Sarge: Simmons, you earned an F for efficiency… but an A+ for dramatic timing!
Simmons: Thank you, sir! I’ve always felt appearances were more important than effectiveness!
So I’ve never been exactly clear on the rules. Do the book titles only have to be complete sentences from the strip, or do they have to be the whole content of a speech bubble? Because I was under the impression it was the latter.
AND with that clue, activating Google … Dec 20 – “Yeah but maybe if you noticed that, like, the first six Dumbing of Age book titles are all complete sentences, you’d see that, y’know, there’s kind of an established pattern.” – Word of Willis
Well, I am pleased with how this has turned out. They both got exercise, Ruth smiled, even if it was a smile of possible insanity but hey that’s love, and now they’re enjoying some makeouts. Alls well that ends well, right?
To the contrary, if brooms were being used as poking sticks, Asma wouldn’t have to go grab one. I choose to believe that the broom closet and poking stick closet are side by side and properly labeled.
Couple’s are weird. Not seen this but seen a very large guy and his very tiny girlfriend play wrestle each other til they fell off a picnic table bench… Couples are reeeeally weird.
I wonder how often Asma needs to use her Poking Stick during an average week? I mean, just how common are spontaneous make-outs in that building anyway?
Better than the night shift with the Walkerton and O’Malley girls prowling around playing at superheroes! Or… Asma assumes they are ‘playing’ at superheroes!
If it comes to a fight, sneaky usually doesn’t win. Sneaky tends to win before the other parties would be even aware that there is a fight to be had. That’s kinda the point of being sneaky… 😛
poke ’em if you got ’em
…Or rub ’em if you don’t.
Different strokes for different folks
GATE QUEEN IS DISPLEASED
Asma’s sick of people messing up her den
Billie and Ruth are about to experience an Asma attack.
7/10
nah, that deserves at least a 10/10 for apt and funny
Sarge: Simmons, you earned an F for efficiency… but an A+ for dramatic timing!
Simmons: Thank you, sir! I’ve always felt appearances were more important than effectiveness!
That’s what Griff’s for.
I know I’m sooooo late on this, but… It’s a meme.
She needs to get a-hold of the right end of her stick to clean out her den:)
And then Lucy comes into the lobby?
Based on panel 5, Billie already has.
Wait, sorry. I read that as “in,” not “into.” Ignore me.
Give it a minute. Asma is only now producing the poking stick.
I know that, according to Slipshine, Billie has promised to buy Ruth a poking stick, but so far that hasn’t been proved to be necessary for them.
There is a big difference between “necessary” and “good fun”
it works both ways 😉
I fancy your chances of being correct. Comment number 9? Woot!
Heh, always glad to see Asma.
when she’s there, it’s always going to be a good payoff
Like every comic with Dina is 90% better!
Dumbing of Age Book 9: Time to Grab My Poking Stick
alternatively, Time to Grab My Poking Stick: A Dumbing of Age Pornographique Compendium
So I’ve never been exactly clear on the rules. Do the book titles only have to be complete sentences from the strip, or do they have to be the whole content of a speech bubble? Because I was under the impression it was the latter.
The only real rule is that Willis can name them anything he wants. Unfortunately he reserves the best titles for the alt-text.
He does follow some sort of self-imposed rule that he has mentioned in comments before, though.
AND with that clue, activating Google … Dec 20 – “Yeah but maybe if you noticed that, like, the first six Dumbing of Age book titles are all complete sentences, you’d see that, y’know, there’s kind of an established pattern.” – Word of Willis
Dumbing of Age Book 9: This Isn’t Passion. It’s Completely Logical That You Need To Die
Dumbing of Age Book 9: –oooAGGH!
Ken just doesn’t recognize when a couple is dancing the Masochism Tango.
Sadomasochism Tango. It would be inaccurate to call Billie purely masochism.
“Let our love be a flame, not an ember
Say it’s me that you want to dismember”
Help, it’s adorable!
Well, I am pleased with how this has turned out. They both got exercise, Ruth smiled, even if it was a smile of possible insanity but hey that’s love, and now they’re enjoying some makeouts. Alls well that ends well, right?
the only thing more dangerous than a Ruth smile is a Sarah smile…if she smiles, RUN!
these bisasters
Aw, Ken, honey, Ruth’s boss isn’t gonna do shit. It’s nice you believe you live in an orderly dorm building though.
