But that means Joyce is just giving her paid-for breakfast away. Still the same number of breakfasts as far as the school is concerned.
Betty Anne
Some campuses get butthurt if you give away your meals by buying them and giving them to someone else or swipe someone else in with your meal card. My alma mater frowned on it. “The student’s food account is for that student only” yadda yadda yadda.
Needfuldoer
Meal plans let the school budget how much they need to purchase from foodservice vendors, and force the students to eat something relatively healthy on a regular basis. Joyce feeding Becky with her meal plan theoretically means you have two people who aren’t eating enough. (Some plans do come with room for a couple guest meals.)
Carriethedragon
The ‘relatively’ in front of ‘healthy’ there is very important.
IU students’ meal plans don’t come for free with their room, though I think living in a dorm means you’re required to purchase one, or maybe it’s that freshmen are required to purchase one? I’ve never heard anything about swiping someone else in being “frowned upon” at IU.
Carriethedragon
That is to say, they’re not complimentary. They would never have been free, of course.
Captain Button
When I went to college the meal plan was required for freshmen. My impression was that the idea was to make sure kids who knew nothing about budgeting would not go hungry.
As I recall it was all you could eat once you were in, so bringing in strangers on your card this way would increase the amount of food eaten.
CleverTrousers
buuts
Ana Chronistic
Thing is there are homeless people with jobs–while it’s easy to assume a homeless person’s skimming food, that could easily be true of someone who’s NOT homeless (commuter or relative, for instance).
I get that “room and board” is the common phrase, just arguing the point that it’s not necessarily true that getting the one means getting the other.
doubleW
Schools give you more meals than you could ever use as a healthy adult, and then won’t let you refund them, so screw those guys.
Random832
The largest plan at Purdue was 21 a week – that’s three a day. Granted, that does assume you absolutely never eat anywhere else, but that doesn’t make it “more meals than you could ever use as a healthy adult”
Inspector Hound
Interesting. The default (only) arrangement in my Purdue dorm days (over two decades ago now) was 20 meals a week, Sunday evening being a “fend for yourself at your nearby pizza place.”
And of course, if you were busy with school work, sometimes you skipped a meal anyways.
Random832
I may have been remembering it wrong. But my point is that the idea that it was “more than you could ever use” is hyperbole (largely based on the effect of it not being the only place most people ate).
Toad
Largest plan at my school is 20, with no breakfast on Sundays, and smallest is I think like 6 or 7. If you live on campus (as like 95% of students do) you have to purchase a meal plan.
Chaucer59
Yeah, my daughter was at U of Iowa. The food plan provided enough to feed two people, but I wouldn’t call it healthy. In fact, it was all crap: starchy, breast, greasy crap. Every meal was either mostly pasta, mostly rice, some kind of breaded meat, bad pizza (thick crust, too much sauce, fake cheese, minimal meat), hot dogs, or hamburgers.
Hollis
As the alumnus of a school who forced everyone who lived in the dorms to buy an “unlimited” meal plan, this. So much this.
My friends of the Canadian persuasion would use such a sense to search-and-destroy a Tim Horton’s (derisively referred to as “Timmies”) in favor of the local donut-and-coffee shop. I have reason to believe the Timmies in the U.S. (which I kind of like) were intended as retaliation for us sending them McDonald’s.
look, this comic is already depressing enough without, Billy develops breast cancer being added to the mix
Yossarianduck
That’ll be the moment we’ll know that Willis has gone Full Winkerbean.
Captain Button
Can someone tell me what the deal is with Funky Winkerbean? I never read that one.
(Only if it won’t set off a flamewar, please.)
Professor Fate
Funky Winkerbean is a newspaper comic strip started in 1972 done by Tom Batiuk. It was originally about kids in high school. Now it’s been rebooted and it’s more like a soap opera; angsty and dealing with topical issues. It used to be funny, now it sucks.
Rutee
The understanding I have, solely from the Comics Curmudgeon (I mean, I read what he posts, but that’s by no means all of it), is that it used to be a comedy starting with kids in high school, but as the author kept going he got progressively more depressed and the strip became progressively more about failure and what a hellhole the town they live in is. Also, there was a cancer arc that fridged a gal and now her husband is riding that train forever more.
insomniac
“Fridging” is a little harsh. The writer lost his wife to cancer and had the same thing happen to a character in the strip.
