- Larisa: Don’t worry, Zoey. There are lots of weird girls out there who don’t care about penises either.
- Zoey: Liking girls is not weird!
- Larisa: It is! It’s a flat seven on the weirdness scale!
- Zoey: Whatever. That alone doesn’t make me weird.
- Sign: A friendly reminder that you take your sandwich apart and eat each ingredient separately.
- Larisa: One of us! One of us! One of us!
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@ NobodySpecial:
And now I can’t get the picture of Vader happily chanting “One of us!” over and over, pointing those fingers at Luke… it’s very disturbing, I tell you.
Hyperstar96 wrote:
She’ making references from it though, how many non-geeks do you know do that?
Now what Else does Larissa have on her to add to that list?
I could be wrong, but this might be a reference to a previous comic where Zoey called Sandra and Larisa weird. So here you have Larisa calling Zoey weird. Zoey retorts that being interested in girls doesnt make her weird, and Larisa is using a euphuism so as to say both ‘yes you are’ and ‘so are we’.
Its not an insult, she’s just reminding her that she called them weird and now she’s just like them, or that she is going to become just like them. This plays into the Star Wars joke, Luke blaming Vader for killing his father when in reality he was his father.
Somewhat overly complicated, but I get it. Or I could be wrong.
We’re all Weird in our own ways, for instance I plan on taking over the World, but I also support the establishment of a Syndicalist Economic Model alongside a Minimalist Government, which means that when I do take over the World, I wont be doing much besides Chilling in my Palace while those who got Rich simply by owning the Means of Production cry themselves to sleep while Employee-owned Companies put an end to the Exploitation of the Proletariat.
On a seperate note, kudos on the artwork for the last panel. A web comic this might be, and the character designs are pretty simple, but you’ve got some major talent here, keep it up and dont let those skills go to waste!
Hopefully we’ll see some high deff art of the series characters in the future 😉
@ Landbark:
NOW I get the last frame…
Oh, smart girl.
It feels like brainwashing. Oh well, like nature isn’t weird enough. Chess, anyone?
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@ Mr_Nabby:
that depends on which country your from. though I tend to get British and American eating habits mixed up but one uses one hand switching utensil while the other will use the free hand for the knife.
The sign becomes even more fun when you figure that Larisa probably has a different sign for each member of their class all stowed in there.
The name “Zoey” is probably written in very small letters on the end of the sign’s handle so she’d know which one to pull out.
@ gooble goble:
by ‘brainwashing’ do you mean that Larisa is manipulating Zoey, to distract and never let her know… and us for the matter just what’s her ‘proper’ secret? ¬¬ anyway, to play chess here?! err why not? ;p
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[shakes head in wonderment at both length of sentence and content] Uhhhh, whut??@ Kra’ul Sheykhon:
Know this people, weird took its origins from the old english world wyrd, which means destiny. We may be strange, but we are also destined!! Be proud to be of any level of weird.
@ Ivresse:
ONE OF US ONE OF US ONE OF US ONE OF US
@ Mr_Nabby:
Actually, I eat the same way. I do know why, though: I was born left-handed, but my mom, being of the old school of thought, made me learn to use my right hand for everything. As a result, my motor skills in my hands are a little unbalanced as far as dominance goes. 🙂
So, weird on the surface, but logical when you know the root. 🙂
Mr_Nabby wrote:
That’s not normal?
Huh.
(I guess I beat the weirdness scale)
@ Aaron:
I believe Larissa only bothers to hang out with people she considers weird enough to be interesting.
Remember, after she pointed out how ‘weird’ Zoey is Larissa went and chanted ‘one of us, one of us…’
To Larissa, if you’re not weird enough, you are boring.
Or, perhaps simply alien? Not sure if I ever met some who wasn’t some kind of weird… Is that level of ‘normal’ even possible?
@ Kra’ul Sheykhon:
May I rule with you?
Welcome to the dark side!
We have cookies!
>:-D
@ Antonio R:
Yeah, I have no idea either. 🙂
oxayotl wrote:
I didn’t understand it until i saw ‘Luke Skywalker’ in the character name section. That is the scene in the ‘Empire Strikes Back’ when Darth Vader tells Luke that Vader is Luke’s father and Luke tries to deny it.
