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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    February 7, 2018 at 12:01 am | # | Reply

    “the SICKEST fuckin’ vanilla”

    • Arawn
      Arawn
      February 7, 2018 at 12:10 am | # | Reply

      As in… “That Vanilla is SICK!” or “Vanilla Ice is sick, nyquil and a Vanilla Ice pack, stat!”?

    • Rodrigo
      Rodrigo
      February 7, 2018 at 12:21 am | # | Reply

      Disliking hair anywhere else in the body is sick or vanilla?

    • Yossarianduck
      Yossarianduck
      February 7, 2018 at 2:01 am | # | Reply

      When there’s so much vanilla essence it overwhelms all of your senses until you pass out and see your hot, behatted girlfriend checking to see if you’re okay, and the cycle begins anew.

    • Stu
      Stu
      February 7, 2018 at 3:18 am | # | Reply

      To steal from El Goonish Shive – “In which Amber is momentarily possessed for one panel by the readership as a whole.”

      • Meamoi
        Meamoi
        February 7, 2018 at 1:59 pm | # | Reply

        Sage words.

  2. AnvilPro
    AnvilPro
    February 7, 2018 at 12:01 am | # | Reply

    That’s the most true thing Amber, or maybe anyone in this comic, has ever said

    • Mad_Academic
      Mad_Academic
      February 7, 2018 at 12:02 am | # | Reply

      You have a point there.

  3. Roger
    Roger
    February 7, 2018 at 12:01 am | # | Reply

    im gonna use that line with my friends.

    • Danni
      Danni
      February 7, 2018 at 12:03 am | # | Reply

      “so dya think shes wearing her hat in there or”?

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        February 7, 2018 at 12:16 am | # | Reply

        “The only word I heard out of that was “Slash”.”

        • SgtWadeyWilson
          SgtWadeyWilson
          February 7, 2018 at 12:41 am | # | Reply

          “…oh.”

          • Mr. Bulbmin
            Mr. Bulbmin
            February 7, 2018 at 3:18 am | # | Reply

            “Good morning-slash-afternoon!”

      • Kamino Neko
        Kamino Neko
        February 7, 2018 at 1:03 am | # | Reply

        ‘Showering.’

        • HeySo
          HeySo
          February 7, 2018 at 10:33 am | # | Reply

          I’m caught between “Super Vanilla” [No doubt, a combination of six different flavors of vanilla ice cream] and “Dino-Girlfriend”.

          • Kryss LaBryn
            Kryss LaBryn
            February 8, 2018 at 8:43 am | # | Reply

            Pretty sure “Super Vanilla” is actually French Vanilla.

            That stuff is the bomb, yo.

  4. Cheesy1
    Cheesy1
    February 7, 2018 at 12:02 am | # | Reply

    . . . yes?

  5. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    February 7, 2018 at 12:03 am | # | Reply

    French Vanilla.

    • Joy
      Joy
      February 7, 2018 at 2:53 am | # | Reply

      owo

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      February 7, 2018 at 4:01 am | # | Reply

      mmmm, French vanilla. *drools*

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      February 7, 2018 at 8:35 am | # | Reply

      Oooh, with the little beans!

  6. Schpoonman
    Schpoonman
    February 7, 2018 at 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Becky, you deviant.

  7. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    February 7, 2018 at 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Becky will faint when she learns Dina puts a shower cap on OVER her hat in the shower.

    • Dean
      Dean
      February 7, 2018 at 12:12 am | # | Reply

      Don’t be ridiculous. She wears a plesiosaur hat in the water.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        February 7, 2018 at 12:18 am | # | Reply

        Plesiosaurs aren’t dinosaurs, though. And if I know that, Dina definitely does.

        • Mollyscribbles
          Mollyscribbles
          February 7, 2018 at 12:43 am | # | Reply

          But does she dislike Plesiousaurs, or just dislike it when they’re referred to as dinosaurs?

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          February 7, 2018 at 12:43 am | # | Reply

          Plesiosaurs ARE cool, though. I’m not sure how Dina handles that, if it’s OK to like plesiosaurs too or if that’s a betrayal of her “dinosaur-chick” core identity.

