Hey, it can’t possibly be the worst Sarah…. you just haven’t heard some of my other ideas…
check this out: Joyce goes by herself! wearing that dress she wore for Joe (the yellow number with the “chest window”) that makes her look like a hippie!
AND we tell her EATING the apples in the puchbowl will make all the guys like her!
TheBenenator
Naw, we just offer her the cups of Jello.
Xalticus
change “make all guys like her” to “make all the guys think she is marriage material with strong Christian values” and she’d be all over them Apples like white on rice.
Roz would probably take it as an opportunity to get Joyce to set aside her conservative views. Probably by throwing her head-first into a hot tub of naked dudes. She’s never been one to worry about personal boundaries.
It totally happened off-screen. Take our word for it.
Doctor_Who
No, no. We’re supposed to claim it happened in that other universe. There’s 14 years of continuity that not everyone has read, so we can say anything we wanted happened and get away with it.
Remember when Joyce and Sarah became lesbian vampire slayers and destroyed Hitler’s battle-zeppelin? I loved that story.
lord of dance
that was sarah? i always thought it was daisy… does that make me racist?
Kaci
only if she’s ever drawn in a car
Kaci
also, for more reasons than I can mention and be on topic or sound sane, I love your commenting name
But see, now you’ve broken it. Now, everytime they see us making crazy claims, they’re going to question it.
They’re never going to believe that there was a zombie apocalypse or a gender bender story or about the time that Ronald Reagon and Theodore Roosevelt fought over the fate of the universe, much less that Joe went to an alternate future timeline to fight martian robot samurai or the time Walky and Sal explored Atlantis.
Kirby
Don’t forget the time that Sal got a job at a pizza joint with a martian theme that was an evil plot!
Or when Robin had perverse sexual lust for Joyce!
Or the time that Willis made himself into a god and an Alien took over his body and then Walky saved the universe!
And here we are forgetting to mention the time that Joe refused to Joe Joyce.
Tempo
It’s happened! I’m actually starting to lose track of what is and isn’t trolling. I can’t read through It’s Walky again to find out. I JUST CAN”T! so much archive binging… so much… (Sucks thumb)
Doctor_Who
Please. We still get people in denial about Ethan being gay, and Joe being asked permission about the sex video. You overestimate the memories of some of our commenters.
kagato23
Stop with the out there stuff! You need to be plausible here! It’s not like the author ever addressed those things!
We all know Ethan gets off on heterosexual exploitation, and thus his favorite video is that time that Joe was tricked into having an internet sex video without his consent.
Get stuffed Sarah, or rather, get un-stuffed.
Don’t get me wrong, she’s absolutely right, but she’s dealing with teenagers, if you tell them no so vehemently they will do it anyway just to prove to you that they know better.
I don’t think Dorothy is the kind to rebel. And Joyce WOULD rebel, but it would make her parents upset. Sarah just doesn’t want her stable roommate broken already. She wants to live up the normalcy as long as she can.
Rather than, say, someone who might be genuinely concerned about Joyce’s mental well being?
Raison-provacateur
I think she is concerned. She only ever knows how to express her ability to care for others through sarcasm and by being a hard case. Tough-love and all that.
Also, she doesn’t want to admit it, but Joyce is breaking through her think candy shell, and getting her to care about other people again. she does kinda feel responsible for and protective of this innocent little thing…
So essentially: Big Sis says “NO, you can’t go.”
buttsbutts mcgee
That doesn’t invalidate the possibility that she’s a bit of a control freak. Even fictional people are complicated.
Awww, Joyce, you’re such a good person, no matter what anyone says. Willing to go so far out of your comfort zone in order to support someone else who’s personal beliefs were also out of your comfort zone is the mark of a true friend.
I think Dorothy and Joyce need to team up and make their own super-hero duo. Like, Biblegirl and Secularwoman.
I’m not sure where would be an appropriate place to comment on this, but I figured you may like to know about this. Whenever I go to the Shortpacked website, my CPU shoots up to 100% usage (and stays there) followed eventually by something saying a script is having problems. This started up earlier this week. Dumbing of Age also shoots up to 100% for about 15-30 seconds, but it then comes back down.
I just figured you would like to know, in case you were not already aware of the issue.
I was encountering this issue with the Shortpacked! site at work earlier today. In that case the browser was IE7.
