It’s like he’s cursed. I mean, what’d he do in a past life, get one of the cast killed in a heroic sacrifice as a last ditch chance for redemption when there was no need whatsoever? For example, I mean.
Danny went through an alcoholic phase and went drunk-driving to pick up more booze for a party. Ruth was one of his close friends in the Walkyverse (she is also keenly aware that she’s responsible for his alcoholism in the first place) and drove after him to stop him. She died in a crash, ramming his car out of the way of an oncoming truck.
Danny soon went on to shack up with Billie and also later unwittingly saved the world from Sal via the latter’s self-image issues. Sal and Billie proceed to fight over Danny (Sal wanted to back off but Billie insisted), and Sal let Billie win.
Something something zombie apocalypse in space, something something Sarah gets her law degree and is involved with the move that nearly dooms humanity, something something a magical leafy branch is used to save and/or destroy the world for the third time, something something babies ever after.
Spaghetti was pouring out of Danny’s pockets the entire time, of course. Because he’s Danny.
As a general rule, when people around here start ironically commenting about how unlikely scenarios could never possibly come to pass, you can safely assume that the scenario is something that actually happened in the Walkyverse.
(Or just read the old comics. Roomies!/It’s Walky! isn’t that long a read.)
In all fairness, in that universe they never showed and feelings for one another, and even in this universe it’s still a bit of a stretch to g ahead and call Billie Ruth’s girlfriend
I was going to say she inspires salaciousness rather than having it, and then I looked it up just to make sure I wasn’t talking out my ass and she fits the second definition to a t.
So, well done, you win 1 e-cookie. Best consumed with e-milk.
Probably relieved. Sal was pretty pissed off at him the last time we saw them together, and he knew that she had the ability and a pretty good reason to rat him out for swapping a screwing for a better grade.
Haha, probably, yes. He knows being with Sal is not a good idea, but the man just can’t say no. In all fairness, many of us would have trouble with that.
Her name is Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana Fanna Bo Besca III, but you can call her Sal.
but not Sally.
Call her Sally and you die!
Wow, I COMPLETELY forgot Danny & Sal were actually a thing for a while in Roomies. The first panel is them on the phone. Although I could never mentally connect the DoA versions. Although who knows, anything’s possible with Willis magic.
It’s weird because I never saw the connection ether I saw how sal was and how Danny was. But now that I’m seeing them interact together they do seem to have a certain kind of awkward chemistry.
“And I’m so personally inadequate I don’t think I have a right to argue with his pushing me away, both because I’m mentally messed up and also because I’m kind of a douche for letting our awkward situation stretch out so painfully long once it became clear he had poor night vision.”
To be fair, it’s not entirely unreasonable to call someone by their whole name when you first meet them. A lot of people who go by nicknames and shortened versions of their names do so because they dislike their full names, but calling them the full names usually doesn’t cause this much of a reaction.
Oh, and it is unreasonable to say “Oh, you mean . . . ” when somebody tells you their name.
It’s how they want to be called, they know what they meant.
Whatever name someone gives you upon introduction is how you should address them. Saying, “Oh, you mean-” can be anything from rude to ethnocentric. What one says is usually what one means, especially in things as practiced as introductions.
(If you do want to call them something else, such as when someone gives what you would assume is a shortened form and you’re a more formal person and uncomfortable with it, perhaps try something like, “Would it be alright to call you ____?” and they can say yes, no, or, “That’s not my name,” as needed. If you’re trying to get their full name for legal reasons, as with filling out paperwork for them, simply ask, “Is that your full name?” /miss manners.)
Wow, he’s so hopeless that it’s simultaneously maddening and hilarious.
Granted we’re probably ALL having trouble not looking. But at least we wouldn’t SAY THAT.
…you guys wouldn’t say that, would you?
I apologize if I sounded indecisive, I was using the Glomar response to show that yes, some of us are stupid enough have said something like that before.
The alt text currently says “Danny’s last line originally ended ‘it is very hard’ but I didn’t want to give anyone any ideas’. Before, it cut off right after the word ‘ended’.
WELCOME to the SS DALI, (as in Salvador Dali, as in the kind of mind capable of harmonizing such absolutely disparate forces of nature into some kind of whole).
Imagine if you will, the image of a Tugboat getting tugged by an Aircraft Carrier.
I actually hope he manages to turn it around, given that Danny is second only to Billie in bad luck. I feel bad for him, even if he did make some mistakes.
“All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That’s how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.”
Why? Well because madness, as you know, is a lot like gravity. All it takes is a little push.
Well, in the Urban Dictionary it means
1. A really really hot girl.
2. Strong Independent woman
3From Hebrew Origin meaning Princess.
4.A girl who is smart, sexy and pretty much awesome.
