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The Hangover Ham Tuesday, April 20, 2004 • read strip Viewing 71 comments:

Amazing way to describe the terrors of a hangover.

...and amazing way to describe Ray's life. Genius.

I have known many people whose lives are best described as neverending sojourns into telephone poles. After a while, you stop thinking about how much of a douche you are and appreciate their misery. It's the best kind of schadenfreude.

Terrors?

Yes...when it's that bad, you're actually afraid of it.

Although Withnail & I comes close with the "I feel like a pig shat in my head," Alka-Selter between the brain-cheeks is a pretty adequate description of it.

The thing is, a real hangover just don't go for the headbone - it plays your whole body like a marimba, making sure to dwell on the stomach and the gut-bits. It's a soul-miasma, that's what it is. You are useless for at least a day.

Ray has a bastard behind the eyes.

Don't forget the southern gangster rapper in your ass who SPITS HOT FIRE

Oh man, that metaphor threw me for a loop. Fucking great.

Ain't but five rappers in the WORLD that can SPIT HOT FIRE:

[IMGS OFF]

Dylon, Dylon, Dylon, Dylon, and DYLON.

Holy God, that was the best description of anything I have ever read, ever. You sir, need to work for Webster's.

Also, "my head feels like there's a frenchman living in it"

I always felt like more like I had been repeatedly run over by a bus-load of circus midgets who then leapt out and beat my remains half to death, while a nearby clown kills kittens.

Oh god, those first couple hours where you know it hasn't peaked yet, and no amount of water or aid will stop its progress.. the horror, the horror.

I still want to know about that amount of carrot.

Heh! Let me just remove that.

Beef can only estimate in general terms the degree of Ray's carrot-earness, but Teodor is able to quantify to exact measurements that Ray smells like six and exactly six asses. He's a man of science like that.

Not five or seven, mind you. Six. Six asses.

Six! Six asses! Ah. Ah. Ah.

You just won all the awards.

The person who lamed this wasn't allowed to watch television as a child.

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Teodor has made some sweet comparisons about Ray's smell in this arc.

This won't make sense in six months, but I swear to Eris the angry, waving pill is controlling the weiner dog with telekinesis !

Awesome observation.

Beef is so used to Ray's behaviour that he has come up with experiential jokes to keep himself busy.

Beef has a history of being a dick when Ray is hung-over.

exactly six asses. no more, no less.

"Like watching a loop of a kid riding his bike into a telephone pole" -wonderful

Thanks to YouTube the whole world now knows exactly what Beef describes. Achewood, always ahead of its time.

Oh man! So many videos! This one is classic.

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad! *clomp*

WHERE'S HIS PRECIOUS AMERICA NOW???

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Dude, you're trying too hard.

When I've tried too hard you'll know it, sister.

This little exchange is pretty hilarious in hindsight.

YES

Oh lord, how many times have I said that one in my head... Well phrased, my friend, well phrased.

after reading this strip i've found the opportunity to tell many people they smell like six asses.

Roast Beef can tell it is not Ray but H.H. since Ray would never crinkle a suit.

six asses.

fukken brilliant

the dude has no mercy.

Haha the krinkling as he goes down.
Fackin hilarious.

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I think this strip has more brilliant lines per capita than any other.

Actually, I think the one preceding it deserves this honor more. That or the one where Ray confuses the First and Tenth Amendments.

Emergency Denny's may seem like the answer. But it's not. It is SO not. Never is. 2 Moons Over My-Hammy has no power to extinguish the intra-lobal Alka-Seltzer.

Denny's is never the answer.

...not even when stated in the form of a question, as a reply to something Alex Trebek said to you while you were on TV.

Teodor, at what restaurant did a waiter make my wife smile like a donut?

My two favorite aspects of the strip are:
-Ray's Newspaper suit has a tie;
-it looks somewhat like he's wearing 3-D glasses (how do you get one dirty lens??)

Mine is "The Hangover Ham".
I love it when Achewood gives me a new phrase to use in my everyday life.

I wish I had as many imaginary friends to explain Concepts as Beef does. Hangover Ham and Samuel H. Invisible have probably taken him to Denny's dozens of times.

It sucks to smell like six asses.

Brains look like behinds. Achewood taught me this.

This strip reminds me of that one episode of Futurama where half of my favorite jokes in the series happen in about five minutes.

...what the hell are brain cheeks? :c.

the right and left hemispheres resemble, to Ray, right and left ass cheeks, and he visualizes his headache as some alka-seltzer producing much fizzing agony in the asshole of his brain (figuratively).

my eyes are opened! thank ye.

Ray believes in head-ass symmetry.

Whining doesn't help. Denny's? No chance. Only solution: Skip a day.

we all wish we could skip a day.

"Also mention something about the carrot" made me laugh so loud I woke the wife.

Beef can only have his one-track mind derailed by a different singular track.

this is it...the favorite. the 3rd and 4th panels sealed this comic for me forever.

Beef wants Ray to whine this one out

This is the sixth time I have read this comic, and it wasn't until just now that I realized that "Hangover Ham" was not Beef trying to say Ray had a hangover like a ham in his head, but that he was "hamming up" how painful the hangover was.

I still want to make or find a recipe for "hangover ham" somewhere, just because.