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Borrowed
Posted on May 24, 2014 by David M Willis

163 thoughts on “Borrowed”

  1. Jen Aside

    IT SMELLS LIKE CANCER

    AND COOLNESS

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Don’t forget caramel.

      1. -Sentinel-

        And beer.

        1. JustCheetoDust

          And motorcycle exhaust. Maybe even burnouts.

        2. Aizat

          Especially the beer.

        3. JustCheetoDust

          Shouldn’t Sal’s scent be tormenting Billie on a regular basis, then?

        4. Mr K

          No wonder she is in love with Sal.

        5. Aeron

          And Amber’s tears and shame.

      2. Aisling

        and lesbian fantasies.

    2. Kernanator

      CancerCancer?

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        No the starsign. 😛

        1. Kernanator

          It’s gonna be some really Funky CancerCancer.

    3. JustCheetoDust

      Mmmmm, emphysema…sweetest of the malignant neoplasms.

  2. Plasma Mongoose

    Smells like menthol.

    1. Yotomoe

      Menthol, the stench maker.

    2. JustCheetoDust

      Maybe even Indonesia.

    3. Aizat

      Smells like the men’s room in my college.

  3. MrSirk

    Maybe some residual coolness wil rub off on her.

    1. Yotomoe

      Even if Joyce was 50% cooler she’d be a giant dork. It’d be like using a watering can to irrigate a desert.

      1. Pourush

        Maybe the coolness increase isn’t percentage based?

        1. Jackson

          But that much coolness, in such a concentrated dose…it could destroy Joyce as we know her! :O

  4. Julez

    Smells like Teen Spirit? Nah, I got nothin.

    1. Aizat

      More like Smells Like Cigarettes.

      1. Yet_One_More_Idiot

        Probably more like smells like peppermint to cover up the smell of fag smoke. 😛

    2. JustCheetoDust

      More like Natural American Spirit!

    3. Romanticide

      Does that deodorant still exists?

  5. SAL

    Smells like my grandma.

    1. Yotomoe

      It tastes like my cat.

      1. Aizat

        It tastes like everybody’s cat.

        1. JustCheetoDust

          Looks like my midnight snack is going to be Chinese food!

          That reminds me of a stand up comedian (Russ Meneve) saying that he once ate so much Chinese food that he “shit a cat.”

        2. Chaucer59

          How do you guys know what cats taste like?

        3. CRtwenty

          the answer should be obvious

        4. Aizat

          Mushrooms. They always say that mushrooms taste like everyone’s cat.

        5. Jen Aside

          http://weknowmemes.com/2012/08/human-stahp/

        6. gwalla

          They come from the planet Melmac.

        7. Yet_One_More_Idiot

          I don’t have a cat. How can it smell like the cat I don’t have? xD

    2. Ocksgrough

      Smoking has never been appealing to me partly for this reason. I still think of tobacco’s smell as “decaying old person stench”.

      1. Ocksgrough

        And of course I get an avatar with a cigarette in her mouth.

        1. Carlos

          Who says the universe has no saense of irony?

        2. Ian

          80’s sure thats the point.

        3. Ian

          Now 100% sure

        4. Clif

          *Snicker*

  6. Edrp

    Joyce looks like a hyperactive kid in a toystore. SO HYPER, and so adorable-

    1. MissQuinn

      Yeah, but only in small doses. Speaking as a former hyperactive kid in a toystore, we’re only cute for very very short periods of time. More than 20 minutes with one and trust me, you’ll want to strangle em to death.

      1. Treb

        Been there, done that, got the police report.

        1. Jen Aside

          Gravatar win XD

  7. timemonkey

    Sarah needs to leave the room so Joyce can get naked and rub it all over body as she smells it. It’s gonna get rubbed all over tummy.

    1. JustCheetoDust

      That shirt will become part of a makeshift body pillow.

      1. Yotomoe

        Along with those pieces of hair.

        1. JustCheetoDust

          I can imagine the bulk of those going towards her very own Sal wig.

        2. Gigafreak

          …Faz is Joyce’s alter ego?

    2. LiaHansen

      “Joyce performs something really weird and it makes everyone uncomfortable”
      A Dumbing of Age wtf

    3. nothri

      Oddly specific…

  8. arank11

    Hmmmm….
    Okay. I’m stumped. What’s beginning?

    1. Loki

      I think it’s meant to foreshadow that Sal is going to come back into her room now, where a nearly passed out Billie will slur something about “some girl with brown hair brought me home… and she knows Amazigirl… zzz”

  9. Flimsyfishy

    I hope she didn’t spray that thing with Sex Panther, because if she did…

    It’s that 60 percent that works 100 percent of the time.

