Dustin’s been “halfway there” his whole life and will never get any further
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Mark Trail, 6/28/25
There’s a new Mark Trail adventure starting this week that appears to be about fairly straightforward environmental issues — poop in the swimming hole, I guess? — but I want to point out today’s strip because I love how tuff and mad about it Rusty’s little friend in the last panel looks. “Poop? In my swimming hole?” he thinks, striking a fierce pose that shows off his water wings. “Someone’s gonna get punched for this, I sure hope!”
Crankshaft, 6/28/25
Normally, if your dad returned from a trip to New York City singing a mangled version of one of the songs from the Broadway show he took in during his visit, that would be a good sign that he had a pretty good time. Not Crankshaft, though! We all know he’s incapable of joy. This just means that some sensory input got trapped in the malaprop center of his brain, irritating it — and, by extension, irritating him and everyone around him — further.
Dustin, 6/28/25
Ha ha, yes, Bon Jovi, the person who immediately comes to mind when a typical Zoomer like Dustin tries to summon up the name of a long-haired sex symbol! Now, it’s possible that Dustin picked Bon Jovi for this little rhetorical move specifically because he thought the man might appeal to his agèd mother, but keep in mind that (a) Slippery When Wet came out 39 years ago, so it’s fully possible for people with early-20s children to have been too young to get on the Bon Jovi train, and (b) Dustin obviously has never bothered to get to know his parents well enough to figure out what cultural figures from the past they might find attractive.
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MT:
“It says here that our son can’t jump in the lake because the water will get Rusty!”
Passed by a karaoke bar about 15 years ago and felt a little old at hearing someone sing Bon Jovi – I had wrongly assumed that karaoke was a Boomer fad.
Crankshaft:
“…tilling soil…crops will spoil…start to roil…mortal coil…Susan Boyle….”
MT:
“Let’s go to Libertarian Lake instead, then…as long as we’re prepared to accept the consequences of jumping in there, it doesn’t matter what the e coli count is….”
MW: Wilbur says from here on he would get to know people better before letting them in his house.
“And on that note, how do you explain this?” He asks Mary as he shows her a grainy photo of a woman standing in front of an apple cart.
Crankshaft: So Crankshaft just saw the 50-year-old musical A Chorus Line for the first time? I’d tell him about another great show called Oklahoma!, but he’ll be disappointed when he finds out that the corn he’s trying to grow will never get as high as an elephant’s eye.
Mark Trail: Darn, I guess these kids are all going back home to play their Contaminated Swimming Hole video game. Unlike real life as portrayed in Mark Trail, it has zombies in it — and also unlike Mark Trail, it’s actually fun.
Crankshaft: Crank does not know who Boba Fett is, come on. Funky Winkerbean sank in the mire of nerd pandering, and I refuse to let Crankshaft go the same way. I’ll just about let a Star Wars reference pass, but if Crank starts getting into Silver Age comic book collecting, we riot.
Crankshaft : Alternate punchline : “Yeah, he’s tilling at a bunch of grocery-store-bought produce we put in to replace all the plants he died while he was in NYC, and he doesn’t notice. This is how it ALWAYS goes, Lillian. Why do you think we send him off to Chris the week after he plants his garden EVERY year?”
(More pertinent comment would be about how we now know which show Ed started walking out of when “the fat lady sang” (what song would that be, btw? Would it be the one he’s “singing right now”?))
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Dustin : The length of hair DustinMom likes is “Completely bald, except the artist draws the line at the top of the head extra thick to pretend the character has hair”, ie DustinDad’s ‘hairstyle’
(More pertinent comment would be that when you try to make a joke about “the rock music the kids listen to these days” and can’t come up with a current act, maybe you should try another joke?)
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Luann : “I work at an old folks’ home, Luann. I know what people without a filter are like, and teasing us for being in a couple isn’t it, even if it makes you uncomfortable for some reason. Not having a filter is… well, Tara wouldn’t be speaking in coherent sentences, she’d just be screaming profanity.”
CS: “Tits and Ass…Gotta mow my grass” was right there.
MT: Yes, Rusty and friend, it’s really annoying that the lake has been declared contaminated and so you can’t go swimming in it. What’s even worse, the US Secretary of Health and Human Services and his family are probably swimming in it right now!
