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Pile
Posted on May 15, 2015 by David M Willis

177 thoughts on “Pile”

  1. Jen Aside

    BILLIE YOU FUCKING NARC

    1. Gigafreak

      BILLIE YOU FUCKING ‘HOLIC

      am i doing it right

    2. chris73

      Why wouldn’t she tell her girlfriend?

      1. winter

        Because she’s now put her girlfriend in the uncomfortable situation of having to possibly evict Becky from the building if she wants to keep her job?

        1. chris73

          So she should keep it secret from Ruth and if it blows up Ruth gets into more trouble for not knowing what was happening?
          Who should Billie be loyal to, Becky whom she barely knows and but finds aggravating or her girlfriend Ruth?

        2. Ess

          Really, she doesn’t realise she has much reason not to tell Ruth. Is she even aware of how dire Becky’s situation is? If she says she’s “visiting from another school,” she probably doesn’t know that Becky doesn’t have another school to go back to, and assumes it really is just a little visit. Telling Ruth isn’t malicious, here.

        3. winter

          Definitely not malicious. A bit careless, though.

        4. Rich

          She doesn’t have a reason to be careful. Billie’s not aware of Becky’s situation.

        5. Agemegos

          I’m with Ringo here.

        6. That Damn Rat

          Nor any responsibility to be careful, keeping Becky is Joye’s project, so she has to be the one to water, feed her and keep her form being impounded.

        7. Dean

          Next strip: Ruth finds Becky loitering in the hallway and wheelclamps her. Joyce has to pay a fine to get the clamp removed.

        8. Rich

          Surely that would be Carla getting the wheelclamps, wouldn’t it?

        9. Jackson

          We would all do so many things differently if we were in these characters’ shoes but with the knowledge we have from watching all of them at once.

        10. winter

          Oh, I agree with you completely on that.
          But it’s still a rotten thing to do to Becky, so of course the commenters are going to take issue with it.

        11. chris73

          thats why i read these comic, everyone sees the same comic yet there are so many different opinions and all based of everyones own experiences

          Its brilliant

        12. Rycan

          Billie has no clue that Becky is homeless.

        13. saltchocolate

          ^ This.

        14. DarkoNeko

          ^ that

        15. Lurker

          it like this and that and this an ah

        16. Rich

          ^ and the other thing

        17. Rowen Morland

          I@d assume that Bille thinks Ruth will just do whatever she wants but square it with her masters as best she can.

    3. Doc

      GOSH BILLIE DONT JUST NARC ON EVERYONE

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Now she has something in common with Sarah.

        1. DarkoNeko

          Harsh.

      2. DoctorLantern

        It isn’t “narc”ing if she doesn’t know Becky is actually living with Joyce atm. Billie has no clue about Becky’s actual situation.

        1. ScumlordAzazel

          But it is narc-ing if she tells Ruth about a prty Joyce probably shouldn’t be having in the dorms.

    4. thebombzen

      “She’s been around.”

      Nice subtle implication there. Looks like Billie wants Ruth to blackmail Becky so the next slipshine will be amazing.

      1. Rich

        And now I cannot shake the idea that EGS Sarah reads Slipshine. Extra disturbing considering what her mark does.

        1. DarkoNeko

          …noooooo. Your mind, out the gutter.

        2. Rich

          Please, the girl’s been Tedd’s lab assistant forever now. That changes a person. Literally. Several times a day, even.

          I wonder, can her spell let her access fictional situations? If she’s watching TV (or reading a webcomic) when she casts, can she use the screen as a doorway into the story and act within it? Her scenarios are already fictional setups, however accurate they may appear. Moving another level away from reality seems possible once she gets the hang of things. If so, her new trick is a fan fiction writer’s dream come true.

