an affidavit stating that you are honestly declaring that affiliation, and then it’s accepted), and it functions identically to an open primary state.
Walky and Dina are easy to buy into voting for horrible people. Becky is a pragmatist that does what is convenient to her (but shows hints being in favor of progressive ideas), Dorothy, Roz, Rachel and Radiah are liberals, Joyce can be considered a conservative but she is against homophobic and racist policies, Sal doesn’t believe in legal justice and authorities, and Mike will vote for whoever you don’t want him to vote.
Becky presumably set this up, she is taking her role seriously (although did she set them up all around the state/district too by contacting various College Republicans groups and wiring them some pizza cash? Maybe!) all that on Dina’s birthday with a party to plan no less. Formidable!
Well I’m late to the comment show but oh well. I see Leslie is not pleased with Robin’s campaigning though to what end I’m not sure. Maybe she thought she would stop with politics after all that happened?
Leslie did make a point of saying in an early strip that despite looking up to Robin as a Hispanic woman in office for Indiana’s 9th congressional district – a first on both counts – she nevertheless voted for the straight white guy Robin had been running against.
Look, Leslie, the likelihood of Walky understanding or even caring about any of Robin’s platforms (either Original or New Becky) is effectively zero. Besides, you can’t victimise a student for his political beliefs, even if said political beliefs are: “I don’t care about the noises coming out of your mouth; give me free stuff!”
You’d look a little ragged too, if you’d recently started using coitus as your sole source of human interaction, entertainment, education, hydration, nutrition, and transportation.
Quite frankly, Leslie should be kept away from her. As cute as they can be together, Robin is pretty toxic for Leslie and, FWIW, this is also the case reciprocally.
I appreciate the scritches. Very satisfying. Like having someone else scratch your head or back, but instead of your back it’s your thighs, and instead of their hands it’s their face.
i think shes annoyed at walky for being walky..ie not paying attention/caring for anything but the pizza… Also doesn’t Becky still work at the pizza place? she might have gotten a discount or even free ….
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thanks Willis, I thought I had just sated my craving for shitty food with that ramen I had, now I want shitty pizza to wash it down
Heh, yeah, I was really confused for a minute there.
…what about ramen ON pizza?
You fucking genius
Once met a person who made ramen in the same pot as Mac n cheese, drained the water after, and mixed in both seasonings. It was strangely good in a terrible choice way!
Yesterday, saw a post bricks of ramen used instead of pizza dough. Layed-out on baking sheet and water ladled over it. baked/browned. Ladel pizza sauce, then add toppings, cheese, etc. Baked. Gooey pizza.
I want to say something relevant and insightful but all I can say is: Wow, I love Joe’s hair.
I like that Joe’s got a more mature shirt on than usual.
That’s post-coital-wear fersure
I first misread your comment as “post-coital hair” (it’s late for me) and I think both interpretations are valid.
I firmly believe that Joe has special clothes for exactly that.
The man is prepared.
Heck, I’ll believe he has special hair for that.
But still hasn’t shaved.
Not sure it really goes that well with the perpetual five o clock shadow, but that might just be an art style thing
Oh, phew.
For a minute there I thought Willis didn’t want us to fight over the ethics of scamming free pizza slices off a political campaign.
Let’s start a fight over the ethics of scamming free pizza slices off a political campaign.
On one hand, you get free pizza!
On the other…. I got nothing. I mean, you get free pizza!
On one hand, you get free pizza. On the other hand, they now have less pizza to give to people who’d vote for them on the basis of free pizza. 2 very good hands
In “Superman” (1978), Superman told Lois this (verbatim quote):
“I’m here to fight for truth, justice, and the right to scam free pizza from political campaigns.”
And who of us can argue with Superman?
He may have called it the American way, but we knew what he meant .
Nothing’s more American than pizza! (Or, uh, Italian… but nothing’s more American than crappy pizza so)
That’s less pizza for the Republicans.
Ah! But what if said free pizza was actually laced with radical mind influencing chemicals that come election time forced you to vote toward that party’s candidates?! Are you prepared to have that grease and burnt cheese on your hands?!
In that case, by me scamming as much goddamn pizza as I possibly can, that’s a hell of a lot less mind control to exert over others, minimising the damage they can do.
I am thus sacrificing myself for the sake of humankind.
Feel free to raise a statue of me for my extreme bravery and valor!
It just counteracts the free gay pizza he got back in strip [mumble].
You mean the strip officially named “Free Gay Pizza”?
