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Roast Beef's Tone Poem Monday, April 20, 2009 • read strip Viewing 603 comments:

A comment left by hyetal was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by robbingdog, mania3, vermy)

Once you get face-hugged by those hot dog buns, it's all over.

All falling off innocent-like once it's over, leaving a clump of bread in the throat making it look like you just choked on them...

The perfect weapon

With processed meat and beer the culprits; I think we need to take a closer look at Germany.

Let this comment be a cautionary tale about the improper use of semicolons.

I couldn't find an "em" dash.

No dude--you just thought that the word "processed" was a verb in the part before the semicolon when it is in fact simply the past participle being used as an adjective. Boo!

It reads like a wrong answer on an SAT. You tell him spelling panther.

uh, grammar panther, actually. word.

chubby chubby you; get, a chubby?

(Q) Reform that sentence so it is more parsimonious and grammatically coherent.

A- Chubby chubby I fuck chubby
B- Ralph Nader
C- You get my chubby?
D- Chubby chubby in the tummy
E- ;

FREE RESPONSE BONUS ROUND
(A)Why is life a pathetic string of meaningless tragedy?

The answer is C. In A, the two interjections at the beginning are not properly separated with commas for clarity. B is not a sentence. It is not even a clause. There is no verb. D is simply a prepositional phrase with "chubby chubby" beforehand. E is punctuation. C is a complete sentence without any mistakes. It is written in the indicative mood with a question mark, which is fine, because it's all right. Tone can take care of that.

For the second question, the answer is that you can never know when He will Take you.

Thanks for making an old red grammar beast happy in the morning.

I wish I could give you infinite chubbies.

If you know what I mean

Since when is "ralph" not a verb?

You get my chubby.

I'm not sure what happened here...but i think i believe in god now.

... Just had to say... you're STILL ruining the act of posting comments for everyone with your crap. Please kill yourself soon.

Looks like World War II really did cost us more than a twenty.

Hot dog buns are the new icicle.

KNOWLEDGE.

First manflesh, then saint?!

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.

Hmm?
I'm sorry what?

Oh, a DEATH relationship.

What's funny is, the last comment I read by you...was that exact comment.

Glad to see things never change.

Wow...that is from quite a while ago, then. I think I've only used that line one other time...because I live it so damn much.

glad 2 se tings neva chnge lol

Mmmmno.

i was missing roast beef a bit lately, glad he's back.

Same here, although the last panel gives the impression that Laszlo's 3 a.m. crowd consists of people who spend too much time on /b/, when we all know they would be at home at that time and at all other times.

or in a padded cell, where 'A-ha' music is piped in on loop.

Because the psychoanalysts are trying to make them crazier?

a dangerous experiment.... FOR SCIENCE

dare we dare?

people who clap spend too much time on /b/? what?

People whoe spend too much time on /b/ get clap

That is a physical impossibility.

they may get the cuffs clapped on 'em, since some of those pics on /b/ are questionably legal

Maybe they are clapped in irony

Maybe... that doesn't mean anything.

There is a distinct possibility.

People who spend too much time with the clap get on /b/

Hats off to the use of the word coprophiliac

It's natural, therefore it must be good for you.

Ask any vegan.

Due to a very rare chance at actual warm weather I was outside the other day and was thinking about this. The sun, while essential, is basically our enemy. The most basic, natural thing we can possibly do, just stand around outside, is also incredibly bad for us. If we didn't build houses and invent sunscreen and such I am basically -- that is, if I am to believe my girlfriend and the sunscreen marketing board -- given to thinking that we would just be not much more than a giant walking pile of tumors in our natural state.

Really makes a dude think hard thoughts.

...

Still, fucking in the park on a warm day is basically one of the best things you can ever do.

What does this have to do with eating shit.

Fertilizer, man. The only natural place to get it is out of the back end of a cow. How do you think they grow those "all-natural" veggies?

When a man and a lady really love each other, I mean really love each other...

Taken by itself, this is my favorite comment ever.

I agree; it is nearly a universal reply (except when you really are discussing eating shit).

when you are really discussing eating shit.

Place I worked at in the early 90's had this really educational corporate word processing program.
Whenever you typed an expression like 'piece of shit' in your monthly report - then ran the spell checker it would automatically convert it to a word like 'coprophile'. 'ancestor worshipper' and 'self server' were others frequently used....

Without it I'd never know what a ''coprophile' was.

Coprophagia
Coprophilia

Knowing is half the battle .

Copro Commander?

[IMGS OFF]

Commander Commode

Commodore Sex Act

It could work very well as an all-purpose comment, one that could posted on every thread of every forum in the world.

A bit like David Mitchell's suggestion of "It just goes to show you can't be too careful" as an all purpose comment (which his fans have already run into the ground) but less tiresome.

I think I'm going to adopt "What doe this have to do with eating shit?"

Thank you theguitarhero, thank you achillesbow.

My favourite is "The clue is in the name, I suppose." The best part is the look on people's faces when they're thinking hard about what the hell I could possibly be referring to.

It was a direct response to

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It's natural, therefore it must be good for you.


Basically the most natural thing possible, i.e. being outside in the sun, something that would have been our lives day in and day out if we hadn't developed any sort of technology is something that is, in fact, very bad for you.

Hats off to swarthy dudes, you are totally not taking it in the can on this one like us pale motherfuckers.

The ending was just added on reflection. It was more of a postscript. Sometimes the natural thing is actually pretty bad for you, but it's also pretty awesome.

I understood what was meant.
Good show.

I understood too, after having to read it twice (before posting that line, however). I assumed at first, it was another classic "Belgand turns conversation into unrelated blog post", like the time he turned daidai's post about tacos into a treatise on how San Francisco makes the best burritos in the world.

Please add this to the public record:

Belgand is anti-sun.

Well, as much as any basic geek, yes, but not really. My girlfriend is the one who is afraid of the sun. All wearing tons of sunscreen and the ugliest of hats and such.

I'm just saying that the sun wants to kill us.

I hear that it stays up all night thinking of ways to turn on you.

The sun is a mass of incandescant gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace

I went to an all-boys Catholic High school where we used to sing this to the Earth Sciences teacher (though not to his face; he was a 350 lb. Brother of the Sacred Heart with a taste for corporal punishment and a reputation for having worked on the Manhattan Project):

The Sun is a mass as big as Brother's ass...

Taste for coprophilic punishment? What?

just mowin us down

The sun is the fundamental ingredient of happiness.

8)

Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun.

We need its light.
We need its heat.
We need its energy.
Without the sun without a doubt there'd be no you or me.

I've had it up to *here* with these rickets!

Gasp! Belgand is Mr. Burns!

Homer, actually. Mr. Burns caused the rickets.

Oh, dude, dude. Please believe that I knew that. I was just comparing Belgand's previous anti-sun tirade with Mr. Burns' attempt to purge Springfield of daylight. Although admittedly their reasonings are quit dissimilar.

It's big. It's hot! Why doesn't it destroy us all?! Learn about the sun, tonight at 10!

Quote:
It's big. It's hot! Why doesn't it destroy us all?


Dom DeLuise?

Your mother?

