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Senior Portrait. Tuesday, August 26, 2008 • read strip Viewing 542 comments:

aw roast beef, not the arctic livestock

You can tell he is ate up about it, though.

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---'s third work in the famous 2008 "Blank Triptych" was controversial in it's use of positive, rather than negative space. The single, gaunt line proclaiming difference and absolution in the face of the post-modern morass of harassment and play. The frenetic scene of assetbar split open like a battle axe swooping through a young melon. -'s screenshot of his work was later purchased by donald trump for $80,000,000. Then he was eaten alive by wild gorillas.

Thanks for including that last sentence.

ahah. haha. ah.

--- was eaten or Donald Trump was?

Donald Trump ate ---, and then Trump was eaten by the gorillas. It's kind of the same idea as a turducken.

With your avatar...this comment somehow seems so much more appropriate coming from Colonel Sanders.

Right. The dude's name is mysterymeat1001.

The man knows about the consumption of flesh. He's a professor of meatology. If anyone is going to decide how things are eaten, it is he.

ATTENTION: If you're having trouble viewing this page, the culprit is not who you would think it is, but actually Dr. Manflesh. If your browser is barely scrolling, the easiest thing to do is go to another strip such as this one and ignore him there. His comment is right near the top.

Thanks for the advice.

I am no longer a fan of Dr. Manflesh. He has Disappointed me.

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A once great man has fallen.

I'm sorry, but folks, if we have abided the good doctor's shenanigans this long, why should this be the time that our appreciation failed? Is it because his comment directly affected us, rather than the supposed "other posters" that might be offended by his more "conventional" posts? I say it is the height of hypocrisy to throw him to the wolves now.

Not to say that it isn't irritating as shit, but come on, there really is no line.

I think my browser crashing to the point that I can't even appreciate whatever brilliant postmodern irony is contained in the post is a pretty good line.

I agreed full-throatedly that it is stupid and irritating. I just felt the need to defend our anal-play craving court jester, and would second dr. skradley's comment and unignore him later.

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Don't expect sympathy from anyone, shitcock.

You know, this abortion of a post is a curiosity. There is a level in which it is impressive. He took the time to link every strip from 01 and 02. That takes dedication. However, the post is still shit.

It's like a crap version of the famous "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte - 1884" by French Neo-Impressionist George-Pierre Seurat. You know the one, thousands of dots of color that when you step back, form an image of various social classes in a park in Paris. The painting is a stunning example of pointillism, and is considered by some to be the most remarkable paintings of the 19th century.

I don't care for this painting. It's nice, don't get me wrong, but get this. It took Seurat two years to paint his masterpiece. I look at it and think to myself " jesus I would go blind twice painting just the border of this painting." What greatness could have been done in the time it took to paint just the grass in the picture. I find the laborious nature of the technique utterly distracting.

Mr. Quadruple Hyphen, you are the pointillism masterpiece that doesn't get better, no matter how far away to get.

I disagree, G'Mork Turtle. I'm going to ignore him temporarily until this page is no longer relevant to me, and thus the annoyance will subside - this does not mean my appreciation of his shenanigans has failed, or even waned. I get it, I really do, but that doesn't mean I have to keep getting it each time I look at the fucking page.

You can call it art if someone runs up and kicks you in the balls, and it may well be - but that doesn't mean you have to let them keep kicking you in the balls and calling it art.

Because of Manflesh, I no longer appreciate post-modernism.

Because of Manflesh, I no longer appreciate sexy weekends.

what the hell am I going to do at my swedish makeout pool parties now ?

You can invite me.

I heard Manflesh invented Skynet.

Giant, gleaming metallic vibrators roll across the blasted future landscape, crushing the charred remnants of civilization and as they search for survivors. Overhead, flying robot drones broadcast high-density fan fiction directly into the minds of those unfortunate enough to be discovered. The sheer amount of lurid, stilted prose causes the human brain to literally sever itself from the spinal cord.

A ragtag band of freedom fighters, calling themselves the Ignorers, search what remains of the world for some way to end their nightmare. Their hopes for success are but a dying ember in the charred wreck of the world, but still they search on. They desire no more anal play forever.

Skynet?

Seriously? Dude, in times like that, just look it up. This is the Inter-Net, Google and Wikipedia have made not getting random jokes to be a thing of the past.

Usually I get mad when people don't bother to look stuff up on the computer.

To tell the truth, for some reason, I thought "skynet" was a poster on Assetbar I haven't met yet.

I don't know why.

Skynet is a 'Ferae Machinae' >.> But thats a classificatory term.

I no longer appreciate beefcake.

And I LOVE beefcake.

I respect that he stays with the one username though. It's not like I can't tell -, --, ---, and ---- aren't the same person, it's just more annoying.

I opened manflesh's post in a new tab, but it still crashed my browser. So I saved it to disk and opened it with a word processor, but it crashes the word processor... I'll have to look at it later on when I upgrade computers.

It's not worth it, trust me.

Thank you. I have cooled down now but that seriously put a ding in a already fairly dented kettle of a day. And explaining it through postmodernism? Grow up; postmodernism explains nothing anymore and people who study it are idiots.

Yes, all of them.

I...I study postmodernism.

Think of it as something like quantum indeterminacy - a theoretical construct that's useful in a particular field but gets taken out of context and dumbed down and distorted by the general public, who proceed to use it to caulk any gaps in their understanding of the world.

Sorry. But it's the leaking out into other areas of thought that gives me the itchies. Perhaps I mean post structural relativism? The sexuality of geometry? The political hermaneutics of standard physics educational policy as viewed from an occult feminist perspective.

They shall die. All of them. Slow.

I will not think of it as something like quantum indeterminacy. I just won't do it.

If that is what you study in school (like, your major), what job do you want to get? Like a critic? Or if you are out of college, what job do you have? I'm just wondering.

I imagine he will became a waiter or server of some kind.

I find comments like this obnoxious. I know philosophical people who work in restaurants and play in bands who are a HELL of a lot happier and healthier than people who work as engineers in offices, paying off college loans and buying little electronic gadgets to stave off the boredom of the meth-freals and maladjusted blobs that they spend their days with, under the strip lights amid the bone-rattle of keyboards.

He didn't say he'd be an unhappy server! I get where you're coming from, though. My particular peeve is that it's immediately assumed you won't be able to have any job with a liberal arts degree.

A lot of companies are really just looking to hire people who have some degree, they don't care what it is, or where it's from. If you want to work in an office, you can find a job doing it with any sort of degree. That's the way it is for a lot of careers, outside of the specialized ones like: engineer, scientist, teacher, et cetera.

If you want to work in advertising or sales, you don't need a degree in either of those things so much as you need a some degree, any degree , a smile and a ribbon, and a really great interview.

I'm neither personable, attractive, nor graceful enough to be a waiter. And I'd sooner drink a fire ant cocktail with my asshole than work in advertising or sales. The goal is to remain in academia indefinitely and be a professor, if I ever stop wasting time on here and catch up on all the work I'm behind on. Failing that, I can hopefully go back to journalism. So either way I'll be making less than a waiter. However, I will be able to look at my words in print, which, if you haven't figured it out yet, pleases me immensely.

addicted to the internets?

read the book _word play_ by Alex Frankel, Alex. As described in that book, there is actually an area of marketing in which you can be successful by applying basically academic talent and creativity. Before I read that book I thought advertising was something that couldn't possible interest me. Now I see that in fact an intellectual understanding of language is central to some areas of marketing/advertising, and from reading this book I see language in a different way as well.


