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Sweetgrass
Posted on August 21, 2017 by David M Willis

244 thoughts on “Sweetgrass”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    “I will not take that bet, because I have been on ours.”

    “oooh yeahhhh”

  2. butts

    obviously the most romantic dinosaur movie of all time is Theodore Rex

    1. Maveric1984

      Toy Story has a dinosaur, does that count?

    2. lia47

      false: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eOY-SpwzkE

      1. Kamino Neko

        Why would yee do that?

  3. King Daniel

    I remember that movie.

    1. JessWitt

      I have a vague recollection. Perhaps it’s for the best?

      1. JA

        It wasn’t a bad movie. Pretty standard kid’s stuff, but I thought it was ok.

        I also prided myself on spotting an incomplete frame (gray shadowforms of the dinosaurs on screen with otherwise completed backgrounds when they’re trying to escape the predators in the caves).

    2. Delicious Taffy

      Same. McDonald’s had toys for it around the time I nearly drowned.

      1. Queen Anthai

        You’re kinda burying the lede there, Taffy.

        1. Delicious Taffy

          Am I? Oh, yeah…

          As I recall, the toys were mostly just the standard plastic figures, with a little bit of articulation in the legs. The lemurs’ figure was basically plastic promo art with built-in voice clips. There were also creepy rubber hand puppets of the characters’ heads. That’s what I remember of them, anyway.

        2. Delicious Taffy

          Or did you mean the other thing?

        3. JetstreamGW

          Obviously we’re all asking about the quality of the toys. God.

        4. Cerberus

          *folds hands* Tell me more about the articulation.

        5. Michael Chandra

          Oh my Gawd we got a Dina over here!

        6. Knuf Wons

          Oh god I vaguely remember those creepy finger heads

    3. Clif

      If the movie is almost as old as Dina, does that mean the movie was made on a sliding time scale?

      1. SgtWadeyWilson

        Contrary to popular belief, most dinosaur movies were made on sliding time feathers, not scales.

        1. Orion Fury

          Meh, I’ve think I’ve run out of steam.

  4. butting

    Leslie why are you looking at your menu and not at her eyes

    Leslie why

    Leslie

    whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

    1. butts

      to be fair it’s a little difficult to tell where those tiny black bean eyes are pointing

    2. Fart Captor

      I’m sorry but this is what dating as an adult looks like. Especially the first date.

    3. C.T Phipps

      I think it’s because Leslie’s type isn’t the doe-eyes Adult Joyce type which a certain redhead would assume would be an ideal mate. Leslie isn’t a fan of that kind of girl.

      1. butting

        UNPOSSIBLE!

        1. Orion Fury

          Inconceivable?

      2. Deathjavu

        Yeah Leslie, both in Shortpacked and DOA, has definitely shown a trend of attraction towards horrible, borderline abusive people. She literally lampshades her bad taste in Shortpacked on multiple occasions iirc.

        She seems slightly more levelheaded in that she threw out Robin, but we can see from the original interaction with Anna that she still has some attraction towards dickheads.

        1. deathjavu

          I can’t take back that literally on mobile, gah

    4. pjeseb

      Maybe she’s hungry and doesn’t know what to order?

    5. Iforgetwhatiputhere

      Also why are you defining yourself by your job, whyyy

      1. Miri

        Possibly because she has a job in a field she’s really paasionate about? So the idea of a job that pays the bills seems alien to her? Although Mindy might be passionate about dental hygiene…

      2. IllogicalBobcat

        I mean, if you spend enough of your life at work it’s hard to define yourself by anything else.

  5. inqntrol

    I remember that movie, it’s really a good one in my opinion.

  6. Some1

    Look I’m sorry but Dinosaur sucks.

    1. Needfuldoer

      At least it’s not a box set of the TV series Dinosaurs?

      I guess this means Leslie doesn’t subscribe to Prime or Netflix.

      1. JA

        Dinosaurs was one of the quintessential shows of the 90s, you heathen.

        1. Ann Potter

          Yes!

        2. John

          Eh, I made it through the ’90s with no closer contact with the series than a friend who liked shrieking, “Not the mommy!”

        3. Librain

          And in the 90’s I absolutely loved it and everything about it.

          … it is not the 90’s any more, and I am not a child who is blissfully unaware of the concept of casual sexism and how to spot it in TV any more.

  7. Yumi

    I’m kinda like Becky, all, “I bet a date would be awesome!”
    Even as my friends tell me about their bad/awkward/he-showed-up-with-a-tarp-and-a-shovel dates.

    1. Yumi

      On that note, is Tinder worth it?

      1. desolation0

        If you like tarps and shovels perhaps.

        1. Yumi

          You know, that is how she met the guy.

        2. desolation0

          I personally try to use OKCupid. It’s the one that makes me feel most like I’m making an effort to get an actual date. Meanwhile I’m more likely to find someone here by saying I’m a 30 year old guy looking for a woman to go see “The Big Sick” with around Pittsburgh. Not that I’d feel super awkward going alone to a movie, but I figure it’s an opportunity to go with someone and enjoy together.

        3. Yumi

          I used to have an OKCupid, but I didn’t really use it. Then I deleted it because I wasn’t using it and privacy concerns.