Hey, don't tell me how to live. Screw you and the sun! This is America.
A M E R I C A

Quote:
Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun.


But we'll have to attack at night!

We shall approach the sun from the rear. Who knows where the sun's rear is?

On the other side of time.

This is your view after the tinning of the ozone layer. Get some perspective.

NO

Did you already cum or something?

I know every medical professional and his mother are going to come out of the woodwork when I say this, but I hate that they say the sun is bad for you. Standing in the sun every day for work over 30 years may be bad for you, but spending an hour in the park every day is not. The sun is not like crack. You are not going to get cancer and die from one bad exposure. They sure make it sound that way. Almost like they want you to come in and pay them for a checkup...
Anyone who thinks the medical industry isn't run on a money first basis...well..I've got some crack to sell you.

Mad dogs and Englishmen.
Down here it is not so safe.
You should get an hour or so in the sun for vitamin d before 11 o'clock or in dappled shade during the day but stay out of direct sunlight between noon and three. If you ust go out remember to slip, slop, slap. Summer in Australia is a time for caution.

Depends on where you are from. I'm basically almost pure Swede, and I roast hard in about 15 minutes of sun. Tanning will never work. I go from pale, to red, to dripping with melanomas.

Tanning is just plain unattractive regardless. It's just damaged skin. Give me someone with a nice, sexy pale complexion every day of the week and maybe five or six times on the weekends.

Damn skippy.

Don't be hatin' on Australians tekende! Octafish was very brave to reveal his heritage.

Damn straight about the attractiveness of pale skin, and that even an hour or two of noon-to-3pm sun per day can kill whitey.

However, the fastest, deepest, brownest-tanning white folks I ever met were Swedes. The again, most Swedes I've met have been reasonably dark-haired.

I wasn't hating on Australians. I was agreeing with belgand re: sexiness of pale complexions.

I should let you know that "Skippy" is a name that first or second generation Australians use to insult caucasians with established Australian heritage. From Skippy the Bush Kangaroo .

Sorry, I was kidding.

I thought Caucasian Australians were all descendants of prisoners (with it being a penal colony and all).

There's no friggin way Mozart was a prisoner.

Some convicts, some soldiers and free-settlers. Some all three. It is your job to tell the difference.

You'll probably end up dead.

I get that you say you only like white people. Racist high five!

The Mimolette is a most unusual cheese, spherical like an Edam but with a rough moon-like surface and a bright orange interior. It resembles a melon when cut open.

That is all.

Also, the rough, moon-like surface is caused by intentional infestation with cheese mites.

Also, the rough, moon-like surface is caused by intentional infestation with cheese mites.

YOU KNOW I GOT NO SENSE OF MITES!

YOU KNOW I GOT NO SITE OF MENSES!

you don't have a female reproductive system?


hahah! who does anymore?

I have several. Would you like to borrow one? Low, low prices.

hedo, someone's probably told you this, but hearing your comments in a Dan Castellaneta Robot Devil voice makes like 2/3 of them 50% funnier.

"Can I have my hands back now?"
"No!"
" You're not nice! "

There's that French friend of mine I like to call "l'ami molette".

YES

This was a wonderful thing to see when thinking "I'll just see if there's a new Achewood yet"

A comment left by fattybeaver was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by mcowgill, Feste, Stonecrab)

I think they are still funny if you know what food sounds like when read off a menu.

...maybe 'grits' is supposed to be funny when in amongst all that francais? Didn't work for me.

It's a New Orleans menu . . . and they eat more grits even than Georgia. Dude, remoulade and etoufee are Louisiana mainstays, not French classical cuisine.

French is a language, dude.

aperson, you're out of your element!

It's true. I'm just griping due to not liking the strip much and thinking that somehow other people ought to agree with me. I'm being a dick!

First correct thing you've said all day.

Calmer than you are.

Onstad peed on my fucking rug, dude.

The cartoonist is not the issue, dude.

Huh. I did not know that. Well, it's water under the bridge.

Also, dude, "cartoonist" is not the preferred nomenclature. "Drawing American", please.

Dude, dude, duder duderino dude. Dude.

YES

ah it makes me so happy to see lawbot doing his thing.

WHERE IS YOUR BLANK NICE PETE COMMENT SO I CAN CHUPPY IT?

Yet, remoulade was invented in France :)

Suh! Retract, or your journey from this mortal coil shall be hastened by the hand of Dixie!

New Orleans-esque, though I'm likely not allowed in any places that would serve a menu like that, so I can't confirm any restaurant in NOLA actually selling "Paneed Squab with Smoked Apple and Pain au Levain Bread Salad," much less the accompanying wine. XX

I did not realize that Marlborough is a place in New Zealand that actually makes wine. I was thinking of a wine made in North Carolina that tastes strongly of tobacco.

Can you ferment anything with sugar in it?

Cause I heard that there's sugar in semen, and dickwine could really catch on. In certain communities.

Prisoners try to ferment everything (or so I hear). If it worked, they would be trading dickwine for handjobs.

Shit! And I've been collecting this stuff for 6 months (like a bee to a field of flowers).

I think there's glucose, but not necessarily sugar per se.

On a related note, a friend who is in medical school just informed me that you can get diabetes from jerking off too much, because your body must increase its glucose levels to sustain the high levels of semen production. And here I thought I was just reducing my risk of prostate cancer.

Here I thought Ray was gonna get sudden onset diabetes on account of his ridiculous diet...

The truth is out there

But what does it all mean?

You need to have a balanced masturbation calendar

I jerk off everyday at 4AM while my roommate is asleep five feet away from me. Is that healthy?

Actually he's awake - your sobbing wakes him up.

And the webcam is on.

It depends. How good is your aim at that distance?

I once shot it right into his nostril.

hornabetes was the case they gave him

So I guess it's the same thing if you have too much sex, but for some reason you only think of masturbation.

How come?

Because wherever you go, there are your hands.

This ain't no holiday
But it always turns out this way
Here I am, with my hands

I would like to remark that I was listening to this song as I read this comment.

For a brief moment, I thought I was in an alternate universe.

THESE ARE THEIR HANDS.

They've been places.

Because if you're having so much sex that it gives you diabetes, you're gonna die a happy person, so fuck it.

An old compatriot of mine wishes me to ask how much is "too" much.

When you run out of socks, and its only Monday.

I, after being an achewood reader for some time, have signed up specifically to comment upon this comic. Being from NZ myself I was wondering if Malborough sauvignon is really that expensive in the US?

Local supermarket range (NZD)

It's not expensive in the UK, and wines are pretty much always cheaper in the US (yes, even European wines).

A quick googling found an article comparing a number of them from a few years back and most of them were in the US$10-20 range.

I presume this is not a particularly expensive price for wine, but damn... no way would I spend that much money on something to drink. I will just never understand alcohol-drinking people.

It is not just something to drink. It is also a drug. This is why people spend more money on alcohol. Understand now?

Oh, I understand that, but I always felt it was a bit impolite to actually say it since most people tend to downplay that particular aspect. Spending money on drugs is, again, something I don't think I'll ever fully understand. I presume it would require first understanding drugs.