But yeah, after he did that, he changed the whole strip from goofy comedy to unrelenting depression.
Now it’s a strip about people being sh!tty to each other in the most petty ways imaginable. “Winkerbean” is how Northeast Ohioans pronounce “schadenfreude.”
281 thoughts on “Deftly”
Ana Chronistic
“Wow, got it in one!”
Cerberus
Curse your awareness of basic reality!
LittleMountain
Quick, Billie, plead the fifth!
schmelle
No, the third! Plead the third!
Ana Chronistic
what “board”, to be fair, it’s not like the dorm has a free buffet (except at the coming out party sponsored by Galasso’s)
Captain Button
Joyce is skipping breakfasts to feed Becky.
Leorale
But that means Joyce is just giving her paid-for breakfast away. Still the same number of breakfasts as far as the school is concerned.
Betty Anne
Some campuses get butthurt if you give away your meals by buying them and giving them to someone else or swipe someone else in with your meal card. My alma mater frowned on it. “The student’s food account is for that student only” yadda yadda yadda.
Needfuldoer
Meal plans let the school budget how much they need to purchase from foodservice vendors, and force the students to eat something relatively healthy on a regular basis. Joyce feeding Becky with her meal plan theoretically means you have two people who aren’t eating enough. (Some plans do come with room for a couple guest meals.)
Carriethedragon
The ‘relatively’ in front of ‘healthy’ there is very important.
IU students’ meal plans don’t come for free with their room, though I think living in a dorm means you’re required to purchase one, or maybe it’s that freshmen are required to purchase one? I’ve never heard anything about swiping someone else in being “frowned upon” at IU.
Carriethedragon
That is to say, they’re not complimentary. They would never have been free, of course.
Captain Button
When I went to college the meal plan was required for freshmen. My impression was that the idea was to make sure kids who knew nothing about budgeting would not go hungry.
As I recall it was all you could eat once you were in, so bringing in strangers on your card this way would increase the amount of food eaten.
CleverTrousers
buuts
Ana Chronistic
Thing is there are homeless people with jobs–while it’s easy to assume a homeless person’s skimming food, that could easily be true of someone who’s NOT homeless (commuter or relative, for instance).
I get that “room and board” is the common phrase, just arguing the point that it’s not necessarily true that getting the one means getting the other.
doubleW
Schools give you more meals than you could ever use as a healthy adult, and then won’t let you refund them, so screw those guys.
Random832
The largest plan at Purdue was 21 a week – that’s three a day. Granted, that does assume you absolutely never eat anywhere else, but that doesn’t make it “more meals than you could ever use as a healthy adult”
Inspector Hound
Interesting. The default (only) arrangement in my Purdue dorm days (over two decades ago now) was 20 meals a week, Sunday evening being a “fend for yourself at your nearby pizza place.”
And of course, if you were busy with school work, sometimes you skipped a meal anyways.
Random832
I may have been remembering it wrong. But my point is that the idea that it was “more than you could ever use” is hyperbole (largely based on the effect of it not being the only place most people ate).
Toad
Largest plan at my school is 20, with no breakfast on Sundays, and smallest is I think like 6 or 7. If you live on campus (as like 95% of students do) you have to purchase a meal plan.
Chaucer59
Yeah, my daughter was at U of Iowa. The food plan provided enough to feed two people, but I wouldn’t call it healthy. In fact, it was all crap: starchy, breast, greasy crap. Every meal was either mostly pasta, mostly rice, some kind of breaded meat, bad pizza (thick crust, too much sauce, fake cheese, minimal meat), hot dogs, or hamburgers.
Hollis
As the alumnus of a school who forced everyone who lived in the dorms to buy an “unlimited” meal plan, this. So much this.
Stephen R. Bierce
Not like there were a lot of suspects.
Bagge
It is Amazie-girl, right?
Tabitha Desanto
Ruth uses her magic true sight in panel four.
xKiv
T-Ruth sight.
DarkVeghetta
*groooan*
Tabitha Desanto
Billie seemed so proud too. Aw well.
Doctor_Who
“It’s not…not Becky.”
TheNinthShader
Why no like buttons willis?! MAKE LIKE BUTTONS
Pantheon the Mantheon
Um… What’s going on with Ruth’s eyes??
