Chicken nuggets are definitely the tastiest dinosaur meat.
Tan
Spoken like someone who’s never had roasted Stegosaurus.
WonderRabbit
I believe any form of speaking would count for that…
Tacos
I uh… hate to break this to ya but Stegosaurus is extinct. Anybody who sold you Stegosaurus meat was fooling you >.>
Marsh Maryrose
Who says the Stegosaurus vendor didn’t have a time machine?
Mr. Bulmbin
Who said I purchased it?
BarerMender
I hunt my own stegosaurus in the fields around my house. It tastes a lot like cow.
Tan
I am not attempting to claim that Stegosaurus is not extinct. I am simply pointing out the inarguable fact that the person above claiming that chicken nuggets are the most delicious dinosaur meat has never tasted roasted Stegosaurus. One should hardly be going around declaring “definitely” the tastiest dinosaur meat when one does not have the experience with potential competing claims.
I would go so far as to say a person who eats roasted Stegosaurus would not even consider chicken nuggets for their top 10 tastiest dinosaur meats list. Because A: they would have tasted a variety of other dinosaurs that you have not, B: they would live in a time well before chicken nuggets exist, and C: they would be extremely fictional. Like more fictional than most fictional people.
CJ
Most people declare something “the tastiest whatever” without having tasted all the other stuff in the same category. It’s just a figure of speech.
Besides this claim is empirically testable. All you need to do is build a time machine.
Heavensrun
Technically correct. The best kind of correct!
BBCC
It is true they have never tasted roasted stegosaurus but that’s an irrelevant fact. 😛 When most dinosaurs are dead, we can only work with what we have and what we have are descendants, like chicken. Ergo, based on the data we DO have and the inherently subjective nature of the question, it is absolutely possible to claim chicken nuggets are the most delicious form of dinosaur meat. 😛
Yeah, she probably just thinks they’re meant for learning rather than crushing your soul.
Doctor_Who
That’s a requirement to fit into working life.
If your soul hasn’t been squashed down into a perfect cube shape, how else will it fit in a cubicle?
Marsh Maryrose
“And the people in the houses
All went to the university
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same”
Bathymetheus
Wow! Haven’t heard that one in a LONG time.
Totally appropriate though.
70s?
Marsh Maryrose
In the words of Judy Collins, “I hope that when I am as old as Malvina Reynolds, I will be as young as she has been all of her life.”
Malvina Reynolds wrote “Little Boxes” in 1962, and her friend Pete Seeger turned it into a hit. She wrote a lot of other songs in that same time period that sadly are still applicable today. “It Isn’t Nice” could be an anthem of the Resist movement.
It is a personal song for me because I grew up on the San Francisco peninsula, and when we drove into SF on 280, my mother would start singing that song as we drove through Daly City, where you can still see the “little boxes on the hillside” that inspired the song.
I think it’s less that she wants to take them than that she wants to further her education. She wants to be a scientist due to Dina igniting her interest in dinosaurs, so it’s not like midterms aren’t an inevitability for her, someday.
Currently, though, she’s couch surfing at Leslie’s and working at Galasso’s, so she has to work her way to where Dina already is. That’s worthy of envy on Becky’s part.
Best place to further your education on your own terms is the library. Right up to the point where you need to ask questions. And then sometimes Google will work.
Geneseepaws
Library computer cookies; my fav.!
Amazong-Oogle cookies are the best, though they have a Musk-y aftertaste…
And all of your moneys.
kdmw
Most libraries have a reference service, so you can ask questions there too if google isn’t helping
I was like this in grade 2, when my mum had to fight to let me do multiplication instead of addition, and the resulting compromise was that I could do multiplication worksheets as homework.
a few weeks into grade 3, when the math BS was sorted out and I stared getting real homework, that enthusiasm vanished. 😛
but I still took every chance I could get to mess about on math worksheets instead of doing real work 🙂
Huh, I can relate. I was reading at a very early age and had always been ahead of the curve in my classes. By 1st grade I was practicing cursive and I’d completed the entire reading workbook. They wanted to promote me to 3rd grade early on, but my mother wanted me not to rush and be with students my own age. On the one hand, I’m kinda grateful for all the friends I made and still have to this day because of it, but on the other, DANG IT WOMAN, I COULD’VE FINISHED HIGH SCHOOL SOONER! >.</ Although, one of my closest friends did this exact same thing during the middle school years and sadly we lost touch because of it…so yeah, calling a wash on that one :/
Inahc
I was actually in grade 3 for a couple of weeks when I first came to Canada, then got moved down by a new principal who wanted me with kids my own age.
