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Cornelius Abdicates the Throne. Monday, July 13, 2009 • read strip Viewing 337 comments:

Will the story have a twist at the end? Will the Fully-automated Vesuvio Espresso Station spray hot milk in her face, disfiguring her to the point that no man may ever love her? Only time will tell.

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spray hot milk in her face

hot.

Umm, I think the direction Ray is taking the project means that the issue is whether any WOMAN will love her. I don't know how facial scarring plays into girl-girl action. Maybe a fringe audience? The same ones aroused by pics of Brazilian-wax accident scarring?

By which you imply there is a porno niche for pics of Brazillian-wax accident scarring.

This is the internet. Of course there is a porno niche for pics of Brazillian-wax accident scarring.

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Ohhhh yeah let it drip! Let it drip all ove- AGHHHHHHHHH MY EYES! AAAAAAAAGH NOOOOOO NO NO NO NO AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

In my experience, all first time uses of the stuff, or uses supervised by a guy, are going to be waxidents. Every girl that has used it has a story.

that is honestly the sexiest wax i've ever seen

STOP FOOLING YOURSELF.
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I usually used Mrs. Palmers, the best grip around.

You were certain she wouldn't catch you as you defiled yourself. She catches you.

You explain in your head that it's ok, because she can't be expected to meet your needs and you're actually taking the pressure off of her, but she feels betrayed no less. And you argue, and as usual you win, because your logic is always flawless and dammit you've become your father. But you hate it, you hate yourself, you hate her for not being like you, for being fucked up in other ways. And you don't know if you over-analyze things so that you will be right and she will be damaged.

And she screams obscenities, things you know you've taught her, and it seems wrong coming from her delicate features, and you hate yourself more. Her face screws up into something fierce and red as she slams the door, yelling that she's going back to Kiev and goddammit this is it this time.

And you let her go because you have conflicted feelings, and you hate confliction inside yourself. And you hate her because she makes it complicated, because she made you something you never wanted to be, something that feels alien and vulnerable.

And after simmering in your thoughts for what must be a few hours, looking at her picture with her high forehead and soft hair and delicate chin and cruel mouth, you tell her that you will find her, no matter where she goes. And you pick up your knife and rope and car keys and leave.

She was certain you wouldn't catch her, now that she defiled herself. You catch her.

Comment left by vulva ignored.

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but i already fapped

Murder and Masturbation, the Inextricable Pair. Thank you for laying this truism bare.

RBK?

Make that BTK. I cannot type. Apologies.

CBT?

IBS?

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Dirty diiirty Ibis.

They have become the new Sparrow or Pidgeon.

It seems to me everything looks pornographic if you zoom in enough.

Indeed
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your armpit gave me a boner - does that make me a like mj?

Speaking of Flagship Pornography:

Captain Darrell Smythe-Jones stood on the foredeck of the HMS Vesuvio . Fresh from a long tour in the Western Mediterranean defending Gibraltar from the dusky-hued Spaniards, Smythe-Jones was eagerly awaiting homeport in Plymouth, when suddenly an alarum sounded below decks.

"I say, what goes on down there!" said Smythe-Jones.

Suddenly, the midships hatch burst open, and the Carpenter's Mate and the Coxswain emerged, dragging what looked like a sack of potatoes, but on further inspection was a stunning blonde, dressed in burlap sack.

"Beggin' yer pardon, Cap'n, but we found us a stowaway!" Coxwain Pember shouted to the bridge. "Permission to toss her overboard for chum."

Smythe-Jones was on the verge of waving a curt agreement to the coxwain, until the girl suddenly lurched, and her hair fell in a curl about her face. Upon seeing the curl of her hair, and the delicious moue of her mouth, the captain was suddenly taken back to a particular shore leave on the shores of Gdansk, (or Danzig as it was then known), in a time before the guns sounded again for the second time in a scant score of years, before the war made a hash of love and blood and lust and fear.

He remembered Lola in that moment, and he stayed his hand.

"Mr. Coxwain."
"Sir?"
"Bring the stowaway to my quarters. She may have come to steal this flagship's new Vesuvio espresso technology. I will have to deal with her...in my own good time. Bring her to my sea cabin, and I will interview her, see what she knows."

Smythe-Jones paused, and a smile curled on his lips. "And after intense interrogation under the strictest of measures, but gentlest of tones, I might even have to (continued on order sheet, pg. 79)

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now you've gone and done it. You've outdone Onstad at his own game!

Or, you know, you could increase the zoom on the picture, get some of the metallic glisten on the curved part of the machine.

Actually, perhaps if you made the machine flesh-colored it would have some kind of synergistic effect with the flagship porno.

Wot of this Pornography? I haven't even a Pornograph!

Thomas Edison is Standing on it.
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I prefer the displays of ribald behavior as depicted by Mr. Tesla's Arouse-o-Scope. It works in a most curious way that seems to defy all logic, but it is clearly the superior device. No less than Samuel Clemens has already agreed to provide bawdy material for it.

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I thought Mary had a "little" lamb...

I always imagined a pornograph to look more like a microwave with tits.

Balls! Up close they always look like landscape.

Is it coincidence that in the trade this is known as a 'yogurt shot'?

