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Even Gouging Pat a Little Monday, June 18, 2007 • read strip Viewing 122 comments:

A comment left by smog was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by tttt2, solobuttons, RedGuy)

My hand did indeed cup -- to instinctively protect my imagined squeezed hoochie-mama box.

IT IS A TEST OF SPEED

its Hoochie Coochie, the new game of speed and skill from MB, the makers of Ants in the pants and don't break the ice!

"HAHA, I grabbed your box!"
"kids what are you doing in here?"
(Both)"HOOCHIE COOCHIE!!! HAHAHA LOL"

includes hoochie pants, play gold chains, rub on dragon/wizard tatoo, skoal shirt, and inductive hoochie grab detecting game buzzer.

BRILLIANT!

You made spit uncracked sunflower seeds on my keyboard. There's no acronym for that kind of laughter.

LSHISUSSOMK?

Good thing I'm not a hoochie-mama box.
I do not want to be grabbed again.

I know what you're saying, you're saying, "STEVE, WHERE DO YOU FIND TIME TO SQUEEZE HOOCHIE MAMA BOXES?" ...I squeeze them in my mind.

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YOU FUCKED UP

This is the greatest thing.
Guy makes a terrible, YT quality post, Saint wrecks him.
Guy is 0 for 47, Saint is 6 for 2.
The dichotomy makes me so goddamn happy.

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i'm a straight lady-sort. and yes. mine did too. DAYUM.

I was already cupping my bozack when I read panel 8. I raised my non-cupping hand into the air and made a fist after reading the alt text.

I didn't.
My hand went straight for the sharpened metal meter-rule. That thing is dangerous yo.

good god. good thing you have your trusty weighted companion cube. i don't know how that helps, but it does.

I'm your only friend.
But I don't want to be a burden to you any longer.


I want to hug my WCC all day long.

I tried to save you companion cube. I spent hours. I miss you.

*sobbing into handkerchief and organ music*

No need to cry, when you die and do to heaven you get to pick a WCC to be your truest friend for the remainder of eternity, it's a beautiful moment.

Unless ALL the WCCs ended up in Android Hell.

A comment left by afronaut was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by stormypinkness, straw, silver_lake, LordHumungus, mortshire, Courtland, DavidL, cathaoir, nutmeg, SeanBad, HollyBones, anitrophaeron, nphares, tovarich, J-Man, Mastronaut, cjfoster)

Why all the lames; this guy is obviously not talking about the strip.

you are my only friend mugi

lets face it guys, the bailiffs of witchclyde will never outshine trials of honor

It's honour

You know Pat buys all the tote bags, then turns it up real loud and opens the windows so people know he's watching Bailiffs of Witchclyde on PBS.

PBS

Once Pat realized that a true putt-putt loving pair's contiguous US RV tour was dependent upon his support, he put The Bailiffs on the back burner. That's what friends do.

Even jerk-wad friends can rise to the occassion, given the right circumstances.

The right circumstances: being massaged by vaguely racist diatribes about anti-social miscreants. Ray knows Pat. Hew knows him.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUCK

Lordy that hilarious Ray-speak! Hee Hee!

It just about gave me the vapors!

Oh, hee hee hee! Hee hee! Oh, hee hee hee!

DAMN IT! Should have scrolled down before posting.

Oh, hee hee!

Hee hee hee!

Oh, hee hee hee!

Oh, haw haw!
Haw haw haw!
Oh, haw haw haw!

It makes sense that Ray would make this important phone call without waiting to dry off from the shower/hot tub/Olympic-sized swimming pool that he was apparently just in. I guess that kind of multitasking is why he's the cat who gets things done.

There is a scene in the director's cut of The Warriors when they are attacked by a gang of metal putter wielding street toughs.

The guys with the baseball bats would have kicked their asses.

I'm playing The Warriors game right now, the first time I read this comment. Very strange.

They had face paint, nobody was scared of those guys.

That face paint was badass. Retract dude, retract!

ray makes me sad because my language is so sparse. my language is spare because noone can understand me when it is colourful and lively. that is my sadness.

i know your pain...

I once tried to take a driver to the mini golf course. The plan was not successful, it is impossible to walk with a smuggled driver in your shirt.

Shirt ? You fool!

Is that a five-iron in your pants or are you just happy to see me?

Actually, it's a pitching wedge...

but yes, I do have an erection.

This strip is from a future where minigolf courses are a lot more pleasant place to be than they are today.

Breast Men can present their Chain of Behavior ID card for a complementary apple martini behind the caretaker's shack.

i couldn't last 3 holes in the company of a hoochie mama showing her camel toe without squeezing it. it's impossible!

What's important is that the box-squeezing was qualified. The problem is not squeezing a hootchie's box, but doing so *too close to a family.* The minimum distance is 13 feet with no clear line of sight to the family.

