Isn’t that how her nose always looks? And I thought that was a shadow under her nose, not a nostril. Noses are hard as hell to draw and I think the shadow under Joyce’s nose is quite effective at showing that she has a small, pointed nose.
OMG, Today’s strip is even funnier after being reminded of that one. Now I have a mental image of Joyce pushing the vibrator towards Sarah’s hoohah making ‘Vroom Vroom’ noises!
Now I’m even more confused. I recalled that strip (well more accurately I recalled Sarah saying something to the effect that she didn’t need a boyfriend because she had toys) but what does that have to do with Joyce’s nose?
I’m really sorry if I’m being incredibly air headed. I could put the blame on the meds I take nightly, but I was pretty ditzy and scatterbrained before I had to start taking them already.
That was my first thought as well. Then i reasoned that it is just meant to be the undershadow. Then i started to realise how much it made her look like Hitler. Then i wrote this comment.
The uvula is a thing hanging in the back of your throat. If you’ve ever seen a cartoon depiction of a WIDE-open mouth and seen that little pendulous thing hanging down, that’s the uvula.
Thanks, guys. We just call it “Zäpfchen” here, if we even have to speak about it at all. 🙂
Annie
If you plug “zäpfchen” in to Google Translate the first translation it gives is “suppository.” WHY is the word for uvula the same as the one for suppository?!? Eeep!
tinfoil theory
Probably because they are similarly shaped. Zäpfchen is also the diminuitive of Zapfen. Happy googling.
hmmm e-yep...
there is nothing happy about googling, only sadness and pain
Betty Anne
No, there is EVERYTHING happy about Googling. XD I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time. XD
[Daria is looking through a catalog of piercings]
Daria: You spelled “uvula” wrong.
Axl (Body Piercer): That’s not uvula.
Deanatay
Gkk! Who would want to get their uvula pierced??? Piercings are for stimulation, but some reflexes are not meant to be constantly triggered… esp not the gag reflex!
Jen Aside
I’m familiar with it, just saying they prolly weren’t allowed is why they didn’t say it
I like to interpret panel 4 as Joyce accidentally turning it on Level 11 (Warning: not to be used near any fault lines) and getting knocked off her feat by the force as it spins in the air under its own power.
Discussion (302) - “Funny story”
Tunaro
Did she really just stick that up her nose?
Jen Aside
Did she really gain nostrils just to do that?
sps48
Those nostrils look reeeealy wierd to me in panels 2 & 3.
Cheryl
OH MY SHIT!
Arkadi
There are no nostrils in those panels.
Opus the Poet
Just one each panel, and it’s huge…
Kennerly
She only has one nostril.
blackaeon
She’s Nosferatu
Djer
More like Nostrilatu, amiright?
Foxhack
Noseferatu, dammit!
Paul
Nostrildamus.
Roborat
I think you win.
BigCheese
Nostrdildamus
Annie
Isn’t that how her nose always looks? And I thought that was a shadow under her nose, not a nostril. Noses are hard as hell to draw and I think the shadow under Joyce’s nose is quite effective at showing that she has a small, pointed nose.
Shadow12000
The Joke
Your head
Gigafreak
The joke had over a year of setup, in fact!
Toes14
OMG, Today’s strip is even funnier after being reminded of that one. Now I have a mental image of Joyce pushing the vibrator towards Sarah’s hoohah making ‘Vroom Vroom’ noises!
(Yes, I realize I’m a perv.)
Plasma Mongoose
In other words, it was a Brick Joke.
Annie
Now I’m even more confused. I recalled that strip (well more accurately I recalled Sarah saying something to the effect that she didn’t need a boyfriend because she had toys) but what does that have to do with Joyce’s nose?
I’m really sorry if I’m being incredibly air headed. I could put the blame on the meds I take nightly, but I was pretty ditzy and scatterbrained before I had to start taking them already.
Shariku Onikage
That was my first thought as well. Then i reasoned that it is just meant to be the undershadow. Then i started to realise how much it made her look like Hitler. Then i wrote this comment.
khambatta
Did Sarah wait for Joyce to do that before explaining what it’s for?
Lurlock
Even if it WAS a nose picker – why would anyone stick someone else’s nose-picker in their nose? That’s just – gross any way you look at it.
brionl
You can pick your friends,
You can pick your nose.
