But then she would need to have it tattooed backwards, so the bruise can be read properly. Or would it be tattooed normally, so the bruise can be read more easily in the mirror?
But if you say she was a former cheerleader, doesn’t that imply that saying she is a former cheerleader is untrue, meaning she is a cheerleader (but clearly she isn’t)?
She must be in a superpositioned state oscillating between the two eigenstates of |being a cheerleader> and |being something else>. Anything else would just be overly complicated.
“I shall strike fear into the hearts of french fries everywhere. They are a salty and un-nutritious lot. I shall become Ketchupman! With my sidekick Malt Vinegar!”
I much prefer just vinegar myself. One reason Five Guys is awesome is they have vinegar for their fries. Just try getting some at frigging McDonalds. And a “regular” fry is a damned meal. A large fry is a banquet. No sense of moderation, those guys.
Yup, thats the best, when it is malt vinegar. Even better is when you can get some good gravy on there too. I will admit that this is something I picked up when I lived in Ontario, I am looked at strangely when I do this here in Alberta. I draw the line at mayonnaise on fries,however, that is disgusting.
We could tell ya all aboat Robert Pickton, but ya could also try oat usin’ google to do yer own research. Soary to sound rude, but we can’t be doin’ everything for ya, eh? 😛
My original answer has been eaten, and since I don’t want to retype all of it … Del Taco is a US fast food chain similar to Taco Bell, but which also serves standard burgers and fries along with the Americanized Mexican food.
It’s amazingly American; if you have no interest in authenticity then it’s as good away as any to get your basic mexican-looking foodstuffs with no spice whatsoever.
And the super-cheap part doesn’t bother me much either.
It’s not the drink that’ll kill her, but her mouth. Which may or may not be related, now that I think about it. But still, check your words before you check your diet.
“I stole your property, blackmailed you with it, kept you in a constant state of fear and panic and have now entered your living space uninvited. Please be considerate of my feelings.”
It’s true. It’s all true. The fries supreme is amazing. We also have the ‘cheesy gordita crunch’ which is a hard taco supreme in a soft taco with melted cheese between the taco shells.
Shepherd baked potatoes, regular baked potatoes with Shepherd style meat and sauce on them.
“Horneada” means “[female] baked”, from “Horno” which means oven in Spanish. Pastor means shepherd in Spanish (and Latin I think), I guess that’s why christian religions use it as “Priest”.
Wow, Ruth’s face is alarmingly adorable and vulnerable in that second panel. Love all this slowly unpeeling backstory, sigh Willis your storytelling is so masterful 🙂
Well, for a while (as lately as three comics ago) she had a pants-wetting terror on about Ruth, which was a rational self-preservative opinion to have since Ruth was displaying every characteristic of a stalkerish psychopath who had chosen her next kill. Five minutes later she’s exchanging small-talk with the woman. Um, what?
Gotcha. I was just recalling the lunch incident where Billie provoked Sarah to knock her own lunch tray to the floor in rage, and then her own counter-antagonism toward Ruth (with Sal, with the blackmail beer photo…). In all that, I’d completely forgotten last Friday’s strip. I think my short-term memory is broken.
Yeah…Billie seems to vacillate between extreme overconfidence when she thinks she’s got the upper hand against Ruth, and abject terror when she thinks she’s hopelessly outgunned. It’s feast or famine; it’s a fine line.
Our superior American tacos need no side dishes. You’re really hungry, you buy a ten pack, eat six and throw the other four away. Amerrrrrrrrrrica! *flies off into the waving-flag-superimposed sunset on a bald eagle firing assault weapons into the air*
I’ve been wondering why Ruth had a Leafs jersey. They share the same sort of fanatic devotion despite decades of never winning a championship that the Chicago Cubs have. Minus half a century or so.
As far as Taco Bell, almost every store I’ve been to has been merged with a KFC. So yeah, there’s technically fries available, but I’m not sure they’re Taco Bell’s specifically. This might just be an East Coast thing, mind you.
Losing the deliciousness that was Taco Bell’s fries, particularly their Supreme Fries? And then finding out they still had them in Canada? Definitely sore subject.
I missed those fries. They were the one thing Taco Bell had that could compete with Del Taco.
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Yes. That’d be interesting warpaint.