        • hof1991
          hof1991
          February 7, 2018 at 8:13 am | # | Reply

          But Plesiosaur fossils are found in Indiana, while dinosaur fossils are not. Same is true of my Midwestern state. Grew up with a fossil collection which we displayed locally. We dreamed of dinos, but settled for marine reptiles.

          • Bagge
            Bagge
            February 7, 2018 at 11:49 pm | # | Reply

            That’s cool!

            So…. those areas are old seafloor?

        • Gamaran Sepudomyn
          Gamaran Sepudomyn
          February 7, 2018 at 2:54 pm | # | Reply

          Yeah, she wears a penguin hat.

      • Justin Yates
        Justin Yates
        February 7, 2018 at 12:24 am | # | Reply

        Current theories suggest Spinosaurus aegyptiacus spent most of it’s life in the water, and could have been evolving into an aquatic dinosaur…. so Dina’s wearing a Spinosaur shower cap, lol.

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          February 7, 2018 at 12:44 am | # | Reply

          The solution is so obvious in hindsight.

  8. Rukdug
    Rukdug
    February 7, 2018 at 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Flip a coin.

  9. Yumi
    Yumi
    February 7, 2018 at 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Both: like drinking straight up vanilla extract

    • ProfessorDetective
      ProfessorDetective
      February 7, 2018 at 2:23 am | # | Reply

      No, eating whole vanilla beans like beef jerky.

      • Mr. Bulbmin
        Mr. Bulbmin
        February 7, 2018 at 3:21 am | # | Reply

        Every time I tell myself I’ve thought of all the disgusting things I could possibly see in a day . . . I get reminded that my creativity is not limitless.

        You people sicken me.

      • Meamoi
        Meamoi
        February 7, 2018 at 2:01 pm | # | Reply

        I’ve eaten vanilla beans that way…

        …. after the third, it’s kind of addictive and kind of expensive.

  10. Regalli
    Regalli
    February 7, 2018 at 12:05 am | # | Reply

    She’s baaaaack! Just in time for Bad Things to happen… Yay?

  11. Passchendaele
    Passchendaele
    February 7, 2018 at 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Better yet, she has more than one hat, and stacked them on top of each other. 😛

  12. Nono
    Nono
    February 7, 2018 at 12:05 am | # | Reply

    But which slash, like ‘I’mma slash your throat, Cap’ or ‘I’mma write a slashfic between you and Bucky, Cap’?

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      February 7, 2018 at 12:06 am | # | Reply

      you know the answer

      • Chris Phoenix
        Chris Phoenix
        February 7, 2018 at 1:08 am | # | Reply

        Well, she writes slash fic… but also, slashing is uncomfortably close to stabbing. So no, I don’t actually know the answer… maybe both?

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        February 7, 2018 at 1:25 am | # | Reply

        Well she writes romance slashfic and gore slashfic, but it’s Cap and Bucky, so probably the former.

        • Mr. Bulbmin
          Mr. Bulbmin
          February 7, 2018 at 3:24 am | # | Reply

          Alternatively, it’s both. Bloodletting as a method of getting the romance started, using sadism/masochism/vampirism as an excuse for bloody, bloody sexual descriptions. Tons of characters could fit that mold . . .

          And to think that I don’t read much fanfiction.

        • merbrat
          merbrat
          February 7, 2018 at 10:33 am | # | Reply

          Steve and Bucky= Stucky (that is what it is called)

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      February 7, 2018 at 12:07 am | # | Reply

      Being a Pittsburgh fan, I hear “Slash” and think Kordell Stewart. 🙂

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        February 7, 2018 at 12:08 am | # | Reply

        I think both Guns n Roses and Ninja Turtles.

      • Stephen Bierce
        Stephen Bierce
        February 7, 2018 at 12:09 am | # | Reply

        Smiling Faces,
        Wonderful Places…

        • Stephen Bierce
          Stephen Bierce
          February 7, 2018 at 12:42 am | # | Reply

          And as a bonus, in honor of the fifth anniversary of the contraversial “Shortpacked!” strip:
          *plays Don Henley’s “Not Enough Love In The World” on the hacked Muzak*

          • Architex
            Architex
            February 7, 2018 at 11:33 am | # | Reply

            More like, “Not Enough Anal in the World”

            It’s a thing on Twitter, I swear.