        3. Dr. Smart

          based on the way it was described she can control the entire simulation, theoretically it would work like lucid dreaming allowing her to alter anything she wants, if she had enough practice theoretically she could create such a fantasy (though still frozen in time) but It would be more about designing a set to look like the story then actually entering the story. I imagine her putting all her friends in costumes and setting them up in a fantasy location similar to how Dan portrays internet conversations (except everyone but sarah is afk XD) since there is limited time to set up and enjoy such a scenario though, she would need to get really good at altering her surroundings instantly (possibly basing it on a picture and letting her subconscious do a lot of the work) of course the practical use of the simulation is for spying, (such as being able to check someones pockets or see what someones written in a not or journal without having to worry about being noticed. if she alters the entire simulation, I think certain things (especially things she was unaware of before) might still be around but the fantasy might be more a distraction and will alter the accuracy of the simulation

          TLDR; she would be able to alter it as if lucid dreaming but it might cause inaccurate findings making the spell less usefull

          I think in actuality this will be more about angst, as she might start using the spell to spy on her friends (unintentionally) and will find out things shes not supposed to know and may not want to tell them the truth. Dan prides himself on predictable sitcom drama.

        4. Rich

          Accuracy isn’t really a requirement when used for entertainment purposes, though. And she can let the NPCs in her sims act autonomously, which for fictional scenarios would probably be guided by her subconscious. Might actually be an interesting therapy tool when running that way.

          Occurs to me EGS Sarah getting addicted to running fantasy sims could “solve” the ambient magic issue just by virtue of her chain-casting so many times a day she siphons away most of the excess power. Pandora said she eats a noticeable chunk of it with every cast. Works great until somebody/something comes looking for the person being a power hog. 🙂

        5. Gamaran Sepudomyn

          That would be a great solution, but she uses up all the power in one area when she casts a spell. She’d have to find another area, one where no one will bother her while she casts it and which still has the ambient energy, to cast it again.

        6. Dr. Smart

          she is still susceptible to burnout, (wonder what color her hair would be XD) so yeah use of the magic might help deplete the excess energy but it would probably deplete her own energy as well…

          its possible she might be able to animate such a scene as well, if she had the fantasy figured out in advance (or as suggested it was based on an existing story her subconcious might be able to let the similation create a scenario, but it seems like this would take up not only a lot of energy but it would push her mental abilities since she would have to consider tons of variables subconciously but be able to picture them accurately without mistakes. (like Sarah and Nanase trying to change there heights and missing the mark) though I could be wrong, she has godlike powers within the simulation so its possible that with a little practice it will be easier then that. still while it might be fun to make her own fantasy worlds that she could role play in and I could see how that would be addictive, I don’t think that would be the main purpose of the power within the comic, not that I know exactly what Dan has planned (though I imagine it may include characters being transformed) so we will just have to wait and see

        7. Dr. Smart

          hey an excuse to talk about EGS litterally just caught up on EGS and EGS NP last night, I didn’t sleep for 2 nights o_o whoever introduced me to that series I don’t know if I want to smack them or hug them, or just transgender them…

        8. Rich

          It took me three days to marathon everything when I first found it. Addictive to a degree matched only by DoA.

        9. Gamaran Sepudomyn

          A problem only compounded by the sketchbook and newspaper sections.

    5. Foxhack

      NEXT THING YOU KNOW SHE’LL BE BLOWING UP INNOCENT DRUG DEALERS AND DOGS

      Oh wait, wrong NARC.

    6. Rutee

      When the fuck did Ruth get the nickname “Narc”?

    7. segnosaur

      Re; Billie being a ‘Narc’…

      Remember, Joyce and company don’t know who Billie is dating (and Joyce is assuming its a guy). And Billie probably doesn’t know all the details about Becky’s situation (i.e. open-ended visit).

      So Billy’s blabbing to Ruth is probably more due to a lack of some information, rather than maliciousness.

      1. Jen Aside

        come on, haven’t you watched sports on the telly and yelled at the players even though they can’t hear you because yay release of violent tension

        1. Gigafreak

          Or shouted sports referees because they doesn’t have the benefit of a bird’s eye view over the action like your TV screen provides

      2. John

        Also, everyone acts like it would be the end of the world for Becky to be evicted. Yes, it would be a challenge, but it’s only really terrible if they send her to her parents. If it just forces her to go to a shelter and start moving her life forward then it’s actually a good thing she be narc’d on.

    8. Killjoy

      Like Becky has any idea what’s going on or that she shouldn’t tell Ruth.

      What did I miss that makes her a “bad person” for offhandedly mentioning it to Ruth?

