I assume Galasso is the mastermind using the league as a distraction while he tunnels into the bank. Only he could come up with such a stupid…I mean genius plan.
The funny thing is I’m reading a collected Sherlock Holmes and remembered that story from high school (hence my comment), and the very next story after where I had stopped was the Red-Headed League ?
Panel 4 is almost perfect. But it should be Happy, Smug and Angry instead of happy smug and … stunned?surprised? I mean, it’s correct at what it’s portraying, but as a poster for my wall it’s just not quite there. (sigh)
I was actually gonna make this exact point. Sal owns a motorcycle. Jennifer just gets rides on her boyfriend’s which is subjectively not even as cool a bike since it’s probably not a Rutten one. Why does she get to be motorcycle girl? Just cause it’s new? Is Sal last semester’s model?
Sal owned a motorcycle. There was a 3 month time skip. Who knows what all has happened that we just haven’t found out about yet?
Sirksome
Ugh. I don’t like this idea. Sal had a motorcycle last we knew. If it’s just gone for reason’s we don’t know about or were never established I will be pissed. Kill Mike, break up “Billie” and Ruth, but leave the motorcycle alone!
He Who Abides
Pretty sure Sal sold her bike for her new lefty guitar. Those are not cheap.
BBCC
Walky asked where her bike was a while ago and she didn’t want to talk about it. I’m hoping I’m wrong but I smell a Linda shaped rat.
Sirksome
I’m hoping she just left it at home cause gas is expensive and didn’t actually sell it, but He Who Abides makes a fair point since Sal didn’t actually confirm her guitar was a Christmas gift. A Christmas gift to herself with the “profits” from selling her bike is plausible. Although that better be one great guitar cause motorcycles like hers cost thousands of dollars and you can get a guitar for a hundred bucks.
BBCC
I find that unlikely because I’m pretty sure Sal would just say so if that was the case.
Needfuldoer
I’m seeing prices generally around $4,000 to $6,500 for 600-ish cc sport bikes with under 20k miles and up to 10 years old on CycleTrader. Prices drop off pretty quickly from there as bikes get older and rack up more miles, and usually level out at a grand for anything that runs and comes with paperwork.
That’s actually kind of surprising to me; MSRP for new bikes in that category is generally only around $10k. When I was looking for a bike a couple years ago, that same category was only around $3k to $4.5k. Maybe it’s because everyone was buying lockdown toys? (I ended up getting a 45-year-old Honda for a song.)
A 45-y.o. Honda? Whatever model, that just sounds cool.
My Honda was “old” when I bought it and I’ve managed to own it long enough that it’s now “vintage” I guess.
Needfuldoer
It’s just a CB360T, the least loved of the 70s twins. It already has aftermarket rear suspension, which “solved” the handling downgrade from the 350 by shortening the front rake angle. The side covers were shot, but I found some good replacements. (And no, it’s not going to become a “café racer project”. I’m actually kind of going for the anthesis of a café racer, a stock-ish restomod with a luggage rack and panniers.)
What I really want though is a GL1800, grandpa’s highway Lay-Z-Boy. I need to get some more seat time and take the MSF first though, so for now it’s just around-town practice on the 360 for me.
Liquid Len
A halfway decent acoustic guitar (made overseas) would probably be about $500-$1000. If she got a few grand from the bike she could have even splurged for a US made Martin or a Taylor which are in the $2-3K range.
Liquid Len
Ha! perfect gravatar!
Roborat
But with Martin and Taylor you are paying for the name, not getting a better guitar.
Rabid Rabbit
The question is how Linda would have pulled it off, since Sal was very clear that she bought the motorcycle with her own money. I mean, sure, Linda was quite happy to steal the money Sal raised for Marcie, but this seems like something much harder for her to pull off.
Khyrin
For one thing, Linda would need the title.
That said, were I a devious snake-bongo hybrid like Linda, I could easily take advantage of my now-adult daughter leaving the title to her rebellious vehicle and the vehicle itself in my care because keeping everything you own in a dorm room is not ideal. Then, I just take the bike and title to a dealer and claim that my daughter is deceased or in a coma and I wish to get rid of it because that is how my daughter became dead or comatose.
