Scrabble
on May 10, 2014 at 12:01 am“Playing Scrabble” was one of our favorite euphemisms for the dirty-dirty around this time. “This time” is so long ago, though, that I can’t remember which group “our” entailed.
“Playing Scrabble” was one of our favorite euphemisms for the dirty-dirty around this time. “This time” is so long ago, though, that I can’t remember which group “our” entailed.
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Danny, your attempts not to look Billie in the eye are getting pretty desperate in those last panels.
It’s like the top half of his head can rotate independently from the bottom.
Actually, I believe that Danny is just finally maturing into an adult flounder. http://flatfishm304.weebly.com/page-4-adaptations.html
Yea, they have escaped the eye sockets, and are apparently trying to hide behind his ear.
Gah, I can’t believe I forgot just HOW Danned Danny Danned this up. “She’s the most moral (acting) person I know! Why would I ever doubt her word over someone who admits to be flawed?”
Classic abuser-excusing =( [not that people like Danny are to blame, as such, but that’s the attitude abusers… abuse]
Let’s not forget how Mary told Danny that Billie was drunk in order to cast doubt on her reliability as an eyewitness.
ALSO a classic abusive move, FWIW [and still not blaming Danny as such, though I’ve kinda been using “Danning it up” to be “failing to see what a not-naïve person would and/or completely fucking up the situation as a result of said inexperience”–so it’s really kind of the same old “HOW ARE YOU SO STUPID FOR NOT HAVING INFORMATION YOU COULDN’T HAVE KNOWN ARGH HAVE SOME SKEPTICISM”]
Honestly, at this point it’s obvious that Billie isn’t drunk. She’s talking in complete and non-slurred sentences. She’s carrying on a complex conversation. Danny couldn’t even smell the alcohol on her breath. She’s admitted to one beer, and basic biology will tell you that you can’t get drunk off of one beer unless you weigh like fifty pounds, which, Billie does not.
So, yes.
At this point it is obvious Mary was lying, or misinformed Danny.
Which means that Billie is either lying, or misinforming Danny.
Based on these two, Billie has nothing to gain, as she’s already admitted to her fault. Whereas Mary has not explained why she was at the party to begin with.
Given this, We can assume that at this point, the reasonable response to, tentatively, assume that Billie is correct.
Then, the most reasonable course of action is to have Billie, Danny, and Mary in the same spot, and have them each respond. Danny would have to ask Mary about what she was doing there, as a way to kick things off.
Honestly, if I remember correctly, he does most of this.
BUT he assumes that Mary is telling the truth here.
Which in the end, hurts his relationship with Billie.
More or less, he’s handling it okay, but he doesn’t want to accept that Mary is lying, and “Immoral” in his own views.
I don’t remember how long this act takes, but my first re-read instinct was “OUCH I know that now and OUCH”
[I have a different complaint if this is all the same night, for other “I know differently now” reasons]
At first I saw Danny’s ear in panel 4 as his nose and now I can’t unsee it. It kinda looks like Mike.
I suppose “Playing Scrabble” is a bit more discreet than “taking ol’ One-Eye to the optometrist.”
That was the loudest, and apparently QUICKEST game of Scrabble, then.
Is that your submission to the What To Do With Those Qs and Ks Contest?
Considering that there is exactly ONE Q and ONE K in a standard game of Scrabble (Super Scrabble, intro’d in 2004, bumped the count up to two of each) and you get seven letters a turn… yes, I WOULD be pretty loud, finding myself playing an obviously counterfeit board game.
maybe you’re playing the Duck edition, which consists entirely of A, C, K, Q, and U
One would assume he meant “all you got were hard-to-use letters such as Q and K”, but I like your version better.
Funny, “the dirty-dirty” was our euphemism for playing Scrabble.
Oh, and, more like a #@X$ing loud round of #@X$ing, amiright?
And usually IME Scrabble involves more, “Would you #@X$ing play already!? Do we have to get out the egg timer?” and less “15 milliseconds! That took 15 milliseconds! You didn’t even get it in! #@X$ you sex robots and your ‘efficiency’!”
There is a book by Margaret Atwood called “The Hand Maid’s Tale” where the titular hand maiden is called into the master’s study one night to play Scrabble, and it is the most sexually tense game of Scrabble I have ever seen. The sex scenes in the book were, significantly, less erotic than this game of Scrabble. Though I think that was probably the point.
“The dirty-dirty”? I would guess around 3rd grade?
Interestingly, “QK” (read phonetically) would be a workable (though not really Scrabble-legal, even if you were playing naughty Scrabble) way to write the most common rude word for the male member in the Swedish language, so…
My friends and I used to use, “Playing Chess,” which was misquoting Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where they actually used, “Playing Checkers.”
I once dated a girl who used “cellphone” for covertly talking about a dude’s dong, and “high tech cellphone” if it was specifically a boner.
Anyone got reminded of Girls with Slingshots from this?
I can decipher that swear!
It’s “Hatxsing”. Filthy.
Got 4Q’ed.
Originally posted:
October 19, 1999