5 another term for wuss/wimp/ acting like a little girl used mostly towards men
6 Sally is a nickname for Sarah
I never quite understood why Sally is a nickname for Sarah. They’re two separate names. Also, Sarah is the one with the Hebrew meaning for princess, though I suppose since Sally is a nickname it gets the meaning by association.
Sally is pretty much the only common name that would start with sal, so I guess Sal’s just too much of a rebel to go by an unabbreviated name.
Either that or it’s some sort of racial thing.
You want a scenario where it gets worse for Danny? There are so many mines for him to step on in this conversation! In order to learn whether she’s secretly Amazi-Girl, he’s going to ask about her hair. Is it a wig, or what? He’ll also try to talk her out of those boots.
I look forward to some Sal eye twitches.
Even worse would be if he first tries to have the conversation with “Amazi-Girl” about his winning against the temptation to cheat on his girlfriend, and only then does he try to secretly verify that she’s Amazi-Girl by trying to chat her out of her boots. He won’t ask about her hair until she’s at maximum combustion potential. Final straw that will break Dan’s back.
It would be bad. Try to imagine the Internet as you know it stopping instantaneously and everything that you love about it in your heart exploding at the speed of light.
Being a ‘Sally”, it’s on the birth certificate – not Sarah, I’ve gone thru life called Sal, and Sally, and Sally Ann by my mother when she was angry with me.
But never Rusty or Red-anyone make that mistake and I’d go all ‘Sal’ on ’em :).
Why is Danny still standing there? Does he have a death wish along with his other problems?
Has he shown the ability to catch on to personal cues quickly?
I don’t know about the previous strips, but we have it from DoA that Dorothy was trying to tell him for quite a while that they were over and Joe spent the whole summer they weren’t. Yet he had no idea.
The hover is hilarious because with this gang it really doesn’t matter how you end the sentence we’re gonna get to that same place. Maybe 30 comments sooner but there either way.
I can’t blame her for going off on the name thing. I don’t like it when people do that to me either.
I tell you my name, that is the name I want to be called by-not some cutesy nickname or name you think I “mean”, or whatever: I “mean” what I told you to call me.
Is it that …hard?
I getcha. Me I’m a ‘no topher’. Anyone that calls me and says ‘Hello Christopher’, ‘May I speak to Christopher?’ etc gets an earful of dialtone. When I turn in paperwork for something and some beauro-nitwit tries to correct me on my legal name I can be damn snippy.
This is getting way too painful to watch. I mean, the anticipation is killing me! Something needs to happen and FAST! Either Sal should punch Danny in the face or he should bring up ‘their relationship’.
I learned BEDMAS, though I’d forgotten it until now: brackets, exponents, division, multiplication, addition, subtraction, with the addendum that M/D and A/S were interchangeable in order.
Oh, right, that. Like the order of the planets (which I don’t remember the mnemonic for… “My Very Excellent Mother Just Shot Up North Philly”, or something like that), it seems way easier to just remember than to remember the mnemonic and what the mnemonic stands for.
As someone with asthma who spent a fair amount of her time in college frustrated by rude smokers who would not abide by the campus rules (and had to use her inhaler and endure moderate to severe discomfort waaay more than if they’d just smoked in the sections labeled for it) I really appreciate that Sal is not smoking indoors and has no plans to. Just, seeing that cigarette in her mouth remain unlit makes me like her even more.
Wrt the comic itself:
Danny, Sal is not trying to uphold the masquerade. Please, stop. Stop and reconsider whether you were right the first time.
In the real world IU is a smoke-free campus, except in privately-owned vehicles.
BLOOMINGTON CAMPUS TOBACCO POLICY
Effective January 1, 2008
• The use or sale of tobacco and tobacco products is prohibited on University-owned, -operated, or -leased property.
• The use or sale of tobacco and tobacco products is prohibited in University-owned, -operated, or -leased vehicles.
• The use of tobacco products is permitted in privately owned vehicles.
The only question is whether holding an unlit cigarette in the mouth inside a campus building would be considered a use of tobacco products.
Oh, wow, I hadn’t realized they’d changed it. Then again, 2008 would be right about the last time I’d visited their campus. That’s awesome news for people with respiratory issues, if a bit of an inconvenience for smokers who live on campus. I have no idea what my own uni’s policies are now, either.
Whatever the case, I would not be surprised if there are still people violating it, and I’m glad to see Sal’s (screw the rules attitude or no) not that sort of person.
No. I think it could be a running gag. Danny keeps stumbling into offers of hate-sex, and keeps turning them down. Billie, now Sal, eventually Sarah, even Amber (oh the irony).