          I don’t know, it was okay, but I’m not sure if I want to try it again.

        4. desolation0

          They attracted me with all the charts on social topics like ‘what words you should lead an interaction with to get a response.’ Then I went and ignored all their seemingly helpful advice.

        5. Jason

          I met my husband via OKCupid. So, take that as you will I guess.

      2. poofdepoof

        Honestly, I tried it for a while, and the concept kind of turned me off… Like, I could not imagine feeling comfortable meeting up with someone in a romantic way from just looking at their picture and texting, even when they weren’t creeps and the conversation was fine.

        So I think it’s worth trying and seeing how you feel! I have friends who met really great people and started really great relationships that way. And I think that tinder makes it pretty easy to disengage and unmatch.

      3. Yumi

        Oh, also, a less subjective question– what gender options does Tinder offer? Is it just the binary or are there more available?

        1. Yumi

          It has many gender options, and I now have Tinder.

      4. Delicious Taffy

        I’ve heard some odd stories about Tinder dates. Never boring ones, though. And there’s apparently an abundance of women named Jade on there.

      5. Sdrainbow

        Perhaps most importantly, to me at least, THERE IS A TINDER OPERA

        https://youtu.be/imvYwZjJX0Q

  8. Zaidyer

    I imagine Dina saying that out loud as “Dinosaur, parenthesis 2000” and to me, that makes it funnier.

    1. lia47

      “dinosaur parenthetical 2000 end parenthetical”

      1. Opus the Poet

        Dinosaur open paren 2000 close paren.

  9. shadowcell

    “I have searched her physical media”

    wow, just divin’ right in, huh

    1. TheAnonymousGuy

      Yea, what’s beckey gonna think when dina finds her 10 magic the gathering decks.

      1. desolation0

        I would think Magic might be taboo for Becky’s background.

        1. Deanatay

          Foul devil-worshipping sorceries! There’s a Unholy Strength card in it!! With a pentagram on it! They try to pretend it’s not there but I SEEN IT

      2. pjeseb

        What kind of mtg deck do you think Leslie would use?

        1. Delicious Taffy

          Blue. Is that a deck type? Blue?

        2. StClair

          It is definitely a deck type, usually associated with water, changing one effect to another, and “no you didn’t”:

          “I tap two red and play…”
          “Nope.”
          “… Okay, I draw…”
          “Uh uh.”
          “What about…?”
          “Nnnno.”
          “Fine, I’ll just–”
          “Not happening.”
          “… can I forfeit?”
          “You can try.”

        3. Halpful

          ROFL 🙂

          I like control decks. Also red deck, but iirc they don’t mix. I can’t remember what I actually ended up owning…

        4. Ophelia

          Red/Blue is defs a popular deck type but idk how they work together.

        5. pjeseb

          Red and Blue are the two colors most likely to make the most out of instants/sorceries. If you’re using an instant or sorcery spell to win the game, rather than using one to remove a threat or provide support, it’s most likely going to be a red or blue spell. So a red and blue deck often revolves around those types of cards. There are a lot of Red, Blue, or Red and Blue creatures that get stronger the more instant/sorcery cards are in your graveyard, for example.

          Also: Blue is strongly associated with card draw, and Red with direct damage. So a blue/red deck might revolve around forcing your opponent to draw cards and/or dealing damage to your opponent based on how many cards they draw in a turn or how many they have in hand.

        6. Emperor Norton II

          Sounds to me that a blue deck is Mike’s type of deck. Whatever you want to do, he doesn’t want you to be able to do it.

        7. StClair

          Pretty much!

    2. Orion Fury

      Ya know, I’m just going to call it a night. Maybe a week. Nothing on the comic, great as usual, same with the commenters. Just, yeah.

  10. Miguel

    Becky and Dina will be kissing by the end of the night….

    1. DrWattson

      End of the night? It’ll be by the end of the opening credits of Disney’s Dinosaur (2000).

      1. Delicious Taffy

        They should put on Captain America: Civil War, if they want things to get really steamy. Watched it twice with my girlfriend, and neither of us could tell you the plot.

        1. Rukduk

          That one’s about Tony being jealous about Steve still holding a torch for his old flame Bucky, right? But then it turns out Bucky did some stuff under Nazi mind control that Tony will never forgive him for?
          …
          My sweet suckling god, but Captain America: Civil War sounds way too much like a love triangle soap opera when put that way.

        2. Delicious Taffy

          The ending scene is one of the only parts I recall, and yeah, it’s pretty much a soap opera. Oh, and the random cameo brawl. As I implied, though, I was otherwise occupied, so the rest is kind of a blur.

        3. John

          I actually just watched it yesterday. As far as I could tell, the plot was, “Avengers and friends fight each other. Because reasons. Reasons conveniently eliminate themselves at the end.”

      2. Bicycle Bill

        I doubt that.  If Dina dislikes “Jurassic Park” enough so that she keeps a list of the inaccuracies in the movie, she would absolutely loathe Disney’s “Dinosaur”.

        1. Emperor Norton II

          She does not dislike it. She enjoyed it, albeit on a superficial level. The errors simply stop her from fully condoning it.