I didn’t monitor processor load but it was making the computer unresponsive for a bit, then telling me the scripts were taking too long and I should cancel them. Even when I agreed to cancel them it would freeze and then ask again. I thought one browser window was just being weird on me but a second browser window did the same thing. Eventually I viewed the comic on my phone.
Mud
Also a pretty common problem for me. IE8 on windows 7. Mobile browsing seems to strip away whatever is doing it, and firefox seems to be immune (Picture bad scripts bouncing off it’s chest as it gives a speech about crime)
As much as I hate to be the cliched asshole nerd here, your problem is likely IE. There’s a reason it’s the butt of jokes in a lot of nerd circles; it’s fickle a lot of times on how well it wants to work.
I can’t really propose a resolution for this problem (other than “get another browser”) because I’m not terribly familiar with the problem. Plus, I don’t have control over the servers, site, or anything else like that like Willis may/may not have.
Slipgate
Some people don’t have the ability to choose their browser. For example, at work we’re not allowed to install any software. So it’s either what’s already there (IE7) or nothing.
David, not sure if you’re getting this message, but the Monday 9/12/2011 Shortpacked (where Amber’s having, uh, stomach issues) is causing this problem for me as of typing this post.
I suspect, since it’s so intermittent even on that page which I managed to see one time normally, that it’s one of the ads in your ad rotation that has some code that’s freaking out certain browsers. Not sure which one, though, since I can’t really get at the page when it’s happening.
Sarah, back off. Right now. If Joyce wants to go to a goddamn party, it’s no business of yours. Especially since you know that she’s a billion times more likely to leave as soon as she sees someone drinking and/or a couple making out than she is to get wasted and become a druggie. But I guess you can’t see past your paranoia, can you?
Not for the first time, I wonder what drugs Sarah’s old roommate did, and how often.
This is…actually quite nice of Joyce. She knows that Dorothy isn’t comfortable with being at the party, so she’s offering to go along even though she knows she won’t like it either, just so that Dorothy can have a familiar face there.
Joyce is basically a nice person. She’s been sheltered from a lot of things growing up, but some of that includes the things that harden people into selfish cynics.
And even after all the disillusionment and tough times of Roomies & It’s Walky, the original Joyce remained selfless at heart. I doubt DoA Joyce has lost or will lose that aspect of her character; it’s a huge part of her charm.
Discussion (134) - “Idea”
Jen Aside
SHE KNOWS
LISTEN TO THE WIZENED SOPHOMORE
Rikushadow5
SECONDED WITH MUCH GUSTO.
Kide
BUT YOU DON’T GET WIZENED TILL JUNIOR
dchorror
Special cases get it early.
wandering meme
Hey, it can’t possibly be the worst Sarah…. you just haven’t heard some of my other ideas…
check this out: Joyce goes by herself! wearing that dress she wore for Joe (the yellow number with the “chest window”) that makes her look like a hippie!
AND we tell her EATING the apples in the puchbowl will make all the guys like her!
TheBenenator
Naw, we just offer her the cups of Jello.
Xalticus
change “make all guys like her” to “make all the guys think she is marriage material with strong Christian values” and she’d be all over them Apples like white on rice.
Xartarin
Sarah has the right idea. Roz probably wouldn’t be too happy with Joyce as Dorothy’s “friend” anyway.
David Herbert
Roz would probably take it as an opportunity to get Joyce to set aside her conservative views. Probably by throwing her head-first into a hot tub of naked dudes. She’s never been one to worry about personal boundaries.
Xalticus
Dorothy could always bring a friend they both know, like Joe!
buttsbutts mcgee
Wow, Sarah. They didn’t kill your cat or anything. No need to look so angry.
Ridureyu
Actually, Joyce did. Remember? She declared that all cats were secret satanist commie witches in disguise, and burned it at a stake.
David Herbert
… When exactly?
Kernanator
It totally happened off-screen. Take our word for it.
Doctor_Who
No, no. We’re supposed to claim it happened in that other universe. There’s 14 years of continuity that not everyone has read, so we can say anything we wanted happened and get away with it.
Remember when Joyce and Sarah became lesbian vampire slayers and destroyed Hitler’s battle-zeppelin? I loved that story.
lord of dance
that was sarah? i always thought it was daisy… does that make me racist?
