Apparently I need to brush up on HTML. That link should be mousover text reading “What am I binge-reading this week?”
Random832
In general when people do mouseover stuff without an accompyaning link they use this or this – though I think you can do it with links too. What did you try? test
I did have a kind of cute gay roommate one year, and while we both had suspicions, we never actually came out to each other until years later when we found each other on OKCupid.
Lord Geovanni
so you studied when you could have had relations. you must curse your name every day
I’m not sure it was quite as aggressive as you think it was. Note that in all three panels they are both wearing different clothing? And especially that between panels 2 and 3 Becky somehow goes from shorts to pants. I think that indicates that some time passed between the panels in this flashback. Sure, the book between panels 3 and 4 seems the same, but again the clothing doesn’t, and there’s no indication of clothing on the floor, either. If they got up and carefully stowed their discarded clothes the book would have been stowed as well, right?
I’ll say. Always lock the door when you decide to strangle your roommate, or else they’ll bolt. And buy a tarp and shovel beforehand and separately, you get funny looks when you walk up to the counter with those things together.
Let’s just say there’s a reason I don’t use my school nickname Theta Sigma anymore, and decided to go traveling for a while.
Blue
Funny, I thought smashing with a rock was more your style. 😛
LeslieBean4Shizzle
**slowclap**
I was not expecting a reference to Armageddon Factor when I read the comments for Dumbing of Age tonight.
David Alexander McDonald
Hell that reference went all the way back to “The Tribe Of Gum.”
One was a violent old bastard!
Tualha
Wibbly-wobbly strangley-wangley.
Rutee
+1
Andrusi
It’s because people kept mistaking you for a fraternity, right?
Jonathan
i don’t recall rocks from Armageddon Factor, but it has been decades since I’ve seen it. the only rock i clearly recall is the big nasty one Turlough was brandishing in Mawdryn Undead.
Bill M.
No, bunging a rock at something was from “The Abominable Snowmen” while calling the Doctor by the name Theta Sigma was from “The Armageddon Factor.”
Doctor_Who
He also almost killed someone with a rock in the first ever story. He was kind of an ass back then.
Definitely not Dutch — I should know, I am Dutch.
From my admittedly very limited knowledge of North Germanic a.k.a. Scandinavian languages, you can trust Google translate on this one, not just that it’s Norwegian, but also the general sense of the translation.
Not sure why one would post in a language other than English here, but then again, who doesn’t get drunk sometimes? 🙂
I don’t read any languages other than English and a little Spanish, but I have a lot of Dutch items around the house and the spelling of some of the words was similar. But then that’s true of most of the Germanic languages of the Continent. English is a Germanic language, but we have mugged so many other languages for their vocabularies that only a linguist or historian knows that any more.
Thomas64
In lejwocky’s first post, there are exactly three words that could also be Dutch, and two of those are false friends: “en” is the indefinite article in Norwegian, and means “and” in Dutch; “ikke” means “not” in Norwegian, and childishly emphatic “I” in Dutch (think “who wants to go first?” — “ikke, ikke, ikke” is like “me me meeee”; the normal form of “I” is “ik”).
“Kom” is the only one of those words that means the same thing in both Norwegian and Dutch; it means “come”.
It is a lot of fun to decipher these things. It’s a minefield of linguistic false friends, but there are also enough similarities that make it all seem sorta-kinda familiar and connected.
(Also, my dad is a linguist, and his interests did rub off on me, so I may just be a little bit more nerdy about this stuff than others.)
Thomas64
Oh wait, “er” is another Dutch/Norwegian false friend. It means “is” in Norwegian, and non-emphasized “there” in Dutch. (“There” with emphasis is “daar”.)
It’s mainly the laundering instructions printed on the Dutch Army surplus sleeping bag I use, but as the bag was surplussed out in the late ’70s and I have been camping with it since the mid ’90s those instructions are probably moot by now. I got a lot of camping equipment from that particular surplus sale but as I couldn’t read the care instructions and it is coming up on twenty years since I bought the stuff, most of it is pretty much useless now. And mostly illegible.
