Well, let’s see, you cut the head off a chicken, and you cut the top off an egg, but generally you boil the egg before cutting the top off, while you cut the chicken’s head off before boiling it. I’m not convinced.
Clif
Well, yes, but neither the boiling nor the head cutting is particularly good for the avian in question.
Lys
Nor is it exactly good for the egg. I mean, no chance it’s alive after that.
Agemegos
I think that maybe a hen’s egg counts as an avian.
Chris
OMG, no, no, NO! cutting the head off of a chicken precedes the chase-the-damned-headless-chicken-all-around-the-yard-and-laugh-at-your-city-cousin-when-he-screams … ahhhh shit, triggered. sorry.
The early bird is always greener on the other side.
OBBWG
Sometimes you get the early bird and sometimes the early bird gets you.
0kami
Is that some sort of eastern thing?
Clif
You’re thinking of “Man who walk in middle of road get hit by cars going both ways.”
Jake'm
Ehh, I’ll burn that bridge when I get to it.
Deanatay
“Do you want breakfast?”
“Yes!”
“Then you should go out and catch it!”
Lieutenant Dan
Dan who drive in middle of road get hit by car with no regrets.
Plain Marie
“If you’re a bird, be an early bird,
To catch a worm for your breakfast plate.
Yes, if you’re a bird, be an early bird,
But if you’re a worm, sleep late.”
Actually, it is, “what is good for the goose, is good for the gander”; the idea being that a particular situation should be treated equally between multiple (traditionally it is two) parties. Typically this is applied to relationships; “if the guy can do “insert whatever action or behavior”, then the girl can also do, “exactly the same action or behavior”.
Honestly, my first though was “what is Sarah’s scheme here?” I’m down for whatever it is because I like Sarah, but there are definitely ulterior motives at play.
Agemegos
She wants the room to herself for a little while. Is that mysterious?
Not unless we’ve skipped a day without it being mentioned. Or if they somehow have Saturday classes. So I’m gonna go with not likely.
Needfuldoer
Definitely a weekday; I’d guess Tuesday or Wednesday since “yesterday” was the first day of classes after winter break. We don’t have enough clues to pin down the exact date yet.
JOYCE: “Sarah, it’s 1:23. This is not ‘daytime’.”
SARAH: “Well, 1/23 is the DATE, I’M told!”
JOYCE: “…”
SARAH: “See, it sounds like ‘date I’m’ when you say it aloud. And also ‘told’ means to say it aloud, so it works!”
JASON (jolting out of bed): ‘My British-sense is tingling! It’s telling me that … someone has somehow accidentally made a cryptic crossword clue?’
a/snow/mous/e
(cryptics aren’t actually exclusively british; in the USA, henry cox and emily rathvon also do them [currently publishing in the WSJ, and they formerly published in the Atlantic], and also us nerds who do puzzle hunts
but i don’t think anyone in the cast is likely to be a word nerd except possibly jason, so)
167 thoughts on “Good morning”
Ana Chronistic
turnabout is good for the gander, or something
Doctor_Who
Nah, it’s “What’s good for the chicken is what’s good for the egg.”
StClair
“Finally. It’s my go.”
Rabid Rabbit
Well, let’s see, you cut the head off a chicken, and you cut the top off an egg, but generally you boil the egg before cutting the top off, while you cut the chicken’s head off before boiling it. I’m not convinced.
Clif
Well, yes, but neither the boiling nor the head cutting is particularly good for the avian in question.
Lys
Nor is it exactly good for the egg. I mean, no chance it’s alive after that.
Agemegos
I think that maybe a hen’s egg counts as an avian.
Chris
OMG, no, no, NO! cutting the head off of a chicken precedes the chase-the-damned-headless-chicken-all-around-the-yard-and-laugh-at-your-city-cousin-when-he-screams … ahhhh shit, triggered. sorry.
brionl
Revenge is dish best served first thing in the morning with a cheerful smile.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
She needs to practice her obnoxiously cheery triangular smile though. But this is a pretty good start I guess. 🙂
Fuse
Sarah’s been out of practice as far as smiling goes for quite a while. She needs to warm up before she can pull off a full Joyce Triangle.
Sirksome
What goes around is worth two in the bush.
He Who Abides
The early bird is always greener on the other side.
OBBWG
Sometimes you get the early bird and sometimes the early bird gets you.
0kami
Is that some sort of eastern thing?
Clif
You’re thinking of “Man who walk in middle of road get hit by cars going both ways.”
Jake'm
Ehh, I’ll burn that bridge when I get to it.
Deanatay
“Do you want breakfast?”
“Yes!”
“Then you should go out and catch it!”
Lieutenant Dan
Dan who drive in middle of road get hit by car with no regrets.
Plain Marie
“If you’re a bird, be an early bird,
To catch a worm for your breakfast plate.
Yes, if you’re a bird, be an early bird,
But if you’re a worm, sleep late.”