  10. Vile Gamer

    Coolness must derive from cigarette smoke. The source being cigarettes! Subliminal advertisement! For shame, Sal, corrupting poor Joyce.

  11. Kernanator

    Oh no, Joyce is going to make a Sal-shrine, isn’t she?

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      She will be ‘borrowing’ Sal’s underwear next so she can wear it like a facemask.

      1. lightsabermario

        And inhaling deeply while- Joyce! Where’s your other hand?

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          She’s ummm curing herself of the hiccups. 😀

    2. Aizat

      I hope it’s tasteful like Conrad Verner’s shrine to Shepard.

    3. Doctor_Who

      Unfortunately Sal is a smoker instead of a gum chewer, so the bulk of it will need to be made from discarded cigarette butts.

    4. Yotomoe

      It’s gonna look like Helga Petaki’s.

      1. Kas

        What is the proper way for me to show my intense joy over this comment. Whatever it is, pretend I did it.

  12. Aizat

    Well Joyce, I’m afraid I have some bad news…

    1. KingMabel

      Are we all out of ice cream?

      1. Aizat

        Unless you like chocolate…then yes.

        1. JustCheetoDust

          Maybe caramel? The kind salted with Amazi-Girl’s tears of abject failure? (link goes to original use of that joke)

    2. Keroshino

      Bad News Aizat!

      1. DailyBrad

        Can we have some decorum?!

        1. Keroshino

          TAK! TAK! TAK!

    3. JustCheetoDust

      Good news, everyone!…unless your’e Joyce.

  13. GoogerGeiger

    Smells like southern drawl.

    1. Yotomoe

      I can’t read this without reading it in a southern accent.

  14. LeslieBean4Shizzle

    That alt text disturbs me greatly.

    1. JustCheetoDust

      Wait ’til someone illustrates it!

      1. Keroshino

        I’m looking at you Yotomoe!

  15. DailyBrad

    This really has been the week of no-pants, hasn’t it? Which is good, pants are overrated outside of pockets.

    1. Doctor_Who

      And inside of pockets you can’t fit a pair of pants.

      (Thanks to Groucho for inspiring this bad joke with his good joke)

      1. DailyBrad

        I appreciated it all the same, and got the reference even before you told me, so hey, you rock.

      2. AgentKeen

        Now I’m just imagining the Second Doctor doing Groucho’s cigar waggling thing. Ooo, or him doing it with his recorder.

    2. Yotomoe

      My favorite week. Second only to the week of no shirts, and the week of italian cuisine.

    3. sps48

      Pants ARE Overrated:
      http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/page/4/?s=bacon
      (one of four Hobbes and Bacon strips)

      1. Aizat

        Yeah! Be like the Youngster and wear shorts. It’s comfortable and easy to wear.

    4. Rabid Rabbit

      I trust you’re you’re using the North American definition of “pants”… though given this fandom, I assume my trust will turn out to have been misplaced.

      1. DailyBrad

        North American, yes. Amber was in her undies, and now, so is Sarah and potentially Joyce, just since it’s not overly clear if they are shorts or boyshorts, which are undies while the previous would be uncharacteristic of her fashion sense up ’til now, though I guess pajamas need not be as conservative.

  16. JustCheetoDust

    Those eyes almost doubled in size in panel 2.

    1. JustCheetoDust

      Actually, I’m not so sure anymore since I’m drunk.

      1. Ian

        It’s the the drinking, now if you were say a functioning alcoholic you could see the eye difference. Unfortunately you have to deal with the downsides of alcohol.

  17. Yotomoe

    I’m gonna start shipping Joyce and Sal now.
    Not Sal and Joyce, Sal is uninterested but Joyce really wants that sal booty.

    1. Aizat

      Why do we call the rear end “booty”? Are we all pirates now?

      1. Yotomoe

        Because it is a glorious treasure.

    2. KingMabel

      Who doesn’t want some Sal booty?

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        I wouldn’t mind her ‘treasure chest’. 😀

      2. DailyBrad

        I don’t think Walky wants any Sal Booty.

  18. Kristen

    It looks like someone has a bit of a crush on Sal. Also Joyce likes her too.

  19. Shanunu

    I wonder if that was her plan from the start…

  20. Chris

    Ah, first girl-crush.

  21. Aizat

    Wait, Joyce has a collection of other people’s hair?

    1. KingMabel

      Apparently “Hey Arnold” ins’t sinful enough for her parents.

      1. Aizat

        Not sinful enough? Must’ve been one of their off days.