Khyrin
hit post too soon.
I suspect, if Linda DID do the above, Sal would have a cracking criminal case against Linda, and it would be an interesting journey getting her motorcycle back if it had been re-sold. The dealer would likely be very eager to help, since in that scenario they would have unknowingly sold stolen goods.
Warren
I doubt Sal trusts her mother enough to leave valuable items in her care.
Calling it now, Jennifer’s going to just plain forget about her intentions to drop between now and being done with Asher for today, and by the time she remembers the drop period will have passed and we’ll get to see her and Ruth stuck together in the same class.
… also, Leslie won’t auto-drop her for a first-day no show for some reason. Maybe they don’t do that at IU?
Geneseepaws
Generally not until the first five classes, unless it is a wait-listed class.
My two favorite characters are taking a class together? Leslie’s class?? And Ruth’s there too??? The only way this could be more perfectly tailored to my interests is if Mike died again
There was an allusion to her not being able to come back to campus with Walky using it right after the time skip, and we suspected… Reasons may have caused that to be an issue (at best, Sal traded it in to buy a guitar or maybe good skates given she’s in roller derby now; at worst, Linda Happened,) but at the moment we don’t actually know.
Linda’s be-devilled Sal long enough, and as a result the Walkerton family dynamic has become completely scrambled. Only Sal and Walky’s relationship is going over easy. If Linda has indeed poached the Sal-cycle, Sal’s hard-boiled attitude means that things will drop into southern-bound hand-basket.
So very shell-fish — you’ve cracked all those eggcellent puns and only left a few tired yolks for the rest of us!
crow
Are you a vegan?
RassilonTDavros
I mean, some people just don’t like eggs.
I am one of those people. The smell nauseates me.
Regalli
Also they didn’t say the egg would be cooked. Honestly I was imagining them swallowing it whole like a snake.
The burger with teeth grav probably helped with said image.
Delicious Taffy
That is a nightmarish scenario you’ve painted. I can barely swallow a gummi bear whole without having an episode, let alone a raw egg with a high chance of cracking. Dear lord.
As for the burger grav, it’s Hungry Burger, the most powerful Yu-Gi-Oh! card there is. Nothing can withstand its burgery fury.
158 thoughts on “Grace period”
Ana Chronistic
Nooo Carla stay (and also get Rose) we need the Red-Headed League
Sirksome
All different shades of red too! From Becky’s bright orange to Carla’s dark crimson. The whole spectrum! We need the whole spectrum!
Deathjavu
I assume Galasso is the mastermind using the league as a distraction while he tunnels into the bank. Only he could come up with such a stupid…I mean genius plan.
He Who Abides
I got that reference.
Rabid Rabbit
It only works if one of the redheads is really, really dumb.
Deanatay
Naive. Johnny Five was naive, not stupid.
Ana Chronistic
The funny thing is I’m reading a collected Sherlock Holmes and remembered that story from high school (hence my comment), and the very next story after where I had stopped was the Red-Headed League ?
Dean
One of them can keep Leslie distracted while the other two dig a tunnel to the bank vault across the street!
Reltzik
Wrong education level. This is university, and that’s elementary.
Agemegos
Ouch!
Geneseepaws
Here’s your upvote.
drs
Leslie’s Angels
Demoted Oblivious
Panel 4 is almost perfect. But it should be Happy, Smug and Angry instead of happy smug and … stunned?surprised? I mean, it’s correct at what it’s portraying, but as a poster for my wall it’s just not quite there. (sigh)
Doctor_Who
Ginge, Ginger, and Gingest.
BarerMender
“Only a ginger can call another ginger.” –Tim Minchin
RassilonTDavros
…it suddenly hits me that “ginger” is an anagram of quite possibly the worst racial slur in existence.
Kind of wish it would un-hit me.
Ginger
Please go listen to/watch Tim Minchin’s “Prejudice”, from which the above line is quoted.
Agemegos
“Prejudice”: https://youtu.be/KVN_0qvuhhw
milu
oh wow! that was brilliant! thanks yous!