      • Jamal K.
        Jamal K.
        February 8, 2018 at 9:13 am | # | Reply

        Was thinking of the Pokemon move Slash, but I forgot that was Stewart’s nickname (go Blitzburgh, stairway to 7)

  13. Josh Spicer
    Josh Spicer
    February 7, 2018 at 12:06 am | # | Reply

    I mean…a hat isn’t the weirdest thing.

    It’s not even close, even.

    • Big D
      Big D
      February 7, 2018 at 1:01 am | # | Reply

      It’s not that Becky finds the hat itself attractive, it’s that she’s never seen Dina without it. It’s like the forbidden fruit. We want that which is denied to us, even if it’s something super benign, sexually speaking. Its why back in the day, seeing a woman’s bare ankles was considered scandalous.

      • Victor
        Victor
        February 7, 2018 at 1:12 am | # | Reply

        Ahem.

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-7/01-glower-vacuum/dislike/

        • HeySo
          HeySo
          February 7, 2018 at 10:43 am | # | Reply

          http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-7/01-glower-vacuum/substitute/ a few pages later, is still one of the cutest strips so far.

          • HeySo
            HeySo
            February 7, 2018 at 10:44 am | # | Reply

            ^Warning: NSFW – Full Scalp Nudity.

      • Felian
        Felian
        February 7, 2018 at 11:03 pm | # | Reply

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GU4GgtsVco which reminds me of a german song that was quoted at me when i was a kid. i actually never heard it before today. i’m not sure whether it was one of the beneficial moments of having access to the internet.

        (the chorus line is translated “i saw your knee, this wasn’t allowed to happen“)

        i didn’t do any in depth-research, but from what i was told with it as a kid, seeing someone’s knee gave you the obligation to marry her. and even without research, i’d believe it to be a likely old custom.

  14. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    February 7, 2018 at 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Of course she isn’t, Becky.

    She’s wearing a shower cap.

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      February 7, 2018 at 12:08 am | # | Reply

      But does the shower cap have dinosaurs on it?

      • Raijin
        Raijin
        February 7, 2018 at 12:16 am | # | Reply

        I would be surprised if it didn’t have a dinosaur theme. This is Dina we are speaking of here!

        • Raijin
          Raijin
          February 7, 2018 at 12:16 am | # | Reply

          Nope, let’s try that gravroulette again.

          • Raijin
            Raijin
            February 7, 2018 at 12:17 am | # | Reply

            …just keep getting worse.

            • Doctor_Who
              Doctor_Who
              February 7, 2018 at 12:19 am | # | Reply

              3 in a row! Blaine next?

            • Schpoonman
              Schpoonman
              February 7, 2018 at 12:21 am | # | Reply

              It’s worth spending a minute to set your gravatar. I’ve had this Joyce since that comic came out.

              • Bagge
                Bagge
                February 7, 2018 at 12:45 am | # | Reply

                And a glorious Joyce it is! Makes your comments that much more funny, somehow.

              • Raijin
                Raijin
                February 7, 2018 at 12:50 am | # | Reply

                True, but that would take the surprise thrill away when commenting. Sure there are times when you end up in a bad streak (as seen above) but that’s part of the fun, no?

                • Raijin
                  Raijin
                  February 7, 2018 at 12:52 am | #

                  Haha, this streak will not end. 😀

                • EvilMidnightLurker
                  EvilMidnightLurker
                  February 7, 2018 at 2:11 am | #

                  I only go without the Evil Midnight Bomber what Bombs at Midnight if I’m not allowed to pick my own. (Paizo forums, I’m glaring at you.)

                • David DeLaney
                  David DeLaney
                  February 7, 2018 at 6:50 pm | #

                  And I’ve had this as my desktop since the mid-90s, having grabbed it off Usenet. It’s spectacular at full size. So naturally it became my “little photo goes here” thingy when tech started asking for that.

                  –Dave, but try to Google me, good luck

                • Inahc
                  Inahc
                  February 7, 2018 at 8:47 pm | #

                  Ohhhhh, Usenet! So that’s a sig you’re doing at the end of every comment. I thought it seemed weirdly familiar. 🙂

              • Kamino Neko
                Kamino Neko
                February 7, 2018 at 1:14 am | # | Reply

                Yeah. I like being Kitty Tedd. Kitty Tedd is the me-est possible gravatar that’s not inflicting an actual photo of me, or my art, on people. >_>

                • Leorale
                  Leorale
                  February 8, 2018 at 12:35 am | #

                  I’m all for editing DoA gravatars in MS Paint to make them look like oneself. I’m a curlified Joyce.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        February 7, 2018 at 2:04 am | # | Reply

        The hat gets a little shower cap of its own, like the head on Wade’s life preserver from Garfield and Friends. A regular size shower cap goes over both.