I think tattooing it on her knuckles would leave a more lasting impression.
But then she would need to have it tattooed backwards, so the bruise can be read properly. Or would it be tattooed normally, so the bruise can be read more easily in the mirror?
Clearly you’re living in a more awesome universe than we are, but around here tattoos don’t leave bruises that look like the tattoo.
also, I don’t think Ruth has that many knuckles. . .
Quick Ruth, balance it out by pointing out Billie isn’t as popular as she was in high school.
But SHE WAS A CHEERLEADER!!1
FORMER Cheerleader.
Now if only she was a Transformer Cheerleader. Then maybe she and Joe will hook up.
But if you say she was a former cheerleader, doesn’t that imply that saying she is a former cheerleader is untrue, meaning she is a cheerleader (but clearly she isn’t)?
She must be in a superpositioned state oscillating between the two eigenstates of |being a cheerleader> and |being something else>. Anything else would just be overly complicated.
Billie arbitrarily mentioning Walky in a conversation? How very Un-Billie of her.
I think she cares for him more than she would admit. Or at least understands him on some level.
I think she just clings to him because he’s one of the few people that remembers her former status atop the social ladder.
She loves him, but her pride won’t let her admit it. That’s why Sal always disappears, ’cause Billie’s the sister Walky picked.
Don”t you mean”Thats why Sal always disappears, ’cause Walky’s the sibling Billie picked?
Please, my father was killed by french fries.
His remains were devoured by Maple Leaves.
But that’s where my syrup comes from!! I don’t want blood syrup!
All that poutine… Never forget.
Curds you! May your whole line be curds until the end of time!
That’d be an interesting origin for Bruce Wayne.
“I shall strike fear into the hearts of french fries everywhere. They are a salty and un-nutritious lot. I shall become Ketchupman! With my sidekick Malt Vinegar!”
Ketchupman and Malt Vinegar sound like they would do well beside Wonder Wig and Alfredo Boy
He’s against frying his foods, after the incident and frowns upon the use of fried batter.
I’m sure the Tempura Wizard would have something to say about that.
Ugh, ketchup and vinegar on the same fries? D:
Hmm, Batman vs. Frylock. Hardly seems sporting.
I much prefer just vinegar myself. One reason Five Guys is awesome is they have vinegar for their fries. Just try getting some at frigging McDonalds. And a “regular” fry is a damned meal. A large fry is a banquet. No sense of moderation, those guys.
And free peanuts!
And we love them for their total lack of moderation. 😀
Yup, thats the best, when it is malt vinegar. Even better is when you can get some good gravy on there too. I will admit that this is something I picked up when I lived in Ontario, I am looked at strangely when I do this here in Alberta. I draw the line at mayonnaise on fries,however, that is disgusting.
And my mother died being deep fried and covered in cheese sauce.
You mean… all taco bells don’t have french fries?
She was kicked out of Canada for her Ruthiness! And for not liking Tim Horton’s enough!
Naw. Robert Pickton was much worse.
Hey-oh!
Not cool dude. Also not seeing the relevance, but more relevantly, not cool.
And more heinously, not actually funny.
don’tcha know we aren’t gettin’ your reference, eh?
Notorious Canadian serial killer.
Fed his victims to the pigs on his pig farm
Do you mean Mack the Knife?
We could tell ya all aboat Robert Pickton, but ya could also try oat usin’ google to do yer own research. Soary to sound rude, but we can’t be doin’ everything for ya, eh? 😛
But wouldn’t that make Canada Ruth-less?
American Taco Bell doesn’t have french fries?
Also we use the term Quebec fries.
Which province/territory are you at?
Ontario.
Wow. In BC we still call ’em french fries!
I was joking
My heart is glad that someone fell for that 😀
That’s so strange.
The only reason I go to Taco Bell is for the Supreme Fries
No, but its rival Del Taco does.
What’s a Del Taco?
My original answer has been eaten, and since I don’t want to retype all of it … Del Taco is a US fast food chain similar to Taco Bell, but which also serves standard burgers and fries along with the Americanized Mexican food.
It’s also amazingly awful and super cheap. I have no idea how they turn a profit at all.
It’s amazingly American; if you have no interest in authenticity then it’s as good away as any to get your basic mexican-looking foodstuffs with no spice whatsoever.