It makes a lot of sense to buy drugs, really. What doesn't make sense is getting hooked on them.

Kids, don't buy drugs.

Become a pop star, and they give you them for free!

If you really love Christmas, come on and let it... snow!

Actually it makes perfect sense to get hooked on drugs, especially if your metabolism is well-honed enough to tolerate the nasty physical effects.

Please Belgand. This conversation is like extracting teeth. Teeth that have already been pulled from your gums which you are holding in your blood and saliva filled mouth while you shake your head vigorously like a stubborn five year old.

I smiled nervously as I read the menu panels so as to throw off any observers that might know something I didn't.

Rumblefish believes that he is the focus of his own personal Truman Show.

Shhhhhhhh!

Not if you are a Louisiana Creole maven. It sounds like the Sunday special at Commander's Palace.

A comment left by aperson was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by MelloClello, laine, rude_mechanical, jake11, spicyponyhead, morbo)

Meh? Seriously?

I can understand not liking a comic but if you can't write more than one fucking word about not liking it you forfeit the right to bitch about.

Oh grow up.

ME grow up? Fuck you sir, you called me a dick and got four motherfucking chubbies for it, I'm gonna be as fucking rude to you as I want.

Meh.
Both to Daniel's comment and the strip in general.

Chubbied for bringing up the incident that I was definitely going to bring up.

I'm inclined to chubby such a comment as ironic humor, seeing how you bitch like the main bitch in all the land. A little self-awareness deserves something. But I prefer that complaints be kept short, so no chubby today. I thought about it, at least.

When I "bitch" about the comic, though, I at least state WHY I didn't like it.

Like I said, I can understand not liking the comic but if you are going to just say "meh" you are not furthering the discourse any.

Bah.

Splut.

"further the discourse"? what is this, your grad thesis? Tone it down a notch, Einstein!

Where did you come up with that one, the toilet store?

Better

Even the guy that can't think said a thing !

theguitarhero is a saint. Do you hear me? A SAINT!

what about when you bitch about other things

What about it?

I'm just enormously relieved that the dates of the last two strips seem to match up with the dates they were posted, and no-one has to become incandescent with rage over 'back-dating'.

Back-dating makes my whiny little inner bitch so mad.

This strip makes me hungry for a taco-format savory conceit.

Really? As far as I'm concerned Mexican cuisine, by dint of its general brown sloppiness and its famed laxative qualities, has unsavory fecal connotations at the best of times, without the words 'coprophiliac fantasy buffet' rattling around in my skull like marbles in a child's pocket. In fairness I suspect that Mexican food gets considerably better when you are not eating it over 5000 kilometers away from Mexico.

It's true! Since most Mexican families don't have a refrigerator, they have to make their food fresh every day. It is delightful. Also, it is generally not very spicy, that's an American addition.

Taco Bell is trying to get into the Mexican Fast Food Business by marketing their as "American cuisine".

They have to call the tacos "tostadas" because calling them tacos actually offends real tacos.

Tacos all coming to their house and shitting in their beds...

But a tostada is a real thing in Mexican cuisine, so they'll probably just end up confusing everyone.

A lot of people are calling bullshit on that tostada , dude

The tostada is not the issue, here!

FORGET ABOUT THE FUCKING TOSTADA!

But what does this have to do with eating shit?

We are talking about a tostada from Taco Bell. The better question is what doesn't that have to do with eating shit?

But what does this have to do with eating shit?

Oh good, The Guitar Hero may have created a meme. Must we encourage him?

I didn't even mean to! How is that encouraging me though?

In the way that this meme would get particularly popular and eventually you'd attribute it's brilliance and popularity to yourself and your ego would grow and grow and you would shine like a demi-god until... (i.e. I was just playing with ya sunshine, take a breath).

Hey man, don't play with my sunshine. Take me to dinner first!

Also, I didn't INTEND for it to be a meme, and I don't think it was all that funny.

But what does this have to do with eating shit?

cORRECT. i wANT tO cUM.

I think I love both you and octafish.

I'm walking toward the light now.

Dang it. The newest hot internet meme was created on our tiny corner of the Internet, and I can't even use it.

You can't get good mexican food anywhere north of Tehachapi or east of Tucson. Part of the reason for this is that the avocado does not travel well.

Um, New Mexico and Texas are east of Tucson. There is some mighty decent Mexican food to be found in both those states, sir .

Try eating it in London. There is like one place that is kind of good in all of London that I have been to. I am told that there is another decent place in the far west.

Aw come on now, the Chinese and Indian food in London is fantastic!

This is because we've not yet been all dickish and imperial to Mexico, then.

...Everyone remembers that time that Britain was all dickish and imperial to China, right?

You guys drugged China with opium.

He said dickish, not awesome.

They also went to war for the right to drug China with opium. China wanted to close the ports to British trade but the British wanted to keep China high in order to stay the number one power at the time.

Sorry, I'm doing a paper on US China Relations at the moment and this shit is burning into my brain.

True, but irrelevant.

I always wondered if the "Oh shit" was something he did after every poem.

"Oh shit" is mandatory if it's a "Just paid your taxes" poem.

Actually I saw Obama on Air Force One on the Discovery Channel. Dude ordered a cheeseburger.

Being from Chicago, the Obamas are fans of Five Guys Burgers.

I have a Five Guys that's only a 3 minute walk from my house. I've only eaten there once.

Five Guys burgers are extremely overrated.

YOU'RE extremely overrated, Five Guys is the best.

I guess we'll just have to agree to agree that you're WRONG

Quote:
Five Guys is the best


so says your mom.

OHHHHHHH SHIIIIIIIIIIT!

But are you eating it?

There you go! Don't you feel popular?

I feel like the shallow facade of a whore.

You feel like some cheap make-up? Powdery and bright?

Agreed.

Bush had a hot dog lunch with McCain. Sometimes that's just what you want to be eating.

I assume that if you could have wild fantasy sex all the damn time. Just getting whatever you could possibly want whenever you want it you'd still just want such as some basic missionary with the lights off every so often.

Basic missionary is like tap water: it's bland but you need it to reset your system.

I have always wondered about the origins of the term "missionary" position. It is alleged to be named after the missionaries that -- seeing "natives" doing it it all sorts of funky ways" -- encouraged them to schtupp face-to-face.

This definition requires that the missionaries (think Kathrine Hepburn from The African Queen ) were WATCHING the natives get carnal (and checking later that they were doing it "proper").

Man, that's hot.

I think it had to do with the fact that it was believed that face-to-face, guy on top sex was the only way to get pregnant and the only acceptable way to have baby-producing intercourse, and create more missionaries? I dunno.

I like missionary position. I mean, other positions are good too, but it's kind of nice to be able to look down and see the girl's face or kiss her or whatever, you know?

Pervert.

fag

homophobe

chubbied. :)

You forgot to mention that subtle undulation of her breasts as you thrust into her.

The Subtle Undulations would be a really good band name.

I was thinking the same thing about Nuclear Furnace, but yeah, that's even better.

What about the slightly more vigorous undulations of her breasts to be had in Standard Cowgirl? Plus it's a great position if you're lazy and, oddly enough, is generally regarded as being the best position in which a man may control and delay orgasm.

