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Time to Get the Juicy Dirty Tell-All Started Tuesday, October 9, 2007 • read strip Viewing 120 comments:

And so Todd is forgotten

At least he still has his f-f-fricken sweet mercedes.

Picture of.

YOU DOUBT ME? YOU FRIKKEN' DOUBT ME?

It's like a coke-head sunrise. The first light of morning comes through the blinds, you see a jogger or two outside, and it dawns on you like a damned freight-train that you desperately want to be anywhere but there, with ANYONE but the people you've just spent the last seven hours with in machine-gun conversation. The corner store still isn't open, so the cigarettes are gone. You're running low on warm busch lite.

And you have to walk home.
Fuck Todd.

I wish I could chubby this more, you have captured that moment perfectly.

Bravo.

I think recognize that. Who are you quoting there? Is it Lester Bangs? I could be totally wrong...

As an ex-cokehead I can say you've described almost exactly what went through my head more mornings that I care to remember.

I'd pay to buy one of those books, even if it weren't for me. Just the thought of famous people exacting some kind of attack on each other seems delightfully wonderful.

Well, there is a lot of fanfic out there, but it's not exactly Bill vs. Steve, if you catch my drift.

Possible tasteless quotes from such slash fiction:
"Oh Steve, you are good at all kinds of Jobs..."
"And then, with furious enthusiasm, he lusciously entered his back Window..."

I disgust myself.

Man, why did I bother writing that? I wasn't even trying.

I thought it was funny. Lusciously is a good adverb.

Microsoft's server products used to be known collectively as "Microsoft Back Office." The Cult of the Dead Cow's hacking tool for invading and manipulating Microsoft networks was known as "MS Back Oriface." I kid you not.

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well, oriface applies to a very specific hole.

Yes, it is. I promise ner to post again unless I have had coffee first.

Should be "Ne'er" surely?

I believe it was developed by a guy using the name Dildog, too. What a dope name.

Chubbies for busting out the old school.

Y'all some nerds. (in the style of rowboat)

Dr. Manflesh, we need you now more than ever!

Manflesh's watchword is inappropriateness, not fanfic. In this thread, he will most likely post a recipe for a hearty beef goulash.

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That's the worst recipe for beef goulash I've ever seen.

Oh god I can't chubby hard enough XD

They have pills for that

Possibly my favourite Acheworld comment ever.

"Manflesh's watchword is inappropriateness, not fanfic."

OH, ISN'T IT?

Well, the two things aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. Fanfic is often inappropriate, but everything inappropriate isn't fanfic. Manflesh, you continue to astound.

He has made trolling an art, and like any true artist he continues to evolve and defy definition. Even to the point of redefining his medium, in that it's questionable whether he's a troll anymore having found an audience that appreciates what he does.

People like it cos he does it without being a dick, nor getting personal... and also because it often seems rather creative.
I just like it because it is hella disruptive. ^_^

Man why you even got to do a thing

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Let's keep Billy out of this. Not here. Not now.

Please, no, not Billy. The more you embarrass him, the more likely he'll be to record a twelve-disc concept album about it. And three or four of those discs will be awful .

The other eight will be unlistenable.

...unless you do one metric shitload of blow and listen to them as quadruple-double music...

Double Zaireeka ! Brilliant!*

* well, almost: you're talking 4 sets of 2 discs played simultaneously as opposed to 2 sets of 4 discs but WHATEVER JUST GESTURE APPROVINGLY IN RECOGNITION DAMMIT

I love Zaireeka. Chubby for referencing that, even if it was to make fun of it.

Zaireeka is friggin' fantastic. Me and a bunch of friends had an outdoor dance party to it once. We all brought portable CD-players or other music devices and danced in the middle of campus. Delightful.

Gettin high on brick cleaner made the day, thanks you Onstad

According to Erowid:

"Our understanding of the literature is that there is no such thing as safe use of most volatile solvents, aerosols or other street inhalants : their psychoactive effects may be inseparable from nerve and organ damage." (1)

Don't get high on brick cleaner, even if it makes your day. Even if Onstad endorses it via Todd.