On the bright side, it got me away from the boy who wouldn’t stop making fun of my accent, but it resulted in me having no respect for boring-ass classes and putting in less effort than walky :p
Yeah, when you don’t have to study, go to class, and take tests, it does seem like something you would want to do.
Every time I watch Larry Crowne, I think, “God, I want to go back to school and study and learn stuff.” Then I think back to my 9 years of college struggles for a 4 year degree and am like, “nevermind.”
I think just going to the lectures would be fun! Essays, midterms and exams on the other hand…
Needfuldoer
Lectures with no exams? Isn’t that basically TED Talks?
At least textbooks depreciate like crazy, so you could probably find used previous-edition copies to read without the homework.
BBCC
I mean, most are longer, but sure. 😛
I like reading most of my textbooks – mind, they’re almost all about subjects I like so maybe that’s no surprise. But yeah, sometimes past editions are still workable.
I once had a prof who we had to explain to that some professors write their own textbooks and make money off them by making them required. She said, and I quote, ‘Professors who do that should be drawn and quartered!’ A little extreme, imo, but the way she said it and the look on her face were HILARIOUS.
There was a prof at my alma mater who taught the freshman speech course. He not only wrote the textbook, he updated it every term and required the current edition– you not only couldn’t buy a used book, you couldn’t sell your books back at the end of the class because the off-campus bookstores wouldn’t take them.
I signed up for honors program just so I could take the Honors speech section that was NOT taught by him. Instead of overpriced textbooks, a file folder full of photocopy sheets.
BBCC
Really? I can understand the on campus bookstore not taking them back, but I’d think an off campus bookstore would – or even a used bookstore.
thejeff
Likely no one else used the textbook for a class, so there would be no demand for it.
BBCC
Fair enough, most of my textbooks are general books about history so mine can be used for general interest readers.
To be fair, if you got kicked out of college, your only living parent tried to kidnap/murder you, and were on the verge of homelessness, only protected by a benefactor on (what you assume to be) a limited time span, you’d probably wish you were living through the banal normalcy that all the other kids get to live through.
Honestly, if it came down to it, it wouldn’t have worked since Joyce could have always entered it through the half-bath (and since Dorothy was in the other room, Joyce has easy access to it).
Ouch, panel three hurts. Becky genuinely enjoys learning things, it seems, which makes it even worse that her education was interrupted. And if the comic ends after the first semester, we may never see her get back to officially being a student.
This comic will never end. I probably won’t be around to see it, but in much the same way ‘Family Circle’, ‘Beetle Bailey’, ‘Hi and Lois’, and ‘Hagar the Horrible’ are being carried on by their creators’ offspring, I visualize a time when Willis is in his 70s or 80s (and we’re still a week or so from the end of the first semester) at which he will pass the torch on to one of his sons.
Centuries in the future Willis’ descendants will still be making this comic, and the readers will be anticipating the end of most of the characters’ first year of college.
My first comment originally ended with something along the lines of, “I hope Willis dies first,” but uh. Um.
I remember reading that he was only planning to do the first semester, but I don’t know if that’s accurate; if it is, I hope Willis changes his mind and keeps it going through the first year. I feel like that’s as far as it’d go, though.
Like, “I hope this comic keeps going so long it outlives Willis,” but phrased in a very bad way that my brain spent, like, five solid seconds thinking was acceptable.
Marsh Maryrose
The end of the first semester is ~12 RL years away, and it would avoid that problem of how to treat the semester break, timeline-wise. But Willis will be at that awkward stage — too young to retire, old enough to be all holy-fuck-how-do-I-put-two-kids-through-college.