  22. Plasma Mongoose

    Could this be Joyce’s new theme song?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WC3pMtTAfo

  23. Idon'tcarenomore

    A lot happened in one day since Sal borrowed that shirt.

    Joyce has a serious problem…ah never mind…it’s Joyce.

    So, Sal is wandering around the halls, and Amber is lying awake in her bunk…still time to meet and talk?

    1. Aizat

      The day Sal borrowed Joyce’s shirt is an eventful day for Joyce…but for Sal, it’s Tuesday.

      1. Alex

        But, it was Monday. Today is Tuesday

    2. Gigafreak

      Hmm? If memory serves, Sal’s/Billie’s room is connected to Joyce’s/Sarah’s room by their shared bathroom. Sal didn’t have to pass through the halls to get to Joyce’s room (and if she entered through the window, she didn’t have to set foot in the halls at all oh her way to her own room either).

  24. Tacdud2

    I ship Joyce and Sal so hard right now.

  25. Mr K

    As If we needed more proof that Joyce is a creepy Stalker.

  26. NF

    I was going to make a joke about a Sal-Joyce-Dorothy threesome, then I remembered that Dorothy is sexing Sal’s brother. That would be super awkward.

    1. sps48

      Legendary, you mean!
      I assume. Sisters would be, right? Brothers are easy (the same girl was with myself, then my 2 younger brothers in succession).

      1. Rabid Rabbit

        Sisters are sometimes too… I knew one guy who dated twins (in succession) in high school. At one point he was asked which one he was dating at that point and he answered “the hot one”. It wasn’t till we saw a photo of the two twins together in the yearbook that we saw what he meant.

  27. DailyBrad

    Going to assume Joyce is in boyshorts here, just since I can’t imagine her owning outerwear shorts that short or snug.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      She’s wearing short-shorts.

      1. sps48

        Granny panties; Joyce doesn’t have sexy panties (I assume). Note Sarah is in normal panties; they both got up recently.

      2. Aizat

        So, if shorts are comfortable and easy to wear…are short-shorts even more comfortable and easier to wear?

        1. Opus the Poet

          Depends on how hot the temperature and the wearer are…

  28. AgentKeen

    Man, don’t become a stalker, Joyce. I mean, at the very least, I’m pretty sure it would count as idolatry.

    1. MissQuinn

      Yeah, I mean, it’s not like Joyce has ever had any predisposition towards stalking or anything, right?

  29. Pyr05

    Just then, there was a sudden outburst of sounds that Joyce never knew she could make.

  30. JeremiahTheBulldog

    These past 5 or so comics have raised odd issues with time. At the Wal-Mart, it’s just after 4am. In the last few panels, people are acting like it’s normal times in the morning, and from being in college, those don’t begin until at least 10-11am.

    1. sps48

      Pregnant pause?

    2. David M Willis

      sometimes time advances between and/or during strips

      1. JeremiahTheBulldog

        That’s very obvious, but does that mean Sal stayed out until 11am (doubtful, since she wasn’t having a terribly fun time)? Does that mean that Walky came back to his room before 10am (also, not the most likely, since he doesn’t seem like an early riser)? Just saying time passes doesn’t really clarify anything.

        1. Clif

          I’m not sure why you’re saying 11 instead of say 9:AM, though 11 is certainly possible. But yeah, Sal has been out till now. With the addition of a little alcohol her night probably got better. Night is also the best time for you, the road and speed. I suspect that staying up all night and catching a few hours sleep is probably chronic with Sal except when she binge sleeps, but that’s an assumption on my part.
          The time jump came just before Walky returned from spending the night in Dorothy’s room to his shared room with Mike. He may not naturally be an early riser, but classes. And also Dorothy who likely is an early riser in most cases.
          What do you see as the problem???

        2. Gigafreak

          When Amber escorted Billie to her room, the sun wasn’t up yet.- no light was coming into Billies room through the window.
          As Amber lay awake in her bed contemplating her escape plan, there was sunlight. A timeskip probably happened in between those two pages, and possibly another between then and Walky’s return to his room.

          It’s probably not past 7 or 8 AM, considering Joyce and Sarah are not yet dressed for class.

        3. Jackson

          Joyce is certainly an early riser. In fact, waking people up way before they want to has been shown to be her schtick!

  31. Ben

    holy wow Joyce… Creepy much?

    1. Bill

      Joyce’s infatuation with Sal’s “coolness” is even creepier than the Carpenters — a brother/sister duo singing love songs like “We’ve Only Just Begun”, “Touch Me When We’re Dancing”, “Hurting Each Other”, and “Goodbye to Love”.

      1. Aizat

        Or as creepy as Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch having a relationship.

