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Discussion (143) - “Birthday stuff”
Ana Chronistic
is Billie the name of the wall now
Doctor_Who
Ruth named her Maple Leafs poster Billie, because both always let her down.
Skater Girl
And yet she still loves them.
Clif
The walls name is Wallace Wala Waller, or Wally for short.
JA
Daaaaamn…
Thag Simmons
Maybe she named the Cricket Billie
King Daniel
I thought we’d collectively agreed that it was Tag, the Cricket?
Thag Simmons
Tag Billingsworth.
LiterallyJustSomeGuy
I love this joke, but I also still love Lettuce as a name for the cricket. I am torn
RassilonTDavros
Pink Floyd’s The Billie
Yotomoe
Well Billie’s not tagged so it can’t be the wall. I’m gonna call her wall Pink Floyd for now.
Ob
Billie is the name of her left hand now.
Ana Chronistic
She’s not looking at her hand
Delicious Taffy
Yet.
milu
Is Ruth left-handed?
Needfuldoer
IIRC she is.
Demoted Oblivious
Oof. Yeah, this one hit hard today. Like my head against a Billie.
Proto_Eevee
Now that she’s 21, Ruth has graduated from depression to schizophrenia.
RassilonTDavros
Ironically enough, it’s been over 21 years since Alt-Ruth died at this point.
Yusaku777
Ruth faked her death, moved to a small town in West Virginia, changed her name to Clarice, and became a dominatrix.
Opus the Poet
Someone call Hogan, we just had another crossover.
http://crossovers.dragoneers.com/
JA
I understand that reference.
Sirksome
Why exactly is it the RA’s responsibility to give a shit about anyone’s birthday to begin with? Also you can never go wrong with the basic ass balloons and a cake approach.
BBCC
I don’t think it’s a formal responsibility so much as it is a thing Ruth did. Unless RAs do ‘community building’ stuff as well as rule enforcement and resources?
NotThatDrew
I’d imagine it depends on the size of the dorm more than anything else. For example, I remember the RA of the dorm I lived in would pop his head in and tell people happy birthday on their respective birthdays, but we had maybe 60-70ish people there at most.
Madock345
They do. They’re supposed to organize one or two optional community events a week, like movie nights or whatever.
Chris Phoenix
Not in every time and place – my RAs were there if you needed them, or so I was told – but I never did, so they were just like the other residents as far as I could see. But this was in 1989ish so things may have changed.
Ryan
Community building is a common responsibility for RAs, though it depends on the school.
The main reason RAs have birthday duties is because they have a list of all their residents’ vital stats including birthdays. With great power comes great responsibility.
Rex Vivat
I feel like I should mention, you can totally go wrong with a cake if you don’t know the person’s medical issues and/or tastes.
HeySo
Which is why it’s important to have a designated cake disposal specialist in the dorm. I humbly nominate myself, if anyone still has that position to fill..
He Who Abides
I’ll fight you for that position.
Clif
There can be two specialists.
Let them eat cake.
ELLIOT
Also, I’m allergic to latex and my partner has a balloon phobia. You can go wrong with balloons too!
Needfuldoer
Do foil balloons count?
(Yeah balloons are a frivolous waste of helium, but we can inflate it with air and stick it on a dowel.)
Clif
For some reason I originally read balloon phobia as balloon fetish.
One time, someone told me that when a girl blows against resistance, for example blowing up a balloon, the vaginal muscles also clench. Inexplicably, this stuck in my mind, but never in circumstances where you would think I might want to bring it up.
AGV
The hallway was Ruth’s personal Animal Crossing
Keulen
I actually have no idea if my any of my college RAs did this birthday stuff, since my birthday has always been during the winter break.
Thag Simmons
Well, she actually does!
It’s a horrible, terrible, no good very bad idea, but it is an idea!
Clif
You say that, but it all makes sense once you know that Jennifer is Mike.
RassilonTDavros
? ouch
Clif
We’re all going to be surprised when Rebeca’s voice answers from the closet.
King Daniel
I thought she already nuked it? From orbit?
Needfuldoer
That was her own closet. There’s a whole world of other closets she can nuke!
Clif
That was Becky’s closet.
Clif
Oh, wait. I see what I did.
Pretend that I originally typed Jennifer and not Rebeca.
King Daniel
*sings Happy Birthday to Ruth, now that it’s legally no longer copyrighted*
Thag Simmons
Oh shit right, things are entering the public domain again for the first time in a century.
Thag Simmons
Whoops, misremembered that, it was like a twenty year gap, but everything entering the public domain is like a century old.
SeanR
All hate Sonny Bono and his widow. No love lost for Disney, either.
Needfuldoer
Note: his widow (and successor in Congress) Mary, not Cher.
But don’t let the mouse off the hook either. They’ll hyuck’in do it again!
Clif
Proud Mary Keep On Burning comes to mind.
And one for the Mouse.
RassilonTDavros
Actually, Happy Birthday entering the PD was the result of a lawsuit.
Thag Simmons
Of course it was.
SeanR
Except it took a judge to determine that Happy Birthday SHOULD have been in the public domain for a while now, when the company claiming ownership tried to charge a documentary film company for the right to use it, in a documentary film about the song.
All hate Warner Brothers.
Stephen Bierce
*followed up with “It’s My Party (and I’ll Cry If I Want To)”*
Stephen Bierce
*or perhaps Average White Band’s “Cut The Cake”*
AbelUndercity
(Sneaks in No Time to Be 21 by The Adverts.)
Cholma
Ouch. The Feels™.
Bagge
Great, I’m sad now
Mordecai
I think I might enjoy the melancholy strips the most.
LiterallyJustSomeGuy
Yay, codependency?
Amos Batista
I’m sure some character commented this term some books ago.
SeanR
I think it was more codespondency.
BBCC
What a wonderful way to wake up! Searing emotional pain!
StClair
🙁
electriccombines
Oh rad! Misery! B)
Johan
Awwww depressing comic week!
Rycan
You don’t have your alcohol, you don’t have your Billie, but at least you still have your depression. What can you do?
Sirksome
Actually considering Ruth’s history and with the knowledge of how depressed she can get I’d say she’d doing pretty good.
Yotomoe
https://i.imgur.com/pLTb7Va.png
Latest page of Walky’s Harem shenanigans. At this point it almost feels like an obligation <3 It just feels unfair to any characters I haven't done yet.
Clif