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Two Thousand Flushes Tuesday, January 11, 2005 • read strip Viewing 88 comments:

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I would definitely buy a panel 3 t-shirt.

Toilet party is one of those moments that falls by the wayside in comparison with the greatness that is TGOF, Cartilage Head, Ray in Hell, etc., but it has a wonderful appeal. You know you always feel a bit better after discovering a clean toilet.

No way man. My "Ray Gets Sort of Stoned" reminds me every day of the greatness of this arc.

Shank 'em if you got 'em, fellas!

The only thing that separates the sublime from the mundane is approval and interest from friends.

what about deep, personal meaning?

FUCK that shit!

bbcode to the rescue!
bbcode to the rescue!

Aye... I'm inclined to agree.

A thing can be truly sublime... and then "friends" come along and ruin it by making it "popular", and hence it becomes mundane.
If we want the good stuff, we have to keep it to ourselves.

It is nice to know when the small things make a big difference.

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Indeed that's what she said. Because she said it.

Because her boyfriend has a tiny penis?

more like that's what i told her the next morning.

I wish I had the stones to host a Toilet Party. It probably wouldn't work because my friends wouldn't get it, and because I wouldn't be able to get the Tenmen, but mostly because of the first reason.

Everyone start using "Hooray, man!" in your daily lives. It feels really good.

ok.

alt text: Don't let them fool ya, or even try to school ya! Oh, no!

It sounds like Onstad pulled that from the song 'take it from the man' by the Brian Jonestown Massacre

I have to say, Straight up fuck the Brian Johnstown Massacre

First off, it's Jonestown, second off, i was merely stating a point, and third off, why?

Okay, blatent fuck up with the name, my bad. I saw them in concert and they were being such assholes (the lead singer mostly) that they almost got booed off the stage. Any band that stops a song four separate times in a live gig to individually tune their guitars while telling the whole audience to "SHUT THE FUCK UP" is pretty worthy of my contempt

And they ain't good, too.

Yeah, Anton is kind of a prick, i see your point, but they have some decent music aside from their antics

If you had capitalized "antics" I would totally have chubbied you despite the fact that I don't know enough about the Brian Jonestown Massacre to agree or disagree with you.

Also, I forgot to mention this 6 months ago, but your avatar totally makes this comment, hence why I chubby it now, despite the insult

Actually, its from "Could you be loved" one of the best Bob Marley songs ever

If a friend said to me "You want to go on a little mini-vacation to paradise? Come look in my toilet, dude!" I would most likely decline his offer.

yeah, but if ray said it?

How could I not? I mean most of the achewood cast are used to his antics, but they usually go along to see what simple pleasures he delights in.

And hey, if it doesn't work out? "Damn, odei didn't much like what was in my toilet. We lookin' at a six hundo." You come out ahead of the game.

I wish this were in color. But I guess that would spoil it.

Now all they need is Philippe. "I'm the toilet!"

Isn't there a special website where you can watch women doing something similar?

Not only that, they'll also eat sandwiches.

...for a fee.

So the toilet thing is free but there's a fee for watching them eat sandwiches? Damn! If only it were the other way around...

In my head, Ray speaks the first panel like Will Farrell from Anchorman. A bit of a cadence to it, not yawning but just saying the words and getting the same pleasure .

how to drink scotch: The scotchy scotch way

The first panel is hell of underrated. Everyone remembers 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, but "Yawn yawn yawny-yawn!" is wonderful.

Toilet cleaner is indeed the most beautiful shade of blue that there can be.

totally. this strip brings back memories of me as a little girl using my grandmother's toilet. she always used 2000 flushes. that shade of blue was probably my favorite color.

wait... is that weird?

I always thought it meant he flushed the toilet 2000 times.
I stand corrected.

It makes Easter or Egshell Blue look like canned dogfood swallowed, half-digested, and then barfed onto a pile of burning hair

By the rivers of Babylon
where we sat down...

[not actually Bob Marley, no matter what the internet tells you, but seemed appropriate]

This is a really great party until some jerk has to actually use the toilet and everything is ruined.

My money's on Lyle.

No, no, then the water turns green and it is awesome!

For fucking real, man. It teaches you about color mixing! Clean and educational!

apparently thats a good game to potty train kids. use 2000 flushes, so they can feel all proud and magical when they turn the blue water green with their pee.

...or else Lyle adds a desert island to Paradise.

Or an archipelago. Lyle drinks a lot.

I love this whole arc. While not as epic as the Great Outdoor Fight, i feel it delivers more individually funny strips than any other arc.

The amount of time between the penultimate and final panels is actually considerate as Ray attempts to convince Beef that this isn't some low shennanigan.

Things ain't ever the same once you seen a dude's stew.

I meant to say considerable..of course.

Hooray, man!

It is the little things that count.

Mr. Smuckles can put on a party at the drop of a hat.

Also... Grammer error in panel 5? Check out this. More like, "Check this out!"

Oh hey what it is?

Check out this ?

Oh my yes that is hell of such as improper

Dang dogg however did you catch that

Cold browsin' Achewood all waitin' for a notion of language to be bent

how could people ignore it is a better question.

Ray is opting not to end his sentence with a preposition. We should honour his valiant effort.

grammer = error

It is spelled GRAMMAR.

-=ERROR ERROR=-

oh dang, that's how ray cold signs his name

Ah but in fairness, that was an error in spelling rather than grammar.

Right, I've never claimed I was the champ of the spelling bee.

I got a friend interested in Achewood by sending him the last two panels completely out of context.

And on the 11th day of the 1st month, the scene was set for the toilet bowl party. Check out this!

I SO love this story arc! I recommend this to anyone I think will enjoy Achewood because it is such a good nutshell of who the characters are and what they're about.

[IMGS OFF]

This would have an excessive amount of chubbies if more people bothered to read older strips.

it'll get there.

just wait for it.

I had a real bug quite similar to your avatar crawling around on my computer screen, and prior to figuring out it was an animated .gif, my inability to smash your bug was making me retarded.

[i]Volume Bloo[i] sells it

Never gets less funny. I approve.

damn...the spawning of a great arc...damn

i think this is one of my top 3 favourite strips.
If there was a world where gold and platinum could have sex, and then in x months ( x = however long it takes for something to gestate in platinum) something was born, it would be this strip.

I totally feel where this strip is coming from. That color is like a little slice of awesome. Damn.

i can attest to the state of bliss blue toilet water can induce. testify!

I woke up this morning, pretended to write some code, popped open Achewood and hit the random comic button. I arrived here with a smile on my face and a feeling that, at least for the next 30 minutes, today would be a good day. It is an omen!

I could have sworn that panel three used to say "Hooray, man! Today is already rad!" but now it does not. Can anyone confirm this?

What a great day!

I'm confident I've been just as pleased with deep-blue toilet water. I'm not sure why I don't clean my toilet more often.

I'm not too sure what to make of this.

Strips like this make me wish I was an Achewood cat.

Sometimes the only way I can get up is if I do what Ray does in the first panel.

There is a restaurant in Patterson NY called "Texas Taco". the restaurant itself is in a dilapidated old house and looks like going to a Carny garage sale on Ayahuasca and the bathroom is a tropical undersea adventure (this is why it came to mind). im not even exaggerating (in fact im doing the opposite words fail to describe such a place). seek this place out and go there. the tostadas were mediocre and they dont put paper umbrellas in any of their drinks but daaaayum that place crazy.