I once encountered a really annoying guy who went by Sal. That wasn’t his name, just three letters of his last name. I called him “Sally” in conversation, and he went into a fit of anger. A mutual friend later asked me how I knew about “the Sally thing.” This was apparently a huge deal for the guy, and my friend had seen him have a similar reaction to someone else calling him “Sally” in the past. Not knowing any of this at the time, all I could do was laugh, and my amusement caused him to have a full-on meltdown. It only got funnier as he got angrier.
So today’s strip was even funnier for me than it otherwise would have been, bringing back memories of good ol’ Sally.
Sal and Danny shipping
It might seem much stranger,
it might seem much stranger
Across a crowded dorm
And somehow you knew,
You knew even then
That somewhere you’d seen them
Again and again.
Sal and Danny shipping
New readers may be laughing,
You may hear them laughing
Across a crowded board
And night after night,
As strange as it seems
The sound of their laughter
Will sing in your dreams.
Who can explain it?
Who can tell you why?
Shippers give you reasons,
Willis never tries.
Sal and Danny shipping
When you see their true love,
When you feel it call you
Across a crowded archive,
Then fly to that ship,
And make it your own
Or all through your life you
May dream all alone.
Once you have shipped it,
Never let it go.
Once you have shipped it,
Never let it go!
Somehow, I think it might take a while for Danny to realize that the tall, thin black girl with a southern accent is not the shorter, curvier brunette Amazi-girl.
We are almost at the end of the week, and the major plot point has not been resolved. Are we ever going to find out how she keeps those leggings in place?
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Business as usual with Danny.
It’s like he’s cursed. I mean, what’d he do in a past life, get one of the cast killed in a heroic sacrifice as a last ditch chance for redemption when there was no need whatsoever? For example, I mean.
Nah, that wouldn’t rate this kind of karmic abuse. I mean, unless he then went on to steal her girlfriend or something.
Of course, it could only get worse if he then started to see her and his ex at the same time.
And all the time trying to be an ok upright kinda guy.
For those of us who haven’t read the Walkyverse comics?
Yeah I’m thinking this comments board really needs a reddit-style “joke explainer”…
Danny went through an alcoholic phase and went drunk-driving to pick up more booze for a party. Ruth was one of his close friends in the Walkyverse (she is also keenly aware that she’s responsible for his alcoholism in the first place) and drove after him to stop him. She died in a crash, ramming his car out of the way of an oncoming truck.
Danny soon went on to shack up with Billie and also later unwittingly saved the world from Sal via the latter’s self-image issues. Sal and Billie proceed to fight over Danny (Sal wanted to back off but Billie insisted), and Sal let Billie win.
Something something zombie apocalypse in space, something something Sarah gets her law degree and is involved with the move that nearly dooms humanity, something something a magical leafy branch is used to save and/or destroy the world for the third time, something something babies ever after.
Spaghetti was pouring out of Danny’s pockets the entire time, of course. Because he’s Danny.
Thanks for that. Now I have an idea why I have no idea what’s going on.
You’re not the only one, Parnifia.
@ Gigafreak
And by “alcoholic phase” you mean “he had a beer”
Like I’m not joking. He has like… a beer… maybe 2… This all happens over the course of a single night
As a general rule, when people around here start ironically commenting about how unlikely scenarios could never possibly come to pass, you can safely assume that the scenario is something that actually happened in the Walkyverse.
(Or just read the old comics. Roomies!/It’s Walky! isn’t that long a read.)
More likely he was the butler for Dracula. Or maybe he was the guy who thought the Spanish inquisition was a good idea. Maybe he was both.
In all fairness, in that universe they never showed and feelings for one another, and even in this universe it’s still a bit of a stretch to g ahead and call Billie Ruth’s girlfriend
What, this doesn’t count as showing feelings for one another? Don’t miss the NSFW links in the commentary! Yes, it’s canon.
I know that’s how he prefers to see how he lives himself, buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuttt……
Or maybe he tried killing an alien with a stick inside a gun store
A tad salacious maybe, but definitely not a “Sally.”
Perhaps Salavating, in reference to what guys do when they see her.
And some girls.
It’s certainly a Salient point.
I was going to say she inspires salaciousness rather than having it, and then I looked it up just to make sure I wasn’t talking out my ass and she fits the second definition to a t.
So, well done, you win 1 e-cookie. Best consumed with e-milk.
Something is going to get inspired if he keeps staring at her crotch…
Salem, because other girls think she’s a witch.
Meanwhile guys simply think she’s bewitching.
To quote Little Richard:
Well Long Tall Sally’s built pretty sweet
For a Sally, she’s nowhere near murderous enough.
Omg… They’re literally perfect for each other.
Wonder how a certain TA would react to finding out she’s found someone else?
