who could forget Mrs. Jewls throwing a computer out the window after making Louis Sachar carry it up thirty flights of stairs, those books do not sink into oblivion
Doctor_Who
That joke was even funnier back in the day. Computers were heavier then.
Keulen
How else was she gonna show the class how gravity works?
SteveCharb
Or when they built elevators, with one being the “down” elevator and only being able to go down; and the other being the “up” elevator and only being able to go up. They both worked perfectly once, and then never again.
Sai Somsphet
Im just shocked that the fever dream that was these books was actually real and not…well…a fever dream. I still can’t get over the Staircase rules….
And if you should go over there, on no account should you activate the canister where floats the body that looks complete like you, except for the glasses.
One of the best analogies I read was about a group of friends agreeing to eat at a particular restaurant. Then a health inspection report revealed that there were faeces in the food. Do you eat literal ? because that’s what you agreed to without having all the facts – or do you make a sensible decision once this comes to light? And our politicians went with option A… ??♀️ And have now decided that things like our food standards are fair game because they clearly don’t understand how analogies work.
Me before the referendum: How can people possibly consider voting for an amorphous undefined concept? Also, why on earth would they think that we as an individual country would have more bargaining power than the combined EU? Me in the aftermath of the result: Protest vote? WTF? Do these people not understand how voting works?? Me as everything unfolded: Why are we continuing to drive towards a train crash at top speed? Also, saying “I told you so” would feel a lot more satisfying if only people who voted Brexit would get hit by the damage…
Also the bit where I *like* Europe and the concepts of free movement and think that things like shared (agreed) standards etc are a good thing 🙁
But apparently as we have now left one can no longer be a Bremainer (which is an awful name for a group anyway… *Thinks for 30 seconds* EUnited Kingdomers would have been better).
Deanatay
I like to think of Anglophonic nations catching some sort of Stupid Plague around 2016 (and by Stupid Plague, I don’t mean the plague was stupid). Some of them managed to self-isolate successfully (lucky Enzies), the rest of us are dying of Stupid.
And by ‘Stupid’, I mean ‘Regressive Conservative Isolationist Backlash’.
sidehack
A report I read about the anti-immigrant side of Brexit polled leavers as believing something like 40% of the nation’s population was immigrants, and remainers as believing it was about 20%, where in fact it’s more like 10%. Pro-Brexiters were apparently highly motivated by false information about droves of job-stealing immigrants. Well, and false information about a lot of other things too, but the racism aspect is common to 2016 America as well.
Additionally, apparently Russia used the Brexit campaign to test and refine a lot of the social manipulation shenanigans they then used in America to get Trump elected.
You’re right, 2016 was not a good year.
Deanatay
As I said, The Plague (by which I mean, The Deliberate Campaign To Mislead And Manipulate) was not itself stupid.
thejeff
Wasn’t just the Anglophone nations though the US and Britain seemed the worst hit. (Canada also wasn’t nearly so badly affected.)
There was a wave of ‘Regressive Conservative Isolationist Backlash’ sweeping over much of Europe around that time – often tied to resentment of Muslim refugees. There was a big surge in support for far right parties across the board.
Partly, I think the later attempts were harmed by shock at the Trump victory and increased awareness of Russian propaganda attempts.
Daniel M Ball
might have something to do with perceptions. As mentioned in the comments that can’t be replied to; Brexiteers think 40%, Remainers thought 20%, facts say 10%. So what causes the Perception that is so severe even those opposed to the referendum think immigrants are twice as numerous as they actually are? Could it be the impact via laws imposed? because I kind of DOUBT that BBC and other establishments within Britain were pounding the propaganda drum for something they outright stated they oppose and even fired people for advocating. There’s clearly a distortion in civil discourse going on, when both sides are overestimating the impact of a demographic group, and the only difference is how much overestimation they’re believing.
Kind of a weird thing to contemplate, but maybe because both sides have played the false narrative games for so long, that they pad their thinking instead of pursuing objective truths.
On a happier note, Booster is starting to show promise as a shit-stirrer in the positive sense of being free of the usual fears and superstitions. that smartass look it The Booster’s Face in the last panel promises loads of fun, and maybe some actual wacky Hijinks.
They’re normal background characters, living lives free of drama. The light fixture at their end of the hallway is burning out, but they don’t complain because they don’t want to raise a fuss.
Nope, the single rooms is where they’re hiding the Veterans here on the GI bill, who already HAD their wacky hijinks while in uniform and don’t want to be bothered with enduring the chaos-because they already did their time in that. (Please note: there are NO military veterans in the main cast, zero, not a single one…but the GI bill’s been a thing long enough, and I know enough guys (and gals) who went straight from their tour into college because that’s what they enlisted to DO.)
You approach one of the doors at the end of the hallway. You unlock this door with the key of imagination. beyond it is another door. this door is another dimension; a dimension of sound. a dimension of imagination. a dimension of doors. you’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas and substance of both shadow and ideas of things and–… a dimension of sound. a dimension of mouth. a dimension of another dimension… of things and ideas. a land of doors. you just crossed over into mouth dreams.
