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Simon Calls! (Pat's Father) Friday, August 12, 2005 • read strip Viewing 60 comments:

Y'know Pat still has some warm feelings in his heart for his dad if he hasn't taken the time to change his name from Father to Simon in his Call ID.

I think his Caller ID can only support 5 predefined names.

and three of them are Foucault

Je ne sais une dick.

Dicque.

Oh shit oh damn, I've been goin' through the archives, and I see all these guys from years abd months ago, and here you are posting from 13 HOURS AGO, oh man don't leave me.

Yes, the tiny yellow blocks of a new post on old strips. Have you been stalking pigeon_street since your chance meeting?

Emphasizing that you are calling your father by his first name is one of the worst things you can do though. I still regret every time I called my late father John.

aw... Huuuuuuuuuugs!

My brother used to call my father by his name. Are you my brother? You have to tell me if you are.

It is the rules

I call my father "git"

His dad seems so frigging nice.

Pat is so mad that his phone is ringing.

that made me laugh, too. He went from shocked that the phone was ringing, to "WHO THE FUCK would CALL ME?!"

Who calls anybody anymore?! How rude!

Pat's attitude towards his father is very similar to my brother's attitude towards me.

If you would just cut it out with the damn kazoo ...

Is there a version of the William Tell Overture that isn't enthusiastic? It would take effort and serious funding...

or you know...just switch it to a minor key and slow it down to funeral march speed. not difficult to do. but still would sound pretty ridiculous on a kazoo.

Maybe I'll do this because I essentially do nothing anyways, and a hobby is good.

Probably if it was an abridged version played by a junior high school orchestra. That is the most likely candidate for an unenthusiastic performance of any Rossini piece.

Man it is kind of weird but I can actually empathize with the first two panels.

First ring: "A call? Unexpected!"
Second ring: "I hate the sound of a ringing phone."

"A phone is like a woman who hates you. It's all she does."

Five'd for absolutely irrational hatred. Always funny.

it's not irrational to hate people who play the kazoo loudly into a phone and attend Burning Man.

Hell, a childhood filled with that would probably turn me into a hating asshole, too.

Hey, nice avatar. Sammy Nickle the Juicy Pickle! God I love that rhyme.

Hmm.. I was thinking that this is someone whom I wish to know better.

For me the problem has always been one of not understanding how people who go to Burning Man are also the kind of people who can afford to go to Burning Man.

Apparently Google got pretty empty that weekend though.

Anybody here ever been to Burning Man? I've always been curious but I've never managed the courage to take several hundred dollars and a trip across the country just to hang out and get high with hippies. I realize there are other things happening at Burning Man besides that, I'm just having a hard time imagining what they are.

Yup, I've been for 5 years running. It's a hell of a thing, aside from the dirty fucking hippies and ravers and new age pussy hounds. I just consider it a big camping trip with my friends, and beer, and titties.

It's not irrational.

Pat is from circumstances.

brilliant character exposition here, and worth a five for that all by itself (the rest just makes it so awesome).

why are the "F" "A" and "E" all capitalized?

Try to write them lowercase in such a way as that font allows.

[IMGS OFF]

The "e" is a little tough to read out of context but it'd be clear enough.

The alt-text wins my vote high.

I would go to Burning Man with Simon and Marcel.

I would like to go to Burning Man someday.

Road trip!

They do sound fun to go to events with. I'm sure they'd be able to introduce you to cool, unintimidating booth operators.

Today's Blogs

Ray: I hurt my foot, man.

"No one should use a computer while they are at a party unless that computer is a pacemaker which is running their heart."

Ain't no better exclamation of surprise than "Egads!". People should use it more often.

Ray threw that phone so hard, it traveled a solid mile before hitting the ground.

That man is legend.


Ray did not throw that phone. Ray is not here.

o/ Where is Ray? o/

in heaven

Is this the first intimation of Pat's 'family curse'?

That is some entirely wonkified capitalization what all on 'Father'. Pat must have fitfully keyed the thing in before settling in to call NPR and bitch about barbers.

It's because its typed onto a phone caller id system that uses the 7 lines for each thing.
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is the only way you can spell it with those things, seeing as how you have only this shape to work with.
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M and W are the only two I couldn't figure out how to make work...

Oh, of course Assetbar ate that post that I spent 10 minutes working on and proofreading to make sure I wouldn't look stupid.

First 2/3 panels are golden like the sun.

do you think it is rad to play the kazoo over the phone?

My mom left me three voicemails last night.

All three of them were her playing a kazoo, or a similar wind instrument (perhaps a slide-whistle), and it was always the same tune. I guess she was trying to perfect it, or something.

Three voicemails, no words.

Is this a true thing?

True as the day is long, it was the strangest set of voicemails in the history of Man.

Wow. Have a couple of chubbies for bizarrity (pass one along to your mum, uhh, mom).

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oau9gtG5Om8

Yeah....