For the 2019/2020 academic year, classes at IU Bloominton begin on Aug 29 and end on May 3. Taking May 3-ish as a reasonable end date, and given that it’s Oct 16 in the current storyline, which I believe is 199 more in-universe days. At the current rate of ~66.76 to 1, I come up with roughly 36-1/2 years.
Which is a few months after Willis’s 75th birthday.
Mind you, that’s only if nothing either forwards or hinders the rate of timeline advance. Let us hope that future generations of Kickstarters continue to back 7-day-a-week strips.
150 thoughts on “Sweet-ass”
Ana Chronistic
Becky is no longer confused!
…we hope
Ana Chronistic
alt-text: next, assbutt
Marsh Maryrose
I’m still holding out for a strip titled “Cloaca,” but in the mean time enjoy this sweet ass-xkcd strip.
jmsr7
Hmm, i think Willis and Jacques did two strips that would count as that already, starting here.
Byron Orpheus
Thus setting the stage for the long-awaited crossover with Questionable Content. Yes, I know. Dina’s cameo doesn’t count.
Doctor_Who
Panel one makes it look like Becky just sprinted directly at Dina’s door, and she just happened to open it at the right time.
If she had been running a little behind, there would be a comical hole in the wall shaped exactly like Becky.
AnvilPro
The loophole is that people who know dinosaurs can get in
Tacos
Also people who can bribe her with chicken nuggets.
Doctor_Who
Birds are dinosaurs, after all.
Keulen
Chicken nuggets are definitely the tastiest dinosaur meat.
Tan
Spoken like someone who’s never had roasted Stegosaurus.
WonderRabbit
I believe any form of speaking would count for that…
Tacos
I uh… hate to break this to ya but Stegosaurus is extinct. Anybody who sold you Stegosaurus meat was fooling you >.>
Marsh Maryrose
Who says the Stegosaurus vendor didn’t have a time machine?
Mr. Bulmbin
Who said I purchased it?
BarerMender
I hunt my own stegosaurus in the fields around my house. It tastes a lot like cow.
Tan
I am not attempting to claim that Stegosaurus is not extinct. I am simply pointing out the inarguable fact that the person above claiming that chicken nuggets are the most delicious dinosaur meat has never tasted roasted Stegosaurus. One should hardly be going around declaring “definitely” the tastiest dinosaur meat when one does not have the experience with potential competing claims.
I would go so far as to say a person who eats roasted Stegosaurus would not even consider chicken nuggets for their top 10 tastiest dinosaur meats list. Because A: they would have tasted a variety of other dinosaurs that you have not, B: they would live in a time well before chicken nuggets exist, and C: they would be extremely fictional. Like more fictional than most fictional people.
CJ
Most people declare something “the tastiest whatever” without having tasted all the other stuff in the same category. It’s just a figure of speech.
Clif
Besides this claim is empirically testable. All you need to do is build a time machine.
Heavensrun
Technically correct. The best kind of correct!
BBCC
It is true they have never tasted roasted stegosaurus but that’s an irrelevant fact. 😛 When most dinosaurs are dead, we can only work with what we have and what we have are descendants, like chicken. Ergo, based on the data we DO have and the inherently subjective nature of the question, it is absolutely possible to claim chicken nuggets are the most delicious form of dinosaur meat. 😛
Bagge
That’s a feature not a bug
Rosicrucian
Eight years got us to midterms in the first semester.
Tacos
Huh, most people I know would actually be happy NOT to take midterms.
AeromechanicalAce
Becky has yet to experience the horror.
Yumi
Yeah, she probably just thinks they’re meant for learning rather than crushing your soul.
Doctor_Who
That’s a requirement to fit into working life.
If your soul hasn’t been squashed down into a perfect cube shape, how else will it fit in a cubicle?
Marsh Maryrose
“And the people in the houses
All went to the university
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same”
Bathymetheus
Wow! Haven’t heard that one in a LONG time.
Totally appropriate though.
70s?
Marsh Maryrose
In the words of Judy Collins, “I hope that when I am as old as Malvina Reynolds, I will be as young as she has been all of her life.”
