prolly some of the college profs but other than needing a one on one consultation i can’t imagine most rly bother other than exchanging pleasantries/greetings versus just showing up to class and not rly talking/interacting otherwise
I’m pretty sure this is a pop culture reference. Come to think of it, I’m pretty sure I don’t want to know.
Thag Simmons
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
Needfuldoer
Ha-HA! Semi-obscure pop culture references on dowels!
(Seriously, go find some episodes of Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law. Of all the first-generation Williams Street / Adult Swim shows that aren’t Space Ghost Coast to Coast, I think it holds up the best / least cringey. At the very least, it isn’t “you had to be there” the way ATHF and Sealab 2021 are.)
“Pre-law” isn’t a major – it’s merely a statement that your goal is to get admitted to a law school when you graduate undergraduate school. (It’s similar to”pre-med” that way.) Anything can be a “pre-law” major, but political science, criminal justice, and history are among the common ones. (Back in the day, the pre-laws I knew picked majors they thought they’d get really good GPAs with.) As far as I know we aren’t aware of what Sarah’s or Jacob’s actual majors are, and they might not have even declared one yet.
You’re not wrong. I studied archaeology and got bombarded with offers of a free ride to law school. Decent schools, too: Rutgers, Temple, Case Western… to this day I wonder if my life might have been more successful if I’d taken that ride.
6ft 2 inches doesn’t feel extremely tall to me, but I’m admittedly 6’7 personally I wouldn’t class “extreme” as below 6’5 which is essentially the height minimum for basketball scouts to look at you. Maybe Lucy’s just really short. A lot of the girls are small in DoA.
Thag Simmons
My instinct was 6’4 but if I recall correctly Carla’s like 5’11 and he’s not that much taller than her.
Walky is 5’6” (66 inches) and his eyes are level with the pink band on her hat when they are looking directly at each other (slightly taller than Lucy). Therefore, I shall estimate Lucy to be (15/16) of a Walky or 61.875 inches. Lucy comes up to Jacob’s pecs and so is about (6/8) of a Jacob (so yes he is about 1.3 Lucy’s). Therefore, Jacob is approximately (8/6)*(61.875 inches) or …
If Jacob’s 6’10 then Sarah must be over 6ft based on her relative size to him.
Bruceski
Sounds like what I assumed. Or is that my “very tall family members” bias kicking in again?
Miri
I did a photo shoot with my now-husband’s nuclear family shortly before we got engaged. The photographer gave me a box to stand on. They didn’t give my then-15 year old future sister in law one… When we started dating, she was 11 and I was taller than her (just about).
My husband is 6’7″, his brothers are 6’6″ and 6’5″, their mum’s 6’2″… I’m not sure if his sister finished up at 6’0″ or 6’1″. I usually say I’m 5’2″ but I think I’m 5’1.5″ really…
I’ll never get used to calculations that require switching bases.
Needfuldoer
My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that’s the way I likes it!
BarerMender
I’d say your car has a fuel leak.
clif
Rodage per hogshead is going to vary by average speed and also stop and go driving will decrease your rodage even faster. To be precise you need to specify 40 rods to the hogshead at a specified number of furlongs per fortnight.
I don’t know, but speaking as someone who is 4’11”, I feel those first two panels. I used to work with a guy who was 7’2″. Conversations were easier if both of us were sitting.
Joe is 6 feet tall. 5280 feet per mile.
Miles to km is within 1% of the golden ratio, so I use that to approximate.
6/5280 * 1.618 =
Joe is around 0.001839 km tall.
HueSatLight
correction, Shortpacked Joe was 6 feet, this Joe is estimated at 6 feet, 3 inches. an inch is 2.54 cm. Joe is approximately 0.001839 km and 7.62 cm tall. Jacob is in the same “height category“, or Jacob is about an inch taller.
The metric system of prefixes is perfectly rational, but then those sneaky French instituted a whole new set of arbitrary base units instead of using common ones.
We could have had deca-pints instead two-liter bottles.
Willis has admitted he isn’t super specific with heights, only height relative to other characters. So if I had to hazard a guess, Jake’s ~6’5 since that’s generally the “extremely tall” mark and Lucy’s about 5’3ish. They look like there’s about a foot and some change between them
I took measurements and although I had to do some estimates because their feet are obscured: Assuming Lucy is roughly 5′ 6″ tall, then Jacob would be about 6′ 7″ tall.
It comes off just a little weird here since Sarah’s been openly hostile to her and doesn’t elect to spend time with her. Though I suppose Malaya was the same way and Lucy probably considers her a friend too.
I think part of the issue is that Sarah *was* a bit nicer before she got with Walky. I don’t think it’s any kind of jealousy, but I do think Sarah initially kind of treated her like Dorothy, a little smidge of respect in a “this girl is an academic like me” kind of way.
