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At Ray's crib Tuesday, January 15, 2002 • read strip Viewing 31 comments:

A comment left by nsrdude was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by ShemmJacc, SaulBellow, abe)

The elephant man's wang is gray and crooked but bitches love it because it's prehensile.

Also ribbed for her pleasure.

The Elephant Man's real name was Joseph Merrick. Besides this Achewood strip, he has also appeared in the legendary and excellent comic From Hell and a song by Mastodon. He is pretty cool.

Mastodon shreds. You get a chubby.

Screw a song, Buckethead has an ALBUM called "The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock"

That's a good album -- especially the "Lurker On The Threshold" set o' songs.

Also: an excellent movie by David Lynch.
And the not-so-excellent 'Moonwalker' movie with Michael Jackson, if I am not mistaken.

Correction, THREE songs by Mastodon. "Elephant Man" (Remission), "Joseph Merrick" (Leviathan), and apparently also "Pendulous Skin" (Blood Mountain). Each one the closing song. They like him - word is he was a great guy.

So then, would the Elephant Man's dick be nicknamed "Merrick's Derrick?"

(Additionally, Mastodon makes some great music.)

David Bowie played the Elephant Man on stage for a while in the 80s, or the late 70s, I forget which.

you mean... like a guitar??? i'm confused...

Back in the day, talking about the Elephant man was socialably unacceptable.

In the world they came up in, the elephant man was not mentioned.

NOOO I MEANT TO CHUBBY D:

Never fear, I'll chubby for the both of us.

The first full appearance of Ray's thong.

It's interesting that, with the thong, he's packing a pretty plump budgie. Without the thong, we can confirm that Ray has, in fact, been neutered.

He was possibly doing a Miss America before - it's impolite to be showing off your gibblies in cat society, despite what you'd assume by them having their tails up all the time.

You're not suggesting Ray... stuffs?

Seriously, Ray! How come you stuff your pants?

You've not had my life. Don't judge me.

The props in the third panel tell us much of what we'll need to know about this cat.

Teodor has never before been exposed to such class.

Notice the seemingly inconsequential piece of dialogue which became the actual, proper name of Ray's nephew.

I like that this is the fourth strip in a row where Onstad had to explain that these things are cats in the alt text. That seemed pretty obvious to me at the time but I guess he was getting some questions.

"What's with those freakish little people?!? JESUS"

Yeah he does seem to be very concerned that people will mistake them for some other creatures. I guess because we started off with talking stuffed animals, it's difficult to imagine that cats would interact with them? Or since the stuffed animals live in the Onstads' home as tenants, how is it the cats live in their own private homes and mix with their own private tiny drink mixers?

Well, they kind of look like bulldogs. Ray especially.

You like Ketel One, right?

Pour me some Diamond Juice.

Well Girlandagun I guess it is the same reason that some people live with other people as tenants and some people own their own houses.

Why did Teodor always have his arms behind his back in these old strips? Frankly, it's kind of annoying.