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(From 07 September 2005's Badly Drawn Kitties. Click for honeymooning cat and polite religious practitioner.)

First of all, I'm wondering if Lydia's waiting for Dirk in the hotel lobby. It seems a little odd to send your husband out for ice cream otherwise; you might as well go along to the shop, or the little truck, or the roadside gelato vendor, or whatever. I'm going to assume that that's where she is.

Hawaii's a popular destination for honeymoons and other couple-oriented pleasure trips, I'm told. So, if you already know that the state you're in is Officially Romantic, and people turn up there a bunch to bonk, it might not be such a great idea to go trolling for virgins in the hotel to begin with.

I mean, dude.

It's nice that the fellow's asking around so politely, though. Getting voluntary sacrifices for that sort of thing must be such a pain in the ass. He's not even baiting and switching the virgins with vegetarian dinners, or pizza parties, or multimedia anti-drug presentations starring Kirk Cameron and the music of Van Halen.

The World of Warcraft burn's a little mean, though. It's not that they're virgins; I've met plenty of players who've known the touch of a partner's sensitive tissues. It's just that they have different priorities in life. It's a lifestyle choice. Sex just isn't that much of a... concern at those difficult times when leveling's an issue. Yeah.

Yeah, that's it. Gotta be.

Disclaimer: I don't play games. At all.

Posted by Wednesday Burns-White at September 9, 2005 5:41 PM

Comments

Comment from: Wistful Dreamer posted at September 9, 2005 6:59 PM

I've never really understood the whole virgin = loser comedic schtick. If I'm not getting any and your not getting any, why am I cooler for having gotten it some time in the past? Doesn't that make you an amatuer and me washed up? (Hypothetical 'you', this is not directed at anyone in particular, just thinking alloud). I think the real dichotomy should be between people who have the ability to find someone and make them want to stay and those that can't. That first "doing the deed" really doesn't prove anything.

Of course this is the kind of thing a 26 year old non-virgin but very single individual can believe that a 15 year old warcraft playing online comic reader probably can't relate to, so I agree, the burn was mean, not funny.

Comment from: Wednesday posted at September 9, 2005 7:10 PM

Mmmm, I'm not sure I'm concurring. I'm no great fan of token cheap shots at virgins (although I have no problem with token virgin sacrifice gags for some reason), pretty much for the same reason as you (never mind how fuzzy the whole virginity concept is, really) but it doesn't strike me as much better to go with that particular model, either. What if you haven't found anyone you want to make stay around? What if you make them want to stay through craptacular means? What if you're much happier and more functional with other arrangements?

Comment from: ANT Link posted at September 9, 2005 7:25 PM

It's true that being a virgin doesn't necessarily equate to being a loser. But it's also true that, for most people, having had sex at some point means that you've developed to a certain level of maturity where you're comfortable sharing your body with someone else, and theirs with you, in a way that nothing else really comes close to. I agree that people shouldn't be made to feel bad about being virgins, but there's no denying that it's a distinction in our society that's not going to go away.

And maybe it shouldn't. All religious or philisophical beliefs about purity and/or lack of aside, people who have had sex often live in a different world with a different perspective of things, some sex related, some not, than people who haven't, for whatever reason. It's not a better world or a worse one, but it is different, and that's not going to change. So, I don't really have a problem with humor that uses that distinction.

Besides, when G4 is making an infomercial about the game as a form of birth control, you have to know it can have effects on one's sex life :)

Comment from: wedge posted at September 9, 2005 7:30 PM

I'm not entirely sure the joke is aimed at the 15 year old Warcraft player... :)

I'm lucky in that my SO thinks it's sexy when I play Halo, but then I also keep myself to games with a pause function. IYKWIM. AITYD.

We watch Cinematech: Noctural Emissions together. It's hawt.

Comment from: Shaenon posted at September 9, 2005 7:32 PM

Remember that Garfield TV special where they went to Hawaii, and they were abducted by this tribe of natives who worshipped a greaser who had saved them in the 1950s by driving his Cadillac into a volcano? And they wanted to sacrifice Jon (who has got to be a virgin, but they probably never brought it up) to the volcano because he looked exactly like the greaser? And they kept chanting CHROME CHROME CHROME a-wop-bop-bebop?

That was awesome.

Comment from: TheNintenGenius posted at September 9, 2005 7:37 PM

Remember that Garfield TV special where they went to Hawaii, and they were abducted by this tribe of natives who worshipped a greaser who had saved them in the 1950s by driving his Cadillac into a volcano? And they wanted to sacrifice Jon (who has got to be a virgin, but they probably never brought it up) to the volcano because he looked exactly like the greaser? And they kept chanting CHROME CHROME CHROME a-wop-bop-bebop?
That was awesome.

The Garfield TV specials and cartoon generally had way better writing than they had any right to, especially considering the comic itself. Well, maybe not the U.S. Acres segments, but the rest of the stuff, sure.

Comment from: Wednesday posted at September 9, 2005 7:41 PM

That Garfield special makes me think of voudoun Colonel Sanders running around in The Tick yelling, "I do chicken DEAD! I cut off their HEADS!"

Comment from: miyaa posted at September 9, 2005 10:20 PM

Two things.

1. Joe Versus the Volcano is one of my all-time favorite movies. On a webcomic tangent...

2. http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1310

(Warning: it's a bit long. So is Maine really the raisin to Canada's grapes?)

Comment from: TheNintenGenius posted at September 9, 2005 10:47 PM

I'd like that Diesel Sweeties thing more if he hadn't forgotten Michigan. I mean geez :(

(Actually, I still love it anyway. What can I say, R Stevens is a god among webcartoonists.)

Comment from: Wednesday posted at September 9, 2005 10:55 PM

Hey, guys? There's a thread over on the Snarkoleptics LJ community about that strip already. It could use the love. :)

Comment from: siwangmu posted at September 10, 2005 12:38 AM

Okay, for violating Weds'(s?) obvious redirection, I shall have to do penance later, possibly by thinking of something to say over there, but since this comment just wouldn't make sense on that thread where no one's complained about it, I'll just add here:

I think "You forgot Michigan" is its slogan.

(Can't help it, spent all summer with Michigan kids... when our Japanese teacher started asking about the reputations of the different states we were from, for Michigan we (other non-Michiganers) all just kinda went, "Uh..." I mean, we were like "When we think of Michigan, all we get is, 'It's a state'")

Also they were constantly insisting that Ann Arbor was the most liberal place on Earth, and had never heard of Chapel Hill (oh, my wounded liberal pride!)--speaking of which, since I have no idea if you really can smoke in our airport, I submit an alternate slogan for North Carolina: "At least we have Chapel Hill... that's something, right?"

Comment from: siwangmu posted at September 10, 2005 12:40 AM

Also, the title of this post is a god among... um, titles(is funny!). And your descriptive link (honeymooning cat and polite religious practitioner) fills me with glee. Glee!

Comment from: SeanH posted at September 10, 2005 5:20 AM

For me, what made this strip funny wasn't "WoW players are lame lolz", which I didn't think was the point; it was the panels dedicated solely to declaring BURN! DOUBLE BURN!.

Comment from: ANT Link posted at September 10, 2005 2:01 PM

Sean -

That's a good clarification. The jokes themselves weren't really all that funny, and the author knew it; it was totally those BURN! panels that made it. Simple perhaps, but effective.

Comment from: thelemurgod posted at September 11, 2005 10:05 PM

"So is Maine really the raisin to Canada's grapes?"

As a life-long Mainah, I can honestly say, "no."

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