Kaci
only if she’s ever drawn in a car
Kaci
also, for more reasons than I can mention and be on topic or sound sane, I love your commenting name
Undrave
You’re a genius!
dchorror
But see, now you’ve broken it. Now, everytime they see us making crazy claims, they’re going to question it.
They’re never going to believe that there was a zombie apocalypse or a gender bender story or about the time that Ronald Reagon and Theodore Roosevelt fought over the fate of the universe, much less that Joe went to an alternate future timeline to fight martian robot samurai or the time Walky and Sal explored Atlantis.
Kirby
Don’t forget the time that Sal got a job at a pizza joint with a martian theme that was an evil plot!
Or when Robin had perverse sexual lust for Joyce!
Or the time that Willis made himself into a god and an Alien took over his body and then Walky saved the universe!
dchorror
And here we are forgetting to mention the time that Joe refused to Joe Joyce.
Tempo
It’s happened! I’m actually starting to lose track of what is and isn’t trolling. I can’t read through It’s Walky again to find out. I JUST CAN”T! so much archive binging… so much… (Sucks thumb)
Doctor_Who
Please. We still get people in denial about Ethan being gay, and Joe being asked permission about the sex video. You overestimate the memories of some of our commenters.
kagato23
Stop with the out there stuff! You need to be plausible here! It’s not like the author ever addressed those things!
We all know Ethan gets off on heterosexual exploitation, and thus his favorite video is that time that Joe was tricked into having an internet sex video without his consent.
Kaci
aaaah my braaaaaain
Mary
Hurray!!!!
Ridureyu
Go Sarah!
Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
Glad to see Dorothy said the same thing to Joyce that I did yesterday. It’s good Joyce understands though.
Joebo
Get stuffed Sarah, or rather, get un-stuffed.
Don’t get me wrong, she’s absolutely right, but she’s dealing with teenagers, if you tell them no so vehemently they will do it anyway just to prove to you that they know better.
Steven
I don’t think Dorothy is the kind to rebel. And Joyce WOULD rebel, but it would make her parents upset. Sarah just doesn’t want her stable roommate broken already. She wants to live up the normalcy as long as she can.
fellixe
That’s what I’m thinking. Last thing Sarah wants is her roomie being converted into party gal and making it hard to live with her.
buttsbutts mcgee
So she’s a control freak.
Randonimity
Rather than, say, someone who might be genuinely concerned about Joyce’s mental well being?
Raison-provacateur
I think she is concerned. She only ever knows how to express her ability to care for others through sarcasm and by being a hard case. Tough-love and all that.
Also, she doesn’t want to admit it, but Joyce is breaking through her think candy shell, and getting her to care about other people again. she does kinda feel responsible for and protective of this innocent little thing…
So essentially: Big Sis says “NO, you can’t go.”
buttsbutts mcgee
That doesn’t invalidate the possibility that she’s a bit of a control freak. Even fictional people are complicated.
taekwondogirl
Control freak when it comes to things that could potentially completely screw her over, yeah.
David Herbert
Ooh, she’s going to be going on a murder spree if they keep this up.
Ravux
It’s a girl!!! Or some other appropriate exclamation of joy.
Anyway, yeah, that sounds like a terrible idea. Have Joyce get slowly desensitized to stuff and it might be a better idea.
Name
No, bring the powder keg with a lit fuse to the kegger. That’d be fun for us to watch.
Steven
Awww, Joyce, you’re such a good person, no matter what anyone says. Willing to go so far out of your comfort zone in order to support someone else who’s personal beliefs were also out of your comfort zone is the mark of a true friend.
I think Dorothy and Joyce need to team up and make their own super-hero duo. Like, Biblegirl and Secularwoman.
Nathan
I’m not sure where would be an appropriate place to comment on this, but I figured you may like to know about this. Whenever I go to the Shortpacked website, my CPU shoots up to 100% usage (and stays there) followed eventually by something saying a script is having problems. This started up earlier this week. Dumbing of Age also shoots up to 100% for about 15-30 seconds, but it then comes back down.
I just figured you would like to know, in case you were not already aware of the issue.
David
What browser are you using?
Slipgate
David,
I was encountering this issue with the Shortpacked! site at work earlier today. In that case the browser was IE7.
