Sarah’s next step is to go and ask Walky, but only after handing him a card that is printed with the definition of “boyfriend” in several languages, some handy illustrations, and instructions to blink three times if he needs her to call the cops.
Sarah wouldn’t call the cops. She’d call Amber/AG and Sal instead, and then fetch her bat.
… er, wait, this is WALKY, not Joyce.
She’d text Sal about her bro, then shrug her shoulders, decide she’d done enough, and go back to her dorm to look for pictures of John Boyega on the internet and bickering with Joyce about whether her not doing this in the library meant she secretly wanted to be pestered by Joyce, which she obviously didn’t, baka.
I wanted to draw some Joyce/Joe stuff but I waited too long.
BUT if anyone’s got a sexy prompt for that ship I may whip up a little something something.
I was thinking along the lines of… oh, I don’t know. Tickling or something? If you need something relatively easy to draw, maybe vacuum suits?
It’s just good to experiment, you know?
Paradoxius
I’m reminded of a flashback from the text adventure game Counterfeit Monkey (I highly recommend) in which the raised-by-fundementalists-but-not-fundementalist-anymore protagonist recalls a time she was tied to her boyfriend’s bed and had him paint various words for “promiscuous woman” on her.
Wagstaff
Oh, I know!
How about the most diabical Hasbro game ever created?
MOVE OVER OUIJA BOARD!
Those with weak constitutions may want to grow a spine leave the auditorium!!!
As for the rest of you, prepare for the magnificent, unspeakable evil that is…
TWISTER!!!!
Clif
Speaking of quantum entanglement, I reacted, maybe over-reacted, to your mention of Bells Theorem in yesterday’s comment section.
Wagstaff
That’s alright. At least your understanding of it is better than that of Sandra and Woo.
Besides, constructive criticism, besides informing, is one of the most important duties of a scientist! Thank you!
Oh and also, entanglement need not be quantum to be spooky or freaky. I also predict that many will be very reluctant to view this action at a distance!
Demoted Oblivious
Of course. We want to view this action up close, in the splash zone.
Needfuldoer
It takes an unexpectedly wholesome turn because Joe uses a bunch of synonyms for “meaningful” instead. Just to tie it in with yesterday’s strip.
SillyGoose
Alternatively, after some research Joyce stumbles upon the “mushroom-shape tip to extract rivals’ semen” example of evolution of men’s body and requests a demo. For science.
Wagstaff
I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the species — never quite sane in the night.
Clif
What is that a quite from?
Demoted Oblivious
@Clif Night Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens
With variation presumably by Monsieur Wagstaff
“Joe, this is the fifth time you’ve tried to get away with not working on our bio homework together by being undressed when I come by, and you’re not getting away with it any more. I’m coming in and youooououoooorgleuh?”
i had to look that up ^^ so… maybe? idk? lol. i’ll pay more attention next time i buy coffee and inform you.
Wagstaff
Now that I think about it, that is mind of a stereotype, isn’t it? My favorite kind is from a company called Peets, but for all I know French Roast is an American thing. Kind of like “French” Fries, right? Also like I even want to guess what you put on your burgers…
Also, non-dairy creamer is pretty much the only thing I’ll have my coffee with, but what about you?
milu
well, maybe calling french roast “French Roast” is an american thing, but regardless i’d never paid attention to how roasted exactly i like my coffee, though i suspect i prefer it a little greener and with a bit of a tang (french roast is about as roasted as it gets, apparently).
i drink my coffee one of 3 ways:
-french press (wink!), black
-italian coffemaker, black
-turkish, very sweet
i never add any cream or milk though, what i do add sometimes is a pinch of ground ginger, or a stick of cinnamon, or a few cardamom seeds (the last two only in turkish coffee).
while i don’t eat burgers very often (i practically never eat out, and homemade burgers is work) i normally use ketchup or barbecue sauce. not very exotic sorry =)
Clif
If you use hickory flavored barbecue sauce, there is hope for you yet.
Wagstaff
@milu Hmmmm….. my brothers always drank deeply roasted, very strong coffee, so I guess it’s just the kind I grew up with. Also, I’d never heard of ginger in coffee; I normally only put that stuff in my Yakisoba (the real kind, 100% buckwheat), but I might actually try it in my apparently super strong coffee and see what happens.
Also, that burger sounds delicious! I actually wasn’t expecting something too exotic. I mean come on, would I really expect every French person to be a stereotypical French chef? I was just wondering because apparently France is known to put alot of mustard on their burgers (according to 39 Clues, too much mustard for most Americans), and I was just checking on that possible misconception as well.
