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Philippe, King of the Dumps Friday, April 21, 2006 • read strip Viewing 95 comments:

I was given to understand that bras could help ladies with crummy boobs.

Note the tourniquet on her arm.

Note the arm that looks like rubber draped on the ground.

Alt-text: Sorry to all my crummy-boobed readers

and the gnarly track marks on the arm.

Crummy boobs?
Tourniquet on her arm?
Gnarly track marks?
Dear.God.I.Am.Not.A.Religious.Man.But.Please.
Help.Me.See.The.Connection.Here

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marijuana is only referred to as "dope" by old people such as mr hand
to most people, dope is heroin (or possibly meth, depending on the area)

Down south here I believe dope is heroin, but I'm not too down with drug culture.

Dope is heroin in most places and at most times.

Doping just refers to taking drugs in general though, right?

WRONG!

Sort of...

I have never heard of anything but weed referred to as dope. Heroin has a lot of names, smack, horse, H, but not dope. Though I must agree, the only people who call it that are from the 1970s.

The modern usage is dope, as in "a low-bottom dope fiend"; one who is using heroin and having a rough time of it. Dope was popular as a reference to cannabis mostly through the 60-70's, petering out in later years save for with the generation that was exposed to the drug culture during that time (baby boomers and before). Weed on the other hand seems to have about as many names or more than any other drug under the sun: bud, chronic, kb, nugget, sensi, herb, dro, mary jane, smoke, dank, trees, ganja, sticky-icky, grass, pot, cheeba.... Plus like anything sold, legally or otherwise, there are 'brand' names as well, strains of weed or different packages of her-on...it's marketing wherever you go.

Wow, I did not know that. That is so dope, bro!

Me neither. This conversation was the first time i'd encountered the concept of Heroin being referred to as dope, and I do not travel in soley tea-totalling circles. I think it must be partly an American thing.

It probably doesn't matter because most dealers specialize, and if they don't they can probably tell which one you mean by how fast you ask for it.

Chubby for the comment-icon synergy

get off your child's assetbar account, Sheriff O'Hanrahan.

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That's still called a touriquet. You squeeze the arm to cut off the blood flow both for bleeding and for doping purposes.

Yeah, I have a friend with reeeally crummy boobs, but her decently padded bra allows her to give the appearance of having a semblance of a rack.

I think this is more than a friend if you have seen through her illusion.

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You have much to teach us.

Make friends with ugly girls

A simple solution that breeds complicated problems.

Sometimes getting pregnant does wonderful things to boobs.

stretch marks are not a wonderful thing.

Stretch marks are in the eye of the beholder.

And they won't come out.

Improved for a while, maybe. Like, nine months max.

Ultimately, however, the situation is a lot like that Paula Abdul, MC Scat Cat collaboration...2 steps forward, 3 steps back.

If I ran into a man with teeth scabs, I'd be pretty scared myself.

that man is my grandpa.

Hoooly fuck that made me shudder. I...I'm not sure if I want to know what teeth scabs look like.

philippe is not living up to his expectations. He seems more grown up in this strip. Tell those junkies off little man!


Whoopsy-daisy! Sorry, everybody!

:(

He doesn't know that they have adult problems.

This is so against the idea of 'don't talk to starngers', because here we have a small child acting like a dick to some helpless strangers...

not just any small child, but a small child with a wicked sack

I guess living with Lyle and Lie-Bot would make a kid difficult to frighten.

That and the ghost of Billy Idol. Phillipe is going to be unstoppable if he ever stops being 5.

Who knows, maybe Ramses Smuckles was just like Phillipe when he was younger.

No one should be a dick to a stranger, ever!

Phillipe: future breast man

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Tonight at 11!

Jennifer Connelly does not have crummy boobs, or anything for that matter.

And she almost makes up for it in actual acting talent! An overcoming-diversity story if I ever heard one.

adversity?

i'm going to blame drugs for my grievous error

Man, you guys's avatars are basically identical, in form and shape. Which I guess makes sense, since the first guy is wearing glasses that remind me of Spider Jerusalem, and the aforementioned is a futuristic take on Hunter S. Thompson.

[IMGS OFF]


The point remains!

The point no longer remains.

I cheated.

As a white male, I prefer overcoming-diversity stories. They inspire me.

I always thought everyone in Achewood were terrible guardians (except for Cornelius) but after re-reading this arch Phillipe will straight up be an awesome man's man.

Actually over the whole series you will see many examples of them standing tall for each other. Beef and Ray at the GOF, Ray when Phillipe is threatened with the Internet Stalker, etc...

he may even be a future GOF winner...

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False. Phillipe is Five. End of story.

The people who lamed this haven't seen the strip where this is exactly what occurs.

The guest strip where this occurs.

You are incorrect.

I see.

See?

Sorry. Not trying to be a dick or anything.

Oh... I see for real now. You see, when he mentioned that before, I was thinking of the guest strip where Phillipe and Little Nephew had grown up and made poor life decisions, but it turned out to be a dream. I had actually completely forgotten about that strip that Onstad had made. Thanks for linking me to that. I smile at you.

An understandable mistake!

5th Panel: Is that Junkie Julia ?

Tsk tsk, Philippe, have you forgotten already? No one should be a cock to a stranger ever .

The Wino Messiah.

AND the LORD PHILEPPE did look down upon the junkies and the huffers and the winos and the bums, and he was displeased, and did say unto them:
Thou SHALT NOT bear scabs upon thy teeth, for that is neither scary nor dangerous, and an abomination;
Thou SHALT wear a bra, even if thy boobs art crummy, for so sayeth EVERYONE and so sayeth I.
And he did abandon them to their eternal squalor, for he sought the Couch.

[IMGS OFF]

Wowza bo bowza!

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In this strip, a young otter berates a series of drunks and junkies.

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Emeril: Happy week-end, announcements

Nothing ruins a day of free-boobing it at the dump like some snotty kid with a hat made from dryer sheets.

Free-boobing; glad a gal wrote that.

FREE THE BOOBS!

Worst...dumps...EVER!

Is that junkie Roast Beef's mom Corliss? Discuss...

I'd think she would still be on the meth

I would just like to add that my first couch was brown and I loved it dearly. I did not, however, brave the Transfer Station on its behalf.

i wonder if they make a toothpaste for scabby teeth.

Neosporin

It is a sad thing to have your boobs called crummy by a five year old. Not the saddest thing, but it does make you feel like worst song played on ugliest guitar.

Speaking from experience?

god i hope not

This strip makes me feel really bad for the junkies...

poor Philippe, all lost on beef's birthday-eve.

Oh Phillipe. Phillipe!

I want to be just like Phillipe when I grow up.

I just realized that Philippe's staff has a cord coming out the bottom of it, and is most likely therefore a part of a lamp. This has really made the strip speak to me.

evidence corroborating your deduction: There's a lightbulb on the top of it.