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Prosciuttolax Monday, December 21, 2009 • read strip Viewing 167 comments:


Is something wrong with my browser or do i need prosciuttolax?


Side effects include not givin' a shit

Rare severe side effects are a not giving a shit so complete that your cells give so little shit about anything that they stop metabolizin' oxygen.

[IMGS OFF] sexy sexy

if you thought Mr. Rogers was creepy boy is you in fo a treat...

I think he is just immobilized by prosciutto.
I used to eat that stuff all the time, and it is hell of addicting.

I see you're also getting in on that whole brevity thing

Your avatar pleases Crom.

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That awful Grace Jones.

They both look so happy there. That's how the film should have ended, in a freeze frame like Rocky III.

i love arnold he is probally lik teh best dood ever. heck o detication

what is he dedicated to?

Grace:"Someday, Ahnold, you will be the Ruler of the world's 6th greatest economy and under your watch, it will be a FAIL."

Conan:"ARGHHHHHH!"

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Sorry, echidnaboy, Sorry.
I STOLE

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That's actually what Bill Murray whispers to Scarlett Johansson at the end of Lost in Translation.

Chubby for Scarlett Johansson.

At this point it's more of a priapism really.

What have I done....

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Heh! Oh, Arnold. You big hot tranny mess.

This should not have happened. Chubby?

Only Grace Jones can make Conan the Barbarian look like a goofy, fun-loving guy in comparison.

This looks like it came straight out of one of Onstad's old sketchbooks. Teodor's all skinny, and his face is flattish.

Is prosciutto somehow related to sex, or is sex only related to the driving of cars? (At least, in America.)

that is Wade

just be glad he left his 'flattish' face on

He is skinny because he was born with the gene that says "stop eating prosciutto"... It has helped greatly

he was also born with one arm

...ham?

wait what?

Diabetes, you are not invited to my prosciutto party.

i love how ray is just hella baring his soul to that flower

well that makes more sense than my acid-sequencey "a flower is talking to Ray about a made-up drug" assumption, which even now I cannot shake

WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT

He got sorta high.

What the fuck

I logged on for the first time in months just to 5 this.

My grey cat smells like shit. like, actual feces.

my score on Crossfit's Cindy is 26 rounds in 20 minutes, with a round comprising 5 Pullups, 10 Pushups and 15 Squats

My grey cat smells like shit. like, actual feces.

my score on Crossfit's Cindy is 26 rounds in 20 minutes, with a round comprising 5 Pullups, 10 Pushups and 15 Squats

idevenc anymore. jesus christ

my score on 8th Avenue's "Cindy" is 1 round in 15 minutes, with a round comprising 1 BJ and 1 "straight" sex.

Dunno how "straight" that counts as, considering "her" name is in quotation marks. Heyo!

Hey, gay dudes are not the ones visiting transsexuals. If it looks like a woman, it's straight.

Don't you hate it when you find out that you forgot to leave the steering wheel in the car?

...Days like that are those that suck the most

I thought I might get lamed, but it seems we're all thinking the same thing.

MAN ONSTAD JUST STRAIGHT UP THREW US A MOTHER FUCKIN CURVEBALL RIGHT THERE SON

note: he surprised me so much I spelled his name correctly without thinking

What the heck, dude.

What the heck

oh, shit, look who it is!

With nary a lame to his name!

Or has the Asherhate died out lately? I'm a bit behind going through the old comics.

About Klaus Nomi, now

YES

I do not miss my antidepressants

How can you not miss drugs?

Maybe he has a life.

This is a good plan.

I was eatin hella prosciutto the other day and tried to get behind the wheel. I was all thirsty and distracted, wishing I'd had some melon. Let's just say it was a good thing I was just driving down the block to help my friend crack open some walnuts. Any further and I don't want to know what could have happened. Prosciutto and driving just don't mix. When will people (and I) ever learn? Onstad is clearly doing god's work.

A comment left by plummet was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by Rhadamanthus, verplanck, greatjob)

Plummet wasn't born with the gene that says, "Start eatin' prosciutto."

I would take a intravenous prosciutto drip if science could sustain my arteries long enough for me to enjoy the sensation

So whose dream is this? Téodor's? Ray's? Beef's? Cartilage Head's?

your mother. she told me about it this morning.

OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH SHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTT

Ram it, ram it, ram it
ram it up your prosciutto shute!

Capicola fuck!

chubby
more like 300 pounds of Samoan dynamite

Volcanic hell

You're an asshole! AN ASSHOLE!

Broken prosciutto genes are for assholes!

I end up almost ordering prosciutto a lot because I imagine it to be some kind of delightful cheese but then my wife reminds me it is ham and I do not want it.