Digs against the value of abstract education are nothing more than efforts to disempower and disenfranchise the citizenry. Obtaining a liberal education is crucial for the maintenance of democracy. The establishment wants you to believe that we all need to be engineers or technicians. It wants this because technicians are easy to control and manipulate.

Yeah, technicians don't know anything about critical thought.

That sounds a bit paranoid. Isn't it more likely that engineers are just more useful than people who study art?

He's an attorney, cut him some slack.

It was supposed to be a joke? You know, ha ha?

I'm sure you can get a job with that degree. You can also get a job with no degree. I have a friend who went to Stanford on a full ride and now does part time guitar lessons with a math degree. And I know people with no college who make hella money helping old people invest their money. I'm not one dead set on upper education as a be all end all source of happiness, let alone one that is telling you to get specific kinds.

If while knowing it is a joke you are still offended then I can't help you.

Oh. I didn't catch that it was said in jest. Sorry. I just got back from three weeks of visiting family and old friends - mostly engineers who epitomize the disempowered geek type to a T - so it's possible that I'm oversensitive to the issue right now. I had lunch with two semi-employed engineers who had both either recently declared, or were about to declare bankruptcy on account of health care costs. We spent the day discussing single-payer health care and they were firmly against it. I was merely trying to offer support for the proposition that education has value apart from its ability to get you a slightly better job with a soul-crushing corporate overlord.

only far less healthy, and bad for your soul to boot.

I know that "turducken" is the more common accepted name, but I will always call it a John Madden turkey. The picture of John Madden ripping one of these bad boys appart with his bare hands runs through my mind every time I hear about them.

You know, if you appreciate it as modern art, then I think I like the threeness of it. -/--/--- : T/M/O, one/two/three, a break/a pause/a lengthy wait... God, I could write a damn thesis.

Fablesandblues, you are my new favourite poster.

Iff you resemble, in any way, your boss avicon.

- dash. -- dash dash --- DASH DASH DASH

all the scrolling was worth it for this comment

You, sir, are a doosh (sic). And make no mistake, that chubby you just received was an accident.

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Sigh.

Another day, another alreadyinuse handle set to ignore. Bonus day today: Two for the price of one.

hey dick

Is your avatar from the Andalucian dog?

GOT ME A MOVIE etc.

. . .huh?

He wants you to know.

To know what?

Why are all these eyes staring at me?!?!

They're dropping not-too-subtle rock references at you. Watch out.

But I only listen to Good Day Sunshine and Octopus's Garden.

:(

Don't let those Rock 'n' Rollers get to you, you just keep on listening to Good Day Sunshine. Try the Claudine Longet cover.

And as for YOU, rockers, you just get your Johnny Jet pants packin', we don't cotton to your kind around here!

rowboat?! I thought your ship had sailed!

Summed that up cheesily and well. And I was thinking the same thing.

Quote:
I thought your ship had sailed!


Ships without rudders aren't worth commanding.

Yes, I'm "the guy who'll do simply anything to get a Dead Milkmen reference in there." You know the type.

Anyway, no. I was just out-of-doors for a minute.

Dad! You came back! Was...was there a big line for cigarettes at the store?

Girl, you're so groovy.

Ahh-ho-ho-ho.

We would be, so happy, you and me . . . .

Well, I didn't answer you only 'cause I thought some other good samaritan would happen by to do it for me. I was wrong. So here - it's a famous Pixies lyric somehow loosely concerning a famous Bunuel film. If you're inclined to find out more about one or the other, let me opine that, at the end of the day, Doolittle is far more worthwhile and entertaining than Un Chien Andalou.

Oh!
Actually, I heard that song. I remember that I looked it up after I saw that film.

Doolittle is more entertaining than Un Chien? No wonder why kids hate it when I babysit them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_chien_andalou
Can't find a video even though I saw it before online.

I know what it is, ganache mien. Yes, you were correct.

Oh, I assumed you knew what it was. I did that for the benefit of others.

[url=https://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Un chien andalou]one[/url], two ?

Well that was a bizarre move on assetbar's part, replacing pluses with spaces; anyway, try again: one , two .

Thanks.

Don't try pluses. Ever.

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I will, thanks.

Oh my god what a performance. This is just great. Woah.


(Nah, I'm gonna lame you.)

Well, gee, doctor, I've generally enjoyed your posts here, but now I've had to go and ignore you just so my browser doesn't crash when I try to open the page. I guess that means I don't 'get it'.

Oh hey look, how hilarious, people are talking about you and are responding to things you did to annoy them. It's kind of like when you go up to someone and keep poking them and eventually they say 'stop it' and you say 'stoooop iiit' in a high-pitched voice. A stunning achievement, really. Man, it's like you're this powerful mastermind and we're all just puny ants in your antfarm running around. Haha, look how silly we are, trying to use a web forum to communicate. How does it feel to be so powerful?

thanks for providing the requisite overserious "you arent funny go away" that every single internet scoundrel loves to read after doing their shenanigans. You are yelling into an empty abyss dude. you are screaming into a 50 mile per hour wind that only has a hurricane behind it. you are powerless, so just give up and go with it. see where it leads you.

It can't be possible that there are less than 3 people who can mark spam on all of assetbar, can it?

Hey catgrl131. How are you going? Your avatar is entirely creeping me out. If the girl from the Ring was more attractive and far better groomed then you'd be her.

So... yeah, just sayin.

Or alternatively, Nastassja Kinski.

i can mark spam and i did. i don't know where these other two dudes are though.

Hey, guys. I guess you're all wishing you'd put Manflesh on ignore back when I did! Is it really that shocking that a troll would eventually post something that's actually annoying, just because some of his other posts have been mildly entertaining in an ironic, post-modern, shitcocked way?

He just copy/pastes everything, guys! He's not a big deal!

Doesn't anybody notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!

Right! Manflesh is on ignore by default. I can look at his comments on my own terms this way, but through a lens, after the responses accumulate. Like movie reviews.

Come on, man. It's not even the weekend.

For me it is. I'm taking vacation days tomorrow and Friday. WOO

Man, I don't usually get angry and call people names here but you are a fucking prick. A fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking ignorant ass sociopathic fucking prick. Die of testicular cancer; I formally curse you with all the faith of my Irish ancestors.

I hope you've had a lot of Irish ancestors.

Let me throw all the faith of my ancestors too.

I don't like you, guy.

Yes, I replied to the top comment so my comment can be seen, I'll admit it. However, I just wanted to make sure everyone knows that The Great Outdoor Fight hardbound book changed my life and I have now dropped out of law school and started training every single minute for my chance to rule at life. I know commenting like this is a douche thing to do and I apologize in advance to all who would like to chastise me for my douchiness (or dooshiness as someone below commented) and would like to end with a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson. "My name is Ralph Waldo Emerson, but you can call me Ral..."

Thank you Onstad for being Onamazing.

Agreed. I just got my GOF copy today, and it was Ongasmic.

Wait so like... is it just the comics all put together, or is there some new content?

there is new content - a couple of extra strips, along with fight lore and background, recipes, a glossary, etc.

it is ballin'.

Best book yet, it's like a real book with a binding and embossed art on the cover. Tre cool.

it is three ballin

Not to sound like a prick, but do you only look at Achewood through Assetbar, achilleselbow? Onstad has had numerous comments at the top of the "main" page for months now talking about the extra things that will go into the book.

Those announcements are normally worth seeing.

Congratulations on dropping out of law school. We all know it is the right thing to do but so few of us can muster up the gumption to go through with it. Well played, and kudos to Onstad for the assist.

They should make a card for that.