    • Felian
      Felian
      February 7, 2018 at 11:05 pm | # | Reply

      i can imagine Dina’s hat to actually be one of these swimming caps, so there would be no reason not to wear it to the shower. also, if Dina needs the head an an anxiety-lowering item, the question is how much anxiety Dina connects with public shower rooms.

  15. Inspector whatevsman
    Inspector whatevsman
    February 7, 2018 at 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Is there a rule sayin it can’t be a lil bit o both?

  16. Tacos
    Tacos
    February 7, 2018 at 12:11 am | # | Reply

    As my people say: “Por que no los dos?”

  17. segnosaur
    segnosaur
    February 7, 2018 at 12:12 am | # | Reply

    My question… How does Amber know about Becky’s particular kink/fetish? I don’t think she was in the room when Becky was explaining things to Joyce, and I can’t see Becky spilling things like that to Amber.

    • No Name
      No Name
      February 7, 2018 at 12:15 am | # | Reply

      I think the mere fact that Becky is asking Amber about Dina’s hat is beans enough.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        February 7, 2018 at 12:48 am | # | Reply

        Yeah, Becky spills the beans this very comic. If Amber had NOT know about the hat thing, she would have asked a confused “what?”, giving Becky the perfect setup to explain… explain this thing:
        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-7/01-glower-vacuum/relief/

        It’s not a huge stretch that a very similar conversation has taken place before.

        Also, Amber is Dina’s confidant in matters of carnal lust (to her great confusion). I bet Dina has asked Amber for advice about Becky’s thing for hats.

        • Kamino Neko
          Kamino Neko
          February 7, 2018 at 1:22 am | # | Reply

          I think No Name’s point, which I agree with, is that under the circumstances, she doesn’t need to be told that – there’s really only two circumstances the words Becky uses would be said – either this sitch, or in a ‘making fun of her’ way.

          Even if Amber didn’t think she could dismiss the idea of Becky mocking her girlfriend behind her back (and given her history, I’d wager there’s a good chance she wouldn’t automatically do so), her tone of voice would presumably indicate the ‘bow chicka bow wow’ interpretation.

          • No Name
            No Name
            February 7, 2018 at 6:44 am | # | Reply

            I did, but I think Bagge got that.

            • Bagge
              Bagge
              February 7, 2018 at 11:46 pm | # | Reply

              Honestly, I was mostly taking the opportunity to ramble about Becky 🙂

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          February 7, 2018 at 1:37 am | # | Reply

          It’s not like she hasn’t satisfied that fetish. http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-7/01-glower-vacuum/substitute/

    • Fart Captor
      Fart Captor
      February 7, 2018 at 12:17 am | # | Reply

      Well, Becky and Dina have been dating for a couple weeks now, and as we can see, Becky is not at all good at hiding her thirst. I’ll bet Amber figured it out on her own

      • Conuly
        Conuly
        February 7, 2018 at 12:21 am | # | Reply

        Has it been that long already?

        • Fart Captor
          Fart Captor
          February 7, 2018 at 12:35 am | # | Reply

          Well, if I’m reading John’s timeline correctly, it’s the two-week anniversary of them smooching at Joyce’s party

          • Marsh Maryrose
            Marsh Maryrose
            February 7, 2018 at 12:51 am | # | Reply

            The link make have crashed John’s site tonight, but according to the Walkypedia timeline it’s Tuesday, Oct. 12, two and a half weeks after the first smooch.

  18. StClair
    StClair
    February 7, 2018 at 12:14 am | # | Reply

    Lewd.

  19. Keulen
    Keulen
    February 7, 2018 at 12:14 am | # | Reply

    Are there people who actually shower with a hat on? Because that seems like it would make showering more difficult, and you’d have to wear a wet hat all day too.

