I hope Billie ends up getting REALLY fat over the course of 100-150 comics. Just a little fatter week after until she is REALLY HUGE! Then I hope she ends up with walky.
Why not? You’d be surprised at the changes people go through in college. When I started over a year ago, I never expected my facial hair would end up making me look like Wolverine.
Tucker
Need I keep dropping in to remind you that we started college last Monday?
This is true. I started college right about the time people started using paper. It was amazing the change in everybody over the next year – we had all been all buffed up from chiseling our notes into stone tablets, then all of a sudden BOOM we had less Popeye-like arms.
Hardest part was finding enough feathers to cut off for writing and berries to squeeze for ink, but that worked out eventually.
I actually caught myself telling one of my kids the other day, “back when I was your age, our GPS systems were on paper, and we called them maps.”
Tucker
Shit, now I feel really young.
I remember when we got a 80286 and the computer booted off one 5 1/4 and ran programs off the other 5 1/4…
Bill
Not quite as old as Animal; by the time I was in high school we had advanced past abacuses to slide rules.  For computers, we had teletype terminals that connected to a big mainframe at the college.  Commands were entered using BASIC, although there was a way of entering long programs at the terminal using punched-out paper tape.  And you had to be in an advanced-level or honors-level math class to be allowed to access it.
I also remember how everybody considered it a major step forward when the early Trash-80s, Timex/Sinclairs, and the TI-99s came out with the programs on magnetic tape cassettes.
John Madden
ahahahahahahaha
ryan
do you realize that 100-150 comics is roughly three days?
Tucker
So far as I can tell, if you follow the timeline in the archive, it definitely seems it all happened in one week. I mean, how many comics did it take for the party story-line? That was just a few hours.
Tucker
Yeah, if you pop through the archive, each storyline is bookended morning and night. That makes:
Sunday: Move-in Day
Monday: Uphill from here
Tuesday: Men are from Beck, Women are from Clark
Wednesday: The Bechdel Test
Thursday: Media Rumble
Friday: Yesterday was Thursday
Saturday: Pajama Jeans.
It’s pretty impressive when you consider Joe Joed himself onto the news in under a week of being at college.
Or did I miss something? God?
Bill
I believe there has been a little more time gone by than just one week.  Parents’ Weekend is not usually the first weekend of the semester.  In addition, the cast had time to take a trip out to the lake — probably on a weekend — and Joyce’s attempted roofie/rape occurred at a party that more than likely took place on another weekend.
If I recall correctly, I think even Willis has said that roughly a month (four weeks or so) have elapsed.
Enderkap
I suppose your right… I just don’t want to wait 1000 – 2000 comics to see BBW Billie. Plus, I thought the pace of “days” would pick up eventually. I couldn’t imagine their second semester starting in 2020.
ryan
if it’s anything like anime, the pace will only get slower.
That is a profound statement and quite a theory in and of itself. 😀
f.p.
I’ll let someone else do the research. I’m not really an only-red-Skittles type. I’ll take the variety pack 😉
DarkVeghetta
YES. And it feels AMAZING. Especially when she’s on top and you’re basically smothered under a gigantic breast. BBW make the best pillows too. Most are even warm in winter and cool in summer – so you don’t even need a fan if you have your BBW girlfriend handy.
Scientific proof that BBW girlfriends are awesome.
I was bored on the last Billie & Sal comic, and made a commented history of Billie/Sal. By the time I was finished a new strip was out, and so I put it off until someone would read it. Maybe now, since you’ve kindly pointed out the newest addition. Now let’s see how a series of 6 hyperlinks goes without the ability to edit posts…
By the way… Sal could be waving to Billie or Walky or both in that last panel, but her face is turned more towards Billie. And her expression is disappointed that Billie is ignoring her. Conclusion: she was trying to impress Billie. And Billie is upset that Sal chose to go water-skiing instead of ‘hanging out’ with her – which seems a stretch until you remember that Billie and Sal were with each other a moment ago, so Billie may have been looking forward to spending time with Sal. This also relates to Billie’s earlier issues with Sal never being around.
People should overanalyze more often. It makes things more interesting.
Blob Marley
I like your overanalysis and I’m not even shipping Sillie (Sal+Billie fits so well…)
valkeer1
Overanalysis or not, +1,000 internetz to you for making me laugh maniacally at 3 AM
Tucker
You got the attention of the artist, that’s for sure.
