Sarah looks like a good candidate for an ankylosaurian – a slow moving, perpetual ornery tank whose response to any other species ranges from “ugh, why are you even NEAR ME” to “one step closer, motherfucker, ONE STEP, and I’ll BREAK YOUR FUCKING LEG”.
Actually, a shaken martini isn’t dry as shaking it causes the ice to chip and waters down the martini. James Bond is ordering a weak martini.
A stirred martini would be the dryer (and stronger) option.
*Weird stuff I learned watching the West Wing.*
thejeff
Much debate about shaken vs stirred. The “dry” in dry martini refers to the sweetness from the vermouth though, not any water from melting ice. Generally dry vermouth vs sweet vermouth, though often with the implication of less vermouth overall.
Liquid Len
Yeah, I’ve heard anywhere from 1/4 jigger to “wave the bottle in the general direction of London”
Otl1999
My mother was of the latter persuasion – she said that as long as she knew a bottle of vermouth existed somewhere on the planet, it was enough…
thejeff
My favorite is “hold the vermouth bottle so the light shines through it on to the glass while pouring the gin”.
Still, if there’s no vermouth involved, you’re really just drinking straight gin. Own it. 🙂
Liquid Len
At times I like mine dry and dirty, so it’s really gin and olive brine! 🙂
LeslieBean4shizzle
Having never touched a martini in my life (bleck), 100% of my knowledge about them is taken directly from the aforementioned West Wing episode. And yes, from my wife’s wine tasting (also bleck), I know what dry actually means – I misused it intentionally as a segue into the shaken/stirred trivia.
Raen
A shaken martini is dry, it’s just not as strong; it’s also colder, though, which is the rationale Bond gives for having his drink (not exactly a martini, but a similar drink made with a different aromatized wine) shaken in the first novel. A “dry” martini comes from the fact that traditionally, a martini would be made with sweet vermouth, and more of it than today, with the earliest recipes being half-and-half. I’ve heard that the dry variant taking over came about because of better gin becoming available after prohibition, but I’m not sure where under prohibition you’d get that much vermouth.
What month is this, in continuity, again?
I forget. Also, what day?
Why, NO… I’m not planning on making copious amounts of fanart for them both every year when that day rolls around! Why do you ask?!!
*eyesdartingbackandforthnerevously*
*fauxinnocentwhistling*
Last week was MY birthday, and booze was involved. Sadly, no dinosaurs.
It’s also Monday, so there’s classes again. (I think Calculus and Gender Studies, so we’ll probably see Leslie and maybe a wide shot of Alan in the coming months.)
Marsh Maryrose
Who’s Alan?
Marsh Maryrose
Never mind, I should have consulted Walkypedia before posting. Poor Alan doesn’t even have a tag in DoA.
Needfuldoer
Professor Rees, the calculus teacher. He was pretty important in the old continuity, but we’ve only seen him from across the room here.
You know, when I decided to google “wang chung definition” I was expecting something funny and dirty. Instead, I learned that “wang chung” means “yellow bell” in Chinese and is a term for the first note in the Chinese musical scale – so basically “Do” as in “Doe, a deer, a female deer”.
So interesting trivia, particularly with the walkyverse’s odd relationship to the Sound of Music, but otherwise dull.
Um…I guess that’s kinda implied by what she’s saying, but in a stretched/joking way?
Like, Ruth’s saying, “You should be used to dealing with people who are difficult in that way (because you deal with me).” And Billie’s saying, “I deal with you by kisses and hanky-panky.”
And yeah, with a layer of “Which I don’t think would work for Sarah,” but again, joking.
Though, now I am wondering what she used to do for Alice’s birthday.
I think we can safely assume that Billie’s birthday gifts to Alice were booze and sex.
thejeff
Maybe. Or at least sort of.
She threw parties with lots of boys and only made it with Alice if none of the boys were interested. Probably after publicly making out with Alice to turn them on.
At least that’s my head canon, based on Billie’s descriptions of her party girl days and how dysfunctional that relationship with Alice seemed.
Both, I think. Since the booze wouldn’t depend on Sarah being straight.
Dealing with such people is Billie’s specialty, since that’s basically Ruth, but she can’t employ her usual tactics since Sarah’s straight. Then she thinks of the booze.
Nah, she’s mentioned being bisexual before, I think, like I don’t know if she had properly *dated* a woman before, though clearly, her and Alice had a relationship. I just don’t think Billie recognized it as that at the time, and it was probably more of a “friends with benefits where one person has fallen for the other” timebomb.
She’s actively denied being queer. She just said she’s straight and that all girls hook up with other girls at some point.
BarerMender
She has denied being a lesbian. Not the same thing as denying being queer..
Yumi
You might want to read the strip I had linked before, where she denies being queer.
BarerMender
You might want to read it. She starts to deny she’s queer, then stops. She is queer, she has to admit, at least to herself. But she’s not a lesbian, dammit.
Yumi
Different weights on how much she gets out, then. As of that strip, I would not say she’s admitted it to herself.
