If they were driving then most likely they had identification like wallets and phones, so they probably wouldn’t have needed to further traumatize the orphan? Hopefully.
They would not ask a child to identify their parents’ bodies, no. In the modern day, with IDs, smartphones, fingerprints, and DNA, it’s way rarer to ask anyone to identify a body.
I wanna believe that’s how she’d banter with her mom, too. If she had one. Leslie hasn’t beaten the allegations since roughly her third DoA appearance.
(There’s a joke to make somewhere about Mike being dead and nickels unspent but so far’s falling flat. I’ll work on it.)
Funnily enough, if there had been a scenario in which Mike and Leslie had to post as son and mom because of Wacky Hijinks or something, they totally could’ve pulled it off
I’d make a joke about her not actually being Nobody’s mom, but I’m not deep enough into greek myths to be able to name drop Odysseus’s mother without looking it up.
I actually could name drop Jocasta without looking it up, but that would be illegible because I was in fact talking about Odysseus, who is a different dude.
To explain for anyone curious, the joke is that during one of his adventures, Odysseus convinced a cyclops his name was Nobody, so that when he called for help as oddyseus made his escape the other Cyclopes wouldn’t come.
“Nobody blinded me!” “Nobody is getting away!” and so on.
Queen of Ithaca* might be good because you could say, “Who do you think you are, the queen of Ithaca?”
But then his wife was also the queen of Ithaca, so it gets confusing.
Yep, my mother died from what they call “Brain Slosh” after she broke her hip and fell in 2004. Kinda rough on my Dad, because it happened right in front of him.
Exactly. If you have to have dead parents, then you get to make dead parent “jokes” every now and then to enjoy the way it horrifies the people around you.
Leslie really gets the problem kids in her class. She should start a school for at risk youths with exceptional abilities. Not because of anything related here, it would just be a cool thing to do.
Just after monologging “Act with Integrity. No regrets.” You have to read it for the back story. It’s not quite as iconic as Walky’s “It’s the rain” speech, but it comes close.
Early Willis wasn’t the same writer he is now. I’m going to go with a hard disagree with “he wasn’t a very good writer. ” if he hadn’t captured readers with character and story, if there was no magic there, we wouldn’t be here today.
Well, some of us still would be here. I found DoA first and immediately subscribed. Then I learned he’d done some earlier stuff, checked it out, but never really got into it.
A few months ago I was checking into a motel in some reddish state. I was wearing a mask. Some guy noticed my license plate and asked, “Is the air that bad in California?”
I gave a strategic pause and then said quietly, “Covid killed my dad.”
(Not so) fun fact: You know those low bumpers on the back of cargo trucks and trailers? They’re called Mansfield bars because in 1967 actress Jayne Mansfield’s car went under the back of one, the truck floor was at car windshield level, and she met the fate Ruth describes.
Her kids were fine though, including her 3 year old daughter Mariska who went on to star in Law & Order 32 years later.
Decapitation’s a horrifying ways to to go. Can’t say I’ve never been curious about it though, on account of all the kids in school who kept telling me you can stay conscious for like a minute afterward. Not curious enough to try it though, since I don’t think we’re at the tech level where you can reattach a head that quickly and I’m not sure how you’d report back during that minute.
From what I’ve read, it’s not true that people stay conscious for a minute after decapitation. They fall unconscious within a few seconds due to lack of blood flow to the brain.
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“You’ve got the WRONG CAT“
No way, our brains went exactly the same place.
Leslie just unlocked a 30 year old Animaniacs memory.
So thanks, Leslie! Everyone needs more Bernadette Peters in their life.
Ruth and Rita weren’t the first characters i would immediately clump together, but now i’ve made the connection i can’t see them apart.
Though i admit my first thought would have been more Slappy Squirrel.
leave it to Leslie to spread the I Can’t Believe It’s Not Mother® XD
also
DAAAAAAAMN :0
That’s a hell of a Nuclear Option Ruth.
If she doesn’t get to have a mom nobody can (?)
Why is Ruth extra hot when she says that?
An edge sharpn’d by tragedy, my liege
Because we are all sick in the head. Probably because Tumblr or something.
Doesn’t count. She’s always extra hot.
…J-Jesus Christ, Ruth.
oh god was ruth the one who had to identify her parents’ bodies? do they really have children do that? or was it just an open casket funeral?
Probably Sir had to, because Ruth was a minor. Then again, Sir probably took her to look to toughen her up
… man, that’s grim
No, I mean, you’re probably right.
Shit, he totally would do that, that bastard.
If they were driving then most likely they had identification like wallets and phones, so they probably wouldn’t have needed to further traumatize the orphan? Hopefully.
They would not ask a child to identify their parents’ bodies, no. In the modern day, with IDs, smartphones, fingerprints, and DNA, it’s way rarer to ask anyone to identify a body.
Let’s all just hope she and Howard weren’t IN THE CAR during the crash.
Leslie is such a sweetie-pie that Ruth acting like this makes me wish a roundhouse kick from Amazi-Girl to her head.
Ruth not Leslie.
“No I must keep the maternal instincts at bay!”
sdgsd BRUTAL RUTH, COME ONNNN.
I wanna believe that’s how she’d banter with her mom, too. If she had one. Leslie hasn’t beaten the allegations since roughly her third DoA appearance.
(There’s a joke to make somewhere about Mike being dead and nickels unspent but so far’s falling flat. I’ll work on it.)
Funnily enough, if there had been a scenario in which Mike and Leslie had to post as son and mom because of Wacky Hijinks or something, they totally could’ve pulled it off
I’d make a joke about her not actually being Nobody’s mom, but I’m not deep enough into greek myths to be able to name drop Odysseus’s mother without looking it up.