You are entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location. The kind of place where there might be a monster, or some kind of weird mirror. These are just examples; it could also be something much better. Prepare to enter… The Scary Door.
192 thoughts on “Forbidden”
Ana Chronistic
wait, is that
meJenSue down thereHe Who Abides
3 rooms, 3 people (Jen, Sue, Ana) . . . yep, pretty sure that’s the answer.
BBCC
2 rooms. One of those is a fire exit.
Beef
Jen lives in the fire exit. You need her permission to use it
clif
The other two are the femur collection.
Bicycle Bill
And the access point to Garbage Roof.
Which we do not talk about.
Because Rule #1 of Garbage Roof is, “You do not talk about Garbage Roof.”
Yet_One_More_Idiot
On the dorm room map, that area is marked “Here Be Monsters”. xD
Needfuldoer
Nobody ever sees her come and go, but somehow she’s almost always sitting in class before you get there.
Doctor_Who
They’re never seen, but weirdly they all have classes with someone called Mrs. Zarves.
butts
pretty sure she doesn’t exist
Chris
And there is no nineteenth story.
nobodybasically
I haven’t read these books in ages and yet somehow I immediately got that reference. Weird what sticks in your mind.
Fezzam
Just remember if you get trapped in there start yelling about fresh fish, you’ll soon wake up between the 12/14th floors.
AntJ
who could forget Mrs. Jewls throwing a computer out the window after making Louis Sachar carry it up thirty flights of stairs, those books do not sink into oblivion
Doctor_Who
That joke was even funnier back in the day. Computers were heavier then.
Keulen
How else was she gonna show the class how gravity works?
SteveCharb
Or when they built elevators, with one being the “down” elevator and only being able to go down; and the other being the “up” elevator and only being able to go up. They both worked perfectly once, and then never again.
Sai Somsphet
Im just shocked that the fever dream that was these books was actually real and not…well…a fever dream. I still can’t get over the Staircase rules….
Rayndel
I tried to like/upvote the post before my brain realized I was on the wrong comic for that. A+ reference. I still have my books.
BBCC
A+
LadyCaramel
Woooow omg I’m so happy other people read the books.
Ana Chronistic
THERE’S A NEW ONE DID YOU SEE
Ana Chronistic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayside_School_Beneath_the_Cloud_of_Doom
a/snow/mous/e
ok but did you do Sideways Arithmetic
Thursday Violist
Look, Booster.
Everything the light touches is our kingdom.
He Who Abides
“What’s that shadowy place over there?”
“That’s France. We’ll get it one of these days.”
AbacusWizard
“What about that big building with the broken sign?”
“That is SEMMF, Simba. You must never go there.”
clif
And if you should go over there, on no account should you activate the canister where floats the body that looks complete like you, except for the glasses.
Reltzik
“Okay, but the way ambient light works is that the light that touched this section eventually touches that section over there.”
“Oh, yeah, they’re part of the commonwealth. Just not the kingdom.”
clif
But can you cast light on Brexit?
Reltzik
No, but I can make light of it.
clif
I O U 1 Internet.
yarrr
Wish I could. /Bitter
Miri
One of the best analogies I read was about a group of friends agreeing to eat at a particular restaurant. Then a health inspection report revealed that there were faeces in the food. Do you eat literal ? because that’s what you agreed to without having all the facts – or do you make a sensible decision once this comes to light? And our politicians went with option A… ??♀️ And have now decided that things like our food standards are fair game because they clearly don’t understand how analogies work.
Me before the referendum: How can people possibly consider voting for an amorphous undefined concept? Also, why on earth would they think that we as an individual country would have more bargaining power than the combined EU?
Me in the aftermath of the result: Protest vote? WTF? Do these people not understand how voting works??
Me as everything unfolded: Why are we continuing to drive towards a train crash at top speed? Also, saying “I told you so” would feel a lot more satisfying if only people who voted Brexit would get hit by the damage…
Also the bit where I *like* Europe and the concepts of free movement and think that things like shared (agreed) standards etc are a good thing 🙁
But apparently as we have now left one can no longer be a Bremainer (which is an awful name for a group anyway… *Thinks for 30 seconds* EUnited Kingdomers would have been better).
Deanatay
I like to think of Anglophonic nations catching some sort of Stupid Plague around 2016 (and by Stupid Plague, I don’t mean the plague was stupid). Some of them managed to self-isolate successfully (lucky Enzies), the rest of us are dying of Stupid.
And by ‘Stupid’, I mean ‘Regressive Conservative Isolationist Backlash’.
sidehack
A report I read about the anti-immigrant side of Brexit polled leavers as believing something like 40% of the nation’s population was immigrants, and remainers as believing it was about 20%, where in fact it’s more like 10%. Pro-Brexiters were apparently highly motivated by false information about droves of job-stealing immigrants. Well, and false information about a lot of other things too, but the racism aspect is common to 2016 America as well.
