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Summons to Turkey Wednesday, March 1, 2006 • read strip Viewing 48 comments:

even though i've already read this, this gives me much anticipation.

also, 5 for the dead kennedys shirt on beef.

Oh hey, Stubbs took the northeast corner. Didn't notice that before.

nice catch

what about them side dishes?

He can't stop with his thinking about the side dishes [link to previous strip at the start of the GOF that I am so not chasing up right now]

I do what I gotta do.

Also, check out panel 5. Ray is 12 kinds of bummed out at the notion of not getting any dinner.

I find it amusing that upon hearing the second option Ray's mouth transforms into 3/4 of a swastika.

Sailing close to the ''Godwin's Law' rule, dude...

"Have you seen the Yellow Sign?"

I love reading the names of the (I assume) previous winners along Beef's tape rack. Onstad must have had so much fun with this arc.

I can't listen to RLS in this strip without thinking of Apollo Creed for some reason.

I've always thought RLS' rhyming was an Ali reference.

A five, pretty much entirely for Roast Beef's childhood.

What dramatic irony in the childhood, too. The young Beef doesn't realise he is listening to a recording of the proposal that led to the marriage which would produce his best friend.

And THAT friendship led to his use of knowledge from those tapes to help his best friend emulate his father, who had been one of the gods who populated young Beef's childhood. How circular.

I believe that Ray was already born when Beef is hearing this, he just doesn't know that it's Sondra (who he has most likely met) and RLS (who he most likely has not met).

You're right, but the guy above you didn't say anything about Ray being born after Roast Beef listened to these recordings. I am just saying this, without being a cock to a stranger.

I love this. All over the internet, message boards and online communities are filled with some of the worst hatred and filth imaginable. Yet here at Achewood we have a pretty decent community, and we police ourselves by adopting a sensible rule that came out of the mouth of a fictitious cat who was slightly stoned. Chubby for you for not being a cock to a stranger.

Beef uses the Tandy tape player and TDK cassettes. Sony and Maxell are for yuppies like Ray.

That's a good insight!

I bet he learned how to mod it to make tape backups off the library computers.

Totally. All with his garage-sale soldering iron and 49-cent Radio Shack parts, all burnin' his fingers . . .

all sick on solder fumes in a closed bedroom.

Bob Raffles: The Micheal Cole of the Great Outdoor Fight

I like the transition between the hot dog cheeser and the snack tent panel.

Is there anything more appropriate than seeing those speakers and thinking of Battle Royale

an animal all the while, no receipt on file, no loyalty no style.

i could go for a hotdog cheeser

What is a hotdog cheeser? Something like this , maybe?

i thought it was a one of those hot dogs with cheese in the middle.

Oh my god this entire time I've been reading it as hotdog chaser and assuming it was just a hotdog with no bun and involved his mother being an angry drunk.

I could never picture any more detail than that, but simply let it slide, like I don't have to fully understand a throwaway reference to get the general idea.

Oscar Mayer hot dog with Kraft singles melted over the top. Microwaved, of course.

Is "Motor City Massacre" a person or something that made the 1969 GOF even more special?

i submit it is the winner of the fight that year.

also the precursor to Motion City Soundtrack.

cpnglxynchos, spacing out his follow-up posts.

since a week ago.

Indeed.

This whole story line is just so epic and beautiful...

Panel 7. I'd love to see the no doubt deeply pensive look in Beef's eyes when he sees this wisp of Leonard Stubbs in Ray.

The sentence is the basic unit of information.

!

Dude is in a LINEAGE.

Where are the fucking SIDE DISHES?

RUFUS

You know, I like Bob Raffles's exuberant commentary. I'm kind of cheesy like that, though... kind of hot dog cheeser-y.

Snack tent is about the best name for something like this ever.

Dammit why can't I ever be called urgently to the snack tent