I made the mistake of installing Firefox 3.0.1, and I am suffering through all manner of bugs and inconveniences because of it.

One thing is does do correctly is automatically display long titles, so I can see the caption thingies without installing a plug-in.

What it still doesn't do correctly is show the whole picture when Assetbar puts a scroll bar under a picture, as the one above.

Does anyone know of any plug-in or tool that will show the far right couple of inches of an overly wide picture? Or is it not a Firefox thing but an Assetbar thing? Or am I just an inept mouser?

Thanks for any help I get.

Reinstall FF2

I tried to reinstall FF2, and it crashed so hard I had to use IE to access the fooking mozilla website.

Also, FF2 gave me the same missing-the-right-edge-of-images crap.

And when I right-click, I don't get the option to open the image in a new tab, I just get "View Image," which is fine, except by opening the image in the same tab, it resets all the yellow posts, and makes it harder to find the new posts. This is not so bad when there are only 2 or 3 hundred, but when it gets up to 6 or 8 hundred, it makes Jesus cry.

Get the greasemonkey thing from a few strips back - assetbarista and stop whinging. Open it in a new tab. >.> :p

Yeah, the missing edge/scrollbar thing is an assetbar thing - I get the same thing no matter what browser I use.

the bugs are in assetbar, of course, not firefox.

all you have to do is right-click the image, and then middle-click view image. the image will open in a new tab.

Three-button mouse, I have.

Old, it is.

PS/2 connector, it has not.

Suffer, I will.

Yoda, you are.

I suffer from the same thing in Safari.
Solution: Right-click--'open image in new tab'.

Small price to pay for PhotoBuggery.

*EDIT TO GREETING CARD PHOTOSHOP BUGGERY

Dogg I'm sorry I forgot to sign the card - It has now been signed.

Beef always struck me as the type who would be fat in younger life, 'til I learned he was from Circumstances and couldn't afford it. Also, how Beef does Ray go at the end there! Love it.

Everyone in America that is from circumstances can be fat. You can find enough change on the sidewalk to hit up the dollar menu a couple times a day.

Circumstances in Mogadishu, yeah, fat ain't happenin.

I gotta get me to Mogadishu, then.


(Nah just kidding. I'm not pogo or irateturk)

Yeah, the rate of obesity in the U.S. is actually higher among lower-income people. Produce ain't cheap.

***The More You Know

***The more Frank Black wants you to know?

it makes sense...the dollar store food is total crap full of sugar and salt..put people WILL EAT IT.

my poor art student friend is so excited when she can afford to go to 'dollar scoop' chinese right next to her campus.

"Dollar scoop Chinese"?

Please tell me that is not the horrible-sounding thing I think it is.

seriously it's some of the best chinese i've ever had.

um...sewiously, juys.

My health teacher told us this, too.

I once convinced a girl to date me for three months solid by telling her that you knew Ethiopians were "done" when their belly-buttons popped out.

Ray's belly does not jiggle when he laughs.

Ray has learned to flex his core when he laughs. It is a trick men of gravity learn when they want to appear boisterous, but not "jolly".

Ray is a hard core cat.

Who the fuck do you think he is, Santa Claus?

Guuuuyyss, erinye is sayin' [i]sweeaarrs[/img].

:(

Swearing makes Jesus sad.

(and me too :()

"Eats, Shoots and Leaves" makes a cameo in Achewood. Hurrah! Beef may be sad, but he is hip to proper apostrophe use. Nice.

I think Huey Lewis and the News said something that would make an appropriate pun here somehow.

I got that book for a guy I dated. His grammar was terrible, and he couldn't get enough of that damn joke. I figured the book would be the best for everyone. :)

Damn Lynne Truss co-opted the one joke that I told well. Now everyone knows it, and fools still don't apostrophicate right.

Thanks, I didn't notice that Beef was requesting an apostrophe until I saw your comment. I thought he was just pointing to the year. Makes a lot more sense now. :)

This is helpful, but I still don't understand how the top part of the exclamation point stays where it is. Also, Floyd album screen name double.

After reading that, I went out and bought 'Talk to the Hand'.

Ah, Aqua Net. The greatest hair product ever invented. I remember using like half a can to achieve Robert Smith hair.

*cough* This was waa-a-a-y back in, like, '03.

We all have a time where we chose to look like idiots.

My passport photo with green hair is a little reminder that I should never listen to myself.

It should be noted that I have the green hair, not my passport

LEGIT

I disagree; I usually dye my hair pretty colours. I recently had it a human shade of red for my job...after three weeks I couldn't stand not having the constant attention. My current dye job is terrible and splotchy (I ran out of dye) but I am insanely relieved to be the blue-haired freak again.

Damn, "human shade of red" was a really weird choice of words. I was like, "Does that mean like... a flesh colour?" for about three whole seconds.

And this is coming from someone who is naturally a human shade of red.

Obviously, charchar is a robot.


A robot with red hair. Like this.


I have nothing to do.

Oh that is freaky. That is like a "bad touch" in my brain.

I always though of charchar as something like

NO

T-T

last time we tried Pokemon math, it was kind of a bloodbath

What the mothereff is that second thing.

It certainly is not a pokemon, because there are only 151 pokemon.

There's like 400 or something now. I quit playing when they added a shitton of new ones.

NO. THERE ARE ONLY 151.

(I really liked Gold and Silver, though.)

gold and silver were the best

493 not counting the seperate formes of burmy, burmadam, castform, cherrim, shellos, gastrodon, shaymin, deoxys, giratina and arceus. Pokenerd!

Is that pikachu like, a ditto, or something?

Last time I should say this: It's Pikagoo .

Yay! Pikagoo, I choose you!

"Piiiikagoo!"

"Oh, Pikagoo, you're so cute! Give me a hug!"

*hug*

The important thing here, I think, is that the result of these two is a flaming monkey lizard . Pokemon or not, that is an awesome concept.

I propose a new research project for genetic scientists. Pest-resistant plants or naturally sweet chocolate are great, but this is what the world really needs.

I personally want them to make miniature pet bears. You know, about the size of a small dog. Little black bear or something.

Selective breeding, genetical engineering, dark magic - look, I don't care how, I just want one.

Miniature pandas with extreme intelligence that can walk around on the palm of your hand and be your friend. That's what I think the genetic engineers of our nation should be working on.

But if pandas were that small, you wouldn't be able to hug them.

You could hold them in your mouth.

Did you read the same Bruce Coville short story I did when you were younger?

Where the kid's dad was the ambassador to an alien planet and he didn't read the stuff they gave him about their culture and ended up having to give away his best friend, who was a tiny panda?

Yes, yes I did. I didn't remember who it was by or anything about where I read it. But I remember that panda and the incredible cuteness that my imagination imbued him with.

Yeah yeah yeah! Awesome!

I read that too!

I want tiny giraffes with wings.

I would name mine Esteban.

I love that you have a Pokemon avicon, but not for irony - but because you actually like Pokemon.

I only like the cartoon, myself. And that only because of Team Rocket.






If this page hasn't already compromised the thoughts you have while having sex, I'm glad to have helped.

... Jesse?

Me? No, if that's someone in the picture that you know, then God help you.

I just Google Image Search'd "Team Rocket" (safe search on), and these were the most disturbing things that came up.

You have done good work over the years, Doctor. That is the ONLY REASON that you have not join the conga-line of ignores dancing across this page. Please, don't make me do something I think we'll both regret.

Jesse is the female member of Team Rocket.

In addition, their theme song includes saying "Jesse! James!"

They need to be reminded of who they are.

You're not that far from the truth .

I do not have a hot ass like my namesake, however.

