A convenient fact my roommate and I would exploit. We’d swim over to a nearby pub just down the beach in our swimsuits, flip flops, and a T-shirt, then drip our way inside and order. Never got kicked out for it. XD
–Mind you, being female and in both our early twenties *and* bikinis may have helped, heh heh heh…
A man could probably get away with showing up to a seaside bar in only a t-shirt, swimsuit, and flip-flops, just as long as he didn’t have the same taste in swimwear as The Todd.
Act now and get a free baseball with your purchase!
Ever seen someone that you’d love to introduce to your wooden accessory, but are just out of range? Merely use the baseball, and you’ll find that no distance is too far!
So does this mean Joyce now has a life debt to Sarah and must now travel with her across the galaxy to help her? Or maybe I’m thinking of something else.
No, no. She’ll just have to save Sarah and a bunch of friends from certain death in an incinerator using a giant construction claw. Which she worships. Er… wait.
… And back into the underpants the bat shall go, until the time comes that it is needed once again, when it is called into battle and it shall answer that call with great swiftness and mercilessness. For glory! The glory of baseball bats and underpants!
Never allow Joyce’s thin mask of small-town homeschooled ultrareligious naivety lull you into a false sense of her actually being -dumb- or emotionally retarded … She’s merely a little disadvantaged in the worldly-experience field 🙂
Hm… It’s interesting. The way she describes Sarah’s displays of affection/caring thus far, “… I wish you would show me you like me in small ways, too, not just only in some rare grand gesture,” fits pretty well as a description of how the Judeo-Christian God seems to work, no? Only appearing in rare, grand gestures.
But Joyce…She’s not a social person. Yet she offered to take you shopping. Although it’s not to your face she has jumped through hoops to make sure you’re safe and happy and to be told that you think she hates you…is perhaps the most insulting thing you could say to someone who has spent the 2 weeks she’s known you looking out for you.
I had to go check that out, at first I thought you were talking about Tara Strong. She did a reading of Star Wars doing Darth Vader using Bubbles voice. It was the highlight of my time at Calgary Comic-con this year.
There is probably a recording up somewhere, we were so busy enjoying the show (her and Billy West were really riffing on each other) that we forgot to record it.
Yes as referenced by the fact both Tara Strong and Hynden Walch voiced several characters in the show. But they delibrately didn’t repeat voice actors for the main five characters.
For serious enquiries, just read the Wikipedia article. It should be fairly reliable, since apparently the higgs boson is a ‘current event’. Otherwise, refer to relevant jokes.
It is the theoretical fundamental particle that mediates the Higgs field. The Higgs field gives rest mass to most other fundamental particles, which is the mass that a particle has at rest (i.e. the potion of their mass that does not come from energy, via e=mc^2).
Photons and gluons do not interact with the Higgs field and do not have rest mass. (They do have mass coming from their energy, though.) This is why photons can (and always do) travel at the speed of light. All other particles experience a form of “drag” from the Higgs field that makes reaching light speed impossible.
The Higgs boson is a BIG DEAL for particle physics, but it’s by no means the end of the line for physics research or even for super-collider research. We’ve got a lot left to explain, like why neutrinos have mass (since the Standard Model predicts that they don’t), the nature of dark matter & dark energy, why there’s more matter than antimatter, etc., etc.
…..I can´t help but think that this conversation sounded right outta some shoujo manga between a tsunder boy and his bit airhead girlfriend.
Or is that just me and my shipping goggles? But why are goggles affecting my hearings?
Well, frankly, it’s been a required two strips. She WAS quite unlikable before. Now I just pity her a little, as it appears that she really doesn’t understand why people don’t like her.
Oh, she knows why most of the people there don’t like her. It’s just a stupid and rotten reason, so she just says “screw it” to the social aspects of college and focuses on her studies.
And even though it’s been a long time IRL, in comic-time, it hasn’t taken her very long at all to start opening up, at least to Joyce.
