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Lie Bot in the garage Monday, February 25, 2002 • read strip Viewing 47 comments:

A comment left by notself was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by straw, sharksarecoming, Saint, sumisueme)

I should use the lispy comeback

making fun of a man with no lisp by using a lisp is pretty damn insulting.

This is another thing I will strongly consider doing to my children if I ever have any and they piss me off.

Yeah I have a running list of such things in my head as well.

lie bot has a beauty in his soul.

ROBOTS HAVE NO SOULS.

:C

A comment left by i_love_kate was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by lamboyster, fuzzyrobot, Vladimir, dretienne)

It's an emoticon with a really big frown, what's there to figure out?

I don't remember. D:


Oh shit! It's a vulture! Get in the car!

Since the truth hurts more than anything, is he not therefore the gentlest soul?

Beneath his cold, metal exterior, Lie Bot dreams of one day touring with a bluegrass band.

When you slap a magnet on his head he sings "Jimmy Crack Corn" but alters the lyrics to be insulting comments about both corn and those within visual range.

Chubbed for the futurama reference.
It's hard to play both treble and bass clef on a banjo, I'd reckon.

Chubbied for the banjo vernacular.

Take that, you stupid corn.

I'm pretty sure he doesn't like playing the banjo, though.

I'm sure that somehow, even without lyrics, his music lies to you.

very interesting melody there.

very familiar melody...

I bet you Todd would charge Lie Bot royalties if he found out about this.

I'm sort of scared that anyone found out about this.

I'm sort of delighted that anyone found out about this.

wonderful spot, you've got good eyes

Lie Bot's shoes disturb me every time.

stuff it lie bot's shoes are banger!

A comment left by spectre was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by rowboat, norm, Shinkicka)

Onstad manages to convey 'garage' with such economy of line and tone.

lie bot is playing in the bass and treble clefs at the same time. i'm fairly sure that isn't possible on a banjo.

He's playing a duet with his MIDI sequencer.

It's an elaborate lie.

The banjo is one of the all time great comedy instruments.

bbbanjo.mp3

It appears to be in some kind of 13/8 meter.

Holy crap nice going. Chubbied.

I guess it's not necessary to be skilled in musical composition if you're as fantastic at art, cooking, writing and humor as Onstad.

Or maybe robots play a different sort of music than the rest of us...

I like to imagine that Onstad totally knows what it sounds like and that Lie Bot just sucks at composing, but the alt text makes that exceedingly unlikely.

Hella chubbied. However, you forgot the sustained whole notes over the first measure.

But dang, sir, if this isn't a Thing, I don't know what is.

The terrible thing is that you would have to be moderately talented to play all of that on the banjo.

Robot music!

I guess a robot would have to be crazy to wanna be a folk singer...

Robots can't eat dinner, but they can mad run Subways.

The robot lashed out at his friend's masculinity to hide his own unmet needs.

thing is, your meant to play bass and treble notes simultaneously on a banjo, bass with thumb treble with index and middle fingers. this technique is also used for guitars and such

The Derisive Wispth is unbecoming of a man of Lie Bot's stature.

Except he's a robot.

hw.