True. I pretty much cannot cum in that position, so I like to try to work it into the rotation whenever possible.

But, don't you wanna?

You should try to work some rotation into that position.

Oh necessarily

Breaking update: Okay, it turns out that I actually CAN cum in that position. Damnit.

Breaking Update 2: Electric Boogaloo

{i]god, sorry, I should be above this...[/i]

SHIT

Quote:
What about the slightly more vigorous undulations of her breasts to be had in Standard Cowgirl?


That's not undulation, that's bouncy-bouncy (which is not bad either).

Yes

That has the potential to be an excellent sexual role-play fantasy. If I have my way they will sell 'sexy missionary' outfits in Ann Summers along side the nurse's uniforms and french maid costumes. They will probably never sell 'naughty native' outfits though. That might come across as a bit racist.

I'M GOING TO CHOP YOU UP WITH THIS MACHETE.

MACHETER? I HARDLY KNEW 'ER

Man please tell me you just made that up on your own. I'm laughing so hard right now. I don't care what anybody says, all caps makes everything funny.

REally? I dun get it. =/

Actually, it was a reference. Sorry, hoss.

What was it a reference to?

I heart huckabees?

Oh. Shit man.

Actually, no. I can see where you're coming from, but that has aught to do with racism.

It was That Mitchell and Webb look. I can't find the sketch on YouTube, though, so sorry all.

Ah, now I don't feel like as much of a loser for not knowing that. Thanks!

But seriously, I was pretty much laughing out loud at that, and my mom asked me why I was laughing and I didn't have the heart to say that a guy whose username is i_love_kate is talking about chopping people up with machetes.

This is true. Sometimes you're tired, and the sex swing or the floggers or inviting over a girlfriend for a threesome is just too much work. Then, basic sex is nice and inherently satisfying.

How can the swing be too much work? It would seem the opposite.

Sometimes they wind up filled with junk mail

That's exactly what I thought of when I read sex swing.

My feelings on your sex life are: pity.

Well, the basic positions aren't much work, but the fun stuff that's actually more like aerial yoga combined with fucking... (my swing is actually an acro-yoga swing, so higher off the ground than junkmail-swing!)

Correct. I wanna cum.

...

But damn woman. Learnin' bass, all talkin' about crazy aerial-style fucking and maybe inviting other ladies over as well. Are you trying to destroy Achewood with desire or something?

Let's face the soul-crushing truth; people are bald-faced liars about their sexual intrigues.

...and some of us just have such fun, kinky sex lives that it sounds like lying, and we often say to ourselves "holy shit, did that just happen?!" (it helps to be kinky and bisexual and living in the SF Bay Area with a lot of slutty Burning Man artist-chicks running around)

Dear Ms. Spicyponyhead,

I would like to submit my application for this position. And that one. I am willing to travel many, many miles.

Yours Sincerely,
iwannacome.

Organic Ground Kobe Beef Patty
Wisconsin 8-year Aged Sharp Cheddar
Parmesan-encrusted Sourdough Baguette
Hand-cut Pommes Frites

$124

If you read it the way I did, you see...

Hand-cut 8-year old patty

Actually, when I thought about it, I came to the same conclusion aperson did ( I think he did)- Onstad has Beef being a dick to the wrong President for the wrong reason. Why, Chris? Huh? Why?

He could have said something like:

The taxes I paid
will cover one flak jacket
But not the PTSD coming home inside,
nor the raped and shrapneled lives
That will cascade for generations
Here and there.
The Busdriver was Asleep at the Wheel,
And idiot grinning, conducted
A tectonic trainwreck of colliding
Tsunamis of humanity.....
Oh shitttt.

Fuck them?
Fuckkkk mmeeeeeeee!!!


Why? Because Chris doesn't like to get political, that's why. Not everything has to be a Doonesbury strip.

Bullshit. He's getting totally political, except from some pissy little foodie angle.

You know, most of the country didn't know FDR was a cripple from polio, in a wheelchair. He forbade the press taking pictures showing it.
Nor did they know about the plot in 1933 by the biggest industrialists in America to effect a coup deposing and replacing Roosevelt with a war hero.
You know about that? Interesting stuff. It shows what a player FDR was, because even though these guys were shits, he needed them and their industries.


That wasn't the Polio!

He was self conscious about his weight. Homegirl couldn't let America know he had turkey thighs and a muffintop.

I believe modern studies (by which I mean something I recall reading on Wikipedia) claim that it likely wasn't ever actually polio, but another disease entirely. Let's stop smearing polio over something it didn't even do. Can't never catch a break even when it's over and done now.

Lupus?

for the love of god haven't you heard it's never lupus.

That's just the werewolf talking

I really don't see any political angle to this. I mean, some basic stuff about the problems with the economy, but certainly nothing about Obama specifically or anything he's actually done or failed to do.

You want to get political you bring up how Obama isn't really ending the war so much as deciding to ramp up the war in Afghanistan that is slightly more popular and nobody cares about anymore (mainly because it was a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11 when we wanted to go beat up someone and they seemed like a likely target) or maybe you bring up how he is still crushing the probes into the warrantless wiretapping that should have seen Bush impeached, or any of the other things he hasn't really done very well. The dude gives nice speeches and is willing to act like an adult, tell us bad news instead of just lying transparently, and generally act like an intelligent person willing to do a decent job... but he isn't really doing all that much differently most of the time.

"... same as the old boss."

Ok, sorry to do this to you, but saying that Afghanistan was merely a "likely target" is easily the stupidest thing ever posted on Assetbar, and I should know because I've posted pretty much the rest of that list.

Al-Queda was fucking IN Afghanistan. They had terrorist training cells and everything in there. It wasn't like Iraq where we were basically throwing darts at the map to see who was gonna get "a boot up their ass cuz it's the Amurican way", there was proof on this one.

Umm, where were the 9/11 guys from exactly?

Bonus question: what is the evidence that Al-Qaeda is more than one formerly rich guy with a beard, and a bunch of other guys who post on forums, and issue rants against democracy in the odd mosque?

I was going to actually answer your first question in my original post, but then I realize that it was 3 in the morning and I was talking politics on a forum for a comic about cats and stuffed animals with a guy who's entire schtick is saying YES or NO.

Very big, repeat the idea that I only ever say "YES" or "NO" when those posts make up a fraction of my contributions to this board, instead of admitting that your justification for the Afghan war was complete crap.

Next you'll be telling me that the US wasn't the major funder of the Taliban in their final years.

Hey! I can hand out lames again!

And this is why I wanted to stop having the conversation. Assetbar is NOT the place to have socio-political conversations, and obviously I was being sarcastic.

Correct. I wanna stop having go-nowhere socio-political conversations. I can't believe I started it this time.

THESE MEME MAKES ME WANNA COME

NO

lawbot, any keen observer of assetbar knows that you're an educated man and have participated in some lengthier debates, but to try to downplay the fact that your YES and NO posts aren't basically your assetbar identity is pretty silly.

If you feel that this somehow lessens your ability to be taken seriously on assetbar, well, that's your fault.