Especially if Onstad endorses it via Todd.

(1) Erowid Inhalants Vault. https://erowid.org/chemicals/inhalants/inhalants.shtml
Accessed 10 Oct 2007

we reference using APA here thanks. 3/5 could do better.

I started to look up proper form, but realized that I didn't give a shit.

Like some drug website run by people named Sun and Earth requires slavish adhesion to APA protocol.

Don't cry Erowid. You are rad. You are rad!

hey. HEY. in my part time hobby as a guy who occasionally vadalises wikipedia (and once also wrote a mildy humorous article about myself), i have learnt that referencing is everything. or at least it is if you are trying to prove sonic has a boner in the title screen of the crystal caves zone in sonic 2.

Any formally formatted reference in a forum like this, be it MLA or APA style, I would hesitate to click in fear of immediate rickrolling.

You're trying to set me up, aren't you?!

If I see Chicago Manual of Style shit going down here I'm just running the other way

Chicago is awful.

Ray is right again. You can't build any kind of business plan around a self-destructive squirel.

Doesn't work to good for a Presidency, either.

Perez Hilton disagrees (in re: Britney Spears)

Mr. Bear is the king of typographical subterfuge...

i bet if phillipe had known about all the cusses the couch had endured he would have been even sadder when it went away.

Even Mr. Bear's sip is exceptionally refined. s-sup

Ray is so serious, you can just hear the capital letters.

We Can Do This!

I'd put up $20 for Connie to write me a PAMPHLET about man-baby Ethan Hawke getting chumped.

Guy's a douche...

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I would just like to point out: Wetriffs is now real.

Mr. Bear is a mercenary. He is the hired professional gun you bring in when you want cats straight taken out. In a literary sense.

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"Forget about Todd."
Done.

ray has entrepreneurial ADD.

Later that week, Nate Jobs cons his way into the Delta Gamma Nu house to exact explosive revenge on "Moose" Gates.

"Wink-nudge" margins are defined in the Chicago Manual of Style, under the chapter "Specious Padding Techniques."

Man, spacious typography and wink-nudge margins were how I got through high school. That and Courier New. I guess that tactic would be under "Efficient Font Coverage".

Man, I don't even know what would have happened if I'd ever turned a high school paper in in Courier New.

What?

Yeah, I dunno. We formatted papers in MLA, but every one of my teachers insisted that we use Times New Roman only, even though the format doesn't insist on it. They probably realized it could be used to make a paper look longer.

Times New is for people with columns, baby. Courier is easy to read, which is why its MLA-correct. Plus it is, quite possibly the least sexy font (besides Comic Sans) and looks very small, so there is little to no sass-back from teachers who think you are trying to pad a paper. Chubby for zefiel for reminding my why I am glad that I am done writing high-school papers.

I've gotten around this before in OpenOffice by adding a custom paragraph style to pad out the individual character spacing, along with an unholy assortment of other whitespace cheats. The combined effect of a ton of tiny whitespace hacks is so hard to catch, yet I've padded a 5 page paper out to 7 with it.

(Styles and Formatting -> Default (Modify) -> Position -> Spacing -> Expanded for those who want to try this themselves. I also recommend tweaking your paragraph spacing setting. You can customize the line spacing too, so that "double-spaced" is closer to 2.5 spaced.)

Consider this my submission to the My God This Essay Topic Is Retarded Cookbook.

My God, I wish I knew this in high school. I just started to use Open Office, and if I had figured out these tweaks, my life would have been so much easier.

I used Corel Wordperfect and the way I got my paper to 5 or my pages was to ramble, a lot, but it was usually coherent with the topic, just a lot of tangents and commas. Unfortunately that habit has stuck with me today so my comments and forum posts are always a lot (A LOT) longer than they should be.