Leslie Anticlea Bean
*Oedipus
I actually could name drop Jocasta without looking it up, but that would be illegible because I was in fact talking about Odysseus, who is a different dude.
To explain for anyone curious, the joke is that during one of his adventures, Odysseus convinced a cyclops his name was Nobody, so that when he called for help as oddyseus made his escape the other Cyclopes wouldn’t come.
“Nobody blinded me!” “Nobody is getting away!” and so on.
jesus. nice.
Queen of Ithaca* might be good because you could say, “Who do you think you are, the queen of Ithaca?”
But then his wife was also the queen of Ithaca, so it gets confusing.
*This is also where my knowledge of her maxes out
The whole story is confusion though, lean into it.
Anticlea, daughter of master thief Autolycus, granddaughter of Hermes, which explains a lot about Odysseus
Selfwolf?
Now that’s the face of someone who really really loves spite.
Jesus Christ, Ruth.
Great job, Ruth, now she knows you’re free maternal real estate!
Really though, that’s one hell of a conversational nuke.
Yep, my mother died from what they call “Brain Slosh” after she broke her hip and fell in 2004. Kinda rough on my Dad, because it happened right in front of him.
Sometimes it’s like that! Sometimes you gotta vicariously traumatize other people with your own trauma to cope! I get it, unfortunately.
Exactly. If you have to have dead parents, then you get to make dead parent “jokes” every now and then to enjoy the way it horrifies the people around you.
That’s the trade-off.
Ruth is a Canadian with very very little patience for anyone and dead parent(s). I feel so represented.
Genuinely though, pulling the “dead parent” card to mess with somebody else’s head is always so much fun.
Not near as much fun as pulling the I died in 2001 card.
I’m suddenly shipping Ruth and Leslie, and I’m concerned about what this says about me.
You want Ruth to be on the other side of an inappropriate lesbian relationship with an authority figure?
Well, yes, but relationship first and Jennifer can become an authority figure after.
Leslie really gets the problem kids in her class. She should start a school for at risk youths with exceptional abilities. Not because of anything related here, it would just be a cool thing to do.
And they can fight and wear matching outfits and stuff
She can take over for those Umbrella Academy Kids. Their teacher was terrible and Elliot’s Viktor just needs a hug.
I never watched the final season because I heard it was sbad.
There’s no such thing as a problem kid. Only parents with bad aim.
Fucksake, this phone screen is gonna get me murdered one day.
Tack on “with the Behavior Beam” before the period, goddamn.
Look, just because you have a dullahan as a mom, doesn’t mean you can brag about it.
I hear Washington Irving had that problem.
As far as is known, Irving’s Headless Horseman was a man, and unrelated to Irving.
That’s the cover-up version.
I’d ask if she needs a hug, but she’s already proving distressingly blasé on the subject of decapitations
TEACH WITH INTEGRITY
NO REGRETS
Trucks have no place in the classroom.
I actually get this one! Ruth died in a car crash in It’s Walky right? Someone once linked a redrawn page of that moment.
And she did that to save Danny life while he was driving drunk I think? Early Willis wasn’t a very good writer if you can believe it
Yes, but it rid the world of Ruth so it wasn’t a terrible plot.
*audience boos and throws food at me*
Okay? Kind of weird and uncalled but alright.
Just after monologging “Act with Integrity. No regrets.” You have to read it for the back story. It’s not quite as iconic as Walky’s “It’s the rain” speech, but it comes close.
And yet, I’ve actually heard of the regrets one.
Early Willis wasn’t the same writer he is now. I’m going to go with a hard disagree with “he wasn’t a very good writer. ” if he hadn’t captured readers with character and story, if there was no magic there, we wouldn’t be here today.
Well, some of us still would be here. I found DoA first and immediately subscribed. Then I learned he’d done some earlier stuff, checked it out, but never really got into it.
I remembered that specific comic literal decades later, which seems to me to be indicative of at least a certain amount of quality.
Not sure what it says about me that my reflexive follow-up is, “And fix the hair color, too.”
You’re not color blind?
Did Ruth take the time to pick a seat and take her coat off, only to come back over for that quip?
Of course. She’s a professional.
Sorry Leslie, you are everybody’s mom
she’s a fairly odd parent, that much is certain
All she needs now is a wand, wings, and a little crowny thing.
A few months ago I was checking into a motel in some reddish state. I was wearing a mask. Some guy noticed my license plate and asked, “Is the air that bad in California?”
I gave a strategic pause and then said quietly, “Covid killed my dad.”
He did not reply.
[Marge Simpson voice] Students could ya lighten up a bit?
(Not so) fun fact: You know those low bumpers on the back of cargo trucks and trailers? They’re called Mansfield bars because in 1967 actress Jayne Mansfield’s car went under the back of one, the truck floor was at car windshield level, and she met the fate Ruth describes.
Her kids were fine though, including her 3 year old daughter Mariska who went on to star in Law & Order 32 years later.
The world won’t give Leslie a fuckign chance to beat the mom allegations
Decapitation’s a horrifying ways to to go. Can’t say I’ve never been curious about it though, on account of all the kids in school who kept telling me you can stay conscious for like a minute afterward. Not curious enough to try it though, since I don’t think we’re at the tech level where you can reattach a head that quickly and I’m not sure how you’d report back during that minute.
Oh yeah. You stay conscious till you run out of oxygen.
From what I’ve read, it’s not true that people stay conscious for a minute after decapitation. They fall unconscious within a few seconds due to lack of blood flow to the brain.
That certainly is a way to end a conversation.
my parents are deaaaaaaaad
“This is where I watched my parents die, Amazigirl”
really interesting deconstruction of the mom friend phenomenon from ruth