Ana Chronistic
demonic possession by her hyperaware senses
CaptainBatson
Stuff. Things. Stuff and things.
Doctor_Who
She’s using her psychic Canadian powers to read Billie’s mind. They can also locate the nearest Tim Hortons.
DSL
My friends of the Canadian persuasion would use such a sense to search-and-destroy a Tim Horton’s (derisively referred to as “Timmies”) in favor of the local donut-and-coffee shop. I have reason to believe the Timmies in the U.S. (which I kind of like) were intended as retaliation for us sending them McDonald’s.
Kamino Neko
‘Timmies’ is not derisive.
void
It is in fact usually not derisive. Also I can confirm that doctor_who has it right. Tim Horton’s sense is the most basic of Canadian abilities.
Kamino Neko
Though not one useful at home…hard to turn around without finding one.
pumacatrun2
It’s a weird interpretation of rolling your eyes back (looking up) I think. Doesn’t quite work with glasses.
No Name
Or bangs.
Plasma Mongoose
Looks more like demonic possession.
CheredisTyping
It does. 100% Ruth is possessed by a demon. Canon now.
DarkVeghetta
Totes cannon.
thejeff
Ruth is possessed by a cannon toting demon?
This is my new head cannon.
Znayx
XKCD reference FTW
Spencer
According to patreon, it’s so visually impaired readers can see her dotted eyes in her hair.
The original strip’s eyes were a lot darker.
Plasma Mongoose
So they’re not Shimigami eyes?
Leorale
I would prefer them hidden instead of glowy, but Billie’s faces more than make up for it. Masterful.
JessWitt
Super-RA psychic powers are activating to figure out the squatter.
Cerberus
Powering her lazer vision. Soon, she will melt all of Billie’s bras, leaving no trace.
Captain Button
Ouch!
Tacos
Hey she could always use the laser vision on Mary.
Plasma Mongoose
Like how Superman lobotomised that villain with his heat-vision in that one episode?
inqntrol
And he did it for free! …well he gave that guy a couple of slaps.
Rutee
….that’s fuckin’ harsh, yo. She needs those things.
Willoughby Chase
Now I’m seeing Billie as some kind of Valkyrie!
Emperor Norton
Hey, stop giving us hopes that you know will not be fulfilled! That’s the job of damnyouwillis!
Dana
When they went from black to green it was only a step on the way to their final form.
Captain Button
RoboRuthless is consulting the MCP database for additional analysis.
LimeSheep
damn it billie how could you let this happen
Tunaro
She overplayed her hand there.
Cattleprod
Damn, the expressions in the last panels are masterpieces.
Unluckycharm
Panel 4 is slightly weird.
Yotomoe
http://i.imgur.com/sTqxD2H.png
Ana Chronistic
jiggy jiggy
Plasma Mongoose
♬♬ Jiggypuff…♬♬
Plasma Mongoose
Checking for suspicious lumps.
Someone
look, this comic is already depressing enough without, Billy develops breast cancer being added to the mix
Yossarianduck
That’ll be the moment we’ll know that Willis has gone Full Winkerbean.
Captain Button
Can someone tell me what the deal is with Funky Winkerbean? I never read that one.
(Only if it won’t set off a flamewar, please.)
Professor Fate
Funky Winkerbean is a newspaper comic strip started in 1972 done by Tom Batiuk. It was originally about kids in high school. Now it’s been rebooted and it’s more like a soap opera; angsty and dealing with topical issues. It used to be funny, now it sucks.
Rutee
The understanding I have, solely from the Comics Curmudgeon (I mean, I read what he posts, but that’s by no means all of it), is that it used to be a comedy starting with kids in high school, but as the author kept going he got progressively more depressed and the strip became progressively more about failure and what a hellhole the town they live in is. Also, there was a cancer arc that fridged a gal and now her husband is riding that train forever more.
insomniac
“Fridging” is a little harsh. The writer lost his wife to cancer and had the same thing happen to a character in the strip.
But yeah, after he did that, he changed the whole strip from goofy comedy to unrelenting depression.
DSL
Now it’s a strip about people being sh!tty to each other in the most petty ways imaginable. “Winkerbean” is how Northeast Ohioans pronounce “schadenfreude.”