        2. Emperor Norton II

          *endorsing

    2. ValdVin

      Dina is clever enough to cue up a bad movie and lose interest in it after twenty minutes. Becky is smitten enough to enjoy the ruse.

      Whether Dina choosing Disney’s Dinosaur 2000 hews to that plan I’ll leave to folks who know it better than I.

  11. Stephen Bierce

    You’d have thought somebody had made The Enormous Egg as a live-action by now.

    1. Stephen Bierce

      –And there was one…a TV production in 1968. Nevvahmind.

    2. Deanatay

      OMG I remember that book! I loved it as a kid.

  12. Keulan

    If you’re gonna watch animated dinosaur movies, you might as well go for the best and watch The Land Before Time.

    1. Delicious Taffy

      Which one?

      1. pjeseb

        The first one.

        1. Delicious Taffy

          Ah, Stone of Cold Fire, then. Interesting choice.

        2. Delicious Taffy

          Wait, that was the third-ish one, I think.

        3. pjeseb

          I’m pretty sure that one was like the seventh. Possibly later, they made a ton of Land Before Time movies and I’m pretty that one was one I never got around to watching.

          The one I meant was the very first one, the one that was just called The Land Before Time.

      2. Achallenger

        Personally I think Tokyo drift was the strongest one in the franchise

        1. Marsh Maryrose

          I think the original franchise name for that was “Pacific Plate Drift.”

      3. Keulan

        The original one.

    2. Reltzik

      “The series title alone is almost incoherently inaccurate, and the cover art displays a disturbing lack of feathers on that Tyrannosaurus Rex.

      1. Rukduk

        “However, the characters are endearing enough to make up for this.”

  13. BBCC

    Oh, Mindy. I have a feeling that Leslie wants to try but just isn’t as into her as Mindy hopes.

    1. Rambling Idiot

      Mindy just needs to use kindergarten romance tactics: trip Leslie, give her half of her snack and run away, always works.

      1. C.T Phipps

        Mindy needs to be her roommate. 🙂

      2. butting

        Or throw a toy at her?

        1. Rambling Idiot

          That cuts out a lot of the leg work.

        2. Rambling Idiot

          LEGWORK

  14. Achallenger

    What was that dinosaur movie where like radioactive remote batteries put the kids in the movie? It got meta at some point with the remote working in-universe

    1. Ryan

      Might be Adventures in Dinosaur City.

      1. Delicious Taffy

        ?DinoCity is a ga-a-ame!?

      2. Achallenger

        Thanks internet hive mind, nailed it in 3 minutes flat

  15. Passchendaele

    1. More like menu studies, am I right?

    2. How does Dina pronounce parentheses? Like a boss/dinosaur/dinosaur boss, that’s how.

  16. Puckish Rogue

    I’d have thought that for someone who doesn’t seem to date much (or its been awhile) Leslie would show a bit more interest (eye contact, one word answers etc) in the attractive female across the table from her

    1. Nono

      I feel like Leslie just isn’t really interested in Mindy. That answer seems a bit dragged out (“Coooool” in that uh I’m not super interested but I want to try to sound interested way?).

      1. Fart Captor

        It’s early to tell. I’ve had a lot of dates start out just like this which went pretty well. It tends to happen when you go on a date knowing almost nothing about each other. Finding something to talk about takes a few tries

        1. Puckish Rogue

          Well Mindy is doing well so far, she asked a question about what Leslie does which would give Leslie the opportunity to talk about herself a bit but Leslie fumbles the ball here

      2. Puckish Rogue

        Well yeah sure but a dates a date and Mindy is attractive so why not just enjoy the date for what it is

        Just seems a bit pointless to me to go on a date and not be into it, its not like a dates a prelude to getting married or something

        1. Nono

          Everyone has different tastes. Leslie has her types, Mindy might not be it.

          And sometimes people just go on dates because ‘I haven’t been on one in forever, I need that itch scratched’. I do agree it should be with someone you’re actually into, though.

        2. C.T Phipps

          I think Leslie is a big fan of Tsunderes. Lots of people like confident jerky types in RL. I liked it in my wife (which she did not like me pointing out). Mindy is just too….Lesbian Adult Joyce.

          Which a certain redhead would think was ideal.

        3. StClair

          Exactly.

        4. C.T Phipps

          Eh, before I was married, I went on a number of dates with perfectly lovely women who were entirely nice. We just didn’t click and it was fine but nothing we wanted to pursue. It happens.

        5. Stella

          I dunno, I think sometimes people think, “Why not?” because sometimes a neutral-positive feeling can bloom into attraction in the right context.

          I almost always say yes to a first date. If we don’t hit it off, no second date. Generally nbd! I mean, usually I’m right about my first impression, but I’ve been wrong often enough, in a positive direction, that I tend to try and be optimistic.

          That being said, I’ve definitely been on dates like this where it’s like, “Oh, wait, for some reason I feel super awkward around this person. Eesh.”

  17. Keulan

    I totally was assuming Leslie’s date would be with Anna, not Mindy. I like Mindy better, but Leslie clearly was more interested in Anna.

    1. Nono

      Mindy was the one who asked Leslie out in the end.