*my = more

nothing nearly as bad as if you turned one in in comic sans. the professor brings out the willow switch and an iron maiden whenever that happens.

and there is thunderous applause from the class, save for the dumbass who wrote a paper in comic sans and dared turn it in.

Brick cleaner gets you loaded as hell. You ever try to clean a brick? It takes a caustic solution.

Do you know . . I don't think I've ever even wanted to clean a brick.

The guy who sold you the brick cleaner knows that. Hence the thumbprint, the photocopy of your driver's license, and the withering, dirty look.

SO dirty.

Dirty bricks are, well, you know, dirty

no one will want to eat on his table, not after the two of them have steamy, passionate sex on top of it.

Well, except Larry Ellison. I just read a book that said Larry Ellison would love to eat off of that table.

Connie has taken to reading menus in his spare time.

Bill Gates is one sly motherfucker.

I get the feeling that after writing captions for the Spice channel, writing 200 pages' worth of Todd hugging cigarette butts for warmth would have not been that overwhelming of an endeavor.

Damn it dude I just hit my brand new 200' LCD screen with a flyswatter why did you have to use that avatar WHY


I had saved years for that thing

I didn't resort to violence, but I did waste a good 15 minutes trying to explain to the fly how he was invading my personal space.

I pressed Esc to stop the fly from moving. win!

At 200', the fly would have probably appeared larger than your own body.

do you see why i hit it hard enough to break the screen

i tried to clean your avatar off of my screen, and failed.

I couldn't see your avatar under all the dirt on my screen :(

"We Can Do This" is the mantra of Ray's new self-help book, "Forward Momentum through Pro-Active Capitalization: Unlocking the Hidden Power of the Higher Glyphs to Get Things Done". Man, when it hits, it's gonna hit hard .

On first read, I saw ". . . Unlocking the Hidden Power of the Higher Glyphs to Get Things Done, Man"

And now I wish that it was. So much better.

Don't underestimate the tenacity of a coke-up squirrel.

Bah! A coke d -up squirrel.

Coke-Up sounds like a mixture of two popular brands of soda.

Ray will start making it eventually.

"Hey, Jobs! So, do you like Apples?" Gates shouted into the howling wind. "Well, how do you like them apples?!"

I love Ray's short attention span approach to capitalism. This is the second scheme in, like, what, six strips? But it is a good shift; making Todd a comedy star wasn't a very good idea, anyway.

Todd just loves brick cleaner.
So does this cat

I wonder if Ignatz ever got high on brick cleaner after cleaning all that damn Krazy Kat blood off his bricks.

Sounds like a fairly decent LiveJournal group I guess.

Panel 5 = Connies supreme, ultra-classy sass, the kind of guy who farts accidently and loudly, does not react, then looks over his shoulder a second later as if he's stepped on something hollow.

What about a story about Bill Gates gettin' high on brick cleaner and cussin' on the couch? Now THAT'S entertainment!

Gates: Move over, pre-wheelchair Stephen Hawking! You're hogging all the brick cleaner!

Hawking: I know when to stop, William! Just a little more. Just one more. What could possibly go wrong?

Ah, I was wondering when the story arc copout was gonna happen.

I'm not sold on this story arc at all. Sorry.

I'm just glad we're moving away from the Todd aspect of it.

The sudden shift here sort of reminds my of Monty Python's Flying Circus, the way they sometimes just suddenly lose interest in the sketch they're doing and don't even bother to wrap it up. They just move on to something else.

Which I always thought was admirably honest. It's hard enough to do a TV show every week, or a web comic (more or less) every (week) day without having to waste time finding an elegant way out of something that isn't working anymore.

Coke-heads are funny, but they have a way of burning through all their material pretty quickly.

Panel 3 is a t-shirt waiting to happen.

CafePress is waiting. Go, friend! Follow your dream!

COPTIC, I TELL YOU!

To be honest I think "We Can Do This!" would work better.

How about a compromise (and yes I realize it's a month-plus after the fact): The art from panel three with "We Can Do This!".

I just realized Ray is speaking for Onstad in that final line of the penultimate panel.