The Walky romance impacted her opinion of her in a negative fashion, probably because she views her position as a certain level of pathetic.
And also that she allowed herself to be influenced by Raidah’s opinions, a more valid reason for Sarah to see Lucy in a negative way.
HueSatLight
That’s where I see the big change, when Lucy, who is always nice to everyone decides to be a cop to Sarah. She’s mostly ambivalent to Lucy before that, sometimes annoyed when she presumes to get to personal. If that phrase makes sense.
205 thoughts on “Long’ve”
Ana Chronistic
how lawyers weasel-word their way into (or out of?) friendships
Vanessa
This interaction is pretty adorable.
True Survivor
Lawyers don’t have friendships, they have contracts of alliance.
Opus the Poet
My father-in-law was a lawyer. He’s also my mother-in-law’s ex-husband, for a reason.
Mr D
My grampa was a lawyer.
He was a good man before senility stripped everything from him.
True Survivor
I am so sorry. That is awful.
Doctor_Who
In fairness, Sarah is mean to her enemies too.
Thag Simmons
She can also be mean to strangers.
Really struggling to think of a sort of person she isn’t mean to.
Marisa Mockery
Joyce
Schpoonman
No, she’s mean to Joyce, too. Spilling that Joyce has started masturbating wasn’t nice, Joyce just lets her be mean.
Adam Black
True.
But sarah said she was mean to her friends after being mean to her.
Daibhid C
She also said they weren’t friends in the same sentence.
zee
Dina. Mostly. There was the rebound thing but otherwise they’re chill
anon
prolly some of the college profs but other than needing a one on one consultation i can’t imagine most rly bother other than exchanging pleasantries/greetings versus just showing up to class and not rly talking/interacting otherwise
Pylgrim
No, no. She’s *violent* towards her enemies.
Animedingo
Lucy attorney at law
Thag Simmons
Outlawyering the Law Student.
Needfuldoer
She’s more like Birdgirl than Harvey.
Who’s the Phil Ken Sebben? Or the Peter Potamus? (Didja get that thing they sentcha?)
BarerMender
I’m pretty sure this is a pop culture reference. Come to think of it, I’m pretty sure I don’t want to know.
Thag Simmons
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
Needfuldoer
Ha-HA! Semi-obscure pop culture references on dowels!
(Seriously, go find some episodes of Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law. Of all the first-generation Williams Street / Adult Swim shows that aren’t Space Ghost Coast to Coast, I think it holds up the best / least cringey. At the very least, it isn’t “you had to be there” the way ATHF and Sealab 2021 are.)
Schpoonman
…Are we sure Lucy’s not pre-law? Maybe she’ll change majors.
Schpoonman
Sarah’s still hanging by close enough to hear Jucy’s non-shouted conversation. Hm.
Reltzik
“Jucy”. … yup, okay, I’m calling that the correct ship name.
Otl1973
“Pre-law” isn’t a major – it’s merely a statement that your goal is to get admitted to a law school when you graduate undergraduate school. (It’s similar to”pre-med” that way.) Anything can be a “pre-law” major, but political science, criminal justice, and history are among the common ones. (Back in the day, the pre-laws I knew picked majors they thought they’d get really good GPAs with.) As far as I know we aren’t aware of what Sarah’s or Jacob’s actual majors are, and they might not have even declared one yet.
M!a
You’re not wrong. I studied archaeology and got bombarded with offers of a free ride to law school. Decent schools, too: Rutgers, Temple, Case Western… to this day I wonder if my life might have been more successful if I’d taken that ride.
Dara
well so much for “maybe daylight savings will set the post clock back to the top of the hour”
(iirc nobody has ever figured out what sets and resets the posting clock, right?)
clif
My theory is that it’s part of the Hivekeeper’s job, but they get paid the same no matter how frequently it gets done.
Devin
According to Willis (on their DoA tumblr) Hiveworks has to reset it.
Gnoka
This is like Lucy’s best line ever
M!a
Interesting, innit? Suddenly Lucy is awash in logic and chill.
Devin
Yeah, some people just respond better in some circumstances and worse in others. Good writing on Willis’ part here, I’d say.
Sirksome
How tall is Jake I wonder?
Thag Simmons
I’m going to say 6’2ish?
Sirksome
6ft 2 inches doesn’t feel extremely tall to me, but I’m admittedly 6’7 personally I wouldn’t class “extreme” as below 6’5 which is essentially the height minimum for basketball scouts to look at you. Maybe Lucy’s just really short. A lot of the girls are small in DoA.
Thag Simmons
My instinct was 6’4 but if I recall correctly Carla’s like 5’11 and he’s not that much taller than her.
Schpoonman
I mostly imagine Joyce/Lucy and Joe/Jacob having extremely similar silhouettes. “Who’s That College Student?” is impossible when they get pulled.
Doctor_Who
Looks like about 1.3 Lucys.
