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Dance Java Dance Monday, March 10, 2003 • read strip Viewing 113 comments:

Beef gets a lady! All right!

I hope I remember to do this when I meet my future wife.

that's why i do it to every woman i meet.

just in fucking case

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I played that game, it came on my iBook.
it was a pretty good game

I live in D-3.
There are no hot heavenly broads over here. There are just golfers.

That must not be heaven then. Are you sure you didnt see a sign on the way in that said abandon all hope ye or something?

In heaven, your friends are always right across the hall when they're having a party.

unless you are trying to take a nap.

I actually used the last panel's line in my Java class and everyone agreed I was weird. I told them they weren't gonna get any ladies like that.

man i don't know i think they were on the right track.

I use the line about playing a piano all the time.

Of course it's not fast enough.
It's java .

Oh Java, you worthless piece of shit.

So many chubbies.

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you need to go view 4 more strips and then stop using that account. awesome.

It must have been your weird delivery.

Can you say "God-Damn" in heaven?

A booming voice comes through the PA system: "I HEARD THAT."

Yes, God just takes it more seriously. "God damn it!" "What? ... Oh, you were just swearing."

In Heaven, God has a PA. In Texas, he has to rent billboards.

they do that in arizona too

Yeah, i've seen those in Kentucky and Alabama, too. In 'Bama, we had some guy who just put up his own little plywood signs along the road like "repent thine sins or BURN." I kid you not.

We have those as far north as Canada, actually. (the plywood signs, i mean.)

There's one of those up by Arlington that's been there as far back as I can remember.

In PA, God has a Texas.

"What happens if you ask a nun where the bathroom is, he wondered? Probably the Pope sends you a sharp note or something..."

Think about it, zombieman! Who's going to yell at you?

Man, Java's never fast enough and especially not for Roast Beef.

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In Heaven, everyone is right across the hall.

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[IMGS OFF]

that dude is in heaven. he greets you when you get there and makes you feel slightly uncomfortable but then afterwards you and your heaven-pals can talk about how weird he is.

later on you get drunk with your heaven friends and you end up feeling kinda bad for that guy and the life he has to live and that he's probably just doing his job being friendly, but he's sick of everyone judging him and has a lonely job. You try to invite him over a beer out of sympathy, but he won't drop the stupid act so you eventually get pissed and storm off

It doesn't matter that I'm replying to a year old comment because I only just saw it so it's new to me.

Ditto!

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I wonder why Onstad didn't end up pursuing the 'geek' aspect of Molly's character once she left heaven.

She's always seemed sort of square to me, but I guess you're right that we never actually see her doing any coding. She's always seemed a sort of technorati type character to me, enmeshed in tech culture but never seeming to do any tech.

I like your point. Perhaps when she said "Blister tells me you code too," she was referring to Blister as the other coder. He seems like the Perl type. Real twitchy.

She knows the science of Java...

But not the art .

Beef is java's mom and takes it to school in the car of pain. regularly.

Java misses the School Bus of Pain quite often. I think it's time we had a talk.

It's Beef's Dutch self-confidence that hooked Molly, and it's the memory of it that still keeps her going, all through the dark days of socks in the shower.

Did Molly pick up an interest in coding while in heaven? I believe it was later established she was born/died in the 19th century?

Was my guess.

17th.

And now they are engaged.

With a ring that flashes this date.

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"Heaven" by Talking Heads
Quoted by Chris in some of the Alt Text
Jeez.

EVERYONE ALREADY KNOWS.

/mild agitation

everybody does NOT already know... don't be such a bunch of snobbish god damn hipsters.

I don't know how I'm a bunch of people in any sense. And I was saying that everyone already knows because he's posted the same thing in the comments of this series an innumrable number of times.

I like the idea of you as a bunch of people simply for what it might mean about the mysterious "Kate."

WE ARE ONE. WE ARE MANY. WE ARE LEGION. WE LOVE KATE.

cake*

No.

You might be screaming "No, No, No" but all they hear is 'Who wants cake?' Let me tell you something. They all do. They all want cake.

So let us eat cake.

And have it, too.

This song is actually playing right now on the stereo as I reached your comment.

Blister gets a halo while apparantly nobody else does.

You can buy those at hot topic anymore.

"...and i'm all NO"

beef looks weird in the last frame.

Beef is a programming cowboy, taming wild code.

It is important to wire heaven's walls with electrical outlets.

Which is odd. I would imagine that in Heaven, you always have a full battery and excellent Wi-Fi connectivity. (Except to rotten.com, which is hosted in Hell; the City of Dis only has a single T1 line connecting it to the rest of Creation.)

The odd thing is that Blister's place isn't exactly suited for his height. He can barely reach that outlet. On the other hand, he's got the tiny phone... I'm so confused...

i have said "cold sit on it ho" so many times for it to have lost all meaning

I'd like to meet a girl like Molly.

All the girls I know are like the bastard offspring of Phillipe and Lyle.

Scary.

I'm having trouble visualizing this.

All I can picture are cute naive heavy drinking partiers. That scares you?

That sounds fine. I think he was describing the other combination: vapidly opinionated smelly beard-sporting addicts.

Philippe has a beard?

I was picturing Lyle's mustache and odors on a totally curveless Philippe-style chassis, constantly full of piss and vinegar but thoroughly uneducated. Now I'd prefer to bleach that image back out of my head.

All the girls you know have beards?

It takes real talent to draw drunk this expressively with this few lines.

Drunk Beef is so great

All of Beef's hand gestures in this are amazing. From the "Hey" snap, to drunken piano miming, to cutting the air. Combined with his dialogue, 5.

I lost some respect for Beef when it turned out he is a java programmer. I always kind of hoped that the dude would be using advanced C techniques or programming it up OCaml-style.

Sometimes you do what you have to. The important thing here, and my favourite part of this strip, is Java all whining to please, like it should be--as a language, it should be your bitch. Everybody's bitch. James Gosling should be bring me my shoes right now for having invented that fucking language. So's I kin kick his ass!

OK fine.

It was also 2003. I'm sure Beef can still do Java at need, but he's moved on to greener pastures now.

Although I still can't see him using Python . It just seems a little too joyful for Beef; he strikes me as a Perl man.

You are basing your knowledge of programming languages solely off of reading xkcd.

why would you do that
why would you do that though

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You are missing part of the tragedy of Beef's existence. He is a poor man from bad circumstances.

"LIKE SIX OR SOMETHING"

Blister is inadvertently responsible for Beef's relationship.

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Damn, man, don't be posting spoilers! People, can you help me lame this dude out of existence?

dang, oops, accidental chubby. At least I'm not giving a presentation when it happened.

I do enjoy the rarely-seen drunk, emboldened Beef. It's pretty much a Thing.

a match made in heaven.

ahahahaha yeah that was retarded. but it was necessary.

Roast Beef becomes Ray when he's drunk.

If that's heaven, where are Ray's underpants?

So I didn't get it the first time, but on my third Achewood marathon I finally did: Beef's statement in panel 5 is totally referring to this strip

THIS IS YOUR CHANCE, BEEF. STICK IT HARD, DOGG-STYLE.

How come only Blister speaks in capitals?

Because you touch yourself at night.

...good a reason as any, I suppose...

Molly!

This is brilliant on all levels.

Molly! :D

In heaven, Beef is confident. Or that might just be the drinking.

In heaven everything is fine.

The dead cat is introduced to his future wife by a dead squirrel in Heaven.

cold sit on it ho