No, this is yet another abortive and not-very-funny arc. Onstad has been off his game ever since he got the deal with Dark Horse. If you A/B any one of the strips from the past 18 months with any one from, say, four years ago you'll instantly see that Achewood used to be much better written and a lot more fun.

Cornelius just knew he should bring his Walking Around Hat to Ray's place, and it was just perfect for an angry storm-off.

Cornelius' second , less natural use of the distinguished adverb instanter

nice catch! i KNEW i'd see connie use it before but did not have the patience and fortitude to find out where.

Note the symbolic rending of the sheet of paper. An allusion to the Biblical custom used to show gross indignation. (See Mt 26:65 wherein Jesus pisses-off the High Priest)

Or will Ray end up writing to please only himself? With Cornelius off the job, Ray's not getting his erotica fix. It's time Ray hooked up with a good woman. lady cat.

I know it's low-brow, but I believe that these W-S ladies will be introduced to the simple pleasure of the sheet cake.

They feel good on the bum. Soft. Warm, fresh from the oven.

Or so I'm guessing.

[quote]They feel good on the bum.[/i]

He doesn't seem to be enjoying it:

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He looks like he has Hobbit feet. Are homeless people really Hobbits?

If they are, my neighborhood is the fucking Shire.

Saruman's Scouring Powder

For when your neighbourhood is the fucking shire.

The cakes, or the W-S ladies?

Glenda pulled a sheet cake from her oven. It sat perfectly in the middle of her Williams-Sonoma 12" Steel Cake Pan with Bronzed Handles, a small amount of steam rising from its lightly tanned top. She set it on the counter to let it cool.

Just then the doorbell rang. She knew who had arrived. Glenda opened the door, smiling. Ronaldo stood there, leaning against the wall, his trouser cuffs at just the right length for his shoes. "Hello, my dear," he said in a near-whisper, and entered the palatial home.

A half hour later, Ronaldo emerged from the kitchen holding the sheet cake which he had just easily frosted using a Williams-Sonoma Chrome Cake Froster (available with your choice of two wooden handles, see p.321). "Are you ready?" he asked with a sly smile.

Glenda let her dressing gown fall to the floor and wiggled her panty-clad bottom. "Am I ever," she moaned.

a small amount of steam

You are Dan Brown, and I claim my complementary half-dozen polycarbonate stemless wineglasses.

I've never read anything by Dan Brown. Does he have a penchant for awkward descriptive phrasings like that?

I have read no Dan Brown, but I remember Stewart Lee quoting him as writing the actual sentence "The famous man looked at the red cup."

I read and quite enjoyed The Da Vinci Code. I'm just trying to fit in.

If you're trying to fit in here by saying that, you're doing it wrong.

I totally don't fit in and I think Mr. Brown gives Mr. Bulwer-Lytton a run for his money

First comment was fitinattempt, second was guiltyadmission.

Ray's fashion evolution seems to progress from Ray to 1950's newspaper head-editor-and-dick-to-a-stranger in three panels. I would suggest that the stage in between the two would be "one year off his popular-culture-publication-with-Edge failing horribly and going bankrupt" editor.

Other suggestions are encouraged.

You know Ray's putting effort into it when he grows some hair (beyond his normal cat fur, of course) just to look more managerial in panel 2.

At first reading I thought it was Pat, who had just wandered in and started giving unwanted advice to Cornelius like the dick he is.

That threw me too until I realized it was Cornelius' mental image of Ray = Pat = Dick.

And a small town editor at that, one who writes all the copy and then prints the paper himself, cause Ray is dressed as a printer.

"No no no no! Take out this reference to nasty old hummus and replace it with Moby's decreased lima bean paste!"

I am listening to Kyo Kusanagi's theme from King of Fighters and watching your avatar dance dance dance, stance stance stance and it is so right . Do not change your avatar. It pleases me.

oh-oh

this does not look good for the Smuckles

Wrong.

This looks fantastic for the Smuckles. It does not, however, bode well for the rest of us.

i honestly expected the twist to be that there was no william-Sonoma contract, and that Ray had scammed Cornelius into writing erotica for him.

A comment left by wolfensti was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by Norsef, Deusoma, Scorpio_nadir, verplanck, DrSkradley, coldfrog)

Minsc, I'm ashamed of you. We taught you better than that.

Yeah, man. The original was unbeatable.

(Completely off-topic, I realise, but shut up.)

[b]YOUR ASSIGNMENT:[b]
Create the full name of superspy agency, whose acronym spells a bad word.

Example: Covert Undercover Ninja Team


Begin.

Bonus points if you don't fuck up the BBCode.

No.

Formidable Underground Concealed Killing Yakuza Operation Unit?

Japanese International Secret Ministry
Secret Headquarters for Intelligence Teams
Plenipotentiary Undercover Super-Spy Yankees
Bureau of Assassins, Spies, Terrorists, Agents, Rescuers and Detectives (not entirely government-sanctioned, so they are considered illegitimate in some quarters)
Free Union of Counter-Klansmen
Bureau of International Terrorists, Counterspies and Hitgirls (all female, you know, successors to the The Silencers and very nasty to deal with this time of the month)
Federation of Agitators, Rebels and Traitors (pathetic, really; their work mostly stinks)
Police International Secret Society
Combined Undercover Ministry

Y ugoslav O rganization for U niversal R ecognition of M ajor O bstetrician M otorcyclists

Geriatric Osteoperosis Dispensers for Island Settlers with Degenerating Eyesight and Amplifying Diameters - wait....what was the point of this again??

