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Alarm
Posted on February 27, 2014 by David M Willis

240 thoughts on “Alarm”

  1. Tunaro

    And then Zombie Dorothy murdered everybody.

    1. Jen Aside

      I expect she filled her pants first.

      1. JessWitt

        With triplets?

        1. GoldStarz

          No, with dodecatuplets!

        2. Badeyes

          Why I read that as ‘Someone Capulet’ is beyond me but my next thought was “Wow won’t that make the Montagues jealous”

        3. Tucker

          The highest of brows.

        4. maarvarq

          Dodo Capulet, Juliet’s little sister (which would make her about 11…)

        5. Daibhid C

          Wasn’t she a Doctor Who companion?

        6. xKiv

          Who will not have been, eventually?

    2. GoldStarz

      No, just the the school staff, her classmates, Walky, and Sierra. She isn’t THAT bloodthirsty, GOD.

      1. Maveric1984

        She wouldn’t kill Walky. Not after getting to taste that caramel.

        1. Tunaro

          I don’t know, caramel brains sounds oddly delicious.

        2. xKiv

          It will only be a small killing.

        3. Valerie

          Just a little death.

        4. La Petit Mort

          I see what you did there. *nudge nudge*

        5. Ivan

          What’s with the bomb Gravatar?

  2. Idon'tcarenomore

    Shock does that.

  3. Mr. Random

    The first time I slept in.

    1. KingMabel

      …and realized that I had an exam that day

      1. Just Cheeto Dust

        I slept in multiple times before I fucked up that bad.

        And replace “exam” with “finals.”

      2. Maveric1984

        That’s nothing. I showed up for class one day, only to discover that the exam I thought was scheduled for that day, was actually given on the day before.

        …as evidenced between this story and the one below, I had a hard time in college. Just know that it has a happy ending, and I did get my degree in the end. It just took a lot longer than the typical 4 years.

        1. Alyssa

          I actually did that *twice* with two different exams.
          First one I found out because the teacher emailed me after the exam should have been, second because I got there and no one was there.
          Both were finals.
          I was thankfully allowed to make up both.

        2. Kevin

          On the day of the final for the hardest class I ever took, I got to class and realized I had forgotten my formula sheet. I made the twelve minute bike ride back to my apartment in four minutes, something that by all means should have been physically impossible.

          It ended up working out, the teacher was late so I didn’t miss any of the exam.

        3. Yet-One-More-Idiot

          I knew a boy in my class who was so tired from having spent all night studying for the exam the following morning, that he passed out about 20 minutes into the exam. The teacher did not bother to wake him up until a couple of minutes from the end (it was a 2-and-a-half hour exam), and informed him that he had slept through almost the entire exam.

          Some teachers can be real doo-doo heads.

        4. prime_pm

          First time I overslept in college will always live with me.

          I woke up around 8:30, my class started at 8:30 and it was off campus. I had to forego a shower and rushed to the building as fast as possible. Bus wasn’t running so I had to walk the whole way. By the time I arrived, class was half over and I was hot and exhausted. All I wanted was to return to my dorm and take a long shower.

          Then 9/11 happened. Yeah.

        5. doubledown

          The first time i took a bar exam i fell asleep for 30 minutes during the second half of the MBE (the multiple choice part). this after going back to my hotel room to take a nap in between the two parts of the multiple choice.

        6. Tenn

          @Kevin: Well, time runs slower the closer to the speed of light you move.

        7. Amanda

          I skipped the exam review day, as it was a simple gen ed course. The professor SAID it was the exam review day.

          I showed up on the day of the test, no one in sight. I never got a full answer as to why the test had been given on the review day.

        8. begbert2

          I did that once, the ‘find out the final was rescheduled buy showing up’ thing. I didn’t care much though, since I was going to fail it anyway: it was a philosophy class and the teacher hated me, so *anything* I said or wrote was marked marked wrong. There’s still a small part of me that suspects he sent out a rescheduling email to everyone but me.

        9. Ivan

          meh – I crammed 4 years into 7 myself.

          What’s with the big boom Gravatar?

      3. Tawdry Quirks

        My first year roommate and I were both in ROTC, which meant having to get up before the crack of dawn several times a week for Physical Training (PT). I’m still not certain how I managed to get through four semesters of ROTC without a bunch of absences and tardies for PT sessions. I mean, 6am, college students, and physical activity just don’t mix.