    2. Carms

      yea, and in response to that alternate interest, Mindy TOOK CHARGE

      1. C.T Phipps

        Yeah, Leslie is not feeling it like she did with Mike…err, Anna.

  18. Quartz Falcon

    Well, I know who’s getting the better date.

    (Hint: It’s not Becky and Dina.)

    (Because they’ll be watching Dinosaur (2000).)

    (Well, Becky will try to salvage the date with smoochies, but Dina will be too busy ranting at the movie to cooperate)

    1. Carms

      right, that is definitely going to happen

    2. King Daniel

      Hey, at least Dinosaur (2000) didn’t go with the cliche of having a _Tyrannosaurus_ as its villain (they used a pair of scaled-up Carnotaurus from South America instead); seeing as Dina has expressed distaste in this comic toward people who say their favorite dinosaur is T. rex, I’d imagine she would at least appreciate that part.

      1. DrWattson

        But then get annoyed that the Carnotaurus are scaled completely wrong.

        1. Emperor Norton II

          Dina -knows- that dinosaur-related entertainment will never be accurate enough for her tastes, so she will only enjoy them superficially.

  19. Tacos

    “Dinosaur?” Wasn’t that the movie with the stupid lemurs and the Carnotaurus that they used as a stand-in for a T-rex?

    1. King Daniel

      Yeah, that’s the one.

    2. King Daniel

      Also, it’s T. rex, not T-rex (or T-Rex, or T Rex). Scientific accuracy is important. 😛

      1. vlademir1

        While accuracy is important, most people don’t actually understand standard biological taxonomic nomenclature any better than they do the differentiating characteristics between T. rex and G. libratus (well, beyond gross size anyway) and your list of erroneous examples run closer to the common usage standards to depict the same phonemic construct 😉

      2. Reltzik

        Scientists acknowledge the difference between scientific names and common ones. T-Rex is a common name.

    3. Emperor Norton II

      As King Daniel mentioned above: T. Rex as a villain in dinosaur movies is a cliché. And honestly, I agree with him. Why use the same villain that’s been used in dozens and dozens of good (or less good) dinosaur movies when there are in fact lots and lots of carnivorous dinosaurs to choose from?

      1. Geneseepaw

        T. rex: Little tiny arms, but teeth long as stilettos- sharp as razors, hundreds of them, and Tall! Like “Attack of the Sharknado” not only smart and wily, but large and dangerous. Same thing with the Kraken and tentacles., big, slimy, and thousands of suckers on them…. They’ll grab you and pull you under…

    4. Delicious Taffy

      Was there one in that? I’ve only heard of Carnotaurus from watching Dinosaur King.

      1. King Daniel

        There were two (perhaps three) Carnotaurus, actually. One kicked off the film’s plot, then years later a mated pair of Carnotaurus take over from a pack of raptors as the primary “villains” for the second half of the film.

        1. Delicious Taffy

          And when do the adolescents scan the cards to give them lightning powers?

  20. Kernanator

    I remember Dinosaur (2000) being the first DVD I owned.

  21. C.T Phipps

    Wow, Leslie is bored to tears

    1. Needfuldoer

      No wonder. Maybe she’d have a better time if she paid attention to Mindy instead of aggressively staring into her menu and half-listening.

  22. Proto

    Hey I know cool dental hygienists! This comic is offensive to me on a personal level.

  23. motorfirebox

    Disney’s Dinosaur (2000): still more scientifically accurate than Becky’s (nominally) Biblical education!

  24. Yakkorex

    Is Leslie self-conscious about her teeth?

    1. C.T Phipps

      You can tell a lot about a person by their fictional crushes. Leslie’s crushes are Starbuck and Princess Leia who are women who pretty much define the meaning of brash, forward, and take no prisoners. Add to it Robyn Desanto in this universe in the GET HIM TO THEGREEK SENSE OF, “I loved you until I met you!”

      Mindy is….not this type of person. She seems more Joyce meets Disney Princess Pre-Mulan, which seems not to be Leslie’s type.

      I, myself, am an Audrey Horne, Veronica Mars sort of person.

      1. Yumi

        I don’t know, my fictional crushes tend to run the gamut from like Toph Beifong to Hinata Hyuga.

        …That feels weird to say now. These were crushes that formed when I was like 12, just for the record.

        1. C.T Phipps

          Eh, plenty of young women looked for their Disney prince as adults…which turned out to be a horrible horrible idea.

        2. Yumi

          Well, I meant it felt weird to say because the characters I mentioned were children. Though they do both age up varying amounts later on.

        3. Unusually Angry Hippie

          So you like girls with no pupils? That’s the only thing I can think of that Toph and Hinata have in common.

        4. Yumi

          No pupils, black hair, exist in another world and as such are unattainable.

        5. Achallenger

          Even if you had a lesbian heart of stone you couldn’t resist Beifong, let’s be fair here

        6. Yumi

          I thought I was straight and I couldn’t resist her.

        7. Delicious Taffy

          What does Hinata do? I’m not invested enough to watch the show, but what few episodes I’ve seen throughout the years haven’t had her in them. She also appears to upset the majority of deviantART.

