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Trousers
Posted on March 20, 2015 by David M Willis

242 thoughts on “Trousers”

  1. Jen Aside

    she’s actual size, but she seems much bigger to me

    1. advancecasette

      big men often tremble as they step aside

      1. Darwin

        I thought I was big once.

        1. Eyebrow

          She changed my mind.

        2. Doctor_Lantern

          …That was before the accident…

        3. Chris

          I wish I was big.

        4. Yet_One_More_Idiot

          “Big” is relative. All guys are big…compared to an ant, as a for instance. 😛

        5. Onion

          Everything is big compared to planck length. No really. EVERYTHING.

        6. saltchocolate

          There are rabbit men, deer men, and elephant men.

        7. saltchocolate

          Fortunately, also rabbit women, deer women, and elephant women. Choose wisely (and not necessarily heterosexually!).

        8. Jen Aside

          What about particle men, triangle men, universe men, and person men?

        9. PureMajora

          Universe man is as big as the universe, man.

        10. Noryb909

          Don’t forget the starmen

    2. LipstickSuckerpunch

      Squares may look distant in her rear view mirror

      1. xKiv

        Squares in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are.

  2. Doctor_Who

    Why is Sal so obsessed with the size of Jason’s appendectomy scar?

    1. Insanenoodlyguy

      cause she can’t see it normally, she has to part the massive dong obscuring it.

      She loves that scar.

      1. Doctor_Who

        …The surgeon must have taken a…non-traditional route to his appendix if the scar wound up so far from its normal location. Perhaps he-or-she too was distracted by other aspects of Jason’s anatomy.

      2. Sorinari

        She has to PART the dong? Oh god, why…

        1. Insanenoodlyguy

          I said something else originally then realized the mental image that phrasing would give people was just BETTER.

        2. gwalla

          So it appears the vaunted Walkerton lack of capacity for alcohol is a multiversal constant after all.

  3. advancecasette

    is this the first time lapse in all of doa

    1. Doctor_Who

      Nah, there was a much larger skip for when Walky got his pajama jeans.

      1. Rycan

        And when Dorothy was studying a few nights in a row until Parent Day arrived.

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      Even Willis cannot hold back time forever…

    3. Shawn Levasseur

      No, Bille has lapsed from her abstinence from alcohol, so this lapse is not a first time for this strip.

  4. Plasma Mongoose

    Sal lacks the Scottish/Irish blood needed to handle a lot of booze.

    1. pumacatrun2

      Or Russian/Polish. That’s me. Never been hungover despite dirnking decent amounts of alcohol many times and hoping my 18th won’t change that 😛

      1. AndieStardust

        Wait, what about Mexicans? Cuz I’ve never been hungover but I’m sure I remember we’re supposed to handle booze not so well. I used to drink a lot, no beers, mostly vodka and other heavy stuff since it takes a while for me to get buzzed.

        1. Rycan

          It depends on when your ancestors first started drinking alcohol. If it was relatively early in human history, you may have some genes that give you better tolerance of alcohol. Even if you do have such genes, alcohol is still far from harmless, however.

        2. Packy

          Please. My wife is English/German, and she’s done after one drink.

        3. Rycan

          That is why I said may. It is not true for everyone of a particular background, just more likely relatively speaking.

        4. DarkoNeko

          I know a Brittany person that can barely get a single beer before getting drunk, and it’s hilarous

        5. Kryss LaBryn

          Me, too, and I’m a very cheap drunk. Mind you, I don’t drink that often either, so my system isn’t used to it. Mind you, I sober up again pretty quickly, so there’s that.

        6. Screwball

          LOL Daniel the Human is actually allergic to alcohol. The smell hits him like a truck at times :P. He’s gotta be careful when moving wine glasses around or the fumes may cause problems. Primus help him if anyone spiked his drink…

        7. lightsabermario

          Alcohol hits Ruth like a truck too…

        8. Arjay2813

          i must have gotten the alcoholics super lottery then: german, scottish, irish and swedish. I still have no idea what a hangover feels like

        9. YourAlterEgo

          pshhh you northerners, when you can drink like a Greek/Italian, then come see me

        10. Opus the Poet

          That would make Sumerians and Egyptians the ones with the highest alcohol tolerance, they have archeological evidence of beer brewing before 4K BCE.