        One day my roommate and I both neglected to set our alarm clocks (which was related to an argument the previous evening about my alarm clock being too loud). My roommate utters “Fuck!” quite loudly, which woke me up, then I spend a few moments glancing back and forth between clocks to confirm that I’m not imagining things and proclaim “Oh, shit!” Both of us in unison then proclaim “We’re late for PT!” I think we then both determined that PT would be over before we could get our gym clothes on and head to the rec center, so we just put on normal street clothes and went for breakfast.

        I can’t remember what the exact punishment was, but I’m certain it involved lots of pushups and angry people shouting at us.

        1. nekobawt

          “lots of pushups and angry people shouting” is how i imagine military basic training to be.

        2. Beanzoboy

          I can attest to that. Throw in some mountain climbers, about a billion sit ups, pushups for days, running more in one morning’s PT regimen than you have for the first ~18 years of your life, and a whole bunch of pissed off military training instructors who love nothing more than exercise their vocal cords into your ears. Oddly enough, those were the best two months of my life. It sucks worse than hell while you’re there, but afterwards you wish you could go back. Unless you’re Finance. Those guys don’t do any work. Psh.

    2. Nyxness

      Happened the exact same way for me, too (minus the boyfriend-sleeping-next-to-me part). My roommate gets back from class at 10am… “Don’t you have class?”

  4. Yotomoe

    I’m gonna need a transparancy of that Panel 3 Sierra, Willis.

    1. Kevin

      She looks the same in the other two panels. Are you numberist? o_O

      1. Glynvel

        No, panel three she is clearly bracing herself for unholy amounts of panic being released.

        1. Ivan

          He’s into the Cyclops look.

    2. paradoxius

      Is this sufficient, or would you like me to get rid of the junk at the edges?
      http://i.imgur.com/q5qEf3U.png

  5. Super Duper

    But if that’s true, then shouldn’t the Dalek Eye stalk come out of her head now?

    1. MM

      That’s the next panel.

  6. Shogouki

    Please state the nature of your medical emergency.

    1. ninja_jesus

      A clear statement of your symptoms will help us provide the medical practitioner appropriate to your individual needs.

    2. Maveric1984

      Janeway has been acting out her fantasies on the holo deck again, but this time she got… stuck…

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Thanks for that, now I will be hearing Dotty speaking with SF Debris’ Evil Janeway voice.

  7. Plasma Mongoose

    Just as long as it wasn’t as class you enjoy, you can make it up later.

    1. Yotomoe

      I think it’s Gender Studies. Which might be one of Dorothy’s favorite classes.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        That would be a shame, we haven’t seen any decent DoAverse Leslie for quite some time now.

        1. KingMabel

          Maybe she’s having nightmares about babies being thrown out of windows…

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          Or babies forming in her tummy, which is worse for obvious reasons.

        3. Bill

          For some reason I interpreted “DoAverse Leslie” as “doable Leslie”.  It’s clear to see where my mind’s happy place is.

      2. Liz

        Nah, pretty sure Gender Studies is after lunch.

      3. That Damn Rat

        Pretty sure it’s math…. as Sal’s coming with them and I don’t think she’s in gender studies.

        1. Cybersnark

          Either way, it’s the class Joyce is in, and which Dotty and Walky will come running into while out of breath and disheveled. . .

        2. Tenn

          *dramatic Joycemunk*

        3. timemonkey

          If it’s math maybe someone will fake notes for her so the teacher won’t notice she was absent?

    2. shietka

      It’s Intro to Logic: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-3/01-if-the-shoes-split/logic/

      1. Bill

        And with parent’s weekend over, it is indeed Monday.  Well played, shietka.

    3. StClair

      You don’t understand. This absence is going to show up on her permanent record.

  8. JAD

    A different reaction to Amber’s “ALL SHALL BURN”

    1. Doctor_Who

      Missing video games is far more important in college than missing class.

  9. Deathjavu

    Oh no. Once you realize the world doesn’t end from missing one class, it’s all downhill from there.

    1. Betty Anne

      I can back THAT one up, unfortunately. :/

      1. Doctor_Who

        Same here. Once I discovered that classes of 400 don’t take attendance, waking promptly at 7:30 wasn’t a priority.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          As long as you still understood the subject matter and did your assignments, you should survive.