    9. Lin

      I find the commenters assumption that it would be a big deal to have a non-student crashing with you really baffling. My freshman year of college, my best friend wasn’t a student at my university. When my roommate got mono, I had a spare bed in ,u room and she would sleep there most weeknights. My RA didn’t give a damn,

      1. Jen Aside

        http://www.rps.indiana.edu/doc/AtoZGuide.pdf

        3. Occupancy of a room is limited to the residents assigned to that room.
        The room will be used only as living space.

        per the ACTUAL school’s dorm rules

        1. Jen Aside

          [also remember that Ruth is NOT known for not giving a damn]

        2. Lin

          I just don’t think she’d care. She doesn’t want people putting themselves in danger and she doesn’t want them reflecting poorly on her. Becky’s presence does’t threaten either of those things.

        3. Lin

          Right. and that’s dependent on the RA giving a damn.

  2. HorchataShake

    BILLIE YOU USELESS BISEXUAL

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Don’t be so orientationist! 😛

    2. Rich

      You’ll thank her when she’s keeping Ruth distracted during the party.

    3. Turbanous

      Is the “you useless Bisexual” thing some sort of meme? I first noticed it when Danny was talking with Dorothy and I brushed it off as generic Danny hate. Seeing it in regards to Billie suggests there is something more behind it.

      1. DarkoNeko

        I’ve been wondering, too. It doesn’t seems particulary funny.

      2. aiimy

        It’s from tumblr, actually! Someone once told a story in which they messed something up and their friend shouted “TIFFANY YOU USELESS LESBIAN”. It became sort of a thing, especially in all caps.

      3. Rich

        I always read it was a play on the old SNL news skits with Jane Curtin and Dan Akroyd, but that’s just me.

        1. Roborat

          “Jane you ignorant slut” closely followed by Jane ripping her blouse open. Classic SNL bit from the early years.

      4. Kamino Neko

        Googling, it’s definitely a thing (seems to be restricted to Tumblr, mostly)…looks to have originated as a reaction to a couple of screenshots from Free!, but that might just be the most reblogged use of the meme, not the origin.

    4. Skai Cyan

      “That’s racist.” *+1 Sin ding*

  3. Mr. Random

    Everyone is suspicious. Did you see Rachel? She’s hiding something.

    1. Doctor_Who

      She’s hiding a whole ‘nother Rachel is what. We can’t have two Rachels! It’ll make the cast page confusing!

    2. John

      She’s too pretty to be a good person.

  4. Plasma Mongoose

    Nothing more suspicious than a redhead… errr wait…

  5. EvergreenFir

    Ruth’s new hobby is Billie

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Crack is cheaper… 😛

      1. brumagem

        Pretty sure Billie is cheaper. She will occasionally pay YOU when you date her.

        1. Rich

          “Have a twenty.”

        2. saltchocolate

          It’s more like she’ll pay you *not* to date her. And by “date her,” she means “be anywhere in her sight.” (I’m looking at you, Becks.)

      2. Rycan

        Dunno, there’s some pretty cheap alcohol out there. Can’t say whether it’s safe (a relative term when it comes to ethanol), but it’s cheap!

  6. Kris

    It’s kind of an open ended visit.

  7. Rich

    Ruth’s hobby, raving paranoia. She’d have been right at home during the 1950s.

    1. Doctor_Who

      Especially since she’s Canadian. She could have accused people left and right of socialism, and had a very good success rate.

      1. Rich

        Of course, that decade wasn’t exactly noted for tolerance of non-heterosexual relationships, so perhaps I’m wrong.

        1. fogel

          (Cough) Roy Cohn (cough)

      2. Corwin Haught

        Would she be protesting at CCF conventions?

    2. Smiling Cat

      Young, college educated, non-traditional sexuality, I’m pretty sure she’d be part of the “Red Menace”.

      1. Dean

        At the moment, she’s just a ginger menace.

      2. Rich

        Just being a ginger was grounds for suspicion. But that’s always been true. Can’t trust redheads. 🙂

        1. Lord Stoneheart

          Hey, just because I’m a redhead doesn’t mean I’m plotting something. I mean I am plotting conspiracies and the like but that’s unrelated to having red hair. (Though this post will be more pointless if my gravatar changes from a sneering Ruth).