As far as I’m concerned, you can scam anything you want off a political campaign as long as you don’t work for one and it’ll have a pretty safe bet of being a net positive, ethics wise. Keep a fire burning in the fireplace all winter with yard signs. Get yourself a side hustle melting down campaign buttons and selling the raw aluminum. Wallpaper your house with voter registration forms. Use the adhesive harvested from thousands of bumper stickers to literally stick it (whatever “it” is) to the Man. Technically you’re making the world, if not better than at least un-worse.
The Walky speaks Truthery.
Oh, so Robin’s the one they call ol’ Whatsername.
she’s a rebel
And she’s dangerous.
She’s not dreaming what you’re thinking, though.
And she’ll never ever be any good.
(Fuck, I’m old.)
From Chicago to Toronto?
Is this the real Pizza gate?
A cane appears on the stage for a half second, disappearing immediately after with Plasma Mongoose.
No. The real one has pineapple.
Go home, Plaz, you’re drunk.
The real pizza gate was inside us all along.
It is the pharynx.
I really wish Reginald, Duke of Thingley got his own tag. ;_;
He did, briefly. (though Reginald probably wouldn’t be tagged in this strip, as he was only present off-screen).
ISUE got a tag for one line spoken from offscreenI feel like there’s at least one other example where the character didn’t actually appear but got a tag anyway… like, a name-drop only
Finally! I have never been so happy for a character to return.
Come election day, Walky will be stripped of his stickers at a certain distance from the polling place*. Will he recognize Robin’s name on the ballot when he sees it?
(*75 feet from the entry door in my state.)
Ugh. Not that it makes a difference but I used my wrong nym.
self-dox? Classic!
If either were of any important, I’d be worried!
I’ve thrown out more nyms than I can count.
Oh hey, pizza.
Joe continuing to look like Bruce Wayne.
This comic will end when Joe finds an awful mustard colored suit for a Halloween party, triggering his amnesia to wear off and for him to return to his life in Gotham.
Comments!…..too bad I really don’t have much to say. Uhhh….Walky a dumdum!
He got several slices of free pizza! Walky’s obviously smart.
“Like, scores free
gayDeSanto pizza smart!”Oh, huh, i thought maybe Willis killed the comments for the day so we wouldn’t fight over the political storyline.
Neat!
Regression to the mean. Between the Joyce/Jacob mini-arc and the Sal/Asher mini-arc, I’d imagine vast quantities of spoons have been collectively and individually used up in the comments section, and it’s a collective relief to have a little time for recuperation. (Especially since the Axis of Evil Dads is looming in the distance and we’ll need a spoon reserve then.)
(It just struck me that “Regression to the mean” has the same structure as “Power to the people.” Put that duo in the Semantic Ambiguity Museum along with “time flies like an arrow/fruit flies like a banana.”)
Dollars to donuts this isn’t going to be a political storyline as much as it is about Leslie’s hypocrisy how even attending Robin’s rallies was totally ok when she wanted to bang Robin, but getting free pizza is horrible now that she’s getting her jollies from someone else.
It’s not really hypocrisy as much as change, since she’s been brought face to face with the scary reality of what Robin is since then.
It is if her opening move is yelling at a student for getting free pizza from someone she provided a platform to because she wanted to get in her pants.
You missed the point that her attitude towards Robin has changed since she gave her that platform.
Here’s the problem, though: Robin hasn’t changed from then. Leslie was far more supportive of Robin that Walky’s being. She doesn’t get to go “well, now that *I* have changed my mind, you all better follow suit”.
I know the Sample Gates is a real place on campus, but I can’t help thinking that they must be somewhere near the Tannhäuser Gate, where I once watched C-beams glitter in the dark.
All those moments will be lost in time, like Rutger Hauer.
I never knew Rutgers Hauer played the Doctor.
Nah, he played HG Wells.
Fan ships on fire, off the shoulder of the Lyin’
I googled them up and was disappointed to find that they are not a place where you can get free samples :c
They’re just temporary gates to give a feel for the real ones
(j/k I know a Ken Sample so it’s p obvious where the name came from)
At least Walky appears to be going to class.
Is shitty pizza really worth it though? Even if it is free? (And that pizza looks really shitty, to the tune of drastically underdone.)
Shitty pizza isnt worth your vote. I prefer to buy my own quality pizza, or get free pizza in an event I agree with because of my beliefs.
To paraphrase the late, great Jesse Unruh: if you can’t take their shitty pizza and still vote against them in the morning, you have no business voting.
Doesnt the american voting system have you being registered to a party to be allowed to vote in some states? I saw posts about that on tumblr a while back, so they might have sign walkys name up.
The Moderate party did that at my school once. Half the class had cans of soda, “for free”. That is that when signing their names on a paper to get the soda, they became members of the moderate party. And since swedish parties get funding based on the amount of registred members, they just made sure that they had more campain money.