I’ve always found her rather likable. I mean, I kind of hope that her last roommate was either doing hard drugs or was such an obsessive stoner that it was interfering with Sarah’s ability to study, but in general she’s never said or done anything I can’t be all “cool lady,” to.
As I recall, the problem was that she was smoking pot in their room, which would have gotten them both expelled, had she not been the one to report it.
Shit, need to start re-reading my posts before posting…
To disambiguate: Roommate was pothead smoking in room.
Sarah reported it, not wanting to be expelled and lose academic scholarship (as I recall).
Dorm full of party-tards shun Sarah for “narcing” on one of the cool kids.
“I want you to give me credit and act like I’m your bestow and you to never question my judgment and only hang out with people I approve of because I did what any decent human being would have done and didn’t stand by and let you get raped.”
Now that I put it like that she sounds like some kind of lesbian non sparkly Edward Cullen.
Why does this strip made me keep imagining Joyce’s voice and inflections as Starfire, from the Teen Titans cartoon?…. Now I can’t get it out of my head…
As I’ve said for quite some time about relationships. Grand gestures are easy. It’s the little day-to-day stuff that’s hard.
Or maybe I stole that from somewhere and don’t remember.
eh
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Pants? Why? =3
Why not?
She’s going shopping; she can BUY pants once she gets there!
Besides, she needs no garment other than her beauty!
I’m guessing I’ll get slapped (or worse) if I ever try that line on a woman…
For some reason that sounds like something Walky would say in another universe…
http://www.joyceandwalky.com/d/20090228.html
Thank you Wonder Wig, my scalp may be bald, but my heart fells your warm wuggy goodness
Just doin’ my duty citizen.
Well, depending on where she goes, no shoes, no shirt, no
service, but they say nothing about pants.
A convenient fact my roommate and I would exploit. We’d swim over to a nearby pub just down the beach in our swimsuits, flip flops, and a T-shirt, then drip our way inside and order. Never got kicked out for it. XD
–Mind you, being female and in both our early twenties *and* bikinis may have helped, heh heh heh…
Pretty sure that rule only applies to guys in most cases.
A man could probably get away with showing up to a seaside bar in only a t-shirt, swimsuit, and flip-flops, just as long as he didn’t have the same taste in swimwear as The Todd.
It would probably depend on the level of your relationship, maybe save it for a significant other.
This will obviously end well
Baseball bats, for all your accessorizing needs.
Goes great with your hat
your shorts
your drunken friends face.
But wait! There’s more!
Act now and get a free baseball with your purchase!
Ever seen someone that you’d love to introduce to your wooden accessory, but are just out of range? Merely use the baseball, and you’ll find that no distance is too far!
From the makers of
Baseball Mit
Tired of people pelting you with baseballs?
Well throw that shit back and give them a taste of their own medicine
Also good for beating up the forces of a disembodied evil alien attacking from ten years in the future.
Man EarthBound sounds convoluted when you say it like that.
Sarah, you have saved our lives. We are eternally grateful.
So does this mean Joyce now has a life debt to Sarah and must now travel with her across the galaxy to help her? Or maybe I’m thinking of something else.
Yes to both. And then be left hanging without a proper conclusion.
No, no. She’ll just have to save Sarah and a bunch of friends from certain death in an incinerator using a giant construction claw. Which she worships. Er… wait.
THE BAAAAAT!
The Bat decides who leaves and who stays.
Bat no. Pants…also no. Who needs ’em?
anybody in 32 degree fehrinheit or below weather?
People who are not crazy?
Neither of those two qualifications apply to the characters in this comic. Therefore, pants are not necessary.
Who needs pants when you have shorts.
Billie’s remark about how if she’s not using her credit card soon, she’ll go crazy reminded me of a story in my local comic.
GIRL BONDING TIME
Bondage? Where? Is Sarah finally showing her true colors?
No bonding can occur without superglue.
I know how you feel, Sarah. Girls never appreciate it enough when I follow them to parties with bats either.
clearly they are not prepared for pinatas like you
The pinatas may look cute and innocent but when your back is turned, they will DESTROY US ALL!