Probably relieved. Sal was pretty pissed off at him the last time we saw them together, and he knew that she had the ability and a pretty good reason to rat him out for swapping a screwing for a better grade.
Haha, probably, yes. He knows being with Sal is not a good idea, but the man just can’t say no. In all fairness, many of us would have trouble with that.
Yes Sal, you do.
She clearly drives a motorcycle and not a Mustang.
*ba dum tss*
Don’t call her Sally!!!!
Her name is Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana Fanna Bo Besca III, but you can call her Sal.
but not Sally.
Call her Sally and you die!
So I take it Walky is Wacko then?
Personality wise, Sal reminds me more of Slappy than Dot.
Of course, the effect she has on guys (and let’s face it, girls) is more reminiscent of Minerva Mink.
I would think more Nurse. As in, HELLLOOOO, Nurse!
Definitely a Slappy/Minerva mash up. Which is an odd visual image. Will have to check Rule 34 later to see if this exists yet.
If it didn’t, it will by the time you check,
Can’t be a Sally…unless you’re a princess!!!
She is serious. And don’t call her Shirley.
Wow, I COMPLETELY forgot Danny & Sal were actually a thing for a while in Roomies. The first panel is them on the phone. Although I could never mentally connect the DoA versions. Although who knows, anything’s possible with Willis magic.
It’s weird because I never saw the connection ether I saw how sal was and how Danny was. But now that I’m seeing them interact together they do seem to have a certain kind of awkward chemistry.
Awkward chemistry involves combining chemicals by mistake and it works out in the end.
It causes an explosion, but that’s okay in this context.
It was the best I could do.
It’ll probably go a bit faster than desired though.
It’s awkward because it bursts out of the beaker…
Only awkward because it bursts out of the beaker way ahead of schedule.
That statement could cover pretty much anything that’s awkward. Like awkward sex.
That’s how Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups came to be, and the world is definitely a better place for it.
Thanks for the reminder. That only serves to make this strip funnier.
Danny and Sally sitting in a tree.
Danny gets pushed out the tree.
Oops.
And then the ambulance accidentally runs him over.
then the EMT crews accidentally step on him, twice.
“This is not the ‘Sally’ outfit, idiot! I had that on the other day . . . “
danny’s last line originally ended how?
I’m guessing “very hard”.
Danny famous last words?
Alt text updated — you were right, John. And obviously, Willis does know his fanbase very well indeed.
Question withdrawn.
She’s just going along with it and he has no idea…wonder what Amber’s going to think if she sees them together?
What did I ever see in that guy?
“Oh, right; he likes my little pony.”
“little pony” is slang for vagina.
Having mediocre taste in cartoons is pretty sexy.
“Danny is suicidal because I left him?”
“Oh no, she’s hot”
“And I’m so personally inadequate I don’t think I have a right to argue with his pushing me away, both because I’m mentally messed up and also because I’m kind of a douche for letting our awkward situation stretch out so painfully long once it became clear he had poor night vision.”
I think her lowriders get lower in every frame they’re shown.
Any lower and this site is NSFW.
Any lower and this site will have a party.
Its fucking Sal, not Sally. Get it through your thick skull Danny.
I’m pretty “fucking Sal” is occupying quite a prominent place in his skull right now.
*Sure*
I accidentally a word.
No, you just need a period: the doctor is indeed pretty.
Run, you pretty boy, and remember.
Isn’t is “Run you clever boy, and remember me” ?
To be fair, it’s not entirely unreasonable to call someone by their whole name when you first meet them. A lot of people who go by nicknames and shortened versions of their names do so because they dislike their full names, but calling them the full names usually doesn’t cause this much of a reaction.
People aren’t usually Danny.
. . . and Sal can be ornery.
Oh, and it is unreasonable to say “Oh, you mean . . . ” when somebody tells you their name.
It’s how they want to be called, they know what they meant.
From personal experience, no kidding!
“Sally” is originally short for “Sarah”.
Or Salome, if the Walkertons were into Biblical theme names and didn’t look to closely at what those people actually did.
Whatever name someone gives you upon introduction is how you should address them. Saying, “Oh, you mean-” can be anything from rude to ethnocentric. What one says is usually what one means, especially in things as practiced as introductions.
(If you do want to call them something else, such as when someone gives what you would assume is a shortened form and you’re a more formal person and uncomfortable with it, perhaps try something like, “Would it be alright to call you ____?” and they can say yes, no, or, “That’s not my name,” as needed. If you’re trying to get their full name for legal reasons, as with filling out paperwork for them, simply ask, “Is that your full name?” /miss manners.)
Personally I would have gone with “Interesting name; what’s it from?” or maybe, “Oh, like a truck driver!”, depending on my mood.
Danny get out of there you’re gonna die.