That’s only in primaries, where you have to be registered as a member of the party to select the party candidate for the general election.
Except in Texas where you just need a pulse and the ability to fog a mirror, and accepted State ID, to cast a ballot in a primary.
For general election, you can vote for whomever you want. For primaries, there’s at least 3 ways its done. Closed (you can only vote for the party you’re registered as), Open (you choose which party’s primary you want to vote in on election day), and jungle primary (non-partisan ballot, top two vote receivers move on to general, regardless of party). Indiana has open primaries.
In open primaries you can trust your own party to select a reasonably acceptable candidate and vote in the primary for the least electable of the other party. (That’s how you get Trump vs. Clinton; not that I’m bitter or anything.) In jungle primaries it locks out the minority party in the general election so eventually either the candidates catch on and run under the majority party regardless of their actual beliefs, or the big donors fund a lot of different candidates in the party they don’t support in an attempt to split the vote. This hasn’t happened so much yet, but it’s early days.
Side note about party registration: be very careful if you want to register to vote without joining a party, especially if your state has closed primaries.
For example, Massachusetts recognizes a party named “Independent”, and puts it on the form along with Democrat, Republican, Green, Libertarian, and Unenrolled. The box you’d want to tick in this case is “Unenrolled”. This is important because of the closed primaries. If you’re Unenrolled, you can vote once in one primary of your choosing. If you’re Independent, you’re only able to vote in their effectively irrelevant primary.
Wait, so it’s possible for people who are not members of a party to vote for which candidates that party sends to the general election (thus making trying to get an opposing party saddled with a unsuitable candidate possible?) This is a part of the US election system I hadn’t realized before. The mind boggles.
That’s like allowing followers of the Coca Cola way to influence the flavor of Pepsi.
I mean yea sounds like it but if another party can pull that off your party was not going to win anyways.
Not necessarily: They can’t generally overwhelm a popular primary candidate with a ringer, but even a relatively small number might swing a close contest.
Most likely to be a concern when one party has an incumbent with no serious challengers. It’s mostly a theoretical thing though.
It depends on the state. If it’s a state with open primaries, everyone gets to vote once in whichever primary they want. If they’re closed primaries, then you can only vote in the primary for the party to which you’ve enrolled. (Unless you’re unenrolled, in which case for you it’s functionally an open primary.)
This doesn’t even cover caucuses, where you literally take sides in a room.
Some closed primary states don’t allow you to vote unless you’re already registered with one party. You can change your registration to be a member, but sometimes there’s a deadline that can be months before the election.
There were a lot complaints about that in the 2016 NY primary – a surge in enthusiasm for Sanders brought out people who wanted to support him, but weren’t registered Democrats in time.
And yeah, caucuses – which I love conceptually, but accept are basically exclusionary and undemocratic.
And then you have states that call themselves closed but are in practice open (like Ohio).
In an open primary state, you are requesting a party’s ballot, but that is all you are doing. Only your eligibility to vote can be challenged, not your selection of ballot.
In a closed primary state, you are declaring a party affiliation, even if it’s a same-day declaration (Ohio only allows you to declare immediately before voting, in fact). The reason it’s considered closed is, anyone who believes that the party affiliation declaration is being made fraudulently can challenge the affiliation. In practice, that does not happen (and IIRC in Ohio’s implementation, if you are challenged on your affiliation, you simply are required to file an affidavit stating that you are honestly declaring that affiliation, and then it’s accepted), and it functions identically to an open primary state.
Even shitty free pizza is still better than no pizza at all.
I remember my university days. Somebody’s offering free food, *you take it*.
Free shitty pizza is still free, which leaves more cash for important things, like good pizza.
Hell, I’d buy shitty pizza, too, sometimes the greasy crust and not-pepperoni is fabulous
Listen, to quote Night in the Woods:
Bad pizza is still pizza
And food tastes 10x better when it’s free
Walky and Dina are easy to buy into voting for horrible people. Becky is a pragmatist that does what is convenient to her (but shows hints being in favor of progressive ideas), Dorothy, Roz, Rachel and Radiah are liberals, Joyce can be considered a conservative but she is against homophobic and racist policies, Sal doesn’t believe in legal justice and authorities, and Mike will vote for whoever you don’t want him to vote.
Walky voting at all seems like a stretch.
Well, he still needs to vote democrat
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/hail/
Walky and Dinaare the smart ones – take the campaigns for every bribe they throw your way, and then vote however the fuck you were going to anyway.
That is something a scumbag like Varrick from TLOK would do.
