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Trouble in the Pool House of Good and Evil Tuesday, May 30, 2006 • read strip Viewing 46 comments:

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P.S: I hold a master's degree in philosophy so it is okay if I make fun of it just like it is okay if Irish people say "Paddy".

Beef looks pretty pleased with his table saw suggestion

His pose is much like a scholar discussing latin at Oxford or some such.

It's his "doing philosophy" pose

Reminds me of his Martha Stewart face.

I dunno, it kinda seems like he's throwing sass.

Don't tell me my motives! How dare you!

Teodor has a pretty wicked sack here.

Really, it's only simulated sack.

I'd imagine if I was hung like a cranberry, I'd probably rather not go back to that state either.

I said IF I WAS DAMMIT

vestigial sack

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Prithee, speak, Teodor, philosopher-king.

HOLY SHIT the alt text

Man, it's Lord of the Rings all over again.

This is far more like the cod-philosophy of some deranged 70's sci-fi like 'Logans Run' or 'Zardoz': "Fools that we were, we were attempting to eradicate the barbaric impulse from man; now behold what we have wrought!"

The penis is bad?

"Evil". The gun is good.

All 5 of my votes are for panel 9.

I always check inside the housings of tablesaws, because people do often leave treasure in them. It's not always great treasure though. In fact, it's basically what you would call "Demi-treasure".

What you mean to say is sawdust. Plenty of that inside the 3/4 inch cast iron housing of a Northfield with an 18 inch arbor.

A lot of the time they just got a wicked-ass saw blade, which I think is pretty sweet. Maybe not treasure, but still pretty fucking sweet.

I don't know what this is, but I want one!

i wish to know if that is real.

and i suspend my belief until it Takes my house.

German mining equipment. It's real enough, I just don't remember where I read about this thing.

Blade, arbor, and a big mess of dried tree rosin sprayed all around the inside from whenever pine family boards were cut. Ironically, a table-saw housing is just iron-clad underwear.

"How dare you! You've been incidental here, Ray!"

Just brilliant.

It's funny, but it actually does really put me out of sorts when people tell me what my motives are. One of the few buttons that really pushes me.
It was very incidental of those people to tell me what my motivations were.

The point they're missing is that if everyone used this to become happy, no-one would care that the world was collapsing anyway.

Except women, I guess? Do women have an equivalent for this?

Abandoning careers and the world at large to raise children?

Perhaps if we men had some sort of artificial device which reminded us of the power of our past dongs, we would feel sufficiently secure to institute social orders which forced women to do that!

It's "The Euphio Question" but with dongs.

Yes!
Vonnegut!
Thank you for being someone who likes good writing.

This strip reminds me of a particularly awesome episode of the show Black Books - and for that I adore it.

Run, Teodor, RUN! Don't let them take your dong enlightenment away!

How can Teodor chide Ray for being incidental? Teodor was even more incidental than Ray!

1) That's the point.
2)Heh, "chide". I thought that said "chode".

Beef looks like Buddha in panel seven.

pft. he is just doing philosophy.

Teodor! Don't! You're completely ENLIGHTENED AS HELL.

am I the only one wondering why these things aren't for sale in the Achewood store?

'cos they're simple and could make them for free.

I'm not totally sure, man. some of this sounds like pretty high science to me.

radical science.

Teodor does not want to give up his ancestral dong because his real dong is hung like a cranberry.