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Spring Loaded Wooden Dog Monday, August 25, 2003 • read strip Viewing 64 comments:

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Since its so rare, the use of a picture in achewood always creates some impact.

I'm glad Ray left this pleasant (but false) image of the present with Mark Twain - I think it's nicer that way.

His uncomfortable look makes the strip.

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So I just totally "owned" my computer in a game of chess. It really is lucky we invented machines to play chess.

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What? What the sam fuckery dickshit?

Hey! Don't talk to "her" like that! "She's" the number 1 fan of this comic! Have some respect!

No! It's Joey!


Shit... I knew that.

I'm going to go kill myself now.

see yah

wet myself laughing at this

The picture of David Schwimmer juxtaposed with Twain's musings about the intellectual prospects of America is what nudges this past the threshold into 5/5 territory, for me.

Yes, because making fun of Friends isn't in the least "predictable" or "something every other webcomic ever has done."

Why David Schimmer?

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I think this is my favourite comment.

Like, ever.

I am in total agreement.

And I am totally thirding it.

The comment is so awesome that it spawns religious cults that in 20 years time will have schismed due to disagreement over whether Ross was using Red or Blue crayons.... and David Schwimmer will finally pee his pants and complete his death of shame.


Fourthing it, and not attempting to say something along the lines of lateadopter in a lame attempt to mooch off his massive chubbies.

Who the hell lamed this, and why?

People who like the show but don't have the balls to admit it.

And Schwimmer, himself.

I like that you've placed him in a different category than "people who like the show."

Schwimmer knows what he has done. He is not proud.

People who don't like posts that crib too heavily from Onstad's style. I'm not saying I'm one of them, but they are out there.

That being said, acting like Friends was one of the worst things in TV's history is like saying Gerald Ford was one of the worst dictators in history. He wasn't exactly world-class but I'll be damned if all the falling down didn't make me laugh once in a while.

You may have Gerald Ford, the star of the U of M football team with two undefeated seasons and arguably the best athlete ever to be U.S. President, confused with Chevy Chase, who watched Ford trip once and turned it into an SNL shtick.

Also, the entire cast of Friends is a mechanical dog that balances a wooden nickel on its nose.

Did Ford ever win anything when he was president? No (not even his presidency).

Gerald Ford was an old man when he was president; even old athletes can be clumsy. This is almost certainly true. And he fell at least 2 times on camera, I believe, so there .

Anyways, my comment was obviously facetious, as you can tell by my age (which is approximately correct), I'm not old enough to have ever seen Ford fall enough in person to get chuckles out of it.

That being said, as much as I disagree with Friends on so many levels, it's really just stupid to say it was never funny. I've seen numerous bits and pieces of episodes while a roommate has watched it, and I was surprised at how well-written and genuinely funny the jokes could be at times. Too bad I hate the cast and the premise of the show in general.

Why, it's almost like Michigan: I hate the atheletic program in general, especially the football team, but I'd just be a fool if I didn't admit they put a good team out there with some regularity.

SOMEONE IS WRONG ON THE INTERNET

Can't be...can't fucking be!

I laughed at this comment longer than the actual comic. Which was an amazing feat, as I thought the strip has left me laughed out.

Oh man. A truck of chickens. Damn. You're a funny bastard. I would like to add my great joy in discovering other people in the world that can put together humour as Onstad does. Hooray for the discussion. Oh and Schwimmer's head is perfect.

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haha, good one!

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Yeah, it wasn't nearly as bad as everyone acts like it was. I'm not in love with it or anything, but I'd rather watch that for half an hour than most of the other re-runs that come on.

It's just not "cool."

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Luckily, joeyramoney was already on my ignore list.

1. Quit being a dick.
2. If a guy likes "Friends" and admits it much to the popular opinion's displeasure, then he should deserve a chubby and not your childish "get the fuck out of here".

Welcome to a free online society where people are welcome to participate regardless of their personal preferences and your ignorant calls for them to leave.

Bad is a subjective term, and I am not acting like anything. My ex-wife loved that show; she watched it every day. It was on twice in a row, five nights a week, then again at 11. I was the unborn fetus.

Bad is not a subjective term when it comes to Friends.

There is a reason she is now your ex-wife. Give thanks.

And neither are you.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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Chubbied. The only thing that has been bugging me is that I can't ignore posts from users like neonfreon and retardo and asherdan because all their posts have been lamed to heck. Do you know how hard it is to find a post from asherdan that hasn't gotten heck of lamed?!

My first lame, it's as terrible as I imagined.

Couldn't find a good enough picture of sports people celebrating with champagne so that'll have to do... Google image search Although to be honest after I posted it I instantly regretted it.

I'm glad you explained your purpose in this comment, or else I would have had no idea what you were going for.

But, at the same time, I almost lament the fact that I didn't get the chance to contemplate on my own what in the hell you meant by "as terrible as I imagined" and then showing a couple of cricketers (I think I would've assumed you meant that one short and one tall happy cricketer were terrible, terrible things to imagine).

I just wanted to celebrate that my first lame was me being a dick not the lamer, although looking at it now it doesn't make the most sense. I think this would have been better.

Yeah, I shouldn't really have mentioned those people by user-name. 2/3 of those people are OK at times, also, ( amazingly stupid comment approaching... ) how exactly do you set your preferences to hide comments with a certain number of lames?

You can change how many lames it take to hide a lamed comment (and, if you want, how many chubbies it takes to make a comment highlighted) thusly:

Go to the top of the page. Under the strip, there's the green "Post a Comment" box...right under that, there's the options to change the amount of chubbies/lames. When you choose your number, hit "Save." I'm one of the people who have their lame limit set at 5000.

And as you may have seen, you can change this limit to "1" and then find out who lamed your comment, if you want. And, there is a post for Asherdan that, last time I checked (last week), only had one lame. It actually had 0 until a month or two ago...I made the mistake of pointing out in a comment that it only had one lame, and so someone promptly lamed it.

The ignore option always seems odd to me, because most posters worth putting on ignore will almost always generate huge reply threads anyways...

Thank you so much for that, I feel reeeeeally stupid for not noticing that. I think I remember that comment your talking about.
Yeah, commenting that a Asherdan comment doesn't have lames is like the friggin' bat-signal.
Well, now I have my lame limit set gooood and high but if I see blatant insulting crap or a reeaaally long manflesh post that is what the ignore button is for me. Not saying the dude isn't hilarious occasionally. But I didn't really want to see that Calvin and Hobbes fan-fiction he wrote... Oh, and have a chubby for explaining.

I just figured that never having been lamed you thought that it would involve a cricket player running up and attacking you.

I obviously missed that episode.

Oh Phillipe. One day you will learn.

I also enjoyed Friends , and David Schwimmer is not the anti-christ.

Just angling for some of those sweet sweet 'wrong opinion' lames.

Man where's Beef to explain computers when you need him? ... Or rather "when".

David Schwimer almost beats Bono in terms of the biggest shit to ever come from humanity.

Almost.

Yeah because I mean obviously the biggest problem with society is that some of the entertainers aren't very entertaining.

I ain't know what runningonempty thinks, but she didn't say Problem; she said Shit. (Real) shit is not the biggest problem humanity has, just a continuing olfactory nuisance. Racism might be our biggest problem, or colonialism or what have you. David Schwimmer is our biggest shit.

But racism is also shit. Is David Schwimmer a bigger shit than racism?

Eh... I was trying to argue that shit, although unpleasant, isn't really a problem once you stop looking at it, and therefore racism is not shit, since it's a problem whether you're trying to ignore it or not. But that's pretty fucking boring, ain't it? I'll stop.