Zababcd
About that poll… I did some maths. I do that a lot. And almost every method I come up with gives Billie/Joyce as the most likely pairing. And the only one that doesn’t (actually it gives them as the least-likely pairing) is the analysis of frequency that the two characters are both tagged in updates after the first point at which both characters had been introduced. This was only 18.75% of updates for Billie/Joyce, and 25.71% of updates for the winner via this method, Dorothy/Joyce.
However… if you change it to ‘the frequency that the two characters are both tagged without other characters in updates after the first point at which both characters had been introduced, then, finally, it’s Billie/Sal leading by about 0.67% over the runner-up. Or leading by over 9% if you normalise the results. See, I can overanalyse with maths as well.
And that was done without image editing software – I used the built-in Visual Basic for Applications in Microsoft Excel. Which is cool enough to warrant bragging, so I’m not going to apologise for mentioning it.
Energetic Jen
I liked the little swoopy lines you added to one of the pages to take up more visual room. Nice touch.
Cut and paste is still part of editing. Or at least that’s what they’re teaching in the schools nowadays.
Although, I probably shouldn’t hold much stock in the words of the teacher I had to teach 3dsMax to in a SciViz Class.
Zababcd
Yes, but if you picked up on the altered quote, and you think about it, I’m not really trying to say that cutting and pasting doesn’t count as editing. Just that’s it’s such a minor part of as to be considered insignificant. I’m pretty sure I learned to cut and paste in MS Paint before I learned to draw in MS Paint.
I’ve tried reading that post from the perspective of someone who has no idea what quote I’m on about, and it’s really annoying. So the quote’s “That’s not a knife.This is a knife.” from Crocodile Dundee, the movie.
Cherry
Heehee~ Oh my god, that’s glorious. She does seem pretty obsessed with getting Sal’s attention, doesn’t she? IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW. It’s like, The Da Vinci Code of covert lesbianism!
Okay, you’ve converted me. Team Sallie for life.
Tucker
Salvador?
El
Love it!
lazarusLong
SHHHH!!!! Don’t tell Joyce!!!
Roborat
Nice work, and you have waaaaaaaaay to much free time on your hands.
217 thoughts on “Friends”
Jen Aside
Hard work like… hard liquor?
Plasma Mongoose
Those Freshmen Fifties aint gonna put themselves on you know. 😛
Enderkap
I hope Billie ends up getting REALLY fat over the course of 100-150 comics. Just a little fatter week after until she is REALLY HUGE! Then I hope she ends up with walky.
Plasma Mongoose
You’re hoping Billie will end up as a BBW?
Kernanator
Why not? You’d be surprised at the changes people go through in college. When I started over a year ago, I never expected my facial hair would end up making me look like Wolverine.
Tucker
Need I keep dropping in to remind you that we started college last Monday?
Last Monday.
I’ll make an image macro to drop on people.
Tucker
I did it anyway…
Michelle J Caboose
It’s only Saturday?
Enderkap
Wait a second… If it’s Saturday then why did Amazi-girl need to be woken up for class? Being a super hero must really be taking a toll.
Plasma Mongoose
Amber doesn’t know what day it is due to her excessive gaming perhaps?
Kalan
Amber need to be woken up FOR her excessive gaming. She didn’t say anything about a class, she needs to be up by 2 to check in with her guild.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-2/01-pajama-jeans/digit/
Michelle J Caboose
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-2/01-pajama-jeans/nap/ even.
Animal
This is true. I started college right about the time people started using paper. It was amazing the change in everybody over the next year – we had all been all buffed up from chiseling our notes into stone tablets, then all of a sudden BOOM we had less Popeye-like arms.
Hardest part was finding enough feathers to cut off for writing and berries to squeeze for ink, but that worked out eventually.
a99steaksauce
*clap* *clap* *clap* *clap* *clap* *clap* *clap* So….beautiful *wipes tear form eye*
Plasma Mongoose
I feel way younger now that I read that, I only remember as far back to when computers used punch-cards to program with.
Animal
I actually caught myself telling one of my kids the other day, “back when I was your age, our GPS systems were on paper, and we called them maps.”
Tucker
Shit, now I feel really young.
