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Taco Bell Police Scanner Wednesday, October 13, 2004 • read strip Viewing 101 comments:

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Beef is not cheap; he is poor and thrifty. There is a difference.

Beef is not cheap, he just has a brain. $1.49 for a cup of soda (actual cost: 6 cents) is the forced sodomy of business transactions.

All good russians know this.

This is because Coke was actually developed first in DDR.

ref: Goodbye Lenin

I meant his avatar was Alexi Sayle.

Alexei Sayle was born and raised in England. He's half-Lithuanian, and his parents were devout communists, but he's Russian.

But anyway, uh, thanks?

NOT Russian. (oh god dammit)

It's ok.

You totally burned him.

This thread is even more amusing, now that my avatar *IS* a Russian guy.

Also restaurants totally water that stuff down.

And then ice down! Its just a terrible situation.

Water Soda.

There's no movie in which it is good to eat moussaka.

Zorba the Greek.

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It is not okay to eat anything during My Big Fat Greek Wedding because you should not be watching it.

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TONIGHT, WE DINE IN THEATER #8!

THIS IS ... STALE!

It is Christmas day chubbies for all

Well, well. Look who's the big chubby lover now.

I like your shirt designs.

Pink Flamingos

Ray feels so bad for Beef. He's seen this sort of thing before and he knew how it was going to go down.

in Beef's defense, the price of movie theater moussaka is totally astronomical...

as much as a churro at disneyland?

Wow. I have eaten a churro at Disneyland. Perhaps the exorbitant price was what helped it stick i my memory for all of ten years.

I have not eaten a churro at Disneyland, but I can't help but wonder if it's also been stuck in your stomach all that time.

It will have also such as stuck in your colon for that dang long a period of time.

Six months late and a non-insubstantial amount of dollars short.

$3 for ONE churro (in Orlando this was). I couldn't believe that shit.

Dude, that's nothing. Every time there's a street fair with churro vendors I see that price. Even worse the dudes on street are typically selling mass-market pretzels and some sort of chain store version of churros and they're charging $3 as well.

I don't think I've seen an independent street churro vendor in San Francisco. There is, however, a lady selling some rad churros at the Fruitvale BART station over in Oakland. But then you have to be in Oakland and that is never recommended.

Ideally a churro should be no more than $1. I'd be willing to say that for the effort and raw materials involved even that's a bit high unless it's cream-filled. Still, it's a price I can deal with.

Lamed for hating on Oakland. It's a fine place to be, all excepting for the Fruitvale BART station where that kid got executed by the BART cop. Churro rage, maybe.

They do have good deals on sardeles pastes and domates gemistes, you must admit.

This comic shows us that even Taco Bell chefs have feelings. Beef got sassy though.

Who doesn't sneak food and drink into movie theaters?

i ate an entire kfc meal in the cinema once. my friend hid his in an inner jacket pocket; i had mine in my uni bag under all my books. this was in the time of draconian enforecement of the 'no outside food' rule. obviously we were covered in grease but gosh it was just so sweet.

i forget the movie, though.

A bunch of my friends and I snuck a whole spread of take-out Chinese into "Shaft"

that's like a quadruple entendre...

Slow-release.

-across the Pacific

I smuggled in a pizza box, once. The jerk chicken complimented Lord of the Rings nicely.

My two friends and I smuggled in kfc too! We hid the chicken legs in the deep fleece-lined pockets of our wintry parkas! Kept the chicken all warm and shit.

I brought in a mickey of Captain Morgan's spiced rum into a movie theater once. I made Cap and cokes while the guys I went with drank beer.

I smuggled a gallon jug of A&W-restaurant-procured A&W root beer (I.E., from the tap) into The Big Lebowski . Every time I watch the movie, I can taste root beer and buttered popcorn every time he drinks a White Russian. I do not know what an actual White Russian tastes like, but I bet it does not taste as good as the aforementioned.

To describe the taste crudely, a white Russian tastes like creamy coffee with vodka. Nice stuff.

(Or, if knowing ingredients is more to your fancy, a white russian is made of Kaluha, Vodka and Milk. Kaluha gives the coffee like taste.)

Kahlua. This is my drink.

Man, Kahlua is like the best idea ever. Coffee, meet alcohol; I'm sure you will get along swimmingly.

i like talking to inanimate objects like they are people.

"oh hello, Table Leg. why did you run into my knee?"

"Because coffee and alcohol get along swimmingly."

They swim together right through your kidneys at great speed

I have smuggled in Steak and Shake and Taco Bell (that was a mistake; the crunching of the taco shells gave me away). It is good to be a girl and carry a big purse.

