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Peace donut
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128 thoughts on “Peace donut”
Ana Chronistic
how is that door just unlocked
College Me would’ve had twenty deadbolts and a bureau on it
Sirksome
Especially at this college. I mean just last semester a scar faced dude with a knife tried to get in specifically to cut people up. I mean he didn’t even make it into the building but it’s the principle of it.
Doctor_Who
I notice the door doesn’t have a whiteboard on it. We all know why. The incident.
Diane
I think it’s just the angle, you can see the two lines where it is. Further proof: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-11/01-this-bright-millennium/tantalizin/
Thag Simmons
“A guy came here to cut people up and got fucking disembowed before he even made it into the building” is kind of encouraging from a security perspective.
He Who Abides
Coming from someone who works security, not really.
Dara
One year? One year? In the dorm? A bunch of student keys would work other random doors on the corridor. Most people had keys that would work only their door, but a lot of ’em would work two or three others, and somebody had a key that would open almost every door on the floor, like they’d got a goddamn master key.
Did this get addressed? No. It did not. Did the inevitable and endless pranking this enabled follow? Yes. Yes, it did.
Krampus
That’s just how keys work, there’s only so many combinations that don’t fuck up the tiny little mechanism
Dara
Even fix pins for 14 rooms? Nah, they can do better. They just didn’t.
Some Ed
TL;DR: with just 14 rooms, they should have been able to do better. But shit like this does happen.
I was in a dorm with something like 40 rooms. (25 on one side of the hall, but a bunch of rooms on the other side of the hall were skipped to provide the bathroom and trash room. Otherwise, the room numbers lined up.)
I’ll admit, I didn’t try my key on any other rooms, but I had at least one roommate while living there who couldn’t count first thing in the morning and could not see without his glasses. Due to prank concerns, said glasses were left in the room when he went to shower. (He knew I knew they were vital and effectively irreplaceable. Other people on the floor did not.) Not trying his key in the RA’s door was easy. I would’ve thought not trying his key in the doors past the elevators would be easy, especially past the stairway door. His response was, “Do you want to reconsider trying to look through my glasses again?” (I was the one person who hadn’t tried when he made the offer before. I should have stuck to my prior decision. Damn that was painful.)
There were also a lot of drunk people who tried their keys in various other people’s rooms. But nobody apparently had a key that would open someone else’s room, apart from the RA (whose key, of course, opened all the doors.)
There were rumors of a lesser version of this happening in other dorms, but not ours. One of the other dorms was a guys only dorm, with a reputed 100 rooms per floor. I was never in it, so I’ve no idea if they had any skipped room numbers that went unreported, but in any event, they certainly had more rooms per floor. They supposedly had a few instances most years of a few keys opening a couple other doors. It usually wasn’t symmetric.
There was a legend of the full version happening one year in one of the women’s dorms, despite their only having the same roughly 40 rooms per floor the dorm I mentioned being in had. According to some versions of the legend, they had a problem with some of the locks, and only had funds to select which dorm got the bad locks and picked a women’s dorm because they hoped the pranking would be less. I don’t remember most of the details enough to guess whether they made the right call or not. That said, one of the two lucky people to get a key that worked on all of the rooms got expelled over a very nasty prank that couldn’t be attributed to one or the other of them, combined with her having gotten caught in the act of a prank shortly after that, and that mostly ended the pranking. (Well, it being dead week of second semester when that happened may have also had some effect on the number of pranks that followed.)
Proto_Eevee
Says tldr then writes a whole essay
Needfuldoer
Sounds like somebody filed down their own bump key, or the locks were just that worn out.
We had a van at work with an ignition like that. All the keys were Nth generation copies with barely any cuts left, and the switch was so worn out you could start it with a butter knife.
Ray Radlein
The Driver-side door on my old ’69 Camaro needed body language and a finely-honed touch to unlock, but what it didn’t really need was any specific key at all
All-Purpose Guru
That’s common on mid-sixties GM cars. My dad’s Pontiac LeMans could be started and driven with a flathead screwdriver.
Dara
I think the locks were just that worn out, really. I saw the almost-all-doors key, it didn’t look filed at all.