CS – Not only did he get the words wrong, he mangled the melody hideously
MT: /minutes later/ “Well, I got to the bottom of it — the lake that is — and yes, it’s poop. Like, lots of it.”
CSft: Amazing that Ed not only mangles the lyrics to “What I did for Love”, but also manages to switch it to waltz time and a melody that sounds like an modal version of “That’s Amore”. Seriously, I feel like Oliver Sachs could do a whole book on his inability to grasp music.
Dustin: I like how suddenly Dustin’s Mom seems to have brought this up, as if an alarm had just gone off in the next room.
Dustin: Dustin has probably never heard a Bon Jovi song in his life or at the very least he can’t discern them from other hair bands of the 1980s.
MW: Wilbur is pretending that he’s learned from his situation and ignoring the fact that he’s the one at fault for giving a woman he barely knew his full address. Next week, Mary is going to get a call about how Wilbur sold Dawn to human traffickers because he wanted a phone number.
RMMD: Look at that smirk, so eminently punchable. ‘Yeah, that I know of… I was quite a player in my younger days, so you might have a buncha new mouths to feed soon! Speaking of which, where’s my dinner, woman?’
JP: Yup, I do believe I called it. These storylines are going to collide eventually. They wouldn’t be juxtaposing these scenes if that wasn’t the plan. Strap in folks, CIApril’s coming to Norway! Will anyone in the country survive??
MW: “HAVE YOU?” Mary screams at Wilbur. “HAVE you LEARNED something—ANYTHING AT ALL—from your failed relationships? Because I personally find that VERY. HARD. TO. BELIEVE. And to test you on that point, I’ve already made arrangements for Dawn and EVERY SINGLE ONE of your ex-girlfriends and their significant others—and that includes Belle and Avery Batsfry—to join us at Star Lounge for karaoke. GET YOUR COAT.
@Charterstoned: I had the same thought.
MT: Swimming areas shut down, Mark. It happens. Maybe there was a corpse in the water. Maybe someone dropped in a candy bar and caused hilarious mayhem.
RMMD: I’m surprised Truck doesn’t use that cheesy “That I KNOW of” line any time he’s asked if he has kids. He’s the type.
MW: Wilbur has learned two things, but fear not; there are a million ways to be stupid and our boy is a champ at finding them.
Speaking of Bon Jovi and karaoke, check out Jon Bon Jovi doing what I think is the most pathetic cover song in the history of pop music.
FC: It’s funny because Thel runs in from the next room expecting to find Jeffy wearing Dolly’s polkadot jumper again.
CS – Come on, Cranky. Throw on a leotard. I want to see The Music and the Mirror with full choreography.
“I think our grass is like Jon Bon Jovi’s hair…time to buy Astroturf.”
MW: Wilbur writes an advice column..HE WRITES AN ADVICE COLUMN.
Pluggers are old, fat, unhealthy, senile, medication-dependent, and absolutely refuse to die.
Which possibliity is more disturbing: (a) Dustin woke up and immediately put on his typical collared black-and-white assemblage or (b) he sleeps in it? (It’s (a), because I am about to make you imagine Dustin sleeping in the nude. You’re welcome for the nightmares!)
Seriously though, Dustin wears that black and white mess with shorts. That outfit explains why he can’t find love from the girls he meets in bars, his parents, us, or God.
Mark: “Our lake for swimming is closed” is a really difficult sentence that no human that I’m aware of would ever say.
@matt w: @matt w:
Why did Dustin change into a red T-shirt and black shorts to go mow the lawn if he was already dressed?
It’s obvious why he changed OUT of that cardigan sweater and cargo shorts, the way you put it…9CL: I know it’s just a cartoon, but here’s the thing. Brooke is a cultural elitist and takes every opportunity to depict his characters as virtuosos of their particular instrument. There is absolutely no situation where a bow could fly off in that angle. It’s not cute or artistic and defiles his characters’ primary characteristic. Just sayin’.
MT Shouldn’t Billy, age 7, get a credit when he’s the guest artist?
@Professor Well Actually: Except he’s so unbelievably lazy at his overpaid job that he’s outsourcing his work to Mary who accepts being able to meddle the middle aged housewives who read that garbage.
Is Crankshaft operating in a time-shift mode again? The most recent revival of A Chorus Line closed in 2008.