        8. Derek

          she was the shy girl who likes the protagonist. The author TRIED to make her have some character development beyond shy and demure, but it kinda fell flat. At the end of the series she married Naruto even though he ever showed any attraction.
          Fan theories say that Naruto married her because Sasuke and Sakura (the two other main protagonists) married each other, leaving Naruto out

  25. JessWitt

    Oh darn, I wanted a shared date with Leslie, Mindy, and Anna.

    1. Yumi

      Anna walks in a few minutes later.

      “Oh, Mindy, I didn’t know you were coming here.”
      “I…I told you…”
      “I mean, I guess I’ll join you. Give me some bread, you’ve probably had enough.”

      1. C.T Phipps

        Leslie: *SWOON*

  26. Jed!

    I’m terrible at socializing, but this reminds me of a piece of advice regarding conversation starters: open ended questions are better than ones with straight answers. The other person just gives their answer and then the conversation is dead.

    1. pjeseb

      What would be an example of an open ended question?

      1. Cmd1095

        “tell me about what you do for a living” instead of “what’s your profession” is one example, albeit not a perfect one

      2. Roborat

        I see what you did there.

    2. Emperor Norton II

      I myself prefer this opening: “What do you do that defines you?”

      1: I find it much more useful than simply “what do you do (for a living)?”, because let’s be honest, most of us simply works to earn money, and while we may be motivated to do a good job, it’s very often something you’d rather forget about in a social setting.

      2: For those people that are defined by their jobs (such as being an artist, or something they spent many years training/studying for), they’ll still be able to talk about it. And they will. Gladly.

      But be that as it may, if someone who belongs in group 1 does end up talking about their job (because someone else asked them about it); then no matter how “menial” or “low-rank” it is, there are also ways to keep up an interest. Such as “That must be tough. What’s the most challenging aspect of it, you’d say?” said in a properly sincere voice. It’s such a simple question that will make people feel they’re being listened to; and getting that feeling will make them happier.

      1. Halpful

        And then there’s those of us who go into interview-panic-mode from questions like that.

        I really don’t know how I get into good conversations. I’m usually not paying attention 🙂 in fact it probably starts with some ADHD-style bouncing from topic to topic with mutual interruptions.

        1. Emperor Norton II

          Yeah well, in that case, I suggest good board games. Talkative people will talk, quiet people will be quiet, and any silence that happens will not be awkward, because it’s assumed people are focused on the game.

        2. thejeff

          Pretty much. That’s always been my theory for first dates – do something. Pretty much anything. Especially if you can find a shared interest.
          Then you’ve got a distraction and a topic of conversation.
          Even a movie and then dinner, if nothing else. Then you can talk about the movie.

          But I suck at dating, so what do I know.

        3. huttj509

          “What do you do?”
          *smoke fills the room, slowly dissapating to leave only empty air*

      2. Kryss LaBryn

        “Really? Ha ha, what’s the dumbest customer you’ve ever had?”*

        You’d be surprised how many people will happily bond over “Jesus, there was this one idiot who…” stories, heh. And pretty much every single job ever has had idiots one way or another.

        * For a teacher, “What was the most ridiculous thing a kid has ever asked/thought/miss-assumed/done?” Heh, there’s this one teacher I know who likes to tell the story of this one kid, no older than six or seven, who was being hauled off to the principal’s office, completely unrepentant, kicking and screaming, some time close to Christmas. And the school’s community liaison police officer is there, great big tall guy, in full uniform, so he steps up, hands on hips, and sternly says something along the lines of “What’s all this then?”

        And the little shit kicks him in the shins, this actual, uniformed cop, while yelling how the cop couldn’t do anything to him (his home life was problematic, apparently)–so the secretary, thinking quickly, grabs the phone and says, “I’m calling Santa!”

        Instant contrition and obedience. Ha!

    3. CJ

      How did you like the last book you read/the last movie you saw?
      seems like a much less intrusive starter.

      But, you know, Leslie really comes across as “couldn’t care less”, so I don’t think it matters how Mindy starts this conversation.

  27. C.T Phipps

    Mindy: You teach gender studies.

    Leslie: Yep. *doesn’t want to talk about it at all*

    Mindy: I’m a dentist.

    Leslie: That’s nice.

    *checks menu for alcohol*

    1. Bicycle Bill

      I immediately recalled the scene in “HP+HBP” when Hermione is at the Slug Club party and Professor Slughorn questions her about her parents:
      Hermione: “Well, both my parents are dentists.”
      Slughorn: “Fascinating, and is that considered a dangerous profession?”

  28. FinalOwen

    Ah, Dinosaur, the movie that makes talking about the Disney Animated Classics canon way more complicated than it should be, all depending on whether you’re in the US or UK.

  29. Owlmirror

    Anyone have a clue as to what “sweetgrass” might refer to?

    I mean, Willis has said that sometimes the strip title is something in the strip that was dropped during successive revisions, but in the depicted scenes, why would anyone have said “sweetgrass” at all?

    1. Emperor Norton II

      It seems that the restaurant that Leslie and Mindy are having their date in is called Sweetgrass.