A comment left by qwerty was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by kylank, farqussus, Xaxx, grayfox)

As a lad growing up Tennessee, I would go down to the putt-putt on Friday night, and watch the Pomade Rockabillies tune their muscle cars and polish the chrome on their putters.

Pat agreeing with anyone on any topic is a far more shocking plot twist than spinning a lawn art war into an engagement arc.

My drummer got a DWI (Driving While Intoxicated) at 2 in the morning, wearing a tux and driving a golf cart. I wonder if there's a Chain of Driving Golf Cart cards.....

A comment left by dukieshane was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by katal, shammack, pulkbaby)

How, indeed. I don't think I've seen a new strip since assetbar came in that was below a 4.

and of course, I immediately flip back and Friday's has dropped below a 4. I think some guy's sitting up late cleaning out browser cookies to refresh and hit 1 over and over.

That's right Jim Davis. I'm onto you.

A comment left by tetsujin was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by stormypinkness, Vondicus, fosters, anitrophaeron, Mastronaut, gkiyo)

If you think "squeezin' a hoochie mama's box through the front of her pants" isn't worth the two seconds it took to read it, then what strips DO you like?

A comment left by tetsujin was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by straw, HonestTom, kazad, fosters, anitrophaeron, Mastronaut)

WARNING guy with Go-Bots avatar and Japanesey name acting superior on webcomics messageboard WARNING

This strip's dialog is out of control.

A comment left by phthoggos was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by DR_MANFLESH_DESIRES_ANAL_PLAY_IMMEDIATELY, katal, obvious)

I love the image of a "sniffle-top cholo". A "sniffle-top" anything is good by me.

i prefer a titleist when trying to ruin a family's day

A comment left by lokier was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by nbgreene, beafdog, Mastronaut)

You had me at doo-wop guidos. I can just picture the wife beaters and flipped collars.

Collared wife-beater shirts?

Leather jackets over wife-beaters...?

"A television station with so smug it has 'QED' in its name is a perfect fit for Pat." That was going to be my post a minute or two ago, back when I thought it was an invention of the author.

Then I Googled it. KQED actually exists, and is in California . Which just makes it doubly beautiful.

And it's in the Bay Area, on channel 9, a PBS station, and the QED actually does stand for what you think it does .

KQED is the channel that taught me from a very young age that if Martin Yan was capable of cooking, I also was by inferred proxy.

KQED brought me Monty Python and "I, Claudius" which taught me that Englishmen in togas were damn cool.

Pat being positive towards anything besides Steve's party just boggles my mind in so many ways.

This gets a '5' for footnotes. Reference: The Proliferation of Hooliganism, Vandalism, and Other Low Behavior in North American Mini-Golf , Chapter 5, Sword, Spear, and Phallus: The Many Uses of the Putter

I, too, was a hickety-hi dip wigger. alas, I never found my babysitter Chicacita (she was AWOL)

i... there is nothing i dont like about this strip. i know its been discussed but, seriously, dude used the word box. then he combined it with squeezin. its like the chick's business is an accordian and he the monkey ownin guido who plays it. man i am still giggled at that. nuts to those that dont like it. now place a coin in my hat.

You should listen to The Who.

Mama's got a squeeze-box
Daddy doesn't sleep at night.

A comment left by kateorman was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by ColonelColostomy, grayestnova, DonCaballero, tpederson, Fielding, SeanBad, anitrophaeron, beafdog, Audhumla, Mastronaut)

No, I'm afraid I'm going to have to inform you that it was entirely necessary. Coarse , you know, but it's at least a step in the right direction.

As an avid mini-golfer, I wholeheartley agree!

This fresh-out-of-the-bath phone call from Ray is so fresh, he is still dripping in panels 3 and 4.

muffin top: the fat hanging over the top of tight jeans. I came across this term shortly before reading this strip, which was a bit weird.

Beef lost out, wasn't it originally a 50 state tour?

It was, but they figured out Hawaii would be problematic and Rhode Island's too small to fit both an RV and a minigolf course at the same time.

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Philippe: I was wrong about celebrities!

Ray brings the jive STRONG

This one is so underrated.

If someone called me and asked me to chip in $600 toward a friend's wedding gift, I would laugh in his/her face. Over the phone. And then I would get in my car, drive to the caller's residence, and laugh some more.

Isn't a sawbuck $10, making the total cost $60?

Oh, is it? Well, that's much more reasonable.

Either way you'd be lookin' at a six hundo.

I love Ray's crazy racist slang.

Baliffs of Witchclyde? Gotta be the best awful boring British mini-series ever not produced. Pat's irritation at the call is priceless! I used to wait until X Files was on to call my pal Bob and his wife as they were much too fond of it, then talk about pressing topics like navel lint or crop rotation.