Dennis the Menace: Dennis, leave those lame puns to Dolly Keane.
Mark Trail: Is that Rusty Trail or Alfalfa from the “Our Gang” shorts?
@Pat O’Neill:
So you’re saying that if Mark Trail had had Rusty specify which video game he was foregoing playing, and namedropped something like “Guitar Hero 2″(*), we’d have had a trifecta of out-of-date cultural references involving music and entertainment in today’s comics?
(*2006)
MT – “Closed for Contamination”? Stop complaining! They have to contaminate the lake sometime. Soon they’ll have it well and truly contaminated and it will reopen again.
@BigTed:
“If you wonder how A Chorus Line debuted closer to now than it did Oklahoma!, you’re a Plugger.
Except Pluggers don’t care about musical theater unless it’s The Threepenny Opera.”
Don Abundio, translated:
“Did you ever see ‘Night of the Living Dead,’ Polonio?”
“No. I have a lot of work to do”
“I can’t waste time on movies”
“It’s about people trapped in a house surrounded by zombies…”
“Now, try to remember if we’ve done something to anger these birds!”
Mark Trail: Has anyone spotted a rusty RV in the area? Clark Griswold’s brother in law may be involved in the lake’s fecal contamination.
Crank: Sorry, Batuik. A CHORUS LINE is not currently running on Broadway. Neither is SOUTH PACIFIC. Nor ABIE’S IRISH ROSE. Yes, they were all very popular once, but they don’t keep on going forever.
DT: Time Machine. Demons. Called it.
6Chx: Little birdies little birdies little birdies EATUM UP
You could make me believe the moon landing was a hoax, that Mr. Rogers shot JFK, that Bigfoot gets it on with the Loch Ness Monster, that the LotR trilogy are entertaining movies, or that Wilbur Weston’s milkshake brings all the girls to the yard.
You can never make me believe in a million years that Crankshaft would ever willingly go to any friggin’ Broadway musical, let alone A Chorus Line.
@16 Banana Jr. 6000: I’m glad someone could imagine a good mashup. I couldn’t think of one.
@23 Banana Jr. 6000: You forgot “poverty stricken” and “inconsiderate of other people’s time.”
@Peanut Gallery:
I thought about Hitchcock before Romero, personally.
@Tabby Lavalamp:
You can never make me believe in a million years that Crankshaft would ever willingly go to any friggin’ Broadway musical, let alone A Chorus Line.
He didn’t, he noisily tried to leave in the middle of a song because “The fat lady just sang!”, remember?
I’m not saying that Dustin‘s creators, like most cartoonists, tend to keep their parental characters permanently stuck in the “Boomer” generation, but until his death this week, the strip’s dialogue had Dustin comparing the lawn to the hair of Bobby Sherman.
Today’s post title reminds me of my all-time favorite sequence of Jeopardy! category names:
Whoa, “O”!
We’re Halfway There
Livin’ On A Prairie
DUSTIN: Oh Dustin. You are living on a prayer if you thought Bon Jovi comparisons would make a difference to your parents.
@Anonymous: Yeah, but I already did a “He’s a big Hitchcock fan” joke with this strip.
@Tabby Lavalamp: You can never make me believe in a million years that Crankshaft would ever willingly go to any friggin’ Broadway musical, let alone A Chorus Line.
There are only two musicals Ed would go to willingly: “Oklahoma” and “Guys and Dolls.” He tried “Paint Your Wagon,” but left in a huff because the subtext seemed kind of gay.
MT: “Nothing for it but to go home and put on our VR goggles and experience swimming through them.”
CS: I’m just waiting for Ed to fully lose it and take a Bean’s End flamethrower to his whole garden. Then we’ll really get those promised The Burnings!
Dustin: I guess we should all be happy Dustin didn’t pull Bobby Sherman (RIP) as his example.
@Where’s Rocky?: I should have known I wouldn’t be the only one. :-)
@BigTed: Hell, even Oklahoma! would be a more recent reference, as it had a notable revival on Broadway a few years ago. Chorus Line hasn’t appeared on Broadway since the aughts.
Luann: This dialog would have been (somewhat) funny in the junior high setting.
9CL: Come for the Dvo?ák, stay for the impalement (not that kind!).