And the super-cheap part doesn’t bother me much either.
I suppose I’m more particular then? Amusingly, I grew up in the Southwest, and I loooove Mexican food. I also like Taco Bell but don’t like Del Taco.
And which I total think should sell Cajun food, since it’s named Delta Co.
LOL, that was my reaction, too.
Billie seriously stop drink. It will kill you BEFORE it kills your liver.
She won’t stop drink. She like drink. She drink all the time cuz it fun.
Even after Ruth uses Billie’s blood as warpaint?
If she drunk, then Billie won’t feel pain of the severe cut she get all over her body from Ruth.
I see what you did there.
Espesialy after Roth uses her blood as warpaint as its probebly her blood now… booze blood.
Kills my liver? I hardly know her!
It’s not the drink that’ll kill her, but her mouth. Which may or may not be related, now that I think about it. But still, check your words before you check your diet.
“They stopped serving the French fries…and that’s when I knew there was nothing holding me there anymore.” *violin music*
French Fries was such a good customer, But the waitresses refused to serve him cuz he was greasy and fatty.
Paint it on her FAAAACE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVpg0vws10Y&feature=g-u-u
Like that?
I just finished roomies, its walky, and joyce and walky, and also caught up on shortpacked. May I just say… WOW
Didn’t you say that YESTERDAY?
We’re caught in an Escher Time Loop! Run in circles for your lives!!
But every time there’s a new comic, you have to finish it AGAIN!
We’ll never be done… unless…
Unless? Unless what? Good grief, (wo)man, finish your thought!
“I stole your property, blackmailed you with it, kept you in a constant state of fear and panic and have now entered your living space uninvited. Please be considerate of my feelings.”
And that’s what we call an uneven power dynamic
“It’s the proper way to make sure I’m still here when the police arrive.”
Some kind of record here? They are sitting side by side and still talking…just talking. No hitting. No name calling. Yet?
She’s killing her softly with her words.
No touching. No kissing. Yet?
We gotta here Ruths sad backstory, as she must open her heart before she opens her legs.
Does the 97 on Billie’s shirt have any significance, or is it just a number?
Perhaps it’s 9 7 and those are the scores her breasts get. Looks like lefty needs to catch up.
It’s a scoreboard. The number goes up everytime she has sex.
And that’s just today’s total!
She had one for beers, but the number no longer fits on the shirt.
1997, or Roomies! Year One.
I’ve seen lots of folks on campus with random numbers on their shirts, so I guess it works in-universe.
The day I see one with 42 I will dance.
Yeah Willis confirmed it in the book! Which I just got (a few weeks ago)! And it is awesome!
Look, a non-timeframe specific flat-panel!
YEARS could go by in that panel and we’d never know.
Can’t stop looking at the second panel… Either Billie’s leg is horribly disfigured, or her ass is completely concentrated in her right cheek.
I think it’s a bean bag chair which would partially obscure the bottom half of anyone sitting in it.
Oooor, you know, foreshortening is hard to draw and doesn’t always work as intended.
KFC has the fries, too.
Toothless!!! Whoh,whoh, whoh; and where do you think you’re going?
I feel the need to watch the movie “Canadian Bacon.”
“It started with this boy named Todd…”
Who used to go fishing for cod…
He forgot to bring bait…
But then shouted, “Wait!”
“I can multiply fish, ‘cos I’m God!”
WHOOOH!! Go Team Go! All of you rock my socks.
Ruth came down from the frozen north to kick ass and pick up chicks!
And Billie, she’s fresh out of asses.
Well, to be fair, Billie’s ass should last her her a good, long while
It is a very bad ass.
It’s true. It’s all true. The fries supreme is amazing. We also have the ‘cheesy gordita crunch’ which is a hard taco supreme in a soft taco with melted cheese between the taco shells.
Finally! The important question has been answered. Now I can move on with my life.
So does the US.
Tacos with fries… why didin’t I think of that?
…So she left Canada in shame because Canadian Taco Bells have french fries instead of papas horneadas al pastor?
… horny potatoes of the priest?
I need to brush up on my Spanish.
Shepherd-style baked potatoes.
Shepherd baked potatoes, regular baked potatoes with Shepherd style meat and sauce on them.