Demoted Oblivious
To contribute a little, last summer I started experimenting on the bbq and found that I really like to put mexican/taco seasoning on burgers. It also makes a pretty solid quick dip mixed with mayo for cut fresh veggies.
milu
@Clif @Demoted i have no idea what all your weird american condiments are ^^
@Wagstaff haha, no mustard. then again mustard is strongly associated with meat around here and i don’t eat meat, so.
i got into seasoning my coffee with cinammon and cardamom when living in Greece, and picked up the ginger thing from a Sudanese friend =)
khn0
vegetarian too and I use mustard + ketchup.
In fact you can have almost any sauce on a burger here, since burger is proposed in roundly 3/4 of restaurants, not including fast food joint I guess since they’re not here considered as restaurants (except McDonalds who paid a bunch to get called such – but you won’t find anyone here seriously calling it a restaurant)
For roast, most of the stuff you find in France is induistrial flash roast (880°C for 90 seconds). Tastes have changed in biggest cities, especially since we have Starbucks, but usually the flavor is oriented toward light french roast, darker in the south, lighter near germany (where some factories roast around 200°C). Anyway, whatever the quality of the roast, most bars ends up burning it while cooking, it’s the romantic french experience: wait half an hour the waiter to insult you, another one to get a burnt coffee then get insulted some more by the nearby customer who despise you for talking too loud.
milu
ahaha très instructif merci j’ai bien fait de revenir checker^^
…what do you mean bars burn the coffee, they normally use expresso machines. are they using them wrong? i’ve never really thought about it, but the coffee does taste completely different (…much better) in italy.
khn0
Oh, I’m more a beer kind of guy nowadays, but form my discussions with bartenders that weren’t on beer, I got that on professional machines you can adjust the extraction temperature, depending on the roast, je darker the roast, desto lower the temperature should be.
Also other factors: shite water (Paris, I’m looking at you, but mainly: Suez I’m looking at you and you should run), has the machine been washed after a long time without being used, usw….
I think Lucy and Sarah get along. Like, yeah, she’s more bubbly than Sarah, but Lucy is an academic and Sarah respects that. Note she also tends to be a bit less prickly with Dorothy.
I believe I was told in this very forum, not that long ago, that going steady was not a thing people did any more.
Schpoonman
I’m calling horsefeathers on that, if you’ve got got 2+ people with an exclusive partner that’s “going steady.”
Clif
The question came up with regard to the morality of flirting with someone who was dating someone else. My position was that in the absence of going steady or a similar agreement, that it was perfectly okay on both sides. As I now remember it, it was intimated that people went steady back in the 30’s and that I was old.
To be fair, I never went steady before I was engaged, which first happened in the 1970’s and reoccurred several times depending on how you count it. The first time, I was drafted and she was raped and other stuff happened. The second time, it didn’t survive the first major disagreement. The third time I actually wound up married, and the fourth time a miracle happened and I finally got it right.
So for all I know, kids don’t go steady nowdays, but when I went to high school it was a thing.
eh, whatever
The term “going steady” isn’t used anymore. That’s all.
135 thoughts on “Boyfriend”
Ana Chronistic
“WE GOT IT NOTARIZED”
…
“YOU CAN BUY THE NFT”
Schpoonman
NO SHUT UP.
Council
People on the internets go crazy for non-fungible thingies
Clif
NFT = None Fungible Thingie?
Felix
non-fungible tokens, but I have to admit, I prefer your version.
butts
ok but does he know though
Demoted Oblivious
Do you mean academically, or biblically?
butts
por que no los dos
Schpoonman
Yes to the former, Lucy is working on the latter.
Reltzik
Given that she’s feeling Biblical in her Christianity, she seems hesitant to work on the latter.
Clif
Memory suggests that as a Christian woman she feels compelled to follow the guidance of the Sermon on the Mount and wait till the third date.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/04-hompk/chill/
Reltzik
Yup, she’s hesitating by three dates. And she’s hesitating about hesitating only three dates.
Doctor_Who
Sarah’s next step is to go and ask Walky, but only after handing him a card that is printed with the definition of “boyfriend” in several languages, some handy illustrations, and instructions to blink three times if he needs her to call the cops.
Reltzik
Sarah wouldn’t call the cops. She’d call Amber/AG and Sal instead, and then fetch her bat.
… er, wait, this is WALKY, not Joyce.
She’d text Sal about her bro, then shrug her shoulders, decide she’d done enough, and go back to her dorm to look for pictures of John Boyega on the internet and bickering with Joyce about whether her not doing this in the library meant she secretly wanted to be pestered by Joyce, which she obviously didn’t, baka.
