But plain, please. A burlap sack with a big dollar sign on it just draws too much curiousity.
SeanR
If it’s a burlap sack from the ag courses it likely has some CO-OP name on it.
And smells of its previous contents.
Let’s hope it was formerly full of unshelled pecans or peanuts and not,… leavings.
It’s certainly not any kind of nopet3… it’s not the most likely thing in the world but as a slow burn I could see it, I mean, Becky and Ruth are already bonding over killing Joe, and Dina seems like she’s willing to at least treat it as an interesting problem, sooooo….
I bet if you bait the sack with a couple femurs, Ruth would run right into it all on her own. Then you can bring her to the vet or trim her claws or whatever. Problem is that trick’s only going to work once, so make it count.
You could try using a large towel. Although you still wanna watch your hands. I’m still nursing a swollen finger from a cat bite from one of my charges at the shelter who was NOT pleased at being recaptured and returned to her kitty condo.
Needfuldoer
One of the cats we had when I was growing up caught my dad in the wrist pretty good with his hind claws. He was trying to get him in a carrier for a vet appointment, but the poor little guy was just flailing because he was scared out of his mind. The cat may be gone but the scar’s still there.
Well, “little”, he was just over a year old and less than 10 pounds when that happened. It was even harder than that to wrangle him when he was in his prime. He eventually grew up into a 16 pound chonk, but they’re always your kittens. (We never let him get morbidly obese, he was just a big, stocky cat.)
Do you have a new canon that this is all happening in Mike’s head?
Everyone seems slightly more awful in very Mike-ish ways, like how he’d imagine them being. And I’m just waiting for Booster to reveal they’re actually Mike.
I think it’s more Mike’s restless spirit amplifying dickish impluses from beyond the grave
Sirksome
People complain that Mike is gone but he’s not. There’s just a little bit of Mike in everyone now.
StClair
I wonder if it was a traditional Martian service, and they grokked him in his fullness.
Geneseepaws
Sure. That’s a good point. Could you pass me the Ketchup, please?
Clif
Talk about your inner Mike.
Poskie
Valentine Michael Warner? ?
Tan
In the moms, at least.
There is a nickel on his gravestone.
Jhon
Throw a nickle on the stone, help another sad trombone…
Sombrero
Mike is in the air.
SeanR
Really? Funeral practices in Indiana are a bit different than in my state, then.
We usually put them in the ground or burn them to ashes. Our funeral dinners contain absolutely no dead-guy.
I wouldn’t have expected Indiana to have borrowed New Guinea funerary practices.
Being direct is a good idea when approaching someone.
Joe’s problem wasn’t directness, though – it was insensitivity. His “directness” was done to needle Ruth about her breakup, not to actually start anything with her.
Which is what Joyce picked up on. Joe is smooth – that approach was not smooth. Joe didn’t want to sleep with Ruth, he wanted to annoy her (into leaving?).
Maybe? I’m not sure on the motive as to why he’d want to annoy Ruth or for that matter why he’d even have any interest in her beyond the fact that she’s a woman. Has he ever even talked to Ruth before this moment? Like they have no relationship history good or bad.
Poskie
Remember when he was hitting on Sarah in the cafeteria? He said something to her along the lines of, “You have an angry energy to you that I like. It’d be stupid not to harness that, y’know?”
Maybe Joe just likes angry ladies. He pisses off enough of them…
Jhon
Joe only knows angry ladies. After a few minutes with Joe, any lady becomes an angry lady.
thejeff
And that was after she’d already said no. Telling someone who’s angry at you for hitting on them that you find it hot that they’re angry is not good consent culture.
To be clear I’m talking about the creepy sleazebag and not Nightguy. Joe putting on a costume and defending potential rape victims at night might actually improve his character a bit.
The thing is, while a lot of his schtick has been about having as much sex as possible, Joe has also been shown to value consent and view it as an essential component. Street harassers don’t tend to put out that vibe.