Metacube
Translation: “That’s not Becky, it’s some kind of thing (as in something inhuman). It’s pretending to be Becky, it’s not real! COME ON YOU IDIOTS!!
(I am swedish so I am not 100% sure about the last line since I don’t see what “vekk” could mean)
Thomas64
Guessing from similarity to Dutch and German: “vekk” means “away”? As in “get away from there, you idiots”?
I also read the last line as “GET AWAY FROM THERE, IDIOTS!”. I’m Danish, and ‘vekk’ sounds suspiciously like ‘væk’ which, as Thomas says, means ‘gone/away’.
TamikaFlynn
I think they’re referencing The Thing?
lejwocky
this one gets it
MindLink
Not only that, but it’s an automated translation into Norwegian. As a Norwegian, I can understand the meaning, but none of the words are in correct tense or even order.
Based on the flashback, I think Becky was the one that was assimilated. The other girl… kaitlin, took off her glasses and set them beside the bed it seems. Not something you would do if you weren’t expecting it.
Mehzus
Wow, you should be a detective
SgtWadeyWilson
Unless Becky was trying to remove Kaitlin’s eyes… or see her face without glasses. We’d have to dust for fingerprints to be sure who removed them.
Not to mention you get when you hold up two rolls of duct tape and ask, “Which one of these is better at muffling human screams and binding hands and feet?”
Shovel? Amateur. Dispose of the corpse in the nearest convenient body of water; be sure to pierce the abdominal cavity so that it doesn’t float when the organs start to decompose. I swear, what do they teach you kids in school these days?
Which power tools are more dangerous, and how to weaponize drawing implements. And how to calculate the trajectories of all kinds of projectiles, arrows included.
Halloween Jack
Power tools are overrated, especially chainsaws; too heavy, depends on a functioning power grid, and if someone who has one gets close enough to use it, you’ve probably already lost. Projectiles I’ll grant you, you should be able to weaponize almost anything, and instead of power tools, go with a good basic conditioning program combined with fighting with your basic stick with a pointy end.
Discussion (547) - “Definitely”
Jen Aside
only SLIGHTLY more aggressive than my first roomie… not sure how I managed to get through college
LeslieBean4Shizzle
Really? Jeez – I thought that was a porn myth. Why did I never end up with an attractive lesbian roomates who wanted to seduce me?
Plasma Mongoose
Because Willis isn’t writing the story of your college life.
saltchocolate
(Off-topic:) Yay for your Jess gravatar, Plasma!
Disloyal Subject
Jess, eh? Where from?
Disloyal Subject
Apparently I need to brush up on HTML. That link should be mousover text reading “What am I binge-reading this week?”
Random832
In general when people do mouseover stuff without an accompyaning link they use this or this – though I think you can do it with links too. What did you try? test
HiEv
Jess is from the webcomic “Candi“.
Disloyal Subject
Ah, one on my ‘tried it, liked it, lost my spot’ list.
Much obliged.
Stoodmuffin
Half of the webcomics I read end up on my version of that list.
Random832
when the list gets long enough you tend to add a column for your spot.
Ryan
This is why I use Comic Rocket.
(Totally not astroturfing, I promise)
Arianod
…and for that you should be grateful, actually.
Phillip Wilde
I did have a kind of cute gay roommate one year, and while we both had suspicions, we never actually came out to each other until years later when we found each other on OKCupid.
Lord Geovanni
so you studied when you could have had relations. you must curse your name every day
Oberon
I’m not sure it was quite as aggressive as you think it was. Note that in all three panels they are both wearing different clothing? And especially that between panels 2 and 3 Becky somehow goes from shorts to pants. I think that indicates that some time passed between the panels in this flashback. Sure, the book between panels 3 and 4 seems the same, but again the clothing doesn’t, and there’s no indication of clothing on the floor, either. If they got up and carefully stowed their discarded clothes the book would have been stowed as well, right?
