This has been addressed in the previous strip’s comments. There are stairs, but in Billie’s panic-addled mind, she’ll get horrible stinky-pits if she runs down them since she skipped a shower.
It’s just as well they’re not in Singapore then, I heard that they have urine detectors in their lifts which automatically lock the lift until the authorities arrive.
I’m wondering what floor she lives on, too. Yeah, running down nine flights of stairs is a gigantic hassle, but four’s easier than whining about the elevator.
My campus often had some nice elevator/stair debates, because it can be a damn long wait for the elevator when the chem building’s fourteen stories.
One of the schools I went to for a spell had 3 really slow and small elevators. If my class was on the 10th floor, quite often it was faster to go up 10 flights of stairs than to try and get an elevator.
Especially since both the first and second floors had an entrance from outside, so the elevator would fill up on the second floor, go down to the first before going back up. So you’d be on the first floor, elevator would open and it’d be full of people waiting to go up. Repeat.
Enough for everyone in the dorm. What we’re saying is, Jennifer, you should consider a diet.
Somebody
That isn’t fat. -_-
GrrArg42
I know the big ass jokes are funny, but I feel it needs to be said: I like her ass. And her thighs. I don’t really see her as overweight. I know no one means anything mean by them, but I felt this disclaimer should be here for people reading this who might be feeling more self-conscious about their own booty. For the record (for context) I AM a heterosexual male. It’s just.. in middle school when looking at Victoria Secret catalogues… the models with prominent ribcages always made me feel uncomfortable.
David
Billie is actually the hottest.
Pyr05
Obviously! She was a cheerleader! CHEERLEADER! That automatically makes you hotter than anyone else who isn’t one, or wasn’t one.
Andiemus
Ruth certainly seems to think so.
Yotomoe
^ truer words, my friend.
They have not been spoken.
And pretty much every body type is sexy to someone … and not just the more fetishy people out there in the world, either!
Kintrex
You know just because someone is attractive doesn’t mean they are not overweight.
Michelle J Caboose
But the point is that Billie isn’t the “fattie” people make her out to be. You can be overweight without being “fat.”
Overweight: Billie (honestly, though, not by that much)
Fat: Those people you see in Walmart who use the handicapped carts, even though those things move slower than an arthritic 80-year old, even when they’re not being overloaded, because GO FORBID they should actually burn off a few calories from all that junk food they load up with.
…
Sorry about the rant. When I worked at Walmart, I used to see all the electric cart inside the store, being ridden by people who weighed AT LEAST twice the maximum weight limit (and occasionally by university students playing bumper cars), while elderly people who can barely even walk were forced to walk around the store. I guess it’s still kind of a sore point with me.
A Kenworth with inter-cooler and a propane boost but not an Optimus as yet because that one Transforms into something awesome.
Flushmaster
I’d say more like one of those ginormous Freightliners that look like midget RVs on steroids. I worked at a truck stop for two years and remember being somehow frightened and fascinated any time I saw one of those, kind of like the way I feel when thinking about Billie and Ruth together. I’m pretty sure the elevator girls would agree.
Run! Run from the the Ruth with a friend! If she was scary when she had no friends, just wait to see what she’ll do when you threaten (or inconvenience) her only one. Neither the shiniest of swords or the highest of grounds will save you!
100 thoughts on “Will”
Doctor_Who
You may not have any friends, but at least you have Ruth!
…Depressing, isn’t it?
Yotomoe
Well your legs may be broken, but at least you won’t be able to help your football team to victory.
gangler
1 Ruth is worth at least 10 Kilofriends.
Plasma Mongoose
or in anime terms, 1 MegaTsunderes.
GrrArg42
I’d settle for a few milliRuths. A centiRuth would be a bit too much for me to handle I think.
Felix Kütt
I ain’t gonna lie, I’m afraid ångström’s far more believable measurement to compare against here. unless you’re billy.
GrrArg42
1AR (angstRuth) = one one millionth of a friend? Sadface.
=<
Wonder Wig
But you still have Zoidberg. You all still have Zoidberg!
Resne
Shut up Zoidberg.
Dr. John A. Zoidberg
Awww…
David Burnward
I lol’d c:
A bunch of hungry orphans
🙂
GrrArg42
Read in his voice. : )
Noel Schornhorst
*I* love you, Zoidberg!!!
Dr. John A. Zoidberg
Hooray!
Kirt Dankmyer
Yeah, the scary thing is I think this is Ruth being *nice*.
Karloaf
Imagine how much time it took to clear them all out.
Yotomoe
seconds.
Plasma Mongoose
In less than one comic strip panel.
mrelegos
Holy crap…Plasma, your gravatar hasn’t changed in days! Is this really the end times?
Plasma Mongoose
Not quite as you will have noticed when you see my reply, I just don’t change quite as often as I used to, you know, due to old age and stuff. 😛
GrrArg42
I miss Emily already. Say la “V”?
HK-A6A7
Why do you need friends when you have Ruthless on your side?
addude
I never lived in dorms but aren’t there stairs you could take so you don’t have to wait for the elevator?
taekwondogirl
This has been addressed in the previous strip’s comments. There are stairs, but in Billie’s panic-addled mind, she’ll get horrible stinky-pits if she runs down them since she skipped a shower.
Plasma Mongoose
She should always carry a roll-on of deodorant and possibly a shoulder-bag to carry it in.
Valdrax
To be fair, riding in an elevator undoubtedly now soaked in fear urine would probably be worse.