    • Tacos
      Tacos
      February 7, 2018 at 12:18 am | # | Reply

      Probably a shower cap if they don’t want to mess up their hair for some reason. A normal hat in the shower is for being silly.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        February 7, 2018 at 12:19 am | # | Reply

        A shower cap for your hat.

      • Dave M
        Dave M
        February 7, 2018 at 12:41 am | # | Reply

        Strangely enough there IS a reason to wear a normal hat in the shower. I own an Akubra (sort of something like a wide brimmed fedora), and the brim can warp and get out of shape due to normal wear and tear. The approved method is to get the hat wet and then iron the brim. The problem is you need to get the brim quite wet without ruining the inner lining. So I experimented with wearing it in the shower. Works perfectly, and saves water at the same time (we’re on tank water at the farm, so every drop saved is worth it).

        So wearing a hat in the shower in this specific case is not only practical, it’s also water conscious!

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      February 7, 2018 at 12:19 am | # | Reply

      Depends on the definition of “hat”.

  20. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    February 7, 2018 at 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Betcha she’s also into “happy sex”, “hand holding” and “head patting”… that monster. :P~~~

  21. Lone Duck
    Lone Duck
    February 7, 2018 at 12:20 am | # | Reply

    This coming from the girl who writes vore fanfic.

    • Lone Duck
      Lone Duck
      February 7, 2018 at 12:29 am | # | Reply

      Correction, Guro fanfic.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        February 7, 2018 at 12:50 am | # | Reply

        Yeah, that’s what bugs her in the final panel. She’s afraid of being upstaged.

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          February 7, 2018 at 12:53 am | # | Reply

          Or she’s just fishing for fanfic material.

          “Why, Bucky,” Captain America said, yet again cursing his bad luck in having the laser radiation destroying specifically his pants and nothing else. “That’s a magnificent hat you wear.”
          “If you like it,” Bucky said with a smirk – only slightly marred by the fact that his pants had been destroyed in a completely unrelated train crash – “imagine if i were to take it off”

          • King Daniel
            King Daniel
            February 7, 2018 at 12:56 am | # | Reply

            I didn’t realize that Captain America rode with the Jaegermonsters.

            • Bagge
              Bagge
              February 7, 2018 at 4:22 am | # | Reply

              VE HUNT!!!!!!

              • ValdVin
                ValdVin
                February 7, 2018 at 10:20 am | # | Reply

                Hey! Niiiiizzze hat!

                http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gilsnicehat_3200.jpg

                • J
                  J
                  February 7, 2018 at 11:12 am | #

                  Ha! De Baron’s boy! Dot’s a guy hyu can follow! Iz no plesiosaur hat, but nizzze!

  22. kitty
    kitty
    February 7, 2018 at 12:20 am | # | Reply

    here is kitty’s finnish word(s) of the day!

    minä tiedä (i don’t know)

    yea

    have a nice dayl

    • Dellaran
      Dellaran
      February 7, 2018 at 1:59 am | # | Reply

      Aren’t you missing an ‘en’ in there?

  23. Some1
    Some1
    February 7, 2018 at 12:21 am | # | Reply

    Dungeons and Dumbing Part 14

    Later night that, Ophelia has been put to bed and the fire’s embers burn low like a setting sun. Danny sits awake with his ukulele and watches everyone else sleep. Quietly he gets up and walks into the cold with a heavy wool coat on.

    The wind pierces his face as he strums a tune on his ukulele. This time with the moon only slightly obscured by clouds the avatar appears before him shining radiantly.

    Avatar of Luna: Why have you summoned me?

    Danny: Why couldn’t you help back then?

    Avatar of Luna: I explained, I can only appear when the moon can see you.

    Danny: But you appeared during the day.

    Avatar of Luna: You can sometimes see the moon during the day can’t you?

    Danny: Oh. Hey, I was wondering if you could explain somethings to me.

    Avatar of Luna: what do you desire to know?

    Danny: When we first came here, there was a voice. Was that you?

    Avatar of Luna: Your are asking if that was the goddess?

    Danny: *nods head*

    Avatar of Luna: No.

    Danny: Could it be…the other one?

    Avatar of Luna: Solis? Perhaps, but I doubt he could conjure the required power to breach the dimensional barriers in such a way. Both of the gods powers are strictly limited to our world. Listen climb this mountain, at the top there should be a observatory where you can talk directly with the goddess.