        11. HeWithTheBumFace

          Evidence!? Arse!

  5. Doctor_Lantern

    If… if this is accurate then I applaud the limey Brit on being well endowed. Damn.

    1. Focal Malice

      Seeing as how Sal’s inebriated enough to touch him with other people around, it’s doubtful.

  6. Kernanator

    I won’t make the easy joke, I won’t make the easy joke, I won’t make the easy joke…

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Why even resist? 😀

    2. Doctor_Who

      Your avatar makes it seem kinda redundant anyway.

    3. Scoops

      It’s apparently not such an easy joke that I know what joke you’re valiantly not making.

      1. Opus the Poet

        I’m assuming it has something to do with the Big Man On Campus, or something along those lines.

    4. Cephalo the Pod

      What easy joke?

      1. begbert2

        Why did the chicken cross the road?

  7. Raijin K

    What’s really awkward is Sal saying all this to who appears to be her father.

    1. newllend(henryvolt)

      Just give him bushier hair and take it easy on the 5 o clock shadow Bam! Exact look a like… Be funny if she pointed this out and started to bongo the guy out for all her Dady issues and the guys just standing there like “what?”

      1. Doctor_Lantern

        That would be … hilarious. I wish that would happen. Also I love the “Bongo” filter is still in effect.

      2. Rycan

        Still needs some gray hair, though.

    2. brumagem

      Naw, this dude looks more like some Middle Eastern flavor of person. Sal/Walky’s dad is a more vibrant shade of brown.

  8. Bunk

    Glad to know some things are constant throughout all incarnations.

    1. MM

      Took the words right out of my mouth.

      Though having said that, now it’ll turn out it’s impossible to get Walky drunk.

      1. Doctor_Who

        The permanent layer of McNugget grease that coats his stomach lining deflects the alcohol like oil deflecting water, preventing any of it from being absorbed into his bloodstream. He can only derive moisture from corrosive liquids, like soft drinks, which is why he requires so much Mountain Dew.

        This has been Real Science®, with Doctor_Who.

        1. Doctor_Lantern

          I’d believe it.

        2. zach

          I must correct you, for alcohol, like THC, is fat soluble. Walky’s stomach is lined with a plastick like saram wrap.

          Come on, like Doritos are chemicly organic…

        3. Doctor_Who

          Yes, but McNugget grease is not technically fat. It is made from a non-organic waxy substance, which McDonalds holds the patent on. Its origin is unknown and highly classified, although leaked company memos reveal that harvesting it involves providing Grimace with bran muffins and a newspaper.

          This has been Real Science®, with Doctor_Who.

        4. Rycan

          “non-organic waxy substance”.

          Sorry, stopped reading right there. You can’t get much more organic than wax!

          I really, really wish we could all agree on one definition of “organic”. It drives me nuts, in case you haven’t notced.

        5. Deanatay

          I think that’s why he said _non-organic_ waxy substance. It behaves like wax, but with no carbon, hydrogen, or oxygen in it.

        6. Chrissy

          It can have hydrogen or oxygen! Just no carbon.

        7. Rycan

          Now I really want to get my hands on ethanol and some saran wrap, just to see if one is soluble in the other. Wonder if Everclear would work, despite all that water.

        8. Cephalo the Pod

          That’s weird. Alcohol’s polar, isn’t it? Shouldn’t fat be non-polar?

          Sure, there’s oxygen atoms, but they’re surrounded on both ends by a bunch of carbon and hydrogen.

          Unless the fact that the carbon and hydrogen lie more on one end than the other causes a bit of polarity.

        9. Rycan

          Ethanol is polar, but what makes water so resistant to interacting with fat is the fact that it forms hydrogen bonds with itself so easily. Ethanol can too, but to a much lesser extent thank to that pesky ethyl group. So, ethanol will pass through some surfaces that are watertight. Well, relatively watertight.

      2. John

        For a moment I thought that Jason’s Bicep was the constant across universes.