        2. Rheios

          You could use Galasslo and it’d still work!

        3. Someone

          Fools, you will not know what I am planning until it is too late!

      3. fogel

        “Lavender Menace”

        1. Rich

          That would be Tedd from EGS, wouldn’t it?

        2. fogel

          Could be also, but i was thinking of the 1950s, when Joe McCarthy and Roy Cohn — who may have been closeted — went after gays in the US govt as much as Reds, and got Ike to sign an order barring gays from federal jobs, and more people were fired for being Lavender than Red. if youve seen the movie Julie and Julia, theres a scene in which a Witch Hunting Goon from DC has come over to Paris and asks Julia Childs husband, who’s in the State Department, if hes a homosexual. That kind of thing.

  8. Dusk Tornado

    This is going to get funny

  9. David Herbert

    Taking out the trash? Who knows what’s in there.
    Having a party? How many drugs are being taken?
    Eating cake? Aren’t you chewing a little too loudly?

  10. Doctor_Who

    Ruth: “Becky sounds hot. Any chance she’s into girls?”

    Billie: “I guess we’ll never know.”

    1. Kris

      That’s the real mystery isn’t it?

      1. Rich

        If there’s one thing Becky is known for, it’s being mysterious about her sexual preferences.

        1. Opus the Poet

          http://izquotes.com/quotes-pictures/quote-sarcasm-i-get-it-now-see-at-the-time-i-thought-your-jokey-manner-was-just-the-way-you-were-jon-stewart-269959.jpg

        2. Killjoy

          + 1 internets.

        3. Dr. Smart

          I honestly think she may be a question mark on the Kinsey scale

    2. fogel

      She totally denies it!!

  11. LiaHansen

    Looking menacingly down at each other is how these two say hello

  12. MeghanTheWorldEater

    God this just makes me sad.
    Billie’s trying to be a good girlfriend by bringing Ruth some food, but Ruth just couldn’t care less..

    1. Carriethedragon

      I’m not sure what you’re implying, but I think it’s more about the fact that she’s depressed than that she doesn’t appreciate Billie’s efforts.

      1. MeghanTheWorldEater

        I was kinda seeing it as too depressed to appreciate her efforts.
        It reminds me of funks I’ve been in where I was just too depressed to really have the energy to care, and that’s what I see in Ruth.
        Or maybe she’s just waking up and I’m over analyzing everything

        1. Carriethedragon

          I think you’re right. It reminds me friends who’ve been depressed. Barely eating or sleeping, apathetic, uninterested in doing anything. …Yep. :/

        2. DarkoNeko

          Ah, was wondering if I was the only one that noticed that she… probably won’t eat it at all.

          I mean, seriously, I wish eating *cold* burgers on no one.

          …I was assuming another reason for lack of appetite, tho.

        3. Rich

          But…but I like cold hamburgers…

    2. BobaFett2

      She does care, she’s just depressed. When you’re depressed, you don’t enjoy the things you normally enjoy and life becomes very dull, among other things.

      1. Rich

        Understatement of the millennium.

        And gods, I hate it when people tell me to just cheer up.

        1. Leorale

          I know, right? What’re you going to say, “gosh, I didn’t think of cheering up! I’ll do that right now, oh boy I feel so much better”

        2. Rich

          My usual response is “Holy shit, why didn’t I think of that?”

        3. Gordon

          “It’s all in your head.”

          Yes. Perhaps that’s because there’s nothing in yours.

        4. MeghanTheWorldEater

          “It’s all in your head”
          I’m gonna take this conversation in a radically different direction (as the person who started it I have the right to do so shaddup >.<#)
          Yes it is all in your head but so is everything else, including the outside world. I mean you don't actually know the world you just know your experience of the world.
          And although we trust are sense to be accurate we know they often are not.
          So although it's unlikely your experience of the world is wholly inaccurate it's equally doubtful that it's fully accurate as well
          So not only is it all your head, you're trapped there.
          Sorry I just find this idea fascinating…

        5. brumagem

          What Meghan said but with the added distinction that things being all in your head =/= being in control of what is in your head.

