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Little Nephew and Teodor Discuss Spaghetti Monday, February 7, 2005 • read strip Viewing 105 comments:

do not play this while smiling as it will ruin the song. you must have madness in your heart for it to show life has become too much for her.

...or has it?

I play this feeling nothing but anger and emptyness . Does anyone know who wrote this?

I'm not sure the half-arsed keyboard was necessary. Other than that, nice guitar sound.

Yeah, it sucks. I didnt notice until ufter I uploaded it that I was playing the wrong thing, which is kind of annoying. Also, it's actually an electric guitar faded in and out.

"Play with Great Madness in your Heart" is either a great personal motto or a crappy name for a college band.

Or a great name for a crappy college band!

I still prefer "to be performed relentlessly and without break."

the world will always need people who buy magazines about car stereos - best insult ever

I have used this one in actual circumstances and can confirm it is quite effective.

Almost as good as LN's eyes as the line is delievered. Lesson #1 In How To Express "Whatever, Fag" With Two Dots And Two Lines

He uses the same eyes when he's dealing a few panels later. Curious.

i think theres a subtle reference on showbiz here

That or Onstad genuinely dislikes those types of people.

Oh yeah, That's absolutely tops. In the great tradition of Achewood insults. That one reigns supreme.

I used to have SO MUCH FUN playing with Lego Starwars.

ESPECIALLY the Scout Troopers as they raced through the treacherous foliage of Endor's Forest Moon. They always killed Luke Skywalker, and then reigned down speedy, hot death on all the Ewoks.

Those were the days.

those of us who work in public education refer to these people as ones who "will someday pump gas."

At self-service stations.

just hoping they will get tipped for it

Teodor isn't used often enough, but he's always great. And the fact that he's buying weed from Lil' Nephew while they insult eachother is even better.

Damn, I'm slow.

I myself am quite fond of adding dried oregano to my dishes.

And weed.

Onstead has a thing for rickenbakers

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Don't you?

little nephew is such a bastard

I love their little code-talk exchange.

It is a flawless code, they are like a pair of wind-talkers.

I used to work at a super market. The guy in the meat department was my hook-up. We had a fairly elaborate code involving certain cuts of meat and amounts of weed. Example 1: butt steak = 1 oz. of the good shit. Example 2: tripe = nickle bag of whatever. We would do the deal right there in the meat locker, amongst the hanging carcasses.

why in the fuck of everything great am i the first to chubby this?

there ya go, i chubbied it, calm down my man. have a toke of tenderloin.

My friend has similar code for drugs
He works at a record store so he uses bands as codewords for scoring different things

Bob Marley or Sublime is for weed
The Beatles can get you acid
Jefferson Airplane turns up mushrooms

I can only hope that if I walked into your friend's record store, he'd understand that by asking for some Ween, I actually wanted a bong hit of Scotchguard.



I just cackled out loud at the notion of takin' a bong-hit of Scotchguard. Moreover, the association of Ween with such has made my afternoon.

[IMGS OFF]
I have to imagine that it made many of their afternoons, as well. Not that they'll ever remember.

I have it on good authority that huffing scotchguard leads to scotchguard coating your mouth and throat, which you later cough up in little plastic sheets.

You have no idea how hard I just chubbied you.

This is why the Internet exists.

Upon further reflection, it's the perfect thing to say, ever.

Whoa, I just got this strip... I'm as dumb as that cat child.

...i just realized what the hell happened here.

I was in the same boat, which just goes to show how far I am from the world of drugs.
But I got it on my second journey through the archives

Can I interest you in a subscription to " Car Stereos Monthly ?"

It took me a while to get it too but when I finally did it became my favorite Achewood strip ever.

This is a great arc, but for my money this strip is the most underrated of this whole amazing pot story.

150 seems a steep price for so little dried oregano.

150 for a 1/2 ounce is about what oregano goes for around here.

I can get you half an ounce of dried oregano

150. Same as in town.

150-170 can get you double that here.
But you cannot buy beer in a grocery store, this is a disadvantage.

alt text: Cue old timers groaning about the price of a lid

MAN that chicken recipe is going to be good when it gets here

that depends on how much of LN's "dried oregano" you use beforehand.

Bless the baby angel who made days like tomorrow.

"In charge of", but a chubb regardless.