      3. DarkoNeko

        bet he hates beer, anyway.

        1. Disloyal Subject

          It’s not for everyone. The stuff’s joy to make, but I never cared for bitter flavors or carbonation.

        2. Opus the Poet

          You know the bitter flavor is the result of adding hops during the fermentation and aging processes, right? You can totally home brew as much beer as you can drink without hops, just malt and water to make the wort, then ferment and enjoy (quickly, the hops act as a preservative)

  9. Knifleman

    Guy on the right is disturbed, but intrigued.

    1. Stephen Bierce

      But is he aroused? Not that I care to look.

      1. Dean

        It’ds much easier to tell with Jason.

    2. Bagge

      He’s like “I should get away from the drunk couple before it turns ugly, but I really want to know where this is going.”

      1. DarkoNeko

        Can’t blame him there.

        1. neeks

          Turns out the next slipshine is Jason/bar guy/(Sal passed out in the corner, but left alone because these guys aren’t monsters or anything) and the poll was a red herring.

        2. DarkoNeko

          Make it so XD

        3. dralou

          It’s… a possibility I would appreciate to see if Sal/Jason is indeed a red herring…

          On a side-note, I love Sal correcting herself about the trousers 😀

        4. Jason

          Half way through Sal wakes up and is all “naw c’mon guys pay attention t’ME” and then they give her all the hugs.
          Jason/Bar Dude/Sal three way hug session, yessss.

  10. TheLurkerAbove

    Hah, such a nice throwback. Sal Sal Sal…

  11. addude

    I missed the drunk Walkerton twins. Now I want to see Walky drunk.

    Also for some reason have started to respect Jason more.

    1. newllend(henryvolt)

      When and how? He hasn’t really changed that much from when we established why most people aren’t fond of him.

      1. JessWitt

        Respect was earned from putting up with inebriated Sal’s shenanigans.

  12. Idon'tcarenomore

    Sal doesn’t hold her drinks well. Humm. That surprises me.
    So now Sal will tick off someone, Jason will have to defend her.
    She won’t remember anything.
    Back to square one.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Sal needs to learn from Billie, she can hold her liquor.

      1. -Sentinel-

        Those two really need to get drunk together.

        1. John

          Given their respective alcohol tolerances, I think if Billie had landed that kiss, that would have been sufficient to get Sal drunk with her.

        2. Rycan

          I’m almost surprised Sal didn’t get drunk off of her breath alone.

        3. HeySo

          The real reason she always leaves the room except when she passes out in it: The alcohol fumes get her tipsy.

        4. Screwball

          Heh heh heh, Daniel the Human has to watch out for that kinda problem too, getting hit by some drunk’s breath. He can be in a room/train railcar with a drunk bad enough you can smell it several meters away, but if so he has to watch what his senses are doing, so it doesn’t get to him.

          He has stared down a drunk right in his face, trying to start a fight, but had to sit afterwards cause his head threatened to start spinning…

          Looks to me like Sal’s the same. Maybe she should have an allergy test too, see if alcohol sets off the alarm too…

      2. gwalla

        Billie’s liver is apparently made of adamantium, given that she can reportedly drink an entire bottle of whiskey in one go without dying.

        1. Dubh

          Then I wonder what mine must be made of, given that I’ve drunk an entire bottle of whiskey more than once, and have been known to drink more than an entire fifth of straight vodka, and still be able to walk.

          I’ve only had a hangover once, which I didn’t at all enjoy. This would include the time I drank enough in one go to trash my stomach lining and couldn’t eat or drink anything but water for two weeks. Felt fine, the next day.

          I…started being careful about how much I drank at one go, after that.

  13. LegalSeagull

    I have never wanted a heterosexual Slipshine more than I do in this moment.

    Well, aside from my theoretical, “Joe Bangs Everyone,” but that’s really closer to omnisexual than anything else.

    1. Orbit Junkie

      “The Biggest Bang”

      1. HeySo

        Cue “I don’t want relationship. I just want bang bang bang.”