Eldritchy
I wonder if she bought an Other John…
Yotomoe
I wanted to draw some Joyce/Joe stuff but I waited too long.
BUT if anyone’s got a sexy prompt for that ship I may whip up a little something something.
Jonah Sanville
“every time you soothe my intellectual doubt due to propaganda being fed to me since birth, i take an item of clothing off”
Wagstaff
I dunno. How about you try for a less mainstream subgenre? Could get interesting…
Yotomoe
…can you elaborate?
Wagstaff
I was thinking along the lines of… oh, I don’t know. Tickling or something? If you need something relatively easy to draw, maybe vacuum suits?
It’s just good to experiment, you know?
Paradoxius
I’m reminded of a flashback from the text adventure game Counterfeit Monkey (I highly recommend) in which the raised-by-fundementalists-but-not-fundementalist-anymore protagonist recalls a time she was tied to her boyfriend’s bed and had him paint various words for “promiscuous woman” on her.
Wagstaff
Oh, I know!
How about the most diabical Hasbro game ever created?
MOVE OVER OUIJA BOARD!
Those with weak constitutions may want to grow a spine leave the auditorium!!!
As for the rest of you, prepare for the magnificent, unspeakable evil that is…
TWISTER!!!!
Clif
Speaking of quantum entanglement, I reacted, maybe over-reacted, to your mention of Bells Theorem in yesterday’s comment section.
Wagstaff
That’s alright. At least your understanding of it is better than that of Sandra and Woo.
Besides, constructive criticism, besides informing, is one of the most important duties of a scientist! Thank you!
Clif
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/05-as-long-as-its-free/speciallymade/#comment-1553333
and about 15 comments down.
Wagstaff
Oh and also, entanglement need not be quantum to be spooky or freaky. I also predict that many will be very reluctant to view this action at a distance!
Demoted Oblivious
Of course. We want to view this action up close, in the splash zone.
Needfuldoer
It takes an unexpectedly wholesome turn because Joe uses a bunch of synonyms for “meaningful” instead. Just to tie it in with yesterday’s strip.
SillyGoose
Alternatively, after some research Joyce stumbles upon the “mushroom-shape tip to extract rivals’ semen” example of evolution of men’s body and requests a demo. For science.
Wagstaff
I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the species — never quite sane in the night.
Clif
What is that a quite from?
Demoted Oblivious
@Clif Night Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens
With variation presumably by Monsieur Wagstaff
Rose by Any Other Name
I mean… I’m sure we’ll be back to Joyce and Joe soon. You could just work on that some…
Reltzik
“Joe, this is the fifth time you’ve tried to get away with not working on our bio homework together by being undressed when I come by, and you’re not getting away with it any more. I’m coming in and youooououoooorgleuh?”
Dave
Joyce puts on monkey ears and tail, goes searching for Joe’s banana
jonathan young
OOk? OOK OOK?!
Sirksome
We still can’t confirm he knows 100%. Maybe in a few years if it lasts that long we can be sure.
ThunderNight
we can check at the wedding
LordTorian
APPROPRIATE GRAVATAR IS APPROPRIATE
King Daniel
All three above me are
Demoted Oblivious
Last one is not. Nothing is above Carla!
Octopus Ink
Third Question; Does Walky KNOW?!!
NotThatDrew
We know that he’s at least aware he got Taco Bell with a female. Beyond that, it’s hard to say
sultryglebe
They held hands and everything!
Reltzik
Do any of us really know anything, or do we simply grasp at rough facsimiles of information without truly comprehending the underlying truth?
I am Nothing
Yes.
StClair
Plato’s Man-Cave
milu
*coffee all over this comment box*
Wagstaff
Oooo! Was it French Roast? That’s my favorite!
milu
i had to look that up ^^ so… maybe? idk? lol. i’ll pay more attention next time i buy coffee and inform you.
Wagstaff
Now that I think about it, that is mind of a stereotype, isn’t it? My favorite kind is from a company called Peets, but for all I know French Roast is an American thing. Kind of like “French” Fries, right? Also like I even want to guess what you put on your burgers…
Also, non-dairy creamer is pretty much the only thing I’ll have my coffee with, but what about you?
milu
well, maybe calling french roast “French Roast” is an american thing, but regardless i’d never paid attention to how roasted exactly i like my coffee, though i suspect i prefer it a little greener and with a bit of a tang (french roast is about as roasted as it gets, apparently).
i drink my coffee one of 3 ways:
-french press (wink!), black
-italian coffemaker, black
-turkish, very sweet
i never add any cream or milk though, what i do add sometimes is a pinch of ground ginger, or a stick of cinnamon, or a few cardamom seeds (the last two only in turkish coffee).
while i don’t eat burgers very often (i practically never eat out, and homemade burgers is work) i normally use ketchup or barbecue sauce. not very exotic sorry =)
Clif
If you use hickory flavored barbecue sauce, there is hope for you yet.
