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Roast Beef and Mrs. Smuckles Friday, January 20, 2006 • read strip Viewing 138 comments:

A comment left by methadone was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by shadowlink97, crawfomp, Zoltan)

He promises to keep it on...as weight.

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I love how your avatar makes it look like you said this immediately after learning it from personal experience. Like you sat down at the computer, covered in mice, to type out a comment on Achewood.

Roast Beef knows how to deal with Mrs. Smuckles.

And get paid doing it.

It is so strange to see a first post that has collected neither chubbies or lames. You, sir, have constructed a post with a built-in cloaking device.

I want a study to be done on the effects of cheese consumption on the average woman's perception of said consumer. Get cracking, science.

come on, science. get on the stick already.

That's why we need more science!

it has been seven months and STILL no science.
i'm getting worried.

It's probably just being worked into the slide rule for scoring in various cities over the course of the year.

3 years since this and still no.
Dear Science, either start solving problems or shut the fuck up.

It's true! I eat cheese like a fiend and I am adored by women.

Oh man please tell me there's a larger version of that image.

[IMGS OFF]

That is ripping everything possible out of those sixteen colours.

well put

Oh man, I loved that game.

What game? It looks awesome

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: THE ORCA-RINA OF TIME

that is a funny?

I...I am sorry. It just took over.

It doesn't lend itself as well to puns as Ocarina of Time, but to be strictly informative: Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, for the original, no-frills Game Boy (Game Boy Color or Super Gameboy screenshot, though, it would seem). You'll be playing through for a bit before you see that screenshot...

Good sir, I do believe it is precisely a screenshot from the Game Boy Color re-release, Link's Awakening DX.

Ah, I'm glad someone else knew that. It would be a sad sad world.

I got stuck on the Face Temple. Damn Face Temple.

My copy is in French, I can't speak French.

Holy shit we are talking about this in the future.

What's up, two years ago.

My favorite Zelda game! Mostly because I never got into A Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time had the water temple in it, but still.

My favorite Zelda game too! It was the first game I bought with my own money.

My favorite as well. I probably should have given the real answer along with that crap of a post.

Of course it's your favorite, there's a CHAIN CHOMP!

CHAAAIIIIIN CHOOOOOOOOMMMP!

Y'all makin' me feel old because my favorite Zelda game is Zelda. Ya, Zelda. Just Zelda.

DAAAAAAMN YOOOOOU water temple! I had to use the guide book to get through it :#( but it is still my favourite

Here is my Water Temple Sad Story.

I was playing through Ocarina of Time this summer for the first time on an emulator. Everything was going swimmingly until I got to the water temple (see what I did there?), where I discovered that because the emulator could only move the hookshot cursor on a grid, there was a target dealie that I COULD NOT hit, and that there was therefore a small key I could not get. I got around with a cheat, but when I got to the next dungeon I discovered that this had given me every key to every dungeon, plus the map and compass. This effectively ruined the rest of the game, which really pissed me off since up until then it had been extremely fun. There are plenty of worse things than not being able to finish an old video game which you didn't even pay for, but it still bummed me out. This story doesn't really have much of a point, but people were talking about the water temple, and what is assetbar for if not throwing your own pointless drama out onto the internet?

The Water Temple separated the wheat from the chaff. It was the temple that made you feel like "Well, what the fuck can Gannon throw at me that's worse than that shit?"

It started out that way... just eating. Pretty soon I was rolling it up. Gravity cheese-bongs, hookahs, and then it just got more economical to just inject it right into the bloodstream. my life is so empty and oh god oh god kids you need to know

but i cant stop there will be women soon man where the hell is my cheese ONSTAD YOU TOLD ME THERE WOULD BE WOMEN YOU LYING SON OF A BITCH

I suppose this is why my boyfriend eats so much cheese all the time. Keep 'em keen, eat some brie.

Eat it in the manner of pie, as a matter of fact.

Better watch out for the diabetes.

well if it's of any help i have eaten at least one cheese sandwich every day since grade 4 and my luck with the ladies could be described as cadaverous at best

Every day? You must be enormous.

Unless that's all he eats. One slice of waxy store-brand american cheese, on Wonder Bread. Eats it slowly, alone, dreaming of the future..
If that's all true, he's probably very thin.