Sirksome
That’s like the one major difference. I do think he’s trying to do better since his do list got leaked, but he’s still also the guy saying “now kiss” every time he saw two women fighting. I believe he can be better but I’m also not holding my breath.
Agemegos
Yeah. I am a dyed-in-the-wool Joeyce shipper: it is my fond belief that over a plausible course of time Joyce will recover from her abusive upbringing and Joe will reform his attitudes to women and love, to such an extent that they will then be good for each other.
I just don’t expect to live long enough to see it happen. 🙁
Joe at the very least seems to understand the word ‘no’
Agemegos
Always has. Not only has he never mistaken it for “yes”, but also he knows that it doesn’t mean “maybe” and it doesn’t mean “try again later”.
Joe is okay on issues of consent. Just not so good about treating women as people.
thejeff
That’s not really true. He talks a good game about consent, but it’s taken women yelling at him to get him to acknowledge the “no” and even then he’s come back around to it later.
That’s all pre-change and reversion, of course. We’ve seen little of him hitting on anyone after that, so it’s hard to say.
Oh, agreed, but the look on her face combined with ‘you weren’t even TRYING.’ both suggest to me that she recognizes his heart’s not in it and that’s a bigger issue to her than if he’d been earnestly (but still, given Joe, grossly) hitting on Ruth. If only because if his heart ISN’T in it, then why keep up the Indomitable Sex Monster facade?
(The answer, of course, is that he thinks he’s destined to become his cheating father – and given the lack of ‘it was one time’ sort of minimizations to Joe, and ‘I don’t even notice other attractive women’ of Richard’s assurances,* I’m not at all convinced he only blew up one relationship with cheating or that it won’t be a problem once his and Stacy’s New Relationship Energy wears off – and thinks that superficial relationships with women are the only way he can keep from hurting someone later. Too bad the campus therapists suck.)
* I feel fairly confident Joe’s arc will involve recognizing that he CAN find women attractive without being a scumbag, even if he’s already in a romantic relationship. The vibe I got off that scene with Richard was a lot of magical thinking that THIS time would be different because the problem hasn’t occurred yet, but also that he doesn’t necessarily recognize that he can find someone attractive without ever acting on that. Finding someone hot isn’t really a choice, but hitting on them is. Given Joe’s immediate setting himself up for failure ‘no sex, ever’ as well, I suspect he learned that from his dad. Could always be wrong! But uh. I am not confident.
The Issue here isn’t that he isn’t be pushy enough, the issue is that his flirting had no attempt to be charming or alluring what’s so ever. I know we label Joe as a sleezball but he can have charisma when he wants to.
Watched ‘The Ghost And Mrs. Muir’ last night – been watching a lot of classic movies with my spouse during the lockdown – can confirm that just about every man portrayed in movies during the 30’s and 40’s would be considered irredeemably creepy and stalkerish by modern standards.
Your meme is both out of date and does not explain how to convince Ruth to get in the sack, let alone how to make it profitable. Please turn your internet card to your nearest Libarian.
Exciting new possibilities now that Joyce is removed from religion for her to criticize Joe’s pickups based not on moral grounds but instead their degree of efficiency!
I mean, they can still be criticized on moral grounds–religion doesn’t have a monopoly on morality. Hell, I’d argue that secular humanism is more ethical than the type of Christianity that Joyce grew up in, no contest.
Heck, members of the Satanic Temple are more ethical than people from Joyce’s old church.
(Yeah, if you want to nitpick, members of the Satanic temple are more likely Atheists who are using devil imagery to challenge christianity. But, they do have their own commandments that are better than what’s in the Bible.)
189 thoughts on “Sack”
Ana Chronistic
Dina landing the important steps
Demoted Oblivious
What kind of sack? Where would you procure it from? Come on Dina, it’s like you’re not even trying!