    Danny: okay.

    Right after the avatar dissapears, Danny hears a pop above him. He watches as a fedora floats down in the wind and lands at his feet. Picking it up he observes the clean brim and notes a name tag printed on the inside in thick blue sharpie. “JOYCE BROWN”

    • Sam Cornick
      Sam Cornick
      February 7, 2018 at 1:16 pm | # | Reply

      Is there a place with all of these together?

      • Some1
        Some1
        February 7, 2018 at 6:00 pm | # | Reply

        Here is every comic with an installment of this current series besides this one.

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/bass/

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/tuned/

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/coin/

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/bargain/

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/sense/

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/mansomeone/

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/fancy/

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/dating-2/

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/flowers/

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/antagonizing/

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/needle-2/

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/dirt/

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/flourished/

  24. Lingo
    Lingo
    February 7, 2018 at 12:35 am | # | Reply

    I vote for vanilla.
    Also, I’ve lost track of what day it is. Is it Saturday again already?

    • Lingo
      Lingo
      February 7, 2018 at 12:39 am | # | Reply

      ALSO also, is Faz going to try to compete with Becky for Deena’s love?
      (The answer is yes, of course he is.)

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      February 7, 2018 at 1:08 am | # | Reply

      On the vanilla thing, I think Becky might disagree with you:

      “I’ve been havin’ sexy dreams ’bout scalps, man. It ain’t right.”

  25. Marsh Maryrose
    Marsh Maryrose
    February 7, 2018 at 12:39 am | # | Reply

    Baby keep on your coat
    That’s fine
    And keep on your shoes
    Wear your shoes
    Baby keep on your dress
    Yes yes yes

    Can you take your hat off?
    Can you take your hat off?
    Can you take your hat off?

    • Dave M
      Dave M
      February 7, 2018 at 12:44 am | # | Reply

      This comment (Takes hat off and holds it over heart as a mark of respect). 🙂

    • Inahc
      Inahc
      February 7, 2018 at 12:45 am | # | Reply

      🙂

  26. Bagge
    Bagge
    February 7, 2018 at 12:40 am | # | Reply

    DON’T LOOK AT THE SCREEN UNTIL AMBER HAS HAD THE CHANCE TO ALT-TAB AWAY!!!!

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      February 7, 2018 at 1:42 am | # | Reply

      It’s Amber…she’s had so much practice that alt-tabbing out of the window was probably what caused her to consciously notice Becky was there.

  27. brasca1
    brasca1
    February 7, 2018 at 12:42 am | # | Reply

    If this was a sitcom that would be the cue for Faz to pop in.

    • DSL
      DSL
      February 7, 2018 at 7:20 am | # | Reply

      Did Dina ever untie Faz and let him go after Parents’ Weekend?

      • nightsbridge
        nightsbridge
        February 7, 2018 at 8:03 am | # | Reply

        Dina gave faz to Ruth as lost property

        • Emperor Norton II
          Emperor Norton II
          February 7, 2018 at 11:49 pm | # | Reply

          And I suppose Ruth threw him down the garbage chute; and that this was in fact what ended up blocking that tube so that Billie had to kick it loose.

          (NOTE: I have not checked to see if this checks out timeline-wise. If it does, I am wise beyond mortal reckoning. If it doesn’t, then I’m going to pretend it does, so I can still be wise beyond mortal reckoning. I mean, let’s face it, it’s what -should- have happened anyway, actual time-line be damned.)

  28. Bea
    Bea
    February 7, 2018 at 12:43 am | # | Reply

    …..the storyline title is making me nervous

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      February 7, 2018 at 12:55 am | # | Reply

      Why, just look at this chart that plot all the ways this storyline is great in a way that perfectly correlates to Faz’ penis

    • Sporky
      Sporky
      February 7, 2018 at 10:18 am | # | Reply

      I was gonna say “all of them do that”, but then I scrolled back up to read the title and… oof.

  29. newllend(henryvolt)
    newllend(henryvolt)
    February 7, 2018 at 1:04 am | # | Reply

    Amber that’s either your guilt or your PTSD talking.

    • Fart Captor
      Fart Captor
      February 7, 2018 at 1:26 am | # | Reply

      huh?