After winning a triva contest at a bar one Weds. night (and using up the bar cash on drinks), some friends and I decided to go see Superbad for the 2nd time on a buzzed whim. I made my friend stop at a gas station so I could get a beer to sneak into the theatre via her purse.

This is not a special story. It's kind of sad, though, that I was 30 when I did this.

And I was the youngest person in the group.

I did that. I brought 2 Session lagers into the fourth Harry Potter movie. I was already pretty hammered, though. I don't remember shit from that movie.

Classic spinynorman. You're like Assetbar's John Cheever.e

I once smuggled in two cheeseburgers and a blizzard (Sort of a milkshake-thing with candy and cookies in it for those of you in countries without Dairy Queen). I bundled it all in my coat, and have used this method many times since.

Doesn't work out here in Arizona. This close to mexico, you can't help but indulge in tasty hispanic foods, and the coat channels all the burrito farts into your face.

Also it is too hot.

No dude, bundle it in the coat (You could probably get away with a hooded sweatshirt in AZ) and drape it over your arm or something, then set the jacket on the floor of the theater.

or the chair next to you, theater floors are bad places for things you want to be able to use later.

Molly is so angry that Beef is too cheap to buy a diet pepsi for her.

She REALLY wanted a burrito is all

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I know what you mean. Like when a client brings my firm a case and I have to write this huge-ass brief in like 12 hours I...I...I just man up and do it, Sally.

My job is to stack shelves, man the tills an offer advice. My job is not to fill up peoples shopping baskets.

I'm a plumber's assistant.

I'm pretty sure someone just took a spin to school in the car of pain

But...but who was driving? I have read this thread several times in the past few months, and I am still unsure exactly who came out on top here.

The car of pain is automated.

Man don't yell at the lawyer Molly he'll take a dump in the brief

eww.

Does anyone here work at Taco Bell? Please tell me that that is the real frequency used in the wireless headsets.

Achewood is one of the very few web comics which can make me actually laugh out loud when reading by my self.

"Man don't yell at the worker Molly he'll take a dump in the taco."

Luckily, my girlfriend can be just as cheap as I am so we don't usually fight about this. Except when we're eating fast food and she gets a large soda when they have FREE REFILLS! YOU CAN GET A SMALL AND PAY LESS AND JUST REFILL IT IF YOU WANT MORE!! GOD DAMN IT!!! *ahem*, sorry 'bout that.

lazy america, man.

why get up and walk more than you have to?

Give me convenience or give me cake!

You get a Large Soda because you can take it with you when you leave. Or you can accidentaly throw it away.

Is this strip came out now, I don't think it'd be funny, what with Molly and Beef being a thing and all.

Also, I never even contemplated someone taking a dump in a taco. Such a blatant offense is probably something only Lyle would do.

he did, ma'am?

It's the "DAMN you!" that makes this a 5 for me.

Onstad is so brilliant that you know by the second panel alone that it was Roast Beef who was ordering such as a simple taco.

wow when is molly mean like that?

When Molly wants to get her freakin' Grilled Stuft Burrito action going!

Sometimes a girl just needs her fucking Taco Bell. I've been there.

love will override a principle at times. dude just needs to pick his battles.

Fast Food restaurants keep prices on main menu items by clearing a large margin on inexpensive add-ons, such as the diet pepsi. You have to refill your glass somewhere between 15 and 20 times to get your moneys worth.

1.49 for a small Diet Pepsi is asinine. People just don't like to hear it, especially yuour girlfriend.

'cept that a small soda in fast food places are actually just the super-sized ones from the mid-90's.

I feel this is the saddest of all comics

Outstanding comic.

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Philippe: Sometimes you just need to be mad.

Philippe would get my vote from that right there.

Does anyone have a police scanner? Can you verify whether 35.9600 is actually a valid bandwith, and if indeed you can pick up drive -thru headsets?

I don't know, but I doubt that drive-thru headsets use a strong enough frequency to be picked up more than a few hundred feet away from the store.

Oh. God. I. Relate.

I know it's hard to be in a relationship with someone as beat down as RB, but does Molly really need to get the fast food employee to help her gang up on the man? Oh well, he probably got some good greeting card material from the experience.

Molly is stupid and I hate her.

Beef is right and she is wrong.

Ray just looks so sad.

Like the lady says, "Roast Beef is my game, and living with him is lame." But seriously, they have gone off on each other pretty harshly now and then. It'd be hard to believe a character who could be around Beef all the time and not get pissed even once in a while.

Dang, is Teodor's head always almost the size of Ray's torso?

Oh god. That is the funniest one I've read yet. We all know one of those people who treat the workers there like shit, too. It's not their fault! Scream at the manager!