Mark Trail: This out of nowhere, fondly reminds me of that old cartoon “The Raccoons” which could get very deep at times. The villain Cyril Sneer owned multiple demolition companies and wanted to at times, tear down the forest that the protagonists lived in. Although he eventually goes through character development and becomes a much better person. Then in the final episode, a much more evil villain hires Cyril’s minions to moonlight working for him. In which he pays them to dump toxic waste into the local fishing hole, permanently destroying it.
Cyril Sneer when he finds out is devastated, opens his vault taking out wads of money, and says to his minions while literally throwing money at them. “You want money? Here! Here’s lots of money! Take it all! Take some more! Just give me back the fishing hole! Can you do that? Can you give me a price on that? Can you?”
C’shaft: Yes, it’s a dated reference, but let’s all be grateful that we don’t have to witness Crankshaft mangling something from Hamilton.
MT: Gee, if only there were an environmental journalist nearby who could keep tabs on local developments like this…
@Ukulele Ike: From Animal Crackers:
Groucho: “Didn’t you ever see a habeas corpus?”
Chico: “No, but I see Habeas Irish Rose.”
Why is it cute when Chico says it, but it would just be irritating if Crankshaft said it? It must be in the delivery. Plus, Batiuk can’t write a proper setup.
Robert Benchley held a contest to help him come up with new capsule reviews of Abie’s Irish Rose. Harpo won with “No worse than a bad cold.”
MW: Wilbur supposedly spent considerable time with Belle during his vacation, so he surely would have noticed her getting murdery when a waitress messed up her order. Sorry, I realized this is Wilbur I’m talking about.
FW: Dolly knows the punchline is, “an incelct.”
I come for the comics snark. I stay for the Broadway show minutiae.
Luann: I can imagine the introduction from the other direction.
Tara: “This is Luann. She lacks a twat.”
@TK: The notation drives me nuts. If he’s trying to indicate Crankshaft is off-key, why not use the “weird squiggly notes” that have been the visual shorthand for bad singing since forever? Why include one passage that replicates the notes from “What I Did for Love” (albeit not from that part of the song and with a completely wrong rhythm) while half-assing the rest? This feels like an AI replica cobbled together from various sources and assembled without understanding, except it was ostensibly done by a human being.
@Professor Well Actually:
I wouldn’t trust Wilbur’s advice on anything, even if it was something as simple as making a sandwich.
MW: Wilbur just came in his muffin.
LUANN: Tee hee.
LisaTara said a dirty word! (I guess. You kinda have to love how this comic thinks a word like “boyfriend” is a vulgarity while reveling in barely-dressed 14 year-olds having “sexy” summer adventures.)GT: Doesn’t Gigi use crutches when she’s not in her wheelchair? Also wasn’t Gigi Black at one point? Also why is she wearing panniers?
Luann: Whoa, Luann! If you’re comfortable coming out as non-binary to Tara that’s fine, but Phil’s gender identity is for him/them/her to disclose!
MW: Next week: “Hi, Dawn! This is Lizzie, we met down at the ax-throwing bar! I just know the two of you will get along great!”
MT: Who has ever said “our lake for swimming”? Anyway, someone got it confused with “our lake for pooping”.
I don’t think this dialogue was written by a human — it’s so stilted and awkward. “Our lake for swimming is closed!” The lake is a “lake for swimming”? (Implies a special category of lake. Are there lakes that for not swimming?) The whole lake is “closed”? C’mon, a normal person would say “Our lake is closed for swimming!” Cuz, I mean, the lake is still there, and presumably you can, I dunno, go out on a boat or something? Look for turtles? You just can’t SWIM.
“The sign says here the lake is closed for contamination!” Sounds like they shut down the lake so they could contaminate it. Wouldn’t “because of” or such-like work better than “for”?
“I have to get to the bottom of this!” Is the double-entendre intentional? Is Mark going to plunge into that disgusting, contaminated lake, all amongst the e.coli and red tide and fish poop, and find the plug down there so he can drain it and refill it? If he’s just going to find out why it’s closed, that’s a simple call to City Hall.
“Rats! The one time we try to go out and not play video games!” Um, boys, you’re already out, and you’re already not playing video games, so, I dunno, success? Though personally I didn’t know not playing video games counted as an activity.
@Ukulele Ike: Take a huge upvote for Abie’s Irish Rose. Larry Hart’s wish has been granted: We lived to see it close.