I am very surprised by this. It seems odd that someone who would readily order an unfamiliar cheese would not like prosciutto. They seem to me to fall into a similar area of the taste spectrum, in the same way that most people who like anchovies also like capers and people who like pheasant usually also like rabbit.

I am very surprised by this. It seems odd that someone who would readily order an unfamiliar cheese would not like prosciutto. They seem to me to fall into a similar area of the taste spectrum, in the same way that most people who like anchovies also like capers and people who like pheasant usually also like rabbit.

I am very surprised by this. It seems odd that someone who would readily order an unfamiliar cheese would not like prosciutto. They seem to me to fall into a similar area of the taste spectrum, in the same way that most people who like anchovies also like capers and people who like pheasant usually also like rabbit.

I am very surprised by this. It seems odd that someone who would readily order an unfamiliar cheese would not like prosciutto. They seem to me to fall into a similar area of the taste spectrum, in the same way that most people who like anchovies also like capers and people who like pheasant usually also like rabbit.

do you like Ummagumma or are you Libyan

They are NOT mutually exclusive

Hm...how do I feel about this? I think I like it. If we get one a day I will love it.

*gasp* Ray, this flower is pregnant and you're the father!

Definitely a step in the right direction!

MORE 4-PANELS STRIPS.

test3

test4

test5

test6

meow meowm meow meowm

You know you could do this stuff on older strips that no one is monitoring so as to not waste valuable space on your small testes.

A comment left by 52 was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by faits, jthm_guitarist, Chloraloner, Fictions, verplanck, artcrow, miaou, eidolem, I_Love_Kate)

Holy bat dick, Smallman!

er

Bat porn is waaay underrated..

ROCK HARD BAT COCK

aaand 52 is ignored. until he can control himself.

52 is AIU. he is genetically unable to control himself.

He wasn't born with a gene that said "start controllin' yourself."

neither was i.

sometimes I wonder why I don't go on the assetbar so much

then something like that happens

We used to say it like this:
"aaaand, 52-Skiddoo!"

C'mon. Dude. Shit's old.

Thin Tacodor drives cars easily. When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place, He causeth that creature's wants to direct him to that place. Thin Tacodor will succumb to a myocardial infarction after realising that Jiffy Lube is not charging for the popcorn in the waiting room, thus falling off the wagon.

About six times.

This is really good!

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I was wasting my life on Proust and Prosciutto. Helpanferin changed all that. I have a job, and a family. I haven't read a french novel for over three years. Sometimes I pause by the entrance of a library or a delicatessen, but I know that its just a vestigial instinct from another life. I turn my head and I walk down the street to my next high powered business meeting. There are times though, as I pound the treadmill at my executive gym, late into the night, just so I don't have to go home and face my squealing infants and short tempered wife, that I wonder if I wasn't happier with Cities of the Plain, and a wafer of wine-cured culatello.

Hooray! A good Achewood strip is inspiring good Assetbar comments!

I call phoney baloney!

pseudo prosciutto?

mortadella mimickry?

FAKE HAM!

And goosed Proust too.

Yes!

The problem with prosciutto is that it just tastes so damn good roasted on halved peaches. I empathize with Ray, I really do.

Where is Hamscout when we need him?

You have no Idea what goes on within the HamSphere

Is that the Northern Hamisphere or the Southern?

Thank You for making what I wanted to happen, happen. I am only setting up terrible/awesome puns, The Lord.

Go to Miss Havisham's office, this instant, young man!

Do Jewish you didn't have to live in this hamisphere? It's hard to find porking, that's for sure.

Let me help you shoulder the burden of ham-handed porcine patter. You should seek to be cured before you boar everyone. (Sorry, I couldn't resist ribbing you - please don't mark this as Spam.)

With the utmost reluctance do I chubby that.

Sorry I was delayed... I had a funny feeling...

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Six is the ideal number of times to be driving cars every day, whether it is in the city or just generally around.

or like, on some gray rocks.

This comment earns my respect. I got my eye on you, badlion.

the grey ones are more ideal.

A comment left by lucidz was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by Rhadamanthus, gladi8orrex, Stonecrab)

Yes, but how do you really feel?

wow that's such a witty comment. why don't you take your sarcasm and condescension and go somewhere else on the fucking internet, you asshole.

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

no, if you look at the subscriber only comments made by onstad, you can see that he is actually genuinely wranging with the issue of short vs long strips

FWIW, I find this comic exactly 3.14x as funny if its a fuck you to people like me. After all it means I, the little guy, has an impact! :)

Also, if he's been wrangling with anything realistically, it means it took him three days to put four panels togethor that make absolutely no fucking sense at all.