Wagstaff
@milu Hmmmm….. my brothers always drank deeply roasted, very strong coffee, so I guess it’s just the kind I grew up with. Also, I’d never heard of ginger in coffee; I normally only put that stuff in my Yakisoba (the real kind, 100% buckwheat), but I might actually try it in my apparently super strong coffee and see what happens.
Also, that burger sounds delicious! I actually wasn’t expecting something too exotic. I mean come on, would I really expect every French person to be a stereotypical French chef? I was just wondering because apparently France is known to put alot of mustard on their burgers (according to 39 Clues, too much mustard for most Americans), and I was just checking on that possible misconception as well.
Demoted Oblivious
To contribute a little, last summer I started experimenting on the bbq and found that I really like to put mexican/taco seasoning on burgers. It also makes a pretty solid quick dip mixed with mayo for cut fresh veggies.
milu
@Clif @Demoted i have no idea what all your weird american condiments are ^^
@Wagstaff haha, no mustard. then again mustard is strongly associated with meat around here and i don’t eat meat, so.
i got into seasoning my coffee with cinammon and cardamom when living in Greece, and picked up the ginger thing from a Sudanese friend =)
khn0
vegetarian too and I use mustard + ketchup.
In fact you can have almost any sauce on a burger here, since burger is proposed in roundly 3/4 of restaurants, not including fast food joint I guess since they’re not here considered as restaurants (except McDonalds who paid a bunch to get called such – but you won’t find anyone here seriously calling it a restaurant)
For roast, most of the stuff you find in France is induistrial flash roast (880°C for 90 seconds). Tastes have changed in biggest cities, especially since we have Starbucks, but usually the flavor is oriented toward light french roast, darker in the south, lighter near germany (where some factories roast around 200°C). Anyway, whatever the quality of the roast, most bars ends up burning it while cooking, it’s the romantic french experience: wait half an hour the waiter to insult you, another one to get a burnt coffee then get insulted some more by the nearby customer who despise you for talking too loud.
milu
ahaha très instructif merci j’ai bien fait de revenir checker^^
…what do you mean bars burn the coffee, they normally use expresso machines. are they using them wrong? i’ve never really thought about it, but the coffee does taste completely different (…much better) in italy.
khn0
Oh, I’m more a beer kind of guy nowadays, but form my discussions with bartenders that weren’t on beer, I got that on professional machines you can adjust the extraction temperature, depending on the roast, je darker the roast, desto lower the temperature should be.
Also other factors: shite water (Paris, I’m looking at you, but mainly: Suez I’m looking at you and you should run), has the machine been washed after a long time without being used, usw….
Deanatay
ha ha ha it’s funny because Walky is clueless ha ha ha
Jonah Sanville
surprised sarah didnt just say “eh” when lucy started speaking
Reltzik
Nah, Lucy gave Sarah a chance for some trenchant observations and deflationary skepticism, and that usually gets Sarah out of her shell.
DailyBrad
I think Lucy and Sarah get along. Like, yeah, she’s more bubbly than Sarah, but Lucy is an academic and Sarah respects that. Note she also tends to be a bit less prickly with Dorothy.
Proto_Eevee
“It’s complicated”
RassilonTDavros
But does Walky know that Lucy knows that he knows what he knows?
Jhon
There are some things that Walky doesn’t know that he knows, but few that he knows he doesn’t know.
Alex Boston
To be fair sometimes it is hard to figure out when the line has been crossed from hanging out to dating.
Alex Boston
And the other line from casual dating to “going steady”, I suppose.
Clif
I believe I was told in this very forum, not that long ago, that going steady was not a thing people did any more.
Schpoonman
I’m calling horsefeathers on that, if you’ve got got 2+ people with an exclusive partner that’s “going steady.”
Clif
The question came up with regard to the morality of flirting with someone who was dating someone else. My position was that in the absence of going steady or a similar agreement, that it was perfectly okay on both sides. As I now remember it, it was intimated that people went steady back in the 30’s and that I was old.
To be fair, I never went steady before I was engaged, which first happened in the 1970’s and reoccurred several times depending on how you count it. The first time, I was drafted and she was raped and other stuff happened. The second time, it didn’t survive the first major disagreement. The third time I actually wound up married, and the fourth time a miracle happened and I finally got it right.
So for all I know, kids don’t go steady nowdays, but when I went to high school it was a thing.
eh, whatever
The term “going steady” isn’t used anymore. That’s all.