Assdammit, those are two separate words and two separate links.

Just pretend the splotches are intentional, like having torn jeans or something.

the i'ma shell out anything over forty dollars for any piece of clothing until my Wedding Tuxedo, and that thing better be FLY.

My parents forced me to use all kinds of hair control products when I was young. It was like 1971, and my hair was a mad riot of unruly. I spent 15 minutes a day putting crap in it to make it look like something it wasn't ever going to be: 1950s hair.

And me just 9 years old.

i never been this high before

are you doing ... philosophy?

You are like the ombudsman of gratuitous references.

That's just, like, your opinion, man.

that was so perfect I almost fell out of my chair

v-chub for Dude reference

very well played

Bumpishound abides.

Damnit, I just ran out of chubbies! Why must I be so profligate in my spending?

You receive a "chubby", in the parlance of our times.

I never implied that these references were not Yes from time to time.

I had this same hair in a halloween costume once.

Toothpicks and all. I've got pictures.

Pics or it didn't happen.

This should cheer you up for sure.
See, I've got your old I.D., and you're all dressed up like the Cure.

Aw they spelled his name wrong, I only just noticed. Poor Beef!

The grey cat cannot even catch a break as far as getting his name spelled correctly goes.

Roast Beef would carry Spellchecker in his pocket, if science would let him.

The spellchecker would just keep telling him he misspelled Kazantzakis .

At least they just put 'C' there rather than his first name.

Few schools can boast of being as considerate as the angels of heaven in any regard, but Beef and Ray's alma mater is one of them.

Actually, you know what?

Props to Beef for that headshot. That is some intense emo posture. Best I've ever seen.

Thomas Nagel did write the very influential "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"

Chris makes a good point, as Robert Smith sometimes looks like he is wondering what it is like to be a bat.

That was also the only Nagel I could think of, but I couldn't see the connection. Analytic philosophy chubby for you.

i thought it was referring to patrick nagel because when you GIS his name a bunch of women with that kind of hair come up....

That's the Nagel I was thinking of.
nail salon art chubby for you.

Oh, so that's why nail salons always look like a Duran Duran album cover!

I thought it was Patrick Nagel, too. His ladies were always hyper-contrasted white skin, bright lips, black hair beasts, just like a certain Robert Smith.

See?

Geeze, there were actual musicians and girls in Beef's school who didn't spend so much time and money on their hair. At least we know where he got the mad skills he used when he did his hair in the Volvo of Despair. I always thought they came with curse. PS -- so Beef and Ray are about 32. I thought younger, like 28.

Those boys are my homies.

I may share the same graduating year, but I probably wouldn't have hung out with Beef in high school.
Oh sure, we might have talked after a particularly interesting creative writing class, where he was really impressed with the passionate rage in the piece I wrote (which, incidentally, I wrote as a joke--just a long rant about something I saw on TV, to piss off my teacher).
And we might have had mutual friends who bridged the not-quite-smart-enough -to-be-a-nerd- but-not-socially-developed-enough -to-be-noticed group and the "emotion hair" standoffs that smoked close to the back door, smoked so furiously at the 2nd-shift janitor, just daring him to say something, so they could reveal what they knew about the freshman panty-shot shrine that he kept in his small locker in the auto shop.
But we wouldn't have been friends, per se. We wouldn't have had that much to talk about, and we would have been simultaneously embarrassed at our failure to connect with another soul that had felt so many similar things.
Not even music-- listened to what a lot of my friends listened to. And I didn't bring too much to the table besides Weird Al, Monty Python, Dr. Demento clips, and the Christian rock that I thought was "pretty hard stuff". I felt decadent listening to 'Kiss off', like I should say 'sorry' to God each time I heard it and enjoyed it.
We wouldn't have been friends, but I think that if we ran into each other at the 10-year reunion, the names would spring to the front of our minds immediately, and we would instantly brighten our eyes: "aww yeah! I remember hanging with you at Greg's house that time we filmed that crappy Civil War re-enactment, and you totally wouldn't change out of that sweater with the leather stripe through it, even though it was totally not era-appropriate! How've you BEEN, man?"

But, then again, I was pretty vanilla. All 6'4", about a buck-sixty, sporting a non-bowl near-pageboy that got me confused with the ass from the Encyclopaedia Britannica TV commercials. Some of my senior pictures featured me on a Harley...

...but I hadn't earned it.

...oh, and for catgrl131:

Sooooooo GAY!

No, pogo: Sooooooooo YAY!

What an attractive woman.

Hey kid, don't forget you have a report due on space.

YES.

Always wondered where my mandibula was.

That was cool. I know exactly how that is, haha. You painted your experiences pretty good.

They had Weird Al back then?

Although he was already an uncool high school senior the year after I was born, he was already getting airplay on the radio show I would listen to through my own uncool years...

Is he asking for the apostrophe, or is somebody off-screen telling him where he's supposed to hold the apostrophe and he's gesturing to say "You mean here?"

I definitely get the sense that he carries it with him for just such occasions, looking furtively around to ensure that no one notices his correction.

Other uses for an apostrophe: Crack crab legs and claws with the apostrophe for an almost mess-free seafood dinner ... An apostrophe makes the ideal coffee table coaster for nice crispy stellas ... Try using apostrophes as condiment holders at your next backyard barbecue!

It can also be used as a surface on which to set about three lemons

or a portable model of the epididimus.

or perhaps




w00t!

Oh, terrible . Chubbied anyway.

I had a bunch of apostrophe coasters, but people were always trying to yin yang them.

69, dudes!

Isn't it called the 69 because, um, like that was when the hippies where, and they always did that?

Oh Philippe, Philippe...

Yes, Liebot?

It's called 69 because that's the age at which people learn to do it! Ask your grandparents!

Yay! And I will!

Chubby for clearing up what I believed to be a random extra mini-nine.

i'm so stupid that nine don't even have a hole in it how could it be a nine that doesn't even make sense god damn it. why would a nine be there anyway even if it had a hole? stupid stupid stupid

Hey... hey... it wasn't stupid. Okay? It wasn't stupid.

oh, and I didn't give you that chubby

Th...thank you?

Well, I didn't. Just saying.

*~* saulbellow's feelings on this asset are:



*~*

Listen, FP, baby, we blew the quarterly budget on this Lloyd Dobler "not gay" sign, you're gonna have to work it into 75% of your comments going forward if you wanna stay out of the red on assetbar.

I am going to print this picture out, frame it, and think of you always.

Skimming through here, it just occurred to me how much Roast Beef and Lloyd Dobler are alike. Lloyd is like Roast Beef with self-confidence.

Yeah, I learned how to do the right kind of quotation marks because 66 came before 99.


For a while I also made sure that every single quotation I used was exactly 33 letters long, too... I wonder if that makes me strange.

Curses... 32 letters.

No no that is perfectly normal.

I would worry if you didn't do that.

"Yeah, 33 letters is iffy, but 32 is normal."

Well at least it's a power of two

it is a Computer number and that makes it awesome to me.

Approved.

Fived for the look on Beef's face in the fifth panel when he realizes the apostrophe is missing. This is why I love Roast Beef.

I heard that a fisherman who fell overboard managed to save himself by lassoing a passing dolphin with a lariat made solely of unraveled New Wave mix tape. So in a way, Beef's depression helped save a life.

It's kind of hard to imagine Beef ever putting on such airs. I mean, who the hell did he think he was?

That kind of hair does fit a guy named "Cassandra" pretty good, though.

You buy the ticket and take the ride.

Except his ticket was a shitty birthday present.

