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The Julie and Julia Strip Monday, February 26, 2007 • read strip Viewing 32 comments:

A comment left by overmedicated was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by sevenarts, cryptfiend85, Methadone)

Ray really needs to find a better escort service, or demand Tina to french him once more.

Incidentally Till You French Me Once More was one of his hit love ballads.

He's not talking to an escort service. He's talking to whomever is keeping track of all the year's sex positions (because he would hire someone for that).
He said he's going to be alone in the bathroom with the water running, which we know from this strip means he'll not be using an escort.


I know this reply is 3 years late, but I'm saying it anyway.

Just saying the words isn't enough for Ray. He has to go all Wayne Newton while he does it.

I imagine that, since he's doing it for a year, he says the words a little differently each day.
Maybe one day, a little Wayne Newton. Another day he's just laying on the couch muttering? I don't know man I'm outta gas.

One day with his fingers as a small handlebar moustache and speaking in a subtle british accent?

I enjoy the slight overlap of dong over moon.

isn't Dong Over Moon a special at denny's?

Steven the waiter: Dong Over Moon? That's a really good one!

Who is he on the phone with? Teodor?

My thoughts exactly.... perhaps it's just an imaginary person monitoring his daily sex position experiment

I imagine it's his publisher, since I assumed the challenge would also entail writing a book as did the chick in New York.

His mom?

it's the guinness world records people, of course. they have strict rules about this kind of thing, like how lifting one leg up constitutes a different sex position than not lifting that leg up. what?

what does the guinness world records have to do with this?

did anyone else think of this when they saw the moon panel?

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Nope, I'd only just seen the movie when this strip was posted, and found the coincidence delightful.

My mom has a picture of, I think, my great-grandmother sitting on a similar structure. People in the twenties just loved sitting on crescent moons! I wish I knew the context of her being photographed sitting on a moon, but it's all a mystery now.

I find it somewhat unlikely that a multibillionaire like Ray would find it impossible to find women to fuck.

Are there no cat gold-diggers?

...ALWAYS run the sink if you think I might be home...

is it a thing to run the water when wanking?

You tyrant. Oh man. That last panel makes this one of my favourite in that subtle kinda way.

"Sassafrass." I think that's the first (presumably) unintentional misspelling I've seen in Achewood - which actually has to count as a compliment to Onstad or whoever does his proofreading.

Man, I was buying cat food for my ridiculously finicky cat the other day, and came across a can of "Shrimp and Salmon with Aspic" cat food.

That shit was nasty-looking, but kitty liked it...

Until he puked on my bed.

Nah, he still liked it even then.

Saying every word in the dictionary over a period of a year is such an awesome idea. Someone should do it and record it, even just as an elaborate tribute to this comic.

I'm pretty sure this was the first achewood I read, since it was referenced in a Salon article, so I had to shlep over to get away from the relentless Salon pissing & moaning about the latest Bush White House horrors.

I'm thinking immediately <"This guy is weird and funny, and I don't really get this. I like that in a cartoonist." >

So, anyways...I think the chick was a bit creeped that Onstad had done a strip referencing her....and she said so.
Well, flash-forward, ..they made a movie about it, dint they? It's a chick-flick with Meryl Streep as Julia, and some cute Gen-X actress as the Julie.
And I think the actress did a good job portraying her as a boring mutt who basically siphons from the legend to feed her blog.
I told you all that to tell you this:
it was ironic to me that she got her knickers in a twist about Onstad putting her in this cartoon!

no moral!

Clearly, feats of quotidian derring-do are an heritable trait of the Smuckles bloodline .

NOT A VALID DATE.

*Ahem*

THE GODDAMN SMUCKLES BLOODLINE