      • newllend(henryvolt)
        newllend(henryvolt)
        February 7, 2018 at 3:33 am | # | Reply

        Second panel.

        • Kamino Neko
          Kamino Neko
          February 7, 2018 at 4:05 am | # | Reply

          That is more likely her fangirl talking. She’s read and written several tons of slashfic.

  30. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    February 7, 2018 at 1:11 am | # | Reply

    Becky’s blush and lip-bite in the last panel are a hoot.

  31. Gen
    Gen
    February 7, 2018 at 1:16 am | # | Reply

    If Amber had heard some of the things Becky said to Dina, she’d probably lean more toward “sickest fuckin’ shit.”

    …Maybe she’s just a really good guesser along with having an active imagination?

  32. robertskitch
    robertskitch
    February 7, 2018 at 1:18 am | # | Reply

    Amber in the Amazi-Cave.

    • David DeLaney
      David DeLaney
      February 7, 2018 at 6:54 pm | # | Reply

      … with a candlestick?

      –Dave, board games are PERFECTLY innocent pastimes, I tell you!

      • Emperor Norton II
        Emperor Norton II
        February 8, 2018 at 12:00 am | # | Reply

        (NOTE: NSFW LINK! Nothing particularly horrible*.)

        Suuuuure they are.

        *You know, except for the fact that a fair few “adult” games can be pretty horrible in terms of actually spicing up your bedroom life and at best be fun to try out once

  33. jmsr
    jmsr
    February 7, 2018 at 1:20 am | # | Reply

    On a completely unrelated topic, i’d like to recommend the Kurzgesagt video about time for Becky since she needs “to blast out all those creationist cobwebs.”

    It’s called “The History and Future of Everything — Time” and it’s at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XkV6IpV2Y0

    just a thought

  34. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    February 7, 2018 at 1:27 am | # | Reply

    Is anyone encountering these ads where it just yanks the browser’s scroll bar back to focus on it and makes it impossible to scroll down and stayed scrolled down long enough to properly interact with the comments?

    Anyone know how to turn that “feature” off? Or at least report the damn things? Without an adblock that turns off the only way I have of supporting Willis?

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      February 7, 2018 at 2:03 am | # | Reply

      It’s happened to me once or twice but not today so far, thankfully.

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      February 7, 2018 at 2:04 am | # | Reply

      I suggest getting a scriptblocker and blacklisting anything that does that.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      February 7, 2018 at 2:20 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, I get one of those once in a blue moon. Try an incognito tab, maybe? (That should give you random ads like a fresh reader.) I think the last one I had do that was a video that automatically played.

      Sometimes on mobile I get pop-ups that redirect to some random site with a newfangled TLD like .xyz or .travel, then pop open a message box that says something along the lines of “Congratulations, [phone OS] user! You are having been chosen as winner of free cruise! Click OK to claim your free prize!” Since there’s no way to close the dialog box or page without clicking OK, I have to kill Chrome, then go into airplane mode, relaunch, and finally kill the tab. No idea which ads are causing it.

      Anyone else get those?

      • Tim Kai
        Tim Kai
        February 7, 2018 at 9:22 am | # | Reply

        Not recently, but absolutely!

        I really hate those bastards. Eugh!

  35. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    February 7, 2018 at 1:42 am | # | Reply

    Back when I was a spoken word poet with groupies, I would wear an Army sun hat on stage, which I started doing after I had a particularly bad hair day.

    Sometimes I was asked to wear the hat in bed.

  36. BenRG
    BenRG
    February 7, 2018 at 2:03 am | # | Reply

    To be honest, Amber, I can think of worse things for Becky to obsess on other than the top of Dina’s head! Meanwhile, the Beckyblush is extra cute today!

  37. ProfessorDetective
    ProfessorDetective
    February 7, 2018 at 2:20 am | # | Reply

    Haw, I bet Dina swaps to disposable shower caps with cartoon dinosaurs printed on them.

  38. erejnion
    erejnion
    February 7, 2018 at 2:45 am | # | Reply

    I bet they are even into… HANDHOLDING! Sick deviants! Be into guro like the normal people!

    • Itama
      Itama
      February 7, 2018 at 12:53 pm | # | Reply

      “My kink is women who love me…”
      “HOW DARE YOU, YOU MORALLY DISTURBED PANTIE GOBLIN!?!”