All-Purpose Guru
This is common because as the keys and locks wear they get sloppy.
One other guy and myself were well-known as having keys that would pop just about everyone’s doors. Everyone ALSO knew that the other guy and I could be trusted, but there WERE creepy guys on our floor… We successfully broke the RA’s cartel on unlocking doors for money.
Nowadays this is fixed by all of the dorms having cardkeys instead of keys.
TheKelliestKelly
Becky also lives in this room now. I assume she unlocked it with her key
Needfuldoer
You say that like Becky wouldn’t break into her own dorm just for fun.
TheKelliestKelly
Damn, you’re right tho
Ana Chronistic
Where is the key, then? No way she unlocked the door, put away her key, THEN triumphantly touted her peastry
(sorry, forgot to come back and respond)
Chris
When I was in college, leaving your dorm room unlocked was guaranteed to result in your computer getting porned.
Meanderling
I don’t think it’s unlocked, Becky and Dorothy are roommates. Becks let herself in, it’s her room. Though to be fair my roommate in college and I were pretty lax about our door, our wrong was close and someone would’ve probably seen a stranger go into our room and texted one of us. Nothing was ever stolen anyway.
Keulen
I’m assuming Becky unlocked it since she lives in that room with Dorothy, and Dorothy would also have a key.
Ray Radlein
When I was a Freshman, we never locked our (apartment-style) dorm room doors. We’d come back from class and find various friends of one or the others of ours hanging out, watching our TV (not everyone even had one then, because I Am An Old), playing cards, whatever, often without any of the room’s nominal occupants present.
Finally, one day, we decided we should get serious about security and lock our doors.
Our room got broken into and all kinds of shit got stolen that very day.
I lost my 35mm SLR with all its lenses and a très expensive HP-41CX calculator (again: I Am An Old, and no one owned computers yet). It was an absolute fucksnarl.
Turns out, we were robbed by a custodial worker with a master key; the only thing that had been keeping him from robbing us earlier was that there were always lots of people in our room because the doors were unlocked.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Kirt Dankmyer
Wow, all y’all had some serious dorm room key fuckery that I never experienced at my college. I dunno if we were lucky or naïve. Maybe both.
I do know that my entire freshman dorm floor left their doors unlocked, not because this is what most people did, but because we were on the fourth floor and there were no elevators and no one could be arsed to walk up four flights of stairs to steal from us, especially when we were on the ass end of campus anyway.
Sirksome
Hah! Call me when you don’t sleep at all! That’s when you’ll have the edge!
RassilonTDavros
(Reads alt text)
Yes, yes you are.
Jenn
Can someone other than Willis (to save him the trouble) explain? I don’t understand why it would be unwise to make peacetry the title, or why Twitter is relevant here. Did miss some drama?
BBCC
Putting a punchline as a title is dickish to folks who read on twitter, because the title of the strip is the twitter link.
Adam Black
How is that any more dickish than seeing the title before reading the strip normally?
BBCC
Spoils the punchline. Titles are punchline-spoiler free.
RassilonTDavros
Okay, now that makes sense.
Kamino Neko
But ‘peastry’ isn’t the punchline….
BBCC
It’s A punchline though.
Meagan
Yeah this is my thought, it’s not the punchline, just a pun
Joe Angel
Peacetry was in panel 1 though.
C.T Phipps
You know who is also up in the wee hours of the morning?
AMAZI-GIRL!
We at last know her identity!
Reed
no one gets the jump on dotty. no. one.
Kitschensyngk
All she is saying is give peacetry a chance.
monica
*slow clap*
Clif
Here, have the damn Internet.
Of course the Internet is damned. I’m surprised you had to ask.
Proto_Eevee
Dorothy is really running in a full winter jacket? I get it’s cold but damn
He Who Abides
Pretty sure it’s thin. A proper winter jacket would cook her like an oven.
Proto_Eevee
now that I take a closer look… It looks more like a light sweater over a turtleneck sweater, or she’s just wearing a scarf.
Tan
I believe the top layer is meant to be a high-vis jacket (since she is jogging in pre-dawn hours when it is still dark out)
Stephen Bierce
BAKER: Time to make the donuts.