Jen Aside
as in “actually made a move” vs. all hot air
Doctor_Who
I’ll say. Always lock the door when you decide to strangle your roommate, or else they’ll bolt. And buy a tarp and shovel beforehand and separately, you get funny looks when you walk up to the counter with those things together.
Or am I misinterpreting this strip?
otusasio451
You, uh…you got somethin’ you wanna tell us, Doctor?
Doctor_Who
Let’s just say there’s a reason I don’t use my school nickname Theta Sigma anymore, and decided to go traveling for a while.
Blue
Funny, I thought smashing with a rock was more your style. 😛
LeslieBean4Shizzle
**slowclap**
I was not expecting a reference to Armageddon Factor when I read the comments for Dumbing of Age tonight.
David Alexander McDonald
Hell that reference went all the way back to “The Tribe Of Gum.”
One was a violent old bastard!
Tualha
Wibbly-wobbly strangley-wangley.
Rutee
+1
Andrusi
It’s because people kept mistaking you for a fraternity, right?
Jonathan
i don’t recall rocks from Armageddon Factor, but it has been decades since I’ve seen it. the only rock i clearly recall is the big nasty one Turlough was brandishing in Mawdryn Undead.
Bill M.
No, bunging a rock at something was from “The Abominable Snowmen” while calling the Doctor by the name Theta Sigma was from “The Armageddon Factor.”
Doctor_Who
He also almost killed someone with a rock in the first ever story. He was kind of an ass back then.
Not like today, no sir. 🙂
MM
Hey, you go to school with the Master, it’s an important survival skill.
The Master
He loved it.
Jadedcynic
apt gravatar is apt (and if Ruth is The Master, who in the DoAverse is The Doctor?)
Joe
It’s okay, he’s a time traveler, the murder technically may not have happened yet.
chris73
I think they’re just about to demonstrate the guard position from the bottom in regards to BJJ
JustCheetoDust
“Fall atop me, and meet your doom!”
chris73
Yeah I’m not sure they’re doing it right but I just can’t put my finger on it…
Yotomoe
Naw you’re right on. Becky Assimilated that girl and gained her power. She’s just sad because Joyce is assimilating properly. BECKY NEEDS MORE POWER.
lejwocky
Det er ikke en Becky, det er en slags ting! Det imiterer en Becky, det er ikke virkelig! KOM DERE VEKK IDIOTER!!
Opus the Poet
Dutch?!? Nope Google says it’s Norwegian.
Thomas64
Definitely not Dutch — I should know, I am Dutch.
From my admittedly very limited knowledge of North Germanic a.k.a. Scandinavian languages, you can trust Google translate on this one, not just that it’s Norwegian, but also the general sense of the translation.
Not sure why one would post in a language other than English here, but then again, who doesn’t get drunk sometimes? 🙂
lejwocky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fW_otRmxuk
Opus the Poet
I don’t read any languages other than English and a little Spanish, but I have a lot of Dutch items around the house and the spelling of some of the words was similar. But then that’s true of most of the Germanic languages of the Continent. English is a Germanic language, but we have mugged so many other languages for their vocabularies that only a linguist or historian knows that any more.
Thomas64
In lejwocky’s first post, there are exactly three words that could also be Dutch, and two of those are false friends: “en” is the indefinite article in Norwegian, and means “and” in Dutch; “ikke” means “not” in Norwegian, and childishly emphatic “I” in Dutch (think “who wants to go first?” — “ikke, ikke, ikke” is like “me me meeee”; the normal form of “I” is “ik”).
“Kom” is the only one of those words that means the same thing in both Norwegian and Dutch; it means “come”.
It is a lot of fun to decipher these things. It’s a minefield of linguistic false friends, but there are also enough similarities that make it all seem sorta-kinda familiar and connected.
(Also, my dad is a linguist, and his interests did rub off on me, so I may just be a little bit more nerdy about this stuff than others.)
Thomas64
Oh wait, “er” is another Dutch/Norwegian false friend. It means “is” in Norwegian, and non-emphasized “there” in Dutch. (“There” with emphasis is “daar”.)