At first I thought this one was for Pogo.

(Just joshing...)

'66 would be my year, dude. And I was into Beatle hair. But thanks for the thought.

"Senior" portrait. Get it? Huh huh. I'll go shoot myself now.

Hey, man. Shitty jokes about Pogo's age are my raison d'etre. Thou shalt not horn in on another man's racket, and all that.

Only one way to settle this, son.




I'm cheering for Cromar!!!!

(no offense, I_love_kate... but my name is Kate and your s/n is kinda creepin me out... that, and he's a cool pink skull.)

Oh well thank you. I hope you like my new wig as much. Or at least enough to be my second still.

The new wig is quite impressive, I must say.

Oh, Pogo. I'm glad you're here.

Beef brought his own apostrophe. Damn. God dammit.

"Kid! KID! Hey! That's not for you to stuff down your pants to make up for your 'Somehow I haven't hit puberty yet' dong. It's an apostrophe. Hold it up or people will think 93 is your place in the graduating class. I swear , kids these days..."

Ray talks like Beef at the end of this one.

Also, note the typo under Beef's photo. He's been tragically mistaken for a Mr. Kazenzatis.

It is the quietest running gag in the world

Thank jeebus. Needs more Ray!!!

if you hover the mouse over your avatar, the two pictures move their hands at different times. it's an interesting effect.

Every time I try it they're perfectly in sync. What am I doing wrong?

Every time I do it they're perfectly in sync. What am I doing wrong?

Since I am a loser:

When I saw this comment at work and checked it on Internet Explorer, they were moving at different times.

Now I am home, on Firefox, and they are in sync.

Perhaps this is the problem?


On firefox, on linux - out of sync.

quazifuji thinks double-posting merits a "whoops"

Last panel.. love it. "Emotions Hair" will be part of my vocabulary from this day forth.

I didn't ask my mother to pay for my session, but I certainly did end up with the same awkward poses, only around a tree.

Outside with the tree. Awkward kneeling next to the tree. Touching the tree with one hand, both hands. Trying to lean away from the tree while holding onto it or a low branch above it.

God fucking curse the goddamned photographers who somehow get in touch with mothers for grad photos.

FUCK THEM.

I posed by a fence in my cross-country letter jacket. I look like a gangly, un-hip young marlon brando. Essentially, a toolbox.

Pix pls.

Your relationship with that tree was a complex tapestry of oh what the fuck do you care .

An addiction to Aqua-Net is a very hard thing to break. It kinda bends a little bit, but breaking? O hells no.

Mul-tee-pass
Mul-tee-pass...

I just can't stop...

Oh God the Sit Down High School Portrait. Senior fucking Pictures, man. I remember everyone getting stacks of these wallet-sized pictures of themselves, like you were supposed to sign them and hand them out or something. Like teenagers aren't narcissistc enough, we all have to pretend to be celebrities with prepared stacks of pictures the last year of high school.

I would not have enjoyed the company of a high school Beef.

Sigh... I abhor rampant douchebaggery.

do you have a shaven pussy

good question

This thread made my brain cry.

i think the expectation was some cryin pussy
IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN :0)

Actually, her avatar could be said to be saying that

This went to kind of a weird place.

Comment left by ---- ignored.

why dont you fuck me anymore

Survey saaaaaays:

Show me "potato salad!"

BZZZT

The number-one answer?

Fish taco!

Now that's a fishy smelling taco!

Tintern Supplicant

Side A
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
Joy Division - Transmission
Husker Du - Don't Want to Know if You are Lonely
U2 - With Or Without You

Side B
Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun
The Jesus and Mary Chain - The Hardest Walk
Sonic Youth - Shadow of a Doubt
The Smiths - How Soon is Now?

C(RB)K '93

I forgot how old Roast Beef was, but I guess he had grown out of Venom and Dead Kennedys by high school. Which is a shame, really.

Well the Dead Kennedys are mentioned in his high school zine....and the dead kennedys rule...so I will assume that he didn't grow out of them at that time. Still that mixtape is pretty much what I imagine Roast Beef would put on a mixtape. It's the kind of stuff Molly put on her youtube tape for him.

Bonus track: Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead

sje46's CD:
Side A
1. Beatles: Good Day Sunshine
2. Beatles: Good Day Sunshine
3. Beatles: Good Day Sunshine
4.Beatles: Good Day Sunshine
5.Beatles: Good Day Sunshine
6. Beatles: Good Day Sunshine
Side B
1. Beatles: Good Day Sunshine
2. Beatles: Good Day Sunshine
3. Beatles: Good Day Sunshine
4.Beatles: Good Day Sunshine
5.Beatles: Good Day Sunshine
6. Beatles: Octopus's Garden

I seriously just snorted sorbet reading that. Good work.

A two sided CD? How...widescreen and standard format DVD of you!

This is the best Assetbar Philippe Mix Tape EVER!

Noooooo! You forgot freezepop 'Here comes a special boy' !

Haha, I like that song. I can't believe I didn't look it up before.

Side B hidden track:
"Here comes a special boy"

"Special Boy" is a real upper.

This strip reminds me that I completely missed my senior portrait session....

I suppose the world will have to get along without photographic evidence of charchar in a black, shawl-type thing.

I wonder if it counts as missing if I didn't even try to hit.

I'm not a fan of formalwear so I carefully prevented all correspondence related to the photography from ever coming into sight of my mother. I think they ended up using the same photo that was on my student ID.

I had a really awesome hat in mine. It was GREAT.

i wish my school had done that...

it's okay! really!! i wasn't seen AT ALL in my senior yearbook. i am just a place in the Senior 'Not Pictured' section.

(not quite the saddest thing)

A time where he tried to hide his circumenstances with the hair of the week and cool stuff like the year book. He didn't even go by the name Roast Beef.

Beef only gets a C for his first name, but it looks like the girl next to him gets her whole name.

Unless she has only a last name and it is Tiffan.

I believe Cassandra's request was filed in writing.

I think Beef made a fuss with the yearbook staff so they wouldn't print his given name. In revenge they misspelled his last.

If he's like me, then he didn't tell the high school his first name at all.

I was referred to by my nickname all through high school because I used it on the registration forms in the "first name" box.

Did that not create a problem with standardized testing and applying to college?

Any standardized testing was done through the school anyway, and I guess the university I got into didn't really care. I definitely got in, and using my actual name.

Which would be (if I may inquire discreetly?) . . .?

My first name is Nicholas.

So, what? Did you say Nick because you really hate the name nicholas and didn't want to be called that, or was it just a mistake?

his nickname in HS was Cassandra...

I like that name!

Why is Roast Beef so embarrassed by it? It's beautiful sounding.

I have a girl's name (Sam), and I'm not embarrassed by it.

I thought you said your name was Sean?

Oh gee umm someone has a good memory haha oh boy.

(yeah, I'm Sean).

But Sean isn't a girl's name, and thus that ruins my terrible joke.

Unfortunately, I was told by my fortune teller that I'd fall in love with a guy with an ambiguously feminine name from the Internet.

I guess the glass slipper travels ever o n w a r d. . . ***siiighz****

We can . . we can still hang out. I mean, if you want. I haven't seen The Dark Knight yet. Do you, umm, wanna come with me?

Shawn is a girl's name, so it kind of works.

No it isn't . . . .

Not in this country.

You should see Bladerunner some time if you think Sam is a girl's name and Sean isn't.

I think Sam is a unisex name. I never said it was only a girl's name.

Sheesh.

No no no, my point is that Sean Young who plays Rachel in Bladerunner is all kindsa woman.

She's my mother's age!