Royal Extra-Terrestrial Advanced Research Defense/Exploration Department

D epartment of I nvestigation, C oercion, and K illing

Assassins & Sons: Helpful Enemy Removal, Delivered Ala Night

The absolute naughtiest, for sure

Belgian Association of Drunks, Gamblers and Alcoholics Manipulating the Economy

Q uintessentially U nchaste I guanodon M anservants

Goddamnit, drskradley, instead of paying attention to lecture today I did this:
Advanced
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Enemies
Research and
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Organization
Necessary for
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I hope you're happy.

Well, I'm happy, if that helps you.

chubs galore!

You shut up.

Yonkers
Operatives,
Unified
Regional
Front
Against
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Leninist
Traitors

(I tried to not have it be 1950 in this post but I couldn't think of any other way to end it)

Thank you all. This was emotional.

B ureau of K orean K nights A dministrating K uwaiti E xtradition

A ssimilation of S oviet S pies, P erforming L iberating A ctualisation - Y emen

C overt U ndercover M oldovan S olo H arrier O perators of T urkmenistan

Fuckshit.

EDIT: B ureau of U nified K orean K nights A dministrating K uwaiti E xtradition

Monotonal Yangtze Canoists Harbouring Extreme Militants & Individuals Carrying Assorted Lifeforms, Republicans On Master Associations w/ Naturalists & Closet Entomologists

Direct
Reconaissance of
Martial
Auxiliaries and
Naval
Fusilier
Launches
Engaged in
Sabotage and
Horticulture

Chubby for M.Y.C.H.E.M.I.C.A.L.R.O.M.A.N.C.E.

Clarification: I don't have a chubby for My Chemical Romance. In any way.

... in which Cornelius gets so mad, it becomes Ash Wednesday.

bah this is too hard to read :\

I BAH THE NACHO-LESBO PORN AS HIS FATHER!

man this forum is getting too advanced for me :(

The story gets even more interesting once you realize that Inge is a dude's name in Sweden. Just what kind of household is Ray imagining?

"Inga" Ray means "Inga"
Whaddaya want, he never went to college.

What college did you go to that you learned that Inge is a man's name and Inga is a woman's name?

Come in, my child, join the party.

Let me see, you would be from Austria.
Am I right?

- No, I am Inga from Sweden.
- Sweden?

But you're wearing Lederhosen.

I never wear a hosen on my leder.

I wish I had a million chubbies to give you both for the great character work you're workin' here. The voices are so accurately conveyed.

You do realize that Mr. Spaulding is merely quoting, do you not?

Kids these days... Help me with my rucksack would you?

Do you keep a copy of Balzac in your rucksac?

Lederhosen in my Assetbar?

I hardly knew 'er!

YA FOR SURE FROM SWEDEN



Boo-boo yah, boo-boo yah, boo-boo yah, hah! Boo-boo yah, boo-boo yah, boo-boo yah, hah!

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beef jerky time

Florida State University

If you did not have frequent encounters with attractive Swedish women during college you went to the wrong school.

No matter where I went, Swedish women of any sort simply would not hold the same attraction for me.

And I realize I just shattered a few fantasies with that statement, so I apologize.

I'd probably hire a cross dressing Swedish chap to work in my house. It's not a sexual thing, I just think it would be kind of classy. It would get rid of Jehovah's witnesses pretty sharpish as well.

Best way to get rid of Jehovah's witnesses is to invite them in to donate blood - or throw fossils at them.

Tell them you're Jewish.

b like "hello who is?"
"we jenova wiltness, hav moment?"
an i'm like "aww ye, jus' come right in-- HEADBUTT -- JAILTIME -- NO REGRETS

das how i roll

liar. youre totally afraid to do all that stuff. i can tell.

you dont know me you son of abitch

fuck you

dude, in less than 5 words, i can have you eating my children. i suggest you reconsider this attitude youve taken on.

hey, now. children are delicious.

heh. you enjoy the taste of jism....

i suggest u lern who will and who wont take shit. so how 'bout u take ur weak sack out yo GF's purse an' strap it 2 ur forehead

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

/knocks over a chair

/stands chair up again, punches professorhazard.

/removes i_love_kate's kidneys non-surgically, boxes his ears with them.

/discreetly slips into corner, slips hand deeply into pants pocket

/remembers when the world was young, and there was nothing to fear or doubt, and we would all go to bed with full bellies and the promise of a new day

/smacks srikamaraja in the face with a pie that catgrrl sat on, knocks the damn chair over again.

/would like to chubby this whole damn thread but is probably too friendly already... then hocks and spits in scorpio's face

/quietly lowers the curtain, the performance ended

/stabs Belgand, throws through curtain

/Reads all of this days later, and quietly sobs... (while fapping)

but.. that would be a lie!

I've actually done that. They always apologise. My actually-Jewish boyfriend never uses it, though.

My uncle did it once and it worked. It probably helped that he really looks like he could be Jewish. He has curly hair, kind of dark skin, and a big nose.