Malvina Reynolds wrote “Little Boxes” in 1962, and her friend Pete Seeger turned it into a hit. She wrote a lot of other songs in that same time period that sadly are still applicable today. “It Isn’t Nice” could be an anthem of the Resist movement.
It is a personal song for me because I grew up on the San Francisco peninsula, and when we drove into SF on 280, my mother would start singing that song as we drove through Daly City, where you can still see the “little boxes on the hillside” that inspired the song.
DailyBrad
I think it’s less that she wants to take them than that she wants to further her education. She wants to be a scientist due to Dina igniting her interest in dinosaurs, so it’s not like midterms aren’t an inevitability for her, someday.
Currently, though, she’s couch surfing at Leslie’s and working at Galasso’s, so she has to work her way to where Dina already is. That’s worthy of envy on Becky’s part.
DailyBrad
from her perspective, I mean to say.
Clif
Best place to further your education on your own terms is the library. Right up to the point where you need to ask questions. And then sometimes Google will work.
Geneseepaws
Library computer cookies; my fav.!
Amazong-Oogle cookies are the best, though they have a Musk-y aftertaste…
And all of your moneys.
kdmw
Most libraries have a reference service, so you can ask questions there too if google isn’t helping
Inahc
I was like this in grade 2, when my mum had to fight to let me do multiplication instead of addition, and the resulting compromise was that I could do multiplication worksheets as homework.
a few weeks into grade 3, when the math BS was sorted out and I stared getting real homework, that enthusiasm vanished. 😛
but I still took every chance I could get to mess about on math worksheets instead of doing real work 🙂
WikiDreamer
Huh, I can relate. I was reading at a very early age and had always been ahead of the curve in my classes. By 1st grade I was practicing cursive and I’d completed the entire reading workbook. They wanted to promote me to 3rd grade early on, but my mother wanted me not to rush and be with students my own age. On the one hand, I’m kinda grateful for all the friends I made and still have to this day because of it, but on the other, DANG IT WOMAN, I COULD’VE FINISHED HIGH SCHOOL SOONER! >.</ Although, one of my closest friends did this exact same thing during the middle school years and sadly we lost touch because of it…so yeah, calling a wash on that one :/
Inahc
I was actually in grade 3 for a couple of weeks when I first came to Canada, then got moved down by a new principal who wanted me with kids my own age.
On the bright side, it got me away from the boy who wouldn’t stop making fun of my accent, but it resulted in me having no respect for boring-ass classes and putting in less effort than walky :p
TemplarKnight
Yeah, when you don’t have to study, go to class, and take tests, it does seem like something you would want to do.
Every time I watch Larry Crowne, I think, “God, I want to go back to school and study and learn stuff.” Then I think back to my 9 years of college struggles for a 4 year degree and am like, “nevermind.”
BBCC
I think just going to the lectures would be fun! Essays, midterms and exams on the other hand…
Needfuldoer
Lectures with no exams? Isn’t that basically TED Talks?
At least textbooks depreciate like crazy, so you could probably find used previous-edition copies to read without the homework.
BBCC
I mean, most are longer, but sure. 😛
I like reading most of my textbooks – mind, they’re almost all about subjects I like so maybe that’s no surprise. But yeah, sometimes past editions are still workable.
I once had a prof who we had to explain to that some professors write their own textbooks and make money off them by making them required. She said, and I quote, ‘Professors who do that should be drawn and quartered!’ A little extreme, imo, but the way she said it and the look on her face were HILARIOUS.
DSL
There was a prof at my alma mater who taught the freshman speech course. He not only wrote the textbook, he updated it every term and required the current edition– you not only couldn’t buy a used book, you couldn’t sell your books back at the end of the class because the off-campus bookstores wouldn’t take them.
I signed up for honors program just so I could take the Honors speech section that was NOT taught by him. Instead of overpriced textbooks, a file folder full of photocopy sheets.
BBCC
Really? I can understand the on campus bookstore not taking them back, but I’d think an off campus bookstore would – or even a used bookstore.
thejeff
Likely no one else used the textbook for a class, so there would be no demand for it.