    2. airyu

      Oh man now I really want “Joe bangs everyone: all the threesomes” and “Mike bangs everyone, including your mom”

      1. Opus the Poet

        “Joe Bangs Everyone, the Never-ending Conga Line”

      2. Orbit Junkie

        Slipshine can’t survive on 5 cent subscriptions.

    3. Tenn

      “Joe Joes Jacksonville”

  14. GoogerGeiger

    Just now, I realized Sal and Jason are two of my favorite DoA characters.

    1. winter

      Sal was already my favourite, but she just became more my favourite.

      1. saltchocolate

        Right?!

    2. Jess

      your icon makes me smile, because I’m imaging that Penny now ships those two. XP

      1. John

        I think she does.

  15. Leorale

    Who’da thought a motorcycle enthusiast would be a size queen?

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      It’s not the CCs, it’s the RPMs. 😛

      1. Leorale

        It’s not the schnieder of the rider, it’s the veering of the steering

        1. Deanatay

          It’s not the ship in the slip, it’s the motion of the ocean.

  16. Doctor_Lantern

    Also… I don’t think any Brit appreciates Yankin’ in any capacity…

  17. A Scientist

    She doesn’t hold her chocolate milk well, Jason. It’s been well established that she’s drinking chocolate milk.

    1. Opus the Poet

      Chocolate milk with several shots of Kahlua…

      1. HeySo

        So, does that make it a Black Russian or a White Russian? 😛

        (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Russian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Russian_%28cocktail%29 tldr White Russians have the dairy, Blacks don’t, but chocolate milk is black, ergo madness.)

        1. gwalla

          It’s almost a mudslide (just add Irish Cream)

        2. Bill

          Black Russian = vodka and Kahlua
          White Russian = add milk or cream to above
          Blonde Russian – vodka, Kahlua, and Bailey’s (or equivalent)
          Mad Russian = vodka, Kahlua, and Red Bull (milk or cream optional)

        3. anonymsly

          Colorado Bulldog (which I occasionally call a Dirty Russian) – vodka, Kahlua, milk or cream, Coca-Cola

  18. winter

    Tonight we learn interesting things about Jason, yay!

  19. Bill

    Well, *THIS* went to hell in a hurry.

  20. newllend(henryvolt)

    Like brother like sister, I would Paste the “It’s Walky” strip of Walky drinking for the first time but Willis hasn’t gotten to the point of reposting it yet.

  21. Gangler

    Is she indicating that Jason’s penis is the size of that glass she’s holding?

    1. Leorale

      E-yup. Seems scary and inconvenient to me, but different strokes for different folks.

      1. Gangler

        Wonder if having penetrative sex taken off the table for him has driven Jason to become exceptionally skilled at other forms of sex?

        1. zach

          My man is just thicker than my wrist.
          Yes it has.

        2. Leorale

          I’ve heard studies that dudes with the smallest penises tend to have the most sexually satisfied lady-partners of anyone.

          (Theory is that they become really, really good at oral and such. Whereas many dudes with big schlongs — except for Zach’s dude, of course — assume that they can just show up and their big magical dick will automatically satisfy their partner, like in porn, which is very rarely the case in real life.)

        3. HeySo

          It also has to do with the fact that larger (specifically, longer) phalluses generally have difficulty maintaining erection and have issues with achieving as firm an erection, are generally painful since they go in farther rather than wider (thus not necessarily being ‘more filling’ but rather just more intrusive), etc.

          Basically, long phalluses are always a no-no.
          Wide ones tend to get more varying answers.

        4. HeySo

          *The topic here isn’t necessarily longer ones, but that’s generally the correlation when ‘large size’ is referenced.

          Being bar glass width might be a bit extreme in any circumstance, though.

        5. Insanenoodlyguy

          I’m pretty sure it’s specifically not off the table.

          Which explains why both are hanging around each other still.

        6. Leorale

          On the table, under the table, on top of the math books…

        7. Screwball

          I see what you did there…

          I got video to prove it…

        8. Rycan

          I also wonder if Jason’s dad is similar. If so, he may have had to resort to an insemination strategy used by elephants – just spray in the general direction of your target. Or use a pippette.

      2. airyu

        Hah, different strokes, I get it!