Can’t you see it’s why he needs to stay? (just kidding; I don’t actually want him to die, just to suffer a bit, for the fun of it)
Wow, he’s so hopeless that it’s simultaneously maddening and hilarious.
Granted we’re probably ALL having trouble not looking. But at least we wouldn’t SAY THAT.
…you guys wouldn’t say that, would you?
I neither deny nor confirm the above statement
Make up your mind you twit, don’t be an indecisive twat.
I apologize if I sounded indecisive, I was using the Glomar response to show that yes, some of us are stupid enough have said something like that before.
Based on my observations, most guys would look…and some of them won’t even apologize.
Any day that you’re Danny is the worst day.
So, that’s my average day then. And I’m not even Danny.
But… Danny’s line has ended.
Or did you mean it ended differently?
Okay, nevermind, alt text has been fixed.
What did/does it say? Reading on my phone tonight…
The alt text currently says “Danny’s last line originally ended ‘it is very hard’ but I didn’t want to give anyone any ideas’. Before, it cut off right after the word ‘ended’.
My hovertext is dumb with quotation marks. Had to make ’em singles.
So000… you didn’t want to give anyone ideas… and yet you put that idea-spawner into the hovertext. -_-
The hovertext I s just between Willis and a few hundred of his closest fans. We’re not just “anyone”!
Thanks, Kernanator!
Well, it was true in its original form too, I’m sure. It’s pretty unlikely that you had Danny’s response continuing infinitely.
WELCOME to the SS DALI, (as in Salvador Dali, as in the kind of mind capable of harmonizing such absolutely disparate forces of nature into some kind of whole).
Imagine if you will, the image of a Tugboat getting tugged by an Aircraft Carrier.
If Sal’s name is short for Salvador, that’s a whole ‘nother reason for her to dislike her parents.
Danny, are you screwing up already?
Alrieady? As if he stopped!
Before he even starts.
I actually hope he manages to turn it around, given that Danny is second only to Billie in bad luck. I feel bad for him, even if he did make some mistakes.
Also, if Danny is having the worst day, does that mean he’s going to become the Joker?
Amazi-Girl has hew new archnemesis.
…You know, I could actually see Blaine as the Joker. Or Faz. He has the omnipresent smile.
“As this chart clearly shows, what doesn’t kill you only makes you…stranger.”
“All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That’s how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.”
Why? Well because madness, as you know, is a lot like gravity. All it takes is a little push.
Eh, I’ve been a half a bad day from it for years.
Hey, Sally’s a nice name. Sal just reminds me of that mob boss from Mask of the Phantasm.
Yeah, but I don’t think it’s this Sal’s angel of death that awaits at the moment.
It’s just so painful
sorry, foreigner here. What is a “Sally” in this context? thanx in advance.
A name.
a very girly one.
Sally is just a name. I’d say it’s kind of associated with young girls, which is why Sal is so mad.
Her mum calls her Sally. I guess that’s a thing with her and her… dislike? of her parents?
Well, in the Urban Dictionary it means
1. A really really hot girl.
2. Strong Independent woman
3From Hebrew Origin meaning Princess.
4.A girl who is smart, sexy and pretty much awesome.
5 another term for wuss/wimp/ acting like a little girl used mostly towards men
6 Sally is a nickname for Sarah
And Charlie Brown’s sister.
…Now I want her to call Jason her “Sweet Baboo”.
I never quite understood why Sally is a nickname for Sarah. They’re two separate names. Also, Sarah is the one with the Hebrew meaning for princess, though I suppose since Sally is a nickname it gets the meaning by association.
Sally is pretty much the only common name that would start with sal, so I guess Sal’s just too much of a rebel to go by an unabbreviated name.
Either that or it’s some sort of racial thing.
Danny used “Smooth Talk!”
It’s not very effective!
Sal used “Anger!”
Sal accidentally used “Cleavage shot!”
Danny is confused
Danny is embarrassed
It’s super awkward!
Danny used unwanted boner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOYQtbz_pPg
Nothing else need be said.
Sal gets poked in the eye.
Anyone else notice the cookie monster face Sal makes when she gets angry?
You got turned on when you see Cookie Monster?
None of these comments make sense to me.
Wow, I’d give to Danny one thing. He shows restraint…most guys would stare, based on my observations.
Yeah, but he probably shouldn’t call attention to it the way he is.
Most guys try to be discreet.
No hes not haveing the worst day ever YET, Im shore it gets worse from here…Quick someone run a scenario where things get worse for danny
He gets drunk, makes an ass of himself, touches Billie inappropriately, takes off in a car while still drunk and gets someone killed.
Minus the aliens?
With aliens of course. Or else the whole thing seemed silly…and then it turns out the whole event is just a dream….by a comatose Machete.