BBCC
Fair enough, most of my textbooks are general books about history so mine can be used for general interest readers.
Jed!
To be fair, if you got kicked out of college, your only living parent tried to kidnap/murder you, and were on the verge of homelessness, only protected by a benefactor on (what you assume to be) a limited time span, you’d probably wish you were living through the banal normalcy that all the other kids get to live through.
StClair
If you run fast enough, maybe you can run away from your feelings.
… nope, doesn’t work.
Fart Captor
She can run towards happier feelings though, because that works just fine
Yumi
Maybe she’s running with her feelings– Joyce got her worked up, so she picked up that feeling like a bucket of blueberries and ran it over to Dina.
DailyBrad
everyone knows that you need heelies to escape feelies. Consult Amber and Carla.
ValdVin
Panel four is the shared look I wanted to see out of these two.
Stephen Bierce
*an encore of “Miserlu” is playing on the hacked Muzak*
Stephen Bierce
–“Misirlou”, I meant. I could never get that right. :/
Bicycle Bill
Rock on, Dick Dale.
CJ
Miserlu would be this (or variants thereof) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjtm8gFYyiA
Delicious Taffy
The real flaw is the friends we made along the way.
ShinyNeen
Aww, hooray, it’s Becky and DinaaaAAAAHHHHHH, MIDTERMS!!!
Needfuldoer
AAAHH!!! Real Midterms!
At least they’re not administered by The Gromble.
BBCC
I mean, yeah, the system was noooooottttt the most airtight.
And cheer up, Becky! This time you get to study a subject you’re actually interested in!
Bagge
It kept Joyce out most of the time, which actually seem to be important for Amber since she was the one to barge in most of the time.
BBCC
I mean, true, but it also let in Sal when Amber very much wanted to be alone.
That ended up working out for the best, but it’s hardly the most airtight system. 😛
Nono
Honestly, if it came down to it, it wouldn’t have worked since Joyce could have always entered it through the half-bath (and since Dorothy was in the other room, Joyce has easy access to it).
BBCC
That’s another problem with it yes.
Yumi
Ouch, panel three hurts. Becky genuinely enjoys learning things, it seems, which makes it even worse that her education was interrupted. And if the comic ends after the first semester, we may never see her get back to officially being a student.
Bicycle Bill
This comic will never end. I probably won’t be around to see it, but in much the same way ‘Family Circle’, ‘Beetle Bailey’, ‘Hi and Lois’, and ‘Hagar the Horrible’ are being carried on by their creators’ offspring, I visualize a time when Willis is in his 70s or 80s (and we’re still a week or so from the end of the first semester) at which he will pass the torch on to one of his sons.
Keulen
Centuries in the future Willis’ descendants will still be making this comic, and the readers will be anticipating the end of most of the characters’ first year of college.
Yumi
My first comment originally ended with something along the lines of, “I hope Willis dies first,” but uh. Um.
I remember reading that he was only planning to do the first semester, but I don’t know if that’s accurate; if it is, I hope Willis changes his mind and keeps it going through the first year. I feel like that’s as far as it’d go, though.
Yumi
Like, “I hope this comic keeps going so long it outlives Willis,” but phrased in a very bad way that my brain spent, like, five solid seconds thinking was acceptable.
Marsh Maryrose
The end of the first semester is ~12 RL years away, and it would avoid that problem of how to treat the semester break, timeline-wise. But Willis will be at that awkward stage — too young to retire, old enough to be all holy-fuck-how-do-I-put-two-kids-through-college.
Anyway, life is uncertain, so eat dessert first.
Marsh Maryrose
For the 2019/2020 academic year, classes at IU Bloominton begin on Aug 29 and end on May 3. Taking May 3-ish as a reasonable end date, and given that it’s Oct 16 in the current storyline, which I believe is 199 more in-universe days. At the current rate of ~66.76 to 1, I come up with roughly 36-1/2 years.
Which is a few months after Willis’s 75th birthday.
Mind you, that’s only if nothing either forwards or hinders the rate of timeline advance. Let us hope that future generations of Kickstarters continue to back 7-day-a-week strips.
Rowen Morland