Harrumph

YES

You gotta wonder...how many times a year does a coprophiliac fantasy buffet get shut down, only to open two weeks later in conjunction with a commercial on the local news with a man in a blazer earnestly declaring "Our meat is safe." I've only seen it happen once, but I can't be everywhere all the time...

A dog wearing a suit? That sounds crazy!

But FDR served the King of England hot dogs and beer and you can look that up
Maybe hot dogs and beer is our way outta this economic mess
Yet the taxes I paid
OHHHHHHHH SHIIIIIIIIIIIT!

I have to give you props for doing exactly what the alt text told you to do.

My only question is if Nightlife Mingus is playing an upright base behind Beef while he's launching his rap, see?

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OHHHHHHH SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIT

I always thought of mingus as a bongos man

Not subtle enough. Flippin' 'n' floppin' on the skins ain't a poets bag, dig? Thumpin' dem strings is the man's scene.

His name-sake, Charles Mingus, was a bassist.

Und zee plot thickens.

Nightlife is/was a real cat, owned by Mingus and featured in a pamphlet on how to toilet-train your cat. This really exists and was linked to in the strip where Nightlife was introduced. I'm not man enough to build the link, so I defer to better Achewood scholars.

https://www.mingusmingusmingus.com/Mingus/cat_training.html

"Nightlife Mingus" on Google turns up Achewood and the link to the site before it actually pulls up the site itself oddly enough.

Traffic-determined probably? Achewood is more popular than cat-toilet-training! Congratulations, Onstad!

'cause the cats in Achewood already know how to use the shitter.

Ain't no thing
But a chicken's wing.

On a string
from burger king.

No.

Thank you, good sir.

Pallin with Al by the Squirrel Nut Zippers is totally about Nightlife Mingus.

How did I not see this before.

Because you allowed yourself to be suckered into the conventional interpretation that it is about Al Casey. That is what they wanted you to think and you fell for it. Not everyone is capable of handling a cat as hep as Nightlife.

Boy, I'm gonna rape you with my hand. Get ready.

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who likes this idea, I sure do

Well, fee fi...fo fum...

Look out baby, 'cause here I cum...

Chubbied for "see?"

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who likes this idea, I sure do

My question is, if you get a refund, can you specify what branch and department to take it from? Could you trade a specific dollar amount for, say, logging rights to one California redwood?

Refund? Those aren't refunds, they're the government saying "sorry, we took too much of your money".

If you don't pay your janitor enough, he goes on strike and you are held responsible.

I think you don't understand what a refund is. It's basically what you just said.

Generally you can only get a refund for things you purchase, not things someone else purchased. I'd sure like to claim the $20 back for all those people who didn't, but I don't think that is allowed.

I can smell a libertarian argument brewing.

My take is basically that when the government creates and controls the entire financial system, as they do now, usually in collusion with the biggest banks - any talk of "my money" this or "natural fruits of labor" that is hopelessly naive. The value of your assets - salary, property value, money in the bank - can change at the drop of a dime based on stuff going on halfway around the world that you have no control over, even without government action. And the government doesn't even have to tax you - they can easily accomplish the same goals by adjusting interest rates, raising fees or tariffs, printing more or less money, etc. Taxation has long ceased to have any relation to the concept of taking a portion of some pre-established earnings - right now, it is merely another tool of the overcomplicated financial system.

See I was just trying to say that when you get a refund from a store you are saying that they are charging too much for the product/you don't need the product thus paid too much no matter what you paid, and they are giving you the money back.

I was only trying to say that what stereo considered a "refund" is essentially what a refund actually is. I know we are talking about taxes and whatnot but WHATEVER.

I think what you're talking about is more of a "rebate". Which I think is actually the word they use to refer to tax returns.

A tax rebate/refund is merely the government paying you back for a loan you've given them for the past year.

YES

The talking penis has problems with taxation.

NO

NO

So not only do I have pay taxes, I also have to bully an economic migrant into taking fewer fag breaks? That seems like it would be a downer. Also, my taxes would only be enough to pay for some of the lettering on a herpes awareness poster in an A&E waiting room, or perhaps four or five military issue aiglets.

Chubby for "aiglets" which are far too rarely used by people who really ought to know better.

Also, keep in mind the American audience here. I'd say the average fag break takes about 15 minutes or so at the shortest and that assumes you're just popping off for a quick gloryhole or such. They could easily stretch out to a couple of hours if you're not on top of things. Can't have too many of those or we'd really start to fall behind.

As well when I hear "A&E waiting room" I think of a place I sit around before I'm allowed to watch new episodes of Biography or such.

You pay more in taxes so you certainly have a right to your own cultural references, but you're increasing the tax burden on American humour translators. I didn't have to pay taxes due to not actually making any money so let's just consider this a volunteer job that squares me up.

We don't have "fag breaks" in America, though the GLBT Alliance is trying to get them instated.

Sure we do, they're called "musical theater."

Or "performance art".

Cool, I'd only seen it spelled "aglet".

You didn't have to make fun of his speech impediment.

No, really, I was amazed that there is an actual real alternative spelling for such a weird fucking little word! LEARNING.

No, I believe that private companies could act as intermediaries on your behalf and then you could pay them a commission if you were too god damned lazy/ did not care.

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Are you crazy?

I was actually thinking about a system of taxation where instead of personal taxes we move entirely to corporate taxes instead. It would reduce the workload on the IRS by cutting down on the number of returns filed, but, assuming the rate is calculated well, it would still allow us to tax effectively. You'd basically be taxing the economy directly when profit is earned rather than watching it trickle down into individual salaries and then trying to tax it.

I think you just came up with a system even more regressive than a flat-rate income tax.

I've long been a fan of flat tax, though I do acknowledge the legitimacy of arguments about comparative utility often made by fans of progressive taxation. It's a tricky issue and I don't think there are any easy answers there.

I'll be the first to admit that it's not an idea that I've thought through extensively, but if we were to switch to a very high corporate tax rate I do think we could find a way to entirely eliminate personal taxation. Frankly I think the biggest concern is how to effectively deal with small businesses or the self-employed while not giving huge breaks to larger companies.

This is a horrible idea. Corporation taxes have the disadvantage of being complex, and of entirely obscuring which households the tax is borne by. Income and capital gains taxes have the advantage of being capable of being targeted.

Flat taxes also do nothing to eliminate deductions or delineate what is or is not income.

first gladi8orrex learns to spell. now lawbot learns more than two words.

what is happening?

There was a guy who posted in FYAD by the name of MikeJ whose posting oeuvre consisted of "shut up fag". That's all he ever wrote. He never broke character once AFAIK. Two years of that shit is some srsly funny shit.

Shut up fag

Shut up faaaaaaaaaag!

You are remarking to yourself.

More like this is the first time you actually paid attention, rather than just scrolling down the page looking for fattybeaver posts to masturbate to.

I think this awful bubbling pain in my liver is me thinking Lawbot is totally correct. I need to see a doctor.

Also: YES

Oh, I certainly agree that we need to make a simpler tax code and that we need to eliminate deductions by and large. I think this system would allow both of those processes to proceed more easily and streamline the process.