I decline comment on her attractiveness.

Sam can go either way though. It's neutral, not female. You could just as easily say girls named Sam have a guy's name.

(My friends include both a male Sam and a female Sam, so when they're both in the same place we refer to them as "Girl Sam" and "Guy Sam.")

Cassandra, on the other hand, is definitely a girl's name.

That went

It'd be really weird if they started dating.

I know a guy called Sam who used to date a girl called Sam. I'm not kidding.

an old married couple from my hometown: Carroll and Carol Jewell

Jack and Jackie Kennedy?

A couple in my hometown: Ken and Barbie Dahl.

I am not fucking kidding.

You are so kidding.

Didn't they divorce? (the dolls, I mean)

No lie, I sit next to Dick Wood in english class.

I was 12 at the time I believe that explains the logic sufficiently.

I said Rich.

Haha, right.

Rich? I like Nick better, but that's a personal preference.

Hi, (Nicholas/Rich/Nick/whatever you go by now)!
*shakes hand*

<-- I go by Stereo

Surely you needtwo people, one on each side. Like so.

--> I go by Stereo <--

As a fellow Nick, Nick > Nicholas, and on bubble-sheets, you usually get your name back reading "Nichol" which is basically Nicole and which sucks. Nick > Nicholas always.

stoic hair is better for the environment.

Patrick Nagel is not the same as Thomas (or Ernest) Nagel. The reference is somewhat lost on me.

So, does this mean that Beef is bald now?

I think he shaves his head.

Remember when Pat looked like how Roast Beef looks like now? When did he grow hair, anyway?

The cats have very confusing hair.

My cat gets clumps, but Ray and Beef and Pat and the rest never do.

It's messing up my suspension of disbelief.

RB's Hair = Ray's phone-jacket.

Discuss.

I'm for it.

Good. Here's the jacket and a wig.

Yes!
Now I have a costume for halloweeen!

Hell hath no fury like a friends scorn for old yearbook photos!

it's wonderful that he pulls out an apostrophe.

Hmmm, in my first last year of High School I had the single portait taken that we could use on I.D. that was free if you bought the class pic. Those students not having the "nice" portrait done went through first and we where sat down and hap our phot taken and then moved on. So my I.D. had me looking surprised because my photo was taken as I was falling of the posing stool.

For my second last year of high School (don't do drugs until you start university kids) I decided to forgo the portrait and class pic (it was a different school, my old one wouldn't let me back, though to be fair when they asked why I wanted to return I said I knew where the toilets where already). I was at this new school 'cause I had fucked up at the last one so while all the other students had special purple class jumpers I had only bought the minimum school uniform, white shirt and grey shorts from the school's second hand uniform shop. My best mate, who was also repeating his last year at the same new school had bought the same minimal uniform (although to be fair he had quit and got a job halfway though the previous year rather than just being a truant pot smoker like me). The night before the photos we were looking at old class pics from our previous school. He and I both admired a pic of a very cool schoolmate of ours who also sold us drugs. He had a a very cocky pose that incorporated a thrust forward jaw and a slight turn to the side. We both decided to try this pose in the class photo although niether of us told the other. When the photos came back we where there in out stark white shirts in a sea of purple. Both of us sticking our jaws up and to the side (too far, we looked ridiculous), looking like we had been hiding untill the photo was taken and then SPRANG up like masai warriors. It was generally accepted that we had ruined the class photo on purpose. No one believed us when we said we were just trying to look cool.

Haha.

I love that toilet line, btw.

Are drugs fun? I have been wondering if I should try cannibis or opium, however I am concerned about the side effects and addiction. But I will be accepted into my school's inner clique, correct?

I asked my mother, but she was currently fishing a hotpocket out of the toilet, and she is not to be bothered when she does that, if I wish to eat.


Suuuuuure.

Wait, is opium, like still a thing people do? Like in its non-heroin form? Is there any place in the world where you can still find decadent opium dens like in From Hell?

Where I'm from, yes.


Where are you from, if you don't mind me asking? Because where I'm from, the cool kids these days are all about alcohol and pot. And occasionally some E.

Actually I was going to lie and say a good place that would be funny, but I couldn't think of nothin'. To tell the truth, I am from NH, and the drugs of choice are similar to you. No opium.

I think opium is big in Afghanistan, though. And China.

New Hampshire: No opium, but plenty of weed.

You heard it here first!

The Vietnamese (Mafia?) set up a multi-million-dollar marijuana-growing operation in NH/MA, using McMansions. Two of them were in my neighborhood. I think it was like $24 million, or something. Huge news for a rural town of 4,000. Anyways, NH does have normal-to-high amount of marijuana.

What the hell happened to MDMA? Everyone in Ireland does rotten nasty coke now and apparently hideous, awful meth is strating to get a hold. I loved E. E wass great once in a while; now nobody wants to dance like a fool and hug. Thay want to snort lines and act like cocks to strangers.

Wait til Meth really gets going over there. Ice is big in Australia now, and it's just ruining people. I concur with your nostalgia.

Oh god what did we too polite, pie baking farmers do to you good people of the world!! (Nebraska is like Meth-Mecca unfortunately...shit started here). I was shocked to learn that it had taken hold on the east coast as a "fun, new drug" a few years back, shit's made of the nastiest things and kid's were treating like a club drug. Fie on synthetics!

Every state in the Midwest "claims" meth as their own creation. God made it, dude.

God made it, but trailer parks and diapers perfected it.

Here in good ole' London I know tons of people who do MDMA. Never tried it myself, though.

They do Dragon's Blood incense, and nobody bothers to tell them otherwise.

I remember buying some opium scented incense in college, assuming it was just a name that was put on the packet to make it sound cool. Then one of my mates came into my room and went "Dude, why does your room smell of opium?"

So I replied "To cover up the smell of weed?"

Hemp incense is the stupidest thing I have ever seen sold. Either smoke hemp, or gtfo

I only use hemp incense if I need to cover up the smell of dead hookers.

I wouldn't start with opium.

Yeah, what am I, a wimp?

HARDCORE HEROIN FIRST.

agreed. starting drugs with opium is like starting drinking with some weird wormwood/mezcal mix drink. dude should try like a single whip-it and some MJ, then if he feels alright go from there.

I, "Assetbar Phillippe" greatly appreciate your advice!

No no no. Start with getting your eye teeth kicked in by a numb-nosed Inuit girl two feet shorter than you were on the day you were born, then go straight to Drano.

Jeez. You really gotta hold kids' hands these days.

drugs are awesome fun. drugs can have side effects however. You can shop at the balck market, you can shop at the white drug farmacy, you can shop at the helfud store. I would say that drugs are only one tool to use on the path to self-enlightenment. General education and self-awareness is another good thing to go after. good luck!

Thank you! I now have made up my mind.

Drug induced stupor for now on!

(!!)

Nooooo! Don't do it! Have caffine and sugar instead! It's not to late to stop this!

i completely have enough of these two.

i want to find some Salvia somewhere. can you buy this at places or is it Against The Rules?

In America, I think it's legal.

But bad for you.

Legal, really gross, and gives you a horrible headache.

It is legal in America. It is also really, really not worth your time.

Don't worry! I cut my heroin with sugar, so it's all right.

Wow! I'm so . . relaxed right now! And happy!

Achilleselbow's position on drugs:

Basically anyone who makes drugs their Thing is an extremely lame and worthless individual. This includes the pothead who won't shut up about Pink Floyd and what movies are great to watch when high, the drunkard who constantly feels the need to tell you what stupid shit he did or where he vomited last night, and the acid-head who prattles on about how eating a plant will expand your mind and make you see the face of God.