    2. winter

      Unless we’ve all thoroughly and massively misunderstood this strip, yes.

      1. Gangler

        Ah. Just making sure I’m on the same page as everybody.

        1. saltchocolate

          I had rejected that as impossible—the meaning . . . and the measurement, too.

    3. Wack'd

      “Interesting. My vagina is glass-shaped also but faces in the exact opposite direction.”

      1. Opus the Poet

        There was an Oglaf comic recently about that very subject, except cones… Not going to link Oglaf here obviously.

        1. Wack'd

          I know, I was quoting it directly.

        2. Opus the Poet

          You know that if the couple in that comic had ever managed to accomplish penetration they would have been locked together until he lost his erection, unable to move more than the elasticity of their combined organs. That would have been most unsexy.

        3. Disloyal Subject

          I believe that reference is, in fact, the source of humor that prompted the comment to which you replied.

          Man, that’s wordy. And I’m too asleep to at least Mojo Jojo-ify it.

    4. brumagem

      At first I thought she was comparing it to Jason’s forearm, I hadn’t even noticed the glass until now…

  22. Tacos

    Welp, as the saying goes: Sal, you’re drunk, go home.

  23. Rodimiss

    I know that their relationship is very Not Good because student/TA = no, but damn if I don’t love the dynamic that they have, with the gives no fucks rebel and the stick in the mud proper guy, with all of the moments that they exasperate each other, and then whatever this is. Whatever this is is hilarious.

    1. Bagge

      I agree with everything you just said. I love how both of them cling oh-so-hard to their dignity and pride (Jason to his proper behavior, Sal to her aloof coolness) and how both of them occasionally fail to uphold it. Jason in this strip is epic.

      1. Disloyal Subject

        I concur. I concur so very hard.
        And on top of it all, they’re hot!

        1. Bagge

          Sal is hot on top.

  24. Kris

    Now I believe the proper term is pantaloons.

    1. No Name

      Only if your a clown.

  25. dailybrad

    Furthering their Pygmallion dynamic, Sal gets her musical number, “I’ve grown accustomed to your dong”.

    1. Doctor_Lantern

      Congratulations on making me burst into a weird laughter while sitting at work.

  26. Jimbo

    I f-ing LOVE Jason and Sal! OTP right here!

  27. Bagge

    A rebel gets drunk and babbles to strangers about her sex life. Forget sleeping with gloves and having a motorcycle – this stuff is hard core.

  28. winter

    For a minute I thought that Sal was literally apologising to Jason’s trousers for having to hold all of that in, as opposed to apologising for originally using the word ‘pants’ instead.

    1. Captain Napalm

      haha, I like that better

  29. Ray

    Not Trousers…. Knickers!

    And it’s nice to see that liquor helps Sal to reminisce fondly….

  30. Eyebrow

    I missed who’s a top, actually.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Sal naturally. ^_^

      1. AtomsOrSystems

        On the one hand, I want to point out that Top and Bottom is not necessarily obvious based on personality.

        …but yeah, definitely Sal.

        1. Disloyal Subject

          Documentation!

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          Exactly!

  31. Kennerly

    Pants in England refer to underwear, so pants are the correct term, not trousers.

    1. Tacos

      Trousers could still work if he’s going commando.

  32. Victor Riley

    How can they talk while drinking? Why aren’t they doing a team ventriloquist act? This would be entertainment GOLD, people!! Call Vegas!

    1. Orbit Junkie

      Now I can’t help but think of Sal, in a blue and highlighter-yellow suit with shoulder pads, telling crappy jokes with a terrifying wooden dummy. Thanks for that.

      I’m going to need an ear-funnel and a case full of bleach to get this one out.

  33. Urukak

    Jason, I couldn’t care less about the size itself, but if your penis is wide enough that it has the proportions of a beer glass, I am legitimately frightened of you.

    1. Cass

      Welp, since they’re well ahead in the next Slipshine poll we should get to see if she’s representing his girth accurately soon enough!

    2. DarkoNeko

      I4m fairly sure she’s exagerrating ._.

      1. Rycan

        One would think. Unless Sal has been suffering from internal organ damage.