      1. Emperor Norton II

        I mean, I can’t be -certain- without Word of Willis, but such a restaurant does exist, and it’s located in Bloomington, so, you know…

        1. Norah

          Kind of looks like it:
          https://tinyurl.com/y9llpzc5

        2. Delicious Taffy

          “Kind of?” That’s 1:1, right there.

    2. Owlmirror

      Thanks, all.

      Although I see that the restaurant is actually called “Sweet Grass”, two words. I note they serve fried green tomatoes.

      “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Sweet Grass Restaurant” could be the title of a book!! . . . Or is that too clunky? Maybe shorten it a bit.

  30. Irredentist

    Does this mean that we’re not going to get a Leslie Mindy slipshine?

    1. Yumi

      I mean, it depends if they’re the type who need things like “attraction” and “connection” to get to Slipshine territory.

      If it were me, then–

      1. Emperor Norton II

        Since Slipshines are considered canon, then yes, they need attraction and connection and so on.

        But as for what goes on in your mind… Well, the Daisy avatar seems to suit you. :p

        1. Yumi

          I’m just saying, not everyone needs attraction and connection to take things to Slipshine levels. Now, my impression of Leslie at least is that she does. So there probably won’t be a Slipshine, at least based on the strips thus far.
          But who knows what the future hold.
          (Willis. Willis knows.)

        2. Emperor Norton II

          Oh, like that. Yeah, I see what you mean now. Feel free to ignore my misunderstanding there.

  31. Kris

    Lesbian dating actually looks pretty boring. No motorcycles or explosions. I mean someone at least throw a chair.

    1. Emperor Norton II

      You usually have explosions on motorcycles* when you’re dating?

      *I may or may not have misread your comment slightly for comedic purposes.

  32. Bagge

    “I bet they will BOTH WILL TAKE OF THEIR HATS before the date is over”

    1. Emperor Norton II

      “But Becky, neither of them are wearing hats.”
      “How do you know Mindy isn’t wearing a hat?!?!”
      “I walked next to her to Leslie’s door without being noticed.”

    2. Delicious Taffy

      Lewd

    3. ValdVin

      You’re Becky’s biggest fan, so I ask you to imagine, how many dates (with males or females) has Becky been on? What’s her proverbial baseline here?

      She was homeschooled, then to a Christian college, and she discovered herself there. And we saw her find a girlfriend.

      1. Bagge

        1/3 is not that bad a score card when it comes to dating success 🙂 (and Becky would totally have gone to third base with Kaitlin if it wasn’t for that pesky door thingie).

        No, I completely agree. Becky is about as clueless as Joyce when it comes to matters of the world. Her idea of the lesbian life style and subculture are half wish fulfillment, half enthusiasm based on some VERY vague, assorted tidbits she has picked up. I find it both endearing and funny!

        1. ValdVin

          I find it endearing and funny, too. Well, aside from the random feels flashback*.

          (*”You meet people at church. An’ hang out with ’em for like fifteen years an’ subconsciously fall in love with ’em an’ dream of runnin’ away together…)

  33. pjeseb

    If they’re looking for a great dinosaur movie for kids, why not try We’re Back: A Dinosaur’s Story? That’s some wholesome family entertainment right there!

    /s

    1. Achallenger

      With absolutely no unexpected traumatizing grand finale what so ever

      1. pjeseb

        After re-watching it, I’m pretty sure whoever wrote the second half of the script had a MASSIVE grudge against scary theme parks and places like that.

  34. newllend(henryvolt)

    Yeah, seems like Leslie can’t help herself but to want the “bad girl” type.

  35. BP

    I like that movie. Also this is why I’m glad I never really did traditional “dating”. I’m terrible at small talk.

  36. StClair

    Dumb movie, but great soundtrack (IMO).
    And that big early scene that was in all the trailers, The Egg Travels, is magnificent.
    But that’s just a prologue – then the “real” movie starts, and the critters start talking, and it’s allllll downhill from there.

    1. StClair

      Another great early scene – the asteroid.
      The animals have no idea what they’re seeing, of course… but I’ve imagined looking up, seeing that pass overhead and disappear over the horizon, and knowing that there’s no point in running or hiding because this entire hemisphere is about to be ****ed.

  37. NozajDarkcaster

    I loved that movie as a child, although It probably is one I would hate now.

    Now as for dating, I have never tried such a thing, It could be interesting to see what kinds of people would take an interest in me…

    It would be more awkward than the events in this strip, but still…

  38. BenRG

    Something tells me that learning of the reality of adult life is going to be a steep and terrifying learning curve for poor Becky!

    1. Fart Captor

      She’s gonna did just fine. She might be a bit disappointed by how boring it often is, but no doubt she’ll find ways to fix that

    2. Reltzik

      Something tells me that Becky’s learning curve is going to be a steep and terrifying reality for poor adult life.

  39. Reltzik

    “So, what are you having to drink?”

    “Tepid, lukewarm tap water. You?”

    “The same.”

    1. merbrat

      Mindy: “…in a dirty glass”
      Leslie: *perks up*

  40. Rukduk

    Probably the nostalgia goggles here, but I really like that movie. Mainly because Carnotourus is awesome!!!! …the wacky lemur family not so much. Also, pretty dark in retrospect.

