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Ringtone
Posted on June 22, 2011 by David M Willis

105 thoughts on “Ringtone”

  1. Jen Aside

    Sandman? Really?

    Sandman.

    1. A. Colunga

      I’m a bad fan because it took me until 10 seconds after reading the last panel to figure out the song.

      1. sammy

        i realized it then was reading the song in james hetfield voice

        1. Hypsie

          Hahah Same here!! That voice is engraved in my head thanks to my uncle rocking me to sleep to that song.
          \m/^_^\m/

      2. David Herbert

        I didn’t until I read the comment.

    2. Thor

      I like to think that it’s the Richard Cheese version of “Enter Sandman”, as that version is infinitely better than the original.

      1. Bekah

        I want to have 1 000 000 of your babies.

      2. Jimmy

        Hey his version could be her ringtone, right? …..right?? 🙂

      3. Wack'd

        You are the reason I now have 60 Richard Cheese songs on my iPod.

        THANK YOU.

    3. Rognik

      It seems like life imitating art. Or art imitating art. Sorry, I had a train of thought but I ran out of coal…

  2. Kojiro

    Oh boy, she forgot to put the uniform down. That won’t end well.

    1. Cholma

      Forgot? Now that she finally has it back, she would never let it go.
      🙂

      1. Rognik

        I doubt Ruth has even noticed it missing. It’s not like it’s HER precious baby…

        1. Kojiro

          No, but it IS her new toy, and her main tool of screwing with yet another helpless victim.

  3. Kernanator

    Surprisingly, I did NOT see this coming.

  4. Mkvenner

    that song fits perfectly. 😀

  5. Madock345

    I can’t figure out where she is hiding, is that a closet or some cabnits?

    1. Aizat

      From the look of it, I’d say it’s a cabinet of some sort.

      1. NCP19

        I figured it was a closet to sync up with the song.

        1. MacGravatar

          I agree. It’s more than likely that it is, in fact, a closet.

        2. Rognik

          Does that mean Billie will be coming out of the closet soon?

        3. Matt

          Well, this isn’t Shortpacked, but it is still a strip written by the same man. I guess what I’m getting at is that it’s anybody’s guess.

        4. Plasma Mongoose

          At least it wasn’t a transparent closet.

    2. soloran

      A lot of dorm rooms don’t have closets. They have wardrobes with a large upper compartment to store hanging clothes and a set of drawers underneath. As this is an older state college, I assume that is what is furnished.

      1. goatman95111

        Yeah… OSU was the same way. In fact, I remember a contest involving cramming the most number of students into such a room, with students both inside the wardrobe, and lying sprawled on top between the wardrobe and ceiling.

        On another note… why am I suddenly feeling a certain sense of familiarity and appreciation for Ruth? Is that wrong? Do I need some Seroquel?

    3. sammy

      the dorms in IU have no cabinets. it’s a closet

  6. Plasma Mongoose

    Is that the Enter The Sandman ringtone I hear?

    1. knowwonattawl

      I can verify that it is what you read. What you hear I cannot say.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Reading and hearing are sometimes end up becoming the same thing.

        1. nothri

          Right, for some this happens when they take too many recreational drugs, and for others it happens when they take too few non-recreational drugs.

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          In my case, I was refering to the phenomena where when you read things like lyrics from songs you heard before, the song replays in your head.

        3. dralou

          OR you’re one of the few people that have a neurologic condition called “Synesthesia”. Like Duke Ellington, or Thom Yorke…

  7. Romanticide

    In your Heaaaaaaaaad!!!! *headbangs*

    Billie’s plan are just not going right it seems.

    1. Spiffster13

      it all seems to be blowing up…

      IN HER FAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCEEEEE!

      I’ll shut up now.

  8. Kafloobop

    THE PLOT THICKENS!

    1. MM

      Will it be blackmail material, confrontation, or unexpected sympathy? Place your bets, folks! 😀

      1. Joe

        My money’s on sympathy.

        1. knowwonattawl

          From Billie? That’s hard to imagine at this point. She isn’t the most empathetic of people and Ruth has crossed her repeatedly.

      2. lord of dance

        im thinkin the good old fashioned – fake sympathy so what starts out as ok blackmail material turns into incredible blackmail material- routine

      3. begbert2

        Beatdown.