          Shit’s hard man. And even if you can get around it you have to get around it about every damn day of your life. It’s like a bridge is out in the map of your brain and everyone else just says to flipping FLY over the gap instead.

        6. fogel

          Which is why you can be wrong about what youre looking at but not about what you see.

          On the other hand, what we see is what the Universe looks like when we look at it.

          And, finally, we all live in our own little worlds, inside our heads, but some of them are more congruent with each other than others

          Meghen TWE you gave me an excuse ..uh, reason to propagate 3 of my very favoritist memes. Bless you, for you have made my day!

        7. Gigafreak

          So I guess the way to cure yourself of depression is to discover that you are The One and overthrow The Matrix

        8. saltchocolate

          Gordon, I’ll be sending you royalties on that line every time I use it. It’s too good to leave on the comments “floor” . . .

        9. Gigafreak

          It is short and snappy but sadly leaves the other person no wiser than when they said the stupid thing to begin with, thereby solving nothing aside from giving yourself smug satisfaction that you are unable to fully enjoy due to the aforementioned depression blunting all your feelings.

          …Well, maybe the other stupid person might finally leave you alone after being insulted, so that might be kind of a small win.

        10. saltchocolate

          Aww… sad kitty-face grav + that comment took all the fun out of it for me. Le sigh.

        11. fogel

          Cmon, its like when you tell people with broken legs to get up and dance, same thing. Why should folks with psychological injuries get special coddling?

        12. Tenn

          “Why don’t you just stop having cancer?”

        13. Leorale

          “have you tried not being a mutant?”

  13. Regina Phalange

    I find it odd that, at a college so apparently heteronormative as to apparently not understand bisexuality, there’s a concern that people will find out they’re in a relationship if they hang around each other too much (specifically Mary–I don’t see how she could leap to this specific conclusion, leading her sheltered life). I understand Billie being caught in Ruth’s clothes the next morning is problematic, but they can pass off most of this interaction as becoming friends. Friends have sleepovers, especially if one friend is an authority figure potentially helping another friend, a known alcoholic, with her issues by keeping an eye on her over weekends winkwink.

    1. Carriethedragon

      I don’t think Mary’s as sheltered as Joyce, to be honest. Brainwashed, probably. Also, maybe this is just my opinion, but sneaking in and out of the room of a person–an authority figure, no less–that you only met a month ago and are openly antagonistic with… that’s suspicious.

      1. Regina Phalange

        That’s true–Mary is clearly more comfortable talking about pre-marital pregnancy. And I agree it’s suspicious, but I just don’t think “lesbian lovers” is the first assumption people with a heteronormative mindset will make

        1. Rich

          There’s been a lot of dread about their relationship being found out by Mary, but I agree, that probably isn’t what she’s thinking of. OTOH, this is a dry campus, and Mary may well suspect that the two of them are getting drunk together (which they are) – those bottles have not always been disposed of very secretly. That’s just about as bad for both of them. Billie’s already got that DWI on her record, and Ruth as an RA is supposed to know better and is in deep trouble if she’s caught giving alcohol to a minor.

        2. Greenygal

          No, the relationship is what she’s suspicious of: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/dvr/

        3. Rich

          Hmmm, fair point. Still hard to get evidence of short of a public meltdown or catching them in the act, though. Whereas the boozing gets Ruth and Billie in just as much trouble and is way easier to prove.

        4. Rheios

          The opposite is also true. I had a buddy in college who just up and decided to move out of our door to a different one. I thought it was because he didn’t like his roommate (apparently the guy was a Dana) and so was leaving because of that. I just thought he should try and get into a dfiferent room int he same dorm because then he’d be able to keep hanging out with everyone. Then on the final day he’s moving the rest of the stuff he pulled me into a different room with the RA and let me know that he had moved so that they could date. I knew he had been bi, but had no clue about the RA. Dude was a good guy though. Sadly my first friend, the one who was moving, is also a rampaging narcissist so it didn’t end great.

        5. Rheios

          *out of our dorm. ARRGGHHHH no EDIT!!

