On today's Alley Oaf - 27 November 2020

 Ok, so now we are getting modern. Ava reveals she dated a woman in college. That's so 21st Century. Or perhaps she means the demon was a female, which leaves wiggle room for the reader to make their own assumptions as to if Ava goes both ways (with humans that is). Nothing wrong with that, of course, just different from the Oop strip. But as we know, this isn't the Oop strip but Alley Oaf so pretty much anything goes as this is it's own canon.

Next, we go on to the next 3 panels, where Doc promises Ava that her working conditions will improve (likely to ward off any talk of a union with Oaf and Foola). She indicates she would like to go on some time travels with them the next time they go (seems like this silly ass one would have made her want to stay back in the (relative) safety of the Time Lab). 

Doc balks at that and offers to finally buy her the office chair she's had her eye on (wonder what she was using before, a folding metal chair Doc got at a yard sale or some such?). She likely wants a Herman Miller Aeron chair, which is pricy. But when she wants the extra attachment, he draws the line. (Since the Time Lab is chronically short of cash, he figures they'd need to go back in time and loot some king's jewels from somewhere to pay for it, like when they sent Oop (not Oaf) back in time to see where some bank robbers hid their cash so they could find it back in today's time and retrieve it. (I realize I'm mixing Oop and Oaf universes here so I'm not so sure Oaf would be able to handle something like that).