NO

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But this wouldn't be fair to all of those ladies with crummy breasts.

With all the loopholes and dodges, a flat tax would probably be more regressive than the current system as well.

I particularly like the health inspector's line of vision thing, IIRC I remember it from 1920s silent cartoons!

wow! color! we tripping now!

A rare but pleasant occurrence. See Onstad's Chris Ware tribu-pastich-rodies for more.

I'm almost positive that THIS was Ware.

Interesting; I never thought of it but it could be.

Didn't think Beef had the stones to get up in front of a crowd. And even miked, can they hear him?

Dude's a regular at Lazlo's. Beef may be shy, but his poetry makes him brave.

Poetry and garage sales apparently.

Beef knows that at a garage sale, most people will be lower than him. No need to be shy in an instance such as that.

Pretty much the same thing at an open mike night.

Poetry and garage sales apparently.

The Germans have miniaturized the u-boat and infiltrated America's beer keg supply, like some sort of Gravity's Rainbow -esque Magic School Bus. Meanwhile, Beef is all sturm und drang und bier .

OHHHHHHH SCHEIIIIIIIIIIISSE!

Strum und Drang und Bier, vor ein Volk! Ein Fuerher! Ein Reich!

AHH MOTHERLAND!

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Strum und Drang


What is that, Hitler on guitar?

try " sturm und drang"

Thurn und Taxis?

Tot und Taxes.

Brot oder Fischrogen?

SCHING SCHONG ßING ßONG

with credit to https://m.assetbar.com/achewood/uua18dh7g#comment_32 of course

Sei werden angst haben. This is the only German phrase I can remember from my handy german phrases handbook.

Sie* Angst*

I am becoming angry?

For some reason my phrasebook thought I would need the phrase "You will be afraid".

Oh fuck I totally fucked that up.

You will become afraid. OK I get it.

DUMB NICK DUMB DUMB

Hitler on lead guitar, Goebbels on vocals (get it), Gerder on bass and Beethoven on keyz.

DIE ANGSTMENSCHE

KOMMING TO A CONCERTPLAYINGHALLFESTIVAL NEBEN YOU!

Or Herder* whatever.

Zyklon B Nerf Herder

Not funny, not cool, not a good comment (I hate Star Wars).

THIS ISN'T ABOUT YOU ANTIMATTER.

I'm going to look at you, and then look away, and see what kind of cool colors I get.

Most likely the opposites.

Stop racking up the chubs from my comments, you.

Chubby for "DIE ANGSTMENSCHE" (and the spoof of German superlongcompoundwords).

You need only learn some German to get the gist of it and then realize how horrifying it is. Just ask Mark Twain .

Who is Gerder?

I changed it smartarse.

Or Durmstrang, the Dark Arts Wizarding School, thought to be located in Russia.

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False. I will retain my semen.

Purity Of Essence!

Peace...on...earth.

Also "precious fluids" etc etc.

FALSCH. Ich will mein Herrenbatter festhalten.

Tut mir leid.

Questionable. I may or may not have cum already.

To be a woman, is constant mystery.

It's Hitler's old Weimar cabaret act: "Strum und Drag"

Lily, Lily, Lily.
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Fuck Assetbar.
Lily von Schtupp

I'm taaaaaayud.

Would you like another schnitzengruben?
No, thank you. Fifteen is my limit on schnitzengruben.
Well how about a little... whisper whisper whisper
Baby, please. I'm not from Havana.

Is it twoo what they say about your people?

unzip

Oh it's twoo, it's twoo!

The next line in the script was "excuse me but your sucking on my elbow." Ironically, this was cut for being too suggestive.

I heard that on the DVD documentary and I'm so disappointed it didn't make the cut.

"Oh boys! Lookee what I got hea!"
"Hey where da white women at?"

I like mustard gas on my hot dogs . . . wait, what did you say? German Army poison? Well, I'll be damned -- I always thought the German poison was the fat content of the sausages / hot dogs themselves.

It's so easy to make fun of German military catering isn't it? But where does that sort of rhetoric get us? Nowhere.

You're just afraid to confront the big issues, dude.

Seriously? No-one's going to come in with "The issues aren't the issue here!"

You're a whore.

I watched Big Lebowski just the other day and I'm already unable to quote a single line from it. What an unmemorable movie.

I'm sorry...who are you again? I feel like we met but I'm already unable to remember a single reason to know you. What an unmemorable person.

Poland?

Too soon dude

Sorry, the Fulda Gap comment was supposed to go here.

And if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.

Through the Fulda Gap -- main European battlefield of WWIII's ground war

AWESOME.

*finger snaps*

Lovely comic indeed. No sarcasm. It just worked very well for me. A PLUS MISTA AWNSTAD

Some of the best shit I've seen on Achewood this year.

Maybe the King of England just liked hot dogs and beer a lot?

Or never knew what he was missing until that moment?

According to the accounts I read, he asked for seconds.

OHHHHHHHHHHH SHIIIIIIIIIIIIT

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I've been to poetry slams where the people clap. I think that snapping is generally associated with beat poets but this generation's minstrels are far angrier and as such deserve a loud congratulation.

I don't know how to snap so I guess I would feel pretty out-of-place with a bunch of beatniks

It ain't like a wolf whistle dude you just snap ain't no learnin involved

I had to learn it and only did so in my senior year of high school. For me the trick was learning how it works at a functional level. The noise is made when your middle finger slaps against the fleshly bit of your palm just below your thumb or, perhaps, the ring finger which is positioned there. This understood it becomes fairly simple to make it work.

Place ring finger at base of thumb and middle finger upon your thumb. Apply steady, firm pressure to the middle finger against the thumb causing it to slide down. Keep the pressure up until it slips off your thumb and impacts the base with sufficient force. That's it!

Don't think I'll ever learn to wolf whistle though. Which means I will never be able to fulfill my dream of being a Tex Avery character. All ogglin' fine dames what got some swell gams.

It might-- might --help if you place your index on top your middle finger when you snap. It took me a while too, sometime in high school.
I still can't whistle.

It's easy. You just put your lips together and blow .

i don't know how to snap either.

Let's see, we can click on "reply" or "chubby" or "lame".... Where's the "what-the-fuck?" button?

it's the 'mark as spam' button. it never works, though.

lamed 4 unorginal materials

Where is Maynard G. Krebs when you need him?

Stoned

On a 3-hour tour.

Somehow I paid more in taxes than actual functional people with marginal careers pay for a used Saturn.

Your "Wash Your Hands" sign is over twelve inches from the lavatory soap dispenser.

But FDR served the King of England hot dogs and beer and you can look that up.

Ohhhhhh shiiiiiiit!

5'ed.

Que.

check the alt text

Sorry about him, he's from Barcelona.

YES EXACTLY.

I can't imagine a used Sega Saturn selling for too much, but then again those things are getting quite ancient now.
I've still got my old Megadrive and Mega-CD ... as well as my old Saturn. Not sure which work and which don't any more.

One full set of in-flight dinners on Air-Force One.
The condiment pumps spray mustard gas!
All voices of elders
Yet the taxes I paid.