        2. Doctor_Who

          I did fine. All the useful stuff in Comp Sci happens in computer labs, not lecture halls.

        3. Kevin

          I have a 1pm comp sci class this quarter that I just don’t try to go to most days, because the parking lot (which I think comes in around 5000 spaces) fills up at 12:30 and you literally cannot park at the school after that. 12:29, you’re ok, 12:31, you’re SOL and might as well go home.

        4. Kevin

          When I was estimating the number of parking spots by averaging the parking space density over the total area of the lots, I forgot to include the parking structure. There should be at least 7000 spaces including the parking structure.

        5. Caladbolg

          Comp Sci? Lab? What is this manner of sorcery?
          Mind you, the amount of CS degrees LSU gives out is no where near record breaking.

        6. Deathjavu

          Well, the problem for me isn’t so much learning the material as it is doing and turning in the assignments…among other things, our professors are old, stubborn, and still learning the concept of “we could put up all the assignments and schedules online.” And then I still have to wake up to turn stuff in, because some of my professors won’t take assignments before the in-class due date.

          Having the stuff online is great not just for people who skip class (me), but also highly convenient for anyone who didn’t get the assignment written down, lost it, etc. Quicker and more reliable than having to ask someone in the class, which also requires you to still have friends in your classes. And obviously they already have digital copies of any handouts, so it’s not asking them to do…much of anything, really.

          It’s actually kind of mind boggling how behind my uni is with online integration…my high school had ~90% or better of the teachers with everything available online- schedules, timely grades, assignments, sometimes even notes. And that was 6 YEARS AGO. 6. YEARS. Meanwhile my university has TWO professors in my goddamn department that can manage this *amaaaaazing feat*. Two out of TWELVE.

        7. StClair

          Professors tend to have been at their jobs (and ossified there, along with their habits) for much longer than most public school teachers.

        8. Nyxness

          It’s worse when you have trouble finding motivation to go to class, but you go to a small liberal arts college where all your professors actually know you and notice when you’re not there. Like, the only real reason for me to go to Calculus class is to turn in homework and take exams; other than that I learn on my own from the textbook… but the prof would definitely notice if I skipped too much.

    2. Arkadi

      True story 🙁

  10. Bill

    “Call 911′

    OK, what’s the number?

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      It’s 000 here in Oz.

      1. Maveric1984

        Do the ambulances have to follow the yellow brick road?

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Only in Munchkin land.

        2. Lanval

          Is that what you lot are calling New Zealand now?

        3. Plasma Mongoose

          No, that’s Hobbitville. 😀

        4. Kiggy

          XD

        5. Spoon

          * Hobbiton – there, fixed it for you

  11. Yotomoe

    It reminds me of the Dane Cook joke where he slept in until like…3 pm on his first day as the manager for his job.

  12. Wonder Wig

    “Someone call IXII!”

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Don’t you mean CMXI?

      1. Pope William T Wodium

        Quote from Hercules. Take it up with Disney?

      2. Lanval

        Actually since the digits are independant of each other, so it might be read as IX-I-I since you are hitting nine, one and one rather than nine hundred and eleven. It’s not really a problem I imagine Medieval Scribes hitting a lot, but they would probably do with individual numbers as opposed to a total.

        Still, you do need at least something there to show that the number isn’t some other combination like IX-II (9-2), I-XI-I (1-11-1) or I-X-I-I (1-10-1-1).

        1. zaratustra

          How did the Ancient Roman phone system solve that conundrum?

        2. Betty Anne

          Ancient writing relied in two methods for clarity: A) that literate people could tell what was a word/what made sense in context, and B) use of dots between words or numbers to indicate end/start points for words. (People.today.sometimes.do.this.when.their.spacebar.is.broken. It’seasiertoreadthanjustrunningeverythingtogether.) If it were critically important that the numbers be separated, it would have probably been written IX.I.I.

        3. Betty Anne

          Whoops. That “People.today” threaded text was too long for a stacked message. ^^; It says “People today sometimes do this when their spacebar is broken” for anyone (like me) who can’t see the whole text in their layout.

  13. Plasma Mongoose

    I hope you know your DRABCD Sierra.

    1. KingMabel

      Dr. Who is
      Really
      A
      Back and
      Chest
      Doctor?