I don’t think she’s actually said she’s straight. Not queer. Not lesbian. Bisexuals are just for porn. She doesn’t want to say she’s normal, because that’s terrible, but I suspect it’s how she really thinks about it. It’s all tied up in her cheerleader self image.
Well, maybe she went for one of the oldfashioned meaning of straight as in
– not deviating from an indicated pattern
– not using or under the influence of drugs or alcohol
– marked by no exceptions or deviations in support of a principle (or party)
Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/straight
Huh, I didn’t even now ‘sober’ was a possible meaning.
Nah, Joyce knows that would just spoil it if anybody knew Sarah sincerely liked Halloween. (Or, you know, anything.) We’ve already seen Joyce cover for her once.
128 thoughts on “Birthdays”
Ana Chronistic
“Whose birthday is it?” sounds like the worst regifting plan
TheFlamingonator
okay but points for efficiency (if they are the appropriate age)
Doctor_Who
Ruth: Dina, in honor of your birthday – Struthiomimus.
Dina: Yaaay!
Billie: Shame that doesn’t work with Sarah.
Ruth: I wonder…
…
Ruth: Sarah, in honor of your birthday – Struthiomimus.
Sarah: Yaaay!…Wait, what just happened?
JBento
Sarah looks like a good candidate for an ankylosaurian – a slow moving, perpetual ornery tank whose response to any other species ranges from “ugh, why are you even NEAR ME” to “one step closer, motherfucker, ONE STEP, and I’ll BREAK YOUR FUCKING LEG”.
Jhon
Polacanthus!
JBento
Eh, nodosaurian, lacks the tailclub for legbreaking.
BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
Took me a moment to realize that “struthiomimus” is not an obscure Baroque musical instrument.
Marsh Maryrose
I assumed it was a Shakespearean oath.
Nono
The fact that Dina and Sarah share a birthday makes their friendship all the better.
BBCC
They do, Billie, but dry campus. Be careful with your choices.
Plasma Mongoose
Dry beer is okay though, right?
Needfuldoer
And martinis?
Geneseepaws
Only if shaken, not stirred.
LeslieBean4shizzle
Actually, a shaken martini isn’t dry as shaking it causes the ice to chip and waters down the martini. James Bond is ordering a weak martini.
A stirred martini would be the dryer (and stronger) option.
*Weird stuff I learned watching the West Wing.*
thejeff
Much debate about shaken vs stirred. The “dry” in dry martini refers to the sweetness from the vermouth though, not any water from melting ice. Generally dry vermouth vs sweet vermouth, though often with the implication of less vermouth overall.
Liquid Len
Yeah, I’ve heard anywhere from 1/4 jigger to “wave the bottle in the general direction of London”
Otl1999
My mother was of the latter persuasion – she said that as long as she knew a bottle of vermouth existed somewhere on the planet, it was enough…
thejeff
My favorite is “hold the vermouth bottle so the light shines through it on to the glass while pouring the gin”.
Still, if there’s no vermouth involved, you’re really just drinking straight gin. Own it. 🙂
Liquid Len
At times I like mine dry and dirty, so it’s really gin and olive brine! 🙂
LeslieBean4shizzle
Having never touched a martini in my life (bleck), 100% of my knowledge about them is taken directly from the aforementioned West Wing episode. And yes, from my wife’s wine tasting (also bleck), I know what dry actually means – I misused it intentionally as a segue into the shaken/stirred trivia.
Raen
A shaken martini is dry, it’s just not as strong; it’s also colder, though, which is the rationale Bond gives for having his drink (not exactly a martini, but a similar drink made with a different aromatized wine) shaken in the first novel. A “dry” martini comes from the fact that traditionally, a martini would be made with sweet vermouth, and more of it than today, with the earliest recipes being half-and-half. I’ve heard that the dry variant taking over came about because of better gin becoming available after prohibition, but I’m not sure where under prohibition you’d get that much vermouth.
BiOnyx
What month is this, in continuity, again?
I forget. Also, what day?
Why, NO… I’m not planning on making copious amounts of fanart for them both every year when that day rolls around! Why do you ask?!!
*eyesdartingbackandforthnerevously*
*fauxinnocentwhistling*
Last week was MY birthday, and booze was involved. Sadly, no dinosaurs.
Xerxes
I wanna say at either mid/late October
Doctor_Who
Hope it’s still October. I want more strips about Sarah loving Halloween.
Deanatay
Ah, and she’s an October baby, like me – no wonder she loves Halloween!
Stephen Bierce
By my notes this is the last week of October and we’ll be getting to Halloween very soon.
Bryy
I’m so happy that we’re gonna get possibly two months of Halloween.
Yumi
October 18th, unless there was a time skip between chapters, but I think those are usually noted.
BBCC
They are.
Needfuldoer
It’s also Monday, so there’s classes again. (I think Calculus and Gender Studies, so we’ll probably see Leslie and maybe a wide shot of Alan in the coming months.)
Marsh Maryrose
Who’s Alan?
Marsh Maryrose
Never mind, I should have consulted Walkypedia before posting. Poor Alan doesn’t even have a tag in DoA.