        6. Rich

          Yeah, sometimes what looks like a clever room change turns out to be an epic fail. There was a year where I swapped rooms to live with the guy who was dating the roommate of my own girlfriend. Seemed like a great idea, right? Two couples, two rooms, easy privacy. Within two weeks my new roomie broke it off with the gal he’d been dating and impregnated some girl from another dorm. I got to deal with his angry ex, my girlfriend who was pretty doubtful about me all of a sudden, and his understandably unhappy new lass. At least I had the room mostly to myself after the abortion – he pretty much moved to her dorm for months after that.

      2. Charles Phipps

        Actually, Mary strikes me as one of the girls who converts to fundamentalist Christianity from an atheist background as opposed to someone raised in the faith.

        1. DarkoNeko

          “born again [religion]” tend to be the most extremist lunatics.

        2. fogel

          Saul/Paul?

    2. Adam Black

      They DO understand Bisexuality.
      That’s the problem here.

      Ruth is the R.A.
      Billie is her charge. Ruth isnt allowed to sleep with , OR worse have relationships with her students. She could fired and lose her job.

      NO, Mary isnt sheltered. She’s actually quite quite worldly and just scornfully judgemental .

      1. Rich

        Yeah, even an entirely consensual relationship is a serious ethics violation under every RA contract I’ve ever seen. They could sidestep it easily enough if Billie just requested a room swap to some other RA’s dorm/floor/wing before getting caught out, but that wouldn’t be tragic enough, would it?

        1. brumagem

          That would only happen if the comic were called “Everyone Is Smart and Makes Good Rational Decisions Age” and not “Dumbing of Age”, to paraphrase Willis.

      2. Regina Phalange

        Actually, most of the characters we’ve seen discussing bisexuality and who are *not* bi don’t seem to have a good grasp on the concept. Becky and Danny are prime examples, and Dorothy is even a little hesitant talking about it. Only Billie has displayed a very clear understanding, which makes sense because she has known that she’s bi for awhile.

        I understand why they don’t want people finding out, I never indicated that I didn’t, I just really doubt that it’s the first assumption people will jump to. Most straight people will project their own mindset and assume two straight friends unless it gets super obvious, and I just don’t see it at the super-obvious point yet.

        And sorry, but Mary isn’t worldly. Maybe sheltered was a bit too strong of a characteristic to assign, but she certainly isn’t open-minded, and that had to be due to some degree of sheltering.

        1. OnnaStik

          You really don’t have to be sheltered to be a judgmental asshat. Like… at all. The graphic descriptions of anal sex you sometimes hear from homophobes are second in detail only to erotic fanfic. They know, they just hate.

        2. CJ

          How come they know so much? Either they are reading way to much porn or invested a lot of energy in finding out. ?

        3. DarkoNeko

          me thinks the homophobes protests too much 🙂

        4. Lord Stoneheart

          Mary doesn’t have to have a good grasp of what bisexuality is in order to suspect Ruth and Billie to be in a relationship. She knows that gay people are out there, and has seen Billie sneak in and out of Ruth’s room. Like she doesn’t want to be seen. And she’s the kind of person to assume the interpretation of a situation where others are evil sinners who have fallen short of the grace of God. As opposed to sheltered Joyce who assumes the best in people.

  14. boomwolf

    People have differing hobbies. Some folks like scale models. Others like flying kites. And some of us spend time suspecting everyone around us of mischief and malice.

  15. Saaaam

    Well Billie, you probably just led Ruth to know too much about Becky. Good job.

  16. advancecasette

    *hanna from octopus pie voice* I’M the narc!

  17. Tacos

    Looks like Ruth might find out about Becky if she decides to drop by the party.

  18. Stephen Bierce

    *plays Elvis Presley’s “Suspicious Minds” on the Muzak*

  19. Rodimiss

    Oh no. Oh no. Because now Ruth will see Becky being around… and around… all the time… this cannot end well. Nothing ends well. I’m waiting in fear to see what terrible thing happens at the party.

    I feel like Ruth, except instead of being suspicious of everyone, it’s suspicious of Willis and of anything that looks happy.

    1. MeghanTheWorldEater

      Well on the bright side since time passes so slowly in DOA it’ll probably be like three years before Ruth starts to get really suspicious.