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Umm not exactly… 😛

        1. KingMabel

          Drunks
          Really
          Abuse
          Best freinds and
          Chums
          Daily?
          (Not physically of course)

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          Not talking about Billie or Ruth here. ^_^

        3. KingMabel

          Don’t
          Read
          Any
          Brony video
          Comments
          Dude

        4. Plasma Mongoose

          You are on a roll, ain’t ya?

        5. TheCerpent

          Don’t
          Raise
          A
          Bread-
          Chewing
          Demon

      2. Doctor_Who

        With a minor in gynecology.

        1. KingMabel

          “Hello Mrs. Roberts. Having back problems again? No problem just take of your pants.”

  14. nothri

    So Dorothy is saying she had a heartattack because she’s late for class and this might effect her scholarship, right?

    So I guess that means she just had…..a stroke of genius!

    Eh? Eh?

    1. Super Duper

      I wouldn’t be so alarmist about it.

      1. Pope William T Wodium

        Keep up the puns and someone’s gonna clock you.

        1. Maveric1984

          You could always protect yourself by putting your hands on your face.

        2. thomas0comer

          This is a serious issue, this isn’t the me for puns!

        3. thomas0comer

          **the time, thank you autocorrect

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      I would have joined in but I couldn’t think of any other good puns as a reply.

      1. nothri

        Didn’t have the heart for it? I understand. It doesn’t pay to be too im-pulse-ive with your puns. Make the wrong punchline and your hopes for a laugh will surely be in vein.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          What can I say, my biorhythms must be off or some shit.

        2. Just Cheeto Dust

          I’m having flashbacks to that Punsy McHale episode of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.

    3. Just Cheeto Dust

      Maybe she should wake Walky so he can take care of her angina?

      …I’ll show myself out.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Walky performs a CPR?

        1. Tenn

          Walky performs a last rites.

        2. N0083rP00F

          Sprinkler with nachito powder – dust to cheesy dust

  15. BlackIo

    Boy, one night of torrid passion and Dorothy’s entire lifeplan is already starting to go off the rails.

    1. Yotomoe

      Time skip to her drinking wine in a gutter wearing tathered clothes saying “where did it all go wrong?”

      1. BlackIo

        Caramel abs have been the death of many a poor girl, and lord, she knows she’s one.

        1. Kiggy

          +1

    2. Arkantos

      As they say on memebase, the fail here is premarital sex.

      1. Arkantos

        WOW. I just remembered that I have the WORST avatar for that comment.

  16. Plasma Mongoose

    Willis likes to go all Owellian Editor when it comes to posts that say FIRST.

    1. BlackIo

      I approve.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        He’s also very quick, in time I posted that message, the guy who posted First disappeared.

        1. Doctor_Who

          The WillisBots (a bunch of guys in cardboard Hot Shot costumes) are en route to his location as we speak, and he’ll never be heard from again.

  17. Quatoria

    One missed class. That’s all it took. TEENAGE SEXING KILLED MY PATH TO THE PRESIDENCY, by Dorothy.

    1. MarcinMN

      Now, instead, she will be banished to Monster Island!

    2. Super Duper

      She can appear on Robin’s future talk show!

  18. Shwayze

    Hahaha, Dorothy scheduled a class before 11.

    What is this, amateur hour?

  19. Kamino Neko

    ♥ Sierra. ♥ her so much.

    1. Yotomoe

      Get in line.

  20. Baker

    I feel like as much as she over studies she can just get the notes off someone else and be fine. Unless Willis is cruel and a report or project was due or it was an exam day with a jerk professor. Nice ones allow makeup without penalty within a day or two if notified immediately. Nasty ones dock you a full grade on it regardless.

    1. Sean

      A classic, for when the students quit showing up for class.

      Question 1. What is your name?
      Question 2. What is the date?
      Question 3. What is the title of your textbook. This is an “open book” question.
      Question 4. What is the name of your professor?

      Each question is worth 25%. This pop quiz is worth a full test grade. There will be no makeups.

    2. Betty Anne

      She probably bought into the bs that I bought into my first time in college – that somehow perfect attendance shows up on your transcripts and thus makes any kind of difference on a resume or job application.