MW: As Mary is about to recount all of Wilbur’s failed relationships, there comes a knock at the door and within moments Ralph Edwards is sitting on the sofa, enjoying a muffin as he opens his album, “This Is Your Life: Wilbur Weston!”
@TheDiva:
On Luann : Nononono, when Luann is saying that she isn’t a “girl” and Phil isn’t a “boy”, she means that they’re actually MATURE ADULT woman and man, respectively.
It’s what this entire “Luann starts dating Mrs Horner’s caretaker, gets job doing the night shift at a fast food place” storyline is all about, isn’t it? Convincing people (both the strip’s cast and strip’s readers) that Luann is actually a mature adult person rather than a particularly stunted child in a 20-something’s body?
MARY WORTH: By the way, I love that one of the “lessons” Wilbur is supposed to learn is to “listen to his daughter”, which makes sense because Dawn is well-renown for her sharp instincts and keen discernment of character when it comes to relationships!
@TheDiva: I can’t read music so much as pick out one note from another, and even I wondered if there was something in that melody I forgot. In the name of Schroeder Felton, if they’re going to half-ass it, use a song that’s less memorable.
Dustin: The long-haired sex symbol that immediately springs to mind is Fabio. (I mean, back in the day.) If you’ve never seen his Your Valentine Date Video, it’s worth watching just for the off-the-charts cringe factor.
@Twinkles the Elf:
Phew! It’s good to know that Jules preserved something from the “old” Mark Trail!
MT: Keep in mind that the boy strutting around showing off water wings was planning this swimming expedition with Rusty, who was quite put out that parents would dare to stick around and go swimming with them. If this is a typical Lost Forest attitude towards nonswimmers using the local lake, closing off and dredging the lake for bodies must be a regular thing.
Mark Trail: The fact that warning signs are up clearly indicates that the authorities are already aware of the problem in the lake and are taking steps to fix it. But letting the proper authorities handle things wouldn’t feed Mark’s desperate need for attention and overwhelming hero complex, so he’s gonna get involved.
GT: I can’t believe they’re leaving for the prom without the obligatory curfew scene, either to Gigi or Rodney.
BG&SS: We’ve seen their “ol’ swimmin’ hole”. But this does answer the question “How a horse can get dysentry?”
H&L: Surprise! Today’s golf pun about Thirsty and Irma’s marriage is “deep in the rough” rather than his typical “water (hic) hazard”.
@Banana Jr. 6000: but some of them are really fine people.
MW panel 3: “Yes, from now on I won’t bring strange women into my home! I’ll stick with cheap motels and my car when I’m cruising downtown. And vacations in Orlando. I’ll go back to using a fake name too. How about James Bond? And if I ever see Belle again, I’ll call myself Avery. Mary, what are you doing at the window?”
“Aieeeeeeeeerrrrr!” [keeplunk]
@Little Blur: Little Blue Bicycle. Darn phone.
@TheDiva: Doesn’t Gigi look pretty? I can’t wait to watch her cut a rug. (She’s wearing the panniers to carry snacks. The prom charges FIVE BUCKS for a lousy box of Raisinets, fuck that)
I don’t know a lot about ABIE’S IRISH ROSE; my generation had BRIGET LOVES BERNIE, which was bad enough. But considering most 1922 Americans saw Catholics and Jews as some kind of space aliens (priests wore DRESSES back then) I’m betting it’s somewhere far beyond cringe. I figure the protagonists alter between prostrate drunkenness and cheating people.
@ValdVin: The weird thing is that Davis has transcribed music before–I seem to recall the St. Spires choir doing the “Hallelujah Chorus” with accurate notation. I wonder if this is because The Messiah is in the public domain, whereas getting a reference for “What I Did For Love” would force him to pay a whole three dollars to Sheet Music Plus.
As a depraved thought experiment, I’d like you to imagine today’s Blondie dialog, but in Chickweed Lane’s world.
Sorry, not sorry.
@ValdVin:
“If you wonder how A Chorus Line debuted closer to now than it did Oklahoma!, you’re a Plugger.”
A Chorus Line debuted much closer to Oklahoma! (32 years) than it did to now (50 years).
@2+2=7: Dumpy Dawn went from a chubby delusional brat with no respect for her father to a college bicycle with a terrible hairstyle who acts like a female version of her father and worships him blindly. What’s the term for taking an already terrible character and making them worse?