I remember when we got a 80286 and the computer booted off one 5 1/4 and ran programs off the other 5 1/4…
Bill
Not quite as old as Animal; by the time I was in high school we had advanced past abacuses to slide rules.  For computers, we had teletype terminals that connected to a big mainframe at the college.  Commands were entered using BASIC, although there was a way of entering long programs at the terminal using punched-out paper tape.  And you had to be in an advanced-level or honors-level math class to be allowed to access it.
I also remember how everybody considered it a major step forward when the early Trash-80s, Timex/Sinclairs, and the TI-99s came out with the programs on magnetic tape cassettes.
John Madden
ahahahahahahaha
ryan
do you realize that 100-150 comics is roughly three days?
Tucker
So far as I can tell, if you follow the timeline in the archive, it definitely seems it all happened in one week. I mean, how many comics did it take for the party story-line? That was just a few hours.
Tucker
Yeah, if you pop through the archive, each storyline is bookended morning and night. That makes:
Sunday: Move-in Day
Monday: Uphill from here
Tuesday: Men are from Beck, Women are from Clark
Wednesday: The Bechdel Test
Thursday: Media Rumble
Friday: Yesterday was Thursday
Saturday: Pajama Jeans.
It’s pretty impressive when you consider Joe Joed himself onto the news in under a week of being at college.
Or did I miss something? God?
Bill
I believe there has been a little more time gone by than just one week.  Parents’ Weekend is not usually the first weekend of the semester.  In addition, the cast had time to take a trip out to the lake — probably on a weekend — and Joyce’s attempted roofie/rape occurred at a party that more than likely took place on another weekend.
If I recall correctly, I think even Willis has said that roughly a month (four weeks or so) have elapsed.
Enderkap
I suppose your right… I just don’t want to wait 1000 – 2000 comics to see BBW Billie. Plus, I thought the pace of “days” would pick up eventually. I couldn’t imagine their second semester starting in 2020.
ryan
if it’s anything like anime, the pace will only get slower.
Matt Boyd
I’ve heard of this fetish.
Plasma Mongoose
A surprising high number of guys seem to like their women big.
A common reason seems to be for tactile reasons; they like the feel of bouncy flesh.
f.p.
So, basically they want a whole woman that feels like boobs?
Plasma Mongoose
That is a profound statement and quite a theory in and of itself. 😀
f.p.
I’ll let someone else do the research. I’m not really an only-red-Skittles type. I’ll take the variety pack 😉
DarkVeghetta
YES. And it feels AMAZING. Especially when she’s on top and you’re basically smothered under a gigantic breast. BBW make the best pillows too. Most are even warm in winter and cool in summer – so you don’t even need a fan if you have your BBW girlfriend handy.
Scientific proof that BBW girlfriends are awesome.
Joraiem
Does Sal have Billie’s reflective shades? o.o When did that happen?
Plasma Mongoose
Accidently putting on each others clothes after making out is a common enough occurence I believe.
Zababcd
I was bored on the last Billie & Sal comic, and made a commented history of Billie/Sal. By the time I was finished a new strip was out, and so I put it off until someone would read it. Maybe now, since you’ve kindly pointed out the newest addition. Now let’s see how a series of 6 hyperlinks goes without the ability to edit posts…
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David
This is amazing.
Wait. My wife says this needs caps.
THIS IS AMAZING.
Jetstream
If he wasn’t gonna do it before he might now 😉
Brendan
It’s possible you’re overanalyzing.
Zababcd
I’m almost certain that I’m overanalyzing.
By the way… Sal could be waving to Billie or Walky or both in that last panel, but her face is turned more towards Billie. And her expression is disappointed that Billie is ignoring her. Conclusion: she was trying to impress Billie. And Billie is upset that Sal chose to go water-skiing instead of ‘hanging out’ with her – which seems a stretch until you remember that Billie and Sal were with each other a moment ago, so Billie may have been looking forward to spending time with Sal. This also relates to Billie’s earlier issues with Sal never being around.
People should overanalyze more often. It makes things more interesting.
Blob Marley
I like your overanalysis and I’m not even shipping Sillie (Sal+Billie fits so well…)
valkeer1
Overanalysis or not, +1,000 internetz to you for making me laugh maniacally at 3 AM
Tucker
You got the attention of the artist, that’s for sure.