American "Cheese" - the cheese you put in quotes! A product whose quality exceeds only Pasteurized Process Cheese Food - the "cheese" so convincing it requires the description of "food" in the title.

Science is done. Ate cheese for 32 months, now I have a girlfriend.

Case closed motherfuckers.

I am actually in love with a boy who really likes cheese. He regularly feeds me cheese. It is literally true to say that if it were not for cheese, our relationship would not be what it is today.

There's something unspeakably creepy about the sentence "He regularly feeds me cheese."

Astoundingly, I'm inclined towards agreement.

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He's known Mrs. Smuckle's for as long as he's known Ray I bet. He's just a polite young man, that Beef.

Dudes from circumstances with wheelbarrows full of neuroses are usually the most polite dudes in the neighborhood. If they forget to shake your hand or thank you they will fret about it to such a degree that they will lose weight and get ill from anxiety.

See Kafka for details.

Chubby for the first Kafka reference I've seen on Acheworld

Haha, thanks. Pretty much every one of that dude's health problems were anxiety-related.

I'm sure I referenced Kafka in an earlier strip... but that said, it might have been a later-made comment, blissfully unaware of this little gem.

(this is me)

is this why i was always so polite and adored by the grown-ups when i was a kid?
maybe it's just because all of my friends were assholes

nice

Also, I dig how he's so polite that he has to say Hello with a capital H. The details!

I had a friend who had a lousy home life. I could never understand why she would spend so much time hanging around when my mom was home. When I grew up, I realized, the kindness my mom showed her was probably the most kindness she was ever shown.

I think Roast Beef needs a little mom pampering, and his own mother's more likely to smash his piggy bank to steal the three bucks in change to buy meth than she is to give him some money for a sandwich.

"Well, cheese contains alot of tyrosine, which is a precursor to the neurotransmittes norepinephrine and dopamine, which, when present in high quantities cause testosterone production blah blah blah"

This is actually true, by the way

It'll also help for treating parkinson's patients, in that case.

i have never stopped referring to beer as crunchy/crispy golden action, since the first time i read this. it's kind of bad, but, okay?

I think people lamed you because you did not specify the beer in question, and folks are afraid you are squandering this sublime phrase on such as Bud Light or Keystone.

Or a Guinness. That wouldn't make any sense.

"That brown action is so dark and flavorful" doesn't have the same ring to it.

Silky? Velvety?

Dense, creamy brown action?

God, that just sounds horrible.

He promises to try to keep the double cheese on as weight. I don't think he's brown nosing, though. This is his best friend's mom, he's probably just talking to her now the way he did as a child.

I like a boy who eats cheese.

So do I.

I like a cheese who eats boys.


Huzzah for the joke and also for the WCC.

... This must have been the first time you every saw me comment, possibly even one of my earlier comments. The evidence suggests.

Boys like boys who eat cheese, too (see: Rod Huggins)

"Girls who are boys
Who like boys to be girls
Who do boys like they're girls
Who like boys who eat cheese;
ALWAYS SHOULD BE SOMEONE YOU REALLLY LOOOOOOOVE!"

-Blur

Oh, such a chubby. But so far, it's the only one!

I guess girls (and boys) like boys who eat cheese, but they are indifferent to boys who cleverly rewrite 90's brit-pop to include references to cheese eating.

dang. straight up obsequious, yo.

smooth. He knows just what to say to this lady

Beef drinks Stella, because [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Artois"]Stella's for the Fellas.[/url]

SON OF A BITCH!

I tried twice and I failed.

I just wanted to tell you all that Roast Beef drinks Stella Artois, and make reference of an ad campaign by Stella, that claimed "Stella's for the Fellas."

You are invited to join my GAAAAAAAH BBCODE SUCKS SO MUCH campaign.

If you use Firefox, you can highlight the text, right click and select BBcode first off the menu. Much easier than keystroking.

:-O

The Philippe avatar makes it all okay... oh dear hehe.

Especially in the second comment it looks like Phillipe is saying SON OF A BITCH!.

Phillipe! Tell me you did not just swear!