Becky presumably set this up, she is taking her role seriously (although did she set them up all around the state/district too by contacting various College Republicans groups and wiring them some pizza cash? Maybe!) all that on Dina’s birthday with a party to plan no less. Formidable!
There’s probably a couple extra pizzas on that order, earmarked for a certain
partyinvitation-only event this evening…That’s good thinking! As long as she puts a few Vote deSanto stickers on the party pizza boxes, now it’s a campaign awareness event prove it isn’t.
I know where the left over pizza is going.
Well I’m late to the comment show but oh well. I see Leslie is not pleased with Robin’s campaigning though to what end I’m not sure. Maybe she thought she would stop with politics after all that happened?
Or it could just be that she disapproves of Robin’s politics.
Leslie did make a point of saying in an early strip that despite looking up to Robin as a Hispanic woman in office for Indiana’s 9th congressional district – a first on both counts – she nevertheless voted for the straight white guy Robin had been running against.
Aren’t Robin’s political views possibly not-so-well-defined since Becky assigned herself as Robin’s twitterer?
(And I mean genuinely likely to change, not Susan Collins’ disappointed frowns resulting in her usual crap.)
Walky is good at getting free pizza. Kinda wonder how they didn’t notice the stickers on his hoodie after the first time though.
That’s what his buzzing mobile was about. Becky?
I wonder what Dorothy thought, seeing him go after pizza instead of the next lecture.
Look, Leslie, the likelihood of Walky understanding or even caring about any of Robin’s platforms (either Original or New Becky) is effectively zero. Besides, you can’t victimise a student for his political beliefs, even if said political beliefs are: “I don’t care about the noises coming out of your mouth; give me free stuff!”
If she’s “New Becky”, does that mean we’ll be getting Becky Classic at some point?
“New Becky” is the flavour of Robin. Becky herself is and will always remain a timeless original.
You are absolutely right. Teachers should not get in students faces over what political party they take their pizza and stickers from.
Well, unless its parties that encourage violence and such.
And unless its pineapple pizza.
THE DUKE OF THINGLEY IS BACK!!!
THE DUKE OF THINGLEY NEVER LEFT US. THE DUKE OF THINGLEY WAS WITH US THE ENTIRE TIME.
The Duke starved for your sins.
Well, no, he had pizza
We were always at war with the Duke of Thingley.
The only thing we have to fear is the Duke of Thingley
I must not Thingley. Thingley is the mind-killer …
The real Duke of Thingley was the pizza-scamming we did along the way.
I’ve got this mental image of Becky looking at the revised contributor lists and wondering why this ‘THINGLEY, T D O’ seems so familiar to her.
Very likeley. She is in this for her new and strange situation where she is not the most silly person in the room.
“I have brought Pizza. Free Just Eat pizza. Just don’t eat my piece.”
I came here to kick ass and eat pizza. Mmmmm…. pizza.
Looks like the Becky-Leslie showdown at the OK Corral is about to go down. Was wondering when this would come around.
Possible Asher/Sal ship name:
Slasher.
…Didn’t say it was funny. Please don’t punch me too hard.
I like it!
Is it me or is Joe not himself in today’s strip. He looks a bit ragged and worn out. Mid-term trauma?
You’d look a little ragged too, if you’d recently started using coitus as your sole source of human interaction, entertainment, education, hydration, nutrition, and transportation.
Yes! Robin is back!
(I hope so?)
Quite frankly, Leslie should be kept away from her. As cute as they can be together, Robin is pretty toxic for Leslie and, FWIW, this is also the case reciprocally.
I think Leslie is with Anna now. Sadly, she’s toxic for Leslie too.
Robin looking at the public With Bugs Bunny tone of voice “Of course you realize, this means war!”
Leslie looking at the public With Bugs Bunny tone of voice “Of course you realize, this means war!”
Leslie doing ROBIN DESANTO reminds me of the Three Stooges doing Niagara Falls. I expect her to gran Walky and start slapping him.
Either that or John Williams Duel of the Fates to start playing as the background music.
Joe you need to fucking shave bro.
Nah
His stubble is sexy
Any girl getting oral from him would probably think otherwise.
I appreciate the scritches. Very satisfying. Like having someone else scratch your head or back, but instead of your back it’s your thighs, and instead of their hands it’s their face.
I see Walky has been taking lessons from Amber. (I wonder If Amazigirl gets free pizza?)
Nah, trust me. Every boarding college student is proficient in getting free food
i think shes annoyed at walky for being walky..ie not paying attention/caring for anything but the pizza… Also doesn’t Becky still work at the pizza place? she might have gotten a discount or even free ….
Did anyone else assume those were stains from previously eaten pizza until Leslie said he was wearing stickers?