  39. Nobody
    Nobody
    February 7, 2018 at 4:24 am | # | Reply

    Both

  40. Kaunisenkeli
    Kaunisenkeli
    February 7, 2018 at 5:22 am | # | Reply

    Come on, Amber, don’t judge.

  41. FacelessDeviant
    FacelessDeviant
    February 7, 2018 at 5:28 am | # | Reply

    At first I was like “That’s pretty vanilla”.

    But then I thought about how her hair would be all damp and unwashed and it got upgraded to “somewhat sick”.

  42. missilentmurmur
    missilentmurmur
    February 7, 2018 at 5:41 am | # | Reply

    I like how honest Amber is with Becky. I friendship them

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      February 7, 2018 at 10:43 am | # | Reply

      Amber really isn’t fooled by ‘happy go-lucky Becky’. Maybe it’s her personal experience of trying to pigeon-hole aspects of her life into false personae?

  43. KSClaw
    KSClaw
    February 7, 2018 at 6:43 am | # | Reply

    you’re one to talk miss “mask or no mask.”

  44. Owlmirror
    Owlmirror
    February 7, 2018 at 9:51 am | # | Reply

    I wonder what morning-afternoon slash would be like?

    Say, anyone remember the Pixar short “Day and Night”? Maybe more than a little like “Day/Night”?

    I mean, just read this suggestive description:

    When Day, a sunny fellow, encounters Night, a stranger of distinctly darker moods, sparks fly! But as their suspicions turn to curiosity, they are delighted to find that this budding friendship can offer a new perspective on the world.

    Nudge, wink, say no more!

  45. TemperaryObsessor
    TemperaryObsessor
    February 7, 2018 at 10:24 am | # | Reply

    I’m leaning towards either vanilla or neither.

  46. Yablueboy
    Yablueboy
    February 7, 2018 at 10:50 am | # | Reply

    Dayman! Fighter of the Nightman!

  47. Griffin
    Griffin
    February 7, 2018 at 10:51 am | # | Reply

    The fact that Dina wearing the hat every time she showers would mean her hair never gets washed, so I’m gonna lean towards the sickest shit

  48. Lulu
    Lulu
    February 7, 2018 at 12:01 pm | # | Reply

    Does Dina also wear a tiny hat on her hair down there? ^^

    • David DeLaney
      David DeLaney
      February 7, 2018 at 6:56 pm | # | Reply

      Do you mean … a merkin?

      –Dave, English is vast, it contains multitudes

  49. Makkabee
    Makkabee
    February 7, 2018 at 2:18 pm | # | Reply

    Schroedinger’s Kink!

  50. Billy Baggins
    Billy Baggins
    February 7, 2018 at 2:27 pm | # | Reply

    Amber, you want filth? Watch ‘Pink Flamingos’ and get back to me. John Waters, you are a dirty, dirty man.

  51. Elsendor
    Elsendor
    February 7, 2018 at 5:35 pm | # | Reply

    repression is a hell of a drug (speaking from experience lmao)

  52. Some Random Name
    Some Random Name
    February 7, 2018 at 5:59 pm | # | Reply

    …wait, is it “sick” being used in the good way or the bad way here?

    • ǝ snow ʍousɐ
      ǝ snow ʍousɐ
      February 7, 2018 at 7:57 pm | # | Reply

      I think it’s being used as a synonym for “pervy”.

  53. Cmd1095
    Cmd1095
    February 7, 2018 at 10:17 pm | # | Reply

    But… now I’m curious… DOES she wear her hat in the shower? does she have a special aquatic dinosaur hat for showering? WE NEED ANSWERS WILLIS

    • C.T Phipps
      C.T Phipps
      February 7, 2018 at 10:24 pm | # | Reply

      We actually saw her put a shower cap over it before showering.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        February 7, 2018 at 11:47 pm | # | Reply

        In a patreon-only bonus strip, but still!

        • Emperor Norton II
          Emperor Norton II
          February 8, 2018 at 12:02 am | # | Reply

          You sure that was a Patron strip and not a Slipshine strip?

          • Bagge
            Bagge
            February 8, 2018 at 12:51 am | # | Reply

            She kept the hat on, didn’t she?

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