Or, if you’re on the metric system, 1.1 Jasons.
Steamweed
I’ll stick with the Lucy system. I’m American; we’ll do anything to avoid Metric.
M!a
Heh. I remember very clearly those two weeks in 1976 when we dabbled in metric…
Taffy
5’6″
True Survivor
Walky is 5’6” (66 inches) and his eyes are level with the pink band on her hat when they are looking directly at each other (slightly taller than Lucy). Therefore, I shall estimate Lucy to be (15/16) of a Walky or 61.875 inches. Lucy comes up to Jacob’s pecs and so is about (6/8) of a Jacob (so yes he is about 1.3 Lucy’s). Therefore, Jacob is approximately (8/6)*(61.875 inches) or …
82.5 inches AKA 6’10.5”
Sirksome
If Jacob’s 6’10 then Sarah must be over 6ft based on her relative size to him.
Bruceski
Sounds like what I assumed. Or is that my “very tall family members” bias kicking in again?
Miri
I did a photo shoot with my now-husband’s nuclear family shortly before we got engaged. The photographer gave me a box to stand on. They didn’t give my then-15 year old future sister in law one… When we started dating, she was 11 and I was taller than her (just about).
My husband is 6’7″, his brothers are 6’6″ and 6’5″, their mum’s 6’2″… I’m not sure if his sister finished up at 6’0″ or 6’1″. I usually say I’m 5’2″ but I think I’m 5’1.5″ really…
Regret
I’ll never get used to calculations that require switching bases.
Needfuldoer
My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that’s the way I likes it!
BarerMender
I’d say your car has a fuel leak.
clif
Rodage per hogshead is going to vary by average speed and also stop and go driving will decrease your rodage even faster. To be precise you need to specify 40 rods to the hogshead at a specified number of furlongs per fortnight.
Proxiehunter
I’m going 2ith very.
Proxiehunter
With. Hate typing on my tablet.
clif
We hope you and Very are extremely happy together.
Makkabee
And if that doesn’t work out, that you and Extremely are very happy together.
danimagoo
I don’t know, but speaking as someone who is 4’11”, I feel those first two panels. I used to work with a guy who was 7’2″. Conversations were easier if both of us were sitting.
Amós Batista
*openning Google to translate measures to common metric system*
HueSatLight
Joe is 6 feet tall. 5280 feet per mile.
Miles to km is within 1% of the golden ratio, so I use that to approximate.
6/5280 * 1.618 =
Joe is around 0.001839 km tall.
HueSatLight
correction, Shortpacked Joe was 6 feet, this Joe is estimated at 6 feet, 3 inches. an inch is 2.54 cm. Joe is approximately 0.001839 km and 7.62 cm tall. Jacob is in the same “height category“, or Jacob is about an inch taller.
clif
The metric system of prefixes is perfectly rational, but then those sneaky French instituted a whole new set of arbitrary base units instead of using common ones.
We could have had deca-pints instead two-liter bottles.
M!a
Jake is approximately 1.8 cats per square ironing board.
zee
Willis has admitted he isn’t super specific with heights, only height relative to other characters. So if I had to hazard a guess, Jake’s ~6’5 since that’s generally the “extremely tall” mark and Lucy’s about 5’3ish. They look like there’s about a foot and some change between them
extremist343
I took measurements and although I had to do some estimates because their feet are obscured: Assuming Lucy is roughly 5′ 6″ tall, then Jacob would be about 6′ 7″ tall.
Reltzik
They BOTH have Sarah’s number.
… which is odd, given, Sarah probably hasn’t given either of them her number. Maybe they got it from Joyce.
Rowan
This made me giggle
rjmmbc
Sarah has her number tattooed on her forehead and pretends she doesn’t.
Yotomoe
There Lucy goes again, assuming people like her more than they actually do.
Sirksome
It comes off just a little weird here since Sarah’s been openly hostile to her and doesn’t elect to spend time with her. Though I suppose Malaya was the same way and Lucy probably considers her a friend too.
Coatl
With everything she’s been through recently, you’d think she’d really reconsider, but I remember this is Dumbing Of Age.
DailyBrad
I think part of the issue is that Sarah *was* a bit nicer before she got with Walky. I don’t think it’s any kind of jealousy, but I do think Sarah initially kind of treated her like Dorothy, a little smidge of respect in a “this girl is an academic like me” kind of way.
The Walky romance impacted her opinion of her in a negative fashion, probably because she views her position as a certain level of pathetic.
Coatl
And also that she allowed herself to be influenced by Raidah’s opinions, a more valid reason for Sarah to see Lucy in a negative way.
HueSatLight
That’s where I see the big change, when Lucy, who is always
niceto everyone decides to be a cop to Sarah. She’s mostly ambivalent to Lucy before that, sometimes annoyed when she presumes to get to personal. If that phrase makes sense.