Zababcd
About that poll… I did some maths. I do that a lot. And almost every method I come up with gives Billie/Joyce as the most likely pairing. And the only one that doesn’t (actually it gives them as the least-likely pairing) is the analysis of frequency that the two characters are both tagged in updates after the first point at which both characters had been introduced. This was only 18.75% of updates for Billie/Joyce, and 25.71% of updates for the winner via this method, Dorothy/Joyce.
However… if you change it to ‘the frequency that the two characters are both tagged without other characters in updates after the first point at which both characters had been introduced, then, finally, it’s Billie/Sal leading by about 0.67% over the runner-up. Or leading by over 9% if you normalise the results. See, I can overanalyse with maths as well.
Plasma Mongoose
Very clever thesis you created there.
Rikushadow5
Yeah, it’s about time somebody besides you got in on the pic editing around here, eh?
Plasma Mongoose
I guess that makes me the grav editing hipster then.
Zababcd
Collections of old comics arranged on a paint document with text added?
That’s not a pic edit. THIS is a pic edit… oh, my Australian is showing.
Picture: Crazy Sal
And that was done without image editing software – I used the built-in Visual Basic for Applications in Microsoft Excel. Which is cool enough to warrant bragging, so I’m not going to apologise for mentioning it.
Energetic Jen
I liked the little swoopy lines you added to one of the pages to take up more visual room. Nice touch.
Rikushadow5
Cut and paste is still part of editing. Or at least that’s what they’re teaching in the schools nowadays.
Although, I probably shouldn’t hold much stock in the words of the teacher I had to teach 3dsMax to in a SciViz Class.
Zababcd
Yes, but if you picked up on the altered quote, and you think about it, I’m not really trying to say that cutting and pasting doesn’t count as editing. Just that’s it’s such a minor part of as to be considered insignificant. I’m pretty sure I learned to cut and paste in MS Paint before I learned to draw in MS Paint.
I’ve tried reading that post from the perspective of someone who has no idea what quote I’m on about, and it’s really annoying. So the quote’s “That’s not a knife.This is a knife.” from Crocodile Dundee, the movie.
Cherry
Heehee~ Oh my god, that’s glorious. She does seem pretty obsessed with getting Sal’s attention, doesn’t she? IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW. It’s like, The Da Vinci Code of covert lesbianism!
Okay, you’ve converted me. Team Sallie for life.
Tucker
Salvador?
El
Love it!
lazarusLong
SHHHH!!!! Don’t tell Joyce!!!
Roborat
Nice work, and you have waaaaaaaaay to much free time on your hands.
Phillip Wilde
ALL THE AWARDS.
bwernard
Here, here, you left out the forlorn (is that a real word?) look on the poster!
http://shortpacked.bigcartel.com/product/dumbing-of-age-monroe-lake-poster
milk experiment
Ooh, good point! Sal’s casting a forlorn sidelong glance at Billie, who’s grinning sheepishly. Nice catch. 🙂
Rylan
I wonder what walky ever did to her to make her feel like this towards him?
Plasma Mongoose
Maybe he stole the last McNugget from her when they were kids.
Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
Daggone it! Now you have me wanting McNuggets at 12:44 PM and I don’t even like MCD’s much anymore
Tucker
Something tells me Billie has no problem putting her hands on McNuggets.
bwernard
“Adventure Time” reference?
…man, not sure how I feel about being able to do this connection.
Kernanator
Feel proud.
Blob Marley
“Dude… don’t eat those.”
Joraiem
The question is: Was Walky a buff baby that could dance like a man?
Kamino Neko
He remained uncool while she was starting down the road to cool.
fellixe
It’s a wall some guys hit due to the inability to grow boobs.
Blue
Damn, Sal.
Where’d she get the waterskis?
Plasma Mongoose
Furthermore, where did she get the boat?
NF
Would Batman need a boat to water-ski?
Originalslugboy
I’m Batman. And I can water-ski. In space.
alex
Better question: Who’s pulling her?!
Zababcd
No-one. She and the boat are being blown along by a really strong wind. Please ignore physics, which would contradict this explanation.
Plasma Mongoose
Ultra-Boat?
Sgt_Sarge
There is no boat. Her awesomeness is pulling itself.