So long as the someone is Blaine or Faz I don’t think it would really be worse.
You want a scenario where it gets worse for Danny? There are so many mines for him to step on in this conversation! In order to learn whether she’s secretly Amazi-Girl, he’s going to ask about her hair. Is it a wig, or what? He’ll also try to talk her out of those boots.
I look forward to some Sal eye twitches.
Even worse would be if he first tries to have the conversation with “Amazi-Girl” about his winning against the temptation to cheat on his girlfriend, and only then does he try to secretly verify that she’s Amazi-Girl by trying to chat her out of her boots. He won’t ask about her hair until she’s at maximum combustion potential. Final straw that will break Dan’s back.
OR he could step on an actual mine.
What exactly is stopping Sal from socking Danny in the jaw?
Pity.
Pity and attraction.
Attraction between her fist and his face. Repeatedly.
And curiosity.
Because Sal doesn’t want to get hassled by authority figures, mostly.
Maybe he has a light.
And Salvador claims undisputed second place in the F-bomb count!
1. I wasn’t aware this existed.
2. I’m really happy it does.
3. I cannot BELIEVE Joe has only said fuck once.
Jo is a lover, not fu… oh wait.
That’s the style of Joe, babe.
…this only works if I have that gravatar.
And maybe not even then.
John, you’ve got way too much time on your hands.
Hahahaha YES…I MADE A THING
I hate to break it to you, but one of the Aliens beat you to it by more than fourteen years.
She ever going to light that cig?
Not inside!
There inside!?
Yes…there’s also an outside.
Yes and a book can be also used as a hat.
No, outside. He just said not there, inside.
You know, I could make a sex joke, but I don’t want to give anybody any ideas.
God Dannit.
Nappa
You just made my day
No Iron Billie, don’t cross the streams! If we get TFS up in here it won’t be too long until…
Oh no, they’ve found us.
And what happens if I cross the streams Egon?
Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding in a speed of light.
Total protonic reversal
It would be bad. Try to imagine the Internet as you know it stopping instantaneously and everything that you love about it in your heart exploding at the speed of light.
Well, will we have Twinkie 35 feet long and 600lb?
Everything I love about the Internet too, so yes.
So which one? The Planet, my son, or me?
Yes.
*Blast him* Smart ass
Ghost Nappa!
Veggita, tonight you will be haunted by three ghost, And they are all me!
AAAAAAAAARGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Hey, it could be worse. A young version of your mother could be drunk and hitting on you.
Or whatever the F*ck happened on Namek.
Or worse….it turns out that you are you’re own father..
Or, Oedipus
Seriously, what the FSCK is Namek??
@Ahighfunctioningsociopath,
Oedipus did end up as his own step-father, so pretty close.
Ross.
It’s ok Danny. Jason probably thinks it’s short for Salisbury.
Sal-is-bury-ing Danny in a shallow grave after Danny’s too many awkward flirting.
There’s a lot at STEAK for him.
Once Sal gets past her anger she might appreciate a guy who’s trying to NOT oglee her like a piece of meat.
You know, there are guys who don’t have to “try” not ogling women. Just saying.
Women don’t dress like that if they don’t want to be oggled
Women don’t have to dress for men. Plenty of women, if not the majority, dress for themselves.
Being a ‘Sally”, it’s on the birth certificate – not Sarah, I’ve gone thru life called Sal, and Sally, and Sally Ann by my mother when she was angry with me.
But never Rusty or Red-anyone make that mistake and I’d go all ‘Sal’ on ’em :).
Why is Danny still standing there? Does he have a death wish along with his other problems?
Has he shown the ability to catch on to personal cues quickly?
I don’t know about the previous strips, but we have it from DoA that Dorothy was trying to tell him for quite a while that they were over and Joe spent the whole summer they weren’t. Yet he had no idea.
Wait, why does Sal feel like it’s awkward on her end? Because she’s already in a relationship she can’t mention?
But… Danny doesn’t have a secret identity. Even out of costume she should be able to recogn-
It just occurred to me you were talking about Jason.
Or that Danny is coming across as more awkward than her realized. Because he is more than a little awkward.
Goddan it, watching him fall to pieces is just too amusing. Keep it coming.
Beeetteeer… But you can do it, Danny! Now tell her you’re dating!
But don’t mention you are dating a superhero…lest you wanted to be kidnapped….and possibly killed.
He shouldn’t forget to share the little physical details that only somebody who has made out with AmaziGirl would know, to confirm it really is him.
Yeeees. Popcorn?
Certainly. And a poncho for the blood splatter.
I’m just going to view it from behind a plastic sheet. It’s the only thing that will actually shield from all the blood.
The hover is hilarious because with this gang it really doesn’t matter how you end the sentence we’re gonna get to that same place. Maybe 30 comments sooner but there either way.