And so begins the chicken recipe jokes...awesome.

Man, Teodor's discreet scoring ritual would put a John Le Carre microfilm hand-off to shame.

It took me so long to get this strip, but it just made it that much better when I did.

What I find interesting, is despite currency differences, a half ounce costs quite the same in either Australia or America. This is something for Ray's upcoming trip. Hit me up Ray, hit me up.

keep in mind, much much cheaper in canada. or, not "much, much", but it's a hell of a lot when you're a broke college student.

That intro sounds an awful lot like the beginning of Basic Instinct 2.

You watched Basic Instinct 2.

::sigh:: I watched the first 10 minutes and that was all I could stomach.

I can confirm that that little piece sounds exactly like the intro to silent hill.

Every gay-ass MCR-type gothemo band these days wants to make their every video look like that intro.

Daaaamn. This must be the fourth time I've seen this one and I only just got it.

Man when Philippe grows up he is gonna start a lot of conversations with "I have a story to tell you about when I was five."

I refuse to believe Phillipe will ever stop being five.

i wish i knew guitar, just so i could play these tabs.

i was just playin this. it sounds sorta like 'dee doo, doo dee, dee doo dee, dah dee doo dee dah dee doo dee' etc

The great thing about Tablature is that you don't even need to know how to play guitar, or music at all.

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YES

At my school the code was asking if they had ADHD then offering to buy their ritalin.
They were pretty straightforward.

i really wish there was a 4.5 rating i could give, this is so close to a five for me, but for some reason i don't even fully know i like to save 5s for the most special of occasions.

150 for 1/2 oz. is extremely accurate to the local prices.

That sounds like a sad place.
I've paid 60 for an ounce of nug.

where do you live

i want to go there

GROANNNNNN..... 15 for a 3-finger bag in my day, yo.
3 fingers being == 1 full oz. American.

Of course, some folks sold actual oregano in matchboxes to noobs too.

This really is one of my favorite strips

When I play through these tabs, I have to wonder what they sound like when Onstad plays them...

i'm gonna guess that this one sounds like great madness in his heart.

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Charley Smuckles, you little bastard.

Nothing is going on here that couldn't have been done with a simple surreptitous transfer of bag and cash. Of course, the overly elaborate precautions are what make it so funny. I love the elaborate code talk for the transfer of half an ounce.

What I'm still wondering is: if dried oregano symbolizes weed, then what are the drugs that Teodor really wanted, symbolized by tomatoes?

the dried oregano doesn't symbolize the weed though. It resembles it. It is an italian weed substitute, invented to make the mediterranean smell fantastic.

The sign will be that the Mediterranean is AWESOME.

he was just specifying an amount and LN cleverly applied a metaphor for the ingredient itself

Onstad has good taste in a guitar.

A fine guitar must be sturdy, and forthright.

It must contain pleasant weight.

Like a woman.

I was once that drug-addled starlet, and let me tell you, that car was a thing of beauty.

Until it hit the rocks.

man it took me like three reads to realise Little Nephew was selling weed to Teodor. those panels were gibberish to me for many puzzling seconds. drummers need help with everything

He totally sold that bear some weed!

I grew up in a town killed with paranoid religious folk, and thus it was pretty common to have the sort of parents that listened in on our phone calls, so we had to constantly come up with new codes to be able to set up our drug deals without them realizing. This comic puts most of our code talk to shame though.

That is retarded.

This is who we are; a celebrity who drives off a bridge in a car, her beautiful body filling up with water.

I'm so embarrassed. I thought they were actually talking about dried oregano because Teodor likes to cook.

Who knows, they could be, nothing explicitly points to it being not oregano but certain substances.

Teodor's method of insultation is simply the best, all so subtle sometimes you could imagine the insultee not noticing he is being insulted.

Teodor's house has a high R-factor insultation.

hahahaha, 150 for half an o? nice.

LN's eyes in panel three make me smile.

My lady friends and I typically use shampoo as a code word.

Like, "Hey, would you like to come over tonight and shampoo our hair? I have some salon-quality products right now."

Or, "Hey girl! What brand of shampoo do you use and where can I get some?"
"Well, all I've got right now is White Rain, but my friend has some Suave for $60 for a half-bottle."

This is better, though.

...or has it? (Cornelius: Yes)