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The Yahoo Ham Hack Tuesday, January 13, 2004 • read strip Viewing 58 comments:

If the pizza was hawaiian I'd be totally down with a cat hacking into yahoo if I worked there.

They're called T.I.C.K.L.E. scripts because they leave sassy comments in the network logs which can't help but be laughed at.

A comment left by zem was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by randombeing, Sakana, rowboat, woodenteeth, pitseleh)

...screamed the man in the beret, gesticulating wildly and spilling coffee over the frightened denizens of the Arthüs Café.

Why does the Internet hate accents?

just assetbar.

And Ray!

i do not remember typing this.

Were you inebriated at the time?

no, suprisingly.

how do you know?

because i did not partake ever at the time.

is that... a teutonic knight?
classy.

1) Is that the first time Beef has ever used an exclamation mark?

2) Noticed the "Jerry" on the note and I laughed out loud. Oh what a nerd am I.

He also uses an exclamation mark here .

and here .

what the hell... and here .

and here
(I am pointing at my groin)

It's the first time he uses it without a preceding space.

The second is here

[url="https://m.assetbar.com/achewood/uuacGB3h7"]nope.[/url]

A comment left by rowboat was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by divot, Overmedicated, Wulvaine)

Hammertime.

i do not remember typing this, either.

dang. where have i been?

Man, I don't remember three quarters of the posts I make here. But I use drugs.

i typically do. that week was apparently about me finding the %3 i have forgotten about.

We also would have accepted "collaborate and listen."

Actually, you can't tell if Beef is saying anything in that strip.

In this and the chicken-related exclamation mark strips, the mark is attached to the word, as he is trying not to speak as himself. When it's just Beef speaking as Beef, the punctuation is spaced out. Just an observation.

The geeks love ham pizzas.

...and scouring Achewood for exclamation marks.

Is it just me, or are those pizzas tiny? Theyre regular size compared to Beef.

They're pizzas for cats.

Beef's handwriting is probably better than the average cat's handwriting, but still very poor.

It's all about the reverse Fibonacci sequence for me.

I love the smoke coming from the cigarette, so much better than the squiggly line used in earlier strips, so much slicker than your usual puffy cloud-like smoke. Plus it adds to the atmosphere, Beef sat in the dark like some private investigator.

Smoking in near-darkness IS the coolest thing ever. Especially when it's quiet enough to be able to hear the cigarette burning away every time you inhale.

Ooh, yeah. *shiver*

The coolest thing ever is a shot from the credits of the second season of The Wire. It's a shot of a silhouette of a guy with headphones on and his hands over the headphones, bowing his head with the coarse red ember of a lit cigarette burning bright at his chin, a lone streamer of smoke curling up across his face, which is completely black.

Check it out on youtube. Wire. Season two.

Chubbied to denote instantaneous agreement.

There is nothing sexier than a cat that is on his game.

That is your opinion and I respect it.

Except I don't. Not really.

Ugh. Something about frigo makes me want to stab things.

Whenever I start to question the logistics of a man of small means like Beef paying for 15 pizzas like that, I picture Ray giving Beef a black, secret credit card for this mission. "Spend whatever you have to, man. Just get it done."

I always wanted to order a bunch of pizzas, then just take them from the deliverer and lock the door.

But then you open the door and go "Haha just kidding" and pay the guy along with a nice tip, right?

The smoke in panels 1-4 totally give me a chubby

"Cause pizzas to be delivered," as if it's far more complex than ordering pizzas and then taking them there himself.

Really impressed with that smoke. Dang.

odwalla is hella nasty milk

"...the delivery man: a one Mr. R. Beef Kazenzakis"

One day I'm going to open a restaurant and I will serve something called a Beef Kazenzakis .

It just sounds so Goddamn delicious.

Roast Beef: Hacker extraordinaire, and master of disguise.

Beef doesn't mess around

Beef is Greek?

You ever notice how a baseball cap is the standard 'disguise' utility piece?

I thought that was One (1) Waxed Handlebar Mustache, Brown.

No, of course not.

Reverse Fibonacci Sequence is Totally Sexy. I swear, I'm not lying, Poor Beef.

The cigarette smoke in panel one looks like two watchful birds.