Don’t call her “Sally,” Wonderbread! Does she look like Charlie Brown’s little sister?
Good Grief..
Man, this arc is like watching “Falling Down the Stairs: The Musical.”
He is the Krillin of DoA
At least Krillin ended up with a wife.
It was a pity fuck and you know it.
I donno, I’ve heard of a pity fuck but not a pity wife…
Or a pity daughter!
More like he is the Yamcha.
Krillen is somewhat relevent to the DB universe.
Danny is totally Yamcha.
Yes. Yes he is. Girlfriend for years and years ditches you for emotionally detached manchild?
The only way it could be a better comparison is if Walky was occasionally a narcissistic sometimes-blond asshole obsessed with violence.
Well Walky DOES turn into a Monkey Master when he sees a full moon.
No “we warned you about stairs?”
Well, someone has to do it.
Calling it. Sal is going to fall for Danny without knowing he thinks she’s Amazi-girl.
They are perfect for each other because Sal has the sauce and Danny has the spaghetti
I can’t blame her for going off on the name thing. I don’t like it when people do that to me either.
I tell you my name, that is the name I want to be called by-not some cutesy nickname or name you think I “mean”, or whatever: I “mean” what I told you to call me.
Is it that …hard?
I getcha. Me I’m a ‘no topher’. Anyone that calls me and says ‘Hello Christopher’, ‘May I speak to Christopher?’ etc gets an earful of dialtone. When I turn in paperwork for something and some beauro-nitwit tries to correct me on my legal name I can be damn snippy.
Sal is never going to fall for Danny, I hope I hope I hope.
Sal’s so defensive, I don’t think she’d let herself “fall” for anybody.
I lose track of the time and BOOM 142 comments before I even read the comic.
and is a good un
So this just popped into my mind but what happen to the giraffe ? I have a feeling it is rampaging the town.
This is getting way too painful to watch. I mean, the anticipation is killing me! Something needs to happen and FAST! Either Sal should punch Danny in the face or he should bring up ‘their relationship’.
Well, ya know, she DID bang the last guy who annoyed her. Twice even. So yeah. This could be all sorts of interesting.
Walky annoys her the most. So what does that mean?
More bang for the other buck who annoys her.
Sal/Walky?
Well, please excuse my dear aunt sally! This’ll be fun to watch 😀
… I remember that mnemonic, but I’ve forgotten what it’s a mnemonic for…
Order of operations in math: Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction.
I learned BEDMAS, though I’d forgotten it until now: brackets, exponents, division, multiplication, addition, subtraction, with the addendum that M/D and A/S were interchangeable in order.
Oh, right, that. Like the order of the planets (which I don’t remember the mnemonic for… “My Very Excellent Mother Just Shot Up North Philly”, or something like that), it seems way easier to just remember than to remember the mnemonic and what the mnemonic stands for.
Roy G. Biv — colors of the spectrum
IS her full name Sally?
Linda Walkerton calls her that.
Even with a disguised voice. Really?
It’d be hilarious if the two of them actually hooked up now. Much amusement will be had for him unwittingly cheating on Amazigirl.
No, my first name ain’t “sally”, it’s Sal! Miss Walkerton if you’re nasty.
bwahaha!!! those internet cookies are as good as won!
Is it too late to get in on that action? I put 50 cookies on bloodshed, but no death.
Wonderbread?
“That’s what I said, get the bread outta the breadbox !!!”
😀
He’s lucky she called him just that …
She’s saying he’s obnoxiously white.
Possibly also boring.
You would prefer Twinkie(TM)?
That’s for people who aren’t sufficiently asian, IIRC.
I usually call people that if they have no personality, although I suppose other people would use it for someone who acts really really white
Salvador! 😀
WONDERBREAD! IS THE PERFECT NAME FOR HIM.
Who wants to bet on how many panels will come before he Dans this up?
I got 50$ two.
Any takers?
I’m pretty sure this conversation started out pre-Danned, so you’re going to have to be more specific.
By Danning, I mean COMPLETELY fucking this up.
He’s about 60% fucking it up, and, at this rate, 120% in two days.
Yeah, he’s kinda Danning it up right now so you don’t have much to bet on.
I take it you count it as him Danning it up if he doesn’t Joe Sal, and he doesn’t Dan if he does Joe her.
Which means the Bet options are (a) Dan it up or (b) Joe her good.
So confusing, why don’t we all just say f**k?
Ordinarily my regard for Sal would be reduced.
But it’s Danny.
Relevant!
As someone with asthma who spent a fair amount of her time in college frustrated by rude smokers who would not abide by the campus rules (and had to use her inhaler and endure moderate to severe discomfort waaay more than if they’d just smoked in the sections labeled for it) I really appreciate that Sal is not smoking indoors and has no plans to. Just, seeing that cigarette in her mouth remain unlit makes me like her even more.