      These days, of the jobs that don’t reject me BECAUSE of my college career, probably half or more never ask for my transcripts or even a reference from the college/university. Those that do seem to glance at the GPA and degree held. :/ It’d have been nice if someone had told me that back in 1998 when I was graduating from high school. :/

  21. newllend

    The next page will Dorothy causing a loud screams heard through the entire campus, then jolting up out of bed the quickly getting dressed and dragging Walky out of bed causing him to forget his pants…

    1. newllend

      It too bad this thing doesn’t have a Edit option

  22. Doctor_Who

    This happens to me constantly. Thing is, I’m never actually late.

    Something happens to my brain around four AM where it says “Wake 20% up, look at clock, somehow interpret the numbers as ‘You’re late!’ even though it’s pitch black out, panic, jump out of bed launching cat curled up on your chest across the room (distance is improving!), get five feet toward door before ability to tell time boots up, curse, go back to sleep for four hours.”

    1. MM

      You can go back to sleep? Lucky.

      1. Sean

        If you can’t yet tell time, you’re not yet Fully awake.

    2. brionl

      My alarm went off one morning, I got up, fed the cat and was eating breakfast. I noticed it was looking awfully dark for the time it was supposed to be. So I checked the time elsewhere. My alarm clock had the set buttons on top, and my cat had managed to bump the time forward about 3 hours so I would get up and feed him at 4 AM.

    3. Nyxness

      When I was living with a host family volunteering in Mexico, my first night there I woke up in the middle of the night. I saw light through the window and thought it was the sun (actually just streetlights). Checked my watch and it said 2:00… So of course I flipped out and thought I had slept in until 2pm on my first day with my host family and that they’d hate me and think I was lazy and awful and so on. I think I was already crying when I realized it was the middle of the night. And then somehow I made the same mistake again the next night.

      1. Romanticide

        Considering how daylight saving time over here means wake up when is still dark I wouldn’t blame you for getting confused.

  23. KingMabel

    I like how she’s awake enough to care but still too tired to show it.

    1. Doctor_Who

      You just described my life in a nutshell.

  24. Maveric1984

    When I started college, I signed up fo 8 am classes, thinking it would be easy to get up for them since I had been doing that in high school for the last four years. Turns out it’s harder to get out of bed when you don’t have your parents there to yell at you to get up.

    Nowadays, I wake up with my alarm right away, but back I. The day it was far too easy to just shut off my alarm and go back to sleep. I kinda feel like I wasted my 20s just because I couldn’t manage a proper sleep schedule on my own (for a while there when I was 19, I had completely reversed my sleep schedule, sleeping through the day and staying up all night). This of course resulted in me failing out of collegeNd having to live at hme for a while while I got my act together.

    1. Maveric1984

      ..god damn it’s hard to type on a tablet…

      1. Alex Stritar

        Tell me about it. Why I still prefer a labtop.

    2. ninja_jesus

      Shit, that’s where I am right now, unfortunately. Any advice you can give me to a currently struggling 23-year-old?

      1. Maveric1984

        Go to fucking class. Seriously. Once you get into the habit of skipping, it’s hard to break that habit. They always say you need to study 2 hours for every hour you’re in class, but that’s bullshit. As long as you go to class, pay attention, take good notes, and participate you’ll be golden. College really doesn’t take much effort, but it does take some effort.

        If you’re having a hard time getting out of bed in the morning, put your alarm clock on the other side of the room. That way you have to get up to turn it off rather than just mash the snooze button over and over again. My mistake was using my stereo as an alarm when it had a remote so I could turn it off without getting up.

        1. Nyxness

          My biggest issue is staying up until 3 or 4am doing homework and then getting up for class at 8… Any tips for that? I’m REALLY not an 8am person, but on the other hand having this schedule means I only have one class at 11 on Tuesdays and no class at all on Thursdays… If you ask me on a Thursday if I’d give up my day off to sleep in on MWF, I’d say hell no. If you asked me at 8am on MWF, however…

        2. Kevin

          As much as it blows to do this, my recommendation is to spend at least four hours Tuesday and Thursday at school doing homework. It’s much easier to focus in the school library than at home, and you’ll get the work done during the day so you can actually sleep at night. If you stick to it and manage to get all of your work done on Tuesday and Thursday, you can do whatever the fuck you want all day after you’re done with school MWF, which is a great feeling.