Additionally, apparently Russia used the Brexit campaign to test and refine a lot of the social manipulation shenanigans they then used in America to get Trump elected.
You’re right, 2016 was not a good year.
Deanatay
As I said, The Plague (by which I mean, The Deliberate Campaign To Mislead And Manipulate) was not itself stupid.
thejeff
Wasn’t just the Anglophone nations though the US and Britain seemed the worst hit. (Canada also wasn’t nearly so badly affected.)
There was a wave of ‘Regressive Conservative Isolationist Backlash’ sweeping over much of Europe around that time – often tied to resentment of Muslim refugees. There was a big surge in support for far right parties across the board.
Partly, I think the later attempts were harmed by shock at the Trump victory and increased awareness of Russian propaganda attempts.
Daniel M Ball
might have something to do with perceptions. As mentioned in the comments that can’t be replied to; Brexiteers think 40%, Remainers thought 20%, facts say 10%. So what causes the Perception that is so severe even those opposed to the referendum think immigrants are twice as numerous as they actually are? Could it be the impact via laws imposed? because I kind of DOUBT that BBC and other establishments within Britain were pounding the propaganda drum for something they outright stated they oppose and even fired people for advocating. There’s clearly a distortion in civil discourse going on, when both sides are overestimating the impact of a demographic group, and the only difference is how much overestimation they’re believing.
Kind of a weird thing to contemplate, but maybe because both sides have played the false narrative games for so long, that they pad their thinking instead of pursuing objective truths.
On a happier note, Booster is starting to show promise as a shit-stirrer in the positive sense of being free of the usual fears and superstitions. that smartass look it The Booster’s Face in the last panel promises loads of fun, and maybe some actual wacky Hijinks.
Sirksome
Beyond that door is another eclectic cast of quirky characters having drama filled adventures in a college university setting.
Rotunda
Or it’s a mirror universe where everyone has a calm college experience with nurturing parents, a kind RA, and showers with no hair.
Needfuldoer
They’re normal background characters, living lives free of drama. The light fixture at their end of the hallway is burning out, but they don’t complain because they don’t want to raise a fuss.
Daniel M Ball
Nope, the single rooms is where they’re hiding the Veterans here on the GI bill, who already HAD their wacky hijinks while in uniform and don’t want to be bothered with enduring the chaos-because they already did their time in that. (Please note: there are NO military veterans in the main cast, zero, not a single one…but the GI bill’s been a thing long enough, and I know enough guys (and gals) who went straight from their tour into college because that’s what they enlisted to DO.)
ValdVin
But not too dramatic, nor too adventurous, because Willis wouldn’t tease us by keeping the good shenanigans offscreen.
StClair
or maybe, per your avatar, that’s Robot College.
Opus the Poet
Why would robots need to go to college when they can download directly into their brain/memory?
Deanatay
Because they want the “Whole College Experience”.
Lars
Beyond that door ist a branch of McAwesome’s.
butts
oh? new info?
Chris
The people down there don’t even show up for floor meetings.
Mada
You approach one of the doors at the end of the hallway. You unlock this door with the key of imagination. beyond it is another door. this door is another dimension; a dimension of sound. a dimension of imagination. a dimension of doors. you’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas and substance of both shadow and ideas of things and–… a dimension of sound. a dimension of mouth. a dimension of another dimension… of things and ideas. a land of doors. you just crossed over into mouth dreams.
Rotunda
Do not adjust your TV set.
clif
On the other hand, feel perfectly free to adjust your avitar. What the heck is that from?
Rotunda
1960’s Twilight Zone, I believe.
Edwin I Callahan
Yeah, that’s right. It’s a riff on Rod Sterling’s V/O intro to every episode.
Carl-E
Nope, it was “The Outer Limits”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCcdr4O-3gE
Thamojster
mada was twilight zone, rotunda was outer limits
Stanistani
Mada’s avatar id from GoGetARoomie
clif
Thank you.
liver I barely oh no
Twilight zone originally but adapted by Neil Ciceraga in his most recent mashup album “mouth dreams”
AbelUndercity
“Do not adjust your TV set,” however, is from the intro to The Outer Limits.
EvilMidnightLurker
You are entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location. The kind of place where there might be a monster, or some kind of weird mirror. These are just examples; it could also be something much better. Prepare to enter… The Scary Door.
Newllend(henryvolt)
I love how we just glossed over Roz and Rachel.
Any way my curiosity has now been peaked.
Johan
Everyone. Important.
Rotunda
If Roz and Mary are still roommates, they’re in a room diagonally across from Ruth’s. Mary saw Billie leaving Ruth’s room from there.
Durandal_1707
Piqued.
(sorry to be the spelling snob; I just got piqued by this one, I guess)
clif
We have achieved peak pique.
But absolutely no peeking.
clif
And no Beijing either.
BigDogLittleCat
LOL!
StClair
Piquant.
Rabid Rabbit
Or possibly their curiosity has peaked.
showler
Rachel and Other Rachel were out.