I didn’t monitor processor load but it was making the computer unresponsive for a bit, then telling me the scripts were taking too long and I should cancel them. Even when I agreed to cancel them it would freeze and then ask again. I thought one browser window was just being weird on me but a second browser window did the same thing. Eventually I viewed the comic on my phone.
Mud
Also a pretty common problem for me. IE8 on windows 7. Mobile browsing seems to strip away whatever is doing it, and firefox seems to be immune (Picture bad scripts bouncing off it’s chest as it gives a speech about crime)
Rikushadow5
As much as I hate to be the cliched asshole nerd here, your problem is likely IE. There’s a reason it’s the butt of jokes in a lot of nerd circles; it’s fickle a lot of times on how well it wants to work.
I can’t really propose a resolution for this problem (other than “get another browser”) because I’m not terribly familiar with the problem. Plus, I don’t have control over the servers, site, or anything else like that like Willis may/may not have.
Slipgate
Some people don’t have the ability to choose their browser. For example, at work we’re not allowed to install any software. So it’s either what’s already there (IE7) or nothing.
David, not sure if you’re getting this message, but the Monday 9/12/2011 Shortpacked (where Amber’s having, uh, stomach issues) is causing this problem for me as of typing this post.
I suspect, since it’s so intermittent even on that page which I managed to see one time normally, that it’s one of the ads in your ad rotation that has some code that’s freaking out certain browsers. Not sure which one, though, since I can’t really get at the page when it’s happening.
taekwondogirl
Happens to me at work, too. They use IE7. It’s fine at home with Firefox.
Andy
Sarah, back off. Right now. If Joyce wants to go to a goddamn party, it’s no business of yours. Especially since you know that she’s a billion times more likely to leave as soon as she sees someone drinking and/or a couple making out than she is to get wasted and become a druggie. But I guess you can’t see past your paranoia, can you?
Not for the first time, I wonder what drugs Sarah’s old roommate did, and how often.
Kirby
Everyone who’s yelling at Sarah saying there’s a stick up her butt, let me remind them of something?
A. Sarah’s old roommate used to do drugs and party and all that stuff, and she turned her in. She doesn’t want to see Joyce turn into that.
B. She doesn’t want Joyce’s brain to break.
C. She wants to play Apples to Apples.
Plasma Mongoose
How did you conclude that last one?
Kernanator
Because everyone wants to play Apples to Apples.
EVERYONE.
Rikushadow5
Including you. And your mother. And even Joe’s Penis.
47
For a nickel?
Tempo
I would pay a nickel to play Apples to Apples.
Plasma Mongoose
Sarah is in her usual mood I see.
Kernanator
You mean wanting to be Joe-d? Yes she is.
lord of dance
god, she could use a good joeing. should’ve gotten it earlier though. now theres a line
Plasma Mongoose
Joe’s penis can fix anything. Even your cat.
ALostProphet
What.
ALostProphet
Ooooh, a “pussy” pun. That makes a lot more sense.
Plasma Mongoose
Almost, the pun wasn’t about the double meaning of cat but the word fixing.
eagalian
your avatar is always awesome plasma.
Plasma Mongoose
DANKE! 🙂
wandering meme
No no no wait! she’s really is in a really good mood! I swear…
Her lower eyelids aren’t nearly as high as they were before! And the her frown has gotten 20% closer to a smile! look, she’s bearing teeth!
Huh? HUH?
Romanticide
Sarah! 😀
Tunasammich
Poop on all the Sarah haters, sez I
Kernanator
This is…actually quite nice of Joyce. She knows that Dorothy isn’t comfortable with being at the party, so she’s offering to go along even though she knows she won’t like it either, just so that Dorothy can have a familiar face there.
Valdrax
Joyce is basically a nice person. She’s been sheltered from a lot of things growing up, but some of that includes the things that harden people into selfish cynics.
And even after all the disillusionment and tough times of Roomies & It’s Walky, the original Joyce remained selfless at heart. I doubt DoA Joyce has lost or will lose that aspect of her character; it’s a huge part of her charm.
Kernanator
I know that, I was just expecting a Joyce that means well but says stupid things, like most of what we’ve seen of DoA Joyce.
myfiststhirstfornecks
omg, its the 9th here in cali lol
RachelEvil
Sarah’s right. It’s a pretty bad idea.
Dorothy could handle this sort of thing with backup, but Joyce is the wrong backup.
Daeva