I should print out that scary “Joyce waking up Sarah” pic and paste it on the ceiling over my bed. When the alarm goes off, I won’t be all “Five more minutes”, I’ll shriek and spring out of bed.
Use a timer switch on a tube valve radio tuned to any music station, positioned out of reach, turned to max volume.
There is a two second window from you waking up to realizing what’s up, and another two seconds before the radio explodes and the appartment collapses.
Don’t go back to bed once you are standing shivering next to the radio with pulse racing.
Wouldn’t work for me either. My alarm clock is waaaaaay across the room from my bed already. And I can still get out of bed, walk across the room, turn off my alarm as it’s playing VERY loudly, walk back across the room, get back into the bed, and never once at any point in that whole set of actions actually need to wake up.
I’m a pretty high-functioning sleepwalker. xD Also sleeptalker. xD
I’ve only done this a couple of times. (It’s also why I have *two* loud alarm clocks placed at different far points in the room, set two snoozes apart.)
By the way, if you’re a high functioning sleepwalker and sleeptalker, why bother waking up at all? At least, not until after work is over or whatever.
Doctor_Who
I do this too. My alarm goes off as 7, my phone at 7:30.
With any luck, walking across the room will wake me just enough that the phone will do the trick a half hour later.
Yet-One-More-Idiot
It doesn’t matter, I’ve tried having 2 alarm clocks in opposite corners of the room set 10 minutes apart or whatever…I still ended up getting disciplined at my last job for turning up late to work. My boss just didn’t believe that anybody could actually turn walk over and turn off an alarm without being awake. He just assumed I was making up a load of bull to try to avoid a black mark in my employee record (if I had been making shit up, I would’ve gone for something more instantly believable! :P)
I’ve done it loads of times over the years. I’ll set my alarm for, say, 9am, then wake up 11am to find my alarm re-set to 10am and switched off already (meaning I must’ve got up at least twice without waking up). And I’m such a good sleeptalker apparently that my sister used to engage me in long conversations while I was asleep, of which I remember nothing. Also this was also how once, on a Scout camp, I revealed to all the other boys in my tent exactly which girl Scout I had a massive crush on. Really embarrassing… xD
I wouldn’t like to try going to work for the day whilst asleep, I might not be high-functioning *enough*… 😛
John
In college, I had my computer, which was underneath my bunk, much like the arrangement they’ve got in the DoA dorm, set up as my alarm clock. This was back in the day before MP3s, so it would just do a repeated PC-speaker beep. Any key on the keyboard would work as a snooze button, for 15 minutes the first time, 10 minutes the second time, 5 minutes the third, and then not at all. Shutting it off required typing a 50+-character passphrase with capitalization and punctuation flawlessly – the backspace and other editing keys were disabled, as were ^C and similar interrupts – and this upside-down while hanging over the edge of my bunk.
I shut it off without waking up several times.
These days I just use my stereo, with my phone alarm set as a backup about fifteen minutes later. I find I wake up a lot better if I wake gradually to music than if I’m jolted awake by an alarm – and actually faster, because I don’t spend half an hour swearing and slapping the snooze button and trying to get back to sleep. And it’s safer… I tend to be irrationally violent when woken badly.
No. Just no. There’s a distinct difference between “fashionable” and “tasteful”. and the phrase “fashion sense” strikes me as implying the latter rather than the former.
148 thoughts on “Provocative”
Idon'tcarenomore
Dina’s hat is ‘naggy’ hat, shes an EQ fan – gotta be.
teddydragon
That awkward moment when you see someone outside of EQ who even knows about it.
phroggonalog
lots of people know about shards of dalaya
Felix
bestest gamezor in tha hoodz?
phroggonalog
maybe, check it out
Felix
yeah, I know what it is, just asking stoopid questions. 🙂
Herohatch
I’m intrigued to see what chaos will inevitably occur.
Opus the Poet
Joyce! Showing fashion sense (sorta).
saltchocolate
I’m just shocked that she’s not *wearing* a sweater vest!
Kiapdx
I think she’s still in her pjs, which include a t-shirt
saltchocolate
Oh! It was too good to be true…
John
Have hope! I’m pretty sure this is the day everyone wears hoodie dresses.
John
Actually, “The Day Everyone Wore Hoodie Dresses” would make a pretty good title.
CarlaGriffin
There are pyjama jeans, why not pyjama sweater vests? This is a travesty!
taekwondogirl
I was gonna say.. how is a tank top fashion sense? Or provocative? D:
shadowcell
hey, nobody said she *didn’t* come home with five new sweater vests and a picture bible
David Herbert
She also bought an album featuring the best Christian songs of the 90s.
Sageress
WITH ARMS WIDE OOOOPEN
saltchocolate
Not to be confused with: “So here I am, with open arms . . . “
Opus the Poet
That’s a Journey song from the ’70s…
Karfsma778
No.
Levi
how bout no.
Roborat
Yea, all two of them.
Doctor_Who
I should print out that scary “Joyce waking up Sarah” pic and paste it on the ceiling over my bed. When the alarm goes off, I won’t be all “Five more minutes”, I’ll shriek and spring out of bed.
Calvin Coolage
DO YOU WANT TO DIE?! THINK OF THE KIDS MANE!!
Yotomoe
Won’t work for me. I don’t open my eyes until I’m standing on two feet, past the point of no return.
Aizat
Won’t work for me either….go with the zombie for the K-Fee Coffee commercial.
AJBulldis
Won’t work for me, as I wear a sleeping mask to keep the sun out of my eyes. Also I tend to wake up before the alarm anyways.
David
Use a timer switch on a tube valve radio tuned to any music station, positioned out of reach, turned to max volume.
There is a two second window from you waking up to realizing what’s up, and another two seconds before the radio explodes and the appartment collapses.
