I’m pretty sure either Billie or Mary also called the other a slut at some point. Far from being a sign of prudery, it looks to me like “harlot” was Willis just running out of synonyms for “someone who’s had more sex than I have”.
The most incredible part of this to me is that those two women are engaging in some kind of climactic verbal deathmatch where they finally work off the intense hatred they have for each other in a zero-sum game that only ends when one or the other’s reputation is utterly trashed… and it’s all ostensibly about one of them having had sex and the other one having had a beer.
Mary’s protecting her precious “reputation”–Billie’s trying to tear that hoebag down. Because, face it, those kind of people need to get knocked up a peg
See, you’re just playing into it – Mary’s a terrible person but being a “hoebag” isn’t the reason why. In fact she isn’t even actually a “hoebag”, by any definition of the term where it’s a synonym for “slut” or “whore”.
So what if Billie has had sex and is a recovering alcoholic (who, despite having multiple beers thrust at her, is holding one that is still closed, as she said)? Neither of those things is relevant. The real question: Is Billie the type of person who would make up or exaggerate stories just to hurt another person and get them in trouble? No. Is Mary? Fuck, yes.
Also. Is Roomies!Billie even an alcoholic? I know she really enjoyed her drinking, but I don’t recall a detox and she’s had a relatively easy time resisting temptation so far. She doesn’t scream “addict,” recovering or otherwise, to me.
That’s more a result of young Willis not having a clue what actual unhealthy, self-destructive drinking looked like and how it differed from “drinking with friends”, or what it actually took to recover from that beyond “Earnest desire to be a god-fearing person” than that not being the intention, as far as I can tell.
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“C’mon, Danny, leap into this train wreck with us”
Oh how I wish they were fist-fighting instead of arguing. That might actually be interesting and not-terrible.
And Billie has Peanuts comic Punchline punching strength. Mary doesn’t stand a chance.
-peeks through fingers-
Boy, the commentary speaks for me. I got second hand embarrassment so bad I couldn’t even read the comic.
I hope in tomorrow’s strip, Billie and Mary ask Danny which one of them he believes.
Out of curiosty, did people actually still use the word ‘harlot’ in a serious manner in the 90s? Even Mary-type people?
yep
though possibly also, Willis couldn’t bring himself to write slut/whore
then I re-read yesterday’s, and he did in fact write whore…
so maybe it’s just Mary
I’m pretty sure either Billie or Mary also called the other a slut at some point. Far from being a sign of prudery, it looks to me like “harlot” was Willis just running out of synonyms for “someone who’s had more sex than I have”.
….and “Whore of Babylon” or “scarlet Jezebel” took up to much room.
I still use it to this day, sounds more sexier.
Hold me and tell me it will all be over soon so we can get to window smashing Sal and upside-down Walky goodness.
I believe the forecast was 7 July!
Danny ol’ boy. Tell the harlot and the bitch to take a hike, and go have a beer.
Yeah, he should just grab that beer from Billy and chug it.
David Willis of the past, I must ask you why you made ‘did she have sex or not’ the crux of an angry angry fight?
And David Willis the past will wonder where this comment came from, why it’s on his computer, and what the heck is ‘bringbackroomies.com’
Mary, stop calling every woman who doesn’t like you a “slut” or a “harlot”. And take off that damn trilby, you look ridiculous.
The most incredible part of this to me is that those two women are engaging in some kind of climactic verbal deathmatch where they finally work off the intense hatred they have for each other in a zero-sum game that only ends when one or the other’s reputation is utterly trashed… and it’s all ostensibly about one of them having had sex and the other one having had a beer.
Lighten up sheeple !
Mary’s protecting her precious “reputation”–Billie’s trying to tear that hoebag down. Because, face it, those kind of people need to get knocked up a peg
wait I mean down
See, you’re just playing into it – Mary’s a terrible person but being a “hoebag” isn’t the reason why. In fact she isn’t even actually a “hoebag”, by any definition of the term where it’s a synonym for “slut” or “whore”.
So what if Billie has had sex and is a recovering alcoholic (who, despite having multiple beers thrust at her, is holding one that is still closed, as she said)? Neither of those things is relevant. The real question: Is Billie the type of person who would make up or exaggerate stories just to hurt another person and get them in trouble? No. Is Mary? Fuck, yes.
There’s your answer, Danny.
RUN DANNY.
RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE GHOST OF CARLA’S CAR.
Also. Is Roomies!Billie even an alcoholic? I know she really enjoyed her drinking, but I don’t recall a detox and she’s had a relatively easy time resisting temptation so far. She doesn’t scream “addict,” recovering or otherwise, to me.
(…Now. Dumbyverse Billie, on the other hand…….)
That’s more a result of young Willis not having a clue what actual unhealthy, self-destructive drinking looked like and how it differed from “drinking with friends”, or what it actually took to recover from that beyond “Earnest desire to be a god-fearing person” than that not being the intention, as far as I can tell.
Originally posted:
November 29, 1999