Nah, they merely want to avenge their fallen comrades by doing to them as they did to pinatas before–beat the unholy shit out of them with bats.
… And back into the underpants the bat shall go, until the time comes that it is needed once again, when it is called into battle and it shall answer that call with great swiftness and mercilessness. For glory! The glory of baseball bats and underpants!
She brings a weapon when she goes shopping.. Best character confirmed.
for brawl?
Dead Rising Obviously
Oo another spin off!:)
That…is actually a good point.
Yeah, I was really proud of Joyce there. It was a very “D’awww” comic on both sides today.
Wow. I’ve never been more impressed with Joyce than I am now. Great writing in this one.
Never allow Joyce’s thin mask of small-town homeschooled ultrareligious naivety lull you into a false sense of her actually being -dumb- or emotionally retarded … She’s merely a little disadvantaged in the worldly-experience field 🙂
Hm… It’s interesting. The way she describes Sarah’s displays of affection/caring thus far, “… I wish you would show me you like me in small ways, too, not just only in some rare grand gesture,” fits pretty well as a description of how the Judeo-Christian God seems to work, no? Only appearing in rare, grand gestures.
And mostly in over-the-top violence against enemies! Holy shit!
Don’t forget the cruelty he directs at his own followers. The Judeo-Christian god always seemed like an unreasonable asshole to me.
So in your view Sarah: Yahweh?
That actually makes a disturbing amount of sense…
*shudder*
But Joyce…She’s not a social person. Yet she offered to take you shopping. Although it’s not to your face she has jumped through hoops to make sure you’re safe and happy and to be told that you think she hates you…is perhaps the most insulting thing you could say to someone who has spent the 2 weeks she’s known you looking out for you.
I’m pretty sure Joyce is completely oblivious to that. I bet she assumes that it’s impossible for Sarah’s feelings to be hurt.
After reading “I am eternally grateful” I now hear Joyce’s voice in Starfire’s voice. Which is good because it’s also Princess Bubblegum’s voice.
Also Princess Nia from Gurren Lagann.
That’s it, I’m watching the dub now.
And I’m watching Adventure Time now.
I had to go check that out, at first I thought you were talking about Tara Strong. She did a reading of Star Wars doing Darth Vader using Bubbles voice. It was the highlight of my time at Calgary Comic-con this year.
Pleasepleaseplease tell me you have a recording of that to share with the class.
There is probably a recording up somewhere, we were so busy enjoying the show (her and Billy West were really riffing on each other) that we forgot to record it.
Couldn’t have been talking about Tara Strong she voiced Raven.
Voice actors pull double duty all the time.
Yes as referenced by the fact both Tara Strong and Hynden Walch voiced several characters in the show. But they delibrately didn’t repeat voice actors for the main five characters.
That’s odd. I hear it in the LGM’s voice.
I always read her lines in Pinkie Pie’s voice.
This seems to be a complicated relationship.
Pants ha please you’ve got a bat who would honestly risk bringing up your lack of pants at the cost of their skull
Looking at your grav… that sounds exactly like something a troll would say.
Nore like something Dave would say ironicly
Topic unrelated is that a higurashi eye I spy Vlad?
If it isn’t, I will eat my awesome hat.
I just hope you ‘hat’ wasn’t used beforehand…
Hey guys, they discovered the Higgs Boson.
What’s that?
It’s what makes things matter.
So, does it make things important or it creates things?
For serious enquiries, just read the Wikipedia article. It should be fairly reliable, since apparently the higgs boson is a ‘current event’. Otherwise, refer to relevant jokes.
It’s the most a-mass-ing particle of them all.
It is the theoretical fundamental particle that mediates the Higgs field. The Higgs field gives rest mass to most other fundamental particles, which is the mass that a particle has at rest (i.e. the potion of their mass that does not come from energy, via e=mc^2).