,a bag of money in his right hand, well poison in the other...

As if. My uncle hates people who have money.

"here uncle, i get teh check"
"wuh? whata u say, nephew? have i gone mushugunuh? did u jus say u'd pay? with money? for THIS? teh food was poison ma boy, pure poison. and such small portion! by teh way when r u gonna bring over a nice jewish woman you're makin' ur mom worry "

Chubby for Glad as Henny Youngman.

take my wif, pls.

teh wif tat i boend ?

chubbys for all!

I suggest he consider moving to a gated community where the covenants specifically keep them out.

Oh come on, there IS a sort of Semetic look that cen be identified. It's pretty damn handsome most of the time. Lots of people DO look Jewish, Irish, Italian, etcetera.

okay so.. what's the deal with jehovah's and jews? they have a recruitment truce or something?

Basically i think the jew can't be among the 144k saved or a variant of such

eh? okay... I'm heading to the Wiki... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses

Witnesses believe there are two destinations for those saved by God. They say the number of Christians going to heaven is limited to precisely 144,000, who will rule with Jesus as kings and priests over earth.[122] The remainder have the hope of living forever in an earthly paradise.[123]

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that death is a state of non-existence with no consciousness. They do not believe in any Hell of fiery torment.

They consider the body and the soul to be the same living being that expires.[138] Their hope for life after death involves being resurrected by God, either with a new body on earth after Armageddon, or to heaven for the limited number of 144,000.

noting about their beliefs vis-a-vis jews, however.

In all, Jehovah's Witnesses brought 23 separate First Amendment actions before the U.S. Supreme Court between 1938 and 1946. U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone wrote, "The Jehovah's Witnesses ought to have an endowment in view of the aid which they give in solving the legal problems of civil liberties."[citation needed]

The fighting words doctrine was established by Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942). In that case, a Jehovah's Witness had reportedly told a New Hampshire town marshal who was attempting to prevent him from preaching "You are a damned racketeer" and "a damned fascist" and was arrested. The court upheld the arrest, thus establishing that "insulting or 'fighting words', those that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace" are among the "well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech [which] the prevention and punishment of...have never been thought to raise any constitutional problem."

The right to call a constable a "fascist" whilst being arrested for disturbing the peace is one of our most important and cherished rights.

144,000 resurrected corpses!

That's like gross times a thousand!

For the most part Jews and Christians are cool with each other, seeing as Christianity was born of Judaism.

Thank you for that. I needed a laugh today.

Yeah, the Inquisition was good sport.

All of the major monotheistic religions go through a similar cycle of fundamental zeal. The Jews felt that God commanded them to slaughter the other tribes, the Catholic Church mounted armies against "heathen," and factions of Islam now feel the same way toward "infidels." Its the same god, the same human species, and the same "my way is best" attitude used to justify murder.

Just remember: "God is Love."

Why don't we just call him "Love", then, love dammit?

For the love of love!

Any Christian who is not okay with Judaism is not nearly as familiar with the Bible as he ought to be. Also I'm talking about nowadays, not things that happened like 400 years ago.

'kay, who lamed this? Was it anti-Semite, or one of those people who think that all Christians are horrible racists who hate anyone who isn't white and also Christian?

'Cause I didn't say anything incendiary here.

OOOHHHH SHIT

Watch "Constantine's Sword," totally worthwhile documentary. (and maybe watch Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ") There are plenty of Christians "not nearly as familiar with the Bible" as they ought to be, if your statement holds true. And today, not 400 years ago. Or a thousand years ago, when the First Crusade took place.

Watch South Park, for Christ's sake! Plenty of Cartmans around, all fired up about the Jews killing Jesus. Ted Haggard being one of them, extending his tentacles into the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Evangelist cadets harassing Jewish cadets, chaplains spreading the Good Word.

The only Christian I know who has a problem with Jews is my grandfather, who is nearly 80 and I believe has other reasons for not liking Jews.

I strongly believe the whole "teh Jews killed JESUS!" thing was the media exaggerating the controversy generated by The Passion of the Christ (which was not in any way racist toward Jews, despite the prejudiced leanings of Mel Gibson). I would not doubt that the production company behind the movie had a hand in this as well. Controversy sells, after all.

The fact is, technically, yeah, Jews did kill Jesus, or at least allowed/demanded that it happen (the actual killing per se would have been performed by Romans). I don't hold it against Jews now, because a) that was 2000 years ago and not one of those particular Jews is alive today and b) they believed he was a false prophet blaspheming God by claiming to be the Messiah.

Are there Christians prejudiced against Jews? Sure. But there's people in every walk of life who hold some form of prejudice against another race/class/sexuality/gender/whatever. I believe in pretty much every case, those people are a minority. I do not believe that Christians, ON THE WHOLE, have problems with the Jews. Those who do are probably ignorant of their religion's history, and therefore should not be indicative of the rest of us.

The most important part is that Jesus thought of himself as a Jew. Not simply in a rational "Jesus was a real person" sort of manner, but, based on my understanding, within the context of the bible itself.

This is because he was a Jew.

Half jew - half God

His Hair was perfect.

Half Jew. Half God. All man.

(You are to Imagine a deep voice intoning that while a funky bass riff begins playing. Whether or not the voice goes on to say "Aww, yeah" is up to you.)