Blindness
A burlap sack, procured from a classmate in one of the agricultural courses ought to do it…as for where she’d store it, the you know the better!
ValdVin
But plain, please. A burlap sack with a big dollar sign on it just draws too much curiousity.
SeanR
If it’s a burlap sack from the ag courses it likely has some CO-OP name on it.
And smells of its previous contents.
Let’s hope it was formerly full of unshelled pecans or peanuts and not,… leavings.
Clif
What kind of sack?
A sack with dinosaurs.
Deanatay
Actually, it’s Joe that didn’t specify a particular type of sack. He simply said, “Get Ruth in the sack”. Clearly, the type of sack wasn’t important.
Second: Get other velociraptors to stalk Ruth and drive her in your direction.
Third: Stealthily approach Ruth from the side.
Fourth: Wait for Ruth to notice you, and issue the appropriate “clever girl” remark.
Fifth: Stuff her in the sack. Done.
Dara
hmmmm Dina/Becky/Ruth
It’s certainly not any kind of nopet3… it’s not the most likely thing in the world but as a slow burn I could see it, I mean, Becky and Ruth are already bonding over killing Joe, and Dina seems like she’s willing to at least treat it as an interesting problem, sooooo….
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Dumbing of Age Book 11: First, I would procure a sack.
Ana Chronistic
Dina had Book 10, so it has to be “Don’t Not Murder How on My Account”
Ana Chronistic
JOE
COME ON PHONE
Needfuldoer
I bet if you bait the sack with a couple femurs, Ruth would run right into it all on her own. Then you can bring her to the vet or trim her claws or whatever. Problem is that trick’s only going to work once, so make it count.
(Hey it worked on the cat. Once…)
GeekRyuu
You could try using a large towel. Although you still wanna watch your hands. I’m still nursing a swollen finger from a cat bite from one of my charges at the shelter who was NOT pleased at being recaptured and returned to her kitty condo.
Needfuldoer
One of the cats we had when I was growing up caught my dad in the wrist pretty good with his hind claws. He was trying to get him in a carrier for a vet appointment, but the poor little guy was just flailing because he was scared out of his mind. The cat may be gone but the scar’s still there.
Well, “little”, he was just over a year old and less than 10 pounds when that happened. It was even harder than that to wrangle him when he was in his prime. He eventually grew up into a 16 pound chonk, but they’re always your kittens. (We never let him get morbidly obese, he was just a big, stocky cat.)
Kryss LaBryn
“Second, I would propose a three-legged sack race.”
Sirksome
Joe just..stop…please.
GreyICE
Do you have a new canon that this is all happening in Mike’s head?
Everyone seems slightly more awful in very Mike-ish ways, like how he’d imagine them being. And I’m just waiting for Booster to reveal they’re actually Mike.
Thag Simmons
I think it’s more Mike’s restless spirit amplifying dickish impluses from beyond the grave
Sirksome
People complain that Mike is gone but he’s not. There’s just a little bit of Mike in everyone now.
StClair
I wonder if it was a traditional Martian service, and they grokked him in his fullness.
Geneseepaws
Sure. That’s a good point. Could you pass me the Ketchup, please?
Clif
Talk about your inner Mike.
Poskie
Valentine Michael Warner? ?
Tan
In the moms, at least.
There is a nickel on his gravestone.
Jhon
Throw a nickle on the stone, help another sad trombone…
Sombrero
Mike is in the air.
SeanR
Really? Funeral practices in Indiana are a bit different than in my state, then.
We usually put them in the ground or burn them to ashes. Our funeral dinners contain absolutely no dead-guy.
I wouldn’t have expected Indiana to have borrowed New Guinea funerary practices.
Needfuldoer
DoA is entirely the product of Amber’s imagination as she stares into a snowglobe of Showalter Fountain in her parents’ living room.
GeekRyuu
…is this all gonna have a Newhart ending?
Mike wakes up next to Amber who asks him why he was mumbling in his sleep. He mutters something about your mom and a nickle and falls back asleep.