        1. Opus the Poet

          Women can safely pass an object the size of a slow-pitch softball through that area, some with room to spare, some not so much. Something the size of a British Pint glass’ base would not be difficult.

        2. Em

          At first it would be! But given time, you’d get used to it.

  34. The Wizard

    The shipping must be destroyed!

  35. Larkle

    “It might be nice to know something about each other beyond who’s a top”? Well, I’d guess Sal would top, but just how kinky did these two get?

    1. HeySo

      Scroll down a bit, people already linked to the previous sexcapades.
      She tops in each bit we see, so unless Slipshine ‘flips things over’, a pretty safe guess.

  36. Liz

    Slightly incapacitated by laughter.

  37. Whittier

    [insert joke about how the English call sausages “bangers”]

    1. JessWitt

      Now who’d like a banger in the mouth?

  38. JessWitt

    It’s the WRONG trousers, Jason!

    1. Opus the Poet

      Kudos on the Wallace and Grommit reference.

      1. JessWitt

        Thanks!

  39. DarkoNeko

    Oh my.

  40. AgentKeen

    I am so glad that we now know Sal still can’t handle her drink, because badass Sal not being able to is even funnier.

    1. Bagge

      I know, right. It also makes her more human, and makes us remember just how young she is.

      1. Spencer

        I view Sal as a deconstruction of the cool, badass loner character. She practically exudes coolness looks good no matter what, smokes, drinks, snarks at people, doesn’t put up with their bullshit, can take people in a fight, and even her only having a single friend in Marcie could be construed as Sal being “too cool” to make friends.

        But then you delve into her screentime in the comic and Sal is deeply lonely, hurt by her parents racism while desperate for their acknowledgement, traded sex for grades and seems to expect people want *something* out of her if they pay attention (which makes me wonder what the fuck happened at her boarding school), ignores people in social settings, straightens her hair because she wants it to look whiter, and makes a complete ass of herself when she drinks. She’s nowhere near what Joyce idolizes her to be, and I think soon she’s going to go through some major shit with Amber.

  41. Cheryl

    LMAO

  42. chris73

    Well done Jason and well done Sal because if a girls going to get drunk and embarrassing then thats how they should be doing it

  43. Dalrint

    Wait, did I miss something? When did they actually hook up? I just remember the antagonism before the test and her stalking away then coming back to get a good grade and bragging about it.

    Or is she just drunkenly making stuff up?

    1. chris73

      This: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/01-if-the-shoes-split/whatsallthis/ and this: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/03-answers-in-hennessy/altercation-2/

    2. Focal Malice

      There was a strip heavily implying that they got the hanky-panky on. Which is a bit of an understatement, really.

      1. Kabo

        On two different occasions, actually

    3. Agemegos

      It started with this.

      1. Bill

        And continued with this a little later.

        1. Disloyal Subject

          I’d say the continuation concluded there, and started here…

        2. Bill

          Well, true, but the point I was making was two different times and two different locations.
          Although you could just barely tell it from the clothes they were (not) wearing (Sal had on a tank-top prior to the second round of bonky-tonkin’).

  44. heavvymetalqueen

    I have been voting for the Sal/Jason Slipshine since the beginning but now I REALLY want it.

  45. Kamino Neko

    That is WAY more than I wanted to know about Jason.

    1. Rycan

      Your Grav couldn’t be a better reflection of what you’re saying.

      1. HeySo

        Tedd’d probably want to know, though.
        Er-
        For science?

  46. Regalli

    … Okay, I know that “Sirsly” is just her Southern accent + drunk thing going on, but I’m still amused that Willis just basically name-dropped his first comic in a scenario the Willis of that era would probably go catatonic in shock to see himself writing. And then, if his religious terror experience and mine are at all similar, prayed compulsively every thirty seconds for days on end because what if the last one wasn’t good enough and now I’ve started a new one I can’t just stop praying or else God’ll hear all my thoughts and they’re awful and…

    Every so often, it really strikes me just how much of a nervous wreck I was between the ages of nine and thirteen or so and how much I actually have improved in a few respects.