I think though, that he's talking about a different Stella. I've taken the convention of saying "crispy Stellas" to mean Stella D'Oro cookies, and "chilly Stellas" to be Stella Artois. Or maybe the Egyptian Stella, because Ray's hella classy like that.

My favorite part is how Roast Beef says "I hope I find that out someday" when Ray's mom tells him girls like boys who eat cheese.

Her hair looks straight outa Tony Millionaire

Girls don't like a boy who eats too much cheese, as it makes him rude and raunchy.

Do girls prefer boys who drive a Honda Civic into a lake at 1 inch per hour?

This is why girls don't like Pat. The reverse is true for different reasons.

I'd wager there are other reasons why girls don't like Pat anyway, even before he found out he was gay. He would have made them sign a five-page waiver in case they don't have fun on a date, and he would make them take their shoes off in his car.

UM VEGANS DO NOT EAT CHEESE

I like this response to Connellingus' comment. Vehement non-sequiturs, they amuse.

OK NEVERMIND THOUGHT YOU WERE RESPONDING TO THAT OTHER COMMENT.

YEAH

I think you can get vegan cheese though? It just doesn't taste that great. And doesn't melt.

Vegan cheese is just kind of like. Not good tasting. Or cheese.

Sounds like a lot of vegan "best-itutes"...

That's. Because... it's vegan. And. A substitute?


?

Vegan cheese is eye-boogers of cows. The cows do indeed suffer in the production of vegan cheese.

Everyone suffers in the production of vegan cheese.

Next to this statement the laughing asian baby looks so wise. Like buddha

yeeeees!

Speaking of deities and avataricons, Joan of Arcadia was a great show.

I have a vegan friend who went to make herself a best-itute tuna melt one day. To her horror, the vegan "cheese" did not melt, but the vegan "tuna" did.

AUGH

Oh dogg on a hogg what a great strip.

Mrs. Smuckles knows that dudes who come from circumstances tend to have cheese deficiencies but she would not bring up something so inappropriate because she is a woman with class.

eBay tells a different tale regarding Mrs. Smuckles, class, and cheese.

I can't imagine Ray's mother with anything but a southern accent.

I, however, cannot imagine her exclaiming "Oh gorsh, ah do declay-er."

Yes.

Mrs. Smuckles is a genuine southern belle

Thursday Blogs

Philippe: Communism!

Cheese IS awesome.

Wait a second...Chatsack led directly into the Great Outdoor Fight arc?

...huh! They just don't make 'em like they used to, I guess.

It's half way between food and disease.
That's cheese.

I love to death how seeing Mrs. Smuckles suddenly instills proper grammar in Beef. Compare the way he talks in panel one to the way he talks in any other panel.

I know that feeling. Having a grandmother who instills the same effect, by hook or by crook, she beat manners into us youngn's. We know what's what around fancy silverware and polite conversation.

I just had some cheese
I'm goin' on a rampage

I love cheese, and this strip.

Capital H on the Hello in slide 2...
Little dots of nervousness on Beef in slides 2 and 3. ..
Hands just tenderly touching in slide 5...

Dude from circumstances has feelings he doesn't understand.

Being from Circumstances, I would assume Beef's primary caseous experiences to be of the government persuasion.

Dear Diary,
Today I used the word 'caseous' in a sentence. It was a good thing. Also, I like that boy who eats cheese. Boy-howdy, can he eat some cheese.

"that golden action is so crunchy" will be the name of my next album

i wish we could see beef's face while he's talking to mrs. smuckles

I have decided that this is definitely my favorite Beef moment.

roast beef is perrrrrrrrrrrfect

Roast Beef is a nice boy, with Manners and Respect. I like to see that, it is endearing.

She speaks the truth, I do like boys who eat cheese.

wow, this looks like something that has happened before. i bet ray's mom kept beef alive as a kid.

"I will pay you back someday Mrs. Smuckles" is a contender for The Saddest Thing

Notice the extra space before Roast Beef's exclamation points.

No space before Mrs. Smuckles' exclamation points.

So subtle is the pen of Onstad!

This is one of my all time favourites. The first panel alone is enough to warrant it a 5. So many good phrases in one panel. And Beef is just all kinds of sweet when he's talking to Ray's mom.

I still haven't found out that Ray's mom's words are true :(