Put that in your pipe mister small-dick-pic-poster.

fuck what? DO NOT SAY THAT ONSTAD DOES NOT MAKE SENSE ON MY INTERNET> TAKE IT TO SOMEONE ELSE"S INTERNET BUT KEEP THE FUCK OFF MY INTERNET UNLESS YOU ARE GOING TO RESPECT MY REALITY!!!!

I knew a girl like you once. All, don't invade on my reality. Dated her actually. For six years. She had two affairs and one abortion. I hear she's married now. Poor soul. And I mean the bastard what lobbed a ring at her, not her own demon soul. Yep, remind me of her you do indeed.


The short vs long discussion is not mine to be a part of.

The strip, however, seems to be poking fun at stupid drug commercials that fix fuck all but somehow equate stopping your herpes from showing to allowing you to walk down the beach dressed like you stepped out of a JC Penny catalogue.

preach, brother. like that new drug that grows your eyelashes..... you have to get a prescription, but is insufficient eyelash length a huge deal?

I think I'm far more likely to be disturbed by long eyelashes than short ones. Plus, isn't this what mascara is already for? Are there people out there who really need to go beyond that? It reminds me of the recent series of prescription antiperspirants I've been seeing. I wasn't even aware that there was a product so powerful that it had to be controlled or how you would go about being so sweaty you need a doctor's permission to do something about it.

some people have glandular circumstances..... or what if they have a strange allergy to one or more ingredients that is in most deoderants/antiperspirants out there?

Huh. This strip is sort of a weird case for me. I laughed twice: once because there's some intentionally funny stuff, but also because it seems like a weird amalgamation of the old non sequitur, self-contained gag strips and the newer ones where reading dialogue requires active deciphering. It feels like the first four panels of one of those monster strips Onstad's been so fond of turning out over the last year or so.

This is an incredibly important exercise.

Last year my prosciutto habit was so severe that I ended up spending in excess of $5,000 on cantaloupe alone. I was blowing charcutiers just for the smallest taste of their forcemeat, but no longer. Thanks to Prosciuttolax I don't come home at 7 AM smelling of cured meat and sticky with melon juices anymore.

Phillipe is standing on it comes to mind. I hope this means Onstad is doing acid again.

So here's what happened. First time I read it I kind of knee-jerk chuckled but was still a bit confused by the tiny comic. Is this one of several etc. Then I read it again a few minutes later. Laughed some more. Read it once more a few hours later, and yukk'd it up (not to be confused with yucked). Whatever Onstad did here worked fine for my laughter organ, and that's all that matters. Thus I approve.

MY OPINION brought to you by ALL THAT WATER AND CINNAMON APPLE TEA I'VE BEEN DRINKING

water = gin
apple tea = tequila

You might think that but no, when I say water and cinnamon apple tea that is just exactly what I mean. Bigelow Cinnamon Apple Tea. It's the nectar of something above the gods, I don't know what it is.

Keepin' nice and hydrated.

Mostly nice :)(::)(:

Laid back.

Be careful. I hear you can get pretty nice on that stuff.

Nicer than I ever been.


I think this is an interesting and good experiment that Chris is doing. Seems like what's been going on for the past few months is that he feels obligated to make the strips really long and elaborate to make up for how infrequent they are, but it's a vicious cycle that doesn't seem to really satisfy either us or him. I like this new approach.

At first I thought this was exactly like Achewood as it used to be. Then I got the joke and realized it wasn't. So it goes.

That doesn't make it bad though, does it? I wouldn't say so. Just different. Poo-tee-weet?

Certainly not bad, no. I wasn't disappointed, just surprised.

I can't gauge the general consensus yet, but I pretty much like this. This is, as dangelder references below me at the time I type this, quite Ray/ Roast Beef I am a Prostitute-esque. Not quite Cartilage Head weird but definitely not Polly and Connie normal.

It puts me in mind of the strip where Ray is talking in German.

Now that I think about it, that and probably Tacodor's dream strip are this strip's closest relatives, but maybe it's just because T appears as Wade here. Also, Hoy en Espanol.

i like that this is something i can show my friends, but don't have to explain. i mean, they want explanation, but that would only ruin it.

Listen: Ray Smuckles has come unstuck in time.

"everything was tasty and nothing hurt"

Rayyyyyyy
I am a prosciutto

"Ha-Ha" funny

this is fucking GREAT !

this is great FUCKING!

ive seen better.....

I am not commenting on this strip.

I did not reply to your asset, i_love_kate.

Ceci n'est pas une comment.

C'est un pip.

Look, I have nothing smart to say. I like this comic.

I was born with a gene that told me that talking to flowers was rad.

So am I the only one excited at the thought of Onstad "exercising" his "brevity muscle"?

no?
yeah, well neither was his WIFE!!

bada-bing!