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Keep on Rockin' Roast Beef Monday, January 5, 2004 • read strip Viewing 83 comments:

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just amazing

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Do you have to explain this to guests all the time?

do you derive a sense of security from this?

I would like to steal this idea. But the square is so small.

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cpnglxynchos... really?

Ray may be in bad straits, but he is not about to compromise the sanctity of his pepper.

Beef's a great friend. Much respect.

exactly. Keep On Rockin, Roast Beef.

One of the greatest Achewood strips ever.

It is a psychological insight to know that when thinking about people who have made good lives, Pesci (of Lethal Weapon fame)come to mind before Billy Gates. "You diss my dogg, you fluff my hogg"

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This is what I love about so many Achewood strips, particularly ones that feature Roast Beef: hilarious pop culture references and comparisons between them and the characters that come out of nowhere

Not to insinuate that good humor is that which draws upon a particularly unrepresented but uniting personal experience BUT .... we've all let our peppers touch the rim before.

my pepper usually touches the rim

Am I the only one that puts toliet paper on the rim before sitting down in public restrooms? I always hoped that was just a thing people did.

I don't sit down in public restrooms. It's a thing.

Nope. Can't say I have.

it has happened, yes.

Are you saying that your rim has had peper?

Not at a dang Friendly's in hell man!

"Some men such as Joe Pescie and Bill Gates have created good lives for themselves.

I am about to [DO A RIDICULOUS ACTION]

Keepn on rockin', [ME]."

This has become an excellent catchphrase (or, rather . . . catch . . . sentences) among certain of my friends. I 100% approve!

I hope you have a two syllable name, or it would sound weird.

Roast Beef was always so good at Operation.

oh man the nose is blinking
I cold killed him
I cold killed a man

chubby

nice

His PEPPER, man!

I once found my younger brother at age 18 entirely smashed, entirely passed out, entirely dick out on the toilet. Blank faced, I turned around and walked straight back out. Blood is not necessarily thicker than water apparently.

I don't think any of us blame you.

I just considered the situation for myself and experienced a three-second-long involuntary shudder. Although, to be fair, I'm a chick.

I'm a dude so I repressed my shudder into a stony silence and dull life-less eyes.

You have proved yourself a coward who would abandon a man passed out on the can.

Sign me up for that club.

No signatures necessary, please just present your dignity.

I can imagine this strip fading to black with "keep on rockin' in the free world" playing. Roast beef kneeling down to get the tube, then darkness.

Still better than the Sopranos finale.

Is his pepper as rad as his chilies?

Yes, but not as rad as the hybrid "Chili Pepper"

Keep on rockin' Roast Beef.

I didn't think I could love Beef more that I already did -- and then I read this script. You keep right on rockin' dogg.

Script? "Strip" Well, you guys know what I meant.

Ray is passed out drunk until he senses the danger of his Pepper possibly touching the rim, then he is wide awake.

The man thinks with the most protuberant part of his body. And it isn't his nose.

(Hint - it's his pepper)

I think his huge brie-belly is probably actually in the #1 slot for protuberance.

You never know.

...No, I am really not going to start to hypothesize about the size of Ray's penis. No thanks, I'm just... I'm just gonna go wash my hands, friends... With disinfectant. The purell they use at area 51

Man don't wuss out now, we're making history with this!

ok sorry i'm a girl so i don't really get it. why would your pepper touch the rim? i dunno...i feel like it would be easy to sit up without this happening?

He is a cat. Who knows?

As a girl and a low-grade perv, I'm going to hypothesise that as Ray passed out, he leaned forward a ways, causing his junket to fall within the rim's grasp. Boys, please send an envoy or suchlike to explain this to us.

Imagine the perfect harmonic motion of a pendulum.

Must I?

You muft .

Ugh, I pulled a "muft" joke?

I guess my only consolation is that I did this before it became an automatic assetbar response to any post with the word "must" in it. But still, I disapprove, Year Ago Me, Probably Drunk.

4 chubbies, 0 lames. If they like it, why apologize?

because it makes me feel empty inside dammit

i care not for the whims and fancies of hoi polloi or you know whatever

You absolutely muft not care for those whims and fancies.

THESE KNIVES

{sob}

It is not a player's way to apologize unbidden. If it pleased them, let them enjoy it.

If you are relatively careful, you're right -- pepper-to-rim contact is pretty easy to avoid. But sometimes it does happen before you realize it, and this is gross, particularly in a public restroom. The idea that you couldn't move or it would touch is unlikely, but that's kind of what makes this funny.

Basically it depends on how drunk you are. And the size of your pepper.

Is so awesome.

Man, Ray is still cool even in the most compromising, undignified position ever.

And that last line is just something special.

The toilets in Hell are constantly out of toilet paper. Bastards.

and when there is toilet paper, it has a sandpapery quality to it

And it falls apart instantly

And you can only ever grab one square at a time.

This is where dexterity comes into play.
And flexible fingers.

In his lax moments Ray refers to it as his "Rowdy Roddy"

Nobody has mentioned that Joe Pesci's career isn't exactly amazing.

I take this back. I looked at his filmography, and Academy Awards and stuff - his career would be considered "good" at the very least.

My previous post makes it clear that I am not exactly an aficionado of mob movies. I have only seen him in Lethal Weapon and some crappy movies. It'd be like judging Sean Connery based purely on LXG and Highlander.

Do not ever mention LXG again. That movie does not exist, you hear me? IT DOES NOT EXIST.

Please, do yourself a favor, and watch Raging Bull.

I got these small hands. I got a little girl's hands.

YOU NEVER KNOCKED ME DOWN RAY! YOU HEAR? YOU NEVER KNOCKED ME DOWN.

Please do not speak ill of Highlander (well, the first one anyway, all the rest are low grade meth lab concoctions). If only for the reason that "It's a Kind of Magic" is one of the best Queen Albums of all time.

Ordered a framed and signed version of this as a Christmas present for my cousin. Because this is the exact type of situation we could have been in (except the whole "being in hell" part).

Liar. You visit hell as often as Todd.

panel 7 is the best example of true friendship i have ever seen.

Roast Beef is a good friend.

I first read Achewood years and years ago. It's been ages. I am now re-reading through from the beginning. But, for whatever reason, in all the time I'd spent... well, not reading it, whenever I thought of Achewood, this is the strip that usually came to mind.

Keep on rockin' Roast Beef.

As a female, I don't know for sure, but I have heard tales of this genital-tube thing. Keep on rockin' Roast Beef.

This trick is for either a) a person with no ability to do a basic squat-style lift b) an incredibly large penis which is basically unable to squish down and away from the rim (and in that case, how did you thread it down there in the first place or c) someone with incredibly reduced motor skills (i.e. Ray in this strip).