Rose by Any Other Name
I mean, neither of them are wrong, technically.
Being direct is a good idea when approaching someone.
Joe’s problem wasn’t directness, though – it was insensitivity. His “directness” was done to needle Ruth about her breakup, not to actually start anything with her.
Which is what Joyce picked up on. Joe is smooth – that approach was not smooth. Joe didn’t want to sleep with Ruth, he wanted to annoy her (into leaving?).
Sirksome
Maybe? I’m not sure on the motive as to why he’d want to annoy Ruth or for that matter why he’d even have any interest in her beyond the fact that she’s a woman. Has he ever even talked to Ruth before this moment? Like they have no relationship history good or bad.
Poskie
Remember when he was hitting on Sarah in the cafeteria? He said something to her along the lines of, “You have an angry energy to you that I like. It’d be stupid not to harness that, y’know?”
Maybe Joe just likes angry ladies. He pisses off enough of them…
Jhon
Joe only knows angry ladies. After a few minutes with Joe, any lady becomes an angry lady.
thejeff
And that was after she’d already said no. Telling someone who’s angry at you for hitting on them that you find it hot that they’re angry is not good consent culture.
Agemegos
I suspect (and I think Joyce suspects) that Joe did it to needle Joyce.
RacingTurtle
Yepppp
Clif
In which case Joe missed his cue. Instead of “what?” his response should have been “sure! “
Prince Mech
Joe also just kind of does this because of his own insecurity, I think that’s kind of what Joyce is pointing at here?
Regalli
“Honestly Joe. Step up your sleazebag game if you’re gonna keep doing it.”
Dara
She’s right tho’. That was just lazy.
Sirksome
Wouldn’t recommend that honestly. Joe is only a few critical steps away from being this kind of sleazebag.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-11/01-this-bright-millennium/rush-2/
I mean this as a joke but it is also a little close to the truth so I don’t know how to feel about it.
Sirksome
To be clear I’m talking about the creepy sleazebag and not Nightguy. Joe putting on a costume and defending potential rape victims at night might actually improve his character a bit.
Miri
The thing is, while a lot of his schtick has been about having as much sex as possible, Joe has also been shown to value consent and view it as an essential component. Street harassers don’t tend to put out that vibe.
Sirksome
That’s like the one major difference. I do think he’s trying to do better since his do list got leaked, but he’s still also the guy saying “now kiss” every time he saw two women fighting. I believe he can be better but I’m also not holding my breath.
Agemegos
Yeah. I am a dyed-in-the-wool Joeyce shipper: it is my fond belief that over a plausible course of time Joyce will recover from her abusive upbringing and Joe will reform his attitudes to women and love, to such an extent that they will then be good for each other.
I just don’t expect to live long enough to see it happen. 🙁
Thag Simmons
Joe at the very least seems to understand the word ‘no’
Agemegos
Always has. Not only has he never mistaken it for “yes”, but also he knows that it doesn’t mean “maybe” and it doesn’t mean “try again later”.
Joe is okay on issues of consent. Just not so good about treating women as people.
thejeff
That’s not really true. He talks a good game about consent, but it’s taken women yelling at him to get him to acknowledge the “no” and even then he’s come back around to it later.
That’s all pre-change and reversion, of course. We’ve seen little of him hitting on anyone after that, so it’s hard to say.
Regalli
Oh, agreed, but the look on her face combined with ‘you weren’t even TRYING.’ both suggest to me that she recognizes his heart’s not in it and that’s a bigger issue to her than if he’d been earnestly (but still, given Joe, grossly) hitting on Ruth. If only because if his heart ISN’T in it, then why keep up the Indomitable Sex Monster facade?
