All he needed to do was nod his head while making affirmative sounding noises with his mouth close, then finish chewing/swallowing before talking to her for real.
I LOST about 25 pounds when I went to boarding school I had trouble adapting to the compulsory vegetarian they had there, if you wanted any meat, you have to sneak it into the school grounds.
@TheBenenator: This was at Lilydale Adventist Academy, you see, one of the beliefs that SDAs have is that it is best to live on a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet (vegetarian + eggs + dairy products).
While they do allow the consumption of ‘clean meat’ nromally, the lacto-ovo vegetarian diet was enforced on all the boarding students ie; NO MEAT ALLOWED!
Tualha
…I trust everyone was supplied with B12? No one told me about B12 when I went vegetarian.
@Tualha: Things like eggs and dairy products have B12 and we were allowed to consume those as part of a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet, so there was no problem in that respect.
My main problem was that I loved eating things like beef, chicken, white fish, lamb & it took me a few months before I was willing to try these strange meatless dishes with their nut-meat, gluten steaks, nutolene and other Sanitarium products.
@Azumango: No, a lacto-ovo vegetarian academy, they still exploit animals for their eggs and milk products.
@XMD: Nah, at best I can say that it opened up my dietary options somewhat as I used to live on a very bland meat-veg diet before I went there.
I’m still a fussy eater but now I experiment with new foods more. There was no way I would have discovered things like Indian cuisine or dishes like squid-ink pasta otherwise.
Heh, that’s nothin’. I’m known to eat everything from panfried clam strips or candy and chips to toasted ravioli or leftover Chinese food for breakfast. And, this started in high school for me, not college, though it’s been more frequent since starting college.
Yes, especially if it glows in the dark …
The Dew is freaky enough where I am but the stuff you people in the states drink tastes horrible and over-sweetened …. then I find out its packed solid with caffeine [which is bitter ]
Quick question to those who might know but WHY are so many soft drinks in the states sweetened with corn syrup? That stuff has a distinct taste all its own and its not that pleasant.
Corn syrup is ostensibly cheaper than sugar, and the corn lobby has a lot of leverage here.
Myself, I think that when there’s a drug to which fully 50% of American adults are clinically addicted, which harms sleep hygience and harms worker productivity, something should be done–but there won’t be.
Naz
Fun fact: The United states grows the majority of the planet’s corn supply. Of course it’s in everything. Sugar cane on the other hand has to be imported from warm tropical areas. Not cost
effective.
das-g
How come Leland hasn’t been mentioned yet in this thread?
Hard to be sure, but I’m guessing Danny is well above average in the looks department.
He had an attractive girlfriend for quite some time, Billie (a former cheerleader used to guys adoring her) was willing to sex him up after one compliment, and in that other ‘verse Joyce basically fell for him immediately.
He’s also apparently the least creepy guy in her CS class. That’s gotta be a plus.
Depends. I think it works if you consider a “Year One” story to still be early enough in a character’s development to count as origin. It’s only been a week or so since the beginning of term, and her existence hasn’t been confirmed by the press yet, so I think we’re still safely in origin territory.
It’s not that he’s being rude, but those ARE cafeteria scrambled eggs… When Danny opened his mouth his body naturally assumed it must have been to expell the offending taste.
109 thoughts on “Malking”
Sensedog
Ah…good timing.
Mkvenner
Dude chew first. THEN speak.
David Herbert
Then she’ll be hit with gunks of chewed up food. He should probably swallow, then talk.
Steven
She waited for him to put that big delicious bite in his mouth to sit down, just to throw him off and ruin his enjoyment of it. YOU KNOW IT.
Rogue of Space
There’s a word for that. It’s called Sgiomlaireachd (Old Scottish) and it means “unwanted mealtime interruption”.
Because the English language just isn’t enough sometimes.
Plasma Mongoose
All he needed to do was nod his head while making affirmative sounding noises with his mouth close, then finish chewing/swallowing before talking to her for real.
That’s how I roll.
Wonder Wig
They’re drinking … gatorade and root beer for breakfast?
Jetstream
Chocolate milk and some kind of breakfast shake I’d wager.
Darth Shadow
Chances are equally good that it’s gatorade and root beer.
Because when you’re in college, why the fuck not?
MichaelHaneline
+1
Kernanator
Exactly. Who’s gonna tell you otherwise, right?
Plasma Mongoose
and thus, you are ‘rewarded’ with the Freshman Fifteen.
Kernanator
I actually welcomed the Freshman 15. It meant that I stopped seeing my ribs when I looked at myself in the mirror.
Plasma Mongoose
I LOST about 25 pounds when I went to boarding school I had trouble adapting to the compulsory vegetarian they had there, if you wanted any meat, you have to sneak it into the school grounds.
TheBenenator
…and where was this? (I’m a vegetarian)
Kernanator
You poor bastard.
Plasma Mongoose
@TheBenenator: This was at Lilydale Adventist Academy, you see, one of the beliefs that SDAs have is that it is best to live on a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet (vegetarian + eggs + dairy products).
While they do allow the consumption of ‘clean meat’ nromally, the lacto-ovo vegetarian diet was enforced on all the boarding students ie; NO MEAT ALLOWED!
Tualha
…I trust everyone was supplied with B12? No one told me about B12 when I went vegetarian.
Plasma Mongoose
@Tualha: Things like eggs and dairy products have B12 and we were allowed to consume those as part of a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet, so there was no problem in that respect.
My main problem was that I loved eating things like beef, chicken, white fish, lamb & it took me a few months before I was willing to try these strange meatless dishes with their nut-meat, gluten steaks, nutolene and other Sanitarium products.
Azumango
Wait, you went to VEGAN ACADEMY?!