I am now imagining funky Jesus struttin' down Lexington. He high-fives the dude on the corner. A local street vendor gives it up for the J. A gaggle of women check him out conspicuously as he walks past and he pays no heed. The high-hat goes into double-time just as the horns start to come in. Everything is right in the world.

Going into that funky Bob Marley backbeat,

bump.bump.bump.ba-ba-ba,bump.bump.bump.

Steer it up


Lit-tl dahlin

Steer it up...


Eeehh... "Stir It Up" is a great song, but a tad too slow for this application. I'm thinking we need some weapons-grade funk here. Can't believe they'd test that sort of thing on children.

Edit: Actually, thinking just about the backbeat alone that's pretty damn right on. I mainly know the bass line to that one... fuck, but I'm a shitty member of the rhythm section if I don't know the drum part better.

Hell yes. HELL YES.

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I strongly believe the whole "teh Jews killed JESUS!" thing was the media exaggerating the controversy generated by The Passion of the Christ


antisemitism is not controversial, it simply is. The population of the US, is, on average, one of the most ignorant and uneducated populations of any 1st world country. (If you disagree, that's another discussion.) Prejudice such as antisemitism is going to flourish most where there is the most ignorance and lack of education. One could extrapolate, therefore, that the U.S. population, on average, might be pretty damn prejudiced against Jews. If your own personal anecdotal experience or your own perspective via whatever lens you use ('the media?') does not show the U.S. population to be all that antisemitic, well that's great, but is not an objective nor reliable indicator.


u twokin' some serious BS dat canna b verified watever

That was incredibly well thought out and even-handed. It is always nice to see some sanity on the internet, and so i'm giving you major v-chubs.

The Jews called Jesus "rabbi" (teacher). The Romans killed him because he was a threat to their empire (which did fall to "Christians"). The Jews killing him theme was slipped into the New Testament. I think you're Jew-baiting. I'm done.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
gasp
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I bawl with laughter at your ludicrous statement. You're obviously the stupid Patrick Bateman.

Read the comment above you, asshole.

I'm Batman.

Chubbied because it fit like a glove.

This whole argument can be ended with just three words:

Westboro Baptist Church.

Look it up and see (what I consider) the closest thing to evil that we probably have. That, and Anne Coulter.

Please never speak of them. I used to live near enough to those assholes that they were a not uncommon fixture. A friend of mine was actually unlucky enough to have grown up in Topeka. Don't give this dude feelings.

Drinkin' that Morgen Davis make them immune to the bite.
Jewhovah witness come flapping up, smell it in they sweat, all goin' "Eaerghhh Ammuhanna Rapsidillioskey!!"
All commence rollin' on de flo, gnashin' o de teeth.

MOGEN DAVID- KEEPS THE CREATURES OF THE STREET AWAY*!

*some restrictions may apply- homeless, winos, cheap-ass drinkers.

TRY IT!

WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF MOGEN DAVID WHAT DO YOU DO IN THE CLUTCHES OF A CHEMUS WITCH THEN GOD DAMN YOU!

amazing that is EXACTLY what jewish looks like

Some of them, yeah. A lot of them don't, I know. Most of them in the west don't, I'm sure. I was just saying, he looks such that if he told you he was Jewish you would believe it.

Having thought of it, I'd've stuck with the name "Boutiqua"; that's the difference between Ray and me. And I don't know what her last name is, but I'm thinking it starts with dee apostrophe.

Ray abandoned the typewriter for the computer on which to complete the erotica. Perhaps it was the magic of the typewriter that made Cornelius so successful.

Ray, you are doomed to fail . . .

Trying to write dirty stories on the Shrovis-Bishopthorpe causes the Office Assistant to appear in the corner of the screen in the guise of a hunchbacked vicar with a dirty twinkle in his eye.
"Ah yes. It looks like you're attempting a bawdy narrative. Aren't you delightful. Allow me to assist, you naughty fellow. Or I can just watch from here in my corner. It's up to you."
Cornelius was beginning to find this a little tiresome, so he switched to the trusty typewriter.

Has Ray ever failed at anything? And by failed I mean acknowledged failure.

Ray viewed being face-down in a puddle of his own puke in Hell, getting called on his life's bullshit by those he had ridiculed as a character-builder he could later turn into a movie script.

So, probably no.

In Ray's mind an arborist, only temporarily satisfys a woman, leaving them wanting more later.

I first read that as "Ray's mind is an abortionist, only temporarily satisfying a woman..."

Well they have to be careful or they'll be wanting more later.

In Ray's mind an aorist, only temporarily satisfies a woman, during a change in vowel grade.

Ray's mind is parsley flecked , a bland spice if there ever was one.

Connects like a piston rod? I guess it reads better than 'connects like a con-rod'.

Connects like a cone bone.

oh no Ray Smuckles you is pulling an Onstad!

maybe if onstad didn't have to write 500 words for each strip he produced he could get them done in a more timely fashion.

i'm really getting tired of having to block off a 5 minute chunk on my calendar to read achewood.

otherwise, i love it when ray has his special genius powers and totally dominates the scene

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i'm really getting tired of having to block off a 5 minute chunk on my calendar to read achewood.