  9. Jetpack Monkey

    Wait, so what happens if Metallica suddenly shows up a lot as a tag? Do they go into the banner?

    1. Undrave

      Yes but for copyright reasons the role of Metallica is played by the ’86 Saint-Louis Blues defense line-up.

      And Ronald Reagan.

      1. Jetpack Monkey

        I’m strangely okay with that.

  10. Ridureyu

    So many horror movies have this exact scene!

    1. NF

      “The call came from inside the house!”

  11. arjay2813

    looks like billie will be coming out of the closet for ruth. is it ironic that just before reading this i was reading Gotham Central before DC’s big reset or w/e? i’ll just have to find out tomorow

    1. Bekah

      Same bat time, same bat channel?

  12. knowwonattawl

    I feel like “Sandman” should have been tagged instead of Metallica. He’s the one that entered after all.

  13. NinjaNick

    What a cool ringtone.

  14. Sonicburger

    BEST RINGTONE EVAR

  15. Charlie Owens

    Ruth is still a horrible person, but she has the coolest ringtone in webcomics.

    OK, anyone else wanna share their tones? I’m using the theme to “The Boondocks”. Even though I don’t watch the show.

    1. David

      Mine’s the Italian Batman: The Animated Series theme.

      1. Rachel

        Dude, that is SO AWESOME! 😀

      2. Plasma Mongoose

        Do you mean this theme Willis?

    2. Mkvenner

      I have the theme to psych.

    3. Al the Mighty

      The Jurassic Park theme…

    4. Animaniac

      The theme to Animaniacs, unsurprisingly =)

      1. Mkvenner

        You win hands down. 😀

  16. Gentooman

    Ringtone! Why did I buy that stupid Ringtone. I just can’t imagine now what IIIII was thinking at all (Really what was I thinking); my friends all stare at meee whenever IIII get a caaaalll…

    …What? It’s appropriate considering Weird Al’s new album came out yesterday.
    Also, 36 comments and no FAAAAAAAAAAAAACE joke?

    1. Undrave

      Well no one left me an opening yet!

      I think I could have squeezed in a ‘with your/his/her penis’ somewhere but no FAAAAAACE!

  17. strv4mdcrty

    I’ve literally never read one of these characters before DoA, so I don’t know what i’m supposed to expect of them. That being said I fucking love this dynamic between billie and ruth

    1. begbert2

      You don’t need to read anything else to read this comic. (In fact, it’s contraindicated.) So just sit back and enjoy the ride.

  18. Thomas

    And this, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call irony.

    1. TemplarKnight

      I don’t see what is ironic here.

      1. Steven

        Never mind that noise you heard, it’s just the beast under your bed, IN YOUR CLOSET, in your head.

        1. CP

          That’s not irony. Irony is when you expect something to happen or intend for something to happen, and the actual result is the opposite. For example, it would be ironic if Billie hid in the closet so Ruth wouldn’t find her, only to discover that Ruth is actually afraid of monsters in her closet and checks there compulsively.

        2. Jen Aside

          http://hotword.dictionary.com/ironic/

  19. Jimmy

    It’s sad that I knew that ringtone as soon as I saw the lyrics, It’s probably even more sad that I headbanged to it for a couple of seconds. 😉

  20. Booger.

    OH!!! That’s her CLEAVAGE in the last panel!! I was staring at it thinking “what the hell IS this?” cause it looks like the cleft chin of an old man or something….she doesn’t have a cleft chin.

    Now I see…it’s her boobies.

    But look at the last panel again and see it like a chin like I did…can you see it???

    My ex-girlfriend had a cleft chin. I tried to be nice and tell her it wasn’t the most masculine thing I’d ever seen, but I was lying. I don’t miss her butt chin…not one bit.

    1. Beefcube

      Same here! I saw that, as well as her mouth and chin together as her mouth. It’s pretty horrifying.

    2. Lt. Taz

      Dear god, I went and looked at it again, and that is horrifying. It does look like a butt-chin.

    3. TexasNinjaBuzzard

      Why is a grinning John Waters hiding in Ruth’s closet? And where did Billie go- did John eat her?

  21. Plasma Mongoose

    My ringtone is the sound of the TARDIS dematerialisating.

