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THAT’S RIGHT JOYCE. Only MIKE gets to be a force of nature.
“Force of personality” sounds like a mix of forceful personality and force of nature. Maybe she’d rate like 680 milliMikes?
I’ve never encountered the SI unit of “Mikes”, but I can only assume that it is the natural force required to have sex with your mom for a nickel at Standard Temperature and Pressure. While 680 milliMikes might not seem like a lot, my calculations indicate that at STP, such a person could have sex with your mom for approximately 7.35 cents.
The strength of the mike field over distance is a function of whatever you don’t want it to be.
Ah, you forgot that it’s a logarithmic scale, though. So by my calculations, that means Ruth would be able to bone someone’s parent for either minus-30 cents, or plus-6.6 cents. I haven’t quite perfected the formula yet.
Actually, that’s an entirely different unit, but it has the same name. The logarithmic scale Mike is based a differential equation with terms for the price of optimal devastation, your mom’s blood alcohol content and Mike’s alcohol content. I have devised a marvelous proof which the comment box is ill-formatted to contain.
Anyway, when the SI unit of “Mike” was adopted, it was decided that that was too complex, accounting for more variables than it really should. Instead, a scale based on a directly reciprocal relationship between Mike-ness and required money was devised, giving us the SI Mike. It’s similar to how the current SI unit of conductance shares a name with a different unit of conductance with a different definition, but that name was eventually co-opted for the SI unit, now defined as an inverse ohm.
TL;DR I like units and their histories.
I should totally say what Ruth said next time someone comments that to me, just less bluntly :3
HE’S BACK.
RUUUUUUUUN! THE TREK MEMES WILL OVERFLOW THE FLOOR!
I wonder if Howard would try to follow his sister in becoming an RA?
I don’t think it’s Howard. I think it’s this dude:
http://www.bringbackroomies.com/comic/make-it-so/
Well at least he got the most important rule out there. Well except don’t murder but what can you do.
Yeah, I love RAs like that. We had one in the basement of our first year dorm who let us have our own fight club for a while. He watched.
You just broke the first rule of Fight Club.
And the second rule.
And, most likely, at least part of the sixth rule.
I find it ironic so many people strive to keep the rules of a game made up by a militant discordant anarchist whose life goal is to blow the entire world back to the stone age specifically because he doesn’t want to be tied down by rules.
I mean I love Fight Club references and everything, but some of it is pretty weird in context.
We’re nerds.
“No shirt, no shoes”?
Was it a SWORDfight club or just the boring kind?
Pillow fight.
Explosive pillows?
… did they at LEAST have monkey master pillow cases?
The kind of fight where you hit people in the FAAAAAAAACE.
ROBOT CLUB?
Who’s the male RA, Rick?
Plausible!
Allegedly it’s the guy who was only ever known as “R.A.”
http://www.bringbackroomies.com/comic/make-it-so/
If Ruth didn’t exist, I’d say Howard.
Why is Howard’s existence contingent on Ruth NOT existing. They’re siblings.
Conservation of redheads?
One of the lesser known laws of thermodynamics. Also why the Doctor has yet to regenerate into a ginger.
However, Amy’s dead in the “current” part of the show. There’s an opening now…
That would be a Naruto marathon then.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the dorm…
Wait, is their RA Howard?
Nah, probably Rick. He loved Trek, too.
…wait, I assumed from Plas’s comment that the R.A. from Roomies was called Rick, but after SpaceInvader42’s comment, I see I assumed wrong.
it could still be the same RA as in Roomies! as well, but I’d like to see howard’s character status ascended.
I think Willis has said that he’s sticking with Howard being Ruth’s younger brother. I don’t think he’d be an RA.
The Trekkie RA from Roomies never did get a name, did he?
Mr. Deckard.
Okay, either it’s the R.A. from Roomies!–in which case, alright, mythology gag, neato–or it’s Howard, and the Lessicks run the entire building, which would be AWESOME.
This here’s Lessick country.
I’ve never missed a hall meeting yet.
We can’t stop here! This is Lessick country!
She mostly comes out at night. Mostly.
Isn’t the RA from Roomies the CS teacher in the dumbiverse?
No, I’m pretty sure that’s Alex. He had an actual character.
Yep. Alex =/= the R.A.
You can tell because one of them has never been seen sitting down and the other has rarely been seen standing up.
But have you seen them both sitting/standing at the same time?
It wouldn’t be the whole building. The RA is only in charge of one floor.
Dammit, I did that deliberately in the hope that in the course of correcting me you’d inadvertently tell me which option–if either–was the right one!
I could’ve thought this through better.
Or at all?
So the guys’ RA is the same one as in Roomies. I wonder if he’ll get a name this time.
Check BBR.
His name is R-a?
But… But if he gets one, then he might actually have something to DO!
Ruth, you got off to a good start with “Miss Rapture Ready,” but “You’re just stupid” smacks of phoning it in. However, you recovered nicely with the death threat at the end, even if it lacked the specificity of your earlier “femurs” threat. I give it a 7/10.
I imagine Ruth would break 7/10 bones for that remark.
7 out of 10 bones? We have way more bones than that. Unless you meant 7 out of EVERY 10.