Kryss LaBryn
Naw, we’ll be linguistic nerds together.
Kelly
Awesome stuff. I have taken a few beginning Norwegian classes, I really need to get back to that…
Dragon_Nataku
jeg er ikke ost, vennligst ikke spis meg
The one and only thing I know how to say in Norwegian. Even I don’t know why I know how to say this ^<__<^;;
Thomas64
If you’re interested in finding out what the Dutch words mean, on those items you have in your house, let me know, I’ll be happy to translate! 🙂
Opus the Poet
It’s mainly the laundering instructions printed on the Dutch Army surplus sleeping bag I use, but as the bag was surplussed out in the late ’70s and I have been camping with it since the mid ’90s those instructions are probably moot by now. I got a lot of camping equipment from that particular surplus sale but as I couldn’t read the care instructions and it is coming up on twenty years since I bought the stuff, most of it is pretty much useless now. And mostly illegible.
Metacube
Translation: “That’s not Becky, it’s some kind of thing (as in something inhuman). It’s pretending to be Becky, it’s not real! COME ON YOU IDIOTS!!
(I am swedish so I am not 100% sure about the last line since I don’t see what “vekk” could mean)
Thomas64
Guessing from similarity to Dutch and German: “vekk” means “away”? As in “get away from there, you idiots”?
Pizkie
I also read the last line as “GET AWAY FROM THERE, IDIOTS!”. I’m Danish, and ‘vekk’ sounds suspiciously like ‘væk’ which, as Thomas says, means ‘gone/away’.
TamikaFlynn
I think they’re referencing The Thing?
lejwocky
this one gets it
MindLink
Not only that, but it’s an automated translation into Norwegian. As a Norwegian, I can understand the meaning, but none of the words are in correct tense or even order.
Plasma Mongoose
Is it assimilate or ass-stimulate?
Yotomoe
no one’s asses shall be stimulated as long as I’m around.
Leorale
Yotomoe: ultimate butt blocker 🙁
Plasma Mongoose
Just as long as the Jesus butt-plug isn’t used.
JustCheetoDust
Enol Angus might have something to say about that.
Mr. Random
Based on the flashback, I think Becky was the one that was assimilated. The other girl… kaitlin, took off her glasses and set them beside the bed it seems. Not something you would do if you weren’t expecting it.
Mehzus
Wow, you should be a detective
SgtWadeyWilson
Unless Becky was trying to remove Kaitlin’s eyes… or see her face without glasses. We’d have to dust for fingerprints to be sure who removed them.
Kryss LaBryn
That reminded me very strongly of This scene in the hilarious Canadian comedy “Corner Gas”.
Chaos and anarchy, my friend. Chaos and anarchy. XD
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Becky: If I had it to do all over again, I definitely…definitely…would’ve done it with you instead, Joyce. <3
Commander Clash
Not to mention you get when you hold up two rolls of duct tape and ask, “Which one of these is better at muffling human screams and binding hands and feet?”
Halloween Jack
Shovel? Amateur. Dispose of the corpse in the nearest convenient body of water; be sure to pierce the abdominal cavity so that it doesn’t float when the organs start to decompose. I swear, what do they teach you kids in school these days?
TFC
Which power tools are more dangerous, and how to weaponize drawing implements. And how to calculate the trajectories of all kinds of projectiles, arrows included.
Halloween Jack
Power tools are overrated, especially chainsaws; too heavy, depends on a functioning power grid, and if someone who has one gets close enough to use it, you’ve probably already lost. Projectiles I’ll grant you, you should be able to weaponize almost anything, and instead of power tools, go with a good basic conditioning program combined with fighting with your basic stick with a pointy end.
Hoboturtle
+1
otusasio451
KAAAAAAAAAITLIIIIIIIIIIIN!!!!!
Plasma Mongoose
Holy Shat…ner!
Opus the Poet
Yep, got caught fooling around.
Opus the Poet