Aside from that, occasional casual use of drugs is no big deal and often enjoyable. A well-made Brandy Alexander is both delicious and a good conversation piece. A joint or pipe passed around at a party or while watching a movie with friends can make the situation that much more hilarious. And though it won't make you reach nirvana, a quiet day spent in a controlled environment after eating an acid tab or consuming quality shrooms (perhaps ground up and mixed into a cup of tea) can leave you with some intellectually and aesthetically interesting new impressions.

There are also drugs like heroin and coke that are actually addictive and fairly damaging to your body, and, seeing how they don't leave you with any lasting impression beyond a temporary physical pleasure that you will feel the urge to seek again, are not worth trying at all.

Hope that helps.

I am 19 and am one of the very few people I know who has not tried alcohol or marijuana. And I had plenty of chances to. But I always just said no.

aww yeah, man. hooray.

hooray for us Jane virgins.

You never smoke the "pot" but you like salvia?

MArijuana is no good, though. In my opinion.

Philippe, just because TV tells you something is bad for you doesn't mean it is. By any scientific measure, alcohol, cigarettes, and fatty foods are far worse for you than either weed or salvia.

But I eat fatty foods all the time!

And Lyle makes me eat cigarettes too!

(i've never had salvia.)

^but have had whoper^

At least you had the chance... Still Uni. Soon...

Oh, man. Are you starting at uni in September/October too? That is James Bond in a dressing gown!

No, actually I'm starting my sophomore year in . . .Monday actually. I should pack.

And yes, I had the chance, but I've had the chance since middle school. I said no on purpose.

Chubby for SPRANG!

Ray's hair emotion: Pimpin'

OOOOOOH SHIIIIIIIIIT!

What! What did you do!?

Your father and I are going to have a long talk about your punishment when he gets home.

All over my favorite rug.

Man, I don't even know. What's worse is that it wasn't even that funny of a joke and each time you read it, it get's less and less funny.

Actually the awesome thing about it is you essentially created the Achewood equivilant of early Family Guy, where you take one terrible joke, repeat it ad infinitum, thereby making it AWESOME.

Ray's hair emotion: Pimpin'

Could you repeat that?

This is what happens when you're sober all the time, kids.

Ray's hair emotion: Pimpin'

What happen ?

The repeating gives me the scary impression that Lyle is having some kind of furious neck seizure.

Ray's hair emotion: Pimpin'

Hmm, are you sure?

Ray's hair emotion: Pimpin'

GASP!

Ray's hair emotion: Pimpin'

heymanwhut?

Ray's hair emotion: Pimpin'

Can you say that again? I couldn't hear you.

Ray's hair emotion: Pimpin'

homosayz: "Ray's hair emotion: Pimpin"

snap.

Ray's hair emotion: Pimpin'

hey guys what do you think ray's hair emotion is ?

Redundant

oh autrepoupee, you always make me lol. and i don't lol easily.

Skoora:

I'm not going to ignore you, this time. But be aware.

You are On Notice, chief.

Looks like someone's got a case of the Mondays!

That's something that, when said, will get your ass kicked.

damn it feels good to be a gangsta.

I will add that song to my CD, between the third and fourth Good Day Sunshines on side B.

Nah, the best Office Space song is the one by Scarface

Now the funeral is over and all the tears are dried up
Niggas hangin deep on the cut gettin fired up
Lookin for the nigga who pulled his pistol on my homie
An eye for an eye, so now your life is what you owe me
Look deep into the eyes of your muthafuckin killer
I want you to witness your muthafuckin murder, nigga
And since you wants to kill, then your ass has got to fry
But ain't no police, therefore your ass has gots to die
We play the game for keeps and if you slept I guess you sleep
You sho nuff fucked and now your ass is six feet deep
Cause where I come from, yo, everybody's got a gat
And niggas try your ass just to see where you got your heart at
And if your shit is flimsy, then your ass is gonna bend
And like I said before there'll be no tears in the end
I'm rollin through your hood, now my heart is filled with anger
You at your sister's house and now your sister's life in danger
(By a total stranger) with the ?kanga?
Niggas wanna bang ya and hang ya
Sting ya with one up in the chamber
Let's take a trip up Holloway
So you can see how many niggas in my hood is down to die today
We standin up for our own shit
And if you outside the click, then you die, bitch
It ain't no love in this muthafucka
It ain't no love for yourself or your other brother
Because we real with this shit, so we stay true
And since we bang, we do what O.G.'s say do
I've got the mind of the man in the mirror
So I'm lookin at me vaguely
But I can't seem to fade me
I've got my pistol pon cock
Ready to lick shots non-stop
Until I see your monkey-ass drop
And let your homies know who done it
Cause when it comes to this gangsta shit
you muthafuckas know who run it
So when you put this muthafucka to the test
You gotta realize somethin, nigga: (you fuckin with the very best)
I've got this killer up inside of me
I can't talk to my mother, so I talk to my diary
I'm goin off on the deep end
I find myself face to face with myself while I'm sleepin
I see your picture in my head and my hand shake
You can run, you can hide, but there's no escape
My inner feelings show no mercy on my enemy
I got to get this muthafucka before he gets to me
So in your own blood you'll bathe
And I won't stop until I put this muthafucka in his fuckin grave
And I can say this once again
You can cry but you'll still die, there'll be no tears in the end


via ohhla.com

Don't blame him! He blames himself.
Don't hate hime! He hates himself.
He's a killer with a broken heart.

A chubby for appreciating me! Thank you.

Roast Beef has come a long way from "caring a great deal about fashion" to "would rather be kicked in the head than be thought to enjoy fashion"

Wow, one of the worst batches of comments yet! I may stop coming to this joint.

I was hoping really hard that one of those o's was a 0 or that the g was a 6 somehow and that it wasn't really you, Pogo.

quick, Kickstart, show him some tits! It worked before, it can work again.

WA-OH, KICKSTART POGO'S HEART HOPE IT NEVER STOPS !

No, pogo is right.

I just want to read and discuss a fucking comic strip, this is starting to get frustrating.

I guess the chaff has been especially chafing this time 'round.
Currently tracking down some boobs. Stand by.

I was looking for a video of "Holding Your Own Boobs Magazine," and, finding none, quickly lost interest in the project.

Thanks for the thought, I mean, the very idea that you were trying to track down a boob shot for me is well, MOIST!

Don't give up!

Follow your dreams!
If you can't find one, make one yourself!
I support you!

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm gonna ask 'em where they're going, and then hook up with 'em later.

Dogg you know dreams ain't got no sense of direction.

Just for posterity, I think that there are now as many Christian Bale avatars on Assetbar as there are Philippe avatars.

How come?

What are you dense? Are you retarded or something? How the hell do you think they come?

He's the goddamn Batman.

Also, Philippe is five.

My heart thanks you, autre.

who are you calling a 'batch', shatbaag?

...stoopid boy.

Ahhh come on pogo, last couple o' days have been a shit storm of horrible, but this'll turn around. Say they will. Say it with me!

Isn't it "Kazenzakis" or does Wikipedia have it wrong?

That's the joke. Maybe if you actually read the strip YOU WOULD KNOW THIS. This is a recurring joke on Achewood.

A comment left by theguitarhero was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by NDCaesar, woodenteeth, DrSkradley, Lumus)

Okay . . ..
I have never said anything to offend anyone, ever. I'm not a troll. I'm none of those things you said.

If you don't like it, then leave, baby.

I asked that question because I wasn't sure exactly what his last name was. I was checking if this was a joke, or if Wikipedia was wrong.

