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IN THE FLAT FIEEEEEEEEEELD Tuesday, June 29, 2004 • read strip Viewing 45 comments:

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Besides... it isn't worth bitching about when the lower end is "Meh" and the upper end is Pant-Wettingly Awesome.

i love your avatar btw

I retract my reprieve on the doom of your genitals.

My Firefox doesn't show the alt-text on this magical thing, but this is one of the few that I remember.

I cannot imagine any child calling their room that. Are kids ever like that? Am I turning into an old man? When I was little, did I only think about writing papers and getting a job where I don't have to expect to step in vomit or get stabbed, like I do now?

Before a child hits the age of five, they are filled with a wondrous joy about the world around them.

Except when they're screaming or shitting themselves.

...and as they grow older, those last two activities take up more and more of their time, first screaming, then in their ripe old age mostly shitting themselves.

Do you feel like you are channelling Shakespeare?

I'm not sure. Did Shakespeare really want a pound of hot wings? Because if so then quite possibly yes.

That's recently been put forward as an interpretation of Sonnet 118.

It sounds like something an adult would call the child's room, but the child would enjoy the nickname until the child became older and began to found their parent/caretaker's affection "lame".

ugh, find. god damn.

The cat's nephew is very vulnerable to fads.

The lamp makes it

that is the funniest 'goth' costume possible. more like the charles-dickens-night-watchman crowd

this is the old school goth. they know incantations and stuff.

They do magick. With a k .

Is that the u calling the k superfluous?

It looks a bit like LN's goth-up is influenced by faux Uncle Culpepper's Southern Ways training.
Mayhap he was disappointed that the lessons ended abruptly with Lie Bot's shooting?

best alt. text ever

Desist, man! C'mon!

I used to have a house on Cuddleplace Lane. I found the atmosphere a little intrusive for my taste.

I remember wondering how long Little Nephew had lived with Ray (apparently since he was 2, anyway). Maybe Ray's brother/sister is dead. This would explain why no mention of them is ever made.

Being an orphan would certainly give LN some Dickensian/Goth street cred.

It's true; the background color is #666666. Coincidence that it is a melancholy (and evil) color.

I know, I checked too.

To see Ray's face in panel 3 would be to know the meaning of shame

You would have a terrible porn name if you grew up on Cuddleplace Lane.

Welcome to the wide world of Bottoming.

Ha ha ha ha ha. Wide.

That is a very expressive backside.

it's like a matador meet elvis meets paul revere.

I love how Ray just looks blankly at LN in the last panel.

I think it's freakin adorable that ray and little nephew called ln's room one cuddleplace lane.

Is... Does this mean that LN lives with Ray? Is Ray LN's only Parent ?

When using websafe colors, the hex code is always three pairs of numbers. This means that the bgcolor of LN's room could be abbreviated to #666.

If I ever saw a hexadecimal number written as 666, I would secondly assume it meant 060606, not 666666. I would firstly assume there was a Problem, though.

amici's is good, but patxi's is better.

I just came in here to say Amici's pizza is the best, greasiest filthy pizza ever. It's not a classy pizza, but god damnit if that don't improve it.

I... I didn't even get to read the strip before I started laughing. Oh god.

Ray's face just experience rigor mortis brought on by shock.

i don't think goths worship the devil necessarily onstad you dipshit

jk maybe they do who gives a shit really