  41. Needfuldoer

    Dinosaur 2000 wasn’t anywhere near as good as the original. They’re just getting the band back together for no apparent reason, and Jim Belushi died so they replaced his character with John Goodman and some pointless kid.

    1. Stella

      I can’t tell if this is a joke that’s going over my head or if you’re actually referencing a different movie in which Jim Belushi plays a dinosaur, which sounds amazing.

      1. segnosaur

        Actually I think its a reference to the movie Blues Brothers 2000 (which has John Goodman), but they just mixed up Jim Belushi for John.

        1. Needfuldoer

          Yes I did! Serves me right for trying to make references at… *checks* 2 AM.

  42. BenRG

    I’ve got the feeling that Leslie and Mindy’s date will be an evening of awkward, nervous exchanges that are skirting around any meaningful conversation because they have both been ‘off the game’ for years and aren’t sure exactly what they’re supposed to be doing. Then, they’ll kiss awkwardly separate whilst walking on cloud nine and both spend the rest of the night gushing to their room-mates about how perfect the other is.

    Because, if you’re writing fiction, you can never go wrong with romantic comedy!

  43. ellernock

    i remember that movie! that came out during the tail-end (har) of my hardcore dinosaur special interest phase, when i was approximately 5/6. i remember thinking the concept was cool? who the heck knows how scientifically accurate it was besides the talking, but. hey. i was going to say who cares, but the fact is that thinking about the question now means i care

    1. BenRG

      I have a hard-and-fast rule when it comes to entertainment: Is it entertaining? If so, then any ‘scientific inaccuracies’ gets a free pass and I tend to become tetchy with anyone who complains about them. To me, they’re missing the point.

      1. Stella

        I feel like it depends on whether or not the movie is portraying the science as accurate. Like a movie where the science is “basically magic,” and it’s obvious to the viewer, that’s fine, but movies that make up science but act as if the science is legit contribute to widespread scientific illiteracy.

        Which, you know, isn’t a dealbreaker for me in and of itself. There are plenty of inaccurate “Hard S/F” stories that I enjoy. But, it does make them, well, problematic.

        It’s sort of like, obviously there are people who actively promote bad science or psuedo-science to sell people things (“Heal your cancer with energy crystals!”) or to maintain a dangerous ideology (“Come to the Creationist Museum!”), and those things are capital-B Bad and are the biggest drivers of scientific illiteracy.

        But, in addition, there are a lot of frustrating things, like journalists writing sensationalist reports on mild scientific findings, which lead to contradictory information on, say, nutrition science, for example. People read headlines like “Coffee Drinkers Die Young” right after reading “Drinking Coffee Can Save Your Life,” both based on real studies, and then assume science is basically bs.

        And I feel like fictional movies and stories with inaccurate science are in that same camp. They are not the primary drivers of people misunderstanding science, but they are small contributors to an overall problem.

        1. Eldritch Gentleman

          And then there is the issue of Bought science. Basically scientists having to provide results the companies and government want or they’ll loose their funding.

  44. RacingTurtle

    I remember finding Dinosaur (2000) to be very boring. I was downright offended by how boring it was, given how beautiful the promos had convinced me it was going to be.

    Huh, I would’ve been just a year or so younger than Becky & Dina when I watched it. Probably would’ve been less boring with kissing and cuddling and hand-holding. 🙂

  45. KSClaw

    Man do I feel old now. I was 15 when Dinosaur came out.

    1. Zaxares

      Want to feel older? There are children alive today who were not even born yet when the Little Mermaid, Aladdin and even the Lion King came out. 😉

      1. thejeff

        That’s sort of an odd way to put it. I mean, there are children alive today who were not even born yet when (checks movie listings) Spider-man: Homecoming came out.

        1. Emperor Norton II

          This XKCD strip was 6 years ago!

          https://www.xkcd.com/891/

  46. strictly speaking

    Oh god! I had forgotten about that movie. I’m getting childhood nostalgia for dinosaurs raised by anachronistic lemurs.

  47. Anowan

    Oh no, Cerberus was right, they don’t have any sort of chemistry together

    They’re attracted to energetic, confident and borderline rude people, which they are not themselves

    Now I kind of hope they can become friends and talk to each other about how they’re attracted to personality traits that can be correlated with being shitty partners

  48. missilentmurmur

    Aww, this hovertext made me feel old. I’ve turned 27 lately and I’m starting to find that now I can connect less with 17 year olds than with thirty-somethings. I haven’t really realized, with the sliding timeline, that by now Dina and Becky are closer to the age when I saw the Dinosaur (11), than the age I am.
    This makes me sad.

  49. Yossarianduck

    A COMIC THAT DOESN’T USE A WORD OF DIALOGUE AS ITS TITLE? WHAT HERESY IS THIS?

  50. Michael Chandra

    Ghost-hugs for Spot who I haven’t seen for a week now. =< Hope you're alright.

  51. Deanatay

    Good, this comic is comparatively boring. That means everyone can rip themselves away from it at the appropriate time and go watch the SOLAR ECLIPSE happening today, which is much more interesting.

