COSTUMES COME BACK! WAY TOO STUPID!!!
Are you ready for the weird? The unexpected? Well, vote for Puck on TWC to see the weirdest, least expected costumes ever! A new one’s popping up each week, so…
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As for this comic…
Well, at least now we know why she went with a vintage sexy Doctor pick. Because she is ‘an Old’. And those of you who argue that 39 is not, in fact, old are right … and likely much older. But you should know that in Internet terms, anything beyond age 25 is positively ancient. The Internet operates on high school rules. I’ve been teaching high school since I was 22; students thought I was old back then, and they still think I’m old now. the various shades of old are irrelevant to the young. And to the Internet.
This comic, though, is a safe space for all aged cyber-citizens. Welcome all geezers to the geezer-fest. We belong here.
Wow.
And still half Emily, yay.
Two halves. Which may equate to a whole.
39…. does that mean that she’s older than Colin? I don’t know the drinking age at McNiven so I just made a guess of either 20 or 21. And the difference between graduating and now was about 8 years at the most. Right?
But 39…. she’s worse than a laser guided missile. I mean, talk about thick. The great wall of China isn’t that bad.
Colin is somewhere in his early thirties? Thirty-one, maybe? So yeah, this girl is definitely older.
At least in “Bad Santa” it was just a wooden pickle.
But … how long has she been thirty nine? My sister was thirty nine for about 12 years.
Also, MISB=Mint In Sealed Box.
Well, that’s the REAL question, isn’t it? Jack Benny was 39 for decades.
I’ve been 39 for 3 decades, myself.
This system makes it a lot easier to keep track of how old your friends and relatives are. 😀
Wow…39. She’s a…well. This is a surprise twist to see…
She is going to be an excellent example to future generations of what not to do.
Just call me M. Night Shyamalan.
I seriously don’t think that she’s mint at all. Unless you’re talking about someone else. But, for Bethany, I think that it would be Mildewed in Sealed Box.
Well, being MISB doesn’t prevent you from rotting out, unfortunately. Ask any toy collector who has purchased unopened products made of rubber.
Re: TWC incentive.
“Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!”
Said nobody ever with Tracee in that costume…
I was hoping someone would quote Charlton.
Yeah, I get the “old despite being chronically online” from a coworker. He, in his mid 20s, was surprised that I had no idea whom the Kardashians are, despite being able to quote a lot of the same gaming/movie memes he knows.
Oh, and the alt text begs the question; since I turn 40 in about 6 weeks, what does that make my collector’s condition? 🙂
Lets see … between 20 and 40 is considered classic.
Over 45 is antique. Around 70 to 100ish is vintage.
So you are still good for a few more years.
You are a car aren’t you?
Well, you’d need to get professionally graded, I think.
I know of the Kardashians, like I know of salmonella – as a collective curse on humanity. But I do not know the names of the individuals. Just as I do not know the names of each bacterium.
When they bring the topic up, adopt your best Hank Hill accent and ask just hwat has the M.T.V. done to them.
Hi, my name is Hank Hill. I sell propane and propane accessories. This is my wife Peggy and our son Bobby who wants to be a comedian.
“pickled in her own toxicity” is a wonderfully useful phrase!
I supposed it’s punchier than “experiences no stress because she’s a carrier not a sufferer.”
That’s good too.
I’m looking at my less than 40 self.. I’m scruffy and farmer’s tanned.. do I even COUNT as a nerd? I mean, I age slowly.. but that’s preservation from the cold and I presume being legally dead and animated by caffeine. Forget the gatekeeper.. I might have to throw myself out.. I believe I had a hat.
You dont throw out a fine wine, they only get better with age … or turn into vinegar. Both useful.
Nerds don’t have tans! Even just on their arms!
Are you gatekeeping nerdom? Stop tan-shaming! People do what they gotta do to make a living, especially in today’s economy.
Alas, you are right. Nerds work in all professions. The fact that most of them work in fluorescent-lit cubicles staring at screens does not mean that ALL nerds do so.
I stare at a wall several yards away.
Is it a good wall, at least?
I actually do stare at screens most of the day. Also, recreationally. But I do have certain obligations outdoors. Property maintenance and my status as Friend to Canines, mostly.
I salute your outdoor diligence.
“Is it a good wall, at least?”
People sometimes show up before it.
I’m pulling your leg a little. Usually, it’s a screen but I deal with the public usually, so being able to look at the wall and whoever’s standing in front of it is an important part of my job.
Huh… Thirty years old and she can still pass for a teenager? While she may have a less than ideal attitude, you’ve created a character that in real life would otherwise have to have awesome genetics to be able to maintain her youth at that age, all things considered.
Crap, I meant forty. augh… brain had too many franks for lunch… Too much meat byproducts…. not enough actual meat….
Well, the hat and glasses may obscure some aging elements. But they exist. My wife was regularly carded at the liquor store up until around her forty-third birthday. And the drinking age in Ontario is nineteen.
That must have made her really chuffed or really annoyed.
Probably annoyed initially and then more and more chuffed as the years passed.
Pretty accurate. My wife spent her younger years railing at the world for not taking her seriously. I remember her being livid at a jeweller when we were shopping for wedding rings for laughing at her and calling her a child. She was twenty-six at the time but looked about fifteen. Sometimes it was an inconvenience but in the realms of employment, it was actually a serious detriment. When she got into managerial roles, she’d be dismissed as ‘kid’ by people younger than her.
Eventually, past forty, she started to enjoy it. Now she’s nearing 50 and doesn’t look like a kid anymore. She looks good – to my mind, one of the best-aged women I’ve seen outside Hollywood – but no longer like a kid. She is both somewhat relieved and somewhat saddened by this.
Some people never get past toxic. She needs a neighbor with a gargoyle.
Nice alliteration.
I try. But only with alliteration.
And the effort is appreciated. Not only with alliteration.
Huh. Toxicity as a preservative. Not the best way to go, but if it works . . . of course, when it stops, all the years will instantly catch up. Time-lapse photography.
It’s a ‘Last Crusade’ moment.
“She chose–poorly.”
I’m sorry, but you guys apparently have no idea how hard it is to find a fan-dom friendly women in her late thirties. She’s cute, opinionated and apparently knows what she wants when she wants it. Cy must be being pursued by other more attractive choices, because when you rent the mystery machine to other fan nerds for a living it would suggest that the options migh be a bit limited in that area. I personally lucked out, and married a woman, while not aligned with all my interests is at least willing to tolerate them and still be seen in public with me. Now if I can just get her to go to comic con, and I can die peacefully.
They’re rare. There’s a hard generational line where women over that line will have zero interest in anything even vaguely smelling of comic con. My wife is VERY far on the one side of that line, meaning she has zero interest in any of it. But that’s fine. Common interests are great but they only carry you so far.
Ask her about her nerd credentials.
39!? She acts more like she’s nine! 😉
And that’s being generous!
Yeah, my last birthday was the last birthday where I tell people how old I am.
I remember Buffy (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) and that’s all I’ll say.
I’m so old I remember the movie version of Buffy. That’s even scarier.