Rabisch
The Ed, Edd ‘n Eddy of the situation! Becky is Ed, Carla Edd and Ruth Eddy! Perfect!
Sirksome
I want to drop the class now that all the cool people are doing it!
BBCC
Jennifer doesn’t even OWN a motorcycle, Becky, what are you on about? 😛
I’m glad Ruth stayed. I hoped she would. Maybe Jennifer will too!
And Carla wanting to hang out with Sal is adorable. I think I heard Cerberus squee in the distance. XD
BBCC
Okay, gravitar roulette, what’ve you got for me?
BBCC
I can accept this for tonight.
Sirksome
I was actually gonna make this exact point. Sal owns a motorcycle. Jennifer just gets rides on her boyfriend’s which is subjectively not even as cool a bike since it’s probably not a Rutten one. Why does she get to be motorcycle girl? Just cause it’s new? Is Sal last semester’s model?
Fart Captor
Sal owned a motorcycle. There was a 3 month time skip. Who knows what all has happened that we just haven’t found out about yet?
Sirksome
Ugh. I don’t like this idea. Sal had a motorcycle last we knew. If it’s just gone for reason’s we don’t know about or were never established I will be pissed. Kill Mike, break up “Billie” and Ruth, but leave the motorcycle alone!
He Who Abides
Pretty sure Sal sold her bike for her new lefty guitar. Those are not cheap.
BBCC
Walky asked where her bike was a while ago and she didn’t want to talk about it. I’m hoping I’m wrong but I smell a Linda shaped rat.
Sirksome
I’m hoping she just left it at home cause gas is expensive and didn’t actually sell it, but He Who Abides makes a fair point since Sal didn’t actually confirm her guitar was a Christmas gift. A Christmas gift to herself with the “profits” from selling her bike is plausible. Although that better be one great guitar cause motorcycles like hers cost thousands of dollars and you can get a guitar for a hundred bucks.
BBCC
I find that unlikely because I’m pretty sure Sal would just say so if that was the case.
Needfuldoer
I’m seeing prices generally around $4,000 to $6,500 for 600-ish cc sport bikes with under 20k miles and up to 10 years old on CycleTrader. Prices drop off pretty quickly from there as bikes get older and rack up more miles, and usually level out at a grand for anything that runs and comes with paperwork.
That’s actually kind of surprising to me; MSRP for new bikes in that category is generally only around $10k. When I was looking for a bike a couple years ago, that same category was only around $3k to $4.5k. Maybe it’s because everyone was buying lockdown toys? (I ended up getting a 45-year-old Honda for a song.)
ValdVin
A 45-y.o. Honda? Whatever model, that just sounds cool.
My Honda was “old” when I bought it and I’ve managed to own it long enough that it’s now “vintage” I guess.
Needfuldoer
It’s just a CB360T, the least loved of the 70s twins. It already has aftermarket rear suspension, which “solved” the handling downgrade from the 350 by shortening the front rake angle. The side covers were shot, but I found some good replacements. (And no, it’s not going to become a “café racer project”. I’m actually kind of going for the anthesis of a café racer, a stock-ish restomod with a luggage rack and panniers.)
What I really want though is a GL1800, grandpa’s highway Lay-Z-Boy. I need to get some more seat time and take the MSF first though, so for now it’s just around-town practice on the 360 for me.
Liquid Len
A halfway decent acoustic guitar (made overseas) would probably be about $500-$1000. If she got a few grand from the bike she could have even splurged for a US made Martin or a Taylor which are in the $2-3K range.
Liquid Len
Ha! perfect gravatar!
Roborat
But with Martin and Taylor you are paying for the name, not getting a better guitar.
Rabid Rabbit
The question is how Linda would have pulled it off, since Sal was very clear that she bought the motorcycle with her own money. I mean, sure, Linda was quite happy to steal the money Sal raised for Marcie, but this seems like something much harder for her to pull off.
Khyrin
For one thing, Linda would need the title.