Rex Vivat
“It’s a beautiful bird, lovely plumage.”
Delicious Taffy
And don’t cross the road if you can’t get out of the kitchen.
Dara
WAKEY WAKEY CHICKEN BAKEY
Tan
I do not like cobra-chicken OR New Sarah.
Bunny
You can’t make a silk purse out of a pig in a poke.
Demoted Oblivious
The early bird, the second mouse, but the third wheel keeps a motocycle upright.
Lee
Don’t count your geese before they’ve crossed the road?
Clif
A fool and his money are as some party.
Harmony
Once begun is early to bed.
Needfuldoer
My, my, how the turntables.
Demoted Oblivious
What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice makes perfect.
Ana Chronistic
It ain’t over until the cat lady sings
ziggy78eog
Actually, it is, “what is good for the goose, is good for the gander”; the idea being that a particular situation should be treated equally between multiple (traditionally it is two) parties. Typically this is applied to relationships; “if the guy can do “insert whatever action or behavior”, then the girl can also do, “exactly the same action or behavior”.
Ana Chronistic
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BBCC
I love Sarah and look forward to seeing where this goes.
Agemegos
Subscribe to Slipshine.
Thag Simmons
This feels wrong on a fundamental level.
He Who Abides
It did, until that last panel.
DarkoNeko
I’m midly horrified yet laughing a lot
not someone else
Okay, Sarah is officially one of my favorite characters
a/snow/mous/e
am i “someone else”? 😮
but yeah! sarah seems to be in an actually good, albeit mischievous, mood! exciting!
Needfuldoer
We’re all someone else.
Clif
I’m not. It’s the rest of you who are someone else.
Proportedly.
a/snow/mous/e
*purportedly
and a very happy unbirthday to you~
a/snow/mous/e
ok i guess maybe it wasn’t a “don’t confuse me with the other bjcat” thing then, lol
StClair
well played.
Octopus Ink
Wow.
This was almost “Opposite Day”.
DinaJoyce
I was gonna say like a freaky Friday thing, but same idea.
DinaJoyce
Oooooh! I’m Dina now! This is the first time I’ve been either of the characters in my username!
Demoted Oblivious
And it is Saturday
Emperor Norton II
Sarah has been waiting for this opportunity for months now.
Sadly, this will turn out to be the happiest moment of her life. It’s all downhill from here.
Rabid Rabbit
It’s weird to compare this to the last time she woke Joyce up while smiling. But then, that was part of an Evil Plan. https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-8/01-face-the-strange/hnnnrrgh/
SadnessWithASmile
Honestly, my first though was “what is Sarah’s scheme here?” I’m down for whatever it is because I like Sarah, but there are definitely ulterior motives at play.
Agemegos
She wants the room to herself for a little while. Is that mysterious?
Octopus Ink
Honestly, I’m surprised that she isn’t sporting an unusually triangular smile!
cookie1995
Ah I see this storyline is set in the mirror universe
Good to know
cookie1995
Neat my new gravitar is Lucy
I’m cool with this
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Can’t be, mirror universe characters must either wear Van Dyke beards or dress in stripperiffic outfits.
(I don’t make the rules.)
Lee
Mirror Riker was pretty normal. No wait, that was transporter glitch Riker. As you were.
jmsr7
Atheism: because we don’t have to pretend we’d rather sleep in
Amias
Is it supposed to be Sunday in-comic?
Devin
Not unless we’ve skipped a day without it being mentioned. Or if they somehow have Saturday classes. So I’m gonna go with not likely.
Needfuldoer
Definitely a weekday; I’d guess Tuesday or Wednesday since “yesterday” was the first day of classes after winter break. We don’t have enough clues to pin down the exact date yet.
Keulen
When you’re both an atheist and not a morning person like me, you’ve got two reasons for wanting to sleep in.
Mra
Seemed like a huge role reversal for a second there, I was worried something had gone wrong.
Kernanator
We’re through the looking glass, people.
a/snow/mous/e
*checks phone* “…Sarah, it’s 4 AM.”
“So?”
“That’s not daytime.”
“It’s a time… of day!”
“ijeaf;od”
bcb
It’s daytime somewhere in the world!
a/snow/mous/e
JOYCE: “Sarah, it’s 1:23. This is not ‘daytime’.”
SARAH: “Well, 1/23 is the DATE, I’M told!”
JOYCE: “…”
SARAH: “See, it sounds like ‘date I’m’ when you say it aloud. And also ‘told’ means to say it aloud, so it works!”
JASON (jolting out of bed): ‘My British-sense is tingling! It’s telling me that … someone has somehow accidentally made a cryptic crossword clue?’
a/snow/mous/e
(cryptics aren’t actually exclusively british; in the USA, henry cox and emily rathvon also do them [currently publishing in the WSJ, and they formerly published in the Atlantic], and also us nerds who do puzzle hunts
but i don’t think anyone in the cast is likely to be a word nerd except possibly jason, so)
Sirksome