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Leopold's Story Friday, March 12, 2004 • read strip Viewing 71 comments:

On accident , people!

And that's actually about a quarter...

With Ray, about is sort of vague.

About a pound.

45 degrees.

That's probably what the Conservative shoe is about to tell him.

You're running with the assumption the paper was originally rectangular.

This is my favourite Achewood line ever. He ate half a piece of paper 'on accident' - how is that possible? What was he doing? Amazing.

Maybe the paper had a hotdog in it.

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the snozzberries that I... boned?

*Starts typing up a Yahoo Personals ad for peng33*

Well this weekend I was drunk and accidentally brushed my teeth with NeoSporin.

Ew. Dude. I'm sorry, man.

I been there, most absolutely. No good at all.

Under similar circumstances (intoxication), I once brushed my teeth with liquid hand soap by accident, I knew putting it next to the Mentadent was a bad idea

I did that once as well, while accidentally sober.
Never again.

An uncle of mine - while sober - instead of toothpaste used depilatory cream.

aka Immac/Veet

aka PUBE REMOVER.

OH MY GOD NO.

That stuff fucking burns! Oh god that's terrible.

OK what the hell...If i brush my teeth with pube remover I sure as hell ain't gonna tell anyone.

ok, but what do you say when someone asks you where all the hair on your teeth went?

touche

Dude. I just fucking snorted. Chubby for you.

I once had a small, travel-sized bottle of perfume in my purse. I also had breath spray. The ensuing disaster makes me gag to this day. That was 4 years ago.

I once accidentally confused eardrops with eyedrops. I ended up calling poison control because it stung so bad. No blindness though. HUUUUUGS!

When I was in Munich, I ran out of toothpaste and had to go to the store to buy some more. I bought a bottle of what I was sure was toothpaste, had a picture of a tooth on it and everything. When it tasted like ass and wouldn't wash off, I realized that it was in fact denture cream.

Eugh

I've brushed my teeth with zit cream, completely sober.

Gargled Betadine once while inebriated at a friend's. Thought it was mouthwash. What else comes in a plus-size green bottle and sits on the bathroom shelf? (Apparently Betadine does.) All hacking and gagging up dark red stuff. Looked like something from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

would have been rad if you had had infected gums.

it had a drawing of a hot dog on it and he got confused.

i apologize to tomsmith, in retrospect that was a poor choice of food.

He is so pumped to have eaten that paper.

I've always been under the assumption that he was meaning to eat less than half of the paper, but accidentally ate about half.

My brother once mistook the little bottle of hotel hand lotion for shampoo. That was some hella nasty hair.

how the hell does a shoe show promise as an artist

Maybe Lazarus is like the Rembrandt of shoes that can paint.

You get a chubby for TOTALLY not answering that question.

the words. they make NO sense.

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goggles.

My assumption was that they had undergone a sort of Frog Prince transformation.

Tap dancing.

THIS is why Achewood is so brilliant. In two panels, Onstad creates an intriguing, emotional story about a boy's relationship with his father...and forgets totally about it ffive strips later.

Lazarus is making the loudest sigh a shoe can utter right now.

It's hard to sigh
Without a tongue

Shoes have tongues man. What kind of shoe are you wearin

Honestly, I thought that separating the pun from the rest of the comment would highlight it for the people who couldn't get it otherwise. I was wrong~

using 'with a tongue' in some way would have been a pun

Do loafers have a tongue as such?

no not as such

what as such?

tongues as such that a lace-up shoe would have.

you don't use a tongue when you sigh

it is merely an exhalation of breath.

considering how much grammar speech and such gets thrown around these comments i'm surprised nobody has commented on how it should be by accident.

Well, it's Ray.

Also, I just gave you a chubby on accident.

Yeah, Ray pretty much has free license to reinvent the language as he sees fit.

i was about to

shit, i always say 'on accident'.

The "on accident" is what makes it hilarious. Not only has Ray eaten a non-edible thing, not only is he bragging about it, but he's using a blatantly wrong construction to talk about it. Hat trick of 8-year-old-ness

completely

These are some passive agressive fucking shoes!

these alt texts are my favorites

I kind of imagine that Leopold already somewhat knows Ray by reputation... His question in panel 6 is rhatorical, because he knows that, no indeed, this will not be difficult.

maybe he's knocking T in a way, questioning his Abilities to do a thing.

I gave this one a five, based solely on the last panel. Without that panel, it probably would've been about a three.

Come to think of it, that last panel could really just be its own comic and I'd be pleased.

To be honest, though, Ray is not being tricked, he is being badass

It kind of begs the question, what IS Lucien? A tasteful pair of pants? A pair of those wedges you put in shoes so they keep their shape? A leather tanning kit?

Begs the question?

The grammar police are on their way, I hear the siren.

Hee hee! Oh, hee hee!

One of my mom's favorite other-people-isms is saying 'on accident' instead of the correct 'by accident', and for some reason the last panel has always been my most powerful mental indicator of how Ray's voice sounds.