BAKER: I MADE the donuts!
Stephen Bierce
*and the hacked Muzak plays Ratt’s “Round And Round”*
Opus the Poet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYRurPB4WA0&ab_channel=FM1156
Fred: I made the donuts
Kyrik Michalowski
Dorothy’s morning jogs make her unstoppable. I get out of bed and my first thought is, “Man I wish I could sleep more.” Just imagine if we all had Dorothy’s drive, we could be doing amazing things.
Although… having Dorothy’s drive might also come with her inability to properly relax, so that could be bad.
Jamie
Meh. All of my amazing shit is done at 2am.
Dara
Oh hell yeah this.
I’m a mess in the early sun. But at 1, 2, 3am, still up? I’m an absolute machine.
Clif
You have the makings of a fine grad student.
Keulen
I have enough trouble getting up before noon. Can’t imagine how Dorothy can get up that early. But then, I’ve never been a morning person. Staying up really late at night is much better for me.
BBCC
Her runs start at 4 AM (or at least did last semester). Dorothy is a FREAK.
Boh No
This would be a good reference, I think, if I remembered what the reference was
Kernanator
I think it’s a call back to a previous comic where someone said this, but I’m not going to go to the tedious effort of searching for it on a site without a search function.
Delicious Taffy
It’s an Andy Griffith reference.
Dr. T
Well, at least Becky is trying something other than the silly feud business. That’s nice. Thoughtful even. Not sure Dorothy would eat donuts though, unless Becky developed a taste for the Rainbow Bakery from the brief time she lived 2 blocks away from the place (and given the name she likely would have tried it if she noticed it, famously being a lesbian and all).
Seriously though, if you are in Bloomington and have a hankering for vegan pastries look them up. They are pretty good. You can enjoy a delicious breakfast sandwich (my person favorite) while checking out Blowjob Cat (a name even my wife has added to her vocabulary because of this webcomic).
He Who Abides
Oh hey, she does know Dorothy’s name!
MrSmith
This is what irks me about Becky, she knows Dorothys name, Dorothy has called Becky out on it before but still Becky chooses to call Dorothy by a nickname Dorothy doesn’t like
Even when Becky is doing a nice thing (not sure if she has an ulterior motive) she still wants Dorothy to answer to, and thus accept, the nickname Becky wants her to have
Yumi
This gets brought up every time, but I never seem to see an actual link to Dorothy objecting to the nickname? I’d really be interested in seeing that strip to confirm that it’s an issue.
Delicious Taffy
I’ve been reading through the books, and at least as far as Book 8, she’s said nothing.
MrSmith
I’m sure I recall it early on in their interactions but since I tried looking for it I can’t locate it so either I’m really hopeless at looking things up (a distinct possibility) or my dislike of Becky is strong enough that I took for granted what someone else said and accepted it without checking (Mandela Effect in action)
In which case subtract all references to Dorothy calling out Becky about her nickname and add in the general meanness, pettiness and low-grade bullying Becky likes to inflict on Dorothy instead
Yumi
Okay, but then it doesn’t really fit for this strip.
MrSmith
Maybe, juries still out on an ulterior motive
BBCC
Where has Dorothy said she dislikes it? I can’t find her ever saying so.
Sam
I don’t think she specifically said that. If I remember correctly, she more implied it by restating her name was Dorothy early on in their interactions in response to being called it I think.
MrSmith
Probably didn’t want to make a big deal of it because of Beckys situation.
Unfortunately Dorothy is just to nice of a person and too much of a decent type to be a, major, politician
Its a shame.
zee
Or she just doesn’t care, because it’s just a nickname
Tan
I have been through every strip tagged Becky+Dorothy and not once that I have found has Dorothy corrected Becky regarding her name. The only thing she attempts to correct is when Becky refers to them as enemies/nemeses/etc.
(There have been a few prior instances of Becky calling her Dorothy, like when announcing she was Robin’s campaign manager and on their first seeing each other post-timeskip; none were commented upon either)
woobie
I wake up at 4, but it means I need to be in bed by 9 pm. How does she get enough sleep in a dormitory?