Plasma Mongoose
It’s just as well they’re not in Singapore then, I heard that they have urine detectors in their lifts which automatically lock the lift until the authorities arrive.
Quinctia
I’m wondering what floor she lives on, too. Yeah, running down nine flights of stairs is a gigantic hassle, but four’s easier than whining about the elevator.
My campus often had some nice elevator/stair debates, because it can be a damn long wait for the elevator when the chem building’s fourteen stories.
gangler
Walking’s always an option.
taekwondogirl
One of the schools I went to for a spell had 3 really slow and small elevators. If my class was on the 10th floor, quite often it was faster to go up 10 flights of stairs than to try and get an elevator.
Especially since both the first and second floors had an entrance from outside, so the elevator would fill up on the second floor, go down to the first before going back up. So you’d be on the first floor, elevator would open and it’d be full of people waiting to go up. Repeat.
Wonder Wig
That exchange student Svender Lam left behind a paper.
Pyr05
Way to go Billie! Try to get in there ass-first! Now we know how she likes it! -da-dum-tch!-
David Herbert
That’s the point Billie. Ruth wants you all to herself.
Plasma Mongoose
Ruth is sure greedy, there’s plenty of ass to go around.
Yotomoe
Enough for everyone in the dorm. What we’re saying is, Jennifer, you should consider a diet.
Somebody
That isn’t fat. -_-
GrrArg42
I know the big ass jokes are funny, but I feel it needs to be said: I like her ass. And her thighs. I don’t really see her as overweight. I know no one means anything mean by them, but I felt this disclaimer should be here for people reading this who might be feeling more self-conscious about their own booty. For the record (for context) I AM a heterosexual male. It’s just.. in middle school when looking at Victoria Secret catalogues… the models with prominent ribcages always made me feel uncomfortable.
David
Billie is actually the hottest.
Pyr05
Obviously! She was a cheerleader! CHEERLEADER! That automatically makes you hotter than anyone else who isn’t one, or wasn’t one.
Andiemus
Ruth certainly seems to think so.
Yotomoe
^ truer words, my friend.
They have not been spoken.
kschenke
And pretty much every body type is sexy to someone … and not just the more fetishy people out there in the world, either!
Kintrex
You know just because someone is attractive doesn’t mean they are not overweight.
Michelle J Caboose
But the point is that Billie isn’t the “fattie” people make her out to be. You can be overweight without being “fat.”
Overweight: Billie (honestly, though, not by that much)
Fat: Those people you see in Walmart who use the handicapped carts, even though those things move slower than an arthritic 80-year old, even when they’re not being overloaded, because GO FORBID they should actually burn off a few calories from all that junk food they load up with.
…
Sorry about the rant. When I worked at Walmart, I used to see all the electric cart inside the store, being ridden by people who weighed AT LEAST twice the maximum weight limit (and occasionally by university students playing bumper cars), while elderly people who can barely even walk were forced to walk around the store. I guess it’s still kind of a sore point with me.
Arkadi
Yep. Ruth wants Billie all for herself.
Plasma Mongoose
I called it, I said that Billie was two Dinas in space yesterday.
Yotomoe
alright then plas. You win one internet.
Plasma Mongoose
and just in time for Xmas too! 😀
taekwondogirl
There’s not a confirmation that she is two Dinas, so much as she is more than one. I’d estimate her at 2.5 Dinas, quite frankly.
hinoteoni
D’aww
Jetstream
So are Ruth and Billie friends now? I don’t think anyone understands.
Plasma Mongoose
Even I don’t understand their love.
Pyr05
Their love is like a truck.
N0083rP00F
A Kenworth with inter-cooler and a propane boost but not an Optimus as yet because that one Transforms into something awesome.
Flushmaster
I’d say more like one of those ginormous Freightliners that look like midget RVs on steroids. I worked at a truck stop for two years and remember being somehow frightened and fascinated any time I saw one of those, kind of like the way I feel when thinking about Billie and Ruth together. I’m pretty sure the elevator girls would agree.
Mal
You can’t just dump stuff on it!
Leon
Not with Ruth’s help she won’t
GrrArg42
Run! Run from the the Ruth with a friend! If she was scary when she had no friends, just wait to see what she’ll do when you threaten (or inconvenience) her only one. Neither the shiniest of swords or the highest of grounds will save you!
JoeMerl
Silly Billie; Ruth is your friend.
Yeah. Let that one sink in.
General Tekno
So what floor is their dorm on again?
As, you know, there’s always stairs.
begbert2
Which all the other girls are using. Probably at a run.
Billie, on the other hand, would have been suicidal to reject Ruth’s generosity at this stage. Remember that to use the stairs you need your femurs.
Michelle J Caboose
You also need them to live.
Kernanator
The irony, of course, is that, aside from Walky and Joyce, Billie’s closest friend is the one who cleared out the elevator.
Plasma Mongoose
That blonde on the right side in the 4th panel looks like Leslei if she had the white of her eyes.
GrrArg42
I love the Emily picture, but my brain keeps flipping it in my mind so she is hitting the people who replied to you, like square Pintsizes.
Plasma Mongoose
That sound like you got the right idea about that.
GrrArg42
Did I just get punched? I think so… OUCH! Sorry for the delay, I’m wearing a hat right now so my head is kinda soft.
Plasma Mongoose
You need to invest in some extra Dodge attributes.
GrrArg42
My Doge is crap by my Reflex save is good. Now if only I had a spare slot for Evasion, I would be sitting pretty.
Pyr05
Best part is, the striking by Emily, and the look of horror on your grav.
Valdrax
DOOOODGE!
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