    BTW, I am not a huge solar eclipse fan.

    I just HATE the Sun.

    WOOO Kick his ass Moon!!

    1. Reltzik

      Spoiler alert: Sun made a comeback.

      1. King Daniel

        Moon’s coming around for another pass in seven years though, way I heard it. And another lesser one the year before that.

  52. Lulu

    Where’s the kissing, lots of saliva, sex, 69 and all the hot stuff we were promised by lesbian dating?

    1. Emperor Norton II

      Apparently, porn lied to us.

      1. BenRG

        You can pretty much attribute a whole host of social ills to that single fact.

        1. Emperor Norton II

          And you can also attribute most mainstream porn to a host of social ills; and they’ve been feeding each other steadily ever since.

          I Feel Myself has pretty much ruined mainstream porn for me, what with having women that actually has real pleasure. I mean, fake moaning was never great to listen to, but now it’s just so goddamn cringeworthy, it ruins all sexyness.

          And man, am I grateful to I Feel Myself for that!

    2. Remmington Steele

      But “searching her physical media” is, like, wow man. Wow.

    3. segnosaur

      When do we get to the sissoring?
      – Joe

      1. Eldritch Gentleman

        You mean Dina cutting pictures of dinosaurs out of books and newspapers?

  53. Delicious Taffy

    Eclipse passed by here, and I damn near missed it. Got some good video, though, so I’ll upload that later.

  54. Tenn

    Yaaaaaaaay, she’s dating the nice one with the hot eyebrows!

    *scrolls up*

    *scrolls down*

    …Mindy!

  55. Micki

    Besides Jurassic Park, the best dinosaur movie IMO is the documentary Walking with Dinosaurs. That was basically my childhood. <3

  56. C.T Phipps

    Leslie: *stands up* I don’t like you.

    Mindy: How can you not like me?

    Leslie: …Okay, I’ll tell ya. You are the worst person I know. You constantly hit on your best friend, the woman pays for your food and rescued you from certain death, and this is how you repay her? And to add insult to injury, you defecate all over his yard. And you’re such a sponge. You pay for nothing, you always say “Oh, I’ll get you later,” but later never comes. And what really bothers me, is you pretend you’re this deep woman who loves women for their souls when all you do is date bimbos. Yeah, I date women for their bodies, but at least I’m honest about it. I don’t buy them a copy of “Catcher in the Rye” and then lecture them with some seventh grade interpretation of how Holden Caulfield is some profound intellectual. He wasn’t! He was a spoiled brat! And that’s why you like him so much, he’s you! God, you’re pretentious! And you delude yourself by thinking you’re some great writer even though you’re terrible. You know, I should’ve known Princess Leia didn’t write me that note. She would’ve known there’s no “a” in the word “definite.” And I think what I hate most about you is your textbook liberal agenda, how we should “legalize pot, man,” how big business is crushing the underclass, how homelessness is the biggest tragedy in America. Well, what have you done to help? I work down at the soup kitchen, Mindy. Never seen you down there! You wanna help? Grab a ladle! And by the way, driving a Prius doesn’t make you Jesus Christ! Oh, wait! You don’t believe in Jesus Christ or any religion for that matter, because “religion is for idiots!” Well, who the hell are you to talk down to anyone? You failed college twice, which isn’t nearly as bad as your failure as a mother! How’s that son of yours you never see? But you know what? I could forgive all of that, all of it, if you weren’t such a bore! That’s the worst of it, Mindy. You’re just a big, sad, alcoholic bore.

    * Special thanks to Family Guy

    1. David M Willis

      why would you deface my site with this

    2. Scar Man!!!

      The fuck did this have to do with anything?

      1. C.T Phipps

        Sorry, Willis, I was trying to make a funny. Feel free to remove it (not that you can’t anyway).

        *bows head in shame*

        1. Emperor Norton II

          Willis will not delete this. He will keep this forever, so that your shame can never be erased from history. You will walk through these comment fields forever a pariah, and old ladies and children will point at you and immediately know you for what you are, as if you had been branded on your forehead.

          And nobody will ever want to walk close to you for fear of being associated with you, but if they did, they would see you cry a single tear from the absolute knowledge that you will never again be able to rise your head in high honour….

          …At least, until it’s tomorrow’s strip and hardly anybody comes back here. Then it’ll be forgotten.

        2. C.T Phipps

          Yeah, that’s a fair cop.

      2. C.T Phipps

        The attempt was a joke about a dinner date gone horribly horribly wrong.

        1. C.T Phipps

          Here’s what it was a reference to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVFp8KTEw-k

        2. David M Willis

          and now you’re posting video

        3. C.T Phipps

          Wow, just digging myself deeper. Sorry.

        4. UniqueSnowflake2

          You have lost face, and must commit seppuku.

    3. Delicious Taffy

      Swing and a miss.

      1. Puckish Rogue

        If you’re going to swing out you may as well swing big

  57. Dev

    …oh right, Mindy did tell her to pick her up at seven. I was very confused for a second since Leslie was talking to Anna last I remember.

  58. jjX

    …When I am started reading I was several years younger than.
    Now I am several years older.

    I feel ancient now. Dammit sliding timescale.

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