@Little Blue Bicycle: Better than Little Oasis, IMO.
@TheDiva: I think Davis puts in as much effort as he feels the writer puts in.
Frazz – Frazz broke his leg! That means – gasp – that he won’t be able to run and will have to sit around on his ass like Mrs. Olsen for at least six weeks. How can he be smug and superior if he isn’t fanatically running? For once Caulfield’s arm flailing is appropriate.
Pickles – I can really relate to this.
S4th – Ted is an annoying man child, but that woman is really horrible. Eye rolling is one thing, but that woman is mean.
@some guy: {Throws violin bow at you}
@I speak Jive: I’m sure Frazz has one of those arm rowers, so he can keep up his smugness.
@Professor Well Actually: @Needless Exposition: “Wilbur writes an advice column” should be a periodic reminder. However, I wonder if his editor noticed that the column has changed from half assed advice to endless pontificating with generic platitudes.
@Charterstoned: The Fabio incident I always think of was when he was on an amusement park ride with a number of women dressed as Greek goddesses and was hit in the face by a goose.
@taig: Oh, you’re right. I didn’t think of that. Thank goodness he’ll still be able to maintain that smug superiority.
MT – The sign says the contamination may cause problems with child development. That explains a lot….
Crank – I took him to see Hamilton – now he’s an adherent of Santeria….
Dustin – Yes! 63YO Jon Bon Jovi – gray and thinning! That will win us Yard of the Week….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
@I speak Jive: You made me search for “Fabio and the goose.” It wasn’t as funny as I thought it would be. Ouch.
It would have been more awful if one of the women had stopped the goose with her nose.
MW: there are two things in the Worthverse that baffle me. One is that Wilbur is a professional advice columnist. The other is Mary’s status as a great cook and baker. Every single thing she makes is beige, inedible glop.
@pugfuggly: except for the last (complete) measure which is in 4. Hey, shifting time signatures are a sign of avant-garde composition.
@I speak Jive: I think it’s been confirmed that very few people actually read Ask Wendy and Wilbur almost lost the column and his job. Too bad those bastards were intimidated by the threat of a meddling old bint offering muffins.
@I speak Jive:
#84. FRAZZ: Jive, Frazz’s sedentary summer turns out to be a good thing as he otherwise would have forgotten to write and record that best-selling folk/rap fusion song that makes him famous. He then quits his day job, much to Caulfields displeasure and Ms. Olson’s delight.
JP: Ces loves using the passive voice. It’s like the characters are narrating their own dialog.
@The Quiet Man, JP: The CIA ordered a hit on the cat, didn’t they?
@I speak Jive, S4th: You do know how that narrows it down for female characters, unless you read it?
Curtis: That … doesn’t actually disprove Greg’s point in any way? In fact, you could possibly make a case that it supports it. (“That’s right, Curtis, and if I just gave you money, you might end up like them!”)
JP: I wonder how late it is, and how late they think it is? They arrived in the dark, so after 11pm, and it’s probably past midnight now, but it’s a seven hour flight and it’s a six hour time difference, so I guess they left at 10am and their body clocks should be telling them it’s … 6pm?? (I know, a seven hour flight probably leaves you tired whatever time you think it is, but still.)
MT: So, I see Rivera is still mostly balanced on that knife edge between “No, it’s meant to be stylised” and “deadlines are hard”. Rachel Merrill fell of this edge almost immediately, but Dan Schkade makes it work. I think it’s down to consistency; if Mark always looked like he was more neck than man, we’d eventually accept that that’s how he looks now, possibly. (And as always, whatever else you say about Rivera’s art, at least Rusty looks like he might be a human child and not an eldritch homunculus.)
MW: “I have learned very specifically that when a woman wants to have sex with me, I shouldn’t invite her into my home without learning more about her. Just as I previously learned that when a woman wants to have sex with me, I shouldn’t give her money for salsa lessons without learning more about her.” Extrapolate further, Wilbur!
Phantom: “The office. The one you spent an entire storyline setting up so you could mess with Woboru’s mind. Don’t try the same garbage on me, or you’ll be spending a long time sleeping on the Skull Couch.”
@84 I speak Jive: on Pickles: The whole week is great. Definitely worth the read.