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Ugliest Yard Contest Day Two Wednesday, May 16, 2007 • read strip Viewing 82 comments:

Astute readers will note that Ray's house now features a new wing and a few new gables. Dude loves to tinker.

More gables, fewer hips.

Why does it remind me of Civ III?

I thought EXACTLY the same but with Civ I. I used to play that a LOT and would always build weird castles with pieces that didnt match

When has Ray's house been shown before?

I saw Ray's house here

I recall a top-down shot when he was complaining about his neighbors selling car parts on their lawns.

https://achewood.com/index.php?date=06262006

Ah, and indeed there is a wing missing from the right side.

i think they were pissing into empties.

Diggin' any strip that gives a better idea of the layout and enormity of the Smuckles residence.

Is that a HINT??

Is it just me, or is the state of Minnesota visiting Ray? (2nd floor, 2nd window from the right)

The pro-life crowd is always punctual.

In this case, premature. Ah-huh-huh.

It took you a year to come up with that joke.

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Ray really should have known that this project was gonna run to conundrums when he was reviewing the blueprints.

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There must be an toy-fetus factory somewhere. Barbie visits often.

yeah, i can't recall any strip where the entire house was shown in one frame.
you'd think he woulda parked Airwolf in the yard.....

But parking in the yard is Tacky.

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Hrm. The smoke, the gate in the wall on the left, the window on the right -- and the door handle, obviously.

That's four, and I feel stupid. I'm assuming subtle differences in bushes and things don't count.

I was counting differences in bushes too, actually. I didn't even really count, i just noticed there were differences and thought I'd throw that out there. Thanks for playing, you're a winner!

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man how do you even identify such a quality in a drawing

well, it IS kinda surreal to look at, but i wouldn't be the one to make that judgement

I am delighted at the notion of a mannequin Sandra Bullock putting her head in an oven Sylvia Plath style.

all whale tale rudely poking out as she bends over to end her life

i bet the cartoon mannequin of Sandra Bullock can act circles around the real Sandra Bullock

No doubt.

"pointy white chick" is my favorite part of this strip.

I hope the ad Ray is referencing was on Craig's List.

Who is it in the west wing window, 2nd floor, 2nd from the right?

My guess would be Charlie "Little Nephew" Smuckles.

T-T-Todd T squirell? Even though he's a crappy little bullshit dude? Dunno, it's all clandestine. I wondered that too.

that's Ray's house? cuz damn thats one classy pad

"could be any pointy white chick"
Beautiful.

What's that in the second-from-right top window?

a. the trees look like joints.
b. i think that's todd in the window.

ray clearly had the gardners trim the trees in that manner.

ray's yard krew hasnt shown up for the past 2 months, yo

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Leave the good doctor alone! He is not like you!

I don't think.

It's modified lyrics to the Crystals song "Da Doo Ron Ron".

I only know this because I am a big fan of Phil Spector.

damn there is no way i can find that comment both chubby and lame...

I find it comical that there would exist a place which sells both a Sandra Bullock doll and a Sylvia Plath doll, in that sort of position, no less.

I was thinking that myself. It seems that a company like that is in danger of spreading itself too thin.

Gotta love any appearance by humans

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Just a guess here but I think one protestor is addressing another protestor named Randy?

high score for the drawing of a tiny fetus doll. it's kind of cute

Those dolls are obviously refurbished overstock from the Korovo Milkbar.

I mean the female celebrity dolls, not the tiny fetus dolls, although I dimly remember seeing one of those used as a swizzle stick in a Moloko Fizz.

dunno... instead of anti-abortion protesters, a more tacky display may have been the protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church.

They are in fact the worst thing to see. They drag their lumpy inbred children to local functions. It's always special to see a pasty 7-year-old holding a large sign depicting stick figures engaged in anal sex.

Loving the Sylvia Plath humor.

Hatin' Sylvia Plath.

If you turn your screen 90° to the left, you can totally see Alfred Hitchcock hiding behind the trees on the right. I know this because I was trying to look down Sandra Bullock's top.

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a chubby is like a semi - a semi erect penis, that is.

i'm not sure i like the idea of calling my dick chubby. not that it is, right now. i'm at work for christ's sake

I'd rather have it called chubby than pee-wee.

ray's house was on cribs too i think

Played :(

I love it when Onstad shows off the fact that he's actually an incredible artist that can draw more than cats and otters. Today's first panel is just awesome.

Abortion rocks.

There's a blasphemous part of me that thinks that this whole thing may have started when Onstad realized he couldn't draw Slyvia Plath...Or that we wouldn't recognize her from any other pointy white chick

He'd would have been absolutely right on the later part. I have absolutely no recollection of what Sylvia Plath looks like, and by him not drawing her visage in to the strip he saved me at least one trip to Wikipedia to find out how close he came to capturing her likeness.

Then you had to show up and post this and now I have to go to Wikipedia. Thanks. Jerk.

I know it's a bit late, but I have to tell you I changed the wikipedia picture to maintain the pointy white chick enigma.

What's poking out of that window way on the right?

Now Mexican highways include ads with pictures of lots of broken human fetuses. No Joke.

Now's as good a time as any to bring it up. Where the hell did all these commenters come from? I didn't see like 3/5ths of you in the archives, you just popping in to the new stuff and treating this joint like a forum? All that shit about steak a strip back made me want to blow my face off.

pointy white chick?

I'm pretty sure that Ray's impressions about Sylvia Plath's underwear choices are stored somewhere adjacent to the molecule of his brain that contains Canadian history.

It's the anti-abortion people. I knew they'd be early.

I'm not sure why but that makes me laugh every time.