        1. Hoboturtle

          And Ultimate Wasp being totally okay with it.

          …Speaking of which, probably not quite as creepy as Ultimate Wasp’s and Ultimate Ant Man’s relationship.

      2. Plasma Mongoose

        They seemed totally legit to me Bill.

  32. tinfoil theory

    It seems the pious protestant girl has a thing for wayward catholic school girls. What will her closeted boy-friend think of her homosexual infidelity?

    1. That Damn Rat

      Probably just relieved that there is something else to distract Joyce from his burning desire not to have sex with her.

      1. David

        To be fair: Ethan ran like anything at the threat of her having sex with him rather than the other way round. I don’t blame him. That’s not something you do with someone who is just wrong. Sort of like screwing a plush doll. Or putting a strapon on one.

        No, I don’t want to hear about counterexamples. Don’t post pics.

    2. Marisa Mockery

      I don’t think he’ll care….

  33. takashid

    looking extremely heterosexual today joyce

    1. Gadgeteer Smashwidget

      I think this qualifies Sal for the Even the Girls Want Her trope. Remember, Billie tried to kiss her a few days ago. (I think. Comic-time is way too slow.)

      1. Luzahn

        Well, I mean Billie isn’t exactly heterosexual, so I’m not sure that qualifies as evidence.

        1. takashid

          yeah Billie is canon bisexual after all.

        2. Deanatay

          True, but I don’t think that disqualifies her from the trope in question, unless it suddenly doesn’t make her a girl.

        3. E.R.

          I think the trope only counts hetero sexual girls, otherwise almost every lesbian would get it by default and then it’s less useful as a categorical tool.

  34. Rabid Rabbit

    But what if Joyce notices Marcie-scent on it? Surely Marcie’s almost as cool. How will Joyce react to the possibility of pre-marital non-heterosexual really-really-cool hanky-panky?

    1. Leorale

      Although we can always hope, I don’t think heteroflexible Sal/Marcie hijinks would occur to Joyce. Those two always strike me as platonic buddies anyhow.

      1. Zababcd

        ‘Yer right, as always’ sounded a little stereotypically couple-y to me, but apart from that they always strike me as platonic buddies.

        1. Heavensrun

          The only real difference between super close friends and lovers is often whether they’re sexually attracted to each other. Sal and Marcie may or may not be, but they obviously still know each other really well.

      2. Jen Aside

        I BEG TO DIFFER

        1. Clif

          +1

  35. Willoughby Chase

    It smells of dreams and adventures and the wild. wide world.

    Watch out. It’s a virus and very contagious.

    1. Willoughby Chase

      Of kisses and cuddles and 3am rendezvous’s beneath witching moons, steel-eyed stars and a neon storefront; pooled shadows, fingers that brush, wild, dark, shining eyes loaded with promise.

      1. Clif

        Oooo! Can I steal? Or is this from something?

        1. Willoughby Chase

          Steal away.

  36. caesaria82

    The truth in this. I’m a non-smoker and every time I return from a week at my mother’s or my brother’s place (both smokers), all my clothes smell of smoke for weeks afterwards lol.

  37. Deanatay

    Future scenario: someone’s going through Joyce’s stuff, comes upon this shirt, in an airtight Ziploc bag.
    “Joyce, what is this? Does it need washing?”
    “NOOOO! I mean… it’s fine…”
    Later, we see Joyce opening the bag, taking a deep breath, and closing it.
    “Hhhhhgrlll…”

  38. mistrali

    Ho boy. Joyce/Sal 4eva

  39. wakeangel2001

    I’m sure this is a perfectly chaste and hetero girl crush…

    1. David

      Sick, sick, sick. I mean, really? Tobacco smoke? After a night out, I usually had to shower and wash hairs before going to bed, and it did not do to stuff the worn clothes into the clothes bin in the bed room. I think I tended to just stuff them straight in the washing machine (without switching it on) to get rid of them. Which reminds me: have to hang up the laundry now.

  40. monica

    This reminds me of the ANCIENT “Mean Joe Green” coca-cola ad. I mean, tobacco smoke can’t be much worse than an NFL player after a game. http://youtu.be/xffOCZYX6F8

  41. Charles Phipps

    I totally support Bi Joyce.

  42. anonymous

    Willis, the alt-txt for “Come at me” is still “ut oh.” Is this a typo or a Walkyverse reference?

    1. David M Willis

      it is neither

      1. PedanticJerkass

        “Ut oh” is an incredibly common misspelling of “uh oh.” Apparently, it is common enough that far too many people don’t even realize that it is wrong, such as Mr. Willis here.

        1. advancecasette

          no

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