XD Poor Asma though.
Chloe: “I can excuse abusing your residents, but I draw the line at running indoors.”
Rachel: “You can excuse abusing your residents?”
It’s all part of our Perverse Incentive program. We pride ourselves on preparing students for the real world.
If she didn’t want to get caught…
–The race is on and it looks like Makeouts
And the winner loses all–apologies to George Jones
And the winner is…..
Beedlebaum
“Cabbage by a head!!”
I don’t understand what triggered Ruth so much…
They’re playing.
Foreplaying even.
Sh-shoves is not loves??
True, but chases is smooching faces.
Except when they are.
People are complicated.
Yep. And some people are more complicated than orhers.
Orhers? And we all know how complicated orhers are. Damn it, spell-correct, you had one job.
For these two, It definitely is.
A wild Ken appears!
See you next year, Ken! Maybe.
More mild than wild.
Oh look it’s Other Ethan
haha that avatar + comment
I thought he was a character from Street Fighter, but you’re right. That is Asian Jewish Chuck.
DEATH FROM ABOVE
And it’s a messy score for the leafs. The ref is allowing the tackling and now for the traditional post goal celebrations.
~~~~banter~~~~
~~~~botched attempt at witty reply~~~~
~~~~incredibly obscure reference~~~~
…I mean. The whole amazing-spider-man-leap-into-makeouts thing is kind of an interesting maneuver, so well done there
Asma’s face is a delight, even as I feel terrible for her.
“Asma’s face is a delight” was going to be my exact comment. So I’ll just tack on to the bottom of yours instead. Great minds must think alike!
Great minds run in the same channel. Fools think alike.
I hate it when people mess up old saws.
The easiest way to mess up an old saw is to use it inappropriately. Such as by wielding it like a hammer.
Software engineering is the art of finding the right wrench to hammer in the right screw.
Why don’t you just use a screwdriver?
Screwdriver is not supported in the framework API.
When all you have is an old saw, everything looks like balsa wood.
There’s no saw like an old saw.
A cut in nine saves time.
A fool and his saw are soon hammered.
Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ, is how *I* always heard it.
I always heard it as great minds run the same gutter.
Great minds like a think.
Great minds like a drink.
“David Hume could out-consume
Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.”
“Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle.”
And Hobbes was fond of his Rene Descartes
or something like that.
It’s the Sarah face.
It might even be more Sarah than Sarah.
This is how I envision Asma and Sarah having a girl’s chat.
Cheapass school can’t even afford proper poking sticks, employees have to supply brooms.
To the contrary, if brooms were being used as poking sticks, Asma wouldn’t have to go grab one. I choose to believe that the broom closet and poking stick closet are side by side and properly labeled.
And this is the start of a slipshine.
Start? We are at least two pages in already.
I feel that it is incumbent upon me to call attention to how completely inappropriate this whole scene is.
…. I mean, Willis put the winner in a Leaf’s jersey.
In a way, they are both winners.
Leafs scores tonight
Leafs can score as long as they lose the game. I think that’s the law of the universe in play here.
Ken AND Asma.. magical
get a bucket filled with water lol
Or just get the hose and get it over with.
Ken: “It isn’t working you’re only making them sexier!” D:
https://youtu.be/nBkTmf_Sl9A
Damn it, I was expecting Futurama.
So cute so cute so cute SO CUTE SO CUTE I LOVE THEM SO MUCH
Yes, Ken and Asma are quite the pair.
I don’t think I’d care to poke those two. There might be poking going on.
“Ah HA, I have the high ground !”
“It’s over Billie! I have the high ground!”
I know I am.
(this comment makes no sense unless one reads the hovertext)
TMI 😉
What about the whapping stick, the stick that goes “BZZZZZT”, and the double-poking stick?
I rejoice every time Asma is in the comic. She’s one of my favourite supporting characters.
I guess if I want in-panel makeouts I’ll have to pay.
That fifth panel is magnificent. That is all.
RUTH FROM ABOVE!