    2. Adam Black

      If Beckys gaydar picks up Ru-Bie , then they can have a stalemate,
      provided they can keep Mary from finding out about both.

  20. Chronos

    Billie just Danned it up.

  21. CommunistCanada

    Just something I noticed on the Cast page, Becky is ogling Dina, and Amber and Ruth are staring at eachother.

    I have New ships.

    1. MeghanTheWorldEater

      I can’t imagine Dina and Becky at all.
      I mean Dina is just so quite and blends into the woodwork
      And Becky is so loud and she nukes closets from orbit
      …Then again you know what they say about opposites.

      1. Rich

        …they annihilate one another in a blaze of hard radiation?

        1. Dean

          Next Slipshine, David Willis is trying to attract some of that physics-porn crowd.

        2. Rich

          Mmmm, physics porn. Work that coefficient of friction, baby.

        3. Rycan

          Panel 1: Two objects approach against a black background

          Panel 2: All white

          Panel 3: Static

      2. No Name

        I notice you don’t have any objections to AmbRuth.

      3. segnosaur

        Nuking a closet from orbit would only be a problem if Dina were hiding behind the closet door.

    2. TheZachariah

      It doesn’t look like Amber and Ruth staring so much as both of them staring at Sal…

  22. newllend(henryvolt)

    Well that’s because everyones hiding some shit, just stop and let’s recap everything that’s happened up to this point.

    1. podian

      You forget about Dina.

      1. Gigafreak

        Dina hides herself all the time, often by accident.

        The Saruyama family must have descended from talented ninjas.

        1. Gamaran Sepudomyn

          Perhaps. Does she have a summer job as a janitor?

  23. Shaunock

    Mang, I love Ruth without glasses even more.

    This is strange for me.

  24. Professor Fate

    I’m still trying to determine who’s the top and who’s the bottom in Ruth and Billie’s relationship. Maybe they take turns.

    Just imagine those two with Becky in a threesome. Smokin’!

  25. Aeron

    Is Ruth thinning out?

  26. Charles Phipps

    I wonder if Ruth would willingly throw out Becky when she’s breaking the same rules.

    1. Kamino Neko

      Becky’s an RA banging one of her charges? I seem to have missed a plotline or two.

  27. Zaxares

    Aaaand just like that, there goes Becky’s cover. I don’t remember if Joyce asked her to keep it a secret though. Becky was pretty much flaunting herself to everybody at the time.

    1. No Name

      Oh she did, but by the time Becky spilled the beans, the damage was done. And then Becky had to blow it even more by being Becky.

  28. nothri

    Wow. Billie is a lot nicer than I would be if someone pulled that Jersey crap on me.

    1. Clif

      But Ruth being Ruth is part of the attraction for Billie. Remember the “courtship” phase of their relationship.

  29. DarkoNeko

    So, in the end, we’ll never know wether she had to run naked (with socks) throught the hall.

    1. Clif

      Towels are a thing.
      But everyone to their own head-cannon.
      (or other portable weapon of mass disruption).

      1. Rich

        Relatively few ravenous bugblatter beasts on campus, thankfully.

  30. Jimmy

    The clothes Ruth’s wearing reminds me of the female uniforms from the original Star Trek.

    1. Rich

      There is a bit of that vibe, isn’t there? Maybe it was a gift from the other RA and he’s secretly in love with Ruth? I’ve seen Trekkies give weirder gifts when courting. 🙂

      1. Jimmy

        And they have Toronto Maple Leafs colors. Maybe the other RA is a Trekkie/Maple Leafs fan 🙂

        1. Gamaran Sepudomyn

          To me it seems like it was probably just a gift from Howard.

    2. m2iCodeJockey

      It’s a shirt, shaped like a jersey but, long enough to wear like a short dress. They have them in Wings’ alternate colors near me.

      Ruth is a leafs fan. Saying anything about them has provokes her anger.

  31. Bagge

    Everyone acts like I’m a crazy tyrant or something.

  32. Tenn

    “Possibly homosexual. Must investigate further.“

  33. JohnnyO

    Maybe I got lucky. But I lived in dorms for 2 1/2 years of college and I never had an R.A. who cared what we did, unless there was the smell of weed. Pretty much saw them 3 times per year each.

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