  47. Nono

    The nice part of this exchange is that Jason is actually referring to her as ‘Sal’ now, rather than ‘Ms. Walters’.

    1. John

      She’s Ms. Walkerton in this universe. “Walters” is Beef’s name.

  48. AtomsOrSystems

    Speaking as someone in academia, I hope Jason has his resume updated. Because I’m assuming they’re at a campus bar, and (at least in the real world) his ass is gonna get canned.

    1. Disloyal Subject

      Knowing those two, I think they’d have the paranoia/ presence of mind to get some distance away for drinking.
      Granted, that’d make getting back tricky, given the established friendlessness…

    2. HeySo

      I’ve never heard that before, your campus must be more strict than most.
      (eg http://www.northwestern.edu/womenscenter/issues-information/sexual-harassment/student-faculty-relationships.html ) from a quick google search.

      Keep in mind that Jason delegated all of her work to a different TA; in any campus I went to [and I went to/interacted with several (6 or 7 :X) – though in fairness, most were community colleges], that would have been acceptable, as he did not have direct supervision of her grade assignment. So long as he doesn’t directly interact with her assignments and their grading, he doesn’t even need to report the relationship (as per the linked, totally random school site I found).

      Though, depending on state, if she’s only 17, that, however, could be an issue.

      In any case, generally, from what I’ve picked up, TAs have pretty lenient restrictions on their dating habits.

      1. AtomsOrSystems

        It’s really funny you pointed to Northwestern, of all places. XD

        But, pretty much everywhere I’ve heard of (including NU), relationships between students and Professors/TAs is pretty strictly against the rules if they have “evaluative, supervisory, or instructional authority” over the student. Even voluntarily giving up her grading to someone else, it’s hard to argue he doesn’t; there’s kind of an inherent potential for bias there, to say nothing of the potential imbalance in power. (There’s actually a recent trend at some universities to prohibit relationships between any Professor and student, not just those they’re currently teaching.)

        Either way, at the very very least, I imagine Jason would be having a variety of hard conversations with the higher-ups and muckity-mucks at IU.

        1. HeySo

          Fair enough 🙂

          But yeah, from what little interaction I’ve had with that [can’t say I’ve boinked any educational staff myself], it’s always been a ‘okay to have a relationship with students not in your class [professor] or if you report it’/’okay to have a relationship with students in your class [TA] if you don’t have an effect on their grades’.

          Though in fairness, I think all the circumstances I’m aware of, they had the relationships before the class began, and entered the class with that understanding [sort of like having a family member (eg child) in your class].

          Starting the relationship while the student is in your class does seem really questionable.

          Though if Penny and her comments are any indication, I doubt the school staff’ll care too much. They might even throw him a party :X

  49. Jazz Hands

    Now I’m hoping the real reason this arc is called “Three’s a Crowd” is because it’s gonna be Sal, Jason, and this other guy for the next three weeks.

    1. HeySo

      “I.. I just want to go HOME.”
      “You.. ARE home.”

    2. Bill

      Nope. Sal, Jason, and Penny — and Penny is the one that will end up unlocking the drama closet.

      1. Rycan

        You mean it’s been locked all this time? What the hell is in there?!?

  50. DuckDuckMoose

    Well, there’s one question answered: they will not have sex tonight.

    It would be kinda sweet if Jason let Sal sleep it off on his couch. Or he might be more chivalrous than I expect and give her the bed while taking the couch himself. He will definitely not be interested in trespassing onto the dorms to help a sloshed underage student find her room. Hey, maybe the two of them will run into certain people on their way back from a sushi restaurant! That would be gloriously awkward.

    1. Bagge`

      “Hey, Bowtie, what do you think you are doing with my sister”
      “Booooooffin'”
      “We are NOT ‘boffin’ or knobbin’ or any other activity without a properly pronounced ending.”
      “Heh, I know all’bout your endin'”
      “That doesn’t even make sense.”

      1. DuckDuckMoose

        I wonder if Dorothy knows that “boffin” is also British slang for nerd. “Boffin? Poindexter? What the hell is wrong with people today?”