XMD
It just makes her better than us.
Plasma Mongoose
@Azumango: No, a lacto-ovo vegetarian academy, they still exploit animals for their eggs and milk products.
@XMD: Nah, at best I can say that it opened up my dietary options somewhat as I used to live on a very bland meat-veg diet before I went there.
I’m still a fussy eater but now I experiment with new foods more. There was no way I would have discovered things like Indian cuisine or dishes like squid-ink pasta otherwise.
Doctor_Who
In college, I made Breakfast S’mores and Breakfast Taquitos on more than one occasion.
I wasn’t reading Shortpacked yet, but if I had been I can assure you Cadbury Cream Egg Cereal would have made the menu.
And that’s where my Freshman Fifteen came from. 🙂
L.K. Crocuta
Heh, that’s nothin’. I’m known to eat everything from panfried clam strips or candy and chips to toasted ravioli or leftover Chinese food for breakfast. And, this started in high school for me, not college, though it’s been more frequent since starting college.
David
Amber loves Mountain Dew.
Cholma
A girl after my own heart!
fellixe
It’s almost as good as Sierra Drops!
Plasma Mongoose
Who doesn’t like the Dew?
Blob Marley
Communists, that’s who! You ever seen a commie drink Dew, son? They don’t, do they? They drink vodka, right?
Plasma Mongoose
and look what happened to them.
Tualha
Confusing cause and effect there, I suspect. I doubt I could survive living like that without some kind of drug.
ADHadh
They were HAPPY! As long as they weren’t sober that is.
Gordon
I don’t drink things that look like piss.
And taste like piss mixed with sugar.
David
Man, I really hope your piss don’t look like Mountain Dew. Go see a doctor!
Blob Marley
Optimus prime approves this message.
Gordon
Well, the real color isn’t that far off. Maybe it’s a little cloudy…
Gordon
And no, my urine is mostly clear, because I drink water almost exclusively.
But thanks for worrying, I guess.
Despite Rage
But you did say something about it tasting like urine. If you know that for a fact, then you’re freakier than I’m willing to be.
Trying not to judge…
ADHadh
You know, he may be an adventurer/survivalist.
Thrudd
Yes, especially if it glows in the dark …
The Dew is freaky enough where I am but the stuff you people in the states drink tastes horrible and over-sweetened …. then I find out its packed solid with caffeine [which is bitter ]
Quick question to those who might know but WHY are so many soft drinks in the states sweetened with corn syrup? That stuff has a distinct taste all its own and its not that pleasant.
Whit
Corn syrup is ostensibly cheaper than sugar, and the corn lobby has a lot of leverage here.
Myself, I think that when there’s a drug to which fully 50% of American adults are clinically addicted, which harms sleep hygience and harms worker productivity, something should be done–but there won’t be.
Naz
Fun fact: The United states grows the majority of the planet’s corn supply. Of course it’s in everything. Sugar cane on the other hand has to be imported from warm tropical areas. Not cost
effective.
das-g
How come Leland hasn’t been mentioned yet in this thread?
S.Yeske
Weren’t they saying something about lunch in the previous strip? I think it’s lunch, though heck if I know what they are supposed to be eating.
Leorale
What does she see in him, anyway?
Leorale
(I mean, I solely date nerds, too, but he’s *such* a nebbish.)
Jetstream
nebbish: an insignificant, pitiful person; a nonentity
?????
Thor
What part of that do you not agree with?
Doctor_Who
Hard to be sure, but I’m guessing Danny is well above average in the looks department.
He had an attractive girlfriend for quite some time, Billie (a former cheerleader used to guys adoring her) was willing to sex him up after one compliment, and in that other ‘verse Joyce basically fell for him immediately.
He’s also apparently the least creepy guy in her CS class. That’s gotta be a plus.
Tunasammich
Danny is completely adorkable
Plasma Mongoose
All he needs now is a fez.
Anne Onymous
Because fezzes are cool.
Roborat
Well, there is one that isn’t.
Plasma Mongoose
You’re think of FAZ not Fez, two very diferent things.
Jacob42
No, he just dislikes Morocco.
Hannover Fist
I thought he was referring to Fez from That 70s Show.
TheBenenator
Scrambled eggs and sausage, I think.
Jetstream
Class act, that Danny.
BelOggy
Shmeezh mockingh moo mrr!
Ridureyu
Quick, Danny! Throw an action figure at her!
Ridureyu
SEAL THE DEAL!
Wack'd
Seal deal?
Brasca1
I suppose it’s better than choking on your food when you see someone you like. Of course if he did Amazi-girl would have to save him again.
Doctor_Who
She’d have to run and get the costume first. Can be seen acting heroic in her civilian guise!
And by the time she got back, he’d be dead.
Rex Hondo
Thus fulfilling the tragic loss prerequisite for her to become a real super hero.
fellixe
Little late for an origin, isn’t it?
Rex Hondo
Depends. I think it works if you consider a “Year One” story to still be early enough in a character’s development to count as origin. It’s only been a week or so since the beginning of term, and her existence hasn’t been confirmed by the press yet, so I think we’re still safely in origin territory.
Plasma Mongoose
Well it’s not often that MALE love-interests end up Stuffed In The Fridge.
Rex Hondo
It’s also an interesting bit of turnaround to have the contents of the fridge be stuffed into the love interest.
Alan / Falcon
Why I don’t spend more of my time reading the comments here I may never know. This is great stuff. 🙂
Chuck
Oh Danny… oh so classy
TheTJ
It’s not that he’s being rude, but those ARE cafeteria scrambled eggs… When Danny opened his mouth his body naturally assumed it must have been to expell the offending taste.
wat
what is he saying?
Kamino Neko