Are you the type of person who goes to a heavy metal concert and then storms out obnoxiously when they don't play the Brandenburg Concertos ?


Why else would someone go to see Yngwie Malmsteen?

Please God let this post be sarcastic. I weep for humanity if it is not.

He oughta be tied to the weeping post.

and once he has been weeped, we shall keel heem.

Dude, hardly. If you count "That'll", "Fully-Automated," "It's," and "That's" as two words apiece, read each "tap" separately, mentally add the word "Eureka!" upon seeing Ray's lightbulb, and let's not forget the alt-text, it only comes out to 355, give or take a few because I just woke up, and I'm not sure what the style-guide says about things like "($29)" and "24-75."

So: Quit your goddamn complaining, you pansy. Although if you do actually read at a 71 wpm rate, please accept my sincerest condolences.

With the help of your numbers, I determined that I can read the comic at approximately 338 words per minute. I read TAP TAP TAP hella fast though...

Man, I type faster than 71 wpm.

remember back when there was a difference between the blogs and the strips? The strip has basically become a blog with an occasional image, and sometimes that image even changes.

God damn but that is some brow furrow Connie's rocking.

he disagrees so hard, the Grand Canyon comes outta his face.

So hell of craggy the Grand Canyon covets.

five years ago, the original strip was posted.
oddly fitting:

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Now that's closure.

how do you mean?

I don't know. Other than it's a pun because a canyon is wide open rather than closed.

O.K. I can kind of see that 1/2$

I think I meant the brambly path we blazed through to reach this synchronous and somewhat cyclical end was pretty good closure to our path-blazing.

I'm sorry if someone mentioned it and I did not see it, but do we know why Ray has hair in panel two? Because it's worrying me.

It was a glaring omission that I noticed as well. Maybe it's not hair, just a light dusting of volcanic ash? This is the only explanation that makes sense to me.

He's doing a Pat thing.

Maybe he had a cheap pen behind his ear that leaked onto the top of his head? He bought a better brand along with the visor by Panel 3.

Seriously though, he's doing the olde tyme copy editor in Panel 3, but I can't figure out if the outfit in Panel 2 is supposed to mean anything.

'zine publisher. this is how Beef dresses in Ray's mind.

I dream of the day when I can put on a hat as emphatically as Connie does.

What if you tried throwing it at the ground so it bounces onto your head with an amusing sound effect?

Then Samuel Beckett has a job for you.

Theorizing that one could time travel within one's own lifetime, Doctor Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator... and vanished .

Almost but not quite.

the alt-text saved this one for me. heck yes.

It is a pretty great alt-text and I'm glad to see someone acknowledge it as such.

i was listen to BBCworlservice cuppla days Ego an' was list 2 reporters report form round teh worl an' dey was doone ah thing abot afghan fugie's n calais it woz all "they gon' hitch ride 2 engman via chunnel-truckorwhatev-if they get cuaght dey spend day in jail sent back 2 calais" but n dis bit they say 2 tings dat afecks me emotianally, teh first 2 b said was when fmale report describe conditions an' i was sorta gettin' pciutre form wat was said earl but i still had questsions until she describe as living condition as "like a shanty town built ontop of a landfill" i knew den EXACTLY wat teh place was like. i also laughed otloud 2 myself cuz i was elone teh second ting camed after win she saiz policement stole they blankets to encurage dem 2 move form they crapy settlement an teh reporter says "used 2 havin' nuffink, teh afghan peeps jus adapt'd 2 hav even less" tear rolled down ma face, i get misty even repeat it here.
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If you are unable to raise the needed funds, would you allow me to fund an English class at your local university-school?

i cannit eford shcools

I find it interesting that the only initially-capitalized word is the misspelling of "ago" as "Ego."

Don't be an IDiot.


I pardoned youre offense a few days back.

Godspeed


Not the same. You look like a guy who talked a lot.

oh, sir, i make up for that in spades when i am fully prepared for the occasion.

Ok guys, you promised, this was the one where I got to be funny.

Sorry. I canna a let you in withouta badge.

I apologise for reading this in my head in the voice of Al Pacino's Scarface.

The pokemon games were the first images to come to my head ?!?

we dont need no stinkin badges!

Wait, people still think glad is a run of the mill troll?
Keep on rocking, gladi8orrex. I don't know what you're doing exactly, or why, but keep doing it.

Very few of us are enlightened to the Mystery-Religion of gladi8orrex. It actually borrows quite a bit from Mithraism.

Instead of a bull, he sacrifices Grammar.

A bloody sacrifice, but necessary.

In the second to last panel, Ray types with such enthusiasm that he emulates the sound of a horse in full gallop.

Simply just the word "Boutiqua", once you realize that it's supposed to be a woman's name, instantly conveys the full depth of how bad Ray is at this.

It also conveys exactly how black Boutiqua is.

YEAH I SAID IT

her ass is so enormous

her hair is so ethnic

Her ebonics are so impenetrable.

Quite unlike the woman herself.

Hmmm. I just implied that black women are promiscuous. I'm not sure where I go from here.

nah, just black women in ray's literotic williams-sonoma world. you're safe; you're not racist or sexist, it's all make believe.

i think the point here is that ray likes black women. the women he dates are black type women, so he writes about black type women first

Should we not say black cats ?