        3. nothri

          Pretty good advice. Anything for a guy who has a half-hour commute to school and apparently can’t write a term paper on his home computer to save his goddamn life?

        4. Kevin

          A half-hour to school isn’t all that bad. Think of it this way, if you spend a half hour to school, 4 hours at school, and a half back, that’s five hours of the day, but how much longer would you spend doing those same assignments at home? Ten hours? Fifteen?

        5. Kevin

          Of course personally I made the decision a few quarters ago that if I have to choose between taking an 8am class and graduating a quarter later, I’ll graduate later. I’m so useless at 8am I’m not even going to bother any more.

        6. Deathjavu

          Don’t leave your homework until the last minute? Kevin’s right about not doing the homework at home, that basically never works for me. Too used to goofing off there.

          Other than that, if, for example, you’re staying up until 2-3 am just futzing around online, I recommend a program that shuts off your computer at ~11pm-midnight, and possibly sleeping pills (if you can take them early enough to get the required 8 hours.) Low dose melatonin is relatively harmless, from what I’ve read, and puts me out. Then it’s caffeine on a shelf right next to the bed, for the hard part.

          Sucks that I have to regulate my sleep via drugs, but that’s where my life is at. I mean, theoretically I’m supposed to be altering my screwey brain chemistry via adderall anyway, and I’ve been known to drink, so it’s not exactly novel.

        7. Nyxness

          I don’t really have time for not doing homework at the last minute, though. Even if I do get some of my homework earlier, I still have plenty left for the middle of the night (which is when I’m most productive). Doesn’t help that every.single.one of my assignments takes me about 5x longer than anybody else I know, so I can basically spend all my free time doing homework and pull at least one all-nighter a week and still have to turn in half-completed assignments that I just couldn’t get done on time.

        8. Kevin

          Do you have attention problems? I suggested working at the school library because I can’t focus for shit when I’m at home and a one-hour assignment will take me three or five hours. Lately most of my time doing math homework at home has consisted of mining iron and redstone. I finally found some more diamonds…

        9. Deathjavu

          “Go to fucking class” A+, best advice. I have failed several classes, but none, not a single one, happened without me skipping at least 5 times.

    3. Romanticide

      I honestly don’t know how I just didn’t pass out in the middle of the street in my highschool years when I have to be a classes at 7:00 and school was quite far D: D:

  25. Kernanator

    Quick Dorothy, if you kill the alarm clock, you can avenge your own death.

  26. MrPotamus

    A cow is about to be had.

  27. Wensleydale

    Oh, I think her alarm went off! Her alarm for…um…for…caramel abs?

    I’ll just…go.

  28. Mr. Random

    Is it just me or can you EASILY imagine Sierra as a Cyclops for this strip?

    1. Bill

      Sierra = Turanga Leela?

  29. toddtr

    Oh no she’s going to blame Walky and they’re going to break up over this aren’t they?

    1. MM

      She wouldn’t have done anything with Walky if the rain hadn’t gotten her all excited. The weather must pay.

      And thus Amazi-Girl gains a new arch-nemesis.

      1. Super Duper

        Stupid Rain fetish.

    2. Pope William T Wodium

      I’d like to think she’s too rational to actually *blame* Walky, but yeah, she might try to “take a break” over this.

      1. Badeyes

        She may turn to basting him now.

      2. Mr. Random

        Friends reference. And yeah, if i have to pick, i’m on Ross’s side.

  30. alicemacher

    I hope this doesn’t lead to Dorothy considering dumping Walky because he’s a “distraction.”

    1. newllend

      Oh come on that would be straight up over reacting

      1. John

        And Dorothy never over-reacts!

    2. Jack Finch

      My guess: She couldn’t drop him before, it would be even harder for her now.

  31. John

    Dorothy fears this the way Joyce fears sin.

  32. Idon'tcarenomore

    I don’t think Dorothy is about to dump Walky as a distraction. I’m guessing she will do as she usually does, she will schedule.

    1. Bill

      Not likely she will consider Walky a ‘distraction’ if he was capable of rockin’ her world enough to cause this.

  33. Arkadi

    No one told you sex was gonna be this way.

    1. Maveric1984

      Well, she’s not a virgin after all. She knows what it’s all about.