Wrt the comic itself:
Danny, Sal is not trying to uphold the masquerade. Please, stop. Stop and reconsider whether you were right the first time.
In the real world IU is a smoke-free campus, except in privately-owned vehicles.
BLOOMINGTON CAMPUS TOBACCO POLICY
Effective January 1, 2008
• The use or sale of tobacco and tobacco products is prohibited on University-owned, -operated, or -leased property.
• The use or sale of tobacco and tobacco products is prohibited in University-owned, -operated, or -leased vehicles.
• The use of tobacco products is permitted in privately owned vehicles.
The only question is whether holding an unlit cigarette in the mouth inside a campus building would be considered a use of tobacco products.
Oh, wow, I hadn’t realized they’d changed it. Then again, 2008 would be right about the last time I’d visited their campus. That’s awesome news for people with respiratory issues, if a bit of an inconvenience for smokers who live on campus. I have no idea what my own uni’s policies are now, either.
Whatever the case, I would not be surprised if there are still people violating it, and I’m glad to see Sal’s (screw the rules attitude or no) not that sort of person.
Good thing she owns a private vehicle, then. She can smoke it on her motorcycle.
No, huh? What if she only smokes it inside of her helmet?
She’ll choke to death.
I like how he’s totally assuming Billie’s right about Sal being amazigirl.
And by like I mean hate.
Don’t you dare cheat on Jason, Sal! You hate him far too much!
No. I think it could be a running gag. Danny keeps stumbling into offers of hate-sex, and keeps turning them down. Billie, now Sal, eventually Sarah, even Amber (oh the irony).
Man, I haven’t banged my head against the wall this much since Joyce held hands with Ethan in church.
Sal, no! He’s too young!
To die!*
Sorry, left that part out. Otherwise, that would have sounded REALLY weird!
I like that Sal really puts the “hip” in “hiphuggers”. Or is it that she’s putting the HUG in them? Hard to tell with all that skin showing! 😀
Well, she is definitely not putting the panty in pants.
I think it is clear. Sal wants to ship wonderbread with the sweatervest museum. And then keep them both far away from her.
Too bad she hadn’t encountered Faz. That would be fun.
That would probably be faz’s dream demise. Being ripped apart by a hot chick.
HAHAHAHAHA!!! DANNY, WELCOME TO DIE!
I once encountered a really annoying guy who went by Sal. That wasn’t his name, just three letters of his last name. I called him “Sally” in conversation, and he went into a fit of anger. A mutual friend later asked me how I knew about “the Sally thing.” This was apparently a huge deal for the guy, and my friend had seen him have a similar reaction to someone else calling him “Sally” in the past. Not knowing any of this at the time, all I could do was laugh, and my amusement caused him to have a full-on meltdown. It only got funnier as he got angrier.
So today’s strip was even funnier for me than it otherwise would have been, bringing back memories of good ol’ Sally.
Woah, crazy eyes alert on panel 3. 9_6
Ohhh, you can call me Sal and you can call me Gal and you can call me Sexy and you can call me Speedy, but you don’ haft’a call me Sally.
16 internets for this reference!
Johnson?
Smooth.
Shipping Danny and Sal would be completely ridiculous I mean when in the world would that ever… nevermind.
pppfffttt…. ‘very hard’
Sal and Danny shipping
It might seem much stranger,
it might seem much stranger
Across a crowded dorm
And somehow you knew,
You knew even then
That somewhere you’d seen them
Again and again.
Sal and Danny shipping
New readers may be laughing,
You may hear them laughing
Across a crowded board
And night after night,
As strange as it seems
The sound of their laughter
Will sing in your dreams.
Who can explain it?
Who can tell you why?
Shippers give you reasons,
Willis never tries.
Sal and Danny shipping
When you see their true love,
When you feel it call you
Across a crowded archive,
Then fly to that ship,
And make it your own
Or all through your life you
May dream all alone.
Once you have shipped it,
Never let it go.
Once you have shipped it,
Never let it go!
To the tune of “Some Enchanted Evening”
Somehow, I think it might take a while for Danny to realize that the tall, thin black girl with a southern accent is not the shorter, curvier brunette Amazi-girl.
Danny sounds so much less dumb when you read his lines in Michael C. Hall’s (Dexter’s) voice.
Go ahead. It’s fun.
Great page
I’m probably the only one who actually has a liking for Danny…
man, sal is straight up just in her undies, giving no fucks
We are almost at the end of the week, and the major plot point has not been resolved. Are we ever going to find out how she keeps those leggings in place?
I just realized
Sal has crazy eyes in panel 3