That wouldn’t work either because the number of bones in the human body isn’t perfectly divisible by ten.
Prediction: Ruth is calling a floor meeting to either:
1. Humiliate Billie in some public way as a “thank you” for recent events.
2. Resign her commission as R.A. due to recent events.
Why not both?
Maybe Billie can be the new R.A.! I mean, I guarantee no college has an R.A. system where you can just appoint your successor regardless of their qualifications (or lack thereof), but I still want it to happen.
Also, college RA’s are usually not freshmen.
The youngest one that I’ve seen was a second semester sophomore. The jealousy factor (because of dat resume, yo) wasn’t helped by the fact that he had been my roommate in the fall…
At my college we had 1st semester Sophomores who got RA. It was hard to do, but possible.
Maybe she wants to invite everybody to a massive pillow fight/orgy? You ever think of that? Huh? Huh!?
“Force of personality” is the polite way to say “Bothriospondylus”, right?
Roomies! RA! Long live the Federation! *does that nerd thing with his hand*
Other than the Star Trek/Roomies! ref, that was pretty much how every floor meeting I ever attended went, too.
It’s definitely an easier to spell way to say…That.
That’s why Joyce usually just says “B-word”.
So it’s the same RA from Roomies? That’s interesting. I liked that guy.
Trek Marathon? What is this, the 90’s? Every day is a Trek Marathon when you’ve got Netflix!
(THIS post brought to you by a half a bottle of Peppermint schnapps surrounded by a humanbeing)
I’d say it’s possible he had plans that evening to marathon some episodes on Netflix with friends, but that would mean he…y’know, has friends.
Who needs Netflix? Any station that focusses on sci-fi is pretty Star Trek marathon every day.
Or DVDs of fave eps.
Every day was a marathon in the 80s too! It was called VHS! or SuperVHS!
I’m guessing Ruth ‘looks terrible’ because not drinking, maybe still hung-over. The ‘I’ll see you there or nobody will ever see you again’ was almost up to the Ruthless tag.
Will be interesting to see what the subject matter is, hard to second guess Ruth. May just be reasserting her role.
I’m thinking Ruth looks terrible because she was puking in Billie’s lap like an hour ago.
So is the RA Howard, or just the same Trekkie RA as in Roomies! ?
I like that no one’s allowing for the possibility of an entirely new character who likes Star Trek.
It would be absolutely, totally, and in all other ways inconceivable.
When I was in college, my RA was like Ethan’s RA, except that it was Battlestar Galactica instead of Star Trek.
Equally as geeky.
Battlestar Galactica is FAR more geeky. Star Trek has sunk into minds of the general populace.
Kind of not really? New Trek isn’t half as cerebral as actual Star Trek series. The new movies are good action films, but they lack the philosophical bits that make real Star Trek.
Nah. Trek transcended, even before Starfleet 90210.
Nothing “cerebral” about it. People who don’t do conventions
still know what a tribble or a phaser is, while Galactica is
still pretty much the exclusive province of the SF faithful.
Isn’t the word later ALREADY short ENOUGH!?
I love each and every one of the Community references in Community and Shortpacked!
I MEANT Dumbing of Age!
Agh I accidentally shoved my reference appreciation up its own ass.
Oh no! Assception!
Joyce popped her collar like a boss.
All the bongoes in the club go whaaat whaaat
Ruth is so attractive with developed eyes. I’:
Yea *sigh*….wait, Ruth what are you GAAAH MY EYES! SHE RIPPED OUT MY EYES. OH GOD MY FEM-
End captain’s log.
Even with dark bags under them?
Man, I bet my R.A.s WISH they could be like Ruth.
I think I had two floor meetings my second and third year. One at the beginning, one at before Thanksgiving.
Beginning: I’m your RA, if there are any question, ask them. Otherwise, we’re done here.
Thanksgiving: Guys, sign this and mark if your coming back next year.
Longest part was getting everyone into the room and quiet enough that he could speak.
oh my god I love ruth with all my heart
It’s nice to know that even in the depths of misery Ruth can think up mocking nicknames for people. I bet she has a list.
I wonder if this means Ethan’s R.A. is the one from Roomies! or Howard? Thanks to Jacob we already know not everyone is the same age.
NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve caught up… Now I’ll have to wait for it to release new comics! Q.Q
Oh crap… i caught up… waht do i do now?
Make dirty jokes in the comment sections.
You can make other sorts of jokes, but honestly I wouldn’t advise it.
There’s puns, too. Lots and lots of puns.
Ahhhhhhhhh, read the entirety of this comic today just to get overly attached to the characters. Dammit it man.
Stumbled upon this comic less then a day ago… caught up just now. Love it. Excellent work..
Heh. The first time I ran into “rapture ready,” my son was about eight and totally into dinosaurs. With another (non-fundamentalist) friend, I couldn’t resist joking that he would have heard the words “raptor ready” instead.
That would be a fruitful misunderstanding for Joyce and Dina to have. :p
Anyone who believes the Rapture will happen needs to go back and reread their bible.
aculy you both look like shit
I just started reading the comics on “It’s Walky!” and I find it refreshing that Ethan’s RA likes Star Trek like the Walkiverse RA.
Ethan’s RA sounds like my first RA.