From “Wrath of Khan”
Spock: He is intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking.” And then a knowing grin spreads across Kirk’s face.
Imagine seeing two people acting like this in real life
Actually has happened to me. Such is the wonder of schooling!
Witnessing the act, or being the act?
Witnessing it only.
Couple’s are weird. Not seen this but seen a very large guy and his very tiny girlfriend play wrestle each other til they fell off a picnic table bench… Couples are reeeeally weird.
Awwwww, they look so happy.
…or, I suppose ‘frisky’ is a bit closer to the situation at hand.
https://youtu.be/iGfBk5JnDAQ
This has got to be the most “Ruth and Billie” comic we’ve seen to date.
I’m also pretty fond of this one
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/murder/
…although I suppose this one does a good job of encapsulating their relationship as well
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/01-to-those-whod-ground-me/breathing/
A strip encapsulating the relationship of Billie and Ruth that is titled “Murder”?
How utterly absurd!!!
For all the fun of this scene, “I’m gonna murder you!” “Promise?” kinda harks back to the Sexy Lesbian Suicide Pact days of their relationship.
“Do not attempt this relationship at home,”
Of course not. That would be silly.
College is the place for this relationship. 🙂
I wonder how often Asma needs to use her Poking Stick during an average week? I mean, just how common are spontaneous make-outs in that building anyway?
If your job requires you to have a designated poking stick, I’ll take a stab in the dark and say “too often”.
Stabs in the dark aren’t done by the poking stick, though. They’re done with the knife of a serial rapist, by Amber.
So what I’m hearing is that the building needs much better lighting?
Yeah Asma, don’t encourage the kinksters.
It’s not even noon, and poor Asma is just DONE.
Better than the night shift with the Walkerton and O’Malley girls prowling around playing at superheroes! Or… Asma assumes they are ‘playing’ at superheroes!
The next Kickstarter needs to have a Poking Stick as a high level bonus incentive.
Noooo, your capture of me is highly illogical!!!
…please tell me that’s not a StarTrek slashfic
Well, it is now.
Please tell me that -is- a Star Trek slashfic!
The current and last three comic titles are:
Illicit poop chase
also
narcissistic all-encompassing spirited JELL-O
That’s almost poetry.
One leads to the other.
Order is important.
Billie: Faster.
Ruth: Sneakier.
Asma: Meaner.
We all know who’s winning this fight.
Well as a general rule sneakier usually wins, but not always.
If it comes to a fight, sneaky usually doesn’t win. Sneaky tends to win before the other parties would be even aware that there is a fight to be had. That’s kinda the point of being sneaky… 😛
*fondness for Asma intensifies*
If you keep poking at it, Asma, it will never get any better.
Hey It’s Chun-Li! …Is that still a thing with Ken? Using other Street Fighter Character names? If not I’m brining it back.
I thought his name was G
Ken: “Someone needs to call an RA.”
Ruth: “I am an RA!”
“Then you should write yourself up for breach of the conduct rules!”
“… You know, that’s actually a wonderfully bizarre idea. I might even try that!”
“Ruth?”
“Yes, Ruth?”
“… Please don’t do it again.”
“Carla was right, it would’ve been more fun if I threatened to beat me to death with my own femurs.”
Hey, it’s Ken!
Cool. I came to comments because I wondered if we’d seen this hotties before. Um, now who’s Ken?
http://www.dumbingofage.com/tag/ken/
He works at Galasso’s.
Some people know him from his larger role in Willis’ old comic Shortpacked!.
I don’t remember a Ken in Shortpacked! Did he join at around the same time as …
…okay, this is the point where I realise I don’t actually know the names of any Street Fighter characters.
Google is your friend.
Google is your corporate brainwasher that wants your eternal servitude.
There’s a difference?
All hail
HypnotoadGoogle!An epsilon for effort tho.
Ah yes! He was that terrible woman’s roommate, right?
What Asma needs is a Smakken.
I’ve got to admit, the Smakken is one of the few times in recent Girl Genius history that’s made me laugh out loud.
Yes, I had the same reaction when I read that page.
*Kif noise*
I’m reading these panels as RUN – RUN – RUN – JUMP, and then Ruth is trying to be a backpack while Billie jumps… It makes perfect sense.