But you can’t pick your friend’s nose.
whatintheliteralfuck
you can pick you friends,
you can pick your nose,
but you can’t use your friends vibrator to pick your nose.
Jen Aside
You can totally pick your friend’s nose AND with a vibrator.
You just won’t have friends afterwards.
Anarchy 101
Idk those fetishes, am I right
JA
NOT THE NOSE!
Jetzoin56
Pfft, darn it Joyce
Drunken Nordmann
Well, at least she knows something about her own body.
Stephen Bierce
Anybody else see “Hemo The Magnificent” and the character Dr. Anatomy?
David
You mean, “Where the Boogers are”?
Mr. Random
It is actually.
Jen Aside
“You meant uvula, didn’t you?”
“…eew.”
Tioras
From the content of certain adult videos, I’m sure it COULD stimulate your uvula.
Jen Aside
Well, it’s the implication that she would do that after it’s been touching both Sarah’s vulva AND the floor.
Lawzlo
10 second rule. It’s fine.
At least where the floor’s concerned.
Jen Aside
Preeeeeeetty sure it took longer than ten seconds for her to decide to come down off the bunk, though.
Rowanmikaio
Not to mention the inside of Joyce’s nose.
Yotomoe
That sounds like it’d lead to projectile vomiting.
Drunken Nordmann
Technically, it’s some kind of ‘stimulation’ – just not the kind you’d normally want to experience.
Kennerly
Unless Deep Throat is based on a true story.
Jerden
Stimulation of the gag reflex, to be precise.
Drunken Nordmann
I’m not sure I know what an uvula is. Is it something I have to know?
Jen Aside
Uh… open wide and say aah…
Philip Marlowe
The uvula is a thing hanging in the back of your throat. If you’ve ever seen a cartoon depiction of a WIDE-open mouth and seen that little pendulous thing hanging down, that’s the uvula.
David
Ah, that’s what an uvula is! The things a religious upbringing can teach you…
Alex
It’s the dangly thing in the back of your mouth.
Drunken Nordmann
Thanks, guys. We just call it “Zäpfchen” here, if we even have to speak about it at all. 🙂
Annie
If you plug “zäpfchen” in to Google Translate the first translation it gives is “suppository.” WHY is the word for uvula the same as the one for suppository?!? Eeep!
tinfoil theory
Probably because they are similarly shaped. Zäpfchen is also the diminuitive of Zapfen. Happy googling.
hmmm e-yep...
there is nothing happy about googling, only sadness and pain
Betty Anne
No, there is EVERYTHING happy about Googling. XD I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time. XD
EvergreenFir
That was actually a joke in Daria…
Jen Aside
except they prolly couldn’t actually say vulva
EvergreenFir
They didn’t. Here’s the quote:
[Daria is looking through a catalog of piercings]
Daria: You spelled “uvula” wrong.
Axl (Body Piercer): That’s not uvula.
Deanatay
Gkk! Who would want to get their uvula pierced??? Piercings are for stimulation, but some reflexes are not meant to be constantly triggered… esp not the gag reflex!
Jen Aside
I’m familiar with it, just saying they prolly weren’t allowed is why they didn’t say it
Doctor_Who
I like to interpret panel 4 as Joyce accidentally turning it on Level 11 (Warning: not to be used near any fault lines) and getting knocked off her feat by the force as it spins in the air under its own power.
Doctor_Who
Sorry, panel 6. I can’t count, apparently.
Tenn
I imagine that could be a problem for a time traveller with multiple distinctly different incarnations.
Gigafreak
A supersonic screw-driver?
Historyman68
Dildocopter!
gwalla
This one goes up to eleven?
LiaHansen
Nostrils? Stop making up anatomy, Willis.
Jen Aside
Did he draw lips again?
[or fingernails]
Doctor_Who
At least he’s never given Joyce pupils. That would just look wrong somehow.
Opus the Poet
I think it would be good to give Joyce pupils so they could constrict when she was shocked like in this strip.
Jen Aside
…as in, when she needs her femurs to live?
Jen Aside
shit, wait, that’s dilate
David
Dilating femurs? Is that what happens to slender Italian women after marriage?
Opus the Poet
No, that’s pasta. (As all my Italian relatives pepper me with [bad] meatballs)
Tenn
Joyce is a mutant!
NCP19