    2. Screwball

      The way I see it, we’re getting closer to my predicted outcome #1; drunk (Sal alone’s good enough), near/drunk sex, sober up, feel bit sorry, Slipshine material…

      I have made my prediction, I wanna see just how close I am. Direct comment link saved for future reference, I recon both #3 then #1 are gonna happen…

      1. DuckDuckMoose

        Sal has to sober up considerably before Jason will even vaguely consider sexual performings, and I’m not sure he’s desperate enough to wait around until she’s able to give consent.

      2. David M Willis

        pretty sure that’s a crime

        1. Screwball

          I did make sure to add sober up in there…

        2. Beachfox

          Yeah, but you put it in -after- the sex.
          So…
          Yeek.

        3. Screwball

          My bad, forgot to leave out the drunk part of the “near/drunk sex”. Him still being sober cancels out the drunk sex part. Near sex, then sober up, feels, so on…

          Worked last night, still haven’t had a recharge, head’s not clicking at full speed right now…

        4. Screwball

          Come to think of it, the “near sex” part could be something less sex-like. I guess bonding moment would be a better choice of words. Something to bring them a bit closer outside the classroom & tutoring, Sal sobers up, so on, so forth…

  51. Tom T.

    “Jason is what we call an ectomorph.”

    OMG, he’s a ghost?! That explains why no one else at the bar can see him!

  52. Willoughby Chase

    Newcastle Brown is powerful stuff.

    Wey-hey the lads!

  53. DarkoNeko

    Aand Penny’s warning about emotionnal availability.

  54. Bilal Kalyal

    I can suddenly imagine Sal going “AAAAAAAAHH’M IN A GLASS CAAASE OF EMOTIOOON!”

  55. Crumplepunch

    No harm can come of telling everyone that you are boffing the TA!

    You know, knobbing.

    1. Spencer

      Did you mean slap jackin’?

      Bonky tonkin’?

      1. Bagge

        Noodling caboodles?

        1. Screwball

          …We’re all making up words now, right?

  56. Saru

    I knew it! Sal only wants him for his hot bod.

    1. DarkoNeko

      Well it SURE wasn’t for his conversational skills.

  57. RandomRedMage

    Well that answers that.

  58. kelticat

    I don’t know whether to be terrified or tantalized.

    And for those of you who don’t think that women can take that girth, we can push out something larger than a beer glass.

    1. begbert2

      And you enjoy that experience so much, too!

      1. Opus the Poet

        Well there is a threshold between pleasantly filling and “Oh. My. Gawd. Get it out getitoutnow.”

    2. Screwball

      Daniel the Human’s brother sent me a short video of some lady on a roadside. Butt naked. Parading & showing everything for all the cars to see. She then goes up to the car that’s taping, takes a Victoria Bitter bottle & gets it surprisingly deep before the car drives off…

      You Humans are weird, but that’s why I like you so much…

  59. JQuire

    The only thing better than Jason NOT hitting us over the head with ‘I’M BRITISH!” dialogue is drunk Sal sort-of feeding into sort-of skewering the foible.

  60. nothri

    I’m starting to feel like Sal isn’t so much cooler than Billie as she is uncool in every way Billie is not and vice versa.

  61. Em

    Welp someone has been getting cervical brusing jfc. And…I don’t THINK dicks can be that wide? Can they? I’m not a penis girth expert here. But damn can you imagine trying to blow a dick like that, if she IS being literal?

  62. Chaz

    Last panel’s dialogue makes panel 3 pretty awkward to look at.

    1. Havtorn

      Thank god I wasn’t the only one who thought that.

      1. Screwball

        Incest, a game for the whole family…

        …Tho they aren’t really family, so does it still count… 😛

  63. Kraken

    Sal is an excellent wingwoman.

  64. Screwball

    Alright, last strip I made some predictions, & it looks like #1 is starting to look more & more likely. Mind you, I can see him doing #3, going to other characters, before it gets…”resolved”…

  65. CleverTrousers

    Clever bloke on the right knows not to interrupt Sal when she’s passionate about something.

  66. Dave O

    I always wondered why English pint glasses have that bump that goes the whole way around the glass.

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