If absolute technicality is the order of the day, I think it'd be black queens . Which takes the whole idea to a new level, of which I approve wholeheartedly.

Not [i[red[/i] queens? Off with your head. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm late...

Not for a very important date?!

No, apparently, I'm late for BBCODE lessons, today we are going to learn why you need to close brackets with a close bracket not an open bracket.[[[[[[[[[]

youre pregnant! haha!

To be technical about it the term is negro or wait is it coloured. as in NAACP?

I believe our local contact doesn't visit too often, or he'd have chimed in by now

imagine Lloyd Dobler holding up a sign that says "NOT HERE VERY OFTEN THESE DAYS"

Calling Boutiqua promiscuous is not the same as calling Black women in general promiscuous.

However, the assumption that calling one person is the same as calling her entire race promiscuous is another matter entirely.

Boutiqua is a straight-up sexual being. Nothing wrong with that.


she exists to pleasure and be pleasured

Dang, Ray, we got the Williams-Sonoma catalog out, and you're playing whack-a-pole.

And what did Poles ever do to deserve that?

Poles, what news from the north ?

RUSSIA'S STILL THERE

target remains.

PROVE IT

panel 11 is legitimately sexy.

is comic about cats https://www.lackadaisycats.com/

okay that comic about cats sucks. the degree to which one must suspend disbelief is similar to that in the story plot of a Super Mario video game. Nice graphics but ridiculous story.

I've always felt that Mario games carry their story fairly adequately, barring the giant plot hole of the mother of Bowser's children (does he produce eggs himself, like Yoshi?).

given how ugly they are, i'm going with adoption

I'm guessing the idea is that the parents of ugly children kill themselves, so the children become orphans and thus need to be adopted?

Either that or you were just saying that Bowser is such a total dreamboat that he could never be the biological father of the likes of Iggy and Morton.

the handsome parents put the ugly kids up for adoption rather than raising them. in fact, that's my origin theory for bowser himself. it explains why he's full of angst - rejected by his parents.

That explains a lot:

[IMGS OFF]

whats the story on this photo? why did you know about this photo and how did you decide to post it here?

The gentleman depicted is "Bowser" from a 80's era television program "Sha Na Na." (although I think it may have been a stage-play previously).

Some people do know pre-2005 pop culture references.

i thought it was mr. bean

Wait, is that related to Sha Na Na the band, the one from the Grease soundtrack and who performed at Woodstock?

That is Bowser from Sha Na Na the band, yes.

Dude I think you just did PoMo on Super Mario Bros.

Cornelius is a Man. A Man whose Words cost Money.

He's a bear, actually.

Oh my goodness. Why are there SO MANY comments?! I can't even read them all!

Thank you for contributing.

Likewise, mystkmanant! I am glad to see we share the same views!

Maybe ju and me are amigos?

Once again Onstad appears quite upset by our criticisms of the strip and the direction it has been going in.

While this is certainly his prerogative I must wonder about whether it is a good idea to adopt this approach to one's audience.

Of course, I could simply be seeing something that isn't really there. That this was all just an attempt to get Cornelius out of the current arc, but it would certainly not appear to be the first time. Likewise it seems to correlate with Onstad who has increasingly found ways to seemingly isolate himself from his audience compared to other web comic creators. He has no daily text, the blog was infrequent and appears to have ceased entirely, he occasionally posts smaller pieces behind a pay wall, but most of it seems to be trifles from the creation of the strip and not further insight. Even the brief line of text has morphed into being an advertisement and a source of lies about when to begin expecting a new strip.

On what are you basing this? I haven't seen Onstad claim to be upset by our criticisms anywhere.

I think that belgand is positing that the continuation of certain arcs ad infinitum is a form of belligerence-in-the-face-of-criticism on the part of O.

I was referring to the opening of this strip. The idea of constant editorial interference by a clueless person finally causing the author himself to lose it seemed like it might have been aimed at us.

It sounds like I'm probably not correct though since nobody else seems to be seeing this.

wha... wha... You mean I'm the affluent, stunted woman aged 24-75???

I tought you meant that the sudden change from Cornelius to Ray was caused du to the complaint about the unnending stream of Invention/Rap

while we are throwing out theories, here's one: Maybe Onstad was consuming lots of weed and he decided to cut back since he had the kid, resulting in a corresponding change in perspective of the strip?

or maybe he is jus' doin' hsi thing an' yall shuld stop wit ur pointless speculation cuz it's all bullshit

Sage wisdom from a wise sage.

Speaking of unpopular arcs, what ever happened to Polly? I quite liked her, even if a lot of other assetbarians (assetbaristas?) didn't.

Vlad tried to play pin the tail on the honkey. Her body was never recovered.

I can answer that, but my attorney says I shouldn't.

Not to put too fine a point on it, Polly wanted a cracker - if you catch my meaning.

I think she needs some water, to put out the blowtorch.

I'd assume that Polly's departure was because of what a negative reaction her character received, and Onstad decided to drop her entirely rather than try to flesh out her character and make her more acceptable to the fans.