That said, were I a devious snake-bongo hybrid like Linda, I could easily take advantage of my now-adult daughter leaving the title to her rebellious vehicle and the vehicle itself in my care because keeping everything you own in a dorm room is not ideal. Then, I just take the bike and title to a dealer and claim that my daughter is deceased or in a coma and I wish to get rid of it because that is how my daughter became dead or comatose.
Khyrin
hit post too soon.
I suspect, if Linda DID do the above, Sal would have a cracking criminal case against Linda, and it would be an interesting journey getting her motorcycle back if it had been re-sold. The dealer would likely be very eager to help, since in that scenario they would have unknowingly sold stolen goods.
Warren
I doubt Sal trusts her mother enough to leave valuable items in her care.
Mr D
Sold it to Asher
Regalli
Seriously. I enjoy Carla’s adoration of Sal.
Demoted Oblivious
Definitely agree, driving/owning it is what makes you the chopper monarch. Riding bongo just makes you a tourist.
RassilonTDavros
The Holy Trinity of Queer Redhead Ladies, united at last!
…unless Carla does drop, in which case oh well.
RassilonTDavros
Also, totally called Carla being in the class. Shame about Jennifer leaving, though.
Reltzik
Calling it now, Jennifer’s going to just plain forget about her intentions to drop between now and being done with Asher for today, and by the time she remembers the drop period will have passed and we’ll get to see her and Ruth stuck together in the same class.
… also, Leslie won’t auto-drop her for a first-day no show for some reason. Maybe they don’t do that at IU?
Geneseepaws
Generally not until the first five classes, unless it is a wait-listed class.
Demoted Oblivious
So she has a few months to react.
Diner Kinetic
is this every redhead student in the cast, actually? Except Rose?
He Who Abides
Mandy.
Rabid Rabbit
Hey, for all we know Asma’s a redhead.
It’s not hugely likely, but it’s possible.
Nayann Martinelli
If Carla drops this class, so will I!
Sporky
Imagine thinking you were promised Sal and getting Jennifer instead. Real downgrade TBH
Sam
I would downgrade someone’s friendship back to strangers for that (not actually, but I still wouldn’t want Jennifer ever).
Rabid Rabbit
A Jennifer who’s not even there, at that. Unless her absence is a point in her favor?
Fart Captor
My two favorite characters are taking a class together? Leslie’s class?? And Ruth’s there too??? The only way this could be more perfectly tailored to my interests is if Mike died again
Vangeln
Poor Booster.
Fart Captor
No, I mean Mike. Booster’s great
Clif
Your mom agrees.
Demoted Oblivious
Have a nickel.
He Who Abides
You’re a fan of Carla and hate(d) Mike? Okay, those I can agrre with you on.
JessWitt
Wait, did something happen to Sal’s motorcycle??
Regalli
There was an allusion to her not being able to come back to campus with Walky using it right after the time skip, and we suspected… Reasons may have caused that to be an issue (at best, Sal traded it in to buy a guitar or maybe good skates given she’s in roller derby now; at worst, Linda Happened,) but at the moment we don’t actually know.
Delicious Taffy
If Linda has indeed Happened, I’ll eat an egg.
Reltzik
Linda’s be-devilled Sal long enough, and as a result the Walkerton family dynamic has become completely scrambled. Only Sal and Walky’s relationship is going over easy. If Linda has indeed poached the Sal-cycle, Sal’s hard-boiled attitude means that things will drop into southern-bound hand-basket.
tyersome
So very shell-fish — you’ve cracked all those eggcellent puns and only left a few tired yolks for the rest of us!
crow
Are you a vegan?
RassilonTDavros
I mean, some people just don’t like eggs.
I am one of those people. The smell nauseates me.
Regalli
Also they didn’t say the egg would be cooked. Honestly I was imagining them swallowing it whole like a snake.
The burger with teeth grav probably helped with said image.
Delicious Taffy
That is a nightmarish scenario you’ve painted. I can barely swallow a gummi bear whole without having an episode, let alone a raw egg with a high chance of cracking. Dear lord.
As for the burger grav, it’s Hungry Burger, the most powerful Yu-Gi-Oh! card there is. Nothing can withstand its burgery fury.
I am Nothing
I am well-prepared.