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Special Agent M-9 Thursday, August 5, 2004 • read strip Viewing 41 comments:

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I love Ray's logic. It's so mind-numbingly absurd, but he always has a reason or explanation. Achewood is magical.

This is hilarious. Ray is a Peter Sellers character.

Ray is spot on though, this has certainly happened to me. A lady and her family walks into the store where I work, and after talking for a spell I ask where she's from. "Well..." she hesitates, "just outside of London."
"Really? My father grew up near Esher (just south of London)."
She then realized I knew quite a bit more about England than she had anticipated, as her eyes lit up when I said Esher. After a quick chortle to herself, she says "Well, I'm from Esher."
We began discussing how lovely the area is and so forth and so on, her husband bought a load of stuff, and we all had a laugh. While it was a stroke of coincidence that we had connections to the same area of England, her initial hesitancy to say where she specifically lived was proven to be unneeded.
To be fair, Ray didn't ask Waterbury whether he was a Chelsea fan or loved EastEnders or anything though, did he?

The cat gives his butler permission to be from London.

The cat's intuition is so good, he doesn't even know how good it is!

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I've eaten many a steak with only a knife in my lifetime. Sometimes there is not a clean fork, ok? And sometimes there is but I left it on the other side of the room. I'm not cleanin' and retrievin' forks when I'm tryin' to get my steak on.

I eat my steaks with such as my teeth.

...suddenly and unexpectedly, i am digging this story arc.

I'm dreadfully curious how many people had to change their cities of residence just because "someone's heard of it before."

Just the indie kids.

"I liked your hometown better before it sold out."

waterbury is totally above all that.

I live in the town of Waterbury, Vermont. This whole arc and its comments tickle me greatly.

I've never heard of that town.

Neither has anyone who doesn't live within a fifteen mile radius of it. This town is so small our 4th of July parade is one state police car and an old guy in a 1972 Fiat eating saltines.

Oh, I thought you said "sardines." My bad. Carry on.

This mostly happens with people from suburbs, because they are leeches.

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OK, I know people always say "Oh man I will totally say that thing that he said if I ever get the chance," but I am promising here and now that if I ever direct a James Bond movie I will include the line "Possibly but improbably made by host. Odds very much against it. 007 out."

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I love you all.
I love you all.

wir lieben dich auch

Pommes oder brot!

Aehmmmm, B- Brot?

That is SO DAMN TRUE! Everyone from England says they're from dang London. Except me, of course. I wouldn't say I was from London if I WAS from there.

I dunno about that. I've never claimed to be a Londoner. A lot of Americans think all Brits are from London, because when you tell them where you live, they say, "Never heard of it. Is it near London?" and you say "Well, it's about 250 miles," and they say, "So it's near London."

I say London. It's easier that way.

Funny. When I'm on your side of the pond, they do the same thing. "So is that near Los Angeles or New York?" As if there wasn't anything between!

I'm from Greater London. At uni (particularly earlier on in the year), everyone always asks everyone where they're from, and I say either London or Greater London. This satisfies most people, but if I meet someone who is also from London, they'll ask whereabouts, I'll tell them, and they'll say "THAT'S NOT LONDON! YOU DON'T LIVE IN LONDON! I LIVE MORE IN LONDON THAN YOU DO! IT IS SO IMPORTANT THAT I BE MORE LONDON THAN EVERYONE ELSE!"

Okay that's not an exact quote but it's pretty much the gist.

Living in Nevada I hear similar things. You live in Nevada, is that near Las Vegas?

In the same way that a pregnant woman is near an unborn child.

eight hours ~north?

Nope, try again.

"not really"

Ray once again shows evidence of genius level intuition beneath his blithe exterior

I may be wrong, but to me, the fact that he thanks Your Grace rather than Your Highness indicates he may work for the Vatican rather than the Queen.

I'm just saying.

Your Grace would mean he's reporting to a Duke, or Duchess...or possibly an Archbishop.

In a later strip he does say "Your Majesty", indicating the Queen.

I'm from England and I've never claimed Londonage. mostly, as this comic says, cause it sounds cooler if I say I'm from Southampton. also I know a little about American geography so I'm the worst for asking if it's near this or that city, especially if it's in the north or west...

shit man, me too. and we're the same age. WEEEIIIIRRRRD.

I will now justify everything I say with "documents abound".