(The answer, of course, is that he thinks he’s destined to become his cheating father – and given the lack of ‘it was one time’ sort of minimizations to Joe, and ‘I don’t even notice other attractive women’ of Richard’s assurances,* I’m not at all convinced he only blew up one relationship with cheating or that it won’t be a problem once his and Stacy’s New Relationship Energy wears off – and thinks that superficial relationships with women are the only way he can keep from hurting someone later. Too bad the campus therapists suck.)
* I feel fairly confident Joe’s arc will involve recognizing that he CAN find women attractive without being a scumbag, even if he’s already in a romantic relationship. The vibe I got off that scene with Richard was a lot of magical thinking that THIS time would be different because the problem hasn’t occurred yet, but also that he doesn’t necessarily recognize that he can find someone attractive without ever acting on that. Finding someone hot isn’t really a choice, but hitting on them is. Given Joe’s immediate setting himself up for failure ‘no sex, ever’ as well, I suspect he learned that from his dad. Could always be wrong! But uh. I am not confident.
Beau Kirin Maysey
“Joe i know you have no standards but this is RIDICULOUS”
Newllend(henryvolt)
The Issue here isn’t that he isn’t be pushy enough, the issue is that his flirting had no attempt to be charming or alluring what’s so ever. I know we label Joe as a sleezball but he can have charisma when he wants to.
Look at this and tell me you don’t see a difference in approach despite wanting the same thing- https://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/03-men-are-from-beck-women-are-from-clark/follow/
Deanatay
Watched ‘The Ghost And Mrs. Muir’ last night – been watching a lot of classic movies with my spouse during the lockdown – can confirm that just about every man portrayed in movies during the 30’s and 40’s would be considered irredeemably creepy and stalkerish by modern standards.
RassilonTDavros
I can totally imagine Dina literally capturing someone in a sack. For what purpose, I can only begin to imagine.
Doctor_Who
She used to capture people with rope traps. Honestly, a sack is a downgrade.
Miri
Well, capturing Ruth in a rope trap then putting a sack over her would probably be seen as adding insult to injury…
Keulen
She captures them in a sack and then talks to them about dinosaurs for a few hours. Then she lets them go.
GreyICE
Lecture them on proper dinosaur naming conventions and biology. Shits important yknow.
BlackScarabFilmZ
Step 1: Acquire a sack
Step 2: Convince Ruth to get into the sack.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit?
Thag Simmons
I would assume a blunt object and some restraints are involved in step 2.
Doctor_Who
“Someone in this sack was talking shit about the Leafs.”
“Let me at ’em!”
Blindness
…and if that doesn’t work, you can use said blunt object to knock her out.
Step 3 is the key: you need help moving the sack so a patsy is needed, preferably someone who can take the blame in case things go south
Demoted Oblivious
Your meme is both out of date and does not explain how to convince Ruth to get in the sack, let alone how to make it profitable. Please turn your internet card to your nearest Libarian.
Jamie
I mean, I think it’s obvious: bait it with femurs.
Cattleprod
Step 3 is getting your femurs insured.
Nono
I mean, ‘let her wrestle you for dominance’ has clearly been an effective move in the past.
plasticwrap
Some people are into that as a fetish. I believe it’s called “primal.” They also prefer their partners unwashed ?
Beau Kirin Maysey
Exciting new possibilities now that Joyce is removed from religion for her to criticize Joe’s pickups based not on moral grounds but instead their degree of efficiency!
ian livs
I mean, they can still be criticized on moral grounds–religion doesn’t have a monopoly on morality. Hell, I’d argue that secular humanism is more ethical than the type of Christianity that Joyce grew up in, no contest.
Segnosaur
Heck, members of the Satanic Temple are more ethical than people from Joyce’s old church.
(Yeah, if you want to nitpick, members of the Satanic temple are more likely Atheists who are using devil imagery to challenge christianity. But, they do have their own commandments that are better than what’s in the Bible.)
milu
Thou shalt perform child sacrifice and vote democrat
Clif
A classic. And of course the previous strip in the last panal has the best Joyce face ever.