“Horneada” means “[female] baked”, from “Horno” which means oven in Spanish. Pastor means shepherd in Spanish (and Latin I think), I guess that’s why christian religions use it as “Priest”.
And it’s where English gets ‘pastoral’.
But I still like Ziaheart’s guess better.
Learning new things is fun! And now I want to get some… horny fries of the priest. It’s like Shepherd’s pie except not mashed?
Wow, Ruth’s face is alarmingly adorable and vulnerable in that second panel. Love all this slowly unpeeling backstory, sigh Willis your storytelling is so masterful 🙂
Taco Bells in Canada have fries? Now I want to take a road trip to Canada just to find out how good the Taco Bell fries are!
They are delicious. I just saved you a lot of gas. 😛
I think this is the most blatant Walkyverse callback there’s been in the strip so far.
in Canada, milk comes in BAGS!!!
Our meth comes from their Asian drug gangs!
This was the thing that threw me for the biggest loop.
in Canada, you get TWO pizzas for the price of ONE!!! http://www.canadian2for1pizza.com/
So they charge you double for one pizza as a way to get you to buy two?
Jeez, Ruth.
That was a good opportunity to change the conversation without losing momentum. Ya should have embraced it.
This conversation has more “inertia” than “momentum”: you’d need rocket engines to get it moving.
Ohh, look at who’s getting all sensitive now…
Ooo Canada… Ruth’s home and native land! No Patriot love in all thy Ruth…
It seems that Billie’s either lost all sense of self-preservation, or her short-term memory is *really* bad. Ruth is the devil, remember Billie?
This is what happens when you drink your weight in beer, folks.
You’ll have to remind me when Billie ever had a sense of self-preservation.
I mean, maybe she does. I’ve been known to forget things. But I’d have to be reminded.
Well, for a while (as lately as three comics ago) she had a pants-wetting terror on about Ruth, which was a rational self-preservative opinion to have since Ruth was displaying every characteristic of a stalkerish psychopath who had chosen her next kill. Five minutes later she’s exchanging small-talk with the woman. Um, what?
Gotcha. I was just recalling the lunch incident where Billie provoked Sarah to knock her own lunch tray to the floor in rage, and then her own counter-antagonism toward Ruth (with Sal, with the blackmail beer photo…). In all that, I’d completely forgotten last Friday’s strip. I think my short-term memory is broken.
Yeah…Billie seems to vacillate between extreme overconfidence when she thinks she’s got the upper hand against Ruth, and abject terror when she thinks she’s hopelessly outgunned. It’s feast or famine; it’s a fine line.
How can you not have french fries in your Taco Bells?!
Savages!
Oh, those damn french fries. I hate how you have to pay extra to replace them with nacho chips and cheese.
So… what do Americans eat with their tacos instead of french fries?
I had no idea we were so lucky. I mean, with regard to taco side dishes.
Our superior American tacos need no side dishes. You’re really hungry, you buy a ten pack, eat six and throw the other four away. Amerrrrrrrrrrica! *flies off into the waving-flag-superimposed sunset on a bald eagle firing assault weapons into the air*
I’m almost positive I see what you did there, but if I do not, then you are terrifying. 😛
Walky should try Puerto Rico. Down there everything comes with fries.
I’ve been wondering why Ruth had a Leafs jersey. They share the same sort of fanatic devotion despite decades of never winning a championship that the Chicago Cubs have. Minus half a century or so.
As far as Taco Bell, almost every store I’ve been to has been merged with a KFC. So yeah, there’s technically fries available, but I’m not sure they’re Taco Bell’s specifically. This might just be an East Coast thing, mind you.
Not just East Coast. We have at least one Tacoma Bell and KFC combo store in Seattle.
Taco Bell, not Tacoma.
Only just now noticed the new, larger banner – and the canadian hockey jersey Ruth’s wearing in it.
Any chance Dumbiverse Ruth had a high school classmate named Ceilidh?
(Let’s see if I remember how to HTML in a link!)
Sal might’ve!
Losing the deliciousness that was Taco Bell’s fries, particularly their Supreme Fries? And then finding out they still had them in Canada? Definitely sore subject.
I missed those fries. They were the one thing Taco Bell had that could compete with Del Taco.