I have read all the strips, and apparently I didn't notice this recurring joke. That doesn't mean you have to viciously insult me.

What is it with (some) people here?

VICIOUS. Sorry you were an easy target at the time. I am pissed off though that my computer keeps freezing everytime I open assetbar because of spammers.

SORRY FOR BEING A JERK SORRY MOM SORRY DAD SORRY COLLEGE.

That's all right. Apology accepted.

I was in a terrible mood too, because of Dr. Manflesh. I hate these spammers and trolls, too. People think that I'm a troll because I said "third post!" once and I have a weird sense of humor sometimes. But I wouldn't try to make people's computers crash.

But apology accepted.


Haha actually it was about the mix cd thing. I really didn't find it funny and instead of venting through normally means I was a dick to a stranger.

I'm not really a funny guy.

I am a big fan of the Beatles though. Like, a little too much.

Being a big fan of the Beatles is like being a big fan of ice cream. Almost everyone is one, and the few people that aren't are either allergic or from countries that don't speak English.

Allergic to the Beatles?


Yeah, i know, it was almost a good metaphor.

EPIC FAIL

kinda.

(God, what a dumb meme)

Marzipan makes this a no.

Every time I am given the opportunity to eat ice cream I am always reminded of the time we made ice cream in school and mine turned out really salty and made me throw up.


I think you were confused as to where the salt went.

My ice cream was the most delicious ice cream I ever had.

The Beatles give me hives.

The Hives give me the ruttles.

The Ruttles gave me the clap!

The Clap gave me anthrax!

Anthrax gave me The Cure.

The Cure turned my cranberries deep purple.

As our AssetbarPhillipe that mixtape thing was great. I'm glad he's turned you around and you're all Best Friends.

Wikipedia is never wrong. Where it is in disagreement with reality, it is reality that is wrong.

fuck it i'm done. I'm tired of longing into Assetbar and having my computer crash because of spammers.

if you need me i'll be in the armory.

When I went to an arts magnet high school I convinced a bunch of goth types to pose in a "spirit portrait" for the ABBA appreciation society. We chose the pink confetti background and held up photos of the band and a hand lettered sign.

senior video
we don't wanna know
phony rock and roll

he mentioned that there was a missing apostrophe and they made one out of the cardboard box that the day's beef patties had come in.

sometimes being proper isn't proper.

so does this place roast beef at 33 years old

roast beef strikes me as the kind of guy who would do high school in three years

What fucking cocksucker posted the gay-ass thing below that has fucked my browser?!!

I want this fuck found! I want him killed. I want his children killed! I want his home burned down! I want to go over there tomorrow and piss on the fucking ashes!!

Below? I thought the problems were above. Anyway, calm down, *Ignore User* and we're back to the fun.

It took me two hours of wrestling with a crashing browser to get to 'ignore user'. Rrgh!

AS I can tell from your face, it seemed like a struggle indeed.

I love Beef more and more with each comic.

"well this should cheer you up for sure
see, I've got your old I.D.
and you're all dressed up like The Cure"

Battle of Who Could Care Less, Whatever and Ever Amen, Ben Folds Five, 1997

I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest
so I can be for you what you want me to see

I got the gestures and sounds, got the timing down
it's uncanny, yeah you'd think it was me

Emotions Hair.

Just Slayin'.

Is it me or did they mis-spell Roast Beef's name in the yearbook? Kazenzakis, isn't it?

...Maybe.

Been said

...Yes. Just... yes.

i wonder, when will we meet roast beef's mother? will she be a dried-up floozy with bad boobs?

Crummy boobs.

All wobbling to and fro. Possibly being thrown over her shoulder like a continental soldier.

Or does it explode?

Sorry. That comment reminded me of a poem (A dream deffered)

You might like this comic , young SeanSam

Nice.

That's one of those comics I've been meaning to read, but I haven't found any time (which is a joke, because I had no job or responsibilities the whole summer).

It is Sean! Sean, I say!

Huh, what do you know! My life is, in most regards, the polar opposite of Beef's. (Would "Jolly Good" be the phrase?) However, this exact thing happened to me !

Except it was my destitute ass-mom.

Oh shucks, silly assetbar! Making my BBcode work like that!

What I intended was: "However, [i]this exact thing happened to me[i]!"

I don't understand what you're saying. I'm not sure if what you're saying means anything.

Appropriate punctuation is so goth.

it just took 86.419 seconds to load asset bar and it was sooo not worth it.

A little nod to George Herriman and Krazy Kat 's idiosyncratic tilted panels in the middle row, there?

Oh, by the way guys, I'm going to France for a week tomorrow so don't go establishing any new running jokes while I'm away. I saw what happened to those poor souls who were away for the Great Handface Weekend and I just... I couldn't survive that.

So yeah. Be dull for a week or so, k?

K.

Bye! I'll miss you!

(I genuinely will.)

I promise!

Psst...everybody...let's make this the funnest handboobweekend EVER!

Yes! I love you catgrl! It will be so fun! Until you are so naked.

People can't read this if it's in italics, right?

Hey everybody, Christian Bale avatars!

Let's do this!

Oh hell yes

I am all over this!! I got my avataricon all set!



Hey...where'd everbody go?

Yeah, the Handface Weekend was a uncomfortable thing to come back to. Made me stay away for another two months just to be sure it was gone.

Is anyone other than me still doing it?

(Note: I am not some loser trying desperately to cling on to a trend praying it comes back. It's just that this is my avatar and was before handfaceweekend and I fear if I change it no one will have any idea who I am ever again.)

I'm doing it right now.

Did you eat Italian food beforehand?

I saw a portrait taken of me in high school last month. Sure didn't look like me. I thought it was just a stock photo in the picture frame purchased from Walgreen's. It turns out the pictures that my mother has hung over her fireplace for a decade are in fact me and my little brothers. We had hair then. I wonder if she's secretly ashamed that she gave birth to three totally bald dudes.

I wrote a little aside about a day in the life for Roast Beef back when he was in high school, but I ended up pressing Backspace when the browser wasn't focused on the comment posting box. So it's all gone now.

Sorry.

Are you sure it wasn't some sorta Bea Arthur/Olsen Twins slashfic taking place at a chimichanga stand?

In my senior yearbook, there's this picture of me sitting in a chair on stage, legs played, cupping my balls. I'm not sure when this happened, or exactly in what context it took place. I am extremely angry at the person who did the layout on that page, as I'm sure this was a personal attack on me. Come to think of it, why did someone even take that picture?

Sorry about that dude. I thought that was funny.

To make you feel better, try this for embarrassing. This was outside the cafeteria window during lunch, and that window spans the whole wall. This is what I'm remembered for.

Woah! You're that girl? I remember you!

Not really. I don't know you. But if it's any consolation, my friend went into a trashcan (one of the lidded ones) and hid until our other friend came so that he could scare him.

So at least you didn't, like, smell.

In the cafeteria crowd's defense, as you started to sing, you did start dancing the Elaine ...

Awesome. On par with the book report I gave in front of my 3rd grade class. Halfway through the report, I had to leave suddenly, to run to the bathroom. Walking back into that classroom, and finishing that report... That's life, there.

You think that's bad? Try doing this .

Wow.

I gotta say, if you continue posting these shame spirals on YouTube, the least of your worries is going to be classmate rejection...

P.S. - Move somewhere away from the eternal tornado that appears to sit next to your school...

This perfectly captures the Zeitgeist of that foul year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety three.

Ray has taken on Beef's vocal mannerisms lately. I think it started with his wedding speech.