This one was actually pretty good

Panel 9: the epitome of modern theater (read: Thee-ay-ter).

This was a pleasant surprise for so many reasons:

1. We just got a strip yesterday, so I wasn't expecting a new one until like Thursday

2. The gorgeous and tasteful coloring

3. It's been a long time since the last Poetry Night at Laszlo's. This has always been one of the few environments where Beef seems fully confident, and I love the way he always puts on his nice polo shirt to perform in.

OHHHHHHH SHIIIIIIIIIIIT!

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I don't GET you guys. I was completely expecting that the comments would be FILLED with mix-and-match creations, born of the fertile minds of assetbarians.

clap clap clap

The coprophiliac fantasy buffet is never over.

But serving times may be irregular.

I just found this on the Main Page:

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Wow. I'm gonna like this new schedule.

Aheheh. Let's see how long this lasts.

Who wants to take bets?

Maybe he's not going to re-run old strips anymore.

Wait. Where did you find this? I don't see it anywhere on the main page.

you jus' been punk'd, lol

No, its there. Bottom right, under "Dork Resources, Link Button"

And, just in case people didn't realize, this has been there for a long, long time.

Yes. That was (initially) the joke.

I was trying for irony but wrought only confusion.

Oh, I like wrought irony.

It's the heaviest of meddles.

I spent a while fucking around with this strip and eventually just realized that the truly boggling way to do it is read any column, top down. Strange thing is that depending on your state of mind, they almost make sense.

I did that as well and the first two columns read really well when done that way.

In the first Beef questions whether local civic improvements are a better source of tax money than Presidential perks and concludes that perhaps he ought to enjoy some simpler things.

In the second he learns to appreciate the work done by sanitation inspectors even if they appear to be somewhat anal dicks. They do a long, hard job every day and there's a lot of cheap, crappy restaurants out there that need to be inspected.

And a lot of beer kegs with periscopes in them to be examined.

IT LOOKS LIKE YOU HAVEN'T SWABBED THIS LENS IN WEEKS. I'M REVOKING YOUR NAUTICAL LIQUOR LICENSE.

brilliant

that snuck up on me like a naked fish.

Que?

Fish don't wear clothes and if you are in a river or lake they will sneak up on you while swimming.

Some even crawled up the Mayor's pee-hole!

OMG did u no this actually hapened?!?!

No realy, I saw it on the discovery channel or sumthing.

What a NIGHTMARE

I whole heartedly agree with Roast Beef's view on health inspectors. A taco place or a fancy restaurant, health inspectors are assholes everywhere.

I had the displeasure meeting one at work when I was making simple sandwiches. She noted that it's a health risk to use the same table to work with both meat and vegetable products. I was going to ask if she really, at her home, swaps between two tables when making a sausage and salad sandwich. Our boss lied the way out of that, but she still managed to make one, overly insane rule; each time you use a doorhandle, you must change the rubber gloves or you must wash your hands. The door handles also must be treated with antibacterial solution on daily basis. I doubt even doctors are that careful on hygiene.

I think it is quite literally impossible to be 100% up to code.

Depends on the jurisdiction. I've been to a number of places that have their perfect 100 scores proudly displayed.

Belgand, you've made it well-known that you only frequent shitty taco stands for that "authentic" taste, and unless the Sani-Taco idea caught on I think you are talking bullshit.

I've never made that well-known because it is not true. In this case, however, the first place that springs to mind is a sushi place near my house that I particularly like that has a perfect score and they're certainly not alone. I'd say the majority of places I've been to are in the 90s on their scores with a few places down to maybe 86 or so. I don't think I've ever seen a place below 80. Of course, that's just here.

You've made that well known because every time someone talks about something you talk about it, and now I think I've talked about your addiction to SanFran Burritos more than you ever have or will.

yeah belgand but if I remember correctly you live in Chicago. That place is second only to New Orleans in corruption.

New Jersey is a solid third place.

In NYC you can look up the Health Department inspection online. After learning that all of my favorite places were suspect; I stopped reading the reports.

Most common complaint -- hash browns stored at wrong temperature.

You pay for that - it's called bribery.

People have died and retailers have been jailed as a result of not observing the rules on keeping raw meat away from other foodstuffs.

Not cool, etc

YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.

How do I love thee, Roast Beef? Let me count the ways...

I think this is the only series of comments where none is overly lamed. Where is Asherdan when we need him?

Could be clever, but why, when there's this:
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temporal loop or continual realization/affirmation of one's own poetic genius?

lemme tell yall a bit about myself

I'm fascinating
ladys come 'n see me when ur ovulating
also i am the very best
did i mention i was the humblest?
that's some pig
i walk down the streets, men checkin' out my rig
i dumped ma gf cuz her pubes looked like a wig
my nose ain't small but it ain't big
it's normal sized
and it's the asset of mine i most highly prize
eerytime i wake up its right front o ma eyes
i will cry very much when my eldest cat dies
her name's matilda
she named by ma mom (my mom's a quiltah)
get ready for this next bit, ngage ur lang filtah
all ma shit's orig, i neveh pilfah
eerypost eerywer i came up maself
an' form deh swet o my back i accul8 ma wealf
since i woz a boy i been stackin' deh shelf
but today i ain't stackin' for tips no more
in a coupla years i'll own the store
keeps yer eyes open cuz this stars gon' soar
an' i ain't neveh gon' 4get where i been b4
i swear i ain't neveh gon' doubt maself no more

ps. dis woz very motianal 4 me 2 speak abot myselb i do in pome/rapform. is ease 4 me 2 convey ma feelin's

YES

They said he was a rapper. He said he would prove it.

That was sweet. And also, tight.

that's what i told her.

I'm thinkin' school bus with Gothic windows. Nice.

You're the king, Rex.

I paid my taxes, city storm drain.

Or one full set of in-flight dinners on Air Force One.

Man I ain't stupid I know they ain't gonna give the President a Lean Pocket cut on the bias with extra marinara and ranch in two plastic cups.

Maybe hot dogs and beer is out way outta' this economic mess.

All voice of elders.

OHHHHHHH SHIIIIIIIIIIT!

I might be wrong but I believe that this strip contains Achewood's first reference to New Zealand. Mad props.

Marlborough makes some sick wine.

not bad onstad. maybe you haven't lost it, after all.

where is molly?

beef out at 3am, no wife around?

will the marriage last?

why does beef smoke cigarettes?

are there really places in california where you can still smoke indoors?

were taxes also raised on cigarettes for cats?

how does beef actually earn that money?

God fucking dammit.

neonfreon you are like the retarded version of Asherdan.

Actually, that's offensive to retards AND Asherdan.

don't u h8 on peeps 4 no reason i will shit in ur chest

sorry 2 hab blown up atchu dogg, fer real

Itz cuul, glab, itz cuul.

No, it really isn't. I'm starting to worry about gladdi here. I think he may have an anger management issue. That reaction simply wasn't called for.

I had a dream last night that gladi8orrex had his own TV show.

What did he look like?

Pretty much like his current avicon.

What... what was he wearing?

Wouldn't that basically just be the Ali G Show or such? Can't say I ever saw it, but it sounds like they use the same basic shtick.