Don’t go back to bed once you are standing shivering next to the radio with pulse racing.
Yet-One-More-Idiot
Wouldn’t work for me either. My alarm clock is waaaaaay across the room from my bed already. And I can still get out of bed, walk across the room, turn off my alarm as it’s playing VERY loudly, walk back across the room, get back into the bed, and never once at any point in that whole set of actions actually need to wake up.
I’m a pretty high-functioning sleepwalker. xD Also sleeptalker. xD
Jason
Oh good, it’s not just me.
Ocbrad1
Me too!
begbert2
I’ve only done this a couple of times. (It’s also why I have *two* loud alarm clocks placed at different far points in the room, set two snoozes apart.)
By the way, if you’re a high functioning sleepwalker and sleeptalker, why bother waking up at all? At least, not until after work is over or whatever.
Doctor_Who
I do this too. My alarm goes off as 7, my phone at 7:30.
With any luck, walking across the room will wake me just enough that the phone will do the trick a half hour later.
Yet-One-More-Idiot
It doesn’t matter, I’ve tried having 2 alarm clocks in opposite corners of the room set 10 minutes apart or whatever…I still ended up getting disciplined at my last job for turning up late to work. My boss just didn’t believe that anybody could actually turn walk over and turn off an alarm without being awake. He just assumed I was making up a load of bull to try to avoid a black mark in my employee record (if I had been making shit up, I would’ve gone for something more instantly believable! :P)
I’ve done it loads of times over the years. I’ll set my alarm for, say, 9am, then wake up 11am to find my alarm re-set to 10am and switched off already (meaning I must’ve got up at least twice without waking up). And I’m such a good sleeptalker apparently that my sister used to engage me in long conversations while I was asleep, of which I remember nothing. Also this was also how once, on a Scout camp, I revealed to all the other boys in my tent exactly which girl Scout I had a massive crush on. Really embarrassing… xD
I wouldn’t like to try going to work for the day whilst asleep, I might not be high-functioning *enough*… 😛
John
In college, I had my computer, which was underneath my bunk, much like the arrangement they’ve got in the DoA dorm, set up as my alarm clock. This was back in the day before MP3s, so it would just do a repeated PC-speaker beep. Any key on the keyboard would work as a snooze button, for 15 minutes the first time, 10 minutes the second time, 5 minutes the third, and then not at all. Shutting it off required typing a 50+-character passphrase with capitalization and punctuation flawlessly – the backspace and other editing keys were disabled, as were ^C and similar interrupts – and this upside-down while hanging over the edge of my bunk.
I shut it off without waking up several times.
These days I just use my stereo, with my phone alarm set as a backup about fifteen minutes later. I find I wake up a lot better if I wake gradually to music than if I’m jolted awake by an alarm – and actually faster, because I don’t spend half an hour swearing and slapping the snooze button and trying to get back to sleep. And it’s safer… I tend to be irrationally violent when woken badly.
Psycho
Question for Willis, was there a timeskip, or is this just the next day? If there was, how long was it?
David Willis
It’s just the next day. All my timeskips have been marked.
saltchocolate
Joyce is wasting no time on her plan to get Sarah and Jacob together. Sublimate much, Joyce?
Psycho
Really? Never noticed they were marked…
David Willis
Here are both of them:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/04-time-keeps-on-slippin/year/
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/03-answers-in-hennessy/too-long/
hof1991
Six whole days gone in a flash. That’s about a year of DOA time. I’m glad you didn’t draw Walky waiting pensively for your days.
C.
There is a time skip of several hours involved.
David
It will be filled retroactively with dream flashbacks.
Idon'tcarenomore
Dexter and monkey master leggings in the same sentence with…..fashion sense…ah yeah.
Mr. Random
Well, at least this is better than that episode, “fashion disaster”
Banah
Cartoon-patterend leggings aren’t really that unfashionable these days, depending on what you wear them with. Recent example: http://style.mtv.com/2014/01/28/teen-wolf-seaon-3-episode-16-leggings/
Rabid Rabbit
No. Just no. There’s a distinct difference between “fashionable” and “tasteful”. and the phrase “fashion sense” strikes me as implying the latter rather than the former.
Glynvel
I like Joyce’s 4th panel angry “The Monarch” eyebrows.
Yotomoe
Now Wear the tanktop so we can destroy Dr. Venture!!!
Jay Eff
You know, I bet Joyce looves butterflies..
fbihop
Last two days lasted eight months. I’m guessing this day will last a full year.
David Willis
Nah, only until May.
(Already finished writing it.)
GoogerGeiger
Maybe Joyce will finally go nuts in this story arc.
Doctor_Who
Could you honestly tell the difference if she did?
Sageress
She’d denounce sweatervests.
Rutee
She’d try to make out with Sarah.
David
She’ll dry-hump squirrels in the park.
Opus the Poet
Nahh, that would fall under the “Pre-Marital Hanky Panky!” crazy ban she is already operating under.
BlackIo
And here come the hoodie dresses.
TacosForever
HOODIE DRESSES FOR EVERYONE!
Maybe Joyce bought Sarah a hoodie dress at Target. We can only hope.
Wonder Wig
New storyline, but Joyce couldn’t go two panels before snapping back to her triangle smile.
Sageress
It’s terrifying.
SilverArrowArtemis
RETURN OF THE TRIANGLE SMILE. \(o0o/)
Yotomoe
The very fact that you wear sweater vests shows that you have no sense of fashion, Joyce!
Calvin Coolage
Hey, did you not watch Fairly Odd Parents? Sweatervests are girl magnets.
Aizat
Yes..even when women wear them.
Calvin Coolage
Especially when women wear them.
Kamino Neko
That is the best Gravatar for these comments. >_>
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