I’ve gotten some criticism by Europeans about the American style as well, but I agree that because of my right-handedness, it’s easier this way for me. What’s REALLY weird about our (Americans’) eating habits is that funny thing we do where we push food onto the fork with our finger instead of just using the knife for that purpose and keeping our hands clean. That particular bit of criticism actually hit home with me, and I’ve been trying to use my knife for that ever since then. Meh, sometimes it feels like Europeans do everything better than us 😛
@ Mr_Nabby:
About a zero, in my opinion. Of course, I do almost exactly the same thing. 😉
I don’t quite get the joke. I didn’t even recognise that the thought cloud was supposed to be Luke Skywalker until I read the comments. I can sort-of get it, but I’m sure I’m missing something.
*Voice of Comic Book Guy from Simpsons*
Best… Star Wars reference… Ever.
One of the “popular” girls is quoting, well mentally anyway, Star Wars?! Impossibru!
We accept her! We accept her! Gooble-gobble! One of us!
@ NobodySpecial: I get that it’s Luke from Star Wars, but would you know why Larassa is saying one of us? Is she saying that Zoey is weird like she is?
@ JOe:
Well yes. And that she would in with the “social outcasts” in the normal school hierarchy.
I knew that some readers will not immediately get this strip. But I think the word bubble with Luke Skywalker in it is something novel that is appreciated by many other readers.
Larrisa seems to walk the fine line between rather rude and suitably polite.
@ Parismio:
Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
@ Mr_Nabby:
Not too high, i do the same thing.But when i cut steak, the steak flys out of my plate.
@ David Nuttall:
I’m right handed, but I am just as likely to use a knife in my left hand as I am in my right (among other things), despite the rather noticeable difference in tasks like drawing and writing when using my left vs my right.
@ Parismio: ohhh stare wars I was wondering who that was
@ Mr_Nabby:
That’s actually not all that weird. A lot of people in America eat this way (i don’t because I think it’s inefficient but still…)
@ Ivresse:
It is more that she is remembering the scene than referencing it and anyone can do that. Even people who are not geeks can reference movies and those people can even know information that some ‘geeks’ won’t, like that the actual line when Darth Vader reveals who is to Luke is, “No, I AM your father’, not ‘Luke, I am your father’.
Though there is no real classification for a geek, I still very much doubt Zoey is one for liking one movie that ‘geeks’ happen to like. Even if she liked ALL movies they happened to like, plenty of normal people like them too, they’re not all geeks because they don’t have a particular attachment/fascination/obsession with it.
@ oxayotl:
Its Luke skywalker being told that Darth Vader is his father From the movie Star wars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1fIH6GMIJg
…Whenever I see an airplane, I imagine a bazooka stretching out of one of my nostrils and firing my brain at the plane, blowing it up. I know another guy who has similar ways of thinking, except he doesn’t include the bazooka (which is ridiculous, ‘cuz it’s not like his nose could be used as some kinda high-power projectile launcher) and he’s terrified of it happening one day… Contrary to me: I revel in the thought of the amount of human lives I could ruin by shooting down a plane, and since I’d use my brain as ammo, there’s no way they’d be able to convict me for murder ‘cuz no-one would ever be able to prove I wasn’t insane when I did the deed.
Now, I’m aware of the fact that these are rather weird trains of thought (mom has told me so) but roughly where on the weird-o-meter would they land me?
@ Parismio:
Search your feelings Zoey, you know it to be true!
@ Mr_Nabby: I do the exact same thing! Thought I was the only one XD
@ supposed nerd:
Not everything is a calvin and hobbes reference.
This, however, could well be a jab at the Noodle Incident. Where its better to leave it to the imagination.
In fact, let’s just assume that is her secret. She was involved in the Noodle Incident.
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@ oxayotl:
Took some time for me too, to figure out. It’s Luke Skywalker.
@ Mr_Nabby:
Actually, that’s the standard practice here in America, so we don’t consider that weird at all. Europeans are the ones who normally use the fork in the left hand, so I’m guessing you’re somewhere in Europe or you wouldn’t consider it weird.
I thought i was mistaken about the reference until i saw the tag. I’m so glad to see that.
on a scale of one to bill nye, how weird am I? I space out a lot and when i start paying attention I’ve always got some random object in my mouth with a bite out of it, like a leaf or my history homework, also I have stubbed my toes so many times that i’m actually immune to pain from even the harshest toe stubs.
Search your libido, you know it to be true!
Re: Knife and Fork: Knife goes in your strong hand because cutting food requires more strength and dexterity than just sticking a fork in it. Fork goes in the free hand. End of.
And yeah, a girl liking girls that way is definitely weird. But weird doesn’t mean wrong, jusr unusual.
@ Parismio:
MIND RAPEN OoO
@ Mr_Nabby:
Typical american/ english table habit.