Photons and gluons do not interact with the Higgs field and do not have rest mass. (They do have mass coming from their energy, though.) This is why photons can (and always do) travel at the speed of light. All other particles experience a form of “drag” from the Higgs field that makes reaching light speed impossible.
The Higgs boson is a BIG DEAL for particle physics, but it’s by no means the end of the line for physics research or even for super-collider research. We’ve got a lot left to explain, like why neutrinos have mass (since the Standard Model predicts that they don’t), the nature of dark matter & dark energy, why there’s more matter than antimatter, etc., etc.
i skimmed, saw particle physics, and just gave up so you are now the post master.
It’s not theoretical anymore!
I thought the discovery of the Hugs Bison was more interesting.
I want to know when they’re going to find the USS Higg’s bosun. He’s been AWOL for a long time.
“I was worried about you so I followed you places with a bat.”
Awww.
you just had to have the mike gravatar for that…i now understand how he shows affection
…..I can´t help but think that this conversation sounded right outta some shoujo manga between a tsunder boy and his bit airhead girlfriend.
Or is that just me and my shipping goggles? But why are goggles affecting my hearings?
Is it weird to say I like Sarah, JUST for these two last strips?
Well, frankly, it’s been a required two strips. She WAS quite unlikable before. Now I just pity her a little, as it appears that she really doesn’t understand why people don’t like her.
well, to be fair, she is kind of aknowledging the fact that she’s not exactly the likeable type, so it’s a starter opening for change.
Oh, she knows why most of the people there don’t like her. It’s just a stupid and rotten reason, so she just says “screw it” to the social aspects of college and focuses on her studies.
And even though it’s been a long time IRL, in comic-time, it hasn’t taken her very long at all to start opening up, at least to Joyce.
I’ve always found her rather likable. I mean, I kind of hope that her last roommate was either doing hard drugs or was such an obsessive stoner that it was interfering with Sarah’s ability to study, but in general she’s never said or done anything I can’t be all “cool lady,” to.
As I recall, the problem was that she was smoking pot in their room, which would have gotten them both expelled, had she not been the one to report it.
Shit, need to start re-reading my posts before posting…
To disambiguate: Roommate was pothead smoking in room.
Sarah reported it, not wanting to be expelled and lose academic scholarship (as I recall).
Dorm full of party-tards shun Sarah for “narcing” on one of the cool kids.
Hey guys, Sarah only said she’d get her pants. She never said where she’d put them.
“PANTS? Where we’re going, we don’t need pants!”
Nooo, more talking in underwear please.
Sarah should be grateful for what she has. Look at this poor Slowking http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loaeCbPXT6k
I finally gave DoA a chance after being a fan of Shortpacked for a few years. I started at comic number 1 yesterday, and I caught up today. Damnit.
“You saved me from being raped. Thanks for the gesture. But it’s like totally not enough.”
“I want you to give me credit and act like I’m your bestow and you to never question my judgment and only hang out with people I approve of because I did what any decent human being would have done and didn’t stand by and let you get raped.”
Now that I put it like that she sounds like some kind of lesbian non sparkly Edward Cullen.
Damn autocorrect, that’s supposed to say “bestie”.
I guess Joyce doesn’t remember being hauled up to bed, or friendly buttslaps >.>
No, she doesn’t. She was drugged and/or half-asleep at the time.
Why does this strip made me keep imagining Joyce’s voice and inflections as Starfire, from the Teen Titans cartoon?…. Now I can’t get it out of my head…
And now I can’t stop thinking about her talking about no longer giving Joe “the boner.”
Lol, You sir, just made my day.
As I’ve said for quite some time about relationships. Grand gestures are easy. It’s the little day-to-day stuff that’s hard.
Or maybe I stole that from somewhere and don’t remember.
eh
Four strips in a row of Sarah in her underwear. I can’t help but feel like I’ve just been rewarded for something, but I don’t know what.
…SARAH is amazi-girl!?
And nobody has commented on Joyce looking rather villainous in the last panel? I am disappoint.
Yeah, because nobody ever secretly followed someone with a bat out of hate