      On the other hand, considering this is only the second time she’s slept next to someone, I’m surprised she got any sleep at all.back when I was dating, it would always take me a while to get used to having another person in bed with me. I wouldn’t be able to sleep the first few nights. Frankly, I’m surprised Walky got any sleep at all that first night.

      1. ninja_jesus

        Some people seem to be more naturally inclined to sleeping with another person than by themselves. My ex was that way; she was always out like a light when we were together.

      2. The_Master

        Yea, after 3 years of LDR, I wake up every 20 minutes or so sleeping next to someone.

      3. Arkadi

        Dotty isn’t a virgin, but that’s irrelevant: the Rembrandts joke had to be done.

  34. Plasma Mongoose

    Nothing restarts a heart quite like a surprise girl on girl pash, just saying… 😀

    1. KingMabel

      Don’t get our hopes up. We just saw the sinking of one of the most requested canon ships in this…

      They could have a threeway. With Walky.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        There is only so much caramel Dotty can handle at one time. 😀

        1. AJBulldis

          I don’t ship it, but I call it Twix. Dorothy is the pale cookie FYI.

        2. Bill

          Twix is (are?) surrounded in chocolate, not caramel.

        3. N0083rP00F

          Caramilk Bar …so how do you get the ….. [bye now]

  35. GoogerGeiger

    So much for Yale.

    1. Maveric1984

      If Dubya got into Yale, I think oversleeping g and missing one class isn’t going to hurt Dorothy that much.

      1. John

        Dorothy’s daddy didn’t go to Yale.

    2. KingMabel

      Cornell is better anyway.

    3. Super Duper

      Patrick Bateman thinks its overrated anyway.

      1. Just Cheeto Dust

        He also thinks that ATMs eat cats.

  36. Bilfred

    Hoo boy, what a way to start the day.

  37. Lanval

    This is why morning classes are Satan. My lowest marks are all in classes before 10 AM.

    At least now I’ve realized that I don’t need to attend every single one of them so if I do sleep past my alarms I don’t die of panic and run over in the middle of winter in nothing but jeans and a t-shirt.

  38. bix902

    Ahh I remember the first time I accidentally slept though a class
    I nearly had a heart attack when I woke up and realized I had forgotten to set an alarm

  39. Lizardizzle

    I smell a drama bomb.

  40. Romanticide

    What use is to Dorothy to be woken up to be reminded of a class that started 2 hours ago? Unless she has another class coming soon by that point it would be better to just let her sleep…

    1. John

      She’s got Gender Studies (as does Walky). I’m not sure when the start time for that is, but it’s after Walky’s (and Joyce, Billie, Sal, and Mike’s) math class, which I think from Walky’s reaction to Dorothy having an 8 AM Monday class has be a 9 or later class. So 10 or 11, probably.

      1. Bill

        Should make for an interesting discussion in Gender Studies, though?
        Leslie:  “Does anybody have anything they would like to discuss with the group?”
        Walky: “I GOT LAID LAST NIGHT!!!”

        1. Roborat

          Then segues into a rendition of the Andy Samberg “I Just Had Sex” video.

  41. Triniking

    This happens. 🙁

  42. Meng Ling

    Now she’s gonna be all like, NUUUU why did I date you? Your caramel sculpted body made me miss classssss. DDDDD8

  43. SuperActionJackson

    Cool. First ruth and billie, next walky and dorothy. Willis giveth, willis taketh away.

  44. Alex Stritar

    Unless 911 can put Dorothy in touch with the Doctor, I don’t think they’d be able to help her. (Dr Emmett Brown is also acceptable.)

  45. Gigafreak

    Speaking of terrible news related to penises…
    http://i.imgur.com/ugyglf3.png

    1. David Willis

      I wouldn’t say Sal was all THAT successful.

      1. Gigafreak

        Indeed. Billie’s the only one who actually caught it. Sal just managed to get closer than Joyce ever did.

        …Now I’ve got a mental image of Billie snatching a flying wriggly disembodied penis out of the sky…

        Only in the Walkyverse can Danny’s penis be so desirable that Billie would fistfight Sal over it.

        1. Gigafreak

          …And now I’ve got a mental image of Billie wielding the disembodied penis as a weapon against Sal. Defeat by cockslap is… probably rather unpleasant.

        2. Lizardizzle

          Sal’s a strong Martian-DNA laden lady. She could take on ten or twenty Danny Ds any day.