Needfuldoer
Professor Rees, the calculus teacher. He was pretty important in the old continuity, but we’ve only seen him from across the room here.
Miles
Midterms are happening so likely early November.
saltchocolate
@hovertext: From one Sarah to another!
Stephen Bierce
*plays Wang Chung’s “Everybody Have Fun Tonight” on the hacked Muzak*
StClair
“Seriously? This is what we’re doing? What the [*bleep*] is a ‘wang chung’?”
LeslieBean4shizzle
You know, when I decided to google “wang chung definition” I was expecting something funny and dirty. Instead, I learned that “wang chung” means “yellow bell” in Chinese and is a term for the first note in the Chinese musical scale – so basically “Do” as in “Doe, a deer, a female deer”.
So interesting trivia, particularly with the walkyverse’s odd relationship to the Sound of Music, but otherwise dull.
Needfuldoer
I barely know how to have fun, how the hell do you expect me to know how to “wang chung”?!
Delicious Taffy
Does Billie usually offer to fuck people for their birthday, or am I missing a crucial detail yet again?
Yumi
Um…I guess that’s kinda implied by what she’s saying, but in a stretched/joking way?
Like, Ruth’s saying, “You should be used to dealing with people who are difficult in that way (because you deal with me).” And Billie’s saying, “I deal with you by kisses and hanky-panky.”
And yeah, with a layer of “Which I don’t think would work for Sarah,” but again, joking.
Though, now I am wondering what she used to do for Alice’s birthday.
Marsh Maryrose
I think we can safely assume that Billie’s birthday gifts to Alice were booze and sex.
thejeff
Maybe. Or at least sort of.
She threw parties with lots of boys and only made it with Alice if none of the boys were interested. Probably after publicly making out with Alice to turn them on.
At least that’s my head canon, based on Billie’s descriptions of her party girl days and how dysfunctional that relationship with Alice seemed.
Plasma Mongoose
There is a reason why naked is sometimes called your birthday suit after all.
Delicious Taffy
I thought it was cuz we’re born naked.
JBento
It’s booze. She means giving her her booze, like Ruth says int he very next panel.
thejeff
Both, I think. Since the booze wouldn’t depend on Sarah being straight.
Dealing with such people is Billie’s specialty, since that’s basically Ruth, but she can’t employ her usual tactics since Sarah’s straight. Then she thinks of the booze.
Skater Girl
Billie calling Sarah straight in this context implies that Billie is not, which afaik is the first she has acknowledged this.
DailyBrad
Nah, she’s mentioned being bisexual before, I think, like I don’t know if she had properly *dated* a woman before, though clearly, her and Alice had a relationship. I just don’t think Billie recognized it as that at the time, and it was probably more of a “friends with benefits where one person has fallen for the other” timebomb.
Skater Girl
She’s actively denied being queer. She just said she’s straight and that all girls hook up with other girls at some point.
BarerMender
She has denied being a lesbian. Not the same thing as denying being queer..
Yumi
You might want to read the strip I had linked before, where she denies being queer.
BarerMender
You might want to read it. She starts to deny she’s queer, then stops. She is queer, she has to admit, at least to herself. But she’s not a lesbian, dammit.
Yumi
Different weights on how much she gets out, then. As of that strip, I would not say she’s admitted it to herself.
Jamie
She also thinks bisexuality is made up for porn.
Jamie
Strip: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/03-the-thing-i-was-before/borderline/
thejeff
I don’t think she’s actually said she’s straight. Not queer. Not lesbian. Bisexuals are just for porn. She doesn’t want to say she’s normal, because that’s terrible, but I suspect it’s how she really thinks about it. It’s all tied up in her cheerleader self image.
Lingo
Billie’s sexuality is denial.
Yumi
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/fancy/
That would have been a week ago in-universe. (Also, in-universe, would have been on National Coming Out Day.) I forget if there’s anytime since then that Billie seems like she’s more comfortable identifying as not-straight.
Needfuldoer
And right before that: “A date with a girl. Huh.”
Meagan
Yes! I was going to comment this but then saw that you already had. This is really cool 🙂
CJ
Well, maybe she went for one of the oldfashioned meaning of straight as in
– not deviating from an indicated pattern
– not using or under the influence of drugs or alcohol
– marked by no exceptions or deviations in support of a principle (or party)
Source:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/straight
Huh, I didn’t even now ‘sober’ was a possible meaning.
Anon a Mouse
I’ve often heard that usage more as “Straigt-edge” or “straight-laced”.
Victor Riley
Aw, Sarah and Dina are birthday buddies!
DailyBrad
Wonder if Joyce will spill the beans on the halloween love to anyone for them to do something for Sarah.
Wizard
Nah, Joyce knows that would just spoil it if anybody knew Sarah sincerely liked Halloween. (Or, you know, anything.) We’ve already seen Joyce cover for her once.
Hoodiecrow
Billie: underestimating the complexities of other people since 1998.
abysswatcher1993
In both Walkyverse and Dumbiverse. I am surprised her relationship with Danny didn’t end in a murder.
Khyrin
if you kill them the relationship never ends.
TrueVCU
“Unwanted”
abysswatcher1993