    1. Lt. Taz

      Mine’s “Do the Mario”, the end theme from the Super Mario Brothers Super show, but I like yours better. *vworpvworp*

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        I can see the advantage of a ringtone like that, it would encourage you to answer as quick as possible.

    2. Mkvenner

      coolest ringtone ever.

  22. Jackson

    Everything’s gonna be babies.

  23. Plasma Mongoose

    Thalidomide babies!

    1. Jackson

      That’s even worse than Babies McIntyre!

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        A lot worse!

  24. ziggy78eog

    I would have thought that Master of Puppets would be more appropriate for Ruth.

    1. Alexx

      Nah, seems more like a Battery kinda girl with how giddy she is at the idea of pounding face.

  25. marsinvader

    Can I make a request? can the comments link redirect to the top of the comments instead of the bottom? I think the use of the link is to “read” the comments no?

    1. David

      I don’t know how to do that.

    2. Joey

      No I think it is to post a comment. The comments link on the post is to read the comments. Don’t really need two links doing the same thing.

  26. ADHadh

    Unless Ruth is using that as a ringtone ironically, she has gained a lot in my eyes.

  27. Joebo

    Oh no! Now Billie is

    1. Joebo

      well that didn’t work…

    2. Jackson

      Is what? That’s it? Now Billie is…going to give me a million dollars? Or now Billie is going to give me my own spaceship? I mean what the f–

      …wait. Wrong fandom.

      1. Joebo

        Was trying to post a link to the “Trapped in a Closet” video but something went wrong in my html.

  28. SolegitRR

    My current ringtone is whatever MP3 I happened to have set it to, but my text messaging alert seems incredibly appropriate here, because it’s the [!] noise from Metal Gear Solid…

  29. nosleep3

    Ooo, she’s going to overhear something compromising she can use to blackmail Ruth!

    1. Mkvenner

      nah, it’s probably just Howard.

  30. iggy_rock

    I’m still trying to figure out why Mary was lying around only in underwear and wristbands…

  31. Cid

    ][v][etal up your ass —- \m/ (>_<) \m/

  32. Redpossum

    Sigh.
    The disadvantages of being old and out of touch with pop culture. No idea what that song is about, but curious enough to go find it at YouTube.

    I hate this because, for those who know it, a song can convey volumes of meaning beyond expression in words.
    (6 minutes or so)
    OK, I’ve listened to both the Metallica and Richard Cheese (WTF is this, a Dean Martin parody?) versions. I still don’t “get it”. Is this just supposed to convey that she’s cooler-than-she-seems because she listens to Metallica?

    Mind you, I’m not criticizing the comic. Plainly the problem is my own cultural ignorance. I’m just asking for help in understanding.

    1. nothri

      Honestly, I can’t think of a more appropriate image for Ruth’s approach down the hallway than the lines “Exit light. Enter Night.”

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      It’s just the beast,
      Under your bed
      In your closet
      In your head

      I think having the above lyrics playing while Billie was hiding in the closet was the reason Willis chose ‘Enter The Sandman’ in the first place.

    3. Pony of Chaos

      I’d like to think that the reason for using this particular song is simply because listening to Metallica makes anybody at least 20% cooler, but the lyrics fitting the situation is probably the real reason.

  33. Hello, Mr. Anderson

    I didn’t realize what the song was until I saw the Metallica tag, then it was almost an instant recognition.

  34. Plasma Mongoose

    From the shape of Ruth’s phone, it looks like one of those old clamshell phones, I haven’t seen anyone with one of those types for at least 2 years now.

    1. iSaidCandleja-

      I know a lot of people who use them because they associated answering the phone with opening it and various other reasons that fall under the category “old habits die hard.”

      For someone her age, I assume it’s because she is a college student too broke to afford anything better.

    2. David

      It’s not a clamshell. Are you misreading the shadow under the phone? We see the phone in an earlier strip, when Ruth shows Billie an image of her uniform.

  35. RV

    I secretly hope this becomes a small running gag throughout the strip- I want to know what everyone’s ring tones are. Or at least Mike… and Joe… and Walkie… and everyone else too! -_-

  36. Happy Ham Ham

    That song always gives me nightmares. T•T

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