        3. Doctor_Who

          I imagine is more as a Pokemon-like scenario.

          “Gotcha! WEENUS was caught!”
          “What? WEENUS is evolving!”
          “Congratulations! Your WEENUS evolved into BONIR!”

        4. Jackson

          Sal’s Poké Ball wiggled a few times before letting it out, whereas Joyce’s missed altogether.

      2. John

        Well, she had it pinned down in Showalter Fountain that one time, but she decided to let it go.

  46. CianM1301

    A fiver says she’ll blame Walky in some way for this.

    1. AJBulldis

      I think it’ll be more she blames herself for letting Walky distract her. Either way he won’t be seeing much of her lately and probably won’t be able to shut up about the sex, except no one wants to hear it and it turns out he doesn’t really have friends.

    2. Arkantos

      I’m curious. Is a fiver a five dollar bill, or is it some other form of currency?

      1. ninja_jesus

        A tennie says that a fiver’s a five dollar bill.

        1. Bill

          “A sawbuck says that a fiver’s a five dollar bill.”

          Fixed it for you.

        2. Doctor_Who

          A simoleon says a shave and a haircut is two bits.

      2. N0083rP00F

        Fiver is a Rabbit isn’t he?

      3. CianM1301

        A fiver is a five euro note.

  47. Volkai

    OGod. Red alert. Explosions imminent.

  48. Toes14

    Wow Sierra is looking more busty than I remember.

  49. Tenn

    Joyce: “Does anyone have a strap-on I can borrow?”

    *cut to Dorothy*

    Walky: “Ow ow ow ow ow OW!!!”

    1. The Candyman

      “But you said anal was no big deal!”

  50. hof1991

    Dorothy, Dorothy, Dorothy. This is why well organized pre-presidential candidates arrange their sexy times for Friday and Saturday nights. Eyes on the prize.

  51. Alexx

    Ah, those dreams of waking up late for a class still kinda echo even a few years after college is done.

  52. Carl

    I’m so glad to see this comic teaching kids about the dangers of premarital sex! Keep up the good work, Dave.

  53. Roborat

    Ironically, I slept through my alarm this morning, it went off, but somehow was tuned to a station that is no longer broadcasting, so no noise. Luckily it was only 45 minutes after the alarm time, so I still managed to work on time. Which made me wonder what I do on normal mornings that wastes 45 minutes.

  54. Loki

    So whatever happened to Dotty analyzing the pictures of Amazi-Girl?

    1. David Willis

      “process”

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/01-the-only-dope-for-me-is-you/downtime/

      Meaning, like, renaming them from “DC20234.jpg” into something more like “Amazi-Girl001.jpg.”

      I don’t think you want to see comics about that.

      1. arbot

        I was also confused that she was back in bed. I assumed processing would involve something like actually looking at them and maybe figuring out who Amazi-Girl is.

        1. David Willis

          It’s tomorrow. It’s 10am. It’s more than 12 hours later.

          Dorothy prefers to spend a good portion of the night’s hours asleep, as not sleeping makes doing well in school harder.

        2. Maveric1984

          Plus, they were out of Amazi-condoms

    2. Bill

      Man, I’m so old-school I imagine “processing pictures” to still refer to the time spent in the darkroom with the raw film, and then the negatives in the enlarger and the various trays of chemical baths.

  55. SeanNOLA

    I lived this storyline when I was in college.

    It doesn’t end well for Walky.

  56. nothri

    And that’s why you never, ever, ever, ever schedule anything before 10:00 in college unless the course is both vital to your subject and unavailable at any other point in time at all OR you have a self-loathing so intense it can be seen from space.

    1. nothri

      But nothri, I hear you ask, what if I’m just the kind of person who has no trouble getting up in the morning and loves to come awake as early as possible?

      My response: Greetings, sapient being, and welcome to our planet. We appreciate your interest and curiosity of our ways, bizarre as they must seem to you (as I can assure yours are to us). It is my sincere hope that we have much to teach one another, from completely and totally different worlds though we may come.

  57. Jack Finch

    Sierra. All hail your adorableness.

  58. DudeWithName

    I can see this being what makes her leave Walky

  59. LuvCraftian Lore

    Dotty’s reaction… Is significantly better than Amby’s ‘all shall burn’

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