I imagine whether he'll ever bring her back depends on his motivations for creating her. If he intended for her to be a serious addition to the cast it'd be odd to drop her entirely, but if it was just a half hearted attempt at adding a new element to the strip, it'd be easy to see why he'd lose interest. Another possibility is that he just hasn't felt like doing another storyline with her, since Onstad's pretty bad at balancing character appearances.

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Please don't ever do this again. I can think of absolutely nothing more thoroughly offensive than the Thing you just Did.

THE DISEASE IS INSIDE OF YOU.

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I don't know much but I gotta assume
When ya hit ya first neden, ya homies was in the room

(neden is slang for vagino)

okay that's a little weird, screwing with your homies in the room.



wat a terriple rap song
it wasn't good, just stupid and long
did copy paste it form a rap site?
teh rhyms r trite an' so not tite
aight?
here the fuck we go

ur song is stupid, 2 much repitition
ima insulate ur dome 'til m outa amuninition
gona break ur neck so ur outline lax definetion
"is dat corpse even human?"
is wat ya momma will say, cuz teh coroner ask'tit
instead o cryin' she straight confused
lookin' inside ya casket

bang, bang bang. :)
only fing i could think
as i read what u sang
i find it curious
how bad at verse 1 can be
it makes me furious
why everyone isn't as good as me
whose verse is glorious
I'LL PLUG YA FULLA SO MANY HOLES THE SEA-
-will run red with ur blood
u so unimportant 2 me i dun needa focus
ur shit up there's like fuckin' circus
ur so not worth my time bitchey
i wrote all this shit listenin' 2 BBC

das right. moral maze str8 blarin' in ma ears as i str8 wreck your ass. *drops mic* fuck you

bitche is rap song so terrible, is beink like cries of abandoned baby raccoon knowink own fate. Is sinkink so low is havink racist clowns from ICP fightink battles for him.

are they racist? [citation needed[

Thank you for calling that out. ICP themselves speak out quite vehemently against racism. Their fan base, on the other hand, seems to be composed of ignorant white suburbanites with a penchant for random and chaotic violence.

In short, the fans who get 'the message' of the mythology of ICP (which seems almost like a hebrew prophecy if vocalised: stop your evil ways before you destroy yourself) are few and far between.

yeah and yeah, ICP's songs are terrible. they don't let music get in the way of their performance art, which is basically a performance of street lingo and street pop culture. midwest ghetto.

more like mid west white trash.

"*drops mic* fuck you"

Oh man, I like heard the beat drop at the end there, that was cold.

James Madrox?!? The multiple man? Shit, so that's what he's gotten up to after leaving X-Force.

[i]Belgand does not actually read X-Force, just Astounding at the moment... fuckin' cross-overs making the x-books damn near impossible to read)

Yes, I would like to put vulva on my ignore list.

Sje makes his application to a monastery.

Had to chubby that, I.L. Kate.

I... forgive you.

Do Not Get thee to a Nunnery, sje.

Man, why do I set you up.

stick it to the boojies heh... really love the use of captioning in this one (ps. 2,3,4)

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A comment left by bitche was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by gladi8orrex, srikamaraja, johnald)

plz only post ifis original rap
cuz das only way ya gon' get ya dap
next tim u finkin' o uploadin dis shit
just takes u the nap
cuz all u's doin' is provocin' my spit
pullaaa upaa chair an' havaaa sit
MAYBE U CAN LERN YA SOME FROM WAT I WRIT

take ya mind outta teh stupid bag
drop teh shit in ya hands
to make room 4 ya broken vag
i'ma pummel ur puss-mouth
break teh plumpin' goin' down-south
break it off, grind to li'l pieces
put in a bowl an' mix wit ma feces
ur pubic hairs makes ur vag look like a pharisee's
face
uncap ma chalk cuz i'ma trace
where ur body lies
u better unfriend ur doods on face book
sever ur ties
cuz i'ma find eery1 u know, eer1 u care about
best say ya goodbyes
cuz eery1 one who know i'ma find and kill
an' on ur crab carpet they blood im'a spill
lickin' tey cunts o ur momma til i had ma fill

eery1 in ur fam gonna b takin' dirt naps
SO BASICALLY STOP COPY-PASTIN' UR SHITTY RAPS

fuck you *mic drop*

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ur pubic hairs makes ur vag look like a pharisee's face


[Watch out, catgrl's 'bout to be droppin some Jew Knowledge]If I remember Rabbinics class correctly, The Pharisees were a Jewish sect that lived during the time of the second temple. They were a sect that was relatively respectful of others, and kind of the ancient jewish equivalent of the Amish, abstaining from luxury and such. And I guess they probably had beards. That looked like pubic hairs. Probably. Who knew Glad had some serious Jew chops? [/Jew Knowledge]

This has been Random Jew Facts with your host, catgrl! This episode has been brought to you by the letter doublejew. And, remember kids: Knowledge is Power!

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what the fuck... is it normal that an LCD flat screen totally jacks up the wifi reception of a laptop sitting next to it?









Was. . .was this a serious attempt to hack?

[ctrl alt del]

Still here?

Abort, Retry, Fail?

A

Bad command or file name

Here's a dandy item that has yet to be featured in some sapphic erotica:
https://m.assetbar.com/achewood/uua7BhQzX

And with his snap brim firmly in place Cornelius turned his back on Ray and his business.