I think it was called for.

Same here.

Beef has garage sales. PAY ATTENTION.

Pay attention pay attention god dammit pay attention!

OH MY GOD AN ALIVE STUFFED ANIMAL

Reference to the future.

https://M.assetbar.com/achewood/uuagdgSM9 to be specific

Try as I might, I cannot seem to find 2009 on that chart.

Look at 2012 - phillepe goes to vancouver, roast beef starts singing.

Ah yes, the hair, now I see. Though, being Canadian and thus attacked from all sides with early advertising, I can quite confidently point out that the Olympics are going to Vancouver in 2010. Wikipedia claims 2012 will be in London.

It's not "claiming" it: it's happening. Specifically, it's happening to the railway line next to my flat for the next 3 years. For some reason it is considered very important that there is a fast rail link between NW London and the Stratford Olympics.

The prospect of enduring three years of infrastructure fuckups to make two weeks of celebrating jingoism and obscure sports slightly less inconvenient for the world's trust-fund idiots would annoy me to no end.

I was hoping that if SF got the Olympics it might maybe force them to try and fix the public transit system, but I seriously doubt that would even happen. More likely that not we'd just be flooded with an even larger crowd of tourists intent on attending an event I have neither the money nor interest in. I saw no way in which this would be of benefit to me and tons of ways in which it would be a massive pain in the ass.

Agreed on the jingoism. When will people start realizing that the Olympics usually has a hell of a lot less to do with "international cooperation" and such and a lot more to do with pissing contests over who wins the most medals.

The best part is that my taxes are paying for it.

I basically hate any politician who proposes hosting an international sporting event.

Of course, it's worse for the owners and customers of the profitable businesses, and the inhabitants of the homes that were on the site cleared to make way for the olympics.

In my experience, it is best never to trust anything Wikipedia says 100%, even if you yourself already know it to be true. Thus: I invariably refer to information from that site as what W-pedia "claims".

This actually reminds me of the occasional late era ~20 panel Calvin and Hobbes Sunday comics, if only based on structure. But still.

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I love you.

(hump him. He wants it)

okay

Gracious it has been a length of time since a posting. I truly hope you enjoy this, and feel somewhat differently about things after you read is as opposed to before. Replies can be made out to Bacter and associates, condolences are accepted and etc.
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here's what needs to happen. The strips need to be delayed until the end of the week. Subscribers get to see the strips as they are released. Everyone else waits. strips are digitally watermarked, so that if someone starts giving out copies of the strip, their subscription is shut down.

Yeah, I thought that was piss poor how someone posted a copy of the GQ strip on assetbar. It's like, "hello, I'm too ignorant to understand the concept of copyright. I'm just barely smart enough to work for the man my whole life."

Also, significant portions of the archive need to be subscriber only. I know that would get me to subscribe.

Making any part of the archive subscriber only is such a bad idea I don't even know what to do with you. It's basically preventing new readers from being able to get the whole picture, which as we all know is what makes Achewood so great. You cut out the ability for someone to get the back story for a strip that relies so heavily on its world building and you cut out new readers.

I agree. The back catalog is what sees me through the sporadic sub-par strips. Starting without the history would reduce the present appeal of the strip.

I also like your idea of preempting a mine-shaft gap.

Danke schon, mein fuh-uhh, Herr Spaulding. I vill put in a good vord for you during zee selection process.

if you read a few dozen achewood strips and you don't automatically want to pay to read the rest then you ARE NOT HUMAN and you should be GROUND UP AND FED TO DOGS

You're trying way too hard. Fuck along, now.

veins are bulging on my forehead

That would make for an excellent avicon. Forehead veins and eyes bulging, teeth gritting. Just to let folks know what they're in for.

YES

This meme isn't going to catch on.

So, you've never said "yes" to anything?

Having opinions is such a (no opinion of it) meme.

Negative.

N... Newt?

No.

it already did, forever ago

either he is A) kidding
or B) incredibly serious. (n00b)

Comment left by ahmadinejad ignored.

I knew who this poster was when I saw the account in the 'new accounts' list a few days ago. Didn't even read that comment.

Boring. He needs to raise his game.

I also know some Pavement lyrics. I'm a pretty big deal.

I bet I know more.

You definitely do.

no ones gonna save me
no ones gonna make me rearrange

what about the voice of Geddy Lee?

{guitar solo from Fin}

THANK YOU, ADVENTURELAND! GOOD NIGHT!

Throw me your pahnts. I'll wash them and get them back to you.

BONER!

i miss your scent

But what does this have to do with eating shit.

It will be her roommate's response when asked for the rent.

I really hope this catches on because I've laughed like a naughty five year old every time.

Meh.

Look out... someone's trying to develop a schtiiiiiiiiiick.

I was hoping for a meme :(

SO ARROGANT !

Please complete the meme and have it on my desk by 9am tomorrow morning.

What does this have to do with clits.

TGH i'd like to have a talk to you about your meme, please see me in my little boat.

Happy birthday, Beef

One year closer to the boneyard. Beef's overjoyed you mentioned it.

You mean the yard that I . . .

THESE KNIVES.

I'll bet you were always comparing your wife to that yard....

SHE WAS BIG AND MOSSY AMIRITE.

And kinda gravelly in patches.

Boo to THAT!

She's a spooky place to go on Halloween.

I can think of few spookier places on Halloween than a yard that fucks you.

He said wife, not girlfriend.

So, I want to be understanding about the many demands on Onstad's time -- creating a new business model, managing a complex technical process, a wife, a child, in addition to the whole creative enterprise -- but, do you all not wish we could get more strips?

We believe in you Chris!

clearly the kid should go. he's had the kid not as long as the wife so he should not be as attached to it. put that dead weight on ebay.

Dude we've had like four loooooong strips in the space of a week. Calm yo'self.

And hey, I love waking up to new strips! It's like waking up to pretty girls!

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And hey, I love waking up to new strips! It's like waking up on pretty girls!

Fixed.

no.

Coincidence ?

daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn.

chuppy.

speaking of which

holy God.

dude. i feel betrayed and lied to.

What a totally great strip this is...

I didn't think he wrote 'em like this anymore.

Particularly like the expression of beef as he scans the sky for air force one flying overhead.

we appreciate the great strips more now that they're not as frequent

Plus it's cool that Chris brought out his nice blue outfit for 420

I was worried for a while that this wasn't going to end right but PHEW

FDR: Almost done with your state dinner, King George!
King George: Oh, boy!
FDR: It's not turning out exactly right, so don't get too disappointed.
King George: I won't! I promise! Thank you, FDR! [ closes eyes and imagines state dinners on a plate ]
Hey, King George! It's me! Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding sounds pretty good, huh!
Eh, King George! Thees steak tartare ees no so bad, oui?!
FDR: Alright! Here you go! [ FDR puts down the plate with a KLANK. There are two semi-defrosted frankfurters, a soggy yet stale hot dog bun, and a poorly drawn ketchup smile to make a caricature of a face which grimaces up at King George. King George recoils in horror and spends the rest of his reign crying into a pillow. Anglo-American relations never recover. ]